benefits, thee us press corps had been nbelievably generous, the institutional press corps. n the other hand, a form can constra constrain and that is if you're in a newspaper or television, you're going to produce information in a particular way. internet and e blogs, there's no predefined forum. we could be anything we wanted. we didn't know enough from experience to say, okay, this is be.t we should benefit is this couldn't be done before. of any broaderrt institution that had a message communicating. we had no profit responsibilities. we didn't have any other staff that we were paying. it was the law firm staff firstg on the blog in the instance. mostly what we had was a chance to do something completely different. if you're trying to do something completely different, you're we g to screw up a lochlt certainly did. were lots of cases that we didn't cover. the blog really focused a lot on the law firm in the early days if you go back to use the machine.way back we're doing.s that the blog's first five years or really they were interesting don't compare in any way the sec

throughout the history the press corp had access to events. a change in policy says the white house will use their own pr photos. our correspondent explains. >> sometimes it may seem the white house press corp is spending too much energy covering the mine usualia of the barack obama administration. >> the white house didn't have a problem allowing the photographers in for the welcoming of the annual christmas tree. the new policy is clear. for other events, no independent observation will be allowed. official white house photographs like these will be released. the white house says pictures are adding to the white house's transpersons si, as they are taken at private event. >> we have tried to use new technology and the president's personal photographer as a way to provide insight into what is happening at the white house. n.b.c. often will ask if we have a photo to release. >> some in the press corp argue that many of these events are official business, and the duration's release of carefully vetted photos to be distributed widely by social m

how people are in the press corps? you say there's only so many hard passes. >> so regulars it's about 40 i'm guessing. >> i would have guessed less but no more than that for sure. it's a small group. when you think congress is covered like thousands and the white house also. >> and there are a number of people who wear multiple hats. pete does this unbelieveably effectively to do the department of justice and you can be sent off to boston all these sorts of things. but we're all awire of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people cover more things. and technology can help with that. but the number of people in the press room who are devoted supreme court correspondents has gone down materially. the core people that you rely on, the people that you've known -- like these guys, like jeff who was mentioned, the ap reporters, those institutions have remained committed to it. but there are lots of regional papers that have completely ended their coverage. some of th

for us, but is it that this cream court press corps gets? they get preferential seating on the side of the court during the arguments. .hey get guaranteed access they give conference lists of the cases that will be considered. you can actually get that through supreme court's docket. it is more a question of -- and i do think it is significant in the sense -- the supreme court is a signal or to other institutions. its decision about whether blogs deserve recognition is for that reason significant. also has first amendment implications. the court is aware that if we are eventually denied a credential we will sue. >> scotus blog versus scotus. i have said facetiously that i would like to sue because of that title. we are committed to the principle that we deserve it, and they will decide whatever they think is right. there is a lot of debate that we belong on the right side of the line. the question of where to draw the line, they have to create a policy. so it is a challenge to them to draw a line that is sensible. ofcan get many thousands vi

the issue here is very importanl retrospectively whether in the press corps or whether we are economists we all sensed the same issues of euphoria fear and elation. i think that press cores probably on this issue as i say the same level as the most highly-skilled economic technicians. some of them report somewhat better than others but in general i have never had a problem seeing the press missed the real issues. some are not reporters. some are commentators and that is a different group but for those in the press corps who endeavored to be objective enough to have political biases, i think they did an extraordinarily good job in general and i think it's largely because there is an attempt to say what is really happening is what policymakers would like you to believe it's happening. >> we talked in the beginning about the polarization of congress. he just mentioned the rise of opinion oriented media. do you think that plays a role in the partisanship that we see in congress contributing to the bigger picture of problems that we talked about? >> well partisanship is something which has al

but for those in the press corps who endeavor to be objective and not to have political biases, i think they did an extraordinarily good job in general, and i think that it's largely because there's an attempt to say what's really happening distinct from what policymakers would like you to believe is happening. >> we talked at the beginning about the polarization of congress. you just mentioned the rise of opinion-oriented media. do you think that plays any role in the partisanship that we see this -- many congress and contributing to the bigger picture problems that we talked about? >> well, you know, partisanship which is something which -- is something which has always existed. in the book i have certain charts which i take, for example, the 2010 congress and four caucuses -- democrat, republican, house and senate -- and all four had the same pattern. they all go up and down with the center of it being, for example, in the republican party those on the far right, the tail end. but the middle of the caucus is sort of plain just medium conservative, then it goes down. and the actual br

