the politicians who change the world are those who believe in something and are willing to fight for it. our condolences to the kennedy family. that's it for us. thanks to my panel and all of you for watching. i'm appalled should go and we hope to see you right here next week. someone on "fox news watch", a top secret spy agency forced to kabosh some of its secrets and the press pounces. what did we do to get the terror suspects to talk bush marked the administration wants another investigation. is it good policy or politics and are the media paying attention to mac badness on the budget deficit. it is far bigger than anyone predicted. did the white house try to sidestep that news with this news question mark sometime reappointing into another term as chairman of the federal reserve. >> plus is that family and a nation mourn a clinical legend, how did the press and of the passing of ted kennedy. smack the president tries to vacation. did late-night comics let them get any rest? on a panel this weekend haul of the american university, andrea antero's conservative columnist and foxnews.com contributor, jim pinkerton, fellow new american foundation and judy miller, writer and "fox news" contributor. i'm jon scott. "fox news watch" is on right now. see mcnamara how you look at it this is a rough time for the cia and we never needed a more than we need them now. >> peter king they're reacting to the news this week that the justice department is planning to look into possible abuses -- abuse of prisoners by cia interrogators. that news came on monday when longtime secret cia documents released. this is how the new york times played the news. investigation is ordered into cia. on friday the paper led with the story. these issue puts the justice department and cia at odds. jim, you saw the headlines, ec have it's been covered all week. the press pounced on the story. whose side are they on question mark sematic eric holder is on his way to a profile and encourage treatment here. >> he said he won the argument within the administration thank you and the argument in administration and the money new york times struggle which said we are for him. but there three stories here. there's a story that has washington fixated, which is eric holder versus leon panetta and the cia and investigations, then there's the larger story are doing across the country which is the fate of these cia agents, these contractors and grunts in the war on terror who are about to get in the neck. the other story is what al qaeda is doing. they're sitting in a cave laughing somewhere saying america is about to destroy itself and we're going to sit and watch. >> judy, you are to the times and you cover national security. is the press coverage focusing on the national security applications of the cia think it's all about politics was to mark. >> i think it's about both in its legitimately about both because the director of the cia is a very important factor should be in washington. the dissing of him says a great deal about this administration and the president's attitude towards that institution which on one hand he says he needs and respects, and gives a guarantee that no one will follow the law will be prosecuted, and the next day does something like this, which is used especially by the republicans as undercutting the agency and leon panetta. so it is a fascinating story politically and substantively. >> have reporters made it a point that this is been done before by the inspector general of the cia which mark. >> i think so. the new york times story on friday pointed out they were investigated before another node charges were filed. there's no lack of history and perspective. the la times had a good piece in which they talked about cheney is out there saying this proves he was right, but the report also doesn't really say that. so i think reporters need to give you the perspective. i think unfortunately not a situation where most americans are going to go wait a minute, they are dissing the cia guy, they're undercutting him. eric holder at a flattering piece in newsweek which led his people at the cia read as here, indictments. here comes something against us. that's regrettable, i think selected a presstek favorites, andrea question mark she just mentioned dick cheney. is the fact that -- well is the treatment that he's getting in the press, does it suggest that many in the media are still eager to punch back him after the bush administration? >> absolutely. that's the entire point of this investigation. ultimately they want cheney's head. they would love to have nothing more than cheney and rumsfeld haldane and interrogated. i think this is bad politics and bad policy. you know, going from declaring a war on terror cannot it work on the cia, obama loses one. i think every president deserves a vacation. but they deserve a vacation, but this is not the week to take it. he has lost patrol of the message on the cia. he lost control of the deficit. he has us control the healthcare debate, and the story, right now, is there going to lose this one. >> you think the president wants responsibility for this? every time he is asked about it he says he know this is eric holder's decision. >> we noted at the people who wrote the memos that said this is okay. this'll be like private and england. we're going to get the people at the bottom who thought they were doing the right thing to mac jane is exactly right. as a great president who is man enough to take response but for things, eric truman said the book starts he -- buck stops here. >> the national security applications. the media is ignoring what this means from a national security perspective to mecca have been ignoring it but they don't point out often enough that a special prosecutor is in charge of this, which means that really neither the president nor even eric holder are going to be really responsible for the outcome because it is the special prosecutor's decision on whether or not these grunts are going to be prosecuted. it's really kind of a denial of a pushing away of responsibility to placate the left wing of the party, and i don't think we've seen a point made quite well enough. selleca does seem the president could've set to air colder, i don't want this investigation to go forward, and that would've ended it, right? >> i don't know. to be fair to eric holder, he has said the facts, which is red, and these facts have led to think that we need to have an investigation. we shouldn't be as reporters into the society of amish ever should. >> the media has not covered what