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That is a very serious thing. you asked the reporters who are covering this white house, they will tell you that they do not believe the administration has been open. barack obama campaigned against george w. bush saying that george bush was not transparent. he would be more transparent. you asked reporters working white house now they will tell you that the bush administration was much more open with information about what was going on and bottom line is this. barack obama has had a lot of prob...

Decaf for this morning. >> he is a right wing fruit loop too? >> that is a propaganda organization. >> we love him. >> he may be but i ready the detail caller. i know what is on there. you have conservatives and right wingers. the right wingers are all about propaganda. conservatives have a set of principles that dont happen to be the same as mine but they are reasonable and you can do business with them and how i differentiate that. >> i think its a good point that howard makes. >> if only the ...

Organization a lot of money and my job was to report on the president, yet i kept that very important news secret. >> howard? >> i dont have a lot of sympathy. i like ron fournier. he is a very ethical guy. this is kabuki. i was told by a washington reporter who wasnt kidding saying it wont be in tomorrows paper but its okay for sunday. i dont have much sympathy. >> thats right. >> ive seen it happen. when i was running for president, we got hosed by the press numerous times. i dont mind that. t...

Liberals when a republican president the press is sort of like everybody is chasing him but lets talk about the important policy underneath this. >> the thing about this one is the press is involved as a player here. >> by the way, you think this is the big one? >> ive always thought that. >> this is the most important one. the irs one is the red meat. >> the president didnt know anything about it. ben ghazi has basically been beat up. i dont know why the republicans keep pushing this. they have...

Really important debate because the first amendment is absolutely critical to the future of any democracy and it straits a strong one from a weak one. the first thing parties do to take a democracy to be less democratic hugo chavez who was less democratically elected was take over the press that disagrees with him and shut them down. its an important debate. on the other hand, you have the president of the united states who has a sworn obligation to uphold the national security. leaks coming out...

>> oh, no. this is like -- i think this can be seen a couple of different ways which is why this conversation is so rich but i will say there is an article in theory eric holder and the administration are trying very hard to explain that, yes, we made a lot of mistakes. here is why we were doing what we were doing and they have to do it off the record because of obvious security concerns. >> but, steve, isnt it true, though, i founds this to be a great irony. these democrats that get swept into ...

Every friday for a summer, karl rove, we heard, oh, today is the day he is going to be indicted. when the press knew and fitzgerald knew it wasnt he, but a close associate of colin powell that leaked valerie plames name. >> steve schmidt, thank you so much. ahead, bob mcdonald makes a surprising new announcement on voting rights in his state and he joins us straight ahead, along with naacp president ben je jealous. "news you cant use" is next. s ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day were comin...

Holder play to that in the hearings recently, right? he basically made clear he felt victimed by isa and thought they were disrespectful to him and he used that very effectively. i think a legitimate point holder is making off the record meeting to explain why they are doing what they are doing but the concerns some of the press corps -- this is an investigation into whether there was an overreach or this is a complaint about whether there was an overreach into what the press does so that is why...

Perjury during his may 15th testimony on capitol hill. >> with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that ive ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy. >> just days after making that statement, of course, we learned about eric holder personally signing off on james rosen, that deal. jay carney yesterday rejected the claims that holder misled congress adding the president has confidence in holders abili...