problem because if you've got an independent media outlet that supposed to be independent like the washington postits job is among other things to expose the secrets of an outfit like the cia but as you say the sole owner of the washington post and a big owner of amazon he's got a job there at amazon to keep the secrets of the cia so which is it expose their secrets or keep their secrets well in this case it's a. all about maximizing profit the guy's already got twenty five billion dollars of personal wealth and as far as he's concerned he's just getting started whatever business ties if any does have that might implicate the posts of journalistic integrity or might call attention to his well you know many amazon in the whole world is now a big department store for that company and it's mind blowing just the extent of what they're buying and selling and their interests in either retail being suppressed or enhanced depending on whether they get more profit as a result i think really this is a growth industry for them because. amazon has already said they look forward to what they call a successful

one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post reporter on every president since nixon and he's the author or co-author of a dozen number one best selling nonfiction book. considering what he's covered over the years it's appropriate that he joins me at the historic day adams otel overlooking the white house on next politicking. it's always great to go back to washington especially on a lovely day like today and especially to be with an old friend like bob woodward the pulitzer prize winning journalist work for the washington post since one thousand nine hundred seventy one currently is associate editor author a co-author of twelve number one national best selling nonfiction books most recently the price of politics that is out in paperback with the many of them that is star a k. out on sotelo kate across from the white house and the executive office buildings over there of as the white house president obama and his family say they have the two weeks prior to his first inauguration the president is approaching the end of his fifth year in

today here at the washington post headquarters civil liberties organization roots action demanded that the post be fully candid with its readers over a controversial new relationship now a relationship involves the newspaper's new owner jeff bezos who also happens to be the c.e.o. of amazon of particular interest to civil liberties advocates as amazon's recent six hundred million dollar contract with the central intelligence agency for cloud computing services at a press conference that took place here one activist and former washington post reporter had this to say i think readers of the washington post have a right to know what influences might be brought to bear on the stories that leave in the paper but it's bad business for a journalist in any respect to be tied in with the cia the washington post often reports on cia activities so activists say it's only fair that the newspaper's coverage offer full disclosure that the owner jeff bezos is now making huge profits off of this new cia deal and for that reason roots action recently launched an online petition encouraging washington p

and then the "washington post" reported that the nsa tapped into the main communication centers for yahoo and google. the story underscored the ability to spy on tech powerhouses without their knowledge. snowden told the "washington post" he had already won at the end of the year. >>> one of the things that administration officials delve in hoping is that perhaps they could strike some sort of deal that if he would stop leaking documents he could get some sort of break. the president has denied that. but it gets to the fear that the president and his aids are trying to per am in this speech, and that is he still has hundreds of thousands of other documents and still has the ability to leak more information drip by drip, and that's why the president is trying to be proactive by saying some changes need to change. >> by the way any of those rules announced by the president today aren't also going to effect the data collected by private firms. jacob ward saying some tech firms watch the behavior and communication of americans more than the nsa ever did. >> reporter: google, apple, facebook,

after inquiries from "the washington post," governor bob mcdonnell's spokesman revised that initial statement to say, actually, that governor mcdonnell was not paying for all of the expenses for his daughter's wedding. she and her fiance, themselves, were picking up some of the cost. specifically, the governor's office said, the daughter and her fiance would be picking up the cost of the chicken dinner. governor mcdonnell did not pay for the catering. his daughter paid for the catering. and by his daughter paying for the catering, turns out what they actually meant was that the daughter accepted as a gift a payment from one of her father's campaign contributors, which is what actually covered the cost of that very nice catered chicken dinner. it was weird, right? maybe a sign that something was going on here that we didn't expect. and that was the beginning of the reporting. that initial leak about the dinner we now know was provided by the executive chef from the governor's mansion, who has been hired by governor mcdonnell and the first lady, but who eventually got into a dispute with them o

the washingtonian" and ryan liza, the washington correspondent for "the new york yorker" and monica hise, thank you all for coming. monica, you wrote in "the washington post" today that kirsten gillibrand is somebody to watch in 2020. >> we did in our annual in and out list. you know, there are the obvious comparisons that he took over hillary's seats, she's a new york senator, but also in our minds hillary has been running for 12 years. i don't think it's too soon to talk about who might be running. gillibrand has had a breakout year. i think we'll be watching her not only in 2014, but 2015, 2016, 2017. >> and can kate bennett, who is your political star? >> i'm curious about chris christie still. he doesn't pertain to the party lines, and that's refreshing. you never know what he's going to say. he has a future, too, socially middle of the road, doesn't ant do what his party wants him to do. >> and he's not afraid to tell him that. we'll see if that plays in iowa. ryan, you have a fascinating person to look at. he's on my radar, i cover the senate, but -- >> i'm not goods to disagree with kate, who has brass knuckles here. ron wyden, a senator, taking o

