the reaction of the new york times p.r. spokesperson and the new york times managing editor that to me is more worrisome almost than what this reporter did which was outrageous enough kind of brings up this interesting relationship because it near reporters oftentimes in order to get the inside scoop they develop these relationships with their source says it should be this professional relationship clearly means that he has this relationship with an official within the cia want to ask you what is the line between this and unethical behavior how do you keep that relationship and check so you don't while a if the rules of journalistic ethics well clearly when you're leaking information from your newspaper to the agency you're covering that crossed all at the called lines. the problem you're getting at one of the biggest problems in u.s. media that these these reporters sit on these beats for two whether it's wall street whether it's the white house whether it's congress whether it's the cia and they often develop a. healthy c

the reaction of the new york times p.r. spokesperson and the new york times managing editor that to me is more just almost than what this reporter did which was outrageous enough kind of brings up this interesting relationship because it near reporters oftentimes in order to get the inside scoop they develop these relationships with their source says it should be this professional relationship clearly means that he has this relationship with an official within the cia want to ask you what is the line between this and unethical behavior how do you keep that relationship and check so you don't while a if the rules of journalistic ethics well clearly when you're leaking information from your newspaper to the agency you're covering that crossed all at the called lines. the problem you're getting at one of the biggest problems in u.s. media that these these reporters sit on these beats for two whether it's wall street whether it's the white house whether it's congress whether it's the cia and they often develop a. healthy cozy r

that's the importance of the new york times. chuck todd. chief politicalal reporter said it is not a liberal bias it is it a geographical bias. a new york base is liberal dias. if they moved to some other place and one of the places was tupelo, mississippi, they wouldn't have a liberal bias because they would rub shoulders with people who were not new yorkers. >> they would look down upon them though. you can take. >> but at least they would be. >> you can take them out of new york but you can't take new york out of the lib rampt you eat grits and what is the nascar stumpt ther always going to be that way because they feel they are better. >> they do. listen bill. i said that my biggest complaint upon a time was the bias. they are elitism and how they look down their nose at everybody who lives between manhattan and malibu. that is a bigger complaint which most people know exists and brush off. their eletism is truly repulsive and bad . >> got to g. reality check on deck a actsor in a geico commercial said the lizard fired him because he cr

york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch this of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid. yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all caps shouty tweet just reminds me of going back to the beginning this opening of the olympic ceremonies where the n.b.c. journalist is sitting there there's an honor to some guy named tim berners lee who the heck is that you know this is the divide between this old school and then the new school wiki leaks no idea who started the worldwide web. links is the resistance wiki leaks is really ground zero for the global insurrection against banker occupation give me that really this i'm off to do i know you need one of

new york times, visa, master card and american express by hosting u.s. government cables defined by wikileaks, i find myself in the position of having to defend wikileaks. the problem is it's not the product of keller and the new york times, it's the product of wikileaks. how frightening is this? >> i don't think it's frightening, i think it's the pointer organization alluded to this week. it's important when you look things that purport to be from the new york times, "the washington post" or rush limbaugh, that you check to see whether or not it actually is. there were so many, so many indications that this was not genuine. and everybody missed it, including a reporter for the new york times. >> it should be pointed out that wikileaks doesn't, well, is not happy with the times because wikileaks is not able to transact business, they want the times to get on their band wagon. but, how do we know, you know, when stuff like that appears, how do we know that it's real? i mean, well, for me, even before i had read sort of the controversy, i just looked at th

click or call. >> well, this is bill keller, from the new york times. formerly the editor and sometimes the topic of discussion on fox news watch. this is an article titled wikileaks, a postscript which appeared earlier this week, attributed to keller and it starts off with, as rumors build about the potential blockade. new york times, visa, master card and american express by hosting u.s. government cables defined by wikileaks, i find myself in the position of having to defend wikileaks. the problem is it's not the product of keller and the new york times, it's the product of wikileaks. how frightening is this? >> i don't think it's frightening, i think it's the pointer organization alluded to this week. it's important when you look things that purport to be from the new york times, "the washington post" or rush limbaugh, that you check to see whether or not it actually is. there were so many, so many indications that this was not genuine. and everybody missed it, including a reporter for the new york times. >> it should be pointed out that wikileaks d