eric holder has said previously in april, that he does not believe you were doing their job trying to protect americans should be prosecuted. they also haven't really covered what the administration has said in the past, but this is a total about-face or it smacked the president said that and i think the media have pointed that out, andrea. they really have. what we don't know, we really need more facts about this. we need facts about cheney's claim, for example. did this work, didn't this work. i think we need a 9/11 commission. >> speaking of facts, dick cheney will not for us, too (and full disclosure has demanded that every piece of data, miss. i agree with andrea, the republicans will win the site. >> time for break. we have lots of extras for you on our website including some of the spirited discussions erupting in hear during our breaks, and you know what is about to happen. some of the things you don't see on tv, catch them on our website after the show boxes.com/fox "news watch" will be back in two minutes to talk about the economy, and this. to make a deficit of nine turnovers. how did the liberal media tried to spin the bad news? 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i think they did this to try to change the narrative that day. i think it was very unsuccessful. the media really extensively covered this news. obama thinks ought to change the story, hit or nike as the headline and i don't think it worked. i think you even sought from all spectrums of the media, then covering that this is really bad for the president. >> it may have blunted some of the globe. >> it might have. yankees reappointment, nine turnovers, i mean it is going to be three quarters of the death? most of us -- i took economics and i was trying to remember about the old that have up until now. he has a huge number of problems. a lot of people i read said the state must package could probably help us avert a possible depression, but nowhere in that situation where the debt is so mind-boggling that to argue for healthcare is a case that's her hard for the president to make. >> a picture is worth 1000 words a month in a moving graphic like abc had a vague mecca drowning in an ocean of red ink, is worth 1 million words. i think a lot of people have got a serious problem on their hands. i wrote for u.s. news in june that they shot their wad on spending and bailouts and that's why they'll never get health care through stack is the president good job, do you think, and making this -- charlie gibson you just rinse it in principle the nine turnovers of debt. is the media doing a good job. >> i think they are. every indication we have, every poll we have seen shows that this deficit is really registering with the american people. it is making it very hard for the president to get his health care package, whatever it is. but in addition to that, people like floyd norris at the new york times, has done an excellent job of pointing out the tax consequences which is unless congress is -- not intervened to this deficit, and we're going to have a situation in which obama will not be able to make good on his promise not to raise taxes, because were going back to an old tax system which will enhance the deficit, and we need middle-class people will wind up paying more money. so i think there's a lot of good economic reporting being done. >> kane county teach journalism. the fact that mr. obama t-rex out mr. cranky that day is that trying to manage the message? >> absolutely. andrew is right. it is an attempt at distraction. i think to be fair the media should be putting out would have been on this debt tender for quite some time. but it is not going to work, i don't think, for the obama people to say we didn't start this. he has this huge plate of problems and i think we could have better reporting about the tax cuts and the spending cuts and what we do and what can we do. there's harm either way. it's kind of frightening when you know enough about the frightened symmetrically speaking if you triple the deficit as the obama people did relative to bush, that would indicate the obama is more obama's fault of bush's. >> what about that? are the media with the deficit numbers and some of the other things he says hey, we inherit all this. their predictions are that unaccountable but 10%. >> i think the media are pointing out that he inherited a bad situation, which is now getting worse because of the consequences, the applications of some of his spending policies and the stimulus of other things to talk about on the show. but i think that some reporters are pointing out that things like $100 billion a year fighting wars in afghanistan and iraq are also adding to the deficit. you got a lot of good solid reporting on this. i think the message is getting through. i mean why is he having such a tough time with healthcare? >> i agree. independents care seemingly the most about the deficit. that's why they're opposed to this. they really seem to respond to the economic imperative when obama came out and said that they said no way we don't have the money. i think that's a big part why they're losing. >> i think, is not getting enough credit or perhaps are having averted a financial collapse with some of the 786 bazillion dollars if they put out for that. i don't think he is getting credit because people are scared. they're feeling a pinch. they are scared about jobs. we may have a recovery that is in some way not feeling like a recovery. i would not want to be trying to figure this out. tonight it's time for another break, but first if you come across a story that you think shows media bias, e-mail us at "fox news". >> the liberal mind, ted kennedy dies at age 77. how is the senator remembered by the media. that's next on newsnight. ♪ oh announcer: say hello to the can-doers. - the budget masters. - ♪ yeah yeah the knock-out artists who are finding more ways to spread their dollar further. - to bolder color in less time. - ♪ are you feeling it? 