bob woodward totally regrets it. at this point everybody is talking about how woodward screwed up. >> instead of talking about the fact that obama and jack lew were misleading when they said they didn't want the sequester. the president and the secretary of the treasury are very comfortable revising history in a false way, just to make them severals look better. >> not talking about his reporting, but talking about him. no reporter wants to be the story. >> unless you like having your name in lights which woodward doesn't need, of course. a clear idealistic, some defending woodward liberal commentators who, who feel that obama is being attacked unfairly, but i can't help but notice because woodward went on sean hannity fox new show that people on your side of the political spectrum who never had much use for bob woodward and now hailing him as a truth teller because he's taking it to the white house. little bit of ideological convenience there. >> it's red shirt, red jersey, blue jersey is what i describe people get

people are deferential to woodward. obama people, sent out this tweet being nasty and he's not used to not being bowed down to. that's my theory. cenk: fascinating. all right. i learn something every time from you michael. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. when we come back, sean hannity got a little roughed up by keith ellison the other night. he didn't like it. he brought on a more friendly black politician this time around. >> did immoral. >> you are 16 and a half. >> what did i do that's immoral? >> you say things that aren't true. the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. it's back, but not for long. [ woman ] our guests go crazy for lobsterfest. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dream. what's yours? come celebrate lobsterfes

republican politicians used woodward's column to back their own ideas. >> bob woodward's got a great piece where he tells the president, basically, he doesn't use these words, but he basically say the president has amnesia about this. >> and there are other examples. we don't have all night. the only problem with woodward's op-ed is that it's simply not true. president obama never moved the goalposts when it comes to new revenue. because you could go back to july of 2011 when the white house released this statement, saying that "the president will demand that the super committee pursue a balanced deficit reduction package where any entitlement reforms are coupled with revenue-raising tax reform." this account is backed up in woodward's own back, where he writes that the "supercommittee would come up with its own deficit reduction plan" instead of admitting his error, what did woodward do? well, he decided to make things very personal. he claimed that the white house, an aide sent him a threatening e-mail. >> i think it's important for people to understand, he says, you know -- "i thi

bob woodward is not involved in policy. >> dana: that is obsurd. bob woodward is a reporter.rting. what he reported on and subsequently confirmed by the white house. the question he was asking, threat set aside, does it matter who came up with the idea for sequester? he decided it was, it was integral to the story. >> bob: he said can you imagine ronald reagan say he couldn't move an aircraft carrier? who is woodward to say that. >> greg: he can. >> kimberly: he has context and history. the fact he is making a big deal suggests there is something more to it. you are fooling yourself. this is a warning. get him now or interviews or another book down the road, they will find a way and it will be insidious. that is how they do things. >> eric: do you think -- >> bob: do you think the comment that they were going to -- if they can't, the wime "washington times" did not drop the column, they would not give a press pack -- >> dana: gaherty did not say it. lanny davis himself said it. solomon. solomon said it about the column. jim garety had nothing to do with it. he wrote david jac

largely because of woodward. woodward has a lot of credibility in this country. woodward is now opposed to the president. and we are starting to see a shift against mr. obama. do they recognize that in your opinion? >> >> yes and no. in the short-term think think public opinion is on their side. poll suggesting some of the gloom and doom the president has laid out there with cabinet the sky may be falling. chicken little stuff flights going to be delayed and janet napolitano saying the country is going to be less safe. that's gotten the country's attention somewhat. i have talked to senior people around here who in private are more realistic and say what they are very worried about is that the president may win the short-term battle here but three weeks from now after forced cuts go through it may not be so bad. people out there across the country and might say look we can cut more government spending they are worried that will impact the larger budget debate coming at the end of the month. what that will do is handcuff the president. >> bill: okay. well maybe th

