howie: it took kamala harris two

days to essentially clinch the democratic nomination after joe biden bowed out, and the media have been cheering her on ever since. the mainstream press fueled by democratic leaks have been pushing the president to step aside, which he did, for the record, one hour and 45 minutes after our program ended last sunday, and many journalists and commentators instant lay embraced the vice president as their new champion, who of course would break several barriers. now, this is as donald trump is just starting to pound away painting harris as a looney left winger and naturally tieing her to the biden record. look at the coverage. >> the excitement of a woman is very clear. the excitement of black woman through the roof and excitement among the black community is huge. >> the fantasy will be the media narrative machine and that narrative will tell you kamala is absolutely amazing historic and showing tram top be old and racist. as time goes by, you'll see the flaws, the weirdness, until you

realize holy hell, she's a base ketanji case. >> they're just so excited and they're so -- basket case. >> they're so excited and energized and it's historic and it's also many people believe all that's standing between the united states and the very, very dark place for this country. >> lack of likeability and likeability issue in authenticity issue we saw with hillary clinton as well and disconnects from working voters and this is a san francisco liberal. there's a strategy behind all this, which is not just about protecting kamala harris but going on the offense in terms of what donald trump and his allies may try to do to her in the coming months. >> accusations that if you don't like kamala, we've heard t you're a sexist and you're a racist. howie: it's a short campaign, 100 days to go and putting more pressure on the press to cut through the charges and the counter charges on both sides in fairness to the vice president and the former president, who's doing so much negative coverage

over the last decade. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: you don't need to be a media analyst to see the 59-year-old vice president is bringing more energy to the trail than the former president. harris got a campaign staff in wilmington and stuck to the script in a milwaukee rally the same day. >> predators that because women, fraudsters that ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain and hear me when i say i know donald trump's type. predators, who abuse women, fraudsters who ripped off

consumers. cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. so hear me when i say, i know donald trump's type. howie: donald trump would long plan to run against biden is now taking aim at his new opponent and what she knew about biden's decline. >> if kamala will lie to you so brazenly about joe biden's mental capacity and then she'll lie to you about anything she can never ever be trusted. howie: joining us to analyze the coverage is ben domenech. in san diego, laura fink, founder of rebel communications. ben, any question in your mind the media and most of the media are gushing over kamala harris? the new york times has a piece defending her laugh. >> look, i don't think this is something that should come as a

surprise to anybody that's paid attention to the way that the media has depicted kamala harris over the past several years. the simple fact is that she has a very weak record, she is not someone who is qualified really when it was coming to the decision to choose her as vice president. she was ripped out of a situation where she had achieved 0% of the vote in order to be joe biden's vice president and now she occupies this wonderful position of essentially having the path paved for her by the democrat elite in order to take over not just the presidential nomination, but i believe the effectively the active president of the united states. i believe joe biden is the president in name only and nothing will happen between now and november that goes against anything that kamala harris really wants to happen. but, but i will just say this, she is a talented politician.

she had perhaps the greatest launch of any of the 2020 candidates. she is not somebody who the republicans should underestimate because she has the ability, i believe, to communicate and to do so very well in terms of hitting her marks and saying her lines, and doing what shah gilani needed in order to achieve the kind of response that she wants. howie: well, let's put up the new york post cover where she's being crowned. for those that think it's a coronation. laura, i get she's the news story and raised $200 million and inherently more interesting, but i don't think i've seen such favorable coverage since 2008 when barack obama was running. >> yeah, well you also haven't seen the olympic michael phelpss-like dominance of the things ben was talking about. 100,000 volunteers in the span of a week, more than 30,000 voter registrations breaking records, a quarter of a billion raised to her campaign and to allied groups, clearing the field and then of course there's

those poll numbers. she's caught up within the margin of error in that time with donald trump who was dominating the polls prior so i really don't think you can overestimate the dominance of her campaign, the skill with which she's execute it had, and the way she's harnessed that media attention. i think we need to give credit where credit is due, she's earned it. howie: okay, let me play some sound on this whole question and going to read some headlines about kamala harris and whether she was the border czar, which obviously is an important issue in the campaign. roll it. >> do you have any plans to villanueva the border? >>-- visit the border? >> at some point. we are going to the border, we've been to the border. jaire you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe i don't understand the point that you're making. >> it's not my first trip. [inaudible] >> but an important aspect of