let's go to the morning papers and "the new york times." the white house and congress reached a deal for severe sanctions against iran. the new package of financial penalties targets iran's energy, shipping and financial sectors and it's going to impose sanctions on anyone that mines uranium with iran or leases or provides oil tankers to the country. iran dismissed the move as, quote, warfare. >> also in "new york times," joe, about 670 million people in india were left without power yesterday after several power grids crashed causing a largest blackout in recorded history. much of india's electricity is restored but questions remane of the nation's infrastructure and the ability to handle india's growing population. >> from "wall street journal" leaders in congress extend funding levels of next year to avoid the threat after a government shutdown. now the full house and the senate must approve the measure by the end of september. >> "usa today," a jobs market is forcing more adults than ever to move back home with their parents. they're no

show about the newspaper business which was like the new york times it's called the news room and the number one guy. trying to figure out what to do about this massive story breaking in the gulf and second by second by second by not a single person mentions twitter ok so that right there you realize that the writer of that show sorkin the guy from the west wing has been living in a bubble for the last fifteen years and has not really stepped outside of his bungalow in. so you know these mainstream liberal new york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch ness of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all caps

you read them when you first wrote the story for the "new york times." how unusual was that, really? we can look now at the african american experience and see it's a rainbow, as much as anything else. >> it is a rainbow, and many of us have those stories and many people are finding that out through d.n.a. testing themselves. you know, with genealogy tools available online, with a cheek swab, and off it goes in the mail, a lot of ordinary people are finding these stories out and making these kinds of connection. >> ifill: but it raises lots of uncomfortable questions, too, especially about how the original connection happened. >> it does. and i was able to find the mystery, white ancestors in her family tree, and their descendants, and they, as you might imagine, really grappled with this. it's hard to look back and to know that your family may have owned the first lady's family-- in fact, indeed, did own the first lady's family. and still that your ancestor may have raped a member of the first lady's family. these are not easy things to think about. >>

an op ed in the new york times about the dangers of fascism and threats that fascists posed to the united states he wrote fascism is a worldwide disease its greatest threat to the united states will come after the war within the united states itself another fascist danger is represented by those who pay and lip service to democracy in the common welfare in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives do not hesitate sarap tish's lee to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion even though vice president wallace was warning us about fascism at that point in time he believed that the american system of government was strong enough to avoid ever becoming fascistic to avoid becoming a corporatist state at that time it was pretty much on heard of the c.e.o. would run for political office and wallace's view politicians knew that their obligation was to represent we the people and protect us from the corporate cartels as wallace continued in his article for the new york times happily it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predo

york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch this of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid. yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all caps shouty tweet just reminds me of going back to the beginning this opening of the olympic ceremonies where the n.b.c. journalist is sitting there there's an honor to some guy named tim berners lee who the heck is that you know this is the divide between this old school and then the new school wiki leaks have no idea who started the worldwide web. links is the resistance wiki leaks is really ground zero for the global insurrection against banker occupation give me that really this i'm off to do i know you need on

show about the newspaper business which was like the new york times it's called the news room and the number one guy. trying to figure out what to do about this massive story breaking in the gulf and second by second by second by not a single person mentions twitter ok so that right there you realize that the writer of that show sorkin the guy from the west wing has been living in a bubble for the last fifteen years and has not really stepped outside of his bungalow in. so you know these mainstream liberal new york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch ness of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all c

york times op ed writers are pathetically out of touch and within the rubric of the new york times bubble machine of out of touch this of course you've got paul krugman you've got thomas friedman who's who if you were to parse you know matt taibbi did a fantastic job parsing the letters thomas friedman editorial it's completely so contradictory and makes absolutely no sense but it's great if you're you know trying to get all of your opinions from inside a warped fortune cookie written by some guy just drop massive tabs of acid. yes but finally on this you know bill keller's all caps shouty tweet just reminds me of going back to the beginning this opening of the olympic ceremonies where the n.b.c. journalist is sitting there there's an honor to some guy named tim berners lee who the heck is that you know there's a divide between this old school and then the new school wiki leaks no idea who started the worldwide web. links is the resistance wiki leaks is really ground zero for the global insurrection against banker occupation give me that really this i'm off to join the unit in one of thes

a couple hours later. >>> a man with a knife died in a hail of bullets in new york's times square and it was caught on cell phone video. police fire 12 times killing 51-year-old darius kennedy on saturday. he allegedly threatened officers with a knife. police say they pepper sprayed him six times but then he lucked at them so they opened if you remember. commissioner ray kelly says police acted appropriately. >>> cbs "moneywatch" time. the kindle gets nuts and the dark knight is no longer rising. ashley morrison with those stories and more. >> good morning, terrell. prices at the pump are shooting back up again. according to aaa, the national average for a gallon of gas is now $3.69. that's up 30 cents from just a month ago. analysts say prices should go up at least through labor day but they will not get as high as they did in april. one of the reasons for the pain at the pump, the out put lost at the chevron oil refinery in california. the fire there. also, more than 4,000 residents who live near the refinery filed legal claims against chevron. they say they have breathing problems

