today when i teach journalism, when anybody teaches journalism, the textbooks all emphasize reporting the five ws. so you need to report the who, what, where, when and why. but prior to the '60s, the rule for general or reporters was the four ws, it was just who, what, where and when. and the why, that wasn't supposed to be touch. that was the province if of editorial writers and columnists and maybe if you were lucky enough to write an article for the sunday review section. but most articles were meant to focus just on the facts and not try to explain why. so what happened, what caused this shift to more analysis, more interpretive reporting? i argue in the book that there were two main factors. one was the technology factor, again, the rise of tv news which prior to 1963 was only 15 minutes each evening and even after that it wasn't in too much depth. and so tv news could provide headlines and sound bites but really not much else. and so for newspapers to stay relevant, they had to provide something more. the other main factor in the growth of interpretation and analysis was the ris

pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> great state of texas. pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i ask for a vote aa dwreeg to the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker pro tempore: the question is a greigg to the speaker's approval of the journal. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the journal stns approved. for what purpose does the entleman seek recognition? >>> mr. speaker, i do have one more thing. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order a quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson. mr. wilson: everyone, including our guests in the gallery, please join in. i pledge allegiance to t

my first journalism job. [laughter] that was for the queens chronicle like a community paper in queens and the thing about new york you can live in new york but you can take so many jobs before you can actually work in new york. it takes a long time to actually be able to work at all in new york. >>host: with your career path where you networking or trying to make things happen for yourself? how did it all come together quick. >> i'm probably not a very good networker. i was just looking for journalism jobs. the main thing you had to have is a car. if you just have a car for those assignments. a journalism salary without pay for your car. then you could drive around queens or whatever. that there was a moment after that old journalism path i didn't do the blogging path but community coordinating middle of the night type of path which is gone i think now. but that's when i realize this is not going anywhere with an internship at the village voice and now i'm in the middle of that path and then wayne who died o

television helped kill journalism. journalism started its authors again recently white house press secretary the senators of all people responded to claims that she doesn't cooperate the media by saying we're in the business of giving information to the american people making stars out of people who want to become contributors and oh. i think like i said of my she's right it's the broken clock of the trumpet ministries and they're all kind of hit that one point where you're right it's not about you know jim acosta and his new book it's not you're supposed to be there getting information you know you get that information it's you know it doesn't matter whether you're doing it on t.v. or your polling but when you're a reporter it suddenly becomes very important otherwise you're not going to have that job or that time on air the next and that's a good point and really everybody ends up being a pundit and what the question was you know it's easy for us in this business to know all the sky is falling oh margaret well it's n

hoax and the perils of single source journalism plus had geography and american presidents nothing so becomes their legacy as their passing earlier this month nicolas maduro was sworn in for a second term as venezuela's president the election that got him there was widely condemned as rigged and opposition voices were mostly absent from the airwaves the case against him of doro and his treatment of the media is compelling his critics say that since he first took office in two thousand and thirteen almost one hundred radio and television stations have been censored or shut down as well as thirty three newspapers another fifty journalists have been prosecuted. we've been following the media story in venezuela for more than a decade now when the duros predecessor and mentor the late hugo chavez came to power he pledged to confront the right wing media outlets that dominated political discourse at the time to democratize the media and give voice to the country's poor however venezuelans now suffer under chronic shortages and not just of food and medicine of information the pendulum has sw

corporatism doesn't doesn't help journalism now you know at the same time. we're also shooting ourselves in the food . well it was interesting and i want to point this out real quick is the what we know is newspapers and what we know as this paid newspaper. business is not how it was for one hundred fifty plus years you know we had a subscription based service and you had very specific things you had like. publications that were for specific neighborhoods were for specific areas or specific groups of people and you paid a subscription then it came out never but he started selling that's the pulitzer sent her started selling on this idea will give you crime and you know all of these things and then what we do is sell the advertising back so i never thought you could just keep going on that same saying yeah. and these are deep cuts that we're seeing and so yeah it would come through yeah so one of the things that i think was really interesting is that the entire opinion section of the huffington post. was cut including their senior editor. usa today most of it

pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. it appears the ayes have t the journal stands approved. >> mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kansas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and make a point of order a quorum is not present. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion are postponed. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from kansas, mr. watkins. mr. watkins: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the sp

we're saying now donald trump's america journalism is a crime you know i have no other answer to that the children the i.f.j. cat other organizations they are asking for information as to why she is being detained and the speculation is rife i mean american human rights organizations there they say they're concerned as well and she may have been targeted for her documentary work on the black lives that matter movement but something the son said that she was also involved with at the time could that be a reason. how very worrying if it could be a reason i don't want to speculate at this moment as you can imagine my zia has been detained since sunday we have very little information and i think it would be up to her legal team to make a comment at the appropriate time but. how very worrying if. covering a story like black lives matter would lead to this kind of detention really is a lot of question as i said there's a lot of questions is this now the new norm in america is this politically motivated there is a lot of questions and at the moment the most important thing is to get answers

with our morning program, the washington journal. we'll be live on both networks all day long with the new house and the new senate. well, earlier today congressional leaders met with the president to discuss the government shutdown and border wall funding. here's what the leaders had to say after their meeting with the president. >> thank you all for being here. we had a long discussion. the president had asked us to come back on friday after the leadership races. i think that was a concern for some people to be able to get through. we never did get through the complete briefing from the secretary of homeland which we're concerned about because we have a crisis on the border right now. we had a violent mob rush yesterday where we had a challenge there, but we know we have a challenge along the border. we want to solve that issue. we want to make sure we open this government up. i think at the end of the day, the president listening to him, he wants to solve this as well. that's why he's asked us to come back friday after the leaders

tech sector rivals including cell phone provider team mobile according to a scoop by the wall street journal investigators are believed to be building upon the foundations of a twenty fourteenth civil lawsuit by t.v. mobile in which to walk away employees were eventually found to have appropriated perhaps stolen technology from t. mobile for use by wall weigh the investigation has been characterized as being in an advanced stage and while way is also being scrutinized from another angle here in washington as members of congress raise questions about why always a role in building solar energy capacity in the united states a bipartisan group of u.s. legislators was warned in a letter to the trop of ministration energy secretary rick perry that while ways growing presence and role in large scale and residential solar markets quote may pose a threat to our nation's infrastructure there was bi cameral legislative action on the issue raised in the letter with the introduction of two bills on electric grid security in the house and senate. in a statement on the bill prime senate sponsor tom cotton

today journalism today i would say has become a matter of many more opinions being put into reporting which is leading to mistrust by viewers and by audiences and jim acosta is a good example of that jim openly debates the president on certain issues he takes a side and then decides to become the captain of the debate team during press briefings like we saw last week and eventually becomes a confrontation where after every press briefing by their appeal with white house press secretary sarah sanders or with the present. unself the story becomes jim acosta and donald trump in terms of the confrontation and terms of actual information that made benefit the american people as far as what the president is doing his administration is doing so last week is a perfect example the president took sixty eight questions from thirty five reporters that's about an average of two per reporter for whatever reason mr costin felt he was entitled to ask for questions and when asked to give up a microphone when the president wanted to move on he held onto it like a three year old does a lollipop when you

which is very traditional in journalism. but, again, actually is very unhelpful in situations where there are imbalances of credibility based on gender. and so being able to actually have people on staff that have studied sexual violence or understand the difference between sexual violence and harassment and gender harassment. because i think we conflate those two things. and it's important to make that distinction. a lot of what women experience writing about these topics is, in fact, not sexual harassment. but gender harassment. which is a confrontation of status. when we write -- i write extensively about sexual violence. and sexual violence is one of the number one catalysts for online harassment. sexual violence, writing about feminism or social justice. these are direct confrontations to power structures. and studies have shown that stories about these things tend to generate a lot more online abuse. but that's not actually sexual harassment online. it is a form of intersexual gender harassment, because there is just a

