i was i would wager there's only one or two or three percent of washington post readers who know thatwhen they're reading as today actually the front page a story about the cia of their newspaper but the guy who owns the paper is making a killing from contracting with that agency so they're at cross purposes is that guy up to keeping secrets or exposing them it's a good point whenever you talk about corporate run media it's so much more insidious there could be hundreds of different interests plain and what you're seeing what you're and you know the bias the perspective that's being covered on there we talk about the post journalistic integrity does the paper have a good track record when it comes to covering the government well it's often covering up the government i mean when they get documents they have a history with the bush and obama administrations going to the white house saying what do you think about this will take under advisement whether you think we ought to disclose this documentary not and i would say it's a very mixed record but a lot of it is an ideological perspectiv

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

one of the most celebrated investigative journalist of our time bob woodward of the washington post he's a 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 a 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 so many of them that is star a k. out on sotelo gate across from the white house the executive office buildings over bad 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 o

she first reported on the stolen documents all working at "the washington post."he 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 a

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

what is interesting is i was one of the first -- i was at the washington post for several years and i huffington post. i remember people thought i was crazy to leave the washington post to work for arianna. >> look at where the huffington 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 busin

the next day, the "washington post" revealed details of an internet surveillance program. nine companies had been giving the nsa direct access to all user data. adyfiant president obama said the math was simple. >> you can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy, and zero inconvenience, you know, we're going to have to make some choices as a society. >> reporter: a few days later snowden took to the airways and identified himself. >> i sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal email. even if you are not doing anything wrong you are being watched and recorded. >> reporter: and he added that everything can be held indefinitely. >> the storage capability of these systems increases every year, consistently by orders of magnitude. >> reporter: the revelations kept coming. the british version of the nsa known as the gchq has intercepted communications of world leaders at a london summit meeting in 2009. another story said that they were were working with

the washington post has been breaking down the president's talking points i've been reading.ou've written a little bit about it. what can we expect to hear? >> overall, you showed the poll that shows president obama's approval ratings down. he's going to talk about this year of action. that means getting away from last year where he didn't get much done. he's going to try to talk a lot more about what he's going to do in taking executive actions. in terms of bigger picture pieces, the president won't say he won't deal with congress at all. he'll push for immigration reform, he'll push for solving the question of inequality, income inequality and talk about pushing for a raise of the minimum wage which is a big white house agenda. he'll talk about climate change where the president will do more without congress's approval in terms of executive actions. what they're trying to get across is last year was last year. this year there's a lot more to do before the election cycle. the white house won't wait for congress if congress is not going to act. >> meantime, the gop has prepar

at this point i'm going to let you read what he wrote in the words of the "washington post." not going to read that on tv. so the post learned of this e-mail through a freedom of information request. but the army redacted it so heavily when they responded that it wasn't clear at all what had happened. the whole reason they were able to get what you just read on screen is because they got the unredacted more rather disgusting version of the e-mail from some other source, not from the army. that's what they published in the paper today. there was an army investigation of what happened there with the congressman and the colonels and the two generals he was reporting to. ultimately the colonel became a brigadier general. although he was found to have failed to demonstrate exemplary conduct by the inspector general, he still got his job. he still is a general and still works for the chief of staff. another in the air force was found by the inspector general to have brought discredit upon himself by repeatedly drinking vodka while on the job as an air force general. he today is sti

"the washington post" is looking beyond the buzz of hillary clinton as bid no 2016, suggesting that kirsten gillibrand is someone to keep an eye on. she may by the junior senator from new york, but she proved in 2013 she is one to watch in 2014 and beyond. "new york times," "new yorker" "time" all ended 2013 putting the spotlight on kirsten gillibra gillibrand. a mother who often by getting in her colleagues' faces, lately that's been legislation on what had been a taboo subject, sexual assault in the military. >> one common theme in all these profiles is that you are relentless. is that fair? >> i work very hard, and i think you have to work hard. i this when you're fighting for someone who's been raped and reported that rape, he or she was told it's your own fault or told i'm not going to do anything, or told if you report this, your career is over. i have to do something about that. i feel it's my moral obligation to fight for that man or woman in the military. >> reporter: she also fights on the political battlefield, prodding female candidates to run for congress in 2014, then there's

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 la

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, 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

reporter reuters reporters bloomberg, "new york times" or washington post or "washington -- or "wall street journal" reporter. not all of them fly once. there are still photographer you have ap, "the washington post," and "the new york times and then radio. that pool gets smaller for certain events. sometimes it's a still only pool or just correspondents, just writers only pool. rarely is it just a tv pool. sometimes they mix both the tv and the stills together. that's a battle that we have constantly. there are events that happen at the white house that we feel like we should have access to. they allow still photographers in and then they say stills only. and in the tv side of it starts complaining. >> if you're shooting pool -- not shooting pool, if you're a member of the pool, who do you have to provide your still photography to? >> well, let's see, the "new york times" is in the pool because we're the only newspaper who has committed to covering the white house on a daily basis. it's really experiencive to fly -- it is really expensive to fly on air force one. every trip the pres

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

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.

communicators." " continues.journal host: back with a reid wilson, senior political policy blogger for washington post gov beat talking about the 2014 agenda for governors and state legislatures. i want to begin with the national governors association, the head of the, mary fallin, republican governor for oklahoma. out in washington last week talking to the media, but also had a meeting with president obama. i want to show our viewers what she had to say about how governors are viewing washington at this point. [video clip] >> as governors, we have to make government work. we do not have the luxury of in action. we have to lead our states while also balancing our budget. we are now midway through the 113th congress and governors are frustrated. despite the recent budget agreement, partisan gridlock continues to prevent long-term policy solutions. now, we are doing our part as governors to create jobs and address the challenges facing our state and this country, but we also believe that now it is time for the federal partners to do their part and to take action. host: reid wilson? guest: that sense of

edward snowden himself in the "washington post" said the

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 co

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.

