That exposed other examples of secret service misbehavior in the past. Last month she won an award for her coverage. Her most recent story has been heavily scrutinized. Let me read what it said. Obama administration investigating allegations that two Senior Secret Service agents drove a government car into White House Security barricades after drinking at a Late Night Party last week. It went on to say, an Agency Official said wednesday they ran through tape before hitting barricades. They wanted to arrest the agent and perform sobriety tests but a supervisor ordered them to be sent home p. One online headline said a crash occurred dramatic stuff and the story broke just in time for the nightly news. You know what happened next. Tv amped this up even more. Here is what i mean. Breaking news from the white house, two secret service now under investigation facing allegations they were driving under the influence in a government vehicle and hit a barrier outside the white house. Developing story this morning, a black eye for the secret service. News alert, while you were sleeping two secret Service Agents including a top member of the president s detail now under investigation for drinking and driving. They allegedly crashed a government car into a white house barricade after a night of partying. At one point Good Morning America made it sound like the car actually hit the white house. But the story started to change. The post changed its headline softened it a bit. It now reads secret Service Agents investigated after car hits white house barricade. Not a car accident. Then sources started telling other reporters that the Washington Posts reporting was way overblown. Here is what Michelle Kosinski reported two days after the original story. Reporter these sources say they were going one miles an hour. They nudged a plastic barrier out of the way a few feet. They are also casting some major doubts about the story that first emerged that a supervisor let them go home even though officers at the scene thought they should be tested to see if they were drunk. From what these sources are saying theres nobody in their view who can corroborate that story and that is seriously in question. This is sort of like a snowball rolling down the hill. This controversy madity way to capitol hill where secret Service Director clancy was unsparing in his media critique. There was no crash. The video shows a vehicle entering white house complex at a speed of one to two Miles Per Hour and push aside a plastic barrel. There was no damage to the vehicle. One prominent journalist directly came out and apologized for his role in exaggerating the story. Hes standing by in l. A. But i want to get to the original source joining me from washington. Thank you for being here. I know this story is complicated and secret service trying to spin things in their favor. Is it fair to say your initial story overstated what happened . No. Director clancy on tuesday on the hill told members of congress exactly what we wrote in our story, that his initial reports when he learned about this event on march 9th were allegations on the ground there had been some sort of if i can use the word crash, in his testimony, make sort of the allegation again, he received and was investigating was there was suspicion the agents had been drinking. Our story is completely accurate. In fact the only thing i quibbled with at the time was headline and i asked for the word crash to be taken out of the headline. In fact they did in 19 minutes. I cant be responsible for a bunch of people then later reporting, citing their own sources, that the crash happened. We wrote that he was investigating allegations on the ground of exactly what we wrote. I explained it interesting, brian, truly everyone is quibbling with our word choices about something, barricade, barricades. All this focus and misrepresentation of our reporting. Five different four or five forgive me ive lost track, media organizations have now corrected their reporting on our reporting. So i guess its just sort of amusing in a way and also troubling. A lot of people took this as fact. The fact was this the secret service got a fairly significant and serious allegation and they were investigating it and we reported what was alleged. The reason why im concentrating on it words do matter. Word like crash. Ive been exactly where you are where an editor puts a headline on a story that goes further than what the story says. Seems to me in this case the story got so far ahead of what the facts were. For example, your initial story didnt mention the idea this car was only going one to two Miles Per Hour. So we were among the most i hear what youre saying. We were among the most cautious of all media organizations in how we described what happened and we broke the story. We were also on the second day reporting that it and in realtime that people who were reviewing the video had seen something that most likely was going near the we reported that. In our first story we reported viewing the tape they thought it could be this could be that. As soon as they reported they determine it we reported that. I find it interesting so much pushback against the idea that this might have been a serious incident because director clancy has said its a serious incident. He has said hes really troubled this wasnt reported to him. In fact he said the other day not everything comes onto my desk but this