please give a warm welcome to vivian schiller. [applause] i want to begin by reading an e- mail from and npr reporter. we basically pushed away end. we walked across the border and were incredibly lucky to find people to drive us and guide us. yes, we had an unfortunate incident at an army base for people were nervous about being photographed. we were surrounded and the photographer had his camera smashed. but that has proven to be the exception. everywhere else we have gone, we have been greeted with cheers and shouts. this is a country that has not been exposed to western media. everyone just said they were so relieved to see us, at they were desperate to have their story told. the first meeting of the new local government was being held. everyone was stunned to see us. they gave us a standing ovation and started shouting and crying. i know it is corny, she writes, but i've never been prouder to be a journalist. her note is a potent reminder of the meeting in impact of the free press. it is that the court of npr's mission, power

." >> brown: news of vivian schiller's departure followed yesterday's release of this hidden-camera video showed npr fundraising executive ron schiller-- no relation-- at what he thought was a meeting with potential funders. among much else, he was heard ously racist, racisty people. >> brown: and he also commented on the hot-button issue of npr's use of public money. >> it is very clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding. >> reporter: indeed, the video came as republicans in congress are pressing to eliminate more than $400 million-a-year in federal funding of public broadcasting, including pbs. the man behind the video release was conservative activist james o'keefe. his associates-- posing members of a fake, muslim organization -- lunched with ron schiller in late february, offering to donate $5 million to npr. the fundraiser resigned yesterday, though he had been planning to leave npr anyway. vivian schiller had served in her post two years. she drew criticism last year over the firing of commentator juan williams, after he said on fox news that flying

his boss, vivian schiller, no relation, got fired, too.sign of the times to ken. >> we're this a very polarized political situation. is news biased? is there a conservative bias to fox? this just fed that narrative. >> reporter: the architect of the sting, james o'keefe. his mission was to expose what he claims are liberal institutions by going undercover. >> i want to expose truth. americans can play judge and jury. >> reporter: he's the guy that brought down a.c.o.r.n. they caught officials offering advice on how to evade the law to get a mortgage loan. he's targeted planned parenthood and new jersey's teacher's union. he pled guilty to a misdemeanor after he was caught trying to tape inside a senate office. >> these are tactics that have been used for decades. >> reporter: after the controversial firing of juan williams who was on fox last night. >> he wants to make it out that npr and he are the good guys, the smart people. isn't it sthatd more people like them aren't running america. >> reporter: npr gets 2% of its funding from americ

the same video prompted npr president and ceo vivian schiller to resign on wednesday.e video npr's ron schiller, no relation to vivian, is fooled into believing he's speaking to representatives of a muslim group about tea party conservatives. >> white, middle america, gun-toting, i mean, it's scary. they're seriously racist, racist people. >> he goes on to say npr would be better off without federal funding. a goal conservatives have sought for decades. ron schiller also resigned from npr. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia slid this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with more on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. well, asian markets saw a sell-off as oil prices rose near $105 a barrel. japan's nikkei tumbled 1.5% to a five-week low, while hong kong's hang seng fell nearly 1%. today wall street gets the very latest look on the weekly jobless claim numbers. on wednesday stocks closed slightly lower. the dow lost just one point while the nasdaq gave back 14. >>> foreclosure notices dropped to a three-year low last month. but, e

. >> i want to begin by -- >> reporter: npr's top executive, vivian schiller, the latest casualty of conservative undercover filmmaker james o'keefe. we last saw o'keefe wearing a fur coat and playing a pimp when he managed to take down the liberal group a.c.o.r.n. this time the target was npr. with men posing as potential donors, o'keefe captured an npr fund-raiser making disparaging remarks about republicans and the tea party. >> they believe that white middle america gun-toting -- i mean it's scary. they're serious. >> reporter: it's the second time npr has been in trouble recently, accused of liberal bias. this time costing the fund-raiser and the ceo their jobs. the timing could not be worse. the house just voted to stop all funding of public broadcasting, $430 million this year. >> what kind of mission does the corporation for public broadcasting serve in these very tough economic times? >> reporter: npr says it gets only 2% of its budget from taxpayers. most of the federal money, 71%, goes to local public tv and radio stations. losing that would hurt. >> i think we would survi

thank you for national public radio vivian schiller resigned today she was in the middle of a controversy one day after an n.p.r. executive in charge of fundraising ronald schiller no relation by the way to vivian was caught on videotape calling some members of the tea party racists here's the video. i. think six to ten feet. recently. there are quite. scary. series. of what you just saw was the worker right where you had james o'keefe whose previous exploits include dressing up like a pimp to bring down acorn dressing like a telephone repairman about the offices of senator mary u.s. senator mary landrieu he was arrested by the way for that one nearly ended up in federal prison by his republican cohorts in congress o'keefe decided n.p.r. was public enemy number one and set out to dress up like a potential fundraiser and see what kind of dirty could provoke with this amrit and sure enough it worked so this the new way the right is trying to bring down their political opponents organizations and they simply don't agree with the more troubling is this the new norm of journalism in america fo

