judith miller, this is a complicated story. [laughter] in your book you lay out, in a sense, an outline in the first couple of pages to let everybody know here's where it begins, here's where it ends, and then you explain the in between. how long have you been covering the middle east? >> guest: since 1973 when i -- 1971 when i was a student. i went to jerusalem, pell in love with the middle east, decided i had to learn more about it. went as a student to egypt, jordan, etc., etc., and it was, it was instant. out of my child bible class, there it was. and, of course, being new to the middle east, i thought arab/israeli conflict? this isn't so hard to settle. each person gives a little, and we divide jerusalem, and no problem here. american naivete. but i kept going back and learning how complicated it was, and now i have fewer solutions and only more questions. >> host: what was your life like in 2002? >> guest: 2002. well, it was -- >> host: you were flying pretty high, in a sense, weren't you? >> guest: no, i was in deep mour

judith miller, this is a in complicated story. in your book you write out in essence the outline in the firsn couple pages to let everybody know here's where it begins, is wher ee it ends, then you explan the in between.een how long have you been coveringd the middle east? >> guest: since 1971 when i was a student. love with i went to jerusalem, fell inoean love with the middle east, decide to learn more about it. went as a student to egypt, jordan, et cetera, et cetera, and it was, it was instant. my childhood bible study class. there was it -- there it was. each person gives a little and we divide jerusalem and no problem here. but i kept going back and learning how complicated it was and now i have fewer solutions and only more questions. >> host: what was your life like in 2002? >> guest: 20 -- 2002. >> host: you were flying high, weren't you? >> guest: i lived downtown. i had seen friends pushed out of the homes. we had all in new york lost people and friends and i kept saying and asking myself if only we had done our series

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will this add blitz shape the race in 2016 in brent bozell president of media research center and judith millerontributor and author of "the story a reporter's journey" joins us now. judith i will start with you first. $2 million a week? hasn't donald trump bragged about the fact that he has gotten so much coverage from the media he hasn't had to pay for ads? >> why should he start spending money now when he has gotten all of this advertising for free? all trump all the time. just about 70 to 80% of the coverage. and he has played the media like a stratovarious. why should he start investing in ads now? won't that be, as donald trump himself said, too much trump? >> so but it still doesn't answer the question, brent. why do you think he will start spending this kind of money? should this tell us something about his campaign or should we be predicting about how this will effect the campaign? will it help it? >> honestly, i don't think he is going to. he doesn't have to. he is playing the press like a fiddle. he is playing off of y'all like a fiddle. i've got to say this. he says this because it

charles: steve rogers, tammy bruce, and judith miller. catherine, you went completely off on bill clinton. >> i get that he's charming. but it's sought so much about bill clinton but the way hillary act when bill clinton was in office. she is shaming these women, attacking these women, ruining their lives then she is going to say any person who is accused of sexual assault should be believed. she is trying to run as a feminist? it's disgusting. it infuriates me. charles: a lot of people are saying bill clinton is the consummate politician. this stuff is old. it won't work, and it could backfire. >> i made no secret about this. i believe donald trump is america's last best hope for the survival of this country. back when i was a young police officer in new jersey i actually used donald trump and his family as role models for young people. he's a man i have learned that is very, very fair. he's a good father. he's not sexist. he's fair. you know what? when you are the number one guy on top of the polls you have got to expect a lot of attack

joining me now, judith miller, fox news contributor. fox news military analyst and former fbi assistant director. what do you make of the mixup over the press conferences and the fact they could not get information out,, surveillance video. what do you make of that? >> i would have to say, with say, with the president commenting, making some statements of the national counterterrorism center where essentially his messages everybody take a deep breath. they did not want to have juxtaposition against that federal authorities in la laying out the case against the terrorist. liz: what do you make of it? >> the 1st thing i think, it is important to realize that this is a seminal moment. everybody has been focused on the jihadist. what is important is that jihadists could not operate if it was not for fellow travelers, those who operate in the periphery of violent acts and get some sort of vicarious thrill out of enabling horrible events. if this guy is hammered, as he should be commit will send a signal to the rest of the world that playing

