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>> bill: thanks for staying with us, imim bill ol really. msnbc commentator ed schultz receiving 2,000 $ from the afl-cio. gave the money including paid speeches to the american cancer society. however, web site politico says schultz donated only 100,000 to the cancer charity. joining us from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come. i remember when i was first hired by cbs news i think you were already there for 75 years when i came. >> hey, hey, hey. >> bill: they gave me the cbs pinhea...

They would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldnt know what hit us. those standards havent changed. whats changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv arent journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do shows where they sit in front of, you know, in back of desks that look like anchor desks. they interview news makers, they talk about the news of the day. its sort of, kind of, looks like journalism but it is...

Got. but 100,000, according to politico, and were taking their reporting and we havent vetted it ourselves is very hard to do that. we dont have subpoena power to go in and look at anybodys tax return, okay? say the 100,000 was kept by him or any other journalist or commentator. what happens? >> bill, i dont care if he gave every single penny to a good cause like -- >> bill: what happens to nbc? what do they have to do if he kept some of the money. >> then he apparently isnt s. in violation of t...

>> bill: thanks for staying with us, imim bill ol really. msnbc commentator ed schultz receiving 2,000 $ from the afl-cio. gave the money including paid speeches to the american cancer society. however, web site politico says schultz donated only 100,000 to the cancer charity. joining us from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg got come. i remember when i was first hired by cbs news i think you were already there for 75 years when i came. >> hey, hey, hey. >> bill: they gave me the cbs pinhea...

Me. but they have to understand that im always going to give what i -- my honest opinion. again, they dont have to agree with me if it turns out that im taking money, hundreds of thousands of dollars from some organization or some corporation and im not disclosing this, they have every right to never trust me again. and thats what msnbcs management doesnt quite understand. while ed schultz may speak favorably of unions because he honestly believes it, you have to disclose these things. you cant ...

Got. but 100,000, according to politico, and were taking their reporting and we havent vetted it ourselves is very hard to do that. we dont have subpoena power to go in and look at anybodys tax return, okay? say the 100,000 was kept by him or any other journalist or commentator. what happens? >> bill, i dont care if he gave every single penny to a good cause like -- >> bill: what happens to nbc? what do they have to do if he kept some of the money. >> then he apparently isnt s. in violation of t...

About them. they would throw us out so quickly bill they wouldnt know what hit us. those standards havent changed. whats changed is the media landscape. ed schultz and a lot of others on cable tv arent journalists. we were journalists. they are not journalists. this is where it gets tricky. but they do shows where they sit in front of, you know, in back of desks that look like anchor desks. they interview news makers, they talk about the news of the day. its sort of, kind of, looks like journali...

That im always going to give what i -- my honest opinion. again, they dont have to agree with me if it turns out that im taking money, hundreds of thousands of dollars from some organization or some corporation and im not disclosing this, they have every right to never trust me again. and thats what msnbcs management doesnt quite understand. while ed schultz may speak favorably of unions because he honestly believes it, you have to disclose these things. you cant simply take money from an organi...

But they have to understand that im always going to give what i -- my honest opinion. again, they dont have to agree with me if it turns out that im taking money, hundreds of thousands of dollars from some organization or some corporation and im not disclosing this, they have every right to never trust me again. and thats what msnbcs management doesnt quite understand. while ed schultz may speak favorably of unions because he honestly believes it, you have to disclose these things. you cant simp...

Got. but 100,000, according to politico, and were taking their reporting and we havent vetted it ourselves is very hard to do that. we dont have subpoena power to go in and look at anybodys tax return, okay? say the 100,000 was kept by him or any other journalist or commentator. what happens? >> bill, i dont care if he gave every single penny to a good cause like -- >> bill: what happens to nbc? what do they have to do if he kept some of the money. >> then he apparently isnt s. in violation of t...