president vivian schiller resigned after reportedly being pushed out by the board of directors and this all comes at a time when the republican led congress is actively pushing the cut n.p.r.'s funding so it makes us ask is n.p.r. a liberal elitist now peace that all taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for or doesn't even really matter is this just a larger push by the g.o.p. to take out everything associated with the other party and its issues join me to discuss it as benjy sarlin capitol hill reporter for talking points memo and christopher the president of the young conservative coalition gentlemen thank you both for joining me tonight first of all what do you think of this move by n.p.r. was it a wise decision are they showing everyone that they do have i think they're not exactly p.r. geniuses i mean this whole thing was kind of a bit of a stumble at the gate first they said they were appalled by the comments then they put the two people in the video and i'm going to straight to believe then the c.e.o. resigned very unexpectedly and suddenly i mean all this is very very defensive crouc

vivian schiller resigned over a video showing a an n.p.r. fundraiser making racist remarks about the tea party take a look. yes. since excuse to take the time. we see you are a car. guy you think america. it's scary you're serious. that was the work of gotcha journalist james o'keefe the same go dressed up like the world's most ridiculous pimp to bust acorn was caught trying to seduce a c.n.n. anchor it was arrested for trying to tap senator mary landrieu his phone lines are real class act guy here's how he described himself and his form of journalism in the n.p.r. video. tape is very powerful he was very honest the tape cuts to the core of who these people are so shows their hearts and minds and it's had such an effect of course it was right everything is honest and true except for one thing the video was taken completely out of context the full version was posted online over the weekend what it reveals is the n.p.r. fundraiser wasn't expressing his opinion of the tea party he was actually relaying a message there were republicans had told

the ceo, vivian schiller is gone. toward the end of this week, this video was released.tsy lilley talking to this fictitious donor said he was working with a group affiliated with the muslim brotherhood. and wanted to give a $5 million gift. >> it sounded like you're saying that npr would be able to shield us from an audit. is that the case? >> i think that is the case. i can check. >> you've been involved in this npr for 30 years. but why should we care? >> i should say, that they did then reject that money, and sent internal e-mails saying this is totally unacceptable. we have to have tax forms, all of that. that should be stated. but, look, we should care because 34 million people listen every week and want to get the news that you get there, that you can't get any place else. npr has 17 foreign bureaus. you can't say that for any other broadcast organization these days. and brings you terrific information, day in and day out, week in and week out. the reporters on the line, being shot at in north africa at the moment are being badly served by the management that are

please give a warm national press club welcome to vivian schiller. [applause] >> i want to begin by reading an e-mail from an npr reporter. she sent it to her editor after she and a newspaper colleague made their way into eastern libya. they were the second team of western journalists to make it through. she writes -- "we basically pushed our way in. we walked across the border and were incredibly lucky to find people to drive us and guide us. yes, we had an unfortunate incident at a loaded army base where people were nervous about being photographed, and we were surrounded, and a photographer from the "wall street journal" had his camera smashed, but that has proven to be the exception. everywhere else we have gone, we have been greeted with cheers and shouts. this is a country that has not been exposed to western media, and everyone just said they were so relieved to see us. they were desperate to have their story told. we were led to a huge hall used to be the people's revolutionary town building where the first meetings of the new local governmen

. >> now national public radio president and ceo vivian schiller.ect her to discuss the future of public radio and the achievements of npr member stations. she will also support her case for the public support for the 40-year-old media organization. the house of representatives recently voted to eliminate funding for public broadcasting in the 2011 budget. and last week senators jim demint and tom coburn introduced legislation that would end federal funding for public radio and television stations. this is live coverage here on c-span2. >> the association of public television stations and the guest of the speaker. democracy palmer director of journalist tools design and strategy for the associated press. and paula kerger, president and ceo of pbs and a guest of the speaker. we'll skip over the podium and we next go to allison fitzgerald, she's vice chair of our press club speakers committee and she is government and enterprise reporter for bloomberg news. skipping over our speaker for just a moment, marilyn gwax is senior business editor for npr and