>> i never bought that the press corps and i know you disagree. never believed that the press corps in general was in the tank. we try to cover what is happening in front of us. it is so obviously and bla at the present timely wrong and misleading and some cases lying that there is no way to ignore it. and the first year of the second term has been a disaster. and they have done just about everything wrong you can possibly do. we have to cover that. and you know, there is just no getting around it. >> does it hurt more than it promised to be what he promised most transparent. snshg yes. >> why does that make it worse? >> this is a guy who came to washington and elected and convinced a lot of people. 54 percent of us that he would change the culture of washington. this is not an opinion but a fact. what has happen instead. he had is a hostage of washington and he's now acting like and sounding like the very thing he ran against. people can understand when the president can't get something done. and they don't even agree with the president. but we w

. >> sometimes it may seem like the white house press corp is spending too much energy covering the minutia. the freedom of the press to cover official event is not happening. the new policy is clear, for significant events, no independent observe will be allowed. >> instead initial white house photos like these will be released. the white house says the pictures are adding to the administrations transparency as they are taken at private event. >> we have tried to provide using new technology and the president's personal photographer additional insight into what is happening at the white house. that's why your television network, n.b.c. will ask if have a photo we can release. >> some in the press corp argue many events are official business, and with the administration's release of carefully vetted photos to be distributed widely by social media, shoes their newsworthiness. >> in a letter signed the white house is accused of replacing independent journalist with individual press releases. >> for example this photo. >> this gives you and your viewers a sense of what happened at the lunch, w

there is growing tension between the obama administration and the white house press corps. top u.s. journalists accusing the white house of deliberately banning photo journalists from covering the president at official state events. questions about the practice leading to this heated exchange during thursday's press briefing. take a look. >> each presidential team that has come in here has basically used for some denial of access has used the previous president as an -- presidential team as an excuse for why they denied that abscess. you are setting precedent here that the next president is going to use and are you aware of that? >> i don't agree with that. i can't think -- the only precedent that i can think of in terms of the previous administration is where we have taken steps to be more transparent. >> susan estridge is the fox news contributor and professor of law and political science at the university of southern california. hello. >> hey, art. >> okay. so let's start here. does this tension, if you will, fall under the category of surprising or expected? >> i think

the female press corps. that is easy to rally members around a single cause. we raise money for the young survival coalition which our young women's breast cancer organization. we have played this game for five years. the congressional women's team has only won once. the quest for that trophy continues but it has given us >>> to be out there at 7:00 in the morning for three months every year practicing being women, just being girls and getting to know each other as moms and girlfriends and we don't talk about politics. i consciously don't wear any of my democratic t-shirts to make sure we keep everything neutral on the field and it has given us a chance to work together. what we said in his last shutdown was if they lock the few women in the house and senate we would solve a lot of these problems. so before i get to questions i want to share one more thing with you because i am sure the affordable care act will come up and i hope it does because i look forward to talking about it but i want to share and excerpt from the health care chapter which should give yo

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everybody knew the story is the white house press corps consulted the the president. part-time intern could have found out it wasn't true. >> now we know just last week as the president was looking into the cameras saying, i'm sorry, but when i said that, i heldsin that people would not get cancelled. as recently as two weeks prior to him saying that, karl, last week, two weeks prior, his doj is filing a brief in the federal courts where you have a fiduciary obligation not to mislead the court telling the judge that this goes well beyond the individual market. goes to the group insurance market and they believe a majority of group health plans will lose their grandfather status by the end of 2013. that was their original estimate. now the end of 2014. the president gave corporation as one-year extension. >> you saw the report that came out of the newspaper chain which took a look at the individual rules and regulations, looked at the individual policies and discussed it with the companies and state insurance companies and concluded in the group market. in the individu

