i mean, i don't read the "the washington post" every day. awn to my attention that they were that far out there. but recently i would say in the last year or so, really really changed their editorial page stance. the guy who runs into a guy named fred hayek. we look at his commentary down the line. tom tols on the editorial board. is he about as far left as can you get. he is a cartoonist. they have another guy jackson diehl. he is a democrat. he was very supportive of the islamic brotherhood. he was telling everybody, hey, they aren't bad guys. then jonathan cape hart who is a regular on msnbc. so, the post seems to stack this deck with far left guys who now are going to come after anybody with whom they disagree in a very personal kay. we don't care about their politics. they have a right to editorialize the way they want to. but when they start to, as you said, demonize people because of their skin color and where they live, it really gets to be extreme. >> right. they did that with you, too. as you said. >> bill: yeah, last week. >> so, l

by the way i got into journalism because of you and the "the washington post." i mean, i just slammed the "the washington post" but i got into journalism because of bernstein and woodward and the watergate thing because i saw how you guys basically took on the establishment. and you got to the truth and it was painful and it was bloody. we don't have that kind of a press now by the way. we don't have a lot of that anymore. we have a few that do it. but very few. >> i'm not -- not enough of it, i agree. >> bill: it's changed. but here is the parallel i see. nixon clearly could have said at the very beginning hey, these idiots broke into the watergate headquarters and they shouldn't have done it. and i'm sorry about it. and if i had anything to do with it, i apologize. but that's not not what i meant. he could have gotten a lot, you know, he got in deeper and deemp and deeper. by trying to cover it up. i don't understand why president obama at that press conference last week didn't just say look, it was a screw up. we screwed up. i don't know why susan rice went ou

the other thing that interested me was a nugget inside some of "the washington post" reporting today which is that petraeus told broadwell this summer to stop sending the harassing e-mails to kelly because kelly had told petraeus that she found out where she was getting those e-mails from. that was about the time according to "the washington post" petraeus' warning came about the same time petraeus ended the affair with broadwell. the suggestion being kelly is the reason that petraeus and broad well broke up. i mean just the sordid details. petraeus knew that broadwell was sending the threatening e-mails and he's the cia director. i mean there's just too much there. there's just too much there about what's going on. >> rose: david? >> i just would caution norah on one detail in that account, which is that it was petraeus that ended the affair, whatever it ended. >> this is in "the washington post," i'm just quoting "the washington post." >> i understand that. >> rose: david's newspaper. >> it's my newspaper but i didn't write that story. it's my understanding that that may actually no

the "washington post" editorial board attacked me. my question to you as a psychiatrist now, the facts are on my side. i proved the case beyond a reasonable doubt using the facts. the exit polling, and all of the facts that we presented last night and tonight. why are they attacking me so vehemently? what is wrong with telling the american people what's going on? >> well, look, the fact is democrats did get their demographic, but that doesn't prove that they got the demographic because they're getting more stuff. i think traditionally democrats have been getting their demographic for a very long time. that skew in social class is to who gets the vote, democrat or republican, has been around for a long time. i think it's a plausible theory. i don't think it's a proven fact. and i don't think as some people have implied, that it's racist simply because the european state, which is the model of the entitlement state, there it's not a matter of race, it's not a matter of racial minorities. it's a matter of a population growing up with the

host: this was published in "the washington post" last week. professor at george mason university in fairfax. guest: wending that's really interesting about this particular election is the perception of the religion of both candidates. on the one hand, on the republican side, you have a more minutes, mitt romney. we know there are many americans to have reservations about mormons. most americans say they think it's pretty different than their own beliefs. only about half of americans say they think mormonism is a christian religion even though they unanimously assert that it is. many have reservations about the mormon religion. on the flip side, when it comes to president obama, we have found some considerable degree of confusion or uncertainty and about his religion. almost half of the population can identify him as a christian. large numbers of people think he is a muslim. and a large number say they aren't sure about what his religion is. i think some of these concerns in the electorate about the religion of the candidates may be related to t

