they covered rising cost of postage stamps and the ai revolution. >> ashley: right, joe concha joins does this shock you because it does not me? >> joe: 0.0 minutes of coverage, not at all. we've seen this movie many times when it comes to this bombshell and it is a bombshell. president biden told peter doocy he never discussed business dealings with hunter. if hunter biden was under investigation and president trump said he never discussed this with his son and visitor logs show it contradicts that claim 80 times over, would abc and cbs be on this like white on rice? >> todd: they covered evergreen stories that you can air whenever you want, this is a major revelation and major story, yet crickets, i'm sure an innocent mistake. did you see this? stephen colbert cracking jokes about 2024 future for the president after the easter egg roll, here is the clip. >> biden dropped hints about 2024. >> i plan on at least three or four more easter egg rolls, maybe five. maybe six, what the hell. >> i am mentally fit to run for president of the united states. what is going on? where is jill? mar

joe concha.he's the attorney for this irs whistle-blower. he says what his client will come forward is very well-documented. watch this. >> the things he's been through are very well-documented in e-mails and other communications with the department of justice. >> martha: so reading the tea leaves here, what do you think he's got? >> this is how the swamp works, right? it's insidious. antony blinken clearly new the u.s. political media would take this narrative and believe it hook, line and sinker. he just needed a hook. the hook was the 51 former intelligence officers. now it appears the whole thing is falling apart -- by the way, that was on cbs news last night. theory values. good for them for covering this. look at the home pages of cnn.com, there's nothing on that right now. abc, nbc news nightly news cast, they didn't reach it as well. kudos to cbs for doing that. here's the thing. if the media isn't covering this with the kind of distribute any if it would if it were donald trump jr. being

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. >> ashley: joe concha is here to rate that exchange and many other interesting moments. >> todd: did you hear about this, ash? speaking of the pandemic? apparently raising questions about covid-19, including saying the virus came from china, which is did, could soon land you on a biassed registry. one lawmaker in the state this could be happening joins us next. king's hawaiian sliders are ready. great - i invited a few more friends. ♪ hey pops - what's cookin'? [laughs] ahh? mmm. ahh. and i am linda. my turn! who wants more sliders? thanks, mom. i am groot. nothing brings the galaxy together like king's hawaiian. see guardians of the galaxy: vol 3. in theaters may 5th. how do we decide what hotel to book? fear not, i got you. choice hotels has a hotel for every type of stay. like a comfort with the kiddos. spacious! that's what they all say. stay twice and get a $50 gift card when you book direct at choicehotels.com. >> todd: wait until you get a load of this know wo. some minnesota lawmakers are pushing a bill that would put citizens on a "bias registry tracked by the government if

joe concha has a theory. why hold a news conference when tiktok influencers can do the work for you. we'll talk to him how in the world the white house is spinning the press access as a good thing and the army of influencers pushing the president's lies. but first -- >> sandra: chaos on chicago streets after hundreds of rowdy teens flooded the downtown area over the weekend. police responding to reports of gunshots and scenes of juveniles smashing cars, blocking traffic and fighting in the streets there. >> john: no wonder why the city's businesses are fading as the crime surge pushes retailers out and residents worry it's only going to get worse with the warmer weather. >> sandra: and tourists are in jeopardy as the chicago mayhem is playing out, similar scenes on the west coast as teens break down the door of a gas station. what exactly was going on there? >> saturday night, sandra, the sheriff's department took calls on six mobs taking over the streets in l.a. that looted and damaged two restaurants, two b

joe concha, great stuff as always. we do appreciate it, joe. much. >> great to see you. ashley: now this twitter changed course, thank you, and removed the state media affiliation from npr's account but the tech giant slapped new labels on a slew of news organizations. we'll have details on that story. the irs is going on a hiring spree. many are concerned the agency will bring an unreasonable amount of scrutiny. we're not kidding about that. we know it is coming. lydia hu will have the report next. ♪. sfx: [alarm] every day you get to choose. do i want more? can i grow stronger? can i get better? bodyarmor lyte. more than a sports drink. - representative! - sorry, i didn't get that. - oh buddy! you need a hug. you also need consumer cellular. get the exact same coverage as the nation's leading carriers and 100% us based customer support. starting at $20. consumer cellular. if lawn care were easy, everyone would do it... as well as trugreen does it. trugreen's online tools help ensure your custom treatment works to deliver a greener, healthier

