one runs in the sunday washington post as well. i rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. i look for statements that are about big issues, statements that i can use to tell a larger story about the background of the federal budget, or the health care law, issues that are

this is certainly "the washington post's" worst failure.n deserved to be shot, that he deserved to die, "the washington post" article had to lie. it wants to pretend is the truth teller of the grand jury. certainly not reveal that the eyewitness cut that distance in half under oath. the article had to tell the lie that witness number 10's story is consistent when he told it two days after the shooting and six weeks after the shooting. it turns out it really is impossible to prove that he's willing to lie. >>> coming up next, a special report from alex wagner who's i've been called a control freak... i like to think of myself as more of a control... enthusiast. mmm, a perfect 177-degrees. and that's why this road warrior rents from national. i can bypass the counter and go straight to my car. and i don't have to talk to any humans, unless i want to. and i don't. and national lets me choose any car in the aisle. control. it's so, what's the word?... sexy. go national. go like a pro. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. better take so

that "the washington post" article decided, willfully decided not to include.not fully recall. that is how witness number 10 began his description, but you would never know that by reading "the washington post" article. as i said in last week in real courtroom, witnesses who begin answers with i can't say for sure and then say i cannot fully recall, and then say i'm not sure twice within the body of that answer do not survive real cross-examination in real courtrooms. answers that begin with i can't say for sure and i can't fully recall are of very little value in real courtrooms. and that sentence, i can't say for sure, i cannot fully recall, was of very little value to an article that claims witness number 10 proves that darren wilson had to shoot. so the article just excluded that sentence because it was painfully inconvenient to the unsupported theorizing in the article. t"the washington post" article says witness 10 was a neutral observer who saw all the same things that officer wilson saw, albeit from a safe distance. notice how the safe distance is a nig

one runs in the sunday washington post as well. i rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. i look for statements that are about big issues, statements that i can use to tell a larger story about the background of the federal budget, or the health care law, issues that are confusing to people, that they hear politicians talk about, and are wondering, is that really true? it is kind of like a reverse restaurant rating. the worst you can get is four pinocchios. three is mostly false, one is, there is some problem with the statistic, it may be out of context. if you are completely factually accurate, you get a gepetto check mark. >> how many gepettos did you give out this year? >> maybe four or five. i tell myself i need to give more gepettos. >> here is a video you put together about presidents. i want to ask you -- you don't like to talk about the word lying. i want to ask you about the word when we see this video. >> cambodia, a small country of 7 million people, has been a neutral nation since the agreement of ge

sir. >> thank you. >> as noted the "the washington post" editorial board coming out swinging at the executive order. call the scope of the action unprecedented. joining us our political panel, washington examiner susan father rich choo, cusack and bob -- "the washington post" unhappy with him and at the tail end did slap the house republicans for not voting on the its congratulation bill but it's unusual to seat editorial board after endorsing him in 2012 and 2008. they are not happy with him. >> i think they missed the argument. the president is doing vastly much on a grander scale than what george bush sr. did and what ronald reagan did. i think the argument should be congress had passed made executive orders that involved hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants. >> when they say facts matter and wildly exaggerated, terrible to be on the receiving end of that, bob. >> also on the receiving end of "saturday night live" that poked fun at him. also remember, president obama said multiple times over 20 times that he couldn't do this himself. overall, still talking about process and the pres

"the washington post" is very critical of this grand jury decision in its editorial today. it said that justice is stifled today. it points out that things are very different between the ferguson case and this case in new york. in ferguson case, at least there were conflicting witness accounts that could explain why the court decided not to indict the police officer. but in this eric garner case things are very different because the incident was caught on tape. so we can all they witness, if you will, to what happened. "the washington post" points out that if you watch this disturbing video you can see that eric garner was not actively gently. he was unarmed overweight, -- was not actively gently. he was unarmed, overweight, and the illegal chokehold the police officer used against him was clearly visible. and you can hear him say 11 times "i can't breathe." the editorial wonders what exactly was this rancheria thinking and really hopes the court proceedings will be made public one day soon. speaking with up with the washington post," i pulled that a cartoon that is critica

