the foundation of the state we want justice to be pursued more and this was the now in washington d.c. she had the washington post that is the newspaper that jamal khashoggi wrote for is also up to its own pressure today. right that we have this full page ad that appeared in the washington post a picture of the mocha shoji a life is gone the principles of free expression endure says and we're told by the publisher of the washington post that this is a precursor to what will be a year long campaign to continue to pile on the pressure of accountability the words were until meaningful action is taken that's what the publisher said was the then the limit of this with the goal of this campaign meaningful action in fact expounded on and that to to to his stuff on wednesday many people are frustrated and feel betrayed by the trumpet ministrations apparent effort to sweep jamal's killing under the rug and its failure to stand up for america's values they can be assured that the washington post will not rest until justice is served on those who ordered jamal's killing those you care about and those who continue to try and

so, again, this was not supposed to be posted in a way the public could see it, but it was. and washingtonreporter spencer shuh was able to grab it, and we learned that one of the things that happened since maria butina pled guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors is that already she's not just talking to prosecutors, but already they've got her being transported from jail to testify in person before a grand jury in what the prosecutors described as ongoing criminal investigations. remember, she was charged as basically undeclared secret agent of the russian government operating in this country to influence our politics, specifically the republican party through the nra, what might she know about, might she have evidence about that they've got her providing evidence to the grand jury about? i don't know. but since that document was posted by accident, and then quickly unposted this weekend, there's been a little more back and forth in the case. her defense lawyers argued to the judge that the gag order should be lifted on her case, and the gag order basically says that judges -- ex

the national security reporter for the "washington post" greg was part of the "washington post" team that won a pulitzer prize for investigative reporting for the groundbreaking coverage that they've done that but russia trump saga and that was the second pulitzer he is shared in 2014 and he also was part of the pulitzer for public service for coverage of the american programs revealed by edward snowden. as you might imagine the months that he spent with his colleague have been quite intense and overwhelming. the story has come to encompass so many elements. the kremlin can be challenging. making sense of the connections also can be very difficult just given the day-to-day struggle of the reporting and the volume of breaking news. that's why he chose to step back a bit and write his new book which is called the apprentice. he wanted to lay out what is known as a detailed chronological narrative filling in some of the planks and blankd connecting the dots where he could through additional reporting. the result is a comprehensive and engaging and very, very useful work. it contains fre

i will read to you the lead in "the washington post" story. i want to get your reaction. ecial count robert s. mueller iii asked the house intelligence committee, your committee, on friday for an official transcript of trump adviser roger stone's testimony. a sign that prosecutors could be moving to charge him with a crime. your reaction? >> well, wolf, i can't confirm that one way or the other in the interest of sort of making sure that this process remains one of confidence. buff i can tell you that personally, you know, having listened to roger stone's testimony, i certainly have my concerns about whether he was truthful. of course, this goes back to the issue, you'll remember, of him predicting essentially that john podesta's e-mails would be released. he said it is soon to be podesta's time in the barrel right before, of course, his e-mails were released. he has denied having any contacts with wikileaks. he has denied he had any role there, but the more we learn, the more we -- i at least become concerned that he wasn't being honest with the committee. >> there's a su

>> there are some people who criticize some things the washington post says. >> i have no idea what you're talking about. >> i don't consider myself a journalist. life ofto take on the being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. leadership?efine what is it that makes somebody tick? your stock is actually up 70% this year. is there one thing you think is responsible for that? 70% is pretty good. [laughter] lecturing -- we have all hands meetings at amazon, and for 20 years, 21 at almost every all hands meeting, i said look, when the stock is up over 30% in a month, do not feel 30% smarter, because when the stock is down 30% in a month, it is not going to feel so good to be 30% dumber. that is what happens. i never spend any time thinking about the daily stock price. i don't. >> you have become the wealthiest man in the world. is that a title you really wanted? or not? [laughter] >> i can assure you, i have that title. it was fine being the second was the is person in the world. that actually worked fine. say it's something people are naturally curious

