advisors who then used their passwords to do so and then come the bills now many people see the washington post involvement in a for profit colleges a big concern and i'm guessing that these master classes just might add more shame to the once famed washington post name but since newspapers are dying anyway the post should add a few new courses while they're still around how about columnist mark thiessen he could teach an online course called waterboarding for dummies it would be easy class for him to teach in his book courting disaster he made the case for the u.s. government to use and have enhanced interrogation techniques maybe he'd even teach you how to perform some of that then again maybe the coach should have columnist charles krauthammer teach a course on how to make bombs not france i mean really how many times has krauthammer said that we should bomb some middle eastern country business loves a good war and you can too and then the last chorus we're suggesting could be top as a reply how about blogging for babies this fresh faced twenty seven year old is the darling of the media circ

washington your way. a public service created by america's cable companies. >> later tonight on q&a, the photographer for "the washington post" on her latest photo projects. and later, prime minister's questions with british prime minister david cameron. >> this week, carol guzy, four- time pulitzer prize-winning photographer for "the washington post." >> carol guzy, can you remember the first time you thought about being a photographer? >> it is like it was yesterday. i had gone to nursing school in my home town in pennsylvania. nursing did not feel quite right and i had a carry just to play with. i took good dart -- i took a dark room class and it was a magical experience. it was clearly a defining moment. i decided i would take the risk and try to go and study photography. >> you have won four pulitzer prizes. how did that happen -- how often has that happened in the history of journalism? >> never, as far as i have heard. this is the first. >> what is it like winning, and how important is it for someone in your position? >> it is a prestigious honor, but it is always bittersweet, because it gives for stories like that th

these pictures i took on my own, but mostly i work for "the post," and they have copyright, so they have to go through "the washingtonget the pictures. >> did you have a favorite among all of these? >> it is hard to say what a favorite picture is, because you are so close to the images. i have memories of taking all these. this is a picture that generated a lot of feedback from people that seem so touched by this dog who is sitting there with so much dignity, stopped, just waiting for someone to come and save him. i went back afterwards, trying to find out if someone did eventually get this dog, because there were rescue people, and all around where we were in the boat. i had to continue on with the group i was with, but they had radioed for someone to come get him, so i hope he was rescued. it is hard to look at something you photograph and leave and not be able to jump in the water and just be able to grab them. >> how much training did you get? >> i went to the art institute of fort lauderdale. it was a two-year photography program, not photojournalism. i did an internship with the "miami herald," and that is how

you reported exclusive details over the weekend in "the washington post"? l, we know that this was a ten-year hunt that was very frustrating for everyone, at the highest level and at the operational level. but what i think in a way, in the intelligence world that's a triumph of middle management in the culture of persistence of for years taking this raw intercepts, you know, translating, listening, going back, connecting the dots, and then finally discovering and finding someone calling the chief courier for bin laden, who literally had to leave that compound and drive 90 minutes before he could put the battery in his cell phone -- operational security -- and then they found out about that and they said, ah hah, this is the guy we've been chasing for years. >> this guy was not hiding in a cave, and now intelligence officials are telling us, no, he was still operationally in control. what does that mean? >> well, we're going to find out more about that. i'm a little skeptical. i don't think he was giving rudder orders. i think he was involved in looking at it

"the washington post" reporting at this hour that senior republicans conceded wednesday that a deal is unlikely on a contentious plan to overhaul medicare. this could be viewed as the first dent in the armor for the republicans. the american people have spoken on this issue. they don't want their medicare touched. and the republicans and all these town hall meetings, i guess they are listening. also tonight, the bin laden picture debate. the president says he doesn't want to spike the football. not everyone agrees. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >>> new pictures from inside the bin laden compound. but not the picture of a dead osama. >> that's not who we are. >> we're not interested in doing that. and we're also, as americans, not interested, as the president said in trotting around photographs as trophies. >> republicans keep saying torture led us to bin laden. tonight, a former cia interrogator dispels the myths. >>> and tomorrow the president will pay his respects to the families of the fallen. and some on the right are outraged. >> he wants to take victory laps. it's obs

h is at here is a bid in "the washington post." go next to bruce, an independent in indiana was the thing? release the photos? caller: i am on the military side. if they released the photos, yes, they would be in danger. i think they should release the post. ever since 9/11 happened, people do not trust the government. i am 22. i am not saying i do not trust -- trust the government, but certain things happen. i feel so sorry for those people who are hurting. host: would more transparency help you with the skepticism you have toward government? caller: it is not that i am skeptical towards the government, but if they show they are really willing to release these photos, it shows that the government has nothing to hide. it is not that i do not believe they did not get osama, but not everyone is like me. host: you were 12 on september 11. caller: that is right. i did not really even believe it until a week later. it is hard to believe that something like this happened. i do not want the soldiers to get hurt, if we released the photos.