here is the front page of "washington post" last week.n dangerous encounters with small drones in the past six months at a time when the faa is opening skies to remotely controlled aircraft. host: the topic of drones and the safety of drones was the subject of some sunday shows yesterday, including "date of the union." the faa administrator talked about airplane collisions and the safety of drones. [video clip] the thing we are most concerned about is to ensure that any aircraft do not come into conflict. they do not crash into one another. >> you cannot see these. >> these are high-performance aircraft and they are difficult to see. rules requiree people stay away from airports. please been working with the modeling community and with clubs so we can educate people. these are not typical pilots flying one of these for the first time. a big part of what we are doing is educating people. wait? you afford to we are educating people about how to drive a car. meanwhile we have amateurs who .ly it trying to get a sense of your sense of the dan

the headline from local the washington post" -- the phone lines are on your screen. orl us if you plan to see it do not plan to see it as well as if you're not sure. we want to get your thoughts on that this morning. this is from "the washington post" - the studio did not say how many theaters will be part of the release. release this on dvd as well. let's go to don in south carolina, you plan to see it? caller: yes, i think it should be shown twice a day of possible on regular tv. host: why? that,: because if we do anytime we have someone acting like this, the government should justin and -- they should just show it. host: you think the government should pay sony for it? caller: sure. host: emmanuel in california, you don't want to see it? caller: hello, no, i do not plan to see it. embarrassing as the leader of his country to have a video made. i know it's a comedy and they went too far bringing up 9/11 and everything. moviebelieve it we made a about their leader and they made a movie about our leader being assassinated, we would be upset about that as they are. be

from the washington post, there is a serious about james c. tankersley and the american middle class. that is coming up in about five minutes. a.re is among economists that the biggest problem with the american economy is a lot of americans don't have the calendar -- talent to compete in the global marketplace. that there he misses a damaging development over the past several decades. the economy has suffered at the hands of some of its most skilled and talented workers who saw escalating pay under wall street. this is a story from "the washington post here co it's available online. prices, andt gas i'll boom has -- oil boom has pushed gas below two dollars per gallon. pockets of low prices have two dollars popping up across the country. the average cost is tracking at $2.43 a gallon. the president needs to support the keystone pipeline it. newsissue came up in the conference with the president. he said he doesn't see a need for it benefiting the u.s. economy. this is the republican response. the president said he would bankrupt the coal indus

reports say a "washington post" journalist held in i ran has been charged, the post says it's not clearges have been filed against the chief jason and he was arrested in july with his wife and fellow journalists. she was released on bail in october. according to the committee to protect journalist by the end of 2013 at least 35 journalists have been jailed in iran and turkey imprisoned more and most are iran and not foreigners and he is yet to bring campaign promise to bring change in favor of free speech and i spoke to an i ranian journalist in tehran and asked why the president's promises appear to remain unfulfilled. >> the judiciary is independent of the government and nothing say in the decisions at the judiciary and i know as we mentioned there are journalists in prison here in iran and it's difficult to defend the media in the countries and sometimes unacceptable and i understand that and no job security and the first is the last mistake and there is a fine line between success and failure as a journalist in this country and i do accept that no doubt about it but at the same time

honestly, when you look at ferguson i recommend the "washington post" story. it is not clear at all what happened and if --. >> with one exception there is in dispute that michael brown went into the police car and attacked officer wilson and there was a struggle for a gun. we know that. >> right and we have evidence that shows. look, what joe scarborough was saying is standing up to his own network and saying, look, police officers have a very difficult job. they go out every day and put their live online. i have been critical the police in the case of the garner incident and rightly so. but do not bash the police universally. >> here is the thing and i respect the rule of law and what police officers do but you cannot look at ferguson base or the eric banner case in a advantage -- vacuum. next we will be talking about the 12-year-old shot in cleveland. you look at this in a larger vacuum there is a problem to the point where the next is weighing in. >> is that problem reflected adequately in the media coverage? with the continues between majority white boule

