so i mean it's not unusual it's not too strange that new york times do because this is this is quite regular for them ok but despite all that said the i.o.c. seems to be resisting this pressure doesn't it i mean. thomas back i think the head of the i.o.c. has said previously you know we don't believe in collective punishment of course lucky he'll go like you know. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong thing to an entire country because he knows himself and the insiders know that there's a very small group in every country who were able to facilitate this were doctors were coaches so in a year to ban people already as we know russia have tens of thousands of leads by around from competing from track and field especially so he knows and yossi movement knows well the early group knows all of a blanket ban is just completely wrong you know because the olympics brought people compete and you better get that set out they do need to take action i don't know because there are two inquiries going on at the moment at the i.o.c. one's looking at individual cases o

to my mind the new york times is done this is the model so the new york times has cut and cut and cut and cut but not in the newsroom the new york times is very deliberately protected the newsroom knowing that that's why the new york times exists and that's why people pay for it. when you walk around manhattan you see lots of nail salons reporter sara mouseland near decided to investigate this phenomenon. well what was really interesting about the nail salon story is that every single person involved in every source had no reason to speak with me people in my story are undocumented immigrants working illegally in this country terrified of being discovered and yet they spoke i did approach four hundred and ended up interviewing about one hundred twenty five my investigation took thirteen months by just focus on this story and the only thing is occasionally there would be some really big news story and they'd say everybody all hands on deck drop it for a day sarah but no i work exclusively on the story a minute it is with them sometimes we talk about nothing especially in the beginning

was necessary. >> senator warner, finally, i want to ask you about the reporting from "the new york times" that the president is now privately questioning the authenticity of that "access hollywood" tape. we just spoke to "the times" reporter who now says a third pe person has told her, maggie haberman, that the president has questioned the authenticity about this and even to one of the senators suggested that maybe he would hire people to look into the authenticity. does that make any sense to you, given the fact he's already apologized for what he said on it? >> you know, look. he's already admitted what he said. i watched him during the debates, when he talked about, well, it was just locker room talking talk and so on. but if this is a new age of accountability, where donald trump wants to be held accountable to the dozen or so women who came forward and said that donald trump had forced himself on them in various sexual ways and he thinks it's time to get out there and decide to put his views out, so we can have some real accountability, then, bring it on. >> senator elizabeth warren

help or hurt, what does the new york times say?york times spent their entire up and criticizing the corporate tax cut forgetting the fact that over the past 10 years we have seen 36 companies relocate out of the us precisely for the reason the corporate tax rate is too high. it is a case of selective memory, this is the kind of cut that helps companies come back to the us, stay here because the tax rate is competitive around the world. heather: says the opposite, some experts warned by lowering tax rate for foreign earnings the bills would encourage businesses to ignore operations overseas. >> great op-ed in the wall street journal, when you cut corporate taxes urging companies to come back to take the profits they were keeping overseas and bring them back to the us where they can invest in us jobs, this is common sense, president obama was proposing this a few years ago so even democrats can't see this, everyone across the board who is honest about it can see this is cutting the corporate tax rate to companies in the us. heather:

if "the new york times" says it is bad, it must be good. at least when it comes to economic -- >> i think the tax bill is absolutely great but let me say this, if you're a republican, you're hardly shocked by "the new york times" actions here. as a former reporter i have to say this is unbelievable. this might be the death of journalism and last shred of dignity "the new york times" has left. what people are missing here, saying hey, we don't like the tax bill. they engaged basically in naked political campaigning on behalf of the democratic party. normally when you do that you either have to set up a pac or register with a lobbiest as donald trump suggests. this is absolutely insane. they take it to new heights. the true hypocrisy here, trish, the northbound times has been railing against citizens united which says corporations have free speech like "the new york times" and arguing the government should be able to shut down corporations that engage in this kind of action. this is absolutely unbelievable all around on "new york times" and f

gets exposed by "the new york times." the president himself reportedly drafts the initial false statement explaining that way, which is proven by his son's own e-mails. his son then has to hire a criminal defense attorney. his son gets threatened with a subpoena. all that is blowing up and very close to home, the president in july opens up another salvo at his attorney general, jeff session. what is he so mad about jeff session about? guess. >> sessions gets the job. right after he gets the job, he recuses himself. was that a mistake? well, sessions never recused himself. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he picked the job and i would pick somebody else. >> why is it so important that sessions recuse himself? what would you expect him to be doing now in the justice department if we were overseeing the russia investigation? that was the third big blowup between this president and his attorney general, right, starting yet another round of intensive media coverage of whether or not the atto