this visit is leading this visit after the work that kemp did in guatemala and mexico. howie: listen to the headlines, ben by the times, kamala harris was never biden's border czar. why republicans keep calling kamala harris the border czar and misleading phrase. axios and trump campaign and republicans tagged her with the border czar title which she never had. axios three years ago, harris appointed by biden as border czar, what does all this tell you? >> howie, barack obama had 29 czars who were assigned to various projects. none of them had the official title czar in their title. czar is not a word that we use as a title within the united states of america. howie: did with the soviets. >> but we're not that. it's journalistic shorthand for special assistant to the blah blah blah. and look, van jones, you know, someone who obviously occupied

the green job czar position was fired from that position. he was never a czar. okay, so easily go back and say that. she was assigned this as under her prerogative, a prior that she was going to address. both the base sort of root causes of this problem, and in addition to that all the relationships that we have when it comes to the northern triangle and et cetera. that's a fairly described border czar. and as it was under barack obama by the way, there were two different border czars under him. this is a situation where she's essentially trying to distance herself from this, and it's very amusing to me because until about four weeks ago, it was very convenient to assign the border czar metric to kamala harris because joe biden was the candidate. but now they have to sort of go bag and rework it. it's absurd on its face. everybody understands she actually had this respondent and

she did a terrible job at it, and there's nothing that's goes to turn that around. howie: laura, if she's going to take the hit on the border, which seems fair game, shouldn't the press also give kamala harris some credit for the past legislative successes of the biden harris administration? >> well, absolutely. while we're talking about the border, i didn't see any mainstream media covering that the fact that border crossings are down by 30% this month and that's a three-year low and not talking about the northern triangle down. >> i love the fact you said a three year low because it's a three year low because it was a four year high. the first year of the biden administration is the highest ever with border crossings we ever saw in history. howie: go ahead. >> okay, let me just finish. i would love while we're talking about media for the media to cover immigration and the bill that was killed by presidential candidate donald trump, a bipartisan bill that was just

struck by regulation. >> that bill was garbage. i oppose it had. look, i'm sorry, laura, i don't [ multiple people talk tag ]. >> this is unacceptable and i worked on the immigration issue for ten years in the 2000s and this is the worst bill that was ever proposed. it is not a hard core bill. it is not something that anybody needs to pass -- howie: i need laura to finish. >> this is garbage to suggest it was an enforcement bill and it was terrible and everyone should have oppose it had and they d. howie: but it is also true that the -- it fell apart at the behest of donald trump candidate. >> i think it would have fallen apart without him. when john cornyn is opposed, my old boss -- howie: we have to get equal tile here. laura. >> ben is fired up and i understand why. i wish the media would have cover that had and the drop in border crossings but can't have everything null /?txu wrapped up in a bow. the border czar is a line of

attack and fomented in right wing circles. >> right wing circu circles? >> and they're good at getting their message across and they didn't do it this time. kamala harris has to contend with the border issue and that's okay. >> come on. running in circles. stuart: let me move on because i have a question reserved for you. howie: kamala harris and jd vance that we'll talk about a bit later, both have a long history of controversial comments, but i don't see the press making an issue out of kamala harris having played a role in setting up a bail fund for criminals arrested in the bhm riots after george floyd wae floyd was murdered and said she was against fracking and now she said she's not and going through all of jd's stuff and some of the past liberal things the vice president said. >> the vice president is a progressive, she's far to the left of the country in so many

different respects. including the boarder and that's one of the reasons that frankly a lot of republicans, i believe, were confident that if she was ever going to be the nominee, this is going back months when there was speculation about a change they could confront here and deal with that. what i think they've underestimate second-degree that there is such a investment in advancing her cause from her california backers, from hollywood, from everything that she's done in the past, that they're going to have to really be facing and climbing uphill to try and frame her as being someone who is a progressive, you know, who is a liberal on this and is out of step with the country. in fact, i think they are going to be face ago real challenge with that because as much as she has been defined in the public eye, it's been in kind of a silly way as opposed to something that's actually offensive to the american people. howie: laura, it was a major

criticism of joe biden avoiding press interviews and questions and so far kamala harris hasn't even taken a question from voters. >> we're working on a week ask and she's nailing it on the stump and look forward to that and she'll answer questions and in fact she wants a debate and wants the challenges and you see someone that's hungry and who's batting 1,000 in the first week. so before we criticize her, let merri bowl get out of the -- let her get out of the gate. howie: okay. i want to mention that donald trump has seemingly at least put on hold the idea of debates saying well, the nominee could be somebody else and in fairness to the former president, he negotiated those terms when debating joe biden is now there's a new nominee, he's entitled to renegotiate and see what happens there. when we come back, donald trump unloading on new and much unloading on new and much younger target. ♪ commercial auto quote online.

