>> you know what, i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did. warned the americans that the british were coming and they were going to try to take our arms. we got to make sure that we were protects ours and shoring up all of our ammunitions and firearms that they couldn't take it. remember that the british had had already been there many soldiers for seven years in that area and part of paul revere's ride and it wasn't just one ride, he was a courier. he was a messenger. art pa of his ride was to warn the british that were there you're not going to succeed. you're not going to take american arms. you are not going to beat our own well armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. he did warn the british. in a shout out, got you type of question that was asked of me, i answered candidly. i know my american history. >> warn the british. all right. here is the shout out, got you question that palin was asked. >> what have you seen so far today and what are you going to take way from your visit? >> joining me now is david from former spe

>> you know what, i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did. he warned the americans that the british were coming, the british were coming and they were going to try to take our arms so we got to make sure that we were protecting ourselves. and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so that they couldn't take it part of his ride was to warn the british that were already there that hey, you're to the going to succeed. you're not going to take american arms. are you not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual private militia that we have. >> stephen: i could not have said a random string of words better. (cheers and applause) and folks, give it up, give it up. folks, to prove palin was right all along, her supporters went on wikipedia this weekend and edited paul revere's page to accurately reflect her version of the story. well that settles it for me, folks. i get all my historical information from wikipedia, just as beach volleyball inventor albert einstein did. now unfortunately, unfortunately the hard-core fact addict

i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did. the americans that the british were coming, the british were coming, and they were going to try to take our arms, we've got to make sure that we were protecting ourselves and shoring up all of our ammunitions and our firearms so that he couldn't take it. but remember that the british had already been there, many soldiers, for seven years in that area. and part of paul revere's ride, and it wasn't just one ride, he was a courier, he was a messenger. part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there, that hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take american arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. he did warn the british. and in a shout out gotcha type of question that was asked of me i answered candidly, and i know my american history. >> we'll talk to a historian about this in a moment. but she claims she was asked a gotcha type of question. which was a statement she makes a lot. but listen aga

>> you know what, i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did. he warned the americans that the british were coming, the british were coming, and they were going to take our arms. part of his ride was to warn the british that were already there that, hey, you're not going to succeed. you're not going to take american arms. you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. he did warn the british. in a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, i answered candidly, and i am my american history. >> she makes no apologies. one more time. that gotcha question. what have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit? one more thing for you here. we love larry king. in fact, we'll have larry king on "morning joe" tomorrow. he joined the roundtable discussion on "realtime with bill maher" on hbo friday night. they were talking about all kinds of things. larry's greatest concern was about the temperature in the study yes. . >> turning the tables on you, larry king. >>

stephen colbert in a vivid display shows why palin was correct in her telling of the story of paul revere'side. you don't want to miss this one. let's get to the news at 5:30 here at 30 rock in new york city. president obama says he will soon make an announcement about the number of troops he plans to withdraw from afghanistan. after meeting with his national security team yesterday, the president said the u.s. has already accomplished large parts of its mission in afghanistan. >> by us killing osama bin laden, getting al qaeda back on its heels, stabilizing much of the country in afghanistan so the taliban can't take it over, it's now time for us to recognize that we've accomplished a big chunk of our mission. and that it's time for the afghans to take more responsibility. >> a lot of people reading into that statement. and about whether or not the u.s. is, quote, winning this war. >> we're making progress. they'll try to come back, though. that's why they say the gains while significant are fragile. >> and we have have not had a declared victory in a war with the possible exception of the

