it's a headline for "the new york times." they have been headlining the gay marriage decision every day on the front page for a week. the cbs news in new york, they have. it's the masters 2000 what? 2003 again? it's a big deal in manhattan. >> across the country. >> in chicago. >> depending on your perspective. >> it's a big deal in north carolina. it's not as big a deal as you say, for most voter, 7% of americans saying this is a top issue. anyway, in the new york times/cbs poll, romney is ahead 46% to 43%. the poll shows romney's support among women voters topping the presidents. remember the gender gap mark halperin? what happened? romney had the latest cbs/new york times poll, you look inside the numbers, 6% more of the respondents were democrats than republicans. this poll was tilted democratic. still, more women supporting romney right now. >> well, that poll shows democrats did well. there's disinnocence in the numbers. people's optimism with the economy with romney doing better. the trend is clear in the national numbe

one media hasn't "the new york times". "the new york times" still reports as if the evidence is overwhelming that zimmerman is guilty. indeed they end a story in today's newspaper shockingly by quoting an unnamed source that made a phone call to the police alleging that zimmerman may have some racist tendencies. that violates the "time"'s own policy about sourcing. they would never have written such a statement about an unsourced allegation by an unnamed person regarding trayvon martin. "the times" has a position on this case and it allows that position to influence

the new time line established by the reboot there are no more romneys. they are all dwon. >> that's what i said. >> do you have another hour? mike, you mentioned the new york times demonized the war on terror. it is a slightly different take now isn't it? >> i give obama credit for being uh twres sigh in the war on terror. -- for being you are agrees sigh in the war on terror. i take exception for the new york times stand about obama's actions when they spent seven years demonizing bush and cheney. >> also, mike, you asked how the republicans -- you asked how republicans should attack obama on terrorism. that brings up an interesting report. these terror tuesday meetings, great name by the way. >> merger monday. terror tuesday. >> david axel rod is in the room. he says, quote, in other words the person in charge of owe obama's political for -- fortune the leader decides who lives or dies. think about if karl rove did that with george bush. >> everything he does has a political calculation. i think that's why he probably finds this war on terror an easy thing. i don't think he has a principal stand on it. i think from a political calculation it is a good th

yesterday was on the front page of the "new york times." inking him to controversial comments made by his former pastor. now, that back fired before it ever got off the ground. the "new york times" reported that a republican leaning super pac was considering launching a $10 million ad campaign to target the president's ties to the reverend jeremiah wright. remember him? whose racially tinged comments became an issue in the campaign four years ago. it was a 54-page proposal "the times" was covering called "the defeat of barack hussein obama." it was going after the president's relationship with reverend wright. the proposal read in part, quote, the world is about to see jeremiah wright and understand his influence on barack obama for the first time in a big attention-arresting way. now, "the times" report says the plan was just one of several commissioned being considered, meaning he asked for ideas to consider by billionaire joe rickets who founded t.d. ameritrade and it continues to report saying the proposal was presented last week in chic

was just not covered by the new york times the new york times wrote no story about this today the washington post had something on the web site usa today actually out a piece of. the wall street journal out of these but it is just remarkable to me how. if it is accepted by the democrats and accepted by the republicans it's sort of a non issue even within the traditional. for those days although chris who were following this. there was a brief period of time where there was a lot of hope people are very hopeful that you know maybe courts will start ruling you know on the side of justice on the side of rights for people but i do have to say not so fast a district court new york today denied a freedom of information request to the new york times and the a.c.l.u. they were trying to find out more information about exactly how the f.b.i. has been using the patriot act for surveillance purposes they were denied of course the reason that the government gave was national security at the common reason so do you think your case is going to be you know the exception. there already is the exception you'

