like the era of nbc news. [applause] [applause] september and october of 2008, mike trace the turmoil leading to one of the most significant votes in the house of representatives and more than 40 years. the financial bailout. in live shot after a live shot, he joined the crack reporting with great sourcing, tracing the dawn to dusk negotiations. he even helped the technical crews drag cable across the tappan -- across the capitol rotunda to get his story on the air. here is a look at his work. >> you can see mike in the foreground. >> we have 30 seconds. we're just getting be assembled -- and getting the assembled people. hank paulson, congressional leaders, republicans, democrats, virtually all afternoon since about 7:00 in the morning. >> joining us from capitol hill , explain where things are at now and where we should be looking the rest of the afternoon. >> we have a lot of moving parts. there is a dramatic scene that played out over the course of the entire evening. it began the afternoon when hank pauls

there was the nbc news correspondent who was assigned to cover barack obama who said that it is almost time to maintain your abjective it a wallcovering obama because of the excitement that he engendered was so infectious. there was a story that was on christmas morning on page one of the washington post about barack obama's exercise regimen -- here is one sentence from the story. the sun glinted off chiseled pectorals. [laughter] this code could during for weightlifting sessions each week. and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games. this is the kind of stuff you'd expect to read in a romance novel with fabio on the cover. [laughter] [applause] not page one of the most important newspaper in the nation's capital and one of the two or three in the country. now, if you think i am cherry picking these two examples to make a point, i am not. the book -- i won't bore you with statistics -- but the book has a number of impartial studies again nonpartisan groups that make very clear that the media coverage was way more positive toward barack obama and then john mccain and

he writes that before obama left for the least nbc news aired four hours of interviews in prime-time er two nights to give your support of the day in the life of the white house. cbs news weighed in last week with its "two sides. of sides" if there the first part on father's day in the second of the next day. on wednesday abc news aired "a conversation with the president ," and hourlong prime-time special on health care reform take in the east room of the white house. abc projected reasonable requests to include opposing voices during the infomercial. matt goes on to write in this paper, with this sweep of obama's policy decisions and growing skepticism about his agenda, and biased reporting is especially border. rather than covering eight nights in personally, the media should further investigate these issues so they can better inform the public. there will probably have their turn to do so once their obama specials are over. i would your reaction to that? linking, nebraska, a republican caller first. caller: god bless america and the love affair with the media and barack obama goes

and it has to do with a woman named nada, and i quote from an nbc news story dated june 22, 2009. and i quote -- "she sinks to the ground and a few minutes later she's dead. a video that has been repeatedly posted on the internet reports to show the last moments of nada, a young iranian woman shot in the heart by government sharp shooters. overnight she has become a symbol of the opposition. the shaky blurred images of a young woman collapses on to the pavement. a dark pool of blood spreads beneath her body. two men kneel against the -- next to the woman and press on her chest emscreaming. the camera filming him zooms in on her face, her face turns to the side and blood streams out of her nose an mouth. madda, don't be afraid says 1 man. another man seeks to put her in the car and the video stops. the video appeared on the network sites facebook and twitter saturday evening and it became a sensation being forwarded repeatedly. user groups were determined to get around youtube's ability to get around the graphic film. it became forwarded so often, that it became imresponsible for y

in 2004, nbc news reported that despite their incarceration in max couple security conditions, convicted world trade bombers were communicated by mail with the terrorists in madrid, spain, where many, many people died in that attack. there would certainly be strong reasons to believe that detainees currently held at guantanamo, known to riot and grossly abuse prison guards, would use their access to counsel and investigators in order to convey messages to their allies. i'm concerned about the extra cost that would be incurred in preparing prisons and courthouses for trials. i understand the courthouses in which try terrorism cases were litigated had to be hardened to accommodate terrorism prosecutions and the attendant threats they entail for participants and the public. a recent "new york times" article indicated that one of every seven prisoners released from guantanamo bay and determined to be low-security risks were recaptured on foreign battlefields fighting american forces. what does this say about the danger posed by the medium and high security risk detainees still being held? th

