it wasn't the "washington post." i can assure you that there's no story in the post that accurately describes the reasons for the break-in before 1973 or exactly how it happened. and there's certainly no story about the cover-up. and of course the cliche about watergate always was the cover-up was worse than the crime. it was the legal process really that brought watergate to the culmination that we all know. but also burt of the chief prosecutor. and as i said, the press coverage insulated him from any political pressures being exerted on his investigation. hugh sloan was one of those who worked for the committee to re-elect the president, who was telling the truth to the fbi and to prosecutors. he was also telling the same truth to woodward and bernstein insofar as he knew it. so -- and there were others like him. particularly a bookkeeper named judith hoback, who was interviewed by the fbi six times, all times away from lawyers for the rnc or the committee to re-elect. so she was telling the fbi the truth. and it w

this is in the washington post, not a quote, the washington post explaining to you the reader while there's no connection between the horrible bush/cheney years and this sunny, optimistic romney guy, the washington post said many cheney allies who shaped policy in the bush years have no roles in the romney campaign. they specifically highlight condoleezza rice and stephen hadley, who were both national security advisers. they have no roles in the romney campaign, although the post then has to note, stephen hadley did endorse romney in april and condoleezza rice has been speaking at donor retreats. also, it should be noted that many political operatives are lower ranking policy officials from the george w. bush administration are deeply enmeshed in the romney campaign including the senior adviser, foreign adviser, economic policy adviser and the chief strategists 1 running the whole campaign. other than that, be assured that mitt romney is definitely his own man. he brings his own approach. there's no reezing to say dick and cheney when you talk about what romney is doing tomorrow in some ol

"the washington post" reports he learned during a meeting inside the wilson building back in january. delia goncalves is live with more on this report and the increasing calls for the mayor to resign. good morning, delia. >> reporter: good morning, mike. this is quite the bombshell. "the washington post" cites three independent sources close to this case that say the mayor's meeting was indeed about the campaign and the

the obama ads are overstating what the "washington post" story said. oint of this is that the romney campaign response to this. probably the first example of a clumsy response to this took them several days to respond directly to the "washington post" but going there and demanding retraction. finally, romney campaign is now, is opening up a new ad campaign against the president. accusing him of negative attack. cast him as a politician. to me, that's a sign the ads are working. if they are true or false, they're somewhere in the middle here. the response on this to the romney campaign has tried to be above this. it's probably not working out all that well for them. because the attacks right or wrong are hurting him a little bit. >> john: fact check just responded, minutes ago, to stephanie cutter's letter saying her arguments are all wet. if this were to stick on mitt romney, charles, could that hurt him in the all-important swing states? >> of course it will hurt him. this would be a case of the triumph of mendacity. this is an outright lie. factcheck.

they are based off the "washington post" story. the "washington post" stands by their story. in fact, the romney campaign went in there with full force trying to get them to retract it and they refused to. here's what the romney campaign has a problem with, that they say mitt romney left bain capital in 1999. that's actually not true. he remained as president and ceo and sole owner of bain capital until 2001. so many of these cases happened after 1999 but there were multiple examples of bain investing in companies that sent jobs overseas before 1999. so we'll take it either way. but we stand by these ads. mitt romney made millions of dollars in personal profits by investing in companies that sent jobs overseas. that's fact. >> getting to the tax issue, what about the fact that it's undisputed that senator mccaskill, bill nelson and other endangered democratic senators are not supporting the president's own tax proposal, neither is chuck schumer. >> well, i'm not sure that is actually the case. but you're talking about the tax proposal yesterday that congress should act -- >>

promise to you that i am going to make certain that every one of my colleagues here has read the washington post>> they hadn't read it as of this morning and i'm embarrassed for them. >> what was that? what was that? >> i want to bring in the host of the sirkal. usually on friday, we go through our vp power ranks. you should have barbara comstock on this. >> have you read "the washington post" article? she said that none of my colleagues have read it. >> i know she says they would love to talk about their record, but they never do talk about their record, what is that? >> talking about condi rice, this of course all the rage now, everyone's talking about it, a big drudge report last night. do you think that this is -- >> this is a great opportunity for me to address a comment i made last week, where i said, essentially that romney suggested that the camp was vetting a woman candidate was a bit of a fib. i inartfully said that, but condi, as qualified as she is. an condi is fantastic. being pro choice, having bush baggage is definitely not going to be the vice presidential nominee. >> your reason

responsible for management and that's the -- you know that's the bottom line. >> reporter: the "washington post's" bob woodward agrees citing the fact checker. >> i think the fact checker of the "washington post" did extra vision here and demonstrated that romney didn't have his fingerprints on this particular period. >> reporter: bain is fair game because it's reflective of his core principles. republicans warn of voter backlash. >> remember who's up for grabs in this election. independent voters. they were drawn to obama in 2008. because he was going to change politics and raise and elevate the political discourse, this is gutter politics. >> reporter: most believe the cooler temperatures of fall will see debate over the real issues return. melanie all all wick, fox 5 morning news. >>> who kidnapped who americans will take more hostages if police don't release the uncle from prison. a 61-year-old boston area reverend and a member of his church were abducted friday in a bus loaded with dozens of other tourists. it happens along a major road. the kidnapper plans to use them as leverages to free h

