>> guest: i'm editor of the new york times book review and i oversee book coverage at the new york times. that extends from reviews in the senate book review tour daily critic. to reporting on the industry, to profiles and future. we try to cover not only what the latest is in books, but also to cover the way in which books intersect with the larger culture and news. >> if somebody gets a sunday new york times are subscribe separately, can you read just one? or do they come -- if you look at is this short story? >> guest: i think a book review serves multiple purposes. ideally to tell you what's in the book, to give you a sense of the writing and offer some kind of judgment. i also think a book review is an old form. there is a certain writing that takes place that you link it and the rest of the news report or feature about a book. criticism is an art form. often my hope is that people are not just looking for a book report to see if they just want to read the book but they're also appreciating that writing. also people read the book reviews they don't have to read the book. >> guest: l

new york. >>> rachel has the night off. we do have a lot to get to night, including late-breaking news from the "the new york times" about a major policy change the trump administration is currently floating. we have the reporter who broke that story here tonight. you do not want to miss it. first, we have more to unpack from the blockbuster report in "the washington post" concerning the meeting in june of 2016 between donald trump jr., jared kushner, donald trump's then campaign manager paul manafort and a number of russian nationals with ties to the kremlin. that meeting was made public earlier this month in a "the new york times" report published on july 8th when the "the new york times" first reported on this meeting. they included a statement from donald trump jr. who explained, quote, it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that were active and popular with american families years ago and since ended with the russian government. it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. i was asked to atten

his latest pees is "the new york times" versus "washington post" versus trump the last great newspaper war. >> i think it's a classic on one level newspaper war but it's also one in which both could win but also both could lose. so to that extent, it's not like your traditional newspaper war. and the ultimate questions have to do with a combination of factors including the ongoing implosion of the traditional business model, the media, and then the coming of a president of the united states who so actively tries to devalue and delegitimize the press. >> rose: we con clues with eye vor prickett he documented the battle of mosul as a photographer for "the new york times." his photographs show both the humanitarian and destructive side of war. >> what i'm interested in as a photographer when i'm working in these kind of situations is the toll that war has on the people caught up in it, both the

you'll name drop it in bars even say yeah i read this in the new york times the other day. and the other person will say oh yeah right the new york times of course i saw that one too it's a whole thing now to be cool and into the new york times for all these people who did not know anything about politics last year at all on the flip side they say the words fox news as if they're spitting something gross out of their mouths they probably never even read anything on fox or watch the channel even they've only seen clips on the daily show making fun of so many of these folks who are newly in the politics don't even realize how slanted the news they're getting is they just think the new york times only presents facts not a nuanced perspective and i was reminded of that recently when mark ames exiled on twitter pointed out a pretty crazy had line the times ran last fall it read berlin one nine hundred forty five grozny two thousand aleppo twenty sixteen which is a pretty nuanced perspective allright because as mark ames exiled pointed out the not subtle implicatio

new york, republican. caller: can you hear me? host: yes. caller: ok, we're talking about the report which was originally in "the new york times." it is about the problems from climate change. it was originally reported, for fearsthe agency, that the trump administration would hide it. now "the new york times" came back, and it was already leaked in january. why was this picked up only now? [indiscernible] making anaying it is impact on the u.s. climate. that is all. guest: well, it was started under the obama administration. however, these are career no matter who say the president is, it is up to their discretion. they cannot just get fired because a new president comes in. a lot of people have been there through bush and through clinton. so the political influence is not one of the issues here. that "thethe draft new york times" put up, the report is congressionally mandated and has been going on. why "the times" posted the third draft, i am not sure. but a lot of us knew the draft was circulating at the agency, so i think it was an honest mistake. it does not discredit the reporting, because the fifth draft, which "the new yo

if this "the new york times" reporting and the abc news reporting tonight beares out, te stakes have gotten that much higher. i want to put one last point on it. we just got some exclusive new national polling from ppp, public policy polling. this is due to come out tomorrow. they've given us an collusive look at the numbers tonight. they're exclusive to us. this is a national survey results factoring in democrats and independents and republicans who of course remain very loyal to donald trump. here are these national top line results. quote, do you think that the russia story is fake news or not? answer from the american people, no, america do not think the russia story is fake news. question 21, quote, do you think that members of donald trump's campaign team worked in association with russia to help trump win the election for president or not? answer from the american public, yes, we think members of donald trump's campaign team worked in association with russia to help trump win the election for president. and here's the crucial follow-up question, question 22, quote, if evidence