the statement "the new york times" we asked the first statement. said white supremacy is a major area of coverage of our national correspondents at the time which is a sad commentary on the state of our country. i get the criticism. my outrage is directed at the fact that bigotry is going mainstream which is what this piece was trying to describe. but, you know, i don't know that they described it going mainstream, michelle. i feel like they just gave this guy a free piece of publicity. >> that's how it feels. i mean, when you read the article, like i get it. i read it with the understanding that they were trying to explain to people that racism is becoming normalized in the era of trump. however, you have to be a thinking person to understand that and it should have been made more obvious that we live in dangerous times and the person who's your next door neighbor could be a rabid racist. that is lost on many people. but the way it was written, it seemed to glorify everything about this person's lifestyle and his view of the country that we live i

"the new york times" just broke this news. mark mizetya adam goldman, trump campaign met with russian officials in 2016. this new news just broken by "the new york times," this derives from just one of the lots of people who has testified to the house intelligence committee this week. you're familiar with carter page, who was a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign. there's been a lot of effort to minimize his role in the trump campaign, since it emerged that he not only turns up in the indictment of a russian spy ring that was operating in new york city, but he did travel to moscow during the campaign. what "the new york times" has just broken tonight is -- it derives from the testimony yesterday -- carter page's testimony this week in the house intelligence committee. but it seems to confirm two things about a trip that carter page took to moscow during the campaign. confirms number one that he lied about it publicly. and number two that the campaign definitely knew that he took that trip and met with russian governme

what your reaction to those comments are when now less than a week later, according to "the new york times" over the course of some time, the president has been sowing doubt about the tape that you are on, that "access hollywood" tape, saying that it's not authentic. >> again, it goes back to that -- that seesaw effect, when, you know, you're honest over here and defiant over here, i'm not sure -- you know, you're not sure when you're listening to two different comments. and it's really at some point, when do you throw up your hands and go, i don't know what to believe. and that's why i feel like we, as people, as citizens, as -- you know, it's our right to come together and find a way to -- if he's not going to do it, and we need to act on it and find a way to bring this respect forward and to make sure that women are in a position where we're equal. i don't need to be in a place of power. i just want to be equal and i want to make sure that my daughter has a chance and doesn't have to go through any of these harassment issues that so many women have gone through. and you know what's real

we knew the "new york times" was working on something. this is the first time the knelt work is getting out ahead of it before -- >> that's right. this was monday night. they received a complaint early wednesday morning, staffers were told matt lauer is out. it is a stunning move by nbc. and it begs the question about what else the network knows that we don't know. suffice to say, matt lauer, as you said, chris, he has been the bedrock of the "today" show, you said i think the best morning anchor. >> i think so also. no offense. >> high praise for him from me. he has been a mentor in how to do the job on air. obviously his behavior off air matters much more than what he does on air. all i'm saying is this. this culture changes because it changes at the top. firing talent is hard financially. it is not hard from a management position. changing your culture, what you allow to be settled, how you deal with it when it comes to the workplace, who makes those decisions, that's culture, corporate. that's hard. we don't see that. we see them gett

that is very much reflected in the new york times piece. it is a fluffy, will be peace.as the breitbart piece, which we will come to wina breitbart piece, which we will come to win a second, is much stronger in its wording. it looks at the diversity visa lottery programme, which is the programme under which this person came into the united states in the first place, albeit seven states in the first place, albeit seve n years states in the first place, albeit seven years ago. it talks about the fa ct seven years ago. it talks about the fact that donald trump is keen to abandon that particular programme. it looks back at the history of that programme and how as long ago as 2011, experts were talking to congress about the fact that it was creating problems as far as immigration and stoking up terror is problems was concerned. it is literally a lottery, in how it works. it is called the green card lottery for short, isn't it? that is not the official name. but there is a list of countries, people can enter, and they enter and if they win the lottery, they go through process

