. >> how many years have been with "newsweek"? >> 15 years. >> who is the first person that ask you to write about race? >> that would actually be college. i began writing professionally when i was 18, but i began college when i was 17. before i got my job the "chicago sun-times, " my first real writing job, i was editing and publication at my university in chicago. we are talking about the late 1960's and early 1970's, a time when race was very much an issue. we were dealing with the assassination of one of the leaders of the black panther party, which was big news in chicago. we were dealing with the aftermath of the king assassination and all of these kinds of issues. we were dealing with riots which tore up the community in which i grew up, both in 1966 and in 1968. my riding about race at that time came out of what was the big story of the age, which happened to coincide with my coming-of-age. >> exactly where in chicago did you grow up? >> i grew up on the west side up chicago in a housing project. last week i was in califor

bahari, a native'reian, has worked for "newsweek" in tehran since 1998. he's been living there with his elderly mother. he's also made several documentary films andd is a playwright. joining me now john meacham, the editor of "newsweek" magazine, and i'm pleased to have him on this broadcast to talk about this case and what is taking place. welcome. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: how did we get here? why was he arrested? what do you know about this? and what is taking place in order to get him out? >> well, as you say, the 21st of june, so nine days after the election, he was picked up, taken to prison, had not been granted access to a lawyer, as you said, no formal charges, given the... what we believe to be forced confession over thehe weekend where he said that the western media was, in fact, try to foment a revolution in iran, a statement that came in a forced press conference after six weeks of captivity, six weeks. >> rose: and no contact with the outside world in any way. no lawyers? >> no lawyers, four calls home to his mother on whom he's the sole s

"newsweek" and mr.hari's family and supporters have now made the difficult decision to take their efforts to have him freed from prison public. they are hoping what they have not been able to accomplish through back channel efforts and client diplomacy might be accomplished if enough people know about this and are moved to speak out to free bahari. joining us now is mr. bahari's wife. she joins us from london. thanks very much for agreeing to talk with us. >> thank you. >> first of all, i don't know you and i hope you don't mind me asking because it is personal. do i want to ask just how you are doing, how you and your family are holding up through all of this. >> holding up through all of this. >> it's a very difficult time, one i could never have imagined would ever be like this, ever. i'm 6 1/2 months pregnant and so i just have to keep positive always and it's such a struggle to remain always with hopes and to get through this time. >> have you been able to be in touch with maziar at all or has anyb

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the early look at some of the covers of "time" and "newsweek." all putting out special ed digs this week. we talk to deb king in boston. deb feyerick is live outside of hyannis port. wasting no time to get out the schedule of events and finding ways to privately mourn and for the public to remember ted kennedy. >> it's a day he'll continue to be honored. it was a very long night for

when "newsweek," your -- "newsweek" put them on the cover with that big comeback picture, he's back, was that good editorial judgment there? >> i think that's right. f. scott fitzgerald said there are no second acts in american lives. he was wrong. there are third and fourth acts. that was nixon's third and fourth act. we're actually quite tolerant as a people which is why the discussion about obama earlier will resolve itself. and remember, nixon was plotted this out. he was very strategic. he wrote 10 books in his retirement and he was attacking the people that -- for being tolerant, right? he was attacking reagan for making overtures to gorbachev and he was wrong about that but we forgave him anyway. chris: only a few presidents in our history are truly interesting. you want to know more about them even if you doesn't like them. he's one of them. is that why people kept listening and buying books? >> yes. i think that's part of it. nixon, though, he was president during the most sort of tumultuous period of our lives. speaking of you and me personally in this group. are you in in