this isn't as -- obviously this isn't the "new york times" but amy otto from the federalist. or contributor there i'm saddened that the nra has about the "new york times" but didn't speak up for casteel. how do you respond to that? i know this is not the first time have you been asked about that. >> i'm unfamiliar with amy otto. i would imagine she is not unfamiliar with the nra or myself. i'm on twitter. you can always reach out to someone and ask for a statement. and i have rarksd on this. and the nra as issued a statement on castile. i have spoken out on this on radio and spoken out about it on twitter. i think for anyone to say that the nra hasn't been present on that issue. i think they are willfully not listening. >> dana: what's next? has the nra got something else up its sleeve. >> the nra i will always, depends on the media. depends if the media has something up their sleeve. the nra this comes from membership as well. i talk to are the people that are nra members. they are tired of seeing trump members beelined. i have 80-year-old great aunt lives in the state of ill

that meeting was made public earlier this month in a "the new york times" report published on july 8th when the "the new york times" first reported on this meeting. they included a statement from donald trump jr. who explained, quote, it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we talked about the adoption of russian children that were active and popular with american families years ago and since ended with the russian government. it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. i was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance but was not told the name of the person i would be meeting with before hand. it's been revealed that statement was not accurate. it was much longer than a short introductory and we know that the original stated purpose of the meeting was to pass along dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government to help the trump campaign. that offer caused trump jr. to write back, i love it. so we know that what the president's son went to that appointment, what he was expecting was not, as his statement later said, a sho

what this new request tonight is about is it suggests to us that the special counsel is further following the money. "the new york times" saying that these hidden payments could potentially be considered for fraud charges. all these developments come as nbc news confirmed today with three sources familiar with the matter that bob mueller has been making use of more than one active grand jury. this is in multiple districts, so that includes virginia and d.c., the big story that broke yesterday. those grand juries are issuing subpoenas for records and documents tied to the ongoing investigation. we have a lot to get to tonight. i'm happy to say a strong panel to begin. walter dellinger. sam buell is a professor of law at duke university, a former federal prosecutor. lead prosecutor in fact for that enron task force which has some overlap with some of what mueller is doing now. and michael isikoff, a chief investigative reporter for yahoo news. walter, folks are just digesting "the new york times" reports. folks at home my want to understand what does it mean when we say this is one of the first document requests that mue

he tweeted a lot about the "new york times" and the articles that had been written about the "new yorkat he said to be their failing sales. we talked about, in fact, they're actually on the upswing. senator richard bloomenthal tweeted about that. some people are skeptical whether the new chief of staff john kelly is changing how president trump operates. what do yesterday's tweets tell you? >> they tell you that trump has not given his phone up to john kelly. that was not one of the conditions that kelly took the job. i think kelly got out of his negotiations to be chief of staff the ability to hire and fire senior aides, the ability to kind of block access to the oval office when he needs to because he didn't want it to just be this free-wheeling circus where you would have senior aides just drop in and, you know, give fake news articles sometimes to president trump. i think kelly is doing his best as chief of staff, but if ooiiva and jared can't stop trump from tweegt, it's hard to see how a non-family member can do the job. >> i keep going back to something that cory said recently.

tonight in the new york times, this little politics store moved from interesting to. there's the impiechment flet. a man biller piper is quoted by name tonight in the new york times. he's a lobbyist. he was chief of staff to senator mcconnell. and pilly piper throws this threat in the president's -- it's important that he allows himself to be quoted by name is making it. here's what he said, the quickest way for trump to get impeached is for him to knock off jeff flake and dean heller and be faced with a democrat led senate. that would be the place where you give bluster -- with this president a bluster citing becomes a fairly credible threat of impeachment for the president. and republicans apparently are not afraid to say it, including republicans very, very close to the top republican in the senate who controls what happens in the senate, mitch mcconnell. so, there's that, the impeachment threat. but here's the worst part from the white house's perspective. apparently before trump and mcconnell stopped speaking to each other all together, which is where they're at n

