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Wed like to welcome you back to our continuing coverage of the situation in sydney. a gunman continues to hold hostages at the lindt coffee shop. the hostage taker seen here has identified himself as "the brother." he has reportedly contacted three media organizations, using the hostages to speak with the outlets. he is demanding an isis flag and also a fon call with australias prime minister. take a look at this video. five hostages that managed to get out. three men were seen running out first...

Government. >> chris, you made an important note there. we dont have any evidence to suggest that this is part of any larger coordinated attack. he appears to have been act gt alone. neverthele nevertheless, australia facing more and more terrorist threats even as it becomes a more central player in that u.s.-led response to isis. we will be watching how this unfolds closely. chris jansing from the white house, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> the lindt cafe where this all plays out sits dire...

Torture. >> i disagree. n.p.r. is not using torture and there are our oate let -- outlets that are not. >> that is what i said they are not using torture. >> we can disagree whether these were permissible and the current head said they were abhorrent but...i am having a sense of deja vu. is this a big media war over practices that president obama banned six years ago? >> of course. torture goes to who we are as a people. of course we should have this discussion. it is not something that is 60 x ...

Claims. t a. excused by two dozen women drugging and/or assaulting them. reruns of "the cosby show" stopped airing on a number of outlets. that show which attracted tens of millions every week with its depiction of an upper class blad family, stood as a piece of meshs cultural history. can anyone now or in the years to come ever look at show in the same way now that all of this has come out? joining me now, friend and co-host of "the cycle," toure. >> thanks for having me. i want to put all of t...

We see the damage. >> im sure sony doesnt want us to share these e-mails with the public, but theyre out there, and you cant help -- theyre all over the internet so were not sharing anything new, right? >> exactly. and you know what? this is actually having repercussions in other areas as well. we know weve all kind of been focusing on the movie "the interview" with soeth rogin and james front coon christmkri and there will be no broadcast outlets there tonight. no one is invited to it, still ph...

As we learned today even rolling stone now has serious doubts about its own reporting, seems like an apt time to look at how this story got where it is. host of media buzz on sundays, howie, good to see you tonight. how did we get to this point where rolling stone, a single source, publishes this lengthy piece and youve got the mainstream media jumping all over it? >> megyn, ive done a lot of investigative reporting and this story never should have been published. you cannot go with sensational ...

Charges like these based on a single source without corroborating evidence, without identifying anyone. now, without making some contact with the men being accused of this heinous crime. now, the university of virginias reaction, i think, in a way gave these other national outlets some license to run with this. >> yeah. >> they used words like alleged and claims, but we live in a world where theres very little re-reporting because everything goes viral in ten seconds and its on the web and tv ju...

Clay, one of the things thats been said in terms of what we can expect from a public response to this nonindictment decision in contrast to ferguson, whats been said is that new york city is different. people feel like they have more outlets. police officers are better trained in terms of crowd control. do you think thats true? >> well, i really cant speak to them personally. i mean, i live here and seems pretty good, but then im not the kind of person that police officers tend to -- tend to go ...

13 and ultimately was left to raise his two kids alone. >> reporter: in his younger years, carson was a terrible student and even tried to stab another boy and eventually fell in love with science, got into yale and went to medical school and became one of the leading pediatric neurosurgeons in the world. >> hopefully that would provide enough drainage for the twins. >> reporter: he performed the first operation to separate conjoined twins joined at the head inspiring a tv movie. >> if one twin ...

Less than 1%. >> what was striking about all the reporting of the crash site you saw from all different outlets of different ideological perspectives was the sense of chaos, and you could barely mask disgust on the part of people reporting. this area was sort of being -- bodies were being rotted. theres people walking around with guns and with alcohol on their breath. and a sense that this is not under control. whether -- like, that seems to be to me the theme. the dog is off the leash as it wer...