the reaction of the new york times p.r. spokesperson and the new york times managing editor that to me is more worrisome almost than what this reporter did which was outrageous enough kind of brings up this interesting relationship because it near reporters oftentimes in order to get the inside scoop they develop these relationships with their source says it should be this professional relationship clearly mazetti has this relationship with an official within the cia want to ask you what is the line between this and unethical behavior how do you keep that relationship and check so you don't while a if the rules of journalistic ethics well clearly when you're leaking information from your newspaper to the agency you're covering that crossed all at the called lines. the problem you're getting at one of the biggest problems in u.s. media that these these reporters sit on these beats for two law whether it's wall street whether it's the white house whether it's congress whether it's the cia and they often develop a. healthy coz

thank you, judy miller, formerly of "the new york times." let's show how an example of these injurious leaks could be used in a damaging way. let's use an example from, i don't know, september 8, 2002. let's say somebody in the bush administration wants the public to believe that saddam hussein is actively reconstituting his nuclear weapons of mass destruction program. we'll call that guy vice president dick cheney. [laughter] the administration would leak that information about the nuclear reconstitution to a high-ranking "new york times" reporter. let's call that person, mmm, judy miller. [laughter] judy miller would then report that information in the "new york times." at which point the vice president cheney would go on "meet the press." >> there's a story in the "new york times" this morning. i want to attribute the "times." "he now is trying through his illicit procurement network to acquire the equipment he needs to enrich uranium." >> jon: do you see what this [bleeped] just did. you see what thisson of a bitch just did. this guy wit

. >> laura: olympic track star lolo jones gets emotional after the "new york times" accuses her of caring more about her image than her athletic performance. >> i don't think i should be ripped apart by media. >> laura: caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone and "the factor" begins right now. >> laura: hello, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. what mitt romney has to do to turn his campaign around. that's a summing of this evening's talking points memo. i realize that some of you won't like hearing this, but if the election were held today, romney would probably lose. two surveys released within hours of each other by cnn and fox reported obama up by 7 and 9 points respectively. the swing state story is not a good one either. the real clear politics average has obama up 7 in pennsylvania, five in ohio, and three in virginia. obama leads by slim margins in florida and colorado. so is unemployment still above 8% and two-thirds of the country thinking we're going in the wrong direction, how on earth is obama still ahead? is every poll

and here, michael sheer, "the new york times." and bill press, host of current tv's "full court press." michael sheer, that was the last stop of the trip. reporters weren't going to have another crack at romney. they had the shot. was that the symptom of a deteriorating relationship? >> i think it was definitely a symptom of a problem on the trip in which the campaign had made the conscious choice t put romney in interviews with television anchors but to keep him away from the reporters that were traveling with him. and what they i think discovered in the send if they had taken a few minutes with the reporters, done a little press, 15 minutes every day, they probably would have avoided that scene. >> on friday perhaps in responding to the criticism, romney did hold a press availability in las vegas. debra saunders, when he goes to three different countries and -- and news organizations are spending all this money to send reporters on the trip, and they get three questions, does that in your view effect the tone of the coverage? >>

and here, michael sheer, "the new york times." and bill press, host of current tv's "full court press." michael sheer, that was the last stop of the trip. reporters weren't going to have another crack at romney. they had the shot. was that the symptom of a deteriorating relationship? >> i think it was definitely a symptom of a problem on the trip in which the campaign had made the conscious choice to put romney in interviews with television anchors but to keep him away from the reporters that were traveling with him. and what they i think discovered in the send if they had taken a few minutes with the reporters, done a little press, 15 minutes every day, they probably would have avoided that scene. >> on friday perhaps in responding to the criticism, romney did hold a press availability in las vegas. debra saunders, when he goes to three different countries and -- and news organizations are spending all this money to send reporters on the trip, and they get three questions, does that in your view effect the tone of the coverage? >

