i think "the new york times" has a very awkwardly situation, these are the, wikileaks. may be ominous for the new york times innocents. your natural allies. on the other hand, there's a concern to distance yourself from wikileaks to show the kind of ethic of responsibility that has in part, seems to justify the legal latitude that "the new york times" operator with for so many years. so i understand, i think it's a very tough case for you guys. anyways, i think it's all going to come back because the way things are playing out. i might guess, and for my no inside info, but the u.s. government would not have prosecuted assange, given the backlash. >> scott horton, prosecution and how bad would be? >> i will talk about both of them. personal, bradley manning, i agree completely with your analysis of bradley manning. he is not a whistleblower by any stretch of the imagination. neither under the statute nor under the common use of that term. and moreover, as a member of the military is engaged in this, i think either has to be disciplinary action. there has be but it strikes

"' capitulation with that whole deal. >> "the new york times" -- what was the last part? "the new york times"' -- >> cooperation or use of that information, however you want to frame that. >> um, i mean, i guess i can address that briefly. valerie plame wilson was, of course, the undercover cia officer who, um, was, whose identity, you know, whose employment with the cia was classified and so "the new york times" and everybody else wrote about, and there was this long-running attempt to find out who was responsible for that that ended, as often these inquiries do, with scooter libby being prosecuted for perjury. and, you know, i guess the only thing i'd say about that is you do have to be careful on the receiving end, you know, to sort of think about are you being used in some political way, um, what is the news value of what's being revealed, yo u.n.? are you inadvertently being used as the tool of some political party or vendetta? >> one last question over here. >> i think we all agree that the informal use of leaks, however we define it, has worked fairly well for the a

no matter how bad the behavior was, "the new york times" would be defending it in the editorial in "the new york times" would be saying now we will never know who killed rosenbaum. they would be defending the most array to save your and the final step was the oj verdict. a majority black jury could say no it's okay for a black celebrity to nearly cut his ex-wife's head off and kill ron goldman and they expected to have all these. by the way the newspapers did make all those excuses. .. >> welcome to beverly hills. i made governing board member of the lausd i came in first and never hid my registration. there is no. and the proud registered republican is running again. when i came to the school district beverly hills unified in bid did conservative values and accountability, no kool-aid drink gain and trophies and kids behave. they are well mannered and they show up to five we don't have people cursing at teachers. what i learned is what a difference it can make when there is leadership. andrew breitbart to may he rest in peace everything is from culture that is created from the media pr

bureau chief for the new york times. his thoughts on a controversial anti-union proposition in california and we would discuss the passing of a liberal lion over the weekend, george mcgovern. a conversation with adam nagourney of the new york times coming up right now. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing. we know that we are only halfway to completely eliminate hunger, and we have a lot of work to do. walmart committed $2 billion to fighting hunger in the u.s. as we work together, we can stamp hunger out. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: adam nagourney is the l.a. bureau chief for the new york times following years as the paper's chief national political correspondent. good to have you back on this program. we finally arrive at a day i thought would never come. the debates are finally over. it just two weeks from election day. it has been a per

i think "the new york times" is kind of awkwardly saturated. wikileaks as may be ominous for "the new york times" and in that sense your natural allies. on the other hand, there is a concern to distance yourself from the wikileaks to show the ethics of responsibility it has in part to justify the legal latitude it operated with for so many years, so i understand i think it is a tough race for you guys but i think it's going to come back because of the way things are playing out that i might get informed by knowing the inside information to the u.s. government wouldn't have prosecuted julian assange given the backlash. how bad would be from your perspective how bad will it be? >> first of all bradlee manning. i agree completely with your analysis. he isn't a whistle-blower by any stretch of the imagination under the statute or under the common use of that term, and moreover as a member of the military who is engaged in this i think there has to be disciplinary action and court martial. it strikes me that it's unavoidable. the mistake in that case