sent to a government employee asking them to become leakers to collude with the new york times against their boss the president coral devonport covers energy and environmental policy for the new york times and she wrote an e-mail to john j. o'grady who was actually the president of the government union who represents workers and davenport did not mince words as to what she was looking for she actually wrote i am working on a story lou. going for unusual secretary at the e.p.a. then she writes i'm looking for things like information communicated verbal when it's usually put in writing or people told not to bring phones to meetings or officials using devices that aren't official government property she was looking for that kind of thing in other words davenport was saying hey i had this idea for a story i want to write about how people at the e.p.a. are being asked to hide information and how the president's administration is trying to sabotage the e.p.a. even though davenport did not have any of this proof she knew that that was the story she wanted to do so she asked a governme

the correction has made news on web-sites like news max. daily caller the hill and this the correction that the "new york times" put out. they said article on tuesday about a sweeping federal climate change referred incorrectly to the availability of the report. while not widely publicized it was put up in january and not made first public by the "new york times". mike in lacrosse, wisconsin. independent. >> hi there. i'm asking about state regulations as far as farming regulations. building birms to keep the water clean and rotating crops. what type of effect does that have? you feel it has a big effect? >> rotating crops and no till a gri culture are all great ways to reduce co2 emissions. the more your field is covered the more it's pulling co2 from the atmosphere and in fact rotating crops is a great way to adjust to the effects of climate change as well. if you are growing crops that require too much water you know in a place that is short on water you should rotate crops and switch them out and do something different. >> patacky, democrat. connecticut. >> good morning. i'll make this brief. i was just wondering how

i mean, the new york times has written top stories. how about this question mark the new york times as sensual a apologized -- essentially apologized when i won because there coverage was so bad it can't so wrong a.m. to they were

equal footing with workforces that are almost at historic highs in each case, the post and "the new york times." here they are doing work as good and as prolific as they ever have. >> rose: does it go back to the competition between the post under ben bradley and "the new york times" under abbe rosenthal during the watergate period? >> well, you know, i would say yes, except that after that intense competition you had dramatic changes for both of them. in one case, the case of the post leading to the dramatic sale of the paper by the graham family. so that sense of being equals had really dissipated by about 10 years ago and particularly at the post there was almost a sort of sense, you had a talent drain, you had buyouts and ultimately you had donald graham painfully looking to sell amid what seemed to be a very bleak situation. so this harkens back to that, charlie, but it has certainly not been a clear continueium. >> you also have two great editor at both participates. >> astonishing, for those who don't know, marty baron has probably gotten a a little more publicity as a result of his "bo

>> after we go to the "new york times," and this is may 2016, a lot of world anti-doping agency is forced to launch another investigation into the claims put forward in the "new york times." i helped to facilitate a meeting and richard mclaren was the head of that investigation independently, and this information went on between may of 2016 all the way through december of this year, and the investigation found-year-old that every single thing gregory said and put forward is true, it corroborated all the evidence scientifically, through interpol, et cetera. >> rose: this is an investigation by the "new york times"? >> no. the "new york times" broke the story based on all the evidence we brought to them. then the world anti-doping agency led an investigation to actually get the samples from soichi being held by the olympic committee and test them to see if they had been tampered with. between that process and plus what was 1666 documents of evidence that led straight back to the ministry, this report found, without a out the,-year-old, that not only was this true, that -- but the extent of

charlie: this is the investigation by the new york times? ew york times broke the story based on all the evidence we brought to them. then the world anti-doping agency led an investigation because they were able to actually get the samples from sochi that were being held by and test them to see if they had been tampered with. between that process plus what was 1666 documents of evidence that led straight back to the ministry, this report found, beyond a question about, reasonable doubt, that not only was this true, but the extent of this fraud goes back further than they can even imagine. we brought forward evidence of beijing in 2008, of london in 2012, of multiple championships that were held in russia around since that time, and of course, sochi. when they went and examined these bottles, they literally found the scratches of how the , broke into these bottles. they found spectacular levels of content in the urine samples, because grigory was adding salt into the herein samples to match the gravity. they corroborated everything that grigor

president trump doesn't run the article in the "new york times." epublicans were looking ahead to 2020, john kasich and others. the vice president also looking ahead. the vice president issuing a strong statement slamming the report in the "new york times" saying it's disgraceful and offensive to me mir, my family, my entire team. my entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him reelected in 2020. any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. >> michael pence is tied to the president. two-term president, you run as the logical heir to that. any break is problematic -- any break between pence and trump, even a perceived one, is problematic, more so because he's dealing with donald trump which he knows donald trump does not like, more than anything, any one star shining brighter than his own. that's why i think you saw him come out so forcefully so that if trump saw the story, he immediately saw the pence denial as well. >> you know the president saw the story because he reads the "new york t

