host: it's the cover of a recent newsweek cover story. one of the quotes from that story, conspiracy theories have been woven into society since the constitution. it has now crossed a threshold experts say with delusions, fiction, and are now creating risks. what has changed in this country and the world that has made these theories more dangerous these days? guest: it's a lot of things. you have a much more rapid source of communication in the internet. you create environments where people can go in and get this endless feedback loop where the only information they're getting is from people they agree with. so people who believe 9/11 was an inside job go to sites led by people who believe 9/11 was an inside job. and they talk amongst themselves where there's nobody to challenge it, nobody to disagree with them. so when you do that, you dismiss the other facts. but when you have that kind of information spreading faster, you end up with blocks of people who believe something, agenda 21. agenda 21 is very big among folks, like, for example

johnson and a contributing for newsweek magazine. he wrote the upcoming story entitled "pulp fiction" thank you for being with us. according to your newsweek piece, this guy has been making things up for a long time now. you first wrote about his fabrication back in 1983. i didn't know about this story. how did he get away with it for so long? >> i think that's a very important question here. in 1983, he wrote a book about barbara hutton claiming he had spent many trips and hours with her and she had given him her personal notebooks. the problem was he had no tape recordings, couldn't describe her room at the beverly wilshire hotel. carry grant and other people told me things were not true. he had made-up material, material that came from another author who told me he had made up his stories about it. and i was astonished that he we want on to publish all of these additional books, the last four of them through the books division of cbs, you know, a mostly res spectable corporation. >> didn't people get angry? people you spoke to and

in china and in russia it follows a series of reports earlier this year it was published by the newsweek magazine and according to that magazine it outlined a number of cases where israel head eavesdropped and spied on the united states in one reported talks about any israeli spy who hid in an aide to act in a hotel room of the vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the americans later kept this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty party at the same time the magazine quotes american intelligence officials who say that israel's it's been knowledge against the united states has now crossed all red lines certainly there are a lot of questions that are being asked and will be asked these are two countries that are supposed to be firm friends and it's a very wrong message to the united states if indeed israel is spying on her close ally of the conflict in gaza spark numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe they were many against the israeli operation protesters in berlin ways palestinian flags and banners denouncing the civilian deaths hundreds also governor of t

. >> guest: i grew up reading about "the new york times" and "newsweek" and i grew up in the car on the way to school my mother had npr on and that's how i learned about the clintons. .. >> >> guest: i will not get into exactly but it is possible. i spoke to a lot of people and this is one of the questions i raised in the beginning of the book then why would they talk to me? and in some ways of reporting has borne out some of certain criticisms but why would somebody talk to me? the short answer is basically because there's a lot of disloyalty in clinton world it dole longer exists there is no longer clinton loyalty and ultimately that is bad it shows there is a weakness with clinton inc. they have to realize eventually that they need help benefit themselves and not the greater corporation. >> host: so going beyond this book dash u.n. 2016? >> guest: maybe 50/50. she is the strongest candidate but he started the statement by talking about her poll numbers that are doing quite well but go talk to rudy giuliani and asked him or president gary hart. they don't mean so much. she is the stro

all three network heads were on time on newsweek's cover the -- time and newsweek's cover following sunday. the whole issue of network power, bias, you responsibility, irresponsibility, allbility of that -- >> i remember that the networks carry that speech. >> agnew was going to deliver the speech, and i got a call. abc is carrying agnew's speech live. i said, holy smoke. i go out to the university club, got a call up there while i was in the pool. all three networks are going live. i was thinking, this is the end of my career. that night, agnew delivered the speech and i thought it was terrific. the next morning i had to go back to the air force base at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. he was going down for the launch of apollo 12. he sees me, comes through the plane with a big grin on his face and says dang, buster. an addendum to that -- somebody else got on the plane. father salinger. he expelled me for problems with some police officers. from georgetown, several years before. he comes on and he sees me. i told him, i was just nothing. i hadn't seen him in 10 years. there is a big statue o

