rupert murdoch has a ton of influence in today's republican party and murdoch was there on saturday at rand paul's invitation to watch the kentucky derby and, in the words of "the new york times" reporter who was allowed to document everything, to allow himself to be paraded for six hours by paul, quote, like a prize horse. murdoch explained to the "times" that he had never been to the kentucky derby and when paul invited him, he said absolutely. it's a good thing for me, murdoch said. rand paul is a very interesting man. it's a very interesting man who just a few weeks ago murdoch said he probably would not vote for, for president. it was in an interview last month that murdoch called paul ryan, quote, the straightest arrow he had ever met, called jeb bush a man of very fine character. but in that interview, murdoch said that paul was dead last on his list of possible republican presidential candidates. he said that while he agrees with paul on some things, he really disagrees with him on other things. quote, too strongly, perhaps, to vote for him. that's what murdoch was saying about

are we going to see more of murdoch against malone. malone spent that almost 50 billion in europe .onsolidating his media empire they have more subscribers than b-sky-b does. if b-sky-b acquires sky , theyhland and sky italia come pretty much neck to neck with each other. >> hans, does is leave murdoch with? talk about the split of the business. >> it could leave him with three companies. into the fox corp. component, which is a broadcast and cable. -- of course 21st century 20th century fox studios. this is the content side of it spaperhis is the new cited. these companies would be more streamlined. interesting thing about that is that if you wanted to sell 10 would make a more natural target for a company like vodafone that wants to get into more distribution, offer packages to consumers. by packages i mean something that has broadband, mobile and television. they could potentially do a vodafone are a company like vodafone could take over b-sky-b with all these tentacles in the household on the content area we are really getting more

but it was senator rand paul who drew the most attention hosting media mogul rupert murdoch around the luxury boxes. murdoch, no no vis when it comes to the matters of political imagery, allowed himself to be paraded around for six hours like a prized horse behind a proud jockey. amounted to a message to more establishment republicans that as he put it, i'm very open minded. >> chuck todd, if you follow rupert murdoch's history in endorsing candidates, anything is possible including a possible endorsement of rand paul or hillary clinton. i think much more likely to endorse hillary clinton than any republican senator out there right now. but let's talk about the first thing. i've got to say, again, we absolutely pounded rick perry around this table in 2012 for good reason. he wasn't ready to run. he had some back problems, on medication for that. i know about that better than anybody else as far as what back pain does to you. this guy's looking pretty good in the early stages. are you a skeptic? >> you know, i know we're supposed to be skeptical of him because of it was such a poor effo

. >> rupert murdoch is reviving a plan to build a european paid tv empire by combining sky dortch land and sky italian. y georgia land -- deut scheland and sky italia. what is murdoch's land here. >> broken by my colleague sitting right next to you, it is to take 20th century fox, one of the two companies that murdoch now has, and to have it, through his control of b-sky-b, take full ownership of sky d eutscheland and sky italia. it has a 100% stake, fox foxrols this aspect of it, has that stake. you combine them together and what you would really bring is a pan-european company that can negotiate on sports, advertising, and it can combine all of those subscribers. deutee growth in sky scheland. a bit stagnant. i know all you are interested in is can you watch more of your bundesliga this way. i suspect you will be able to watch more of it. >> give us a feeling of what is at stake here and how much is this going to be helping murdoch pitt himself against the juggernaut that is john malone? >> this is a battle that we have seen play out in the past decade. utschland,d -- de europe is a

murdoch eyes the sky. acquireis in talks to german and italian assets to transform itself into a european satellite tv giant. ceos of pfizer and astrazeneca get ready to testify to u.k. lawmakers. welcome back to the second hour of "countdown." i'm anna edwards. we're going to bring you an exclusive interview later on. richard holmes will be with us here exclusively to talk about the way that their business is performing and something a little different, a race that takes place every year here in london. pro-russian groups have hailed a large majority in favor of secession in a referendum they organized in eastern ukraine. the referendum was dismissed as legitimate by the government in kiev and its u.s. and european allies. chris, thank you very much for coming to talk to us. what is your reaction, a short-term reaction of developments over the weekend. no surprise. those were organized and seemed to suggest for a strong voting in favor of independence. >> with this key is with the kremlin says and what pr

