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One of the most significant consequential stories of my lifetime and i would not hold it back because someone gave it to me without authority. no one has. school after school 9 last decades have depended on people who broke the rules or the law in providing that information to reporters. >> it is true that journalists deal with disreputable sources but some criticism over the pulitzer prize calling this is disgrace and some question whether the two newspapers, the "washington post" and "the guar...

Posts "social buzz," and jim pinkerton and special correspondent for "the root." what explains the media fixation on race cards? >> it is like cat nip because when you discuss iteratings go up and reflects a divided country, reflects a divided media. example, huffington post, holder said he is not playing the race cold. and then, hold are plays the race card and then new york manage says rate has been the real story of the presidency. >> when it comes to the incident involving eric tolder who di...

One of the most significant consequential stories of my lifetime and i would not hold it back because someone gave it to me without authority. no one has. school after school 9 last decades have depended on people who broke the rules or the law in providing that information to reporters. >> it is true that journalists deal with disreputable sources but some criticism over the pulitzer prize calling this is disgrace and some question whether the two newspapers, the "washington post" and "the guar...

Pretend i dont know it? one of the most significant consequential stories of my lifetime and i certainly wouldnt hold it back because someone gave it to me without authority. no one has. scoop after scoop over the last decades has depended on people who broke the rules or broke the law in providing that information to reporters. >> its certainly true, journalists often deal with disreputable sources. as you know, theres been criticism, you and greenwald being called snowden enablers. questions, ...

Worse? joining us now, lauren ashburn, ed pinkerton and kelly goss, special correspondent for the root. >> its like cat nip for journalists. it reflects a divided country. it reflects a divided media, for example, huffington post, holder says he isnt playing the race card. news max, holder plays the race card. then jonathan from "new york" magazine says race has been the real story of obamas presidency. >> when it comes to this latest incident involving eric holder, jim, who didnt actually menti...

Audience. what i would focus on if i were the media editor, if there was such a thing subis why is al sharpton the go-to person for racial discussions, including on msnbc? this is a man who recent revelations show that he was -- informative to the fbi. >> he says he was helping to catch bad guys. >> interesting enough, he there was an allegation. we reported in 2002 and for part of his presidential campaign, now, again, why wasnt he knocked out of the box as a credible authority on anything deca...

Host of "ralston reports." gentlemen, good to have you with us tonight. mr. ralston, you first, how is this being received by the residents of nevada? in the last 24 hours with all the hyped reporting that fox has been doing and the rhetoric thats been going back and forth, where do you think mr. bundy stands with the residents of that state? >> well, i think it depends on your sanity level, ed. if you actually know whats going on here, you understand that sean hannity whipping this into somethi...

Anyway, thank you, howard fineman and david corn. both guys are my favorites. coming up, race and the republicans. i mean, race. conservative commentators are outraged that steve israel, the head of the democratic campaign committee says the part of the republican base are animated by racism. when was the last time you saw a conservative take on racism head on. plus, the latest sthu to drop in the christie investigation. subpoenaed documents from the port authority. there are now four investigat...

To get ids, those things can be raciallily sort of codified to understand how they disproportionately affect certain groups over other groups. >> i grew up in philadelphia. one fellow said theres only two issues, race and tax, which is really race. james is close enough to philly to feel this. but if youre against public schools, youre probably -- its an attitude. most of the kids in public school in philly are black. basically want to screw them? >> of course. >> cut off their spending and whol...

Is we czar. >> i ask you this love billion, if it was a trial balloon to test the water for possible candidacy it was shot down. >> i dont think it was a trial balloon. i think the media in washington, dc, and new york, want to see jeb bush as a nominee. they want to see a bush and chin tone rematch for whatever reason they are comfortable with him and they want to go with the establishment. >> the moderate stand on immigration? >> maybe. maybe not. but the crowd in washington is propping him up...