. >> the elizabeth warren boom from yesterday was a reminder how i feel like there is a press corps, a media, whatever, among democratic elite that are more interested in a democratic primary than democrats. >> i think that's exactly right. it's a piece of what i was saying earlier. >> the 9, 10, 11 -- >> no. i was very excited -- look, nobody in our business likes to cover a coronation unless we're talking about the king and queen when it comes to politics. >> what tomb? you want those people to abdicate? >> we like to cover a brawl. so i am paying money for the christie/cruz smackdown tour of 2016. but so, yeah, it's not going to be an interesting democratic primary unless there are some credible candidates. and how much more fun would it be for us if it's two credible women candidates? >> i hear you, but it just doesn't sound like -- she doesn't strike me as somebody who has -- to be anner insurgent candidate you can't be hiding from your local press corps. she doesn't enjoy dealing with the press scrum of capitol hill. if you don't enjoy that, you're not going to enjoy running fo

fighting the common enemy, the press corps. we played the female press corps. it's easy to rally around a single cause. we raise money for the coalition and the young women's cancer organization. we've been playing this for five years. the congressional and team is only 11. the quest for that trophy continues. but it's given us a chance to be out there at 7:00 in the morning for three months in the spring every year, practicing being women, just mean girls and getting to know each other as moms and girlfriends and we don't talk about politics. in fact, i consciously don't bring up my democratic teachers just to make sure we keep everything neutral on the field. it's given us a chance to work together. but we all set during the last shutdown was that they just blocked a few women in the house and senate in the room, left us alone for a few hours, but of a lot of these problems just like that. [applause] so before i get to questions, i am sure the affordable character. i look forward to talking about it. but i want to share an excerpt from the health care chapter

last week in a one-on-one interview he apologized and today he came out before the full national press corps and said this is on me. he has democrats in revolt on capitol hill and they threatening to jump ship. he said yes the quebe website is fouled up and if you like your plan you can keep your plan. grandfathering in some of these plans is insufficient. what he announced today a lot of people considered to be insufficient. if you have a plan insurance companies and through insurance commissioners can still offer the old plans even if they are not come pliechbt compliant wite affordable care act. here is what the president had to say. >> regardless of what congress does i'm the president of the united states and they expect me to do something about it. >> interms of how i intend to approach it, i will just keep on working as hard as i can around the priorities that the american people care about. and i think it's legitimate for them to expect me to have to win back some yesterda yesterday soe healthcare act. eivelgthey could change the ruld destabilize the marc death. alreadthe market.it a

why the white house press corp is not happy.elcome back, let's remind you of the headlines here at al jazeera - thousands of syrian refugees face the misery of another freezing winter. in a refugee camp in jordan trailers are arriving. many have lived in tents for a year. >> it protesters in thailand have been called on to intensify. government forces are rallying as well. >> north korea's video of an elderly u.s. citizens admitting to crimes no the korean war in the 1950s. >> the pakistani prime minister nawaz sharif is in kabul and revving the afghan peace protest is tonne top of the agenda. hamid karzai is pushing them to help talk to the taliban. it was a backer of the taliban when it ruled the country during the late 1990s. the visit comes at a time when hamid karzai is locked in a dispute with the u.s. over a security pact. it covers the role of u.s. soldiers that will remain in afghanistan after the pull-out. let's speak to jane ferguson who is in kabul. the first time the pakistani prime minister has been in kabul since