. >> one of the critics of the article did research, newsweek, 46 of the 91 staffers hold degrees from an ivy league institution and in addition the author attended columbia, and taught at yale. >> that's why he has issues are. >> i have offices from 9 to 5 and because his child didn't get, we're more than happy to see them. i have a 30-year-old, she is what i am going to do, what's going to happen. i mean everybody has pressure, it's the away society, the world is. we have to learn how to talk to folks and relieve that pressure to take away the stress. >> do you see this at f and m. >> i'm the only college professor here. number one the motivation among young folks is incredible, particularly at the elite schools. what we need in this universe of higher education, a diversity of places for young people to go to that facilities their educational backgrounds and personalities and lifestyles. we have to be careful about the personal pigeon hole. i'm a graduate of public college, i meant to the university of delaware, blue hen! >> everyone of these colleges have a community college play a

he was on the cover of "time" and "newsweek" and publishers -- he spoke to the publishers and editors and he predicted politics. he was wrong. they gave him standing ovations. there was a period in which people wanted to say, okay, we beat up on him enough. he blackmailed clinton into consulting. he was a very, very careful planner. for what he wanted, it was a success. do we love him now? that wasn't the point. that's the answer to your question. >> no, no. >> it's not the answer. >> after the press, the justice system, the democrats the against history. nixon conducted it as you are indicating. but he didn't win. we wouldn't be here today having this, ken wouldn't have written the book he wrote that in fact, look, there is always going to be, in a huge body of people, some who are going to believe what they want to believe. >> i answered the gentleman's question. you are talking about different things. they accepted him because he worked at it. >> i think that they are both -- >> my point is that the judgment -- he did not succeed. yes, there were -- there have been momentary period

that's an assumption. >> no other black fathers have come forward with a white daughter. >> i can't "newsweek" when they started and i broke from colombia journalism and they started dropping their fact checker. the checkers i interviewed, smith is the editor and said well yeah i know but a few mistakes here and there. on the cover they misspelled garry wills' name on the cover of the magazine. where was i? black father, oh yeah. portrait of a reclusive author of the anarchist cookbook back in god knows when and one of the more effective exposÉs of scientologist l. ron hubbard. he's a senior writer at nbc news lives with his wife and two children. and another one just around the corner? >> thank you bruce. [applause] thank you all for coming. a lot of people in the room have been aware of this book for a long time. it's behind schedule. fortunately behind schedule. i was supposed to turn it into years ago and legal weed was not here. i think much of the conversati conversation, people wouldn't be as interested in the book if they weren't able to buy the stuff in washington now. where do i beg

i shot all around the world for time, "newsweek" and life. was overwhelmed by this and began to question my own role and how i could contribute something meaningful. i went back to the bay area and i started to think about trying to find a story that would be more hopeful for the human race and for meaning in my own life. that same year, steve jobs was forced out at apple, from the height of fame and power, he hit bottom, he announced he would build a supercomputer that would transform education. i knew from my work that education was the key to some social issues. that got my attention. through friends i reached out, and i asked if i could document steve and his team building the next computer from the early days to shipping and capture his process of innovation? and i wanted complete access and wanted to do it for "life" magazine. amazingly steve agreed. of course being steve he was already thinking about this. my timing was good. i stayed three years and as john said, steve blessed me with his trust and i was able to go through the valley

and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we crossed in francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neo conservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more of a real break from the george w. bush policies he has he has adopted them he has avoided perhaps some of the more extreme problems but in many ways he has not challenge them in any fundamental way so why is that why well it's a good question and he he i think he basically is trying to a

and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we cross to francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law and gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neoconservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more of a real break from george w. bush policies he has he has adopted.

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in china and in russia it follows a series of reports earlier this year it was published by the newsweek magazine and according to that magazine it outlined a number of cases where israel head eavesdropped and spied on the united states in one reported talks about any israeli spy who hid in an aide to act in a hotel room of the then vice president al gore but it goes on to say that the americans later kept this quiet when they found out that israel was the guilty partner and at the same time the magazine quotes american intelligence officials who say that israel's is pure knowledge against the united states has now crossed all red lines certainly there are a lot of questions that are being asked and will be asked these are two countries that are supposed to be firm friends in it so he sends a very wrong message to the united states if indeed israel is spying on her close ally middle east correspondent well the conflict in gaza spot numerous demonstrations worldwide in europe there were maybe against the israeli operation protesters here in berlin waving palestinian flags and banners deno

