not as a stalker, but as a member of the press corps. it was a big press corps, lots of people. the motorcade of us going and around and all these dignitaries in various events. at the end of the day, mrs. bush had a press conference at a hotel ballroom. the place was packed. i was taking notes for my humor column. when i thought it was all over, the photographer brought the press corps that had been with mrs. bush up on the stage. maybe two dozen of us. they put me right next to barbara rush, first lady of the united states, for this picture. this is a situation where i know in my mind to say nothing. i knew that in my mind. [laughter] your brain does not always tell the rest of your body what the plan is. there was kind of a quiet moment with these high-powered journalists and this room full of people. i planned to say nothing, but for some reason my mouth came open, and i said to barbara bush, first lady of the united states, who i had never met. i said, a shot at the same supermarket as your son jebb. [laughter] i swear to you. i did shop at the same supermarket but this was

it is not the press corps is for war. eporting. it is a tight-knit community. the irony here is president obama by raising a jihad against the press has made it more likely that we will have dumb warts because of this. >> the allegations that the home of james rosen's parents were tracked is denied. but what we know about the ap phone record story and other reporters, where dud this rate? we were talking to some people last night which is the most troubling of the quote scandals? i would say the irs one is really politically tough and terrible for this white house, but this ap story is the one that's more chilling down the road. >> it's chilling also now. i agree with ron. i have seen already in dealing with people. they are more cautious about the most basic discussions. they don't want to have a trail of contact. it is having an affect. i think the irs is the bigger scandal because the irs goes to the heart of our government. we don't know how it started but we know that mid-level managers knew about ate long time and fo

and the visiting press corps. day for some reason, the president took only one question and that is going to backfire because it makes the white house press corps more hostile. they broke from precedent. i don't understand why they're taking a bad situation and making it worse by making the white house press corps even more hostile, more suspicious and doing it in that way. i think for whatever reason mr. jay carney's job will be harder today than it would under normal circumstances. connell: the reporter did get up to ask the questions, squeezed in two subjects in one question knowing you are only going to be allowed to have one. what do you do? they you get the president and roll out a 60 minutes peace with steve cropper so many times or the president come into the green room and take questions himself on these issues where he is subject to being there for an extended period of time and taking all the questions? what is the strategy if carney has a difficult time it in terms figure out wherebeing there? the story

plus, a leak investigation has the press corp in an uproar. the administraon says american lives were at risk. but is that reason enough? >> inexcusable and americans have a right to be angry about it and i am angry about it. i will not tolerate this kind of behavior in any agency, but especially in the irs, given the power that it has and the reach that it has in all of our lives. >> welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. that was president obama this week reacting to just one of the controversies swirling around his administration. news that the internal revenue service targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny in the 2012 election season. the latest scandal has revived partisan behavior and reinforced many people's fears about government who run amuck. joining the panel this week issues columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger, washington columnist, kim stossel, and senior editorial page writer, collin levy who has been following this story for us. what were these audits about? what were they looking for from thes

the press corps. hey have been really on the president's back about the access they are denied to him, and this white house has become really, really slick in circumventing the white house press corps, and they will go to a talk radio show for over a year -- >> a late-night show. or twoa late-night show, "the view." i am not casting aspersions on them. if you can get him, god bless you. if i am talking about the way to get the message out is to avoid the jeremy scahills in the world, to avoid the amy goodwins in the world. >> has he been here? tavis: i am in that category. he has not been here, but he is welcome whenever he wants. i have it60 minutes," on mine machine and watching all of the time, but when they did that interview with hillary clinton, it was just a kiss. >> when was the last time president obama spoke publicly in droves? was it in a hard-hitting interview with chopped todd, or somebody? no, it was in a google hang out. that is because somebody asked him about it, and then he makes thes

