we're here with the kurtz family, the winners, the military family winners. hey, mr. kurtz.actual lea given me a new lease on life. >> why is that? >> it gives me something more to work for. >> that's great. you were worried because your house started falling apart. >> actually it was. garage doors were -- i was having fun trying to keep it patched together. >> not as much stress now, right? >> no. >> how about you, how do you feel about this? >> fantastic. >> tell me why. >> i've got several reasons. now we can hold our head up high. we don't have to kind of hold our heads down. the kids, it makes them happier. it is fantastic. >> that's great. this is little robin. this is her niece, their niece. she's in first grade, started two weeks ago. this is her big sister. this is alex. we saw on the piece that you were worried because you said your on the school bus, people make fun of you, getting bullied because they were making fun of the outside of your house. how do you feel today? >> i feel like they're going to just say you can't make fun of me anymore. >> there is the bus

"reliable sources" with howard kurtz starts right now. >>> good morning from los angeles, where the sun was barely up yesterday morning as mitt romney rolled out paul ryan as his running mate. we will look at how the story broke, how the media are framing the choice and what journalists and pundits are saying about the wisconsin congressman and his budget-slashing plan. >> we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair. this is the worst economic recovery in 70 years. >> is this a game changer? no question about that it does put both sides' vision for the future front and center in this campaign. >> and was romney trying to please conservative media outlets in picking ryan? >> this is what "the wall street journal" was urging. this is what the weekly standard, bill crystal, the strong voice of conservatism, both were saying this week, this is the guy. >> plus, lolo jones lashes out at the press after failing to win an olympic medal. >> the fact that they just tore me apart, it was just heart breaking. >> is the sports press building up female athletes just to tear them dow

"reliable sources" with howard kurtz starts right now. >>> good morning from los angeles, where the sunely up yesterday morning as mitt romney rolled out paul ryan as his running mate. we will look at how the story broke, how the media are framing the choice and what journalists and pundits are saying about the wisconsin congressman and his budget-slashing plan. >> we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair. this is the worst economic recovery in 70 years. >> is this a game changer? no question about that it does put both sides' vision for the future front and center in this campaign. >> and was romney trying to please conservative media outlets in picking ryan? >> this is what "the wall street journal" was urging. this is what the weekly standard, bill crystal, the strong voice of conservatism, both were saying this week, this is the guy. >> plus, lolo jones lashes out at the press after failing to win an olympic medal. >> the fact that they just tore me apart, it was just heart breaking. >> is the sports press building up female athletes just to tear them down? i'm h

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lauren ashburn is the site's editor and chief howard kurtz is the site's washington bureau chief andof cnn's "reliable sources." welcome back. >> thank you! >> before we get to the conventions i want to talk about the political news story of the week congressman todd atin what he said about rape, the aftermath. a lot of it played out online. >> a lot of it was nasty too. a lot of journalists weighed in including sean hannity from fox news who tweeted ann coulter told me she feels todd akin is the most selfish man in politics because despite the fact that mitt romney called for him to pull out of the race and many others did, he won't. >> abc's jake tapper said "who will be less welcome at the republican convention, todd i kin or hurricane isaac?" but also chatter about paul ryan mitt romney's running mate because his position and todd akin's position on banning abortion with no exception for rape are the same. so ryan has been kind of pulled into this controversy at least online. >> brown: this is another xrapl pl of how this kind of story has a life of its own. aside from television

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is on a hot believe kurtz they have interviewed current and former high level government officials from the white house the pentagon the national security agency and the cia all to reveal those who spilled the beans investigation has already kept a distinct chill over press coverage of national security issues as journalists here say agencies declined routine interview requests and refused to provide background briefings on top of that the legislation is in the works in the us congress that would for example allow to strip the government employee of their position in punishment for on off the right sharing of information with the media so you have an assault on the first from both the government and the lawmaker a former assistant director of the cia's that everybody in the intelligence world agrees never have there been so many level leaks one has to what ministration is being so hard on leakers as this one we're talking about all kinds of the leaks about the administration's targeted killings. as it continues to illegally execute suspected terrorists abroad or leaks about government a

kurtz see down and as you come up you lift your outside leg.you will feel the burn on both sides. >> booty camp dvd if you want more. >> it is five minutes to the top of the hour. not your usual roadblock and not your usual mode of transportation. it is all part of our good, bad and ugly. can you figure out a word of the day? stick around for the answer. it is all scrambled. ps >> we look at the good, bad and ugfirst the good. you are never too old to try something new. for her 90th birthday. ang lela went skydiving. plunging two miles at speeds at 120 miles per hour. way to go. >> next the bad. an elephant takes out a biker in india. they didn't like the bicyclist pass him. he let him know about it with a tap of his truck. and in russia. a guy spinning around in a shopping cart on the highway is not bright. time now to get scrambled out. >> we are great. can you figure that out. >> chris: no, add more letters. >> you can do it. >> steve: do you know what it is. >> yes, no. >> steve: elephant. >> good job. >> then i second myself. >> steve dooc