but it was senator rand paul who drew the most attention hosting media mogul rupert murdoch around the luxury boxes. murdoch, no no vis when it comes to the matters of political imagery, allowed himself to be paraded around for six hours like a prized horse behind a proud jockey. amounted to a message to more establishment republicans that as he put it, i'm very open minded. >> chuck todd, if you follow

time of courtship tongues are wagging about one of america's most sought-after batchelors, rupert murdoch. ladies! ladies! he's breathing! ( laughter ) and you will not believe who rupert's crushin' on now. >> rand paul was seen with media mogul rupert murdoch at the kentucky derby last weekend. >> kentucky republican senator rand paul and media magnet rupert murdoch spent the day together at the kentucky derby. mourdock was paul's special guest. there's speculation the joint peerps could sign a mourdock endorsement if he runs for president. >> he got rupert murdoch to come down to kentucky. he got him to spend the day with him, to get to know him a little. >> stephen: yes, rand pulled out all the stops to impress his date, rupert murdoch, even wore's 50ive derby hat made of the finest gopher pelt. nation, i love this hot new celebrity power couple. i have even given rupert and rand paul their own fun nickname-- ru-paul. ( cheers and applause ) but as hot as this date was, rand should not get too attached to rupy here because mourdock is still playing the field. there are nearly a dozen r

murdoch. am i wrong their -- -- i associate's guide to be with mr. murdoch. >> it is not above the majority. >> perception versus reality. >> what he is saying is i am wrong. >> what is interesting, though, is there is growth potential in europe because only 41% of europeans have the tv subscriptions rather than 90% of americans. it is a mature market here but in the european, -- confident it is a growth market. [tom keene speaking in a french accent] >> if you are making jokes about france on a monday morning. quick you can buy rosetta stone surveillance package. >> and the new global investor poll, 40% of those saying economy is improving, down from 59% in a poll taken in january. closed a two thirds they the u.s. economy is improving -- close to two thirds say the u.s. economy is improving. europe is number two. what i found interesting is that the very end, some three quarters surveyed see the fed raising interest rates by the end of next year. we know the fed tapering will probably end by the end of this year. but raising interest rates by the e

and so fi'm rupert murdoch, i need to be very, very careful about that.ul continues to endorse crazy -- and i don't even mean right wing people, reverend al, i mean so far to the right that you can't even see them to the right. these kinds of people, if he continues to do that and rand paul implode what does that say about rupert murdoch? that's the bad part here. he's sitting around with a guy who i don't frankly is even electable in this country. you can't say you can't get black people to vote for you when you say the civil rights act is unconstitutional. i'm sorry. they're just not going to do that. >> some white people either. >> yeah, right. >> you're right, a lot of whites won't for you. and a lot of whites marched and lost their lives fighting for the civil rights act 50 years ago. let's not forget goodman cheaney. i mean, this is an affront to a lot of people. i would venture to say most americans now. >> absolutely. i think, you know, going back to this north carolina race, one thing that i think democrats are really going to have to pay attenti

in the work between rupert moment -- rupert murdoch and the pay-tv market. murdoch competes directly with b-sky-b. agreement --n shares of pandora rose from that news. believe this will pick up a slate of new deals. cristina alesci has been following the story. could pandora be next? apple announced music,nd of news around pandora stock fell in the last couple of years. last year, when apple announced -- pandora stock rose. this will spark pandora to do something to become a protected player. -- there are no talks that we know about, but just speculation at this point. pandora claims it has 9.3% of the overall listening audience. that is growing. last year around this time, it was seven point three percent. users.78 million a big player. spotify wants to go public. there could be something to do there. we are talking about a massive valuation. forget google had also pushed aggressively. it has a product that cuts across so there could be some competitive pressure there allows these players to feel itselfed and then apple with its m&a strategy. some people ta

oversees, this is an attempt to court some of murdoch's support.ve seen paul out there trying to go after people who maybe are less of a typical republican primary voting base and now he's kind of going straight to the core of that voting base. and it also is a lot of speculation at this point still, but again, makes you realize that behind the scenes and sometimes out in public, the maneuvering for 2016 is well under way. >> and rand paul has really broadened his base. >> yes, in the new york times story refer to him as the most interesting republican in american politics today. i think that's true. he's exceeded expectations and when he's elected not just his father's son. he has a much broader appeal than ron paul ever had and really emerged as a figure in senate politics generally to be considered very seriously. >> he's proved he can work with his colleagues, republican colleagues like mitch mcconnell and not been as much as a bomb thrower as his father was within congress. >> or as ted cruz has been. >> certainly not as ted cruz has been. sus