joe concha wrote it. joe concha is with me this morning in new york. me how a fake video using a.i. affected the chicago merrill election. >> stu on the eve of the election, paul vallas seen as moderate candidate, tough on crime candidate, a video online, social media with his face, then most importantly his voice and sounds exactly like hill. basically he says he is nostalgic for the time where police officers can kill 17, 18 people no one says a thing about it. stuart: good lord. >> running against brandon johnson who wants to defund the police in chicago, said recently as much. video went viral. people believe he said this. he went on to lose the election. did he lose because of the video? maybe, maybe not. it certainly didn't help him. donald trump when he was arraigned in new york, there is photo goes around of five million people viewed, trump falling down being arrested by the nypd. enough people on social media, scroll through, they see it, believe it, no one will investigate this sort of thing. going into 2024 this will be weaponized that is w

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. >> steve: what was that thing with joe concha pursing his lips like that?he is not happy, ready to shoot. >> steve: read my lips, coming up on "fox and friends," good morning, in 11 minutes, the u.s. keeping close eye on beijing as chinese military drills continue near taiwan. -- will break it down and texas attorney general ken paxton is here and james patterson and his wife and rachel campos duffy. plus, cheryl casone just finished your show and will head to our shows talking about business headlines and in particular about how manufacturing is returning to the united states. finally, is tiger woods ready to retire? rumors are swirling after one of golf's greatest withdrew from the masters this weekend. why did he withdraw? we will share with you. coming up on the channel you trust for easter monday news. todd and ashley, back in a couple, you are watching "fox and friends first." how do we decide what hotel to book? fear not, i got you. choice hotels has a hotel for every type of stay. like a comfort with the kiddos. spacious! that's what they all say. s

. >> todd: fox news contributor joe concha joins us, this is a must-watch interview, what is your reaction, we do '80'ses and '90s references all the time. "terminator 1," and "terminator 2," not like we haven't seen this before. the sector is valued at 72 billion this year, projected to be 275 billion and from there up to trillions. this easily can get beyond human control and irony is we as human are incentivizing it and can profit off ai, growing industry with zero regulation and elon musk i believe is somebody we should listen to and will listen tonight on tucker probably 4 million will tune in to watch this, because this is important topic provided by a source in elon musk who has much success and knows where the money is going, it is going to ai. >> ashley: last month musk joined tech leaders in signing open letter calling for pause in ai research. it says ai systems can pose profound risk to society and should be managed with care. this level of planning and management is not happening, society has hit pause on other technology. joe, argument is ai can do wonders for medicine, on th

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. >> todd: joe concha, have you seen this before?he phone finding out, he's got a lot to say about it. he's here next. are >> todd: president biden pressing to go head-to-head with karine jean-pierre on the administration's silence. >> is he concerned at all, this could open up the possibility, set the precedent that local das that don't like former president biden could indict him? >> i will not comment from here. >> does lack of comment mean you do not believe anything happening in new york today is one of the top issues facing the country at the moment? >> that is your assessment, not mine. we will be mindful, these are ongoing cases. >> there are 500 cases involving americans who are at risk. >> this is something all americans watch in realtime. >> you call january 6 historic, it was, none of us had seen that before. nobody has seen this before either. yoke fox news contributor joe concha joins us now, they will only comment on one, what do you make of this? >> joe: full document mode, i will not comment, i will not comment, prac

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side show and distraction and he needs to be able to concentrate on his due process. >> ashley: joe concha us now, once again, joe, good morning to you. this fox news poll asking primary voters preferred presidential nominee and donald trump is leading with 54%, ron desantis with 24%, mike pence, nike and hutchinson with 1%. do you think trump will step aside? >> joe: great question, rhetorical, i think. from a media perspective, you say trump should withdraw from the race, which will never happen, that will earn hutchinson many tv appearances and air time. if this was 2008, and this governor has been around for a while and controversy free, he could have won the nomination 15 years ago, but in this environment, running against a former president, whose base is -- i don't see how hitchinson could overcome ron desantis, let alone donald trump. he is george pataki 2.0, he will get lots of air time. >> todd: trump's base continues to grow by the minute with this indictment upon us. tax returns revealing meghan markle is paying to michelle obama's former chief fuelling rumors about run for pot