and i think unquestionably very, very serious journalism. we've gotten people out of jail in chicago. we've changed the way sexual assault is prosecuted in the united states and we've had a series of revelations about about the investigation of the -- of donald trump's relationship of russia from the same two reporters who published this. >> and you've been breaking news about it. if this story turns out to be wrong, do you feel your job on the line? >> i think we're very confident in this reporting -- >> i worry about buzzfeed's brand as a whole. if this story is wrong, buzzfeed as a whole is in trouble. >> i appreciate your concern. >> but are you concerned -- forget about me. aren't you concerned about that? >> you know, we're confident in the story and we are -- and i think he we also do think while there is right now and notabl a understandably a focus on the media story, the important story is about the relationship between the trump administration and russia. >> i agree with you. so let's talk about what you think happened here. >> ou

but let's move on to something that is the top story in the wall street journal.rth korea but also the showdown at the border. u.s. authorities forced to use tear gas on approximately 150 migrants who tried to enter the country illegally. with no deal in sight for funding of the southern border wall. joining me now fred flight. great to see you. what does this mean in terms of the border security and the government shutdown over just funding for a wall. >> good to be here. happy you new year. let me add toking the story that the mainstream media is trying not to report. border patrol agents added that the group, the rock h rock throg migrants tried to lift children over the wire but agents were unable to help the children because too many rocks were being thrown. dagen, our border is under attack by migrants who are putting children at risk. i think this is intolerable and the fact that tear gas is being used against migrants who are attacking our bore decks trying to enter our country illegally, what else are the agents supposed to do? i think we need to focus on

print journalism the vultures are circling on this one and the question about whether or not digital first can make it i think we have to ask ourselves the question about what do you mean by that i think digital first is not at all concerned with quality journalism they own the denver post which you know the staff revolted after all who owns it done that's right and all done which is the hedge fund that owns digital first so and they're known for guiding newspapers have mentioned what they were like downtown denver they took them in they moved them out to the suburbs as some old warehouse or sometimes not just a digital first issue that's a lot of corporate owners are doing that and i think it's funny that we're looking at good net as this you know all of a sudden since the news broke over the weekend by the wall street journal that that this digital first hostile bid for good net could happen that all of a sudden we're looking at the net as this you know bastion of first amendment protection and i mean that could net as also closing offering or you know early buyouts. you know i did

i didn't want to be rewritten by the editors of forbes or basra journal, a -- wall street journal, as good as they are. preliminary the miss comprehension that the world did not have enough to read. it turns out the world has a great deal to read. brian: did you ever think you were not going to make it? james: it was three years before i could take a salary. my wife was an investment banker at lehman. when lehman was still solvent. there was a time in the 1980's when i took the envelopes to be mailed to the subscribers and left them in the back of a taxi cab. there went the liquidity of the buisiness right there. we overcame is growing pains. averagehat is an investor do for a living? james: for average, they buy low and sell high. we have many who invest of their own account, independently. it is a publication for people with a serious interest in investing. brian: why did you write a book about john adams? james: because i could not stand the financial markets in the late 1990's. i had been smitten by john adams high-mindedness, his selflessness, his inextinguishing th patriotism --

journalism is a pillar of democracy.ut lets. >> you were notified about this on thursday. so were many of your colleagues. i've been reading about people getting death threats, laid-off journalists getting death threat. >> yeah. >> is this affecting you, too? >> yeah. what happens is fortune -- an incubator had this campaign for journalists to tell us to learn to code, to send us death threats. i've been getting death threats my entire journalism career. it's nothing new to me except the volume of it is really intense. after you have just lost your job it's incredibly painful. >> have you thought about what comes next? is it too soon to think about that? >> it's a little too soon for me. i'm still in shock a little bit, still taking a breather. >> understandable. and, look, i think some of the layoffs at the parent company, verizon, this is still going on. we'll see more cuts in the coming week. it is a shame to see all these companies shrinking and it's much bigger than what the president is blaming it on. anyway, thank

