area so at my house growing up we have the "washington post" and the washington star. when the star died in the "washington post" came along i remember riding seven miles on my bike to get the first day of the "washington post." washington newspapers mattered to me and still matter to me and my dream was always to work for the "washington post." c-span: what was the problem at the post? >> guest: that's a good question. there are lots of different answers. i would say i learned a lot. i was a national editor of the post at the time and these papers were not where they are today in terms of figuring out the very uncomfortable transitions. our friends and colleagues had just left to found "politico" and we were reinventing political coverage. we had a big large staff. it was a personal challenge for me to manage such a large staff of many varied compilation veterans, all of them extremely anxious about what this new air of transformation was going to be like and coincidently i would say longtime editor of the post was replaced right after that. the paper went throu

>> "the washington post" company. the ceo of the chairman was don gramm and the publisher was his niece. we informed both of them we intended to publish the initial story as well as subsequent because at had implications for our institution i could not publish it without letting them know and they signed onto it. they knew generally what it was about they were aware it could have implications for our institution in. >>cspan: you have been at "the washington post" three years. this is video now that the ownership has changed but you are on the set being interviewed the only reason they want to run this to hear what she said about the post and what has changed in the short period of time. >> you have five to thousand daily subscribers the 700,000 what are those doing where are they? wide you have 700,000 during the week? >> i think the readers are different for starters as they have more time on sunday. a lot of people get the sunday paper delivered on saturday plus we have the coupons. [laughter] and a lot of people ge

has primarily come from "the washington post." done it with hillary clinton too. clinton foundation stories are litter down there. "new york times." what about ap story on the foundation which incorrectly reported how many meetings she had. said she had 154 meetings. >> "the washington post" ignored that story. "the washington post" ignored that story. deirdre: listen, i love it. spirited. what we're looking for, but you all come back. mark, jessica. >> thanks, deirdre. deirdre: florida elementary school is under fire after sending this permission slip home with students inviting kids to opt out of saying the pledge of allegiance. the uncle who fought back is with me after this. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a denture were to be put under a microscope, we can see all the bacteria that still exists on the denture, and that bacteria multiplies very rapidly. that's why dentists recommend cleaning with polident everyday. polident's

just within the last few minutes, "the washington post" has reported this news. the headline is "trump considers last-minute meeting in mexico with the country's president." so between the speech tonight in washington state and the immigration speech tomorrow night in arizona, "the washington post" is reporting that donald trump is considering flying to mexico city to meet with the mexican president. "the washington post" reporting tonight that talks between the trump campaign and mexican officials are ongoing. people informed of these plans requested anonymity due to the sensitivity surrounding the planning. they said that as of late tonight talks between the trump campaign and mexican officials are ongoing. trump is reportedly interested in going but logistics and will security concerns are still being sorted out. according to the washington post, representatives for the trump campaign reached out early this week to the u.s. embassy in mexico to talk about these intentions, according to a person in mexico, familiar with communication between the two camps. is do

ron charlie, the redter of "washington post" book world. thank you so much. >> on sunday, september 4th, booktv is live from hillsdale college in michigan with dennis prager on in depth. his recent book examines how the ten commandments are relevant today and writes about good and evil, racism, the holocaust and other things in this book. in his 2013 book, still the best hope, he lays out why he believes american values must triumph in an uncertain world. here is here from a los angeles time festival of books. >> if everybody lived by the ten commandments you would not need an army, a police man, no locks on the door. this is all humans need. it is amazing. sunday, september 4th from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> up next on booktv on c-span2 investigative journalist seymour hersh talks about his newest book called "the killing of osama bin laden"challenging the facts made by the obama administration and others about bin laden's capture and death. >> host: let's start by talking aboutin

