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>> thats a lot of access, but its justified. i mean we are a radio show where one man reaches almost eight million people a week. so this is one black man that reaches almost one in four black people. theres no woman that reaches one in four women or no one latino that reaches one in four latino. it reaches 70% of the african-american audience so you cant blame the man for coming on and talking directly to voters. this is back when fdr was doing his fire side chat via what medium? radio. he no l...

I can now go back to, you know, eating popcorn and bonbons. thats not the way the whole thing works. >> i want to ask about the second aspect of transparency which i think is different than access. i think access is about internal press competition and transparency is what the public knows and has access to and i want to talk about that after this break. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, weve persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our annive...

Can get ratings on my morning show. when we ask for it, we receive it because of who we are and the access, like i said, that we give directly to the voters. the new 18 to 34-year-old voter thats out there that the past two campaigns have been trying to appeal to, they arent attracted to the same mediums. they arent attracted to these things sitting across our desk. theyre on their smartphones, looking at things that are less than 50 words, theyre looking at the characters you can get on twitter...

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Its a dangerous development that they have exploited cleverly and ruthlessly. it seems to me this discussion is confusing. two different things ed henry mentioned. access on the one hand and transparency on the other. president obama has granted 674 interviews in his first term compared to just 217 interviews by george w. bush. so its not like the president hasnt been accessible. its just that hes granted that access to lots of outlets, like ebony magazine, the daily show and the view. the publi...

Great to have you all here. there was a big stink made about the white house press corps story or nonstory. president obama played golf with tiger woods in florida last weekend. the white house press corps was denied access to this moment in the presidents second term. fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry, whos the president of the white house correspondents association released a statement to politico that underscored the press corpss complaint. i can say a broad cross section of o...

Governor ed rendell. thank you for joining me. president obama spoke forcefully this afternoon about needing to take action on gun safety. lets listen. >> this time the words need to lead to action. we know this is a complex issue that stirs deeply help passions and political divides. we need to work making access to work on mental health care as easy as access to a gun. and any actions we must take must begin inside the home and inside our hearts. but the fact that this problem is complexed can...