jim, what effect did kirsten's article have?> i think she screened the country away to borrow a phrase from the "new york times" actually. give credit to one person with a real strong voice that something is important. i do agree with the analysis from the poll there. i think those are exactly the reasons and too gruesome to get in to and final is media bias. >> jon: so there is a media blackout? >> in some cases, in murder trials there is almost nothing that is so gruesome or unappealing it can't be covering. gna did a ten part series on the jodi arias trial. come on. this a case that should have been covered but it wasn't because in part because of bias of the media. >> jon: an nbc political analyst and talk radio host said this. no sense of guilt is warranted. there is no cause or connection of coverage in this case and bias to the trial was being ignored the oblivion extended to both ends of spectrum and more attributable to grisly evidence. >> jon: does he have a point? >> he does but he also pointed out actually took kirst

is he treading water right now. >> he was asked kirsten about a standoff at gitmo, basically a sit-inon basically by the gitmo detainees. take a listen to his answer. >> congress determined that they would not let us close it. and despite the fact that there are a number of the folks who are currently in guantanamo, hot the courts have said could be returned to their country of origin or potentially a third country, i'm going to go back at this. >> bret: going to go back at this. going to try to close guantanamo bay. >> going to do that on his third term. >> this is something he railed against in the campaign. something a complete blemish on the united states in my opinion. en i don't quite understand why he is so helpless. it's not a priority. probably the first time he mentioned it. he was asked about it. thingirst 100 days things arbitrary and unfair to the president. he hasn't had a great start to his second term but at the same time, you know, i don't know that all of that is his fault. the gun control stuff is -- was a little bit out of his hands because i think congress is so u

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jim, what effect did kirsten's article have? think she screened the country away to borrow a phrase from the "new york times" actually. give credit to one person with a real strong voice that something is important. i do agree with the analysis from the poll there. i think those are exactly the reasons and too gruesome to get in to and final is media bias. >> jon: so there is a media blackout? >> in some cases, in murder trials there is almost nothing that is so gruesome or unappealing it can't be covering. gna did a ten part series on the jodi arias trial. come on. this a case that should have been covered but it wasn't because in part because of bias of the media. >> jon: an nbc political analyst and talk radio host said this. no sense of guilt is warranted. there is no cause or connection of coverage in this case and bias to the trial was being ignored the oblivion extended to both ends of spectrum and more attributable to grisly evidence. >> jon: does he have a point? >> he does but he also pointed out, he actually took kirs

fox news analyst kirsten powers.t happened to the border agents and the children and the apocalyptic, and the doom and gloom and the lies? the i guess i was right. >> i was telling everybody none of which going to be true. >> is that what you brought me on for, to tell you what was right? >> i'll get to that in a minute. look, i think that people figured out pretty quickly that the obama administration was exaggerating things. you remember he brought up that there were janitors laid off turned out they were not going to be laid off. and specifically looking for things that were going to turn people against the republicans and blame them for the sequester. it didn't work. now they have to figure out how to actually govern under the sequester. >> let me ask you, when you say exaggerate, that's a nice word. and wouldn't a better term-- we knew all along they would spend more this year than last year and saying that kids wouldn't get immunizations and we're going to he release all of these prisoners that we have, doom, g

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i want to go back to you kirsten.you really believe that president obama understands the economy and is being fiscally responsible in the way he is presenting this? do you really in your heart believe this is good for all americans? >> well, i think what would be better is if we saw some cuts maybe across the board on things that really matter. so you would have to cut defense spending. you would have to do more cuts to entitlement spending. i give him credited for putting some stuff on the table regarding medicare, which is very toxic with his base. look. there is more that could be done for sure. >> bill: you are a little uneasy. i'm a lot uneasy. you are a little uneasy. kate, how uneasy are you. >> dramatically uneasy because what he is not doing. the direction he needs to shift is taking some of the burden off of the job creators. off of businesses, unleashing the free market. >> bill: is he not going to do that. >> he is not. if he was truly moving to the middle ground again and again that's what he would be doi

joining us now from washington to react kate obenshain and fox news analyst kirsten powers.ad predicted that extreme elements in planned parenthood and other proabortion groups would eventually come to infanticide because they don't see the fetus, the baby, whatever the situation is as a human being with any rights at all. and now this has proven to come true. has it not? >> well, look, i think -- you know, senator moynahan who was -- the late senator moynahan who was a democrat who was proabortion rights, he said about late term abortion, which is what this would be if a baby is surviving an abortion was infanticide. so, people find that to be sort of an uncomfortable thing to hear. but a baby that is that late in the term and being aborted, yeah, i think it is infanticide. if it survives, absolutely if you are going to let it die on the table it's outrageous. >> bill: let me ask you a personal question. >> yes. >> bill: this woman obviously was being honest. >> i think so. >> this is what i believe. i don't believe that baby should have any rights at all even if it is sitt