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bob woodward wants to talk to me? i will now become famous because he will be in a woodward book.hink those days are over. >> they are gone. they are long gone. if you know one journalist in this country, you know bob woodward. he is probably the most famous journalist that we have. >> bill: and has become a very very rich man. >> i am sure >> bill: astasia is in masheen appear, california >> caller: good to be here. last night, jon fugelsang had the conversation with wolfe blitzer and they did use the word threatened and wolfe was so snide, he said i guess they should know better than to threaten you, bob. bob is going, oh, well, you know, of course, you know, like he is so smug after the watergate, you know, i am alive long enough to remember that. but common on. how long do you have to be able to live off of that one book? until >> bill: your point is good. cnn bought into this, too. fox news has embraced him as a hero. but cnn is making him a hero too. they did at the whitehouse briefing yesterday, you know, saying that they buy into the fact that the white house threatened bo

we continue with journalist bob woodward. mentioned your age earlier and i don't think you look a day over 50 just for the the record. you know, this is not your first rodeo. i was talking about this on my radio show earlier today and you're right about young journalists and i think they can be far more intimidated in an incident like this and i don't expect you would be. i am concerned that the media has become almost like the press office, almost an extension of the press office, not critical in any way with president obama. as a conservative, am i wrong? >> let's get in out on the table, because it's boimportant. we live in an era partisanship, let's face it, fox news is a cornerstone of part of that partisanship and there are a group of people, msnbc, a lot of people support obama who just believe he can do no wrong. we've got this dision and what somebody who's a traditionalist in the reporting, like myself, said, well, let's find out what happens. sometimes it falls this way and sometimes it falls that way. i get calls

what -- but woodward obviously referring to was the way the media react today him. it wasn't the white house reaction, it was the media reaction. john nolte at breitbart did a long list of new york times, politico, cnbc, slate, gawker, andrew sullivan wrote a headline bob woodward quote, did he m demonstratable liar. >> and when he said he interpreted the white house words as a threat, it's whether he was write when he reported that the president isn't telling the truth about his role in the sequester and behaving badly as his national on the national security show. america is still waiting for the white house press corps to take up that story. >> right, the well, the issue whether or not woodward was right, inserting that tax revenues were never on the part of the original sequester, is really very, very important. and we've seen all too little discussion of that in the media and much too much about whether or not the threat was a kind of karl rovion you're going to be story because you're wrong or whether or not it was a, here is a horse head in the bed kind of th

half of woodward and bern styne.hen he said the white house moved the goal post on the current sequester proceedings by suggesting tax increases inlew of cuts. the republicans agreed to spending cuts. a fair accounting of overall debt would allow them -- so the notion that obama was moving the goal post was less accurate that -- sorry. wanted to wake you guys back up. [laughter] apologize. [cheers and applause] that's actually as far as we got even writing frankly. it was -- [snoring] [laughter] it was after that article that woodward received a rather curious e-mail. >> and it was said to me in an e-mail by a top -- >> what was it? >> it was said very clearly you will regret doing this. >> you won't be threaten bud a senior official. you've gone through worse than this. >> jon: (bleep) got real mother (bleep). [ laughter ] you'll regret this. [laughter] these administration chicago-style thugs storm arming a formerly young reporter like this, if only we had the e-mails. oh, where are you? perhaps if i saw julian ass

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bob woodward made his reputation based on a third rate burglary. now, he's losing his reputation because of third-rate punditry. does bob realize the e-mails i get from canadian pharmacies are more threatening than the one he got from the white house? also bradley manning has admitted some guilt. the government official mistreated him, not so much. and the dow is at a five-year high and corporate profits are bigger than ever which means if barack obama is the communist fox news keeps saying he is, he's very, very bad at it! today, my friends is the birthday of late rolling stone brian jones, he would have been 71. also the birthday of paul krugman and internationally beloved humanitarian gilbert godfrey. on this date in 1983, the final episode of m.a.s.h. was broadcast on cbs. how fitting that pope benedict's retirement falls on the 30th anniversary of father mulcahy's. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. if political gridlock was an olympic sport the congress would be preparing to field a gold medal. maybe we can all do

i understand what bob woodward is saying.cerned about the bail threat saying he would regret. you don't know what folks in the white house might do to you. that is what he is concerned about. he is a legend. i have been interviewed by him before in the past. and when i worked at the white house i was very sensitive about what i said because i didn't want anything to be taken out of context or misconstrued. i don't think sperling meant in a mean way. you have to be careful about your words and choose them wisely so you don't lead anybody to thinking you might be threatening them. >> how hypersensitive have journalists in washington, d.c. become? >> the fact of the matter is bob woodward has made a career out of going off the record with people and then quoting them in books and articles. it is his own credibility. in this case i think we are seeing that he fank frankly stretched it a bit by going on the cable shows and talking about how he felt threatened and then we see his follow up apology. no apology needed. do i think jou

