picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour a phony a video posted online by right wing ag james o'keefe led to the resignations of two n.p.r. executives last week o'keefe did all he did was not illegal but if someone from peta were to do the same thing in say a farm or a slaughterhouse they get thrown in jail for ten years or explore this double standard plus what does chamber a president tom donahue know they you don't i'll explain and i still take but first a pharmaceutical drug once priced at ten dollars is now fifteen hundred dollars. how it how and i'll explain to you how this thing is screwing expectant moms. in our home pharmaceuticals are putting profits ahead of human lives. kavi pharmaceuticals has just raised the price of their drug my neck. for mccain i think it is which is used in high risk pregnancies to prevent premature births a teeny used to go for ten dollars a dose but now it's going to retail at one thousand five hundred dollars a dose why because the f.d.a. gave kavi pharmaceuticals a license to be the only manufacturer of the drug basically giving them a monopoly o

one of what you saw was the worker right wing james o'keefe his previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman to bug the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison like his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty could provoke with this amre and sure enough it worked so this the new way the right is trying to bring down their political opponents organizations that they simply don't agree with and more troubling is this the new norm of journalism in america for more on this issue i'm joined by jamie weinstein there be editor of the conservative leaning daily caller erica community democratic strategist welcome to both of you thank you for having let me let me first because i don't see this is much like a left right to beat thing. scott walker got point. is this is this is not. the the the o'keefe videos so far right wing territ

all the wake of james james o'keefe hidden camera prank on the news organization now of course they're painting this as a budgetary issue but you probably have to wonder if in the middle of an economic crisis defunding n.p.r. is going to solve all of our problems perhaps even more telling is that this new legislation that's being drafted targets only and p.r. not all public broadcasting and i wouldn't just defund it for a while until maybe the economy picks back up but prohibits all funding from n.p.r. permanently so this is just another example of the g.o.p. the temps the defund anything that democrats and i consider important earlier from our studio in new york i caught up with sam seder political host of the majority report and majority f.m. radio i first asked him consider this country is fighting two wars that we're about to reach our debt limits as robots unrest in the middle east as we watch disaster unfold in japan why is defunding n.p.r. individually an emergency. i don't know perhaps some right wing republican lawmakers can't reach their radio dial i guess and turn the statio

themselves have taken with james o'keefe has done in the past seriously and the guy is a serial fraud so you know this is this is all just a game the republicans like to pretend that they're concerned about the deficit or they're concerned about spending the amount of money that they're talking about is is absolutely insignificant on top of that president obama already suggested the same cuts so the idea that this is an emergency in some. way where they have to get out in front of this is just proof positive that this is just another one of their culture war shenanigans and frankly it's a joke it's a complete waste of everyone's time and you know i feel like. i mean just by this example that we're talking about i feel like this country is becoming so much more polarized and now i feel like the media you know only makes it easier for that to be that way if we look at the cable networks nine hundred eighty but today the washington post actually debuted something new on their web page when it comes to their opinion section you can now choose between the left leaning and right leaning opi

>> okay, jake, thank you. >>> so, who is james o'keefe and why is he targeting public broadcasting?ron claiborne reports, the guerrilla journalist has already stirred up a lot of controversy in his still young career. >> you asked about our organization. >> reporter: this was just the latest in a series of what's been called undercover guerrilla videos by the 26-year-old conservative activist, aimed at embarrassing or ensnaring what he considers liberal groups. last year, o'keefe and a female associate posing as a prostitute taped a.c.o.r.n. workers advising them how to conceal the women's criminal activities to get a home loan. >> you would be able to get the child tax credit. >> reporter: other targets have included planned parenthood and the new jersey teacher's union. the tools of his trade? a hidden camera and actors, sometimes including himself, doing brazen impersonations. the prostitute at the a.c.o.r.n. office. a woman claiming to be an underage girl seeking an abortion. >> do you do abortions here, right? >> reporter: an aspiring teacher. >> completely secure? >> yes, comp

