bring in the all-star panel, jonah goldberg from national review online, with mara liasson, nationalrrespondent of national public radio. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. mara, start with you. predicting victory in wisconsin and a bold prediction when you consider president obama won by 14 points in 2008. a lot has changed there. >> a lot has changed there. previous democrats won by a point or two. a close state but democratic state since 1984. a lot has changed. republicans swept the state in 2010. scott walker survived the recall in the fight for the recall. republicans built a real infrastructure they didn't have in the state before that. although, a lot of arguments you heard romney just made, you could hear president obama making them also for his case. why not vote for me, wisconsin? your economy is doing better, unemployment rate is down. governor governor will credit the governor and the president wants credit himself. i think wisconsin is a really important key to romney's strategy. the reason he is on a bus tour around the great lakes if he can get wisconsin or mic

. >> jonah fisher is our correspondent in bangkok. he's been listening to her speech. he also pointed out she was warning against reckless optimism. after >> after the excitement, euphoria, even, that marked the start of this visit, the first trip abroad in almost a quarter century by aung san suu kyi, today she sounded a note of caution, several notes of caution, really, one on a political level, saying that she believes some people were being recklessly optimistic in their assessment of the program that had been made in burma and that she hoped people maintained a healthy skepticism. she said she didn't yet fully believe that the burmese army were behind the reform process. on a second point of caution, she spoke about investment. she said burma badly needed investment to create jobs, the jobs that will provide an incentive for people to go back to burma, but she also said that the framework to attract that investment is still not really in place, there's not a strong rule of law. the judiciary there isn't independent. so, speaking to those business leaders, she said

. >> that woman is jonah zeigler.er and her vehicle, and it isn't long before he spots her. >> when i looked over to the left, i saw a pink vest and her head behind the steering wheel. i pulled in behind her truck. >> corporal tufty approaches the vehicle and confronts ziegler. >> i let her know who i was and why i was there. she said she wasn't jonah zeigler. that's not me. i finally convinced her i knew who she was and that she was under arrest because she had warrants. >> he orders zeigler out of her truck, but she has other plans. >> she stopped and said i'm not going. hit the gas, and the truck basically goes in reverse. and i put my hand out to keep the truck from basically pushing me over. >> he tries to reach for his taser and his gun, but there is no time. zeigler is on the run.ç >> she flies by in front of me yelling at me as she's driving by. she said, quote-unquote, just [ bleep ]-ing shoot me and then drives off. >> zeigler's vehicle is going fast leaving a cloud of smoke in its wake, trying to shake the

also this weekend on afterwards, conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas. >> american politics has disported for the last century or so by this idea that by the further you move away from the left is away from bad things and another word is fohomophobic an sexist and they're winning an argument. >> that's sunday night at 9:00 on book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> the story behind "the star-spangled banner," the invasion and burning of washington, d.c. mark the bicentennial of the start of the war of 1812, from fort mchenry that was seen through the rocket's red glare. historian authors recall on this little-known war. more this weekend and more from the key political figures who ran for president and lost, but changed political history "the contenders." this time, three-time presidential candidate, jennings brian this weekend on c-span3. >>> secretary of state hellry clinton said the attack helicopters russia is sending to syria may dramatically escalate the couviolence in that country. shimon peres, and hosted by the brookings institution in

jonah goldberg. a.b. stoddard of the hill. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.has gotten this. the justice department says they have done everything. republicans say it doesn't matter. >> there is an argument about thousands of documents have been provided. there is an argument about the one that have not. mr. holder's defenders say he is complying with the best he can and the documents in question are not dits closeable. this is not something that sounds like it is going to go all the way to a full house vote of contempt. this sounds like it will be reed before then. i think it will be worked out. they got to threaten him with contempt. >> bret: charles? >> a.b. is right. i find it hard to get terribly excited over these arguments because they are centuries old debate between the executive and the congress over oversight. how much the executive is required to release executive on all the government democratic and republican hold back. the congress pushes and they usually feel like a compromise that probably happened here. >> yet, they haven't, the administratio

