the huffington post put trump news in the entertainment section.this is the reality, you said the media should cover what trump does, not what he says. the problem is he keeps saying and tweeting very inflammatory and controversial things. how should the media cover president-elect trump, given the media is so often been criticized by trump himself? >> what i said is the media should cover what he does and says now, as opposed to what he said during the campaign. the campaign is over. no matter how much anyone opposed donald trump -- and few opposed him as much as the huffington post -- it is in the interest of the nation for him to succeed. for him to be better than anyone thought he would be during the campaign. that is why he is reaching out to silicon valley and the tech leaders, going to the meeting is important. he needs to hear from voices with which he disagrees. we saw that when he had from someone he respected that waterboarding does not actually work, he changed his mind apparently. for a minute at least, after he met with president obam

last week it was a two-part "vanity fair" piece which was about arianna huffington leaving the "huffington postand the implication is that you weren't necessarily happy with her performance and she had been kind of pushed out. is there any truth to that? >> i think you know first, that arianna huffington as a person and as a leader, i think we did her going-away party last wednesday night and i'll say the same thing here that i said at that party, which was she is somebody who is a world-class talent. world-class hard worker. and really put herself out there as an entrepreneur to do something that was really differentiated. and i think helped change the way that online news and information got done. when we acquire the "huffington post," it had 20 to 30 million users. the day she left, it was 170 million to 200 million. over 200 million users. so i think that almost any metric, it was u.s.-only now in 15, going to 16 countries overall. almost metric you look at it from where we bought it to when arianna left has been a huge success. i have a close personal relationship with arianna, her family,

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do you think the huffington post needs to cover more news between coasts?ws that perhaps we wouldn't be so surprised by the election of donald trump if we understood how people in the middle of the country were feeling? arianna: first of all, i am absolutely delighted with my successor. she is brilliant, fearless, and kind. it is a fantastic combination. the newsroom is so excited to have her. i'm so excited to see what she is going to do. one of the things that is important about her is that she has incredible global knowledge. she has been a journalist around the world. the huffington post is a global company. 50% of the traffic comes from outside the united states. it is already in 17 countries, most recently south africa. so it is fantastic to have an editor in chief who has tremendous knowledge about how to operate a global media company, especially at the time when there is so much happening around the world. whether it is in italy today or korea or in the u.k. with the announcement of the timing around brexit, this is such a to mulch it was time. hav

thank you for joining at the huffington post. thank you forjoining us. we are hearing so many tributes to carrie fisher. how is she being remembered? there are two schools of thought, of course the dedicated star wars fan base which is worldwide and tireless and has been devoted now for four decades and will show no signs of abating with the tragic news today. i'm sure more people will make sure they go to see the star wars original trilogy, summoning tributes will be coming in. fans will be wanting to make their feelings felt. so there are those people in the world and then all the other people who love her as being one of the few remaining old hollywood stars, with her parents debbie reynolds of course and the star wars role was not the most defining thing about which is extraordinary when you considerjust how defining that was. what would she have been proud of, because everyone immediately thinks about star wars but she was involved in so much more. she was the first to laugh at the sheer power of what she really tookjust to laugh at the sheer power

thank you for joining at the huffington post. thank you forjoining us.are two schools of thought, of course the dedicated star wars fan base which is worldwide and tireless and has been devoted now for four decades and will show no signs of abating with the tragic news today.

except if you are president-elect donald trump. 16 letters obtained by the huffington post show trump berating the first minister between 2011 and 2013. the focus of his outrage, a proposed wind farm off the coast and in eye sight of the aberdeen golf course. in the letter, trump called the plan an ugly cloud hanging over the coastline of scotland. in another letter, he accused him of destroying the scotland economy predicting it will become a third world waste land that investors will avoid. trump known for personal insults did not shy away saying ice try will remember him as mad alex. the man who destroyed scotland. when threats did not work, the president-elect shifted gears, vowing he would be the biggest cheerleader if he changed his stance. trump received a response saying i don't expect you to support the development, but i hope this letter helps you understand the importance we place on the industry's great potential. there is no love lost between the two. he expressed his views on trump to cnn's max foster. >> once, twice, three times a loser is mr. trump. he fought this in t