. >>> new tonight from the "washington post," the mueller >>> new tonight from the "washington post," the mueller team asking house intel exactly what roger stone testified to them. now all the speculation is about whether roger stone will be the next man charged. >>> president trump takes to twitter, blindsides his own military declaring "we've defeated isis in syria." says he's bringing the troops home while even his closest friend in the senate lindsey graham admits if obama had done this, we'd be all over him. >>> and what is the administration doing lifting sanctions on a company co-owned by a notorious russian who loaned paul manafort $10 million? we'll sort through all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. >>> and good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 699 of the trump administration. here we are, one away from 700 days in office. just ahead tonight we'll have the latest on the backlash over the president's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria. and just a short time ago the senate passed a continuing resolution

we're going to start taking questions. >> suggested there's no hope for the "washington post" and my optimism was entirely unjustified. i think it's proven it was justified so i want to be -- there's no question the real crisis in american journalism, certainly the most severe crisis in american journalism is at the local level, and many states you only have one person for the major biggest newspaper in the state covering the state legislature. that person is supposed to cover the governor, both houses of the legislature, all the government agenc agencies, cover the daily news and do investigative reporting somehow and in a vast joimajori of states they don't have anybody covering the congressional delegation here in washington. so this is a serious problem. there are, though, some signs of promise and they were just mentioned. so some things that are happening in flildphiladelphia,h is great, an enormously stressed marketplace. the "texas tribune" in texas which is a non-profit matter and "cal matters" in california, a non-profit which is doing really good work and actually commercia

so, my background at the "washington post" has national security reporter as you said and specializing in covering us intelligence agency, some as a cover the cia, director of national intelligence and nsa for more than a decade now, so when this a story really started to break in the latter stages of 2016, you know, i was at the center of a story that was really spilling out of what us intelligence agencies were learning and concluding about what to russia was doing, including not to fact that russia had been waging this interference operation in the 2016 race and had a very specific objective in the end, not just to spill chaos in the united states, but to help elect donald trump. i was involved in stories that broke background. we broke stories about michael flynn and his false statements about what he had told the russian ambassador in the late stages of money 16, but when i set back to work on this book earlier this year couple things jumped out at me even though i was in the middle of the story there were so many moving pieces to it that there were parts i could not really even f

[laughter] >> you had suggested there was no hope for "the washington post." and that my optimism was entirely unjustified, and i think it has proven that it was justified and so, i think -- i want to be -- there's no question, the real crisis in american journalism and the most severe crisis in american journalism is at the local level in many states you only have one person for the major-- the biggest newspaper in the state covering the state legislature and that person is supposed to cover the governor, both houses of legislature, all the government agencies, cover the daily news and do investigative reporting somehow and in a vast majority of states they don't have anybody covering their congressional delegation here in washington. so, this is a serious problem. there are those signs of some signs of promise, and they were just mentioned. so, some things that are happening in philadelphia, which is great, which has been enormously stressed marketplace, the texas tribune in texas, which is a nonprofit model and there are cal matters in california which is a

those who carried it out and those who continue to try to cover it up that's the message from the washington post publisher thanks very much you have a tendency in washington now donald trump's former lawyer says the president told him to pay hush money to two women during the twenty sixteen presidential elections in full knowledge that it was wrong michael cohen gave his first interview since being sentenced to prison this week on multiple charges some of it related to payments aimed at hushing up allegations about trump's sex life and really how has that story. as the courtroom drama surrounding donald trump's former personal lawyer came to a dramatic conclusion this week michael cohen was largely silent not any more so i knew what i was doing was wrong in contrast to his earlier statements cohen now says trump knew about the hush money payments he was making to two women alleged to have had affairs with trump according to cohen the payments were directed by trump in an effort to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen presidential election nothing at the trump organization was ever done un

question which he who happens to be was going to be a former intelligence officer but that is what the washington post and so you know for the washington establishment it's very very convenient not to to paint mohammad bench that man as the man you know about committing all those crimes and you know need to go for the regime to be able to to injure or and for business to resume essentially and so yeah i think you're going to become a scapegoats but i mean why not he has committed a crime so i mean i'm for one would not be too sad to see him go and i think that this i would do would be quite happy to see him go to as well as the many ok. go back to riyadh i noticed you were disagreeing with katherine so please reply. tory katherine all the facts are wrong i mean i wish you could say half of this one but told us i do actually killed more than five hundred thousand people on the actually displaced ten million syrians but that's the way it did you know i don't i don't have personally very nice guy but i saw what happened on the story on a vietnam thing because you know you. got it right this is you know w

