i know this in the huffington post. we have a big bureau now. ave a lot of reporters throughout digging all the time. it's hard to get answers to simple questions because this white house does try to control the flow of information. but what that means you have to do, you're not going to get it out of the administration for the most part. you got to go to the hill to get it there. you got go to kay street to get it there. you got to go to court records to get it there. you got to get it there first and then confront them with it to get any information out of it. that's sort of the way it's always worked. it's harder now -- it's harder now that any white house feels rightly that it can pretty much communicate at will directly with the american people, without having to go through either the television networks. or cable networks. the major newspapers and major websites. news websites. they don't do it. and it's going to be very rare that they will in the future. and i guarantee you that whatever the next administration is like, it's going to be ev

my views tend to be more on the progressive side, so i'll read things like slate or the huffington post. what i think i do, um, even if i try to separate the parts that i do because i'm an academic and that i do as a citizen is kind of what we suggest in the book which i think we need to be news grazers. we need to sample from different sources. and i should add in that list "the daily show." i'm a regular viewer. >> host: what's the importance of the daily show, in your view, dean? >> guest: i think right now "the daily show" and to a somewhat lesser extent "the colbert report," both speak truth to power better than any journalist outlet that i know of, that they do a great job both highlighting what the important issues of the day are but critiquing both journalists and the political system on their, the honesty and straightforwardness and accuracy with which they present information. so i use it almost as an ombudsman of the political and media system right now. and it's really funny. i enjoy that. >> host: annenberg school of communications dean michael x. deli or carpini is our gue

students to keep a journal of news reports about politics, news sources included the economist, the bbc, huffington post, but the top two banned sources onion, which the assignment wrote was not news, is literally a parody and number two, fox news. she wrote the tag line, fox news makes me cringe. please do not subject me to this biased news station. i would almost you rather print off an article from the onion. well, following some unexpected reaction from press presser wolf allows fox to be used as a source, we've broken through. >> i'm glad and i'm sure this professor is going to have a great career in academia because they just love this stuff, but you know, i love the idea of the bbc and the huffington post being fair and balanced. >> why do we scare people so much? >> we should give professor wolf a shoutout. for making her cringe, we're doing our jobs here like most media outlets. this typical of academia. the white house has been on the campaign to try to miss disand marginalize fox news and start at the top and only imagine it goes all the way down. >> kirsten. >> i agree with that, i don't thi

you're covered for the huffington post in washington? does your bureau think there will be a deal? i don't know. i think you might be right. i think that if the forces are going to collide to allow it to happen. >> heather, do you think the president wants a grand bargain? >> i think that the president has shifted to understanding that what he really should have be his legacy is the type of lifting the boats from the bottom that has not happened over the last 40 years. when he talks about universal pre-k and we talked about poverty and targeted economic development, the business elite wants his legacy to be the grand bargain where there's going to be a lot of pain, as if the last 40 years hasn't had enough pain for the middle and working classes, and i think that the election helped him recognize sort of who his base and who his ultimately will be accountable to, which is the american people and not just the democrats. >> well, we will certainly be discussing that, the legacy in the upcoming weeks and months and years, in fact, but after the break, the worldwide web brought us skii

and sam stein of the "huffington post." eat to have all of you with us tonight. >> thank you. >> michelle, you first. what do you make of the white house's response tonight that they are providing the memos that those on the intel committee wanted? >> they obviously should have provided them a long time ago. it was always ludicrous, not only that these weren't made public, but that they weren't even allowed to the people who are charged with overseeing our intelligence agencies. and what they're asking for is basically the rationale that the government uses to decide when it can kill an american citizen. i mean, nothing can kind of be more fundamental to the government's ability -- or to the senate's ability to rein in cia and -- to rein in cia access. >> colonel, this is warfare that americans aren't used to. and they ask questions about what are our constitutional -- what is our leeway here? what is fair game and what is not? and how are these decisions being made? is this just the new wave of warfare that we have to get u

we won product of the year, most innovative media product. you look at huffington posti would argue it is one of the most valuable media properties in the world right now. liz: one of the things that critics might say well the traffic is flat across the board and while you had been declining, you've stopped the slide, certainly, so there you get the thumbs up, but at what point do you really see traffic markedly move to the upside? >> you know, we reported 6% traffic growth, which out of the top ten internet companies is one of the best performances, and then you dig underneath that, we have also shown that, you know, the legacy business at aol has declined 10, 15 percent in terms of traffic over time. the new users we're bringing in are actually much more engaged than the users we're losing. so you see things like 30% increase in time. 20% increase in engagement metrics overall. you see things like the huffington post which i believe is the most widely distributed news property on facebook. so we're replacing essentially legacy users in many cases with people who are o

. >> this is a guy who was ambudsing my blog to the huffington post and now what is he? you were ambudsing my blog to the huffington post and then you were an ambudsman. >> that's what happens actually in dc. you start floating your name. anna wintore. remember there were sayings she was going to be ambassador? you have to throw out some chum to see if anybody will eat it up jie. she did not become the am bees deer. >> it did not work in her case and i will not become the secretary of peace building. >> you ruined that chance. stewart, what made you stop being a commi? >> i ended up in hong kong which is the ultra capital of society and it worked and i loved it. case closed. >> so it was a woman. good to know. bill you said dennis kusinich could share an office with you. you understand the problem with that statement? >> i don't have an office. how is your office doing? >> as well as yours. >> for the people at home, the way you see the split screen is exactly how they work. get rid of me. they sit next to each other and they have to face each other because their desks ar

and with us today, the huffington post howard fineman. the bbc's katty kay. nbc's kelly o'donnell. and new york1's errol louis. first up, it's oscar weekend a movie reference for this endless gamesmanship over taxes and spending. remember that movie about the guy who keeps waking up and it's the same day again? that bill murray classic "groundhog day"? >> this is no way to run the greatest country on earth. it's a dangerous game that we've never played before. and we can't afford to play it now. the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.