appropriate title tonight, globe editorial director of "huffington post." tell me shuttle commander, what it was like to meet john glenn and what he meant to you. >> john glenn was a hero of mine from the earliest days, as far back as i can remember. he had the career i always dreamed of, fighter pilot during world war ii and then test pilot and astronaut. so meeting him in the astronaut gym and working out with him was a real thrill for me and he just fulfilled every expectation i ever had of somebody that lived up to it. >> let's do a couple things. we didn't think we'd do it on the occasion of tragedy like this, the death of a man at 95 but a great man. how come guys like you are laughing as they're going into the spacecraft and about to take off? everything can go wrong, it has gone wrong and you're all chuckling away. how do you do that psychologically? >> you've been training for the mission for so long, you come downstairs, it's like coming downstairs on christmas morning. this is going to be great, i can't wait. my only worry was would i screw up? i

amanda terkel, senior political reporter, politics managing editor for the "huffington post."hanks for joining us. appreciate it. >>> in the waning days of a brutal 2016, some things you may have already forgotten. >>> plus tonight's thing one, thing two starts right after this break. >>> thing one tonight, during the election we had a segment called trump's last ten. which was our attempt to keep up with the absolute flood of donald trump controversies. things that had any other candidate said or done probably would have ended their campaign. things like, i don't know, accusing ted cruz's father of helping jfk's assassin, lying about donating a million dollars to veteran charities until he was caught four months later, urges russia to hack hillary clinton's e-mail saying he'd try americans at guantanamo, or claiming president obama sympathizes with isis and literally founded isis, just to name a few. we started keeping and updating a list, the last ten outrageous controversies. as new controversies drove the news cycle they wouldn't eclipse past controversies that deserve mor

huffington post. he has been writing a lot about russia in recent days and he joins us now. thank you for coming on. >> happen to be with you. >> i want to quote something a couple days allege that i read in the huffington post. you said there is substantial evidence that russia stole the election for donald trump. what is that evidence that they stole the election? >> first of all, i do not go beyond keith olbermann, in fact, a lot of that is certainly hyperbole. >> well, russia stole the election. >> clearly didn't affect the election. that's ridiculous. we hardly ever hear mention in the media that hillary clinton won by 2.8 million votes in the real vote. the three states that put trump over the top in the electoral college by a total of a little over 80,000 votes. and if anyone thinks that the -- what the russians were doing in terms of the emails released through wikileaks intended to damage hillary and they obviously did and to a great extent were not enough to get 80,000 votes moved in the direction of trump away from hillary, i don't know what they're thinking. >> h

sam stein is political editor for the huffington post. hugh hewitt is the host of the hugh hewitt show on the salem radio network. great to be here in person with you in d.c. i'm going to let you play armchair psychiatrist. donald trump won the election, the electoral college certified him. why does he seem, sam, to be so bothered by this popular vote number? >> it's a great question. i think newt is right there. he won by the rules that you play the game and he's president and there's no way to take that away. if you are going to say it matters it's only to the extent that he can claim a mandate which is sort of this symbolic thing because if you win you'll pursue your agenda regardless. why does it bother him? >> the election denieser don't bother him. the election deniers are on every cable show bringing up this irrelevant fact she did win by a lot in the popular vote. he's concerned about a.p. test takers. every the popular vote comes up someone gets a 2 or 1 on the test because they think it matters. he responds to the news. when we

sam sign is editor at the huffington post and carolyn ryan is at the "new york times."hink nothing occupies real estate in the mind of donald trump like the "new york times." he came up as a queens-based businessman and had theed alation of the times. do you expect the times do to scare have a particularly volatile relationship with donald trump? >> i think we do have a freighted relationship. i think you're right. he almost resents the power even as he covets the approval of the "new york times." i think what is going on now there is sort of a testing of both sides. he's testing the immediamedia. they're suggesting they're going to shatter some of the tradition the white house press corps. enjoyed. and the media is, as you see in coverage, getting more aggressive and directly calling him out and pointing out inaccuracies and headlines making clear the things he's saying are not true. and feels like a testing period where everyone is taking the other person's measure. >> yeah. for a lot of people it might be a good thing. there's the attitude toward the presidency among

