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Clips from The Newsroom - The 112th Congress (S01E01)

"I'm News Night's managing editor"
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"Who are we to make these decisions?"
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"We're the media elite."
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"It would be accurate to say it started"
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"with his on-air apology."
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"Pardon, it would be accurate to say what started?"
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"Was he aware that he went on television"
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"I think he was fully aware of what he said"
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"He also took responsibility for himself"
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"What are we talking about?"
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"Mmm, hey."
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"You're working late."
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"Well, it was either this or go home."
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"- So... - Listen, I was at a bar."
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"I saw the show tonight at a bar."
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"And I may have been overserved."
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"You want to sit down?"
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"Ahem."
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"How much did you have to do with writing that opening tonight?"
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"Uh..."
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"It was something Will wanted to do."
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"- He passed it around. - I'd have loved to have been part of that."
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"I could have done the show you guys want to do."
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"You can. You can."
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"You guys can follow up. You can expand, you can rebut."
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"I've got a mandate."
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"Bring viewers to 10:00."
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"And you guys just set me up to look like an asshole"
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"- That wasn't-- - Oh, no, shut up."
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"That wasn't our intent."
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"You can insist on--"
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"That's what you were reading on your BlackBerry, right?"
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"Yeah."
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"I mean, it said eyes only, baby."
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"I've got eyes."
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"The apology was a Monday. The following Saturday"
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"By Tuesday we had all the facts."
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"This is the kind of story that makes people"
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"want to turn on the news, so you want to take advantage of it."
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"- That's News 101, right? - What is this meeting?"
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"- Is it News 101? - To artificially hype the threat of a bomb?"
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"You're confusing it with Douchebaggery 101."
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"- And the Muslim? - That was a borderline call,"
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"but they're qualified to make borderline calls."
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"- What is this meeting about? - Keep going."
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"By comparison, CBS had Katie open her show from Times Square"
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"Basically said there was nothing to worry about"
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"and, as you said, mentioned that one of the people"
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"That's called squandering an opportunity."
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"These are the important facts. First, it was a lone wolf."
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"Shahzad was trained in Pakistan, but he wasn't connected to a terror network."
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"Second, the situation was handled by first responders"
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"in law enforcement, not an army."
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"10 hours after the feds put him on a no-fly list?"
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"which is why Customs and Border Protection does a second check."
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"- That's the system working. - Three minutes at the top."
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"- Will? - Agree."
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"You understand we're making a conscious choice now to do the boring version of the story?"
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"- Mac, there's one more thing. - Yeah?"
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"named Lance Orton who spotted the smoking car and called 9-1-1."
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"- It was. - I know, but it turns out Lance Orton"
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"was alerted to the smoking car by a photograph vendor named Aliou Niasse,"
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"- an immigrant from Senegal. - Why haven't we heard about this guy?"
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"Two possible reasons. One is that he didn't make the call."
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"He said..."
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"I thought I should call 9-1-1, but my English is not very good"
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"and I had no credit left on my phone."
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"So I walked over to Lance who has a t-shirt stall next to mine and told him."
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"What's the second possible reason we haven't heard about him?"
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"- He's a Muslim. - How'd you get this?"
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"A Pakistani blog."
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"It's not the world's most reliable source."
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"I know, so I confirmed it with the NYPD, and it's true."
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"And the Times of London has it online."
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"And I think if the religion of the bomber is important,"
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"then so's the religion of the guy who saved everyone's life."
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"- So do I. - All right."
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"3:20 at the top."
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"How many viewers did he lose that night?"
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"out of Fox and right-wing radio."
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"- A lot of negative press. - How many viewers did he lose?"
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"- People want the most up-to-date information. - They were getting it."
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"Didn't feel like it when everyone else was saying it's a genuine threat--"
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"It didn't feel like it?"
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"- How many? - 7%."
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"He gave back the gains he made after Northwestern."
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"And that's the kind of thing that would ordinarily scare Will straight."
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"Media Matters think progress."
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"Howard Kurtz and the Columbia Journalism Review"
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"all praised our coverage of the Times Square bomb."
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"Do any of them advertise on our network?"
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"And by any chance was it around this time"
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"that Will had some kind of epiphany about the Tea Party?"
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"The Tea Party isn't what it started out to be."
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"Have you slept?"
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"I got up at 2:00 AM and broke down polling data"
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"from the Republican Senate primary race in Utah."
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"I never heard anyone say that before."
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"Someone faxed me the polling data. I don't even know who."
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"of the Senate, is going to lose his primary race to a guy named Mike Lee"
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"'cause Lee found room to the right of Bennett."
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"You wouldn't think that was possible."
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"organized the SDS, it was specifically to end the Vietnam War."
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"But that movement got eaten by Abbie Hoffman"
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"and Jerry Rubin and the Yippies."
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"Hoffman and Rubin were a lot more charismatic."
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"Yeah, but it was impossible to define what the Yippies were protesting."
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"generically hating the American establishment,"
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"- dropping out, and getting high. - And?"
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"would be painted for the next 40 years."
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"People passing out daisies to soldiers"
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"- I was there. That damn near worked. - No, it didn't."
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"The Pentagon's a really big building. You can't levitate it."
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"How is there room to the right of Bob Bennett?"
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"For starters, a centerpiece of Mike Lee's stump speech"
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"is repealing the 14th Amendment."
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"It's an applause line, and he's going to win his primary by double digits."
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"Charlie, I understood the Tea Party in the beginning,"
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"just like I understood the SDS."
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"The Tea Party was a middle-class movement"
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