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also, the washington post tells us about an amazing interview with donald trump.these words from our sponsors. ♪ ♪ mark: the polls have been coming in fast and furious, most telling the same story, hillary clinton is getting a solid bounce coming out of the philadelphia convention. today, a new survey shows clinton leading donald trump 50% to 42%. yesterday, we also talked about a new cnn poll showing clinton beating trump 52% to 43%. we will take a deeper dive into these numbers with our chief pollster who joins us from des moines. it seems pretty clear that clinton has gotten some edge out of her convention. let's talk about independents, what has happened pre- and post-convention? >> one of the things you want to convention to do for you is not just solidify the face, which we will talk about in a minute, but also to bring in new people, to convince those who might have been straddling the fence to come on board enjoy the party. we have two cnn polls. one that was conducted before the democratic convention and one conducted after, say methodology, so it gives u

yet, the "the washington post" editorial board put that in the paper. why?l, they despise donald trump. and are using solve olenski's rules for radical number 13. pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. that is what the antipress, the anti-trump press is doing he is not recognizing that explosive comments about gun control can and will be used against him. extremely[q#oigkmy hostile amern press will use his words not only to denigrate him, but also to avoid reporting on real issues affecting the u.s.a. i predicted this would happen more than a year ago. >> finally tonight, the factor tip of the day the media despising donald trump. and here's why. he has no fear. he could not care less about censors himself and the press does not intimidate him. so, because of that approach, the media belief they must punish mr. trump for being disrespectful and not cowering before them. plus, they don't like his politics, generally speaking. >> and that has come to pass. so the trump campai

just you wait until they read the story in the washington post.n.g to endorse paul donald trump use the same language that ryan used. john: the nominee is trying to blow the party up there is no other way to explain it. another controversy coming out of donald trump's mouth that the campaign is trying to deal with today. what histhe u.s. today reaction would be if his daughter was sexually harassed in the workplace and if she were treated in the way that rogers the former head of fox is accused of treating women. at best, it was trivializing. another one of his children tried to walk back or clarify his father's comment during an interview on cbs this morning. she is a strong, powerful woman. she would not allow herself to be subjected to it. she would take it up with human resources as a strong person. at the same time, she would not allow herself to be subjected to that. that was the point he was making. john: in the context of all else that is happening, is this a smallar problem problem, medium-sized problem, or another gargantuan problem for

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washington post editorializing, quote, encouraging armed resistance against the federal government is not the most-worry some of possible meanings. other listeners assumed mr. trump was encouraging supporters to train their weapons on mrs. clinton herself, end quote, think about how insane that sentence was. other listeners and why and personalize it. polarize it. the target. that is what the antitrump press is doing. back to trump himself. there are two things in play. he is not recognizing that explosive comments like those about muslim women and gun control can, and will be used against him and american press will be used to avoid reporting on real issues affecting the usa. the factor tip of the day, the media despising donald trump. here is why. he has no fear. he can care in the about censoring himself. and the press does not intimidate him. so because of that approach, the media believe they must punish mr. trump. and that has come to pass. today, the candidate sought to build his base. >> my administration will pursue joint operations to crush and destroy isis. international co

"the washington post" giving those answers that hillary clinton gave on fox news yesterday. rating of four pinocchios. that's their strongest dishonesty rating. since this scandal exploded on to the scene nearly a year and a half ago, clinton has changed the way she talks about her e-mails. this is what she said back in march last year at her first press conference about the server. >> i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified materials. >> comey, though, said in his testimony that 110 of clinton's e-mails contained classified information at the time they were sent. now other times in the past year and a half, clinton has used more precise wording. take a listen. >> you can make different decisions because things have changed, circumstances have changed, but it doesn't change the fact that i did not send or receive the material marked classified. >> you see adding the word marked there. material that was marked classified. as you heard in that testimony from comey before congress a few weeks ago, a small number, small of clinton'

invited presidential candidate's hillary clinton and donald trump to visit mexico, according to the washington post, the trump campaign ceo steven bannon has been urging post to accept. the washington post says that trump "has been navigating a flood of conflicting advice on going to mexico and on his immigration policy" which donald trump is expected to clarify tomorrow night in a major speech in arizona. so, if the washington post is correct, donald trump will begin his day tomorrow with fund-raising in california in the morning, then hop down to mexico city to visit the president and then fly back to arizona for his big immigration speech there tomorrow night, where we will finally know whether donald trump really wants to deport 11 million people. does he still want that or maybe we won't know any more than we know right now. >> you're going to see a lot more detail, you'll see the fundamental prips pls we have to do. we to have to let ice do their jobs. i mean, some of this isn't rocket science. we have to have baby steps first. >> well, none of it is rocket science. donald trump has not yet s