" and that statement that rickets was adamantly rejecting this strategy was not included in the "new york timesiously in the "new york times" this morning -- >> so he had to jump to react quickly. >> it caused a huge backlash and i think what's going on, ashley, a lot of moderate republicans, moderate democrats, the independents who will determine who the next president of the united states is in those ten or 12 battle ground states, the fear and romney is totally disassociated himself from the reverend wright strategy. the fear is if you go that direction potentially you will alienate a lot of independents, a lot of moderates, a lot of people on the fence right now because when you look at all of the poll, the president is very likeable. americans like the president even if they disagree with him on economic issues or other substantive issues. like ability is one area that the president stores high on. >> to that end i have quotations from inside this plan according to the "new york times" about his like iktibility and how they could inflame the public. here it how it reads. the strategist gra

the news nation is followinging news in what the president's re-election team calls a hate-filled divisive assassination. the new york time the president by portraying him as a, quote, metro sexual black abe lincoln and by resurrecting the jeremiah wright controversy. according to the report, the $10 million campaign funded by the chicago cubs owner would do exactly what

but if the new york times affects nbc, abc, cbs and they cover it, the whole county watches this national morality play. was the new york times covering it at that time? oh, yes. before television accelerated? oh, yeah. that was a decision made by turner catledge of philadelphia, mississippi, the new york times executive editor, immediately upon brown versus board of education that they would cover this, assigning johnny popham, a wonderful reporter, to do it and then eventually two of my personal heroes, claude sitton and john herbers. i mean, these were foreign correspondents or war correspondents working on american domestic soil. we forget so readily in this country that particular part of our shameful history and how much energy went into suppression of the human spirit, which is why this movement is so great. 'cause, "a," it is a children's movement. and it is really about-- i really-- the book that we've mentioned here is my favorite book of my own, because it's really about the nobility of ordinary people. they're not famous. they weren't even big men or women on the black campuse

what he had to say about this whole thing and he gave us the following quote he said i love the new york times and i'm glad they're doing their part in the campaign to rehabilitate general mcchrystal image but despite the embarrassment that yale is making of itself here for allowing this and the new york times for how they're covering this at the end of the day mcchrystal is the real tailor of this cloak of secrecy in the story i think that maybe the general just petrified of having his insights made public just like he was burned in the past after making boneheaded statements about pat tillman and joe bite me biden mcchrystal is probably afraid the now he could make some very controversial statements that might affect his career or even if they happen to be intelligent or insightful instead mcchrystal takes the career of flying the one demand silence and obedience the sort that has led us into pointless and seemingly endless wars over the last decade and so for that's the general winter nights tool time award. are you guys in time for happy hour and join me this evening alone or show producer

the "new york times" reported the bank's losses may grow by at least another billion dollars. jpmorgan has no reason to change its ways. the bank will earn $4 billion in the second quarter. jpmorgan is big enough to bring down the entire economy. lawmakers like house financial services committee chairman spencer baucus says now is not the time to prevent risky bets. >> no law can do that nor should a law attempt to prohibit a company from taking risk. in fact, that's an impossibility. >> mitt romney also says jpmorgan should be able to gamble with deposits backed by the federal government. >> this was not a loss to the taxpayers of america. >> right. >> this was a loss to shareholders and owners of jpmorgan and that's the way america works. i would not rush to pass new legislation or new regulation. this is, in the normal course of business, a large loss, but surely not one, which is crippling or threatening to the institution. >> of course, the dodd-frank law was supposed to prevent risky betting but bank lobbyists put a stop to it. it was tied up in legislative tape and lobb

is one of the things i find offensive among many others in the pac description that came in "the new york times." if that's accurate, why, obviously that's something i repudiate. >> again, mitt romney responding to today's story in "the new york times." the story about a plan from joe ricketts. he's a billionaire, the founder of -- you heard a moment ago the combination that came from mitt romney saying he wants to focus on the issues, not things that have come up in the past including the issue of jeremiah wright from the 2008 campaign. >>> joe biden is in ohio, another key battleground state, claiming mitt romney wants to have it both ways on the auto bailout credit. he also took aim at mitt romney's background at bain capital. mitt romney responded to that also today in jacksonville, florida. here is the vice president from oh ohio. >> in the 1990s there was a steel mill in kansas city, missouri. it hadn't been in business since 1888. romney's partners came in and eight years later the company was bankrupt. romney and his partners added to that company. i think it had like $13 million in deb