back to you. >> todd: thank you, bring in fox news contributor joe concha. now, it does appear trump will delay that, it could be 1:00. once he gets there, no tv, only photo. as media guy, what is your reaction to that? >> joe: we will not get full o.j. we got yesterday. they did not want cameras whatsoever. going against a radical da, of course, that request will be rejected. i wonder if alvin bragg is to win this case or embarrass the president in this situation. alvin bragg wins here either way. if he loses, he is the guy who tried to take down trump and gets a gold star for it. if he wins, stock up on the sticker tape in new york. >> ashley: i have to disagree, i feel like trump comes out on top, everyone is talking about him. and in that sense, though, what did you make of todd blanche, him bringing him on the team? >> joe: this guy can get cases dismissed. trump's numbers have gone up. he's raised $5 million. i'm just saying alvin bragg doesn't see a down side from his standpoint. listen to jonathan turley and and mccarthy, they say this case is weak,

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that guy is joe concha. why can't he call it what it is? if he did come out to say we have a crisis here? >> because he has been instructed stu, not to say that word that is the messages we heard from the white house from day one. the numbers are staggering but the questions during that 6:00 at this 6'6" at this minutes interview. 180 people crossed the border on the fbi terror watch list that should be a little bit concerning. what about the 13 people on the terror watch list in 2021 that were arrested when this president took office. let's compare the numbers. 182 have crossed over the past 15 months. it was 13 in a year when joe biden took office. we're talking 14 times as many people considered to be terrorists crossing this border. mayorkas cannot call it a crisis. we didn't hear him apologize to his border agents when he said they whipped haitian migrants. no apology there. no questions about that by the way. also about the 13 border patrol agent that committed suicide during the past year. he had the audacity the border wall is off t

joe concha wrote it.eporters away. my question, how long can he keep it up? apparently for a long time, stu. 160 days since the president held a formal news press conference. in context you could walk across the united states and have time to spare. the hand letters are terrified having the president speak outside the tell problemter, he will say something bizarre, last week as he told a child, who asked him what is the key success to life, the answer was not getting covid. obviously the sound bite playing earlier, urged those attending the speech to go out to lick the world. that may be a misspeak. the problem that is happening over and over again. it is impossible to decipher what joe biden is saying at this point. 70% of americans, majority of democrats do don't want him to run again. the column talks about the white house signing up tiktokers to influence voters this is hp pox chrissie. the president, many republicans democrats, called tinge tock rightly so a chinese spy application, data harvesting,

the hill media columnist joe concha joining us now on this one.les, they're going back to old american icons to try to sweep this problem under the rug. will they get away with that? >> yeah. i think, david, they run the risk of try trying too hard to win their customers back that they lost are. it's kind of like your girlfriend breaking up with you, and you send her flowers, it has this boomerang effect, it only makes it worse. i say maybe just let this blow over. sales are down, what, 17% compared to a year ago, but this is a brand that's been around for more than 40 years, and there'll be a few holdouts, but i think in this too the shall pass, and they certainly learn their lesson. in the end, don't take a side, don't dive into controversy topics, you run the risk of alienating your customer base. make a good product, and if the profits are good, give back to the community. it ain't hard. david: they did suspend a couple of folks that were responsible for the campaign, but i'm told that the e e sg department is really well embedded in their cor

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and fox news contributor joe concha from new jersey. new york, florida and new jersey with us.ks for being here. >> good morning. >> ainsley: laura, i will start with you. what do you think he is already being attacked do you think that attack a lot of republicans want him to be very conservative. >> yeah. and you're seeing a lot of credible, strong republicans really chomping at the bit whether they announced or exploratory committee. there is a deep bench. i'm wondering if any of them can breakthrough the clutter of trump and legal issues which is going to dominate the news and conversation for a long time. >> ainsley: even if he doesn't, joe. great point by the way. we saw this movie in 2016. marco rubio, ted cruz, rand paul. successful republican senators but they couldn't breakthrough the domination that donald trump has on the media and we're seeing it here again with ron desantis who is up and coming and looked like he may even overtake trump in polls and he did in a couple and now he is down by 30 points. so, tim scott, nikki haley, we wish them luck. i think the debate

