circulation amongst all the members of congress, they have to be one of the places in addition to the washington post where you have to put your issue advertising. if you're lockheed martin and you want to lobby the pentagon, you've got to advertise in the washington post, occasionally in the new york times, and in the capitol hill newspapers. smith: right. downie: and so that's a good model for them. it doesn't take away anything from us. it's additional. smith: how about substantively? downie: but substantively i think that this is the ideal, uh, fit between a web-only product and a print and web product, because they're interested in the up-to-the-second scoop. smith: right. downie: and sometimes they're not always concerned about whether it's checked out yet and they can always come back later and say well, it checked out differently. uh, and.um, but by and large it's good stuff and they do some things in greater depth but the real in-depth is going to come from the washington post. and so we're going to do some of the fast stuff too, but what's going to be chris cillizza's take on things more th

. >> kirsten, did you see the front page of the "washington post"? i think we have the graphic this week. it was a cloud cover that included the shot in the background, see the shot in the corner, don't trust the liberal media. don't believe on the liberal media, on the front page of the "washington post." >> with all the stuff going on with the attacks on mitt romney and bain is not drummed up by the liberal media, it is drummed up by newt gingrich, primarily, and, the dnc has lodged attacks and not getting the attraction newt gingrich has gotten and perry is along for the right and, they thought newt gingrich was backtracking and his campaign, put out a statement saying we are not backtracking and i think they are... and south carolina has a high unemployment rate and they hope it will read out to their effect. >> and wednesday mitt romney went on six of the network morning shows, he was on cnn, msnbc and on fox, and, being asked about his performance, on cnn, soledad o'brien asked him about his 16-point win in new hampshire and described it as bein

so i think -- one of the things i've complained about, got four pinocchios in "the washington post." now to get four pinocchios in a 30-second ad means there's virtually nothing accurate in 30 seconds. >> speaker, you decry the washington establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure, governor i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, it is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of those things are untrue. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course former staff of mine, and of course they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong i hope they take it out. i hope everyt

great linda gasparello and -- and arnaud de borchgrave, a former editor of newsweek, and from the "washington post" al leeds, who heads up the syndication, which means he gets to read every last word. everybody who could walk even with a crutch at the washington post went up there. quite extraordinary. and, our favorite resident russian and humorous. welcome to the broadcast. there are other people here that could make a joke, too, i understand. we will see how it goes. while we have been concentrating on the republican primary domestically, some very disturbing moves have been happening in iran. >> disturbing moves that seem to overlook two important events -- three former heads of intelligence in israel, three former commanders in the united states have warned us do not bomb iran, and the israelis say this is what their prime minister would like to do. if it comes to a vet, and it looks as if it is moving in that direction, we forget that iran has formidable asymmetric capabilities all the way up and down the gulf, and oil will be very quickly of 500. >> $500 a barrel? >> if that showdown comes.

. >> tonight, author and that checker for the washington post. later, british prime minister david cameron addresses a possible referendum to scottish independence. >> this week on "q&a" glenn kessler discusses his current job as "the fact checker" columnist. >> you have a web site. i want to read you what one of the comments that came from the public at large in the to explain. this average pinocchio list strikes me as absurd and meaningless. if anything exist to be manipulated by partisans, if not the grind, it acts as itself. the writer does not evaluate every statement. to do so is impossible. instead, it then kessler picks which statements to evaluate. we could go on. what is he talking about? >> we recently introduced to my column, the pinocchio tracker differentte a comments by politicians on the one-four scale. if you say something really outrageous that is inaccurate, you get four pinocchio's. if it is slightly misleading you make it one pinocchio. all the candidates running for president including barack obama, i list all the columns i h

so i think -- one of the things i've complained about, got four pinocchios in "the washington post." get four pinocchios in a 30-second ad means there's virtually nothing accurate in 30 seconds. >> speaker, you decry the washington establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure. governor, i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, its is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of the ads aren't true. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course, it's former staff of mine, and, of course, they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law, i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong, i hope they take it out. i hope ever

consider the story of how she met catherine graham, owner of the washington post, in an elevator. the specifics vary depending on who is telling the story, some have the two women going up, others have them going down. but one thing is certain, it was an elevator pitch before that were elevator pitches. >> pamela is 24-7, always an her game. and an example, one day coming back from her brisk walk one morning, she quickly got in the elevator and may have been still on her phone, quite possible, and there was a very properly dressed woman on the elevator. >> and we got to the lobby, pamela said you look so familiar to me, but i can't place you, but my name is pamela newman. >> and this lovely woman said, i'm catherine graham, nice to meet you. >> only pamela could do this. pamela said, i've always wanted to get into the washington post, but i've never been able to get an appointment. >> and pamela said, may i follow up with you today, mrs. graham? and she so politely said, please do, pamela. and that was probably 15, 16 years ago, and the washington post is still a client today. >> t

