china, because our website is blocked in china right now. >> everybody has an opinion of "the new york times," so let's talk about some opinions of "the times." in particular, "the new york times" is often labeled as left wing and too liberal. >> yes. >> how do you respond to that? >> i respond to it by saying i think "the new york times" represents a kind of cosmopolitan outlook towards the world and to this country and city that may strike, you know, some readers as liberal because we have, you know, paid a lot of attention to stories like gay marriage. but these are newsworthy currents in our society, but it's not liberal in the sense of being doctrineair or tied to the democratic party in any way. i've run many investigative stories and political stories that have made liberal political figures furious. >> right. but they also -- the people read the editorial page, and you get blamed -- your news department gets blamed to r your editorial department says when they view whether "the times" is a liberal paper or not. >> there's no question that the editorial stance of "the new york times"

do you think that might be why snowden was resistant to approach the new york times or the washington post for that matter? >> 2006 i was. i can guarantee you the new york times would not hold a story because it would help president bush get elected. if that's your implication you're just wrong. >> it is not my implication, it is the implication drawn by edward snowden, the source of this story. >> he might have believed that. >> you clearly don't. you remain a supporter of what the nsa is doing on surveillance, though? >> broadly, yes. >> do you think that the agency and the administration have done a good enough job in explaining to the american people why it is that they're doing what they have done? >> i don't think they have done as good a job as they could, and that's partly as i said, i think the president really blames the agency for the embarrassment that he has suffered and is therefore a little disinclined to give it full support. but broadly speaking, i think the agency has been left to defend itself or the intelligence community has been left to defend itself and they hav

the "new york times" website is a phenomenal website. now they are looking for more video of some of the things that i cover and we have such a great video crew up in new york. any time there's something going on in washington where looks like a news maker or something that will be happening that they can use video, they'll shoot me an e-mail see doug i saw this on your early list. because every morning i send up a list to let them know what they are doing. then they can look at that and say, i really love to have a video clip of that. or can you shoot system video -- some video from this event. do you mind doing it? at first, it was a lot of pressure to do it. then, i don't know how i came up with the idea, i thought about if i can do both at the same time that would be great. the iphone quality at the time was not the video was not as good, it was a little tighter lens. a little too much focal length. i thought about trying to mount another camera on top of my digital camera below. looked around on the internet to try to come up with an

"the new york times" rightly claims that an anti-american group was behind the attack, but "the times" says the group is not afill yalted with al qaeda. the evidence says otherwise. in august 2012, a few weeks before the attack, the pentagon, the pentagon, issued a report that said, "ann swar al sharia has increasingly embodied al qaeda's presence in libya." but "the times" does not mention, does not mention, the pentagon's assessment in its article. an amazing lapse, and a huge mistake. if the paper wants its readers to believe it is covering hard news in a fair way. simply no excuse for not including the pentagon's point of view. "the times" also says, "the attack seems to not be meticulously plans." nonsense. for hours thugs used grenades and automatic weapons to assault the u.s. missions compound in benghazi. militants were seen on video cameras chasing the mission before the attack and they hid themselves until opening fire. they also attacked a cia compound a half mile away using mortars, and "the new york times" says the attack was not planned. are you kidding me? i guess the w

the "new york times" didn't even do a news story. they did an opinion piece. and the washington post, no news story. and one opinion column. >> well, the "new york times," jim, waited six days and did do a story that was in the metro section that led off by saying not that the governor had said something controversial, but republicans have finally found a talking point to use against them. >> i think probably the reason is the "new york times" edit editorial board saying all conservatives should be driven out of the state, isn't that a controversial idea? in a perfect world, perhaps we would like to do something like that. all of these are legitimate stories, but the ones involved in republicans get heavy coverage from cnn and particularly msnbc.

