taliban and the new york times to the u.s. government to try and open some form of dialogue why and we just don't know and that may be the reason why it's been done the way hearts we don't know like we say with northern ireland which is our closest competitor we can use is the world's winds of communication open door to the provisional. to bring the actual peace now some of them people did later become politicians and leaders of political parties in that group even the how to. a violent background but sometimes the dialogue has to be opened in some direction and this may just be that. which may be out the norm but it may just be looking at how important do you think the context of this publication was in the sense that you mentioned you know under sporadic there for comparison if an article by him was published that the taliban is involved in in negotiations with america and you know people have to see i guess their point of view to see how the peace process is going do you think this article is published given the circumstanc

reports coming in the pushback big time against the new york times story that russia is interfering again to help president trump as the news broke this afternoon, bernie sanders, the washington post, has been briefed that russia wants to help his campaign. thank you for joining us i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. liz: at this hour president trump on a move from the white house after the rally in vegas today, the president taken a right to democrats, the nevada caucus is tomorrow, the president does have the moment momentum, bloomberg is naturally president trump with billboards in phoenix and las vegas were trump was campaigning. a new poll shows the president would defeat all the democrats in wisconsin betty trails in pennsylvania and michigan. this is the president hits record high in his approval rating with average polls and gallup polling and more. the best indication to watch for the reelection is americans, they say they are better off now than a year ago, even four years ago. mark is on about ground in nevada with more. >> president trump a plent

taliban and the new york times to the u.s. government to try and open some form of dialogue why and we just don't know and that may be the reason why it's been done the way house. the dialogue has to be opened in some direction and this may just be that. which may be out the norm but it may just be a route that they're looking at we have no idea whether this represents an accurate portrayal and in fact it could do more damage to the negotiations long term if the american administration see this as exposing a vulnerability in their lives a negotiation that could throw up its own difficulties. so there we do have the question you know why is it that they are so willing to publish the leader of a nice islamic terror organization so openly as though they were a writer for their own staff this is really a no platform situation with them if you keep no platform and then people get the wrong view of them soon as you open it up to find out how deaf they are and show that in the eyes of the public so yes let's our freedom of speech let

go without say from moscow still ahead the new york times latest contributor the taliban we're going to get on to that among all stories after this. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what's his face. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. maybe in the shallows. again the washington post salt of the headline which originally suggested that elite should play a key role in picking the country's president it comes off the after it found itself in the spotlight online. democracy dies in darkness unless darkness is what the elites need to regain election in which case maybe democracy isn't all that great anyway though close to run the headline that says silence presents the wealthy are speaking under the current us election system primaries take place at the beginn

york times for publishing it it is that the new york times has given the platform to an individual who is on a designated terrorist list he and his network are behind ruthless attacks against some foreigners the how can he and the taliban are responsible for the deaths of dozens of american soldiers and atrocities against afghan civilians the new york times should be ashamed of itself for enabling this blatant propaganda from a designated global terrorists all in the name of diverse reviews sarojini carney's and tourist war crime suspects being investigated by the international criminal court why does the new york times give him or put space the author is among the world's most wanted man in the f.b.i. office 5000000 dollars for any information that could lead to his arrest so rigid in a county has a designated terrorist in the united states is described by the agency's website as armed and dangerous. after the backlash the new york times defended its decision to publish the article it claims it's essential to represent all viewpoints on the conflict especially to highlight the progres

meanwhile the new york times claims the u.s. president is also a benefactor of alleged russian help moved to dismiss the report and said it expects similar claims to multiply in the run up to the election. commercially new. books will bring you to people getting a clue. how do they mean. creature well sure to. a saskia now look whether it really is a case of here we go again. dear diary i know i can be a bit of a warrior you know better than anyone but this time i really think we might have a serious. situation on our hands it is the conclusion of multiple us intelligence agencies that the russian federation is once again trying to interfere in our 2020 alexion our presidential election again to try to elect donald trump the russians off to american democracy again and there's just so much evidence to back it up this time in a closed meeting undisclosed intelligence officials told congress that most who want to keep orange one in the white house for another few years and 5 unnamed people who apparently are in the loop told us so

is coming out of the new york times so we already have to preface it with that but it's talking about the fact that in rural areas we're certainly still seeing a lot of poverty lack of water basic resources but in the city of caracas specifically there is this kind of surge that's happening here is there a gap reforming between super wealthy kind of capitalist people in the cities and the poor people who are the socialists in the rural communities what's true and what's not well as you said this is the new york times and so there's a great deal of misinformation going around regarding been a swell and the economy is no different just real quick i mean as far as the water is concerned i mean that problem really surfaced last march when the business well as electrical grid was hacked and soon after a declared himself president and that's where you had that water crisis but thankfully that has been largely resolved. as far as your question i mean. people were given the impression that business well is kind of like soviet russia before the reforms of the eighty's heavily communist as oppo