i think they depend -- jonah said they don't have good surrogates.l clinton has credibility with the very few persuadable voters left. he presided over a time of prosperity that people remember fondly. they think he is knowledgeable and politically reasonable. they think he is smart. he remains too good an asset to reject. but he is a loose cannon. to put it mildly. >> ten seconds, charles. dangerous prospect? >> loose cannonbe, he is a double agent. what is the message? bill clin top says elect obama because at the end of a second term you might begin to be getting out of recession? i wouldn't run on that. >> bret: final thoughts when we return. thank you, panel. back in wisconsin in a bit. [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. another cup of coffee? new v8 v-fusion plus energy. how long is this one going to last? forty-five minutes? an hour? well... listen. 5-hour energy lasts a whole l

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jonah goldberg. >> hi, everybody, good morning. it's great to be here.lly to be here. [ laughter ] i'm happier than joe biden on lime jell-o day at the home. the theme of this conference was to be america at a crossroads, and it's worth noting in 2008 we were told america was at a crossroads as well and when we elected president obama, that we had made our choice and committed to a certain road. we were told, in fact, that we were going to have a not just a new, new deal but a new 40-year progressive era. it didn't happen, if you hadn't noticed but at the time in, i remember in 2009 i used to speak to free market liberty loving groups and people. i might as well have been speaking at a klingon wedding or to a civil war re-enactment society. everyone was so convinced that the world had gone the other way, and that we were in store for a long, new progressive era, and that's not what happened. the left came in expecting to exploit an economic crisis w a mantra they openly said one of the most cynical things said in american politics, a crisis is a terrible

also this week oebdz afterwards, conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoings using the tyranny of cliches. >> american politics have been distorted by the last century or so by the idea that you move further away from the bad things and one is fascist and another one is homophobic and another one is sexist and the fascist and american political life is simply a conservative who is winning an argument. that is sunday night at 9:00 on book tv on c-span2. >> senate finance committee chair max baucus is leading the nation's tax code. he't

also this week on "afterwards," jonah goldberg blames liberals. >> american politics has been distorted for the last century or so by this idea that the further you move away from the left, the closer you get to bad things. and one of the words we use for bad things is fascist, another one is racist, another one is homophobic, another one is sexist. so in some ways, the best definition is a conservative who's winning an argument. >> that's on sunday night at 9:00 on book tv, this weekend on c-span2. >>> this week, secretary of state hillary clinton spoke about the ongoing situation in syria. >> we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syria. they have from time to time said that we shouldn't worry, everything they're shipping is unrelated to their actions internally. that's patently untrue and we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. >> watch the rest of the discussion on the arab/israeli peace process online at the

martha: jonah, thank you very much. we'll watch and it will get started in less than 45 minutes away. all of that will get underway this morning. we'll watch it closely. thanks for being here in d.c. back to you, rick. rick: well, martha, it was an emergency distress call that scrambled two coast guard ships, four helicopters and 200 first-responders and it may have all been a hoax. we're awaiting brand new details on a possible yacht explosion. it may have never happened. martha: watch out. one town now approving a fine for discussing. cussing. >> people do it, and you say damn. i didn't mean to say that. >> well that might have to go to court. i mean you know on that note. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. martha: got a foul mouth? one town has an incentive to try to keep it clean. mi

they replaced jonah with goldberg.e. the way you and i would say it if were and he was saying the private sector is doing -- obama and others like him hold people in contempt. average americans are held in contempt. they really are looked down upon. >> sure, uppity. >> stephanie: dog whistle: [ whistle ] >> stephanie: in relation to the public sector which he just said in the sentence before. all right. >> the white house hitting the reset button this morning after a bad week the obama camp is look at good news. what will it be, mr. president? doubling down on green energy now? good campaign platform or does it sound a bit desperate? we report and you can decide. >> stephanie: yes, we report without any sort of snark at all. we're just saying. >> inherited that brilliant economy from george bush. >> the president sounding like a desperate socialist. >> you can answer that for yourself. >> stephanie: we're just news. we don't -- huh? the president's fascist snarkist >> arrogant. >> okay. >> stephanie: bill o'reilly. >>