. >>> kentucky republican senator rand paul and media magnet rupert murdoch spent the day together at the kentucky derby. there's a speculation could sign a murdoch endorsement. >> nation, i love the hot new -- rupert and rand paul their own fun nickname, ru paul. work it. >> time now for the side show. that was, of course, stephen colbert on senator rand paul's courtship, if you will, of rupert murdoch at the kentucky derby saturday, but when it comes to the presidential horse race, murdoch isn't placing any bets just yet. >>> anyway, next up, speculation about hillary clinton's 2016 plans have intensified as the media refocuses its intention on the politics of the late '90s, but on his show last night, jimmy kimmel noted former secretary clinton has been at ease lately, even when sharing some of the more intimate details of her life. take a listen. >> hillary clinton gave a keynote address in maryland. she also held a q&a session afterwards, and things got surprisingly personal. >> what is your guilty pleasure? >> let's see. >> are there that many? >> well, i'm just trying to think

rupert murdoch's 21st century fox plans to form a tv production venture.urdoch would combine fox's shine group with apollo's core media group under the agreement. core media owns american idol. orange and bouygues said separately that they are exploring potential consolidation in the french phone market after reports that they have held talks about possible combination. open to aaid it is tie up with another telecoms company. the san francisco-based startup uber is in talks to raise new financing in a round that may value it at more than $10 million -- $10 billion. that would almost triple the company's value from $3.5 billion last year. ."lcome back to "countdown i am anna edwards. >> i am manus cranny. today, we get results of the world's biggest election as indians choose the next prime minister. early counts show the opposition party candidate is in the lead. here to discuss all of the issues is the founder of dos, tell. -- das kapital. he wins theant that majority or is it a solid coalition? >> probably a solid coalition is the most likely outcome. i

the settlement could top the divorce settlement of murdoch with his third wife settling for undisclosed amount but the second ex-wife received $1.7 billion and mel gibson's divorce cost half a billion. >> couples having trouble getting pregnant may want to get their cholesterol checked a study says high cholesterol puts you at risk for heart attack or stroke but it could contribute to infertility. doctors studied 500 couples and found if one or both partners had higher-than-normal reading it took far longer to conceive: the study published in the "journal of endough chronology." >> tiffany has a 50 percent in first quarter earnings known for the treasures that come in the little turquoise box says sales jumped by double digits rising to $125 million at 95 cent a share. demand in japan spike before the country raised sales taxes and the company has its own jewelry prices. >> here is our gem, meteorologist mike nicco, with the forecast. >> it has been a long-term since i bought a diamond. look behind me, the hazy conditions. it is humid around here for us, but in rain is in the forecast.

rupert murdoch shelled out $1.7 billion to his second wife anna.ywood stars can feel the pain of the payout. braveheart actor mel gibson, reportedly forked over $425 million to his ex-wife robin in 2011. arnold schwarzenegger expected to part with more than $250 million in his divorce from maria shriver. while tom cruise and katie holmes didn't set a record for the amount of their settlement they may have taken the cake when it comes to speed. all over, just 11 days after the couple filed for separation in 2012. >>> moral of the story, marry carefully. thank you for watching abc news. world news now is coming up soon with overnight breaking news. as always tune in to "good morning america" first thing in the morning. we are online at abc news.com. 24/7. good night. 0 to 60?performance? or 60 to 0? how a car performs in a quarter-mile? or a quarter-century?

or others can be of a sis tans judd heather murdoch, there's been -- >> reporter: 'pack on border townce of the and military to do more, to go after the militants? >> well, attacks like this on this village have been going on all year. the first three months almost every day. people are frustrated, people are scared, because what often happens military themselves are scared. i don't know -- we don't have it for sure but we've heard that that particular village had no people guarding it. they were scared and ran away or military stretched so thin that those soldiers redeployed presumably the find the girls. >> reporter: a violence regularly as you say, on daily. the case with the kidnapping ever the girls clearly ramp ited things up there as will, right? >> yes. the most emotional attack i think the entire boko haram. it's galvanized the public in a way i've never seen. protests all over the country and everyone is getting behind demanding that these girls be found. >> reporter: do you sense that that pressure is having impact on the government? >> i think it very much is. i can imagine

