>> you're talking about the british press? >> well, in 17 years i've only given two interviews to the british press. the rest have either been brought in from abroad -- >> yes. >> or invented. so the question doesn't really arise. >> yes. you carried one interview, i think, in 2002, which has been -- [inaudible] >> it relates with sandra bullock. [inaudible] >> the question -- [inaudible] >> that people are interested in the film to answer -- [inaudible] i do understand -- [inaudible] >> curiosity -- >> it doesn't mean to say you can obtain that information illegally? >> no. >> and then you continue, when i think about actors i know -- i'd much rather who they're shagdz than what film their doing next? >> that remains true. but again as i say -- i don't mean that information should be obtained illegally. >> and then you -- you go on probably into an area which is -- >> i know it was given -- that quote comes from, i think, a press conference with a thing called the hollywood foreign press association the people who control the

>> you're talking about the british press? >> yes. >> well, in 17 years i've only given two interviews to the british press. the rest have either been brought in from abroad -- >> yes. >> or invented. so the question doesn't really arise. >> yes. you carried one interview, i think, in 2002, which has been -- [inaudible] >> it relates with sandra bullock. [inaudible] >> the question -- [inaudible] >> that people are interested in the film to answer -- [inaudible] i do understand -- [inaudible] >> curiosity -- >> it doesn't mean to say you can obtain that information illegally? >> no. >> and then you continue, when i think about actors i know -- i'd much rather who they're shagdz than what film their doing next? >> that remains true. but again as i say -- i don't mean that information should be obtained illegally. >> and then you -- you go on probably into an area which is -- >> i know it was given -- that quote comes from, i think, a press conference with a thing called the hollywood foreign press association the people who cont

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you don't need to regulate the press. we will regulate ourselves. not only over here with the surveillance van outside and also somewhere in there the daily mail living of the learnings because the number of them who advertise in the publications. when i confronted him it was i hadn't noticed a good bit of journalism so if the story anybody that is a celebrity be it press or you're own boss if there is a good enough story and that is the job of the journalists to keep the journal of the day and write about what happens and about those that have power over us. >> here's what you said in your answer about the police and how they might have behaved with the news of the world is that a matter of speculation or is that something that you have direct knowledge of? >> wally have the direct knowledge in the sense that they made three requests to come in to give evidence in the caution which means i would have been arrested before giving evidence and i refuse and they read me a letter saying i must come in to give evidence and in return i just said no, i'm no

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how much has romney's avoidance of the press hurt his ability to get the message out? >> i doubt such. his problems are structural and have to deal doo with how republican activists feel, not how reporters feel about them. anybody's press strategy, whether it be accessible or inaccessible, is driven by their particular self-interest in the moment. his interests have changed now that he's fighting back. he's suddenly more accessible. i think that's the -- >> all right. since matt lewis -- sorry, since matt lewis said nobody calls him out. let's call him out. we played this a couple of weeks ago. i'll play it for fun. >> gingrich's campaign has fallen apart. most of his staff has quit. the former speaker is pretty much done as a serious candidate. >> maybe newt gingrich's sort of fake campaign is totally dead now. >> this thing is over for newt. i think newt is done. >> we have to revise and extend our remarks on that. let me get to one more bit of sound. that is the donald trying to reinsert himself into the process by hosting with newsmax, a -- a candidate forum two day

he's much more comfortable with the press. es it better than romney. the problem is if you take a couple steps back, what we're really seeing is a fox news primary and fox news campaign and fox news is slowly destroying the republican party as we see with newt gingrich and donald trump today. one of the problems is they want to create the bubble. that's the right wing approach, stay inside the bubble. it doesn't work. you have to deal with the press. >> quickly, does mitt romney have a confidence problem right now? >> oh, absolutely does. that's reflected in the press. >> to question about it. eric. good to have you with us. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. listen to me on sirius xm channel 127 monday through friday noon to 3:00 p.m. follow me on twitter @edshow and @wegoted. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now.

you make it clear you have no personal vendetta against the press but what are your views about the freedom of press? >> i believe very strongly and freedom of the press and freedom of expression and i would like to make it clear from the start that i think that there is alongside the kind of journalism we are going to be talking about today i think there is truly heroic journalism in britain. i suppose my feeling is we have at one end of the spectrum people who literally risking their lives to expose the truth about war and famine and resolution and the other end we have behavior that is illegal and unjustifiably intrusive, so i wonder sometimes why they are given the same name and why they call with the same thing. we should invent a new word for the second. >> in paragraph four of your statement you recognize the staff of your career had some beneficial effect on your book. is the right? >> i would say it's an interesting question with regard to harry potter in particular because in 1997 when the book that was published the traditional media was the only game in town if a person wanted t

