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Outlets. >> the protest organizer said he is doing this for his first amendment rights the freedom of speech. do you believe this is about the first amendment? >> well we respect him. if he will exercise his first amendment but i think this is -- he is using the first amendment as a cover for bigotry and racism. and to use the first amendment as hate speech cover for what he wants to deliver. the focus should not be on this group, we know it is a bigoted and a racist group and the focus should b...

Case i think is fascinating here which is how much of a constituency is there in modern conservatism in the modern republican party for this fight on the patriot act, right? you can look at it in a certain way and say conservatives, small government skeptical of government overreach, like the bill of rights, et cetera, they should be all in on this thats not the way mainstream conservative outlets are treating it. what do you think ends up being the result of this? >> i think rand paul is a lead...

Know we would go for drinks wed go for dinner with big groups of reporters so he was very accessible. i found him to be very accessible as a reporter and that made a big difference. we get to really understand his thinking why he was making some of the decisions he was making and off the record lengthy conversations really informed my reporting and informed the reporting of "the washington post" and many other, sorry, excuse me the many other outlets that covered him. >> that is certainly a star...

Said they would get back to us. well friday morning we were about to run the story, i asked if we had received anything. my reporter said no abc hadnt gotten back to him, and just as we were about to publish our story, another story on politico with the headline george stephanopoulos discloses clinton foundation donations appears at that very moment. i knew right away that what had happened was abc news had gone to politico with our scoop in order to control the narrative. >> how did you feel wh...

About raising money, about polling, about somebody saying something dumb or some kid works for a campaign sends out something stupid on facebook. we can expect that to be a major story. but what your job is what the medias job is is to say these are the major issues facing the country. were a democracy, people have different points of view lets argue it. >> fundamentally youre describing what is the systemic issue in press, in the nations news media which is an interesting spectacle over policy....

Entertainment. exercise some choice. too many rely exclusively on outlets defined by their ideology and thats not healthy it stifles legitimate debate. sample alternative points of view and every once in a while change that channel. sign. you know, anonymity breeds contempt. people say things to and about others via blog postings that they would never say if their identity were known. my advice is that you become knowledgeable and active in the affairs of your community, your state and your nati...

This is a farmhouse right here. rough draft. okay. give dimensions to it so i know where im at. art is my sanity and my salvation. i mean, that is what keeps me stable. >> i come with all kinds of little ideas. you have two of these like a protection vent to keep the rain out of the chimney. i found this in the yard and it reminded me of air-conditioners. they trips everybody out. they like my grill. so the bird can grill his worms. i guess. you can look inside with the fireplace and light switc...

News corp., have given major donations, but theyre not george stephanopoulos former clinton aide who has this problem. >> you know if you wanted he cares about aids in africa. there are lots of other less -- >> any other charity in the world. >> -- other charities. and the other important thing is timing of these donations, 2012 2013 2014 as hillarys revving up her campaign. and as he said on -- to jon stewart, if youre giving that money, are you expecting some access -- >> right, right. >> but ...

Distrust of a conservative outlets and conservative commentators have had about george stephanopoulos. and i mean, he needs to go the extra mile to have credibility, particularly covering this election. >> you know im not somebody who shouts liberal bias every five minutes, but the day that this broke, which was thursday there were zero stories about this on msnbc and one segment all day on cnn. if this had been the equivalent of a conservative journalist with a conservative past those networks ...

National transportation train and rapid investigator. what is job one with, russell? >> preserve the evidence at the wreck site and anything that is perishable and gather all of the facts they can related to the different areas of the investigation. >> we have heard reports from outlets like the wall street journal who say the train was doing more than 100 miles per hour on a curve where design speed indicates 50 miles per hour should be the maximum speed. if that is true it is going to be a maj...