one certainly should have. Hes going to hold people accountable for not reporting to him. You mentioned pushback. Obviously administration has a reason to push back on reporting if they dont want secret service to appear to have bad behavior or be in trouble. Im curious about your reporting as well because weve seen stories questioning that you once reported president s elevator ride to cdc with an armed flown turned out he never had been convicted of a crime. You were the one to follow up and report no he was not an armed flown after all. Do you think theres legitimacy to the idea some of your sources have tried to lead you astray and paint a picture of a very troubled secret service. I think if you talk to director clancy and listen to his own testimony on capitol hill hell tell you every single one of the incidents we reported and broke exclusively is very troubling to him. It was a violation of security protocol in that incident. We did correct it before anybody else before it was ever publicly we were asked about that. We corrected it as soon as we found out. Do you find yourself needing to challenge those sources . Im sorry, i couldnt hear you. You said Something Interesting about the pushback. Many agents and officials inside secret service who are sources of mine say they feel as though the Washington Post reporting flagging kind of security vulnerabilities are ultimately going to make the president safer. One thing thats odd is why is there all this pushback against reporting that would make the president safer . I would assume the administration wants that too. Thats a very interesting question for it to leave it on carol. Thank you for calling in this morning. I greatly appreciate it. Of course brian. Thanks for having me. Thank you. The initial Washington Post story, one of the many reporters who followed up was markhambinder. He heard the crash story, heard the word crash wrote a piece about this headline. Hi im the secret service, and im an alcoholic. Now hes deeply regreeding what he wrote. He says the story is greatly exaggerated. Lets quote what he wrought other day. I have no excuse other than what i was basing my opinion on the facts that other news outlets reported. The problem with stories like these, the initial impressions stick and the corrects dont. The press can report something fantastic, a bunch of inaccuracies and slowly walk it over a few days until the original story no longer resembles current version. All i can do is write about my mistake. Lets hear what mark thinks about this. Contributing editor for the week and in los angeles. What youre describing in followup essay is something i see all the time in the media. A story comes out, overstated people dont see followup stories that try to correct the record. Is that what happened here you think . That is what happened. Theres one particular aspect of this story that disturbs me and prompted by essay. It was the suggestion that these two agents which were named, had been drunk. That they left a party and had somehow gone over to the white house and crashed a barrier and were under the influence. What that triggered to me was this sense of heartbreaking, this sense that the secret service is in some ways victimizing itself from within. I reacted emotionally to it. I wrote that there were a bunch of highfunctioning alcoholics surrounding the president , all of which was based on the details that other news organizations, a number of them have reported. We should say, mark not just Washington Post but cnn and other outlets repeated this stuff and it led abc world news tonight on the day it came out. I agree. I think thats what happens. Thats the way our modern age we should not accept that. It happens. Weve got to find a better way. We have to find a way, particularly when individuals are maligned unfairly to redress that. Thats to me the biggest issue. The secret service can really speak for itself. I think in general we want aggressive reporting, including reporting that makes mistakes rather than having a timid press corps and timid reporters but there has to be some middle ground. There has to be make way for us to be able to not just apologize but somehow change change the record of history. I had in my head this fanciful idea of teams sitting down at certainly engines of bing and yahoo and google going back and reconfiguring algorithmses so corrections in media age are somehow contextualized and placed onto the sort of global historical record they are writing even better the corrects policies that many newspapers and news organizations have are for a news cycle that doesnt exist anymore. We really have to figure out a better way. Part of it is on the odd llenas well. We all know sometimes were reading our first drafts, theres going to be changes, more information later. Some of it on the news media for sure. Sometimes its about how we phrase the headlines, how we phrase the banners and things like that. This feels like an opportunity for Lessons Learned even though as carol was saying there are systemic problems at the secret service. I think everybody agrees on that. Absolutely. I have written, based on the post reporting and my own reporting at years theres an alcohol problem at secret service. I dont certainly retract that. I think the headline i wrote was provocative. What i feel really really bad about is maligning these two individuals and really having no way to go back and