[applause] >> you say you are still an npr fan but you also advocate the funding of npr. let's talk about that. where npr goes from here. >> for me there are two things to say. one is local and the our stations are journalistic jams that we have to protect because they play such an important role. [applause] i used to raise money for that with all my heart. in an era where we have declining local coverage from newspapers and npr stations and talk-show hosts they reflect the community in a way that is rare right now in the media landscape. if you are talking about npr washington, people who i think our self righteous and even limited in their thinking, what is going on here? these people are 1-sided and believe they are the only people who are practicing honest journalism in america. there are going to look down at anybody who is doing anything differently. i find that crazy. the bigger point about defunding is this which i say to you as a fellow journalist. in january of this year or january or february there was a letter from the head of the democratic congressional camp

as you say, that's just the ooening chapter, the hook, youuknow being fired by npr for saying what is genuine feeling, was not meant to be but then, i found myself in terms of the writing process producing a book that i.that's a very good book in myyopinion, but doinn so in about four months. and i don't think i could have done it if all of this &-an antecedent.n as sort of >> smith: i want toohear the story from, from you, because of course we've heard the story from a lot of othhr people, but, but, in, in the book you do a really good job of ú&creating what happened. i forgot that what preceded this was actually, bill o'reilly on the view. >> williams: correct. and bill o'reilly on the view making the case that the mosque -- a mosque that &-manhattan wanted to locate near groond zero should not be put theee. because -- and this is what bill o'reilly says on the view, muslims attacked us on 9-11. that prompts wo of the co--osts of the vieww whoopi goodberg, joy behar to walk off the set, huge row, and then he says, oh, but i was talking about radical muslims. that gets in the papers

it was npr that we did as a story and started a national attention. there was the worry that i can see where people who are conservative might decide that they want to support me. there are most familiar with this idea that if you say the wrong thing you might be subjected to the charge of bigotry, racism. but i wonder how the lessons of the country's political spectrum might react? could this be an opportunity to simply jump on? so it was a big surprise to me when people like whoopi goldberg, john stuart, and even sarah palin on the far right, agreed that what had taken place was really out of bounds. since this controversy broke, as i have told you, people everywhere say to me, you know, i understand what it is to feel that you can't speak in this country today and tell me that they feel that there is too much in coded speech, political correctness, and that it is being enforced by political parties, lobbying groups, advocacy groups, political correctness that is used to enforce identity, a group identity in this country. it is used to raise money.

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it's hard to resist and wow, i'm going to check this out. >> and npr says they confirmed it with two sources which usually would be enough. so, you know, i don't know if the other organizations were going off of npr or doing it on their own, but sometimes people do just make legitimate mistakes, you have to be very, very careful, obviously, but they did confirm it with-- >>, but the other error, jim. the mainstream media almost immediately were assigning blame to these right wingers and-- >> and the tax cuts. >> yeah, exactly. all of those things were piled on loefner, and none of them, the they think with reagan and jim brady you can make an excuse for that. they had plenty of time to decide, yes, of course, this guy must be a right winger and why they did it. they did it with full forethought. one person we didn't mention in that list, was sarah palin, there were liberals who tied the attack to an ad that sarah palin had taken out for her political campaign. >> we've been through this issue before with her. regardless whether you like her as a politician or not. the kind of stuff t

finally, npr went on facebook.ates did not effect hiring decisions. >> it's not in the top 20 things that we think about when we're making a business hire. >> if my taxes go up, i have slightly less disposable income, yes, but that has nothing to do with what my business does. what my business does is based on the contracts that it wins and the demand for its services. >> so finally, npr went to republican south dakota senator john thune who said it was a bad idea to tax job creators. >> those i would say are exceptions to the rule. i think most small businessowners out there right now would argue that raising their taxes has the opposite effect we would want to have in a down economy. >> it is one of the great republican lies. taxing millionaires is a tax on job creators and effects their hiring decisions, simply not true. they hire and fire people based on all kinds of considerations. not because of a millionaire surtax. >>> another oops moment for rick perry. this time he flubs the name of the supreme court just

on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the blasts from deborah amos of npr in beirut. >> woodruff: then, after a week of partisan wrangling and an agreement on extending the payroll tax cut, we get the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> suarez: in our second report from morocco, we examine the nation's struggle for greater democracy. >>> it was the arab isn't ittime democratcratic position. >> woodruff: jeffrey brown talks with author daniel yergin about how the demand for more and more energy has shaped political and economic change around the globe. we as a country today are twice as energy efficient as we were during the era of the energy crisis. if we weren't we really would be in trouble. >> suarez: and fred de sam lazaro tells the story of an unusual christmas celebration at a minnesota church. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major fuing for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intel. sponsors of tomorrow. >> and by bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and f