. >> eric: "the washington post" refusing to retract a story about governor mitt romney. article examining the record of bain capital. the paper says it stands by its reporting. liz trotter, an author and journalist and fox news contributor joins us every sunday at this time with the commenta commentary on the media. what's this all about? >> good morning, eric. now we have "the new york times" this morning joining the fight that was originally started by "the washington post" on what exactly and the story that are outlined on the 21st of june, exactly how many jobs were outsourced by romney while he was at bain capital. a private equity firm that invested heavily in companies that would relocate or outsource jobs. the story turns on what your concept is of off shoring vs. outsourcing. there is a difference. this is where it appears "the washington post," the writer was tom hamburger felt proper on this. what happened is they had a meeting on wednesday. representatives from the romney campaign and about eight editors and reporters from "the post" and at the end of the mee

the obama campaign has been going forward with the "washington post" report that said romney was the rcing. bain capital, independent fact checkers question that report. now there is another "washington post" report that romney campaign ised toking which says that the liberal groups are upset that the president let jobs go to china. what about this? back with the panel. mara, how is this playing? is it playing? >> i think that the charge against romney he was a heartless executive that shipped jobs overseas has been having some limited effect in the battleground states they heavily advertise with that attack but it hasn't moved the numbers much. romney has come back to say so are you. this discussion about outsourcing is disingenuous. if you believe in free trade, jobs will be outsourced. lower end job goes somewhere else and supposedly we make higher end jobs with corporate resources. for romney to say he is against outsourcing that's what corporations to do to become profitable. the president came out with his own hard line. neither is talking about whether outsourcing is good or ba

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 wootoodward is a better 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 a

i'm the editor of "washington post" live which is division of the newspaper which organizes forums and debates. a very special thanks tonight to "washington post" chairman don graham and publisher katherine waynus, our host, and a big thank you to penzance, the owner of the -- warren is a key player in the watergate scandal. and what you're going to hear onstage, there are lots of people in the audience who loomed large in watergate and i see a couple of them there. alexander butterfield, the man who revealed a taping system from the oval office came all the way from california tonight. and earl filbert, former u.s. attorney for the district of columbia profited quite a bit on "all the president's men." it was on the sixth floor downstairs in this building that 40 years ago this week there was a botched break-in. burglars working for president nixon who started it all and forever gave the suffix to every political scandal. those sixth floor offices with actually open tonight. 40 years ago they housed the democratic national committee headquarters, but tonight artist lori munn has done

is is the headline in "the washington post." the headline in "the new york times" -- "the washington times" has a this headline -- host: a new inspector general report questions whether spending on projects in afghanistan is hurting the u.s. effort there. we have some tweets. this one from fred. our next call is from gilbert in oklahoma. caller: good morning. the report and everything else i have been hearing, it is disturbing. all the problems we have at home. we are worrying about israel and iran. aboutthinking reconstruction and iraq and afghanistan. the inner cities are falling apart. unemployment, transportation non existent. i think it is horrible. i do not understand why are we an avid supporter of israel? what are we getting for the billions of dollars that we send there? we have people in florida with children living in cars and homeless. we're spending billions and billions of dollars all over the world. we have bases that we've to pay for in over 130 countries. host: how much is the issue of afghanistan figure into you

"time" magazine never got the credit that the "washington post" had posted, it published weekly. ometimes stories were late. actually if you read the coverage, you'll soon realize that the most earth-shaking leaks actually came out in "time" magazine first. now felt acted because he had a different timetable. he wanted to convince nixon by the time of the election that pat gray wasn't up to the job, and that after the election nixon would appoint an insider, someone who knew how to control the bureau. he was far from principled. he was contemptuous of the media. and even woodward and his books admits that felt expressed disdain for the press' inexactude and short attention span. and i would add to the degree to which it could be manipulated. now i thought i was very clever when i figured out why mark felt was leaking. but eventually i realized as i reviewed the press coverage that i wasn't even as clever as i thought because this is a story from "the new york times" in august, 1973. so this is two months after felt had left the bureau. serve or eight months before "all the preside

