when we pressed forward. they don't do that anymore. >> they do it occasionally. >> they will do it -- a used it -- a ucsc spindle and that was when c-span but it was so important, they changed that. >> but the amount, we did it this year during the voting rights act but they're doing it a lot less than they used to. you are right. what they told us was, look, we're going to go you one better. we're going to release all the audio, and court experts and academics can hear it. but you're right, they do it when they opened the valve and release all the news value and it's completely useless. then it goes on the web. >> i just wanted to say, the net result of all of these arcane little customs and traditions and rules is, and close to janet's point, the court even aids totally evades one of the most important modern-day forms of accountability of a government institution, which is broadcast access. in a sense i think you were saying we sort of let them get away with it. and i guess we have. i've only been abdicat

he held seven press conference. the show the length of the event is increased as of the number of jobless who participated in two thousand and eight. i like it but from a noble ago a wreck on one thousand three hundred and sixty four journalists attended a conference in boston for four dollars and forty minutes that's the longest on record questions typically range from domestic policy to foreign policy as well. thus to put in all sorts of questions about his family life missions conference is the second since putin began his second term. i stuck them in fact is most impressed because the big issue right now concerning russia is o what's happening in ukraine tens of thousands of anti government protesters of unkempt out there in independence square to basically what the government to ditch closer ties with russia instead embrace a trade pact with the european union anti dumping code this is a continuing to cabo despite that deal was signed by just a couple of days ago between president viktor yanukovich in ukraine a

press publishing the propaganda photos?m not defending the white house. i get where they're coming from a little bit. >> the bureau chief from "time" magazine knows better. >> yes. i'm agreeing with you, though, that a lot of this seems just self-inflicted. >> self-inflicted, what do you mean by that? >> why not let a photographer into an event where like you said the president is doing the people's business for 30 seconds to get a pool spray. we're talking about this on national television right now and the white house always derides process journalism you guys are focusing on process. er this stepping in it. let us in there, talk a few pictures. >> this has been going on for a long time from the very first day of the administration when chief justice john roberts botched the oath of office and they had a private swearing in ceremony, they had a still photographer in there, not from the news organizations, to put that out there, so this has been an ongoing trend, this week -- >> from the administration who promised to be t

he was once in the press. and for him to sit up there and make the argument, and in this case make the argument about basically blaming the host government of south africa for denying access to the mandela event -- funeral, my goodness, that's not what we're talking about. what we're talking about is here in the united states, reporters and photographers and cameramen routinely being denied basic access to their firsthand subject. and it's all because, as you say, it's so easy to send out this prepared stuff. and greg, i don't know what else you'd call it but propaganda. that is exactly what it is. >> and there's a different nature to it, one might describe it as hostility. for example, reporters' phone logs and e-mails have been secretly seized. our own james rosen being called a co-conspirator of an indicted leak suspect. exposing rosen to possible prosecution for just doing his job as a reporter. david sanger, anybody who reads "the new york times" knows who he is, chief washington correspondent for the "ti

all the times that many times there are connections and i was always interested in politics in the press when i was eight year old i used to put out my own newspaper that's what you did when. many years ago or today you'd be on the net or something yeah but i split up my own newspaper write the headlines and so it's a lifelong. addiction you might say that's remarkable remarkable it's been. it's been forty years since the supreme court ruled six to three in the new york times case what made that case you call it a case for the ages. what makes that not hyperbole. well here's the way to think about the pentagon papers case without turning off your non lawyers or you know it's very simple what nixon tried to do is he tried to censor the new york times and later the washington post how did he try to censor them the sense of them by going into court and getting an order that you can't print you know it's. simple simple censorship what's interesting about it was the only time in american history that ever happened. during a bet it's not going to happen. well now use the fancy term it's actual

so my with up with the press. i did more leakers than anybody in the history of the country and what i was worried about also. was that he was going to go after wiki leaks and a song for what i talked about earlier in the program this criminal action and do it on a legal theory that was going to be terribly troublesome now the nixon tried to do that that's to say criminally prosecute the new york times after publication after he lost the pentagon papers case he wanted to bites out of the apple and he had a grand jury going for eighteen months up in boston but it gave up and what is a palm a done he's convened a grand jury to indict a song which is very much what and that's it and i say if obama goes forward with that he'll be worse than nixon i think he's given a nixon a pretty good battle anyway but that was my major point now is since then in the last ten days the justice department is flawed or the state in which says that may not prosecute and i like to think my book had some influence on that decision but who