most of the spanish press is not owned by latinos. walker -- telemundo is owned by -- another, foreign ownership. we are in a situation where the white population of the united states will be a minority of the country, but despite the amazing growth of the non-white population of the united states, a minority ownership is decreasing. >> i am not naÏve and asking this question, but my white brothers and sisters can clearly look at what they are putting on the air every night and see that pretty much it is all day, all night, all white. there are so few people of color who get a chance to ask the questions, to profile people who want to be profile. if you are one of these networks, you are sitting it in your office and see this all day long. i am not not even asking this, but how is it that this it's justified that is it changing demographically so fast? >> it is astounding to me that that continues, but i think the problem is that we do not understand, many of us -- i concluded that i did not understand the system after 35 years of bein

the police but also a chilling assault on media coverage of the of the first city to try and block the press from covering what was happening was new york city under mer michael bloomberg orders so in response we rightly saw outrage from print media outlets we saw the new york times the associated press and others write a strongly worded letter to the police commissioner denouncing not only the blockage of the press but also arrests and the violence displayed by police towards journalists but how quickly it seems that some of the anger can vanish because it's not i'd like to highlight a story written by michael tracey over at salon dot com here he detailed mayor bloomberg annual holiday party that he throws for the local press this is a party where reporters from the new york times the new york post the new york daily news c.b.s. fox and other outlets were all in attendance and according to those that were there it was a very light heart of that so light hearted in fact the mayor bloomberg felt that he could make jokes about journalist arrests and the occupy movement in general there he joke

he's much more comfortable with the press. es it better than romney. the problem is if you take a couple steps back, what we're really seeing is a fox news primary and fox news campaign and fox news is slowly destroying the republican party as we see with newt gingrich and donald trump today. one of the problems is they want to create the bubble. that's the right wing approach, stay inside the bubble. it doesn't work. you have to deal with the press. >> quickly, does mitt romney have a confidence problem right now? >> oh, absolutely does. that's reflected in the pres

the press is allowed to cover this hearing josh gerstein over politico at least point of the sound so for that we think it aside from the two charge sheets listing the preliminary allegations against manning the army has refused to release any of the legal filings exchanged between the defense and the prosecution as well as any of the orders issued by military judges or investigating officers assigned to the case and the army has also indicated their reporters attending manning session will not be able to post real time updates or tweets about the proceedings and they can only file updates once they're out of the courts or. by being escorted off of the base and the wireless internet connection in the filing center will also be turned off while the proceedings are underway and restored only after the session breaks not only that but as gerstein also points out as the irony of it all and when to use his own words while manning is now charged with aiding the enemy to the alleged leaks there would be far more information placed on the official public record about his case if he actually w

we are asking the press to hold where they are. we will ask everyone to renew their rock kelly membership in january. we are not finished here, folks. we will the nine obama the electoral votes for iowa. we want to let tom latham and we want to elect a republican supervisors so we can cut property taxes in this county. [laughter] -- [applause] in closing, be sure to attend your caucus. we need you. and please turn out for our general election. thank you for your help tonight. i could not be more proud to work people -- work with people of this caliber. thank you and good night. [applause] >> they say this is hot. is it seeing strange you? ok. do you not have enough stuff after one day? surely you can get a mike. can you get me from there? i am highly confused now. i cannot figure this out. i have no idea of what we are doing. do you want to take charge? what are we doing. they're going to ask questions. all right. it is a media what? this is the stuff that arce hates -- that rc hates. you're going to have fun. i am only confident if

no stranger to the "meet the press" set or program. cardinal mccarrick is the former archbishop of washington where he turned the local church's focus on education and the needs of new immigrants in the city into a real priority. throughout his time in the church he's traveled to places in dire humanitarian need from africa to central europe to latin america to act as a human rights advocate. he's here to give us his unique perspective on social issues and faith in america today. since it is "meet the press," the role of religious season. >> nice to be back. families are gathering. but across the country people are really hurting. we always had that great american dream that your children were going to do better than you would. there was always a progression upward. now a lot of families who say no. i'm worried about my daughters and sons and what's going to happen to them. because they are not going to have the opportunities that i've had. and that, of course, is very depressing for people and in a world like that, you don't need depre