an interesting thing in the new york times yesterday. i have been shocked at the pol, showing the candidates, as close as they are. but one interesting poll was that -- i think it was in all of the swing states or many of the swing states, a majority of respondents of likely voters say they think that they will do worse under the economy under obama. >>> -- >>> here's an important question here -- >> everyone knows that-- >>> i agree. >> that romney will turn this economy around? here's an important question now. what did obama know about this ad? and when did he know it -- >> right. >> sean: in spite of stephanie cutter, which we have laid out, which the mainstream media does not do their job. she spoke with the man. she said -- she was on a conference call with him. the obama capt pain ran an ad with the same guy. i mean, then the super pac run its. so now we have a question, what does obama know, with everybody in his campaign -- hang on. they won't condemn harry reid and they won't condemn this ad. >> no, this is coming directly from

york times exactly it's dan ellsberg is to bradley manning as the new york times is too. much. and so i think that. there's no way that he can. have an impartial trial in sweden but quite apart from that i think i'm very concerned that there's sort of met a national pressure on britain and on sweden by the u.s. there's some evidence of this interim creek really good investigative citizen journalist to document a lot of the seventh's that demonstrates that the intent is to extradite a sauna to us and then have him be the highest profile. journalist in guantanamo and. you know where where you go from there people have been there for ten years without charge or trial and i think that that's not just to silence him again i think it's also to send a message to anyone else who might leak you know compromising or embarrassing or problematic material about the united states government earlier this year you threw your support behind a class action lawsuit filed against us president barack obama and his defense secretary over the national defense authorization act when you were rep

there a possibility that has to do with the new york times science section getting dumber. but i would like to think it has to do with how we communicate science is changing. 30 years ago the only place to read about a new paper was in a newspaper which has a specific tone to the way they write. very specific audience they are reaching out to. today you can go on line and find so many different ways people are talking about that same paper. they might be doing it seriously or as a joke or a video or interactive discussion at each of those is a way for people to get interested in science who might not have fought out that science to begin with if it were just in a newspaper. allows you to bring in new audiences and allows you to reach out to people in their own cultural language to talk about stuff that was only one niche 30 years ago and that has helped immensely. i am incredibly proud to work on the internet as a science journalist and it makes my science writing better and it really was an incredible part of making me able to write this book. that is what i wanted to talk

and the new york times ignored. although akin's ridiculous remarks end up demanding coverage -- the two top articles in the new york times today were about akin. and akin is not an issue between the presidential candidates. romney wants him off the ticket. everyone wants him off the ticket. the only one who wants to be on the tick is akin. >> greta: what is your thinking on the new york times? does the new york times think it's one sided? or is it thinking we want to pick a particular candidate? >> i can't imagine the new york times thinks it's one sided. anyone who isn't the most indoctrinated democrat would tell you that the new york times is seriously one sided. and it was in the whole race in '08. you are just looking at the coverage now and it's close to absurd. today's a great example of it. i mean, two articles about akin today? on the front page, when we have afghanistan deteriorating. we have an economy that -- there is a prediction that we may have 9% unemployment next we're -- year. we have beena at 8% un

york times" today it is regular tying obama's to the big utilities and giving access. >> good "new york times" is the paper of record from here to election day. is anything left that romney and ryan have taken a one point* the there looking good. >> one has a 4.the buyout of what will street journal has a lead by obama's the electoral states is in place. >> talk about those look at the rasmussen poll romneycare has three points over the last few days. with the swing states romney and ryan are leading within the margin of error. and now in wisconsin this state still in play is ohio. >> i look at the trend since ryan is on the ticket. no bumper. lou: you have the guy you wanted and now you've the large. >> everybody knows. [talking over each other] lou: that is not true. 60 -- 65 and older think highly of from the rise in. >> if you want to keep medicare the way it is they say they do they keep it the way it is levee help you out a little bit i will talk very slowly. under 55 they still have a choice. [talking over each other] i don't understand what he meant. she is not encumbered by fax

both the new york times and n.p.r. have very strict policies about accepting paid speaking engagements and i know both have been questioned about this i believe by the observer and both have responded that he is not going against any company policy so why then should people be concerned. well i just we don't know what. standard they used to make to arrive at that conclusion you know just from the information that we that we were able to gather and find the evidence is pretty pretty damning and shows that there is some conflict of interest there now they they but they won't release any information at all about the nature of the speaking engagements that davidson did how much was he paid what were you know what were the terms and so we they're not being transparent about the information about the process that they you know that they used to arrive at that conclusion that everything is ok we're supposed to trust them but you know to be honest there's not much trust you can really have much trust in them when they they've

york times. the us administration's war on whistleblowers must and. thomas drake william vini john character and hava heroic whistle blowers must they must be caught in a compensated for the hardships they have endured as servants of the public record . and to the army private who remain in a military prison in fort leavenworth kansas who was found by the united nations to interview would months of torture us detention in quantico virginia and who has yet after two years in prison to see a trial he must be released all the all bradley manning mufti release the old car. if bradley manning did.