this was written in the "washington post." in other words, from a global war on terror infrastructure, the critics, including barack obama himself, deployed as a tragic detour from american rectitude. donald rumsfeld said this this week. water boarding, let's be blunt, did not produce an enormous amount of intelligence, to say that they just aren't facing the truth. how do you respond? >> first of all, i'm not going to comment on specific pieces of intelligence in the source. point two, i can tell you this. that the intelligence achievement here, the intelligence assessment that was brought before president obama beginning in the summer of last year which resulted in hundreds of pieces of intelligence over many years by the cia and other institutions in the government, no single piece of intelligence led this. david, that's not the way this works. over time, you have professionals combing through this and the case goes cold and it heats up again, right? >> but a specific point. did harsh interrogation help in the effort to ulti

i want to ask you about "the washington post" story saying that senior republicans are conceding tonight that a deal is unlikely on a contentious plan to overhaul medicare and offered to open budget talks tomorrow with the white house by focusing on areas where both parties can get agreement such as cutting farm subsidies. so this means, as i view this, as a liberal, this is a win for the democrats that medicare is going to be off the table. congressman smith, how do you view this news? >> i think you're right. i think that is helpful. the most important thing for progressives and democrats to do is to more aggressively put the revenue side of this question on the table. now i'll admit with our budget where it's at, there's no question we have a spending problem in a lot of different places. what hasn't been talked about enough in the year 2000, when we had a surplus, revenue to the federal government represented 21% of the gdp. >> yeah. >> the last two years it's represented 15%. over a 30% drop in revenue. why aren't we talking about that? >> this is a big victory for a lot of middle c

mike murphy, chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news, andrea mitchell, columnist for "the washington post," eugene robinson, and author of the book "too big to fail," now an hbo movie, "the new york times'" andrew ross sorkin. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. breaking news in the 2012 race for the white house. mitch daniels will not run for president. the indiana governor who many thought would arrive on a white horse to buck up the gop field will not join the fray after all, announcing in a surprise statement overnight that family concerns made the difference. from the statement, he writes about his wife sherry and his four daughters the following -- "what could have been a complicated decision was in the end very simple on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women's caucus and there is no override provision. simply put, i find myself caught between two duties. i love my country. i love my family more." and with that, the field narrows. i want to begin, joined by the chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan. chairm

when i came to "the washington post" way back in the 1960's, i was one of very few people of color.ver the years i learned the importance of having diversity in the media. >> it's a career path that some of them were interested choosing, others, you know, just wanted to find out more about it. and it's a way of us talking about careers at a time in their lives when they're thinking about that. >> i went to the white house with the prime move as media programs. when we went downstairs, i looked at the offices and couldn't believe my eyes. because here are these journalists who produce such great articles but they have such small rooms. the press secretary of the united states of america knows these people by name and that spoke volumes to the level of work they put in in order to gethere. and i feel once you get to that position in life, you've reached the top. >> we know it's working because we see students who are making inroads in colleges. >> the involvement of prime movers was important in helping me get into yale because it showed, oh, this girl helped create a newspaper at her

keep anybody down and i believe rush limbaugh does something that the "new york post" -- the "new york times" writers and the "washington post" writers, he said i'm biased. i'm coming to you with my point of view and i'm not biased -- i'm biased. i'm a conservative. and that's what -- that's the difference between conservatives and liberals in the media. liberals use their objectivity as their weaponry in order to cause people like me, andrew breitbart, brentwood, default liberal -- i just thought i was getting the through the i thought i was getting -- >> host: let me stop you. you take me back to something else, which i thought was excellent. and it was about transparency. you said the one thing that liberals do very well like obama -- when president obama says this is who i am, i smoked a little, i did a little this and i hung out with some bad characters, hey, that's my life story and you said it took the wind out of the sails of those through this gotcha politics. you talk about what republicans should do is just disclose the honest and don't hide what it is. >> guest: and go on bill mahr's show and msnbc and that'

