that and how it connected to the hacking investigation and he has to be getting and who is he going to look at after this is all over and held out into media circles. i don t think that sean hannity would have interviewed julian assange when he was talking about the iraq war. it s upside down. you re right. panel stick around. we have more upside down world to talk about. president obama and vice president elect mike pence heading to capitol hill today as both sides prepare for a major fight on the future of obamacare. this as house republicans reverse course on gutting the congressional office we talked about yesterday. he is live with more on what happened phil. a rather inauspicious start.
i at new york times, us at cnn other outlets kept it a secret because we did not want to put them in further danger. now to look back and think maybe this was not what seemed to be. that s essentially what happened here. to look at the bigger context here is so important because nbc is urpd the microscope because of the brian williams saga. tom brokaw coming out with only his second statement on this on monday at the university of chicago saying this talking about the brian williams issue this is a really really serious case. we owe it to everybody including brian and his family to let the process play out to hear what the financial conclusions are and then deal with it at that point. brian williams in the midst of a six-month sitting out from his show. you said new york times had nine reporters on this story? that shows how big this has gotten. yes, they believe there was something here to investigate because there have been questions for a long time actually in media circle
they are all the questions that s being asked. how is this gentleman we are starting to hear the details. why was he still on the street and how long was this plot in the making for? he s known very well known to australian law enforcement agencies. also well known to media o outlets. he s a 50-year-old self-proclaimed islamic cleric. he was known in media circles as the fake sheik and certainly had quite a long rap sheet with law enforcement officials there in sydney. about seven years ago he penned these poisonous letters to the families of deceased australian soldiers. in the last few years he was charged with accessory to murder over the death of his wife. he was on parole for that crime. beyond that, there was also 50-plus allegations of indecent and sexual assault against him. but wolf, only in the last few weeks or months, he had gone back to court for those
account of what this source says happened to her. a single source which is very vivid and graphic and involves a gang rape that lasted for three hours and multiple parties involved. thrown on a glass table. shattered. this editor wrote a blog post and kicked off in media circles questions about the story where he said he published steven glass and now i bring to you these stories, stories that conform to my prejudices. i bring heightened scrutiny. southern fraternity guys behaving this way saying grab its leg referring to this woman as it. to him it seemed that it was not he didn t know it was fabricated but shedding a harsh light on it and a fair number of people in the profession i know who read that account and said, boy, this might be true. anything could be true.
investigative journalist, the men and women who were true investigative journalist back in the 90s, i wish we had them back today to invest in the investigations. they stood tall and won awards for their investigative journalism. your point part of the vast right wing conspiracy, the sexual acquisitions against president clinton made by flowers and sure. that wasn t all made up. l.d. brown and other arkansas state troopers, they have a problem because it s always with reliable sources. it was the police officers, the men and women of the secret service. and whenever you run for president, there is a bunch of people that want to tear you down and media circles, that circle around you or against you. listen, were you interested to see how much they disliked don