now everybody's loving on woodward. >> absolutely. >> woodward, he's a left winger.w, it's like he's so wonderful. >> i just thought he should be consistent on both grounds. >> my experience in reading bob woodward is that as i've said before, he's an equal opportunity torpedo thrower. whoever is in power, he'll go after that because that's what he does. he's a true journalist. one thing. journalists are supposed to be the watch dog for the people, not the house pet of politicians. >> very true. by the way, not only can you catch the governor's fine show on weekends, but now look atth he's branching out. he has educational dvds ds called learning our history. the current release of america's founders. i just whizzed right by it. >> it's all about civil rights. >> he's the guy. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online so i can react in real-time. plus, my local scottrade office is there to h

then woodward came back. the white house lobbing bombs at woodward, him lobbing them back.et personal and maybe bob got a little thin-skinned. >> you could say that and look at this exchange of e-mails. the tone of the e-mails actually is pretty friendly, as you saw there. this is a little bit two mobsters talking to each other. these are people who expect to do business with each other again. gene sperling from the beginning was convinced that the woodward book about the grand bargain was going to more come out on the side of speaker boehner. they spent a lot of time with woodward, and that's what's fascinating about this. even though they're taking shots at each other, the president gave bob woodward a long interview for this book. almost every key player in this drama, many of them around the dining room table of bob's house in georgetown where jim and i sat down with him and talked to him on camera about these e-mails. >> so let me ask you this because even last night -- and i can't wait to talk to bob about this because i'm really curious -- but as of last night, he wa

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this is an email from you to bob woodward. i do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying that the president asking for revenues is moving the goal post. i know you may not believe this, but as a friend i think you will regret staking out that claim. when you said you would regret staking out that claim, what did you mean? >> i meant that while the first issue of whose idea it was of the sequester was when i disagreed with him on, but i could see how honorable people could disagree. i was trying to explain to him from a substantive point of view that the idea that the president of the united states was moving the goal post by asking for the type of balance of tax reform that raised revenues, which speaker boehner himself you know had called for, as well as long-term entitlements together to get rid of the sequester was not only not moving the goal post, that was the whole idea of the sequester. and i think that email was cordial. it was substantive. it was polite. >> but you're going to regret it. do you think

obama white house, woodward is it willfully wrong. what did the white height say about woodward. ron forny writes a senior white house official that ron used as an unnamed source sent him an indignant e-mail. what is next a nazi analogy? he accused ron spriding bs. he told the source to stop e-mailing him and any feture emaims will - e-mails will be pub blisherable. i spoke to ron earlier and asked how al relationship with a white house official deteriorated to the point he had to cut thai ties? >> it was a combination of things, i felt like the person trying too hard to intimidate me and my reporters when i was editor in chief of the national journal. there no relationship of give or take. it was all combat and trying to explain why i was stupid and why i was wrong and why can'tip see the president as great as this person could. i was not getting anything out of it except for a headache and a waste of time. other reporters might have a hard deeming with that . i just didn't think it why should i be tangled up in this. it was something i never done before. if you want to call me

woodward is completely right about that. i just had a little quick quibble with whether the e-mail constituted intimidation. let's put that aside because i don't mean to attack woodward. i just asked about it. even the washington post is online now i don't know if it's for tomorrow or today pointing out giving obama pinocchios for saying the capitol hill janitors won't be able to work they are taking a pay cut. they are all working. they are not taking a pay cut. and i don't think americans believe that raising spending by only $2.4 trillion rather than $2.5 trillion over the next ten years is going to be devastating. it is just not an argument that can win. >> geraldo: kelly ann on the role that woodward played, thumbs up, thumbs down and do who do you think it bearing the burden. >> thumbs up for bob woodward. i thought it was brave of him to come forward and say this is obama's brain child and he ought to own it. downboehner said it best walking out of the white house. the president got the tax hike on january 1. this pre