hook line and sinker and that includes even a number of the left wing papers over time in the united states you have this weird split at the new york times where paul krugman has been explaining for years why it's insane and then you have the new york times reporters that act like austerity is the only conceivable choice. we emphasized that tina there is no alternative it is mindless and a false and b. and immensely destructive. and yet far more people are reading the reporter's stories than paul krugman and they just present it like ok this has to happen and maybe greece is going to back out but then there's going to be a disaster because they didn't do what has to happen that's the tina. right they present anti facts things that are completely false as if they were facts and they do it in such an implicit way that they know the reporters may not even recognize that they're doing it. and it represents just such economic illiteracy that it makes you want to pull out your hair as someone who teaches economics so this is stuff that we've known better for seventy five years and this is stuff that we've predicted in advance would produ

and after a long process and many meetings and much pouring of tea, he's now in beijing for the "new york times." but when i got to washington for the washington post the guy congratulated me for getting a visa. and i said i don't care, i don't have to get a visa anymore. we're very fickle. anyway, it's a continuing problem, and china clearly views the right to collect information in china as something that's a rescindable right. >> all right. listen. you had your hand up in the back. let's have one more last quick question. >> hi. my name is jipsian kaiser. i'm with the committee to protect journalists. i wanted to agree with most of what's been said in terms of we are also seeing a very mixed picture of pushback from chinese journalists who are trying to report and getting stories out. but we are still seeing a high number of chinese journalists in prison. a lot of self-censorship. and most recently to date the defamation of the al jazeera english correspondent by a cctv host. i'm just wondering if you could look a little bit forward and tell me where you see the advantages and disadvantages

" asked that same question the new york times and cbs the president had an advantage 49% of the women in april in the same new york times-cbs poll said they supported president obama and 43% mitt romney and that shifted 44% for barack obama, 46% for mitt romney. there's clearly been a shift in the new york times poll, but the methodology is something that leaves expert pollsters in doubt on the reliability of the new poll and we've seen new polls coming out in the next few days whether it's a trend or if it's a mistake on the part of the new york times and cbs. >>> tell us what the president of the united states is doing to reenergize the female base because without it he'll be a one-term president. >> reporter: that's right. you can tell by his schedule. ya yesterday he was at barnard college a prestigious women's school urging women to fight for a seat at the head of the table and right after that he went to "the view" to talk about the all-female team of hosts there, talking about how to raise daughters in the internet age. >> what sort of rules do you and the first lady have

you know, for stephanie cutter to go out for the obama campaign and complain that the new york times poll, which over-sampled democrats by 6 percentage points, is the methodology is off because it doesn't show what they want. if they think they're losing cbs news and the new york times -- how big a problem is that in the end for them? >> it's a huge problem. it is going in the wrong direction. if a new york times poll shows the president obama is behind with women voters, i don't care what your methodology is-- >>> it backfired. >> let's grant that the obama campaign-- the ability to complain about the methodology, regardless, what they have done on the fake war on women has actually not worked-- >>> backfired. >> in any scenario, it hasn't worked for them. [chuckles] >> sean: you will get your chance. i have to be honest. i am really proud of you. >> thanks? >> not only are we friends. you gr -- you go on jeopardy and bet efers at the end. next to kareem abdul jabbar. he's big! >> i was in 5-inch heels and standing on an 8-inch box. >> sean: you were not standing on a box. >> yeah! 8

glenn thrush and mark leibovich is a celebrated reporter for "the new york times." have to start with the "new york times." i'm not a student of the press but i know how to read a story. source after source after source, high-level, top campaign official, close to the president, people on both staffs, the white house and the vice president's office, all talking openly about the president's concern, anger, the white house staff's anger at the vice president. i know you can't give away your sources, but why is everybody talking? >> i'm not going to ask them to stop but i think -- >> i know, it's your job! >> this is an exacting staff. they do things on a schedule, david plouffe, jim messina, these are not my sources but they have a strict plan. this week was to talk about the campaign rollout and a $25 million ad buy which they would go over their accomplishment list. here we are day four talking about gay marriage. >> did they pull back the money when they knew it wasn't going to do any good? >> not that i know of. i think a lot of that has already been spent. >> the