you won't hear that being reported on the "new york times." we are living in an age where the truth is hard to come by. where there are hidden ageneral does all over the place. it's my job to expose those ageneral does, thus the talking points memo this evening. and that is the memo. now, for the top story tonight. reaction. joining us from washington fox news analyst mary katharineham and here in the studio juan williams whose book muzzled thought out in paperback. take it to the beach. you will like it. all right, juan, what say you drugs first? >> on the are you goings front we have had three decades of this war on drugs bill, three decades. what do we see? is there any decrease in the people selling drugs who you rightly identify as criminals? they are nobody's victims and they should be punished but my gosh, we have more people selling drugs right now. we have more young people or more people in general doing drugs, especially prescription drugs by the way. so my thought is, well, wait a second, if they are saying that we have so many peo

took a junket in the new york times travel section who had a cult following but he wasn't as big as friedman or as david pogue didn't get off and so he got fired and this kind of differentiation in standards is a really dangerous thing because it alludes to the idea of populism and it leads to the idea of well if they're succeeding to a certain level then they can scrape by some of the ethics problems that others can't and when it comes down to that it's a pretty deadly practice for the future of journalism in the future of ethics in journalism yeah i think i think there's some good questions being raised both in your article and on the website shame and we do appreciate having you on the shelf foster came our senior editor for at the new york observer. thanks rob. coming up on our team it's no big secret that big brother likes to pry but not just on suspected enemies of the state the u.s. government is spending billions to monitor its own employees of next we'll show you how far it's willing to go to protect state secrets. it's part of american power continues. things are so bad. m

there is some good news. ♪ john: i often start my day with the new york times. then i go into of rage, slanted coverage, the bias that the present, object to the. then i look at other media. souch shadow coverage, and this reporting and a pilot who freaked out, for example. car chase videos, another germanic tribe story. but what does that have to do with most people's lives? not much. crimes down in america. planes almost never crash. flying is safer than driving. we have real problems. medicare and social security are unsustainable. regulation kills job growth. government schools are lousy. that stuff matters. but is less exciting. so it is less coverage. still, i shouldn't complain too much because the days media is much better than it used to be. when i started in broadcasting there were three major channels. so when walter cronkite ended his newscasts saying, that's the latest, we pretty much had to take his word for it. now we have so much choice. of wider range of voices to liberal and conservative. a few libertarians. also, people don't have to rely on g

the new york times calls it 'blatantly false' the washington post says: "the obama administration is not removing the bill's work requirements at all." in fact, obama's getting statese peop from welfare to work. and president clinton's reaction to the romney ad? it's just "not true." get the facts. watching abc 7 news with leon harris, starling, doug hill and tim brant sports. >> a maryland man who told police he killed a housemates body parts has been t to standmpeten trial. onwas indicted in june weapons and a murder charges. killed a man who had been g with his family and mutilated the bodies. prosecutors agreed he is incompetent after reading a psychiatric report. >> prosecutors have charged a high-profile former college coach and an $80 million ponzi scheme. he used his influence with the players and coaching colleagues the scheme. he and a business partner used a liquidation company that bought resold furniture and appliances. among the coaches was frank and barry switzer. >> a retail showdown to tell you about. j.c. penney over sell martha to stewart living products. macy's cl

an op ed in the new york times about the dangers of fascism and threats that fascists posed to the united states he wrote fascism is a worldwide disease its greatest threat to the united states will come after the war within the united states itself another fascist danger is represented by those who pay and lip service to democracy in the common welfare in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives do not hesitate sarap tish's lee to a vade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion even though vice president wallace was warning us about fascism at that point in time he believed that the american system of government was strong enough to avoid ever becoming fascistic to avoid becoming a corporatist state at that time it was pretty much on heard of the c.e.o. would run for political office and wallace's view politicians knew that their obligation was to represent we the people and protect us from the corporate cartels as wallace continued in his article for the new york times happily it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a pred