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having your press secretary mock one of the most respected people in the white house press corps. actually doing the george washington retreat on long island in the summer of 1776, maybe the this president needs a six-month cooling off period. figure out how to make their website work. stop this. this is only getting worse for them. they are digging deeper every day. >> you are hearing it from democrats. now it's democrats in red states. you will hear from more and more democrats. six months, even a year, hoping for breathing room saying in the end it would be a favor for the white house. >> mike allen, thank you so much. >> "double down" day. >> aaron rodgers goes down in green bay. what happened to the star quarterback and how the packers responded. sports is next. (car starting) great. this is the last thing i need. seriously? the last thing you need is some guy giving you a new catalytic converter when all you got is a loose gas cap. what? it is that simple sometimes. thanks. now let's take this puppy over to midas and get you some of the good 'ol midas touch. hey you know wha

actually a very good thing for the currency as a whole as a lot of you will associate the associated press corps in just directly with the silk road and so since it's been shut down the currency did dip about ten percent for both twelve hours and since then people realise that it's not just about the black market and it's actually a legitimate currency and it's actually gone up one hundred percent since then. vikas next here on r t with worlds apart. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussions according to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with themselves but in a politically correct insanity land these words are an obvious reminder of the days when a person's skin color was compared to a brown paper bag to determine race well if any were even remotely linked to an incident of racism needs to be banned then we've got

doing this and what are people wearing. ,y question for this panel is how many people are in the press corps? is about 40, i'm guessing. >> i would've thought twice as many. peoplee are a number of who wear multiple hats. you could be sent off to boston and all the sorts of things. we are all aware of the strains that journalistic institutions and the media are under and the need to have fewer people covering more things. technology can help with that. the number of people in the press room who are devoted to the supreme court correspondence has gone down materially. the core people you rely on, that you have known like these , those institutions remain committed. there are a lot of regional papers that have completely , some of theerage television networks have retrenched considerably. it is a smaller and smaller group. >> when i read something on line, the writer is credentialed elsewhere? is in the courtroom every day. one of those has where you can cover individual cases. >> she doesn't get to sit in the first two rows. because shely doesn't have a hard pass. >> is not like a distinction

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was a frequent visitor the official residence of the president of ibd yean a well-known among the press corp that the first prime minister called him by his first name. so trusted by government ministers they would seek his counsel on how to deal with the press. bosch as a british subject through hard work and sacrifice became an insider in modern india. he steeled himself and walked to the antiroom of his uncle's home to say farewell. shrouded with heaps of roses, his father lain in a coffin. as custom mare, the body was washed in pure fied water and dressed in a white loose fitting shirt. when he arrived at the hospital he was told his father was dead. as he stood at the entrance to his father's room he saw a plastic bag still attached bubbling with air. for a moment he thought the doctors had made a mistake. but the years of struggle and incarceration had taken their toll. at 56 he was dead of kidney failure. in the month leading up to his father's death. he spent a lot of time with his father accompanying him on long walks and listening to story of his time in the freedom moment. he lear

the outrage should be from the rest of the press corps. who should say, wait, i didn't get to go? >> i did the same thing in the bush administration. he invited a bunch of bloggers and things. i kept saying i want to go to the white house. >> you didn't make the cut? >> the bush administration, i certainly didn't. >> got to go. i should mention charles -- was also included in one of these gathering. thanks very much for joining us. >>> this is a fox buzz alert. katie couric is about to cut a deal for a new interview show on yahoo! and the title of global news anchor that would make her the biggest tv star to move online. she'd drop her role at abc news which has hardly been using her and is weighing to continue her daytime show, also indicated by abc. maria bartiromo is leaving cnbc and joining fox business news. >>> up next, msnbc still hasn't said much to criticize martin bashir and is sliming of sarah palin. is his apology really enough? >>> martin bashir loves to bash republicans in bitingly personal terms. he hit an absolute low in attacking sarah palin. >> when mrs. palin in

runs into a buzz saw of negative questions from the press corps. >> do you not believe, sir, the american people deserve a deeper, more transparent accountability from you as to why you said that over and over? >> why the media are now openly challenging his credibility. that "60 minutes" apology by lara logan for the botched story on benghazi. >> the most important thing to every person at "60 minutes" is the truth. and the truth is we made a mistake. >> why it was too little too late and further tarnished the program. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> you know the drill. send me a tweet about the program @howardkurtz. >>> if any further criticism were needed from the mainstream media at president obama, look no further than this news conference. >> do you feel this has led to a breach in public confidence in government? >> you said if you like your plan, you can keep it. americans believed you, sir, when you said that to them over and over. do you not believe, sir, the american people deserve a deeper, more transparent accountability from you as to why you said that over an