never in our wildest dreams did we imagine this. >> chris: that was james o'keefe in 2009.arveling at the impact of his undercover acorn videos that pushed congress to cut off federal funding. now he has struck again. masterminding a sting of npr executives at what was a lunch with rich political donors that showed bias against the tea party. >> they're scary. >> chris: we wanted to find out what drives the 26-year-old o'keefe. who describe himself not as a conservative, but a progressive radical. what we discovered is an outrage with liberal hypocrisy. >> if you use their rules against them, you can really tease them and mock them and really destroy them. >> chris: as a student at rus gers he said he became fed up with political correctness, especially about race. so on st. patrick's day 2004 he met with an administrator to demand they stop serving lucky charms cereal with its irish leprechaun. >> as you can see, we're not all shoulder height. we have differences in height. >> they said yes. then i realize odd kay, now i'm on to -- then i realized okay, i'm on to something

. >> reporter: the architect of the sting, james o'keefe.sion was to expose what he claims are liberal institutions by going undercover. >> i want to expose truth. americans can play judge and jury. >> reporter: he's the guy that brought down a.c.o.r.n. they caught officials offering advice on how to evade the law to get a mortgage loan. he's targeted planned parenthood and new jersey's teacher's union. he pled guilty to a misdemeanor after he was caught trying to tape inside a senate office. >> these are tactics that have been used for decades. >> reporter: after the controversial firing of juan williams who was on fox last night. >> he wants to make it out that npr and he are the good guys, the smart people. isn't it sthatd more people like them aren't running america. >> reporter: npr gets 2% of its funding from america. even losing that could force it to close. how are they going to rebuild trust? >> put a microphone in front of a conservative congressman and say, hi, this is npr. we would like to interview you. >> reporter: many conserv

>>kimberlee: its filmmaker james o'keefe he is at it again. he said at a lunch with npr senior and to people who posed as members of the muslim group with ties to the muslim brotherhood. they told schiller there were interested in donating $5 million to m d r. >>kimberlee: even though they put out a statement saying they don't back his statements, he will not work for them anymore. it's really wrapped up this move on congress to defund npr of their federal funding. >>pam: thank-you we have a quick program note to tell you about this friday we will be running nbc programming. added o'clock on kron 4 you can catch would you think you are, followed by a monk at 9:00 p.m.. then kron 4 news at 11:00. it all happened this friday. we'll be back. >>jacqueline: a little rain this morning but in the afternoon things turned out nicely. the rain still going well to the north of us on the oregon border. this cloud and will track well to the north of us. we will see mostly sunny skies into tomorrow. the inland valleys in the fog as well as the east bay shor

now, if the name james o'keefe rings a bell with members of the united states senate, it should. remember some of the other things that he was caught doing? it was james o'keefe and his colleagues who posed as telephone repairmen and tried to lie their way into the office of our colleague, senator mary landrieu of louisiana. they were going to try to make one of their gotcha videos there, but they went too far. in fact, at the end of it, mr. o'keefe pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of entering federal property under false pretenses. a federal judge sentenced mr. o'keefe to three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service. this same mr. o'keefe in 2009 posed as -- with some of his friends as a pimp and prostitute to secretly film a discussion with staffers of the grassroots antipoverty of group acorn. their video of that meeting was so inflammatory that congress vowed to eliminate all federal funding for that group. i cannot tell you, mr. president, how many amendments we had on the floor of the senate in the midst of all the problems we were facing in

all across america joining me to discuss it is the lead organizer for the massachusetts party james o'keefe james thanks so much for joining us so i just went through a few of the issues of this party but tell me what really makes it so different from from democrats and republicans essentially the only two powerful options that we have out there. james can you hear me. play here ok great did you hear my question tell me how your party differs from democrats and from republicans. sort of not hearing your view ok i don't think that james is hearing me i think we might try to get back to him. bring a saintly get back to the pirate party also first started in its weeding and now there have been pirate parties popping up all across the world changing back i am ok great it was us talking about the swedish origin the variation on a pirate party but tell me about this fire party and massachusetts and how it's different from the democratic and republican parties who massachusetts were the first her party to gain ballots some form of ballot status and massachusetts anyone can and when they heard shou