judith miller joining us now and lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the "chicago sun-times."tle late for the morning headlines, lynn, but fox be has confirmed -- fox has confirmed that the wife in this massacre had been in touch with and had pledged allegiance to the leader of isis. doesn't that make this islamic terrorism? >> well, let me cite fox news analyst frances townsend who was on a little less than two hours ago who said that for government officials as opposed to journalists and just other people term "terrorist" has a legal, has a definition to it. and because some of this, and because this massacre occurred on the shooter's workplace, it creates another factor. i think this time you will have -- in time you will have the wording that correctly describes it, so i would withhold judgment that anyone's trying to hold back anything. but i take to heart what fran access townsend, who is an expert on this said, in explaining why there is reluctance to put the official government label yet, although certainly we know where one is going. jon: all right. judy, is there, i

judith miller joins me right now. they get to guys here. finding a needle in the haystack. 90,000 ices supporters in europe alone. how do they go after them? >> the most important thing that needs to be done and is beginning to happen is the sharing of intelligence information among the different countries. before paris, we really had a situation in which each country was safeguarding its own intelligence situation. we learned that we must share that. last week we had a warning from vienna, from austria, that there would be an attack so where in the next couple of weeks, and several different european cities which were potential targets. that is as vague as it was. for the first time, the austrians were talking to the belgium's who were talking to the french. this kind of sharing is beginning to happen. >> breaking down and sharing information related to the eu in general. you would think, theoretically, they european union would enable each of these countries to share more. i wonder if they have gotten more protection. there has been so mu

please join me to welcome judith miller. [applause] if so i figured we the audiencet some of the more controversial aspects of your career. i suppose everybody behind every journalist there is a series of mentors or inspirational people. i understand he started in journalism as a progressive publication at the height of the protests against vietnam. larry stern was a close friend and editor. tell me a little bit about that phase of your career. >> well that then i was a graduate student who had decided that i was never going to be an economist because it was too boring even for me and since i hated the sight of blood that couldn't be at doctor and i thought journalism was an interesting way. i had no idea. i started doing freelance at princeton's woodrow wilson school. i was a graduate student studying the middle east for a summer which many universities did back then. i went to start out in israel and then i got really hooked and the arab-israeli conflict. in those days people forget we had to go to cypress because there wa

bush's senior staff brad blakeman, pulitzer prize-winning columnist and fox news contributor judith miller. good to have you with us. the outrage at the muslim thing, brad, do you think it has legs? because the fact is we know that carter also specifically targeted iranians because of holding the hostages. we know that the same thing has occurred throughout our history. why is this suddenly a big deal? >> well, i think because trump is attacking a religion, and he's not going after nation state. our enemy isn't a nation state. our enemy is an amorphic band of terrorists that have permeated the entire middle east. lou: we're getting people killed here and things aren't working. why don't we look at it as initial bargaining position on the part of donald trump, and start hearing the republican establishment quit acting like a bunch of sissy cry babies and actually stand up and talk about defending this country on all americans. it's outrageous what they're doing, calling by the way, judy, one publication calling trump hitler as if he's the one killing people instead of radical islamist terro

judith miller adjunct professor, fox news contributor. alan combs show, fox news contributor. thank you for joining us. your take away. >> the vast majority of americans didn't watch the debate because it was on saturday night opposite a football game giants versus the jets and jets versus dallas. the premise was more of the same. it is bernie sanders wants to have the government pay for everything. hillary is a good debater and she did well. o'malley was irrelevant. >> o'malley was irrelevant. funny, but he came across well, but when i brought it up, you said, who? >> exactly. the second time we have seen him and it is bernie sanders v. hillary. >> what is with the saturday night? i went to "star wars." i came home from "star wars" and watched the debate after "star wars." >> if this is -- i don't know if they're doing this on purpose, to protect hillary clinton, which is a ridiculous idea since she does very well in the debates. i'm upset they're doing this on a saturday night. i would rather have them do it when more people watch it. >

joining us is judith miller and betsy woodruff political reporter at "daily beast." contender dropping out. is this a surprise? >> not particularly. lindsey graham polling particularly low, the real clear politics showed him with 1.7% of the vote. it would have been embarrassing for him if he had gotten such a poor showing in his state. him exiting the race is another example of experienced, seasoned politicians who can't get traction in the primary. gerri: you make a good point, and judy to you, as betsy was saying, this is today's the deadline to pull out of the south carolina primary. are you surprised he pulled out? and now we have now 13 left. how far does it go? isn't this the season of dropouts? >> i think it is. i think we're seeing this and it's unclear to me that lindsey graham was really running for president. i think he may have been running for the post of secretary of defense in the republican administration if there is to be one, but he did set a very firm line in terms of the hawkish wing of the party. he was one of the first to say we need at least 2