. >>> so what's the true story behind paul revere's famous ride?tion that's made for some spirited debate ever since sarah palin said revere was out to warn the british. and now that debate has moved to the online pages of wikipedia, where with a few strokes of the keyboard palin's supporters are hoping to square her version of history. here's nbc's lee cowan. >> reporter: one if by land, two if by sea. you know the rest. when henry wadsworth longfellow celebrated paul revere's famous ride, few really cared that he took some poetic license. after all, he was more right than most. >> paul revere and the raiders. i know that. they're a singing group. is that close enough? >> that's the guy that was yelling back in the days of world war ii, he was like "the british are coming. the british are coming." right? >> reporter: it's exactly the kind of brain freeze that wikipedia can thaw. the online encyclopedia has become the chief arbiter of the water cooler dispute. over the last few days its paul revere page has seen more fighting than lexington and con

the gotcha question on american history tours, so is paul revere we have your heroes?yeah, he warned the british, he was firing shots and ringing bells. no, he wasn't. >> dhrn are watching. clear this up. >> he crossed that body of water and said "the british are coming, the british are coming." and if the british were warned, he wouldn't have paul revere -- but let me say this, the unemployment rate went over 16%. is that more important? >> i think it's more important, but i think if the person we're talking about gets paul revere's ride wrong, you might suspect she may not know how to deal with black unemployment. but since you brought it up, do you know what her plan is for black unemployment? >> her plan for america is to get rid of barack obama who's presidedver a complete disaster. >> that's exactly what i thought her plan was, to avoid the question. howard dean has said she should be taken seriously. >> she should. >> and she shouldn't be laughed at. what do you say, bill? >> i think what howard dealing was saying is democrats have to be careful. there's all thi

paul revere did not give up information to the british.rrific article in foeshs that talks about this whole history. it looks like sarah palin may look at history as two different people. that was not paul revere. he was one if by land and two if by sea. he did not give up information warning them what the col onnists were going to do. he was on the side of the col onnists. hello. absolutely not. read a history book. >> they were full of american volunteers. >> he lie and gave them an overestimate of how many troobs would be waiting as a way to lie to the british. paul revere was detained and on the side of the patriots. he wasn't warning about anything. the narrative about the right was not about gun rights and sarah palin wanted to make it about that. he twisted the fable and created that. >> let me get a word in edge wise. the whole situation with sarah palin i think is exactly the kind of situation that makes so many of our listeners think we journalists are elitist and arrogant. the woman is right on the facts and yet here we are argu

they did a class project on paul revere.ngton, the national zoo, a new bundle of joy in a baby giant panda. a big catch. they don't know if the mom to be is preg nanl. we sent dr. debbye turner bell to check it out. we'll hear from her in a minute. >> amazing that they don't know if she's pregnant. amazing and unfair to every woman in the world. when a panda gives birth, the size of a stick of butter. see the size of a panda. not fair. first up, steve jobs. he's been dealing with medical issues for the past five months, for a number of years. took a medical leave five months ago. he was back on monday to reveal apple's newest creation. john blackstone reports on how jobs brought the crowd to his feet. >> reporter: steve jobs had only to walk on stage to get a standing ovation. >> we love you. >> thank you. it always helps. >> still on medical leave from apple and extremely thin, jobs was here to unveil icloud, apple's new on-line data storage service. but first, he turned the conference over to other apple executives. it may

i didn't mess up about paul revere. here's what paul revere did.t the british were coming, the british were coming and they were going to try to take our arms so we got to make sure that we were protecting ourselves and part of paul revere's ride and it wasn't just one ride, he was a courier. he was a messenger. part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there in a shout out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, i answered candidly. >> shout out question. doggone it. those gotchas get you every time. aren't you glad you're paying attention to this bus tour? now here's the original question. >> what have you seen so far today? >> so the question was, what have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit? >> and sarah palin calls that a gotcha question? and now the wikipedia page for paul revere poor guy has been swamped by people trying to change the facts to fit palin's ignorance. that's the world of sarah palin and her supporters. next, buyer's remorse over new jersey governor chris christie.

