here to discuss, frank rich, wire at large for new york magazine and executive producer of veep on hbo. so good to have you. great to see you. we re going to talk more about your column that you wrote about this probe and the credibility of it but you also wrote something about doing news by whether people care about it or not. we re here to get the truth. we should be getting the truth and whether one group cares about what s important about the news, i mean, does that matter? no. because the whole point of journalism is find out what isn t known. and sometimes it s important stuff that s buried under official laws or bureaucracy or business secrets or whatever. whether it be the enron corporation or what s gone on in terms of collusion between russia and the trump administration, you have to keep going. you think sally was right, what she said about watergate? and people not caring? at the very beginning, she s absolutely right and she was there.
journalism is find out what isn t known and something it s important stuff that s buried under official laws or bureaucracy or business secrets or whatever. whether it be the enron corporation or what s gone on in terms of collusion between russia and the trump administration, you have to keep going. you think sally was right, what she said about watergate? at the very beginning, she s absolutely right and she was there. carl bernstein, also your guest tonight and bob woodward, were regarded as lowly police reporters pursing a third-rate robbery and they were demeaned by the president of the united states and all his men and then they stuck with it. other journalistic organizations, including the new york times were asleep on it and look what happened. you say people will start to care more about this depending so far there s no evidence. there could be nothing there. there could be nothing there
and i m still amazed that nobody has come forward. but social media will help solve this. in that image, her race may be completely accurate. you can t tell. in many, many times, chiern are of mixed races. but that kind of thing, generally, is accurate. oh, without a doubt. and the technology is incredible at the national center. they re pros. the massachusetts state police and the massachusetts cops know they re pros. and that picture is going to be shown and i may show it on sunday night if her identity isn t known. we really need to find out who she is. and, again, just to reit rate this a lot of people think somebody else will know and somebody else will do it even though i might have information you ve got to pick up that phone. if you they will you know no matter how inconsequential it is or how far off you think you are, it never ceased to amaze me as i caught almost 1400 guys.
her race may not be completely accurate. you can t tell. many many times children are of mixed races. it is very difficult. the overall shape of the face. that kind of thing generally is accurate. what a doubt. i am amazed. i mean the technology is incredible at the national center. they re pros. the massachusetts state police and the massachusetts cops know they are pro. that picture is going to keep being shown. i may even show it on sunday night if if her identity isn t known. we really need to find out who she is. again just to reiterate this. a lot of people think somebody else will know somebody else will do it if i have the information. you got to peckick up the phone. itch you think you know no matter how inconsequential it is or how far off you think you are it never ceased to amaze me as i caught almost 1,400 guys and recovered 61 missing children alive, people picked up the phone. incredible. people want to do the right thing. they re good. and they ll peck itick i
purported addresses. at least some of that information was already public we understand reportedly taken from facebook and the white pages. dod and fbi have asked troops to scrub their social media pages of any personal information for months now because of intelligence suggesting isis was using the internet to target victims, particularly the military. here s what former house intelligence chairman mike rogers had to say this morning on new day. this is the new cultural age of everything goes up on social media and you have access to everything about everyone. that makes it a little more dangerous. even though the group isn t known, the fact that they can go out on what is public information and pull it together to try to inspire some danger is dangerous for hundred people on the list but dangerous for those people who are vocal and open about trying to make sure that their opinions are heard on isis and other challenges around the