move on archana will do this the other week we play this clip i don't think we have time for it now jonah goldberg basically going on about young voters how he thinks that it's too bad that the voting age is eighteen we should we should bring it up talking about how young people are just inherently stupid and then he said that socialism is to be beaten out of young people either literally or figuratively and so jamie kills his co-host a citizen radio basically wrote this whole article it's up and why he wants to fight him and jamie although he's a vegan he also you know he's a fighter he does a number of forms so i kind of like to see that go down. yeah i'm all into bringing back modern day duels i think we throw a gun in there and make it real interesting of a prediction on his going i think the loser in this fight between a comedian and a political columnist will be anybody who used to watch a fight between those two you'll run out of breath from thirty seconds comedians are fighters ok we're going to. actually see a real fight ok we've got to wrap it up because we're out of time thanks

jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideals using cliches. >> american politics has been distorted for the last century by this idea that the further you move away from the left, the closer you get to bad things. another one is sexist. so in some ways the best working definition of a fascist is simply a conservative winning an argument. >> that's on sunday night at 9:00 on book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's college professors. you can watch the classes here every saturday at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern and sundays at 1:00 p.m. this week, author and political commentator michael barone examines the writings and observations of the 19th the century french aristocrat, alexis de tocqueville focusing on his conceptions of liberty, equality and community. tocqueville is best known for his two-volume work "democracy in america," based on his travels around america in the 1830s. almost barone was a guest lecturer at the citadel military college in charleston, south carolina in a course called the con

also this weekend on after wards, jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on idea, using the tyranny of cliche. >> american politics has been distorted for the last century or so by this idea the further you move away from the left, the closer you get to a bad thing, and one word we use is sexist, so in some ways the best working definition of a fascist in political life is a conservative who is winning an argument. >> that's book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >>> one of the quotes from the white house staffer i thought was exceptionally inspiring is once you realize the magnitude of difference you can make in public life, everything else will pale in comparison. >> i think it was best put when someone from the white house came and said he said a quote and said those who think they are crazy enough to change the world are the ones that actually do. >> mr. brian's the same man that christopher was talking about that said choose carefully and execute relentlessly. and that meant a lot to me because sometimes we find ourselves taking too many things on and not focusing on the one

jonah sanchez produced a series of interview shows with political figures for around the world airing right here no. he said the fund raising program will now decide on the sergeant's solemn occasion website party dot com. turkey's foreign minister says one of its jets shot down by syrian forces was not spying but mistakenly entered the arab countries airspace says the action was defensive and not an aggressive move as both sides seek to defuse tensions after the incident. or warned it would retaliate but didn't specify how well turkish and syrian search teams are looking for the two missing pilots. back. coalition says the instant the turkish plane is increasing tensions. you'll see. i think what we see is syria a small country a government that has been independent sense independence meaning while it sometimes collaborates with the west it has not been considered to be a proxy or a client has been targeted by the western powers and by the turkish government which of course is part of nato and by their regional proxies saudi arabia qatar for overthrow and the overthrow is designed no

also this weekend on afterwards conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas using the tir nee of cliches. >> american politics have been distorted by the last century by the idea that the further you move away from the left the closer you get to bad thins. a bad word is fascist, another one is racist, homophobic. the best working definition of a fascist is a conservative who's winning in an argument. >> that's sunday night at 9:00 on book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> watergate was not a caper. it was about a fum intent by president of the united states to misuse and abuse the constitution, obstruct justice, and more than anything to try and undermine the very electoral process. >> it's been 40 years since the watergate break in. >> if you really look at it, they rigged or tampered with everyone's vote. by saying this was not just something done to have fun or it was not just dirty tricks. it was a strategic plan aimed

. >> it's like jonah and the whale coming and swallowing you. >> reporter: and still, somehow neighborhood overflow with kindness. kris huso stopped sandbagging to give us a tour, fearing her neighbors won't be in their homes much longer. >> when it gets up to this line, we're moving everything out of the house. obviously, you don't buy flood insurance here. you don't do it. so i'm kind of emotional, because i don't know what to do. >> reporter: water rises an inch an hour. the measure that matters the most is in the 10s of thousands. all of the sandbag the city could muster were not enough to protect the pump, what which began to fail, bringing sewage to into homes. >> we all love each other. we're such great neighbors. >> the red cross is setting up shelters. >>> some rain here in maryland may bring relief from the heat. another humid summer afternoon. hopefully, things will get back to normal. wjz has weather and traffic together. >> 3 severe thunderstorm warnings. one across york county, one across southern washington county, and just a minute ago, bun just popped up there in calvert c

she has brought her son's jonah and jackson to make cupcakes you will show the viewers at home in making the is ... we have a very easy recipe. the kids can do this themselves with a little bit of guidance on the baking ... you are pre measuring everything for the kids ... >>one of the things you have to remember is to give into the mass just put a disposable table acrosscloh under everything ... let's begin with the dry ingredients: >>first we will put in the chocolate coco sugar of baking soda flour followed by the wet ingredients buttermilk, oil the eggs and the vanilla ... >>then we will put in the water ... makes it for a few seconds so it plansblends.... >>this is why we have a table cloth ... >>now we are going to pour the batter into this bowl ... >>we like to use the ice-cream scoop to measure the cupcakes into the forms ... this way you get everything even ... we are also going to use the ice-cream scooper to decorate these cupcakes ... so you slice these and they looked uniform in the end it ... and your of the perfect amount of frosting we're using a vanilla bean buttercream

jonah sands will stay put to the dorrian embassy in london until a decision on his asylum request declining to comply with a demand from british police to surrender or extradition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel the fans at home the e.u. deal to help struggling banks but there is skepticism the better will solve the block's core problems and debt crisis. a fresh look at the global financial headlines which some bankers might rather you didn't know it's all in the kaiser report that's next on our. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser report it's official the shadow banking system is now bigger than the non shadow banking system that's right it's bigger the stuff you don't see the stuff that's on regulated the stuff that's destroying the planet is now bigger many hundreds of trillions of dollars bigger than the so-called real economy this is causing his problems and other stuff they say herbert max keiser guess what live for is back in the news this is the global benchmark interest rate upon which all interest rates are set from their credit card interest rates mortgage rate inte

new york based author and political analysts have gone there has no doubt jonah songes in washington sides and she also says his application for asylum to the war is unlikely to affect the country's relations with the u.s. as they are already almost as bad as a cat's well typically the us shouldn't have any kind of public at least legal interest in the case because as of right now there's been no admission on the part of the united states government that they're pursuing any kind of legal action against julian assange however obviously we know that washington has been pursuing him secretly. for over a year or so but i think there may be some kind of. more sort of clandestine pressure coming out of washington against ecuador but the relations are in great anyway between the government and washington i want to accuse that but our being a government that is violating an important principle of the balance being an expression mean most of it unfounded it's just because it's no longer government subordinate to us and so you know you can only really make a relationship that's already pretty

also this weekend on "afterwards," conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas using "the tyranny of cliches." >> american politics distorted for the past century or so by the idea that you further you move away from the left the further you get to bad things, one word is fascist and another one is racist and homophobic and a fascist in political life is a conservative winning an argument. >> that's sunday night at 9:00 on "book-tv" this weekend on c-span 2. >>> the story behind "the star spangled banner," invasion and burning of washington, d.c. this weekend on american history tv. mark the bicentennial of the start of the war of 1812 from ft. mchenry, the site which francis scott key would see through the rockets red glare, historians, authors and your calls on this little known war live saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern. also this weekend, more from our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost but changed political history. "the contenders," sunday at 7:30 p.m. this week with three-time democratic candidate for president willia

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here is jonah goldberg's take. >> it is an up beat message. the obama administration doesn't have any reliable top tier surrogates at all. that's why they trod out david axle rod which is sort of a disaster. joe biden is not a reliable speaker. bill clinton may be more reliable than joe biden. that's like saying godzilla is more destructive than king kong. not a reliable guy to count on. the administration doesn't have any one to put forward that doesn't destroy his message in some way. >> charles krauthammer also weighed in he called clinton a double agent. >> the queen of talk about to be de-throned. a new report oprah could be out at her own network. >>> can you cheer too loud de at graduati graduation? a student is being denied his diploma. what you missed last night on jimmy fallon. >> yesterday president obama gave bonn joef ry a ride to new york city on air force one. that makes sense. bon jovi living on a prayer while obama is campaigning on one. ♪ obama used to work on a dock >> he has been the subject of ain't national manhunt since

thanks so much, jonah. it's been fantastic to chat with you. >> guest: thanks for having me. i really appreciate it. .. >> what a crowd and what a wonderful space. thank you for having us here. i'm going to ask questions for about half an hour and then turn it to the floor, and i will as somebody that has been in the news business all of my life focus on the news issues at the center of this, but lots of room to talk about journalism careers, the future of journalism, all of the stories dan has covered. he truly has been married and has done at starting with the civil rights movement, and i always say great stories make great journalists and people came out of world war ii i think he was by the civil rights movement by vietnam and watergate and we have all been lucky to cover those stories. so, to start out this book if you haven't read, dan has always said that he holds no punches and this is a throw punches book and the people that were absolutely infuriated by what he says. he doesn't hold back what he believes, and i know him well enough that it's a genuine article and th

jonah lara wrote material he left written. other examples quickly resurfaced.slapped an editor's note expressing regret. lehrer told "the new york times" it was a stupid thing to do and incredibly lazy and absolute

she talks with jonah goldberg about his latest release "the tyranny of cliches." the editor argues many liberals claim to be not ideological while using homes brunt -- homespun catch phrases to advance a radical ideas. >> host: and welcome to the show. great to be able to chat with you today. you wrote liberal fascist. this is your second book. tommy why you wrote this book. >> guest: well, a lot of work. you may not believe it, but it took a lot of research and it took about six years. it is not a particularly entertaining book. if you are compelled by that pieces it is a worthwhile read, i think, but i want to have a little more fun. in this book i tried to have -- i tried a little harder to be entertaining for the kind of readers who like my stuff. this is, liberal fascism, as we define right wing, fascism was not right wing. two pillars of right wing this 3merican life. american life. libertarianism, free-market, free value. social conservatism, all that kind of stuff. on both fronts, they stop themselves. yet american politics has been distorted by this idea

jonah lara wrote material he left written. other examples quickly resurfaced.orker slapped an editor's note expressing regret. lehrer told "the new york times" it was a stupid thing to do and incredibly lazy and absolute lutity wrong. >>> how do you screw screw up the -- there there was in "the miami herald" a piece by carol bernstein and bob woodward. maybe a young copy editor never heard of them. that's it for this edition of "reliable sources." if you miss a program, you can go to i tunes on mondays and download the podcast. i'm howard kurtz. state of the union with candy crowley begins right now. >>> the hope of last year's arab spring turns this year to an uncertain arab summer. you are looking at live pictures in tahrir square in cairo. where thousands are celebrating the election of mohamed morsi. i'm candy crowley in washington. we want to welcome viewers from cnn international to "state of the union." the announcement came about 90 minutes ago, defeating ahmed shafiq. christian amanpour is the global affairs anchor, also with her is correspondent ben w