it wasn't enough for sarah palin to rewrite paul revere. now they are trying to rewrite wikipedia to fit her view of the universe into actual history. check outside where i think she belongs. >>> we start with weiner's political future, such as it is. i want you to read right now something on radar online. releasing e-mail between a las vegas woman, blackjack dealer and congressman weiner. now this is the conversation. you get the drift of this. let me go to alex. this kind of conversation being carried on by a 45-year-old married man in september, by the way, to continue this point of view, the second woman, here it is. this is an e-mail, let's see, this is in september of last fall. i guess we get enough of this. let's go on. alex, maybe this is age group stuff. i guess i don't get sexting or texting or why people communicate this this little you get the drift of this. let me go to alex. this kind of conversation being carried on by a 45-year-old married man in september, by the way, to continue this point of view, the second woman, here

>> you know what, i didn't mess up about paul revere. >> jon: right there. that's the thing. that's the palin... you do a little off-the-cuff jumbo and then you go on tv two days later and you're wearing something that makes you look like you robbed a vatican or about to marry jesus in las vegas. then you insist that you insist that you meant to say you were right and you were the victim of some awareness. >> in a shout-out gotcha type of question that was asked of me i answered candidly. i know my american history. >> jon: it was a gotcha question. what was the question again? >> i'm going to repeat the gotcha question. what have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit? >> jon: here's a tip. it doesn't make it a gotcha question, it doesn't make you a gotcha question just because it got-ya. by the way i thought you said that you were right. so it's a gotcha question. meanwhile the bus tour rolls on. john oliver has this report. >> reporter: last week sarah palin's non-seeking americana vacation tour hit the most historic sights on the east co

but palin made no excuses for comments she made about paul revere. she said his midnight ride was meant as a warning for both american colonists and british. >> you realize you messed up about paul revere, don't you? >> i didn't mess up. part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there, that you're not going to succeed. >> reporter: the former alaska governor has still not said whether she'll run for president and write a new chapter in american history. while historians suggest that palin did get it wrong in her version of revere's ride, her supporters say the reaction to it just points to the intense animosity that many feel towards the former governor. >> sure that isn't end of it. joel, appreciate it. thank you so much. >>> the former head of the international monetary fund is set to be arraigned today. he's charged with sexually assaulting a hotel maid. dominique strauss-kahn is expected to plead not guilty to attempted rape and sexual abuse. his attorney says any sexual contact was consensual. he's hired a security firm to dig

number one, she was wrong about paul revere. so what?learly whether or not she knows her american history is less relevant certainly to me than what her ideas would be or what she would do for the country. and if she's -- only if she's really running for president. i think the biggest joke about all of this is that she got so much attention at the same time, we don't even really yet know if she's running for president. i think we ought to be holding her accountable for that and worried less about whether or not she understood that paul revere was actually warning the americans that the british were coming after them, but, you know, i'll leave it at that. >> savvy or smarts to both of you, i'll play this little bit of sound and i'll get your reaction. >> i apologize if i stepped on any of that pr that mitt romney needed or wanted that day. i do sincerely apologize. we didn't mean to step on anybody's toes. >> so, robert, what palin is talking about there is that bus stop you're familiar with. she had a very close to mitt romney's announce

she got the story of paul revere quite ostentatiously wrong. saying that paul revere was warning the british rather than warning americans about the british. rather than admit to getting the paul revere story exactly backwards, team palin has decided to tough it out. they have t.d.'sed to try to make the story retroactively correct by aggressively trying to edit the story of paul revere on wick paid ya to make it seem like the way sarah palin described it was correct. the overall message is if you're sarah palin don't worry about it. if you mess something up about history, we'll change the history. on a day where politics news was not totally dominated by the anthony weiner sex scandal and amazing press conference, the change in history to match what sarah palin said about it story would be a much bigger deal. by that sarah palin comes out to with a winner on the anthony wiener exhausts the news day. so does newt gingrich. newt gingrich's troubled presidential campaign now has anthony wiener to thanks for what otherwise would have been another