. >>> oakland's mayor quoted as accusing the police to cetera the new york times says it got it wrong mark sayre with how the the words were twisted. >>> mayor quan has taken criticism over her handling of the occupy movement until this weekend's new york times magazine has there been discussion of a set up. when police moved in on occupy protesters on october 25th last year mayor jeanne quan's was in washington d.c. that led the mayor to make this comment quoting " the theory among my left friends and family was that i was set up " >>> the new york times is gives an east coast look at the west coast >>> at the chabot observatory mayor quan said the comments were taken out of context >>> he asked me what you think people were set up and i answered that is with the quotes were >>> the article says " you know i was out of town that closed down the camp a day early and overreacted several people tried to set me up before my car got booted after the election " the mayor told the times to send a message they can do what they want that i better watch out. >>> i can assure you police officer

there is a front page story in today's new york times. a massive inventory overhang of unsold goolds from steel to household appliances, cars and apartments. when this glut gets worked off china could be in a much worse recession than anyone imagines with bad consequences for the world economy including the usa. so here now we welcome back peter navarro, business professor from the university of california irvine, author of death by china which is premiering as a movie documentary tonight. congratulations. you know, peter, on this china story, keith bradsher of the new york times has consistently reported that china's growth is vastly lower than the official communist party says. here he comes with a story about the glut and overhang stopping hiring, stopping production and which if the bubble bursts all hell could break loose. >> what we have to be careful of and fear -- china's strategy is if they can build it they can export it. now they will start dumping here in america below cost. that will put more of the manufacturers out of busin

dharl charlie, we could read "the wall seet journal," the daily news, new york news, "new york times", "u.s.a. today". someone has a ton of money that blew their brains out, overdose, whatever they did, got a ton of money in the bank. and they ended their life. >> rose: well that and, you know. >> and, look, we all want to be comfortable. but money is not -- it is not the end all. that ain't it. that ain't it. >> rose: sometimes it takes a lifetime to learn that. the other thing that you need, that all of us have to learn too. >> now you say it to me go ahead say it the way you thought it. spike, the other thing you need to learn-- say that please, say that for me. >> rose: what do you think i'm going to say. >> i don't know. that's why i want to know. we want to know. spike, the other thing you need to know. >> rose: no, is you know, you need people. >> yes. >> rose: you need people. >> yes. >> rose: you really do. >> the right people. >> rose: the right people. >> the right people. >> rose: and in the end you're responsible for yourself. >> got to. >> rose: that's the bottom line. a

time to wake up, everyone, as you take a live look at new york city. welcome back to "morning joe". >> that's beautiful. >> isn't that pretty? >> it just speaks -- >> back with us on set, we have mike barnicle and harold ford -- >> our resident conservative. >> yes. >> absolutely. >> a new set of battleground polls show president obama leading mitt romney, especially when it comes to handling medicare. president obama narrowly leads mitt romney head to head in florida, ohio, and wisconsin. in florida and wisconsin, romney is within the margin of error. the race in florida is tightening. last month, obama was 51%, romney at 45%. in yesterday's nbc/"wall street journal" battleground poll, mitt romney has expanded his support in key states by five on thes while president obama's lead has chunk from 50 to 49%. >> so look at that. harold, and again, i'm not spinning here, it's been a horrific week for the republicans. i just want all of our viewers to be aware that there is a race that they may not see in their homes if they're outside of the 12 or 12 swing

york times," nothing new. the iranian effort to evade sanctions through iraqi channels has been going on for quite some time and, in anticipation of both of the u.s. sanctions which took effect a few months ago, and european union sanctions, the activity inside iraq mass been ramping up for some time. both in terms of hiding financial transactions, giving iran continued access to international financial circles, and, in terms of oil, smuggling iranian oil into iraq for export and importantly, smuggling iraqi refined petroleum products into iran where they have a shortage. so, this is a reflection of iran's influence over the al-maliki government and is yet another reason among many why we should not have reduced our troop presence in iraq and we have lost pretty much any influence, i think we have, at this point, over the al-maliki government. >> eric: how could he and his government officials smile at us and shake or hands after doing this? >> well, as shakespeare wrote a man may smile and smile and still be

york times or where other organizations that he would think have overstepped their approval just and gone beyond and started to do actual national security journalism which i think is what in effect is trying to suppress and criminalize when he's actively participating in activities where he's putting together sort of. policy proposals that crack down on so-called leaks well speaking of publications being accused of you know overstepping their privileges wiki leaks of course continues to be attacked but it wasn't always that way for a while when we sort of came out you know especially with the collateral murder murder video and the trove of documents released initially this was the basis for countless stories published by the new york times by several different media outlets print television and then it sort of changed course and started to sort of become vilified what do you think happened. i think that it stayed true to what it wanted to do in fact you know it maintained its independence that it didn't assimilate and start to behave like women stablish media organization it stated