fight and now a change that woodward called moving the goal post.ne call, testy e-mail from the president's economic adviser gene sperling and a then an e-mail apologizing for the call and woodward complained all week that the e-mail suggested he would regret. was that a threat? well, here's woodward and former top obama adviser and david a l axelrod today on "morning joe." >> i said i don't think this is the way to operate and you and i have had many discussions. you never said to me you're going to regret doing that. am i correct? >> yes. but this was a specific discussion about a specific point you had raised. it seemed like gene was -- in that e maim certainly very, very polite in the way he pushed -- you should have heard the -- >> i'm not putting words in your mouth, bob. your newspaper said you said you were threatened. >> that said. we asked yesterday right here, based on the e-mail, do you think that the white house threatened bob woodward? 6% of you said yes. 94% of you said no. that does it for this friday edition of "news nation." tamron

you can't threaten bob woodward. it's not going to scare you. but the young journalist who is come to town here and are trying to cover the white house or do anything and they start getting people being aggressive and abusive. you know, i know we get into the fights with the subjects we cover from time to time, but there is such a thing as transparentsy and lay off. woodward's laying out the facts who, started the seqefer and got the white house mad because he corrected them when they got it wrong. >> i think the white house has been very critical of bob woodward. i don't think the faces are on the white house's side. i think woodward is right and he was there, he reported fiduciary his book "the price of politics," he was in the room eye mean, he took you in the room fyou read those passages, talking to everybody there. the question -- the central substandpointive complaint that he makes is that the white house is pretending that the president wasn't behind the sequester when it was generated by the administration. i think he's on solid ground

bob woodward is a legend in this business.e is a hero to people like me and when the e-mails actually came out they seemed so mild. i mean basically even said in his response to gene sperling, no big deal and sort of chummed it up. it is kind of curious. it is hard to understand exactly what is going on here. in terms of a general pattern this white house is just as tough as any other and i think tougher in some regards saying to reporters, we don't like what you have done or don't like what you have written or don't do that. martha: that is the question. whether or not there is something different going on. and we found a piece of tape of helen thomas and robert gibbs. this is back in 2009. this is just several months after the president took office, back at the very beginning of sort of the more open and transparent administration that everybody was expecting. so with that in mind, this happened that long ago, let's listen to this she is responding to a story about reporters being told the night before they were going to be

i think that woodward is not abuse and he has to know better. but he is sort of riding a tiger and he created us. he can't get off now. >> what are your sources to demystified as? >> fbi investigated this leaking at the time. and they are very revealing. people who were in the fbi with mark phelps, it isn't on truth that the details were leaked to press it forward. there was nothing in "the washington post" that the fbi didn't know. sometimes days or weeks or months before the piece in the post. >> how premeditated you believe that felt was in regards to leaking? >> completely premeditated. one of the things i discovered is sandy smith, he leaked more to her than to woodward. kaj: didn't know that he could trust. woodward betrayed the big part of his existence. it ended in 1973 and felt was very upset. that is one of the things that he was honest about, how upset he was with all the presidents men. he stopped talking to him. >> in regards to today, we look at the current administration. >> absolutely british as the competent relationship between

bob woodward denies reports that a white house -- reporting. veteran reporter accused the president of quote, moving the goalposts by proposing new revenues as part of a deal to head off the sequester. in an e-mail exchange described as a heated phone conversation, white house economic advisor gene sperling told woodward he would regret making that claim. here is wood word on "hannity". >> people said this was a threat or i was saying it was a threat. i haven't used that language. but it's not the way to operate in the a white house. the problem is, they're all kinds of reporters who are much less experienced, who are younger. if they will get roughed up in this way and, you, i, flooded with e-mails from people in the press saying this is exactly the way the white house works. they're trying to control and they don't want to be challenged or crossed. jon: talk about it with our "news watch" panel today. judith miller is a pulitzer prize-winning reporter. kirsten powers is a "daily beast" columnist and both are fox news contributors. what about

and does this e-mail exchange between bob woodward and gene sperl rise to the level of a threat? i don't think so, he when you read the e-mail it doesn't sound like a threat to he me. >> greta: i don't think that bob was scared and i don't think that bob-- he said he didn't use the word threat, he used the word regret. you can't threaten bob woodward, but the young journalists trying to come to the white house and start being aggressive and abusive and i know we get into fights with the subjects we cover from time to time, but you know, there is such a thing as transparency and a thing-- and woodward was laying out the facts who started the sequester and got the white house mad because they got it wrong. >> i don't think that the facts are on the white house's side. woodward reported for his book "the price of politics" he was in the room if you read those passages talking to everybody there. >> and the central substantive complaint he makes that the white house is pretending that the president wasn't behind the sequester when in fact it was a suggestion by them. >> and he said h

