shepard: what s the white house saying about speaker boehner s suggestions with these one-on-one talks with the president. it s interesting. jay carney didn t want to rule that out. he also said there is nothing scheduled in terms of a one-on-one meeting or phone call at this point. but the white house continues to emphasize is those talks led by vice president joe biden with bipartisan lawmakers. we know the next meeting with them is scheduled for one week from today. and both democrats and republicans say significant progress has been made. but late today, one of the key negotiators on the democratic side said they have not yet gotten to the, quote, nuclear issues. shep? shepard: mike emanuel, our white house correspondent live on the north lawn tonight. there is word the hackers accused of breaking into hundreds of g-mail accounts had access to some of those accounts for months. and that they may have been planning a more serious cyber attack. that s according to the internet
you know that nonsense about how the federal government s heavy hand is deciding everything taught in local schools, not in williamsburg, virginia. where a fourth grade class is being taught that thousands of black troops fought for the south in the civil war. the historian and mother of a student who discovered this joins us next. first, the sanity break and the tweet of the day, which is actually an episode in when tweeting goes wrong and contained therein here, let s play oddball. meg whitman, republican candidate in the california gubernatorial race and supposed internet expert recently received the endorsement of the deputy sheriff association of san diego county. extremely excited, spokeswoman sarah pompeii fired off a tweet announcing sd cnty sheriff accoc says @whitman 20104 gov.
you know that nonsense about how the federal government s heavy hand is deciding everything taught in local schools, not in williamsburg, virginia. where a fourth grade class is being taught that thousands of black troops fought for the south in the civil war. the historian and mother of a student who discovered this joins us next. first, the sanity break and the tweet of the day, which is actually an episode in when tweeting goes wrong and contained therein here, let s play oddball. meg whitman, republican candidate in the california gubernatorial race and supposed internet expert recently received the endorsement of the deputy sheriff association of san diego county. extremely excited, spokeswoman sarah pompeii fired off a tweet announcing sd cnty sheriff
john boehner and some lobbyists and other groups talking about job creation. the problem was that the minority leader himself was controlling the cameras and it was put out on the internet streaming live. there were no reporters allowed in the room. it was a roundtable discussion, there are no actual rules on how these should be covered or not covered. it was streamed on the internet, but no eyewitness coverage by reporters who know the capitol hill beat and know what kinds of things to look for. there is also another issue and here is how one internet expert put it. sometimes i refer to this as a paradox of transparency. once the cameras are turned on the conversation obviously changes, they know that what they will say will potentially be on the record and broadcast around the world. usually some of the most interesting news is when things are recorded and people don t know that it s being recorded. reporter: a new bigger role for the internet and one that is raising questions am
talking face to face. it s a little weird. yeah. and there s not a lot of human connection there. obviously, i think kids that are too young find themselves in situations they re not ready for or that they don t understand because of texting. i did a nightly news piece on this. no one knows how to write anymore. and they re sloppy. i m actually having an internet expert come to my house and set the ground rules in my house like supernanny. you are the worst mother ever. all those shorthand things, lol, laughing out loud, wtf, why the face? i mean, you know? i m hip with the kids, though. why the face? it s not why the face. oh, really, mika. the abbreviation takes more effort than actually writing out the word. that s what i don t understand. but i m just an old-fashioned guy. happy face willie. let s go over to you. let s go over to me. i ve got some sports. ben roethlisberger, been ben, the big goon i don t know.