that again, from "the new york times." while we wait for the hearing to start, there is currently a vote on the house floor to move toward regulating tobacco and vaping products. some details on that now while we wait for the coronavirus hearing to start. >>> the health care reporter with cq roll call, the house this week is taking up legislation to regulate flavored tobacco products. what's the purpose of the legislation? and give us some of the key details in it. >> so this bill is meant to build upon and cover some gaps that many democrats feel were left after congress raised the tobacco age to 21 nationwide, and after the trump administration issued a temporary ban on flavored cartridges and pods that fuel e-cigarettes like juul. so this bill would ban more broadly flavored tobacco products, so flavored cigars, which are still pretty ubiquitous, and becoming more popular, among young people, would be banned under this, as would menthol cigarettes, and the flavors of e-cigarettes that remain on the market, such as in la

robert: michael schmidt up in new york. thanks for joining us from the "new york times." i appreciate it. thank you. michael: thanks for having me. robert: let's turn now to 2020 because democrats nationally are grappling with t unsettled presidential fields. and saturday's caucus could provide som clarity days after michael bloomberg made his debut on the debate stag. in las vegas, bloomberg was under attack from the start. >> the may has to stand on his record. he's gotten a number of wims t sign nondisclosure agreements both for sasexual hent and for gender discrimination in the workplace. so mr. mayor, are you willing to release all of those women from those nondisclosure agreements so we can hear their sides of the story? >> we have a gro test k and immoral distribution of wealth and income. mike bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million americans. that's wrong. that's immoral. >> he shouldn't have to choose between one candidate who wants to burn this party down and another candidate who wants to buy this party out. >> i can't think of a ways to make it

she slammed the new york times writing i have some questions for the new york times since they decided to give the taliban a forum to spew garbage like we did not choose our war, we were forced to defend ourselves and asked remember 9/11? she's referencing the taliban's role in giving al qaeda a safe haven in afghanistan and she questioned whether the newspaper paid for this piece. the correspondent casting doubts on his portrayal of himself and the taliban by tweeting it is independent of news operations and judgment, omits the most fundamental fact that he is now taliban peacemaker, he is behind some of the most ruthless attacks of this war. so far the new york times has not commented and we are still waiting for their comments. >> thank you so much. breaking news michael bloomberg may be plotting a brokered convention already. tom stiers here next but first, where in the world roundup? mexico's president is under fire after a series of gruesome murders all female victims. women's rights activists are clashing with police in mexico city square calling for the president to resign. mex

a new report from the "new york times" says president trump can't handle the situation. i talked with all they are doing is stirring up the pot. >> you can't politicize this kind of stuff. this is rekick columbus. we have got to pull together as a nation. we have got to pull together as people. >> a fired up crowd here supporting the president, jason. they say back when president obama had his own health scare they did not bash the president. they feel like the country should be coming together. unfortunately, democrats are just trying to score easy political shots but they don't think it's going to work. jason? >> jason: lawrence, thank you very much. this week as caronavirus spreads financial markets suffered. white house economic director larry kudlow reassured americans that the virus will not wreck the american economy. instead, larry kudlow warned of a much bigger threat. watch this. >> numbers coming in on the economy have actually been quite good, including today. investment is up. personal income and spending, consumer spending is up. confidence is up the virus

the new york times, many fox viewers would say the new york times should be in the top three media entities that should be eliminated immediately. i don't agree with that, but isn't that just a symbiotic cycle of grievance that works in both directions that again, some people do better than others? >> that's true. it works like that. there is one difference. that is, to destroy the argument that the new york times and the rest of the media has some sort of ideological bias i'm more about on the second. you know, you have to present evidence. there is none. however, if you redefine new book called, they want, you'll find -- it's a quiz, it's a challenge. i challenge conservatives who think that there is fake news going on in the mainstream media to present one example of it. and i said now let's turn to fox news channel and there is page after page after page of absolute outrage. they can say, the media news organizations are populated are generally politically progressive. that's one thing. that is true. the second thing is, a progressive values very much overlap with journalistic -- speaki

