now through january 2nd. >> first personal store, ted koppel not a big fan of cable news.fact he thinks it has harmed journalism in america. so i had to convince mr. koppel otherwise. >> so why don't you define for the vast factor audience your beef with me and fox news. >> what your beef? >> i don't have a beef with you. i really don't. let me modify that a little bit. i think there are times when you are -- what's the phrase you like so much -- bold and -- >> fresh. >> fresh, sometimes a little too bold, sometimes a little too fresh. sometimes a little too intolerant of allowing people to complete an answer. >> is that an -- >> does it offend me? it offends me when you're rude, when you ride over people, which you have a tendency to do. >> i only do it when the filibuster or when they lie. as barney frank frank did one time. i don't do it when someone sincere his tried to answer my question. >> 15 years ago there was a crying need for a network that focused more on conservative issues. fox has done that. msnbc has now come along and tried to provide -- not because it saw

welcome to the show but i'm going to be first off as we've just heard a few days ago qatar hosted koppel eighteen the. eighteen's conference of the parties of the un framework convention on climate change the conference made

i want to begin with you, david koppel. we just heard senator dianne feinstein say that what happened in newtown, connecticut, was the straw that broke the camel's back, that it is now time to reinstate the ban on assault weapons at the very least. do you agree with her? >> well, i think we can look at what happened when she had her ten-year ban in the past. the congress ordered that a formal study be done of the results of it. the study was performed by the urban institute, a very well respected somewhat left-leaning think tank in washington d.c., and the urban institute reported that it had no effect on homicide rates. there was no statistically significant benefit in terms of saving lives. >> woodruff: dan gross with the brady campaign. if that's the case, what's the argument for a ban on assault weapons or on any other guns? >> i mean, i think we need to look at this in terms of -- i agree with the last statement to some extent -- in terms of the greatest opportunity to save lives and to look for those places where the

the pope was visiting cuba and we're all -- peter jennings, ted koppel, we have had well over 100 news people down there to cover the event. i got a call one night, cokie roberts and some of the other people from the desk in your thing we've got this investigation we've got going on that looks like it's going to break. there's this young intern who told her close friend that she had a relationship, inappropriate relationship with the president. i said that's ridiculous. that can't be right. we had no reasonably just telling the truth, that a friend is some truth so forget it. i went back into then and in about an hour they said we just confirmed janet reno, the attorney general, has officially expanded the investigation into the whitewater, remember the whitewater issues involving clinton with financial questions. officially expanded the investigation to include obstruction of justice charges against the president relating to this young woman. at that point we are often running. when that happens you can't ignore. we scurried around to make sure we had the story right, and later that n

welcome to the show but i'm going to be first off as we've just heard a few days ago qatar hosted koppel eighteen the. eighteen's conference of the parties of the un framework convention on climate change the conference made a decision to extend the kyoto protocol after the conference you said that this became possible largely thanks to the efforts of iran but what was the problem what was so difficult to work out a compromise in the name of god and the compassionate the merciful. i'm also very happy to see you and i'm happy that i can address your audience through your show. that what. this conference was a continuation of two earlier conferences in a mexico and in copenhagen. and the point is developed countries and there are about forty of them are you should honor their commitments to developing countries. we had to make sure that they don't exceed current levels of greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time that they make necessary technology if they were able to developing countries. that are you can help developing countries in these matters and they should also provide financi

ted koppel and i go man. >> it's the tv edition of the factor goes hollywood. you stay tuned for that report. it offends me when you are rude. it offends me when you ride over people, which you have a tendency to do. >> bill: but i only do it when they filibuster or when they lie, as barney frank did that one time. i don't do it when somebody is sincerely trying to answer my questions. it's not like it used to be. >> 15 years ago there was a crying need for a network that focused more on conservative issues fox has done that. msnbc has now come along and tried to provide not because it's t. saw the need for ideological balance but because it saw the balance sheet for fox news. >> getting their butt kicked. there is a big difference between fox news and msnbc. >> tell me. >> i'm asking what you it is. >> i'm asking you. >> so you concede you don't know he what it is. >> we do hard news from 5:00 in the morning until 8. hard news. msnbc doesn't do one hour the hard news. it's all let's push the democratic agenda from sign on to sign off. this is a news agency her