later a number of authors talk about their memoirs starting with former new times reporter judith miller she's followed by gloria steinem, former white house press secretary dana perino, and a correspondent for the atlantic. that get started tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> this discussion brings together several presidential speech writers ranging from nixon to the obama administration. people talk about stories from the time in the white house and what goes into writing presidential speeches. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is alesha sands. i am not a speechwrite

president reagan, long time strategist to business and political leaders, fox news political analyst, judith millernhattan institute for policy research, pulitzer prize winning author and journalist and fox news contractor, steven sigmund, senior vice president of global strategy group, democratic strategist and former communications director for jon corzine. what do you make of the polls? it doesn't matter what donald trump says, he just keeps going up and up and up. >> there is a certain element out there for him and won't go away. what he's missing is he doesn't have the organization to win in a place like iowa, even though he may be lead income the polls. cruz is doing very well. that's an organizational state. 1181 preprecincts, 99 counties, doesn't have people. >> he doesn't have people. you have the competitive element of ted cruz. most recent poll says that cruz is at 18% and trump at 39%. but depending what poll you look at, they're very close. >> they are close. i think that cruz's popularity reflects the kind of -- i wouldn't say lowering at this point, but i think you're going to see it

later a number of authors talk about their memoirs starting with former new times reporter judith miller. she's followed by gloria steinem, former white house press secretary dana perino, and a correspondent for the atlantic. that get started tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> this discussion brings together several presidential speech writers ranging from nixon to the obama administration. people talk about stories from the time in the white house and what goes into writing presidential speeches. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is alesha sands. i am not a speechwriter. i'm deathly not a white house speechwriter, but in making a film about them. which is how i came to be a today. i made a film in 2006, seven, eight, about the obama campaign, and one of my favorite parts about the film is getting to spend time with the speechwriters. and when i met dick goodwin a aa screen for the family started telling me stories, and the stories were so rich and so colorful that i thought this would be a great subject for a documentary. .. and knows all these guy

was sitting at a desk and with someone he didn't know she was a woman that introduced herself as judith miller who has since become famous and he said where did you come from and she said i just come over from npr. he said what's npr and she told him and he said that sounds like a perfect place for my wife, because i had been doing a lot of radio reporting and so, she said cold nina so he did and she said gets me her resume so he got by resume over into the rest is history. >> host: we are our mothers daughters. the debate over the role of women has created enormous upheaval for society and for the family. for women women might women like me that grew up and graduated from college before the revolution, it's all gotten a little exhausting. >> guest: i was reading the other day about the new book on the road and common life on the road and i said to her aren't you just worn out and she isn't, god love her. she is ready to keep going but it does get exhausting because you feel like you've had these arguments over and over again. and what is the point of them, just put 1 foot in front of the othe

desk and next to him was someone he didn't know, and she was a woman who introduced he was as judith miller, who has since become famous, and he said, where did you come from? and she said i just come over from npr. he said what's npr? and she tells him. and she said that sounds like a perfect place for my life. because i had doing a lot of radio reporting for cbs from athens. and so the said, call nina totingberg, and she called nina, and she said get me her resume. so steve delivered my resume to nina, and as they say, the rest is history. >> host: we are our mothers' daughters. the debate over the role of women has created enormous upheaval, upheaval for society and for the family. for women like me, who grew up and graduated from college before the revolution, it's all gotten a little exhausting. >> guest: it's true. i was interviewing gloria stein national the other day about her new book, "life on the road," and i said to her, aren't you just worn out? and she is not, god love her. she is ready to keep going, but it does get exhausting. you feel lime you have had these arguments over

and joining me now is miller, a investigative reporter and fox news contributor and washington bureau chief of the sun times. thank you for being with us. >> and judithhat is your reaction to what bernie sanders is saying. he has a point here and saying it is not trump's fault he's getting the media coverage he's getting. >> bernie sander's frustration must be shared by all of the republican contenders. but really focusing on the media for broadcasting and publicizing trump's oduous and anti- muslim and anti- women message is misplaced. it is not our fault that donald trump said those things and they are news worthy. and failure to concentrate and focus on racist statements is a derelection of doubt on our part. and so, i am sorry bernie sand ares if you had said the horrific things, we would, too. but instead you are saying other things that are not being covered and it is not donald trump's fault or hillary clinton's fault. you talk about trump you get more clicks and ratings go up. and you are talking about an election cycle that is boring. he brings the excitement to the race that people find erpt takening to watch. he's leading in the polls. he'