i was looking for, what is missing from the new york times? what is coming next for the new york times and her answer was, cartoons. cartoons. she said political cartoons. maybe cartoon strips. she wasn't sure. but it's almost kind of a retromove as newspapers move away from political cartoons or cartoons in general, to hear her say that. it kind of surprised me. >> we had a conversation with george stevens, jr. about the fact that there used to be 2,000 political cartoonists out there and now they're down to 40. >> george is a part of political history, he knows them well. >> it's hard to believe we'll see cartoon strips in the new york times some day soon. >> she felt very sure of putting political cartoons. i was wondering if you would see political cartoons on the new york times editorial page sometime in the future. sounds like something she's thinking about. >> you can catch john's full interview on "talk to al jazeera" on sunday at 7:0 7:00. let's check in hermella. >> smith and westson blames a decision on new california law that requir

lou: to in the world is the new york times working for? n, another influence of some kind? how can the new york times and by the way, that chairman of the house intelligence committee say exactly what you gentlemen have said. no matter what. so what is in it for them? >> well, what is in it for them is hillary clinton. she has blood on her arms up to her elbows for not being willing to protect the people who are representing as in libya. by definition the counter-terrorism budget never runs out of money because if you take that position you'r responsible for killing americans. hillary clinton kild those americans. they have to kill that story or it is a ploy to become mainstream for 2016. lou: strong words. your thoughts? >> look, what we know is that there are reports coming out of the region, the trials. and now coming into libya, reports confirming that not only these were militia but their links to al qaeda, both regional and international. i think this is an attempt, a preemptive strike to created decoy that that is not really about al

c-span: the new york times. >> guest: right. c-span: how did it progress to the time that you got your column? >> guest: i started out as a general assignment reporter, just covering whatever came up that day, which is a terrific job. and then in -- i guess it was 1978 -- i have a hard time keeping track of it -- i covered the first two years of the koch administration down at city hall. and then when i came back up to work in the office again, i was given a column to write called about new york, which is an old traditional column at the new york times in which you write twice a week -- a reporting column in which you write twice a week about anything you care to about new york city. and i left that column because i became deputy metropolitan editor of the paper. and i left as deputy metropolitan editor because in the space of about two years, i had two children who were quite close in age and i felt that it would be impossible for me to have a full-time job at the paper and still spend as much time as i wanted with my children.

the "new york times" website is phenomenal website. or more video of some of the things that i cover and we have such a great video crewi"÷ÑvÑ<å new york. any time there's something goin3 on in washington where looks like a news maker or something that will be happening that they can use video, they'll shoot- an e-mail see doug i saw this that and say, i really love to have a video clip of that. from this event. do you mind doing it. at first, it was a lot of don't know how i came up with the idea, i thought about if i can do both at the same time, that would be great. the iphone quality at the time was not the video was not as good, it was a little tighter lens. i thought about trying to mount another camera on top of my digital camera below. ¢h[q)net to try to come up with an idea to mount it.s)y i found[yz it. my first was with roger clemons appearing in federal court. from there, i found it's so useful. producers in new york loved it and loved having the video clips.? >> let's look that where roger clemens. >> right. >> we'll show

but the real arrogance to me was the editorial that came out from the "new york times" saying, well, uld be the end. even though this totally conflicts with what three "new york times" reporters had written before. what democrat and republican house intelligence members are saying. even part of the administration has said there could be al qaeda ties. and so i think this is remarkably arrogant by what looks to be a hillary clinton super pac for 2016. >> let me follow up on that. i have the editorial with me as well. "the times" said if mr. rogers has evidence of a direct al qaeda role, make it public. where's the beef? >> my understanding there is an investigation going on. second of all, in the "new york times" story, they basically say who they think is responsible. where's the administration going after the people who are responsible? what are they saying to the members of the family of these americans that died over there? >> hey, steve. i get calls on the radio to this day of people who will almost bark out benghazi as a rallying cry. i wonder, however, does this have legs beyond