"the new york times" was reporting that the -- >> the "new york times" was reporting that the president ok'd the statement. >> it's incorrect. >> the "new york times" is wrong? >> i know, is that shocking that sometimes they make a mistake? >> the extent of the president's intervention leading to a series of actions trump has take than advisers fear could place him and some members of his inner circle in legal jeopardy. there's concern that his direct involvement leaves him vulnerable to allegations of a cover-up. we should note cnn was the first to report concern that white house aides involved in the trump jr. response may have exposed themselves to special counsel scrutiny. >>> the president's son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner offering up a new defense. to knock down claims that members of the trump election team colluded with russia. on monday, kushner spoke privately to congressional interns and told them, "colousion could not have occurred because trump campaign staffers were barely talking to one another." and "they thought we colluded," kushner told the interns, "but we c

(laughing) ashley: the nra releasing another ad taking aim at mainstream media. this time they have a message for "the new york going to "the new york times" and what deep, rich, means to this old gray hax, untrustworthy dishonest rag subsisted on welfare of mediocrity, for one, two, three more decades? we'll laser focus on your so-called honest pursuit of truth. in short, we're coming for you. ashley: well, that is a heck of an ad, is it not. we're joined by very star of that ad, nra spokesperson, dana loesch. fascinating, what reaction have you had to that particular ad? >> ashley, so good to see you. well, it has been interesting because either people really identify with media bias, because they have either had it done to themselves or done to individuals that they believe to be trustworthy, or there have been, ashley a few people out there that don't believe a free people have the right to promise to fact check the press. that is exactly what this ad was. that is why i used the word fisk, adam goldman at "the new york times" didn't understand because of his limited vocabulary. fisk, i'm line by line, not

on equal footing with work forces that are almost at historic highs in each case, the new york post and the "new york times." here they are doing work as good and as prolific as they ever have. charlie: does it go back to the competition between the post under ben bradley and the "new york times" under abe rosenthal during the watergate series? mes: you know, i'd say, yes, that after that confrontation you had dramatic changes in one case leading to the dramatic sale of the paper by the grant family. that sense of being equals had really dissipated by about 10 years ago and, particularly, at the post there was almost a sort of funeral sense. you had a talent drain. you had buyouts. ultimately, you had donald graham painfully looking to sell amid what seemed to be a very bleak situation. harkens back to that but is certainly not a clear continuum. charlie: you also have two great editors. james: marty barren has probably gotten a little more publicity partly because of his "boston globe" days and the movie which won an academy award focusing on their investigation of the roman catholic church and the boston

>> more on that as our hour ing "the new york times." it's about what has become a poisoned relationship between the president and what should be his point man for legislation in congress. the majority leader of the senate mitch mcconnell. while the two men could not be more different, a president whose party also controls the house and senate would normally anticipate being able to run the table on legislation. that is not the case. the headline in the article reads trump and mcconnell locked in a cold war, threatening the gop agenda. mcconnell it says in private doubts if trump can save his presidency. let's talk about all of it with us tonight to analyzed .president's speech and the journalism out to mean national political roert for the washlt moderator for washington week and pbs. robert costa pb claim it reporter for and white house is correspondent for mcanita welcome back to the broadcast to all of you. robert, let's start with you. what do you make of what you have heard tonight? there seemed to be some new rhetorical benchmarks

these are in tech offices all over the bay area, the new york times says, in uncomfortable times silicon valley has turned to a comfortable shoe. this is it the first time i've had a shoemaker on the show. he started his career in biotechnology trying to turn algae into gasoline. he's turned into a beach of a cop letter, thanks for being with us this morning. all of a sudden, nobody is not talking about them, the new york times is running columns about them, and they just appeared out of magic air. how did you get so popular? >> we didn't plan for quite the amount of success that we had,

the news. something that, of course, he continues to call a hoax, a witch-hunt, fake news. and it's also the story in the "new york times" that he clearly read on sunday suggesting that other republicans are looking at his low poll numbers and thinking about whether to run, and attacking the "new york times" in that first tweet today saying that his base is stronger than ever, when, in fact, look at poll numbers, his base is still at 36%, 37%. what his problem is, he's losing support from other republicans and certainly not getting support from democrats or independents, which would suggest he's expanding his base here. >> and we'll talk more about the vice president part of that, but one of the most telling quotes from that piece was from john mccain. i think we have it and can put it on the screen. trying to sum up the reality what's happening. he said, john mccain said, they see weakness in this president. look, it's not a nice business for him. ouch. margaret, you had a great story yesterday about the guy who is now the chief of staff. the retired general john kelly, who is trying to get order into the white house,