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host: richard host: kurt eichenwald is the author of a recent newsweek cover story about conspiracy theorists. guest: you have actual politicians who are repeating conspiracy theories, who are >> and in yesterday, member of congress saying that the obama administration wanted the children refugees from latin america are coming at united states so we could perform medical experimentation on them. this is coming from someone who is an elected representative in the government. and when you have policy being shaped by fantasy, you end up with pretty bad policy. host: what are some of the conspiracy theories that you think are causing the most harm in this country right now? guest: one of the worst is the conspiracy theory about agenda 21. and, you know, i can tell you right now, i said those words and there are people all over the country reaching for their phones. because what that one is -- agenda 21 is a nonbinding agreement that was signed during the original george bush administration back in the early 1990's, you know, in the u.n., saying that the countries were making a commitment to basic

past couple of years, it merged with "newsweek." then they parted because "newsweek" was losing a lot of money. the model is still fighting to become profitable. the strength of the "new york times," they still have their old readership that likes to hold a newspaper but they're also getting the young crowd in with the new apps. linda, what's going to happen to the 6:30 p.m. network newscast? nobody i know watches them. >> people of a certain generation watch them and will continue to watch them. we also have a website and we're exploring ways of doing constant news digitally. i'm sure that people ask what the future is going to be. anybody can tell you, doesn't know what they're talking about. it's evolving into something where five years from now, we'll have a new system of getting the news. it's already, when i started, we got 35% of the audience. there were three networks. now all three networks get about 20 something -- all three get 20% of the audience. it's already so fragmented. it will continue to fragment more. there will

look at "newsweek" this week. >> take it out of my block. got to say one thing. >> i have to toss it to -- >> come on. >> i do. we'll get right back. >>> an update on the sad news of the day. fox news confirmed the general killed in afghanistan was major general harold green. his next of kin have been notified. highest ranking american to die in action for our nation since the vietnam war. the pentagon officials say a man believed to an afghan soldier opened fire on a training camp near kabul this morning, as many as 15 people wounded. about half of the injured were americans and general green was killed. as for him, he's a native of upstate new york, received his commission as an engineer officer following his graduation in 1980. he holds a ph.d. from the university of southern california in material science. his military education includes army war college. his awards include legion of merit with three oak leaf clusters, the meritorious service medal, army commendation medal, the army achievement medal and the army superior unit award. acc

before that i was the foreign editor of "newsweek" so i have a long history of in my field to e achievement. i feel that my books have again and again proven to be true isa fashsz are farceyi the presiden is concerned, i am not the only person saying this is a > competent administration. this seems to be a widespread and spreading view among the political class. giving you one camp.ack when barack obama threatened that if the president of syria n crossede a red line that obama drew and used chemical weapons, that the united states would take military action.ar he backed down on that after these weapons were used, and in doing so lost not only personalt credibility for himself, but credibility not stat tour of the united states throughout the entire world. >>> cecil up next from georgia. from the democrats line. >> caller: yes, thank for c-span.ve bee i listen a lot i think this guy just wants to make money for his book and that's okay. and it's his job to try to makeo money on his books. but i think he's just trying to get stuff started. talking about the red line. we don't know obama is go

i used to be editor in chief of "the new york times" magazine, before that, foreign editor of "newsweekhave a long fel history of, in my field, achievement, and i feel that my books have again and again conc proven to beer true.rson as far as the president is concerned, i'm not the only person who is saying that this is an incompetent administration. to be a widespread and spreading view among the political class, even liberal democrats have been critical of the administration giving you one example, when barack obama threatened that if the president of syria crossed a red line, that obama drew, and used chemical weapons, that the as a united states would take threa military t.action. that was a threat from the president of the united states. he backed down on that after these weapons were used, and in doing so, lost not only personat credibility for himself, but hot credibility for thehe stature o the united states throughout the entire world. >> cecil up next from georgia, democrats line. >> caller: yes, there's been -- thanks to c-span. there's been a lot said since i've been on the

i get "tv guide," "xxl," "rolling stone," "newsweek," "blender." i get nine periodicals. major in english and political science. if i didn't make it in basketball, i wanted to be a political columnist. like george will -- not necessarily his politics. sorry george. i watch abc news, i see george stephanopoulos talking. i see that dude on fox, the a-hole. >> bill o'reilly? >> yeah. bill o'reilly. and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. i love politics. you know what i'm saying? i see the katrina response. i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response

you may be too young but in the '70s time or "newsweek" chad as a glacier the new ice ages coming. now it is global warming. here is what i say you recall their or warmer we have a responsibility to take care of one another. that is the bottom line. we need to argue intelligently. >> host: you looked at new york city. you have to make public policy decisions and is also important to not get overly involved in paranoia about it. as far as i am concerned we should work in conjunction with research facilities and industry how can re best utilize our natural resources and at the same time respecting our environment? rather then say we're not developing this or this is is that is not a wise use of the intellect. >> host: remember the great concern about the hole in the ozone layer? there is a lot of focus and basically the aerosol industry changed in the hole closed so this is a case the problem was identified as a solution and industry fought then we moved on an industry adapted. >> i am not saying we should not do that. >> absolutely. but we need to take a balanced approach. as you sa