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dianne feinstein. >> the new york times. s a conflict of interest between journalists and whistle blowers. take ellsbury and the pentagon papers. he could have gone to jail for 35 years and the new york times gets a pulitzer prize for printing this stuff. thunderstorm a conflict of interest. >> i think what daniel ellsbury was best for the country and that came out around the time water gate was emerging. >> it was the year before. it was 1971. >> the problem with edward snowden is it's kind of a mixed bag here. it's undoubtically some of his leaks about the metta leaks and internal surveillance caught the government red handed in its inability to oversee what the nsa was doing. on the other hand these revelations about some of the nsa foreign spying like spying on foreign governments did significant diplomatic disadvantage to the state department, none of that was necessarily patriotic or helpful and i think it hurts his case for some kind of clemency or plea bargain. >> what do the polls show? >> do the polls show a percent

that newspaper is "the new york times." f you read "the new york times" today, you do not think of it as a christian newspaper. but it was founded by a bible believing presbyterian christian and 18 1850s and augustine st. clair when undercover in these facilities in new york. some you may have heard of james o'keefe, and those who have gone under cover with video cameras to planned parenthood and other facilities and posted these videos on the internet. that has been touted as an innovative use of social media to do investigative reporting. in fact that was being done by "the new york times" in the 1870s. the times passionately opposed abortion in its editorial pages and news coverage, calling it ends in murder and saying that the practice is frank blank and smells to heaven. one abortionist that was exposed by "the new york times" actually ended up spending seven years in prison as a result of those stories. and "the new york times" is not alone in this. between 1825 and 1845, as documented in the original version of this b

thank you very much for stopping by this sunday. >>> up next, the "new york times" under fire for an investigative report on benghazi. but is the criticism politically motivated? >>> the "new york times" is under fire under a 7,000 word piece on benghazi. is the story fair? it says neither al qaeda or any other group played a part on the attack and that it was fueled in large part over anger by an american-made video. but cairo's chief kirkpatrick said this doesn't support the initial claim that the assault was basically spontaneous. >> there's just no chance that this was an al qaeda attack if, by al qaeda, you you mean the organization founded by osama bin laden. >> some leading republicans denounced the piece as inaccurate for all but ruling our out al qaeda's involvement and fox news challenge major portions of the story. >> sources who continue to face threats of losing their jobs and thus remain anonymous sharply challenged the times findings telling folks news, quote, it was a coordinated attack. it was completely false to say anything else. it is completely a lie and, quote, g

peter becker the new york times. >> yes, mr.r. >> hello. >> the question i would like to ask, is there a published comments of the soldiers from the war? is there a published. [indiscernible] of the disabled veterans from the war? is there a public accounting of the unpaid dollars of cost to the united states from the war? has that been published? >> thank you. >> well, certainly there is certainly, you know, the names of of the casualties are back on line, published, certainly there have been studies about what caused the country financially. the wars. so i think that information is certainly out there. part of any calculation of americans as stories that they will make about the cost and value. >> if we talk to dick cheney today about the iraqi war, will we say? >> i think he would feel that is the right decision. saddam hussein was a threat. even though the weapons or not there, he argues that he has the capacity to store weapons programs again. as sanctioned regime at the time. this was still the right decision. now, i think

the piece it turns out was the fourth most email story in "the new york times" that your. that's how much attention and got and how many people needed to hear that story. knocking on heaven's door tells us more about it and katie's story, too, but painting a bigger picture indeed. it is part investigative journalism and asks us a basic question: hal modern medicine and its quest to avoid death at all costs, and i mean that literally, has also created a great deal of suffering along the way. as one viewer wrote, quote, it has become a rallying cry for the 24 million u.s. caregivers tending to elderly parents. adult children who are often overwhelmed and overlooked by the profit driven health care system that puts expensive high-tech treatment before in home health care. knocking on heaven's door has gotten a lot of attention and a lot of people want to hear the story. it's currently a best seller in denver and on another list and it's on "the new york times" top 25 list. as noted in the recent correspondence this isn't bad for one that had def in the title and as i am autho