the u.s. war. the times reports -- meanwhile the new york times recently reported that trump is being pressured by naire financier and a chemical executive to escalate the u.s. war in afghanistan in a bid to exploit the country's mineral wealth. the times reports trump discussed afghanistan's vast deposits of metals and rare earth elements with afghan president ashraf ghani and is reportedly considering sending an envoy to afghanistan to meet with mining officials. we are joined now by two guests. kathy kelly is co-coordinator of voices for creative nonviolence, a campaign to end u.s. military and economic warfare. she has made many trips to afghanistan, including one earlier this year. jodi vittori is a senior policy advisor for global witness on afghanistan policy, joining us from washington, d.c.. kathy kelly, let's begin to you -- your response to what is happening in afghanistan right now. think they: to united states has been exacerbating a war that seems unlikely to change -- even if they had sent cents 4000 or many more troops to afghanistan -- when they had 100,000 troops, they were not ab

in a statement about "the new york times" article, the vice president said this -- "today's article inyork times is disgraceful and offensive to me, my family, and the entire team. the allegations in this article are categorically false and represent just the latest attempt by the media to divide this administration. whatever fake news may come our way, our entire team will continue to focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re-elected in 2020. any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd." does he protest too much? >> it seems like it. the media isn't dividing this administration. the administration seems divided, and the media's reporting on it. the reality is that those of white house are covering conservative voters regularly meet people out in all parts of america who are dissatisfied with the president who look at mike pence more favorably. i think it would be a bit less than honest to suggest he's not aware of that message, and there may be some people in his world who are looking into seeing whether or not he could be received more favorable

all right, "the new york times" said the justice department could be preparing to sue some of america's politics, but the >> kimberly: two stories developing out of washington today. "the new york times" put out a report of the trump administration could be targeting affirmative action policies on campus, but the justice department says the paper got the story wrong. also today, the president signed a bill to impose new sanctions on russia, but he wasn't happy about it. ed henry has all the details. >> good to see you. dare i say this administer ration is going to call it fake news by "the new york times" that discrimination story that you mentioned. a job ad over at the justice department, basically a help wanted ad. saying they wanted to hire more lawyers to deal with a new project that was going to be investigating this termination in the college admissions process. "the new york times" got a copy of that help wanted ad, and then extrapolated out and they are reporting, that somehow this was going to be president trump investigating claims that there is antiwhite bias in the admissio

>> the "new york times" wasn't clear and nbc news has not confirmed the "new york times" story but it's been obvious for some time mike flynn is in the cross-hairs of the special counsel and one of the issues is the lobbying he did on bhaehalff the turkish government which he didn't disclose at the time of the campaign was on behalf of the turkish government and later amended his forms to disclose he got paid $530,000 to do that and people may be wondering what does that have to do with the question whether donald trump and his campaign included with russia. mike flynn appears to be in legal jeopardy and the question is does the special counsel have the ability to charge him with crimes and then have leverage over him to testify about what he may or may not know regarding the trump campaign's collusion with russia. because after all he had some meetings with the russian ambassador sergei kislyak. he didn't tell the truth about them according to the former acting attorney general so that's where the mike flynn angle plays into this whole russia investigation. >> be nbc news confirmed mue

howie: the vice president called the piece in the "new york times" and he says it's the latest attemptde the administration. article said one of his aides said the pence team wants to be prepared in case there was an opening in 2020. joining us from los angeles, gina loudon, and in new york, cathy areu. gina, what do you make of mike pence pushing back so hard against this "new york times" piece that includes him in the maneuvering for 2020. gina: he's probably asking the question if he were not doing those things would the media criticize him for not doing those things, saying he's not fully on board with the conservative agenda. there has become such a chasm between the conservatives in general and the media at this point. but there is a distrust overall. everything the media says is suspect to someone like vice president nuke pence. howie: wouldn't any vice president keep his options open? the story doesn't say that mike pence is going to challenge trump. cathy: it was a story without facts. he did start a political committee. he is raising money. he hired a chief of staff that is k