that is the new york times front page on infrastructure for a new york. we will go to new york. our line for democrats. help me with the name of your town. where is that? caller: 45 minutes outside of the city. ho bank did you feel the impact of the town? -- host: did you feel the impact of the town? caller: a little bit. my friends have a generator. ho bank freak storm or climate change? conveying i am going to go with climate change. we do not have a lot of hurricanes like that. like down a south there used to that but we are not. and more frequently we have been having hurricanes and tornadoes. i am leaning more towards climate change given that this is not just random but a reoccurrence. hoping to chris in it, mantegna, new jersey. -- host: chris in new jersey. what you think? caller: i think they should go and help them dig out from the blizzard in west virginia. host: the former president said this is due to global warming. caller: the rest and all of the eco nazis. it is an act of god. god did it. i know the storm largely affected the liberal northeast. maybe we should ha

so i wound up writing elvis' obituary for the new york times. i had to refer to him throughout as mr. presley. it was agonizing. that's the style at the new york times--mr. presley. give me a break. and the next day they sold more newspapers than they did after john kennedy was assassinated, so that even the editors of the new york times, who had not quite, you know, been culturally aton--tuned to elvis, decided that we should send someone to report on the funeral. and i drew that assignment. what a scene it was. c-span: you--you say in the book that you got in the cab and you said, 'take me to graceland.' the cabbie peels out of the airport doing 80 and then turns full around to the backseat and drawls, 'ain't it a shame elvis had to die while the shriners are in town?' >> guest: that's exactly what he said. 'shame elvis had to die while the shriners are in town.' and i kind of raised by eyebrows. and sure enough, i realized what he--what he meant after i had been there for awhile because, you know, shriners in convention--i don't know if you've

the new york times says it is. new york times" article points out governor romney gave a speech in which he talked about providing help to the folks we believe are instrength in the syria. he stopped short of saying we would do it directly. and his aids later said he would instead rely on arab allies to do it. that would leave nuts same predicament we are now in according to this article. using allies who canno cannot ct be relied upon. syria becoming more important. mark, thank you. megyn: coming up next, a top medical expert warning this meningitis outbreak is nowhere s near the end. that's next. call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. megyn: fox news alert. the deadly meningitis outbreak is growing. the centers for disease control confirming 17 new cases bringing the total to 231. the fda is expanding its investigation into other drugs that could be contaminated. >> reporter: we are look at two cases in florida, both of them in

the situation. it comes an interesting time. just hours before the last presidential debate, which will cover foreign affairs. the "new york times" with a headline, there's an agreement in principal between the u.s. and iran for one-on-one talks over their nuclear weapons programs. after the election according to the "new york times." the white house was quick to deny that. but other sources are saying that iranians have indicated that they're ready to talk. it comes four months after that last round of talk involving a larger group. the u.s. said that it's willing to meet one-on-one with iranians to get them to promise not to build a nuclear weapon. and not to enrich uranium. sharyn? >> what would likely have to have first? >> well, this is all about sanctions and enriching uranium. and the president and the's west believe that the sanctions are punishing iran. the president will not loosen sanctions unless iran stops enriching uranium and they can prove it. they can verify that they're not enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. >> the timing is curious. the weekend before this final presidential debates. >> hours really

the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. new details have been revealed on the efforts by democrats and republicans to mine american voters' personal data to influence the outcome of next month's election. the new york timesreports the obama and romney campaigns are purchasing an unprecedented amount of personal information from private companies and using it to encourage or convince targeted voters to head to the polls. the information collected includes everything from religious ties, interest in pornographic sites, product preferences, financial status, social media affiliations, and whether a voter has gay friends. that information is then used to shape the approach of unsolicited phone calls from campaign staffers to the voters, based on how they've been analyzed. some voters will even be pushed to vote by being publicly ashamed, when the campaign publicly divulges how frequently they and their neighbors have previously voted in the hopes that public disclosure will spur them action. will have more on campaign data mining later in the broadcast. with just over three weeks until the election, president obama and republican challenger mitt romney will hold their second debate on tuesday at new york's h