this week's new york times magazine cover, hillary clinton, the producers decided to depict her like we wanted to show you a little bit of the new york times magazine cover with hillary clinton. we'll be back, with more news, after this. education continues... >> i'm a physicist, and i've gotten a whole new understanding of the meaning of inertia, from trying to get these ideas out... >> flip school, part of our week long in depth series america tonight only on al jazeera america every day, >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. here are tonight's top stories. fiery demonstrations in ukraine, president viktor yanukovych says he's willing to are make concessions but protestors say he needs to resign. targeted all four attacks targeted police and hilt in or near cairo. at least six people died, dozens more were injured. a critical day ahead for negotiations looking to end the bloodshed in syria. representatives from both sides have agreed to meet face to face tomorrow in geneva, it would be the first time they met face to face since the start of the three

that newspaper is "the new york times." now, if you read "the new york times" today, you don't think of it as a christian newspaper but, in fact, it was founded by henry raymond, a bible-believing presbyterian christian in the 1850s. in the 1870s, one of his star investigative reporters, a man named augustus st. claire, went undercover in the abortion facilities of new york. some of you today may have heard of folks like lila rose or james o'keefe who has gone undercover with video cameras into planned parenthood and other facilities and posted these videos on the internet. and that has been touted as an innovative use of social media in modern technologies to do investigative reporters. but, in fact, that was being done by "the new york times" in the 1870s. the times passionately opposed abortion in its both editorial pages and news coverage calling it infant murder and saying the practice is rank and smells to heaven. in fact, one abortionist that was exposed by the new york times actually ended up spending seven years in

shoot you he's a pull potus sensually of economic commentators and it's embarrassing for the new york times i think the people who have big coin now have many hundreds of millions of dollars in bitcoin they should buy the new york times lou. good day to throw proud when out on the curb on his butt and say get a real job you communist you know soviet era loser you know the guy can think and feel whatever he wants the fact is calling and crypto currencies are a revolution and you cannot stop a revolution once the idea you couldn't stop the internet once it was unleashed upon the world the likes of paul krugman by the way i'll tell you what he said in one thousand nine hundred eighty just so you understand his prognostication on bitcoin the growth of the internet was slowed drastically as the flaw in met costs law which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants becomes apparent most people have nothing to say to each other by two thousand and five or so it will become clear that the internet impact on the economy ha

>> and for the "new york times" to have a reporter, a libyan reporter working for the "new york timesand maybe that's never been reported. >> yeah. it leads to other chapters of the story. how about this? the best exclusive reporting on the tragic event, why were you using him? why weren't you utilizing him and say we have exclusive coverage from those on the ground? so that's what's going on. also the fact is really aggravating. they say it's not al-qaeda. it's islamic extremist group which declared, which was founded by this guy who might have been captured a couple days ago who said they're a branch of a militant islamist group who said publicly that the group has backing from al-qaeda. >> brian, we've had republicans and democrats both come out since this report and what they have said is there were terrorist links to al-qaeda. lynn westmoreland, republican from the great state of georgia, was on our program a couple of days ago, i believe on monday -- and he said that the "new york times" put this story out simply to lay the groundwork for hillary clinton to run for president so

due think the "new york times" times" -- do you think the "new york times" is striaing to say this is the sun and we all revolve around hillary clinton and do you think she might not run? >> no, i think it is closer to the first one. they basically saying she is the center of the universe. it is a way for her to keep an eye on bill. that may be the other thing going on. >> the moon is known as being a cold, aloof place. at least there is no evidence of white water on the moon. this could be a good thing for her. >> it looks like something from the 80s that went wrong like a mad ball or like an uglier version of a garbage pale kid. he grew this face on his shoulder, like the chucky doll. it looked like everything bad from the 80sin that picture. "the last star fighter" was the background. >> sounds fantastic. gavin, you have been in magazines for a longtime. a cover like this, does it help sell the paper? is everybody going to get into it? or is this better than one of the women's magazines no doubt will do cover stories where she is air brushed and look fantastic. >> she is so hideous

