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Bad choice, but i actually feel differently. i meet these people, these tea party people, the benghazi family survivors, people who get targeted, this is actually mean. you know, to demean their pain because the people who hold all the information and could end the pain and who brag about transparency are sort of hiding the ball and then come out and assault as if this doesn't matter to them. i think it's beyond bad pr. i think it's mean. >> in my personal experience, it never worked from a pr perspective to try to tell the media what they were covering wasn't a good enough story to cover. for...

Sense, thinking maybe that's a bad choice, but i actually feel differently. i meet these people, these tea party people, the benghazi family survivors, people who get targeted, this is actually mean. you know, to demean their pain because the people who hold all the information and could end the pain and who brag about transparency are sort of hiding the ball and then come out and assault as if this doesn't matter to them. i think it's beyond bad pr. i think it's mean. >> in my personal experience, it never worked from a pr perspective to try to tell the media what they were covering wasn't a ...

Professional athlete, who stepped out on his wife and not such a big deal to be honest, but the way he handled it with the media was textbook bad pr. >> has social media kind of changed the game, howard? >> absolute. >> absolutely. we live in a transparent world, and we have to understand now that a couple things happen. number one, you're going to be caught. if the head of the cia is caught sending e-mails to his girlfriend, you're going to be caught. >> yep. >> number one. number two, everybody has got an opinion. i just read a statistic that is staggering. 20% of all marriages fail because ...

>> reporter: facing a train wreck of bad pr, the marine corps band revised its earlier statement. no one in the marine band is in a position to assess whether beyonce's performance was live or prerecorded. an inauguration is supposed to be history, not showbiz. and history is rarely perfect. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> oh, interesting mystery. we already showed you michael jackson's famous lip-sync. that was from 1983. but how about this one? >> one of the most famous performances, whitney houston's "star-spangled banner" at the super bowl was a lip-sync. she sang into a dead mic. ...

>> i'm ashleigh banfield. good to have ali here all week. in the battle over the bush-era tax cuts, playing politics with your takehome pay and nothing hort of the presidency is on the line here. if the two parties can't agree on extending those tax cuts by the end of the year, a typical american family making $70,000 a year could get hit with a tax increase of $3,000. that is a lot of pain. right now house republicans are busy crafting a plan to extend those tax cuts for everyone across the board -- rich, poor and everything in between. this is a plan that cannot get through the d...