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All right. that was in personal terms, that was the end of a trusted voice of reason and insight perspective dan rather as a regular presence in the family living room. in terms of the news, that was a spike through the heart of the story of george w. bush s national guard service keeping him out of vietnam, which was a true and interesting story and which really might have been a serious ongoing political liability for candidate george w. bush. but nobody was ever willing to touch it again during that campaign because of the way the comets pu documents blew up like a pipe bomb at cbs news. and so head s up, everybody, this is what i mean by an inside-out scoop. somebody for some reason appears to be shopping a fairly convincing fake nsa document that purports to directly implicate somebody from the ....
Foreign correspondent. and forgive me for saying so, but he is better at being a foreign correspondent than anybody else in this business in this country. he is the best of his generation. you can drop richard engel anywhere in the world and he will intrepidly hunt out the most news wore think thing that s happening there. and when the most important nouz news in the world is happening in a place you are not supposed to drop a foreign correspondent, he is the kind of guy who has been known to get himself there any way to get the story. as a young man who did not speak arabic, richard moved to cairo alone, figured he would pick up the language. when the iraq war started, he came to baghdad on his own stream, started covering it alone. when i started at msnbc, he started tutoring me on the subtleties of the middle east, ....
Resigned tonight. the robust way he stood up to the trump administration and to trump himself on ethics issues and the president s unprecedented financial conflicts of interest. his name is walter shoeb. he said he was not forced out of the office of government ethics. he basically says he s leaving because the u.s. governmentestics rules are not strong enough to allow him to stand up to what this president and his family are doing so he is leaving his jb at the office of government ethics in order to try to strengthen the rules from the outside. very interesting resignation today. we ve got more on that story ahead. there s a lot going on. we ve got a big show tonight. i said at the very end of last night s show we ve got a scoop to share with you tonight. this is that scoop. in-house on your staff we ve been talking about this as and inside, kind of an inside-out ....
Story. big deal right. new detail evidence into american intelligence gathering on russian shan attempts to get inside the election system. this was a big story based again on a very classified document. real story for the intercept. now a month later the intercept story is remembered less for the content of the story and more for what happened immediately after they published. because immediately after they published it we learned that there was an arrest. we got our first head s up of the intercept story just before 4 p.m. on june 5th. an hour later at 5 p.m., the justice department announced they had arrested the person who had allegedly leaked that top secret document to the intercept. and this is a pending federal case against that nsa contractor. it s not resolved at all. ....
Story in retrospect did not meet its editorial standards. also last week vice retracted two stories about the trump administration, like cnn. vice also cited problems with the sourcing of those stories. the thing that s knocking around in the back of your mind right now is from 2004, when the legendary dan rather lost his career on the cbs over a story on the evening news that deviled into george w. bush s truncated service in the national guard. the rather team had documents that they got from a source that they checked out but the sources of the documents was later attacked and undermined. cbs was ripped to shreds over the process they went through. still over a decade later the origin of those documents is murky. but undeniably, cbs running that story was a disaster for two things. it with as disaster for everyone involved and it was a disaster for a news story. ....