host: "the washington post" lead today -- "cia will search bin laden complex." , we mentioned congress extended the patriot act. the president is at the g-8 summit right now. "the washington post" says he has directed aides to have the bill signed by auto-pen. from japan, a japanese professor offers assessment that the meltdown began five hours after the earthquake. about 11 hours later, all of the uranium fuel was at the bottom of the injured containment -- inner containment. host: and we have pensacola, florida. james, an independent. good morning. please hit the mute button on your tv. caller: yes, i will do that. what i would like to explain, first and foremost, is that the driver's licenses in all 50 states are not uniform. in florida, are driver's license number starts with the first letter of our last name and then it has a series of three numbers, then a dash, then a series of three numbers, then a dash, and then two years from our birth date. host: with all the details, what's the point? caller: a lot of states use social security numbers in the driver's

"the washington post" reporting that other detainees pointed cia interrogators to a courier. clearly we do not have the definitive account of whether the information came from that led to osama bin laden. but we will get to the bottom of what we do know next with a very important source. with malcolm nance the chief of training at the navy's survival evasion school. he testified in front of congress about how u.s. interrogators ended up water boarding and why. boarding and why. please stay tuned for that. maxwell house believes so. that's why we've partnered with rebuilding together to help revitalize communities in need. vote for your community at maxwellhouse.com. how about a smile? at 1-800-flowers.com, we can design an arrangement that is sure to delight. [ doorbell ] 1-800-flowers. ohh! take our "tote-ally" original, "tote-ally" mom bouquet, a stylish gift that fits her perfectly. this mother's day, don't settle for the ordinary. send a creation that's truly her. call, click or come in, and let us arrange a smile for you this mother's day, starting at $29.99. ttd# 1-800-3

"the washington post" reporting that other detainees pointed cia interrogators to a courier. clearly we do not have the definitive account of whether the information came from that led to osama bin laden. but we will get to the bottom of what we do know next with a very important source. with malcolm nance the chief of training at the navy's survival evasion, resistance and escape school. he testified in front of congress about how u.s. interrogators ended up water boarding and why. please stay tuned for that. >>> can you confirm that it was as a result of water boarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin laden? >> you know, brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information. and that was true here. we had a multibillion source, a multiable series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation. clearly some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees. we also had information from other sources as well. from intelligence, from imagery, from other sources that we had assets on the ground. i

thank you thank you thank you according to metro spokesman dance deciles quoted in the washington post after we were told that no one from the better off thought he would be speaking to the media until after the investigation of the wheelchair assault he said quote we've certainly heard from the public about it and it has been announced of the absurd assault charges against the victim of the wheelchair police assault have been dropped well more on that and simcox from go joins us to explain how g o o o o o o eight get out of our house is not actually pronounced group rand paul despite being the subject of absurd attacks from silly lefties a stand out for their own rights to he's been doing his best to stop the patriotic act and utah goes for the gold money that is will have to fall molineux on to explain how this means the end of the mocker see that's a good thing long live the republic that is until the necessary evil of government is no longer necessary you're watching the atom vs the many. people. in case who are wondering you know we weren't just going to let this one go. yesterday

it was on the front page of "the washington post." let's play the ads. >> kathy hockel, a false campaign about the position on medicare. >> everything should be on the table. entitlements, defense spending, but also revenue. cuts to medicare, cuts to social security, and higher taxes. and i jane corwin approve this message. >> you have earned it. work your core life for it. -- worked your whole life for it. jane corwin supports a budget that essentially ends medicare. we just cannot afford jack davis or jane corwin. host: in "the washington post" story -- the democrats have also created a web site. here is what the front page looks like. house republicans' budget subsidized millionaires, of course, and oil companies but ends medicare. big oil subsidies, tax cuts for millionaires and tax breaks for of shoring companies tallied 172 billion. in fact your telephone calls. this is antioch, california. patricia, independent. how old are you? caller: i am 60. the way to improve medicare is to go with dennis [inaudible] plan. if we all pay int

