under this one of the things that the washington post allege there too was that now the cia is poking sings of focusing so much on these paramilitary operations now they have so many of their analysts looking for targets on the ground to perhaps send a drone strike and that is their intelligence gathering starting to suffer of course we saw a lot of the arab spring started to rise up and even coming from congress asking the cia not intern us is going to happen. weather intelligence gathering where the arab spring was a disaster that's completely normal and darkness right now and it's no where the american runs the government terrorism center. or not mean in this article was former station chief in cry row and it's a very narrow under investigation projection authorities because it didn't work with some very dark things that happened. i thought which i think points to some of the complications the cia has and has with some of its senior personnel how do you think to of course since president obama came into power i think that we've seen overall a difference in his approach in terms of

in it "the washington post" investigative reporter argues that the federal government's efforts to protectmerica after the terrorist attacks of september 11th led to the creation of multiple security programs that now employ hundreds of thousands of people with top secret security clearance. the pulitzer prize winner says this hidden bureaucracy is too vast and dangerous and needs to be exposed. she explores the issue with former undersecretary of defense douglas feith. >> host: dana, you have, have offered up an interesting and a condemnation of "top secret america." what is it? >> guest: what's top secret america? good starting question. um, it's a term that we came up with, my co-author and i, to describe a world that grew up after 9/11 in response to 9/11. we tried to collect -- we both noticed that, um, we noticed over the years after 9/11 that there were more secrets the government undertook. i was covering intelligence at the time, so i was responsible for writing about some of those programs. but they were programs meant to defeat al-qaeda, and what started out as a very quick resp

now published today the washington post takes a good look at the cia and how it's changed over the last ten years house gone from an embarrassed and seemingly infinite intelligence agency that failed to stop the nine eleven attacks to now a paramilitary killing machine agency has about thirty predator and reaper drones at its disposal and is working feverishly somewhere in the arabian peninsula to construct a new base and for those rooms according to the washington post the drone program has killed more than two thousand militants and civilians since two thousand and one the cia's counterterrorism center which on nine eleven have three hundred employees now has more than two thousand on staff and even with the amber analytic branch about twenty percent of the analysts are now quote targets scanning data for individuals to recruit arrest or mostly kill with a drone strike this is a development it has many people questioning not only if the cia's usual intelligence gathering is suffering for example being prepared for the arab spring but perhaps more importantly raises a lot of questions

state," in it "the washington post" investigative reporter argues that the federal government's efforts to protect america after the terrorist attacks of september 11 led to the creation of multiple security programs that now employ hundreds of thousands of people with top secret security clearance. the pulitzer prize winner says this hidden bureaucracy is too vast and dangerous and needs to be exposed. she discusses the issue with undersecretary of defense douglas feith. .. we noticed over the years after 9/11 there were more secret programs the government undertook. i was covering intelligence at the time, so i was responsible for writing about some of those programs, but they were programs meant to defeat al qaeda. what started out as a very quick response -- obviously everybody very worried about another possible attack soon -- congress threw money at the intelligence world and said "do what you need." it's basically a blank check, "do what you need," and because of the unique organization the united states found themselves confronting, not a regular army in any means, not even anit

it's a very important calculation, and at the "washington post" and other big publications it's taken seriously, and what basically happens, i'll give you the secret example because that's a real example. in 2005, i wrote a story that said that there were several -- the cia maintained several secret prisons within eastern european countries. i actually know the names of those countries, and what we did in that case like we do in other cases when reporters know they have something that's been classified or even if they don't know for sure, but they think it has because it's so sensitive, they will call up, as i did, the public affairs person at the cia, and i, at that time, basically read her not -- didn't read the story, but gave her every single factoid in the story, and i'm doing this because i want her to come back -- this was the woman at the time -- to come back and say that, that and that, we really do not want you to publish. it is classified, and we don't want you to publish it for this reason. this is a system, an unofficial way that people operate in washington, and it then

somehow david brodeur guys and "the washington post" somehow goes on.other publications. i'm of a philosophical view that no one is expendable -- i mean everyone is expendable. >> saying everybody is replaceable? >> yes. >> we're in a double dip recession and "slate" is struggling like a lot of publications. >> some of the chatter is shafer the a great guy, but -- >> i can tell from the sort of response and reader response, being asked on television shows, not all media critics are created equal. i think i'm a little better than your average media critic and can add something to the understanding of how news is made. >> in terms of the public hunger, if there is such a thing, for this kind of critique and criticism, it seems to me that more than ever in an age of partisan media and partisan politician and polarization, that people gobble this stuff up and it's not just of interest to the junkies. >> i agree with that, too. if you look at any evening's news on the table stations, inscribed in practically every show is abstract media krichl. sarah palin c