i am sure the press corps, the senate, democrats, but, in fact, what it will do is the one thing thewas supposed to do, prevent proliferation will have begun. lou: thank you for being here. much more on the president's foreign-poli. and time magazine taking a chea shot on governor christie. all of that and mor with the "a-team" nex ♪ lou: president obama swappg out joe biden for hillary clinton. where did you hear that first? that's right. right here. best-selling authord klein rote that one right here, and he has more next. ♪ [ male announcer ] 'tis the season of more. re shopping. mo dining out. and aith it, more identity theft. by the time this holiday season is over, more than million identities may be stolen. every time you pull out our wallet, shop online, or hit the road, you give thieves a cnce to ruin your holiday by the ti you're done watching this, as many as 35 more identities may be stolen. you can't be on the lookout 24/7. but lifelock can. there relentless about otecting your intity every minute ofvery day. when someone steals your identity and tries to take over your

. >> reporter: sometimes it may seem that the white house press corp are covering minutia, but it seemsike a fundamental right of journalists. the white house did not have problems letting photographers in for this, the welcoming of the annual christmas tree. for other significant events no independent observations will be allowed. instead only official white house photographs like these will be released. such pictures are adding to the administration's transparency as they're taken at private gelants we've tried to use new technology and the president's personal photographer as a way to provide additional insight. that's why on your television network nb nbc will have if we e a photograph we can release because we want to provide additional access. >> reporter: some argue that these events are official business and the administration's release of careful photos shows the white house recognizes their newsworthiness. the white house is accused, quote, replacing independent photojournalism with individual press releases. this photo of the president and hillary clinton. >> giving you and y

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jon: tensions are on the rise between the obama administration and the white house press corps over whatme call a lack of access to the president and the use of government photographers instead of independent journalists to record white house events. now the white house denies those claims saying it is actually given the public more access to the president because of social media. listen. >> each presidential team that has come in here basically used, you know, for some denial of access used the previous president as an, presidential team as an excuse for why they have denied that access. you guys are setting precedent here, that the next president is going to use, are you aware of that, maybe role back -- >> i don't agree. i don't agree with that. i can't think of, the only precedent that i can think of in terms of previous administration where we have taken steps to be more transparent. jon: talk about it with judith miller, a pulitzer-prize-winning investigator author and fox news contributor. kirsten powers, "daily beast" columnist and fox news contributor as well. kirsten, this is s

only to be outdone by the press corps that was wearing mondale masks. he lost that year to reagan. boom of masks from bush to bill clinton to highlight just a few. and in 2004, the george w. bush campaign staff used halloween to mock their opponent john kerry who had famously gone duck hunting just a week before. that means that ted cruz who went pheasant hunting last weekend should also be fair game. after all, he's the face scaring a lot of trick-or-treaters this year. >>> up next, rand paul was caught plagiarizing wikipedia by rachel maddow. now he's attacking her for catching him. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. a federal appeals court has blocked the decision that ruled the stop and frisk unconstitutional. >>> a massive storm system moving from texas to the northeast this halloween. back to "hardball." ♪ >>> we're back now with a follow-up to that story we brought you yesterday about my colleague rachel maddow catching senator rand paul plagiarizing from wikipedia. now senator paul has responded, sort of. let's recap monday night. rachel maddow broke the ne

obviously he refers to events in not just history but failure of the press corps at large like wmds and iraq war. it will fail to get at the heart of the question and get under the official utterances. >> you know, sometimes he put in our exchange portrays it as if impartial journalist do stenography. you take down what one guy asay and what the other one says and there is no judgment implied. no one that reads "the new york times" or "the washington post" or any of the sort of serious mainstream news organizations believes that. civility means you listen respectfully up to the point where somebody is lying to you and if somebody is lying to you and you can demonstrate it, you say so. you know, humility means that you offer people a chance to poke holes in whatever working thesis you have developed. but it doesn't mean, for example, that you give equal time for people who deny climate change. >> we have certainly seen instances of that. you know, there are moments -- >> false ekwiquivalenequivalenc. >> you make a distinction between the idea of objectivity and impartiality. they see the