she got a call from "the washington post" saying, did he grope you in the green room.s fishing. that's a fish iin fishing exped >> have the media been much harder on plaul broadwell and jill kelley than the two generals? >> i should say so. they were the actual public serva servants, the people who were supposed to be putting their attention on running wars, not on parentally this blizzard of e-mails to a doctor's wife in tampa. >> but you were complimentary, these nutty tampa twins. >> believe me, i'm the first to say i love a good sex scandal, but only if susan rice was involved, they would get to the bottom of that. >> what we're getting are these bits and pieces, self-serving leaks from aids, and others, and they still don't know. it's a hard story to report but we haven't shown much strain either. >> there are two things that work. one is david petraeus does have a press codery and he now has people anorthern mussily defending him. >> or not so anonymously in the case only sof columnists. >> in the case of sum. so you have him over here. how many witnesses before

for analysis we'll bring in the "washington post's" david ignatius. tom ricks, august of can the gen. and our own bob orr and margaret brennan. and we'll have a farewell interview with maine's republican senator olympia snowe, who's leaving the senate because she no longer felt it was a place she could get anything done. it's been a wild week, but we'll try to put it in perspective on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: and good morning again. we want to get right to the story in the middle east. , israel continuing to amass troops on the period with gaza. three israelis are dead, more than 50 wounded by rocket fire. the airstrikes go on. the question now, will the israelis send their ground troops into gaza? we're going first this morning to alan pizzey who is in tel aviv. allen. >> reporter: good morning, bob. overnight the israelis continued to pound positions in gaza. they've expand their operation away from just purely military targets into the hamas infras

we should have someone from "the washington post" within us. thanks for being with us. nt to start with you. what do you think, what will be the final story on early voting's role in this election? >> i think the story is going that republicans wound up turning out as many early voters as the president. and the reason i say that is that the restrictions on early voting in florida have produce ad lot of anger particularly in black churches who took full advantage of the full days they had out of anger at the impression that republicans are trying to limit the right to vote. >> i know you did some digging specifically into some early voting numbers in ohio. talk to me a little bit about that. what did you find? >> we found if you look at the counties that went for obama last time there's a lead before 900,000 to 400,000. if those voting patterns hold and they could break for romney you just don't know but if they hold it shows incredible mobilization among obama voters. i know we're short on time. there's a sentiment that was touched on last time they were trying to stop o

that is a huge economic blow to the announcer: the washington post on roscoe bartlett: “a champion ofhe tea party...an ideologue who is part of the problem in congress.” bartlett calls medicare unconstitutional. and even wants to completely abolish student loans for college. no wonder bill clinton and the washington post both endorse john delaney for his deep understanding of job creation. he'll be “an unusually effective congressman.” delaney: it's not about politics. it's about doing what's right to help the middle class. i'm john delaney, and i approve this message. >> coming up tonight at 11:00 it is the local election question that has a maryland tied up in knots. question 7 -- casino gambling. will dollars really ahead toward schools? tonight, we separate the fact from fiction. what you are really voting for tonight at 11:00. >> and doug is back to give us the forecast for the weekend. >> i forgot i get to tell you about turning the clock back in. one more time. when? tomorrow night? before you go to bed. you turn it back in our. here is the difference. set reject the sunrise is

the other thing that interested me was a nugget inside some of "the washington post" reporting today which is that petraeus told broadwell this summer to stop sending the harassing e-mails to kelly because kelly had told petraeus that she found out where she was getting those e-mails from. that was about the time according to "the washington post" petraeus' warning came about the same time petraeus ended the affair with broadwell. the suggestion being kelly is the reason that petraeus and broad well broke up. i mean just the sordid details. petraeus knew that broadwell was sending the threatening e-mails and he's the cia director. i mean there's just too much there. there's just too much there about what's going on. >> rose: david? >> i just would caution norah on one detail in that account, which is that it was petraeus that ended the affair, whatever it ended. >> this is in "the washington post," i'm just quoting "the washington post." >> i understand that. >> rose: david's newspaper. >> it's my newspaper but i didn't write that story. it's my understanding that that may actually no