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earlier today, i spoke with one of the authors the article, "newsweek" investigative correspondent mark hosenbal, and asked about what was in the previously classified document. >> the report is going to reveal for the first time the the c.i.a. conducted what are described as mock execution of some of the high-valued detainees, more than one from the sound of things. and in the case of one detainee that we know about, somebody named abdel-rahman al nashiri, an alleged architect of the uss cole bombing, the report alleged at some point c.i.a. interrogator brandished a gun in front of this guy in an effort to frighten him and took a power drill in front of him and turn turned it on and went bzzz, implying they were going to use it on him. >> glor: does this report make an investigation by attorney general holder more likely? >> attorney general holder in an interview with some of my colleagues at "newsweek" and other statements for the last two or three months has been making pretty strong hints he does want to conduct a criminal investigation of whether officials at the c.i.a. exceeded j

"newsweek" put out a special commemorative edition. an absolutely beautiful edition. you guys turned it around in 10, 15 hours. it tells the remarkable story of this man, these brothers, this family. >> heroic family in the greek sense of the word. biden pointed out last night, it goes on, there was a particularly dramatic chapter and it is remarkable that the last brother did become the first as, you mo, president kennedy gave senator kennedy -- not senator kennedy then, a cigarette box that would was inscribed, the last shall be first. >> inauguration day 1961 and here we are in 2009. look back. many are saying that in fact happened. last night several people said jfk inspired america. bobby challenged america. teddy changed america. one of ted kennedy's good friends, mike barnicle, had this to subway the senator earlier this week. and i love this. i want to read it. he carried his cross through all of the decades. carried it with honor and nobility. he heard every slur, each slander. lost only his quest for the oval office and emerged from defeat with a deeper know

michael isikof for "newsweek" magazine has a piece up with his colleague at "newsweek".com right now which is the most advanced reporting i've seen on this subject by far. i'm sure we'll have plenty more to talk about this monday after it comes out if, it comes out, mike. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> the president today stopped keeping his cards quite so close to the vest about his plans for health care. in fact, judging by the white house statement today, the president is playing a game that looks a lot less like poker and a lot more like 52-card pickup. this is turning into a big mess. that's next. applebee's 2 for $20! real food at the right price! this is the primo stuff. one appetizer and two premium entrees. just twenty bucks-every day. genuine food. generous portions. genius price. 2 for $20! only at applebee's. what's in it for me? i'm not looking for a bailout, just a good paying job. that's why i like this clean energy idea. now that works for our whole family. for the kids, a better environment. for my wife, who commutes, no more gettin' jerked around on gas pri

michael isikof for "newsweek" magazine has a piece up with his colleague at "newsweek".com right now which is the most advanced reporting i've seen on this subject by far. i'm sure we'll have plenty more to talk about this monday after it comes out if, it comes out, mike. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> the president today stopped keeping his cards quite so close to the vest about his plans for health care. in fact, judging by the white house statement today, the president is playing a game that looks a lot less like poker and a lot more like 52-card pickup. this is turning into a big mess. that's next. introducing the all new chevy equinox. with an epa estimated 32 miles per gallon. and up to 600 miles between fill ups. it's the most fuel efficient crossover on the highway. better than honda cr-v, toyota rav4 and even the ford escape hybrid. the all new chevy equinox. hi, y i help you? yes, i hear progressive has lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes!

dan gross senior editor at "newsweek" magazine. great thanks. >> thank you. >> you know what they say about rugby players. they eat their dead. and their mascots apparently. some scrum. speaking of scrum, there's nothing left of this man but his mustache after secretary of state clinton got done with him. 13 words that ended the career of ex-ambassador john bolton, best persons, next here on "countdown." taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. when morning comes in the middle of the night... rooster crow. ...it affects your entire day. to get a good night's sleep, try 2-layer ambien cr. the first layer dissolves quickly to help you fall asleep. and unlike other sleep aids, a second dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep. when taking ambien cr, don't drive or operate machinery. sleepwalking, and eating or driving while not fully awake with memory loss for the event as well as abnormal behaviors such as being more outgoing or aggressive than normal, c

