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In fact, i didnt even ask permission. i think at some point i told leon panetta, who was the chief of staff, i said, im allowing the broadcast guys to have full access to the briefing now because they used to have limits on it. he said, eh, thats fine. nobody thought it was a big deal. >> until there was a sex scandal. >> would it be improper for the president of the united states to have had a sexual relationship with this woman? >> mike mccurry has apologized to every one of his successors for...

Presidency, of making empty threats. if hes going to say, listen, were going to go after them with fire and fury, were going to, you know, try to beef up and brag about our nuclear arsenal. in fact, its happening right now, regimes are either going to listen or try to call his bluff. and we sense thats exactly what north korea is doing right now. and apparently the rest of the world isnt really taking the president seriously. >> well, you know, americans are, though, right? this is something tha...

Making over $250,000 a year paid for by $777 billion in medicaid cuts for the poor. thats monstrous. we should be using some of that money to help fix, transition people out of obamacare into private insurance so that they dont lose their health care. >> martha: quick final thought and then about to go. >> totally agree with what mark just said. theyre acting like caricatures of themselves. everything democrats and republicans are they are reinforcing it with this approach. i think its very poli...

with him. lets go to mark preston who joine joins us now from washington. cain ducked the topic during a speech last noit. do we expect him to say anything today? >> we do. this is something that will dog him along the campaign trail, don. something he has been battling for several weeks. several women come out and allege that he sexually harassed them during his tenure at the national restaurant association and now we have this new woman, ginger white coming out saying that she had an...

Elin deserves praise, not blame. >> reporter: she wasnt in the room. her whereabouts unknown. tiger took no questions. more than 200 reporters were kept about a mile away watching him on close circuit monitors. keeping track of every, im sorry. >> i am truly sorry. >> reporter: around the country, every major network broadcast. in new yorks time square, people were glued to tvs and espn sports bar. on the pga tour, tigers competitors made time to watch. >> i cant imagine having to apologize to w...

That. competition for viewers is brutal. at the dinner hour when the net news is on, not so brutal. nevertheless, we average here between 4 and 5 million viewers a night when you add the 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcast together. now, the important stuff, we asked mr. brokaw to appear this evening. he declined. he has never been on the factor because he knows that we know that he has an agenda. and that agenda is power. since the rise of cable news, the network news has lost a lot of influence. when...