i didn't get as offended by that as other people did in terms of saying that "the washington post" was more towards the palestinians. i didn't, i didn't see-- >> more flagrant though is cnn running phony footage and the bbc a sweep from syria they said was palestinian and british reporter, bbc john donovan said i accidentally smeared the israelis and i really meant to smear the syrian government. stone silent, the bbc won't fire him. who knows from a week ago other than tweeting again. >> jon: judy, the coverage of what happened then, tends to focus how many rockets were fired and how many casualties on both sides, but there seems to be a vast moral goal between the two sides. here is a look at the cover of the new york daily news and then, basically the same title and the the same totphoto, in te new york post. and very similar coverage of hamas members dragging somebody through the streets tied to a motorcycle, somebody they had executed on suspicion of being an israeli sympathizer or spy. >> exactly, and that's part of the college of a reporter covering what's going on in gaza, beca

and you know, any indications that it helped to snuff out the benghazi-- >> well, headline in washington postholder defen defends... i think it's been pretty well documented that the fbi and the justice department and everybody else at that level knew all about this and now, we just have to believe attorney general holder and everybody else that nobody at the white house knew until, you know, two days after the election and that the record national television didn't know until election day. these are stories even a fawning press, by the way, alan, president obama was last on bill o'reilly in 2008, it's been a while. >> i think he did it once since then during a half time show. >> hard hitting half time. >> everybody watching by the way in the super bowl, but also eric cantor's office-- >> it's an unbelievable beltway juicy story ever, frankly i mentioned earlier and i think you're going to see a change, the first week or so, petraeus had a sympathetic press and all of these reporters been embedded with him, pun intended in iraq and afghanistan, were kind of fans including on the left. once it

because the cabinet isn't clear to know the "washington post" stories they are reading our true. we aren't going to talk about those articles but i think the point is from the perspective, they read "the washington post" and they may believe that the "washington post" articles are true and not those activities the talk about, so that may lead them to say if they are doing this stuff why shouldn't we be investing it and doing it to them? >> thank you. the national security adviser assists they've now been disrupted. there are signs this event could start to affect gas prices and international our kids. what are your concerns and how are you looking at this situation. how closely are you watching this and i would like to open this to the rest of the panel. >> i'm not exactly sure. the price went up before you told anybody. but, working our way through this, the key is that we have found a problem here. what we don't know is is it just in your company or is it broad from the standpoint of drilling and more moderations, administrative operations associated with that. so this virus we

"the washington post" is out with its list of the 2012 election fixies they call them for the best andandidates and ads of this election cycle. first the ads. the best goes to the obama campaign with this "america the beautiful" themed anti-romney ad. ♪ o beautiful for spacious skies ♪ ♪ for aim amber waves of grain ♪ for purple mountains majesty ♪ above the fruited plain ♪ america america god shed his grace on thee ♪ >>> worst goes to todd akin for his straight to camera apology ad following his remarks about so-called legitimate rape. he lost the election over that one statement. no ad was going to win back the voting. >>> now to the candidates. best goes to the democratic senator-elect heidi heitkamp of north dakota. she had a surprising victory in a red state won easily by mitt romney. "the washington post" notes heitkamp's positive ad campaign as one reason she came out on top. >>> finally, the not so desirable fixy for worst candidate of the 2012 election cycle. spoiler alert here, oops. >> i would do away with the education, the -- >> commerce. >> -- commerce. and let's see -- i

here is "the washington post." st of the as asking for that confirmation to be x -- host: he is asking for the confirmation to be expedited. "the pentagon was still reviewing the e-mail and declined to comment on the relationship." host: also next to that story is a story from "the boston globe." "kerry considered as possible defense chief." "the president is considering asking john kerry to join the national security team." host: so, that is the latest on that. also this morning, "nancy pelosi considers leaving post as house democratic leader." "the decision could come as early as tomorrow, wednesday." washington journal will be live from capitol hill tomorrow with several lawmakers from 7:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. to keep you updated on what is happening this week in washington. the looming fiscal cliff, that is what we are talking about with all of you today. how do we avoid it, should entitlement spending be part of the package? james, go head. caller: i had to retire because of back problems or whenever, but i d

