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Doggie sorbet. did you know there was such a thing? rob: a lovely story. jillian: seems like a perk. rob: freedom fireworks and food on the national mall in dc, just your own backyard, to celebrate. carley: having a patriotic party for your holiday bash. and why you are a proud american. our copy editor crystal sent this photo of her father henry who served in vietnam. rob: look at this photo, from connecticut, brothers serving together, james farrell and his brother captain john farrell. carley...

They announce them against ayatollah khamenei, who is the man who died leading iran 30 years ago. they get the name wrong. i mean if "saturday night live" were to do a skit about this, we would say it was taking it a step too far, right? so when you see things like that, it must make the rest of the world think, are there any grown-ups in the white house? is there a proofreader? is there a copy editor in the white house who is actually looking over this stuff and saying, no, its khamenei. khomei...

So you have this bizarre situation which i can remember no precedent in recent modern american history. the president of the united states, the white house formally announces sanctions against the leader of the state they almost went to war with last week, and they announce them against ayatollah khomeini, who is the man who died leading iran 30 years ago. they get the name wrong. i mean if "saturday night live" were to do a skit about this, we would say it was taking it a step too far, right? s...

Characters that you could get sucked into like "the sopranos" or "the wire" or any of the great hbo dramas. and then staged it on a level in this mythical world that really no one had ever seen done quite that way for tv before. it set the bar on that level enormously high. and i think a lot of networks and streaming services are going to lose a lot of money trying to come up with something like it. >> all right. brian lowry, great to talk with you. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all good thing...

It was spelled paciic. it was a genuine and costly mistake. they joked about it saying oops. this special wont last long. she is going back to the shop. >> everybody needs a good copy editor. it was the daily news which had a great headline. they dont give a flying f. lets get a check of cnn money. the u.s. is embroiled in trade war with china, but wall street with record highs. dow and s&p less than 1% from records. banks were big winners. jumping 2% as the ten-year treasury yield hit the hig...

Charlotte, north carolina. the president checking in on that today. seeing how they fared. the president does have a high interest in his properties, which he often visits. not only his golf course outside washington, his hotel in a restaurant here as well as palm beach, florida. certainly that is an as effect governor got involved there while he was touring. >> and in scotland as well. "outfront" next, proof that everybody needs a really good copy editor. our mission is to provide complete, b...

Define this in this op-ed. >> i certainly did, harris. no doubt this person has advanced level of writing skills and he or she, not sure exactly gender at this point, but they know how to write very succinctly very cogently and get their points across. there is 27 paragraphs here. 14 of them are only one sentence. which is kind of unusual for peoples writing style. paragraphs are generally supposed to be more than one sentence. however some journalists tend to write in only one sentence. so ther...

The president tweeted, alex b d baldw baldwin whose dying mediocre career was saved by his impersonation of me on "snl" now say says playing djt was agony for him. alex, it was also agony for those who were forced to watch, you were terrible, bring back daryl hammond, much funnier and a far greater talent. he deleted that tweet and then changed it to alec baldwin. >> apparently the whole of the white house staff has not left the building. theres one proofreader and copy editor. >> so joe in the ...

It is sad. it feels like our standards have dropped so much across the board. these little things that might not really be that important, but are a big deal just because they represent how serious we take these -- >> and everyone is distracted and refreshing donald trumps twitter feed or looking for a maggie haberman scoop or too busy to spell check the tickets for the state of the union. one of the most sayre monn -- ceremonial events in white house. >> it is like pages out of the onion. >> i ...

There is a border between the copy editor and the writer and that is us and you take the blame if there is any reaction to. >> and i dont know if you are on twitter and if you make a small grammatical error, suddenly the world will come for you. >> they think you are a horrible human being, that you are stupid and everything youve done is worthless. do you judge people who use bad grammar? >> not in speech. in writing, i would say they should have somebody look at that before they had it publish...