they're treating obama differently and "the washington post" called it, quote, a laughingstock, unquote. that's not typical washington post verbiage for a democratic president. >> can you imagine, a republican, saying rich nixon pounded for an enemies list and it's different when the candidate does it and the president does it. >> it's opposition research done in a new way. >> jon: got to take a break. first, if you want to keep up, go to the fox news website and check out the watch news section. next, is governor rick perry the new media target? >> g.o.p. front runner, rick perry gets attacked for his hpv plan. >> if i had to do it over again, i would have done it differently. >> taking shots from the candidates and taking shots from the press. have the facts been lost in the mix? and the scandal builds own white house support for a green company, which went deep into the red with our money. did the media miss the warning signs? and the answer is next on news watch. bonus! so you earn 50% more cash. according to research, everybody likes more cash. well, almost everybody... ♪ would you

which is quite some majors or the washington post. what they are doing is aggravating and then read posting the content originally created for print. so yahoo! for example an awful lot of wireless news. so in terms of the total number of people who visit of least one over the course of the month, the on-line news category looks pretty healthy. the hundreds of millions of americans visited on-line news at least a few times a month. again, the issue is the overall traffic is quite small and we have to be careful about reading too much into the fact of obama news when a love of the visitors to the dahuk for example are looking at that point just a few minutes a month. >> the drudge report. >> for the drudge report it is an interesting insight partly because it's important in redistributing traffic. lots of people going to judge and a redistribution of of traffic particularly to the right landing web sites. so it's partly straight news but has an editorial plant as well. what you see with websites is there is a period orphanages more or le

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. >> joining me now, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor ezra klein.s for joining me tonight, ezra. >> good evening. >> you brought your pencil and paper. we're ready to do the math here. it's a marvel to me after the 1990s, which in effect the raging economy of the 1990s began with a bill clinton tax increase, what was then the highest tax increase in history. still is the highest tax increase in history. the rate stayed that way for the entire decade and we're still stuck in this discussion that republicans want to cling to the notion that those clinton tax rates would be disastrous for job creation. >> it has not seemed to be a discussion particularly amenable to evidence. let's try some anyway. we have a graph, the center of american progress, that i brought along tonight. what you'll see on it, they did something interesting. they looked at job creation over periods of time which had different top marginal tax rates. different top tax rates for the people the republicans call the job creators. what they found, i think, is essentially destroys this

he is a white house supporter for the washington post.go am. >> hi, alex. >> are you calling this a mistake for the president to call a joint session of congress for this speech? >> no, not necessarily a mistake. i think the point is that by raising expectations like this, the president really has to come out with something very bold and dynamic and i mean, promising that, of course, but remember these joint sessions of congress are very rare events other than the state of the union addresses. for george bush it was after 9/11. these are great moments, it's a grand platform to give a speech. what we're told by the white house is they want to go with congress because they want to be partners in this, and then congress has to support bipartisan ways to boost the economy, and this is the time. >> how bold do you think the president is going to be and how do you think the politicians he puts out there, how well do you think they will be at passing both claim bez of the house. >> they need to make they are mother environmentally friendly. as y

here is "the washington post." it says that in their first meeting the 12 members seemed hopeful but in this meeting most of them asked the current cbo director a version of an old washington question -- we covered that hearing. if you want to watch it go to our website, c-span.org. i also want to read the last paragraph of this story. first let me know that speaker boehner -- new he was also part of our contenders' series which kicked off this past friday. we were down in kentucky at his home and talked about him. "of the contenders" looks at those who ran for president, lost, but changed political history anywhere -- anyway. 8:00 p.m. eastern live every friday. treasure island, florida. judy, republican. caller: good morning. how are you? i just wanted to call and say i think it would help if the president wants so anti- business. if you have to have businesses here to promote employment. there could be 400,000 jobs right now if they lowered the percentage that the companies have to pay. i am not anti business. t

in case you're interested, "the washington post" is where that article is. william on our republican line, what do you think of the current stp? caller: i think it's effective and the fact that the media is are sensationalists and sort of make things bigger than they seem, it plays into the effect that host: go ahead with your comments. just listen through the phone. caller: yes. well, i'm -- host: all right. gustavo on our republican line. how are you? caller: hello. i'm happy to have my answer on my call answered. host: gustavo, you've got to turn your volume on your tv. listen through the telephone. you and i will just have a conversation. caller: i have a question, how come ron paul is a republican, obviously, but he is not being taken seriously because of his thoughts on priorities and how people of the united states should be taken, yes, he's not taken very seriously because he's not very republican, i guess, and that bothers me, because this should not be a republican or democratic party in this system, because all these political people have taken ou