the times in 2000 come work in the d.c. pewter at the times and has been a political correspondent of the sunday magazine, has been the city hall bureau chief in new york, discovered the needed and politics and were glad to have a reliable journalist with the lawyers here today. >> to his left is david walsh come also a journalist. david is with the sunday times in the uk. he was noted sportswriter of the year in ireland three times and in the uk four times that his main claim to fame is that he really broke and worked very, very hard for years and years and years uncovering the doping program of lance armstrong and his american cycling team, and obvious it was indicated in the end when armstrong conceded. you be talking about his coverage of armstrong and his lawsuits by armstrong as we discussed the matter this morning. to his left is lower appraiser, from austin, texas, with the firm of haynes and boone. laura is an outstanding litigator but i think really her most noteworthy accomplishment is that she was instrumental in getting the texas legislature, texas, to pass and anti-slap act, retraction statute and a reporter shield law all very media prot

all right, "the new york times" said the justice department could be preparing to sue some of america's the department of justice fired back. we will have those details next. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends, three jobs... you're like nothing can replace brad. then liberty mutual calls... and you break into your happy dance. if you sign up for better car replacement™, we'll pay for a car that's a model year newer with 15,000 fewer miles than your old one. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it's an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it's mozzarella sticks on top of grilled chicken. it's cajun shrimp on top of steak. it's labor day weekend on top of the fourth of july. hotdogs. it's abe lincoln on top of george washington. yonder. it's rodeos on top of rollercoasters. it's favorites on favorites, alice. it's very moving. get your favorites on top of your favorites. only at applebee's. ♪ >> kimberly: two stories developing out of washington today.

it was also the day "the new york post" reported scaramucci's wife had recently filed for divorce. something her lawyer confirmed to "the new york times then kept a low profile over the weekend, seemingly unaware he was on the chopping block. on day 11, scaramucci showed up for work. he even attended this morning's swearing-in of the new chief of staff. the same chief of staff demanding his ouster. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >>> in a moment, the latest from the white house and how scaramucci's removal actually happened, who called it for it, and who told him about it and the breaking news from "the washington post." it is reporting the president himself, dictated donald trump's misleading statement about the meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. afi sure had a lot on my mind. my 30-year marriage... ...my 3-month old business... plus...what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me? so i made a point to talk to my doctor. he told me about eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots and reduces the risk of them happening again. not only does eliquis treat

the idea that mike pence has plans to run. >> it is absurd and what you have here is speculation, conjecture, half-truths about masquerading as news on the front page of the never-trump, "new york times." nothing supportive. he is supportive of the president. >> "the new york times" pushing back as well same comment there confident in their reporting in the story will tell itself, jon? >> and going after the democratic senator from connecticut, richard blumenthal. >> it has been an interesting morning, and a good day. it is actually pouring in bridgewater, new jersey. earlier this morning, the connecticut senator cues the trump administration in a televised interview of a weapon the justice department for personal and appeared that sent him straight to twitter, blasting him in several tweets same, he told stories about his vietnam battles that he lied, ad beg for forgiveness like a child adding, now he judges collusion. and he also treated this. interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talk about post-russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist. blumenthal held a press conference today after all this and after the twitter, said, his obligation to sp

involved in raising money for pence's pac. >> the gop official adding pence may have been eager to put out his statement given the timing with the new york times story coming out days after the special counsel is issuing grand jury subpoenas. the president pushing back against news he doesn't like, offering his own take on the news. a former campaign manager is joining campaign-style videos on the president's facebook page. the first video cited positive news and credited trump with the successes. if you don't like the real news, make your own broadcast. >> i hear this all the time, though. the real news isn't getting out. >> that's right. now you can see the new program. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson says the international community is united in its expectation that north korea will take steps to denuclearize. tillerson is in the philippines at a forum of southeast asian nations. he is ramping up pressure on north korea days after the u.n. security council unanimously approved the toughest sanctions to date against the kim jong-un regime. >> so the next steps obviously are to see that the security council resolution sanctions are

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here it is on the front page of the new york times. ese things is often that they are front and centre of the news agenda for a few days or a few weeks, then attention moves on and the agenda moves on. but the fa cts and the agenda moves on. but the facts a re and the agenda moves on. but the facts are still being discussed and it is on the front page of an international newspaper. the attention is still very much on it. let's move on to the guardian. —— the guardian. do is trying to sweeten things with its drivers. you can leave tips now. this is a practice that has been happening in the united states for some time, but i'iow the united states for some time, but now uk users can leave tips, and uber drivers now uk users can leave tips, and uberdrivers can now uk users can leave tips, and uber drivers can overcharge if they are left waiting for passengers. it is interesting, because we see the rise of these giddy economy companies, like uberand baru, and it is all about the flexibility, people want the flexibility that these companies o

