. >> plus, the "huffington post" expands to canada. so what's up with the canadian woman who's running it, eh? we'll meet her. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> in an increasingly shrill media environment, running for president means being attacked, assailed, mocked, ridiculed, bashed, and otherwise denigrated. rarely have we seen the harsh rhetoric unleashed except from a man who's been a political leader for the past two decades, the former speaker of the house. >> gingrich is an amazing efficient condition dc in that it -- candidacy in that it embodies everything about washington, the classic rental politician. >> it's not surprising coming from me, but that was about the most arrogant and unself-aware, and those are probably the only words i can use, thing for any politician in this republican field to say. >> disgusting. >> he is a mean, vindictive s.o.b. who does not really care about anything other than power. >> if anyone's dirty, it's newt gingrich. a man whose personal morality has been drawn from the sewe

do, and it went up the bureaucracanba, d they said, "well, huffington post competes with our website, so we shouldn't do that." >> so say you want to be a citizen journalist. say you want to contribute to this process. what does it mean? how do you do that? where can you find codes of conduct or the tools and the best practices? sonya's back with a look at some things that e t erfoyou. sonya? >> frank, let's say you're already tech-savvy and now you want to be a citizen journalist. where do you go to learn more about the journalism side of the equation? thknhtiten news network is a great place that's part of the j-lab at american university. they have all the tips of the trade, and clki othr arng modules will bring you all of the important information and the principles of citizen journalism, like accuracy and fa cckg,houges fairness, transparency, independence, and interviews with so many experts in the field. you can learn from them inhe veoth ty have posted up here--experts like jay rosen, who explains trust and independence online in this quick, lite de kn full of information tha

>> host: hovered law professor yoshi -- argues in "the huffington post" that it is not the right approach for, to make the networks sell some of their spectrum because it will special in addition he goes on to talk about the use of unlicensed spectrum and how wi-fi has been very successful in short distances. >> guest: i think congress is looking how again to achieve a good balance here and i think, i suspect that there will be some support in the supercommittee for providing some unlicensed spectrum. part of the question is what spectrum is used for license services? what is unlicensed and so on? and they think that the 84 probably megahertz that will come from the broadcast side is probably better suited for the kinds of services that we have today that are maybe for unlicensed services and therefore i think that the committee and we would hope the committee would use that spectrum for mobile services and

and he had his assistant, my friend, donald kohn sent me a letter, which i put up on "huffington post" if anybody wants to read it. and he said yes, we decided to destroy the records but we think it is legal. i believe that's going on right now. and i think that's a very bad situation. then one interesting thing that we did, the congress got word that the first bush administration had sent saddam hussein $515 billion in agricultural loan. -- $5.5 billion. it was issued to a tiny italian bank in atlanta, georgia, and the only one that really was arrested for it was a poor manager of the bank, christopher drew. and i had him brought to my office, he came in change from the prison, put him in a suit and he appeared before henry b. and henry said, why was the fed? they investigate all foreign banks operating in the united states. he said, well, the examiner came in, look at some of the georgia records and then we had a cup of espresso. there's more to that story, but i quoted in my book. then during the 1990s we saw something that is part of the problem with having now, the major banks in

we have a link to it on our site on the huffington post. i think a lot of other media have done the same. i think everybody has to be his or her own editor, lawrence, as a citizen with the assistance of whatever sources they trust, including this show or the websites we work for and msnbc and others. we have no market on the corner on the truth either here at msnbc but i think we try hard to get the facts straight. i think this campaign all the way through is going to be about using these distorting ads. what karl forti said in that quote, where he said the facts mean less than the punch line, i think that's what he said or the writing said is emblematic of so much of american politics and political discourse today. we ought to be vigilant about it. i think the horse race story here is both mitt romney who hasn't moved in the polls in a year and rick perry who got bucked off the bronco faster than any rodeo cowboy in history desperately trying to keep -- mitt romney where i am going to vote for rick perry. they are not going to vote for eit

and am of global friends to the end daniel dicker an oil trader and c n b c contributor row on the huffington post that on october third koch brothers pulled out billions from an off global they had eight accounts with m.f. global and had them for decades just like dell slanty had his account for decades and he lost all of his money the koch brothers managed october third they were warned that this was coming down they pulled their billions they saved their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying wall street this has been another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks though wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tell spinning to disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets to leave regular people with a mass yes insider trading you know once again drawing on my