it was a way to intimidate the "washington post." "new york times" got it, too. and to say you are un-american. so why am i saying that? that because that was a comfortable period of time, but to look at this world, it's hard. so that's what sets it aside from everything else. >> host: lets probe that's a little more deeply. what you describe as intimidation relates to questions that are large and difficult questions about who should have the right to decide that certain information should remain secret in the national interest. now just to get some bearings here, do journalists require secrecy to do their jobs? >> guest: do journalists require secrecy? >> host: their own operations to function as journalists? >> guest: journalists absolutely required promises of confidentiality to their sources and they must defend the confidentiality as a few of them have. >> host: does not apply to u.s. national security officials also? do acknowledge u.s. national security officials need secrecy in order to do their way? >> guest: i definitely acknowledge. the conclusion of t

and later, vernon loeb from "the washington post" talks about his book, "king's council: a memoir of war, espionage and diplomacy in the middle east." middle east." "washington journal" is next. >> this plan is a first step. it represents the kind of real reform that we need. folks, it must come from you. it must come from the american people. real hope is in it you. it is not that change that we heard about back in 2008. heard about back in 2008. host: fewer government regulations, tax cuts, and the creation of more jobs. the former vice presidential nominee in making her remarks yesterday, part of a tea party rally. she did not indicate whether she is going to run for office or not. mitt romney speaking at a tea party event to date in new hampshire. the president having to paterson, new jersey, to view some of the damage caused by hurricane irene. tomorrow, he talks about jobs at a rally in detroit. we're going to begin -- we're going to begin on this question. should sarah palin run or not? is she in the race or is he staying out? -- or is she staying out? the drug report -- drudge

ed rah ezra klein of nbc and the "washington post." and bruce bartlett of the reagan and h.w. bush administrations. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> house minority leader nancy pelosi says that you can forget what you read in the "new york times" this morning, democrats really are solidly behind president obama's jobs plan. enthusiastically behind it. the importance of keeping that image of unity up is next. >>> and later, the republican party's obsession with donald trump. now it's texas governor rick perry who is paying homage to trump for some reason that jonathan capehart's going to >>> he sends members of his >>> he sends members of his policy and re-election team to capitol hill today to get all democrats on board to fight for his bill. this as the white house works to increase the pressure on speaker boehner. >>> and later, savannah guthrie's exclusive interview with author joe mcguinness, the man who moved next door to sarah palin while writing a book about her. you will learn more about palin's future plans. >>> while the president was out in ohio i

ezra klein, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor and bruce bartlett, senior former policy analyst and deputy assistant secretary, he's now contributor for "the new york times." thank you both for joining me tonight. >> good evening. >> bruce, i'm struck by this bill, this republican bill to cut the corporate tax rate to zero, because as i've been listening to republicans oh, these many months, it seems that the argument behind everything they're saying would with lead to virtually all tax rates to go to zero. i can't figure out what they think the optimum tax rate is. is there a tax rate that's too low? >> well, i think we're already at rates that are really too low to raise the revenue the government needs, but you're absolutely right. i've never once in my life heard a republican say that a tax cut was too large or tax rates -- cutting rates to some level, such as zero, is too much. and you're right, implicitly, they believe tax rates should be zero. >> ezra, the -- was the speaker still making that phrase about common ground, but what common ground, after the speaker's

the poll conducted by abc news and "the washington post" shows that obama's approval rate is 43%. his disapproval rating hit a new high, 53%. by the way, obama's approval rating when he took office about 2 1/2 years ago stood at 68%. the proportion of the respondents who said they approve of obama's handling of the economy was 36%. a new low for the president. a record-high 62% say they disapprove of his economic measures. the results are attributed to uncertainty about u.s. economic recovery as unemployment in august remained at 9.1%. "the washington post" says approval ratings of former presidents ronald reagan and bill clinton at about the same time in their first term following serious midterm setbacks were above 50%.s following serious midterm setbacks were above 50%. >>> the u.n. food agency's warning of mass starvation in somalia unless measures are taken immediately. the u.n. food and agriculture organization says as many as 750,000 people could starve to death by the end of the year without emergency aid. tl fao says famine has now spread to the bay region. that brings to