robert: michael schmidt up in new york. thanks for joining us from the "new york times." i appreciate it. thank you. michael: thanks for having me. robert: let's turn now to 2020 because democrats nationally are grappling with the unsettled presidential fields. and saturday's caucus could provide some clarity days after michael bloomberg made his debut on the debtag. in las vegas, bloomberg was under attack from the start. >> the mayor has to stand on his record. he's gotten a number of wims to sign nondisclosure agreements both for sexual harassment and for gender discrimination in the workplace. so mr.or m are you willing to those nondisclose agreements m so we can hear their sides of the story? >> we have a gro test kl and immo distribution of wealth and income. mike bloomberg owns more wealth than the bottom 125 million americans. that's wrong. at'smmoral. >> he shouldn't have to choose between o candidate who wants to burn this party down and anotherandidate who wants to buy this party out. >> i can't think of a ways to make it easier for donald trump to getnieelecte

again, "the new york times," this is not a news article. this is an opinion piece. you know what i'm reminded of? there is great pressure on "the wall street journal," because they ran an opinion piece that the chinese didn't like. they threw them out of the country. this is an intimidation tactic. "wall street journal" shown it back down. >> jesse: is just making them burn money on lawyer fees. >> dana: well, it hurts him and he wants to push back. we can try this. might not win back in court, but we can try it and he gets a lot of publicity and we are talking about it now. i also think it helps "the new york times." thertheir subscriptions have goe up. everyone in media doing better. now, they can let all their subscribers know. i think that they will find a way to protect their opinion writers. >> jesse: okay. greg. >> greg: problem is that their opinion writers also report. i find their opinions on the front page. you know they mean? >> dana: when a news reporter writes analysis on the front page, how are you supposed to -- >> greg: i don't want to be sued when

york times to look into the pages of a muscular publication known as the new york times, they printed articles that directly contradict what this piece alleged and that is the basis of their argument, they printed this knowing it was false and defamatory and contradicted their own reporting and this is done with malice to harm the campaign and that is the basis of our lawsuit. >> to damage the campaign and the timeframe you are talking about is important to look at. this piece published on march 20 seventh 2019, just before the mueller report was released in april and just days after william barr's summary of it so you are arguing it is no coincidence. >> know it is not, the mueller report would have immediately contradicted what the pieces alleging, never mind that, stories that appeared in the new york times's own pages in months and years before this piece appeared directly contradicted with this piece alleges so the new york times knew it was false at the time they published it, they knew was malicious and it was done with intent to harm the trump campaign. >> the new york times's

so you can't, as "the new york times" is trying to do, you can't then push back and say, "that's just an opinion piece." the courts have consistently said that factual statements that are false are different than an opinion. the campaign has absolutely no problem with people expressing their opinion. we are happy to go toe-to-toe, we know we have the best candidate. we have to express an actual opinion and you can to go around that and simply say, "well, just because we label this in op-ed, that we can make any sort of claim." for example -- >> harris: hold on one second, jenna. i want to get scott in here. scott, do they have a case? >> i don't think so. if they do, it's a very tough case. jenna is right, there are some lines of cases in new york and around the country that have said that proposition or support that proposition. the problem here is it's an opinion piece, it used some broad terms, but the opinion was based on public facts. if it's based on public facts, they've got a tough road to get to a jury, let alone get a jury in new york to grant them any type of relief. the pu

on the new york times role of the afghan president over an article by a taliban leader r.t. looks at the ethics of giving every free speech. why is it that they are so willing to publish the leader of a nice islamic terror organization so openly as though they were right for their own staffs all about free speech being open to debate and discussion. by their welcome to weekend world updates from the r.t. international in moscow my name's colleen bray 1st for you this saturday then the u.s. media is already pointing fingers east this time going after the democrats front runner for the 2020 presidential election the washington post claimed through unnamed sources without evidence that bernie sanders is receiving russian help for his campaign and that he's been informed of it it was not clear what role they're going to play we were told that russia may be other countries are going to get involved in this campaign and look here's the message to russia stay out of american elections feel the burn. well that standoff between sanders and bloomberg is apparently creating yet more tu

yes, "the new york times" editorial page did fail to give that context. perhaps they could have put it in the bio the at end. but that really begs the question, why didn't they work harder to at least have a simultaneous rollout, as opposed to basically playing into what many critics of this deal say are a whitewashesing, an attempt to make the taliban look like they haven't waged a pretty horrific war against the afghan people over the past couple decades. >> that's the final point i want to hit with you because coverage of the negotiations to end america's longest war have been anemic, at best. i don't think exhaustion is sufficient to explain it. we are trying to negotiate and make peace with the taliban who harbored bin laden after 9/11. where are we in this long process of trying to push back the taliban? do you think they will at the end of the day get the upper hand? how do you account for the lack of coverage comparatively? >> the american public is exhausted with pictures of war and exhausted with hearing about this conflict that even many u.s. s

