he saw the washington post. he saw the "washington post" do it on the front page. use of the "washington post" apologized in an editorial. you saw the "washington post" en masse returns a pulitzer prize. there quite literally was others said they could have taken the department of criticism. unique in the handles of journalists in. i'm speechless at your injunction that i should lesson in the longer. before you settle down if they start broker or whatever. and join the racquet club or whatever. [laughter] try to think for yourself if i may give you a piece of advice. [laughter] so that's been. i want to read to close here to close because i think airports and i'm a pretty clear what's gone on in my life in the last 10 days. they're a little long and i hope you would humor me, based in their important. one is from ben and westrum rosenfeld, the editor. so then give a speech in april april 19 e4 before nixon resigned but after was vindicated and banners very hesitant to point towards deeper truth. he so is to get the story today, take a bite out of the apple and you n

there were all these papers and "the washington post" was founded as the first democratic party paperin washington after this a war because republicans ran it down. newspapers were ideological. "the new york times" was an abolition newspaper when it started so in some ways we are for -- reverting to a was the norm. they presumably thrived or depend on their ideological loyalist to survive. but i don't necessarily think it's bad. i think this worry about democracy i think underestimates, grossly underestimates the motivation that people have to get good information and make wise decisions because people have powerful civic and economic motivations to make good decisions. they may listen to rush limbaugh, they may watch "msnbc" and only care about what they see on whatever channel they happen to like and they may be misguided but somehow you know society finds its way and we could have a long political discourse on that. >> it think there are two things that compete with each other. on the one hand, there is no question there are many more sources of information that is wonderful for de

you saw the washington post admit inaccurate reporting. you saw washington post did before anyone else. you saw 2 on a front-page. you saw apologize in an editorial. you saw the washington post return a pulitzer prize and asked. there was no other steps i could have taken. i am speechless at your injunction that i should remember this lesson and think of the long curve. before you settle down as a stockbroker or whatever and join the racquet club or whenever try to think for yourself if i may give you a piece of advice. so that is ben. i want to read two quotes to close because they are important given what has gone on in my life in the last weekend days. they are long and i hope you will humor me but they are import. one is from ben and one is from harry. the first is he gave a speech in april of 1974 before nixon resigned but after the post reported all of that. he is very hesitant to point to deeper truth. you get the story today and take a bite of the apple and get another tomorrow. that has always been his philosophy. but this is an im

what attracted you to the "washington post" and how long have you held that investment? >> i love the business as such. but when i bought the "washington post" company it was pretty split. they had about 4.8 million shares outstanding and the stock got down to 16. but thanks to the nixon challenge, their tv stations and a few things, b.b.rabozo and the rest the stock cascaded down from 37. when we bought it the whole valuation of the washington post company was about $100 million. if you'd asked any reporter at the "washington post" to go out and do a story on what the "washington post's" constituent businesses were worth they'd come back and say 400 or 500 million. you bought a wonderful business at 20 cents or thereabouts on the dollar. it's almost a classic investment. if you'd asked any of the people who were selling our stock stous, what's the washington post company worth they would have said three or four times what we're selling it for. but they sold it because they thought it was going to go down the next day. and it did for a while. >> you've owned it for? >> 39

>> yeah. >> which is new for "the washington post." >> right. "the washington post" used to be in two years. we consolidated into one. >> the digital and print. >> correct. >> is it the same people? >> many cases more and more it is. and it has to be. the fact is there are some people still writing long-form projects that will appear over two-full print pages over months, but they are working closely with teams of producers and multimedia people think about what kind of other content we can pull into it so when it does launch, it's a vital and exciting experience. an example, a couple summers ago we did a big project called "top secret america." they looked at the creation of this secret national security apparatus since 9/11. we spent nearly two years on that. when we launched it, we had ten million page views. that was people coming in and having a different experience to the new form issue than people would have had had before. you could go into our data base and if you were in montana, you could go into our data base and find out there had be

it was a better newspaper than the washington post at the time. this was 1960 and the beginning of the kennedy years. what did they see in a 16-year-old? i know there are always-- there's always room for copy boys and rewrite kids. i could type. actually it's really true. the smartest thing i ever did in my life is, i got sick of taking shop with the boys, so i took typing with the girls. and... [laughing] that opened it up, huh? that's right. no, actually, i think they did see some--some talent that i had. and one of the great things about the star was, they nurtured young people. and even though i was a few years younger than the next youngest, they let me cover things gradually, and i became a dictationist, meaning that i sat with a headset on and took the dictation of reporters calling in their stories, including david broder's story from dallas. you have to talk about that. i remember it indelibly. i mean, david dictated: "two priests walked out of dallas memorial parkland hospital at 2:34 p.m. today and announced, the president is dead." you