memorial day weekend, in case you're interested, the origins of memorial day, you can find inside "the new york times the birthplace for memorial day? that depends where you are from. waterloo, new york, is the official birthplace of memorial day but there are more than a dozen other cities that claim to be the birthplace to commemorate those dating back to 1866, the one-year anniversary of the end of the civil war. we want to welcome colbert i. king as we continue our series with columnists. welcome, thanks for being with us. guest: glad to be here. host: your piece yesterday, a district election sabotaged dealing with the election that you moderated, the debate that you moderated with the current mayor and the former mayor and then from today's "washington post" here, this headline. mayor grey's trouble focus early attention on the 2014 mayoral race and your colleague giving mayor vincent gray the worst week in washington. what's going on? guest: this past week, two of his top aides in the political campaign of 2010 pleaded guilty in federal court to federal felonies and more than likely they'll sp

so why don't i do a 54-page proposal for the guy, get prior approval at a new york meeting, come back for further approval, it hits the "new york times," and wait a minute, oh, now the "new york times" find out about it, he says he's not going to do it. but he indicated before a couple times he would do it, and then we see a little note that says, with your preliminary approval at the new york meeting and then they get caught. thaet my thought. your thought? major. >> it's all part of the public record, everything you said. everything can evaluate romney what he said in february, why he said it then and why he's repudiating it now. >> the concept for rep repudiation -- >> everything for the course of contacts not only invites scrutiny and deserves scrutiny. i'm not saying romney doesn't deserve scrutiny, it's all public record. if you don't like them now or you don't like them then, then you don't vote for him. >> i just want consistency and transparency. chuck, i'm sorry, i'm shorting you. do you think this is the kind of campaign we're going to see this year. is it going to be this kind of dirt in the ditch, take it and is sudden t

new jersey last night. the police commissioner said hernandez implicated himself in the death of the boy. one law enforcement official tells "the new york times prosecutors and investigators were treating the man's admissions as a serious lead in 6-year-old etan patz. they have to verify the information he's giving. "the new york times" says investigators have focused on hernandez as a suspect in the past. he owned a convenience store in the soho neighborhood, the same neighborhood where etan disappeared in 1979. in april investigators dug up a basement they found no human remains and very little forensic evidence there. there was a janitor, superintendent, who was a person of interest related to that location. his attorney is telling the "new york post" this morning his client was never involved and he does not believe his client knows pedro hernandez. the police commissioner will release more information later today. >>> also new, for the first governor brown's disapproval rate something higher than his approval rating among likely voters in a major poll. according to the poll, 43% disapprove of the job that governor brown is doing. 42% app

the news nation is followinging news in what the president's re-election team calls a hate-filled divisive assassination. the new york time reveal today a secret conservative plan to attack the president by portraying him as a, quote, metro sexual black abe lincoln and by resurrecting the jeremiah wright controversy. according to the report, the $10 million campaign funded by the chicago cubs owner would do exactly what john mccain would not let us do. show the world how barack obama's opinions of america and the world were formed and why the influence of that misguided mentor has brought our country to its knees. they said the group has contacted the conservative radio show larry elder in an effort to find a, quote, extremely literal conservative african-american to be its spokesperson. the obama campaign hit back in a statement saying, this morning's story revealed the appalling lengths to which republican on that trayvons and super pacs apparently are willing to go to tear down the president and elect mitt romney. once again, governor romney has fallen short of the standard that john mccain set retepidly in a moment th