npr's top executive, vivian schiller, the latest casualty of conservative undercover filmmaker james o'keefe. we last saw o'keefe wearing a fur coat and playing a pimp when he managed to take down the liberal group a.c.o.r.n. this time the target was npr. with men posing as potential donors, o'keefe captured an npr fund-raiser making disparaging remarks about republicans and the tea party. >> they believe that white middle america gun-toting -- i mean it's scary. they're serious. >> reporter: it's the second time npr has been in trouble recently, accused of liberal bias. this time costing the fund-raiser and the ceo their jobs. the timing could not be worse. the house just voted to stop all funding of public broadcasting, $430 million this year. >> what kind of mission does the corporation for public broadcasting serve in these very tough economic times? >> reporter: npr says it gets only 2% of its budget from taxpayers. most of the federal money, 71%, goes to local public tv and radio stations. losing that would hurt. >> i think we would survive without the money. would we do as good a job

coming up turns out james o'keefe did use some creative effort at editing in his effort to uncover the true.

now this week james o'keefe the now notorious prankster who took on acorn struck again with n.p.r. it's video of ron schiller the then fundraiser for n.p.r. who has since resigned went viral. this. story takes time thank you. i fully. expect. white. america. stares. thank you. i'll say n.p.r. president vivian schiller resigned after reportedly being pushed out by the board of directors and this all comes at a time when the republican led congress is actively pushing the cut n.p.r.'s on the next ask is n.p.r. a liberal elitist now peace that all taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for or doesn't even really matter is this just a larger push by the g.o.p. to take down everything associated with the other party and its issues join me to discuss it as benjy sarlin capitol hill reporter for talking points memo and christopher the president of the young conservative coalition gentlemen thank you both for joining me tonight first of all what do you think of this move by n.p.r. with a wise decision are they showing to everyone that they do have i think they're not exactly p.r. geniuses i mean

to go towards the drug testing as well now before we go tonight it's time for our tweeted today james o'keefe the right wing's most people love it not gray hair is running a little low on cash and. his stings to destroy a korean a.p.r. he's racked up so much credit debt that he's now appealing to the american people to raise fifty thousand dollars so we're wondering what the american people tweet and we thought they'd say as the republicans they must have some extra cash after g. funding everything democrats hold dear that's it for tonight's show thanks for coming in make sure you come back tomorrow robert carlin that's on the program discussed whether or not the strategy in libya makes any sense in the meantime don't forget to become a fan of a lot of show on facebook and follow us on twitter and if you missed any of the night's or any other night you can always catch all the you tube slash the lower show we're now posting the interviews as well as the show in its entirety coming up next to the news with the latest headlines from the u.s. . a charmer over here broadcasting live from washingt

controversial conservative filmmaker james o'keefe ran that sting. happened at a worse time. republicans wanted to eliminate more than 400 million federal dollars that go to public broadcasting, including npr. so it didn't help when schiller said this. >> it is very clear we're better off in the long run without federal funding. npr would definitely survive. most of the stations would survive. >> reporter: o'keefe targeted npr after it fired ron williams for saying he was sometimes nervous flying with muslims on fox news. williams unleashed on schiller. >> he wants to make it out that npr and he are the really good guys. they're the smart people. isn't it sad more people like them aren't running america. >> reporter: pbs officials say they were also invited to talk with those donors but they halted talks after the donors could not prove who they were. >>> even before she steps foot in court today, lindsay lohan has already made up her mind. reports say the actress will not accept a plea deal on her felony grand theft case because that deal would come