aaron thomas spoke to a reporter for the "washington post" from the cell where he is awriting trail. he said he attacked several women decades ago but he doesn't know why. he said, quote: thomas is scheduled to plead guilty to one case in leesburg at the end of the month. the month. >>> president barack obama paying tribute at a veterans day ceremony at arlinon memorial cemetery. he says the wreath he laid is intended to, quote, remember every service member who has ever worn our nation's uniform. >>> over at the vietnam memorial on the national mall, a special event marked the 30th anniversary of the memorial's dedication and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the vietnam war. it is the most popular attraction in d.c. with 4 million people visiting every euro. >>> at the world war ii memorial, a few hundred vets were honored. their numbers are dwindling since the war ended 67 years ago. and the veterans are now in their 80s and 90s. the world war ii memorial is the most recent addition to the national mall and very impressive if you haven't been down there. >> yes, my kids lov

from "the washington post." we thank you. >>> today we honor veterans on this day. parades and services are held across the country to remember all chose who served. don't forget to thank them for their extraordinary sacrifices today. >>> president obama will pay tribute to them later this morning. he'll lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery. a familiar challenge for the folks in washington, how to fix the u.s. economy. with just 51 days until the so-called fiscal cliff, will president obama and congress be able to bridge the divide and find a solution? cnn's athena jones takes a closer look at what's at stake. >> it's time to get back to work. >> reporter: with the election in the rear view mirror, the focus in washington is back on efforts to avoid the economically devastating fis cat cliff. if we just go over the cliff and let those policies stake in effect, we're basically going to undo the recovery. neither party wants to be blame for that. the cliff amounts to $7 trillion in cuts and tax increases over the next decade. t

. >> reporter: the polls are coming fast and furious and i got the latest in from that washington post/abc news and they putting it nationally as the 50% mitt romney at 47% and i want to start with the new york times, this is the 5:38 blog. this is a statistical analysis they put together not only combining the polls, but also how the vote is going in the battleground states. they're saying tomorrow that president obama in his opinion has an 86% chance of being re- elected and that mitt romney has a 13% chance and that is the 5:38 poll. let's go to the rasmussen report and this is looking at virginia now. they putting it at president obama, 48%. mitt romney at 50% in virginia and this is, this poll, that is within the margin of error. technically, this is a tie. even though the numbers show mitt romney ahead and this is within the margin of error. and there are a ton of them these days. that is real clear politics. we're going to swing to the big screen to take a look at what this is and they take all of the polls they average them and start up here at the top. 48.8 to 48.1 and this is

the "washington post" reports that petraeus had hoped to survive the scandal but was told to resign by national intelligence director james clapper on election day. it was nbc's andrea mitchell who broke the petraeus story and she has more. >> mrs. kelley, how are you doing? >> reporter: we learned what was in the harassing e-mails to jilt kelley, the family friend who volunteer work for military families at mcdill air force base brought her and her husband into contact with the petraeus and other generals. it was her call for help to the fbi that kicked off the investigation. >> the e-mails accuse kelley with improper socializing with generals in tampa, but also has references of comings and goings of general petraeus. >> kelley's brother says his sister was a victim. >> my sister, number one, is a mother. she has three kids. extremely dedicated to those kids. number two, she's a wife and extremely dedicated to her husband. >> reporter: who would have access to petraeus' classified schedule? the computer trail led to petraeus' biographer paula broadwell. a military reservist and fello

with us today, the washington post bob woodward. "the washington post" kathleen parker, "the new york times" d helen cooper. first up. barack obama's place in american presidential history was upgrated tuesday with his convincing sweeping re-election by an entirely new american elect rat. -- electorate. >> we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. we are and forever will be the united states of america. and together, with your help and god's grace, we will continue our journey forward. chris: bob, here we are five days later. i'm thinking, i still can't absorb the months and months and months we worried about which way this election mibet go and then to see it go in one simple clear direction. obama's direction. >> and it's a big deal for him. and the interesting question is how is he going to use the power of the presidency? david wrote a really important column about linden johnson saying, what's the presidency for? doing big things. he made -- obama