williams at npr. my colleague from associated press on the print side, michelle, and she is president of the national association of hispanic journalists and member of the national press club as well. congratulations to rafaiel williams the son of our guest speaker just having graduated from haverford. [applause] >> that's fine, we can allow one round of applause. [applause] >> well deserved. tamela bay an independent freelance journalist and she has formerly worked for npr and delease williams, the wife of our guest speaker today. stepping over the podium, bob keith is the senior press club for the national resources defense council and he's the speaker who organized the luncheon first time out great job, bob. greg month, bloomberg news he's chair of the npc diverse community. he and i worked together in buffalo, new york, years ago and we're both sworn to secrecy about that and my colleague from associated press broadcast, a new member of the national press club, lila, she works for associated press

given that reid based it on npr research.l public radio host would be all working at thrift stores, boring you with stories about their cats that don't even like them. look to npr for facts on capitalism, looking to protesters for advice on hygiene. remember that reid sides with the president who stated that unemployment benefit create more jobs than building a pipeline. think about that. entitlement shown to extend joblessness has more job than a project that requires workers. who the hell believes in unicorns? poor harry, frozen in 1956 and thawed out to discover that america won the cold war. evil capitalists everywhere. sorry about that. p.s., you lost east germany, too. >> bob: yeah. i'm city trying to figure out what the -- i'll still trying to figure out what a unicorn is. >> bob: look at the picture up there. see, a unicorn. >> greg: some say it's -- >> bob: symbol for the sea seals? >> greg: unicorn is considered a mythical creature but it's a real creature. people saying it's mythical are part of a big coverup. >> b

on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the blasts from deborah amos of npr in beirut. >> woodruff: then, after a week of partisan wrangling and an agreement on extending the payroll tax cut, we get the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> suarez: in our second report from morocco, we examine the nation's struggle for greater democracy. >>> it was the arab isn't ittime democratcratic position. >> woodruff: jeffrey brown talks with author daniel yergin about how the demand for more and more energy has shaped political and economic change around the globe. we as a country today are twice as energy efficient as we were during the era of the energy crisis. if we weren't we really would be in trouble. >> suarez: and fred de sam lazaro tells the story of an unusual christmas celebration at a minnesota church. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intel. sponsors of tomorrow. >> and by bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and

on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the blasts from deborah amos of npr in beirut. >> woodruff: then, after a week of partisan wrangling and an agreement on extending the payroll tax cut, we get the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> suarez: in our second report from morocco, we examine the nation's struggle for greater democracy. >>> it was the arab isn't ittime democratcratic position. >> woodruff: jeffrey brown talks with author daniel yergin about how the demand for more and more energy has shaped political and economic change around the globe. we as a country today are twice as energy efficient as we were during the era of the energy crisis. if we weren't we really would be in trouble. >> suarez: and fred de sam lazaro tells the story of an unusual christmas celebration at a minnesota church. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intel. sponsors of tomorrow. >> and by bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and

npr, when in search of the millionaire job creators that they are protecting, these gops keep talking about, we've got to protect the job creators. well, npr requested help from numerous republican on gregs nal offices including house and senate leadership and they were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview. it's amazing. when you call a heb on it, they can't come through. >> well, i think the republican motto right now is anybody but the middle class, anybody but working families. that's who they will protect. we saw it this week with the vote on the person that we wanted to head the consumer protection bureau. stand up for consumers in this country so they don't get ripped off. and they voted no. they are against the unemployment insurance maintaining the benefits level until we get this economy to defer and get back to work. they have a problem with continuing the payroll tax cut but when we talk about tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, they have no problem as it relates to those customers and they don't seek for those to be paid for. so it'

salon, daily beast, npr, the "philadelphia inquirer", pass mark circular. (laughter) and now it's going to be even bigger than ever with rick santorum and newt gingrich free from their commitment to trump. you still have a home in my debate, boys, i am delighted about newt. i am less delighted about santorum but still solid delight across the board. okay, now the debate is going to be on a new network. it's going to be on animal planet. (laughter) now i am getting... i am getting some hot heat from national geographic. nat geo, natty g, they have the most natural sun scorched racks. the primo number one classiest tittys in anthropology. (cheers and applause) they're very nice. they're very nice. we're going to hold the entire thing at a zoo in the polar bear enclosure, let the polar bear pick the winner. all the candidates get pre-rubed with salmon. the finest say bars, lower prices. candidates, call me, write me, send an ed edible arrangement in the shape of the words "i'm in." note, no cantaloupe, honey dew only, melon of kings. moving on, nation,... (app

