tina brown is well-known for her award-winning career as a magazine editor, leading the "new yorker" and "vanity fair" to extraordinary success. more recently she launched the popular website the daily beast and is now developing a new approach to digital book publishing. ken paulson was the editor of "usa today" and was one of the first newspaper editors to put content on-line, way back in 1993. he was also the executive director of the first amendment center. full disclosure: ken is currently also the president of the freedom forum in the newseum, the producers of this program. so welcome to you both. thanks for coming in. let's start with a really simple question but one that i am asked almost anytime i talk to anybody who cares, and that is, can print news survive this digital revolution? tina, what do you think? >> i think print is in crisis, and we're still doing triage. but i think at the end of it, we will have print products, but there will be fewer of them than there are today. >> it survives, but real different. >> yes. >> ken? >> i agree. i think there are literally gener

we'll also have tina brown and eugene robinson.rought this up, a remarkable red state host this morning. eric erickson, the most influential conservative blogger out there. >> yeah. >> had just some blistering posts this morning with quite a conclusion. >> well, yeah. he said, mitt romney is going to be the nominee. mitt romney will lose to barack obama and destroy conservativism in the process and then concludes by saying it's so bad i'm beginning to rethink my dismissal of jon huntsman. >> he's going to take a second look at jon huntsman who "the wall street journal" says has the best economic program. we'll talk about that a lot more right after the break. this new at&t 4g lte is fast. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're currently in violation of 6 of them. oh yeah, baby? ...and 7. did you guys hear that fred is leaving? so 30 seconds ago. [ noi

but bill clinton just like tina brown, just like a lot of people, a lot of democrats love what he's saying about immigration. >> right. >> and bill clinton was complimenting him saying he was getting attacked for supporting amnesty in his own party, but he thought it was great and as we saw tina brown and a lot of democrats really like that -- like what he's talking about. >> yeah, sure. >> what? >> good for newt. >> well, you're not going to -- you won't say anything nice about newt. >> no, he's my lead story. >> well, he is. everything's going his way. >> big news. >> and he's reaching out. i guess he's reaching out to hispanic voters with this illegal immigration position that bill clinton likes. >> bill clinton also likes bigger than life figures in any political party. he appreciates that about newt. if you take just newt's good stuff, take away the bad stuff, take romney's good stuff, take away the bad stuff, mitt's a formidable candidate -- >> you're talking about. >> reaching out to hispanic voters, which republicans must do. reaching out to the community, which would be a big part

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time now to take a look at the morning papers along with tina brown, willie geist, joe scarborough and i'm adviser. >> oh, really? >> i mentioned it early on. >> i'm glad you're advising in foreign policy. >> you're not clouded at all in your judgment when you make bets. >> i'm glad he's advising on foreign policy instead of like politics. because you just -- questioned somebody else's republican cred. >> you might want to learn from today. >> yeah, you just don't go there. >> it'll come back at you is much worse. >> the utah governor, he's not a real republican. he's not conservative -- >> he's not. he's not. >> everyone knows -- >> everyone on this stage last night -- everyone on the stage last night advocated a neo reaganite foreign policy with two exceptions, ron paul and jon huntsman. >> hold a second. stop the music. stop the music right here. this is the funniest thing i've ever heard. we've got to get to this. here's the deal -- >> this time we actually call out b.s. >> the flag is going down on the neo con empire. >> wow, we're doing another bet. >> john mccain, lindsey graha