i'm pleased for all of you and me, bringing back a byline "the washington post" over the weekend. so let me introduce bob woodward and carl bernstein. >> you're good. we want you to come up at the very end for a picture. so, stay close. >> how is it that you're writing together again? what kind of tensions? >> can you all hear now? i said it felt good. it was the usual tensions. and it worked creatively, i think. at one point i used the word cravin in a line, in a paragraph and woodward call immediate and said you can't put that in there. we fought over that a little bit, but it worked. a kind of complimentary process. >> why did it work from the beginning? >> because we had a different emphasis working. i don't know. maybe gordon libby -- waiting for his moment. we just look at the world a little differently. there was a sense of loving reporting. we were both unmarried, very young. we had the running room from the editors and ben bradley, keep going at this story. don't give it up. and that is -- bud krogh was talking about the liberating experience of going to jail. it's libera

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"the washington post" reports -- threatened first lady michelle obama. "the washington post" reports that he has been put on desk duty. two maryland lawmakers want regulators to find pepco and bg &e $100 million each. in motorcyclist crashed into a tree in montgomery village about 10:30 p.m. last night. the victim has not been identified. but because of that crash is under investigation. -- but of the cause of that crash is under investigation. >> investigators are trying to find out more about a suspicious device aboard a delta flight. the year plan was evacuated and the bomb squad was called in. a passenger had reported strange wiring, but no explosive device was found. another scare in the air, this time it was a southwest airlines flight crew of some crew members aboard the jet that had taken off from north " had become ill yesterday. the airplane landed at bwi. two crew members were taken to the hospital for observation. hazmat has determined the source of the problem. passengers then headed to their final destination in chicago on another plane. >>

residents no longer support mayor vincent gray according to a new poll out by the "washington post." it is the latest fallout from the mayor's ongoing campaign corruption scandal. fox 5's melanie alnwick is live in northwest with the details. >> reporter: wisdom, the "washington post" surveyed 1002 adult d.c. residents and if the first time since 2006, slightly more of them said they believe the city is moving in the wrong direction. when asked about mayor gray and whether he should resign, 54% said yes, gray ought to resign. 37% said he should not. 45% of the people polled say city matters are on the wrong track versus 40% would believe the opposite but that is still nowhere near the depths of from the early 1990s when 70% of resident felt that d.c. was in bad shape. when asked about gray's handling of his job, only 29% approved. on creating jobs, the majority said he is not doing a good job. more than 60% said he is not hoppest or trustworthy or running an ethical administration. -- he is not honest. >> the mayor has been consistent in his statements that he has no plans to resign,

because the "washington post" had one of its better police reporters right there in the room, i've now learned all these years later, covering that particular activity. >> now, this is serious business, but there is a little bit of keystone cops about it because they also had stacks of money, didn't they? >> in their pocket. >> stacks of money which would later be important when you had to follow the money. >> well, they didn't actually follow the bills, but they quickly tracked bernard barker's bank account, found that he had very large transactions. it's interesting, historically we know that litty could have cashed those checks at the riggs bank. instead he sends them to miami, to barker, to have them cashed, and it immediately raises the antenna of the fbi that this might be the source of the money. when they get hugh sloan, when earl brings them in, and i'm glad earl is here today, because he was certainly paramount in unraveling this. >> in september of '92, you meet with president nixon and he's happy. why is he happy? >> he's happy because there's only seven people that have be

it is being called the washington union station master plan and the proposal to the tuna cording to the "washington post" of $7 billion. amtrak is heading it all up and they tell us they are going to be holding a news conference at #:00 p.m. this afternoon. we will learn more about the plan and overhaul expected here at union station. union station second busiest in the amtrak system and it served the region well for more than 100 years but it is currently operating well beyond capacity. this plan would increase the number of trains possibly doubling the number of trains the station could accommodate. and amtrak says it is partnering up with marc,vre and wmata to improve the passenger experience. the washington spot as a the overhaul could span for more than a decade, the first phase lasting between 2013 and 2017. that cost, $7 billion. -- the "washington post" says the overhaul could span for more than a decade. it could through new platforms, tracks, shopping, more natural light, a new northern entrance to union station so pedestrians could access the station from all sides. the big question will be w

if they just stuck with jamming "the washington post" own fact checking back at "the washington post" they may have had a better time with this story. but by the way, the strategy for the obama campaign is also ultimately to get back to tax, i think. what they want to do is say, look. what was mitt romney up to when -- what business deals was he doing when -- we need to see his tax returns. that's the other part they're pressing on. they're trying to create the idea mitt romney has a lot to hide about his business life which is part of the larger narrative they're pushing that mitt romney can't be trusted because he won't tell us what he did with his business and his fortune. >> almost swift boating of sorts. meaning go after the asset that you perceive your opponent to have. thank you very much. we appreciate it as always. >>> coming up, the investigation into the penn state child abuse scandal is out and it's a damning indictment of university officials including legendary head coach joe paterno who the report says protected jerry sandusky against the children he preyed upon. this i