that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy right culver's. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hydrangeas right handful. of corporations that will profit by the screwing what our founding fathers. are going to get on this show we were to feel the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identify the problem try rational debate and a real discussion that critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. although back to conversations of great minds i'm speaking with james c. goodale former general counsel for the new york times and author of the new book fighting for the press the inside story of the pentagon papers and other battles and. i mention is it as we were hit the break there that i wanted to get into how the time may have changed beyond just nine eleven this is what jim ellsberg had to say on this program. oh about six eight months ago areas. do you see a qualitative d

news meet the press joins us to answer questions instead of asking them from washington's amazing museum plus a look at christmas in washington including scenes from inside the white house with first lady michelle obama all next on palin taking with larry king. from the fantastic museum in washington d.c. it is now but there's no place like this the newseum as we call it right right my fiance yeah it's a want to say news museum and it will have david gregory the moderator of n.b.c. news meet the press he's moderated since december of two thousand and eight he was the chief white house correspondent during the regime of george w. bush and meet the press is the oldest running sunday news talk show in american television history when you got this job for we get of of things yeah and what was that like. it was extraordinary told you well our brar news president the time steve capice called it was in the gym a die but it was some time after that as your member tom brokaw filled in i think n.b.c. news did the smart thing which is after something is significant is that to to ease the transition

obama said, but the questions the press conference asked. right out of the gate. the first question came from the associated press and the question was: do you consider this the worst year of your presidency? i mean, what does that tell you when reporters are asking that straight out of the gate? most of the questions there were lots of follow-up where the reporters are really seeking clarification or trying to corner him on things. obviously there has been a lot of animosity over the picture-taking, the press corps not being able to shoot as freely as in past administrations. i would say right now things have deteriorated between the press and the white house. >> do you agree with susan in terms of the relations between the white house press corps and the president. >> it's tense. interesting when he asked what his new years resolution better u.s. relations and treat the press corps better. president obama watches the cable news shows. he reads the newspapers. and it effects him. i think it has taken some wind out of his sail. the good news

the people of newtown have asked for time without the media and press. we are respecting that. >> sadly, another school shooting incident in colorado on friday, the 20th since newtown a year ago. it is extraordinarily rare for the national media to stay away because the community leaders ask them. what explains this? >> the advent season, i guess. a late winter or early winter blossoming of human decency. >> which is notably absent most of the time? >> this is not breaking news. can you go and slog your agenda and you can go and say, why won't america pass a law that wouldn't have prevented this, in honor of this or say, president obama's second term agenda is dead or whatever they want to say but this is the one-year anniversary. that is ghoulish to hang out if they don't want you. >> president obama used this opportunity to talk about gun control but how much does it help our understanding of school safety and gun issue to invade a grieving community with mike folks and camera. >> it is painful think we have all had as rookie experiences, the editor sa

before the president flies off to hawaii tonight, he'll "meet the press" and face tough questions just an hour from now. only a year after launching his second term with so much hope and optimism, what's gone wrong? we'll talk to chuck todd and the rest of the a team, dynamic duo at the desk. david gregory and chris matthews. you heard them on the political agenda for 2014. plus mandela's message for a generation born long after he was released from prison, became south african's first black president and tried to change the world with a spirit. now one hollywood movie is trying to bring madiba's word to children today. >> we will fight for our homes. we will fight for our freedom. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington where the president will be facing white house press corps one final time in 2013. reporters eager to ask about a host of topi. starting off with another rule change to the health care law announced quietly. the change was announced quietly last night. actor east coast evening newscast joining me chuck todd chief white house correspondent, host of "the daily rundow