i was an nbc reporter between 1976 an 1983, despite looking much too young to have been an nbc news reporter between 19 is it 6 an 1983. -- 1976 an 1983 and it was sometime during that period when, for the first time, the networks learned that the evening newscasts could make money. before that, they were in effe effect, loss leaders, if you know that term from business. william paily didn't care how much money douglas edwards lost, how much money walter concrete lost. it was -- cronkite lost. it was a way to get people in the store, it was a way to give cache to the entire network and this is a network that about to put the "beverly hillbillies" on, so we could have used some cache. one of the worst things that ever happened to the quality of journalism, was that moment or those series of moments when the accountants went down to the editorial offices and said, look, we can tell the "times" for even more than we're selling it for now. the evening news can make money. from that point on, things started to change, and will never change back again, in terms of that principle. that's up to them

tim was nbc news bureau chief and host of "meet the press."he passed away on june 13th after having a heart attack at nbc's washington year while he was recording voice overs. he was rushed to sibley memorial hospital in washington where he later died. he is survived by his wife and his son, luke. tama was 58 years old. we dedicate this moment to the memory of tim russert. thank you for watching close-up at the newseum. we hope you will join us again next week. so long. [applause]

welcome to the national press club and another nbc morning news maker. my name is peter. i am a former usa foreign service's officer. i was never fortunate enough to be stationed in his country. before introducing our speaker, some announcements. there will be a sound file made of this made available to members through the website. others may purchase a copy to the broadcast operations center of the club. please turn off any cell phone or blackberries or icons or pea pods or what at -- ipods or p pods or whatever was on. the next topic is u.s. muslim relations. if you have not already done so, as you leave, please add your name to the signup sheet outside. there is material outside related to this morning's news maker. he is the former crown prince of iran and the son of the former shah of iran. pahlavi, welcome back to the national press club. if i say welcome back because he has spoken here at least twice before. one of them was on march 4, 2006 when he discussed the situation in iran at that time. i was to thank for rolled, mr. pahlavi and all of the people whose names

that same survey, an nbc-"the new york times" survey showed that while 85% of americans want serious reform, just 28% are confident that a new health care entitlement will improve the economy. so as the president is trying to sell this on the basis that we need it for the economy, 28% of the americans really believe that's the case and, frankly, mr. president, i share their skepticism. it's going to hurt, not help. we need to reform health care right. and i think there's much more virtue in doing it correctly over doing it quickly. president obama promised change. but there's nothing new about dramatically increasing government spending. and adding even more to our national debt. i hope that some of my friends on the democratic side as well as republicans can agree that when it comes to health care reform, we should embrace real changes that support medical innovation and put patients first. that's the answer, that's what the american people want. mr. president, i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. durbin: mr. president

skipping over the podium for just a moment, we have jonathan this is a land of bloomberg news, a former nbc president, the speakers committee member who organize today's lunch and the coach of the division winning, a division championship in pcs softball team. scathing over our speaker we have jeff, columnist for the washington examiner. are you a member of the softball team? okay, disloyal. israel, community relations director for the nationals. paul dixon, author of the dixon baseball dictionary and other books. and finally, we have amy from platts and an original member of the npc softball team. [applause] of the old washington senators it was often said washington, first in war, first in peace and last in the american league. substitute nationals for senators and national league for american and you can describe the situation for our local major league team today, and today speaker. in fact, it is hard to think of anyone that this had a worse season than the washington nationals except for perhaps the republicans. [laughter] today's speaker formerly served as president of the atlanta br

attitude among independent voters in fact is the most significant change to emerge from a new wall street journal/nbc inebriating poll. in that survey mr. obama's job rating slipped a notch to 56% from 61% in april. that is not much of the drop, and is in keeping with the pattern for a new president at this point in his turn. but the slide was much more pronounced among self- identified purely independent voters, that is, americans who expressed no loyalty to either party. among these people would tend to reside in the middle of the ideological spectrum, the president's job approval rating is 45%, falling from a high of 60% back in april. herman is on the phone from clayton county, georgia. the economy. caller: good morning. i wanted to comment on the economy. i am a bit pessimistic about that. it just does not look like things are shaping any here in clinton. we are not getting anywhere with jobs. we don't see any new jobs coming and every new month it looks like the job market is just going away. so i would hope that something will be coming down the pike, particularly for georgia, pretty soon. but