. >> but is cain just blaming the press for his own mistakes? >>> new hampshire's biggest paper backs newt gingrich and conservative blogger enkwur rubinsays the track record of the right-leaning media has been embarrassing bad, really? >>> plus, espn and the "syracuse" newspaper sit in on an incriminating tape for a decade until bernie fine is fired over accusations that he was molesting boys. on that tape, fine's wife consoles an alleged victim. >> you know, he needs that male companionship that i can't give him. nor is he interested in me and vice-versa. >> he wanted to do me -- he wanted to me to touch him, too. >> did the news outlets make the right call? an exclusive interview with espn's top news executive. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> it was only last monday when wolf bill clintoner was interviewing herman cain on "the situation room," and cnbc producers saw on wirt that the fox affiliate was about to broadcast an interview with a woman who claimed to be the candidate's mistress. blitzer asked cain during the comm

i totally agree, the press was in the tank for obama.at a strategic imperative of any presidential campaign is to recognize what your challengers are going forward. they saw that throughout 2007, they did nothing to try to counter it and kept her in that safe conventional box until it was too late. >> i think it wases s a mistake run as commander in chief -- >> the press was in the tank for obama. what do we have in news today? >> i'll just say in response to that if i may, okay, is that i agree with the whole table, but you also cannot underestimate how brilliant the obama campaign was. and i would not give the press that much power or intelligence. >> oh, my god. how brilliant they were to write a 40-foot wave into the beach. whatever. let's go to news. >> miserable media moment. >> it was pathetic. >> they just drooled, and -- >> it was pathetic, it was shameless. >> that was -- it was also about wanting a new story. >> i think you're right. it was about the narrative. that narrative of the first black president given the history of t

although he did try to brief the press. cameras off please. the cameras off too. much so here we have yeltsin was blushing slightly. let me speak officers gave each. we reporters got ready to records but korsakoff head of security covered the camera and said no filming but he said i'm warning you that if one frame compromising boris yeltsin is published you'll have to deal with me we need to me and then he said he pushed. the residence employees stayed there for another twenty four ls to bring everything to warda the warden stepped on must the seal returned home depressed film for sure and as a whole it was very painful. we could already feel that the disintegration of the soviet union was a real blow to us all it was uncertain and frightening. stepan much to see ok and his colleagues watched the end of the story on t.v. screens in less than a months when the soviet union flag was lowered on the kremlin for good. events seen on t.v. during the decade that followed proved even more dramatic. those were very hard times. are al

you know, i've always been a critic of what's going on in the american press. and it -- but it always compares favorably to what's going on in britain. >> right. >> and these hearings have laid bare a lot of that process. >> and cnn's piers morgan testified in the inquiry, he was asked about some quotes that had been attributed to him a few years back. a widespread practice, he said, of the phone hacking. loads of journalists were doing it. he says now, i was repeating the fleet street rumor mill. >> he wasn't exactly doing it. piers morgan of cnn took the equivalent of the fifth when he wouldn't talk about how he learned that sir paul mccartney was talking to his elk wife, how he learned of that transcript of that phone message. he refused to answer that question. and i think he has to come clean. >> he said he was protecting his source. >> yeah -- >> but he didn't take the fifth in denying that he had firsthand knowledge of phone hacking. was that proven -- parliamentary inquiry, did it prove that he did? >> the fact is so many reporters of the reporters, "the

late on december the seventh yeltsin was already in viscously the next day the press was admitted to the lobby of the premises and the signatory parties to the agreement would periodically make an appearance the core deliberations however were all being held behind closed doors. as we sat down to draw up the documents question immediately arose as to who would do the writing. so i said let me do it i'm used to writing what i used to work for the party's ideology section. pen and paper and got down to. the agreement had been composed tables were being arranged in the lobby for the signing ceremony when the meeting participants suddenly realized that there was no typewriter and no typist in the viscously quarters. of the director of the national park was present so he was tasked with bringing over his own secretary a typewriter and some paper so the secretary was sitting there and typing out whatever she was given. do you realize what kind of documents you're typing on today i do. the so what it's all pretty clear are you proud of it i sure am an important someone that you type with one

that changed a lot of the political landscape and how the press dealt with personal lives of politicians. >> host: >> guest: you also have the sexual revolution which made people more comfortable with discussion of sex and the rise of feminism. in kennedy's they what would have been a pass became after the 1970s a sexual harassment lawsuit as we saw with paula jones and bill clinton. we had this huge change in american social moress, politics and journalism and what was kept secret for so long became part of the national dialogue. >> host: since the 1980s the rise of the conservative movement. how did that change? >> guest: the rise of a conservative movement coming off of sexual liberation of the 1970s and reduces gay-rights legal abortion, social sexual issues into the political discussion. jack kennedy never had to talk publicly about gay rights. and now everybody has to. it lead to the republicans or those leading the charge will rumble. if you are going to say you are against gays getting married you better make sure your own marriage is on the up and up. >> host: next in california