favorable coverage than mitt romney, only because politico says so because they say somehow the "washington postew york times" are biased does that somehow make it true to the right. the "washington post" and "new york times" have done plenty of stories about whether president obama's policies worked. they are vetting mitt romney now. this argument about bias is just the usual bs from republicans who are trying to political purposes to gin up their base. i give them credit, it's smart politics, but it's bunk. >> one example cited in that political piece, a new biography is about obama growing up, a terrific book. he reveals basically how much dope obama consumed in college. the "washington post" ran that inside the paper whereas the front page of the story about the incident with prep school and cutting the kid's hair. that is a strong example? who cares what pages something runs on in the digital age? >> first of all, it also runs on the home page on the digital age and there are a lot of people who read the deadwood paper that's on their driveway, but david is wrong. i have written multiple po

what attracted you to "the washington post" and how long have you held that investment? >> well, i love the business as such, but when i bought "the washington post" company, this, pretty split. they had about 4.8 million shares outstanding and the stock got down to 16 but thanks to the nixon challenge, the tv stations and a few things, b.b.rabosal and the rest, the stock cad kaded down. when we bought, the whole "washington post" company about $100 million. if you asked any reporter to go out and do a story what "the washington post" companies constituent businesses were worth they would have come back and said $400 million, $500 million. were you buying a wonderful business run by wonderful people at 20 cents or thereabouts on the dollar. you know, it's almost a classic investment. if you'd ask any of the people selling think stock to us, what's "the washington post" company worth, they would have said three or four times what it's selling for, but they sold it because they thought it would go down the next day, and they were right for a while. >> you've owned that now

this june 11th gathering hosted by "the washington post" post live took place at the watergate office building in washington, d.c. this portion is about 45 minutes. >> good evening, everyone and welcome. i'm mary jordan the editor of washington post live, which is a division of the newspaper cho organizes forums and debates. a very special thanks tonight to washington post chairman don graham and the publisher our hosts. a big thank you to the owner of this historic building that turned over the top floor to us tonight despite their renovations. this evening is a rare gathering of key players in the quarter great scandals. along those on stage, there's a lot of people in audience who loomed large in watergate. i see a couple of them there, alexander butterfield, the man who revealed that there was a taping system in the oval office came all the way from california for tonight. [ applause ] and earl silver. former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia who prosecuted quite a few of the president's men. for the first time there's a discussion of watergate with those deeply involved

"the washington post" was founded as the first democratic party paper in washington after the civil war because republicans ran the town after that. and newspapers were id logical. so we are reverting to what was the norm in america, which is there's different viewpoints. they thrive or depend on their loyalists to survive. but i don't necessarily think it's bad. and i think this worry about the democracy, i think it grossly under estimates people making wise decision. people have motivations to make good decisions. and they may listen to rush limbaugh. they may watch msnbc and only care about what they see on whatever channel they like. and they may be misguided, but somehow society finds its way. >> i think there are two things that compete with each other. on the one hand, there's no question there's many more source information. and that's wonderful for democracy. that you could at your fingertips retrieve information that you want. and it's two-way information. which is more democratic. that's good. the worry is, and the contradictory thing is, though you have more information, it

that's not on the time line of "the washington post." if they were going to be fair -- and i don't begrudge them writing the story. i think if i were the editor i would have certainly written the story too. it certainly has an appeal. there are members of congress talking to people in influential positions and then changing their holdings. but to be fair, you've got to provide the context within which those decisions were made. and the context within which my wife and i made our decisions is pretty clear. the friday before the market drops nearly 400 points. what the "washington post" also didn't put in their time line is their headline on that friday. "credit crunch in u.s. upends global markets." and in that story, the friday before, they showed that in the weeks leading up to our decision to diversify our investments in my wife's retirement account, the market had dropped in two days more than 500 points, leading up then to the friday where the markets dropped almost 400 points. and "the washington post" in their story also didn't put

