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>> can i say something? this is not some elitist show. let me tell you this. my mom had five boys. she never worked outside the home and worked her butt off. its unimaginable what its like. she didnt know what maid was. >> im sure you were very easy. >> she didnt know anybody with a maid. it was hard work. my wife, i call her the queen. at midnight before the kids were home when they went onto greatness. my paper is done, its start to start the editing process. its the wife. >> weve been there. ...

Middle of a major controversy over its airing of the 911 call to police in the deadly shooting of trayvon martin. the "today show" aired a clip of the phone call which was placed by george zimmerman, the accused shooter, just minutes before he shot martin, but the call was edited by nbc in such a way that it could be interpreted as making zimmerman sound racist. a report says that an investigation by the network found the decision was a bad mistake, but not a deliberate one. judith miller is pul...

Could advance the narrative that zimmerman killed trayvon martin because it was racially motivated. they didnt do it once, they didnt do it twice, weve seen five different times that nbc ran that. thats as deliberate as you can get. you and i shed the light on them last week. they first announced that they were going to investigate themselves. its kind of like richard nixon investigating watergate. that wasnt acceptable. then surprise, surprise, they came out with their announcement. two whole s...

Could advance the narrative that zimmerman killed trayvon martin because it was racially motivated. they didnt do it once, they didnt do it twice, weve seen five different times that nbc ran that. thats as deliberate as you can get. you and i shed the light on them last week. they first announced that they were going to investigate themselves. its kind of like richard nixon investigating watergate. that wasnt acceptable. then surprise, surprise, they came out with their announcement. two whole s...

he says, quote, it is just frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement." although bennet told "the post" he couldnt remember the accused was herman cain and said it was settled quickly by fax and phone and herman cain recounted what starts like a drawn-out process. >> it started out making some huge claims for sexual harassment. i do recall that she was asking for a large sum of money. i dont rem...

as part of the settlement with the national restaurant association, where herman cain was her boss in the late 90s. "the new york post" spoke to her lawyer, joel bennet. he says, quote, it is just frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by a confidentiality agreement." although bennet told "the post" he couldnt remember the accused was herman cain and said it was settled quickly by fax and phone and herman cain recounted w...

"the new york post" spoke to her lawyer joel bennet. he says, quote, it is just frustrating that herman cain is going around bad-mouthing the two complainants and my client is blocked by an agreement. although bennet told "the post" he couldnt remember the accused was herman cain and said it was settled quickly by fax and phone and herman cain recounted what startss like a drawn-out claim. >> i do recall that she was asking for a large sum of money. i dont remember what that sum of mon...

In my mind. theres questions about more detail about precisely what was alleged and precisely what happened, what the series of events was with. what the chronology was that led to these settlements. settlements that you note in our intro mr. cain has now acknowledged. so theres always more questions. as an editor im always pushing reporters to get more answers and that usually means hard work. going back to sources, finding new sources and reporting and putting the reporting through an editing ...

With of. >> joining me now john harris, the editor in chief of politico that broke the cain story. thank you for joining us. >> sure thing, john. >> how long has politico been working on the story? >> about three weeks. it seems to me this first came to our attention. we did some reporting. then we brought what we with had learned, our early findings to the cain campaign. didnt get a response for several days and then did get a response. we did a lot more reporting after this and this went throu...

>> reporter: he shared with you a number of conspiracy theories. what did he tell you? >> he believed that the world trade center bombings were a conspiracy, that there was no way the holocaust could have happened the way they said it did, there were more jews living in europe after the holocaust than before. i never, for once, thought that huttons views were automatically and naturally shared by mel. >> reporter: hutton did not respond to our request for an interview. what is clear, however, is...