why he calls the fake news failing "the new york times" to tell them what he's thinking i do not know. anyone here who wants to offer an explanation of that, please do. but tonight he told "the times," i'm in the office early and leave late. it's very smooth, trump said. honestly, he added, i'm really enjoying it. so, so jason, there's the personal report to "the new york times" about how swell everything is in trump's white house. >> well, lawrence, of course the president leaves late because the golf course clears out by then and he has more time. he gets all 18 holes to himself. look. that is president who there are two ways that we can understand this russian investigation and how it leads up to trump. either he's got a ton of people around him who are engaging in unethical behavior and he was too dumb or too naive or too arrogant to recognize all the meetings being made on his behalf or he was a willing participant and i think either of those possibilities speaks voluntarily yooms of the president that we have but furthermore he recognizes that no matter how much he tries to play

but we can't overlook thomas friedman's article in the new york times so to rebias arab spring at last that's a nice gentleman this article is breathtaking for so many reasons your immediate take away after reading your cursor somebody who'll give for chance. before the second iraq war this is somebody who told the american public about the chemical biological and nuclear weapons programs. progressing with. unbeatable speed in iraq was the result of that hundreds of thousands of people dead from the american occupation and what happened after that with isis and everything else and today friedman is claiming that they're just reading like a puppy who says it was the crown prince of saudi arabia has been like that the point is friedman has been a propagandist for for for decades for his whole entire career and we see that and we see that with this article this is the new. so the king to be made to the pretender to the throne. is shown as he is a progressive well you know especially for money and friedman it shows himself to be a pretend journalist go ahead exactly you guys are reading th

you like my picture in the "new york times" magazine i'm sure he had a fun time looking at that which get to in a minute. when we get back the serious issue ever north korea's nuclear program now threatening every single american? how do we deal with that. ed henry in washington and sebastian gorka plus my reaction to, this the "new york times." profile picture of me on their cover. i'm not going to put it up. it is so bad. the question -- it is so often, did we not have the picture? did we not photo op. the thing? anything. anyway, we will show it coming up later in the show ♪ ♪ flosh ♪ like select ladies and youth flannel shirts for only $10. save $50 on merrell men's trailwik waterproof hikers. and save $50 on this redhead 30 inch smoker. plus visit basspro.com for daily cyber week specials and free shipping. whcold sore.et you? grab lunch? cold sore. when a cold sore takes over, campho phenique's topical anesthetic plus anti-microbial action soothes pain fast. what's for dinner? meat loaf. campho-phenique on, cold sore pain gone. we are the driven... the dedicated... the overachie

this is from "the new york times." it says, in recent months, they say mr.d closed door conversations to question the authenticity of president barack obama's birth certificate, he claims he lost the popular vote last year because of widespread voter fraud according to advisers and lawmakers. one senator who listened as the president revived his doubts chuckled on tuesday as recalled the conversation. the president has had a hard time letting go of his claim that mr. obama was not born in the united states. the senator asked not to be named to discuss private conversations. so his political career began with birtherism, this was a conspiracy theory he peddled. he still harbors this belief. why can't he let this go? >> maybe because that's who he is. i don't think this is anything new about his character, you can go back to atlantic city, can you go back to the central park five, housing discrimination, his comments about muslim americans, about mexican americans, judge curial, we can talk about the usage of pocahontas under the portrait of andrew jackson. at

on this brand-new article in "the new york times," thank you so much. great stuff. >>> president trump spending the long holiday weekend at his mar-a-largo resort in palm beach, florida and learning some things might not work the way he thinks they do. "time" magazine pushing back on this trump tweet. called to say that i was probably going to be named, person of the year. like last year. but i would to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot and i said probably is no good and took a pass. thanks any way. he was the person of the year last year after winning election and they said he is wrong about the process of picking the new chief of the consumer financial protection bureau. he named nick mulvaney to full the post but an acting chief was chosen by the bureau's out going director richard cordray. the legal battle now seems likely to figure out who is right here. let's go now to nbc news kellio donnell live in west palm beach not far from mar-a-largo following the president and let's start with the "time" magazine controversy, he said and they s