the huffington post. i remember people thought i was crazy to leave the washington post to work for arianna. >> look at whereton post is now. >> this was pre-aol. >> what about the business model? is it defensible? >> what they have done that is impressive if they have taken advantage of the social platform in a way that a lot of others have it. they didn't realize the value of what that is. i gave buzz feed a big lead. we sometimes talk about the brand and the people and less about the business models. there is room for only so many advertising supported businesses. when you get really specific, if the news content is so premium and interesting, even got to think of a subscription model. it is a difficult and competitive business to be in. a lot of people think about how we will get paid beyond just what is the brand and how quickly are we growing? >> a woman is charging $400 a year for a subscription. she has got a business there. if she has one customer, she has got a business. jose antonio vargas, thank you. jon ehrlichman, we will let you go. coming up, facebook earnings. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg

she first reported on the stolen documents all working at "the washington post." e uncover the identities of most of the burglars in her new book. we welcome you to democracy now! keith, i want to begin with you. talk about the time and how you ended up going into the fbi office. what spurred you on? , within a fewtime years, we had gone through sort of the peak of the civil rights movement. many of the laws like the voting rights act had been passed, but the reality of racial justice was still far from complete. the war in vietnam was raging at that point in time. there were many, many people who are working for change in those areas in particular. my main focus at that time was the antiwar movement. i was, you know, spending as withtime as i could organizing against the war, but i have become very frustrated with legal protests. they did not seem to be getting us anywhere. the government wasn't listening. the war was escalating. i think what really pushed me over the edge was shortly after the invasion of cambodia, there were four students killed at kent state an

but the "washington post" reports yet more today. t we didn't previously know before this reporting. apparently while they were investigating the jeffrey sinclair allegations, the army turned up something else. quote, last summer army prosecutors were combing through the e-mail counts of jeffrey sinclair, a commander facing court-martial on sexual assault, adultery and other charges when they uncovered a raunchy exchange with two other generals. the exchange started in march of 2011 when a deputy commander for operations at the 82nd airborne held a meeting with a newly elected female member of the house. the then colonel gave a pointed summary by email to his superior officer, who was a major general, and also to general sinclair. quote, first, she is smoking hot, the colonel wrote to two generals who was his superior officers. second, he said, briefing went well. after a reply from jeffrey sinclair about confirming the woman's hotness, he replied more than an hour later with an apology for his delay in responding. at this point i'm g

and, again, "the washington post" was first with the story. and if you want to know where it started, it started with the chicken dinner. the catered chicken dinner at the wedding for one of governor bob mcdonnell's daughters, which was hosted at the governor's mansion back in june of 2011. a june wedding is always a nice thing. a june wedding of the governor's daughter is the thing people love to hear about. and when the wedding is hosted at the absolutely lovely governor's mansion in richmond, virginia, that is the thing that is going to get a lot of adoring attention. and as the glamorous photos from the wedding and from the lavish preparations for the wedding started to appear in the press, the governor's office took pains to point out that the taxpayers of the commonwealth of virginia were not going to be on the hook for this lavish wedding. they made it clear that the governor and his family were picking up the tab personally, even though it was happening at the governor's mansion. turns out that was not true. after inquiries from "the w

edward snowden himself in the "washington post" said the

the only reason you have the washington post reporting on this and the new york times was because of snowden. snowden made the leak. before this, the washington post was not doing that much aggressive work on what the nsa was doing in terms of mastic you striving. media hask that the not been up to snuff on the whole issue. it would have been if the bush administration was in power. host: one must call in for you. gavin is waiting on the lines for republicans. caller: hi, james. thank you for coming on. paint a is, i want to scenario and get your comment. is there any chance that you that ourk -- think created these terrorists and radicals? guest: i think that all the studies that have come out agree with that. every time you have a drone attack, you're killing scores. hundreds of thousands of innocent people. they have been killed in these raids. all of the studies say that every time you kill a relative, the relative has other relatives. they have children and parents and aunts and uncles. you are helping radicalize people who would not necessarily have been radical in the first lac

edward snowden himself when he was interviewed in the "washington post" said the following about what he thinks is lax oversight. the issue was basically what entitled snowden to take on the responsibility of being the oversight. the whole question who elected you inverts the model, he said. they elected me the overseers. he named the chairs of the senate and house intelligence committee, both of you, dianne feinstein he said elected me when she asked softball questions in committee hearings. mike rogers elected me when he kept these programs hidden. the fisa court elected me when this he decided to act on things they were never intended to do. the system failed comprehensively and each level of responsibility that should have addressed this abdicated their responsibility.