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when you look at ferguson, i recommend that washington post story. it is not clear at all what happened. >> with the one exception that there is no dispute that michael brown went into that police car, attacked darren wilson, it was a struggle for the gun. >> we do know that and with for ensive evidence. i think what joe scar borrow was saying, standing up to his network and saying, look, police officers do have a difficult job. they go out every day and put their lives on the line. i've been very critical on the police in the case of the garner incident, but let's not bash the police universally. >> i respect the rule of law. i think there's an argument to be had that you can't look at the ferguson case or the eric gardner case in a vacuum, right? i think we'll be talking about next the 12-year-old shot and killed in cleveland. as you look at this larger having um, you see there is indeet a problem. >> is that problem reflected adequately in your view in the media coverage and the long standing tension between majority white police departments and s

and the national political competentant for "the washington post." -- expandant for "the washington post." >>s this "washington week" with gwen ifill. "washington week" is provided by -- >> how much money do you have in your pocket? >> $40. >> $20. >> could something that small make an impact on something big as your retirement? if you start putting money towards your retirement and let it grow over time for 20, 30 years, that retire the challenge might not seem to big after all. >> funding for "washington week" is also provided by -- the annenberg foundation. the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: gening. president obama and f.b.i. both pushed back at the north korean government today, elevating what had been a hollywood story of packing a terror threat into an international standoff. the spark improbably was a seth rogen movie, one that fictionalized the assassination of korean leader kim jong-un. today the picture was yanked from theaters, the decision the p

i read it in "the washington post." i was shocked because jerry: i had written a book that talks about this being possible and people have hinted that it was possible by monitoring light fiber, although i think the mechanisms did not apply. we did not know. the fact it had been so directly and documented in the documents that was leaked was really a shock to the company. here we are. we are more than a year later from that day. the morgan stanley high-tech 35 index, about 25 percent. google remains one of the most massively profitable companies in the world. >> has there been real damage to you or the industry or to us more broadly? >> there is damage at many levels. let's start by saying that if you are a european right now you are less likely to trust an american firm to take your data. maybe you should have all been -- always live in -- always been less trusting. i google, we massively encrypted are google servers for the technical which is 2048 long which is much larger than the original 1024. it is many times bigge

from "the washington post." that is a little bit from "the washington post." you probably saw the live tweeting that she was doing yesterday while john brennan was speaking. vincent is in new hampshire. thank you for giving me this opportunity. i would like to address some of the earlier calls. was a skew ine facts. we seem to be switching topics back and forth. this happened post-9/11. time, we had a huge threat to our national security. we were very naive at the time. official in was washington was trying so hard to make sure something like this would not happen again. -- this was a mistake that we made. we had good intentions. this is part of our history that we are not going to do again. it is controversial. that theo remember toentions were not made belittle us. it was made to instill fear. was it the best method? no. i think we got your point. this is dale in memphis. want you to know that i understand the mechanics of what went on and the reasoning why it went on. , i think wetime went overboard. i think we try to teach our kids about not being over the

one friend has flat out told the "washington post," quote, it didn't happen that way at all. instead of telling jackie not to report the alleged incident, the friends say they told her to call police. they say she declined. the name of the man she claimed was her date that night does not match any student registered at uva, and photos of that man are actually pictures of a high school classmate who told the "post" he barely knows jackie. as i've been saying on radio, largely due to the dogged work of the "washington post" this story is unraveling and it reinforces my belief from day one that the news media, not just "rolling stone," rushed to embrace this story, because it fit a narrative that the media wished to pursue about sexual assault on college campuses, and in that process, by accepting a story that never sounded right from the get-go, harm might be done to real victims. joining me now is robby suave, a staff editor at reason.com, one of the first journalists to consider that the story might be a hoax. robby, what was it about this that from the get-go caused you to h

even "the washington post" editorial board are furious with him. they secured president obama skewered president obama today. respect paragraph first the "the washington post" editorial board gasping president obama caving in to raoul castro and then reports that cyber terrorists have struck and the world watches. the question is president obama getting weaker on the world stage by the minute in karl rove joins us. good evening, karl. >> good evening, greta. >> karl, i don't know when you saw that editorial in the "the washington post" today about president obama and cuba but it an absolutely skewered him had. he bought the horse that cuba sold to spain in the vatican four years ago there's there was a specific reference to the vatican that he would free all political prisoners and he didn't. now he has made a big deal that he is letting 53 political prisoners out of jail. there are thousands in custody under restraint by the cuba regime and president obama is turning a blind eye to raoul castro and a the castro brothers and their policies and assu