but that could go either way. >> thank you to "the new york times'" magazine's matt bai, a great pieceaw hugo telling you there, you've got to view the magazine. >> the "new york times" magazine, "new york times" magazine's matt bai. thank you, as always. >>> after the break, a budget on the brink. >> i think that both campaigns have failed to say to the american public, this is going to be hard. this is a real crisis in america. you look at the imf projections about where the global economy is now. they're saying you've got to get your act together. we could be in another recession next year at this time. they've got to level with the american people about everyone's going to have to give something. and there's going to have to be some revenue raised at some point as well. >> we will peer over the edge of the looming fiscal cliff when cnbc's john harwood joins us live next. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medi

the facts of the store store as you know them one more time. >>> basically, the new york times is reportingthe u.s. and iran has been having secret back channel talks throughout the obama administration. there is hints, but the new angle, the new york times report that officials in u.s. and iran agreed to one on one talks that happen after the american election in order to try to slow down iran a nuclear program and avoid a nuclear show down. it is important. because they talked about a unlateral strike on iran's nuclear program. that is the news that the new york times suggesting that they are doing one on one talks after the election. the white house moments after the store store went out said it is not true it is very interesting times right before the debate. >>> and thent politics would come up. it would be curious to see how long it takes for the romny campaign. if the white house may have float today out here and hoping to score points. we'll monitor through edhenry. bringing us breaking news. ed, thank you. >>> as we monitor that store store. we'll bring you other news on the fox re

i really, really do love them because everything they receive is everything believed by "the new york times," but "the new york times" is too chicken to argue with me about it. without sounding like this is conservative paranoia, i've never had a book as ignored by the mainstream media as this book. my first book, high crimes and misdemeanors, i did a series of morning interviews. this one they won't even attack the one i'm not there, which is what they usually do. no, this one day do not want you to read because it's an emergency but. i wanted it to come out before the election goes through. it breeds racial demagoguery from the last and to point out that it's never produced, only produce disaster, heart rate, crime, death. it has been a disaster for america, most of all for black people. the point is to say don't fall for white guilt again, america. last is to fascinate and look what that produced. so don't fall for it again. don't make the same mistake again and also is a really fun book to read because most of it will be stories you have never read before. thank you and also your books

but back to "the new york times," you referenced "the new york times," there was a piece in "the new york times" this weekend about governor romney's tenure as governor of massachusetts and his ability to work with the democratic legislature. 87 to 90%. >> by the way, this was a laughable story, by the way. >> joe, sam, i was stunned. "new york times," our greatest newspaper, they couldn't find one single democratic legislator to quote, to talk to. it was stunning. >> you look at the headline. we're talking about the headline where it said mitt romney's claims of bipartisanship coming under closer observation. yeah, by the time -- >> by whom? >> by "the new york times." i haven't seen those stories over the past four years over mr. hope and change when we've had the most partisan congress and white house in recent history. but they make this claim. "the new york times" themselves make this claim. and you're exactly right. because now every day they're hammering with another story that just -- every day. they make this claim, and they can't find a single democratic legislator to say --

you want to cover -- you want to look at foreign policy, go to "the new york times." you want to go to the superpac app to find out what people are doing, there is serious news to be had. and serious reporters are writing about it. but i think the american people like their desserts more than they like foreign policy meat and potatoes. >> i want to get craig on this. the dessert has pushed the meat and potatoes almost off the plate. yes, you can find certain things. but take the issues, the polls show people care about -- tax cuts, medicare are. they too complicated, too boring to be on the newscast and top of the fronts page as opposed to donald trump or ann coulter? >> i think people do want more substance and aren't getting it. one reason they tune it on, it's like the twitter effect. if it takes longer than 140 characters to talk about it, we don't talk about it. it's easier to talk about spray tanning in that limited environment. >> you agree with me that it is easier, more fun, and potentially more successful to play the game of sport as opposed to this serious b