that was the new york times and the washington post. t has evolved as many of us have noticed n i have a simple story from thursday which is a story about the hurricane. mister trump has also been busy awarding himself good grades for past hurricanes. they could not restrain himself along. the statistic that 3,000 people have died. .hat he falsely called made up a number. the new york times view of objectivity neutrality has shifted over time. whether the bar has moved under the trump administration , should we have a different understanding of what it means to be objective and neutral. you want to start on that. there was a letter a couple of weeks ago. from the trump supporters saying the more you attack president trump. >> do you worry about backlash. what i'm dealing with just by asking questions. it's about feeling and knee jerk emotions. i believe there needs to be objectivity. give all of the sites. i'm not with you on torture there. is it a wrong? the bottom line is. when you put something out there people need to understand the

attention to yemen and they are getting more attention to yemen because they have felt especially the washington post that mohammed bin solomon can get away from the killing so they directed the washington post and other media directed their eyes into yemen because they've seen the saudi arabia has done so many crimes in yemen which they can hear actually you know mohammed inside not as months ago you know i'm glad this washington post finally spoke up with a basically back who climb in sync or american for. policy in the middle east so i'm not giving them a whole lot of credit if you know what i mean catherine let me go to you i mean this vote in the senate. committee is absolutely right i mean the house of representatives cowardly deferred even debating it maybe the new congress will in january when the democrats take over in the house here but nonetheless it puts this relationship of the saudi american relationship very much in the spotlight and that is something that both countries do not like to have happen they like to have it kept behind the scenes because at the end of the day there's a lot o

the new york times will be here, the washington post will be here. the wall street journal, but there are large swaths especially local newspapers an example someone gave me someone gave me former editor of small city paper came in 2004 the staff was 62. when he left in 2010 the staff was 32. he just checked back with the editor who was being laid off and the staff is 11 and that is the very unpleasant world for a lot of people out there. big publications, you can see it in other things and tv network where you see correspondence and two guys in a couple of women always narrating and you don't have the staffing and that is a huge issue and the answer is still developing and trying to come up with business models. they are certainly not going to be as profitable as in the old days as having a big city paper. those days are over. >> there is some talk among politicians who believe in the -undergirding the democracy and in the absence of the viable business model or revenue streams that government should consider in one way or another subsidizing the med

in a rare move, "the wall street journal" called "the post" reporting gratuitously negative. "the washingtons not alone and it's a gratuitously negative coverage of the president's trip. watch this. >> in retrospect -- or give him credit for going to iraq but his performance there was a shameful. >> the president seems to have confused in some way that trip to visit with a campaign rally. >> this was a political rally in front of troops. >> the troops -- he treats the troops like props. it converts them into a partisan plaything. >> the u united states congress and the people who are supporting the armed forces, they don't belong to him. >> he's like the grinch. i'm being honest. >> hehe stole christmas. >> it was so negative and you want positivity when it comes to christmas. it's perplexing, why would he was at the troops do that? >> gregg: [laughs] wow.w. here to talk about this week's blatant anti-trump bias, fox news contributor allen west and from "the hill," joe concha. good to see you both. almost in unison, they are railing on the president, his visit to iraq, you just saw some of t

the publisher of the washington post washington post did expound on the thinking behind this campaignin a memo to his staff on earlier this week he said many people are frustrated and feel betrayed by the trumpet ministrations apparent effort to sweep jamal's killing under the rug of its failure to stand up for american values run routes they can be assured that the washington post will not rest until justice is served on those who ordered jamal's killing those who carried it out and those who continue to try to cover it up and there is interesting that this pressure will be sustained because even though we're hearing on capitol hill that the incoming democratic house of representatives is just gearing up now to investigate the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia there is always that chance that the senate by its actions on thursday may if it was done enough now and we can see that begin to fizzle out but clearly the washington post wants to keep the pressure up slowly she has in washington thank you. donald trump's former lawyer says the u.s. presidents knew making harsh payments dur