lori montgomery is covering the story for the "washington post" and joins us now. , what was the headline coming out of today's meeting? >> i think the headline was that these guys are coming into the room prepared to work together. i mean, there's been a lot--. >> sreenivasan: that is a headline, isn't it? we don't hear that too often. >> we don't hear that too often, and we have had partisanship sniping over the. ing resolution that keeps the government running through the year, relatively small potatoes. but now these guys are come both room to do the big stuff, to talk about big changes over the next 10 years, to actually bring down borrowing, and certainly you hear a very different tone, people talking about finding common ground, leaving the big issues for later. >> brown: as we said, there is no deal here right? they're laying down markers and positions and there's anything to be a lot of to and fro, but the tone, you're saying, was different. >> very different. and the house majority leader who represents speaker boehner in these talks, reiterated today the

greg, national intelligence reporter for "the washington post." congratulations. really, this is storytelling time. it's good to have good news on how it was done. tell me the story of the safe house, about how our guys -- it reminded me of gene hackman in "the conversation" sitting there days and hours and weeks. they thought it was osama bin laden. >> that's right. they learned about the compound in august and bring everything they have got to figure out is it him inside. one of the things you've got to do is have people on the ground. the agency rents a house near this compound. one that's able to peer inside this place to keep eyes on things. they are watching it for probably six, seven months. >> wow, did they get a bead on him with binoculars, telescopic lens? i heard they had a mirrored window that they looked through. >> that's the amazing thing, not only watching him from the ground, but using satellite equipment trying to get his voice and they never get a clear shot at this. the cia people i talked to say the discipline bin laden demonstrated inside this

eugene robinson, columnist for "the washington post," both msnbc political analysts. gentlemen, let me ask you about this whole week and at it says about the authority of the president. i'm one that believes power comes from the office but power has to be earned separately, the power that comes from the way people look at you. >> i think a president first gets the job by winning an election but still has to prove himself by the way he performs. barack obama has been making tough calls from the get go, a lot about economic matters and health care and so on. but this was really a tough national security call and it was a gutsy call. can you imagine what would have happened from a global perspective if this did not go well. this was desert one again. it would be jimmy carter, jimmy carter, jimmy carter for the next 18 months. you remember those days. i know you're old enough. >> i was there as a speechwriter. i remember the hell of desert one. >> he had a lot of other choices. he could have tried to bomb. then you don't get the intelligence bonanza they are working off of

we have a new poll out today from the washington post about president obama's approval ratings. chris, these numbers from the washington post pew poll indicates a bump up for the president. take us through it. >> sure. not terribly surprising, andrea if you look back in history after big foreign policy moments, the president usually benefits a little bit from a rallying effect that is what appears to be happening in the washington post poll. president obama was at 49% the last time we did this. we did an evernight poll last night. he's at 56% approval. it is not the 80 plus percent approval rating george w. bush had after september 11th but it is helping the president at the margins. i don't think this alters what we're going to be talking about in november 2012 which i still tend to think is the economy. but it does help the president on leadership, people feel relieved that osama bin laden is no longer with us and this helps solidify the president on national security. remember, that's been an attack republicans have leveled since 2001. this will help mitigate that for the pres

. >> rose: we conclude with david ignatius of the "washington post," steve coll of the new america foundation and also the author of a book about the bin ladens. and finally dexter filkins of the "new yorker" magazine from istanbul, turkey. >> it may be more difficult now for president bush to make the case... president obama to make the case to stay in afghanistan. people are going to say "hey, look, he's dead, let's bring the boys home." but when you're in afghanistan, as i just was, the senior leadership there in the american military, i mean, i think down to the last person, they all believe that this is a multiyear if not a generational effort. >> rose: perspectives of the death of osama bin laden and the implications for the united states and pakistan with brian ross of abc news; former c.i.a. director general michael hayden; dexter filkins of the "new yorker" magazine; david ignatius of the "washington post"; and steve coll of the new america foundation. every story needs a hero we can all root for. who beats the odds and comes out on top. but this isn't just a hollywood storyline. it'

here is the hdline from the "washington post. well -- ." his presidential rollout may have been the worst in american day politics. his campaign let us know through in e-mail that he is attracting 150 people through all of hi stops this week. when you are talking about reblicans who attended the iowa caucuses, 150 is a pretty good turnout. if they are coming out to see a train wreck or because he is a political personality, that is one thing. there is the potential for him to have better days. we have a long time to go especially with the campaign. host: his first political appearance, joe biden, on behalf of the president, this wednesday. some speculation with newt gingrich -- after the interview, do you know the impact of what he said would have on a reblican? guest: he was endorsing an individual mandate on health care. he was talking about endorsing a type of mandate. i think we thought it would be the big story. when you look back -- he does not necessarily disagree with paul ryan, but it washe language he used. that angered so many co