the new york times drops a bombshell claiming the u.s. and iran have agreed to negotiate on nukes let me ask you about something that's developing this morning in the new york times exclusive reporting about iran yesterday there were reports of the administration is considering or moving toward direct negotiations with iran over its pursuit of nuclear weapons and the timing of this is so curious the weekend before this final presidential debate hours really before and i think that's why the white house was so quick in its denial. so the timing the curious nature of this is that what about the fact that most americans at least according to polls would prefer diplomatic talks to the alternative you know no talks at all or military force sure and that was one of obama's original two thousand and eight campaign promises you know he wanted to bring iran to the table and come to the table for talks i don't think he entered the white house really knowing what that would entail when he made his proposals some would say that they were half hearted

the new york times drops a bombshell claiming the u.s. and iran have agreed to negotiate on nukes let me ask you about something that's developing this morning in the new york times exclusive reporting about iran yesterday there were reports of the administration is considering or moving toward direct negotiations with iran over its pursuit of nuclear weapons to the timing of this is so curious the weekend before the final presidential debate hours really before and i think that's why the white house was so quick in its denial last night so you know talk about the timing the curious nature of this. what do you think is the message that sort of wasn't conveyed by the mainstream media. well i think the message is the conveyed is that this is really an issue that needs to we need to learn we need to get moving on this issue we need to continue to move forward on american support for us to talk to all you know since the soviet union before they broke up and you know john kennedy set the tone for us. to make sure that we talk to everyone and yo

you know, if you think back to the pentagon papers, daniel ellsworth has to come to "the new york times or a paper like "the new york times" to get the secret out. and that was the only way to make them public. not so now. when the government wanted to do terrible things to daniel elseberg, they had to send people to break into this psychiatrist's office. no longer necessary. they have other tools. it seems very old-fashioned. what i really want to start with the panel, have things really changed? are leaks a more serious threat now? have the prosecutions shut off the flow of information the public? is it time to give more legal protection to leakers? acte to clarify the espionage nd should we revisit the scheme for classification? ha things changed? and if so, what should we do about it. i'll -- everybody has to be named david or scott on this panel. that's 2009 requirements so start with david. >> thanks. it's an honor to be here, and thanks for having me to be on a panel with sh distinguished scotts. there's so much to say here that it's going to be tough to stay within time. or mayb

in terms of romney and his performance, "the new york times" editorial board, perhaps you're familiar with them, writes -- so setting aside the actual substantive policy pivot, the actual performance, a beauty pageant contestant groping for an answer to the final question. >> i think it goes back to the north mali comment. there was this element, i thought, last night of rifling through the almanac and say i can name all these places and leaders. almost sensed a hesitation before the pronoununciation of country or world leader to show he could get it right because had he's trying to show the average voter who's less cynical than us and "the new york times" editorial board i am conversant. i don't know what we can guess to the average voter passes for conversant. as far as the overlap of obama's positions, that was fascinating. the romney's campaign's belief strategy from the beginning have been if we are not a scary alternative to obama there are many americans who would like to not vote for the president but need reassurance. how much more can you be than say i'm just the same. diffe

it's an american issue. >> maria, the argument they made and the times standard folks made, we tried to get folks from "the new yorkt make it work. you know, it is illegal that the transgression of entering the country is against the part of the law in the united states code how you enter the country and people have broken a law. this is a straight forward description. undocumented, that carries its own. it's doing its own work. undocumented is neutral as well. undocumented communicates, it has its own affect, which is to communicate this as bureaucratic. this is an oversight, if you are undocumented. >> so, the issue really concerns all americans. using language correctly. i'm going to ask you a question, chris. >> please. >> do you know somebody who has broken the law? >> oh, yes. i don't think i know a single person who has not broken a law. i think it's true of every american. >> say you have a friend whose broken the law driving, broken the law in terms of not paying taxes, broken the law in terms of being a bad father, delinquent father and not paying child support. now, your friends are an illegal driver, il