the problem is reviewing -- the "washington post" is reviewing about as many a week as it used to. if the they're scattered throughout the paper, the outlook section on sundays, the style section on wednesdays and the art section on sunday and the business section. they're there but not there in an organized coherent way, and it's -- i was very sad when "book world" was killed, income 2010. and my wife was the last editor of "book world" as a free-standing section. it was the best in the country no doubt. didn't have the advertising support of "the new york times" but was a better section. reviews were livelier and more readable and less of an in crowd sort of thing. but, yes, a number of readers who wrote to me after my farewell piece, -- now reader comments at amazon.com, and, well, some of those are pretty smart. i don't pay an awful lot of attention to them. but my wife and my -- one of my sons and i have all published books so i keep an eye on how they're dog on amazon. look at the comments, and some of them are pretty intelligent. the most recent book is a biography of simone

we just had this mistake in the washington post. i have been hearing about it for the last two days. there are only five graduates of harvard. justice ginsburg's degree came from columbia after she spent two years in harvard. justice thomas, at an event at yale, that is the one he picked out as a problem for diversity. there are a lot of great law schools not represented on the court. i cannot explain to you why it is this way right now. except perhaps, you have very ambitious people who go to harvard and yale. people who are thinking this is a goal for them. i think, when presidents pick nominees, it helps to say, this person went to one of those law schools. >> i don't think it matters much that they are from those schools. you do have a point in terms of different life experiences. justice o'connor, put a great deal of her political experience in the court. that is true people in private practice. people from civil rights backgrounds. those are relevant questions. i'm not sure the fact they all went to elite schools. one was a sh

meanwhile the white house is waking up to this headline from "the washington post." worst year in washington again." we want to hear about your comments -- you want to hear your comments on this article. who did have the worst year in washington? was of the president? congress in general, a particular member? or someone else? the worstn, who had year in washington. you can also join us on facebook -- begin with, let's this latest spending package that was approved in a late-night session by the senate. "the senate passes the $1.1 trillion spending bill, after moments of high drama and acrimony the senate passed a sweeping 1.1 dollar trillion spending package on saturday night, ending days of chaotic legislative maneuvers and clearing the way for the president to sign the bill." from politico.com, this here:ne, "deal done "republicans had thought -- fought harry reid for months to block a number of nominees moving forward, and then ted cruz and mike lee took to the floor to call for a vote on the president's executive action on immigration, demanding that their collea

to "medi howie kurtz. >>> so in light of new reporting by "the washington post" and cbs has the rolling stone rape story basically collapsed? and what about new questions of lena dunnham's account of campus rape? joining us now, in minneapolis, anna marie cox, contributor for the daily beast. susan, when you hear jackie's friends and the interview with the washington post reporter blowing holes in her account, i have to ask, why couldn't rolling stone find these people? >> that's a great question. i looked at sabrina earlier and linked an account. she talks about her reporting involving doing thousands of introduce for stories. well, you know, if you're that kind of reporter and you're the one who likes to dig and dig and look for things, i think instinctively, you would go out looking for these friends and want to go make sure you got everybody. i saw some reports suggesting she may have just interviewed the periphery of those friends and not the actual piece who were in direct contact with her. i just find that hard to believe. if she's going through the advocacy group on the campus,

"the washington post" has been breaking new ground on the story and wrote the latest piece.he joins me now and we should note they reached out to get comment on this and had no comment on the story. carol, you wrote about the new challenges after 9/11 having to prepare for new types of attacks like truck bombs and biological and chemical weapons and wrote but resources remained flat and extended stretches on the road. for years, hard work helped keep the turmoil from showing. what resources did the secret service lack and why didn't they get them? >> so the problem from the secret service is like every other government agency like the terrorist attacks of 9/11 the number of threats and the complexity of threats dramatically expanded and for the secret service there were a host of duties and people who needed details all the time including the vice president's grandchildren. a group that had not gotten protection 24-7 before. it was all a drain on manpower but if you look at the secret service's budget and their manpower over the last 12 years as we did at "the washington pos

