henican. best selling author. let s start with the fine reporting on tom price. the nominee to be for the health and human services. he bought a stock. made proposals in congress to help the company of the stock. then got a donation from the company s political action committee. that is a brilliant broker to know to buy the stock before representative price is getting ready to introduce legislation in congress. i want that broker. is it career ending in terms of running hhs? if that is the only case, maybe he can hold on to the idea, i didn t do it. let s figure out the details. for most of my career, there were no rules against doing this thing. there are now. for a long time, there is a lot of double dealing. you are not in congress. with the power to introduce legislation to affect a particular company. it is something we should be against.
holding it in would be criminal because buzzfeed are such hard-hitting journalists. yeah right, go to buzzfeed homepage. you ll find some examples of fine reporting like these selena gomez posed kind of and it s pretty hot. 12 amazingly delicious ways to eat more mango. 19 practically impossible questions for every kardashians fan. you must admire the bravery in their pursuit of truth about mango. in a tribute to buzzfeed s brilliant method of framing garbage in its stories here are seven reasons why buzzfeed should not have run the dossier. number one, none of that was verified because that checking is hard and buzzfeed is too busy finding pictures of melons that look like kim kardashians asked. to it was opposition research not intel meaning it was meant to be like a buzzfeed article featuring melons that look like
in this election in ways we have not seen in a long time. the stunning absence of any policy discussions, maybe on immigration and trade a little, the trivialization, the obliteration of the line between news and entertainment, the abetting of donald trump. now there has been fine reporting, but until we have a media which illuminates and it s not left/right. it s about public interest and what is in people s communities, what s on people s minds. we re destined to have a kind of demagogry which afflicts our political system. j.d., i m going to give you the last word because it does seem to me this cultural issue, we don t know how to talk about it. every solution we come up with tends to be, let s do a credit for this, rework our retraining. maybe these trade deals need to be renegotiated. it s harder to deal with these cultural issues. it diefinitely is harder to deal with these cultural issues. you look at these issues from the opioid epidemic to family breakdown.
it s the opposite. the fact that america is a magnet and remains a magnet to people all over the world is a great sign of continuing american greatness. imagine if we were exporting human capital instead of importing. that requires people in positions of intellectual and political leadership in the party to say to their base, immigrants ought to be on our side, and by the way, that s how you win the voters four or eight years down the road. it also requires a media. there has been media malpractice in this election in ways we have not seen in a long time. the stunning absence of any policy discussions, maybe on immigration and trade a little, the trivialization, the obliteration of the line between news and entertainment, the abetting of donald trump. now there has been fine reporting, but until we have a media which illuminates and it s not left/right. it s about public interest and what is in people s communities, what s on people s minds. we re destined to have a kind of demagogry
right-hand man. he was very feared. as he was leading this group, it was never quite clear what his role was. he was more of a spiritual leader rather than operationally on the ground all the time. so it s not clear what will happen next if there is somebody who could replace him in the baathist circles. it s also not clear who he was allied with at this point. once upon a time it may have been isis but as recently as last week there were reports of an audio message from him calling for strikes against isis. so again, shifting world of allegiances across syria and iraq. isis is trying to reestablish reestablish. thank you for your fine reporting on this. still to come new allegations that iran is ramping up cyberattacks on the west even during those u.s. led nuclear talks. we re going to speak with one of the authors of that report.