age here, but i remember when the rule around washington was think before you speak and don't say anything you wouldn't want to see on the front page of the "washington post." still good but almost plain advice now that people reveal their most intimate secrets on face book and twitter and some reporters tweet before their sources have finished a sentence yet some of those who find nothing out of the ordinary about those practices seem surprised that the department of homeland security has been monitoring social media supposedly to look for possible terrorist threats. well, of course they have. and of course they went too far which is the nature of human nature. to use whatever is available to help your particular cause. it's why we have laws for which there would be no need if we always followed our better angels. bulletin: sometimes we don't. now that it's out in the open i have no doubt the government monitors will be reigned in. what i wonder about though is the cultural changes that have made social media such a ripe place for juicy and other pickings. why do people find it necessary to share their most inti intimate secrets and their biases? why do

dionne, fellow at the brookings institution and columnist for "the washington post." gentlemen, it's been an eventful day in the world of politics. jonathan, what do you make of all of this, is it possible for mitt romney to lose the nomination at this point, how big a day was it? >> it's possible if he loses south carolina and the momentum is not moving in his direction, then you have a two-man race and you can say all right, gingrich isn't even on the ballot in virginia and romney has a better organization, but as you indicated a few minutes ago, gingrich has some access to some real money, and he could make this into a real contest. a lot of republicans apparently are willing to see past his marital infidelities, this open marriage thing is kind of mind blowing. can you imagine what would happen if this was a democrat, what rick perry would be saying? >> we talked in our ed newsroom today about what if president obama had dropped a bomb shell on a news magazine saying michelle and i have an open marriage. come on, how low are they going to drop the bar in this campa

was the brainchild of the person who originated this column, michael dobbs who is a former "the washington post" writer. >> how did you get into it? >> they said they wanted to revive the idea as a permanent feature with a broader focus. i had been covering diplomacy for nine years. before that, i had covered congress. i had covered the white house. i have been a cheap political correspondent for newsday. i had budget and economics. i basically covered every building in washington. i got a little bit the pentagon stuff. i cover the transportation department. after 30 years of writing about washington institutions and a great deal of subjects, i was in a position to tackle this on. i feel like i am taking the base of knowledge that was built up and i now apply it on a daily basis to a wide range of subjects. you name it, i will write about it. >> how often do you give geppettos out? >> that is when a statement is true. one thing michael dobbs said was one of his regrets was he did not give enough geppettos. i regret that giving as many as i could. there are so many countries statements out there

associated press and twenty eight other and news organizations including the new york times and the washington post are all getting together to launch a new company called news right now the idea here is to track the use of their original reporting online and eventually to try to make blogs and other news gathering services try to pay for it according to the washington post news writing codes original stories with hidden data that includes the writer's name and when it was published those encoded stories send back reports to the registry and describe where a story is being used and who's reading it and the technology can even locate stories that have been cut and pasted in whole or in part so they say that this is just to make sure that those who republished their content do so with integrity but does that mean for blogs and for aggregators and how does that apply to that little thing that we like to call fair use joined me to discuss that is david sirota radio talk host and author of back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now david thanks so much for joi

that according to the washington post, interior secretary has ordered the change. now that quote on the monument reads, i was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness. folks say, that's taken out of context and makes king seem arrogant. the phrase comes from a speech that king delivered in which he said yes, if you want to say that i was a drum major, say that i was a drum major for justice. say that i was a drum major for peace. i was a drum major for righteousness. it's a bit different. >> a school day turns into a rock concert as the first lady and the cast of a hit tv show pay them a visit. but first, tragedy struck twice in d.c. 30 years ago today. a flight crashed in the potomac and the metro derailed. we'll take a look back. next. >>> 30 years ago today, three people died and 25 others were hurt when a metro train derailed between the federal triangle. the orange line train had 1200 people on board. they were all headed home for the everyoning rush. it was the first deadly accident in the history of the transit agency. that crash, however, was over

up to a quarter of votes could be made before election day, notes "the washington post." this weekend, 225,000 have voted. then there's florida's krystal ball effect, it mimics the general election's voter. good for gingrich and 39% evangelical and born-again christians according to the last exit polls. here's what to watch, insiders talk about florida's midsection and the i-4 corridor, the area around tampa and orlando is the road to almost half of florida's ballots. there's duval county, as well, they've picked the nominee some 80% of the time. romney is to do well in the south where it's more moderate, gingrich doing better in the more conservative north. first, preparation for tonight's nbc debate. calm now, expect the opposite. romney honing new attack muscles and gingrich wanting to say thank you, brian williams. brian doesn't want that, chris. >> thank you so much. always good to see you, richard. >>> more on the obama strategy coming up, but really, who didn't gasp a little when we heard over the weekend joe paterno had died so soon after his forced resignation. w

