they worked in concert until you know several weeks or or months later when the new york times the fatted to back off we've heard editors that work there say join us on this too difficult to work with you know blaming that sort of thing but in reality the new york times did exactly the same thing that wiki leaks did in publishing some of this information we leaks of course published more. but don't you think that lawyers eventually if this case does come to fruition they going to have a really awful hard time making the case that there was anything different between the two entities. oh yes actually what the new york times does is actually considered worse than what wiki leaks did because the new york times routinely publishes what is called top secret classified information which is actually the highest classification the u.s. government uses and the only thing wiki leaks has published although they've published hundreds of thousands of documents has been secret and below which is a lower classification so essentially the new york times is publishing material that the government consider

mail us and coming up next, politicians attempting to control their message in the media. >> a "new york timess reveals a secret are you surprised?. >> noticed about a week ago. >> and there is a answers next on news watch. >>> on monday the "new york times" publishing a story about how politicians and their advisors are approving their quotes before they can be published. mr. meet peters writes quote approval is a standard practice for the obama campaign and viewed by many strategists and in the white house almos than spokesman paid to be quoted and sometimes it applies to them. also common place throughout washington and on the campaign trail. go goes on its difficult to find a news outlet and organizations like bloomberg, the washington post, "vanity fair" and "new york times" consented to interviews under such terms, judy, used to work at north "new york times", have you ever heard of a policy on giving an official a chance to edit their quotes? >> what i have heard of is reading back a quote to someone to see if it's accurate. and this is... when this is out and it wrong, it ricochets aro

basically there's no sense in which feinstein's denunciation applies to wiki leaks but not the new york times so can you elaborate on that. yeah absolutely if you take the quote that she sent the australian and just substitute the name new york times for mr songe it all fits she said that it was illegal for him to obtain and disseminate classified information that could potentially injure the united states and that's exactly what the new york times did as well and that's why this is this grand jury so concerning and should be so concerning for mainstream press organizations and not just wiki leaks because it was ever convicted under the espionage act statutes that means that all other papers who publish classified information all the time don't forget the new york times the washington post the wall street journal and all those in between they would also be liable under this law and we know for a fact they publish information that's classified pretty much every week a lot of it is top secret which is higher than any classification wiki leaks has ever published so they have as much or even more

new york with that disgusting story. >> willie, today, of course we are as usual, we are -- you say cornucopia of news, we take people across the globe, talking about shocking new "new york times"/cbs poll everybody is focused on, going to be taking americans of the millions and millions of americans that watch the show every morning and listen on the armed forces radio, the news out of bulgaria, big news out of syria but we are looking at one story the further decline of the united states of america, it started as dr. sacks said in 1973, average wages declining and leads us down this long and winding road to grim, grim news, coming out of the far east this morning. >> it is. >> the sun continues to set on the american empire. here it is again, singapore, dateline, singapore, the 7-eleven in singapores, not in america, singapore only, you've heard of the slurpee machine in singapore the mashed potato and gravy machine. you put a little cup under, hit a button, mixes hot water with a powder, spits out mashed potatoes and pours chicken gravy you can take on the go. >> coming soon to singapore, obesity. >> where were we? john kennedy why england slept. i'm going to why america sl

cost of them not speaking to you is very high for them they don't want to have it said in the new york times or on n.b.c. news that the government the obama administration refused to talk to them unfortunately what we've seen is those national news organizations not being willing to use that fundamental power on behalf of their audience which they should they the new york times n.b.c. news should be going to the obama campaign saying listen we want your quote on the record if you do not give us a quote on the record based on our questions we will put into our story that you refused to answer our questions and if the obama campaign says that they're not going to answer that or they're not going to answer unless they have veto power over what's published then the national media organization should have the wherewithal to to walk away and have the campaign pay the consequences for that but i wonder you know i think it would be up to more than just a few national media organizations or as the new york times wouldn't you have to have all journalists kind of take this pledge to say that they won't

of degree not kind we keep leaks released more information and they're going to say that the new york times and other newspapers have carefully cold cold. through what they published but if we get leaks goes down or prosecuted under the espionage act the new york times is next the l.a. times is next that's why you had the l.a. times do an op ed total editorial flip flop yesterday where is before they were they were against the crackdown on alleges leakers and now they're like oh let that proceed but don't go after journal was because they're finally realizing that if x. is vulnerable under the espionage act they're next then. everyone who is responding to anything that would be leaks released would be equally as vulnerable yes and doesn't lastly i just want to ask you you know big leaks are big big league small leaks that this has been a recurring thing throughout previous administrations why are we seeing this attempt to to silence them or to crack down. leaks now well i think after nine eleven there was this secret secrecy regime that was put in place by president bush and normally everyo