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with us senior military correspondent with the huffington post, dave wood. ve, how are you, my friend? >> good. >> i'll send this first question over to you as we talk about the importance of drones and u.s. military strikes. the numbers are nearly impossible to discern in terms of casualties in and around this. why -- i mean, there is skresy in the program, but how the u.s. military classifies a sdmrool we are talking about drones but we should be talking about killing. once the president determines that we're at war, it sort of hands over to the military the whole question of who do you kill and how? the fact is the drones are a useful technology if your job is to kill people. they're precise. they can establish a lot of good intels, but it's a tool. the real question is who are we killing and why? are we at war and are we not? it just lays out the legal steps to determine how to go forward, and who are we trying to kill and why? that's the important question here. >> it's amazing that we don't actually -- there is no definitive answer to that. >> i have al

. >> well, a spokesperson for clayton county police told the huffington post that this facebook account was normally used for undercover work and they weren't planning on this getting out in the media the way that it did. >> oh. >> now it makes a little more sense. >> the spokesperson says they used all traditional methods to locate the mother. even sent officers from other jurisdictions to multiple addresses to try to reach her. >>> this is video somebody cap chirped after a military jet crashed in yemen. that's the capital. several buildings were damaged, two homes confirmed destroyed. as you can see, it is a big mess. >> is this some sort of fighter plane that had armaments onboard, bombs, missiles? >> the defense ministry says it was on a training mission. this is the second time a plane on a training mission has crashed there. ten people were killed in november when there was a crash. this. i at least 12 people have been reported dead, but they expect to find more people once they dig out all the rubble. >> maybe they should begin training out away from city centers? train over a f

and with us today, the huffington post howard fineman. the bbc's katty kay. nbc's kelly o'donnell. and new york1's errol louis. first up, it's oscar weekend a movie reference for this endless gamesmanship over taxes and spending. remember that movie about the guy who keeps waking up and it's the same day again? that bill murray classic "groundhog day"? >> this is no way to run the greatest country on earth. it's a dangerous game that we've never played before. and we can't afford to play it now. the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good. the greatest nation on the earth cannot keep conduct being its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. chris: so what do you do, howard, to get up in the morning and they're talking -- they're talking sequester and a new name for it every couple of months, it's the same thing. the question is, harris the push said i don't think it's real. they're not going to do it. move on? >> well, that's the danger because this is not a movie and it's not funny. i think what's happening here in th

i wrote an op-ed in "the huffington post" today. rticle in "the huffington post," as well, we see change, in the british parliament, an overwhelming vote. we saw the supreme court decision in new mexico. we have seen the changes that were announced today -- the changes are happening faster. but we could all sit idly back and watch the clock tick away, or we can do something about it. stand up, tell our stories and vote. we can vote, things like that, one thing standing in our way as you mentioned, speaker john boehner is defending doma as wasting taxpayer dollars. as we speak, we can vote, make changes in the house and the law if the supreme court doesn't overturn it. i think it will, but i think more of us need to come forward and tell stories because that is the way to change hearts and minds. >> didn't you grow up right near his district? >> yeah, he is my congressman. >> he doesn't want to talk about this either. >> i would love to see the president mention charlie's name with the speaker over his shoulder, because you know, he s

of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on there and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives within a year of a diagnosis of each and over sixty two percent of those species i diagnosed with aids this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big

of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one nine hundred eighty four were thugs come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was my.

say bush is our forces liberals to contemplate this soul and by far my personal favorite from the huffington postgeorge bush self portraits perplex our world yes the our world is in a frenzy trying to psychoanalyze bush's brain and what's the real us the message he was trying to portray by painting his face in an off center reflection but could be that is just a simple novice painter that didn't quite get the symmetry right guys are we really obsessing over bush's deep thoughts let's be honest bush doesn't have many deep thoughts to give and his soul well we all know that he sold that out a long time ago so stop taking this awkward amateur and might i add boring art at anything more face value and in all seriousness this. overanalysis attributed to these paintings is completely unwarranted yes bush is a human being and sure he has an artistic side it's great that he has time to pursue a creative outlet considering how a million plus iraqis will never be given that chance but i digress to say that these paintings somehow show the depths of his soul are revealed he's projecting guilt over his horri

and with us today, the huffington post howard fineman. the bbc's katty kay. nbc's kelly o'donnell. and new york1's errol louis. first up, it's oscar weekend a movie reference for this endless gamesmanship over taxes and spending. remember that movie about the guy who keeps waking up and it's the same day again? that bill murray classic "groundhog day"? >> this is no way to run the greatest country on earth. it's a dangerous game that we've never played before. and we can't afford to play it now. the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good.