from "the washington post." host: can you speak to that a little bit more? ller: i can tell without getting more specific. by the way, thank you for having done. this is largely based on human intelligence. which is the best kind. it gets you into the enemy's thinking. but this is slow moving. you have to painstakingly built it up. it seems to me that when you get to the level of confidence the president must have had this past weekend, this kind of network had built up the kind of confidence that he needed to take this politically and operationally risky step, ordering this strike. host: can you talk to was more about the process of briefing the president? up you say that he had to think long and hard about this. why? what goes into this kind of decision? caller: sure. we used to talk about being ready for prime time. you do not want to go down to the president with every possible lead. you want to build it up yourself, first as a national security adviser. at which point you have got something far enough along where you are asking the president for further

"the washington post" reporting that other detainees pointed cia interrogators to a courier. clearly we do not have the definitive account of whether the information came from that led to osama bin laden. but we will get to the bottom of what we do know next with a very important source. with malcolm nance the chief of training at the navy's survival evasion, resistance and escape school. he testified in front of congress about how u.s. interrogators ended up water boarding and why. please stay tuned for that. [ woman ] we take it a day at a time. that's how it is with alzheimer's disease. she needs help from me. and her medication. the exelon patch -- it releases medication continuously for twenty-four hours. she uses one exelon patch daily for the treatment of mild to moderate alzheimer's symptoms. [ female announcer ] it cannot change the course of the disease. hospitalization and rarely death have been reported in patients who wore more than one patch at a time. the most common side effects of exelon patch are nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. the likelihood and severity of

columnist for "the washington post," e.j. dionne, columnist for "the wall street journal" peggy noonan, senior analyst for "time" magazine, mark halperin, white house correspondent for "the new york times," helene cooper, and chief political writer for "the new york times" magazine, matt bai. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. another turn in the republican presidential field. former arkansas governor mike huckabee announced on his fox news program last night that he would not be a candidate for president. >> all the factors say go, but my heart says no, and that's the decision that i have made. and in it, i finally found some resolution. >> one man who came to the opposite conclusion this week and has announced he is full steam ahead for 2012 is here with us exclusively this morning to kick off the return of our "meet the candidate" series, where throughout this primary season, we will once again bring you in-depth interviews with the candidates for president. joining us live this morning, the for

be coming home well i think what's really encouraging is that this week there's a story of the washington post and shown that the cost of war generally has become one of the top topics when we're talking about how fast the previous trips so and so i think that's a very encouraging sign because it has shifted away from the sort of scaremongering that got us into this mess into the more practical terms of can we afford these wars and the cost of caring for these veterans has got to be a part of it i mean just compare we spend a lemon thousand dollars or more recruiting each person for the military but less than a thousand. dollars in the united states of educating each person or she's going just slightly over a thousand times and that tells you that our priorities are out of whack and you can't afford to keep sending people to this war it's not making us safer and it's not worth the cost and i think there is real hope that once these after effects of war are taken into account that congress is going to be a little more responsible about how how easily they allow the executive to take us you may

. >> and howard curt z critic for the washington post and said look, trump drove obama to do this? why else would he step on his great story about getting david petraeus to join the administration and not military but sy. it was desperation. >> it was a crazy media day. huge personnel changes and yet the big story was donald trump can president releasing. >> handled strangely. he stepped on his own story and i thought it was strange that president himself. that should have been on the staff level and concentrated on the real. if i am jay carny, i think i messed up here. donald trump had all . networks covering him . he went live. it waited for the president to finish. >> i would have said mr. president go early and get this man off. >> and even the president mentioned the fact or white house mentioned the fact that they never get that kind of coverage. >> and what is amazing. release the conservative. it was released four years ago and release the long form. >> bad news cycle. shouldn't have done it . so, if i can finish, i think you have a point. jay carny should have done it . sho

castellanos, columnist for "the washington post" ruth marcus and columnist for "the new york times," david brooks. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. the president returned last night from his six-day european trip and leaves the white house again this morning to travel to tornado-ravaged joplin, missouri, where he will visit with survivors and family members of that terrible storm that hit a week ago and has left devastation all throughout the area. more than 120 people dead, more than 100 still missing. here in washington, meantime, no break this memorial day weekend from the intense debate over the budget, overhauling medicare and the upcoming vote on increasing the debt ceiling. all of this, of course, as the fast-approaching 2012 presidential election year makes the climate in congress even more contentious. here this morning to tackle those issues and more, two key senate leaders from each side of the aisle, the republican leader mitch mcconnell of kentucky, and from the other side of the aisle, the senior senator from new york, chuck schumer. we wi

