press. a couple of weeks ago, they said it couldn't be done. then families from newtown, connecticut, came to washington. and yesterday, the senate voted overwhelmingly, as a result of their lobbying the senate voted 68 to 31 to open debate on tough new gun safety legislation. let the debate begin. in other news did mitch mcconnell break the law by bringing senate staffers into his campaign meeting when they talked about ashley judd? we will ask melanie sloan, the head of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. are a group of professional athletes ready to come out of the closet? >> the rumor. we will find out more about it from cindy boren from the washington post. and is texas ready to turn blue? boy, if it does, that will shake up american politics. we will ask the chair of the harris county, texas democratic party. all of that right here on the "full-court press" on current tv. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'

look, the pesky free press. this white house has constantly complained about outlets that they don't feel covers them fairly. everyone white house has a problem with the press at some point or another, the difference is is this particular white house calls them out by name. so this week it was the drudge report. in the past the white house has waged a war on this network, on fox news, waged war on talk radio, called out individual reporters by name, to smear them in the press or question their coverage and it's all by way of trying to delegitimize whole networks or whole institutions so somehow you're shamed if you're going to the drudge report or tuning into fox news. >> jon: and a person grew up in democratic politics agrees with you. >> i think what you just said is egregious and take it another step what they're doing here. they're actually telling reporters where they're allowed to get their information. they did this in the war on fox news. they said cnn you're leg legitimate and we don't want you listenin

866-55-press. i would love to hear how the dinner appears to all of our good friends and neighbors who live outside the beltway. we did have good times. the entertainment was first-class class with the president of the sglunths with a very good self-deprecating mirror about what he sees when he looks in the mirror. >> that look i am mott this strapping young guy i used to be. >> bill: a funny line coming. he took some whacks if he media starting with cnn? >> cnn has taken some knocks lately but i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate. >> bill: the president's also into the news media, of course. he knows who they are and he knows what it all means. >> the problem is that the media has been changing so rapidly. you can't keep up with it. i remember when it was something i did in college. >> i can't believe he said that. he was really on saturday night. he was also very funny when he talked about the republican party, how they have to

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i should have said some press and not the press because it's certainly just some of the press and i should have known they would come back as the "washington post" did and attack me personally and really not understand the issue and they really reacted in a very personal, full-court press attack. i also brought up absence of malice and i think everybody watches a great movie. >> you are giving it two plugs. "washington post" poke fun at you rather than attack you. i expect you have a few more twitter followers because of this. thanks for sitting down with us from memphis. >> thank you, howard. >>> ahead on "reliable sources" speaking of anthony weiner, the price of getting back into politics as a soul searching interview about the sex scandal that cost him his house seat. aaah! aaaaah! theres a guy on the window! do something, dad! aaaah! aaaah! what is happening? they're rate suckers. their bad driving makes car insurance more expensive for the rest of us. good thing there's snapshot from progressive. snap it in and get a discount based on your good driving. stop paying for rate suckers.

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it's important to see when we criticize the press that we don't hate e press because you ther us up. i just came through this fascinating experience, and whateane is saying is so real. all you hato do was watch the bork hearings. there were two things. they were omnipotent. privacy, privacy, privacy. while that was going on, meckle-head was picking up copies of his videotape renta down in the little shop downhere in washington, d.c., and published what judge robert bork had been watching in his veo rentals for the last two years. how wod anof you like that? that's real life. the other one was that robert bork failed the test because he didn't show compassion. he was too much of a mechanic. hepe his time in tecue. he was a technician. they would have gone for him. he would have been a good man if he had a little bit of milk of hum ndness. he would have been all right. isn't that fascinating? but t then do we get that out of this remarkable professi. i don't spend time thinking about ways to do in the press. that's the way it is, and i accepted that, but for heen's sak the essence of t

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. >> but should the press corps be yucking it up with the press gang and the white house authorities? i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> the coverage of the boston bombing took a sharp turn this week as it turned to the motivation of the tsarnaev brothers and whether authorities had bundled the case. angry talk about muslims, as much of the media world picked side, pointed fingers and engaged in ideological sniping. >> we might want to rethink now and say do we want to allow any more muslim students into this country? take a period of time two years, three years, four years and stop that from happening. >> we have to examine the use of drones that the united states is involved in and a lot of civilians who are innocently xilxil killed in a drone attack in afghanistan and iraq. >> how exactly would you fight the war against terrorism, tom? you want to invade pakistan? >> i think going after the president and saying he's not being tough enough on muslims smelled a little bit like a precursor to, is the president actually secretly a muslim? >> what explains the ugliness