the "washington post" reports that the bush family decided on an undeclared truce with the president this week. this he want the focus to be on the legacy of president bush rather than overt anti-trump sentiment, although someone close to the family is quoted in the post article as saying the comparisons are presenting themselves. president trump will attend the state funeral tomorrow, but he will not speak. former president george w. bush who has been quite emotional over the last day, he will eulogize his father. you can see bush 43 right there filled with emotion throughout the ceremonies yesterday. >> and laura bush as well, too, her face said a lot as well. mean while, with he could learn a lot more about special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. through a series of court filings this week that involved three of president trump's closest associates, the first is today when mueller is expected to reveal details of the cooperation that he obtained from fired national security adviser michael flynn. you will remember that flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about

we'll talk more about this new reporting that "the washington post" got their hands on in just a moment. first, the president himself is facing legal challenges on more fronts than ever before. "the washington post" writing today, quote, two years after donald trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation. among them -- >> the trump campaign. the transition. the inauguration. the trump foundation. the trump organization. great, great company. >> and according to brand-new polling, the sheer tonnage of those investigations may be taking a toll. in our nbc news/"wall street journal" poll, 62% say the president has not been honest and truthful about the russia probe. and 50% say the investigation has given them doubts about his presidency. meanwhile, 43% say they approve of the job the president is doing. 54% say they disapprove. that is a negative swing of 9 points since october. and for this president who is who better to blame than his former attorney general. the president tweeting today, jeff sessions should be ashamed of hims

the rooms to u.s. military veterans, as part of a free trip to washington. once in d.c., the veterans were sent to capitol hill to lobby lawmakers against a bill the saudis opposed. "the washington post" reports the lobbyists paid for some 500 nights' stay at the trump international hotel at an average rate of $768 per room. the case is a central focus of a lawsuit charging president trump violated the foreign emoluments clause of the constitution by receiving payments from foreign governments. and a correction to one our headlines on the attorneys wednesday. general of the district of columbia and maryland have sent subpoenas to the trump organization for financial documents relating to president trump's business interests. maine and the five federal agencies have also been subpoenaed. they did not issue subpoenas. the architects of a landmark treaty aimed at ridding g europe 198787 of nuclear r missil arere calling on the trump administration to abandon its plans to leave the inf, or intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. in a jointly-authored op-ed in "the washington post," former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and former u.s. secretary of state george shultz warn -- "abandoni

yeah and for the washington post particularly it's personal in look at this is the cover of today's washington post but it's what's inside that is catching all the attention in the media headlines because it's a full page advert going to hold it up so there's time to take a look at this this is a picture of shows he of course a contributor to the washington post they are determined their editorial board the publisher to keep the story in the spotlight just as the members of congress are equally determined at the bottom here you can see it as a life is gone the principles of free expression endure this we understand is going to be part of an ongoing campaign that's going to extend into twenty nineteen where the publishers have made a conscious decision they want to try and continue to push the narrative that something needs to be done that this administration has not done enough that it has not fully acted and so what you're going to see you talked about this is the start of the show that we've seen this is stark vote in the senate it's stalled for now in the house but that could change that is

it was viewed in the "new york times" and "the washington post." there was a multicultural japanese owned imprint. we gave the paperback rights for $10,000, and that was the end of the story until 2004 when, by now, a national figure, he gave the keynote. brian: this is a nine-year period? peter: nothing happened. book sold about 8,000 copies, not even that many. and then he gives the speech in boston at the democratic convention. and the next morning, i said something's going here. i call, times books no longer existed at random house but we had descendents that were part of the random house empire, and i said there's something on your shelf you might at some time look at, "dreams from my father." i don't know if they had that idea but crown books ended up the publisher of the re-issued "dreams." nothing changed. same beautiful cover, which, you know, iconic now cover, done by an art director named robin schiff and it sold four million copies. brian: hardback or paperback? peter: well, total. it was at least three. i mean, it still sells a ton of b

