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>> let me go back to steven, let me ask you this. you've been branded a putin apologist. which is a trite way of describing what you've been trying to do. which is trying to nondemonize putin, that isn't that helpful to how you deal with him. what is the smart way for the west, for the americans in particular, for president obama to deal now with vladimir putin, you know him well, what is the smart way to deal with him, in a way that will inflame this? >> i don't know him personally, i'm not a putin apologist, i i thank you for saying that, one of the problems we've had in the country any time...

Title by david corn. here is bill keller, former executive editor of "the new york times" discussing the media's role leading up to the war. >> but there was a kind of, you know, kind of mainstream view that this was real. add to that the kind of -- just the competitive urge that motivates newspaper reporters, the desire to get stories first, to get stories exclusively, to get stories on the front page, you know, all those came into play and in fact the times wrote a number of bad stories, inadequately sourced, unskeptical stories about particularly about saddam's weapons capabilities, and tho...

Court justices, most of them appointed by liberal governors? how should we view these people? >> well, i worked for andrew cuomo and i have a lot of respect for him but i'm very disappointed in this. it's like people -- like the situation with the baby who ended up with cocaine in its system. you have judges backing into a situation. they basically want to make sure that they don't acknowledge this as a human being, but of course, if someone the day that baby was born -- >> bill: why doesn't a judge want to acknowledge a baby that's going to be born in two days as a human being? that's insane....

Court justices, most of them appointed by liberal governors? how should we view these people? >> well, i worked for andrew cuomo and i have a lot of respect for him but i'm very disappointed in this. it's like people -- like the situation with the baby who ended up with cocaine in its system. you have judges backing into a situation. they basically want to make sure that they don't acknowledge this as a human being, but of course, if someone the day that baby was born -- >> bill: why doesn't a judge want to acknowledge a baby that's going to be born in two days as a human being? that's insane....

All anti-abortion. though romney has clarified that he would allow abortions in case of rape and incest. they all stand by it and want to defund planned parenthood. they are all opposed to contraception coverage. >> absolutely. i think todd akin is the republican party. it's a crude or more sloppy way of saying what they stand for. he and paul ryan worked together on that forceable rape bill. the problem right now is not only that that's also the republican platform. the man who wrote all of the platforms is also fundraising for todd akin. this is not out of a mainstream view. these people are...