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the press has to be leading the conversation on this. didn't say and you didn't say that i had contended that pressured push for gun control, but here's what you wrote, put it up on the screen. this is how the mainstream media tend to cover social issues. it involves acting as a crusading vanguard while denying often self righteously that anything of the sort is happening. the trouble is that when you set out to lead a conversation, you often end up deciding where it goes, which side wins the arguments and even who gets to participate. i would say that it's important for journalists whether you like the phrase, leading the conversation or not, to push controversial issues that the politicians otherwise might prefer not to talk about. >> yes. no, i think that's fair and i also think it's fair. look, journalists, you know, it's a hard job, right? the idea that there is a sort of perfect, unbiased position from which to cover the news is often, you know, it's often not achievable -- >> the easiest thing to do -- the easiest thing for journa

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the "bill press show."hink the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> if you believe in state's rights but still support the drug war you must be high. >> "viewpoint" digs deep into the issues of the day. >> do you think that there is any chance we'll see this president even say the words "carbon tax"? >> with an open mind... >> has the time finally come for real immigration reform? >> ...and a distinctly satirical point of view. >> but you mentioned "great leadership" so i want to talk about donald rumsfeld. >> (laughter). >> watch the show. >> only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right. today's the day of the big runoff in south carolina. will mark sanford bounce back as the republican nominee for congress down there? it sure looks like it. peter, it is your home state. >> it is i

our focus today is free press. let's meet our guests. >> journalist, lecture, and author of opiuminationium nation, i'm a public relation and media advisor to governor office. >> my name is chris chandler and i researched and reported on this story. >> our audience knows a lot about what the news tells them about afghanistan but we know very little about the culture, and the background and the history. >> and even this, that free press journalism, tell us more about that. free press in afghanistan, the history of that. >> it's a good question. a began stan is experiencing a free press right after 9/11. there was a big market for afghan journalists practicing the values in standards of journalism, while facing domestic violence, as well. >> so, nowadays, there are -- those of tv channels, radios, publications, and news agencies, which all -- through all these channels, people are feeding the information entertainment, and international events. meanwhile, journalists are one of the group of people which they face a l

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this is the press club. he's the press. somebody there presumably explaining to the second amendment guys there's another amendment called the first amendment, too, short, you can read it. this big show of how many guns the nra could pack in was not an accident, it's an intimidation tactic, a show of force. last week at one of the events marking a day of action for people calling for gun reform in the states a group of people showed up to counterprotest in indiana. they counterprotested a group of moms who were protesting for gun reform. these guys were protesting in favor of gun rights, instead. you can tell who the counterprotesters were, because they were the ones showing off their loaded weapons, circling around the moms group that had turned out to call for gun reform. i can't tell from looking at a guy doing this if his weapon are loaded or not, but they told us to believe the guns are loaded. the guys carrying the guns told the press, yes, these guns are loaded, any weapon that is not loaded is just a rock or a club.

the press can be fawning at times.ow the press' job is to keep him humble. his job is to be president and he is doing better than they're. i think he knows that he gets a pretty friendly treatment from the press. where you are going wrong is, look, at the same dinner, he talked about how there was that picture of him skeet shooting out of camp david and everybody immediately said it's photo shopped, it's a conspiracy. he never ever did that before the gun control debate he put up picture of him on top of some go daddy car. he hears all these conspiracy theories. maureen dowd, liberal columnist, "new york times" says he doesn't know how to be -- you know what, maureen, that was a liberal fantasy. a liberal fantasy. wake up. you look at the press today, bill, what do you see? oh, obama lost the gun control. they never mentioned g.o.p. flible, now you have to have 60 votes to pass anything? this is unprecedented in american history. >> bilre tre certain facts like the weather. it's raining. he lost the vote. come on. juan

november 1941 the head of the american jewish confederacy held a press conference it is a great irony of history that this press conference releasing the views of the holocaust was not held by any official of the united states government the reason was the state department did not want to get involved to these controversial information of the slaughter of jews but throughout the war it was an obstacle are a sticking point* to the extent he had to override his own state department and ultimately the secretary to the treasury to go around to late 1943 to get the refugee board established to help rescue the imperil jews of europe which most had been slaughtered in the holocaust breckinridge was brought on after the a break of world war ii franklin roosevelt prior to the outbreak had been very generous of the committing choose to the united states you could that override the quota system that had 25 for 30,000 because only congress could do that and was isolationist if they went to college there would have cut it and agree let's been tens of thousands of refugees from greater germany then