the president was quick to react to the post story. he was in tampa this afternoon. let's take a look. >> today it was reported in the "washington post" that the companies his firm owned with pioneers in the outsourcing of american jobs to places like china and india. pioneers. let me tell you, tampa, we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. weep need a president who will fight for american jobs and fight for american manufacturing. that's what my plan will do. >> and romney's camp responded quickly to the post stories. according to political, romney's spokesperson said this is a fundamentally flawed story thats did not differentiate between domestic outsourcing and versus offshoring. joan walsh, that's a confusing issue. is that going to wash? >> no, it's an intentionally confusing statement and you can see that. the problem for the romney campaign is that the post story was very, very explicit. it is true that outsourcing can be moving jobs out of a company to another firm that does it cheaper in the united states and that does happen but the post was very careful to delineate the firms that bain invested in w

with us, the "the huffington post," howard fineman, the "the christian science monitor"'s liz marlantes, the "washington post"'s david ignatius and nbc news' kelly o'donnell. few could have seen the fallout of watergate would infect the presidential election of 2012. first, when it comes to the oceans of outside money we see in this campaign. follow the money was the watergate mantra. listen to deep throat's vice, here play bid robert redford. >> you tell me what you know and i'll confirm. i'll keep you in the right direction if i can, but that's all. just follow the money. chris: well, money will be a huge factor this year now that the supreme court's ruling in citizens united took down all the post-watergate limits. the culture of investigations by the government, by the opposing campaign and the press. the adversarial relationship between the press and richard nixon was pal paable. >> i wonder if you could share with us your thoughts. tell us what goes through your mind when you hear people who love this country and people wlobble in -- who believe in you say reluctantly that perhaps you should resig

when you're there, did you have any idea where you would end up from 1978-now at "the washington post" covering presidential campaigns? >> i hoped i would end up in washington. when i was a sophomore on the recommendation of my brother who is 3 years old and i and was at the university, joined the student newspaper. that following summer and did an internship in washington for the congressmen who represented my home district in northern illinois later ran for president as an independent in 1980. the confluence of working for the student paper and being out here in washington kind of hooked me on journalism and federal government being here in the nation's capital. at that point, i really want to come back here as a journalist. i did not know in what capacity. i thought working for "the chicago tribune" the bureau or a big newspaper bureau. i was lucky enough to get a job at "national journal" in 1972 and was able to get here relatively quickly. i was there for five years and i was again lucky enough to get a job "the washington post." i pinched myself ever sent them over those years,

after a meeting with "the washington post," candidate himself or spokesman for the candidate said we are very confident in our reporting. the post is sticking to its story. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and director of the huffington post media group. you know, i -- these numbers basically tell me, cynthia, that this populist campaign, that the president's running against big money and big outsourcing and big whatever you want to call it, capitalism, seems to be working. >> well, of course it is working. just because a few affluent democrats didn't like the bain ads doesn't mean that they don't work. they work among people that had bad experiences with the manufacturing economy. they work for people that know somebody whose jobs have been outsourced. it's got the romney campaign so concerned after the meeting a spokesman for the candidate told us quote, we are confident in our reporting. the post is sticking to its story. howard fine manman is director of the group. and tucker is the university of georgia. couldn't they say wait a minute. you're going to vote for that

the washington post revealed that under romney, bain capital encouraged companies to move jobs overseasas a pioneer in the industry. the washington post discovered that bain pushed to export jobs at companies like ibm, hp, dell, and lucent. he encouraged these companies to move jobs overseas while romney was in charge. the romney campaign is not happy about this report, no doubt. they will not talk about specifics. they only say the report is flawed because it doesn't dif r differentiate between outsourcing and offshoring. the campaign insists he will attract foreign jobs to america by cutting taxes. in other words, romney wants to bring back the jobs he sent overseas. romney did not want to talk about outsourcing on camera today. but the president sure did. >> we do not need an outsourcing pioneer in the oval office. we need a president who will fight for american jobs. >> romney was extremely successful at bain. he comes from a corporate culture that is about making money. it's not about people, it's about the bottom line. it's not about infrastructure of a company and where it is. bu

