i want to hear from marty barron on this as well.s joining me now from the post newsroom in washington. good morning. how are you? >> good morning. how are you? >> i was curious, when you hear your boss, owner of the paper, talking tough about trump, does it make it harder for you and your colleagues, your reporters to cover trump fairly? >> well, our intention is to cover the candidates as we would even without something like this. we were covering donald trump and covering hillary clinton thoroughly before this sort of battle of words, and we intend to continue doing that in a fair, honest, and honorable and accurate way. >> don't you think there's at least a perception problem for the post when the owner of the paper out there is saying what trump is saying is inappropriate for a presidential candidate? >> well, he was just asked to respond to what donald trump had already said. i think he has the right to respond, and that doesn't change our coverage in any way. of course, we have to cover a presidential candidate. we're going to

reporters, want the "washington post" to do a better job of explaining donald trump and then you marty barronpaper saying we're putting all of these resources in to tailing trump. it's not just the "washington post" i've heard the same about the "new york times." >> if you're a great "washington post," fantastic, love it. read all the information. but why give us a hard time all day? why not just say -- all day. >> they're watching, they responded. do not give them a hard time. give them credit for watching and responding and coming out and saying this. by the way, i mean jeff bezos, he said we want the american people to know who they're voting for. >> give him credit. >> they're paying attention. >> i did give him credit. >> i'm glad, i want to read it. >> but amazon, you have to do the -- >> amazon prime. >> amazon prime, they would have gotten back to you. >> you can get same-day delivery. >> you can get a pair of socks faster than we can get an answer. >> there's someone at the door delivering them right now. yes, we're glad they got back, but we were asking a very straightforward questi

look, you have got a "the washington post" that's now run by besos, he owns it marty barron from the the uber leftist running the editorial page. we here at the factor deal with the "the washington post" on hard news stuff. we put the reporters on all the time because it's pretty good. it's pretty accurate. and woodward we respect, all right, and we have had him on a lot here and he has told the truth. you are right. if they are going to throw 20 at trump. they have got to throw 20 at hillary because hillary has a lot of unanswered questions. >> again, just to go back into history, if they are making the comparison that donald trump is unknown quantity but hillary is known quantity which i don't believe she is, then the analogy to barack obama is a totally valid one. how many reporters did bob woodward -- i don't want to make this just institutional with the "the washington post." bob woodward is the one who said that he should be asked how many reporters are you going to. >> we will ask him next week. >> good. ask him how many they assigned to the unknown barack obama to go into eve

>> bezos, as marty baron put out a statement -- >> executive editor. >> -- right, that's it's his. barron's decision to look at this and all of the candidates. i've talked to bezos about this. he said it's just got to be bipartisan, aggressive and he has said that the resources would be available to do this. it is echoing in a different way. we do this because this is the business we're in. >> and we will see where these journalistic efforts lead. bob woodward, thanks for joining us. >> thanks. >> still to come, a questionable grant on the iran nuclear deal. and backlash over a cover-up of a weather forecaster in a cocktail dress. >>> a big black eye for npr a after the radio station got a grant. they win the white house to sell the iran nuclear deal and that money from the plow shares fund which wants to eliminate nuclear weapons was specifically earmarked for reporting on the u.s. an iranian nuclear report. outside groups like plow shares are part of the echo chamber the administration pushed. npr said there are no conditions on the grant and there sapphire wall to protect the reporting w