i write for breitbart, huffington post, the wall street journal. i have seen people say things on the huffington post against israel that are absolutely despicable. you once wrote even the most respected jew of our time sometimes covers over je wewish behavior. we've all made comments -- >> sorry, criticizing -- who i also called a hero. >> i don't think my criticism, for not being critical enough of israel's occupation in the west bank is the same as glorifying the confederate flag or saying that women should -- >> one at a time. >> -- who suffer sexual harassment online should simply get offline. >> i wouldn't defend any of that. i'm simply saying if you take a nobel peace laureate, say he's covering over jewish occupation -- >> i'm just wondering, i just want to get to the specifics of what you said. you staid you write for all these different organizations. >> yes. >> none of those organizations, ariana huffington ever said i am the platform for some racist group. steve bannon has said that he is a platform for the alt-right. >> and i would cha

president obama facing a scathing critique by the politics editor of the left-leaning huffington postma is pretty much leaving his party in shambles, at least in significantly worse shape than when he first took office. we've got some hard numbers. we'll look at them and we will debate. he has a sharp wit, a winning smile, and no chance of getting an athletic scholarship. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. ♪ ♪ rau ray harsh words about president obama's legacy from the senior politics editor of the left-leaning huffington post. sam signs saying despite the president's promise of hope and change, he actually left his party worse off than when he took office. watch. >> you look at the destruction of the democratic party under barack obama's leadership, and you have to wonder, you know, what was the political, what were the electoral benefits that he gave to the party? he leaves them in a much worse position. the states are decimated, they've lost control of the house and the senate, the governorships are questions mated. so, yeah, maybe he is,

he is the president of the organization and now is a regular at huffington post, and a piece on islam for the huffington post, and filipe herrera is the united states poet laureate so we have a very good group here, so we're going to miss joyce and we will be sure to protect her or preserve her legacy. [applause] >> so, again, before we depart for the reception, i just want to thank everyone for being so generous to bring yourselves to this space and celebration of the american book award, our winners this year and the before columbus foundation. so, thank you, for sharing your time with us this afternoon. and, again, for the winners of the award, if you could please join me on stage, tennessee reed would like to take some photographs of you as a group. if you like. you feel like carrying it? [inaudible conversations] >> again, thank you. tennessee, i'm going to turn it over to you. you're the director now. you let folks now. okay. thank you. >> right now on booktv from 2012, author steve coll reports on ex-so son mobile's influence in foreign affairs and bringous this program in ligh

amanda terkel, senior political reporter, politics managing editor for the "huffington post."hanks for joining us. appreciate it. >>> in the waning days of a brutal 2016, some things you may have already forgotten. >>> plus tonight's thing one, thing two starts right after this break. mone hundredts thousand times a day, sending oxygen to my muscles. again! so i can lift even the most demanding weight. take care of all your most important parts with centrum. now verified non gmo and gluten free. only new alka-seltzer plus justfree of artificial dyes and preservatives liquid gels delivers the powerful cold symptom relief you need without the unnecessary additives you don't. store manager: clean up, aisle 4. alka-seltzer plus liquid gels. the great north calls >>announout for heroes.waits... train your army and lay waste to your rivals! play vikings-war of clans-for free! dtry align junior probiotic.th digestive balance? so she can have a fraction dominating... status updating... hello-yellow-belt kind of day. get 24/7 digestive support with align junior. the #1 doctor recommend

that was the entertainment editor from the huffington post.bowes, is in la for us. how is she being remembered? people are remembering her very fondly indeed. they are saying that there are no words and they are devastated. william shatner said he was deeply saddened. those are the well—known names but thousands of other people are taking to social media to share their thoughts. this is something, the passing of a famous person, that is hitting home with so many people. she had fans from multiple generations, she had a new fan base and after appearing in the latest star wars films, the last of which was released last year. then there were those who could remember the original trilogy. she is remembered as someone who was multitalented, not just is remembered as someone who was multitalented, notjust a great actress but also a great writer. she was also a screenwriter, sometimes taking or berating other people's scripts. she was very good at that. she was very passionate about talking about her own problems and the demons she battled, but tryin