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howie: donald trump making news two weeks after the assassination attempt and shifts attacks from joe biden to kamala harris. >> they say something happened to me when i got shot, i became nice. if you don't mind, i'm not going to be nice. is that okay? but the fake news is talking about lying kamala as if she's the savior of our country and that she's so brave, i've never seen a turn around like this. three weeks ago, four would he bees ago she was the worst politician in america. now they say isn't it amazing. look at her, she's so beautiful. she's so m magnificent. howie: ben, he called her a bum and said this is a coup.

will the pediahold donald trump to the same standard while he's on the attack with the way kamala harris was treated this past week. >> if you look back at the way she was being written about really just eight months ago in major media it was, you know, can we replace here with someone who would make a more effective running mate for joe biden. it was in the new york times and washington post and both entities ran multiple columns suggesting the idea that joe biden should pick one of the people coming out of the 2022 cycle or others who would be stronger allies to him. now, they are boxed in to basically say she has to be awesome in every respect of the game and that's why we're going to see the most overproduced, scripted campaign we've ever seen in the modern era and going to hit her marks and resite the lines and she's going to -- recite her lines and do everything demanded of her and

they understand she is a politician who simply doesn't have that natural capability that a lot of others do in order to connect with people. howie: fox poll has a tie in the three key states of pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan. laura, what happened to being nice? trump wanted to ease divisions of the country and as they put it in new york, forget about it. >> one of the thins that's been obscured for a long time, especially when president biden's age was being focused on, and that is these are trump's liabilities. he's a fundamentally weak candidate because he's undisciplined. he cannot execute on message. he brambles like an older gentleman for 90 minutes in his speech here and there and talks about whatever throats through the channels of his mind this. is not someone who is going to hit his marks, and i think when you talk about kamala harris and ben's talking about it like it's a liability. it is a gift and a talent that

she is able to be a resident communicator to communicate with fire and passion. it's one of the reasons she also has been a viral success in addition to all of the other things that i was talking about with regard to her launch and it's curious to me that we can't acknowledge those things. >> we can acknowledge those things, laura, but the point is it's like which would you rather have, someone that seems authentic or someone robotic. >> you say she doesn't seem authentic. that authenticity, can't buy that viral support. that awe tinnitusty in her years in office is -- authenticity and years in office is shining through and it is resinating with millions of volters. pushing her to win elections over and over again because she won as da and attorney general and senator and got it on. >> one by one point. >> how do you look at that resume and say it's not experience and success. howie: speaker mike johnson of the republican leaders are

usualing an end to the racial and gender attacks on harris this after republican congressman tim burchett said she was a dei hire and later said he shouldn't have said it but it was true. is it tougher to attack a woman without facing a backlash? >> the dei hire thing i think is a little weird, but i also think that it's something that is indicative of the real story that was going on in the selection of vice president, which is that frankly the biden family, including joe biden, wanted to pick amy klobuchar and they were forced to pick kamala and they wanted someone that would make the ticket more diverse and those are the same people pushing him off the ticket in favor of her. and i think that that's something that, you know, really was trouble some to the biden family at the time and whether you want to -- and i don't think it's a dei hire because i think -- i mean, come on.

she was attorney general and clearly qual qualified and not t picking someone -- howie: we have that on the record and turning to laura and a brief sound byte from donald trump and kamala harris and other deputies did not preside or show up in congress for bb netanyahu's speech and met with him the next day. roll it. >> but she's totally against the jewish people and it amazing me how jewish people will vote for the democrats. howie: laura. >> let me just first jump in on the dei hire issue and you know when speaker mike johnson is telling republicans to tone it down on race and gender talk that it is wild times because those are republican staples but with respect to netanyahu, you know, she chose to miss the speech, she chose to meet with him personally and to lead the messaging from the white house on these issues. it shows she's got an embrace of the facts and taken it by the

lead. >> she's really -- >> i'll finish, ben. just one statement. she has a command of the facts and she's connected with voters on the palestinian issue and working to get humanitarian aid and also not [ multiple people talking ] >> that's ridiculous. god, are you serious? are you serious? she wanted to embrace the people that are burning the american flag? howie: i have to qualify that because she also put out a statement -- >> yeah, a garbage statement. howie: just listen. dangerous hate-fueled rhetoric and unpatriotic protests for those that took spray paint a couple of blocks at union station. i've got to get a break. you guys calm down. jd vance making waves and getting push back from the press. ♪ but home is also your body. i asked myself, why doesn't pilates exist in harlem?