and the washington post, no news story. and one opinion column. >> well, the "new york times," jim, waited six days and did do a story that was in the metro section that led off by saying not that the governor had said something controversial, but republicans have finally found a talking point to use against them. >> i think probably the reason is the "new york times" edit editorial board saying all conservatives should be driven out of the state, isn't that a controversial idea? in a perfect world, perhaps we would like to do something like that. all of these are legitimate stories, but the ones involved in republicans get heavy coverage from cnn and particularly msnbc.

this is from the washington post. in other foreign-policy news, this from the ap, putin says for date visitors to leave the children in peace. gay and wanted to reassure visitors that their welcome in russia that they must leave the children in peace. more on that story in several, there is a picture of putin along with a story. back to the phones, we have about pointed left in the segment to take your calls. are also revisiting the subject and open the phone lines in the 9:00 hour as well. texas on ourn in democrat line. caller: hello. whole response to all this. it is true. what the neighbor next door does. however, if the neighbor next door is doing terrorism or committing crimes, technology advances everyday. of course something is going to happen. it is going to change in 30 days from now. and reactiononse to what the president is saying, is doing the best he can. it is more than just him that is involved. you have him, the gop, everyone involved in this situation. what being very rapid of he is doing. when it com

exercise their own judgment and i think all of the items that you've been alluding to referred in "the washington post" which was found

the next day june 6th the washington post told the world about prism, a data mining tool so sweeping that the agency's own domentsd and diagrams called it the nsa's number one source of raw intelligence. and the nsa wasn't the only organization with some explaining to do. other intelligence agencies, mi-5 and gchq in britain and the googles and yahoos and verizons, who opened their books, had their feet put to the fire. all those stories and more to come came from just one source, one leak. >> what we have learned from this massive outpouring of documents is just how secret surveillance operations have been. the extent to which the government has kind of taken free rein in what they believe they can do in the language that has been put in place. >> so to me, snowden has kind of lifted the tent flap to look inside a system. but i'm not sure the size of his revelations, matches the size of what we understand the revelations is or what we should do about it. >> the first wave of reporting in the u.s. media did some of that. but there was also the inevitable focus on the personal side of

and "the washington post" giving a straightforward lie by the administration.rhe courage and gave them to pinocchio's per line. >> doubling down, it is woring. and i don't know why they are trying to fix the legislation were replad it. replacing it with something that might work. lou: and the republicans look to be extraordinary fools to even think about repealing in dealing with obamacare. because this is a monstrous situation and in new york, if you just set in your column from a new mayor that will workfor the far left. >> i think so. i think that with obamacare it is such a burden. and i suspect it is a burden for "the washington post" that they ran out of tokyo marketis since they only gave them two. the one they were over quota. [laughter] >> and i think that obama is doing the republicans a favor by not opening up the legislation. because think that they would then have developed for something at the end of the day and his stubbornness and refusal to consider changes is hurting him more than it hurting the republicans at ths point. >> do think that this

president of the united states. >> a french agency -- why that particular group versus say the washington post? >> it comes down to commitment. i think the washington post would love to carry them a daily basis. it comes down to cost. they don't have the resources to cover the white house. "the new york times" says, we're committed to covering the white house. we're going to find the money. we're going to make sure this is in the budget because we have reporters who travel on every trip the president makes whether it's on a commercial airplane or air force one "new york times" reporter goes. >> anybody else do that? >> yes. pretty sure "the wall street journal" does, and i think "the washington post" does. >> let's go back to some of your photographs and this is a photograph of senator leahy. this is his wife? >> yes it is. >> where did you take that? >> in his office. we were doing a profile on senator leahy. he's a unique man. i admire him a lot. he's a heck of a photographer. probably the most avid photographer on the hill. he understands our job. he always wants to talk photography. >> why