. >>> tension between the obama administration and white house press corp.hat some call a lack of access now to the president and use of government photographers instead of independent journalists. the white house strongly denying those claims. >> each presidential team that has come in here has basically used, you know, for some denial of access is used the previous president as an excuse -- presidential team as an excuse for why they have denied that access. you guys are setting a precedent here a next president is going to use and are you aware of that and maybe roll back -- >> i don't agree. i don't agree with that. i can't think of -- the only precedent that i can think of in terms of the previous administration is where we have taken it steps to be more transparent. >> alan combs is the host of "the alan combs show" and mike gallagh gallagher. is this another promise broken by this administration? >> no, no, no. >> they claim they were going to be the most transparent administration in history. and now actually they're not allowing photographers to com

we have called back the press corps. they're there. we're not sure if that will come in a sort while but we can tell you this. secretary of state john kerry has not left that location. we've seen a lot of other people leave. amonmental thing, if we have actually gotten a deal with iran ober its nuclear program. remember, just a few hours ago, if you've been watching fox news, we've been telling you, rirn said a sticking point. it would not budge. it said it has a right to enrich uranium and will not do a deal without that. the world powers, the united states said absolutely not. that is the deal breaker. you have to stop enriching uranium. we don't know exactly what they've agreed upon, but we know that was a ling point as we learn more, of course, we'll bring it to you, but the big headline right now, fox news can confirm a deal reached about iran's nuclear program. if the president comes forth, if the secretary of state comes forth, any more news on this, we're on it at fox news in the newsroom, we'll bring it to you. now back to reg

candidates of 2016 will be the ones that don't try to build a wall around themselves from the 24/7 press corps. the ones that did it the way bill did it, not hillary. she's not someone who is comfortable in the cycle. that will be 2015 and the real primary year and 2016 is going to be. do you think social media is fast now, craig? what do you think it will be like in two years? >> we talked about the knives coming out in the right and the washington post article noting top democratic officials have started taking their aim at governor christie. the article quotes democrats as saying, quote, they plan to chip away at christie's moderate image and present him nationally as a hard-edged conservative. how effective of a strategy could that be? >> that's how they've gone after other republicans before, right? take mitt romney who ran as a moderate in massachusetts, not once, but twice and that's obviously the obama campaign and they believe at least on social issues they successfully painted him as somebody who was too conservative for the mainstream. it doesn't surprise me that that's going to be

. >> when you get to the point, liz, when you're mocking a well respected member of the press corps, is that a moment that shows how frustrated members of the administration are with this whole thing? >> look, i think this is what we've seen throughout this entire administration. you know, back from 2009 is the inability to connect what the comments were during the campaign and the act of campaigning where it's all sound bites with the realities of governing. and those are two very different things and the complexities are governing are now conflicting with the comments that were made during the campaign. so i think that's been very frustrating. this is an administration -- i'm sorry, this is an obama campaign world that understands how to win elections, and i think what they really struggled to do is communicate as they have governed. >> i want to bring in congressman jim moran, a democrat from virginia. good to see you, congressman. with the governor's race in your state of virginia, ken cuccinelli and his surrogates have been talking a lot about obama care, especially in the closi

vet, the matters that were in the public record but not widely known in the national political or press corpst they conveyed to governor romney those concerns. governor romney pulled the plug the next day and that is the fact of what happened. i think in some sense it speaks for itself. >> one of the things i found so surprising, we touched on this in my show yesterday, is in your first book with mark, "game change," bestseller, hbo peabody awards, emmys, there was not a lot about president obama in the book. the obama campaign first of all wasn't as interesting as the mccain campaign but also, i don't think they cooperated as much. i was stunned at how much obama aides shared with you to the detriment of in some cases, president obama, vice president biden, former president bill clinton. were you surprised that they talked so much more this time? >> you know, i never like to take exception to the question but if you go back and look at "game change" the vast majority of the book was about the democratic nomination fight between barack obama and hillary clinton. there was very little relative