republican party the one on one so sorry to break it to you mitt but that's what this is a job of the press is to grill you on your stance about important issues like immigration you've got to be able to value for your actions even if you are the ultimate flip flopper and like i said before romney could be just a little rusty as he hasn't dedicated much time to answering any questions from the press this time around recordings of having to impose he hasn't found down with a washington newspaper since june of two thousand and seven and he hasn't given any in-depth interviews with magazines like time or newsweek which he did quite often in two thousand and eight and he also just totally ignores the sunday morning chat shows he is quite adamant in his refusal to answer the questions of the press check out how he blows off this reporter when he was greeting floridians. we are still to discover what will syria most likely going to let you know what i do people go to the bridge was our an argument for a good search it was the only answer right now there is a thorough answer how much just a straig

and sunshine to meet the press. lcome. the troops are coming home, but america is not abandoning the middle east. that was president obama's message today as he stood by prime minister maliki today. after nine long controversial years, on december 31, the last american troops will leave the country. but can the u.s. be influential without having boots on the ground? >> present! >> prime minister maliki asked to come to arlington national cemetery where thousands of americans who died in iraq are buried. today, they honored the dead. and for mr. obama today, and warning to iraq caused powerful overbearing neighbor iran. >> just as iraq has pledged not to interfere with other nations, other nations must not interfere in iraq. iraq's sovereignty must be respected. >> the prime minister acknowledged american concerns of iran. >> we will not allow iran to interfere. >> president obama has kept a promise on iraq. america's military involvement is at an end. the troops are nearly all home. about 6000 remain there, but they

even the press secretary, the georgia press secretary who peter has been talking to, hasn't said he'sso even people close to him on this campaign don't know. >> okay. we do know that cain has lost nearly 2/3 of his supporters there in the state of iowa. he's got about 8% support there right now come pained to 23% just a month ago. 32 days left to go until the caucuses. is there anything he could do where he could stay in the race after today and salvage the state of iowa? >> if he stays in this race, he's going to have to figure out how he gets himself back on that merry go round. how he's able to take a newt gingrich out of this thing, where newt gingrich now appears to be the one surging in the polls. "the des moines register" poll is coming out tonight that shows cain at 8%. tomorrow on "meet the press," we're going to have fresh numbers. and if everything shows the trajectory of gingrich going in one direction, cain going the other, it's going to be very difficult. you mentioned this meeting with his donors. he has to cokeep them in place d be able to draw a wedge and regain some

he got an awful lot of attention from the national press. t of absurd reality show of this campaign, at a time when america faces huge issues, and huge challenges. we had these sort of whimsical, rather fluffy distractions which were never actually going to get herman cain into the white house. he was never really going to be a serious candidate. even those who supported him didn't actually think he was ever going to be president of the united states. and he had to leave the race, really, as i -- i mean, it was the allegations of an affair that pushed him out. but he was never actually going to be the candidate or the president of the united states. >> mark halperin, we're talking about major moments of the week. and why they mattered. why does this matter? >> it matters because mitt romney is going to be the republican nominee, unless someone consolidates the conservative wing, the anti-romney wing of the party, against him. and herman cain, maybe might have been the nominee, i think, but he certainly has some supporters around the country.

he didn't talk any shots from the conservative press to say nothing of the liberal press, editors of national review wrote, we think it's important to urge republicans to have the good sense to reject a hasty marriage to gingrich which would risk dissolving in acrimony. how did that play? >> i think it put a dent in gingrich. that's for sure. and he was good in the debates. i think that, you know, the media as a whole, are torn. on the one hand they love to see republicans ripping each other up because they do at the debates and rather have obama get softball questions like on 60 minutes. on the other hand when gingrich talks like that and gingrich makes it clear that the xl pipeline is jobs for americans, it comes through and television has the power to americans. >> and it tends to focus on the candidates who really go after each other, but when the candidates go after president obama on the oil pipeline or iran, for instance, that doesn't get much coverage. >> for now, the horse race is between the g.o.p. field. that's what people tend to watch because we're looking at who is going

well once again no outrage whatsoever about the fact of the press is being shut out from doing its job but herman cain wasn't allowing them in so where you know the mainstream media would throw a fit of being blocked from covering the a vision of a social movement that is highlighting the inequality in our country that part they choose to me. looks like the eurozone crisis is scared of central banks around the world and not to take action say the federal reserve the european central bank the bank of japan the bank of canada and the swish swiss national bank announced a court made an effort to ensure liquidity for the global banking system of this essentially means of the fed is going to make it much cheaper for european banks to borrow dollars as at the moment now they're going to short on cash and markets were loving this news today and saw a major surge but also analysts would agree that increasing liquidity is only a short term fix for a much larger institutional problem within the eurozone so how do we look at it is a quick fix going to give europe the time that it needs to restruc