i insist that the washington post is nonpartisan. now does everybody work. smith: the, the perception, you know. downie:i know. smith:is that you guys are a bunch of liberal pigs. downie:well, you know, the, the perception is that we're liberal because we are, we do accountability journalism.establishment up to, to be accountable, for some reason people translate that to being liberal, when there isn't, just ask bill clinton if he thinks the washington post. smith: well, sometimes the establishment is democratic. downie:was biased for him. yeah. smith: i mean, that's, you know, it comes around. downie:exactly . smith: it may be that there's a republican president, you're tough on george bush downie:right. smith: but then you're tough on barack obama. downie:yes. the clintons thought the post did a -- and you are holding them accountable for certain smith: so this is really aboutestablishment versus anti-establishment rather than left versus right? downie:that's what i think, so, but the audience could perceive it the way the audience perceives it. so i smith

. >> kirsten, did you see the front page of the "washington post"? i think we have the graphic this week. it was a cloud cover that included the shot in the background, see the shot in the corner, don't trust the liberal media. don't believe on the liberal media, on the front page of the "washington post." >> with all the stuff going on with the attacks on mitt romney and bain is not drummed up by the liberal media, it is drummed up by newt gingrich, primarily, and, the dnc has lodged attacks and not getting the attraction newt gingrich has gotten and perry is along for the right and, they thought newt gingrich was backtracking and his campaign, put out a statement saying we are not backtracking and i think they are... and south carolina has a high unemployment rate and they hope it will read out to their effect. >> and wednesday mitt romney went on six of the network morning shows, he was on cnn, msnbc and on fox, and, being asked about his performance, on cnn, soledad o'brien asked him about his 16-point win in new hampshire and described it as bei

. >> tonight, author and that checker for the washington post. later, british prime minister david cameron addresses a possible referendum to scottish independence. >> this week on "q&a" glenn kessler discusses his current job as "the fact checker" columnist. >> you have a web site. i want to read you what one of the comments that came from the public at large in the to explain. this average pinocchio list strikes me as absurd and meaningless. if anything exist to be manipulated by partisans, if not the grind, it acts as itself. the writer does not evaluate every statement. to do so is impossible. instead, it then kessler picks which statements to evaluate. we could go on. what is he talking about? >> we recently introduced to my column, the pinocchio tracker differentte a comments by politicians on the one-four scale. if you say something really outrageous that is inaccurate, you get four pinocchio's. if it is slightly misleading you make it one pinocchio. all the candidates running for president including barack obama, i list all the columns i

everybody who could walk even with a crutch at the washington post went up there. quite extraordinary. and, our favorite resident russian and humorous. welcome to the broadcast. there are other people here that could make a joke, too, i understand. we will see how it goes. while we have been concentrating on the republican primary domestically, some very disturbing moves have been happening in iran. >> disturbing moves that seem to overlook two important events -- three former heads of intelligence in israel, three former commanders in the united states have warned us do not bomb iran, and the israelis say this is what their prime minister would like to do. if it comes to a vet, and it looks as if it is moving in that direction, we forget that iran has formidable asymmetric capabilities all the way up and down the gulf, and oil will be very quickly of 500. >> $500 a barrel? >> if that showdown comes. >> which would wreck the economy, the whole world. we used to calculate the two hundred dollars a barrel would put our economy into a downward spiral. $500 a barrel, t

establishment and you just talked about "the new york times" and "the washington post." you have agreed with the characterization that governor romney is a liar. look at him now. do you stand by that claim? >> sure, governor i wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the pac, it is your millionaire friends giving to the pac, and you know some of those things are untrue. just say that, straightforward. >> well, of course former staff of mine, and of course they're people who support me. they wouldn't be putting money into a pac that supports me if they weren't people who support me. with regards to their ads, i haven't seen them. as you know, under the law i can't direct their ads. >> speaker -- >> hold on a second. i can't direct their ads. if there's anything in them that's wrong i hope they take it out. i hope everything that's wrong is taken out. but let me tell you this, the ad i saw said that you've been forced out of the speakership. that was correct. it said that -- that you sat down with nancy pelosi and argued for a climate change