the president plans a press conference at 10:15 a.m. >> the 39th press conference of his administration. ♪ >> the washington press corp meeting the presidentor the first of his weekly conferences. there are 234 of the elite journalism present. >> things are pretty dysfunctional on capitol hill. >> a rapid fire of questions and answers. >> do you have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through congress? >> the questions the president answers frankly. >> maybe i should pack up and go home. >> this is democracy in action. >> let's just step back for a second. >> the president also addressing the continued partisan stalemate. >> the sequester. >> this thing already happened. >> it is a ridiculous side show. >> damaging our economy, hurting our people. we need to lift it. >> no grand bargain anywhere in sight. >> does he have leverage left? you could see his exasperation. >> the sequester is stupid in name and practice. >> whether we can get it done or not, we'll see. >>> 100 years ago woodrow wilson held the first presidential press conference. 58 years ago, dwight eisenhower had the first televised presidential press conference. >> i th

spokesman jay carney postponed his briefing three hours as he held a background discussion with the press corpg to spin their handling of the aftermath of the 9-11 attack in libya. two days ago we heard explosive capitol hills testimony from three state department whistle blowers and today abc's jonathan karl obtained 12 different edits to talking points that were theg basis of the administration's misleading message after four americans were killed by

he said, yes, obama has managed to unite the press corps for the first time over the news of the associated press. we want to talk all things media related with a good friend senior -- sorry. senior media reporter. >> executive. >> dylan buyers. thank you for coming back. >> thank you. >> not only a good friend of the show but a neighborhood of the show. >> that's why i am getting the sleep out of my eyes. we are working on getting people from the hood, the full court press. people are actually shopping and buying houses on the hill just to be close enough to the show. >> started a trend. >> it's a perk. it's a perk. i haven't seen you since you savaged howie kurtz. you were there asking him tough questions about the problem he was having. situate going to survive as host of reliable sources on cnn? >> to my impression based upon how that went -- >> you asked tough questions. you were good. >> i think cnn handled that very well. i think it was smart to invite media reporter. howic's credibility is diminished and has been over the last three years. i think he used to be thought of before my

up next, the white house press corps hammering the president. relatively speaking.ly second term. we decide. you decide. whether he is a lame duck. boston terror suspect has something in common with the unabomber. "dobbs law" is on the case. ♪ how do traders using technical analysis streamline their process? at fidelity, we do it by merging two tools into one. combining your customized charts with leading-edge analysis tools from recognia so you can quickly spot key trends and possible entry and exit points. we like this idea so much that we've applied for a patent. i'm colin beck of fidelity investments. our integrated technical analysis is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account. ♪ >> mr. president, your 100 days and your second term. trying to get past. obviously it didn't. congress ignored your efforts to try to get them to find the sequester cuts. even a billion threat to veto the got 92 democrats in the house voted against it. my question is, do you still have the juice to get the res

the associated press, the president wasn't going to comment. nor was he. a very frustrating briefing for those of us in the press corps that were there because we were getting very little information out of jay but it seems like they're in a wait and see approach with respect to the facts. >> robert gibbs was on with andrea mitchell listening to jay carney's response and to your point, you could tell frustration with the press corps pushing to get more information. and robert gibbs even described it and said it was not a strong response. he's been in that spot many times, having to deflect these questions and answer others. he saw this even as not being a strong response from the white house. even though these are ongoing investigations. we do have the irs even apologizing on friday. so there are facts to work here. >> exactly. the irs has apologized already which would imply that they know there's wrongdoing. with respect to the a.p. phone records on, several occasions, reporters in the briefing room reminded jay that under this administration, there had been more leak investigations than any administration prior com

the fan, powell. >> bill: now, i said earlier in the broadcast that if i were a part of the white house press corps, i would have walked out of jay carney's briefing today when he said oh, we can't comment on the irs thing because the fbi is investigating. this is the oldest ruse in the world. this is what they all do. they hide behind investigations when they don't have -- every judge who gives a child rapist six months in jail oh, i can't comment. oh, you know, we know what you are doing. but, the white house press corps, i mean, they should have all got up and left. that would have been a statement. >> yeah. because they're honorable people. listen, somebody better outfit carney for a 40 reg jumpsuit over there at greyhound motors because is he about to be working with the other mechanics under the bus. >> bill: no. they are not going to fire him. >> carney? >> bill: no. he is such a true believer. you know, he will be there forever. >> i don't know about that. they got one priority now, bill, on the left. and i don't even think it's obama anymore. i think they think obama screwed the pooch on t