a new "the washington post"/abc news pollin nominee has 42% of likely voters compared to 50% for hillary clinton. according to a cbs news battleground tracker poll, clinton is ahead of trump in key swing states, up by 12 points in virginia and two points in nevada. but trump is hoping to make up ground monday in detroit, where he'll give a speech on the economy. his plan is to slash corporate taxes from 35% to 15%. >> i think historically, no candidate's numbers add up. >> reporter: clinton will offer her own vision for the economy thursday. she is hoping to remove attention away from her use of a private e-mail server as secretary of state. the issue resurfaced sunday with news that iran executed a iranian nuclear scientist who was also a spy. >> in the e-mails that were on hillary clinton's private server there were conversations among her senior advisers about this gentleman. that goes to show just how reckless and careless her ci highly classified information on a private server. >> reporter: clinton's running mate came to her defense. >> i have heard hillary clinton say over and ove

also, the washington post reports on the nuclear arsenal. cholas r irving recounts his missions in iraq and afghanistan. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to hear from you on the clinton global initial -- initiative. want to share with you a couple of headlines dealing with the earthquake in italy. three quarters of the town is not there anymore. the devastating earthquake that struck yesterday in central italy. this is a story from inside the new york times. why the damage was so severe, imparts because of the construction of the property. the death toll continues to climb. it is now at 240. front page ofy, the wall street journal. the clinton charity is rethinking changes. the foundation is considering exceptions to its plan to stop accepting corporate and foreign donations and reduce family involvement. the foundation was discussing what some allies plan for chelsea clinton to leave the board. yesterday, chelsea clinton will stay on the board. mr. clinton telling donors he plans to leave. share --ing to republican line. good

a new one out just today from abc news and the "washington post" has clinton ahead by eight points. so the trump campaign is really hoping that tomorrow's economic policy speech in detroit will begin to turn those numbers around and turn around what was a pretty bad week for the trump campaign. liz? >> kristin fisher reporting. thank you so much. >> for some insight into team trump's thinking ahead of monday's economic speech, gaby morangiello is a political reporter. we heard from kristin fisher both what we saw happen outside in terms of trump and clinton going back and forth and then the result, poll numbers. give us a sense of what it's like inside team trump right now. >> well, i spoke to somebody who's close to the campaign last week, and there were rumors swirling at that time that campaign staffers were really in over their heads -- >> suicidal is one word that going around. >> right. that the campaign was in freefall. that seemed to be the sentiment a lot of his staffers were feeling. i think this week the goal is to get back on message. they realize their poll numbers are

>> well, for starters i'm glad they're both reading "the washington post." that's good. but, look.ugh on both of these candidates. we have been the entire campaign. we'll continue to do so going forward. we continue to be banned from credentials at donald trump's events but it hasn't stopped us from covering his campaign fairly and accurately and aggressively. that's what we're going to keep doing. >> you know, it got buried alive because to the average person it wasn't that big a deal when "the washington post" was banned. that was very scary. i don't think it's reported enough because it looks like the media writing about the media. we have to step back and think about a presidential candidate didn't like his coverage while he is running for office and says you can't cover me. the second most, arguably the first most influential newspaper in our country. that's scary. am i missing something here? shouldn't that have more made of that? >> well, it's disturbing, certainly. we think it's wrong. we have been -- pushing back against it. it is scary. there is nothing we can do about it

this was done at the washington post -- it is a very evenhanded job. the effort here is to try to understand the rise of donald trump and the stagnation of the economy has led to that. talking about the president, it is important to know personal writing aand biography helps you to understand who the person is and how they have done things in the past. see you can dig a list of campaign proposals but you need to understand what they have done throughout their life. host: and this weekend on c-span's two as part of booktv, we sat down yesterday in an interview with ann coulter who is out with her own book on donald trump. she did sit down with tucker carlson, the editor in chief of the daily caller and a host on the fox news channel. here is a portion. trump sodonald loathsome, it is his opposition to immigration. if you narrow down what makes is hisealing it opposition to immigration. is the greatn unifier. >> factoring in the fact you just wrote a book on immigration, do you think there is evidence of this? the exit polls do not tell us that. when the