i love him. >> in the "new york times." when bloomberg announced in november he was running charles wrote in the "times" that no one who is black or brown or is an ally of the minority community, white people, should not ever think of voting for this individual considering what he did. >> but what do you make of the latest polling? at least it's internal polling. you've got to give it some credibility. that there's 14 states coming up on super tuesday, march 3rd, a little less than a month from now, that the african-american vote's running about even between biden and bloomberg overnight it seems. >> well, quite a -- yes. ads help, by the way. that's why we're going to cut to one here in about five minutes. they work. and so i'm not surprised that bloomberg has done well with that. but the fact is that this isn't going to happen. i don't understand why we don't talk more about the fact that bernie sanders is the front-runner. he's gotten the most votes now in two states. >> yeah. he won the popular in iowa and he won the po

a new "new york times" report confirms it. they're willing to bite off their nose to spite their face. the bernie sanders supporters know it. take a look. >> there's a "new york times" report toot that is talking about the party leadership actively working against bernie sanders and willing to break up the party as a result of this. >> i can see that. >> how do you feel about that? >> unfortunately, it's really kind of what you would see coming to a head since 2016. >> i think the democratic party is isolating themselves. >> it's trash. i don't know what else to say. it's harmful to us as a country and to everybody who want to do something like that. >> i would help that the people that have been telling me no matter who the last few years would pile in behind bernie. >> sean, the big question is, does bernie sanders pull off this nomination? and if he doesn't because the party is working against him like they did in 2016, will those progressive voters still vote for the nominee. back to you, sean. >> sean: thanks, lawrence. 2

were you a leaker for the "new york times"? >> i never intentionally misled anyone about anything and i never have committed a crime. trish: he was lying. he got tripped up in this one. he lied on tv, and he lied under oath. august 18, 2017, mie fbi officis met with mccabe. they gathered all they could about the possible leak to the "new york times." an agent asked him point blank, did you authorize this article, were you aware of it. did you authorize it. mccabe looked at the story he reviewed months earlier and said yep, i did. there you go. roger stone was convicted in court of seven felonies, obstruct a congressional quir -- inquiry. he's facing years in jail for lying. granted he never should have lied. but keep in mind this was an investigation into nothing. it never should have happened in the first place. why do people around the president keep finding themselves in all this trouble. it's a question the president is asking. president trump: it's unfair to my family and a lot of great people who work in the administratio

we did not see that particular chapter in "the new york times." theyespondent say -- respond and say they had focused on that they disputed the account, arguing there had been some stains the reasons to revise or remove a section on police surveillance. ,hy did you, yasmine taeb decide to remove it entirely rather than revise it? >> because it was so clear that any wanted us to produce inaccurate portrayal of the demographics unit egregious actions. we absolutely did not want to .hitewash what the nypd did agagain, this is a program that was later ruled unconstitutional. this is a program that infringed on the first amendment rights of muslims in the local community. this is a program that that was disbanded by mayor de blasio because it was a complete failure. not only was it unconstitutional and led to zero terrorist leads, for me, it was incredibly frustrating and disconcerting because of the amount of work that we had put in to this report. this was an ongoing report that we had worked for more than a year. and within days of launching the sen

politico pointed out that the report clouded the news cycle after "new york times" and "washington post" released deep dpoo dive reports. we'll get into headlines ahead. >>> key endorsements are laying the ground work as the presidential race heads into nevada. former 2020 presidential candidate bill de blasio endorsed senator bernie sanders, releasing this statement, i am standing with bernie because he stands with working families and always has. new yorkers know the damage caused by donald trump's xenophobia, bigotry and recklessness. former abc news journalist sam donaldson gave his endorsement michael bloomberg, in an op-ed, donaldson said bloomberg is the president we need to bring together our country, the three term may yor, he has proved to an effective leader. the state's lieutenant governor offered her support to joe biden. marshal wrote in a moment of intense partisanship, the most radical message we can offer is one of unity and moving past the washington gridlock. joe embodies that. joining us from washington, d.c., deputy news editor for the washington examiner, david mar

"the new york times" has a new story out tonight with the headline, "russia back trump's reelection and fears democrats will exploit its support." a classified briefing to lawmakers according to "the new york times" that angered the president who complained democrats will weaponize the disclosure. jeff mason, you are a white house correspondent. this is your beat. what are you hearing? >> number one, that's not the type of report that president trump wants to see. he's on a high right now, doing very well in the polls come out campaigning in a bunch of states will the past week. you have russia coming back with a briefing done by people in his own administration. obviously, what the briefing said was factual, that something the congress wants and needs to know about. he was upset about it and that apparently is one of the reasons why he's swapping out the dni. >> kristin: perhaps not all that surprising given what russia did in the 2016 election. jeff mason, callan figaro, jason ranz, thank you so much. we've got alicia a coup in your back with highlights from th the presidents rally co