but an on-the-ground investigation by "the new york times" found the actual civilian death toll may be 31 times higher than the u.s. is admitting. their report reveals that as many as 1 in 5 coalition airstrikes on isis targets in iraq resulted in civilian deaths. through porters -- the reporters write -- "in terms of civilian deaths, this may be the least transparent war in recent american history." the investigation comes as u.s. military officials say the bombing in mosul was precise in hitting its targets. this is army lt. general stephen j. townsend. thatreject any notion coalition fires were in any way targeted, unlawful, or civilians. i would argue, i believe, the most precise campaign in history of warfare. we have gone to extraordinary measures to safeguard civilian lives. amy: but "the new york times" investigation reveals many of the american-led airstrikes against islamic state militants actually killed civilians. one of the survivors interviewed, basim razzo, described an airstrike on his home in mosul, iraq, in 2015 in which his wife, daughter, brother, and nephew were ki

that is according to "the new york times," which also reports trump told a republican senator he wanted an investigation even though he had publicly admitted it was him on the tape and apologized for it. well, the times also reports the president is continuing to push his false birther conspiracy theory. that's right, questioning the authenticity of president barack obama's birth certificate. we're going to have much more on that in just a moment. it comes, though, at a very crucial time for this president and this administration and his party, when reality, not conspiracy, is what he should be focusing on. a top domestic priority staking everything on a do or die effort to pass a tax plan. it cleared the senate budget committee today but there's still a long way to go with this. that as chuck schumer and nancy pelosi bail on a promised white house meeting to discuss the looming fiscal cliff, leaving president trump to make lemonade out of lemons with a photo opp with just some empty chairs next to him. not exactly a picture of bipartisanship or unity there. then there's kim jong-un, ch

is the actual cover of the "new york times" on a magazine.e much my best pictures ever. so, which one of those photos should i send out? you decide at sean hannity at twitter. hannity.com. and i will actually make a real christmas card this year. let us know. remember, we are always fair and balanced. we're not the destroy trump media. unfortunately that's all the time we have left. let not your heart be troubled. you can vote. i don't want the audience being influenced by your vote. don't go with laura because of whatever she says because it's not going to be good. i feel it coming. >> laura: there is a scintillating segment first of all let me say. number one. number two, this is the second night in the row where you have shared baby photos with us. this is shameless. >> sean: tomorrow night you bring yours. >> laura: look what a cutie pie i was. look at me riding my little lamb with the wheels on it. that is so shameless. >> sean: i want photos of laura ingraham as baby tomorrow night at this time. >> laura: no problem. i vote for you look

rumors of "variety" and "new york times" working on articles. had been talk there was something coming out. in terms of nbc saying they didn't know anything before monday night, didn't know of this accuser before monday and her lawyer says the same. 6:00 they sat down with hr and legal department at nbc and laid out her story over a period of hours. and what's remark national this time line, rachel, is that you consider the fact it was 6:00 on monday night. by tuesday night, roughly 24 hours. matt lauer was fired. most high profile face in this company. his contributions, don't even have to tick them off to know how important they are to our news division. 24 hours is how long it took. a testament in part and nbc says this, to seriousness of what she is alleging -- >> and how credible nbc found the allegations on monday. >> and as andy's statement also said, idea there might be other allegations out there. that combined together. i also think it's important to make note obviously of this context we're living in right now. what the last few weeks

"the new york times" reports the u.s. has carried out at least five drone strikes since november 9, killing at least 40 people. from the pentagon claims are militants with our shabab. this comes as a new report from brown university's costs of war project estimates that the u.s. wars since the 9/11 attacks in 2001 will cost up to $8 trillion in interest payments alone over the coming decades. their report says the u.s. has already spent $4.3 trillion on the wars and that the u.s. will be paying trillions of dollars in interest on the war debt for decades to come. in nigeria, a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northeast has killed up to 50 people. no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though local officials blamed it on boko haram. in zimbabwe, longtime leader robert mugabe is continuing to refuse to resign amid a an escalangng politicalal standofin ththe country. zimbabwe's ruling party is expected to begin impeachment proceedings today. last week, mugabe was placaced under house arrest after zimbabwe's mi