the washington area. we have just learned that "washington post" columnist william raspberry has died. his wife, sandra, says he was battling prostrate cancer. he was a pull diser prize -- pulitzer prize winning journalist. he wrote for "the washington post" for nearly 40 years before retiring in 2005 and his columns appeared in more than 200 papers around the country. william raspberry was 76 years old. >>> federal investigators are in laytonsville, maryland trying to find out what caused a deadly crash that occurred at davis airport. we've learned that the flight instructor 79-year-old frank schmidt was killed in last night's crash. authorities say that schmidt was instructing the pilot during takeoff and landing maneuvers. it happened yesterday. the plane crashed. the practice is required in order to keep a pilot current. a friend of the flight instructor actually witnessed the crash. >> it achieved an altitude of 150 to 200 feet which point the engine abruptly lost power. the aircraft then banked towards the right. it appeared to lose lift on the right side wing and the aircraft rol

the naacp, ben jealous. anti-tax activist grover norquist. "washington post" associate editor bob woodward and democratic strategist hilary rosen. also this morning, a few minutes with bob costas of nbc sports, on the penn state sex abuse scandal. after this week's devastating report about who knew what, and when. >>> good morning. well you knew it was going to get nasty and here we are in this presidential fight. really the choice is by the fall, is this going to be a campaign that turns on the obama economy? or mitt romney's business record? a week ago we were talking about a bad jobs report for the president. this week, because of the obama team going on the offensive, it's all about romney's bain record. and the president is staying with it on the campaign trail yesterday in virginia. >> he invested companies that have been called pioneers of outsourcing. i don't want a pioneer in outsourcing. i want some insourcing. >> the response now, the adviser of the romney campaign ed gillespie. good to have you back. >> thanks for having me. >> so this period of t

>> partly "the washington post" had the story about what is essentially a broken promise. to eliminate for companies that shipped jobs overseas and hasn't been able to do that. what you are seeing is a real message that romney himself has been an outsourcer in chief in those ads and they have been effective and there has been hammering among republicans about mitt romney's lack of a defense. now today there is a sense that republicans are finally having a defense against this charge that has been so damaging to mitt romney. in many ways he got a lifeline with these recent stories about obama's outsourcing record in the white house. >> sorry this a direct response to the bain attack ads? >> absolutely. "the washington post" highlighted that what's in president obama's ads on romney is not factually correct. you will have a lot of mud on who is doing the outsourcing, but what's important here is mitt romney and republicans are not giving the president the way to take the moral high ground. they are purchasing back and purchasing hard. this is a fight that the president can l

joining me the associate editor of "the washington post," bob woodward. republican strategist and columnist for "time" magazine, mike murphy. democratic strategist hilary rosen. president of americans for tax reform, grover norquist. and president and ceo of the naacp, ben jealous. welcome to all of you. so much to discuss. but let's talk about the battle over bain, that's become the issue, and mike murphy and hilary rosen, here are the dueling ads. this is what the obama team put out first on this outsourcing issue, and then how romney responded. we'll play a little bit of each. >> running for governor, mitt romney campaigned as a job creator. >> i know how jobs are created. >> but as a corporate raider, he shipped jobs to china and mexico. as governor he did the same thing. outsourcing state jobs to india. >> the obama outsourcing attacks, misleading, unfair, and untrue. there was no evidence that mitt romney shipped jobs overseas. candidate obama lied about hillary clinton. >> so shame on you, barack obama. >> but america expects more from a president.

. >> "the washington post" reports first lady michelle obama was allegedly a target of a threat by a lice officer in the district of columbia. he allegedly said he would shoot the first lady and use his phone to retrieve a picture of the firearm he would use. >> secretary of state hillary clinton urging talks on the south china sea. he urged talks over conflicting claims for the strategic water way. >> in france the search for missing claimers continues on mount blanc after an avalanche yesterday that killed nine. a dozen others were injured and four are unaccounted for. >> and in australia an extremely rare pink diamond is now on display at the mel bourne museum. the argyle pink jubilee is more than 8 carats and it's the largest ever found in australia. here's your first look at this morning's dish of "scrambled politics." "the washington times" points out vice president's biden was billed as campaign speech and there on the podium was the president's seal. the administration has said the seal would not be used. >> and harry reid on u.s. olympic uniforms being made in china. heap sai