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howie: jd vance is making headlines as donald trump's running mate and sometimes that's spark ago media backlash after the attempted assassination, the senator posted this "the essential purpose of the biden campaign is president donald trump is an authoritarian fascist that must be stopped at all costs". that led to president trump's attempted assassination. >> if joe biden can't run for president and can't serve as president and if they want to take him down because he's mentally incapable of serving, invoke the 25th amendment. howie: ben, the media are trying to pick senator vance as extremist. does he sometimes go too far? >> i don't know jd that well. i've interviewed him a couple of times over the years. i think he's an interesting guy and intellectual and a little bit sort of introverted, nerdy let's say. and he certainly, i mean, nate silver of formally of 538 had a description of him as he was on track to being an interesting

headhetero dock substacker in ts position. he says things that are a bit outside of what you would want a politician to say. let's put it that way. and statement i think that he's someone that actually represent as significant portion of the conservative base on a number of issues. he's a populist, he's a bit more of like matt con national conservative type. that's not outside of the realm of kind of mainstream of the trump republican party. howie: laura, what's really kind of caught fire is the resurfacing of 2021 interview in which vance naming kamala and others, talked about childless cat ladies, who don't really have a direct stake in the country's future and happy in their lives and that includes many media people in that too. what do you think about thanksgiving the controversy there? the controversy there? >> donald trump has two strikes against him going forward in the

campaign that are glaring. one is jd vance's extreme positions thinking there's no respect for the mother in rape and incest and painting women with no biological women as cat ladies and this is part of the problem that jd vance brings is that donald trump doesn't know how to handle powerful women. whether you're talking about nancy pelosi or kamala harris, they get under his skin. kind of like i get under ben's skin so those are the two primary weaknesses and->> laura, i'm married to megan mccain, i think i'm okay with powerful women. >> might be okay with her but those are the two things that we see that are going to be achilles heels for donald trump and one of them he pick #-d himself in jd vance. howie: well, let me throw in he ended up pick ago fight with jennifer aniston, that did not like the childless cat lady remark and he now says -- vance says that was sarcasm and families with children should

pay less in taxes. >> that's actually -- i have to point out, howie, that's a republican position that goes back far before jd vance. i mean, they're in favor of massive child tax credits and in favor of lowering the cost of having kids, having a family. and buying a house. >> voting for children and decreasing the voting rights -- howie: i'm out of time and kamala harris is heavily involved in raising her husband's kids so she's a step moray and as far as the jewish situation we talked about last segment, she's married to a jewish guy. this has been great, you guys can take it outside. ben dom niche and laura -- ben domenech and laura fink, thank you. media buzz following more evidence of the secret service failures in the shooting of donald trump. ♪ why i am the way i am. my curiosity led me to ancestry. it was amazing to see all the traits

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resigned as director of secret service one day after heavily covered hearing that democrats and republicans both demanded she be ousted. >> i don't want to add to the director's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, but i will be joining the chairman in calling for the resignation of the director. >> have you provided all audio and video recordings in your possession to this committee as we asked on july 15th, yes or no? >> i'll have to get back to you. that's a no. you're full of [bleep] today. you're being completely dishonest. howie: joining us is aish aishah hasnie. >> it was bad and brutal and she

was dragged to capitol hill and didn't to want come and was subpoenaed and she did show up and knew she didn't have anything to tell them because there's currently an investigation underway by the fbi and they don't have an after action report at least for 60 days so she didn't want to answer any questions reporter: howie: 60 days is the problem and didn't seem like there was any urgency. >> exactly. way too close to the election and the moment that kill it had for her was when progressive, a democrat ro khanna, asked her what happened after the secret service director after reagan got shot in 1981 and didn't know the answer to that. how do you not know your own secret service trivia? she said he stayed on and ro khanna said no, he stepped down. i mean, that's what you have to do at the end of the day. this is after, this brutal hearing comes after she was chased around at rnc by a bunch of senators and couldn't answer their questions. this was a bad, bad week for her. howie: what were some of the latest revelations to come out about the secret service failures because there was a lot of them? >> a lot of shocking moments and

