Seems to me the quality its not just the quality of our politicians, which is declined, the quality of Government Employees and the bureaucracy that its just we have incompetent government. Im sure we have some great federal employees. Thats not the norm. Emmy Award Winning and Investigative Reporter lisa myers is leaving washington d. C. Find out why on cspan q a. One day after his primary loss in virginia, House Majority leader eric cantor officially announced he will be stepped down from his leadership role at the end of july. He was defeated by david brat. Good afternoon. First of all, i just want to talk a little bit about what happened last night and then going forward. You know, growing up in the jewish faith, i grew up, went to hebrew school, read a lot in the Old Testament and you learn a lot about individual setbacks. But you also read and you learned that each setback is an opportunity and that theres always optimism for the future. And while i may have had a suffered a pers
Its best is holding powerful people and institutions ccountable and exposingen justi exposing injustice. Not doing that enough we are too driven by ocial media which is important but it has come to dominate a lot of decisions about coverage spend more time digging and providing new viewers. Ion to the host why did you leave the business . Had been more than 30 years and i think change is a good thing. A matter of i either change now if i were going to make a change or probably through the next election. I decided i wanted to take a spend a little time playing golf, making a few and then decide what i want to do next. Ost have you come to any conclusion of what you might want to do next . Guest no. I was in the process of moving nbc, and 33 years at i want to take time when i under any pressure and particular out what might be out there. Projects willbout e determined by the principles earlier. Ed i care about Holding People and institutions accountable and exposing injustice. But im op
Investigative reporter. Its gotten harder and hard. Not just political reporting, which is really not my favorite kind to do but any kind of reporting that goes after the powers that be. Theres such organized well financed efforts that go after the reporters and reports before going and after theyre being crafted. Its a lot of trouble. Why are they concerned about the powers that be . I think its a complex question. I think that theres an element of its easier just to do to take the path of least resistance. If youre a manager, why do you want the headaches they do and all the tactics they engage in. I think there are Financial Connections between people that we may do stories on and the networks and entities we work for. Theres a complex web of factors that have come together that led to this declining appetite for investigative reporting. All the investigative reporting from cbs are gone. Just for the show, i checked five years ago and the ratings for the week of cbs, everything is i
This may surprise you, this was you five years ago right in that same chair. Rate this job you have. Is this it . This is it. This is the best. Especially you have your ups and downs and everybody the joke is only good as your last story. Over all, this is what i want to do and with katy and the bosses that i named, heavily support this type of reporting which is a dream come true for someone who loves to dig and satisfy the curiosity. This is it. What happened . I think over all, not just at cbs but according to my colleagues and broadcast elsewhere, theres been a decline appetite for investigative reporter. Its gotten harder and hard. Not just political reporting, which is really not my favorite kind to do but any kind of reporting that goes after the powers that be. Theres such organized well financed efforts that go after the reporters and reports before going and after theyre being crafted. Its a lot of trouble. Why are they concerned about the powers that be . I think its a compl
That were underserved and also on topics people dont want to touch because they get push back or blow back. I like covering these kinds of topics. This may surprise you, this was you five years ago right in that same chair. Rate this job you have. Is this it . This is it. This is the best. Especially you have your ups and downs and everybody the joke is only good as your last story. Over all, this is what i want to do and with katy and the bosses that i named, heavily support this type of reporting which is a dream come true for someone who loves to dig and satisfy the curiosity. This is it. What happened . I think over all, not just at cbs but according to my colleagues and broadcast elsewhere, theres been a decline appetite for investigative reporter. Its gotten harder and hard. Not just political reporting, which is really not my favorite kind to do but any kind of reporting that goes after the powers that be. Theres such organized well financed efforts that go after the reporters a