a 72% in a cbs "new york times" poll. 76% by nbc and "wall street journal." it's nonpartisan. 50% are republicans support it. over 80% of democrats. there might be a lot of controversy on the issue of energy or health care, but on the issue of whether or not americans want a public option on their table as part of health care reform, the jury has been decided. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. duncan: i request permission to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: madam speaker, i have noticed that most environmental radicals come from very wealthy or very upperer income families. perhaps they do not realize how much they have hurt the poor and lower income and working people by destroying jobs and driving up prices. now those who seem to be the loudest saying they are for the little guy are about to

frank stanton in the head of cbs said they have a program over on nbc called "meet the press," for the talk to the top news maker of the week. we need something like that. so that was the inspiration for "face the nation," and our first guest was joe mccarthy in 1954. that broadcast pretty much spelled the end of joe mccarthy. earlier that year you had had the documentary that ed had it done. you have the army in germany or the meetings and in the final part of it -- he died within two years. he was dead. oddly enough, when faced the nation had its anniversary, one of the letters of congratulations came from joe mccarthy. he said he always watched the show and always enjoyed it. host: one of the photographs. you took this -- let's listen to this caller. caller: i'm doing fine, probably close to your age and them a small businessman. i watch your show religiously. i am a little dismayed. the last couple of years the press has kind of gone leaning with what ever it ideology is in effect. i notice there has been little coverage of the stimulus package which will either make or break this recession. bring it t

should read chief white house correspondent for cbs news also covered capitol hill for both cbs and nbcnd anchored political coverage for msnbc. he was an invited reporter on the iraq war and filed stories on the war on terror worldwide. last but not least don wolfensberger director of project woodrow wilson center in washington is a well known, chris scholar and author of congress and the people and former chief of staff and longtime hill maysan chief of staff of house rules committee. we are when to begin with a brief opening comments starting with terry at the end and work our way down, and brief opening statements by the guests and then q&a exchange between the guests if they have any follow-up statements they want to make after each of them has their chants and finally q&a from the audience but there will be time for q&a from the audience and we look forward to your participation. you can either sit or come of here as you wish. terrie? >> i'm happy to sit. is the rest of the panel happy to sit? let's sit here and get all right, good. thank you. thank you,

seen, yesterday afternoon and in this morning's papers that two new polls out on the president's performance and popularity, cbs and also the nbc/"wall street journal" poll. both of them have similar results a popular president and his -- and strong marks for his leadership and communication style, rising concerns about the programmatic approaches to the financial crisis. you can either comment on the polls or tell people what you think. guest: first on the poll the polls reveal that the american people are sensible, which is to say the president is an engaging, attractive, intelligent, thoughtful, bold, interesting man, fresh from winning an emphatic vote from the american people. and what he is doing boldly and intelligently is taking the country in a direction the country is squeezey about. enormous expansion of government into the private sector. in fact, erasing the distinction between public and private sectors. so the country's simply sensible about this. during the ray began presidency, democrats were driven mad by the fact that they po polled and said, what do you think of reagan on this, this, and this, and the countr

programs on nbc, cbs, fox, cnbc, and as nbc and his commentaries have in published in a number of major newspapers including the baltimore sun, chicago sun times, detroit news, washington times, used in chronicle, miami burald, orange county register and san diego union tribune and journals like forbes business week, american spectator and the weekly standard. nv. rockwell has been directly involved in nuclear power for 60 years, must have started when he was 10-year-old, he started in te43, the of the process improvement task force at the wartime atomic bomb project in tennessee and after the war, heansferred to the ohrid national labs and became head of the radiation shield engineering group and navy captain by the name of an rickover hired him for the nuclear propulsion program. he has a long list of accomplishments there. is a fellow of the american cclear society, recipient of the first lifetime contribution award now known as the rockwell award, distinguished service medals from the navy and u.s. atomic energy commission and a member of the national academy of engineering. he has written numerous books on technical papers including the madely used tex