consider the story of how she met catherine graham, owner of the washington post, in an elevator. the specifics vary depending on who is telling the story, some have the two women going up, others have them going down. but one thing is certain, it was an elevator pitch before that were elevator pitches. >> pamela is 24-7, always an her game. and an example, one day coming back from her brisk walk one morning, she quickly got in the elevator and may have been still on her phone, quite possible, and there was a very properly dressed woman on the elevator. >> and we got to the lobby, pamela said you look so familiar to me, but i can't place you, but my name is pamela newman. >> and this lovely woman said, i'm catherine graham, nice to meet you. >> only pamela could do this. pamela said, i've always wanted to get into the washington post, but i've never been able to get an appointment. >> and pamela said, may i follow up with you today, mrs. graham? and she so politely said, please do, pamela. and that was probably 15, 16 years ago, and the washington post is still a client today. >>

you have done videos for the "washington post" website. and here is one where you're talking about rick perry and climate change and i want to ask you how you do this. >> uh-huh. ♪ ♪ >> in this episode of fact check video, take a look at rick perry's comments on climate change and the science behind the research. >> i think there are substantial number of sciences who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects and i think we're seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists coming forward and questioning the original idea that manmade global warming is what is causing the climate to change. >> the fact of the matter is the science is not settled on whether or not the climate change is being impacted by man to the point where we're going to put america's economics in jeopardy. >> governor perry is wrong to suggest this growing skepticism among scientists. to the contrary, various surveys show that as many as 98% of climate researchers believe in the concept of manmade climate change. governor pe

he's a pulitzer prize winning columnist for "the washington post." gentlemen, right off the bat, fantastic event this morning. in this debate showed his weaknesses. it showed his stance as the nice guy, politician. it showed his stance as the nice guy, businessman, nonpolitician who's open to question, and it was questioned by everybody else on the stage and very surgically and strategic will i by david gregory and the others. >> we'll show you the tapes in a second, but, gene. >> my first thought was they landed some blows on romney today. the question is whether it's too late. now, things happened late in new hampshire and it seems like there's an eternity between today, sunday, and tuesday, but is that really realistically the right time? >> here it is the one-two punch of rick santorum and mitt romney, attacking his guys or presentation as a citizen, businessman who occasionally goes into politics. here is the first shot from santorum. i went to massachusetts to make a difference. i didn't go there to begin a political career, running time and ti

dionne, fellow at the brookings institution and columnist for "the washington post." gentlemen, it's been an eventful day in the world of politics. jonathan, what do you make of all of this, is it possible for mitt romney to lose the nomination at this point, how big a day was it? >> it's possible if he loses south carolina and the momentum is not moving in his direction, then you have a two-man race and you can say all right, gingrich isn't even on the ballot in virginia and romney has a better organization, but as you indicated a few minutes ago, gingrich has some access to some real money, and he could make this into a real contest. a lot of republicans apparently are willing to see past his marital infidelities, this open marriage thing is kind of mind blowing. can you imagine what would happen if this was a democrat, what rick perry would be saying? >> we talked in our ed newsroom today about what if president obama had dropped a bomb shell on a news magazine saying michelle and i have an open marriage. come on, how low are they going to drop the bar in this camp

joined now by "the washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor, ezra klein. this is a chance to attack the candidates, their super pacs. what do we know about the speech and how does the president plan to connect with voters? >> let's do some context, what this speech will not do is transform american politics, gallup looks at polls after every state of the union and what they say despite what everybody thinks about state of the unions, they never, almost never, have a real affect on presidential approval ratings. the only president who had a demonstrative effect from his state of the unions was bill clinton and that effect was three percentage points in the polls, which shortly thereafter disappeared. these do not change american politics, they do set an agenda for the next year. what barack obama is going to attempt to do tomorrow night is set the agenda that puts the playing field of 2012 over topics he's comfortable around. equality, fairness in the economy, failures of the bush tax cuts, which would reset the terms of the debate, but don't expect anythin

post are all getting together to launch a new company called news right now the idea here is to track the use of their original reporting online and eventually to try to make blogs and other news gathering services try to pay for it according to the washington post news writing codes original stories with hidden data that includes the writer's name and when it was published those encoded stories send back reports to the registry and describe where a story is being used and who's reading it and the technology can even locate stories that have been cut and pasted in whole or in part so they say that this is just to make sure that those who republished their content do so with integrity but does that mean for blogs and for aggregators and how does that apply to that little thing that we like to call fair use joined me to discuss that is david sirota radio talk host and author of back to our future how the one nine hundred eighty s. explain the world we live in now david thanks so much for joining us tonight and before we get into this particular company here i'm just curious i mean do yo