murdoch since shut down the news of the world. >>> when we come back here this evening, she was one of the most beloved women in the world, now all these years later, controversy swirling around grace kelly's life story. >>> finally tonight, the film festival kicked off in france about a film legend, grace kelly who went on of course to become princess grace of monaco and who remains long after her death a fascinating and beloved figure. as for the film itself, that may be a different story. our report tonight from nbc's keir simmons. ♪ >> reporter: she was one of the greatest beauties hollywood has ever known. >> tonight you'll see one of the river ya's most fascinating sights. >> reporter: sharing the screen with great men but at the height of her fame, grace walked away sailed away, to marry a prince, a fairytale wedding and happy ending, or so everyone hoped. they first met here at the film festival almost 60 years ago in this romantic setting, grace kelly's life changed forever. here today the premiere of a new film about princess grace starring nicole kidman that gives a fictiona

murdoch said there's if paul runs for president. >> yes, rand pulled out all the stops to impress hisrubert murdock. even pulled out a hat to impress him. i've even give them their own fun nickname, rupaul. >> it's all about the oscars. >>> finally, this sunday mother's day. this is your official early warning. 1-800-flowers. get on that speed dial. we all think of our moms as infallible, many are. and jimmy kimmel let a few come clean for mother's day. >> what's one shocking thing about you that your kids don't know? >> that i like dope. >> well, it's not shocking, butter i used to cut all the fingers and those off my barbies. >> like that. >> like what? >> being single for so many years like having so much fun. >> by fun, you mean? >> fun. >> sailors, motorcycle men -- >> no, no, no, sort run-of-the-mill -- >> yeah. >> white color workers. blue collar workers. carpenters, plumbers. >> what's one shocking thing about you that your kids don't know? >> my kids don't know that i adopted them. just kidding. [ laughter ] >> are these your kids over there? >> yeah. >> wow. >> hmm, my kids

found three suitcases neatly packed full of pot during a baggage screening. 26-year-old anastasia murdoch was traveling from oakland to jackson, mississippi. she didn't say why she was trying to fly with so much pot. that stash worth $100,000, the cops think they know why she had it. she is in jail on charges of possessing marijuana for sale. >>> more security cameras are coming to san jose international in the wake of the breach of the teenager stowing away to him. i. len ramirez reports. >> reporter: congressman eric swalwell toured mineta san jose international today. he says there must be a cost- effective technological solution to the problem of airport perimeter security and wants the high-tech companies around here to work with the government to find out what that solution is. swalwell sits on the homeland security committee in congress. he caravaned around the fence line at mineta san jose today. he said the airport is in compliance with existing tsa security standards. the problem is, those standards aren't doing the job. >> our belief based on what we have seen from contractors

there he is with rupert murdoch at the kentucky derby. is this the new face of the republican party? is this your leader? >> not my leader, i can tell you that for sure. his father and i had disagreements during the last campaign. >> if a libertarian like him becomes leader of the republican party, gets the nomination, will you vote for him? >> i don't think that will happen. the republican party is not a libertarian party. it's a conservative party. it will nominate a conservative, not a libertarian. >> rick, you've been doing good things. you've been talking about blue collar workers. >> yes, sir, i have. >> that's good. my understanding is you support increasing the minimum wage. >> i voted for minimum wage increases when in the house of representatives as i did when in the senate. i believe a dollar increase in the minimum wage would make sense. that's not what the president is doing. president is trying to push forward a living wage, trying to dramatically jack up the minimum wage to a point it would dramatically impact the cost of l

gwen: no more christine o'donls or richard murdoches. >> or sharon engeless. gwen: well, thank you, dan. i know you'll be out there keeping track of it for all of us. we have to go now. but as always, the conversation will continue online. the "washington week" webcast extra streams live at 8:30 p.m. eastern and you can find it all week long at pbs.org/washingtonweek, where we'll be talking about the renewed congressional free occupation with the benghazi occupation. we'll see you here next week on "washington week." and you know who to call this weekend. tell her gwen says happy mother's day. good night. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> we went out and asked people a simple question -- how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90's and that's a great thing. each though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed, the official retirement age.