>> i think it's 15 years. >> we'll look at a couple of pages from "the washington post" sports page. in washington d.c. if you think it can't get worse if you're a redskins fan, look at the back of "the daily news." biggest losers new york jets have the worst record in the nfl. >> so now it's obvious what they have to do. you tank the last three games. you want the number one pick in the draft at 2-11 there's no shame in that. >> then you trade your number one draft pick for mark sanchez. >> brett favre. >> i think you get sanchez and i think you get tim tebow out of retirement. >> let's get favre, tebow and sanchez. >> they doubled their output. >> still ahead on "morning joe," continued protests overnight over the eric garner choke hold case and now more athletes are voicing criticism of the grand jury's decision and what happened that night at the university of virginia when a young woman told "rolling stone" magazine she was the victim of a gang rape. we'll speak with "the washington post" reporter that broke the news that forced "rolling stone" to issue their major clarification

i was surprised that the "washington post" editorial board slammed the president over this. they called this an undeserved bailout. >> yes. i wrote that down, too. >> good for you. jackson deal and fred hyatt of the "washington post" editorial board i think are some of the strongest freedom fighters that we have in commentary today. so i wasn't that surprised with them. there are lots of mixed feelings about this. i am concerned with the economic argument by saying that it's going to help americans. because what we really should be worried about is are you going to help the cubans? if there is an mcdonald's that opens up let's say in the next ten years, i hope that those people that end up working there get paid with dollars that tourists use rather than getting paid with pesos which is what happens now. if you go to a hotel in cuba right now you would pay in dollars. they're all owned by the state. the state takes that money and they pate workers in pesos which are almost worthless. >> right. >> so i think if we see any normalization in the future that that should be a prec

"the washington post" years ago dealt with a major story that was a fabrication about a young child who was in danger, whose parents were giving him drugs, and everyone because on the lookout, and it turns out that was fabricated as well. >> let's keep in mind the context here, uva has been under pressure now for a whole bunch of rapes that were unreported and some of those are in the process of being indicted. i'm not accusing rolling stone, but they're not alone. the stripper down in north carolina, you remember that? that got a whole bunch of guys in trouble. >> the university ended up having to settle with those fraternity brothers who were not guilty. >> and this is not the first time -- it's too attractive a story, that's the problem, you've got something like this, a gang rape at a fraternity. i don't have any personal experience with this, a lot of times there are people who are going to yell that something happened that didn't happen. what about in new york city in central park? these young black kids got accused of doing this to the woman, it turned out not to be true. >> rich

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this is from "the washington post." the woman, jackie, spoke with "the post" since this became public in "rolling stone." she told a reporter i never asked for this. what bothers me is that so many people act like it didn't happen. it's my life. i have had to live with the fact that it happened every day for the last two years. so she, eric, at least according to your newspaper, is stand bin by her story. >> it's important to separate here the journalism "rolling stone" did from the woman who made these accusations. it's clear the one part of the "rolling stone" story that does have on the record sourcing says that this woman became dark. she shut herself in her room after a certain point that fall. so for all we know, this woman did suffer something terribly traumatic. it doesn't appear to have been the scenario that "rolling stone" laid out. that doesn't mean we shouldn't hold out the possibility that this woman really suffered here. it was "rolling stone's" fault that it didn't do the proper -- didn't take the proper

washington post." thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> chris hayes is up next. lot of things right. >> the c.i.a. strikes back. >> they did what they were asked to do. >> c.i.a. chief john brennan issues a stunning rebuttal to the senate report on bush era torture. >>> then, the crohnibus revolt. joining elizabeth warren to fight the big bank give away. >> it is time for all of us to stand up and fight. >> plus, an incredible protest scene on the steps of the capitol. >>> yet, another block buster allegation against bill cosby and another report casts even more doubt on rolling stone's campus rape story. "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. the government is facing prospect of a shutdown at midnight if lawmakers in congress cannot pass a bill to fund the government. both backing a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill known as the cromnibus. house speaker john boehner backs a bill. but senator elizabeth warren and house democratic leader have come out against the bill, revolting over a provision designed to weaken dodd/frank wall street in a m

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one runs in the sunday washington post as well. rate politicians based on the accuracy of their statements. i look for statements that are about big issues, statements that i