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i love conan. , the white house press corps is here. know cnn has taken some knocks lately, but the fact is, i admire their commitments to cover all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate. [laughter] [applause] some of my former advisers have .witched over to the dark side for example, david axelrod now works for msnbc. which is a nice change of pace given that msnbc is to work for axelro.elrod the history channel is not here. i guess they were embarrassed about the whole obama is the devil thing. [laughter] of course, that never cap fox news from showing up. -- kept fox news from showing up. they actually thought the comparison was not fair to satan. [laughter] the problem is is that the media landscape is changing so rapidly. you cannot keep up with it. buzzfeed wasen just something i did in college around 2:00 a.m. [laughter] it's true. [laughter] recently though, i found a new favorite source or political news. these guys are great. i think everybody should check it out. they tell it like it is. it is ca

when the press club began, the spoken word was an art form. but fewer and fewer people are gifted at the use of the podium and the microphone as is mr. burns. he visits, he delivers an epic speech. he also reminds us of the great speakers who have come before him, such as our first speaker, franklin roosevelt and artists such as alfred hitchcock. he is truly more than our guest. he has become part of our club and our mission. today at the time we would normally give you your eigth national press club coffee mug. [laughter] instead we want to make you an honorary member of the national press club. [laughter] [applause] >> i guess i am a card carrying journalist. thank you. >> you still have to answer one more question. >> in 45 seconds. >> this is the only film that does not have the ken burns voice in it. >> i never put my voice in the film. it is always narrated by someone else. all the films i have made is that they are not mine. there is a convenient in our society that get everything down to 140 characters. that a film by ken burns is a re

now they put off a press conference. i don't get it. >> well, i don't know.that would just be speculation on my part. i can tell you, bob, the reason they explained was this incident at the u.s. district courthouse about a mile from here several hours. prank call turned out to be nothing. that was the public reason put out. but the fbi briefed of twice yesterday. once in the morning and once in the late afternoon. no briefings yet to date. but you know they are working as best they can and whether or not they have something to share is hard to say. i will tell you, bob, you know how the media works. if you give as you scrap or morsel put out a picture or image, you know, that will really drive the story for several hours. >> hey, bill, very -- >> -- we have not had that yet for half a day. >> hey, bill, very, very quickly, according to the "the washington post," it looks like they are looking at directly phone records. that's a provision of the patriot act: any indication they are using other provisions of the patriot act? >> i will tell you how it will work

get the best press coverage. >> gosh i don't know why you say that. >> you remember the press conferencee only one who got hurt in the whole thing. but you were determined during that you were not going to end it without taking the questions from the reporters that were there. why was that so important to you? >> because i think in order for democracy to funk there has to be a vibrant press. in iraq, i wanted to do two things. one, i didn't want to leave to give him a slight victory or he would have said president bush had to leave therefore i achievedyive. i also wanted to say i want to answer your questions. you don't have to read it. you can rely on your press secretary. >> you read it now? >> not really. >> most of the opinions are pretty predictable to begin with. >> through this institute as a new grandfather what is the world that you hope to help continue to build for her? >> i hope that little mila who i got to hug last week obviously grows up in a world that is peaceful. it talks about blessings, it talks about how to make decisions, but it also is hopefully an inspiration for

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let me read you what the associated press is reporting., scott is working on this story as the situation develops. a law enforcement official according to the associated press, who has been briefed on the investigation, says a suspect in the boston marathon bombings is about to be arrested. that suspect spoke to the associated press on the condition of anonymity because that official is not authorized to divulge details of the investigation. that official tells the press that the suspect is to be taken into custody by federal marsh l marshalls and take on the a courthouse. scott is up in boston working this story for us. it may be this latest development that caused investigators to push back that fbi news conference which was originally scheduled to fall in our hour at 1:00 p.m. and they have now moved it to 5:00 p.m. >> in the meantime, the nbc network is anxious to say that we are working on interpretation. what we do know is this. the analysis of the photos have been very productive. they have found what they are looking for. trying to

is such a thread within the rationale for free press and survival of a free press, but it just has to occur. i will be even more so apocalyptic than your question suggests. i see the whole thing going away, if we don't as an industry become more relevant and focused on news that really matters to a bunch of communities. the fact that there still are toxic waste dumps 50 years after we founded the epa. and it's in all those communities. why is that story not being done? i have 1 foot in the tar pit at my age, but i still think people want news that is valuable. they want documentary's that teach me, not just entertain me. the economic rationale to me is there if maybe we stopped for a day somewhere and really right news that counts. > i will jump in because i think about this all the time, because some of what i do is entrepreneurial and i have to actually look at raising money and numbers, but i think there was -- this may be going a bit of fields, but stay with me. when a worked at abc, company is owned by a larger entity, it sometimes gets held peak.andards that don't s i felt that