david poeg on the right, "new york times." both stepped down recently. farhad stepped in at the wall street journal. but who would replace david poeg at the times? believe it or not. farhad again, he left to join "the new york times," the two biggest openings in his field and takes both of them. as one person on twitter said, all of your tech columns belong to farhad. this must have been an incredibly difficult decision to leave a very great position for another very great position. >> yeah, i described it on linked in where i wrote about this, as choosing between too delicious pieces of cake. you can't really choose wrong in this but i've been a fan of the "new york times" for forever, been getting it since i was a teenager and really wanted to work there. >> i've known you a while, you're a really nice guy. >> thanks. >> i can imagine the pressure of walking into the editor at the wall street journal and saying, i've worked here what, six weeks -- >> yeah. >> tell me about that. that must have been awful. >> it was awful. and particularly because the sh

"the new york times" wrote on twitter a moment ago. cable news should turn all weekend programming to emotional apologies and open that up to nonhosts and make for good tv he said. i don't know if that would make for that good tv or not. sally, would you watch? >> well, i actually would love to see television. i do think there's something worth noting here between three cable networks and their audiences which is that i'm fascinated that the right, which has sort of argued that politico correctness is this problem and railed against it and complained any time people want to critique coverage on fox or elsewhere as racially insensitive and yet they're the first people to grab the mantel in this case. i hope again we can all step back, learn a larger lesson that it's important for us all to be sensitive on these issues across channels and stop saying only one side should be held accountable. that's immature and unhelpful. >> a good place for us to pause. thank you so much for joining us. we have more in a moment. when we come back, would

she writes in the new york times as tempest, gorgeous words flow out.he contrary story so vivid it's as if you had a state of the art blue ray player stuck into your brain, projecting image after image that sears itself into your consciousness. how do you like that? [laughter] that is what you said. you can catch her show in brooklyn through january 19. here is a look at the opening sequence. days, the myths with the stories we use to explain ourselves. how can we explain the way we hate ourselves? the things we have made ourselves into? the way we break ourselves into the way we overcomplicate ourselves. we are still mystical. we are still permanently trapped somewhere between the heroic and the pitiful. has made is so monstrous. it feels like we have forgotten that we are much more than the sum of all of these things. where theskies rise old men sit in their desolate and friendless. the young man spits and inside -- outside they are reckless. these are our lessons. >> so many questions. i'm pleased to have you here. >> i'm pleased to be here. >> tell

. >> that controversial "new york times" report on benghazi comes under fire under conservatives and politicians. is it fair to say the paper was trying to help rilly? >>> plus, robin roberts tells the world she's gay and barely cause aes ripple. is this sort of announcement old news? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. >>> even in cable news, something hay ought to be off limits, like, say, babies. but for melissa harris-perry, mitt romney's family was such an object that it seemed just fine to make fun of his adopted grandson who is african-american. >> my goal is that in 2014 by the end of the year will be the wedding between karen romney and northwest. can you imagine mitt romney and kanye west as in-laws? >> joining us now, lauren ashburn. fox news contributor and editor at large at hot air and kelly goff. why did that segment with melissa harris-perry and her team strike such a nerve? >> i think many people thought it was offensive, i heard the words zealot. people who thought here is an african-american woman. and this is also a woman who was raised or born into a mormon

hearing calls for clemency for edward snowden, but given the reach and the readership of the "new york timesuardian" they may be the loudest voices to weigh in on his behalf. president obama spending some time on the putting green during his vacation from washington, d.c. when he returns to the nation's capital, he may find the ground shifting on a top security issue. what to do about nsa leaker edward snowden, seen here defending his disclosures in a christmas day message. >> the conversation occurring today will determine the amount of trust we can place both in the technology that surrounds us and the government that regulates it. >> reporter: in an editorial published today, the "new york times" is joining a growing chorus pushing for clemency for snowden, suggesting he was clearly justified in leaking information about tactics by the nation's spy agency and urging obama to allow him to return home from his temporary asylum in russia. mr. obama may also hear that message from some in the intelligence community. the nsa investigator heading a task force on the leaks suggested in an interv