classification in such a way that members are not aware of the particulars unless they read "the new york times?" that is if what's in "the new york times" is true? >> it would bother me. all i would point out, it would hardly be the first time members of congress found out about those kinds of programs from the press as opposed to the administration. it would bother me no matter who was in congress and what -- >> because that also goes to the constitutional question of the powers of the legislative branch to do proper oversight to ensure that we are not having malefactors in the executive branch in areas of serious concern. colonel, you said this is unprecedented. >> yes. >> in your experience. >> absolutely, it is. >> and i know why i think it's unprecedented. but could you tell me why you believe it's unprecedented, in addition to the fact that as you mentioned, the experience of midway -- i do recall there was an expression utilized during world war ii that went "loose lips sink ships." they could sink cyber-security. >> absolutely can. for reasons that general alexander pointed out on this

a political reporter for "new york times" reveals a dirty little secret about how to get quotes from oliticians. you tube. famous for off the wall videos now becoming a trusted source for news. and there is a trip back in time to the happiest place in earth. on the panel this week judy miller, and syndicated columnist al thomas and bill pinkerton ask ellen, bureau chief. and fox news watch is on right now. >> if you're successful, someone along the lines gave you some help. there is a great teacher somewhere in your life. someone helped to create this unbelievable american system we have that allows you to thrive. someone invested roads and bridges. if you've got a business you didn't build that. someone else made that happen. >> and mr. obama words getting attention of job makers and critics. and there is a campaign with one of the call ins where journalists are able to call and listen to what they want to present. on this call there is four small business people including an african american woman that said she was outraged at the suggestion she needed the government's help. the fir

from the new york times, justices both 5-4 uphold health care law, roberts in majority.ictory for obama. so, jim, what about the headlines? do they tell the whole story here? >> well, they tell us that justice roberts is growing, eyes of the media. years ago some wise guy in d.c. coineded the phrase to describe the process for which the new york times reporter linda greenhouse was discouraged to move to the left in her direction and sure enough, "the washington post" on friday, a nice puffy picture of john roberts. the right wing and nows' on his way to the-- before the decision, chris mathews on mnnbc says that john roberts could be compared to a civil war era supreme court judge who upheld the dread scott slave act. the same chris mathews after this, praises roberts as bold, defiant, and a hero who upheld obamacare. >> yes, i'm beginning to feel that thrill up my thigh. and look, here is a bias, so obvious. chief justice roberts agrees with the liberals and upholds the president's signature legislation and suddenly he's a hero, but that's not the way the legal immediat

>> if you read the german language site of the new york times of germany they denounce it. >> the new york times of germany? >> what about the national enquirer of germany? read the statements the leaders make. >> they have ten weeks to weasel out of bailing out the spanish banks. >> they are not doing direct investments. period, paragraph. can't you read? >> i don't understand. don, your trend macro and david is macro strategy and you don't agree on anything. >> that's because i read the german newspapers in german. >> you're reading the new york times of germany. i can't stand reading the new york times of new york. you made good points, as did you, don. we'll see how long this lasts. >> do you do micro. >> it's like a judge driving by wayne state and someone said that's the harvard university of detroit. his response is who would want to be the harvard university of anything? >> exactly. up next, heat, severe storms causing death and destruction. do you believe our biggest argument was not between democrats and liberals. >> between macro and macro. >> market guys. at least 17 dead

obama order sped-up waves of cyber-attacks against iran, "the new york times." secret kill list proves a test of obama's principles and will, "new york times". st stucksnet was the work of israeli officials, "washington post." these are not the critical headlines that pursued bush administration officials. not only has the administration not complained about these articles, but official make a planner, operator, and commander of s.e.a.l. team six who killed osama bin laden available to a hollywood director and screenwriter working on a movie about this successful raid. according to pentagon and cia records obtained by judicial watch who got the information through foyer requests. the four leaders of the intelligence committees have condemned these leaks. senator feinstein said that she was deeply disturbed by these leaks and wants an investigation, and she's right. the attorney general has deployed two u.s. attorneys two report to him to investigate the leaks and to determine whether anyone from the administration should be prosecuted. today we'll have a look at

