jon: well, president obama is reportedly growing tired of sorries about in sa spying. it has been more than six months news of the agency s sweeping surveillance practices broke. in an interview hitting newsstands today the president told people magazine he is quote, frustrated generally about the snowden disclosures and about some reporting around it. have the media also grown tired of the story? is that journal listic malpractice? let s bring in our panel. judith miller a pulitzer prize-winning reporter and fox news contributor and. laura is a analyst for media buzz and fox news contributor as well. you saw the piece in your former employer the new york times which the author says mr. obama was surprised at the uproar that ensued over the snowden
white house east room. jenna: mike, thank you. jon: well some of the mainstream media doing their best to condemn this week s blockbuster congressional hearing on the benghazi consulate attacks, describing the investigation as nothing more than a witch hunt. so what about it? is this story finally turning? let s talk about it with our news watch panel, judith miller a pulitzer prize prize winning investigative reporter and author. kristen powers is a columnist for the bailey beast and both are fox news contributors. take a look, judy, we assembled an examination of how much time was devoted to coverage of the hearings on the various cable channels. i think we have that graphic to put up. perhaps no surprise, msnbc didn t give it any coverage. cnn tkpwaeufp it 17 minutes of live coverage. fox didn t cover every single minute of it but we had 108 minutes of the hearings on the day that they transpired.
taking them to task saying quote reporter john carl parroted administration talking points. the president portrayed his gun plan as a moral imperfect a tiff. the abc reporter then played two clips of the president, including one where he lectured this is not about me, this is not about politics. how can journalists allow a politician promoting legislation to get away with saying something isn t about politics. let s bring in judith miller a pulitzer prize investigator and author. kristen powers is a daily beast columnist. both are fox news contributors. i want to ask you about the newtown families and the role they have played. it seems, kristen like there s been like a coordinated media effort on the part of these families to sit down, they did 60 minutes on sunday, they talked to people magazine. the president then flew to connecticut and flew the family members back to washington so they could lob me lawmakers ahead of the important vote on the hill yesterday.
the spin cycle in a way that is very damaging you know, it hurts what we re trying to do but is also very damaging to that individual person. jon: once begin our news watch panel is with us, judith miller a pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter and author, kirsten powers a daily beast columnist and both fox news contributors. kirsten in a weird way this relates to the segment we were talking about with jonna winter. this is information that gets out there that embarrasses or otherwise causes problem for powerful people and they don t like it and they crackdown. yeah, i don t i don t think dan pfeiffer is actually still at the white house. he was probably talking about when he was at the white house. look, this white house complains definitely about the media and really not really about the media but about any conservative outlets or outlet has have conservative news, which is what the drudge roeurts. they ar report is. they are saying we don t want
stunt. the wall street journal issued this stinging editorial, quote, if mr. paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts that fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms. he needs to know what he s talking about. let s bring in our news watch panel today, kirsten powers is a daily beast columnist. judith miller a pulitzer prize investigative reporter and both are fox news contributors. political stunt, kristen. it was a bit of a political stunt in the way that everything in washington is. he had to do in order to get attention to an issue that was largely ignored. if the media did their job, asking more questions, demanding more answers then he wouldn t have been forced to do this. it s no surprise the establishment is circling the wagons, all the people in the establishment press on other seed getting together and you have them coming out and telling him to calm down as if he was somehow out of control. he was very calm, and v