times newspapers, john barry, formerly of newsweek, roland thompson of the institute and tom berman of nproland, i want to start with you, eastbound thoi i think rick would -- even though i think rick would challenge you. but let's go to the presidential campaign. unless everybody missed it, it's a presidential election year this year. who are the top advisers to the republican frontrunners at this point, newt gingrich and mitt romney? >> the situation reminding me a little bit of clinton versus obama a few years ago. the romney defense team is like a who's who of the republican establishment. former pentagon comptroller doug zachhime former missouri m senator jim callant, former navy secretary john layman and you have a much smaller group advising gingrich, just mainly cia director jim woolsly, national security adviser bud mcí farland, but there is this view that advising newt gingrich on anything is a tough sell because he already thinks he knows. in the case of romney, he has put together what appears to be a bedrock of supporters in the establishment. >> it's hard to believe that all

one reason they say it's sending kids to emergency rooms according to a story first reported on npr.here's problem. after boil the watt -- boiling the water you pour over the noodle the cups are top heavy and they can spill easily and the result is kids are being left with burns. look at that. they are going to ers. >> it could be up to 5 to 6 patient as week between inpatient and outpatient settings. >> they are working with manufacturers to change the design so the cups are bottom heavy and not nearly as easy to tip over. >>> home owner in california is going to do a lot of repairs for the holidays. how a tv stunt left a family with aton of damage. >>> and also what caused alec baldwin to be kicked off a flight. this guy is always in the news. what he did this time. time for birthdays and ruth celebrating today,yohan wanted to wish you a happy birthday. if you've photograph to send in, birthdays, anniversaries andpets, morning show at wmar.com. back in a bit. >>> the end is putting -- indiana is putting 5 million dollars away to keb say the the estates of 7 people who died and pay

npr's 30 and 32. we have roughly 200 members, 25% of which are more men, 23% african-american. the new cruise terminal is not job preservation. we need a more efficient modern cruise terminal so the crews i can continue calling at our report. otherwise, these ships will bypass our city, even if it is one of the most beautiful cruise ports in the world. although we were unhappy about some loss of jobs in pier 27 through 29, the port has injured will be able to discuss with to get the most amount of jobs inside and outside of the terminal. we're willing to take them at their word for this. but the most important thing now is to get the contracts out to get this terminal built. thank you for your time. thank you for listening. we look forward to everyone's cooperation in the future. commissioner brandon: thank you. mike and and then peter. >> hello, my name is michael, vice president of the ilwu local 10. at the present time, i soon will be the president of local 10. i just wanted to say thank you, and madam chair, a commission, we wish you a happy holidays. but i am here to annou

some of them are funded by subscribers, members like those who contribute to npr, and they are starting to produce hyper local news and information for people in geographic communities. we're seeing the same thing happen with investigative projects. they're happening often state-wide, often anchored around the state capital, and i think as news moves into the future, we're gonna see a few national publications, and we're gonna see a lot of hyper local publications with some statewide investigative networks. >> jan, you won a pulitzer for public service because you actually brought change from the articles that you were writing. is that what they local sites are trying to do? are they trying to bring some sort of change? >> well, i don't know that they have an agenda other than just to connect people in their community to what's going on, allow them to know what's happening. i mean, my goodness, i live in bethesda, but i can't tell you what's going on in montgomery county because it isn't in the "washington post," you know. and it's very hard to find out what goes on in your community no

news organizations like abc news, huffington post, and npr. post your video, and they can use it on their news shows. last is current.com. this site has news made for the internet that may end up on tv, a site that combines citizen and professional journalism. current.com started in 2005 by co-founder al gore, and viewers vote on the news that they see online. they vote for it here online, and the story may end up on current tv. that's the tv network part of current.com. current wants their viewers to have an ongoing discussion about what they watch because they want their programming to be interactive and an experience. frank. >> thanks, sonya. john, how'd she do on that magic wall there? >> she's very good. she's very, very good. i might be out of work. >> uh, back to all these different choices and all these different places. john, when you're doing television now and realizing that many of your viewers, perhaps most of your viewers will actually consume it on cnn.com or on one of these other sites, again, how does that change the way you p