aft after reading kirsten's article, when covering, when everybody does it.lly, why did you participate in the gosnell blackout and i asked questions, one of the reporters i asked was the health policy reporter at "the washington post." >> megyn: sarah cliff. >> she's written over 80 stories on sandra fluke, todd aiken, todd aiken's stupid comments about rape, and the coleman foundation, and the foundation that stopped and she got 80-plus hits. and i asked her why haven't you written a single story on gosnell and she explained-- >> and she got back to you and she published what you wrote to you. hi, molly, i cover policy for "the washington post" not local crime, hence why i wrote about the policy issues that you mentioned. so this to her is all about local crime and has nothing to do with policy, which even if you accept that, you point out in your piece, really? and was that the case for so many other stories, yeah. >> she herself had-- there are local crime stories, what happened in connecticut has that been handled as a local story. hardly. every outlet i

kirsten powers of "the daily beast" web site.rubin from the "washington post" and fox news political analyst juan williams. so, two months late. the president will finally submit his budget this week, and we know some of what is in it. let's put it up on the screen. he cut spending 1.1 trillion dollars including cuts to social security and medicare. and he gets $600 billion from more taxes. brit, how big a compromise, the president is putting entitlement cuts in writing. >> i think that is a step not inconsequential. it is a little odd the way he presented it. is it a proposal or a concession? nonetheless, there it is. this is the first time he has been willing to put the adjustment and the cost of living increase in writing and that is all to the good. i think a lot of the new taxes in there are unpassable. so the question arises: if nothing else passed would the president sign the adjustment in the cost of living increase which gets, what, $130 billion over ten years? not a lot of money but, nonetheless, not nothing. would he s

kirsten? >> i know who he is. i don't know him personally. >> you know who he is. know what he does. he is a left wing bomb thrower. he always has been. i know -- i -- he went to harvard, frank is not a stupid man. is he pain head but he is not stupid. he knew exactly what the reaction was going to be when he said this he knew exactly what i was going to do tonight. >> i'm not sure with that. >> bill: really? >> i think this is a common thing that people a lot of democrats think and republicans think -- >> bill: you have a mother crying in boston. he knows that. and so. you shut up until the people are buried. >> yeah. well i agree with that i do think that he feels that he is helping because he thinks somehow. >> bill: i think barney frank is so damn as far as as far as narcissistic he thought about guys like me ripping him. i'm sure he will have his come back to the left wing web sites and tv shows that will run to him. did you hear what o'reilly said about you he is so as far as its i can he doesn't care about these people. >> he loves the fact that you are payi

kirsten powers columnist for the daily beast and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.ve, so i guess the real question is is obama care crumbling? is it in trouble this early? >> i think that's exactly what we are seeing. and what you alluded to in your setup there is the problem. this is going to be the first of any of a number of delays. i mean, we have already seen chunks of obama care taken out. you have seen the class act repealed. you have seen problems with -- you have seen challenges in the courts, some which weren't successful. you have other challenges potentially coming one from oklahoma, you have the hobby lobby question. you have difficulties in the implementation of any of a number of these things. you have had governors resisting medicaid expansion. have you had governors opting not to join, not so set up state exchanges. you have got at all points in the implementation of obama care there are challenges and obstacles to say nothing of the fact that the rule writing, the regulation that took place once the bill was originally passed, has been delayed, has

kirsten powers.weekend. >> thank you. >> sean: let's go to the 18.4%. i'm telling you i'm paying state and local federal taxes i pay 60 cents of every dollar i make! >> of course. taxes are due monday, by the way. a lot of us have this on the brain. how could you pay 18% tax on 600 grand. in that doesn't make sense. taking very aggressive deductions. the president has just floated the idea of making a mandatory 30% just federal tax on the top 1% of which he is a member. is the outrageous. >> i checked in with my account and the and i'm well above that. maybe i need his accountant. >> i do, too. >> sean: if i haded an 18% tax rate powers one of our liberal friends would be handcuffing me and perp walking me and throwing me in the clinker. >> i don't think so. unless -- are you suggesting that obama is not paying his fair amount of taxes? is that what you are saying? >> i'm saying for the guy that lectures i can afford to pay a little bit more. skin in the game, tare share. he is only paying 18.4%. i w

