lisa myers, nbc news, the capitol. >> helen chenoweth is long gone. she left congress in 2000, after confessing to an adulterous affair she had had, even though she said bill clinton should resign over his adulterous affair. helen chenoweth then sadly died in a car accident in 2006. but the politics that made her famous are either back now or they never went away in the first place. only this time around, they don't just have a few random members of congress that nbc has to go out to the capitol and dig out of the far-right fringe of the republican party. this time, for those politics, they've got the prime-time stars of a big cable news network called the fox news channel, which has been very busy for several days now, more than a week now, trying to turn this particular guy into a household name. >> this is what we, the people, are asking this morning. dis -- disarm the park service. and lately, red rock park and all other parks that the federal government claims to have jurisdiction over. >> yeah! >> woo! >> yeah! >> take your county bulldozers and

lisa myers and michael isikoff. does bob have a point about lack of investigative reporting?> sheryl atkisson says she would do a story and it would be cut and it would be changed completely from the story she had from the very beginning. they have just chosen not to do it. she also said interestingly, it's individual producers are doing this. i'm not sure necessarily a culture from the top. i'm not sure how it would work out. >> it might hurt your invitations to cocktail parties. >> the media no longer exists because they want to be liked and they want to be liked by the person they love, which is president obama. the white house to them is like a sick child would you tell immunity and they are offering the plastic bubble to protect the white house from actual criticism. they don't want president obama to dislike them. >> do you think she finally had enough and said i don't want to live my like this and do something more meaningful. >> it's about self-respect and she's a serious journalist and she believes what she's doing. she wants to work at a place that respects what she

however, what her problem was was the jeff girth with the new york times and chris and jackie jude, lisa myersnbc, those were the members of the vast right-wing conspiracy, true investigative journalist, the men and women who were true investigative journalist back in the '90s, i wish we had them back today to invest in the investigations. they stood tall and won awards for their investigative journalism. >> your point -- part of the vast right wing conspiracy, the sexual acquisitions against president clinton made by flowers and -- >> sure. >> that wasn't all made up. >> l.d. brown and other arkansas state troopers, they have a problem because it's always with reliable sources. it was the police officers, the men and women of the secret service. >> and whenever you run for president, there is a bunch of people that want to tear you down and media circles, that circle around you or against you. listen, were you interested to see how much they disliked don imas? >> look, they disliked a lot of people who had microphones. and this internet thing, which clearly, 20 years later is a big problem fo

lisa myers nbc news, sharyl attkisson, cbs news logged 100 hours of air-time.rds of that air time was gone. what's easier to do, howie, take a reporter, producer, technician, hire security if you're going to a dangerous part of the world, satellite uplinks and maybe come back without a story or put four or five people around the table and give opinions on news that already exists. it's a matter of profits because more corporations are in the news business. >> i'm also told it was frustration on getting investigative pieces on nbc particularly more in recent years. i don't think it can only be explained by the fact that it's more expensive. because it's controversial, as a mentioned in my interview with sharyl attkisson, there's a skirting away from this. >> if you look at michael isikoff's exit interview, it was increasingly clear they were moving in directions in which there was going to be fewer opportunities for my work, unquote. michael isikoff saw the writing on the wall. his reports simply aren't getting on the air. he had big stories that he broke. you c