the fan, powell. >> bill: now, i said earlier in the broadcast that if i were a part of the white house press corpsi would have walked out of jay carney's briefing today when he said oh, we can't comment on the irs thing because the fbi is investigating. this is the oldest ruse in the world. this is what they all do. they hide behind investigations when they don't have -- every judge who gives a child rapist six months in jail oh, i can't comment. oh, you know, we know what you are doing. but, the white house press corps, i mean, they should have all got up and left. that would have been statement. >> yeah. because they're honorable people. listen, somebody better outfit carney for a 40 reg jumpsuit over there at greyhound motors because is he about to be working with the other mechanics under the bus. >> bill: no. they are not going to fire him. >> carney? >> bill: no. he is such a true believer. you know, he will be there forever. >> i don't know about that. they got one priority now, bill, on the left. and i don't even think it's obama anymore. i think they think obama screwed the pooch on this.

and the press corps, has gotten beaten up for being pro-obama, soft on obama. at the same time the white house was complaining to us. they have no incentive to go easy, either. >> mike allen politico. >>> lost in the stories is surprising budget news. the nation's federal deficit is shrinking faster than anticipated. the cbo expects a deficit for the 2013 fiscal year. it's more than $200 billion lower than the previous estimate just three months ago. the adjustment reflects new revenue, thanks from changes in tax laws and increase in payments from fannie mae and freddie mac. the cbo's current projection would mark the lowest deficit yet under president obama. >>> another u.s. service member assigned to a military sexual assault program under investigation for sexual misconduct. the pentagon says a u.s. army sergeant could face charges for solicitation abusive sexual contact, assault and treatment of subordinate. the soldier allegedly forced one subordinate soldier into prostitution and physically assaulted two others. the report comes a week after an air force l

obama, a rare appearance there in the white house briefing room taking some tough questions from the press corps. jim, it was all kicked off by fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry who asked the president about his red line on libya how did the president do. >> i think the president had a very tough week. is he looking feckless on the syria, whatever you think of the syrian intervention -- and by the way i might add, anybody that thinks that the fbi and homeland security did fine on boston ought to -- be judged -- do you really want him managing your syria liberation operation. when you see dana milbank calling him a by stand in the past not lame duck but lame. most of the mainstream media agreed. remember, he has been reelected it's okay now to judge him a little more candidly. >> jon: along those lines on friday we learned that the associated press is saying that the department of homeland security is now saying that if you are going to have a student visa in the united states, you actually ought to be a student. that's one of the things that's going to be enforced. >> shocking. w

why doesn't the press corp when they are sitting with jay carney why don't they say why is chicago dead last in enforcing crimes with guns? there are drugs and cocaine being sold. gangs are trafficking 13-year- old girls which gun owners know the truth. >> have they lost their minds mr.r at the white house? president we will stand and fight throughout this country as americans for our freedoms. we promise you that. when it comes to that, sir, you keep your advice, we'll keep our guns. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> ladies and gentlemen, members of the national rifle association please welcome my friend, my fellow virginian, wayne lapierre.[applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, you are kind which we do it all together one by one and people like you all over this country. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you houston and good morning. colonel north, i really appreciate your kind words. you are a genuine american hero and for your service to god, to our country and to your n.r.a., we a

he has the white house press corps annoyed at him. re annoyed that he made --. >> chris: they feel betrayed and misled. i have been in that position on the front row of the briefing. the guy behind the podium has led you into a certain direction and said things flat out for weeks and months, you feel misled. >> the lost credibility and the to damage his relationship with the reporters is going to be something he is going to have to deal with some time to go. >> it's not about jay carney. he the is the spokesman for the president of the united states. anybody is saying jay misled, jay did this -- he is the spokesperson. he on behalf of the president he told these serious untruths. that is the reason he had the trouble. they all said this. secretary of state said it, that the intelligence community had concluded what you heard on the talk shows. it was their product, uncontaminated by any politics. there is in one of memos you mentioned the deputy national security advisor, ben rhodes he is writing in the heat of this. he writes we must