thought that the -- you know, i benefit from the post and the post benefits from me. >> i'm sure the latter. >> so i mean, i think it's an even trade. i love being assoccated with the washington. but not because of that influence, but because of the ethical standards that it represents. >> the brand is still a >>>it represents trying to find the truth wherever it is. >> is that the case with the news business generally? >> no. >> i want to ask you about the state of the business. don't bum me out, now. [laughter] we've got about three minutes left. being in the newspapee business these days is a choice or an obligation or a good thing, bad hing and how are we doing? >> it's difficult. i mean, it's a struggle. but -- and i think some úewspapers will survive and some won't. whether 10 years from now there will actually be printed, or 20 years from now there will be printed daily newspapers or it will all be somewhere in the ether, i'm not sure. >> the people who suggest that we may actually see an era of newspapers in cities just completely disappearing, you don't think that's owe high per bowly. >> do 20-year-olds read newspapers or read them online? i don't know. mostly not.

hair. >> bill: you i don't know what you are doing. >> there you go. >> bill: now you got the "the washington post" saying hey, just as i said, i am glad the "the washington post" is watching the factor. the president should hold a press conference and answer some questions. you say. >> i say it's a good idea to do that. however, the reports on this thing so far are based on, for the most part, people who are anonymous intelligence committee officers. >> bill: just answer the questions. you and i -- >> -- i said yes. >> bill: you padded it. >> this story is running way out in front of what is the fact. >> bill: you don't even have to worry about it fox is the only one reporting it the rest of them are in the bag and not reporting it. >> fox is doing a terrific job. i wish they would get some of these people on the record. >> bill: i can't argue with that i don't like anonymous sources myself. new study out that says means tested welfare which is not medicare and social security, spent so much that you could send $60,000 to every poor family, that's how much spending. why don't they just send the c

there is the story on the front page of "the washington post." there are some related stories as well to all of this. let me show you two of the headlines. this is from "the new york times." and from "inside the washington post" -- next is your calls on the tax cut pledge. is it still relevant? good morning. caller: i believe the republicans should be more civil and work for the people. i believe people that make more than $1 million should be taxed. because there might be a small business that might be affected by somebody making $250,000 and over. i also believe social security should of been given to someone making over $250,000, and especially for the millionaires. lots of rich people are receiving social security, and they really do not need it. there are others with middle- income and low-income they really have worked hard and do need the money. i believe we should keep our money in our own country and not be sending money to other countries. we need to rebuild our own country. the war in iraq was a psychological warfare. we probably cannot

writing in the "the washington post." mnist david i can neighborrous says reporting on the chaos in libya should be taken seriously and the obama administration should explain what happened. amazing welfare stat for you. co-host of the 5 bob beckel. first, it's a move on ad. you say. >> it's a ridiculous bad ad. web ad and michael moore associated with it you made the implication that you said this was somehow connected with the obama campaign. >> bill: i said it wasn't. i said the exact opposite. >> now didn't. you said you live by who your associations are. >> bill: wait, i said u to be fair, the obama administration most likely had nothing to do with the ad. >> then you went on to say you live with who you are associated with with. >> bill: we weren't talking about the obama pa people. we were talking about the democratic party. wait, beckel, you tried to spin my words. >> mr. beckel. >> you called miah mr. rove. you can't call me mr. beckel. >> you wear a belt i will start calling you mister. the democratic party assoc

also on the op-ed page of "the washington post." rahm emanuel who works for the president and is now mayor of chicago says -- what the you think about the role that states or local governments should have in negotiating the fiscal cliff and the issues before washington? a republican caller from michigan. caller: yes. thank you for taking my call. all i wanted to say was, we are already represented in the congress and the senate for the fiscal cliff. host: you think that is enough? caller: i think that is enough. all we have to do is call our senators and congressmen and give our opinion there. host: here is the headline in the "the new york times." we have a tweet that echoes with the last caller says. charlotte on the democrats' line. caller: hello. how are you doing? i agree with the last caller that clarified it constitutionally, no, the states should not have any say in the federal budget. i agree with the young man from alabama. that would be in the south oppressed people. our representatives have a different agenda than the fed