according to the "washington post," the company says their work looks at both school sectors objectively. >>> d.c. police are on the hunt for a gunman accused of violently assaulting a woman and stealing awful her belongings. police say the man grabbed the woman by the neck forcing her down an alley and then put a gun to her head and sexually salted her before taking off with her purse, briefcase and backpack cyst there was appear intense meeting two president obama and the governor of arizona yesterday. >> they exchanged a few words at the airport and it is being described ads an intense encounter. >> reporter: president obama is used to facing opposition but he may never have expected this, the tense situation happening in phoenix, arizona wednesday. that is when governor jan brewer came you out to the greet the president upon his arrival. according to brewer, mr. obama was displeased with how she depicted him in her recently published burke scorpions for breakfast. >> i had written a handwritten note to him welcoming him to arizona. he immediately took umbrage if you will with my book

. >> ezra klein of the "washington post" is here to set the record straight. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the first votes of the republican nomination are hours away from being cast. i think we might see a big surprise in iowa tomorrow. the latest numbers from the public policy polling have ron paul on top with 20% of the vote in iowa. mitt romney and rick santorum are right behind on his heels. the comprehensive "des moines register with t" has romney at n paul 22%. santorum in at 15%. the devil is in the details. in the first day of the poll, ron paul was on top with 29% support. four days later he was down to 16%. on the other hand, santorum polled at 10% the first couple days of the polling. on days three and four, his numbers doubled to 20%. so what does that mean? santorum has real momentum. he continues his brand of retail politics on the road in iowa. he was so popular at a pizza restaurant in boone, iowa, the owner renamed the chicken salad santorum salad in honor of the candidate. santorum is a viable alternative for conservative voters. h

you can go to the front of the "washington post" website, there is a bar at the top.o politics, a thing will pop up and one option will be fact checker. >> we talked about cincinatti and you have three kids. >> uh-huh. >> their age? >> my oldest is about to turn 19. my middle one is about to turn 15 and my youngest just turned 11. i always joke, my wife only got pregnant in election years. >> you went to brown undergrad and columbia for your master's degree. >> that's right. >> mr. kessler, thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> i believe that it's important to emphasize that while it's great to have this memorial to his memory and it's great to have a national holiday and it's great to have streets and schools and hospitals named in his honor all over our nation and world, it is also important to not place too much emphasis on martin luther king, the idol, but not enough on the ideals of martin luther king jr. >> take a look at the life and legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. and race relations today online at the c-span video series. it is what you want, w

"the washington post"/abc news poll shows 84% disapprove. prove, as congress convenes, nancy pelosi gave her two cents. >> here's the point, to bottom line it. if the far right thought that romney could win, they might more enthusiastic about them. they question what he stands r for. >>> all right. so on to another big topic. a conservative historian says he has a solution. author of "coming apart" he says in order to close the gap between the very rich and very poor, america needs to stop looking to europe for the economic model. joining me is kneale ferguson. he writes about this in this week's issue of noic "newsweek." >> the first thing that charles murray does right is to acknowledge that there's a problem, which unfortunately too many conservatives have been in denial about ever since this issue surfaced last year. he says we shouldn't go down the -- in other words to create the kind of welfare systems like in europe, which do much more redistribution of income. the key point he makes is we could possibly -- when that path has led them

lindsay murphy has the portion of the interview with "the washington post." s to be tough for joe p abuzz of the health issues now, right? >> reporter: 85-year-old joe paterno's lung cancer diagnosis was revealed nine days later and he was admitted to the hospital yesterday for complications. earlier in the day, we gave "the washington post" an interview, the first public statement since being fired from penn state. this is joe pa and how he handled the abuse allegations against jerry sandusky. >> and makes it curious and ied we have a problem, i think. i would never have to deal with something like that. >> i had a wonderful experience -- penn state. i don't want to walk away from this. >> i don't think -- what i'm all about and what i thought was important. >> and paterno is accused of no wrong doing and, in fact, the authorities fulfilled his legal obligations by reporting to his superiors. the university board of trustees still dismiss him with a late night foe copy -- phone call four days later and was told the services were no longer needed. paterno neve

on the "newshour" tonight, juliet eilperin of the "washington post" explains the reasons for the decision and what happens next. >> woodruff: we discuss the pressure on g.o.p. front-runner mitt romney to release his tax information in advance of the south carolina primary. >> warner: we debate the risk of sliding into war with iran, as the west tightens sanctions against its nuclear program. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how fog and tourism are threatening to destroy the historic murals in a san francisco landmark. >> the quality of art is amazing here. it's really indicative of the time period of the early '30s and for the public art, public mural movement of that time period. >> warner: and we debate the impact private equity firms have on jobs and the economy. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.