a video released by conservative political activist james o'keefe today showed the top fundraising executive for national public radio criticizing republicans and calling the tea party "racist." ron schiller also said n.p.r. would be better off without long-run federal funding, at a time when some in congress have proposed cutting funds for public broadcasting. the comments were secretly recorded at a lunch with schiller and two men claiming to represent a muslim philanthropic organization interested in donating to n.p.r. before the tape surfaced, schiller announced he was leaving n.p.r. a spokesman released a statement today saying the organization is "appalled" by schiller's comments. this afternoon, house majority leader eric cantor said, "this disturbing video makes clear that taxpayer dollars should no longer be appropriated to n.p.r." stocks on wall street ended higher today as oil prices eased slightly. the dow jones industrial average gained 124 points to close at 12,214. the nasdaq rose 20 points to close at 2765. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to gwen. >> ifil

the video set up was the brain child of conservative james o'keefe who has become famous for his hidden camera videos targeting government groups like a.c.o.r.n. some are calling for it to be stripped as a result of this video. >>> some notable tech headlines. the latest buzz surrounding apple stores and a bay area battle. netflix against facebook. >> the shares fell after days after facebook announced it would start offering movie for rent, starting with the batman thriller, the dark knight. it is a very small scale experiment but enough to smook some netflix investors. ebay says sales of used ipads have outpayed all previous tech gadgets. this is good news for apple. you have to figure those people selling ipads want to buy a new updated ipad 2. and those buying the old, inexpensive ones are likely people who wouldn't have bought one otherwise. and slash gear is reporting that apple stores may stop selling box software and other peripherals like speaker docks and ipad cases, cleaning the place up to make more room for its own apple products. nbc bay area news. >>> boaters in southern

. >> james o'keefe did a sting operation and caught the now former director saying disparaging things the ceo, vivian schiller is gone. toward the end of this week, this video was released. it shows betsy lilley talking to this fictitious donor said he was working with a group affiliated with the muslim brotherhood. and wanted to give a $5 million gift. >> it sounded like you're saying that npr would be able to shield us from an audit. is that the case? >> i think that is the case. i can check. >> you've been involved in this npr for 30 years. but why should we care? >> i should say, that they did then reject that money, and sent internal e-mails saying this is totally unacceptable. we have to have tax forms, all of that. that should be stated. but, look, we should care because 34 million people listen every week and want to get the news that you get there, that you can't get any place else. npr has 17 foreign bureaus. you can't say that for any other broadcast organization these days. and brings you terrific information, day in and day out, week in and week out. the reporters on the

the man behind the video release was conservative activist james o'keefe. associates-- posing as members of a fake, muslim organization -- lunched with ron schiller in late february, offering to donate $5 million to npr. the fundraiser resigned yesterday, though he had been planning to leave npr anyway. vivian schiller had served in her post two years. she drew criticism last year over the firing of commentator juan williams, after he said on fox news that flying with some muslims scared him. o'keefe has previously gone after the community action group acorn with hidden cameras and last year, he was arrested and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of attempting to bug the offices of louisiana democratic senator mary landrieu. this afternoon, a spokeswoman at pbs, the tv side of public broadcasting that operates separately from npr said one of its executives also met with people who claimed to be with the same fake muslim organization. those discussions ended when pbs couldn't confirm the group's credentials. for more on all this, i'm joined by brian stel

the latest, this guerilla video by james o'keefe. we last saw him wearing a fur coat playing a pimp when he managed to take down the liberal group a.c.o.r.n. this time with people posing as donors he captured a fund raiser making dispa rajjing remarks about the tea party. >> they believe in the sort of white middle america gun toting -- i mean it's scary. >> reporter: npr came under fire last year after dumping juan williams for comments made about muslims on fox news. the ceo said this about williams. >> his feelings that he expressed on fox news are between him and his -- you know, psychiatrist or publicist or, take your pick. >> reporter: schiiler apologized, admitted making mistakes and was denied her annual bonus. when this video came along it apparently was the last straw. both had to resign. house republicans who long have accused npr of liberal bias changed their rhetoric to focus on the deficit. >> what kind of mission does the corporation for public broadcasting serve in these tough economic times. >> reporter: the house ju