that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy recall folks. will. never go on i'm sorry and on this show we reveal the picture of what's actually going on and we go beyond identifying the truth rational debate real discussion critical issues facing up to go ready to join the movement and welcome the big picture. for tonight's conversations with great minds i'm joined by someone who played in this central role in one of the most important first amendment cases in modern american history james c. good ale was vice chair and general counsel for the new york times published the pentagon papers and led the paper's legal team in its fight against the nixon administration he's often called the father of reporter's privilege means to this day a powerful advocate for the freedom of the press in addition to his legal work goodale as taught at yale and why you fordham university his new book fighting for the press the inside story of the pentagon papers and other battles is a must read for anyone who wants an in-depth look at one of the most famous supreme cou

but he's not a member of the press. but sometimes what's happening is the news media isn't even invited to certain events and the white house are bringing people in to have one-on-one interviews with white house people and not even telling the press, which is outrageous. >> but this is what was going on in the first administration. i don't know why it didn't come up before he was re-elected. there was a politico story, i think a year ago, about they called it the puppet master. it was all about these things, this whose tv where it's very orwellian. they hadn't met with a "new york times" beat reporter in a year. that's unacceptable. >> and president obama takes very few questions about these photo-ops. he took 107 in his first term compared to president george w. bush 354 in his first term and that's a vital way of getting the president on the record in day-to-day news coverage. absolutely. and it hasn't happened. if we go back to the foe tol to go fers again, because in our culture, so much is the presentation, the pic

you know, in the end, you talk about what the press can do better next time. you talk about what campaigns can do better next time. if i am just a voter, what am i supposed to do? am i supposed to block all of this out? >> somebody asked me this question recently also. >> garbage. a lot of twitter is irrelevant garbage that is not going to help me make a decision about who is the best. >> look, if you're a regular person in texas or sacramento or toledo, wherever, you do not care that scott brown is in londonderry. we care deeply. nothances are if they do care, they are not following you on twitter in the first place. i think i just wanted to write this paper to illuminate for people sort of why what they are seeing on the evening news or the today show or reading in their local paper, how that story kind of came to be in today's sort of media ecosystem, because i am not sure that everyone -- we all take twitter for granted. i mean, how many of you guys look at twitter? and how many of you guys get news on your phone? how many of you guys watched the evening n

session where there was a direct negotiated stakeholder interaction, they were there with the members of press and the stakeholders. our feeling was that the briefing that we gave to the stakeholders on wednesday afternoon was their opportunity to pose questions to us and have an exchange, and that the opportunity for the press for us to have a briefing and have questions and answers would come at the end of the round when we had completed the round uring this hour. >> having a specific commitment. scientific these negotiation, we are discussing very broadly for all sectors. and andrement what is being done. it is not close. it is just the reason we expect to work. and within each of the sectors, these issues are looking into. we will see how far it is possible to go under each of these issues and each of those sectors. i think that's important to ear in mind. >> i have a question. the commission this week released a draft regulation on restricting products from cloned animals, and i'm just -- can you tell us to what extent that issue will find its way into the trade agreement, into the trade

the president started off saying, this was the most wonderful press conference of the year. doesn't quite seem it worked out like that? >> well, certainly fielded a number of tough questions, tour'e and i would argue one of the headlines that came out of this press conference relates to the nsa, president obama signaling he's seriously considering making changes to the way the government collects information and data to its surveillance program. just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. there's more than one way to skin a cat. the president essentially arguing that the public concern has become so great that his administration needs to address those concerns. of course, as we have been reporting earlier this week, a task force issued 46 recommendations on how to change the government surveillance program. president obama while in hawaii will be reviewing the 46 recommendations and come up with his own changes that we expect him to announce in january. he also continued to defend at least his use of the program saying that he does not believe they've broken any

former russian tycoon mikhail holder is getting ready to meet the press after finally being reunited with his family in berlin following his surprise release from prison. also this week eighty civilians are executed by islamist rebels in syria while western nations signal upcoming peace talks might not need a removal after all. and a big deal for ukraine russia agrees to buy fifteen billion dollars of its debts and slash the price of gas which kiev hails as its rescue from bankruptcy. the latest news on the week's top stories here want to national with me. thanks for joining us. and in just a few hours may help to give his first press conference since he was released from jail after ten years behind bars the man who was russia's most high profile prisoner is now in berlin where he was reunited with his parents and son on saturday let's now get more from all over who's live in berlin for us so please or what have you learned about what are called skis plans. well mr hart of course he's currently taking a tour around the berlin wall museum here in the german capital that's where in a l