>> today in the washington post, the pakistan president denied that his country knew about bin laden's hideouts. feinstein and other lawmaker says the u.n. should take a hard look at the millions of dollars that the u.s. sense to pakistan. >>> president obamas approval rating has gone up. his rating is at 56 right now compared to 47% last month. >>> continuing coverage in our next segment as we look at the blackhawk helicopters. we will learn about the hardware inside a factor in admissions success. >>> the california highway patrol california highway patrol said seatbelt saved five people from serious injuries. the accident happened at 12:30. the chp says a toyota crossed into oncoming traffic and sideswiped a mercedes. and all at least four cars were involved in one person had several broken bones and punctured a lung. the crash blocked all southbound lanes and all but one northbound lane for an hour. >>> a warning from state and local fire officials. high temperatures predicted in the bay area will increase fire danger. jana katsuyama is live in dublin. >> reporter: you hear it ever

these pictures i took on my own but mostly i work for the post so they have copyrights' and have to go through the "washington post" to get the pictures. c-span: did you have a favorite among all of these? >> guest: it's always hard to say what his favorite picture is because you're so close to the images. i have memories of taking all of these. this is a picture that generated a lot of feedback from people just so touched by this dog that looks, sitting there almost dignity kind of stock just waiting for someone to save him. i went back afterwards trying to find out if someone did eventually get this doggett because they were rescuing people coming all-around where we were in the boat, and i had to continue on with the rescue group i was with but they have radios for the animal people to come get him so i'm hoping he was rescued. it's hard to look at something and photograph and leave it and not know -- you know, not be able to jump in the water and just grab him myself. c-span: how much training did you get on how to take a photo? >> guest: i went to school with the art institute of fort lauderdale. it was

that people like me didn't think he would be that powerful. >> gene robinson, you wrote in "the washington postent republicans immediately grabbed their pitchforks, lit their torches and formed an angry mob. from the opinion surveys and town hall meetings it was already clear that the ryan plan is fundamentally alter the medicare plan is deeply unpopular, and that ultimately it is likely to hurt the party at the polls. now one of the best known figures in the party, a candidate for the presidential nomination, was breaking ranks." >> they see it at town hall meetings and look at the polls. this is tough. this is an unpopular stance that paul ryan has led them to. it may be brave, but it's not popular. so, newt gingrich comes out and slams it, i think, sensibly, in terms of his own narrow political interests, perhaps, or he can see it that way, but his campaign, i think, i mean, it's toast at this point, and i agree with mike that maybe it wasn't that big anyway. >> and andrea mitchell, he hasn't stopped talking. he's talking this morning. he told rush limbaugh, as we indicated, he wasn't even t

the san francisco chronicle." in washington, sally quinn, co-founder of "the washington post" on face blog. michelle, washington correspondent for "newsweek" and "the daily beast." "the good wife 2012." sally quinn. she leaves, marries another guy, comes back. she marries her husband. how or why is that a front page story? >> you know, that's going to play really well one way or the other with the evangelicals. this is a whole issue i think people haven't figured out. >> should it be an issue? >> with these people it is an issue. you know, hillary clinton once said, you know, hi hoped there would be a certain zone of privacy when i got to the white house. forget it. there is no such thing as a zone of privacy. with mitch dan else and his wife, people are going to look at them and say what a great dad he was, he was there for four years. you know, for three, four years. bringing up the kids on his own. this is great. or they will look at her and say what kind after woman would abandon her children for four years? so the family values issues is going to play. it is going to be a big deal in th

when i came to "the washington post" way back in the 1960's, i was one of very few people of color.e importance of having diversity in the media. >> it's a career path that some of them were interested in choosing, others, you know, just wanted to find out more about it. and it's a way of us talking about careers at a time in their lives when they're thinking about that. >> i went to the white house with the prime move as media programs. when we went downstairs, i looked at the offices and couldn't believe my eyes. because here are these journalists who produce such great articles but they have such small rooms. the press secretary of the united states of america knows these people by name and that spoke volumes to the level of work they put in in order to get there. and i feel once you get to that position in life, you've reached the top. >> we know it's working because we see students who are making inroads in colleges. >> the involvement of prime movers was important in helping me get into yale because it showed, oh, this girl helped create a newspaper at her school and that of c

