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Rather than a tool of empowerment. martha: bob, im sure the folks at apple were just thrilled to hear that one. the president has been accused of bashing off kinds of -- all kinds of corporations from wall street to banks. technology is clearly one of the strongest suits in the economy, in the united states in terms of innovation. good move? >> well, first of all, some of those i hadnt heard of myself, but look, what hes talking about here is that there is unfiltered news coming through now from...

Wh whoa! information is power. if its not, then we should fire everybody at the c.i.a. we should stop doing any kind of focus groups for speeches. information can be distracting. hmm. pesky problem. pesky problem. now who is to blame for spreading all the rumors? of course, 24/7 cable news. well, i mean, some cable news channels, you know. they dont rank high on the truth meter. could that be something like him declaring war on fox again? it worked out so poorly for him last time. if im wrong, y...

Zakaria gps." eric holder said this morning that the justice department is considering a federal lawsuit to challenge arizonas new immigration law. he indicated possible civil rights violations could be grounds for legal action. the recently enacted law allows police to ask anyone suspected to be in the u.s. illegally for proof of legal residency. president obama delivered the commencement address this morning at the historically black college hampton university in virginia. in his second co...

>> youre coming of age in a 24/7 media environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and exposs us to all kinds of arguments, some of which dont always rank that high on the truth meter. so many voices clamoring for attention on blogs and on cable and on talk radio. it can be difficult at times to sift through it all, to know what to believe, to figure out whos telling the truth and whos not. lets face it, even some of the craziest claims can quickly gain traction. ive had some experien...

Age. so education is what has always allowed us to meet the challenges of a changing world. at hampton, that has never been more true than it is today. this class is graduating at a time of great difficulty for america and for the world. youre entering a job market in an era of heightened international competition, with an economy thats still rebounding from the worst crisis since the great depression. youre accepting your degrees as america still wages two wars, wars that many in your general v...

The democratic and republican camp. talking to republicans week after week, i did not hear a word about this kind of criticism that eventually exploded out into the -- into the public space, which was that this was some kind of big bailout for wall street. my understanding, andrea, was that substantial parts of this resolution authority or bailout part were written by republicans and that it was sort of corker from tennessee who was involved with dodd. -in writing this. >> exactly. >> it was rea...

>> all right. geoff bennett with the update from the white house, thank you. time now to bring our panel in. be betsy woodruff, kevin cirilli, paul butler, and also ghabe de debbetty. were watching the president go through the tweet storm. he is not tweeting about paul manafort, but we have heard as we talked about the white house, sarah huckabee sanders, rudy giuliani have issued their statements saying it has nothing to do with the president. where does that stand on the truth meter? >> it i...

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And with ipods and ipads and xboxs and playstations, none of which i know how to work,which high on the truth meter. and with ipods and ipads and xboxs and playstations, none of which i know how to work, information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation. so all of this is not only putting pressure on you, its putting new pressure on our country and on our democracy. class of 2010, this is a period of b...