huffington post and buzz feed came out against this song. >> are they not listening to music right nows [bleep] better have my money. it is this idea young people, college students now are obsessed with this idea of consent and having everything 50/50. they rewrote the lyrics to make sure they have equal power in the song. that's not what romance is. >> this is meant to be a cutesy song and not a plan to seduce a woman. >> if you are following this as a blueprint this may be a problem. i don't think anybody is using it like that. >> the names of the characters are the mouse and wolf. this relationship is about as innocent as oj. >> report we wolves? >> she said no, no, no. what's in my drink? bill cosby should be covering. >> maybe it is because i am jealous, but "baby it's cold outside" is rapey and a little racist. "santa claus is coming to town." i know when you are sleeping and i know when you're awake. >> anthony, what's in this drink? i will tell you what is in the drink. she said i feel a little tiz sw y. she wants to know. she trusts herman to make her a nice drink. >> this is

. >> so when ariana did that, she was basically e-mailing people and writing on huffington post. not e-mailing, but huffington post and everybody move their money and some number did, a big number, but very, very small percentage and it's significant. and we have millions of people on the e-mail list and e-mail them, tiny, tiny numbers of people click on the link and all they do is click on the link, get a number and make a call and didn't have to dial. we were going to dial for them and so few people did it. and we say yes. >> actually been successful with this. i'm going to ask you to pass the mic on. but the debt collective which came out of occupy has built real organization among people with very big college debts, particularly from some of the for-profit colleges like corinthian which went out of business. it's hard work, but they have figured out how to build real community among students who carry this kind of albatross -- >> well, and then -- >> to buy back some of that debt on the dollar and liberate people from it which is a very exciting kind of model. >> yeah. and th

that is "huffington post" poll, i will give you that. from "the new york times"? they have added more than 200,000 digital subscribers. i think that is paying customers who are going to read "the times" on line. that since late september. i mean could you say that donald trump is helping to save "the new york times," because, this increase in subscriptions is largely, i suspect it is because of trump? >> yeah, i think you're right. look, if you're on the left, and you are looking for common ground and you're looking for someone to give you aid and comfort with this monster coming on as president of the united states, it is rather natural thing you go to the "new york times" because that is going to be the outlet that will be attacking this man. it will give you comfort. so yeah, i see those numbers growing. i see cnn and others growing as well because of their opposition to trump, however, i see them being neutralized, and i see them being neutered again because donald trump will go around them, not talk to them, around he will communica

some websites such as "huffington post" picked up the original story and rewrote it without doing any additional reporting. but some blogs went further. >> so blogs started to say u that marching bands were b boycotting the parade, which wasn't necessarily true. >> later that same day, at least one facebook group took it a step further. not one high school marching band is willing to perform. >> which wasn't true and wasn't what my u initial story says. >> reporter: on december 15th, the notion was debunked that they staged an official boycott against trump. and noted the rumor is a sensational liezed and exaggerated version of a genuine news report. >> i was surprised by how quickly original reporting turned into what part-time wanted it to say. >> it is took only a day u to debunk the story. but we have no way of knowing where the clarification reached all the people who read and bloefed the distorted stories. we have posted some tips on our nbc washington app. >>> a tow truck driver now connected to a series of disruptive bomb threats. how investigators tracked him down and why he

political or liberal elite that exists, this whole northeast, i go to starbucks, i read "the huffington post definitely not surprised by this. >> they better stop doing, politicly what do you think it is david? they mentioned a lot about the guy on mother jones mentioning fast food, he said trump eating fast food, just looking at that guy eating a burger, made people identify with him. >> fast food, if somebody lives in new york, walmart, walmart is the best. the thing is all of these liberals are like we can't have walmart in new york. you're not allowed. everything is so cheap. so why wouldn't you just cut out -- and people are like well, the small businesses. you go to these stores, it's like they're selling craft foods, nothing is small business. they're just middlemen, we all have to pay nine dollars for peanut butter because they think they're better than walmart. no, walmart is good. >> i bet you they haven't even been in a walmart. >> paul krugman saying they don't look down on country people, he calls them joe six pack. in new york, he is joseph chardonnay. >> michael, do you think