joe concha live from new york after this. >> congressman, yesterday you talked to president biden's formerssistant with links to hunter about how those documents got in to the penn center and others. who is picking up stuff and who wasn't? what did you find out? >> tech: when you have auto glass damage, trust safelite. we'll replace your windshield, and recalibrate your advanced safety system. so automatic emergency braking and lane departure warning work properly. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ >> martha: house republicans say they have startling new information that undermines white house claims about how they handled classified documents. it comes as a former aide to vice president biden who apparently got the job after being recommended for it by hunter biden, kathy chung has spoken to the house oversight committee. here's james comer on "fox and friends." >> what we learned was that these documents were transported from the vice presidency, from his office to the private sector in private cars. they went to at least three different locations initially. one of which

joe concha, first, good to see you, gentlemen. mr. tolman, first to you, fox digital reporting secretary of state antony blinken held a meeting with hunter bide ant state department in july 20 a 15 when he was obama's secretary of state and he had been e-mailing hunter while he was on the board of the energy firm barista, but then antony blinken is basically trying to tell the world things like, oh, the hunter biden laptop information is russian disinformation, that he's behind orchestrating that with former top cia official michael morrell and those intelligence officials for the 2020 election. where do you come down on all of this? >> you know, liz, thanks for having me on. when we remove transparency and accountability, then we know what happens with government. i think president reagan summed it up, government becomes the problem. the power is not just in a vacuum to be grabbed, it's attained when we take away that transparency. and if you have no fear that you're going on the held accountable for something, you start to see the r

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joe concha, your reaction to the media being happy trump is back.almost like they need him. >> big time. we have seen the numbers that have been struggling so long post trump. they get trump back in the a blocks of their shows for the next couple weeks and maybe moos. regarding the deem it a former president in a case the feds walked away from years ago because it was so damn weak. some warnings from those claiming to be objective that weaponization of the u.s. justice system in an attempt to take down political opponents sets a patently dangerous precedents. banana republic is supposed to be a clothing store. not a super power. instead it's ground hog day again. most respected legal analysts say the case will likely fail. but the coverage is nixonian. the narrative marinated with a mugshot of president trump in handcuffs. katie: they are joking and laughing and the audience is cheering as if this isn't a serious issue for the future of the country. the left talks about breaking resident all the time, but they get frustrated when the right holds the

bring in fox news contributor joe concha. we've been covering the hunter biden saga for years now. esn't this feel like this will blow the lid off joe hunter, blinken and the like? >> joe: within the government, he doesn't have a stake in one side or the other. when a republican makes a claim about hunter biden, the main-stream media ignores it. here this cannot be ignored, except it is being ignored. no talk of this whatso ever, cbs covered it on evening news, but outside fox, not many are talking about this now. they cannot avoid it, it could lead to indictments of hunter biden and as anita just talked about, obviously merrick garland could be culpable, as well. this is a big deal talking about the hunter biden story about joe biden more than hunter biden and is sitting president compromised by the likes of china, russia, ukraine, we will find out more. >> todd: if the attorney general gets indicted or in serious trouble and not include that as your story. what stood out to me, the mainstream media is not covering this, with exception of cbs, there are calls to go after the irs wh

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joe concha will join us with his thoughts on this. jim justice setting his sights on joe manchin's seat in 2024. manchin has not announced if he will run for reelection for a third term. joe manchin supported the -- after his victory in 2016. government justice joins "fox and friends" later today to talk about the bid for senate. >> todd: interesting to hear what he has to say, that will be a wild race. a father who exposed his daughter's manhattan school for denying quota. andrew gutman is running for congress in florida. he says the same sense of duty is callings him to dc. here with more is congressional candidate, andrew gutman. you mention sense of duty is why you are running. what do you see as your duty? >> i wrote a letter to all the parents at my daughter's school, i never expected it to be read by anyone other than parents. it got media attention and helped start it is parent's movement and i felt i had a duty to do that now. somebody had to speak up, other parents weren't doing it. two years later, we had a parent's movement

