russert maybe for the cop aside from the photographic work it was exciting to discover the people behind the personas over the course of three and a half years i got to know very very different people. in my only thing they had in common was that they were very open a very open creative community to mine the coffins of us. lurkers often spend months developing their costumes and characters then once a year the fiction becomes reality not in virtual reality but in the real world is not the invincible introduced you know i was never drawn to computer games or console's i like to do things myself as keep pressing a button and making a little man run somewhere doesn't do much for me much as i want to live the adventure myself. this parallel universe even has a first lady and she too plays a role in boris license portrait project. to be a book someone had always had the idea of making a book there was a dream of mine for the medium of photography is still something printed work this . now will bore a slice this work provides a glimpse into another world. for this week's series we're taking a

. >> tim russert used to say, number, numbers. not just ratings. you have 100 members. john mccain is probably not going to vote. 99 members. are they the ones that is going to say no, this is too far to go. >> two jobs right now. >> you are not going it answer my question? >> i am going to answer it. one, get all information out there. this guy has been in the white house for years. so we need to get all of that information 171 documents were produced. so we need to look at that and ask the tough questions including where he is on precedent that is 45-years old. and then the second piece about this -- >> didn't he say he was for cassie? irk he deferred to precedent and said that is the supreme court precedent. >> so it is a much different. >> it was answered in the context of following supreme court precedent. and the second thing to make the case it the american people. and the case of the american people is this is about a case down in texas where the administration is arguing that they want to kick you off your insurance and make it unconstitutional. the provision t

tom brokaw spent his life, and i don't think he agrees with sean hannity but people like tim russert,bc news anymore. this is a whole new entity which is basically innuendo, conspiracy theories, outright lies, fake news and an agenda to destroy the president and delegitimize him and it's been going on for two years. three years, actually. >> let's take daniel's really important important point. john brennan is the former director of the cia. he leaves government service and still has his clearances, and he goes on -- >> he wasn't a communist, wasn't he? >> he voted for gossypol and then was hired by the cia. he gets picked up as a contributor on left-wing media and spins what daniel said about the president being vulnerable, then he's basically doing vladimir putin's work for him. let me play the game they do with sean. his john brennan getting paid by putin? i don't have any evidence, but it could be. but it's reprehensible. >> the president -- what the president was saying to germany was don't rely on putin and be so dependent on him considering we are spending all this money to pos

i stole the idea from tim russert, he must have gotten them for free. >> melissa: they are fantastic.tes your point. interesting to see how they are using the money to run. let me play this one ad for you. this is a democrats, listen to what she has to say. >> paul ryan is retiring, the republicans will have a new leader. democrats also get a fresh start. this is why i will not be voting for nancy pelosi for a leader. instead i will push to find a new leadership team that ensures that congress works for all of us. >> melissa: oh, boy, kathy williams is not going to be a favorite of nancy pelosi after this. is this a good way to run? >> i think it is smart, nancy pelosi is not well received, but the most important part of what she said is where she pointed towards bipartisan cooperation. she said both parties have to work together. and look, the election is composed of three groups. the republican base, the democratic base, and the swing voters. and the smallest of the groups is the swing voters, but they could be the determinative group this fall in many districts. they want people wh

tim russert said, quote, the primary responsibility of the media is the accountability of government.t mad. sometimes that's going to make the right mad. all we can do as journalists is make no mistake. people are mistrusting of institutions, but just stay the course. report the facts and people can make up their own minds. >> that will have to be the last word. you guys, thank you so much. happy sunday to all. coming up, the president renews a threat to shut down the government. we will get reaction from california congresswoman maxine waters in the next hour. [phone ringing] need a change of scenery? the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done. alicewhich is breast canceratic that has spread to other parts of her body. she's also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole was significantly

steve sent it to a producer at tim russert at mete the press. tim russ set was one of the most honest journalists in washington. we miss him to this day. not saying because it is self-serving. he took the article on air impeached michael shoyer not a single journalist, buddy, 19 months ago you're saying exact opposite what you are saying now. only one would do it with steve's insistence. steve is not giving himself enough credit. what you have to understand, steve hayes only major journalist in washington take on the system, take on the bureaucracy. that's big thing, that's a very big thing. you have a lot of people are protected in protecting their bureaucrat turf at expense of truth and what the american people should know. that is what journalism is about. steve is taking "weekly standard," fighting bin laden files or iraq any other issues journalists don't want to fight. >> we better stop this. we'll lose everybody. way too much back scratching. >> that's true. getting into nerdy stuff. >> we're getting in the weeds. let me break rule number

he first started at nbc news in july of 2013 as a tim russert fellow. this event would not have been possible without the coordination and support and staff of the center along with our colleagues at nyu, washington, d.c. please join us in the lobby for a light reception after the event. thank you and enjoy the program. >> hello, everybody. we all good? you guys hear me? yeah. all right. we'll talk here too. thank you all for having us this evening. thank you to kevin. this is june. this is john. and so over the next hour here we'll take some questions afterwards. this is exciting for me. because i have been here in d.c. for about five years so i haven't been around the scene that long myself here. so this is an opportunity for me and i think that for a lot of the people here the question is where are you going to be in the next couple years and what are the opportunities to present themselves? how old were you when you started with hillary clinton? june: i was 23. vaughn: and she was the first playedy. june: yes. vaughn: kind of along the lines here we