how could you >> it was a rather long press conference. longer.20 minutes not normally a person who being grilled like this tends to do. he was a monetary historian took the job. he was asked how do you think look backtorians will on your denture. saving the economy from how it willisis and be interesting to see how people think about how they coped with the limitations what have do you to help an economy when the main tool, short-term interest is at zero. rarely do you hear a leader at his level in washington admit to mistakes. he admitted they were too slow to see the crisis coming and too slow to react. gwen: must we nice to be leaving town to say oh, by the way, i did make a few mistakes. leave you for now. the conversation continues online on the "washington week" extra which streams live at 30:00 eastern type and all weekend long at pbs.org/washingtonweek. while online find a few last ideas, i know i need a few, on the winter reading list where you can see what the have been reading. next week watch for the special year ender where w

50 years later europe plus the printing press. you have a new europe because everything gets changed -- the political system, the religious system and so on. if you put television into america in 1946, by 1960 you don't have america just "plus television", but a new kind of america, so that our social relations are altered and our attitudes toward childhood are altered and our political system is altered and we get new meanings of old words and so on. that's not something that's new in culture. that's why i discussed luther in the book -- that this happens whenever you get new technologies. but the difference now is that when luther lived, the printing press was changing europe. he understood that. but then western culture had about 300 years to adapt itself to the printing press. so we developed new forms of economic life, new political ideas, new notions about education -- all organized around the printing press. but in our own time, our situation is much more difficult to cope with because almost daily, it seems, new technologi

such examples have caused a simmering feud between the white house and the press, with photographers and reporters arguing their access to the president is more restricted than in the past. mcclatchy newspapers' senior white house correspondent steven thomma: >> we expect a small group of journalists at a minimum to be allowed into the room in the white house or elsewhere when he's meeting with a foreign leader, when he's meeting with his cabinet, when he's meeting we are granted access less and less since this white house took over in 2009. >> reporter: of course, there are some remarkable moments the press would never be asked to witness. but others are not so extraordinary, and there's the rub, says thomma, president of the white house correspondents association. >> increasingly, as they release their own photos and videos of these events, it underscores to us as a press corp, that they know these are of public interest. >> reporter: the tension spilled into white house press secretary jay carney's regular briefing last week. from your end, that you think it's an-- you think this

the press corps to president the president from these moments. they're starting to rebel. >> but there was a subnarrative one about michelle obama, she was angry, she was ticked off, how dare the president flirt with this danish prime minister. except another photo in that sequence showed her smiling and chatting. >> how do we know? it's impossible to know. i remember there was a controversy a little while back about the two of them in a basketball game. and when the kiss cam up, she didn't move to kiss him. >> shocking. >> yeah. but again, in the context of serious news, conversations about what was u.s. policy towards nelson mandela, was he communist? what about this freedom struggle, how does it relate to americans? that's too painful to your head. it was easier to talk about this guy, the president, possibly flirting with a blond. oh, my gosh, everybody gets gossip. >> i was looking at that new york post column, flirting with dane-ger. the many larger story here, not much ratings here. did others tune out about mandela and not the interpreter

at the white house, press secretary jay carney said president obama plan comment on the findings. >> in january, when the overall internal review is completed, the president will make remarks about the work that he has undertaken and the outcomes of his review. >> brown: the outside assessment was ordered after former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden leaked secret details about the agency's efforts last summer. intelligence officials maintain their data collection operation has thwarted a number of terror attacks. but opponents argue it goes too far. carney insisted the president's top priority is the safety and security of the american people. >> he does believe that we can take steps to refine our practices and make sure that we are collecting intelligence, gathering intelligence in a way that serves our security needs in a focused way, and not just because we can because we have the capacity to do so. >> brown: the full report was originally expected to be released in january. but carney said the administration decided to release it early because initial reports were inaccurate. f