do anything about it. Marc ive only got a few seconds left. Im curious, you apologized but politico who published your column said it didnt feel the need to. What do you make of that . I will leave politico and Washington Post and other news organizations to speak for themselves. I think my essay speaks for themselves speaks for itself. I think their decision speaks to i think their decision speaks generally to their own impression of the matter. It just wouldnt be fair for me to talk to that. Marc ill speak to that. I think apologies make us stronger. Thanks for being here this morning. Thank you. Were going to take a quick break but a lot of news ahead including this. Why does popular blogger say everyone on the right is scared of fox news everyone other than himself, i suppose, because hell join me to explain why he quit his job over a no trashing fox rule. Later in the hour all sorts of ethical questions about the jinx, astonishing documentary about robert durst, did they collude with police did the interview hold up in court. Well be right back. Its more than a network and the cloud. Its reliable uptime. And multilayered security. Its how you stay connected to each other and to your customers. 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My next guest says any criticism of the news channel is in nogo zone how Fox News Channel makes it easy for amnesty. Why . Carlsons other job at fox news as a weekend host of fox and friends. To carlsons credit he was up front why the article came down. Carlson told them we cant trash fox on the site i work there. So he quit. Fox cant be off limits. Its too big a part of gop politics. He also says something else. He says everyone is scared of fox what exactly does he mean . Well hes joining me now from los angeles with his First Television interview about this. Mickey thanks for being here. Thanks, brian. Must have been strange for you. You wake up see your column taken off line after pretty happy fouryear time with the daily caller. Thats right. I had no problems with them before. I posted this piece on the web early in the morning monday morning, very early. I stayed up all night doing it. I went to sleep and got up and it disappeared. Theres a note from tucker saying cant trash fox on the site. Sorry, i work there. I wrote back saying is that really the rule . If it is i have to quit. Has he a right to have a rule like that but i dont have to be nice to the people he has to be nice to. So he said, well, im sorry but its a hard and fast rule. So think about it for a day. I thought about it for a day and then i quit. There we are. Now you republished your column over on your own website. Ive asked carlson for comment, he hasnt gotten back to me. He told politico he was sorry to see you guy. Youre one of the few independent thinkers out there. Does it mean its not possible for someone like carlson to run a website and work for fox. He can run a website and say roger ails is the most handsome man in the world. At some point it stops being journalism. I think people there do good work. Its not a nogo zone. They write about fox all the time. They just cant write nasty things about fox. Its a little deceptive for their readers. Ondo readers know theres this hard and fast rule they cant say anything nasty about fox . I dont think so. I dont think reporters know it. Theres been pushback against you and this idea. They say theres no media outlet that can talk about itself. I disagree with that i was talking about cnn covering secret service in the last block. How do you respond to that pushback . Its not that he cant say anything nasty about its owners he owns the site. Its independent conflict of interest he has because he happens to work at fox. Fox doesnt own the site. So hes imposing his conflict on the rest of his staff. That happens all the time. But in this case fox is a big part of the story i was trying to cover, which was immigration. Theres a big issue, which is will fox betray the right because Rupert Murdoch believes in Immigration Reform tamp down controversy. Thats exactly what i thought they were doing. This is the bigger issue. Its not about tucker. It about will the entire righthand side of the political spectrum not have a voice in the immigration debate. Will there be opposition . If fox goes to the left then theres no opposition. Then we have a stifling consensus where half the electorate doesnt have the voice. Thats the issue. Thats what were getting at. Everyone scared of fox, lots of writers, bloggers up and coming stars in conservative media who dont take on fox, critical of fox because then it wont get on the air. Is that right . Thats right. Fox is basically the only means or the main means, the dominant means of upward mobility for a whole bunch of pundits and writers and wannabe pundits. Even if you dont have a show on fox like tucker does you want to have a show on fox. If youre an author and fox promotes your book your book is going to be a success. The roots to success outside of tv being mid list book author without any tv exposure those have dried up. So tv is dominant and fox is dominant on the right. Its an interesting issue because in a capitalistic environment, you want competition. Youd want to have other conservative leaning Television Channels or Media Outlets in order to compete with fox. There really isnt one that strong right now. They essentially have a monopoly on this marketplace. T