york times" columnist david brooks, anchor of cnn's "street signs" erin burnett, and editor of "newsweek" magazine, jon meacham. but first general james jones, welcome back. >> thank you, sir. >> north korea, the two american journalists back home. this was the scene in los angeles on wednesday. former president bill clinton accompanying the two journalists back home. he has since come back east and you have been able to fully debrief him. what can you say you have now learned about north korea and specifically kim jong-il? >> well, i think that, first of all, i want to emphasize this was a private mission, and we can get into that if you'd like, but this was a private mission where -- in which there were no official or unofficial messages sent by this government or by president obama. so, we celebrate the fact that we've had this great reunion and -- but we can say that -- we can also report that the president did -- former president did spend time with the korean leader, that he appeared to be in control of his government and his -- he sounded very -- very reasoned in terms of his conv

anchor of krns's street signs, erin burnett, and editor of newsweek magazine, john meacham. >> first, general james jones, welcome back to "meet the press". >> thank you. >> this was the scene played out in los angeles. former president bill clinton accompanying the two women back home. what can you say about north korea and more specifically about kim jong-il. >> well, this was a private mess mission and we can get more into that if you'd like but it was a private mission in which there was no official or unofficial messages sent by president obama. so we celebrate the fact that we've had this great reunion but we can say that we can also report that the president -- the former president did spend time with the korean leader, that he appeared to be in control of the government and he sounded very reasoned in terms of his conversations. his health is a big issue, but obviously we didn't have any time to make an assessment there. but he seemed in control of his faculties and the president -- the former president was able to engage him on the number of subjects. you know, he had a very

. >> "newsweek" declares that the recession is over. is it?n and gown meet at the white house. >> two gentleman agreed to disagree on a particular issue. i do not think we spent a lot of time dwelling on the past, and we spent a lot of time focusing on the future. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> the most recent "wall street journal"-nbc news poll suggests that despite his best rhetorical efforts, support for president obama's case for health care reform is slipping, especially among those who have health insurance. and another poll reveals that his ability to frame the debate on his own terms is also waning. advertisements like this one do not help his case. >> good and up with government bureaucrats taking away your insurance, getting between you and your doctor. >> nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. [applause] i am tired of hearing that. if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health careplae plan. these folks need to stop scaring everybody. >> in "the

eric holder at a flattering piece in newsweek which led his people at the cia read as here, indictments. here comes something against us. that's regrettable, i think selected a presstek favorites, andrea question mark she just mentioned dick cheney. is the fact that -- well is the treatment that he's getting in the press, does it suggest that many in the media are still eager to punch back him after the bush administration? >> absolutely. that's the entire point of this investigation. ultimately they want cheney's head. they would love to have nothing more than cheney and rumsfeld haldane and interrogated. i think this is bad politics and bad policy. you know, going from declaring a war on terror cannot it work on the cia, obama loses one. i think every president deserves a vacation. but they deserve a vacation, but this is not the week to take it. he has lost patrol of the message on the cia. he lost control of the deficit. he has us control the healthcare debate, and the story, right now, is there going to lose this one. >> you think the president wants responsibility for this? every

howard fineman, thanks. >>> for more we'll turn to john alter senior editor at "newsweek" magazine. good evening. >> hi, keith. >> do we know what the president is doing? do you have a better idea than what you or howard does? >> i think he's undergoing message confusion to put it politely. to my mind, the problem is that he hasn't gotten to the core moral argument. he tried to do it when he was on that call with religious leaders yesterday and tried to say it was a moral imperative but he hasn't closed that sale with the american people, in fact, hasn't even begun that sale and, instead everybody is talking about public options and costs and this and that and that focusing on the fact that this bill would end discrimination against sick people or people who have been sick, might be sick in the future and that it really is if you look at it in principle, it's a combination of the social security act and the civil rights act. and it's just not being sold that way and so people aren't buying right now. >> yeah, even if you're president you can only eat one desert at a time. you have t