the theory of journalism.t we have now is a lot of opinion. host: thanks for the call. james is in new jersey. go ahead. caller: good morning, john. enough already with politicians. the real reason is because people have been duped by both political parties. host: you're going a little faster. what do you think? caller: he's 100% correct the tax system, i wish i could read the whole thing. he must be a very intelligent man. could've gotten through to that. we have all of these loopholes for the rich. the rich should pay enough. america for the tax system we have. oaks,david is in sherman california. go ahead. caller: good morning. comment on the border wall is as a businessperson, if you're going to have border agents, you should give them the right tools. one of the tools they should have is a fence or a wall. that would allow them to be much more productive. thatould use the resources the wall or fence would free up. then you could funnel people through the ports of entry and you can sniff out more of the dr

and how she got into journalism? >> she went to yale. at yale, she studied nonfiction writing, the great world war two general who wrote a fantastic book. which is very short book, it tells a story of five people in hiroshima after the bomb is dropped. it's not about weaponry, is not about politics is about these peoples lives in the aftermath. and marie's best friend katrina remembers marie coming out of their and going, that is what i want to do. i want to tell these big stories in this human way. and she always said hiroshima was the best book ever written on the war and many of us would agree with that. and so that was what happened at yale. and then of course, she spent her time freelancing and she got a job. which she liked, because teamsters are tough guys and she likes tough guys. and you know great journalism, you get to go in and interview the guys who shoo the horses for the new york city and things like that she loved all that. then she got a job as you said and ended up in paris. from paris, she managed

"the wall street journal" is going to be there. but there are large swaths, especially local newspaper, things like this, an example, somebody gave me here, somebody i know, gave me, former editor of small city paper. he came in 2004, the staff was 62. when he left in 2010, the staff was 32. he just checked back with the editor, who by the way was being laid off, the latest editor, and the staff is 11. and that is the very unpleasant world for a lot of people out there. and as i said, the big publications are going to do it. you can see it in other things. you can see it in tv networks. where you will see the network news, you will see few foreign correspondents. you will have two guys, or two guys and a couple of women or something, always narrating the news and there is some producer out there. but you don't have the staffing you used to have. and that is a huge issue. and the answer is, you know, this is still developing. and people are trying to come up with business models. there is certainly not going to be as profitable as i

be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7 am eastern saturday morning.oin the discussion. ♪ >>> next a look at staff turnover in the trump administration. the brookings institutions catherine dunn talks about her decades long research in turnover in presidential's ministrations. washington center hosted this event. >> please take your seats. w all right. this morning, we have our first speaker, i know has katie, dr. tenpas , who is going to talk to us about you are hired, you're fired, stepping the trump presidency analysis and comparison. dr. tenpas is sa nonresident senior fellow with government studies and a fellow at the governance institute. a research address is the intersection between the presidency and policy including the presidential reelection campaigns and trends in presidential travel and polling, expenses she is also look at white house stepping with a particular focus on turnover rates and individual white house entities like the office of political affairs, office of faith based and community initiatives, and staff secretary. dr. tenpas

then is in the venn diagram of values between journalism and liberalism. there's a huge overlap questioning authority, suspicious of big money. reform at large. afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted, which is just another way of saying social justice. dan hertzberg, journalism isn't a political party or ideology, but is it inherently progressive? >> well, you don't want a reporter or editor who says everything is great. that's not going to produce news stories. people who question authority. one of the best reporters i ever knew, i think had a.d.d. i think he was moving all the time and doing stuff. you need people who question and do do that. one, there's an element the other thing is, if you don't cover conservatives, if you don't cover that, you're missing a huge number of good stories. i think that's very -- and you can see the difference in who are the papers, i would say, or news organizations like, for example, the "washington post" who i think have decent contacts within the republican party or others. that's crucial. i think you