suggests mothers should not take jobs in white house, huffington post wrote, she slips up, says thatte house would be terrible place for women. suggests that men don't want their we'ves to work in the white house. >> amazing how this has been twisted. i know kellyanne, she is a good person, i admire her, she is a hard worker, and makes great strides in achievements in her career, she has 4 your honoyoung children, 12 and under, i fail to see the problem for her to put her children as a priority over having an opportunity to work in the white house. that is her choice. adam: before i ask you, i want everyone to listen to a response from m.s. conway this morning on stewart's program. >> the, is personal one, but, you know, i can't help but think this people are judging my politics, not my motherhood. i will note that some people have attacked me are moms, a lot who have are either child less interns born in 1990s or pictures too have cats at their twitter pictures, i am not going to lose my mind over people who attacked me with 140 characters. adam: that is a pretty good fla flap. with

so i'm waiting for president obama and everyone else to disvow the "huffington post."vertheles and more with you in the coming weeks and months as we follow the media bias that is -- following president-elect donald trump around. brett thank you so much. appreciate it. yes. stuart may be out. but that doesn't mean you're not writing in. that's a clever line. we have your suggestions for stuart's new year's solutions next. look at that smile. in just a few minutes the obama administration will defend their policies on israel. benjamin netanyahu clearly waiting for donald trump to assume office. more varney, next. ♪ guys, what's happening here? hey nicole, this is my new alert system for whenever anything happens in the market. kid's a natural. but thinkorswim already lets you create custom alerts for all the things that are important to you. shhh. alerts on anything at all? not only that, you can act on that opportunity with just one tap right from the alert. wow, i guess we don't need the kid anymore. custom alerts on thinkorswim. only at td ameritrade. ashley: now thi

with the huffington post and an msnbc contributor is also here. first off to you there will be a trump tech summit. tell me who is going to be there and why it is important that they are there. >> reporter: this is definitely a who's who in the tech industry. we can go up and throw up the names we have for you. jeff bezos from amazon, oracle, tim cook apple, tesla, facebook, alphabet. this has not been a friendly group during the campaign. donald trump on many occasions attacked a number of the people who will be in the room including bezos. he accused him of avoiding taxes through the washington post which he owns. apple was hit on in some of the campaign rallies. the subject of the meeting is likely jobs. when you look at companies like apple, we have heard promises to open an apple factory, for example, here in the u.s. apple employees, a lot of people in china. a lot of companies have their money in offshore accounts and the president-elect has been hammering them for it. expect them to be the top topics in the meeting, katy. >> most were supp

at the huffington post. and ana marie cox. the esteemed. >> mad cat, mad kitty. >> where to begin. so the rallies have started. the guy who won with rallies is now back on the rally stage, where he calls home. >> yeah, you know, i half expected him to regale the crowd about how he saved the nfl, or how he saved delta airlines by buying the eastern shuttle and then destroying it and having to get rid of it and there by opening up the eastern corridor between new york and d.c. and making delta more profitable. it's really remarkable the way donald trump spins failure. and to your point, i'm really glad you said it. because he doesn't talk, anything he tweets becomes reality for much of the media, which is credulously reports what have he says as if it was true. so the carrier deal is exactly as you explained it. the removal of 1300 jobs, not just those 1300, but carrier has another facility not that far away that's also moving to mexico. so he was able to spin that, and then this idea that he's doing this thank you tour, and he goes to one of the parts of ohio that he lost. so he was

and he just did a piece on islam for huffington post. we have a very good group. we will miss joyce and we will be sure to protect her, or preserve her legacy. [applause] >> before we depart for the reception, i just want to thank everyone for being so generous to bring yourself to the space and celebration of the american book award. thank you for sharing your time with us this afternoon. for the winners of the award, if if you could please join me on stage, tennessee reed would like to take some photographs with you.