lead story in "newsweek." what do you make of it?ant things that happened in astronomy for decades because it is going to answer one question. how many cousins of earths are there out there? how many plan receipts out there in the universe that are something like the earth. >> larry: do you think they may be inhabitable? >> you don't know. all you know is they are the right size, right place, they could be. >> larry: james, do you salute this? >> you know, i do sometimes when you look for something that could be right under your nose. i'm not saying that ufos are of extraterrestrial origin but through the process of elimination doesn't appear to be -- excuse me, explanation a lot of times. >> larry: nick, what's the british government saying about this? does it say that there are, there are, extraterrestrials? >> no. the position of the british government is that it remains open-minded about the possibilities. it looked at the ufo phenomenon for several decades. we found no absolute proof positive of any extraterrestrial visitation.

dan gross senior editor at "newsweek" magazine.nks. >> thank you. >> you know what they say about rugby players. they eat their dead. and their mascots apparently. some scrum. speaking of scrum, there's nothing left of this man but his mustache after secretary of state clinton got done with him. 13 words that ended the career of ex-ambassador john bolton, best persons, next here on "countdown." taking its rightful place in a long line of amazing performance machines. this is the new e-coupe. this is mercedes-benz. >>> best in a moment and the best 13 word joke by a politician in years. first on this date in 1926 stanley victor freeberg was born in los angeles. for 65 years he has been one of the nation's comedic treasures from working as a voice actor just out of high school to parodying popular music and culture to recording "the united states of america" to revolutionizing american advertising he has basically done first and best what everybody else has yet to do or done in pale imitation of him. so happy birthday, stan freeberg

and you will get arrested. >> larry: have you seen this week's "newsweek"? nasa is looking for aliens. the british government unleased more of their confidential ufo files. are we closer than ever than confirm xrag terrestrial life? joining us with the latest news about space is dr. seth. a skeptic and senior astronomer. and author of "confessions of an alien hunter." in san francisco, james spock, filmmaker, ufo researcher. his new documentary, i know what i saw, premieres october 5 on the history channel. in london, nick pope. used to run the brisht government's ufo project. we have to take a quick break and we will be right back. >> spaceship documenting close encounters and mysterious incidents. the u.k. national archives released another batch of the government's x-files. listing more than 800 ufo sightings reported between 1993 and 1996. the 14 new files debunks other incidents but also show some sightings are just plain strange. and unexplained. editors are s. [ male announcer ] best cleanser, essence magazine. [ female announcer ] good housekeeping r

i know i did. >> the president responding to last week's cover of "newsweek," the editor of "newsweeker. jon meacham, i'm wondering, when rush limbaugh went to sepac, got up on stage jumping up and down, obama responded to him, boom, his ratings exploded, same thing happens. you are the rush limbaugh of the publishing world. he mentions your name and makes things fly off the rack. >> do we get the same numbers? i could probably live with that. i don't know when the last time president obama was in the grocery store to see a magazine but i thought that was great and i appreciated his taking note of it, an interesting argument. he went on to say that he thought we were beginning to see the end, and i think that was, that's essentially our argument. we did not have to go back to press because of a rush on the news stands, sorry to report but we stand ready at any time. >> so actually, your cover story was at least the sentiment seemed to be echoed by his treasury secretary. >> yes. >> and larry summers this past weekend on the sunday show telling us the worst is over. >> one hopes. it se