joining me now, stanley kurtz, author of the new book "spreading the wealth" how obama is robbing the to pay for the cities. welcome. what's the most important way they're taking money from the suburbs and putting it into the cities? >> well, there are a few things. there's something called the sustainable communities initiative. nobody pays attention to that program because it has a name that sounds like gobbely gook. but if there's a second term you're going to see plans for pressuring suburban's ites to move back to the city. technically it's all going to be voluntary, but once those plans are published, president obama is going to be able to condition the receipt of federal aid of all sorts to local adherence to those plaps. >> is tr a tax component, some diend of tax hike component? >> well,there's a plan afoot to bring regional tax base sharing to metropolitan regions. we only have this in minneapolis st. paul. i discovered that. >> bama and his mentors for 20 years having try to put this practice as a whole. >> is it just they don't like wealthy people? what don't they like abo

as i said to howard kurtz last weekend, i'm sorry my dad was eminently qualified the nurenberg trialsanie: the queen's in charge of you, right? all right. >> who's the queen of germany. >> stephanie: the relative obscurity in the american express commercial. he had a great sense of humor. the point of doing that, it is like bob dole doing commercials. >> for viagra. >> stephanie: doesn't make him some kind of joke. he had a great sense of humor. they came to him obviously to do that. he had a sense of humor about it. so "the new york times" piece ends with so ryan like william miller may seem attractive to republicans and tempting him into an awkward gaffe. ryan faces the task of demonstrating his reputation as a budget wonk and a republican intellectual. for the budget he hasn't run the numbers on. in the house rests more on the marked absence of his competitors for the labels otherwise, there may be an american express commercial in your future, too. [ buzzer ] screw the guy who wrote this. the fact that you have a sense of humor. my dad had amazing humility and a sense of humor. >>

next we'll look ahead to the conventions, right, howard kurtz lauren ashburn, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: officials in the dallas area made ready to begin aerial spraying tonight, to kill and a black hawk helicopter crashed in afghanistan, killing seven american troops and four afghans. the taliban claimed it shot down the helicopter. it's science thursday online and we go all the way to coast of newfoundland. hari sreenevasan explains. >> sreenivasan: that's where scientists are drilling deep into the ocean floor. their aim: to uncover clues about the earth's ancient climate. we talked to a lead scientist about the mission. we've got a primer on vice presidential hopeful paul ryan's plan to reform medicare prepared by our partners at kaiser health news. that's on the rundown. tomorrow, we'll look at his approach to medicaid. all that and more is on our web site: newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow ev

i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> now if you had to pick a moment, a snapshot, ae press corps, it would have to be this. at the tail end of a foreign trip consumed by negative headlines, the republican candidate was walking toward his car after a wreath-laying ceremony within earshot of reporters. >> governor romney? >> can you comment on the mishaps during your trip? >> governor romney, do you have a statement for the palestinians? >> what about your gaffe? >> governor romney, do you feel that your gaffes have overshadowed your foreign trip? >> this is a holy site for the

and as my favorite writer, howard kurtz pointed out it does nothing to address the deficit with us, all tax cuts for the rich if you are going to run as a small government person, his budget does nothing to reduce the deficit. >> is true that while congressman ryan takes big whack at a lot of domestic program, he doesn't touch the pentagon, he does keep tax cuts for the wealthy and eliminates capital gains. and that's fair point for media scrutinizing. but do you expect there to be, once this two-day honeymoon is over, a kind of media assault on what paul ryan has proposed and what he stands for? >> there almost certainly will be. and whenever anyone comes out with their proposal that veers significantly from the status quo to the left or the right that sin he have vitt tabably the second wave of coverage, howie, as you know. that said -- >> and this isn't some starry-identify -- this was passed by house republican, it was kind of symbolic, everybody in the house knew the senate wouldn't take it up, more making a statement than something that would occur. >> and one that president clint

i'm howard kurtz.gram, go to itunes every monday, download a free audio podcast or buy the video version. we'll be back next sunday morning 11:00 a.m. eastern for another critical look at the media. "state of the union with candy crowley" begins right now. >>> washington empties out for august, but there's no holiday in politics. today, taxes, the debt and a five-week summer recess. >> we would like to have the votes before we leave here, but it's just can't do it. >> can anything break the gridlock? a conversation with republican senator lindsey graham. >>> then the democrats' offensive against mitt romney with obama campaign senior adviser robert gibbs. >>> plus, adding up a muddled july jobs report. >> we've now created 4.5 million new jobs over the last 29 months. >> it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle-class families of america. >> what the numbers say about business with b.e.t. founder bob johnson and former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. i'm candy crowley, and this is "state of