the entire press corps would break out laughing and say it's a cover-up to the american people.rino, this is just bologna. a d.c. lawyer, victoria, said she's being blocked in her effort to represent these witnesses to talk freely even to lawyers. she's gone on record and said it, and john kerry said to move on. >> she's a very serious lawyer with a lot of experience. fact that they have asked her to represent them to me says there is more to this than a right wing conspiracy theory. it is serious. it is not going to go away. i think ed henry was giving them an opportunity today to say here's where we stand on it. but i'm going take him at his word and say he didn't know -- >> wait, dana, does he read a newspaper? >> maybe he doesn't. >> i mean, if george bush, remember how the press excoriated, what do you read, gov. palin and everything. that wasn't good enough answer. are you saying the president doesn't know? i'm saying i'm taking him at his word. >> that's probably worse. >> he goes out to the podium to answer questions from the press corps when that was one of the biggest

the press, he was kpd by british prime minister cameron. and a question limit of one. total from the entire american press corp. give it your best shot, guys. >> when did you first learn that the irs was targeting conservative political groups? do you feel that the irs betrayed the public a trust and what do you think the repercussions for these actions should be? >> jon: technically that was three questions. but obviously one general mill like toothpaste that includes fluoride and whitener, comes out of the same tube but provides triple protection. aquafresh. it's like brushing your teeth with a colourful zebra. (laughter) anyway, great job. we're on basic cable. we're trying to raise money. great job by that intrepid reporter getting an irs three-fer for the one question. >> and on benghazi-- . >> jon: holy [bleep] somebody just added tartar control! (laughter) >> jon: tartar control, because apparently this one doesn't control tartar. let's tartar run all over your mouth. >> from i was always told the whole point of toothpaste was to control tartar but in the world of aquafresh it is a bon is stripe. (laughte

for the first time since the benghazi attack happened. white house press corps and not just fox ganged up on him. that 12 revisions were made in the benghazi talking points, first issued by the c.i.a. the first draft said, quoting, we do know that islamic extremists with ties to al-qaeda participated in the attack. the final draft which u.n. ambassador susan rice made no mention of al-qaeda. her remarks attributing to the anti-islam film. here is one of his attempts to explain that. >> we knew based on the intelligence that extremists were involved. there were suspicions about what affiliations those extremists might have, but there was not hard concrete evidence. >> bob: zbloor one of the people at the center, victoria newland. in emails obtained by the weekly standard and abc, she objects to the wording of repeated warnings about the deteriorating situation in benghazi. early draft could be abused by members of congress to beat up the state department for not paying attention to warnings. why would we wanted to find that either? and when it included references

jay carney postponed his regular scheduled briefings three hours as he held a discussion with the press corps trying to spin the attack in libya. two days ago we heard explosive testimony from three state department whistleblowers and today jonathan carl obtained 12 different edits to talking points that were the basis for the administration's leading message after four americans were killed by muslim terrorists. what were the edits about? hardly about scrubbing the facts that al-qaeda group was responsible. perhaps it was to protect president obama. carney and the white house have reason to sweat. here is carney's original explanation about edits. >> the white house has made it clear that the single adjustment to those talking points by either of these two institutions was changing the word to conflict because conflict was inaccurate. >> kimberly: here is what he said today. >> the white house as i said made one minor change to the talking points drafted and produced by the c.i.a. even prior to that had very few input on it. the other discussions that went on prior to this in an interagency