believed but we think we have good sources, continue. >> bob: what would have happened to the "washington post you would have been wrong? >> it's history, but it would have been awful. the nixon white house had gone after television licenses of the "washington post" company as we were reporting this. because it was the lifeblood financially of the company. the nixon administration, the white house, nixon and his aides response to watergate was to make the conduct of the press the issue of watergate rather than the conduct of the press. specific low our conduct at the wash post. remember, it worked for a long time. people didn't really believe what we were writing, most people -- including our colleagues until your colleague, walter cronkite went on air after four months, it's not just the burglary this is part of a massive campaign, political espy i don't know madge, directed from the white house and walter cronkite put it on the air oop half of his broadcast. >> because that have the nixon administration put great pressure on us, chuck coal son went to new york, right to bill who owned the co

another road warrior, dan balz, the chief correspondent of the "washington post." plus our own campaign green team, chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell and political director john dickerson. the question is being begged, what did the banjo players say about the campaign? >> it was actually a fiddler, a retired meter reader who supposedly is the great american fiddler. but what people were saying on-- you know, this is the third year i've done this sort of trip, and when i went out two years ago, people were scared to death. last year they were kind of frustrated. they wanted to see washington make some deals-- >> schieffer: playing a slightly different tune. >> this year they're really screeching to fulfill your metaphor there, they're just really angry that nothing has gotten done. they have-- you know, they're pretty angry at both the candidates and, you know, there's a real mood of frustration out there this time. >> schieffer: what are you finding, dan? >> very similar. there's clearly a great deal of frustration with washington and their inability t

over the weekend i think "new york times" and "the washington post." they did in-depth look at the run-up to this and how the obama administration really failed to take into account clear constitutional hurdles that they would face with this. and it's kind of amazing, don't you think, that someone who is a constitutional law lecturer would not have really moot court ahead of time and said you know maybe we better call this attack because we're actually forcing people though to engage in congress not regulating preexisting commerce here. they didn't really do that juan. that's prizing, given all of the smart people, in quotes that we have in the white house. >> this is the danger and the dysfunctional world of washington we live in where people get caught in a bubble and they talk to people who think the way they think. and then for anybody who thinks differently, it's a skunk at the garden party and to be ignored as unpleasant. and that's the failing here. i will say. this that if you look at the ruling so far on healthcare, most of them have upheld thi

and the rule at the "washington post" is when we have a good story, it's because of aggressive thorough reporting and "the new york times" or somebody else has a story it's -- >> it's a walk. >> but, you know, you have to be in a position where you're open and you are unfeddered in a way as a reporter so people will come to you if that's what they decide. because there are lots of things, there were lots of things in watergate where people would come to us not with big stories but with supporting information and the newspaper has to be an environment where we say to people come and tell us the truth. and if you need to be protected, we will protect you. >> what do you say to people that say wootwa waroodward is a reporter and bernstein is a better writer? >> brilliant sentences, brilliant paragraphs. then there is time i come up with the information. i think it really -- that's -- >> is that your favorite question, bradley? >> yeah. >> the collaboration, yeah, but there is real collaboration. you have to -- i mean in the end when you work with somebody like carl who is so resourceful an

even the "washington post" principles, woodward himself, have said over the years that the post did not bring down richard nixon. what brought down nixon was a -- a combination, if you will, of forces including federal prosecutors, federal judges, the u.s. supreme court, bipartisan congressional panels, all of those were at work to bring down nixon and expose the depth and dimension and extent of the watergate scandal. about 20 people went to jail for their criminality. these were associated with nixon or working for his reelection campaign in 1972. >> eight, the fantasy panicked the news media and the crack baby myth. >> the crack baby myth. supposedly women who took crack cocaine during pregnancy would give birth to offspring who would be forever dependent and some commentators both on the political left and political right forecast that there would be this bio-underclass of dependent young people as they grew up, they would be wards of the state, essentially. a huge number of people who would be forever damaged by the prenatal exposure to crack cocaine. it seems not to have been the

can you see what "the washington post" is doing next. we're doing thing tez convention and other things like cyber security and medical innovation. but very importantly, the bar is open. and i urge you to go to the sixth floor break in rooms and you can see portraits there. thank you, ben. [ applause ] >> benjamin la troeb worked closely with president james madison to refine the look and function of the early white house. mr. latrobe position is subject of a talk by leslie jones, collection manager at the white house historical association which is headquartered in lafayette square. this program is 45 minutes. >> good evening, folks. if i could urge you to find some seats. we may get more chairs if we need. to i think there are some empty seats around f you'll all try to get a seat, that will be great and we can start. we are excited to celebrate the bicentennial or war of 1812. this is the first program in that long celebration. this evening's talk, oh, the terrible velvet curtains and the madisons decorate the president's house is bein