according to the "washington post," they reserved block of rooms at the president's washington, d.c.,shortly after trump was elected. the "post" reports the trump locked down an estimated 500 nights over the course of three months. they had been reserving d.c. rooms as part of a campaign, gi giving them rooms. the lobbyists put the vets up at hotels in northern virginia, but in december 20616 shifted most of their bookings over to the trump international hotel, which the president still owns, spending more than $270,000 to put up six groups of veterans. joining us now is the reporter behind the story, executive reporter from the "washington post" and nsnbc contributor david farronholt. explain this to us. can you explain how the rooms give the crown prince a pass on the murder of a "washington post" journalist? >> the purpose of this running the hotel rooms, they had a weird strategy. they lost a fight in congress that basically allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the saudi kingdom. they then lost. they said let's bring in somebody who has the moral authority to win the 9/11 f

the washington post's craig timberg, explaining that the disinformation campaign extended well past 20craig timberg / technology reporter, washington post: "every platform that these researchers tracked posted more often after the election. we tend to think of this narrative in terms of coming up to election day but actually intensified after election day."i'm reid binion reporting. ( james ) president trump's soon-to-be acting chief of staff once called hus boss a quote: "terrible human being." mick mulvaney made the comment during a campaign debate in 20-16. during that time, mulvaney also said that quote: "we have perhaps two of the most flawed human beings running for president in the history of the country." reacting to the video, an office of management and budget spokeswoman said mulvaney made the comments before he had met the president and since then, his support of the president has never wavered. ( james ) two weeks after tense negotiations-- leaders from nearly 200 countries have finally agreed on universal transparent climate change rules. the agreement de at the united na

"the wall street journal" even called the post reporting grat tu is tussally negative. "the washingtonost" isn't alone in its negative coverage of the president's trip with the troops. >> in retrospect, i give him credit for going to iraq. his performance was shameful. >> the president has confused this with a campaign rally. >> this is a political rally in front of troop ns iras in iraq. >> it is the united states congress and the people of the united states that are supporting our armed forces. they don't belong to him. >> heic lice the grinch. it was so negative. you want positivety. why would he visit the troops and do that? >> wow. here to talk about this, fox news contributor, retired lieutena lieutenant colonel alan west and from the hill, joe concha. all the news anchors and guests are railing on the president and his visit to iraq. you just saw some of the clips. i remember other presidents, including obama, visiting troops, giving stirring speeches and so forth. the media didn't lash out at those presidents. what's the deal? >> of course not, greg. because it is christmas-tim

this is outrageous, and you don't see it anywhere in "the washington post," "the new york times" -- >, no. lou: -- cbs news, nbc news. >> no. lou: this is outrageous. >> it's completely outrageous. but here's what you did see in "the new york times," in "the washington post" and all of those places. remember when president trump said back during the spring of 2017 when he told the american people in part based on what devin nuÑes had learned -- lou: the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> that's right. and he -- and, remember, the left went crazy. and he had to step aside for a few months while there was an ethic investigation because devin nuÑes told the truth. he was ultimately exonerated. lou: i think there's another issue in that as well. the house leadership -- >> well, remember when the president -- lou: -- was absolutely aligned with those democrats. >> but remember when the president said to the american people that his campaign had been under surveillance by the obama administration -- lou: been wiretapped, was his words. >> all of those newspapers, the headlines

you write about this in "the washington post." you mentioned statements from lindsey graham. stand for who we are and what we believe. what can lindsey graham and small group of senators do? >> what they can do is try to push president trump to do something and probably this latest venture, which is basically trying to put out a resolution which says we condemn the crown prince as responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi. it is basically taking trump on at the heart of it. a lot of dispute within the republican party, but the appropriate response to saudi arabia given they are an ally in the region and purchasing our defense material. it seems there is unanimity on the fact that the crown prince is responsible for the murder. they feel they can get enough of a coalition to deliver an almost unanimous message saying condemn this guy. they cannot force his hand. trump can do what he wants. he has shown he doesn't want to do this. and these options are percolating around for a while which is the bipartisan sanctions/curtail and cease all weapons to saudi arabia and the yeme