npr ceo vivian schiller resigned today after comments were made. the video made public on tuesday shows her, no relation to the ceo, conspiracying groups with two groups posing an muslim contributors. the meeting was secretly filmed. journalist david, a pulitzer prize winner died this week. >> now that the senate rejected both the republican and the democratic versions of the fiscal year 2011 spending bill, members of the house and senate will need to reach agreement in order to keep the government funded after march 18. here's part of the senate debate from today. >> mr. president, the amendment i introduced on friday cost $51 billion from the discretionary spending requests submitted by the president for fy2011. if this amendment were agreed to as written, it would mean that we would appropriate $51 billion less than the president felt necessary for the government to carry out its duties. mr. president, i do not agree with every item in this president or any president requests on this budget, but i also know that the president's budget requests i

that's something we did a week ago with vivian schiller who at the time was the head of the nationalpublic radio. while some of the subjects we are going to discuss the serious themes i know we're looking forward to enjoying the sense of multifaceted sense of humor that is one of the gifts the guest speaker has been blessed with please give a warm national press club welcome please welcome harry. [applause] >> good morning, good afternoon central time. i'm honored and delighted to have been invited here of the national press club today. in fact, just to get this out of the way at the top, i venture to say this whole location is "excellent." [laughter] indolent to pledge unlike another recent guest at the podium, nothing i say today will be contradicted by one of my execs in today's in the video sting. [laughter] mainly because i have no executives. all right. i have ripped off from rupert murdoch and vivian schiller and week and get down to the business at hand. first i want to see as a new orleanan my heart goes out to people of japan. we know a little bit about what you're going th

. >>> new this morning, vivian schiller is -- was forced out by the board this is after a hidden cameraeo surfaced yesterday and showed an npr fund-raising executive criticizing tea party members as racists an saying that np -- npr would be better off without federal funding. >>> muni needs to get tough during its new round of contract talks with the transoperator union. that's according to one san francisco supervisor. scott wiener says when voters approved proposition g last fall, they gave muni the chance to make big changes in the agreement. muni operators filed a lawsuit saying a portion of prop g virtually guarantees they will not get a new contract. the new law says if the two sides cannot reach agreement on their own, an independent arbitrator will be called in. it also requires that arbitrator to consider how the contract would affect fares an surface -- and service -- fares and service. >>> authorities say seven family members were killed in a farmhouse fire in pennsylvania. a little 3-year-old girl, the only child who survived this, smelled the smoke and ran to get her mother

the president and ceo of national public radio, vivian schiller, will be at the national press club this afternoon. you can see that at c-span2 at 1:00 p.m. eastern. at 8:00, former house speaker newt gingrich, former minnesota governor pawlenty and former pennsylvania senator. we will have coverage on c-span starting at 8:00. >> we see a world of broadband and broadcast. some see a world where broadcast goes away and we think that's a huge mistake. >> tonight, the future of broadcast television with gordon smith. "the communicators" on c-span2. >> over 1000 middle school and high-school students entered this year's student cam competition. c-span will announce the winners on wednesday morning during our "washington journal" program. >> as we wait for the start of that meeting among attorneys general on how to work with the federal government, a discussion now on how republican governors are challenging the white house. "washington journal" this morning talk with the executive editor of the on-line news organization hot line. josh kraushaar, thank you for being here this morning. we were

vivian schiller is not offering if she was forced to quit or stepped down. it was told she resigned after a discussion with the board. she stepped down a day after conservative activist showed a video showing them being racist. vivian spoke at the national press club monday. you can see all of that speech in our video library at c-span.org. u.s. house is coming back in in under 10 minutes. we expect noon eastern. when they return they'll begin debate on two bills that eliminate home mortgage relief programs. votes and -- debate rules will be coming up at 2:30 eastern. general debate and amendments tomple and expect final votes friday. over in the senate they'll take up 2011 spending with votes at 3:00 p.m. eastern. first one on the republican plan that they passed back in mid february. the second one on a vote by senate democrats. if votes fail the spending bills will return to negotiations with house republicans. senate coverage live on c-span2 at noon. this weekend book tv is live with two days of panel discussions and interviews from the tucson festival o

institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] please give a warm welcome t vivian schiller. [applause] i want to begin by reading an e- mail from and npr reporter. we basically pushed awaynd. we walked across the border and were incredibly lucky to find people to drive us and guide us. yes, we had an unfortunate incident at an army base for people were nervous about being photographed. we were surrounded and the photographer had his camera smashed. but that has proven to be the exception. everywhere else we have gone, we have been greeted with cheers and shouts. this is a country that has not been exposed to westernedia. everyone just said they were so relieved to see us, at they were desperate to have their story told. the first meeting of the new local government was being held. everyone was stunned to see us. they gave us a standing ovation and started shouting and crying. i know it is corny, she writes, but i've never been prouder to be a journalist. her note is a potent reminder of the meeting in impact of the free press. it is that the crt of npr's mission, powerful j