. >>> washington post is out with a new poll result about maryland governor martin o'malley's approval levels it appears he is lacking support for key proposals, joining us this morning aaron davis maryland political reporter for the washington post, good morning aaron thanks for being with us. overall the gover forlooks pretty good with an approval rating of 55% can you give us a big picture. >> this was the biggest poll we have done in about a year, his approval rating stayed high, about 50%, however this year he has an ambitious agenda marylanders are not sure if they want to go along with his proposals the biggest thing about the budget governor o'malley said after years of depressed tax revenue, this year, the state can't afford to just close the budget short fall by cuts alone s the revenue is needed to make sure the state can still invest in infrastructure he wants a higher gas tax, higher income tax on people making six figures or more, higher flush tax, all these things and marylanders are split about which ones they like and how they should do this. >> there is the numbers to

the "washington post" gave him three pinocchios. there's no proof of that. i'm controversial at times. i'm very direct at times but i really do try to be very candid and very direct, as you know, from all the shows we've done together over the years. that's just my style is to be very direct and try to level with the american people. >> schieffer: now you have called on your super pac to take down or correct some of the ads that they've been running because there have been some inconsistencies in some things that, among other things, the "washington post" has given pinocchios to. they said they weren't krebt. >> that's right. >> schieffer: why did you do is that that? are they going to comply with your wishs? >> this is all a public conversation because it's illegal to coordinate these kinds of groups. i had challenged governor romney to take the same position when one of his ads was so false that it got four pinocchios in i think 30 seconds. and he didn't do it. i would say that i'm trying to set a standard here. i don't particularly super pacs. i would muc

washington white house reporter for "the washington post." armstrong williams, radio talk show host. karen finney, msnbc political analyst. former dnc communications director. i felt like you can take that blo blog off. what do you see happening tuesday in florida? >> well, wow, what a conversation, bitter much? i think that in florida, we are going to see mitt romney actually win but i am sure that we will hear some kind of rationaliratio rationale from newt gingrich how he one. >> for the record, you are not a democrat. i made that point. i hope you -- you know, were listening. anyway, look into your crystal ball and tell me what you see playing out on tuesday. >> you know, gingrich between now and tuesday has the continuing to show that conservatives especially the tea party and -- not comfortable with romney as the heir apparent in terms of he gave romney care in massachusetts and feel there is not much to between himself and president obama and has the continue -- to continue to explore with that and try to close the gap. i don't think h

. >> dana: this is something that the "washington post" touching on with the hypocrisy point. there are people who don't remember or have forgotten when he was speaker of the house and leading the charge of impeachment against bill clinton for having lied under oath. that was a distinction. the affair with a younger political staffer, he, himself, was having a an affair with a younger political staffer. he's asking for forgiveness. but a lot of that, hypocrisy comes in play when you make a judgment about who you vote for. >> bob: the judgment is not the word "open viewer marriage"y the interviewer. >> dana: in "esquire" piece she said he asked me to accept the affair. >> greg: open wasn't dating a bump of people but trying to debt -- >> bob: a lot of people care about that. i don't. >> greg: we tried to talk to your exs. >> dana: want to hear from gingrich from this morning? >> bob: sure. before i get in trouble. good idea. >> i am not going to say anything negative about marianne. my daughters sent a letter to the president of abc news and say from a family perspective, they

washington post blog reads. obama cuts defense to the bone and then some. supposedly cutting 500 billion. >> we are grown the military budget over the last 15 years, it doesn't represent a gutting. in fact, even if the most cuts under sequestration. budget act. >> failure of the super committee. >> automatic cuts and terrible and going to destroy our military. >> takes us back to 200divide levelings. that was not a leann year for the pentagon . continue to grow. >> we do have one graph. this shows projected military spending if something done and this line shows after obama's charges and both are still going up. why is there all of this talk about cuts and cutting defense to the bone and then some in the washington post of all places. >> in washington, john, the people's money is the government's money until the people get it. they assume that spending is going up. those of us not in washington don't assume that. again in washington it is sanct. they are responsible if we make the kinds of stradgic changes. they didn't go far enough. but we have strategic c