also with us right now is michael powell who covered the story for "the new york times." me ask you, michael powell, thank you for joining us from "the new york times." this story you ran was in october, and it's only now, given the fact that it's january and after all the stories about the bridge closing and the mayhem behind it, if you will, it fits. tell me what you think it tells you in itself about what happened. does it have a story of itself, or does it need to be appended to the larger bridge story? >> well, or you could argue that the bridge story is part of this long -- this long kind of pattern of real hardball politics by the governor. and he has, you know, in any number of ways kind of played retribution politics. >> well, if you look at it in just cartoon terms, a governor's person gets indicted for 43 counts. he sends in his attorney general or his attorney general jumps in, frees the person from indictment, exonerated them, and then goes after the people who went after them in the first place and fires all them. it is pretty complete a story here of politic

joining us now from new york, a today show contribute for and former "new york times" supporter.a, i know you're a fan of michelle obama, but isn't the tone of some of this a little over the top? >> howie, she has turned 50, this is a huge milestone, and let's face it, michelle obama attracts eyeballs. if you want to sell papers, if you want to put people on your site, if you put michelle obama on your site, looking fabulous at 50 and you're going to move products. >> maybe that's why everyone's doing it. >> absolutely. >> the first lady is popular, she's personal, she's a great mom. not taking anything away from her, but the tone here of many who seem celebratory. >> there's plenty to say about michelle obama, it's such an incomplete picture to be relentlessly fawning over here. she's not just an elected official, she's an important political figure. you can take issue with her policy agenda which is pretty light for someone with her influence. >> she gave a speech about encouraging low income students to go to college. even that was pushed aside from all of those -- >> she's a

. >> some democrats are facing ad assaults so fierce that "the new york times" warns it could tip the ship. and breaking tonight, the senate intelligence committee today releasing a scathing report on the terror attack in benghazi. and the bipartisan report points the finger of blame directly at hillary clinton's state department for the failures leading up to the death of four americans. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone, a busy night tonight. the report is out and the findings are clear. a 15-month report determines not only was al-qaeda behind the attacks contrary to what the white house and "the new york times" told the world but that it could and should have been prevented. the report concludes as follows, this is a quote. the failures of benghazi can be summed up this way, the americans serving in libya were vulnerable, the state department knew they were vulnerable and no one in the state department did anything about it. the intelligence committee does not collect threats in dangerous places so it can be ignored by senior decision-makers. yet the intelligence warnings in th

now we go back to that "new york times" magazine cover. look at that. when we saw it, we knew we needed to give you a chance to have a caption contest for friday. tweet us your best and most creative captions using the hash tag #waytooearly. >>> we move on to mike huck abeechlt he certainly expressed interest in making another run for president saying his record as governor of arkansas proves he can bring washington together. he'll have some work to do to win over critics though because following yesterday's comments about the gop's approach to woo back female voters, republicans are concerned. >> the republicans don't have a war on women. they have a war for women. for them to be empowered, to be something other than victims of their gender. if the democrats want to insult the women of america by making them believe that they are helpless without uncle sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. let u

the detail is exquisite, you can make out the "new york times." phenomenon. >> stephen: you can see the fork and knife. >> and see the "new york times"? he read the "new york times." >> stephen: everybody's got their flaws. (laughter) >> stephen: here's my real problem with you. it's bad enough you're being a critic but you're also trying to be some kind of critical sleuth. look at this next painting here. you have looked at some of his paintings and you've said you detect a preference for men over women in his subjects and you're projecting that in the possibility of homoerotic undertones in his work. >> well, it's true he did paint men more than women. he was a figure painter who favored men and that's unusual because most figure painters paint women. picasso, for instance, you know picasso painted women. >> stephen: and put too many of these on. (laughter) >> matisse, women. gaugin, women. >> stephen: so he painted a lot of guys -- so he painted a lot of guys you're saying it's something that might have gay tendencys? you're saying he might be h