>> todd: joe concha joins us now. the president needing the jokes beforehand or the media giving them to him? >> joe: this president is the most protected, the most inaccessible president we've seen in modern times and yes, he did do a joint press conference yesterday with the leader of south korea. he is yet to do a solo press conference this entire year. it hasn't been since november because his handlers are petrified he can't do this well for extended period of time in terms of answering real questions. inflation is three times as high as when you took office, what do you plan to do about that? we have a crime crisis in this country that we haven't seen since the 1990s. the border is a catastrophe, what actions will you take to secure it? a heck of a lot better than it is now. seeing test scores at a 30-year low. act test scores among american students. a thousand questions you could ask, they will never be answered. take questions from hand-picked reporters who will ask the questions he can survive through. it wil

he has a plan to counter some of it, joe concha will react next. >> ashley: steve doocy will look atfriends," good morning, steve. >> steve: good morning, ashley and todd. it is wednesday, midweek, "fox and friends," fiery hearing on capitol hill yesterday senate republicans ripped into the dhs secretary mr. mayorkas, dereliction of duty at the southern border. senator rand paul here on growing call for mayorkas's impeachment. plus deep dive into china rising threat to the u.s., chairman of the house select committee gallagher will break down the concepts with that communist country. are we entering a new cold war with china? kind of looks like it. and congressman chip roy met governor ron desantis after endorsing him for president. what they talked about ahead of 2024. former cdc director dr. robert redfield weighs in on shocking report that claims there could have been two lab leaks that triggered covid. didn't know about one, now there is two, hear from the doctor and clay travis and lawrence jones having breakfast with friends somewhere in oklahoma. what is cooking in the sooner

impending nightmare ai poses for media elections, joe concha wrote that.k how the deep take video got into the chicago election. the white house wants to control emissions from natural gas power plants but the measures are generating huge controversy ones that make energy more expensive? we got the report next. ♪ 12 minutes into the session, i see some green. not much with us on that. twenty-three points of the doubt and 28 points for the nasdaq. white house preparing huge crackdown on our power plants. lydia is with us. what exactly are they going to do without power plants? >> they want to limit emissions on all power plants both new and existing. it would mark the second major regulatory decision from the environmental protection administration and this month on the heels of the decision to limit emissions from cars. according to reports the rules could require almost all coal and gas fire power plants to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2 2040. we reached out to the epa which confirmed standards are being reviewed, a spoke

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i will bring in joe concha and kevin walling. thank you for joining the program.n liberals turning saying this is politics, i don't see how this goes anyway. why put all your eggs in this? i see the people who value rule of law and understand where it goes, they are not too heavy. >> i'm not celebrating because all, i want to see the process play out in the idea no one is above the law to continue in this country but are not celebrating, i'm calling from democrats to not celebrate the indictment, we want to see the process play out in the evidence and we want the process to move forward but anyone celebrating, it's a disaster for this country whether you are democrat or republican because we don't want to see violence in the streets, we don't want to see protests in the streets that turned violent and i want to see the process move forward in georgia and with a special prosecutor along with the documents case and i think this is most independent analysis said, this is the weakest of these three cases moving against the former president. >> i know you are genuine w

i want to bring joe concha in on this because, joe, we still don't know what those six decisions areomer also told me that 9 family members are now involved, that they somehow were getting money from communist china. here is james comer with me on sunday, joe, before you jump in, watch this. >> there are six specific decisions that joe biden made either as vice president or president that are very concerning to us that we believe could potentially lead back to payments that were made to these llc's that were then laundered down to biden family. maria: yeah, so the question is did they allow ccp to buy land in america and allow companies to exchange in major exchanges, what was it, joe? >> what would haley biden a counselor in the state of delaware received thousands of dollars. that's remarkable. this is the thing about comer, he literally has the receipts in terms of bank receipts, obviously emails from hunter biden laptop that's been verified by news organization well into the president got into office. more questions than answers our media continues to completely ignore this story

the company's stock losing billions in value fox news contributor joe concha weighs in on what has become polarizing issue. joe is next. physics i am jon scott this is the fox report. it is the bottom of the hour but if you are just joining us as a look at some headlines. the train believed to be carrying hazardous materials, fire up to the railing in maine today it happened in the town of rockwood in the northern part of the state roughly 45 miles in the canadian border. the railroad tracks are currently owned by the canadian pacific railway. no injuries have been reported. austin and the nation are commemorating 10 years since the marathon of bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds more in the racist finish line. brothers the two homemade bombs. he was killed days later and was sentenced and remains behind bars. spacex plans to test launch was it bills as the most powerful rocket ever built as soon as monday. that the faa has granted approval for the starship will travel around the world from texas to hawaii. billionaire elon musk plants use the rocket eventually to send a