>> part of our political roundtable, with us democrat from new york senator kirsten gillibrand and republican from utah, senator mike lee. >>> finally, jackie robinson, baseball and race in america a. new film about his life is out this weekend. why his story is so meaningful even to a younger generation in the age of president obama. joining us for a special conversation jackie robinson's wife of 26 years, rachel robinson, and historian and documentary filmmaker ken burns. >>> and good sunday morning the excuse my laryngitis. on tuesday a bipartisan group of senators will present its lo long-awaited plan for immigration reform, the so-called gang of eight, has wrapped up months of negotiations and will present a bill that includes a pathway to s citizenship for many of the 11 million immigrants who are here without documentation. with us now the man at the center of bringing this group together, republican senator from florida, marco rubio. senator, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> i have to apologize for sounding like peter brady from "the brady buncb

thanks, rich and kirsten. see you soon. martha.starts getting back to normal will we see a ripple effect that will echo through president obama's second term as a result of this attack? will we see a new front in the war on terror? we're going to talk about that with brit hume coming up. bill: a little less spending on behalf of the u.s. government apparently hitting u.s. airports. some big ones too. how long could you wait and what is holding this up? martha: best part of traveling going through that thing. love it. new honey bunches of oats greek yogurt and whole grain. here we go. honey cornflakes and chunks of greek yogurt. i'm tasting both the yogurt and the honey at the same time. i'm like digging this yogurt thing. i feel healthy. new honey bunches of oats greek. mmaybe another headache will get in the way. maybe you'll have some friends over for dinner. maybe you'll have a migraine. if you have migraines with 15 or more headache days a month, you're living a maybe life. and you may have chronic migraine. but knowing this th

kirsten? >> i think we don't know at this point. that's the problem.need to find out exactly what they knew about his travels. you know, is there a lot of people going in and out of the country and too many to keep track of who they are being told have ties to radical islam who as they were warned by russia? there is a problem. there shouldn't be too many of these people to keep track of. this should have been something that would raise major flags, major warnings about this person and it should have been somebody that they were keeping an eye on. >> bret: charles? >> the place where he went, sort of the epicenter of terrorism right now in the caucuses even worse than chechnya where the violence has been largely suppressed. this was a bad day for the security services. it reminds me a bit of what happened after we caught the underwear bomber who tried to blow up an airplane over detroit. janet napolitano famously said right afterwards, the system worked. which means that the only reason it worked is because he sweat the bomb which dulled the fuse and c

the other statewide race, november 2012, was the senate seat held by kirsten gillibrand. beat her challenger by a 45-point margin. the political picture in new york state was overwhelmingly democratic. just solidly blue in terms of the 2012 election, but new york is a big state. a largely rural state and a more idea logical state that it sometimes gets credit for. one of the manifestations of new york's unheralded diversity is that even though the state is so blue it looked cold, when it comes to voting for state ledge islators, it's not like that. the senate has only been in democratic control three times since world war two. but on election night november 2012, where president obama beat mitt romney by a 27-point margin under the leadership of a democratic government with the highest approval ratings of any state in the country, on that night in november where kirsten gillibrand embarrassed her opponent, was going to come crumbling down and finally become blue as well. the democrats looked like they won the senate in november 2012. democrats in november won 33 seats. re

kirsten, what is this we hear about a land fissile search and looki looking for a laptop?er as much information as possible, there's clearly evidence leading us to explore opportunities for where there could be additional evidence in all of this. i think we have to keep looking at all of the options because this is such a broad investigation. >> yeah. hey, jim, i know you have been with us since the start. what is your biggest takeaway from all of this? you have been in this investigation as its evolved. what wha have you taken away from it? >> there's going to be other associates of the brothers. there's going to be other people. they're not the unabomber. they didn't live in a cabin in the woods so they know people and they associate with people. that's going to have to be rooted out by the agents. are they just friends, relatives? they could be people that are involved in radical views but not necessarily co-conspirators. >> right. so that wouldn't come forward with any sort of an arrest. i mean, a friend, someone who knows them, i mean, that's not going to be arrest wo

jim pinkerton the american conservative magazine and daily beast columnist kirsten powers. i'm jon scott. fox news watch is on right now. now. >> we've got to get past some of the rhetoric that gets perpetuated, that breaks down trust and is so over the top that it just shuts down on discussion. and it's important for all of us when we hear that kind of talk to say, hold on a second. you know, if there are any folks who are out there right now who are gun owners and you've been hearing, osomeone's taking your guns, get the facts. >> we're saying it louder enforced gun laws are not doing it. put armed security in the schools. fix the mental health system, the media may not like it, they're screaming to the rafters for the gun ban agenda, i think the american public are seeing through it saying i don't want that imposed on me. >> jon: president obama in colorado trying to regain last momentum trying to get the gun laws passed and in response, wayne lapierre. and it's been pretty much one-sided in the media, case in point. >> a texas senator ted cruz who won't let the senate h