. >> "the new york times" is concerned that people will assume that somehow this information was all laid out to them rather than the benefit of a lot of hard -- >> the other thing is, you know, every white house, every day discloses national security information. i mean it's the way the place works. and so the question now is there anything really detrimental to the interest of the united states that has been disclosed in "the new york times," "the washington post," "time" magazine, on the air, whatever, that really justifies finding out who leaked something? >> i just hate the word leaks. >> yeah. >> because, i mean, it makes it sound like reporters are passive and just waiting to get the gusher. and the rule at the "washington post" is when we have a good story, it's because of aggressive thorough reporting and "the new york times" or somebody else has a story it's -- >> it's a walk. >> but, you know, you have to be in a position where you're open and you are unfeddered in a way as a reporter so people will come to you if that's what they decide. because there are lots of things,

that's "the new york times." y will say oh, yeah, "new york times," against the republican candidate. [ chuckling ] how about one of the longest serving commentators in the american his, george wells. what does he have to say about this? >> mitt romney is losing in a big way. if something is going to come out, get it out in a hurry. i don't know why given that mr. romney knew that the day that mccain lost in 2008 that he was going to run for president again, that he didn't get all of this out and tidy up some of his offshore accounts and all the rest. he has done nothing illegal unseemly or improper, but all of this is in politics and now he's in the politics business. >> cenk: get them all out now because you're in a lot of trouble. is that george will getting on top of the top rope? don't do it. that's an elbow from the sky. those are two different wrestling moves. either way romney is in trouble. elected republican officials how about governor robert bentley of alabama. let's listen to him. >> in fact, i was as

those are all hot topics here at the "new york times" small business summit. we'll sit down to talk to attendees. >>> plus a look at one of the oldest new york-run businesses. it's time to make money coming up next on "your business." >>> hi, there, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business." where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. what better place to do that than here at the 2012 "new york times" small business summit. small business owners, investors and business journalists have all gathered here today to network and talk about pressing issues like funding, marketing and utilizing social media. ♪ >>> the majority of small businesses shut down before being around for five years. only a third of them make it to ten years. so what are the odds then of a company being around 150 years through five generations of the same family? well, you're going to love meeting the mcalisters. a new york family that knows how to beat the odds. >> okay, jeff, haul the line in. ellen is getting in position. okay. >> brian mcalister's family

"the new york times" counts as that for content and dropping out at this point. ew york times" says maybe we'll jump back in on blackberry 10. jumps out of the platform with more devices probably aren't going to jump in immediately with 10. it's a warning sign for them. i think apple's results are a bad sign for rim. >> when "the new york times" reported this, jon, they said it was going to be also they're going to do the same thing with the palm pre and thought pairing it with blackberry said it all. >> that really stings. i mean, practically doesn't even exist anymore. i'm sure there's some in people's sock drawers with depleted batteries but the fact saying putting this aside because it's kind of a dust bin flat form. rim needs to do something to revive this. >> apple, worst day of the year. this morning i was a guest on the fine show "morning joe" and speaking with graham nash of crosby, stills and nash on set an i asked him if he thought spotify was a big threat to apple and he said, jon, that it was. do you agree? >> i do. i do. and apple made it worse by ho

of the "new york times". but this is from joy, who says syria took in so many war refugees from iraq and now they are smack dab in the middle of a civil war. are they moving back to iraq. guest: yes they are, and some of them are moving back to iraq and that's just unfortunately, you know a lot of iraqis have suffered in the process and we'll have to wait and see what their choices are here going forward. it also depends upon those refugees, where are they from, are they sunni, shia. a lot of these refugees have returned as iraq has stabilized over the last couple of years. guest: host: carter, good morning. caller: yes. can you hear me. host: sure can. caller: mr. tabler, good morning. i'd like to just start off by saying i i'm disturbed by some misleading comments that i think you've made, just to give an example of one is that you've stated that the assad government has lost all legitimacy within inside syria and i don't believe that's to be true. i've been following this situation for a number of months v

as the new york times reported on november twelfth two thousand and one was a year after the election after it and a consortium of news organizations conducted their own recount in florida gore actually won the state the times wrote if all the ballots had been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of over votes mr gore would have won the times looked at all the various scenarios dimpled chads pimple chads under votes overvotes intent of the voter ng in chads everything and concluded all the other combinations likewise produced additional votes for mr gore giving him a slight margin over mr bush in other words al gore won florida you'd think the revelation that the wrong man is sitting in the white house would be front page news instead it was buried in the seventeenth paragraph in a story in the new york times misleadingly titled study of disputed florida ballots finds justices did not cast the deciding vote the reason why it was buried in that headline was misleading because nine eleven and just happened and the new york times di