. >> joe concha's reaction. all here live on a busy wednesday morning edition of fox and friends first ... >> todd: fox news alert chicago citizens elected another progressive mayor. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. controversial plan on education. >> chicago just elected a progressive democrat as next mayor, brandon johnson will replace lori lightfoot after beatin

the conversation all morning long, ext strategic weah partner, mark tepper, fox news contributor, joe concha"mornings with maria" is live right now. president biden officially running for re-election, white house core correspondent edward lawrence has more. >> reporter: he will be fighting for democracy, he'll say republicans want to take away your freedoms. >> i ran for president four years ago. i said we will battle for the soul of america and we still are. the question we're facing is whether if the years ahead we have more freedom on less freedom, more rights or fewer. i know what i want the answer to be and i think you do too. this is not a time to be complacent. >> reporter: the president a little superstitious four years ago, he also released a video message he would run for president. former president donald trump talking in an interview last night, you a addressed the re-election bid by president biden, saying this country is in trouble. we're going to ends up in world war iii. they're talking nuclear weapons and we have somebody that doesn't understand what's happening. republican

for more on this, joe concha, columnist for "the hill" and fox news contributor.w is it going? >> bill: can't build a $100 million bullet train on time, and they cannot fill a pothole. >> good for arnold, a former governor taking matters into his own hands. fixing potholes should not be a do-it-yourself project for residents paying the highest taxes in their country, trusting government do do the basic things, 77% during the kennedy administration 1964, all the way down to 21% today. we are talking about nearly 60% drop, according to pew research. and in los angeles, the inability to problem secretary citizens, the worst impact on minority women, l.a. times reporting, bill, said that black women and girls remain at higher risk of victimization than any other demographic. their disappearances receive far less attention from law enforcement and the news media than other races, and per the lapd, black women make up 4% of the population but account for 33% of victims of violence. stunning numbers out of los angeles, bill. >> bill: as you mentioned, trust in government

jason chaffetz and joe concha, fox news contributors, welcome to our show today.e censorship of covid, i think we've all come to realize that a lot of that was happening. do you think it was even worse than what we knew at the beginning? >> yeah. this is the standard operating procedure for china whether it's the uighurs or child labor. name the topic that they aren't disingenuous about and certainly covid. this administration has not pushed china with the facts. they have not pushed the world health organization. you a congress for two years that didn't have hearings on covid. they get away with it because nobody asks them hard questions. >> bill: here is the quote from one of the authors of the study. it was so hard to get any information out of china, there was so much covered up and hidden. you think? >> the least surprising thing we're hear all day. china has tried to thwart all data. it wasn't too long ago if you say it came from a lab in wuhan it was considered a conspiracy theory. john stewart said if there was a chocolate outbreak in pennsylvania the firs

reaction, because they do have opinions, fox news contributors, charlie hurt, leo terrell, and joe concha. charlie, let me start with you. i found that "l.a. times" denial very interesting. they said we don't do this, right? this is not what we do. somebody did it. it's almost as though they were throwing that reporter under the bus, because it's not like a leprechaun clipped it and printed it and left it on joe biden's desk. what did you make of the denial, especially the "l.a. times"' denial? >> everybody involved seems to be lying, including the "l.a. times," which is very, very disturbing considering their job is to be in that room on behalf of the american people, and to ask questions and get answers and tell the truth. you juxtaposed the question right. somehow the president ended up with that question in his hands. somehow that happened. we don't know at this point whether it was a question that the "l.a. times" reporter gave to the white house or perhaps even worse the white house wrote out and gave to the "l.a. times" reporter to ask. >> oh. >> either way, the white house corresp