ted koppel and i go man. >> it's the tv edition of the factor goes hollywood.hope you stay tuned for that report. want to know what i did in the last five hours? i played a round of golf. then i read a book while teaching myself how to play guitar; ran ten miles while knitting myself a sweater; jumped out of a plane. finally, i became a ping pong master while recording my d how you ask? with 5-hour energy. i get hours of energy now -- no crash later. wait to see the next five hours. it offends me when you are rude. it offends me when you ride over people, which you have a tendency to do. >> bill: but i only do it when they filibuster or when they lie, as barney frank did that one time. i don't do it when somebody is sincerely trying to answer my questions. it's not like it used to be. >> 15 years ago there was a crying need for a network that focused more on conservative issues fox has done that. msnbc has now come along and tried to provide not because it's t. saw the need for ideological balance but because it saw the balance sheet for fox news. >> getting th

. >> anthony koppel, the heritage foundation.s you may know, howard zinn's people's history is even a primary text in some classrooms in america, unfortunately. how do you introduce your "patriot's history of the united states" to an audience of students who might have grown up on people's history? how do you introduce your work and your frame of reference to them who might have been presented or started with a different frame of reference? >> well, i do have a talk called why students need a patriot's history of the united states. but a couple of years ago i did a book called "48 liberal lies about american history." it's a clever title, but really what i did was i looked at the top 20 u.s. history textbooks, college textbooks. and what i found was that they all, almost without exclusion, shared certain similar just falsehoods like the rosenbergs were innocent or one favorite one is transcontinental railroads never would have been built without government help. and, in fact, candidate barack obama used that example when he was a

don't do a great costas, i do a good costas, this is what he said, he goes, you've got the great koppelgreat clinton, the great gore, but you can't do me. you tried to do me and you failed utterly. >> it was a sad day for me when newsweek announced it was ending its print run not because i've spent the last couple years there. editor tina brown my boss called the move inevitable. >> i mean in the last 12 months i've had to just really adjust in myself in terms of feeling i have been a print junky, like the ultimate magazine junky, read them all my life, but my own habits have changed dramatically. i don't actually go to newsstands anymore. even on stations now and in airports, i find myself deciding i'm going to opt for what is on my kindle on the plane and i walked through those planes and i see everybody reading screens. it's one of those things where yes, i'm sorry because, you know, i feel a certain romance still for print and always will, still love books more than i love reading screens actually, but at the same time, i know everything has changed and i alsos want to go where our

a media agenda to take sides, but keep a very sensitive in the -- >> the media did put -- >> ted koppelund the hostage crisis. much of the violence that results from guns are guns purbfectly legally obtained. what do we know? where does it come from? all sides of the debate. great piece in "the atlantic" the case for all guns. come at this, the media need to come on this on a sustained basis putting the facts in there and putting the difficult issue in front of the american people so that we can have a grown-up conversation. >> they won't. >> why? >> because we move on to the next thing. >> i am saying we shouldn't. >> i agree with you 100%, but we will. >> and i agree with both of you, as well. lauren is right. the problem with this, howie, on msnbc i saw friday afternoon, they were already in talking about, i hope we have the political capital now to change -- that's not the time on friday, saturday and sunday. no, i totally -- >> why do you disagree? >> i disagree, because when else are you going to have it? this is the moment when you have people who are emotionally distraught looki

after six weeks of daily attention i collect my first batch and mike koppel each leaf as i watch it in the sink. finally i prepare a salad for dinner. my wife won't eat the lettuce or any other item from the garden. she knows that she is careful with what sheets because the beebee that grows inside of her. i argue the food is as organic as we are we defining and she argues she doesn't trust the dirt and she has a point. we live in is the arizona a mile above sea level. it is a mining town located 8 miles from the mexican border. the copper mine closed down more than 30 years ago but the effect of the resistance remain. the mark the hillsides and it sustains the cliffs of burnt orange. they are on the horizon and remind us of the elevators the sizes of houses that carried men a thousand feet below the surface. and then there's the ( a large create from the edge of town from the torrential monsoon rains pour off the mountains into the my -- mile long bathtub. i'm going to take my coat off. it's hot up here with fees' life i guess the lights have to be on, don't they? my wife and i met no