when i came to the washington post in the '60s, i was one of the very few people of color.importance of having diversity in the media. >> it is a career path that some of them were interested in choosing. others just wanted to find out more about it. it is a way of us talking about careers at a time in their lives when they are thinking about that. >> when we went downstairs, i cannot believe my eyes. here were journalists who produced articles. the press secretary of the united states of america knows these people by name. i have to rise to the level of work they put in to get there. once you get to that position in life, you have reached the top. >> the students are making inroads in college. >> it was important in helping me. this girl helped create a newspaper at her school. that was good. >> i do not know what i would have done without this experience. [applause] now we have some grown up prices. the edgar allan poe award that honors excellence and news coverage on events of significant national or regional importance, written with fairness and objectivity. the 2011 wi

here is the headline from the "washington post. well -- ." guest: his presidential rollout may have been the worst in american day politics. his campaign let us know through in e-mail that he is attracting 150 people through all of his stops this week. when you are talking about republicans who attended the iowa caucuses, 150 is a pretty good turnout. if they are coming out to see a train wreck or because he is a political personality, that is one thing. there is the potential for him to have better days. we have a long time to go especially with the campaign. host: his first political appearance, joe biden, on behalf of the president, this wednesday. some speculation with newt gingrich -- after the interview, do you know the impact of what he said would have on a republican? guest: he was endorsing an individual mandate on health care. he was talking about endorsing a type of mandate. i think we thought it would be the big story. when you look back -- he does not necessarily disagree with paul ryan, but it was the language he used. that anger

why would a media, like nbc, cbs, the "new york times," the "washington post," the "l.a. times" why are they come police sit enablers in this very dangerous process? >> guest: it is, it's putting people against each other. the congressional black caucus acquisitions last summer. i was like don't do this. we can't afford this. we need to be united as a country. why does the media go along with this? >> host: why don't think put them to task and say it's wrong and condemn it? >> guest: they won't. i call it in the book, and i'm not trying to be cute here, but this is what i got from the clarence thomas hearings. why did the naacp sit on its hands? why did dan rather, tom brokaw and thomas jennings play ball with this take down of clarence thomas? i call it the democratic media complex. a year later after clarence thomas, bill clinton was named the standard bearer of the democratic party when a year before they told us a very low threshold of sexual harassment, and then bill clinton's behavior in the workplace was deplorable by now liberal -- >> host: they saved him. >> gues

i covered the federal courthouse for "the washington post" and in covering the federal courthouse for "the washington post" i got to cover hearing for john hinckley jr.. as we all know john hinckley nearly killed reagan and three other men on march 30, 1981 and was found not guilty by reason of insanity. he has been housed at saint elizabeth hospital ever since and being found not guilty by reason of insanity, he gets periodic hearings to get him more freedom. in 2008 i was covering a bunch of hearings involving hinckley in which they are arguing about whether to let them get a driver's license or continue his progress in treatment to get eventual freedom. and, to get more extended home visits and unaccompanied visits to his mother's. i covered this hearing and it was kind of interesting. i've got to tell you sitting just 15 feet from this person who nearly killed us revered president was really strange because he showed no emotion in anything. they were talking about affect and how disappointed he was when he went out by himself and of the community and no one wanted to talk to him.

the internet right now. we start in washington with the washington post.e headline reads osama bin laden killed, justice has been done. >> the new york times has a photo of a bunch of firefighters sitting under the giant electronic headline in times square. >> this is the photo that's all over twitter getting a lot of attention in new york. now the wall street journal this morning showing a group of college students celebrating the news at the university of georgia. you get the feeling we will see a bunch of pictures from what we saw over the white house showing up on newspapers around the world today. >> certainly people i'm sure will continue to file down there even today. maybe not the crowds overnight. but people who want to be part of it all in celebration. >>> we continue to follow this major breaking news story. this is a live look now at ground zero in new york, where people celebrated all night. coming up next, we'll have a couple who lost a son in the september 11th attacks, they will join us live in the studio to share their thoughts with us. th