global friends to the end daniel dicker an oil trader and c n b c contributor row on the huffington post and on october third koch brothers pulled out billions from an off global they had eight accounts with m.f. global and had them for decades just like tell slanty had his account for decades and he lost all of his money the koch brothers managed october third they were warned that this was coming down they pulled their billions they save their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying wall street this is then another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks though wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout take guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tell spinning to disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets to leave regular people with a mass yes insider trading you know once again drawing on my experie

global friends to the end daniel dicker an oil trader and c n b c contributor wrote on the huffington post that on october third koch brothers pulled out billions from an off global they had eight accounts with m.f. global and had them for decades just like tell slanty had his account for decades and he lost all of his money the koch brothers managed october third they were warned that this was coming down they pulled their billions they saved their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying wall street this is been another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks though wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and what firms are tell spinning to disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets and leave regular people with a mass yes insider trading you know i think again drawing on

a flow book friends today and daniel dicker but an oil trader and c m b c contributor wrote on the huffington post that on october third koch brothers pulled out billions from an off global they had eight accounts with m.f. global and had them for decades just like jealous lines he had his accounts for decades and he lost all of his money the koch brothers managed october third they were warned that this was coming down they pulled their billions they saved their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying last this is then another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks go wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tailspin into disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets believe regular people with a mass yes insider trading you know once again drawing on my experienc

coming down they pulled their billions they saved their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and those. occupying wall street this is then another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks the wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tailspin into disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets and leave regular people with a mass yes insider trading you know once again drawing on my experience as a wall street broker myself many times it's called getting a first call if you're on a first call basis with the firm you get the first call when you need to get a first call and that applies to research recommendations it applies to this type of scandal that's about to break that cost a lot of money a lot of pride lot of graft you know but it's worth it because you avoid these types of losses agai

coming down they pulled their billions they save their billions and the article from daniel dicker on huffington post says quote for those still battling the excesses of two thousand and eight and zero. occupying wall street this has been another proof of the inside fixed operation of the financial markets when banks though wrong betting big with other people's money losing they can be sure of a bailout that guarantees their bonuses and businesses and when firms are tell spinning to disaster the richest and most financially influential partners are sure to get a phone call a heads up to save their assets and leave regular people with the mass yes insider trading you know once again drawing on my experience as a wall street broker myself many times call getting the first call if you're on a first call basis with the firm you get the first call when you need to get the first call and that applies to research recommendations it applies to this type of scandal that's about to break that cost a lot of money a lot of broad lot of graft you know but it's worth it because you avoid these types of losses

. >> out of "the huffington post" kids wreaking havoc on homes with a bag of flour. check this out, two children, ages 1 and 3. mom is in the bathroom. they take a bag of flour out of the cupboard and destroy her house. i have little kids. they, they got to go back. >> you are grounded. >> they got to go. got to go though. they can't stay. >> look at that. are you kidding me? oh. >> it's awful. >> looks like keith richards' house. >> awful. they're enjoying it. enjoying it so very much. >> kids will be kids. hide the flour. hide that stuff. look at that house. oh. hope they have a good maid or something in there. >>> we have heard the phrase of six degrees of separation here. that is -- a study that goes back to 1967. they updated it. facebook, university of milan updated. it's not six, it is now 4.74 degrees of separation. largely because of facebook and 721 million users. really, no more, average number of acquaintances that separate any two people in the word, 4.74. staggering though. >> it makes sense to me. >> raised questions about what a friend really is. we a

they have your friend, adrianna huffington saying she might not vote for him. i know we're close. i'm a greek women. we're close, but not as close as you and arianna i heard. >> eric: the way you say "friend." >> bob: what are you suggesting? i am warning you right now. the one -- [ laughter ] >> bob: you tease me for being greek. that igreek >> andrea: that is a greek woman you like and know better than you know me. >> bob: there are other two women friends of mine. >> kimberly: changing the subject. >> andrea: awkward. >> bob: what's that? >> kimberly: this is so funny. >> greg: platonic. >> andrea: do you have greek in you? >> bob: when i was drunk. but now i'm sober. >> kimberly: both of them made a little cottage industry out of taking on obama the last couple of years. frankly, the idea of replacing hillary clinton with barack obama is a ridiculous idea, it's not going to happen. we will have barack obama and barack obama will beat the republican so badly that you will be sitting here. >> eric: i have a lot of problems with obama, too. and this're pease. >> kimberly: you lov