ed r ezra klein of nbc and the "washington post." and bruce bartlett of the reagan and h.w. bush administrations. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> house minority leader nancy pelosi say obama's jobs plan. enthusiastically behind it. the importance of keeping that image of unity up is next. >>> and later, the republican party's obsession with donald trump. now it's texas governor rick perry who is paying homage to trump for some reason that jonathan capehart's going to have to explain to us. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ cellphone translating ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. ♪ look at the map. okay. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. she won't eat eggs without hot sauce. she has kind of funny looking toes. she's always touching my hair. a

host: the "washington post" has this graphic. can see this graphic here, the bottom 80% earning up to $45,000. you see the rest of the break down here. 50%, those that benefit are the top 1% making $1.5 million and up. ohio, a democrat line. caller: i do not know a whole lot about taxes. i do not think a majority of the people calling in it does either. i do pay my taxes and have been paying all my life. i have been working all my life. i am on a fixed income now. my problem is that people call in and they are talking about -- i just want them to know that, of people out there, you are not going to be rich. stop defending the rich. they have lobbyists. they have congress. they do not need you to defend them. i am so tired of hearing these people calling in and talking about investments and how volatile everything is. we have had people waiting to invest in jobs for the last 10 years now, and they are still sitting on money. please, people, if you are poor or middle class, you are not going to be rich. stop defending the rich. the

"the washington post" reported today that the swift implementation of pay cuts and layoffs in europe may put countries like spain and italy at risk for missing the very deficit reduction targets that budget cuts and other austerity measures were meant to achieve. choking economic growth results in less tax revenue and more demand for government services, so less money coming in, more money coming out. thursday night, congress will be nothing more than the in-studio audience for the speech the president is giving. earlier this week he sounded like he had no elusions about his ability to get a republican house of representatives to take action. >> congress needs to act. if congress does not act, then i'm going to be going on the road and talking to folks, and this next election very well may end up being a referendum on, you know, whose vision of america is better. >> speaking of going on the road, the white house announced the day after the speech to the nation the president will go on the road to make his case again in richmond, virginia, a city represented in congress by house repub

host: you are referencing a headline and this morning's "washington post." on one hand, they are looking at why all this money went in, the energy department is still shoveling money out. guest: the way the stimulus law was written, it had a sunset clause senate. all the loan guarantees under this particular program in the energy department possible loan guarantee office have to be closed. when obama passed the law, it was a short-term stimulus, so there was reason for that. but now we're less than two weeks away from the deadline and there are 14 pending. the total comes to about $9.3 billion. it is under a microscope now, trying to get these through. who knows if they are going to succeed on that? several months ago, jonathan silver, the director of the loan guarantee program, sent out a letter to a dozen or more companies telling them that they would not be able to receive the loan guarantee as they had conditionally been committed to, and that was because of a sunset clause. included in that is the country's first offshore wind farm. it will be remain to

the accompanying article, this is from "the washington post." last night just outside the house chamber, c-span was getting reaction from members of congress. republican from washington state and other leadership stopped by. >> it is most important we are focusing on jobs and the fact that he came to congress, delivered the speech, i think will help refocus us all on what it will take to get americans back to work. disappointed that so much of the speech was focused on more pro- government, big government policies, when i think we need to have more pro-growth policies and really look at the barriers to creating jobs. host: next on our democrats' line is pat from colorado city, colorado. caller: i support this president. and i want people to know that the republicans are more afraid of the tea party van de arkansas of unemployed people -- then they are of unemployed people. we should stand together because our forefathers started out on nothing. i don't understand why it is so hard for us to work together, because of the fact that you got to stop

. >> this was on page 1 of the "washington post."n christmas morning after barak obama was elected president, page 1 of the "washington post," a story about his exercise regiment. i'm going to read one sentence. the sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games. this sounds like the crap you read in romance novels. >> bill: that's the fox news bioof me. >> this is on beige 1 of the "washington post." what i'm saying is there is a price the media pays for this kind of thing. >> bill: they have paid it. >> their credibility. >> bill: that's right. 19%, pretty big number when you look at all the news organizations that were factored into the survey. so fox news now dominating the information flow in america. and you say why is that? >> well, let me tell -- this is my take on it. america is a center right country. fox tilts to the right. every single person, if not literally 99.9% of the people watching us right now, used to, before