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can we just showed the "newsweek" cover? he was just -- can you remember the "newsweek" cover? obviously, all of these things are crazy, so keep mocking. >> angry mobs, protests, and premeditated rallies. wait a minute. was that not the problem when bush was president? glenn: you know, america, we have a shortage of honesty in this country, and that is why i try to be as honest with you as a possibly can be. i do have an agenda. the agenda is the truth as i see it. right or wrong, that is what i try to do. i want you to know that i am not a journalist. i am a conservative. i am much more libertarian. i have voted republican, but republicans have betrayed everything i believe in. now, that is the way it is with me, but, unfortunately, you do not get people in this country to say "the truth as i understand it." there is a lot of propaganda going around our country right now, and it seems to me that they do not want you to speak out. they have gone so far to call the people showing up, both çdemocrats and republicans,ç y call them angry mobs. take a look at this released by the

he's a "newsweek" reporter and an awarding wing documentary filmmaker. he was arrested in tehran on june 21st. in the six weeks since then, he's had no access to a lawyer and he has not been able to see him family. over the weekend he, quote, confessed, unquote, saying western media helped cause the chaos after ahmadinejad's disputed election. it is a lie. he knows it's a lie, and the iranian government knows it's a lie. after all, it's a lie that they, those in power in iran, forced him to speak. that's what a show trial is all about. it's a phrase usually connected with josef stalin, the ruthless soviet dictator. he tried 50 odd men in mass trials for crimes against the state. sound familiar? in fact, the similarities between the soviet trials of 70 years ago and the iranian trials of today is striking. large rooms filled with row upon row upon row of men. at the front, full rows of the accused. many looking wary, downtrodden and many in the front former key government officials who have built a revolutionary regime, only now to see it put them on tria

joining me from washington a frequent guest on this show, a "newsweek" investigative correspondent iveral subjects. mark, good afternoon. >> hello. how are you doing? >> fabulous. you covered this administration as much as anyone. >> i covered these events you are talking about. >> as well. does the revelation by tom ridge that he was pressured politically to manipulate the terror threat level, does that surprise you? >> not at all, really. i certainly suspected things like this. i think we all suspected things like this for quite some period of time. >> did you like a lot of us americans not want to believe it even when you suspected it? >> no. i kind of believed it. >> did you really? >> yeah. >> what was leading you to believe that these guys would be capable of doing something like this, which seems on its face to be, well, a distortion of the froout, right? >> i remember and your piece alluded to this, what happened the day after john kerry's nominating convention, they announced this big terror arrest in england and raised the terror threat level. that looked kind of political.

. >> much to talk about with our own john nin alter, senior editor of "newsweek" magazine. thanks for coming in. >> thank you have that scare, that evidence at that town hall meeting and others about the health care plan negotiated by congress or fear and anger about the man who won the presidential election november, last, and is there an odd sense we could have been looking at these videos at something that might have came from a mccain/palin rally? >> right on the edge there of advocating violence, or other kinds of things. there is a kind of crack in the common sense of america right now. you're starting to see that. but in some ways this is. >> for passage of the bill, because if we didn't hear about all this and the anger and wackiness of some of these town meetings, we might actually confuse what's going on there with american public opinion, and we're now at a point in our political die loeg dialogue where we're beyond that. in some ways the backlash has not set in against these town meetings and the kind of behavior we're seeing and it won't have the affect of dera

he is a "newsweek" reporter and an award winning documentary filmmaker. he appeared's guest on this program. he was arrested in tehran on june 21st. in the six weeks since then, he has had no access to a lawyer and he is not being able to see his family. has not been able to see his family. and over the weekend, he quote confessed unquote saying western media helped cause the chaos after ahmadinejad's disputed election. it is a lie. he obviously knows it's a lie, and the iranian government knows it's a lie. after all, it's a lie that they, those in power in iran, forced him to speak, and that is what a show trial is all about. it is a phrase usually connected with joseph stalin, the ruthless soviet dictator. in the late 1930s, stalin tried 50 odd men in mass trials for crimes against the state. sound familiar? in fact, the similarities between the soviet trials of 70 years ago and the iranian trials of today is striking. large rooms filled with row upon row upon row of men, in the front, full of rows of the accused, many looking weary, downtrodden, many i