john hughes, treasurer of the national press club. washington correspondent for the dallas morning news. reporter covering the business and international trade for "the washington times." [applause] our guest today rocked the auto world last week when he announced he would step down as chairman and ceo of general motors. racked up tributes. he came to gm in 2010 as the ceo to turn around the biggest of the big three from bankruptcy. that work ended last week when the u.s. treasury sold the last of its shares. one can imagine the champagne corks popping when that news was announced. general motors led global sales for 77 consecutive years from 1931 through 2007, longer than any automaker. the global downturn beginning 2008 also turn into a crisis for the u.s. automotive industry. it was further weakened by increases in gasoline prices, discouraging sport utility vehicles, the bread-and-butter of the u.s. industry profit. gm filed chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009 with $82 billion in assets and $170 billion in liabilities. they shed several

news meet the press he's moderated since december of two thousand and eight he was the chief white house correspondent during the regime of george w. bush and meet the press is the oldest running sunday news talk show in american television history when you got this job for we get of of things yeah and what was that like. it was extraordinary told you well our brar news president the time steve capice called it was him had died to die but it was some time after that as you remember tom brokaw filled in i think n.b.c. news did the smart thing which is after something is significant is that to to ease the transition into put tom into the job i think that was appropriate and it was a nice way to bridge that gap because it was going to be a difficult transition for anybody and it was thanksgiving i was in new york with my wife and our kids and our president called and said i was going to be moderator of meet the press and you know there had been a lot of speculation. running up to that but i was i was blown away i mean it's. it was always something that i thought about i never thought that i

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television program, this is "meet the press." >>> and good sunday morning. it is a day of prayer and reflection in south africa as the nation mourns its former president, nelson mandela. flags are also at half staff at the white house this morning. president obama and the first lady will be going to south africa on tuesday. and former presidents jimmy carter and bill clinton will also be going to south africa this week. nelson mandela will be laid to rest this week. joining me charlene hunter-gault who worked for npr during nelson mandela's presidency, and from new york, special correspondent tom brokaw. here is tom back in 1990 interviewing nelson mandela after he was released from prison. it's a great photo. the reverend jesse jackson is here, one of the first people to greet mandela after he was released from prison. what a great day that was. we'll talk about it. and he wrote a book entitled "mandela's way." and charles ogletree who marched for mandela's freedom and subsequently met with him several times. welcome to all of you. it's a great privilege to

the press the worst human rights abuses since the process started. in samoa was a case that they would have to fifteen to twenty percent of the world's. supply by production not by value but by production and that by as you've been. in the process it's a consensus based organization or initiative so i only need to do is find one friend to two to be on your side who start a consensus decision on something and bob's your uncle i won't wear diamonds but i know. a lot of people really love them and you know this christmas what advice can you give to people to buy a band and know that they're not getting a conflict diamond. question i think that a lot of times. the onus is as much on on the consumer as it is on the on the jewelry company itself who you know the jewelry company has a responsibility to to ask questions and do due diligence on it was supplying it with the stones i think the committee process itself is no longer the. going to guarantee that i think most people most consumers have a right to it since it seems that us and you see the movie bloo

part of freedom of the press, an important part of freedom of the press and i'm stocking up this morning is that fortunately, journalist don't have to answer to government officials about whether sources give them or how they got there information or got their sources , and those are protected from questions like the government -- from the government like the ones you just asked. mr. snowden is the source. who received information of the guardian and when they've received it is not anyone's concern. mr. snowden is identified as the source because he wanted to be identified as the source. i am not going to answer questions about who got the documents, or when we decided to share those internally. it is not for the government to intervene in a process. as far as what the documents are about, i think it is very clear with the documents are about. when mr. snowden came to us he said he had a large amount of documents. think about this for a moment. he had a lot of choices in terms of what he could've done. he could've uploaded them all to the internet. he could have given them to an organiza