. >> the thing that drives me bananas is that, like, the entire press corps, the city hall press corps, how many of those people are unfaithful to their spouses? huge amounts. white house press corps, how many of them? give me a break! the idea of the moral sanctimony, i find it crazy, hypocrisy, people do things, if they do bad things, they should be held to account, but people are human beings. >> i was speaking to business leaders the other day, big businesses, they don't want a mayor who's a laughing stock. >> i think that's part of it, too. >> chris, it was over and over again, the denials, the name calling. >> i agree, i agree. i agree, i think the lying and credibility is his biggest, that's the biggest bridge he has to cross, msnbc's alex wagner and ariel louis. thank you very much. >>> the case of a gruesome 2011 triple homicide in massachusetts has gone cold. now one of the murderers was tamerlan. now his accomplice, a man shot to death today in florida by an fbi agent. michael isikoff joins me to make sense of this wild development next. >>> coming up, an 18-year-old high sc

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how can they lie to the press corps. >> that is why we need to give them immunity. the administration has lost his credibility. >> fox news has learned that the house oversight government reform committee will hold a fresh round on benghazi with the first slated to start next week. >>> here now to talk about the administration and benghazi, the mixed messages and appearance of a stone wall over more than 7-month period, former c.i.a. operative and head of the bin laden tracking unit and mike iterney. let me begin with you. i will put it this way and i don't in a trivial manner. the noise that is suddenly being made on this date about bwz at least four whistleblowers coming forward at this time? >> it's not surprising, they suppress the truth, they decided not to rescue four americans that were in trouble when they knew how deep that trouble was. we have had a continuing series of lies. this is clinton saying she didn't know that her ambassador needed more security. the president going off to las vegas to raise money instead of trying to help those people that were be

i grew up inside the press corps rather than inside the group of lawyers. i interned for her twice and i got know all the members of the press. they taught me so much about how it is you explain something like the supreme court. >> you say capable television people don't have any problem talking about what you do but the print press won't promote you. >> i think that the print press has a harder time knowing what to do with us as we get more prominent. there are some part of the print press say the "new york times" is incredibly confident and doesn't mind citing us. there are other places that i think are worried about -- are they actually promoting a competitor. washington post doesn't go out and say the new york times says. we're a puzzle on a lot of different levels. we try very hard to promote all of the traditional press. we have a round up of everything they've doing on twitter which we're involved with. everybody is feeling their way forward. >> i read in the piece in the atlantic on you, he wears the same dark suits they do. meaning the people from s

look at phone records of our own people, for the love of god the a.p., that makes the rest of the press corpsry. they got on jay carney. let's get the clip, then we'll do that. >> as candidate he believed, he said that the point of the press is sometimes to be the watchdog of the watchdog a little bit and that the judiciary branch is probably the appropriate place for them to make that determination. >> then he does support protections for the media, he does believe that we need measures to ensure that media can pursue investigative journalism i have not an unfettered way and we have to balance that goal with the very real national security interests that we have as a nation. >> all of a sudden, they're angry about this. >> right that's what's so ironic about it is, the associated press is understandably upset. i don't agree with the government taking two months of phone records away. it's a way to intimidate whistle blowers and reporters. the government's been doing illegal wiretaps, totally violating our privacy for such a long time now since 9/11, and the media hasn't been critical of that

while the white house press corps took the press secretary to a task today, unusual, though liberal national media has been slow to report the damaging benghazi deeails. more than 90 minutes after jay carney finished his growing national news organizations to be generous and charitable were slow to update their web sites. the lead story for the new york times, a carbon dioxide at the highest level in human history. nbc news' top story, bombing suspect finally buried in virginia. cbs news, fbi no human remains among cleveland evidence. the only fox news and cnn had the benghazi developments at the top of their website treating it as the top story of the day. turning to the boston marathon an attack within newly uncovered intelligence threat showing to be awhile alarmingly actor in the warnings. the 18th page report released five days before the boston bombing's warned that the races finish line was a'' area of increasedd3 molnar ability''. it went on to war and terrorist may try to unleash '' mack small-scale bombings'' during that race. and also no credible information showing an imminent th