is coming out of the new york times so we already have to preface it with that but it's talking about the fact that in rural areas we're certainly still seeing a lot of poverty lack of water basic resources but in the city of caracas specifically there is this kind of surge that's happening here is there a gap reforming between super wealthy kind of capitalist people in the cities and the poor people who are the socialists in the rural. communities what's true and what's not well as you said this is the new york times and so there's a great deal of misinformation going around regarding been a swell and the economy is no different just real quick i mean as far as the water is concerned i mean that problem really surfaced last march when the business well as electrical grid was hacked and soon afterward why go ahead declared himself president and that's where you had that water crisis but thankfully that has been largely resolved. as far as your question i mean. people were given the impression that business well is kind of like soviet russia before the reforms of the eighty's heavily c

>> the "new york times" as anti- american anymore. there i said it. there can is a somebody from the tell them to write customer even if what he says is true they have to like to be an american print? congress shall make no law with the freedom of speech. but you can't take your enemy it's like tokyo rose. napolitano: are there lefties that hate the "new york times" are publishing some of this? >> i don't think so. it's like doing a tv interview with potent or anybody it's an interview, it is newsworthy. napolitano: the secretary of defense doesn't have shaking hands of the head of the taliban during negotiations? >> i don't know what was but we are negotiating with taliban because there's not a military solution. >> it was just a shot of on paper it's their ink. >> is newsworthy. >> it's there cannoli. [laughter] napolitano: thank you panel. >> way better i'll get cannoli, their two dozen of them. napolitano: this is the best cannoli i've ever had is not the cardboard you gave me i love you to my mother's watching. thank you all very much for the not

as for the united states, "the new york times" reports there are now 60 known cases. one is in northern california and it is being closely watched. this appears on the first case involving a patient who mad not recently traveled outside of the country. and who was not in contact with someone who did. trump administration continues to hear criticism over its response to the virus. last night the president declared that vice president mike pence would take charge of the coronavirus task force. tonight trump was back in front of the cameras himself. >> we have a situation with the virus, we have done a great job. the press won't give us credit for it. i think it's an incredible achievement that our country has done. we're giving what other countries need but we have to run our country too. a lot of people say why isn't he in china, you know, china has to want that. and other places. but they're running it and they're working very hard. i will tell you. we're very in -- in we're in constant communication. in we were doing a bad job we should be criticized but we have done

is it right for "the new york times" to take a guy, and his editorial. we don't know if he was paid and went back or not his perspective from their network on this deal that could be imminent with us? and if there is a 5-$10 million bounty on his head by us because he is a terrorist who has killed americans, do we really give him a page in "the new york times" to air his views? a war that we started? they said it was a defensive war? do we remember 9/11? >> trace: the senior afghan correspondent wrote to this, and i am quoting "he says the piece in "the new york times" which is independent of our news operation talking about the opinion section omits the most fundamental fact that there is no taliban and peacekeeper as he paints himself behind some of the most ruthless attacks of this war with many civilian lives lost. that is the guy they sent over to report on the whole thing saying that this is a mess. >> i talked to adam who talked to him perfectly before his hit with the radio. he said that he said this would be conditions based. and the network and

now the president is suing the "new york times." that hasn't happened in awhile, a sitting president suing the "new york times." the attorney for the president of the united states in that case joins us next. >> tucker: the trump administration won a victory in federal court today in its ongoing fight against the nation's many sanctuary cities for illegal immigrants. trace gallagher has the details on what happened. trace? >> tucker, this is a big battle victory for the president. it means he might go on to win the war. back in 2017, the administration moved to withhold about $400 million in federal grant money from city and states that implemented laws where they refused to cooperate with federal immigration authorities when it comes to dealing with illegal immigrants. the cities and states filed lawsuits and lower courts ruled if their favor. later the more liberal third, seventh and ninth courts of appeal upheld the lower courts saying the administration had to give up the grant money. now the second circuit court of appeals in n

the rush to new york times report on to the new york times reports the president's son donald trump jr was promised damaging information about hillary clinton for agreeing to meet last summer with a russian lawyer a russian lawyer in question have been actions with from. when donald trump jr responded enthusiastically to the idea of receiving information that would be harmful to hillary clinton i think that was a gift to russia it represented an attempt by. russia to have a base of influence. if your world. the news comes at a time when trump was in hamburg for an international summit where he had a meeting with vladimir putin and. what we may call you a lot of very positive things happening in washington for the united states and for everybody in the honor to be with you thank you thank you. immediately after this handshake the trunk camp has to do damage control over the new york times story they put out a statement saying the story was wrong. you know from air force one they were very very alarmed by it on the plane ride back to the united states is when the president and his tea