. >> "the huffington post."ld trump said they put him in the entertainment section. >> sometimes i'm sorry isn't good enough. they need to change the way they report. >> bryan stelter said we need soul searching. >> the market is punishing them enough. >> but they don't deserve the white house press office. >>> coming up, president-elect trump tweeting the 18-year-old somali refugee who carried out the attack at ohio state on monday shouldn't have been allowed into the country. is he right? then a one on one hannity shoot out with geraldo rivera over trump's plan for extreme vetting. that's next. pay stubs and bank statements to refinance your home. or you could push that button. sfx: rocket launching. cockpit sounds. skip the bank, skip the paperwork, and go completely online. securely share your financial info and confidently get an accurate mortgage solution in minutes. lift the burden of getting a home loan with rocket mortgage by quicken loans. (whisper) rocket >>> at the time we are not aware of anyone els

it was picked up by small conservative media outlets and it was first picked up by the huffington postt major news outlet to report on it. >> they're saying you were not threatened with legal action. were you or were you not? >> that's completely not true what the union is saying. we were threatened with legal action. they posted it on our public page for the orange coast college republicans. the fact they're back pedestrian willing now shows we have them on the defense. they have nothing against us and we have everything to show that what they're doing is trying to target this student. and we want to make sure that the student is protected in every way, shape and form we possibly can, and make sure that statements like what professor, you know, cox said are not going to be able to happen again in orange coast college -- >> and let me say some of the words again and get sean in here. our nation is divided, we have been assaulted. it is an act of terrorism, referencing the election of donald trump as our president. sean, is there any legal action here? is there anything that can be done

. >> "the new york times" -- "huffington post" said hillary clinton has a 92% victory before the election knew what was going to happen. why? because they were listening to what. the mainstream media. the mainstream media echo chamber. the ben rhodes, we need to feed the beast that is the echo chamber. >> that a good point. thank you for making it. >>> if you missed our earlier conversation with the senior writer at "news week" magazine, you're going to get a chance to see the best parts coming up. most important parts with centrum. now verified non gmo and gluten free. you're so cold, come in! what's wrong? it's dry... your scalp? mine gets dry in the winter too. try head and shoulders' dry scalp care it nourishes the scalp and... ...keeps you up to 100% flake free head and shoulders' dry scalp care that airline credit card yout? have... it could be better. it's time to shake things up. with the capital one venture card, you get double miles on everything you buy, not just airline purchases. seriously, think of all the things you buy. great...is this why you asked me to coffee? well yeah

jon: we saw it as -- so the headline for it on "the huffington post" would be, stewart eviscerates argumentsgainst gay marriage. and we would think of it as, "daily show" comes up with a somewhat humorous look at what they think is a hypocritical stance on personal freedoms. and that's the weight that it should be given. charlie: but you licked your chops when you saw hypocrisy like you had not seen before. if you thought it was hypocritical, you would just say -- jon: it was animated by visceral feelings, no question. because that's the stuff that -- this show is basically just -- if you imagine in general, and i hate to do this to your audience, i don't know if this is pbs, so, you want to go a -- to do a trigger warning, but, "the daily show" was a satirical expression of me sitting in front of my television in my underwear yelling at the television. now i just get to go back to doing that. chris: there's a point in the book where a lot of different people, among them a guy named leader inas been a pushing for health care for 9/11 first responders. charlie: the feel good foundation. chris

it looks like the web site of my former employer, "the huffington post." >> we did a series of storiesseveral residences contracted ebola. 6 million page views. >> reporter: that's huge. you stopped cold turkey or good? >> i'm good with that. i think it's kind of disappointing that it took president trump for news outlets to focus on this phenomenon. >> you say disappointing. who did you vote? >> hillary. >> fbi suspected. brown was a highly respected agent and likely liked in the community. is any of that true? >> not a single thing. totally fiction. >> reporter: three days before the election, half a million people saw this post. two days before, half a million people read about an fbi agent killing himself because of pressure from the clintons. how much did this post make you? >> likely around $8,000. goes to the writer. >> reporter: in your mind, is it worth it, 1.6 million people saw this and believed hillary clinton was involved in the murder/suicide. >> this is one i would probably take back. even to add, google closed the accounts running on the site. so even that money is gone