that according to the washington post, interior secretary has ordered the change. now that quote on the monument reads, i was a drum major for justice, peace, and righteousness. folks say, that's taken out of context and makes king seem arrogant. the phrase comes from a speech that king delivered in which he said yes, if you want to say that i was a drum major, say that i was a drum major for justice. say that i was a drum major for peace. i was a drum major for righteousness. it's a bit different. >> a school day turns into a rock concert as the first lady and the cast of a hit tv show pay them a visit. but first, tragedy struck twice in d.c. 30 years ago today. a flight crashed in the potomac and the metro derailed. we'll take a look back. next. >>> 30 years ago today, three people died and 25 others were hurt when a metro train derailed between the federal triangle. the orange line train had 1200 people on board. they were all headed home for the everyoning rush. it was the first deadly accident in the history of the transit agency. that crash, however, was over

a new abc news "washington post" poll shows just 13% of americans approve of the way congress is doing its job. that is the worst rating since 1974. today, protesters with the occupy d.c. movement are planning their biggest rally yet with activists from around the country coming to the capital. >> our own stacy cohan is live on capitol hill with more on that. >> good morning. in fact, the occupy protesters do cite that low approval rating as one of the motivating factors behind this demonstration today. so as the congress reconvenes, the house reconvenes today, they will be greeted by occupy protesters. according to the occupy d.c. web site, here is a rundown. events. around 9:00 a.m., they are going to gather on the west lawn of the capital and begin speaking and making their plans. some activities include dispercenting to various congressional members' offices. at 11:00 a.m. a teach-in is scheduled in which they will brief people on various important activities and issues regarding the house session and issues across the country. and after a lunch break therk expecting that full-scal

"the washington post" two days ago reported in their fact check column that he gets three pi noek yoes. now, a pa noek yoe is what you get from the post about not at the teling the truth. three would be a long nose but we won't do that. but i just challenge governor romney. release the records. show us the facts. you can't hide -- you can't run for president, have half your campaign be about your great achievements, and then hide them. >> here's your south carolina ad running -- now that's attacking romney's career at bain taken from a full-length movie that gingrich called it in for its inaccuracies. >> a group of corporate raiders let by mitt romney, the company was bain cap tat tal, more ruthless than wall street. >> pulled the rug out from our plant. >> everybody was fired. >> they fired people, cut benefits, sell assets. >> mitt romney, them guys, they don't care who i am. >> i feel that is a man that destroyed us. >> winning our future is it responsible for the content of this message. >> well, your response for the content, are you happy with its accuracy, rick, because there ar

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. >> ezra klein of the "washington post" is here to set the record straight. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the first votes of the republican nomination are hours away from being cast. i think we might see a big surprise in iowa tomorrow. the latest numbers from the public policy polling have ron paul on top with 20% of the vote in iowa. mitt romney and rick santorum are right behind on his heels. the comprehensive "des moines register with t" has romney at n paul 22%. santorum in at 15%. the devil is in the details. in the first day of the poll, ron paul was on top with 29% support. four days later he was down to 16%. on the other hand, santorum polled at 10% the first couple days of the polling. on days three and four, his numbers doubled to 20%. so what does that mean? santorum has real momentum. he continues his brand of retail politics on the road in iowa. he was so popular at a pizza restaurant in boone, iowa, the owner renamed the chicken salad santorum salad in honor of the candidate. santorum is a viable alternative for conservative voters. h

post" and a clearly spectator wrong them. but just a reminder how poll driven the media is and how much it's a herd mentality because a rival network had a poll at that showed them at 16%, a week or so out, and that was just the bell going off and all of a sudden, everyone was talking about santorum surging and couldn't gets enough of the guy. >> which game first? was it the surge or predictions of the surge. i think that the media played a bigger role in iowa than what is to be intended, and-- >> do you think that rick santorum is a media creation, his popularity? >> i think his surge was a media creation and it also reflects on that the failed political experiment that is iowa and new hampshire, hopefully will it's the next cycle or within two cycles that people recognize the retail politics failed. 10 million in the last month. leading up to it. the frenzy that we see from these media folks who probably should be prescribed ritalin to calm them down a witness. >> well, also, i have to agree with jehmu on this. when you loo