he told the "journal" another shutdown is certainly an option.nd he will build the wall anyway using emergency powers if necessary. acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney also saying as much earlier sunday. >> is the president really prepared to shut down the government again in three weeks? >> yeah, i think he actually is. keep in mind he is willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. but at the end of the day, the president's commitment is to defend the nation and he will do it either with or without congress. >> president trump also dismissing the suggestion he offered protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers in exchange for border wall funding. he told the "journal" is that is a separate subject at a separate time. but senate republicans are not in the mood for more. >> i don't think shutdowns are good leverage. it is a lesson i've certainly learned in my time here. there has been two shutdowns since the time i've been there and the aggressor in neither one was at winner. >> shutdowns are never a good policy, they are never to be used

as broken this morning by "the wall street journal." by michael roth federal, rob barry and joe pal zoe low. quote, in early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at trump tower to collect $50,000 for having helped michael cohen, then donald trump's personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss' favor before the presidential campaign. quote, in his trump organization office, mr. cohen surprised the man by giving him a blue walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, comma, randomly, comma, a boxing glove that mr. cohen said had been worn by a brazilian mixed martial arts fighter. the man in question then confirmed to "the wall street journal" in an interview that he did do what he was paid to do. he did try, quote, to manipulate online polls in trump's favor. after he was directed to do so by michael cohen and promised $50,000 for his trouble, even though he only got paid $12,000 to $13,000 plus a glove. because the news god's have a sense of humor, i should also tell you that the man curre

ladies' home journal was edited by a husband and wife team. the husband, when you read his correspondence, he comes across as pompous. he has read this book and he does not like it. he tells her, this reads like you wrote it while you were riding a bicycle on the way to a fire. its deals with her time in the white house. she had some pretty dramatic stuff that she could be relating. her contemporaries thought she was very forthright and very honest. like she was putting it out there. for us, when we read her memoirs in her autobiography, we think this is kind of bland. i read it and think she is not telling the whole story. i am teaching a class a semester and i am having my students read the autobiography to get a sense of the scope of her life. i spend 15 minutes every class period saying this is what she wrote but this is what was really going on. i do not want them to think it is all sweetness and light. so the editor of ladies' home journal the not like this book. he wanted her to dish. he wanted color and drama and the inside story. but

the lead story in the wall street journal. some quotes from the president, assessing the chances of whether the new conference committee could create a deal before the next government funding lapse. he set personally think is less than 50-50, a lot of good people on the board is what the ofsident said from the page the story today in the wall street journal. less than $5.7 billion in the next round of negotiations, mr. trump said i doubt it, adding that he has to do it right. one more, present chumming it clear he was skeptical of any deal for a wider immigration overhaul. he doubts it, he said, when he was asked of the citizenship for daca recipients, jim mattis, in exchange for border funding. the story getting a lot of attention this morning. from just across the river, alexandria, virginia, democrat, go ahead. is, well, letment me go with my question. does president trump have a plan written down for the border wall , somewhere that someone can see? when he does get money for the border wall? does he get to raise the money

media failures on the trump russia story has hatred for trump destroyed the profession of journalism. crosstalk in the media i'm joined by my guest him black in washington he's a political analyst commentator and host of the tim black show and in fort lauderdale we cross to john cardillo he's host of america talks live on newsmax t.v. all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate tim let me go to you in washington. when i. heard the the buzz feed story break i just waited for it to be debunked like all the other ones and we could spend the entire program and then some listing each and each individual one and who did it and why it fell apart and so i was very gleeful that it was debunked because it was a short amount of time. and that muller did it on top of that there and then watching cable. primarily the more liberal stations tried to explain it on c.n.n. we got this from jeffrey toobin on a panel the larger message that a lot of people are going to take from this story is that the news media are a bunch of leftist

was so pathetic then they did withdraw him he was reduced to the rank of a journal reporter which is what rank i held and a very bravely resigned he and i didn't agree politically on anything but i do solutions coverage but on one particular war you your bosses told you that you couldn't tell you couldn't call people catholics in northern ireland even when the homes being burnt. they were being burnt out of that they were catholics this was the early days of the rig mission of the troubles in northern ireland and speaking have organised one nine hundred sixty nine thirty one years old like i should have known what i was doing we filmed the catholics. taking their possessions out of burned out house which had been attacked attacked by protestants overnight and i felt the presence of the b.b.c.'s control in northern ireland behind me and they had it from the said martin you can't call them catholics they got to be refugees but i wrote it down because it was one of the few occasions in which i've actually been said so did my own network and in my own country and i i thought to disgrace

and there are videos of real journalists from across the spocket rum of journalism -- spectrum of journalism, ideologically and by age and by -- there's a lot of diversity by gender and race and other things. and these journalists come on during the digital lessons and explain things to the kids, students. and so they learn the importance of journalism and why it's important to our democracy and what a free press is all about. then we have lessons on the first amendment. not just the freedom of the press part of it but the other parts of it, as well. and as i'm sure you're aware it's shocking how few americans including these students, even know what's in the first amendment. so we do that. and then we talk about press freedoms from around the world and how it differs from here and we have actual interviews that they hear and talk about with their teacher with journalists operating in very difficult circumstances in some other countries. so i'm on the board of the news literacy project and i'm on the executive committee of the board which kind of helps the officers of the organization run it

it's journalism that cares as well as and i was and will not be neutral but twain the victim and the aggressor because was actually regulated as broke as it was by off the hook as you were by the i.b.a. and other institutions is we could do it you just well actually we can so long as it is fact based and i think what happened to us in the referendum campaign is that true some false would but balanced by the stop watch it. so the full senate has had a clear run i think there are lessons that we can just learn from the. well. we divide so from. now we want to add to divide and that you say clearly that the b.b.c. is history shows it's independent of government control only until such time as it's not whilst you do celebrate so you green house the mill and greg dyke those three very good directors general i think greg was a best we ever had and he left over there in iraq or he was forced out. it shows that the independence of the b.b.c. as i point out in the book is independence only up for point and any direction journal news if he ever steps a particular line he's going to use his job

be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> tomorrow c-span's 2020 road to the white house coverage continues. with former housing and urban development secretary castro. he's expected to announce his decision on whether or not he'll run for the presidency next year. the event takes place in san antonio and it's live saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i remember as a little kid, you knew that when the flag went by, you were to stand up and put your hand on your heart. you were to stand and sing the national anthem. and you learned to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on real america, press interviews with president ronald reagan from the oval office during the final weeks of his presidency. in january of 1989. >> when i said doing nothing wrong, this was in countering what i have to say is the total media distortion of the process that was under way. and i can't understand it because i, as you know, the day after that leak revealed the covert operation, i went befo

who can actually afford to work in journalism? really, when you talk about trauma informed media, we are talking about who gets to write stories that concerned them. also, who is just given a beat and they kind of have to take it and run with it. there is a lot of issues that we are dealing and a lot of things have changed since #metoo went viral, but i think there is a hierarchy in terms was stories are getting out there. it kind of goes down, and there is a story i tried to get out there, and it was a story about a serial , and it was a survivor who reached out to be a wanted the story to be told from the vantage point, and they actually had a story that was going to come out and it was packaged for television and killed because the family threatened the network with a lawsuit. they have been trying to come out and tell the story, and they came to me and it is kind of like you know, we can only do so much as journalists. we will take it to them and after #metoo, your voice will be heard. they was from the recovery community and

"washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, professional services council vice president will join us to talk about the government .hutdowns impact the conversation continues with the national parks conservation representative. she will discuss how the shutdown is impacting the national parks. then washington examiner's editorial director will talk about conservative journalism. be sure to tune in saturday morning. join the discussion. today's the 21st day of the government shutdown. tying the record for the longest government shutdown in u.s. history. here is more on the shutdown and the look ahead to next week in congress.

our friends at the wall street journal say, there will be no crisis.he dollar is the world reserve currency. we have the strongest economy. the fastest growth. we are exceptional people. we are the world's destination for talent and capital. i would agree with almost all of that. that is the anthem of an entitled people. i'm now going to quote some facts and figures which would describe many a debtor, but not the world's foremost financial superpower. bank of america has recently done a ranking of 45 countries according to the size of their government budget deficits and their trade deficit. these twin deficits. the government internal deficit and the trade deficit of 45 countries. the united states ranks ahead of argentina, but behind brazil, pakistan, and a couple others. brian: this is grade down. james: why is that? how do we do it? the u.s. produces much less than it consumes. it has done so for many decades. in return for the goods we import, net the goods we export -- we pay for these goods and services with dollar bills. we print or digitize th

you learned to disobey orders from above in the army and you say that that's a skill essential to journalism sometimes the skill is not to hear orders you have to see a lot from it and i put a lot of that in the book and part of that learning to disobey orders. relevant to the fact that you say you quote if i court democratic governments cannot be relied upon to be truthful or even competent well we know i'm living in the united kingdom in this century in an ungoverned country and i spent four years as a member of parliament about twenty years ago and we had a government country then and we were able to change our governments every four or five years now we seem to be stuck in a state of total immersion in a. remainer who believe in the european ideal complete i'm completely flabbergasted and actually last words i don't know where to turn but no one's saying it's not democratic other the. the referendum was an experiment in democracy we don't often have a referendum in this country now the point about our parliamentary system is that if you don't like the people you've got in the house of co

michael cohen said to the journal, all moneys paid to mr. gogger were bay check, but clearly according to the story you just read, john, he's not denying the. >> michael cohen also asked them to set up a twitter account for cohen to boost his profile. on the one hand it's like, you can't make this stuff up, and if you brought this script to hollywood, they would laugh you out the door. on the other hand, though, it is significant because one thing president trump is trying to do is coffee boy michael cohen, essentially saying efr, he was of my lawyers, he did some low-rate stuff. this story reminds us that the president can't do that. michael cohen was his right-hand man, his dirty trickster, his fixer, and when trump was trying to boost himself, michael cohen was his point guy. >> and there's so much we don't know and michael cohen will be testifying publicly before a democratic-controlled oversight committee in just a short amount of time. everybody thinks every single day there is a new revelation every other week. it just underscores tha

two years and if the question is and i said in my introduction it's just the hatred of trump made journalism dysfunctional almost irrelevant now go ahead jim and one in washington yeah yeah i agree well i agree first of all thank you have a happy new year to you yes you're right jeffrey toobin he said a true statement that was a very true what he just said was that fake news he's absolutely right that they are descended greatly to the public trust in fact this seems like more of a race to the bottom of public trust every time one of these stories comes out peter. a great poet the late great my idol she said when people show you what people show you who they are believe them people are starting to believe that the media the corporate media is pretty much full of it peter and they're starting to lose trust in it to stay exactly where their cups were you know and they go and they go to john in fort lauderdale this is chris cuomo on c.n.n. about the buzz feed quote moeller didn't do the media any favors tonight and he did one he did do one for the president now i mean if that doesn't show his op

what is the state of journalism because it looks like it's just advocacy that's really what it is you know they all do their lobbyists ok some of them have a pretty face some of them can read it. you. you know some can even ask some questions but i mean i don't see any real quality coming out as matter fact i just see first for power way too often go ahead where you know well what that computer you know george orwell once said that journalism writes what someone doesn't want you to print right so that would be the case but he didn't mean you could make it up as you go along being he didn't mean you could have various sources or listen very anonymous sources and see he did mean for them to try to make money off of donald trump and forget all the facts so yes you know journalism is taking a big hit right now blame us the blame the liberal media the corporate media but i look at fox news too and i wonder if they just try to balance it on a couple of spots loses the most successful news program see it into their message b.c. got their pockets turned inside out with cups in their heads i t