do you think this press conference helped at all, michael? >> i can't say absolutely that it helped. reading the transcript, watching the president, like you said in your open, antonio, it seemed like he had half of his body already on the plane to hawaii. what dit do was round out a -- it did do was round out a bad year for the president but it didn't leave with a great amount of swagger. one of the telling take aways for me was a small item, when he talked about adding john podesta to the white house, the clear message is communication -- >> his dealing with the white house press corps which is an issue all along. there is an antagonistic discussion behind the scenes. they asked him about his roftion and he said to be nicer to the press corps. >> and i said i would lose weight this year. the fact that the president didn't make any definitive answers to the nsa question only tabled it to january. closing the year by the fact that the economy got better. there wasn't any bombshell about this. >> let's talk about the nsa, he was asked about th

program volves and how it should have all those get to some of these current know more about meet the press obama. up down up now down. how do you praise them. well i think for supporters they would say the guy was dealt a really bad hand he's stabilized the economy if you're a supporter you say you choose something that progressives have not been able to achieve in that sweeping health care legislation that ensures all americans if they actually sign up for. days been he's had some successes in foreign policy and that he's wound down. america's wars in afghanistan and iraq. that's a great success right i mean i think that is the case for him. but i think the more objective case is that his major thrust his big day was to turn the economy around and that's not really happened i mean yes have things leveled off the the economy is getting better but it doesn't have those animal spirits yet there's a great deal of uncertainty that's why there's still so many people out of work a lot of businesses that are not investing there's a lot of concern about him and about america around the world in te

the army held a formal press conference on aug twelfth at five pm announcing that thirty five of the one hundred forty eight american servicemen and women who died on the battlefield in the gulf war were killed and it virtually by their comrades for many families like the family of captain lance fielder the army's public relations strategy left them disconcerted douglas fielder everyone called him lance he was a combat engineer. the basic facts are that his truck broke down he was waiting for repair another unit from across a boundary which was a little bit lost on the map stumbled across and thought that he and his guys were actually s. and killed a lieutenant perley and john daly understood at the scene as soon as you got out of his bradley fighting vehicle that he had ordered his gunner to open fire and that the casualties were very good as he'd only knew it was friendly fire he did it. and yet the casualty officers went back and they reported to the family that their head son had died in an encounter with the republican guard it was just made up out of whole cloth. it was only wh

our press is a free press, and nobody tells the press what to do and it's one of the most important things in our democracy. but with that comes great responsibility, and the press will make the decision of what to broadcast, come tomorrow morning, which is a school day, in december, in connecticut. joining us now is betsy west. she is a former senior vice president at cbs news, thank you for coming in. >> thank you, rachael. >> when the people who run news organizations like ours decide whether or not to air this kind of sensitive material, what is there to consider? >> first and fore most, everyone will be aware of what a difficult day this will be tomorrow in newtown. i think they will be listening to those tapes to see if there is anything news worthy in them. do we learn anything that we didn't already know about this case from those tapes? anything about the reaction of the police, for example. it's hard to say until you heard the tapes, but i think that's what people will be listening to first and fore most. what i'm skirting is the difficult question of what do you do if you hear g

was shot nobody nobody frustrated that the army seemed to be of baiting the truth he turned to the press. for more than a year and a half the mother of a fallen soldier has been trying to learn the truth about her son's death jessie's mom doesn't know exactly what to believe the family was told he died from internal injuries after a dump truck crashed into his humvee months later she saw all this stuff to get their training gunshot to the back what's more it was friendly fire. in response to the press coverage of peggy's story the secretary of the army directed the inspector general to open a new investigation into jesse's case in the midst of the new investigation one officer stated that he felt the case had been swept under the rug and other officers said he thought investigative officers were walking on eggshells because they felt they couldn't say anything bad about the poles. when the new investigators sought to retrieve the bullets for ballistics testing they made an unnerving discovery that they threw away the. they would treat the bullet from. the found the bullet would get three

club -- is it the press club? the funny thing is i grew up with ashley cleaning the press club when i was a teenager and filling the bars with wine so it's kind of bringing me back to my childhood days so i'll be supportive of this license. >> great thank you supervisor i just want to note that i was very impressed with the presentation. we had a number of applicants over the last through months and over the years i've seen many and i thought it was a very good presentation so we have a motion to move this item forward. thank you very much congratulations. we'll make that motion approved without objection thank you very much and thank you to our police department as well. congratulations. mr. clerk if you can please call item number 2 and i want to note we're joined by our deputy city attorney. >> the master plan and the public health and planning department. it's used with widespread community input to create the plan. >> great thank you very much and this is an item that i've introduced and before i turn it over