. >>> happy birthday to kirsten dunst, 31, willie nelson, 80 and cloris leachman, 87. >>> matthew perry shares his exciting idea for a "friends" reunion. it would be called "old friends" and would take place on a park bench when we're all in our 80s. what are they now, 40? >> i wouldn't want to see that. >> you wouldn't want to? >> it would be funny. they would have a different look, shall i say. it's such a classic. >> only if ross and rachel got back together. >> i don't know if i want to see that then. i'm richard lui. you're watching "early today" just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> leading the news this morning in "usa today" susan page has an in-depth interview with amanda knox who says i have a life that i want to lead. the story goes into detail about the evidence used by the prosecution and defense in the murder case of knox's roommate, meredith kircher. >>> in "the washington post" fbi looking into relationship between mcdonnell's donor. they have been digging deep into gifts between virginia governor, his wife and business executive. johnny williams

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the president hosts the women of the senate, senator kirsten gillenbrand is here to preview why she suggested the get-together. >>> we now know that the surviving boston marathon suspect is cooperating with prosecutors. we know more about what he is communicating also to them. nbc news justice correspondent, pete williams is on the beat. joining me now from the news room. what do we know from all of the filings about what he is telling the interrogators and the way he is communicating and what his motivations were? >> well the court filings don't disclose anything about what he's saying although we are now told that his condition is improving. he went to the hospital in serious, but stable condition. and today authorities say he has improved to fair condition. so he is getting better. the transcript of the hearing indicated that he nodded most of his answers, except one when he was asked if he could afford a lawyer, when he spoke the word no. but obviously not very loudly. because the judge had to make sure that that's in fact what he said. but andrea, what we're told is that he was cooperati

well, the words of planned parenthood now when they were as kirsten points out backtracking on theirda lobbyist words and now saying that they find that what happened in kermit gosnell's clinic to be appalling, that's all kind of self-serving language now to justify their appalling inaction when their attention was called at least several times by people who had been in this clinic saying the conditions here are absolutely outrageous. and this clinic needs to be looked at. but i think in terms of the president, megyn, you know, when you are talking about bad timing yes. it's not mystery why the president is speaking at sphund raising gala on friday night. this is a man who has consistently supported this kind of thing. and i go back to his time as a state senator in illinois. he had a chance, not once, not twice, but three times to put into place or at least to vote for a law called the born alive infant protection act in the state of illinois, 2001, 2002, 2003, that would protect infants who were, as in these days cases born alive. >> megyn: and he wouldn't do it. coming up against

monica crowley is radio talk show host and kirsten powers, the daily beast. judgment calling it living in sin because i have done it, but it used to be rare and it's far less rare, it's becoming the norm now today. why is that, monica? >> you're right, megyn, it used to be something of a stigma to have couples living together who were not marry, but the trend has been in place now for a couple of decades. i think part of the reason was feminist revolution of the early '70s, women to make their own choices and didn't have to be directed into marriage and a family right away and i think you have the first two generations of people coming into adulthood, my generation, kirsten's generation, yours, and the second generation after us whose parents have been divorced. in a lot of cases our parental divorce examples, either our parents and friends and people that we know, those have been in a lot of cases have been pretty bad and i think you've got now new generations coming up, seeing the wreckage of divorce, a lot of emotional and economic scars and saying, you kn

martha: joined now by rich lowry and kirsten powers, both are fox news contributors.u here this morning. kirsten, is that concession that he will not get what he wanted, he was so passionate on this topic right after newtown and, of course, in the wake of aurora and other places, how badly would this hurt the president? >> look, i -- i think he meant what he said, and he's been sincere in wanting it, and if he could somehow be able to get everything that he wanted and snap his fingers and there's an assault weapons ban, he would do it. unfortunately, he can't force congress to do things that they don't want to do. there are -- it's not just republicans, there's also some democrats who, you know, oppose some of these measures, and i think the president's making his case, he's doing the most he can do, and i think americans understand that. i don't think that he's going to be blamed for the fact that congress won't pass something. i think congress, if anyone's going to get blamed, it's going to be congress. martha: yeah. rich, what do you think? >> well, i agree. he's c

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kirsten gillibrand. claire mccaskill. lindsey graham showed up!on 101 constitution. and lindsey graham kissed me. i'm serious. just saying. it was a wonderful time. what did you learn? >> big game guns today. just in, there's going to be 3,000 plus family members of gun violence victims that are going to go to hill, read the names of people hurt in gun violence before they have the vote. >> michael