lisa: the most interesting life and the new york times we want this statement from the new york times from a spokesperson. they said we've actively solicited voices from all sides of the afghanistan conflict. the government, the taliban, and from citizens. it's the second in command of the taliban at a time when its negotiators are hammering out an agreement with american officials that the could result in american troops leaving afghanistan. that makes his perspective relevant at this particular moment so that's what they had to say about it. geraldo: i ran into neil cavuto at the coffee machine and we were talking about how long erica and i have been together, a long long time the next year 2001 we went to war in afghanistan. we're still at war in afghanistan, 2001, that's almost 19 years. it's time to close this thing down. you're not going to win in a classic sense, no one is going to surrender but if you can hammer out a peace deal, that comes with reasonable security for the afghan people, reasonable freedoms for the oppressed groups, particularly women in afghanistan. brian: th

i read carl huls's comment for the "new york times," a long time capital correspondent for the "new york times." he wrote a bit about these republican senators. he said they now see their fortunes and futures intertwined with the presidents and they are not willing to rock the 2020 vote. speak to that if you would, the greater import of that vote that took place on whether there would be additional witnesses or evidence in this trial. >> an excellent column, and we saw this starting to come into play early on in the trial when senators who were up for re-election in purple and blue states all started to come out and say they would not support the call for witnesses and started to behave in many ways more and more like president trump. the thrust of the piece, and it's something we've absolutely seen happen here in the senate, and i think we'll see even more as we get closer to november, is senate republicans have now joined ntheir house counter pars by and large. within the republican party, the only move right now to assure your re-election is to hug president trump as tightly as possib

if tonight's reporting by "the washington post" and "the new york times" is true. and everything else we know about donald trump and vladimir putin indicates that it is true. >> did you want president trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> russia's interference in the 2016 election to help donald trump has been proved far beyond a reasonable doubt, and donald trump was not president in 2016. trump did not have the kind of powers he has now to actively help the president of russia help re-elect the president of the united states. this is a darkly momentous event in the history of this country in the history of this world. vladimir putin has become donald trump's running mate once again. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut, he's a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman himes, what can you tell us about this meeting last week that's bei

liz: the president is accusing of adam schiff leaking to "the new york times" a story that the "new york times" has walked back that claimed russia was again helping allegedly the president get reelected. those stories have been debunked. this story "the times" itself walked it back, saying house democrats basically misinterpreted the intelligence assessment. so that was "the new york times" basically walking back its own story but to your point, fred, it led to that interchange of, exchange rather between the president and cnn's jim acosta where cnn's jim acosta attacked the president in india. your reaction to that? >> you know, i know the press lives for leaks. every network does but this was a classified briefing. these congressman have sworn an oath not to reveal the information to the news media without authorization. not to reveal people without clearances. they broke the law. they broke the oath. it is not okay. it obviously came from schiff and fellow democrats. i don't think intelligence should be cut off with the committee. president should punish the committee. stop supportin

the women who came forward to tell their stories in "the new york times" and "the new yorker" are the heroic vanguards of a new movement that has now changed the legal world's understanding of rape and how to prosecute rape charges. harvey weinstein was found guilty of 2 out of 3 possible verdicts against him. he was found guilty of the rape of jessica mann and guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree against miriam haley. jessica mann broke down on the witness stand during cross-examination by weinstein's lawyer, which caused judge james burke to end the trial proceedings early that day. jessica mann spent three days total on the witness stand describing a complex involvement with weinstein which she said was at times consensual, but did include at least two incidents of violent sexual assault. prosecutor joan aluzi told the jury weinstein tried to keep in contact with his victims in order to control them. she told the jurors when you have to trick somebody to be in your control, then you know that you don't have consent. miriam haley was in tears on the witness stand when

you can't sue "new york times" because you don't like opinion piece. i would say -- don't. >> on other hand, trump supporters are tired of "new york times," and even "wall street journal" on occasion and "washington post," printing things that are not true about the president. and they do it every day. david: there is one today or according to trump supporters, times op-ed page with an article, let's call it the trump virus if you feeling awful, you know who to blame. this is an opinion, op-ed page, you see opinions. what do you think of that? >> i think that -- it late february, but that wins 2020 stupidest headline of the year. look. to see trump virus trend on twitter as a result of this story, that is so sad. and disturbing, that there are people out there who are rooting for global recession and more people to die, so that it would mean president trump would be out of office, this nothing new, there was a cnn analysis last month, titled coronavirus task force, another example of trump administration a lack of by diversity. >> okay. and then. "wash