there's several reporters in iran that are being held, including one for "newsweek." who knows? it's certainly a win-win for everybody today. >> joe, i got a question for you. >> yeah? >> when can we get you back? we love having you on, joe. >> it's great. i just wander around here aimlessly all day. so any time you want me back, i would love to be on. >> mika will book you on the spot. apparently david shuster has been watching. >> i will do it. it's great to be here. >> you can see "morning joe" every day here on msnbc. we're going to talk more about that breaking news, those two american journalists in north korea freed after a visit from former president bill clinton. es >>> welcome back. we're following big breaking news out of north korea where the a.p. just confirming that the two american journalists there sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, euna lee and laura ling are free. this after a visit from former president bill clinton, he has met with kim jong-il among others and north korea accused them of spying and illegally entering the country. word is now they have been

take a look at the cover of "newsweek" magazine. it's right there. the recession is over! it's on the cover! well, i have been waiting for a conservative organ like newsweek to come out and say it, because we have all been thinking it. i could hear the collective cheer from the people standing in the unemployment lines, and they just went home. i mean, they're like, the storm is over, you know. no 9.5% unemployment to see here. keep moving, people. everything is great. never mind that the first 12 months of the u.s. recession saw the economy shah ink more than twice as much as previously estimated. let the healing begin. let's have a butdz a bud lite together at a really big picnic table. peter sheehan is ear, author of acrash-proof, how to profit from the coming economic collapse." i don't know where to begin, peter. >> well, glenn, the recession might be coming to an end. the problem is the depression is just getting started. i have been saying this on the aid yo show for a while, and america, i need you to hear this clearly. what is come something a temporary good time,

with newsweek i am writing for a general educated audience. in my weekly catholic prass column i am writing for particularly catholic audience in have very short 700 word format. when i read at thousand page biography of john paul the second i am writing for the world, literally. and i think you just have to kind of keep that in the back of your mind when you are doing it. it is interesting to me that there have been inquiries about faith, reason, and the war against the jihadism which i wrote as an explicitly american book. i had no interest or desire having this book appear abroad. i wanted to talk to my fellow americans about a certain set of problems. yet by the time it's through that book will probably be in three or four different languages. >> finally you said in napping. what other ways to you recharge your batteries are unwind? >> to quote m friend joe epstei the great essayist, i have the disease. the disease is sports. i spend an awful lot of time watching primarily men throw, kick, catch, hit objects in the fall. so that is, you kn

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. >> let's turn to dan gross, senior editor at "newsweek" magazine.for your time, dan. >> good to be here. >> why does mr. mccain and the right worry so much about incurring this debt now when its purpose is, even if it's a failed idea the idea is economic recovery, they, themselves, approved more than a trillion in tax cuts under mr. bush for rich people. >> well, all of this is in the rem of theology. in their world view government spending cannot stimulate the economy. the rnc chairman michael steele has said that. their politicians have said that over and over. they think the only thing that works aside from low interest rates is tax cuts. they went down on record opposing the stimulus package. not a single republican voted for it. so they are heavily invested in its failure. >> there are obviously differences about this cash for clunkers program and how much it is really goosing sales. but car sales are up so if you're the mccain economic advisor what's the strategy to be the guy who tries to block the cash for clunkers program when it seems to p

according to "newsweek," one detainee was threatened with a gun and power drill during the course of cia interrogation. magazine sources also say the report details a mock execution staged in the room next to it, where a gunshot was fired to make the suspect believe another prisoner had been killed. >>> fed chief ben bernanke saying prospects for a return to growth in the near term appear good. he warned any recovery would be likely slow with high unemployment. >>> sales of existing homes rose 7.2% in july. it was the fourth straight monthly increase and the strongest month since august 2007. that took stocks to new highs, dow gaining 155, the nasdaq 9505. >>> looking to afghanistan, president obama had nothing but praise for this week's presidential election there. >> we knew that the taliban would try to derail this election yet even in the face of this brutality, millions of afghans exercised the right to choose their leaders and determine their own destiny. and i watched the election i was struck by their courage in the face of intimidation and their dignity in the face of disord