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>> i think we have seen an amazing amount of reporting. things i did not know such as one of the things that senator kennedy, this great liberal wanted to do and he was truly this torch bearer for liberalism, was watch every episode of 24. i think we have learned a lot about the man and you know, the first time after we learned about his fatal illness, there was almost no mention of mary joe kopechne. and this time we have had a balanced assessment of senator kennedy and his legacy. the congressional legacy is extraordinary. and now i think of politics daily pointed out that many of the liberal causes such as don't ask don't tell, have a sponsor, and they are stranded issues because no one was to pick them up. >> jim, let me get your reaction to something columnist brigade wrote in newsweek. after the assassination of jfk, virtually launched modern television news. he finally said the death of the fourth brother, meaning teddy kennedy, he said this was almost another day at the office for the tv news. >> that's a little casual, i would say, but certainly teddy kennedy story invariably went back to john f. kennedy and bobby kennedy and that footage is moving. i was actually born in cambridge, massachusetts. i was there on president kennedy was shot in 1963. not in dallas in massachusetts. it was an unbelievable emotional weight -- way that even a five year old could figure out where was going and how powerful it was. our media are legitimately tapping into the opportunity to talk about the history of the last 50 years this country as well as teddy kennedy himself. >> we heard a lot about the liberal line this week are good was there enough work done to go beyond the clichés to make them more and communal, a paper figure i guess question mark stack i think so. i think a lot of stories point out that was really only after he was unable to explain to roger mudd why he wanted to be president in an infamous interview and after the joke of acne that's what happened there. it was only after that they had no presidential -- he concentrated on the senate. we talk a lot about the narrative -- narrative. this is an enormous political story. rose kennedy herself is an extraordinary is the word. they are starcrossed. terrible tragedy. i think people have also pointed out that he was able to reach across -- orrin hatch was a very close friend of his. i think there is a marvelous about why can't we do that more today. >> speak to that. yet a lot of republican friends. a lot of people expressed hear that. >> yes, that absolutely came out, but there's another story being told if you look in the media. just right after he -- his passing, the left cannot, nancy pelosi and kristof, and they started to tie this in with healthcare push. we need to do this for him. and i really think that is using the death card was very disingenuous ab rocker mama knows it himself. >> you're getting a finger way from judy. whenever i see that -- >> is not smart. think about it. if they do put his name on this bill, kennedy care, and it doesn't pass, what does that say? >> oh come on. >> beyond that the president himself, president obama said he did not want to do that without. that is not what he wants to do humanity knows it is not a good strategy. make it a liberal bill. that's why it is not getting any support. smack or whenever the american people. but the liberal lion face on it is a good help. >> they've been saying they tried a similar approach in 2002 at paul wellstone where he died tragically just before the election and that became a media circus, the funeral is televised, while they did this match -- >> that's a myth for the ride. one speech to make a republican won election to be slater spec because people picked out one of about eight eulogies and repaid. the right is running with this as likely as you are saying the left is. >> that's a function of media coverage and i got a set if the media had been more alert to kennedy after chappaquiddick he would've ended up like gary condit and i have to say we have to take one more break. when we come back the resident was on vacation and the late-night comics get to work. >> president obama to buy books with him on vacation. of course was a bushel is to buy books on his vacation but four of them were backup copies of goodnight moon. inner beauty is important, but not nearly as important as outer beauty. ♪ that's why i use covergirl's simply ageless makeup with olay regenerist serum. a department store brand can glob up in lines and wrinkles and actually make you look older. simply ageless stays suspended over lines and makes you look amazing. simply ageless from olay and easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. ♪ and try new simply ageless sculpting blush to bring out your cheekbones. when morning comes in the middle of the night... rooster crow. ...it affects your entire day. to get a good night's sleep, try 2-layer ambien cr. the first layer dissolves quickly to help you fall asleep. and unlike other sleep aids, a second dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep. when taking ambien cr, don't drive or operate machinery. sleepwalking, and eating or driving while not fully awake with memory loss for the event as well as abnormal behaviors such as being more outgoing or aggressive than normal, confusion, agitation and halluciations may occur. don't take it with alcohol as it may increase these behaviors. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath, swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and in rare cases may be fatal. side effects may include next-day drowsiness, dizziness, and headache. in patients with depression, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide may occur. if you experience any of these behaviors or reactions contact your doctor immediately. wake up ready for your day-ask your healthcare provider for 2-layer ambien cr. this for a vacation this week. his job interfered with some of the family plans, but still he is out playing a bit of golf, play some tennis, presumably to a hefty reading list, and otherwise doing what most americans do when they hit the beach for vacation. but that didn't stop the late-night comedians from making a few jokes about the trip. take a look or it. >> president obama, our president is taking his summer vacation on martha's vineyard this week. it was a good time for the president to sneak out of town. the deficit is supposed to be a lot higher than people expected. the swine flu as you know is getting ready to kill us all, and regis is having a birthday party today which means fires and possibly living in new york. >> the white house is denying the race -- denying rumors that president obama has plans to play a round of golf with tiger woods. they're saying it's not what happened. i'll obama is planning to ask tiger woods if the government can borrow $300 trillion. >> they developed a special cocktail to commemorate obama's visit to marcus vineyard. it's the obama reader. it's the truth. the obama reader. they did the same thing bill clinton would vacation affair. it was the screwdriver.