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there was a story in the "washington post" two days ago, which was shocking because "the washington post" never writes badly about hillary, but there was a story in the "washington post," which tells you how badly she did as a senator from new york, that she promised upstate new york that she would bring jobs back and she would do all sorts of things, and upstate new york is a catastrophe right now, probably as bad as just about any place. it's a catastrophe and the jobs have left, 50% to 60% of the manufacturing is gone, and she promised to take care of that situation, and made it worse, except her friends did very well, consultants and various other people, they made a so, n. she's all talk, she's no action. i know her well. not going to happen. >> all right. coming up, part two of my interview with donald trump from the campaign trail. and then, later -- >> we're going to build it up and we're going to make it strong and we're going to make it powerful and hopefully we're not going to use it other than to knock the hell out of isis. we have no choice. >> donald trump says he's going t

i thought he wasn't speaking to the washington post anymore. >> he did. it was a lengthy interview on the record. we are banned from covering his events and that includes me and my colleagues, but he does still talk to us as do his aides. >> were any advisers with him when he gave the interview? i know -- i know you said that some of his folks said they knew this would be a story and did anyone in the circle seem rattled or concerned? >> that was not apparent during the interview. nobody interrupted him or, you know, urged him to try to clarify his remarks or anything of that sort. >> dana, where does this go from here? it was interesting how quickly ryan's folks put out a statement saying we didn't ask for his endorsement, but i mean, would anyone -- would ryan or mccain or anyone old actually rescind their support of trump? that's something that president obama is urging republicans to do. >> which is the quickest way for them not to do it, by the way. >> yes. >> which may be the point, right. which is a different conversation. look, i think that the fa

"washington post" chief correspondent dan balsma and host of "face the nation" john dickerson. about called "whistle stop, my favorite stories from presidential campaign history." john, let's start with today's news. it's common to say something happened with donald trump. it's the biggest, it's unprecedented, never happened. today with both president obama going after him and his statements about paul ryan and john mccain, ever seen anything like this in the general election? >> i can't think of it. i mean, the president's been saying unfit, been trying to drive this wedge between obama and the republicans -- >> trump. >> sorry. has been trying to draw these wedges as he did in his convention speech. but then to be -- basically donald trump is fighting a two-front war between his own party and the president. all related to this question of temperament. is he fit for the job. which you could say is a trap the democrats set for him except when you talk to the trump campaign they see the key threshold is whether people will see that he has the temperament and judgment for the job

reince priebus was furious over his washington post interview yesterday, in which donald trump refusedo endorse paul ryan and john mccain. some of donald trump closes allies admitted today age or medic change of course was imperative. >> donald trump is still behaving as though it was the primaries and there were 17 candidates. not made the transition to being the potential president of the united states, which is a much tougher league. you everyl watch single day and take everything they can out of context, and he is not performing at the level you need to. ae montana went through stretch in his career when he kept throwing interceptions, and joehalf a season he was not montana anymore, then he figured out what he was doing and change. john: newt gingrich told the washington post that donald trump cannot when the president operating the way he is now. every clinton cannot be bad enough if he is determined to make this many mistakes. compounding the panic our reports suggesting disarray and rebellion within donald trump steam. is that true, paul manafort? candidatethe is in control of

