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For "the new yorker." and newly appointed dean of school of journalism -- a long title for you. you have a piece in "the new yorker" magazine about john kiriakou. why he is in jail? >> he is a former cia officer that retired in 2004 and went into consulting and hollywood script writing and became a source for journalists. in the course of a very complicated investigation that the justice department ran at guantanamo bay looking into how al qaeda prisoners there had gotten pictures of former cia officers, they came across e-mail between kiriakou and several journalists and then indicted him und...

>> go in like hollywood script writing. of course, president obama is going after governor romney and whoever the republican nominee will be on the economy. we are still not where we should be with job growth. clearly 22 months of private sector job growth, two million jobs created in the last few years, some private sector companies but the reality is mitt romney has stepped into it. when me puts out a claim that he created 100,000 jobs, that no fact checking organization can back up and his own campaign can't back up, he should have been honest with voters. you know what, i was in the busine...

nato command center were targeted. you're going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. >> these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what we're told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now details there. suzanne, just begin with, can you confirm what we're being told, that all of the asill ...

>> wait, wait, wait, wait. >> here we go. mrs. huxtable wants to speak. >> who-who. can we just be human. >> teach awes lesson. >> you know, this is what acting does. this is what script-writing is about. this is what direction is about. this is what production is about. what we're doing is presenting the picture of human existence. >> right. >> what we're doing is to quote that line from shakespeare, to hold the mirror up to nature. that's what we're doing. >> but have we failed? you know, pardon my reference to the huxtables, but most -- many americans will say that's when white america was ...