they have operated as different elements, and spun out and a battle between rupert murdoch and john malone to be an independent company which they have operated, competing with dish network, the other large satellite tv provider in the company. -- in this country. one person i spoke to that was close to the matter speculated that what is charlie ergen going to do at this stage because charlie's company had been rumored to want to merge with directv also. and they came out last week and said they were too expensive. if this deal comes together, there are two options for dish that go away. we will see what happens to the shares tomorrow when the investors digest the news. >> what does this mean for at&t? why would they want this business? >> directv has a few things that directv -- at&t is interested in. they really want to bundle together mobile video with their current wireless product. he do this to some degree, but they have not really figured out yet how to do a quad play which is wireless service in addition to their home broadband, home television, and home phone. buying directv would

murdoch is influential.publican primary is interesting. >> joel mchale was the entertainment. governor chris christie thinking about running for president in 2016 in the audience. joel mchale couldn't resist. >> tonight will be amusing and over quickly just like chris christie's presidential bid. i have a lot of these tonight. buckle up governor christie. >> there were more and more jokes, probably over the top. it probably got under his skin. look at this from an after party. he takes a picture with joel mchale and tries to post all is fine. >> the whole goal was to say nothing is getting to me. i'm fine. i'm here. i'm back. he was the butt of many, many, many jokes, probably too many. the bridge gate one was devastating and important for christie to say nothing is bothering me. >> a lot of us in the room are watching christie during the president's speech and mchale's speech. he was laughing and trying to show i can take a joke and i'm ready for this. >> joe biden speaking to a latino group. watch this. >>

bruxelles' made it known that russo was urged to back amnesty and wrote the op-ed by bloomberg and murdochwho happens to be the head of the company that owns also this network. another victory tuesday night pointing to the need to assess several elements of nebraska politics. won the g.o.p. nomination for governor. he is the son of billionaire amir trade founder joe rickets. steve rickets has enviable diversity of support with the establishment figures such as governor walker and paul reiser and. then to throw in the tea party favorite ted cruz. whoever said republican politics is boring? hang on. this will be a year. time for your thoughts. authors of the comments receive a copy of my new book "border war" coauthored james born former dea agent and now florida state law enforcement special agent. your thoughts. should an atheist been represented by a military chaplain? >> isn't this an oxymoron? how can one be an atheist chaplain? we took that up with the head of the '80s organization and the answer is being formulated. >> and 80 is has no faith so they have no need for a chaplain. lou: s

murdoch said there there's speculation that murdoch could have paul endorsement if paul ran for presidentulled out all the stops even wore a festive derby hat made of the finest gopher pelt. i love this celebrity power couple. i've given them their own fun nickname rupaul. [ applause ] >> welcome back to "morning joe." jim vanderhey still here. hi. how are you? >> doing great. >> good to have you on board. >>> hillary clinton wading into some of the most sensitive areas of domestic policy. speaking in maryland yesterday. clinton talked about poverty and political dysfunction. she told the room of mental health professionals she was struck by the latest health care poll. >> a small majority of americans don't think they like the affordable care act. but a large majority of americans don't want to do away with the protections nra the affordable care act. a small majority wants to repeal it. but that is slowly receding as a rising majority says no fixes. well, that's in the tradition of good, old-fashioned american pragmatism. >> still recent polls from pew and "usa today" shows obamacare as

the bags belonged to pa woman identified as anastasia murdoch. >>> all right, jeff ranieri is not in studio today. >> it's so beautiful out here. it's really incredible. we're here in downtown. you can hear the buzz happening this saturday and sunday. the reason i have wine is it's vineyard wine. cheers. thank you. and wine has been produced in liver more for over a century? >> yes, my great grandfather started in 1883. it was one of the first wine countries in california. >> it's nice. 42 miles east of san francisco. we're very easy to get to. there's only 56 wineries here. >> you guys will be sampling and tasting your wines, right? >> yes, we are. so we've got a nice variety there. >> thank you so much for coming out. you told us some of the hot weather and cool fog from the coast makes this the best wine. let's look at weather graphics as we head throughout the forecast. the fog is building in right now at the coastline. it's pretty widespread. that's going to impact temperatures for tomorrow. what you're going to see now is we've had quite a bit of cooling compared to this time y

murdoch was arrested by all metical nature sophistry a three year-old girl is recovering to write after she was mauled by people. she played in the front yard of her home on louisiana street and the layout. >> : kelly suffered injuries to her head and neck thursday when neighbors to pull away from the daughter and charge a little girl. the father talk about what was going to respond when the dog appeared to on top of his daughter. this mutt daughter is a giant dog. there's no reaction can be terrified and when yet reacted with drama and a jump in and out your where >> : its move. the liberals father injuring his hand in the process of pulling the 85 lb dog off of his daughter. tippled now in the custody of vallejo animal patrol services. dogs owner says that she will have the dog but down for the safety of others and the neighborhood. koppers owner belle sterling entered the the punishment for the races, as he aged now after almost a week of controversy sterling is breaking his silence bottle selling talk off-camera to a publisher of the store magazine indicating he has no desire to sel