i think the washington post gave a number of take aways from those. what were some of them?t messages was that the president tried to split the difference. he's going to take the phone meta data, the bulk collection that the government does out of the hands of the government over the next 60 days. he's asked for a plan. he won't continue to spy on foreign leaders, but at the same time he also made clear that he believes this program is important. so he's going to continue to allow the nsa to collect this data, which some privacy and civil libertarians is not necessary to stop terrorism. the president says he believes in it. >> david, what else are you working on right now for the post? >> veronica, coming this week at the post we're having a series of stories starting wednesday about what the president's going to say in the state of the union address. i'm going to deal with immigration reform. we're also going to deal with energy and the environment, the economy and national security. so you can look for a series of stories starting wednesday each day leading up to the speec

we have columnist in new york and a reporter for the "washington post".tleman, 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 f

that is the story from inside the washington post. francis from tennessee, republican line. er: i think it is ironic that washington state and colorado have approved marijuana. most of the colors to your program say there is no addiction to marijuana. it is a wonderful thing. i just cannot believe that. here you are still harping on cigarettes. seemingly, giving approval to marijuana being legalized. banse other hand, what or statements are on beer cans? they are addictive. they cause problems. there are children who are mistreated by parents. seemingly, government is not going to say anything about that at all. thank you for listening. host: thank you for the call. steve has this point. from the twitter page, taxes on cigarettes have created criminals out of otherwise law-abiding citizens. over five dollars per pack. that is almost $2000 per year. another related story from the san francisco chronicle. 50 years ago, ash trays were on every table and desk. athletes, even fred flintstone, enjoyed cigarettes. most hung in the air in restaurants and airplanes. u.s. adults smoked

you think well be hard to me that he will in effect he was because if you look at the way the washington post another major media characterized him at the end of his life he was demonized within ninety days of his assassination within the pages of the washington post they said the federal government in the highest levels of the federal government were afraid of him feared him as a threat to national security in part because of his affinity or what was perceived as his affinity for leninism and the black power movement so in effect he was at that time being called a terrorist i don't think one national leader attended his funeral and i wrote a piece in august after the fiftieth for the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary march on washington i asked the question or made the projection had he been alive today he would not have been invited to this at that morning because he would have been against drones he would have been against the assassination of moammar gadhafi he would have been against. attorney general eric holder statement that the president has the right to assassinate an americ

that's what i mean washington post cause al sharpton a surrogate for obama's policies and in delivering them critically to black america in a way so that black people are less critical of what obama is doing we have to i think i think a value should be put on that in the. it should be made between what sharpton defines as the point of the movement and what king was defining so when sharpton says on sixty minutes the point of the movement was to allow him to wear these suits and smoke cigars and fancy you know bars in downtown manhattan dr king was saying the exact opposite that the black was the white liberals in particular were not doing what they were supposed to do to uphold the struggle to advance the struggle for real economic justice redistributive politics and a real as he said revolutionary change of social values in this country. let's talk about a ninety nine memphis grand jury case that did conclude that dr king's assassination wasn't part of mr by government conspiracy i mean what do you guys think about this monumental court decision and why has there been no kind of acknow

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

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

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

that's what i mean washington post cause al sharpton a surrogate for obama's policies and in delivering them particularly to black america in a way so that black people are less critical of what obama is doing we have to i think i think a value should be put on that in the. it should be made between what sharpton defines as the point of the movement and what king was defining so when sharpton says on sixty minutes the point of the movement was to allow him to wear these suits and smoke cigars and fancy you know bars in downtown manhattan dr king was saying the exact opposite that the black was the white liberals in particular were not doing what they were supposed to do to uphold the struggle to advance the struggle for real economic justice redistributive politics and a real as he said revolutionary change of social values in this country. let's talk about a ninety nine memphis grand jury case that did conclude that dr king's assassination wasn't part of mr by government conspiracy i mean what do you guys think about this monumental court decision and why has there been no kind of ackn

we rolled deep at "the washington post."c 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

the next day, the washington post revealed leaks of an internet surveillance program. nine companies had been giving direct access to all user data. president obama said the math was simple. >> you can't have 100% security and also then have 100% privacy he identified himself as the former nsa contractor fueling the now public debate. >> i sit in my desk certainly had the authority to wiretap anyone, even if you are not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded. >> and he added that nearly everything can be held indefinitely the storage capa e capability increases every year. in late june, the caguardian reported that the british version another story was working with the nsa to track data around the globe and that the nsa was secretly help to go pay for it the washington post reported an internal audit showed the agency had broken its own privacy regulations more than 2700 times. president obama announced a new review of the nsa but insisted. >> he has been charged with three felonies. he can come here, appear before the court with a lawyer. >> the emba

you know he gave a long interview to barton gellman of the washington post that was published on that paper's front page just before christmas and he used a funny term to describe himself to bart he said i am an indoor cat. by which he means that wherever he is in the world he's a citizen of the internet he's someone who doesn't need much more than a laptop and some dry ramen noodles that you can buy at the store and he'll be fine in whatever country he's in but he's living very independently he is learning the language there in case he doesn't get the benefit of clemency or amnesty and needs to make his home there he does need to live somewhere and he is merely closely watching the news what about those who say been why didn't he do as others in somewhat similar circumstances doing those work comes to mind why not stay and face to face the music have a trial appear before the public many many many many people agree with you why why are you on. i think it's a fair question but i think people don't understand what the laws are under which he's charged and he's charged under the espiona