critics. one is his statement that the u. s. attorneys office could let him walk oren tkors this deal where he would have just a year basically in and out of prison. but ignoring the fact, or not down playing the fact that the federal government could have filed its own charges and kept investigating. many people thought his explanation for why the government didn t do that, why he didn t endorse further investigation and charges wasn t persuasive. and secondly, his decision to basically say if he had to do it all over again, he would have done the same thing. not saying perhaps in retrospect maybe this wasn t the greatest idea. so he had this morning standing next to the president outside the white house it was his decision to step down. as you know, as a white correspondent, things are never that similar. yeah. reporter: so perhaps the next few hours we will find out what led to this. he is still under sort of
yes. . obviously the media have a responsibility to report on what s going wrong, to report on suffering and injustice. but they also have a responsibility to report on what s going right. even if it doesn t result in an event on a thursday. because otherwise people can become cynical and fatalistic. they can think why try to make the world a better place if it just gets worse and worse no matter what we do. oren tkors radical solutions. smash the machine. the society is in such a disaster that anything would be better than what we have now. and people take for granted institutions like democratic governments, the rule of law, science. we re out of town. thank you for joining me. the book is called enlightenment now. i ll be right back.