. >> let's bring in peter emerson, huffington post contributor and elise jordan, political analyst, adviser to senator paul. what's your reaction from what we heard from the president there? >> i think that everyone is extraordinarily nearly frustrated with congress, and also president obama isn't really taking into account that perhaps he could have had better relations with congress throughout the duration of his president secy and at the end sloughing off the blame. >> what about his concern that partisanship can become a risk to national security? >> i think we're at the critical inflexion point where the influence on the russian election, no one knows what it is until we have a full intelligence accounting of this, and there is some transparency. it should be a national security issue, not a partisan issue. >> your previous guest, senator bob graham, is an extraordinary example of a washington that used to exist. and i use him and others as an example that when i first went to washington, i had a feeling that everyone on both sides of the aisle when they got up in the morning, were int

i look at a huffington post headline, how slavery led to modern capitalism.avery gave capitalism its start. >> the best i can figure, john, is people want -- a lot of people don't like capitalism, so if you can tarnish it by claiming it somehow was connected with slavery, it makes it look bad. in history where slavery exists, capitalism doesn't exist. it's no coincidence that great written, the home of the -- great britain, the home of the industrial revolution, was one of the first countries to get rid of slavery. brazil, on the other hand, didn't get rid of slavery until 1888, and it's still a lot poorer than, certainly, most people in the united states and western europe. john: and america didn't really prosper until after the civil war when slavery was ended. >> decades after slavery was ended, yes. john: one of your points is slavery is not as efficient as people would think it would be. >> that's right. slavery is efficient for very, very mechanical tasks; growing tobacco and growing cotton. if you're a plantation owner, you might do well by having slav

. >> "huffington post," everyone -- >> sean, sometimes -- >> they put him in the entertainment segment. >> sometime sorry isn't good enough. they need to change the way they report. >> brian said we need to soul search. >> their ratings are -- >> but the white house press office. that's my point. good toe sue both. ths coming up, president-elect trump tweeting this morning that the 18-year-old e somali refugee who carried out the violent atta attack at ohio state on monday should not have been allowed into the country. we will check in with dr. gorka. then a one on one shootout with our own geraldo i harivera abou extreme vetting. that's next. this is more than just a credit card. it's how adventure begins. and with the miles you can earn, it's always taking you closer to your next unforgettable experience. become a cardmember and start enjoying benefits built to take you further... like group 1 boarding... and no foreign transaction fees. plus, when you fly on american airlines, your first checked bag fee is waived for you and up to four companions. every purchase with the citi® / aad

here is an editor at the far left huffington post. >> look at the destruction of the democratic party under barack obama's leadership. you have to wonder, you know, what was the political -- what were the electorate benefits that he gave to the party? he leaves them in a much worse position. the states are decimated. they have lost control of the house and the senate. the governorships are decimated. so yeah maybe he is obviously a gifted candidate. he did win election twice. by a substantial margin. but his legacy as a politician is a bit muddied by all that. >> richard, my first question goes to you. is winning the white house twice with president obama worth losing 1,000 seats across the country and putting people in charge of governor mansions? we need answers. >> i think every party goes through its times in transition. the republican party was sort of designated when we won in 2008. we're going to have to rebuild. i think that's a far fact to say this president hasn't done a lot to move this country forward. according to gallop, the president has a 56% approval rating, which is

host: the huffington post wrote about this last month. a lot of people saying donald trump should be able to go out to dinner without the white house press corps, the press pool following him. the trump campaign saying that will not happen again. why is it important for the press pool to be with the president, whether he is playing golf at a beach in hawaii or having dinner? guest: because you never know. he is never off the job. the best example was there was a press pool with president george w. bush when he was reading stories to kids in an elementary school. wasn't the most thrilling piece of news content that they? no, but his chief of staff comes earnd whispers into his about the attacks of 9/11. you never know when some incredibly important in the world is going to happen, and the press needs to be there to be public's representative when things like this occur. host: david chavern is the head of the news media alliance, based here in the washington, d.c. area. thanks for stopping by. we appreciate it. come by anytime. guest: take