republican's by these virulence militant leftists super pacs like abc, nbc, cbs, pbs, npr, cnn, the new york timesthe million dollars from the new york times that they spend every year to produce this product and pay its employees is enough, don't you? host: are you calling the media outlets super pacs? caller: definitely, they are political lobbying groups. guest: the first amendment to the constitution as a provision that talks about the press. so there has always been in the rules about financing campaigns an exemption for news organizations. there are no restrictions on what people can write in newspapers or can express on television. they are very careful to separate their editorial opinions and the editorial pages and their own perspectives from the news. that is their profession. it encourages them to be as objective as they can. so everybody is free to judge those messages as they come from the media and there are lots of them in very different forms in this era than there have been in the past. but there's an exemption in the constitution that allows them to spend money that way without a

the same. >> but that's not true. according to a new report from "the new york times" romney avoided taxes through investments in offshoreavens. mitt romney avoided paying his fair share. what else is he hiding? >>> joining me now, david k johnston author of the new book, "the fine print" and karen finney. david k. johnstone, the times got tax experts to look at the tax returns and some documents they obtained from bain from this new report today. what did we learn? >> well, the cayman islands 4 hundred years ago was a hang out for pirates now it's a hang out for tax pirates. instead of a buried map of where the tresh is, now you get this opinion letters from lawyer, if you follow one every one of these steps, you can get your treasure untaxed to the cayman islands. one of the things the times points out because of the way these were set up and the fees they were charged against them, the less taxes paid by those who were investing, the greater the sum available and therefore the higher the fees that romney collected. >> karen finney, romney, you get the sense the romney campaign expected that the tax return story was a

the other is nuclear war. i'm not going to take much time reviewing the threats of environmental disaster. there on the front pages almost daily. for example, last week, "the new yorkimes" had a front-page story with the headline -- ending its summer melt. arctic sea ice sets a new low that leads to warnings. the melting the summer was far faster than was predicted by the sophisticated computer models and the most recent united nations report, that has now predicted the summer ice might be gone by 2020. it was assumed before it may be 2050. they quoted scientists who said -- this is a prime example of the built-in conservatism of our climate forecasts. as dire the warnings are about the long-term consequences of heat trapping emissions, many of us fear they may still be under estimated the speed and severity as the impending changes. climate change study program at mit where i am now, have been warning about this for years. repeatedly have been proven right "the times" report discusses briefly the severe attacked and the impact of all of this on the global climate. and it adds -- but governments have not responded to the change with any greater urgency about limiti

the situation. it comes an interesting time. just hours before the last presidential debate which will cover foreign affairs. the "new york times" with a headline, there's an agreement in principal with the u.s. and iran with one-on-one talks over their nuclear programs. after the election according to the "new york times." it was quick to be bedenied. other sources are saying that iranians may be ready to talk. it comes four months after that last round of talk involving a larger group. the u.s. said that it's willing to meet one-on-one with iranians to get them to promise not to build a nuclear weapon. sharyn? >> what would likely have to have first? >> well, this is all about sanctions and enriching uranium. they believe that the sanctions are punishing iran. the president will not loosen sanctions unless iran stops enriching uranium and they can prove it. >> the timing is curious. >> why the white house is so quick in its denial last night that this report by the "new york times" was completely correct, there are other newspapers quoting diplomatic sources. you'll hear a lot about this in the debate tomorrow night. it

here's the "new york times" cover. you know they're talking about hem lines in korea, north korea, and the wheat harvest. meanwhile, every talk show, every one of the sunday talk shows was talking about benghazi. >> the "new york times" ombudsman did something that the "washington post" had done a week before which is to say the "new york times" had fallen down on the job. they've had some stories and i think they're probably following up, but it's not just right wingers. >> it's not the right wing new york post. its pas front page has sports. >> this is serious. there should have been a full-blown investigation from the beginning. they told multiple lies, mistruths to the american people and they sent their own people out to do it. why is rice saying it? why is hillary clinton saying it? hillary clinton was watching this real-time in the state department as this was happening. she saw there was no protest going on before hand because that was a made up excuse so they couldn't take responsibility for it. >> if it's not

