please welcome shane smith. [cheers and applause] please, mr. smith. can i call you shane? >> stephen: thanks for coming on and thank you for wearing your formal t-shirt. cofounder of vies magazine can. are you acanadian person? >> i am indeed. >> stephen: okay. join us any time. it's become a global enterprise since then. a record level, in-house creative services agency, book must bishing division now you are the executive producer and correspondent for advice hbo's new news magazine. describe the brand. what is it other than, you know, different? [laughter] >> we started as a magazine about 18 years ago. >> book when there were magazines nl and we moved to 34 countries and as we traveled to those countries we noticed there was a lot of crazy stuff going on. we started reporting and shooting it and, you know, put it online and now we have a big youth following. >> what i look about it is you have been described as having a casual miss soj any. [ laughter ] is that because you are exploring a sort of recontext you'llization of a patriarchal masculinity or do you sort of li

shoot at mutant bores among radioactive ruins, then you're definitely familiar with vice founder shane smith did you know this wasn't just a little rinky dink thing? you've got more than we do. >> reporter: smith took over a free magazine in canada called "voice of montreal." >> no one else is going to give us any job. we're relatively unemployable out there. we've got to find a way to make this work. >> reporter:less than 20 years later, that magazine has editions in over 30 countries. they have book, film and advertising units. >> we want to be able to tell the story in any country and not be afraid of anything. >> reporter: even if you've never seen any of their trips into the underbelly, you probably heard about dennis rodman's cent trip to north korea. the whole thing was hatched by vice and a way they saw to get kim jung-un into his kingdom. but once they got in, it got weird first, rodman became besties. then they were invited back to the palace with the sworn american enemy, all while countless north koreans were being starved into submission outside. the blowback lasted for days. >>

shane goldmacher, and luke rosiak from the washington times looking at federal contractors and the option the have charging the federal government for executive salaries. have a good day. ♪ next "newsmakers" with adam smiththen current and former president take part in the ceremony for the george w. bush library. then the life of mary todd lincoln. us from capitol hill is adam smith, the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. >> thanks for having me on. >> joining me is jim michaels of usa today. with the situation continuing, we want to turn to jim michaels for our f