the law would not include grocery stores, convenience stores, vending machines and news stands. the "new york times quote, obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the united states, public health officials are wringing their hands saying, oh, this is terrible. new york city is not about wringing your hands. it's about doing something. i think that's what the public wants the mayor to do. his proposal goes to the board later in june since he hired everyone i think it's going to go through. i think it's a great idea. does anyone want to challenge me on that? >> convenience stores were excluded from this? >> that was my question. >> this isn't even as big as it gets when you go to some of these places. it is like drinking a big glass of sugar. of poison. >> you know, obviously civil liberties over this stuff. >> right. >> obesity -- >> she just dismissed civil liberties. >> no, no. >> you know what? what about the civil liberty to pay for everybody else's health problems? >> you solve obesity, you solve health care, done. it's that simple. the calories and the -- just in those huge, huge drinks,

and jacob tells "the new york times" that when he grows up, he either wants to be president or a testot. the photographer tells "the new york times" he had no idea how popular the photograph would be. it both hangs in the white house and in the philadelphia home in maryland. we'll be right back with more bill press right after the break. join us online current.com/billpress. planned parenthood. anna talked to a conservative and it got a little contentious. drama, when we return. [ kristal ] we're just taking a sample of all our different items in our festival of shrimp. the crab-stuffed shrimp are awesome! tequila lime tacos. [ man ] delicious! [ male announcer ] it's festival of shrimp! for $12.99 try any two shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp. offer ends soon. we're servers at red lobster. and we sea food differently. i have the most common type of atrial fibrillation, or afib. it's not caused by a heart valve problem. i was taking warfarin, but my doctor put me on pradaxa instead to reduce my risk of stroke. in a clinical trial, pradaxa® (dabigatran etexilate mesylate

the last time. it is disgusting, it is despicable, it is sick. it is on its way. and "the new york times" has a copy of the whole document outlining this campaign. the headline on it is the defeat of barack hussein obama the ricketts plan to end his spending for good. so folks fastin your seat belts, we're in for the ugliest campaign we've ever seen. we'll come back and talk to congressman chris van hollen about the latest on the hill. this is the "full court press" on thursday, may 17. good to have you here. we will not settle for easy answers. (vo) the former governor of ny eliot spitzer, joins the new news network. >>every night we will drill down on the days top stories in search of facts that inform. >> we don't stop until we get answers that are truthful, serious, and not based on simplistic answers. >>we're here because we're independent. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. >> bill: here we go. 19 minutes before the top of the hour on this thursday edition of the "full court press." good to have you with us on current tv and on your

the new york time made this big revelation this morning. ative plan to attack the president as i mentioned, by labeling hill and resurrecting reverend jeremiah wright. we are awaiting new words from governor mitt romney. he repudiated the statement. that is supposed to air. his comments are supposed to air in a radio interview later this evening. meanwhile this hour, the governor is in jacksonville, florida. and according to the information we've received, he is expected to make a new statement regarding this new york times report. all of this comes at this time. this is the owner of the chicago cubs. he is also the founder of td mare trade as well. he was going to reject there plan. we'll see the words that will come from governor romney's mouth regarding this and we'll have the latest reaction from the white house. any way, we apologize for not being able to bring you the gut check. we'll hopefully bring the congressman on monday. we'll have more of it for you. that does it for this edition of "news nation." you can catch "news nation" eve

then this new guy is desperate to get the job, he'll do it, so i'll get a 54-page proposal for him. it hits the "new york times," and wait a minute, now the "new york times" finds out about it and he says he won't do it. he indicated before he would do it. he said personally i'm going against it, and then with your preliminary approval at the new york meeting. then they get caught red handed here, and all of a sudden their saying we're not going to do this. the times caught them, that's my thought. your thought, major? >> it's all part of the public record as you described and i described. everything is public record. you can evaluate romney what he said in february, why he said it then, and why he is repudiating it now. i'm inviting scrutiny of romney. he is laying it down in february. >> everything you say in politics in the course of a campaign invites and deserves scrutiny. i'm not saying he doesn't deserve it, i'm saying it's part of the public record. >> his objectives are different then, if you don't like them now or then, then you don't vote for him. >> chuck, i'm sorry i'm shorting your time. >> this