. >> dow like jonah hill. >> i love the man, yeah, he's wonderful.s a prime example of someone who you would just consider as an actor who is in these kind of come december and then you watch a brilliant movie like money ball and it is completely surprising and you go wow, i didn't know he was capable of that. and but that's true of the whole world. like imagine if everybody knew what their talent was and everybody -- dk like we really are so quick to kind of pigeonhole people, that all we ever really do is just scratch the surface of people's abilities. and i think he is the primest example of that, you know. >> but do you think are you using more of your abilities than most of your colleagues. >> no, i think you're all-- if you are an actor are you just-- it is like are you an orchestra. if you are an acker you are a member of a band. whether you are playing second collar inette or first violin all you can really do whether it be in film, tv or on the stage is just do your bit to the best of your ability. and everything else, if it comes out and it

i've published books by david rock, charles murphy, jonah goldberg and i've been doing that for verylong time. when i started out doing it nobody else was doing it. >> is that how you develop that niche? >> i like to be contrarian. i like to be the only person doing something but it turned into a successful business so now there are four imprints in maine -- mainstream publishing that puts a conservative books including the one i run for harpercollins which is called brideshead books. brides ibooks. >> what are some of the books he want to tell us about that are coming out this fall that you been working on? >> two that are coming out in the fall, the first one i was mentioned as a book by charles kessler called i am the change, barack obama and the crisis of -- as you can imagine this is a big political year so every conservative intellectual is capable of writing or publishing of brock has one in the works and my list is, it's a serious one, intellectually serious. although because now the left in the right each have their own sphere of media discussions, it's very difficult to get

also this weekend, a conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas. >> american politics has been distorted for the last century by the idea that the further you move from the left, the closer you get the bad things. one word they use is a fascist and another is racist and another is sexist. a conservative who is winning an argument seems to be the best definition of a fascist, now. >> that is this weekend on is2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: looking at the american family and what it's worth. joseph gagnon. from the. senior fellow. good morning. guest: good morning. host: most people saw the headline saying american families are worth about what they were in the 1990's. can you break it down for folks watching? guest: the biggest reason for this decline in family net worth has been the decline of house values in america, by far. also, if stock markets different from 2007. host: as far as home values, does that affect all incomes equally? guest: it does affect it in dollar terms, it affects richer people more because they have bigger home

[ laughter ] >> yeah kim simons who plays jonah on our show was saying something like that.etimes we want to say to some stranger on the subway, but we never can. [ laughter ] >> it's like taking a vacation from being a nice person. >> exactly. >> exactly. i was reading an interview you did with cnn, and you said people have good days and bad days, everybody uses the bathroom. when we mythologyize our presidents. >> yeah, obama -- some people talk about disill lou shunment and stuff, and i say that means you were lusioned in the first place. >> yeah. >> look at somebody's job and see if it holds to what the intentions were, and then make your decision that way. and to me i think that it is a pretty positive outlook at this point. >> right. i think it's interesting -- that's why in my opinion mitt romney isn't resinating because he is so inauthentic. >> yeah. >> and i think that's why your sereries is doing so well because it seems so real. >> yeah. >> right. >> yeah, i think that too. i think -- you know it's -- i think that's something that our creator and exec producer has

from what i understand, jonah creativity, that sold really well and largely when -- recommended it andcertainly coming up maybe not so much this summer but certainly this fall, it will be interesting to see how nonfiction does that his election related. i think if nonfiction books do very well they will have some political or some history related element that somehow ties into the election. for example i would not be surprised if david maraniss' book does phenomenally well mostly because they are all these -- of what is to come with "vanity fair" and other magazines and people are very curious to see it. it's a very big book so that is the first book that comes to my mind but i know there are a number of other political books it should be dropping very same. >> host: we have been talking with sarah weinman who is the news director of publishers marketplace. if you're interested in following the publishing news, the web site, publishers marketplace.com, and if you want to follow sarah on twitter, she is a constant twitterer. sarah w. >> guest: i tried to keep it simple by getting on twi

also this weekend on afterwards, conservative commentator jonah goldberg blames liberals for an ongoing war on ideas using the tyranny of clichÉs. >> american politics have been distorted the last century or so by this idea that the further we move away from the left the closer you get it i think. one of the -- under this races, another one is success. so in some ways the best working definition of a fastest is simply conservative who's winning an argument. >> that sunday night on booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> the story behind the star-spangled banner, the invasion and burning of washington, d.c. this weekend on american history tv marks the bicentennial of the start of the war