how many press conferences did reagan have? >> as far as access goes, ed, they have squeezed -- they did it from the campaign. they release on the internet. they release what they want to release. as far as access -- ask anyone who works inside the white house -- >> to worry about pictures. >> what do you mean? >> it's phenomenal to me. denying access on the photographs. what's a photograph. your is going to look silly once in a while? of course. i made a career out of looking silly. >> is this a logical interpretation of the modern day press society where not only regular journalists we have joe journalists who has the iphone. everybody is a photographer, everybody is critic. >> let them in. let people with iphones in to take pictures. i don't understand jay carney's logic where we're in this new age so gee we're only going to have our guy take pictures and send to it the internet. that's a silly argument. >> mika is right. can you have a rotating pool. >> get selfies. i do understand that it's a little too much to have everyb

the press conference still ongoing.as you mentioned, one of the wounded students still in the hospital, still in surgery as far as we understand it at this hour. the others released, one of them suffering anxiety related injuries from the incident. but at this hour, just one student still in the hospital. >> the one thing we don't know is why this happened. we heard that the student came into the high school and wanted to see a teacher and that that teacher then left the school. but other than, we don't know anything else, right? >> right. that's right. there was some discussion during the press conference about whether the student had been suspended as a result of other interaction, and what the nature of the disagreement was win the teacher and student remains unclear. the police would not or could not confirm what it was. but it is known that the student did come in and i announced he was looking for that teacher and the teacher promptly left the, paul beban in colorado will keep us up to date. this is the 25th schoo

he would now use the press to help prove his case. >> the press in italy doesn't have any boundaries. that's where the word paparazzi comes from. >>> the amanda knox case was a media juggernaut, and once this case got going, it had a life of its own. >> we all first heard about the case when we turned on our televisions. >> my head is all confused. the incident has left me very confused. >> there was an american college student in italy being paraded on a perp walk. and that was absolutely a shocking image that went viral. >> if she was an ugly girl, would we have a different feeling about her? >> let's not overlook that the real victim in the case is meredith kercher and her family that continues to grieve. >> we need to find out what happened. >> for the tabloids, however, myrrh death kercher wasn't the story. this was all about amanda knox. >> in the amanda knox case the media played an enormous role. this was a case that was front and center in all of the italian media. and they looked at her as this sex demon. you know, here she was, an american on their soil. committing heinous

the president just turned the page on 2014 and told the white house press corps, big things are popping. >> it's the most wonderful press conference of the year. 2014 can be a breakthrough year for america. both parties in both houses of congress came together to pass a budget. it's probably too early to declare an outbreak of bipartisanship. >> has it been the worst year of your presidency? . there are areas where there have been some frustration. a lot of our legislative initiatives in congress have not moved forward as rapidly as i would like. if i was interested in polling, i wouldn't have run for president. it's not that i don't engage in a lot of self reflection here. i'm sure that i will have even better ideas after a couple days of sleep and sun. >>> of course, the president takes off in a few hours for its annual hawaiian holiday after wrapping up a year-end president conference a short time ago. and before taking questions on a wide range of tough topics, the president led with the gift of good economic news. >> this morning we learned over the summer our economy grew at its s

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his final press conference of 2013. before the president begins his press conference, let's take a look at how wall street has been performing on this december 20. of all the major market averages are in the green. the nasdaq is up one point -- is up 1.27%. the s&p up by three quarters of a percent. and the dow jones industrial average is up two thirds of a percent. a 106 point rise for the doubt this afternoon. stocks and treasury bonds are rising. that report that margaret mentioned shows the economy expanded at a faster rate than previously estimated in the third quarter p.m. you are watching -- and the third quarter. you're watching bloomberg television, i'm mark crumpton. president obama has his final conference of 2013. a wide variety of topics, ranging from health care reform here in the united states and some of the critical issues overseas, namely iran. that news that we got yesterday that 26 u.s. senators, 13 democrats and 13 republicans, want to sign onto legislation that would require the united states to in