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and tech reporting in general by a least three of the biggest newspapers in the united states the new york times the wall street journal and the washington post johnson writes a review of one hundred ninety articles from the new york times wall street journal and bezos own washington post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncritical. times boosterism coverage in fact the last time there was any kind of investigative journalism found in any of the big three was a new york times critique of amazon's labor practices almost two years ago in august of two thousand and fifteen so in a world where freedom of the press has preached a lot more than its practice just how much rain does the mainstream press give to the world's super rich and powerful let's find out and start watching the hawks. that i got. so. well for the watching the parts i am. i robot and that have a lot. of those so let me ask you do you think. the media goes soft on the super wealthy or super powerful yes because the super wealthy and the super powerful own media that's not a metaphor they literally own the medi

time. do you believe that this is the truth of the relationship from mcconnell's perspective? >> i think "the new york times" article saying that the entire republican agenda is threatened because these two guys had a couple disagreements, i think that's totally overblown. for mcconnell, it's rarely ever personal. it is about winning and he and president trump agree on 90% of the republican agenda and 90% of what was on the ballot last year and i think the idea of the fact they have had conflict or heated conversation somehow jeopardizes that agenda is simply wrong. >> let's look if we can, first your thoughts, the men have traded verbal jabs at each other. here are a few of them that have come out in public. >> the president has of course not been in this line of work before. and i think had excessive expectations of how quickly things happen in the democratic process. >> [ inaudible ]? >> well, i'll tell you what, if he doesn't get repeal and replace done and if he doesn't get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform, and if he doesn't get a very easy one to get done, infrastructure, then you can ask me

wrong, other times there can be a trial balloon that was set up and they basically poked it. >> it seems like the opposite. fake news as the white house would claim. in fact, "the new yorkinto the story with a preconceived notion that they think the president's views are racist, so they took a swing at him and they missed rather badly. it all started with a simply se want to add, seeking lawyers to work on a new project to investigate race-based discrimination in colleges and universities in their admissions actresses. "the new york times" obtained that classified ad and ran the story suggesting that this meant the president wants to round up evidence that affirmative action policies have gone too far, so why applicants from college are now facing reverse determination. this ignited a firestorm, including former president obam president obama's education secretary rushing out to say that he was disheartened at any legislation that would hurt african-american students. one big problem. the job ad for attorneys to work for attorney general jeff sessions did not refer to white students facing any sort of reversed its cremation. it did not mention white students at all. so

times. >> the liberal new york times, the guy was wheeled to t the confederacy which is ironic. i've never seen it before but i really don't think it has a place to be there. >> what you think it would cost to redo the tile? how many homeless folks could they feet and how many recovery beds can they fund before they do this. >> when it comes to the mta, the tiles on the wall are not the problem. >> that debate is still worthwhile. we talk about this country, to prevail but at the end of the day, struggles round where we are going as a country. my son who is studying this as a history major in graduate school, how do we address the errors of the past? to keep reminding people that america was once a place that was not inclusive of all people? you have to. otherwise you're going to repeat it. people have to learn history and no they shouldn't do those things again. if you don't remind people. >> not by honoring the flag. >> that's a different thing. our country was so divided. >> they were traders. >> no country ever honors its

new sanctions on russia, but he wasn't happy about it. ed henry has all the details. >> good to see you. dare i say this administer ration is going to call it fake news by "the new york timesimination story that you mentioned. a job ad over at the justice department, basically a help wanted ad. saying they wanted to hire more lawyers to deal with a new project that was going to be investigating this termination in the college admissions process. "the new york times" got a copy of that help wanted ad, and then extrapolated out and they are reporting, that somehow this was going to be president trump investigating claims that there is antiwhite bias in the admissions process of colleges and universities. this, as you can imagine, ignited a firestorm. democrats including former president obama's defense educan secretory was disheartened. the job for lawyers to work for attorney general jeff sessions did not refer to antiwhite bias at all. sir huckabee sanders set at the white house podium that it would be investigating potential biased against all races, not specifically against rights. this evening, the justice department came out and in much stronger terms denied the story,