we have extended reporters' visas. >> in the case of the new york times? >> yeah. new applications have to be handled according to the rules and the laws according to due process. >> and the status of bloomberg? >> it is still operating in china. >> talk about the pacific region that you inhabit. there have been flashpoints there. how does china see its responsibility and its leadership within the region of its own presence in the pacific? >> we do not see ourselves as a leader in the region. rather we see ourselves as one of the important parts in the region. we know that regional stability will require the efforts of everybody to work with neighbors for regional prosperity. it requires the efforts of everyone. >> japan, obviously you have serious problems with the prime minister of japan going to a kind of site there. in a sense, you considered it an affront to china. how would you characterize that? >> i think the prime minister of japan -- he has challenge the outcome of [indiscernible] he went. they have 14 war criminals there. these criminals were tried and c

>> this is one of those things where the new york times had a man of the year, like times mazine, it hero, and there alternately lobbying him to bring him home. he is a national hero, being wasted in moscow. he deserves a better life, one of a national hero. what you have here is the new york tires basically coming down weight to the left a barack obama. melissa: is it fair to include the fact that a financially benefited quite a bit from him and his reporting and sold a whole lot of papers. he provided a lot of copy. i mean, is that a fair connection to make? >> newspapers always love lakers. we have not seen tested, someone in the new york times provides a massive leak. would they be a hero? i don't think so. melissa: what do you think is the reaction? >> and ideological hero because these people have never liked a war on terrorism, never liked their nation's intelligence agency. still stuck in the 1970's about whether the cia was somehow more evil than the soviet union. melissa: to you think they are providing cover? do you think they're out there setting up a test plan and saying

kelly file" with megyn kelly. >>> well, it is 11 months to the 2014 mid-term elections, but "a new york timesserious concerns for democratic incumbents. attack ads hitting them early and often for supporting obama. >> it is time to be honest, obamacare doesn't work. >> tell congressman barber, obamacare is hurting arizona families. >> tell kay hagan obamacare is hurting people. >> call congressman peters and tell him obamacare is not working. it is hurting michigan families. >> joining us now, joe trippi, former presidential manager for howard dean, he has worked on numerous campaigns and is a fox contributor, so the ads are growing, which largely have gone unanswered. >> i think they're right, i don't think they're going to get answered. this is 11 months out. and i think when you're -- look, these ads are goining to drive these candidates' numbers down, they will hurt them unfavorably. and probably hurt them in their horse race numbers, the head to head numbers against a republican challenger. but the mistake here when you're being outspent like this, early, 11 months, first of all this mea

. >> a scandal in the christie administration has national implications, as the "new york times" is labeling the governor of new jersey a bully. laura ingraham and i will break it down. >> maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of a transitional living fund. >> as the democratic party ramps up nanny state strategy, we will analyze the real story about why some americans are poor. >> i understand. and i don't care. >> with afghanistan tottering, the movie lone survivor opens wide tomorrow. we will talk with the man who wrote the book, navy seal marcus latrel. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. happy 50th birthday war on poverty. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. 50 years ago president linden johnson announced that america would wage intense war to lift americans out of poverty. johnson's visitation fair chance to develop their talents in order to make a good living. it was a noble idea. extensive analysis by the foundation says the war on poverty ha

is a very positive in many ways. >> but one of the issues that's raised in this piece in the "new york times is this. this may represent the times writes hillary clinton's biggest challenge for a hypothetical 2016 campaign. how it can clinton who is 66 make american voters think about anything other than her fraught political path and present herself as someone hungry to serve rather than someone entitled to office? >> this is a central question for her. she has this sort of dysfunctional dynastic family. but the question is,ing to what degree is she in touch with what's going on in her party now. when you think about where the excitement and energy is at the democratic base it's around be people like elizabeth warren and economic populism and elizabeth warren kind of created this prairie fire of excitement. you saw that with deblasio. the clintons have never really stood for economic populism. there are a lot of people out there, democrats, ordinary democrats angry at wall street, angry that people were not criminally prosecuted, angry with economic stagnation. these have not been central c