in "the washington post close quote -- -- "the washington post" -- from our twitter page -- derek isoining us on our line for independents. welcome to "the washington journal." i am not going to watch it and the main reason is i have done a study on what is a requirement to be eligible for presidency. number one is you must be natural born. when you look it up a lot of people think not both parents. when you look at the time. bang when it was written, woman were not considered citizens and not allowed to vote. one of them had to be a citizen. the father has never been and never claimed to be a citizen, therefore he is not eligible. that is one reason i will boycott it. he cannot be somebody who is eligible and not eligible for the president position. host: from maryland -- -- from twitter -- preview ofgov has a what to expect him to say evening. three words sum up the president's message on tuesday night, opportunity, action, and optimism. stephen dennis has the cover weekly."that "cq he points out that this sort of go to low talk is not new. the president hamstrung by a republican-c

in the washington post, the story.r cuomo prepares for limited use of marijuana in new york. medical marijuana initiatives do frustrate some advocates. you could read more online. audrey is joining us from macon, georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. my comment is on smoking. i started at a young age. no one ever forced me. it was a choice that i made. it is a choice that we all make great i have worked in the industry. i made up my mind three months before my daughter turned 21. i was going to quit smoking on her 21st birthday. for those three months, i chain-smoked. one right behind another. day, she turned 21, i have not smoked since. host: do you miss it? caller: no, but i enjoyed everyone that i lit up. it was not something that was forced on me. it was a choice that i made. we all make these choices and we know that they are not healthy. host: what about the surgeon general warning? do you think it has made a difference? caller: no, we still make our own choices. you can tell me to stand out in the middle

we have columnist in new york and a reporter for the "washington post". leman, justin bieber busted is a story, he is world famous but i saw this every ten minute on cable. >> at least. what we are seeing here is the news producers executives are look at the twitter followers of a celebrity to determine how much coverage. justin bieber has 49 million twitter followers, which is 14 million more than the entire population of canada. it is seven million more than the leader of the free world, president obama. we are a celebrity-based culture. in four weeks, the oscars come on and it will be on one network, 40 million people will watch this awards show. on tuesday night the president has the state of the union address on 15 networks and you combine the audience of all those networks it will be only 33 million, seven million less than the oscars. celebrity drives rating. >> but just because someone is famous with a lot of twitter follows we have to go nuts? >> there is some cynicism with media theys the resources at this story. >> cynicism? >> you figure the fa

you are on with reid wilson of "the washington post." caller: you asked a question about how you create jobs. i never heard anybody talk about it. theink it is caused by government reducing the interest rate on government securities, and forcing people who live off the interest to buy more stocks. to createuse people more jobs. host: ok. we will take that comment. guest: there is an interesting debate about this. corporationsarge -- there are always going to be jobs at the local starbucks or mcdonald's. it is not like you can do your job by moving to virginia. tople are not going to move virginia because there are lower waged jobs there. when people talk about creating jobs, they talk about these megacorporations like boeing or ibm or intel. they said they would move a big egon to arizona from or . boeing just got a tax relief, tax credit from the state of washington from now until 2040. that $8.7 billion is a drop in the bucket of the corporate profits that boeing is going to reap in the next 25 years. boeing is not making a big decision

then the washington post reported the nsa had typed into the maven communication length if underscored the nsa's ability to spy on tech power hours. snowden told the washington post he had already won because as many leaks had fueled a vigorous and high-profile public debate. he indicates he planned to feed them to the media bit by bit to keep the focus on government surveillance. >> david, thank you. you i spoke to the general i asked him who should hold the in the meta data the nsa stores? >> it's assumed if congress en acted a meta data program meaning nsa no longer holds it, they would require the phone companies to see hold it for five years why does the records of everyone we talked to and who calls up and how long we speak to we did nothing wrong. there is no reason for the state to be keeping it or requiring that it can kept. only to be able to to have done things that are wrong, plotting terrorist attacks should be monitored for surveillance in a healthy and democratific situation. >> we will show you more of the interview at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. a new report revealing that

