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It. >> during that entire week, the dominant news story wasn't about these huge monumental choices we're going to have to make as a nation, it was about my birth certificate. that was true on most of the news outlets that were represented here. >> not exactly. we want to give credit where credit's due. ja jake tapper of abc news was the first one i think to notice that. he was making the case the birther debate overshadowed all of that. the due pew center tracks all of news coverage. the birther story was the biggest story by far in the national media. then the middle east unrest, the japan qu...

Cycle and the cable chatter, always focused on the next election instead of the next generation. as some of you know, i'm not somebody who spends a lot of time surfing the cable channels, but i'm not completely in the bubble. i have a sense of what the coverage has been, and mostly it's an obsession with what will this mean for the democratic party? megyn: so does he have a point? >> yeah, well, look, he's doing what so many other politicians have done when they get in trouble in the polls. it must be the media's fault. i say this to my conservative friends as well. i mean, the idea that harpi...

Dealing with racial issues. they've stumbled here a couple times. we had a teachable moment a year ago. now another teachable moment. at certain points, you sort of say, hey, guys, there's supposed to be a learning process here. and i don't know quite why there's sort of a blind spot for them. there's some obvious factors. but i do think that they need to -- i think they need to be introspective here and figure it out. there is a very strong sense here that the very team -- the president, who's condemned cable as cable chatter, we don't pay attention to it i never watch it, that they got stamp...

It was about transforming a politics that's driven by cynicism and a 24-hour news cycle and the cable chatter. >> that's not to say this is all the administration's fault. hardly. this mess started with a conservative blog posting that took comments by sherrod about race out of context. and the naacp, an organization founded to promote the basic idea that we should treat everyone fairly, joined the white house in the unfair rush to judgment. to judgment. so now what? -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com here with me is california congresswoman barbara lee. she's the chair woman of the congr...

Dominating. very interesting development, wolf. >> ed, stand by. i want to bring in gloria borger our senior political analyst and john king both of whom have been doing some reporting on what is going on as well. first to you, john. a huge embarrassment for the obama administration. >> it certainly is. number one, wolf, you see from secretary vilsack there and we will try to get more details but you call that manning up whether in politics, in life, or anything else. just saying, me, my responsibility, my decision. blame me. but as ed said, there are some questions. remember, this was an admi...