ambitions if there is any question picking up space with the executive chairman of news group, rupert murdoch. according to "the new york times," the senator was engaging in a political audition for the man whose argue with the most powerful broker in republican politics. the rest of it we don't know. joining us, the "a-team." great to have you all here. so let's start with the benghazi select committee. >> this is a significant development because it will be a partisan despite what some of the democrats say. they have the ability to drill down, they have to be delivered, they have to be delivered with everything in it, not redacted with everything crossed out. what we have known so far with many of the earnings is what happened. there was an active security before. before the night of attack there was no rescue mission and after the fact there has been no effort to round up the guys responsible but what we don't know is why. was there something more sinister which is was there a real concern for abusive power? lou: it looks like there is something rather sinister here. >> i agree, democrats

rupert murdoch is going to take century fox's 70% take on the stock.ky deutschland is currently up 6%. the chief investment from the u.k. at credit suisse private bank is with us. michael, food to see you, what does this all mean to you? are you happy to see it or are you concerned prices are getting rich? >> we are very happy with our basket of stocks, which has done pretty well this year. it did very well last year. what's happening with m&a right now is it's running to the reality of governments in france and the u.k. shareholders in the u.s. without the proposed deal were beat, and i think what we will probably see a lot more of is investors maybe punish acquires a little more harshly where the deal doesn't make strategic or financial sense. >> and there are plenty of deals that don't stack up in the long run, don't they? i mean, but is it encouraging that companies now want to do something more with their cash rather than buying stocks? what is it the shareholders want at the moment? more buybacks or to invest it? >> i think shareholders as oppose

murdoch's second ex-wife landed $1.7 billion. >> where are you going? to pick a fight. >> reporter: it pummeled mel gibson's divorce from his ex-wife in 2011. while her attorney tells abc news, the judge's order is exactly what she wanted. her husband's attorney says he plans to appeal. for "good morning america," reena ninan, abc news, new york. >> really. it was exactly what she wanted. >> $4.5 billion? >> yes, i would think so. >>> coming up, angelina jolie's one-on-one with you, george. you had a chance to sit down with her. >> we did. we sat down in l.a. she opened up about life after surgery, her wedding plans and possibly future in politics. >>> first, let's get the weather from ginger. >> that was a good tease. i want to see that. all right. let's talk about the weather, because in chicago, it was a stormy night. we had some airplanes that were grounded at times. you see the willis tower in the ground. but in sugar grove, illinois, there are hail pictures. it wasn't just the chicago area. it was out west in even denver. denver had it. iowa had i

. >> you make a contrast how sa z saltzberg saltzbergerhandles this and the way murdoch does. >> he fireserson and moving onto the next person. >> not be specific. my big issue in the piece besides being called pushy and what it's like, they haven't really explained what she did. i think they're the "new york times" and maybe they don't have to but i think they kind of have to now because they've explained enough people want more answers. so what did she do precisely? the problem is now the crime scene is tainted. once something happens, everyone agrees to perhaps the narrative. that's the problem here. you're not going to really know what the specifics are of what she did wrong. because it's the "new york times," people want to know. >> david carr's column is a step in that direction. >> it didn't have specifics. >> right. >> it just said it. >> interesting about that column, he didn't know about it before he started checking. it obviously wasn't widely known. that's what i wanted to know. it added more questions to me. >> the kind of reporting "the times" normally does. >> yes. >> kara,

here with reaction, peter johnson jr., roy murdoch and dana. good to see you.vine's hair. >> i saw it and was really shocked by it. i don't understand how he did it. that was a bad move. i give the morning shows more of a pass. they do morning stuff, breakfast tv. the nightly newscast it would have been worth a mention. >> wort a mention? >> yes, worth a mention. they don't think that there's enough news yet for it to warrant a story. they decided a while ago that the story was irrelevant and they will not be shamed into covering it. the only way that they will is when and if, if and when there is new information that i think will be revealed in the investigation. >> i agree. we had what i believe is a smoking gun e-mail because the white house and jay carney repeatedly said that the only influence they had on the talking point was changing the name to consulate. >> i spoke about this on "fox and friends", the select committee and the history of it in the congress. yeah, the white house brought this on themselves by the release of this new e-mail that shows, in