woodward criticized president obama's handling of the sequestration.r would come to regret his writing on the sequester. and it clearly meant you would regret it because you would be proved wrong. not because we're going to burn down your house and kill your family. >> it was actually very friendly. >> stephanie: can i have festive music? >> sure. [ festive music ] >> stephanie: this is obama's economic advisor, he wrote i apologize for rising my -- like polite chipmunks -- this is the threat it's worse than water gate. i apologize for raising my voice. my bad. i do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall, but i feel you focus on a few specific trees that prevents you from seeing the whole forrest. the requested was to force the sequester to go back to try a bigger grand bargain, even if there were serious disagreements was part of the dna thing from the start. woodward replies, you do not ever have to apologize to me if you believe your points. this is all part of a serious discussion. i for one welcome the heat. i am list

claim overblown so here's the question what else does bob woodward consider a threat could it be the sneezing panda. or breathe sleepwalking dog. hora see the dramatic squirrel. of a squirrel or a hamster on. the sleepwalking dog that's a pretty scary if the white house can do that to you i'd be worried if. it was obama's fault i guess. i vote for the squirrel all right. you know it's the whole thing is a little squirrelly to me. like i guess i vote for this girl but i'm just going to say as a journalist myself you know i got to stand up for the guy a little bit so i sent her a little bit as a fellow journaling is trying to vary a little bit although even erick erickson said it wasn't about making lines definitely it's for as jess goes for us like you all think you guys are. let's talk economics one hundred one capitalism has cycles of bust and boom their normal called the business cycle in the george washington a ministration of the ronald reagan administration when the business cycle is in decline. we increase government spending to fill in the holes created by the loss of private

i have enormous respect for the work that bob woodward is famous for. many of us probably got into the business in part because we read "all the president's men" saw the movie or both. we have a factual disagreement that we stand by which is that the president was very clear from the beginning that he would push balance to deficit reduction. how can that be a mud -- and a mystery? that was his position when he signed the budget control act. the phrase moving the goalposts is not one we agree with. it is just a disagreement about the facts. host: here is a headline from a former adviser to george w. bush -- what is your response? guest: from the beginning, this president has not had to do battle with the press. this is very much a non-issue. this is something we like to talk about in washington and bob woodward likes to talk about it. maybe he was sensitive about it or just trying to sell books. i don't think we should read that much into this media tour that he is going on right now. it speaks to the relationship with the press that i think is getting a

woodward as his friend. and apologized for raising his voice.t read those emails and come auto buy with the impression that gene was threatening anybody. and as i think others have observed. >> so everybody has sort of had their say. we have done the votes. we have done the side bars and not really gotten anywhere. all we're left with is a omorrow 10:05 a.m. eastern time at the white house. the president, congressional leaders in both parties but going into that meeting both sides have already said they don't think there is going to be a deal. these cuts will go forward and everyone will wait and see how bad the cuts really are, shep. >> shepard: the bob woodward media tour continues tonight on hannity 9:00 eastern on fox news channel. here are what americans are saying about washington's latest self-inflicted crisis. fox news channel poll registered voters say the so-called sequester will are a negative effect on the country. a quarter say it will be positive. almost as many say it won't make a difference. 60% say automatic cuts are the best wa

woodward. what do you think about all of this?> bob woodward says now he wasn't threatened it was a benign remark along the lines of what you just said. if richard nixon's, you know, people hauled -- for instance said you will regret it if you go with that story, that would have been a threat. you could expect the irs to knock on your door the next day. so, while this particular president barack obama has a thin skin and while his aides can be nasty, no question about that. this is not, not the second coming of nixon's enemy's list. having said that bill, i spoke to a network correspondent just a few hours ago. and he said that during barack obama's first campaign for the white house. first campaign. he did a story that they didn't like. and he was confronted by a top obama aide who within seconds started dropping f bombs. he said it was like a mafia-style attack on him. so, what i find interesting, i have got a theory if you have another 10 seconds. give it to you very quickly. i think this president, this administration unlike o