figured out that my green card was fake, and what, for 14 years, i worked as a journalist for the washington post and the huffington post, and kind of lived with that lie because i wanted to work, i wanted to pay taxes because people like me do pay taxes and social security. but inspired by a lot of the young dream act activists last summer, i actually came out as an undocumented immigrant in the "new york times" magazine. if you were to tell me that, what, almost a year later, like we went from the headline in my "new york times" essay was outlaw, and now on the cover of "time" magazine in this essay i wrote surrounded by 35 other undocumented people, it's we are americans, because we are. we just don't have that paper. >> with this, the president of the united states, in a sense, has shifted the conversation -- >> absolutely. >> shifted the acceptance of how we should be viewing this, which is a monumental shift for a lot of americans, would you agree? >> i would parallel it with the gay rights movement.

the people at "the post," as carolyn can attest, is a big and competitive place with enormously talented people. it's competitive against its competitors and it's competitive internally, and yet "the washington post" has always been an enormously collegial place to work and i always counted that as one of the lucky things where i landed. you know, you don't know what the inside of an institution is like when you get there. host: dan balz, chief reporter for "the washington post," rosy clausen, head of the political science department at purdue and carolyn curiel and purdue students, thanks very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captioning copyright national cable stat light corp.2012] >> q&a programs are available at c-span podcast. >> coming up on c-span, british prime minister's questions followed by interview with senior obama campaign strategist david axel rod and ben labold at their chicago headquarters and later q&a with dan balz of "the washington post." fred hoffberg delivers an annual competitive report on monday and will focus on obama's efforts to improve finance options. the bank was re-authorized the end of may after receiving bipartisan support

i mean, confident in "the washington post" reporting. the romney campaign's misguided, naive, and completely unprofessional attempt to bully "the washington post" has only surveyed to bring even more much-deserved attention to the romney outsourcing story. >> the romney campaign has responded, i think yesterday, by saying, we don't understand the difference between offshoring and outsourcing. okay. okay. if you're looking for work, that's a pretty cruel joke. i can picture one guy, in my old neighborhood, standing next to another guy in the unemployment line saying, hey, john, did you get offshored or outsourced? >> and we now have evidence that the obama campaign attack on mitt romney's methods of self-enrichment is working. president obama leads in three swing states where the obama campaign has been running its ads against romney and bain capital. according to a new quinnipiac poll of registered voters today, among florida voters, president obama leads mitt romney 45 to 41%. among ohio voters, president obama leads mitt romney 47 to 38

after a meeting with "the washington post," candidate himself or spokesman for the candidate said we our reporting. the post is sticking to its story. howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and director of the huffington post media group. you know, i -- these numbers you know, i -- these numbers basically tell me, cynthia, that i knew it'd be tough on our retirement savings, especially in this economy. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america's retirement leader.

as the national endowment for the humanities she started a writing career as a reporter for the washington post and has been a regular contributor for over twenty five years to publicly publications like the new york times magazine newsday the nation and alternate the most recent piece on alter net is entitled the ungodly constitution of the founders ensured america would not be a christian nation she's also the author of many critically acclaimed books including freethinkers history of american secularism and never say die the myth and marketing of the new old age susan joins me now from new york city susan welcome. nice to be talking to. i wish i could see you i wish you could too we've got to get a monitor there in new york thank you both so much for being with us under these circumstances you write a column called the spirited atheist at the on faith website published by the washington post i'm curious how did you arrive at atheism and secularism and what led you to those if those are your beliefs what led you to that what influenced you to write about religion in american society. well fir

from an e-mail sent to the daily collar and reprinted by our colleague at forbes if you read the washington post which i will make available to you and the viewerings. he set the record straight. he never said that is what is going to happen. the question is, will the aca play a role in keeping them lower than they would have been without the law. what we are focusing on is the provision of the law to bring down the cost of health care. all of these things bring down the cost. insurance premiums will go back up. naturally they'll go up and covering preexisting conditions and covering retiree health insurance andine the supreme court justice john roberts who voted for obama care. i know rick unger is about to have heart pal paitation not just for my good looks. >> not. >> and jaub john roberts said significantly higher health insurance premiums. >> morkan it comes down to math. how can you insure 30 million new people and cover stuff without premiums going up? >> that brings up a good point. they'll not rise arguably if the man date is struck down. >> right on. >> and that's the point that needs