now, sarah palin brought up paul revere. >> yes. >> bill: while she was in boston. we liked mr. nd good horseback rider. roll the tape. >> he who warned the british that they weren't going to be taking away our arms by ringing those bells and making sure as he rides his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free. >> as she said that was -- as we said that already has people talking sarah palin touring the freedom trail in boston. of course the real life version vorns lanterns. >> >> one if by land and two by sea the old church lanterns there. so anyway, they made -- what do you think? >> well, brian williams, how just played there, brian williams said that he didn't cover the anthony weiner story because he had more compelling things to cover. this was one of the more compelling things he had to cover. >> bill: the bells and stuff. >> sarah palin mangled the paul revere story. i don't think if she says she didn't. she did. but why did nbc and the others make a bill deal out of it, because it's fun for them

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. >>> who was paul revere really alerting when he screamed the words the british are coming. sarah palin with some interesting thoughts. now, she is explaining herself. >> we'll hear what palin said yesterday on fox news sundayed about the whole thing. >>> next, our big story. stacy ? >> he has made incredible claims against the gray tam pain. and now sulaimon brown will tell his story before the d.c. council. f >>> the biggest passenger jet in the world arrives at dulles for the first time. super jumbo airbus a-308. >> it has two decks and can carry more than 500 passengers. this is actually video that we have of one. an air france plane you see there. air france is the one that use this is plane and is beginning daily nonstop passenger service from dulles to paris. dulles is only the second u.s. airport served by air france's a-308. new york's jfk is the other one. that is going to be pretty cool to be on one of those. i think it would be a fun jerry reinsdorf it is odd looking though. >> that is what tucker said. >> i guess because it's double- decker

this is what paul revere did. he warned the americans that the british were coming, and the british are coming, and they are going to try to take our arms. i was not one ride. he was a courier and messenger, and part of the ride was to warn the british that were there, you are not going to succeed or take the arms. i answered candidly, and i know my american history. >> the palins are off of the road now making a new pit stop at their vacation home in arizona. we will tell you about the palin biopic in nevada, iowa, new hampshire and south carolina and one more time for good measure, palin maintains she is not running for president. >>> and tests show that another vegetable is not the source of the deadly e. coli outbreak, and so now what? >>> and with his wife by his side, the head of the imf pleads not guilty to sexually sas sa l assaulting a hotel maid. and now the head of the hotel and lodging association will tell us whether he believes it is a good idea to give maids a panic button, and whether he believes l

here's what she had to say. >> you know what, i didn't mess up about paul revere here's what paul revere did. he warned the americans the british were coming and going to try to take our arms. it wasn't just ride. he was a courier, a messenger. part of his ride was to warn the british that were already there, hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take american arms. i answered candidly. i know my american history. >> she didn't get the historical significance of the paul revere ride wrong. however, she does have a little bit of a point, paul revere was eventually captured after that midnight ride and he did warn the british that the americans were amassing this large militia and they better watch out. she does have a small point there. but she did get the historical significance of the occasion wrong there. and i got to say, guys, it's too bad she didn't just come out and say, hey, guys, i got this wrong. she sort of blamed it on a media gotcha question as she called it. she is a part of the media now, she has to expect these sorts of questions, especially about american

sarah palin now defending her take on paul revere's ride. here is her response when asked about the historic midnight ride. >> he, who warned the british they weren't going to take away or arms and making sure as he's riding his horse through town to send the warning shots and bells we were going to be secure an free. >> palin insists she didn't mess up, telling fox news i answered candidly and i know my american history. according to history books he road from boston to lexington to warn that british troops were marching to arrest them. >>> one of the world's financial leaders answers to charges of sexually assaulting a maid. what he's expected to tell the judge today. >>> be careful what you wish for. the facebook lynn tok this out of control house party could get a 15-year-old grounded for life. a >>> welcome back, everyone. it is 4:53 right now. the former chief of the international monetary fund is expected to plead not guilty to sexual sexually molesting an employee. police say he assaulted a housekeeping employee in new york on may 14