this is the "new york times." of the arms shipped at the behest of saudi arabia and qadar are going into the hands of is almostists. that line, that conclusion that president obama and the senior white house officials are aware. why didn't anybody discuss that? >> romney's people didn't pay attention to it and obama doesn't want to talk about it. that's what happens when you pretend like a goofy bumper sticker like "lead from behind" is a serious strategy. of course qatar and saudi arabia will channel arms toye to jihadt groups. we pretend saudi arabia and qatar are our allies. but we want a different post-assad syria. we weren't a secular democracy where women have rights. the saudis and qatar want a post-assad syria that looks like saudi arabia. megyn: we are not shipping the arms directly. but were providing intel and sending second-handle light weapons. we are working with allies to make sure these rebels get the arms if you read the "times" article. the reason most likely mitt romney didn't challenge barack o

the new york times, the new york times.nt thing if it was a cover up they wouldn't be changing the story. >> they are trying to pass the hot potato to hillary clinton. that is ah pauling and you heard david axelrod saying it was joe biden and president obama didn't know about it thank goodness we chris wallace and laurra ingram . scooter libby had people hanging out of the trees in his driveway. susan rice needs that as well. >> steve: we thank you for the spirited debate. state straight ahead. the best watch dog you never heard of. we are introducing to you rarest dog breeds in the world. they are here live. this program is brought to you by: so... [ gasps ] these are sandra's "homemade" yummy, scrumptious bars. hmm? i just wanted you to eat more fiber. chewy, oatie, gooeyness... and fraudulence. i'm in deep, babe. you certainly are. [ male announcer ] fiber one. >> the terior and these are gelanto flavors that are dogs. >> gretchen: they are names of dogs and sounds like spumoni. and few of the rare breeds that the americ

the "new york times" wine critic will show us how to enjoy it as much as he does. 's coming up next on cbs "this morning." ♪ >>> the european farmers union has announced because of cold temperatures and drought grapes aren't growing well and as a result this will be their worst wine harvest in 50 years. this could be devastating to kathie lee, hoda, the real housewives without wine what will that show be? [ laughter ] >> didn't look happy in that picture. she didn't look happy. charlie i saw you laughing at that one too. norah, this is funny. in the studio when jimmy kimmel said there's a problem with the wine harvest charlie went on no. >> speaking of wine, you know a lot of people are intimidated by wine even if they do enjoy drinking. but "new york times" whine critic eric asimov wrote a book on "how to love wine." >> eric asimov knows a thing or two about wine but he believes everyone can fall in love with wine if they can just stop worrying about it. >> the problem that i encounter so often with people and i talk to people about wine all the time and they are a

this is "the new york times" lead this morning. it is u.s. officials say iran has agreed to nuclear talks. the united states and iran have agreed in principle for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over iran's nuclear program, according to obama administration officials, setting the stage for what could be a last-ditch diplomat effort to avoid a military strike on iran. it's been suggested that the talks wait until after the presidential election. but a senior administration official said telling their american counterparts they want to know with whom they would be negotiating. what is your reaction to this? >> well, my reaction is the white house has denied it, so i don't think there's much more to talk about. they denied that. obviously, war is always the last option. no one wants a war. we would hope this could get solved in another way. i think the military option has to be on the table, and both candidates have said that. and i think there is also concern. and i'm not talking about this story but just in general that iran has often

host: one more thing from "the new york times." guest: i disagree. .ost: maybe you won't guest: i did not write about bussing in my books. i write about someone that dies. busing is the perfect metaphor for liberals and race relations. liberals will move heaven and earth to make sure their kids go to white schools far away from the schools they are fiddling with other people's lives. it wasn't because liberals thought it was so important to send their children to school with people of different races. they were not doing that. to be busing kids for hours every morning to go to a different neighborhood when black or white, you want to go to school with people in your neighborhood. and long time op-ed writer for "the new york times" wrote obsessively about race and it comes out he was sending his kids to private school. really? the one chance you had. contrast that with a judge that was blocked by the democrats on civil rights grounds because he was not on abortion. it has nothing to do with black people anymore. who was i talking abo