is this another case of government restricting press freedoms well ask that after the break. up in the field that you will find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspective from tom once again. here's mitt romney trying to figure out. a lot of that thing that the americans call. yours and. you. know what might. want to featuring the only liberal the current. solicitor. general of the structures from what you and i should care about because they're a profit driven industry that sells of sensationalistic garbage he calls it breaking news i'm abbie martin and we're going to break the set. up. on now to news out of iraq the fact is there is no news coming out of the country it seems that operation iraqi freedom didn't show up freedom of the press as well iraq's communication and media commission announced this weekend that it was pulling the licenses of ten news stations including al-jazeera this comes in the wake of weeks of bloody clashes between sunni protesters and the shia led government the government says these stations are spreading misinformation and

get the best press coverage. >> gosh i don't know why you say that. >> you remember the press conferencen iraq? >> i am the only one who got hurt in the whole thing. but you were determined during that you were not going to end it without taking the questions from the reporters that were there. why was that so important to you? >> because i think in order for democracy to funk there has to be a vibrant press. in iraq, i wanted to do two things. one, i didn't want to leave to give him a slight victory or he would have said president bush had to leave therefore i achieved my objective. i also wanted to say i want to answer your questions. you don't have to read it. you can rely on your press secretary. >> you read it now? >> not really. >> most of the opinions are pretty predictable to begin with. >> through this institute as a new grandfather what is the world that you hope to help continue to build for her? >> i hope that little mila who i got to hug last week obviously grows up in a world that is peaceful. it talks about blessings, it talks about how to make decisions, but it also is ho

what do you want out of press conference?o put pressure on republicans in congress and the house to get acting on immigration reform. i think he's not going to give up on gun violence and obviously dealing with the budget. up know, the house republicans still haven't nominated -- >> whether he wants to or not, he's talking about syria. >> syria? >> yeah. >> he's got to come out of the lame duck status. quickly, shameless plugs around the table. >> everybody should check out national journal's iphone app. a complete list of staffers on capitol hill. >> and the fourth grader, john eaten, he's in a big play the next week or so. i want to give him a shoutout. >>> election day in massachusetts. let's elect a republican that can win. >> a fascinating race. i'm going to give a shameless plug to rihanna. i saw her in her concert last night. if you're in your 20s, she did every single dance hit of the your 20s. coming up in the next hour, the president's press conference, 10:15 a.m. hopefully, chuck will be in the chair. take care. >>

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the press didn't get a heads-up about this press conference until about an hour and a half ago. so it is possible that they are doing some last-minute preparations for questions as well. and trying to make sure that he is up to date on some of these dwha questions that he will undoubtedly be taking that will be difficult. >> on your beat, chris, i'm counting the days that he's had pressure. is that part of the pressure, you simply have to release that pressure on a fairly regular basis if you're the president? >> i think that's absolutely right, chris. we haven't heard from the president in this context, in a press briefing, since march 1st. i think the white house is keenly aware that there have been a lot of developments since then including syria. remember, we've heard from him really once on the topic of syria. and he really gave a brief response to his question of whether or not a red line had been crossed. there really wasn't an opportunity for a strong back and forth. so i think that the white house knows that he's got to come forward on some of these pressing irs like sy

i found that whole press conference kind of like a halloween bag full of stuff that he put out there. everybody is asking questions. i think his strategy is to bore you to tears. all the stuff he is talking about is fairly dangerous stuff. you are talking about obamacare which nobody even knows is being implemented. 40% doesn't know because the press stopped covering it. once it got implemented, they went yeah and the baby left town. nobody can total it and everybody wants to go home. >> dana: i call it just because prisoners. if you have at bully-pulpit you should use it. he didn't have an opening statement. when i first saw he was going to have a press conference, wow, they must an announcement they are going to make on syria. they don't have any headline driving except for a grabbing bag. >> andrea: it is strange. then i realize it was hundred days into his second term. isn't the political wisdom his hundred days is the stopping point. when he said i'm confident i can get things done maybe through executive order. you are going through the 2014 mid terms and democrats that are ange

you won't hear the press say that bernie goldberg will analyze the press and margaret thatcher later on. let's bring in brit hume who met margaret thatcher in 1990. i have one stat i want to give you and everybody else because this is a startling stat. margaret thatcher became prime minister in 1979 and took over in downing street. in 1982, about two and a half years into her term, unemployment in great britain was 13%. it was absolute chaos there. when she left office in 1990, she was the longest serving prime minister in british history. it was the 5.8%. so, while she was hammered by the liberal press and the liberal labor party, it looks like she knew what she was doing economically or am i wrong? >> you are not wrong about that. her policies are antidote and an at this antithesis. bret's remember that great britain was far farther down the road from full blown socialism when she took over than the united states has ever gone or may ever go. her attitude was this has got to change and change radically and it did under her. i mean, she privatized agencies that the government had co