political reporter for the times and columnist for the "washington post." all right. let's talk about the meeting. this is the new news. i feel like it is real -- i don't know if it is groundhog's day, i don't know what the right analogy of the eternal recurrence of the come to jesus meeting, and people go -- i watched on tv all day. people, people saying this, with a straight face saying he has to get better message discipline. what do you think is going to happen. >> the entire campaign is a running intervenge. where everybody is invited in to the room and it's taking place on public tv and in papers. >> my favorite fact about the come to jesus meeting from the "politico" story is apparently donald trump will not be there. i don't understand. >> you don't have a come to jesus meeting where you convert someone's staff. >> if his staff was not up to the job -- they are not but that's not the principle job. the principal problem is him. >> they seemed frustrated when i talk to people about any subject, reach out to women, african-american voters, his overall demeanor a

joining me now for our daily fix, chris alyssa, founder of the washington post fix blog, welcome boths you've seen on the trail, hillary clinton today in silicon valley in san diego and also yesterday in hollywood, beverly hills over the weekend, cape cod, in province town in particular, martha's vineyard and nantucket raising huge amounts of money. $32 million the last couple of weeks. >> yeah, this week is a particularly stark example. she has only one public campaign appearance tomorrow. and six or seven days, depending on how you count it, of straight fundraising surrounding that. and you know, she is trying to make up what the campaign sees as a deficit. they don't have as much in the bank at this point as they had expected to. and to be able to continue to fund very expensive television advertising, advertising through the fall. >> but she's got so much more money in the bank than donald trump does. chris alyssa, the financial advantage and in terms of ads on the air, why this sad long rush for dollars? and why we should point out there is no coverage, not as barack obama in '08

this was done at the washington post -- it is a very evenhanded job. the effort here is to try to understand the rise of donald trump and the stagnation of the economy has led to that. talking about the president, it is important to know personal writing aand biography helps you to understand who the person is and how they have done things in the past. see you can dig a list of campaign proposals but you need to understand what they have done throughout their life. host: and this weekend on c-span's two as part of booktv, we sat down yesterday in an interview with ann coulter who is out with her own book on donald trump. she did sit down with tucker carlson, the editor in chief of the daily caller and a host on the fox news channel. here is a portion. trump sodonald loathsome, it is his opposition to immigration. if you narrow down what makes is hisealing it opposition to immigration. is the greatn unifier. >> factoring in the fact you just wrote a book on immigration, do you think there is evidence of this? the exit polls do not tell us that. when the

citizens were set free, among them "washington post" reporter jason rezaian. american diplomats say it is not a ransom it's simply coincidence. elise labott has been looking into this. elise, how does the state department explain the timing? >> ana, what we know about these negotiations was this payment was part of a $1.7 billion settlement a decades-old claim for a failed arms deal with iran around the time of the shah. so it is true that a lot of this all happened together, but we had a statement from state department spokesman john kirby this morning that sid said the funds transferred to iran were related solely to the settlement of a longstanding claim at the u.s./iran claims tri s tribunale haig. he said this was not a quid pro quo and john earnest said that moments ago. the timing is coincidental. while the negotiations about the settlement was going on, the u.s. was also negotiating at the same time to release those four prisoners and that iranian nuclear deal. so officials say, yes, all of this dovetailed together and came together at the same time. n

on the front page of "washington post."t a deep dive into his business dealings and how he struggles with the truth when he's doing business with people. but i have to say when it comes to talking about issues on stage whether it be about hillary clinton or president obama or about our national security, i think he struggles with reality. and he struggles with even seeming slightly legitimate as an intell

he decided to give his opinion to the "washington post," which doesn't work with donald trump.his is the way it is going to be. you've got to think about doing it this way, no the that way. so those conversations, i think, are happening, but probably not in the way you would think if it was like the intervention you see on reality tv. >> i want to add to dana that i've been told by a source close to the campaign, when dana talks about people who are the trump whisperers, it is really the family, his adult children who are very much involved in helping to run the campaign, and he listens to them. the question is for how long. right? >> everyone, stand by. a lot more to assess and discuss. also, coming up, amid all this turmoil, more big name republicans are endorsing hillary clinton. she is campaigning right now in a crucial swing state. we're going there next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ only those who dare drive the world forward. introducing the first-ever cadillac ct6. trump's campaign, hillary clinton is trying to stay focused on the swaing states. she is picking up endorsements from