. >> there were a couple of interesting nuggets, sally, in the cbs new york times poll that came out earlier this week. and it drew some reaction from the obama campaign. it was asked, who would you vote for for u.s. president. this poll showed mitt romney with a lead there. as being see, 46-- 46-43% over the president. the obama campaign said, oh, it's a bad poll, bad methodology. >> there you have the bash of liberal according to conservatives and all of a sudden, they're coming out in favor of romney and the white house is attacking him. first of all, the liberals like the play and so does the other side. the fact of the matter is romney is new to that as a nominee and obama was vetted before. they don't like the candidate who is inaccessible to the press and history of flip-flopping and generally not entirely likeable and has had a record of make moan by tiring people and shouldn't complain about the media for looking into it, should get a new candidate. >> jon: i know you've got a mouthful, monica, but the same time the poll that white house didn't like, did the president publicl

just complained about the well my response to another case about drones in the end in the new york times the other day saying that essentially what we were what you were saying in the opening that this is been reported by major news outlets it's common knowledge everybody admits it but in court for some reason we're not allowed to talk about it so it is a global response it's become kind of this shield that the government uses to prevent any sort of release of information that could potentially put pertain to national security and it's really caused secrecy to explode and i think it's not just google and then i'd say right at the moment we see a lot of cyber security bills that are working their way through congress you and i have spoken about this the some of the ones working their way through the senate but there's a kind of give you an idea that let's say if it's the passes then we're not going to have a whole lot of transparency a lot of accountability when it comes to just how much information private companies are going to be sharing with government agencies. yes this was tougher i

i don't know. >> and the proposal itself said that there was a meeting in new york where some of his associates signed off on the plan. the "new york timesrted today actually that on wednesday when this he spoke with the fellow that we just watched here, that in fact, no decisions had been made whether or not they were going to go with this. that's not necessarily the definitive answer but it poses an enormous question. the man we do know if there is character assassination, the dude holding the rifle is fred davis of the infamous pete hoekstra ad. let's take a look at that. >> you borrow more and more from us. your economy get very weak. ours get very good. we take your jobs. thank you, debbie spend it now. >> i mean, you talk about race-baiting. that is obvious race-baiting. and the racial elements of the campaign that fred davis was prepared to launch against the president. >> and remember that that ad was taken down. even the actress apologized for participating in the ad. i mean, i think pete hoekstra got a lot of negative publicity. it sounds like from the reports at least, people within rickets' universe were aware that this was a

to be a lot of questions for jay carney about what exactly the administration shared with "the new york times" and what the motive there was. megyn: ed henry, thank you. we'll go to you live as that news breaks. as ed just mentioned this "new york times" report is the latest in a series of questions raised recently about this white house, its intelligence operations and the media. several items concerning the bin laden operation in particular, and some of these have generated significant political controversy, these leaks. chris stierwalt is our fox news digital politics editor and host of power play on fox news.com. chris, one has to wonder if this same article that appeared in the "new york times" had been written about president bush, how nuts the left would be going about the intelligence decisions our president has made and the rights would be going about the leaks that had been taking place of certain operational aspects, in particular, the one we talked about recently, which is when we foiled this al-qaeda bombing plot of an airline we learned shortly thereafter that it was a double ag

singh is the editor of "the new york times" book review and owl -- now the week in review and that made the default with "the new york times." one 1/2 thought he would hedge his bets. maybe ended the title with a question mark. the death of conservatism? once a writer puts his judgment with hardcover is written in stone. he states his reputation on a book 91 is to be left or dismissed the hero the death of conservative is emphatically and congratulated by liberals probably still for his heroism. what were the liberals thinking about it in 2010 when conservatives tried to take over the house of representatives and state legislative chambers all over the country? for sale as part he came out with a paperback the death of conservatism october 2010. one month before the bid louche came. all polls predicting it he and his fans were oblivious it was characteristic of liberalism in their last day. it was utterly oblivious to the world around it. it had so segregated itself with the threshold of the final interment it could endure the decades of decline the triumph of ronald reagan and bill cli