army, now producer for npr in iraq. we had to let him go.s saying the country is on the precipice of a dark future, i think he said, but maybe this coalition government is not in good shape. phyll phyllis, you seem to have a strong reaction. >> you know, i think this is something we've been hearing from the beginning of the creation -- the u.s. creation of the iraqi government. because this government is a u.s. creation. this is not an indigenous iraqi government. when we used to be asked this question, well, what do you think is going to happen to the iraqi government if the u.s. pulls out in my answer was always, i'm not sure but i'm guessing it probably won't survive without u.s. troop support. if it doesn't that's okay because it means it doesn't have the indigenous credibility that a government needs. it's a creature of the u.s. occupation. it sdepdoesn't mean it's going e easy to create a new government. i don't know what that new government is going to look like. i can be pretty sure it will not be the kind of government i would want

npr confirmed harry's number. here's the reality, though. confirms there are 236,833 million-dollar filers. >> you're in a larger sorority i thought. >> if you use harry's number of 1% of business owners, that means 2368 business owners, and 5%, 118 millionaire business owners creating jobs. by the way, i just threw down of them. bill gates and steve jobs created 150,000 jobs. >> and bill gates was for increasing taxes for millionaires. even for you that's bogus. the reality is if you take those people who created those jobs compared to those who don't make a million who create jobs it's 100 to 1. >> bob, in the liberal mind, even someone who makes $250,000, who might have a small business, or let's say a diner, you want to tax them at annex exorbitant. >> i'm not for taxing people who make $250,000. i've never supported that concept. the idea that the jobs are created by millionaires is just a ridiculous argument. >> even if you take harry's >> oh, gee. >> please, bob. it could be true. it could be 3 million or 4 million jobs. you don't kno

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for those folks to have snow that time of year back to the pearl harbor thing i saw on twitter maybe nprring the radio broadcast from that day i'll see if -- if i can find it. if i find it i'll let you know. let's talk about our weather. it is definitely cold, we are definitely lacking the rain and snow. i've been watching the california department of water resources site and their latest update on the snow pack was from july 7th. there's just that little snow that they haven't reported on it yet. 5:52. looking down on san francisco, hazy, spare the air and it is for all of us though the poorest air quality will be in the north bay not only today but tomorrow and again friday. the spare the air runs from midnight to midnight at 2:00 this afternoon they are going to issue one for tomorrow and probably tomorrow for friday and the pattern will break a little over the weekend. 29 fairfield the cool spot now. at freezing or below, napa, novato, santa rosa, towards livermore. redwood city 34, 35 los gatos, 38 san jose, half moon bay 39 antioch, 45 in san francisco. let's head to monterey bay m

npr reports that the impressive feature of toyota's new hybrid, the aqua. it hit the market in japan yesterday. it will be called the prius c when it is released here in the u.s. >> look pretty cool too. >> i think they'll have some takers. i find the omega choices overwhelming. which one is right for me? then i found new pronutrients omega-3. it's from centrum, a name i trust. it goes beyond my heart to support my brain and eyes too. and these ultra-concentrated minigels are much smaller than many others. it's part of a whole new line of supplements. there's probiotic and fruit & veggie too. new pronutrients from centrum helps make nutrition possible. >>> shoppers plan to spend big this week and while this week also holiday for some, it looks like maybe of you are in the osama boat with all of us here at fox amorning news and that is working. lauren simonetti also working this morning. shedowns us from fox business network. happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> how manyen people are actually work this week? it is thin but i look around the newsroom and the

. >> brown: deborah amos of npr speaking to us from beirut.nks so much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: we'll be back shortly with the discovery of a planet that just might be like earth. but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public >> woodruff: finally tonight, scientists on the hunt for an earth like planet. newshour correspondent spencer michels has the story. >> reporter: more than 20 years ago, space scientist william borucki dreamed up a plan to explore our galaxy to find the extent of life, if there is any beyond the earth. it was a daunting and expensive challenge. this week and $600 million later at a conference of his peers in mountain view, california, borucki and nasa announced they had found the first planet in the habitable zone. that means, what's being called the "goldilocks" planet, is just right, orbiting its star at the proper distance to have water, necessary for life. similar to earth, though bigger, scientists say the temperature averages about 72 degrees. 600 light years away, it orbits its own sun eve