point out understanding a threat is not the same thing as combatting it. we ll speak with senator reed in a moment. but let s sum again. we re under attack. russian intent is under way. and there is no clear strategy. and president isn t asking about one. john mccain has called the meddling an act of war. so can you imagine if say a year after another act of war like 9/11 the president didn t have a strategy to fight back? despite intelligence community warnings him of another attack or an attack that is ongoing, okay now imagine that the president wasn t even asking about a strategy to fight back. joining me now is michael leiter and former director of national counter terrorism center. welcome back. good to be here. you raised i don t you are a your aye broweeyebrows in surpr. a lot let unsaid, but the
character assassination. is the press helping to put sharon bialek on trial? should a rupert murdoch production have outed a second victim against her will? there have been a deluge of women with similar complaints. we ll turn to the sickening child abuse tragedy at penn state that forced out legendary coach joe paterno. i m out of it maybe now. a phone call put me ahead of it. but we ll go from there, okay? good luck, everybody. why did many journalists put this 84-year-old man on a ped school? do the media pedestal? do the media apply different standards to college football? we ll ask our guests, including jack mccollum. he i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. for all the media coverage of the accusations swirling around herman cain, it was not clear just precisely what he was alleged to have done. that is until sharon bialex stepped forward this week. she went before the cameras to accuse the presidential candidate not just of harassment but of p