"the washington post" points out that there are some topics in washington that are out of bounds.he daily beast reports that it turns out she broke the law herself when she was a teenager she was arrested for shoplifting. this article calls for compassion. we were all teenagers once. >> so true. thank you. thanks to you for watching france 24. next business. ♪ we have stephen with us. the price of oil is finally showing signs of recovery. >> a 10% drop last week, the index got the balance it needed late monday. brent crude a benchmark for international oil trade, went over $72 a barrel, $5 higher than this time last week. slightly below that today. it flipped back slightly in trading this tuesday. after -- that is having a knock on effect on the stock market. the oil and gas sector companies among big gainers on the ftse 100. in france, investors digesting this. sender and pours -- standard & poor's has cut its forecast saying a week corporate sector was to blame. >> the price of oil is having an impact on the russian economy. >> we've been talking about the ruble hitting a record

published in the "washington post" today. we have another one to show you from mike from the atlanta constitution a shot of the president and his daughter sasha and they're going to a middle school open house and sasha is saying to the president, i'm in a close race for hall monitor so we don't know each other. caller: i was just as disturbed by his remark about dick cheney as the last person. and he calls himself eek mencal but all the cartoons that i have seen prove him to be very much liberal and this business before he came on you had a promo of your program tonight saying the myth of the liberal media. i mean, come on. it's not a myth around we all know it. and the only cartoon you did show that was really basically like a conservative or people who care about other people was the one with the police officer and the coffin. and then the rest of them were definitely like against the republicans in congress. and as far as the religion goes, the last caller was right. christianity -- and i love that expression. it's a liber

what is unique about it, it shows up in "the washington post." someone leaks it to "the washington post." he swears that he did not send it, he did not do it. it would be a very severe felony if he did. somehow this was ultimately leaked to "the washington post," and they ran it on the front page of the sunday edition style section. let's see what it says. "this place is a small piece of hell. my next stop is the compound of international compounds of the red cross. of everyone say thousand children under five, 10 children die every night. the baby -- they're not that many. the children are like bony birds, with just a few ounces of flesh cloaking their bodies. there had seen out of proportion, their eyes unnaturally large and luminous. they search languidly in the fold of their mother's clothes for a dug of milk, and finding none, look up without complaining." he is painting apocalyptic figures. this appears in the style section, a widely read section, of "the washington post" on a sunday. this is the trigger effect, the cnn effect, we talk abou

for our friday news roundup, we are joined by syndicated columnist mark shields and "washington post"umnist michael gerson. david brooks is away. happy holidays to both of you. >> likewise. >> woodruff: as we say, mark, the news is kind of tough. let's talk about sony first. they went ahead and released this picture, after all, online streaming as well as in the theaters. the expectation is there are going to be more cyberattacks like the one on sony. has the u.s. handled this the right way and what's been learned, do you think? >> you know, i think the president handled it right in his press conference i thought by saying it was an act of vandalism rather than terrorism because if it's an act of terrorism then it rises to the level of national security and that there has to be an american governmental response. judy, it is really difficult to generate enormous sympathy for sony in this. they are not an admiral corporate character, and they've hardly handled themselves that way. the fact that north korea is the heavy in the piece and deservedly so, i just think that we are seeing only

. >> as "the washington post's" own fact checker concluded, quote, apparently he's changed his mind. president obama admitted last week that i just took an action to change the law, end quote, and i should add a jeweled crown worthy of king james of england who dispensed with the revolution by dispensing laws passed by parliament. it is congress's duty to write our nation's laws and once they are enacted, it is the president's responsibility to enforce them. article 2, section 3 of the constitution requires the president to take care that the law be faithfully executed. president obama wants a special pathway to citizenship for 11 million unlawful immigrants and without any assurance that our nation's immigration laws that will be enforced in the future and he's upset that america won't change his immigration laws to his liking. thus he has decided to act unconstitutionally under the guise of prosecutorial discretion. while presidents do have the power to exercise prosecutorial discretion, congre discretion, this power must be judiciously used. prosecutorial discretion is a powerful

we'll let "the washington post" credibility speak for itself.k you. >> professor gruber what did you mean when you said they proposed it and it passed because the american people are too stupid to understand the difference? >> when i said that i was at an economic conference being glib and quite frankly trying to make myself seem smart by offending others. >> are you offering that as a defense for saying it or meaning it? >> i'm offering it as a defense for using inappropriate and hurtful and inexcusable language. >> well, what did you mean by too stupid to understand the difference? >> congressman, i didn'ttvç mea anything by it. >> well, you said it, you had to have meant it. >> i was once again being glib in trying to make myself seem smarter by reflecting -- >> well, what did you mean when you said it was the basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding by the voter. what did you mean by that? >> once again, it's another example of my inexcusable arrogance in trying to insult others to make myself look smarter. >> well, what did