maybe one that is consensual, is that in a different category or is impressed by "the new york times"ded him at this time? >> it is in a different category. but the most egregious thing for this i think for him is the pattern where he would be at events off-site from "the new york times". he would get people inebriated and then he would talk to someone that was there and said ticket homes are to be alone with this person. remember that relies he tossed a $100 bill at a kitchen person or a dishwasher instead get out of the kitchen while i give this woman a tour. and then, he would make his move. that is very different from the harvey weinstein situation but in the end, perhaps the most egregious situation about glen thrush is this was a woman he may have deterred from entering the journalism broker and will never know the great stories it would have broken or how they would have contributed to the world of journalism. that said, "the new york times" came armed and prepared as did cbs. let me quickly at thisb that cbs president handled this very well. the point he made was in i even wro

reports to its a block's new york times by about time the new york times which has got us into wars in libya in iraq in yugoslavia and there understand the apparently justin trudeau left out an apology from a decade ago about native people in newfoundland and labrador but it's not really clear it's connected to that there's a certain vagueness to this it is important to the new york times to be banned surely that's all of brazil obviously whether they're saying it's not minister to vero or whether some wise guy there said no we've got to ban the new york times because what they said twenty four hours it took them to get them back onstream eleven minutes when donald trump went off your own conclusions well i mean if i was editor surely you'd better know all the competitor tech organizations as well as your share price does well i expect that sort of censorship to come from you and yours hail to twitter in the old days used to go to the pub read the local paper usually a murdoch paper let's go to this with the left of independent news for the bing as well while all that's going on the pr

over to the new york times, and "the chef who fed puerto rico." jose andres arrived five days after hurricane maria and has now served more than two million meals — what's claimed to be the largest emergency feeding programme ever set up by a group of chefs. and finally to a top story online for gulf news, police in dubai are using footprint technology to catch criminals based on their walking style, rotation of feet, and other markers. they're amongst the first police departments in the world to use the method. so let's begin. with me is iain anderson, founder of the international communications agency, cicero group. to see you back here again. good let's start with the story we all began to realise was coming to emerge, jerome powell. i saw one reflection on who he is, basically this is janet yellen without her?” think that is a fair comment. he is, interestingly, a lot of pick up this morning about the fact he isn't an economist. that may be a good thing. if you talk to economist, you get different opinions, but he is a balance, it seems, in te

"the new york times" is reporting he is still sort of consumed by this and talking about it.f, also the birther controversy. this is something that he started years ago, some five years ago, questioning where president obama was, indeed, born. it has been a stipulated fact that he was born here in the u.s., in hawaii, of course, but "the new york times" is reporting that the president has still in private conversations talked about this. of course during the campaign this was something that he said it was asked and answered. the president was indeed born in hawaii. so, wolf, it gives you a window at least into what the president is thinking here. we don't know why, of course. one theory here among republicans i've talked to, that this russia investigation hanging over everything is potentially rattling him. >> yeah. all right. that's a major theory we're hearing all the time. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. >>> we're also following the fallout from north korea's launch of its most powerful missile so far and it's prompted an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council. l

in the new york times and i was struck by the non-denial by the podium.he did say how the voters decided. >> it was litigated during the campaign. >> we know that's not true based on the heated nature of the campaign and the vote total and that's always what they fall back at the white house. the voters decided. they knew about the tape and decided. if president trump does think the tape was somehow faked and we all know it wasn't, he will have to say that for himself and for now the white house is not denying the new york times story. >> it also seemed, brooke, that it was intentionally confusing when zeleny circled back and asked her about it, she was talking about certain accounts being looked at again and i don't know what she was talking about. i don't think that the american people know what she's talking about. what we do know is that president trump as much as he likes to claim that there's fake news out there likes to stir these conspiracy theories himself and put out things that are contradictory to the facts and so, you know, whether or not tha

did you like my picture in "the new york times" magazine, i'm sure he had a fun time looking at that.ssue of north korea's nuclear program now threatening every single american. how do we deal with this? ed henry in washington, sebastian gorka. plus, my reaction to this, "the new york times"'s profile picture of me on their cover. you're not going to put it up? it is so bad. the question -- it is so awful. the question is, did they do -- do we not have the picture? did you not photoshop the thing? anything? we'll show it later in the show. ♪ ♪ of course, the holidays are about giving. but we all remember the one gift. the one we wrote letters asking for. and finished all our vegetables for. at bass pro shops, you'll find big savings on great gift ideas. like select ladies and youth flannel shirts for only $10. save $50 on merrell men's trailwik waterproof hikers. and save $50 on this redhead 30 inch smoker. plus visit basspro.com for daily cyber week specials and free shipping. if they knew just howers rich they were.ed the average american home value has increased $40,000 over the la

a former female nbc employee told the "new york times" that in 2001 matt lauer called her into his officend then allegedly had sex with her. and according to the times, the woman says she felt helpless about what happened and didn't want to speak out for fear of losing her job. now, we did reach out to matt lauer's agent for a comment earlier today. we have not heard back. and also tonight, it's the christmas tree lighting ind new york city. it happened an hour ago. and according to page 6, "new york post," nbc tried to edit lauer out of its coverage. while these allegations against matt lauer may be shocking to you watching at home, of course, according to reports lauer's behavior was open secret. disturbing video that has now surfaced tmz obtained aa video from 2006 where lauer appears to be making a lewd comment to one of his female co-hosts. take a look at it. >> these are just -- i will meet you outside. >> yeah. >> bye. >> bye-bye. keep like that that's a nice view. >> sean: 2012. katie couric told bravo this about matt lauer. let's look at this. >> you co-hosted "the today show" wi

get seen as having a vendetta. >> right. >> there's a long list of people wh would say the new york times has had a vendetta against him. there are a number of folks who have been on the list who pointed the finger at the times and says the times has a vendetta against me or the post. how do you balance that? how do you cover or uncover the wrongdoing and not get to the point of roy moore now, he's accusing the media of having a vendetta against him. it's that liberal media bias in the establishment that we hear from time to time. >> i think what you need to do is listen to it, think about it and make sure they're not right. generally when they say stuff like that, roy moore is trying to stop the post and everyone else from digging and finding out more examples. i think that was right with trump too. you need to listen, and i think you need to play devil's advocate, are we going too far, are we piling on? i think more often than not, you have to keep pushing ahead, it's hard, you have people like jodi they're getting a lot of heat right now. it's hard, you're absolutely right about it, th

they'd rather snicker to "the new york times" in the background about it.elieve this stuff, they shouldn't be complicit. >> i wanted to get to one of the quotes here where it says a republican lawmaker, it was a senator, laughed at the president talking about -- thought it was funny but didn't want to be named on the record. how is that funny? >> we're talking about cowardice here. there's a few exceptions. he's a brave man, bob corker. but most of them are too afraid of their political base to stand up to him. >> let's put the quote up. there it is. one senator who listened as the president revived his doubts about mr. obama's birth certificate chuckled on tuesday as he recalled the conversation. really? i mean, dana, what's funny about that? >> i got nothing, don. i really don't. nothing is funny about it except for the fact that it sounds like he believes he is being devilish, that he is being funny, that he's being donald trump. i mean he's been this guy for 71 years, and, you know, it isn't going to change. and it's unfortunate. look, i'm not condoning

. >> a new york times article as a conservative article, i don't often cite the "new york times" articles but in this case i think they have done some good work. it was reported in this "new york times" article that north korea may now be exporting less to china, but north korea may also be receiving trade credits from china, to finance continued imports, and of course these trade credits will help nullify north korea were having trouble coming up with hard currency. so if chinese entities including banks are -- shouldn't the treasury be designating them? >> that's a great point and i think we are seeing, as they evolve in response to u.n. security council resolutions, a constant effort to evade sanctions and barter is one of the ways they're -- so trade credits or maybe just plain old barter is another way they're trying to evade the effect of the financial hammer lock that we're endeavoring to put on them. so we're tracking that and if you trade with north korea, i don't care whether you're trading in dollars or yuan or whatever, any barter relationship exposes you to u.s. sanctions. >>

and that might not be a bad idea >> liz: looks like laura ingraham is right, and a new new york times report shows basically what the chinese are saying on the ground about president trump. they're saying they love him. they said after president trump 's visit to the forbidden city, chinese citizens gave him nicknames like uncle trump, donald the strong and grand commander and the new york times says the chinese are heaping praise on the trump and first family and they even created an online fan club and the new york times claiming chinese gave him style and skill as an entertain er and willingness to say what he thinks and many also like the fact he seems less inhibited than prior american presidents about recognizing china as the super power as an equal on the global stage and after years of american presidents lecturing china on issues like political prisoners and democracy the chinese are now relieved to see a leader talking about deal making as well than the other issues. all of that combined with those issues but also trade. they say mr. trump has changed the tone of america's c