but the washington post reports a judge pushed that date back to february 18. the judge issued that extension because the federal bureau of prisons is not yet completed its evaluation and placement plans. >>> the republican presidential candidates making their final push before tomorrow's big florida primary. the top two candidates, mitt romney and newt gingrich spent today. 50 delegates are up for grabs in the sunshine state. that means it's an important win for whoever gets it. and as re may marsh reports, it appears to be romney to lose. >> surging in the polls just one day before floridians head to the voting booth. >> what a great morning in jacksonville. >> a university survey released monday gives the former massachusetts governor a 14 point lead over newt gingrich. the former house speaker is still confident over his prospects beyond florida. arguing romney's too moderate to be president obama in november. >> every time we nominate a moderate, we lose. so 1996, we nominate a moderate, bill clinton wins the election. 2008, we nominate a moderate, barack

according to the "washington post," the company says their work looks at both school sectors objectively. >>> d.c. police are on the hunt for a gunman accused of violently assaulting a woman and stealing awful her belongings. police say the man grabbed the woman by the neck forcing her down an alley and then put a gun to her head and sexually salted her before taking off with her purse, briefcase and backpack cyst there was appear intense meeting two president obama and the governor of arizona yesterday. >> they exchanged a few words at the airport and it is being described ads an intense encounter. >> reporter: president obama is used to facing opposition but he may never have expected this, the tense situation happening in phoenix, arizona wednesday. that is when governor jan brewer came you out to the greet the president upon his arrival. according to brewer, mr. obama was displeased with how she depicted him in her recently published burke scorpions for breakfast. >> i had written a handwritten note to him welcoming him to arizona. he immediately took umbrage if you will with my book

mobile, lockheed martin, "washington post." the leaders of those companies came together and decided we need to do something big for the city. our kids aren't going to college, what can we do about that? so they mobilized their efforts and decided to concentrate on this. we started in 1999, in september. we opened centers in six public high schools, and those centers serve kids running from 9th grade to 12, where they get counseling, advice on how to prepare for college, career choices. and then the following year, we opened in all the dcps high schools, the following 20. and about four years ago, we opened in all the charter schools. so, now we're serving all the charters and all the public schools in this. and really have over the years been able to mobilize private funding just from around the country as well as locally here to support our students. once they graduate in senior year, they roll into our college retention division where we stay with them for five years to help get them out. because as you know, it's much harde

it will be based on established newspapers like the "washington post", "new york times", washington journal, barrens, bloomberg news. and i hope it is totally accurate and people can watch the 27 1/2 minutes of his career, bain, and decide for themselves. >> i'm not going to play all 27 minutes. >> if there was a topic sentence, i think it would be this. >> a group of corporate raters, led by mitt romney, and the company was bain capital, and it was more ruthless than wall street. >> the film is not accurate, is it? >> well, some flaws in the film. i promptly said this is the difference between governor romney and me. when the "washington post" said governor romney's super pac in a 30-second commercial was wrong on four different counts, he didn't know anything about it. when it said something similar to the film, i promptly said i hoped they would make it accurate, and all of this is out in the open because you cannot communicate privately under the law, and i said that publically, and as i understand it, rick tyler has said he is prepared to edit the film and submitted five questions to r

host: from "the washington post" -- this is from the outlook section of "the washington post" -- also, the great debates that were not so great. why newt gingrich should not reply to the lincoln douglas debates with president obama barre in . that is this morning from "inside the washington post." we cover the re-enactment of the lincoln douglas debates more than a decade ago but we still have the website if you want to watch them and you can get it all by logging onto c-span.org. alan is a supporter of newt gingrich from, gary, indiana -- caller: until i see how they are all going against the president as he got in, i was disgusted. i have seen on tv today were i have seen herman cain and gingrich on the same stage patted each other on the back and in doors to each other and i thatd not stand the fact they are two adulterers. i am quitting the republicans. host: thanks for the call. next is sandy, tulsa, a oklahoma. caller: thank you for taking my call. i enjoy your show each sunday morning. i am a little bit nervous but i find it interesting that people continue to criticize mitt ro

on the "newshour" tonight, juliet eilperin of the "washington post" explains the reasons for the decision and what happens next. >> woodruff: we discuss the pressure on g.o.p. front-runner mitt romney to release his tax information in advance of the south carolina primary. >> warner: we debate the risk of sliding into war with iran, as the west tightens sanctions against its nuclear program. >> woodruff: spencer michels reports on how fog and tourism are threatening to destroy the historic murals in a san francisco landmark. >> the quality of art is amazing here. it's really indicative of the time period of the early '30s and for the public art, public mural movement of that time period. >> warner: and we debate the impact private equity firms have on jobs and the economy. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations.