about the propaganda aspect to what the russians are doing. on this election. kimberly: dana perino. dana: i really don t know where to begin. you know when you were a kid, i you had that snack called pinecones? you spread them with peanut butter that was all the arguments of the entire last eight years. i m not exactly sure where to start. he said last week, the president, president obama didn t do anything about it and he knew about it. he agrees that the russians tried to interfere in our election. there s an investigation. mueller is working on it. the integrity of it is set. set that aside. we are really looking at is tomorrow. the first face-to-face meeting between president trump and vladimir putin. it looks like it will be a very small meeting with only rex tillerson and interpreters.
victor you re right, being here in an organization they can hit a home field advantage with a propaganda boost with the ability to do that. but remember from the military side you know two months ago, just a little over two months ago a raised alert level went from alpha to bravo. all u.s. military bases are at a higher level of security right now to include the fourth of july celebration. but from the to propaganda aspect if somebody got here to form an attack against a key critical infrastructure like a military base or government building on this holiday, the propaganda would be big for them and that organization. jonathan actually i want you both to weigh in on this but it s a difficult question to ask from this seat. it is important. we have been talking about this on this network for about a week now. and i wonder how much of the
but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to the new york times and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama look good. david sanger, the author of one of those stories, will be here. plus walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. and that s the way it is, friday, march 6th, 1981. but sometimes he did things that were rather untrustworthy. would that have gotten him fired today? we ll ask his biographer, doug brinkley. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. remember when the republican primaries were going strong and we all bounced from bachmann to trump to perry to cain an
there in los angeles. i know that, yes, the american people and, you are right, should know the horror of what s going on in afghanistan. you can say that in a narrative way. when you put that picture on their web site, it s right away in the muslim world and it s being mischaracterized and used against our troops to whip up even more hatred toward them. so, therefore, i don t do it, am i wrong? yeah. i think you are. i think it s a visual world. i think can you describe. i understand the journalistic distinction you are making. i think that the picture needs to be shown, again, because i think. bill: you don t care about the propaganda aspect of it coming back on our guys over there. i think it s more important for the propaganda in this country to understand we have 100,000 guys in afghanistan and we seem to have forgotten about them. and, again, the l.a. times asked. the l.a. times asked permission. bill: 99,000 of the guys are good people and 1,000 are psychopaths that
he is hiding under his desk there in los angeles. i know that, yes, the american people and, you are right, should know the horror of what s going on in afghanistan. you can say that in a narrative way. when you put that picture on their web site, it s right away in the muslim world and it s being mischaracterized and used against our troops to whip up even more hatred toward them. so, therefore, i don t do it, am i wrong? yeah. i think you are. i think it s a visual world. i think can you describe. i understand the journalistic distinction you are making. i think that the picture needs to be shown, again, because i think. bill: you don t care about the propaganda aspect of it coming back on our guys over there. i think it s more important for the propaganda in this country to understand we have 100,000 guys in afghanistan and we seem to have forgotten about them. and, again, the l.a. times asked. the l.a. times asked permission. bill: 99,000 of the guys are good people and