the women who came forward to tell their stories in "the new york times" and "the new yorker" are the heroic van guards of a new movement that has now changed the legal world's understanding of rape and how to prosecute rape charges. harvey weinstein was found guilty of two out of three possible verdicts against him. he was found guilty of the rape of jessica mann and guilty of a criminal sexual act in the first degree against merriam haley. jessica mann broke down on the witness stand during cross-examination by weinstein's lawyer which caused judge james burke to end the trial proceedings early that day. jessica mann spent three days total on the witness stand describing a complex involvement with weinstein which she said was at times consensual, but did include at least two incidents of violent sexual assault. prosecutor joan aluzi told the jury weinstein tried to keep in contact with his victims in order to control them. she told the jurors when you have to trick somebody to be in your control, then you know that you don't have consent. merriam haley was in tears on the witness st

what do you think of the allegations that julian have sanji is a direct quote from the new york times is that he's a narcissist with an outsized view of his own of origins and that he has no interest in monday matters like personal hygiene. really. i can't think of another journalist or publisher who has won a major international journalist wards. and for whom media organizations have complained about whether his socks were dirty. or had been washed here i mean really. i wonder whether any single human being has been subjected to the level of snow. in the palms and walls at school. into india live in a british court released a social built on condition that he didn't leave the country. he was also required to remain at the country house owned by a close friend the british journalist phone smith. well i'm now sitting in a chair. and ingham home is a sort of house that is the products of wealth that my family has generated for hundreds of years my family moved here and 75. fortunate. to have that responsibility as it often. is and investing at the journalists and that's why our journali

. >> jason: and then the "new york times" op-ed is calling this the trump virus. you have nancy pelosi and chuck schumer initially there were criticisms that trump was overreacting. now they are saying he is underreacting. again, what's your perspective? >> yeah, this is just an example of the president's critics criticizing anything he does. remember, the single most consequential and valuable thing done to stop this virus from already spreading throughout the united states was when president trump decided to shut down travel to china last month. what happened then? joe biden accused him of xenophobia. "the washington post" accused him of overreacting. even the so-called experts who opposed the decision at the time now admit that it bought us valuable time to prevent the spread of this virus in the united states. so we can do more to stockpile drugs and medical equipment. work on vaccines and therapeutics and getting testing kits out to the front line. this is just another example though of you who the president is going to be criticized no matter what he does. i

a new "new york times" report confirms it. they're willing to bite off n their nose to spite their face. the bernie sanders supporters know it. take a look. >> there's a "new york times" report toot that is talking about the party leadership actively working against bernie sanders and willing to break up the party as a result of this. >> i can see that. >> how do you feel about that? >> unfortunately, it's really kind of what you would see coming to a head since 2016. >> i think the democratic party is isolating themselves. >> it's trash. i don't know what else to say. it's harmful to us as a country and to everybody who want to do something like that. >> i would help that the people that have been telling me no matter who the last few years would pile in behind bernie. >> sean, the big question is, does bernie sanders pull off this nomination? and if he doesn't because the party is working against him like they did in 2016, will those progressive voters still vote for the nominee. w back to you, sean. >> sean: thanks, lawrenc

had 6 associates and the new york times named john gotti these 6 associates and how they fit into his criminal enterprise and the new york times said it and the justice department didn't react to it so that's the situation we have right now is the department of justice is saying that it's carrying on an investigation but from everything that i've seen that is a lie wow well nick remind us again about who is to play maxwell and how he puts into that cave and do we believe we will filthy her potentially tarred and prosecuted what she's been accused of. well the thing about doing mesereau is she was. it's hard to know a partner of jeffrey abstain she was fond of molesting the young girls and also child pornography just like jeffery abstain was and she played a very instrumental role in actually grooming young girls to be abused by jeffrey abstain and also transporting them around the country to be pandered to epstein's rich and powerful friends there's that famous picture of her standing next to prince andrew and prince andrew. next to a victim and going natural has not been charged with

in holding "the new york times" accountable. this is not something that any publication or any publishing platform should ever do and their intentionally misleading their readers and in fact the even went so far in the response to our lawsuit to continue to mislead their readers by saying thatat just because this was published under the flag of an op-ed that somehow this was an opinion statement. no, this was a statement of fact that was ran as true and when in fact it was knowingly false, provably false and they had absolutely no legal right to run this. >> tucker: right. fact-check the op-eds that i know. maybe they don't anymore. jenna alice, thank you so much for that, interesting story. >> thank you. >> tucker: so we talked to dave portnoy of ball's sports last week about the presidential debate that he saw, he almost choked on his beer watching that one. we've asked him to come back. he joins us after the break to assess what happened last night on stage. stayay tuned. ♪ - do you have a box of video tapes, film reels, or

if you look at what the most populapaper -- stuff in the new york times, it's actually kind of funny these days. it's kind of impeachment, how to boil a perfect egg, impeachment, grilling with, mayonnaiachment, right? and it's a little bit hard to be talking about fiscal policy. >> but let's talk about fiscalne policy -- and ry policy, for that matter. ideas that are influencing the current debates. can you just define for us quickly, how do you define monetary policyan fiscal policy? >> okay. monetary policy is, the federal resee basically changing the money supply, the amount oinstuff irculation, which it does by buying and selling u.s. government debt, but it doesn't involve spenng money on anything. it doesn't involve cutting people's taxes or raising them. >> which is fiscal polic >> and fiscal policy is when the vernment goes out there and decides to build a high-speed rail link or or a new tunnel under the hudson or -- or cut your taxes or raise your taxes, whater. so it's taxing and spending. john maynard keynes, the economist who influenced franklin delano roosevelt in the g

and here we quote from "the new york times." "intelligence officials warned house lawmakers last week that russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get president trump re-elected, a disclosure to congress that angered mr. trump, who complained that democrats would use it against him. the day after the february 13th briefing to lawmakers, mr. trump berated joseph maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place." more on the outgoing part in a moment. the report continues, trump cited the presence in the briefing of representative adam schiff, the california democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant. "the washington post" first reported the oval office confrontation between trump and maguire. in the wake of all that, trump yesterday indeed fired the acting dni maguire, removing any hope of getting the job on a permanent basis, and installed richard grenell as the new acting dni. grenell is the current u.s. ambassador to germany. it'

we begin with the new york times online, which, like many other media outlets, they are focussed the us democratic presidential race's first primary. bernie sanders has won in a tight tree over centrist former mayor pete buttigieg. meanwhile, vox says four lawyers who prosecuted political operative roger stone have resigned in protest after their sentencing recommendation was overruled and slashed by donald trump's justice department. the guardian leads with hs2, saying pm borisjohnson has staked his political reputation on delivering a new anatomy of british transport that will boost capacity and cut journey times. downing street has now seized control of the hs2 project and promised massive new spending on infrastructure. the ft reports the federal trade commission has demanded information from the fivebiggest us tech companies, alphabet, amazon, apple, facebook and microsofton their purchases of smaller groups as part of a review into possible anti—competitive behaviour in the technology sector. and finally in the times, with valentines day approaching fast you might not want to

york times." before joining "the times," he worked as an investigative reporter at "the wall street journal" where he and his colleagues broke the story about the president's hush money payments to stormy daniels. that story ended up putting the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen, in prison and opened up what appeared to be a large federal criminal investigation that quietly closed under mysterious circumstances this past summer. mr. rothfeld is also the co-author of a new book called "the fixers: the bottom feeders, crooked lawyers, gossip hmongers and porn stars who created the 45th president." mr. rothfeld, it's really nice to see you. thank you for being here. i wanted to talk to you about what's going on in terms of the justice department and the president's interests. i feel like you have seen close up in the cohen case, in a number of these other criminal matters that have touched on the president's interests how these things really work in practice. is there -- do you see residence

of the "new york times" editorial board. mara, to you first. bernie, pete, klobuchar, what just happened? >> you know, i think that much like "the new york times" editorial board, voters are split on who they should choose. >> artfully done. >> no, i think it's true. listen, there's so much anxiety among democrats right now because they just don't know who the right person is to go up against donald trump and they are desperate to beat donald trump. and there's a lot of gamemanship being played. will people vote for a woman? will people vote for a socialist? nobody really knows the answer. i do think that it's notable that if you were to add up the votes for, say, pete buttigieg and amy klobuchar, the moderates actually are looking quite strong in that sense, but their votes are divided. and then you have kind of the sanders train that is just barreling full speed ahead. and then you have other folks looking at that who are looking at michael bloomberg as kind of a third way. and so the one thing i would say is that it reall

and here we quote from "the new york times." intelligence officials warned house lawmakers last week that russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get president trump re-elected. a disclosure to congress that angered mr. trump, who complained that democrats would use it against him. the day after the february 13th briefing to lawmakers, mr. trump berated joseph maguire, the outgoing acting director of national intelligence, for allowing it to take place. more on the outgoing part in a moment. the report continues, trump cited the presence in the briefing of representative adam schiff, the california democrat who led the impeachment proceedings against him, as a particular irritant. "the washington post" first reported the oval office confrontation between trump and maguire. in the wake of all that, trump yesterday indeed fired the acting dni maguire, removing any hope of getting the job on a permanent basis, and installed richard grenell as the new acting dni. grenell is the current u.s. ambassador to germany. it's