david, washington bureau chief, and the delightful diana millbank of "the washington post" joins us after far too long hiatus. i do miss you. let's go to this whole thing, let's take a look at these numbers here. if you look at the numbers this way, the unemployment rate is rising up to 8.5% in texas. texas. but it's coming down nationally, at least it has been down, from something like well over 10% nationwide, in 2009. so in a way the directions are off. a guy who's saying i'm the big job creator is having unemployment rise. the president's got a problem at least going in the other direction. >> rick perry always had a claim with the texas miracle before now. because there's been a tremendous population increase in texas, which has led to jobs going up there. and also, high energy prices have been good for texas. bad for us in the northeast, good for texas down there, and created jobs. but now, with all of that being put to the side, we see unemployment going up, there's a lot of low-wage jobs, too, in texas. so his claim to be a model for the rest of the country is falling apart. what

them have no arms who are trying to fight to have a voice and i'll have to do is look at today's washington post it's a picture of. this is a pacifist this is a young man not twenty five years old he used to hang roses to the soldiers who were lowing down protesters trying to get them to stop here before she was just murdered tortured brutalized along with three thousand six hundred innocent people in syria right now it's just people fighting to have a voice in their country and being brutalized by their own government and you know i mean in detroit how would you describe the events playing out in detroit in syria right now would you call it a civil war an armed insurrection i think it is a good. i believe it is the beginning of a civil war there are elements there that are on the syrian government has pointed out there the opposition certain elements within the opposition have been armed by outside forces particularly the united states as well as israel they claim that they have a confession from a former general from syria who defected and he's going to be featured on syrian television are ver

dione is a columnist for "the washington post." and sam town house is the author of "the death of conservatism." you first, e.j., and thanks for being with us. this thing about buffett, is this going to be big? the fight about the very rich paying maybe 15% in capital gains compared to a lot of people paying 35% in taxes? >> well, thanks for having me on, chris. and yeah, i think you can tell it's a big deal from the way conservatives are going after warren buffett. warren buffett is the people's capitalist, really. he doesn't dress fancy, he doesn't remind you of that banker on the chance card in mo monopoly and he has given us the simplest way to understand the unfairness of the tax code. you only pay 15% on capital gains. very, very rich people, particularly investors, hedge fund guys, that's where they make most of their money. a plumber, a nurse, a cop, they make their money through their labor. so what this is saying is if you make your money through capital, it's fine to be rich, but shouldn't tax labor at a higher rate that

jarrett and the piece in the "washington post" today. a must read for any who wants to learn something opposed to throwing up all over themselves on our set. >> that's what i was just going to say, kids, if you want to run for office, rule number one, when you're in a debate, brit hume will tell you, don't vomit on yourself. willie, if it's way too early, what time is it? >> time for "the daily rundown" and chuck todd. >>> that is one to grow on. rick perry is down but is he out? his bopoor debate led to a poor showing in the straw poll. what's his next step to convince conservative americans he's their guy. >>> once again we're hearing a call for governor chris christie to run. how much of it is just conservative thinking? >>> president obama out to raise a bundle of cash and taking a sharp aim at republicans in speeches. it's who he's talking to off-camera that got our gaga attention. this is the dal "the daily run,m chuck todd. could washington be headed to the brink for another government shutdown, deja vu all again. to governor perr

. >> just came out in the "washington post" this morning that the obama administration them to approvean anticipated. >>> bart's plan revealed this morning. the transsit agency accused of staging passenger outrage. anne makovec reports. >> reporter: good morning. a funny thing is you don't have to stage passenger outrage because so many people who ride bart on a daily basis are tired of these protests and they are indeed outraged and very willing to speak about it. but bart is now accused of trying to round up passengers and then coach them on what to say. it was sort of a push to get the public to turn against the protestors. now, all this protesting we have been seeing over the last several weeks has been in response to first when bart police shot and killed a man they say was threatening people on a bart platform. before a bart protest in august, bart called a press conference and according to a bart employee, the main spokesman for art asked her to find bart passengers -- for bart asked her to find bart passengers willing to speak to reporters and then told them what to say. the on

msnbc contributor jonathan capehart is in an editorial writer for the "washington post" and the best-dressedgton. and johnthan, we are talking sarah palin -- >> wait, you left out one thing, your understudy in the next 24 segment, and this is great fun for me. we are talking about sarah palin and what on earth she is going to be saying in iowa at a tea party event. people are wondering what she is going to say there and whether she will give a nod as to whether she is jumping into the race for president or continuing to toy around with the idea. and then on sunday, mitt romney is going to be in new hampshire for a tea party event of his own and starting what first read put out on the calendar which is a jam-packed september. and then labor day is when it all happens. you have palin back on the scene in new hampshire for a tea party event and then in south carolina, jim demint who is a tea party member in the senate and a very powerful person in the senate is going to have bachmann, cain, gingrich, ron paul, perry and romney all at his tea party forum there in south carolina. >> so, it is a p