jonathan capehart is an opinion writer with "the washington post." vid corn is the washington bureau chief with mother jones. both of course are msnbc political analysts. david, as you know better than anybody else, because you broke the whole 47% mitt romney story, that paid dividends for the democrats in the last cycle, the presidential cycle. will it resonate in a midterm election in similar fashion? >> i was just still chuckling about the big thinking quote getting us into trouble. what is a party if not a collection of ideas and notions to put before the public? but the republicans don't want to do that. i do think we have had for a couple of years now, and the white house and president obama has really gone to great pains to make this the narrative, a real strong ideological divide between the two parties. the republicans have moved far further in the libertarian direction than we've seen in decades in terms of saying government shouldn't do anything, shouldn't help, shouldn't be used to goose the economy forward, and really shouldn't be there f

lou: pulled the fact recreated that statement mostly false "the washington post" should consider up beingpinocchio. of maybe eight or 10 but that is the possibility. hillary clinton is quietly helping to build a massive shuttle cpaign to lay the groundwork for her second run of the white house despite her public insistence of a decision on 2016 is months awa according to "politico" she met with strategist about a run last year and time magazine says you rented our e-mail list from her failed -- e-mail list to her super pac but eat because she is not yet a candidate it is perfectly legal. liz cheney says she will dropper challenge against republican senator of wyoming. in the official statement from her campaign the eldest daughter of former vic president dick cheney says health issues have arisen in her family because of that she has decided to discontinue her campaign. she did not detail what those were. joining us now to assess the frustration and if it from obamacare to endicott on inequality, of juan williams columnist for the hill and former member of the george w. bush senior staff

we rolled deep at "the washington post." contributor who will start with "the washington post" next week, the host of background and covering state politics and policy for "the washington post" blog. gov beat. if you haven't checked it out, you need to. i feel like i'm in the newsroom. let's start with you. bill deblasio was hillary clinton's campaign manager. it's not crazy that the clintons are involved in this. let's talk about the clintons and bill deblasio. they clearly represented two strains of the democratic party, correct? >> it's very true. when you look at hillary clinton when she left the department, she has been turning to the left. her speech for american progress, she kept using the word progressive. she is styling herself and the clintons's appearance continues to signal their move to the left. >> sorry there danger here? deblasio is quite clearly several ticks more liberal than hillary clinton in terms of policy. is there danger for her in embracing deblasio as publicly as she has? >> there is. deblasio has

suggestions not just have the executive branch continue to police itself ben print does one thing in the washington post and cautions in the foot print machine but as we know in america there's nothing like seeing the real thing i would be happy to go to russia to sit down with him do you think mr snowden would agree to a sit down interview tell about you know we talk about it we talk about it often larry i think the question is not if the question is when it was very important during the last six months that he not be the story that he not to be what everybody was paying attention to he wanted the documents and the work of the journalists to speak for themselves and to stay in the background and i think it was the right decision it was one that i supported and i think it's been vindicated by how how incredible the debate about surveillance practices has been. you know we have agreed that perhaps in two thousand and fourteen he will tiptoe out of obscurity and start to have some of these conversations larry a huge begged him to do a book. you know he certainly has had no shortage of offers to do book or

anne gearan of "the washington post" joins us on the phone. front-page story with her colleague adam goldman. it is the headline shared by many newspapers this morning, saying that the report says this attack was preventable. why did they come to that conclusion? guest: well, first of all, thank you for having me, pleasure to be here. the report is broadly consistent with several reports that we have seen about what happened in it goesi to date, but into more detail and sheds light on the way that the cia, which had one of the compounds that was attacked, and the state department, which has a better-known compound, really failed to talk to one another and to understand one another's strengths and vulnerabilities in the weeks leading up to the attack. thee coincided with what cia and other intelligence aencies rightly fingered as considerable rise in the numbers and potency of islamic militants, including at least ,ome al qaeda-linked militants in the city. this wasn't a secret of the state department either -- secret to the state department ei

here to discuss this, chief correspondent for "the washington post." i think we've got your images there differently. dan is the wise one and matt is the young upstart. dan, how deep is the damage here? >> well, it's serious. the allegations are serious, the bridge scandal was a significant problem and now it's -- you know, it's gone farther because of allegations from the hoboken mayor. he's now facing state investigation with the committees and the legislature and a potential federal criminal investigation perhaps. we don't know where that is. we don't quite know what the u.s. attorney is doing but he talked to the mayor yesterday, according toer had. so he's got a lot of problems and this thing continues to morph and go in a direction that no one anticipated. >> 58% of people polled do not believe that the government didn't know anything about the bridge controversy, as he said. more than half -- 32% believe him. this is a big hit for his credibility at a time that he's really introducing himself on the national stage. how concerned are the governor