. >> paul: when we come back the american press corps goes on the attack about the justice department'sre of reporters' phone records part of an investigation into a national security leak that the administration says put american lives at risk. is that justification enough for the subpoenas. dorothy rabibowitz weighs in next. ♪ ♪ (vo) purina cat chow. 50 years of feeding great relationship ♪ ♪ >> paul: white house dealing with another controversy, revelations that white house got secret phone records of the a.p. and classified information about a covert c.i.a. operation in yemen that disrupted a bomb plot. eric holder that recused himself from the probe defended his department calling the leak very serious. >> i've been a prosecutor since 1976. i have to say this is among if not the most serious, in the top two or three serious leaks i remember seeing. you put the american people at risk. you put the american people at risk. >> paul: "wall street journal" editorial board member, dorothy rabinowitz, this is media outrage, is it justified? >> i think you could look at it as posturing. th

. >> the press corps has been asking for days the details of the ig report and it started with the press secretary and if this is submitting to its the folks are looking for consequences but they have not outlined its. >> looking for concrete@ action we have heard calls for the resignation of the fbi and questions tonight about the bureaucracy and if the irs is out of control, what can be done to siderite some 90,000 employees at 2.5 trillion tax dollars this is an agency that most americans ar and they worry about them and not necessarily fans and tonight we expect president obama hlp us to understand and explain the scandal this looks like the prident coming outright now to the podium. >> i just finished speaking with secretary lew and officials at the treasury depamenn to discuss the investigation into iras personnel of improperly explained my iras grps for tax-exempt status i will take questions tomorrow but today i wanted to get out to all of you some information about what we're doing about this and what we are ing from here i every views -- review the report and the misconduct is

jay carney postponed his regular scheduled briefings three hours as he held a discussion with the press corpsspin the attack in libya. two days ago we heard explosive testimony from three state department whistleblowers and today jonathan carl obtained 12 different edits to talking points that were the basis for the administration's leading message after f

and two questions for the turkish press corpsink what you brought up that you brought up the issue of syria and the fact that that is something that really has taken a backseat on the front page of every newspaper. can the president focus effectively on what is happening overseas while he has a crisis of confidence at home from his own party? peter: it pushes the president's agenda out of the line. the president is trying to have conversations with the american people about gun legislation, immigration reform, budget policy, but when he has to come out and make a statement because of the irs scandal, that is what is leading the nightly news and that is what is on c-span. it is a distraction for the white house and it is doing everything they can to get this off the table so the president can go back to business. dennis: even democrats have come out and condemn some of the latest scandals. we had a guest yesterday that said democrats could abandon the president. don't they have all the force to get behind the president instead of

>> well, you know, i am a member of the white house press corps, the white house press association. it took a while for them to react but i have to tell you i was in the basement of the white house when a lot of this broke and people were pretty outraged. not only has james rosen been a colleague of ours, but between the ap and the james rosen stuff, it's frankly very chilling. >> john, policy is set from the top, from the beginning of this administration, robert gibbs, the first press secretary, to david axelrod who has gotten on various network programs, fox news has been singled out as a special target, not only of the white house, but at the left generally. axelrod has said that this is not a legitimate news organization. robert gibbs, when he was press secretary, mocked some of the questioners from the white house correspondent. i think that sends a certain message throughout the administration that fox can be a target. >> you know, it's interesting because who except this administration could unite both the far right and far left because the left basically came out with an art

as you pointed out, also for a growing realization for the press corps, they've been lied to from the start. that more than anything will continue this push and give us more traction. the agency, they've got a long history of getting thrown under the bus. that part they're used to. to show that they were very clear in their reporting, leading up to this attack, talking about the deteriorating security situation and all the problems taking place, all of those difficulties, then to have those pulled out over a period of 12 different revisions and have the white house now try to pass off this idea that, well, you know, it was just the agency and the state department. we had nothing do with it. they're driving the train. >> it is disappointing. colonel hunt, very quickly. i mean, you know, what about all of the forces that were trained to get involved in this and emergencies. i mean, some of them actually disobeyed orders and left from tripoli and went to benghazi in spite of what the president didn't order. your take on that? >> yeah. they did from tripoli. we have to remember, if it was