expanding from latin america to africa africa is apparently the new hub for drug cartels the new york times reported that the u.s. has begun shifting its focus on the region the chief of the d.a.'s europe asia and africa section went as far to say that africa is the new front tier in terms of antiterrorism and anti narcotics right now the american counter narcotics assistance for west africa totaled about fifty million dollars for the past two years according to the state department an amount that's only destined to increase and now the u.s. has reportedly started training an elite group of counter narcotics police and dawna this is all happening as gone i was going through a transition of power the country's president died unexpectedly on tuesday after complaining of chest pains a similar unit is also planned in nigeria the west africa cooperative see security initiative or reportedly use a training model that's similar to the programs used in central america and mexico in these fifteen african countries and another one of these elite training forces is planned in kenya is hoped the office

the new york times has revealed the u.s. food and drug administration conducted an extensive spying campaign against its own scientists. the spying began after the scientists warned the fda had fully approved medical imaging devices for colonoscopy is and mammograms that endangered patients with high levels of radiation. the covert spying operation led the agency to monitor the scientists' computers at work and at home, copying emails and thumb drives and even monitoring individual messages line by line as they were being composed in real time. messages monitored included emails two journalists, members of congress, and even to president obama himself. the agency also created an enemies list. senator chuck grassley of iowa, the top republican on the senate judiciary committee, has urged u.s. law enforcement officials to investigate whether the fda violated the law in its surveillance of employee email. in a letter to fda commissioner margaret hamburg sent monday, grassley wrote -- the fda has denied any wrongdoing in respons

joining us from new york to talk about that and some other sports news is frank deford, senior contributing writer at "sports illustrated," commentator for npr, and the author of the book "over time." good morning. >> good morning, howard. >> basic journalistic question -- is nbc news going too far in using these news programs to promote the olympics? >> oh, howard, come on. i think you can be naive to think otherwise. i'm sure that abc pushes the academy awards that way when they own them. the proix no different. >> we've got the super bowl, world series. >> yeah. it's no different than a royal wedding. after all, you always have that standard pre-olympic story about the traffic, the local traffic. you goat interview the cabbies. and then, of course, mitt romney dropped from heaven. tone deaf and sensitive and made a real story. and so yeah, it's -- it's fair to have news. "the new york times" has a story about the olympic mall today tipped on the front page. so, you can't expect nbc to be any kind of shrinking violet here. >> nbc, by the way, getting a lot of heat on twitter and elsewhere for editing out of the opening ceremonies which drew about 40 million american viewers in

as a correspondent and bureau chief for "the new york times," he covered wars in north africa, the balkans and the middle east, leaving, the paper after a reprimand for publicly denouncing the 2003 invasion of iraq. in such books as "war is a force that gives us meaning," his weekly column for the website "truthdig" and freelance articles for a variety of other publications, chris hedges has taken his life's experience covering the brutality of combat and shaped a world view in which morality and faith, and the importance of truth-telling, dissent and social activism take precedence, even if it means going to jail. welcome, chris hedges. >> thank you. >> tell me about joe sacco. he was your companion on this trip. and he was your, in effect, co-author. although he was sketching instead of writing. >> i've known joe since the war in bosnia. we met when he was working on his book, "gorazde." and i was not a reader of graphic novels. but i watched him work. and i certainly know a brilliant journalist when i see one. and he is one of the most brilliant journalists i've ever met. he reports it

that was ever a client a new york times bestselling author of the olympics soon to kick off in london traditionally the olympic games are a platform where the world superpowers compete for the gold decades ago it was the u.s. versus the soviet union but today the u.s. is up against another world power that has proven to be a force to be reckoned with china showed up the u.s. and the rest of the world when they dominated the medal count in the last games back in beijing and this time around it looks like they're gearing up once again to prove they are a superpower to stay but will that be the case earlier i was joined by jack mccallum author of dream team i asked him if china's superpower prowess is here to stay take a lesson. you know no question about it it came suddenly and when it came as was the case with most about china it came with a force and i think really here they're there even talking more about obviously great britain has a strong team they're hosting the game they're even sort of talking more about hey let's try to beat australia and let's try to beat the united states a