all the points howard kurtz mentioned her in the book and i consider them mistakes.but i'm not writing a hagiography. i think the key line is yet a halo. how many people i might have a halo. when he do a full biography you'll have the high and low moments. proportionally he was judicial and was not mean-spirited to people, so he endures as a great journalism hero. however, some of the new standards back then, you know, cronkite could do what he wanted and it wouldn't cut mustard. a look at john f. kennedy. could he have done things he did in his personal life. it was blurred a little more. you had a group of people in washington and new york. wasn't this internet era. c-span: and read in this first biography the one who once dominated journalism is more complicated and occasionally more unethical than the legend that surrounds him. >> guest: i wouldn't use the word unethical, but ever tell you walter cronkite was a man of the left. he was from a child on an admirer of franklin roosevelt. i would even call him a henry wallace, george mcgovern progressive democrat. he

howard kurtz, thank you so much. we appreciate your analysis.nt to bring in paul ryan who is speaking in richmond, virginia. let's dip in. >> we have a choice of two futures and what you need at a moment like this when our economy is in doubt, and when a debt crisis looms on our horizon like it is plaguing europe and when we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that our children will get a diminished future, in moments like this, you need leadership and principled leaders. guess what? that is exactly what mitt romney is. you are getting to know this man like the rest of us know him. you are getting to know a decent man, a faithful man, an honorable man. a man who in every thing that he has done in his life exemplifies leadership. a man of achievement, a man of integrity. take a look at what he did in his private life in private business and by the way, being successful in business is a good thing. it is not a bad thing. we don't look at other people's success with envy, and we look at it with pride. we don't resent people's success. we want to emulat

here's stanley kurtz speaking with lou dobbs on fox business about urbanism. >> it's an all-out attackas surprised myself and i have written about obama's past, but what i discovered is barack obama wants to appallish america's suburbs. that might sound hard to believe, but for nearly two decades barack obama has been a huge supporter of a movement whose goal is to have city governments swallow up and control suburban governments. the idea here is to have cities somehow get a hold of suburban tax money. ultimately, president obama wants to redistribute the wealth of the suburbs to the cities. >> for the land use and regional planning policy section of the show, joining us now -- that's a way to really tease a tv segment windle cox, a senior fellow at the hartland institute and former director of public policy for the american legislative exchange council and now a public transportation consultant and michael bell and fopro-fessor fopro-feprofessor and showcasing his work on cities, including a plan for a development in tampa, florida. let's start at the level of the most abstract level

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starting monday we will have our tpm crew, david kurtz and bancroft in chicago to bring you live reports headquarters and the results on election night so on election day and night we will be having both video, tpn tv shows but live video reports that will be featuring on the front page right here at talkingpointsmemo.com. c-span: the reason he you didn't have a camera at john mccain headquarters? >> guest: purely resources. in 2008 we still had, think we probably had seven in place and it was a major capital investment to go anywhere outside of new york city. c-span: at this time of your existence and doing all of this how expensive was doing those videos and how did you do them and what kind of equipment did you need to ask how many people were involved? >> guest: you know what the time we were doing things really play the -- of our teeth. we had a basic program video camera and we were doing it in our office in new york city. we were editing it on final cut on a computer. and we were doing something similar to that where we sent people remote to chicago, so you know, i am looking righ

howard kurtz is also the washington bureau chief for news week and the "daily beast." >> let's start at the ads we've showed you. they've all been fact-checked. we've done some of the fact checks ourselves, they're either out of context or they're wrong. does this get through to voters? specifically of the welfare ad that the romney campaign has put out, the ad -- >> suggesting that mitt romney's responsible for a woman's death. >> the death of a woman. >> does this get through? >> it was a big deal if i said something was misleading or exaggerated. now the campaigns don't care. they can overwhelm and drown out those of us in the mainstream media who try to truth squad, fact-check these things, they have a lot more channels to do it. >> that takes the traditional media role and throws it out the window. >> it certainly does. does it mean we don't have the ability to really separate fact from fiction? >> no, it means the campaigns don't care. they have their own distribution networks right now with social media. barack obama has 27 million followers on facebook. who needs us? when he

david bender, you saw me with howard kurtz. he brought up my dad who was -- basically, i get it.nal committee. paul ryan is none of those things. >> here is the real comparison that was not made and let me point this out. there have been two sitting members of the house who have run for vice president. your dad and then john nance garner, an old dear friend of mine in 1932 who ran and won with lbj -- with fdr. >> stephanie: you were only 40 then. >> i was only 40. looked 39. both of them had the courage -- and this is what i want to call out, mr. bravery, mr. paul ryan, mr. young gun. if he's really so confident about what he's doing let him stand down and not run for re-election in wisconsin. let him not run -- he's legally able to, sure. but if he's going to bet on himself, let him say you know what? i'm in all the way on this ticket. let some other republican -- i'm not going to have to resign if i win. i'm not going to run for re-election. he's not doing that. he's hedging his bets. i think we ought to call him out on that. that's a guy who's keeping an extra bullet. >> steph