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us today, cnbc's jim cramer, "the washington post's" kathleen parker, cnn's gloria borger and "the huffington post's" howard fineman. first up, barack obama's hopes in a race against mitt romney rest on next year's economy. on sunday's "new york times," the electoral college analyst says if there's no g.d.p. growth next year, it would give romney an 80% chance of beating obama but if there's 4% growth, the tables are concerned. the obama campaign will pummel romney to make him unacceptable. >> you're campaigning as the man who can fix the economy. look at your record, sir. two u.s. plants were closed, 2,000 workers were laid off. chris: far from running from his ties to business, romney is boasting about his success. >> that business was one of the largest and most successful and in my party, we celebrate success, we don't attack success, we celebrate it. chris: jim cramer, you tend to agree. here's a piece of a cramer rant about the president and business. >> disdain is off the charts. he's hated like jimmy carter was hated and i think we got to tell our viewers that and when the mics are of

huffington's arianna huffington. and niall ferguson, author of the new book of "civilization." george, let me ask you about the unemployment numbers, is that something of a trend or just scratching the surface? >> first of all, 80,000 isn't nearly enough to accommodate even the natural growth month by month the job growth. the 80,000 is a net number. the private sector created 104,000 job. the public sector happily shrunk. here's the bad news, 46% of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. 4 million americans have been unemployed for more than a year. skills decay, the very spirit that causes people to engage in economic life decays. the result is, if you have been unemployed for six months or more, your lifetime earnings decline under natural trajectory. >> niall, it doesn't look like people have much faith that it's going to get better? >> i think people turn out to be better economists than economists. when you go back to the view, if you hit the economy with a big monetary stimulus, there will be a v-shape recovery and the u.s. would bounce back like it

as she told the huffington post, quotes, i have never seen two dead people who were conscious entities having intercourse. i have heard of people having sex with ghosts, but not this. (laughter) yeah, of course, of course. ghosts have sex with people all the time. and there's plenty of photographic evidence. (laughter) >> stephen: so, para normals getting their parafreak on? yes. ghosts on werewolf, sure. chupacabra giving a leprechaun a reacharound, well-documeed. a vampire tea bagging a yeti that is commonplace. but ghosts on ghosts? that's a little farfetched. they would just go through each other. up next, there is huge news from europe. at least i think it's huge. it's in metric so who can tell. now normally i do to the give a flying pfeffernusse what happens in its old country as long as they keep the audies coming and the swiss miss flowingment but europe could drag us all down just like they did to david hasselhoff. you see-- in this new global economy, in the global economy we're all interconnected like a fiscal human centipede. and if you will notice, if you will notice ameri

as she told the huffington post, quotes, i have never seen two dead people who were conscious entities having intercourse. i have heard of people having sex with ghosts, but not this. (laughter) yeah, of course, of course. ghosts have sex with people all the time. and there's plenty of photographic evidence. (laughter) >> stephen: so, para normals getting their parafreak on? yes. ghosts on werewolf, sure. chupacabra giving a leprechaun a reacharound, well-documented. a vampire tea bagging a yeti that is commonplace. but ghosts on ghosts? that's a little farfetched. they would just go through each other. up next, there is huge news from europe. at least i think it's huge. it's in metric so who can tell. now normally i do to the give a flying pfeffernusse what happens in its old country as long as they keep the audies coming and the swiss miss flowingment but europe could drag us all down just like they did to david hasselhoff. you see-- in this new global economy, in the global economy we're all interconnected like a fiscal human centipede. and if you will notice, if you will notice ame

read your piece in "the huffington post" today. excellent piece. >> how worried should we all be about that? >> you should be very, very worried, because we can go back in tree and look at the political relationships that inspidi inspired a lot of judicial decisions. there was a whole era in there, several days ago, where basically judges were a little bit too influenced by politics. and you could see the decision resulted. and what we don't seem to understand is that those things are on the books, those things then drive our politics for decades, if not centuries, and we're stuck. and what has happened, there's a direct line between sort of buying and influencing the judiciary and the problems we're having today. >> so i want to talk about the actual net worth of our congress. the house net worth in 2008, $1 billion, which is right at the peak of the financial crisis. that's the personal net worth of the financial and real estate holdings of the individuals who serve in the house of representatives, correct? >> correct. >> so thei

huffington post's arianna huffington. matthew doud dowd and niall ferguson, author of the new book of "civilization." let me turn to you, george, let me ask you about the unemployment numbers, is that something of a trend or just scratching the surface? what difference will that make? >> first of all, 80,000 isn't nearly enough to accommodate even the natural growth month by month of the work force. two bits of good news in there. the 80,000 is a net number. the private sector created 104,000 job. the public sector happily shrank by 24,000 jobs. here's the bad news, 46% of the unemployed have been unemployed for six months or more. 4 million americans have been unemployed for more than a year. we know what happens. skills decay, the very spirit that causes people to engage in economic life decays. the result is, if you have been unemployed for six months or more, your lifetime earnings are apt to decline by 20% under natural trajectory. >> niall, it doesn't look like people have much faith that it's going to get better? >

and sam stein, political reporter for "the huffington post." gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. sam, let's start with you. reassessing the campaign. in political talk, that means we're not going to be around here much longer but let's see what we can make of it. is this just putting up the flag pole and seeing which way it blows with the public? what do you make of it? >> it certainly seems like that. we have to keep in mind the context of this. this was a presidential campaign that was supposed to be a book tour, a national book tour to establish cain's national celebrity, in fact. and so now that it's gone terribly awry and now that personal questions have been raised, there's really no point, necessarily, in herman cain staying in the race. the whole point was for him to establish better credentials. when you start reassessing these things and when more and more people come forward, yeah, i think you don't say you're reassessing unless you're considering leaving. >> he fooled a lot of people. he's not out of the race yet. maybe a p

joseph pulitzer to train journalists, is now partnering with several w media sites, sites like the huffington post investigative fund. this partnership is already producing headliner stories. these universities ar attempting to bridge classic watchdog function with the best in new media tools. >> thanks, sonya. are you confident that given all this change that we're gonna have a strong, vibrant investigative journalism future, or is this something att e d the day, despite the experiments, is truly endangered? >> i think it's--there is a danger here. i really do believe that. i thk a building a new system, and it's not clear how it's gonna be paid for, it's not clear what the model is for it. there are lots of still investigativ journalists who want to do this work and who know how important it is, and a good story does travel, it does get disseminated. when you have th'o go everywhere. we have seen that over and over again. so it's--it's a worry. i can't te y iitoi t continue or not. i do think there's a press crisis beyond just the investigative journalism crisis. you looat some of the big i

read your piece in "the huffington post" today. excellent piece. >> how worried should we all be about that? >> you should be very, very worried, because we can go back in tree and look at the political relationships that inspidi inspired a lot of judicial decisions. there was a whole era in there, several days ago, where basically judges were a little bit too influenced by politics. and you could see the decision resulted. and what we don't seem to understand is that those things are on the books, those things then drive our politics for decades, if not centuries, and we're stuck. and what has happened, there's a direct line between sort of buying and influencing the judiciary and the problems we're having today. >> so i want to talk about the actual net worth of our congress. the house net worth in 2008, $1 billion, which is right at the peak of the financial crisis. that's the personal net worth of the financial and real estate holdings of the individuals who serve in the house of representatives, correct? >> orpersonal financia

. >> joining me now are howard fineman, editorial director for the aol "huffington post" media group and msnbc analyst. and former chief of staff to congresswoman michele bachmann. ron carey, first of all, did you see anything in this debate tonight that would change the lineup as we now see it in the cnn poll? >> i don't believe so. really there are two races going on now. there's mitt romney who has a stable 20% to 25% support. mitt romney did a fantastic job tonight. every debate he does incredibly well, looks presidential and says the right things for the republican conservative electorate. three out of four republicans don't trust mitt romney and that's probably not going to change. the other battle, the non-romney candidate that's going to emerge and get down to a two-pym=9ñ race between romney and somebody else. newt gingrich did a fine job tonight. it was interesting to see michele bachmann is the one person who did take a swipe at him on the immigration issue and challenged him going down the same path that torpedoed rick perry's campaign a few months ago. newt took a body

sam stein is the white house correspondent for "huffington post" and susan milligan is with "u.s. news & world report." susan, that looked like the talking points to me of the obama campaign voiced by its top kick. >> absolutely. well, look, that's their strongest argument at this point, and that's what romney's problem has been in the primary, is that he's not completely trusted by the conservative wing of his party. and i think that there's a sense that people don't completely know who he is. mario cuomo had this issue come up when he was governor of new york and he was running again and some people said, you know, you've got to change your mind on the death penalty and be for the death penalty, most new yorkers are. and he wouldn't do it. and he sat with us in the statehouse and he said, if you change your mind on something that fundamental, people won't trust you again. you're not going to win over the people whose side you went over to and you're going to lose the people who were with you before. and people just want to know who you are, particularly on things like abortion a

joseph pulitzer to train journalists, is now partnering with several new media sites, sites like the huffington post investigative fund. this partnership is already producing headliner stories. these universities are attempting to bridge classic watchdog function with the best in new media tools. >> thanks, sonya. are you confident that given all this change that we're gonna have a strong, vibrant investigative journalism future, or is this something that at the end of the day, despite the experiments, is truly endangered? >> i think it's--there is a danger here. i really do believe that. i think we are building a new system, and it's not clear how it's gonna be paid for, it's not clear what the model is for it. there are lots of still investigative journalists who want to do this work and who know how important it is, and a good story does travel, it does get disseminated. when you have the goods and it's solid, it does go everywhere. we have seen that over and over again. so it's--it's a worry. i can't tell you is it going to continue or not. i do think there's a press crisis beyond just the

and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, moved out by his own caucus for the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by being this charming historical figure. this was going to be a different positioning for him. he was going to have to run on an economic message, on a technocratic message, on a guy who could figure out what's wrong with the economy. the

and howard fineman is an msnbc political analyst and "the huffington post" media group editorial director. david gregory, great to have you on. we'll talk about "meet the press" coming up this weekend. but let me ask you about this whole thing. don't you think just in a psychological way, what do you think it can does to mitt romney, who's been running for president since the last time to realize that newt gingrich is now the preferred candidate of the republican party, with all newt's baggage. i mean, totally, objectively, he's carrying so much baggage, serial marriages, reprimanded from the house of representativess, basically moved out from his own party caucus from the speakership. and here he is back as if none of that happened. >> i think it's troubling for romney. at the same time, i think there's a level of resignation in the romney campaign, that their campaign was not predicated on setting the electorate on fire. by being this charming historical figure. this was going to be a different positioning for him. he was going to have to run on an economic message, on a technocratic me

. >> host: hovered law professor yoshi -- argues in "the huffington post" that it is not the right approach for, to make the networks sell some of their spectrum because it will special in addition he goes on to talk about the use of unlicensed spectrum and how wi-fi has been very successful in short distances. >> guest: i think congress is looking how again to achieve a good balance here and i think, i suspect that there will be some support in the supercommittee for providing some unlicensed spectrum. part of the question is what spectrum is used for license services? what is unlicensed and so on? and they think that the 84 probably megahertz that will come from the broadcast side is probably better suited for the kinds of services that we have today that are maybe for unlicensed services and therefore i think that the committee and we would hope the committee would use that spectrum for mobile services and perhaps potentially some spectrum coming from the government for mobile services but there will be other spectrum that over time will be -- more spectrum will be made available for unl

"don't you read the huffington post?" and the staff at "usa today" was going, "we don't know that michael jackson's dead, and we're not about to report that yet." and so they were willing to trade speed for what in time would be veracity. i think that each of those two media have different strengths, and it depends what you're shopping for. >> ken, before we go, i have to do this. you know, there's all these... [laughter] but, you know, to sort of a grizzled newspaper veteran, you know, it's a storied tradition. we've captured it in the movies from "the front page" to woodward and bernstein and "all the president's men." in the career that you've had, what's your favorite newspaper story? what's your favorite or most storied day or moment in your life? >> ha ha. so i just want to be clear. you just referred to me as "a grizzled newspaper man." was that-- >> i mean that in the kindest way. >> the kindest way. you know, there are just so many glorious nights in newsrooms as you well know. and it's almost always the next sto

number of states this is well documented in the media and by the way i had a piece on both alternate and huffington post people want to go to the links and and look at this. where they're being investigated for absolutely incredible child particularly kids mean a sudden puddles of their own urine beaten with a paddle fourteen times by all the teenagers put in isolation for days at a time this has actually been going on and has been alleged to be going on and is being investigated by authorities now bill gothard is not a fringe figure buildout it is mainstream big time even general eric church organization and there are other figures like it might be pearls were in the books and then the you know bill gothard and they all basically reacted against what they called secularism and wanted to bring back discipline against. you know the background of dr spock coming out of the sixty's and what they regarded was a license and they started saying well we've got to start spanking again and now this is gone to a level where it's almost a kind of a political statement that we're not liberals you know we're no