new york works for business. find out how it can work for yours at thenewny.com. >>> uh i do want to mention after talking to gretchen morgenson of the new york timeshat a bunk of banks deny allegations that their top analysts give large hedge funds a heads up or front running on changes in company views. they are denying that. ubs, you can see on the screen. strict policies and procedures in place that require analysts' opinions in surveys to reflect their published opinions. on the other hand, ms. morgenson, a very good journalist, had evidence to the otherwise. we'll continue to pursue this story when more information comes. now, turn to the stock market. another case of the mondays for the stock market. today's downturn sparked by a devastating drop in sales data could be signalling recessionary fears. it was unexpected. here is brian kelly, the cofounder of shelter harbor capit capital. b.k., besides the threat of deflation and recession, i want to ask about profits. i have a lot of threats here. i'm not a happy camper. what do you think? >> probably profits are most threatened from the fiscal cliff. if we can get movement on that we are all r

also, "new york times" columnist frank bruni, editor of the new yorker david remnick and daniel silva will be here. up next the morning papers and politico playbook. bill karins with a check on the forecast. >> good morning to you. we had a pretty decent weekend around the country. the heat wave and the drought. we're going to get a little relief and some rain in a few spots as we go throughout today. let me update you on that. showers and thunderstorms rolling across new york state. they're now heading south of albany down the new york state thruway and north of new york city trying to enter connecticut and showers near boston. later today, widespread wind damage is possible, especially in upstate new york, from buffalo to watertown around the syracuse and rochester area. a large area of the country with thunderstorms, including chicago, pittsburgh, cleveland and detroit. even the northeast, we may not see severe storms, but there will be pop-up thunderstorms from boston to new york down to d.c. later today. we'd lunch to get that rainfall from indiana to st. louis. you will have to

and thus, republicans won't have to remove their no-tax increase straight jacket, so says "the new york timesday, bill keller, the former editor of the "new york times," stepped up with an op-ed entitled, "head for the cliff," pointing out that the new year's eve fiscal cliff gives president obama leverage with republicans that he has never had before. here's bill keller's op-ed piece, "head for the cliff," right there. can we see that? and in it, bill keller said, if no deal emerges, all the democrats have to do is take a page from the republican playbook, dig in their heels, and do nothing. joining me now is someone else who's ready to go off the cliff, bruce bartlett, who served as executive director of the joint economic committee, as senior policy analyst in the reagan white house, and as deputy assistant secretary of the treasury during george h.w. bush's administration. he's now a columnist for the fiscal times and author of the book, "the benefit and the burden." bruce, we heard today in some terms, anyway, from both president obama and mitt romney about the coming fiscal cliff and se

month long study also looked at subscribers to you tube pages the study cited examples like the new york times news channel which has about seventy eight thousand signed up the associated press news channel which has about two hundred fifty thousand and r t at the top once again with two hundred eighty thousand subscribers now if you're wondering who is using sites like you tube or vimeo turns out seventy one percent of adults have used it at some time and twenty percent visit these sites on a daily basis and if you wanted to know about the second most viewed organization among the top videos it was fox news although the study pointed out that more than half of those videos were posted by viewers criticizing the network. folks we are on the heels of a presidential election living in the age of twitter and let me get a time when your knowledge doesn't only come from one of three evening newscasts or the morning paper and we know there are plenty of people out there who want to call our g.'s news coverage propaganda conspiracy theories but the bottom line is we are covering stories you're not se

reports about massacres whole the whole massacre as a whole just a few weeks ago certainly the new york times on its website new york times was very close to washington and ruled in circles there's no there there were not two hundred deaths at this so-called massacre that there were perhaps one hundred they also report that this was basically a far fight between the syrian military and armed groups those they also. unlike one would expect for most massacres there were no women and children who were killed they were mostly young men in apparently young men well warm well what is that the point that you just mentioned with the fact that even the new york times is reporting of these conflicting accounts i mean these confessions were given on syrian state t.v. so of course some people could say dismiss this as essentially syrian propaganda that according to some people right but if we even have the new york times quoting from what is the organization the syrian observatory for human rights the u.k. based opposition organization putting questions on the number of those killed finding that most of

>>host: the book currently on your erse screen several weeks on "the new york times" new york best seller list ed klein it is our guest and the title is the amateur. where did you get to the title? >> the president august 2011 invited his wife, daughter chelsea and friends to meet with him. he had then a secret poll that showed it hillary clinton vin would challenge obama for the nomination in 2012 he thought she could win and she was surprised. she said how could i do this? i have lunch with the man every thursday. what about loyalty? he said there is no word of loyalty in politics. he said the people around, do not understand the real world. they were responsible for losing aaa credit rating for the first time and obama was in his words, "the amateur." i spoke to two people at that meeting. >>host: the president has denied publicly that term. >>guest: hillary has told her friends she suspected that chelsea told me about this. that is not true but apparently she has a reputation for texting friends in the middle of meetings with her parents. it was a confirmation the meeting took place a