howard fineman from the huffington post joins me now from washington. howard, you just wrote a peace about th -- a piece about this. you talked about the symbol ichl of the visit. expected to be a powerful visit. what do you expect to see today? >> what i expect to see is both visual and verbal expression by president obama of his world view. one ironically but appropriately grounded in his home state of hawaii. it's very international, very mixed race. 15% of hawaiians are of japanese descent. they have been taking leading roles in democratic party politics in hawaii. it's obama's vision and i think it is abe's vision as well. one that's very much under assault these days is donald trump, the president-elect tweets out threats to most of the world. don't forget that barack obama's vision is one of assuming the possibility of cooperation, not confrontation. he's tried to make peace with iran. he wants to make a deal in the middle east. he's tried to cement his relations with japan. that's what this is about. >> howard, want to pull up a piece from your

at the huffington post. and ana marie cox. the esteemed. >> mad cat, mad kitty. >> where to begin. so the rallies have started. the guy who won with rallies is now back on the rally stage, where he calls home. >> yeah, you know, i half expected him to regale the crowd about how he saved the nfl, or how he saved delta airlines by buying the eastern shuttle and then destroying it and having to get rid of it and there by opening up the eastern corridor between new york and d.c. and making delta more profitable. it's really remarkable the way donald trump spins failure. and to your point, i'm really glad you said it. because he doesn't talk, anything he tweets becomes reality for much of the media, which is credulously reports what have he says as if it was true. so the carrier deal is exactly as you explained it. the removal of 1300 jobs, not just those 1300, but carrier has another facility not that far away that's also moving to mexico. so he was able to spin that, and then this idea that he's doing this thank you tour, and he goes to one of the parts of ohio that he lost. so he was

joining me now is huffington post senior reporter, jeffrey young, who covered the development. jeffrey, you reported that 6.4 million people in 39 states where it's offered signed up for coverage starting in january. that number is up. 400,000 over last year. many of those are existing customers, automatically reenrolled. but the program has been plagued by complaints of high premiums and limited choices. so what exactly is driving the increase? >> willing, in an alternate universe, we're all talking this week about how there is promising news in the affordable care act front. you already mentioned that enrollment number. that doesn't include everyone. there are millions more people who are going to see their current plans automatically renewed at the end of the month, and then probably a couple million more in the states that run their own exchanges. which is better than people expected at this point, because of those things that you mentioned about the price increases and some states only one insurer this year. and in addition to which the ratings agency, standard & poor's re

some websites, the huffington post comes to mind, they took a stance against donald trump, they calledd of every article. so in that sense -- i'm sorry, i just heard something. oh, my goodness, john avlon. we had to show this picture. >> long time. we've been friends for a long time. life. discussing. >> 2020, that something you still want to do? kanye, are you considering -- >> no comment about your meeting with the president-elect, nothing to say? >> i just want to take a picture right now. >> are you going to run for president, kanye? >> you take care of yourself, i'll see you soon, all right? >> cool, cool. >> so we just interrupted an impassioned speech by john avlon to show a picture of kanye west appearing with the president-elect of the united states. >> so much for conversation about rex tillerson the new secretary of state for the next several hours. >> no, we'll talk about that, don't you worry. >> donald trump is -- look, he is a master marketer. you know, i think a lot of it is impulse that some ascribe to strategy. he does have relationships with people like this. but by

kate shepard, senior report we are "the huffington post." an article you wrote this past week paints a disturbing image of this. not surprising rex tillerson might face some critic bus you looked beyond tillerson. what did you find? >> he's the most obvious, right? if you say what oub would-be a really tough thing for trump to do for the environment? hmm. let's pick the ceo of the largest oil company in the u.s. that's a pretty big symbol. if you look lower down the cabinet, scott pruett who he picked to head the epa, the attorney general from oklahoma whooo has made suing the epa one of his major goals as the a.g. he is pretty hostile to a rot of the regulations coming out of the epa. if you look at jeff sessions, which is not necessarily the obvious one but department of justice handled a lot of environmental enforcement cases and sessions has been a big critic of environmental regulations and specifically has said that climate change is not something he cares about, a look at the more recent announcement, ryan zinke, the head of the inter