he sat down with jeremy peters at "the new york times" and here's what he had to say about this. >> ihink the collusion thing, i've said from day one, is a joke. i was there. we couldn't collude. we had a tough time colluding between the trump campaign and rnc. >> colluding, i'm sorry, between campaign and russians. not necessarily about this report about flynn. but, carol, steve bannon, one of the closest people in donald trump's orbit at the end of the campaign, certainly for much of the first part of the administration, and he is still adamant that this was a campaign that just didn't know what it was doing so there's no possible way they could have done anything as egregious as collude. >> yeah. we've seen the trump officials and people in trump's orbit use this excuse time and time again. you know, that they were disorganized, how could they even collude. you know that very well may turn out to be true. we just don't know. but the -- what we do know is that this investigation is proceeding very methodically, very carefully. and we're learning more and more about it every day. and

the story that gave me pause involved "the new york times" and msnbc contributor glenn thrush who was "times" after vox.com ran a story of four young reporters accusing him of inappropriate advances. the vox headline is telling of the nature of the story. it reads exclusive, "the new york times" white house correspondent glenn thrush's history of bad judgment around young women journalists. have we reached a point where bad judgment is worthy of a professional death sentence? if you don't recognize thrush's byline, you might remember him as one of those depicted on "saturday night live" who was being berated by melissa mccarthy in the spicy sketches. >> we'll do a couple questions. go! glenn thrush, "the new york times," boo. go ahead. just by a show of hands who here hates glenn, right -- everybody, one, two, three -- infinity. >> now, according to the story, last june, thrush attended a going away party for a politico colleague and spent time with a 23-year-old reporter. he suggested they go for a walk outside. after they left the party. she said, mr. thrush kissed her and tried to

presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. >> clearly, "the new york times" and "variety" have been working on this for a period of time, they've been in contact, undoubtedly, with nbc, and they undoubtedly brought this up and it was being looked at by nbc. and now a new charge, and i think it has to be a very serious one. you also have to speculate that lauer may not have actually contradicted it in some way, because they acted so swiftly. you know, if he said, this is an absolute lie, you wouldn't have expected them to terminate him immediately. so the severity of this must have really struck home and nbc had to react, given all the other information they were then going through, i assume this was the ultimate move that they had to make. >> and look, remember, he was hosting the macy's thanksgiving day parade for nbc on thursday. a big, high-profile moment. so something must have happened between then and now. you know, we had all caught up on the tv aspect of that. with matt lauer, it's easy, because obviously he's at the pinnacle of the business. the pre

"the new york times" headline. "in a call with times reporter trump projects air of calm over charges." "the times" quotes the president, i'm not under investigation as you know he said late wednesday afternoon, pointing to the indictment of his former campaign chief, paul manafort, the president said even if you look at that there's no reports in there. since then his resume has raised questions about how he got on the campaign in the first place. a question former campaign manager cory lewandowski tried to answer on mtp daily. >> it was a hasally put together list. it was one meeting the advisory committee. so these names were added. i can tell you, this, it was exactly one meeting. what woo eknow about george papadopoulos he was originally hired by had ben carson campaign, and he came originally hired from one in washington, d.c. >> the investigation has washington and the white house waiting to see what's next and proceeding with extreme caution. joining me now "the washington post" national political reporter r

the new york times could have gotten some advertising revenue and made saudi arrange president mocker on even the french press admits it was not a big gain for but growing actually they were both humiliated by mohamed bin someone you know the lebanese prime minister saad hariri and the french president and let me tell you that this is not the first time that the western press is enthusiastic about people through in people in jail and then getting money from them saakashvili did the same thing with shevardnadze family and they had nothing but praise for him now mohammed bin someone you know this and take corruption drive about which friedman writes that a lot of soldiers who had nothing but if if use of support was a section well if you don't have if you lose your support for it in saudi arabia you're in trouble here you're going to be just of all knowledge. and you're going to get down to what the phrase the arab spring is a brand a failed idea that mostly regime it was as it was called sunni wintery weather as it is a growth of islamism and attacks on christian orthodoxy across the y