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Snowden. otherwise if it was bush they wouldnt embrace a like that. it will hurt in the long run. when the people on the left start playing the cowardly sciolous race card they have some plausibility, now, right or wrong they have it just the way that the right support for the iraq war has hurt our ability to have a strong muscular foreign policy. this is going to hurt, you know, on social issues, i believe. >> i didnt know he was such a deep thinker in the profile did i on you, i did not know y...

Sympathizing with an ill informed rancher in nevada against a big government overreach. now, we understand that cnn has ratings problems and its natural they will take shots at us. thats competition. here is what one guy said last night. >> how does it feel to be abandoned by your friends on fox? i mean, the only reason we could get you on tonight is that im guessing they didnt call? >> obviously the commentator baiting mr. bundy who was foolish enough to even engage in the conversation. now, th...

Finding out, you know, what he really represented, you know, at the core. so are the -- the represent -- reputations damaged of those who chose to speak out, like hannity or the lawmakers standing by his side? >> you can certainly hear soul searching going on. conversations about how this happened and how this could have been avoided. to be fair, there were a number of conservative commentators and reporters who come with a clear point of view who were very skeptical all along, who were very car...

Charges against mr. bundy through other means. they havent made that very clear inner it er i terms of wh mean, they just say administratistly and judicially theyll try to go after mr. bundy. >> dan simon, thanks very much. coming up, more on this story. cliven bundy certainly lost support just about as fast as he gained it. one of our political commentators paul begala says conservatives should have known bundy was bad news from the very start. paul is standing by. some high-profile parents app...

Although to their credit, they said who can support him after this? ill support the legal rights. were seeing a lot of fox commentators moving away. >> when mr. bundy said i hope im not this way -- >> it is denial, though, it is denial. you saw him deny it. i think he doesnt want to realize that what he said was so out of whack with reality. and now he is probably trying to deal with this. and this is unfortunately going to be the biggest asterisk of his entire life. everything he has done. but ...

Vis-a-vis ranchers are just as important because thats what his main issue is. this is a no-brainer. what he said was just wrong. >> and brian, i think that some people have said that the issues are separate. what mr. bundy said about race is one thing. what he said about nevada owning too much public land is another matter. but can you separate the two at this point? >> i was struck by how many commentators on the fox news channel which was the channel this month covering this story the most ag...

Journalism has changed quite a bit in a way that is not good for the country and not good for journalism. a lot of serious news reporting has become more entertainment-driven. and more opinion-driven as opposed to factual. people book on to the shows, political figures, commentators, who will be controversial, who will be provocative, pause its a good show. you may not learn anything but you might be entertained. >> well, i never thought id say this but media watcher brent is here to say that hi...

Lot harder to read going into november than it appeared in march. >> you know, the old expression, generals are always fighting the last war. i remember republicans winning big in 94. bill clinton winning in 96. then us saying the exact thing, you hear the commentators saying its an off-year election. republicans are going to win big in 98. that, of course, is the year that democrats always took back the house. theres no way to predict thats going to happen in 2014. >> and youve seen, you know, ...

>> ive seen some commentators say men made the internet so women have to deal with it. >> whoa. >> wow. >> and what we actually see is in the technology firms that are creating the infrastructure and the platforms we use that there is more inequality than other industries. so 40% of businesses are owned and operated by women but only 6% or 8% of startups are led by women and 1% are led by people of color, by black people, so weve got this massive inequality that then is reflected in these platfo...

Would now cuss on as the editor, why is al sharpton the go-to person for racial discussions including on msnbc? this is a man who shows recently, he was an informant to the file. >> he said he was helping to catch bad guys. >> the allegation he was an f.b.i. informant and busted in a cocaine rap goes back to 1998 it was reported in news day and rereported in 2002 and now, again, why wasnt he knocked out of the box as a credible authority on anything decades ago is beyond me. >> this is more than...