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That report was also corrected and withdrawn in under two hours but not until it made the rounds on twitter. joining us to talk about the accuracy of news at the speed of lie, maggie haberman and andrew lih. what are we to make of news at the speed of light? how are we to do this better? >> you know, we have a lot of demands on journalists these days. almost every news organization and the industry is asking for journalists to be up front and center and be part of the breaking news cycle. it use...

Dubois saying we know who we are and we know how the world views us and how those things are in violent contradiction and our sanity is incumbent on recognizing the two. solomon is in a world that views him as a slave and calls him a different name while he knows hes not but hes likely to get killed so he must be quiet and hide his intelligence. so hes forced to reconcile the way the world sees him and how he sees himself which is central to being a black-american. this film is bleak and sever i...

>> oh. >> time. >> its judy woodruff. >> joud di. >> for 100 points, 23 seconds left in the round the treasury department issued a warning to congress on thursday that potentially catastrophic damage could be caused by what? victoria. >> by the government shutdown. >> incorrect. jackie. >> default. >> default is correct. 100 points on wednesday. sarah palen attacked which u.s. senate candidate for quote constant tweeting and trips to -- cory booker is correct at the wire. at the end of the wire....

About this kind of devil-like character. how long can show runners push characters like this into this bad guy territory before the public turns on them? >> well, thats been the kind of experiment of this show throughout. you know, throughout the entire show it has been about removing one by one the reasons to root for walter white. amazingly, what weve learned is that people are willing to stick with him or at least when their well-written and complicated characters are willing to have complica...

Side. i dont think democrats will stand for those levels of funds and as we look down the road at how this is going to play out, i dont think that the ted cruz, me first, really what they have is incredibly selfish. theyre both destroying their party and threatening the country. i dont see them backing down on this they want to really go to the wire. look, ted cruz is a hero among the tea party base even if his colleagues hate him. this has been great for him. so i think theyre going to have to ...

I cant really read or write. >> after what he had done, it really dont worry me at all. its just, i hope that he will be okay living with it. you know. he has to live with something like that. >> donnegan sees potential in street. he arranged for street getting a job working with him, assistant electrician. >> i just started three weeks ago as an electrician trainee. i screw stuff into the wall, carry stuff, holding ladders, clear the messes up. >> whats the red wire? >> i dont know what the wir...

Producer when you were, what, too young -- >> many years ago, i was 17. its a fun story. i used to drive into manhattan with my older brother who produced a show. one day im sitting in the booth and my brother told marty that hes been called up to the army reserves. marty needs to find another producer. without missing a beat, marty pointed directly into the booth and said, jimmy can do it. and i turned around, expecting to see another guy named jimmy sitting there. there wasnt. and he started t...

Its a bad time for newspapers as you all know. the news hole is shrinking as advertising dollars continue to decline. youre circulation numbers are also down as we compete with a variety of media. technology is driving distribution and the internet is a free source of news and opinions. >> that was a scene from "the wire" i will try to get into any broadcast i ever can in which the editor of the baltimore sun tells the staff that because of the internet the paper will have to make budget cuts. w...

Its a bad time for newspapers as you all know. the news hole is shrinking as advertising dollars continue to decline. youre circulation numbers are also down as we compete with a variety of media. technology is driving distribution and the internet is a free source of news and opinions. >> that was a scene from "the wire" i will try to get into any broadcast i ever can in which the editor of "the baltimore sun" tells the staff that because of the internet the paper will have to make budget cuts....

Im anthony in for piers. im talking to david carr and david simon of "the wire." we have prism that vacuums up apparently all data and allows access to online activity, basically your call, hoovers up your call records, presumably as well as hitting keywords. do you have a problem with this? >> well, whenever i feel somebodys hands up my skirt im always sort of interested in what exactly they are trying to find up there. people say well, if you have nothing to hide, why would it bother you? it d...