. >> "the washington post" has been very tough although i must say, washington post -- >> they gave her four pinocchios. >> that was shocking. >> 6,877 syrian refugees have arrived through july 31st. of the 6877, 6834 happen to be either sunni, shia, or generic muslim, and yet we have genocide against christians in syria and elsewhere. are we then therefore discriminating based on religion? >> yeah, well, in my opinion they are. but we don't care of the christians. we are very -- you know, before the migration, a friend of mine who was very, very well versed on all of this said, you come from syria. if you're muslim, it's one of the easiest places to come into the united states from. if you're christian, it's impossible, virtually impossible to come into the united states. very unfair. and the christians are the ones that really are -- look, everybody is going through hell over there. but the christians are going through more than anybody with the beheadings and everything else. but in all fairness, it's a hell hole. >> all right. we got to -- >> but i would say if you're christian, it

they include "washington post" reporter jason rezaian who was set free in january. is insisting the $400 million in cash was absolutely not ransom money but republicans, including senator john mccain today, a former prisoner of war, slammed this covert delivery. he said it is clear this payment w was for ransom for hostages in iran. >> it's been called a ransom payment by iran. that's not exactly surprising. but would those prisoners have been released had this payment not been made at the time that it would? so isn't it essentially a ransom payment then even if if the u.s. does not view it that way? >> no, it is not a ransom payment. united states does not view it that way and it is not accurate to describe it that way. this $400 million is actually money that the iranians had paid in to a u.s. account in 1979 as part of a transaction to procure military equipment. that military equipment as it relates to this 4$400 million ws not provided to the iranians in 1979 because the shah of iran was overthrown. >> let me bring in senior washington correspondent jeff zeleny

a reporter who wrote the story for the "washington post."licans have assailed and vilified hillary clinton for the better part of 25 years. for them to now, some of them, all of a sudden say, hey, you know what? we're going to endorse you, must mean -- i'll pit blunt by -- they think donald trump is loathesome if not dangerous. is that about right? >> in many, many cases, among republicans who had already declared that they will vote for her, it is less of an act of love and more that they are fleeing trump, and that is something that clinton campaign is perfect live happy -- a bargain they're perfectly happy to make. they know that they haven't won over a large share of republicans to the things that she says she is campaigning on, but what is happening here is that they are receiving with open arms republicans who say, i just simply can't vote for donald trump. for a variety of reasons. >> clinton reached out to meg whitman, former hp ceo and the gubernatorial republican nominee in california. she is now endorsing clinton and promising to

that's where she got the four pinocchios last week from the "washington post." but why it's more significant -- >> here's what i have to say, dennis, that's one lie, and if you can -- however you want to deem that, that she continues to repeat. it's not something that happens every week, like, you know, donald trump had a chance, three or four chances this week, to be on top of the headlines, to have positive headlines about him, negative headlines about hillary clinton. instead, he keeps stepping on it by either doing something that is false about the iranian scientist, tweeting that out last night, then doing the second amendment comment. how can we not cover that as a news organization? he does it almost every single day instead of one lie that continues to be repeated or continues to be -- >> so, i go back to the significance issue. i'm no big defender of this guy, don. as you know. >> don. >> let him finish and i'll get you in, angela. >> yeah. so, the -- the issue of the president of the united states saying, hey, $400 million in cash, that wasn't a ransom

"the washington post" philip rucker joins me now.t so you know, donald trump just mentioned the secret state strategy at a rally today. here it is. >> most republicans would never even stop for dinner in some of these states. and you know what? sort of like i feel the same way about isis. i don't want to tell you what the states are. we're going to do well in certain states that nobody thinks of when they think of republicans. >> i mean, it is sort of -- it's the way trump thinks. >> it's almost verbatim. >> that's the other thing. it's a reminder trump knows x exactly what he's doing and saying. people who don't spend time with trump don't understand about him. he has the most intense faith in his ability to make a win happen in these states where the numbers tell us something totally different. he's simply not competitive in a huge number of states based on polls and everything we know about demographics and politics. here he is thinking he can go into a place like california and win. >> what was interesting about your interview is