organization monitoring political rights and freedom he is also a former white house correspondent for the washington post to both of you gentlemen good to have you on the show tonight i might let me start with you you have been white house white house reporter with the washington post you you say that president trump has been undermining press freedom around the world i mean as president of the watchdog freedom health's what's your reaction to times decision today. well we were i think we're really pleased by that decision i think it really recognizes the grave danger that journalists and fact based journalism is in today around the world and that and that danger is really captured by all the honorees. that. you know recognize as part of the cover story obviously there's a lot of attention to jamal khashoggi but but you know the other journalists are you know also show the different facets of how press freedom is being steadily whittled away around the world and as you point out we still have a very lively and robust press here in the united states but we are concerned about the you know about the role o

robert costa, national political reporter for the "washington post." moderator of "washington week" on pbs. sam stein back with us, politi editor for the daily beast. good evening, welcome to you all. because it's most recent, mimi, i'd like to begin with you on this flynn filing by his lawyers. they write a little section in there that when the fbi was going over to the white house to talk to flynn, in their telling, flynn may not have been -- may not have had the warning repeated to him that a lot of folks go around knowing, that it's a crime to lie to the feds. >> right. so it's interesting, actually, what they actually say in the memo is that he wasn't warned about the penalties of lying to the fbi. so it's not entirely clear to me whether they're saying they didn't tell him it was a crime, or they didn't tell him how much trouble he could be in, but that argument really doesn't go very far. i mean, this is, you know, the former director of national

but, you know, i can remember reading about tet '68 in the "washington post." peter braves was a marine who had been wounded in north korea, spent three years over there. you could read the front page of the "washington post" and have straight-up, factual reporting for a battle, and then you get to the editorial and then to the political pages and these political people, and i've been a political person over there, this isn't working. it's time to do something else. very difficult for the country to process what a win, what a loss was, until much later. even though, as david was saying, the tet offensive was a military failure, that's not what was being reported at the time. by a lot of the journalists over there. >> in one final point, we're going to go. let's put this in perspective. you had the tet offensive in 1968. >> for killed during the tet offensive than the war. >> then you have president johnson's speech -- >> then you have the election where he gets four votes over lyndon johnson. then you have ted kennedy entering the race. you have two anti-war can

booking.com, booking.yeah >>> so the fact checkers at the "washington post" say that president trump false claims that they've been forced to introduce a new category, they're calling it the bottomless pinocchio. joining us now is the "washington post" fact checker columnist. we've all come to love and know four pinocchios. why isn't that enough anymore? >> well, what we found with president trump is that he has a tendency to double down and continue to make false claims long after they've been debunked. most politicians would drop a claim once it was tagged with four pinocchios. so in the case of president trump there are claims that earned four pinocchios that he has said not once, not twice but even 120 times. we felt we needed to, you know, signify this in a way that would be memorable for people and also have it gathered in one place on the "washington post" website where people could refer to it. >> let me play one example of one of these claims that the president repeats again and again and again, even though you've often given her four pinocchios on it. watch. >> we started b

a couple headlines in the washington post. trump, pelosi and schumer have on camera shouting mac -- match. in the wall street journal, trump clashes with democrats over spending bill, threatens government shutdown. the story says the interaction of her border security and funding the border wall is an indication negotiations over year-end spending bill would continue without an eminent resolution. the federal government is operating under a short-term spending bill that expires september 21. here is the oval office conversation. >> thank you very much. it is an honor to have nancy pelosi and chuck schumer with us. we have worked hard on a couple of things happening. criminal justice reform. we just got word that mitch mcconnell and the group going to be putting it up for a vote. we have democrats support, great republican support so criminal justice reform, something people have been trying to get for many years. looks like it is going to be passing, hopefully in a bipartisan way. it is something we are proud of and tremendous

at the washington post we had what we call the nuclear tip.here was the fact he had been ordered basically to lie and he was saying so. we called the book "what happened." how did we get into iraq? weapons of mass destruction when there were not any? that is where scott was finding his voice. the book did extremely well. it costs got his washington career. he now lives in oregon or someplace where it -- he is the vice president of communications at a community college. but he knows he did what he had to do. it was not about making a fortune. he would not have signed with us if it was. it was about saying what he had to say. i have had nothing to do with him before or since, but that is the story. brian: i need to tell our viewers a couple of things. you have published every book we have published here. we are about to publish our 10th on presidents next spring. we don't take money here. nobody involved in the books takes money. if we have money left over, it goes into our foundation. i think the audience ought to know that. and you have never