. >> we'll put up a headline from the washington post. esident slams oil company profits as prices rise. >> because the washington post put the headline up. it makes it accurate? what the president did do in his speech was talk about getting rid of the subidies that we all agree that the oil companies don't need anymore. there is a big difference between vilifying business practices that lead to oil spills and take away the livelihood of americans and vilifying the profits. there is a big difference when bankers get involved in casino gambling that bring our economy to the brink of disaster and vilify the profits earn. it is unfortunate that you can't see the distinction between vilifying dangerous business practices and what -- >> steve, the point is, silicon valley folks are getting subsidies. solyndra subsidies went down the drain. the point is, it is okay for one group to make profits and not another. >> that's right. you talk about apple with 700,000 worker in china and versus and the demagogue president could go after that. president

people on the right ignored and scoffed at him, with a few intrepid exceptions, reuben and "the washington post" and a clearly spectator wrong them. but just a reminder how poll driven the media is and how much it's a herd mentality because a rival network had a poll at that showed them at 16%, a week or so out, and that was just the bell going off and all of a sudden, everyone was talking about santorum surging and couldn't gets enough of the guy. >> which game first? was it the surge or predictions of the surge. i think that the media played a bigger role in iowa than what is to be intended, and-- >> do you think that rick santorum is a media creation, his popularity? >> i think his surge was a media creation and it also reflects on that the failed political experiment that is iowa and new hampshire, hopefully will it's the next cycle or within two cycles that people recognize the retail politics failed. 10 million in the last month. leading up to it. the frenzy that we see from these media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to a

it will be based on established newspapers like the "washington post", "new york times", washington journal, barrens, bloomberg news. and i hope it is totally accurate and people can watch the 27 1/2 minutes of his career, bain, and decide for themselves. >> i'm not going to play all 27 minutes. >> if there was a topic sentence, i think it would be this. >> a group of corporate raters, led by mitt romney, and the company was bain capital, and it was more ruthless than wall street. >> the film is not accurate, is it? >> well, some flaws in the film. i promptly said this is the difference between governor romney and me. when the "washington post" said governor romney's super pac in a 30-second commercial was wrong on four different counts, he didn't know anything about it. when it said something similar to the film, i promptly said i hoped they would make it accurate, and all of this is out in the open because you cannot communicate privately under the law, and i said that publically, and as i understand it, rick tyler has said he is prepared to edit the film and submitted five questions to r

this reporter who came to see me from the "washington post" i gave her an interview tried to explain what we did for our clients there wasn't much interest in hearing that, so the information that all i compiled in getting the article, but when the article 1 came out frankly there was an e-mail back-and-forth with firm saying should we post the article on our website all it really does is talk about how, you know, it's claiming we are ripping off our clients that they know better than that and it will be over with soon. and senator mccain got into action and subpoenaed all of my e-mails and started serious investigation on the senate side. unfortunately it seems this involved some of my and rival lobbyists he actually wrote a letter to one of the tribes with the work of one of my rival will be guests in the investigation, so it seemed to me that at first it would go away and then when it was clear that it was not going to go away i thought why am i getting picked on here? what is this all about? i'm just doing what everybody does. why is this a problem? shortly thereafter obviously qu

. >> the washington post, abc poll shows that there's a lot of head winds against the president. 52% saying he has not accomplished much or done very little, and 47% saying that he has accomplished a great deal. that is your poll, what do you think the importance is going into the campaign year with these kinds of numbers? >> i feel in some ways it's the keystone pipeline all over again. there's an argument for the president and people that believe in it and an argument against him and people that believe against him. it's kind of the 50/50 presidency on almost every issue, job approval, re-elect n re-election, it's somewhere split, now on the economy, it's more negative, but overall, you know, you get somewhere between 45% and 50% saying they approve with him and the same saying they disapprove. we are fighting the next ten months over 8% to 10% of the electorate. >> now, briefly, mitt romney. we talked about unforced errors. he is so uncertain how to handle this tax issue, it was obvious it was going to come up and as recently as the debate, we saw he did not know thousahow to ha i

"the washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he gets three pi noek yoes. now, a pa noek yoe is what you get from the post about not at the teling the truth. three would be a long nose but we won't do that. but i just challenge governor romney. release the records. show us the facts. you can't hide -- you can't run for president, have half your campaign be about your great achievements, and then hide them. >> here's your south carolina ad running -- now that's attacking romney's career at bain taken from a full-length movie that gingrich called it in for its inaccuracies. >> a group of corporate raiders let by mitt romney, the company was bain cap tat tal, more ruthless than wall street. >> pulled the rug out from our plant. >> everybody was fired. >> they fired people, cut benefits, sell assets. >> mitt romney, them guys, they don't care who i am. >> i feel that is a man that destroyed us. >> winning our future is it responsible for the content of this message. >> well, your response for the content, are you happy with its accuracy, rick, because there ar