i sometimes wonder if rupert murdoch or les nunez says something, maybe it carries more weight than anive. if it's seven voices that are collectively worth $360 million, maybe you give a little more weight to that. >> peter lauria, thank you for joining me. >> thank you. >>> we're going to stay on this story. we're going to keep trying to book comcast executives to tell us why they believe the merger is in the public interest. >>> i need to take a break here, but it's the most gut-wrenching story that i'm wondering why it doesn't get much coverage. in just a moment. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ hooking up the country helping business run ♪ ♪ trains! they haul everything, safely and on time. ♪ tracks! they connect the factories built along the lines. and that means jobs, lots of people, making lots and lots of things. let's get your business rolling now, everybody sing. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ helping this big country move ahead as one ♪ ♪ norfolk southern how's that function? ♪ humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we still run into

the democracy of media, as powerful is murdoch is, he doesn't have the only microphone or megaphone and think, i hope, this is me the optimism, if all of the folks can police these lies hutmuch more effectively. in the '90s, we had none of that and on the liberal side we have correct the record and american bridge and folks who really police conservative media. they have folks who police us liberals, which is a good thing, too. >> s.c., are you seeing that, too? >> its easier to go online and find out if for example, john mccain has an illegitimate child and prove that false immediately or to see whether he was having an affair on the campaign trail. >> i love that we're ending on an optimistic note. thanks. >> thanks. >>> we found out who won the sweepstakes for hilary's first television interview. every anchor wanted it and barbara walters got it. i have to squeeze in a break here but up next, a surprising mega merger and red news, blue news. stay tuned. l everything, safely and on time. ♪ tracks! they connect the factories built along the lines. and that means jobs, lots of people, m

if i were to rattle off the names o'donnell and murdoch, the republican party doesn't control the senate contests. >> you know what? i think we are looking forward to what now is just last week, the "washington post" said she had the worst week in washington, and she did. we're just excited. we don't get involved in primaries at the republican national committee. it's important that the grassroots voters make those decisions on their own. we've been holding kay hagan accountable this whole time, working on the ground, contacting voters and talking about what it is to be a republican. we've been having a lot of good conversations with people on the ground there. we're just excited, now we can take the gloves off, and tom tillis can take it to kay hagan, and she's vulnerable, and she's one of the democrats that will likely fall, and that means it will come to the republicans. >> i referenced senator paul at the outset. here's today's front-page story. rand paul diverges from his party on voter i.d. senator paul says everybody's gone completely crazy on this voter i.d. thing. does he have a

he's become so angry, it has that murdoch feel to it.chran and his supporters will have a hard time rallying around mcdaniel. this will linger in a bitter way. and democrats do have a joe donnelly-like candidate as a potential player here, former congressman travis childers. they're pinning their hopes on him as the mud slinging goes on. turning now to another competitive gop primary, it's the race in iowa where joni ernst is the front-runner to replace retiring senator tomahato tom hawkin. former u.s. attorney matt whitaker in s in this race and others. but it's ernst who has all the momentum thanks in part to that provocative tv ad which got her a ton of endorsements. her campaign also what the feel of a 2012 flashback, if you will. you're looking now at live pictures of an event in cedar rapids, iowa and mitt romney is going to be appearing shortly at an event on ernst's behalf. it's his first trip back to the hawk eye state since the presidential race. meanwhile texas governor rick perry is campaigning for the former u.s. attorney ma

christine o'donnell, richard murdoch and todd akin, those were seats that the republicans should have won and would have won but for the flawed republican nominees that made themselves the issue. and the problem with democrats is defending seats in states that president obama did not carry. so it's not enough just to reenergize the obama coalition, you have to reenergize the obama coalition and add to it those who hold on to the president. the republican brand is the worst its ever been. people feel less friendly and positive towards the republicans than at anytime. >> it's a mystery, that one. we hate them but we may want them. >> woodruff: one of the other things the democrats are worried about right now is the administration, the president's standing on foreign policy. the president comes back from his trip to asia greeted by yet another poll showing a lot of disapproval of his handling of the economy of rome and other issues about foreign policy. and criticism from everywhere. we were going to show the cover of the latest issue of "the economist" magazine, what would america fight