they came the next day when we had the state police commissioner from pennsylvania come in who said i think one of the biggest take aways of course is we don't have a motive but the other big shocking one was why was the former president allowed to take the stage when they knew there was a threatening person, not a suspicion, a threatening person within that 10 minute window before they allowed president trump to take the stage? why didn't they delay it? the other one is there were two security off officers, local officers, attacked to that agr building i believe. they were inside and had a direct line of view to where the shooter would have eventually climbed up. someone told those guys to leave their post and go look for the guy, and no one will talk about who was in charge? we still don't know who the fbi agent in charge or secret service agent. howie: they lost track of him and he was 135 yards away and there was a drone flying overhead and he had sent out. >> hours before the president took the stage, a drone flying

around. can't allow that. howie: seems like a flashing red neon light. isn't there a key point that the secret service lied about denying that the trump-appointed campaign over two years asked for more resources and more screeners and snipers? >> that's going to come out. i keep hearing from people that are affiliated with the secret service or talk to the agents that there were many, many times and the president has said this too that they asked for more resources and more assets. they're doing these big rallies and i've been to a bunch of these, outdoors and they're huge. why don't you give us more resources instead of handing off responsibilities to local law enforcement whether state police or local -- howie: yeah, it's in writing, i guess we missed that . talk about the other hearing you covered and fbi director where t christopher wray and key thing he raised the question about. >> he was smart and didn't have a lot of great answers and the nugget he dropped and does it really smartly and someone trained him in media and goes

something you guys have never heard before and helenes in and says -- he leans in and says the shooter was google searching the question how far was oswald frm kennedy and it perked up everybody's ears. howie: i don't understand why he would raise that maybe it wasn't a bullet and maybe shattered glass and trump really ripped chris wray and fbi backed off and said it was a bullet or bullet fragments and miraculous he wasn't killed. >> that was the worst thing he could have said and raised doubt on what hit the former -- it doesn't matter what hit the former president. the former president got hit and bled and was injured and at the end of the day, that should have never happened. end of story and that's the last thing you should be bringing upright now when americans want to know before an election and while there's a cam tiana season going on -- campaign season going on, is this going to happen again? it can't in this country. howie: and president biden

thanked cheatle for her service and she risked her life as a field agent. that's all right. make no expression of diggs approval as -- disapproval and like a thank you very much. >> he hired her and can't be mad but the other part is raised a bipartisan call in the senate for this director position to now be senate con if i wered. i think -- senate confirmed and they're fed up and don't want the president to come in and assign a new director. he says he'll do that but that's not going to happen. howie: i disagree by saying yes, he hired her and should have fired her a couple weeks ago. aishah hasnie, thank you very much. it's been a hell of a week. >> long week. howie: president biden bows out after months of insisting he after months of insisting he wouldn't quit. ♪ kia sorento x-pro and the kia sorento turbo-hybrid... we recreated some of the wettest springs, hottest summers... ♪ windiest falls...

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howie: after months of insisting he's running after a pressure campaign mounted by the media and democratic leaders, president biden said in oval office address he's patching the torch to a new -- passing the torch to a new generation. >> i believe my record as relationship and my leadership in the world and vision for america's future, won't make it a second term but nothing, nothing can come in the way of saving our democracy. that includes personal ambition. >> he said he had to drop out to save our democracy. save our democracy by putting a woman who has never received a

single vote for president of the unit in after 14 -- u united states in after 14 million voted for him? >> he got more done than any other president in modern history, which is a very solid launching pad for kamala harris. howie: joining us now in new york, caroline doughny, staff writer for national review. democratic stat jazz and former obama campaign adviser. caroline, do you think biden had to really explain why it is that he's not running for a second term since he obviously wanted to? jaire i'm not afraid not, howie. he didn't say much about his withdrawal and speculation is still running wild that it was an ouster. legacy media and the white house said first that biden is doing cart wheels in his sleep. then biden is an empty vessel

then biden is a hero for stepping down because he's so dangerously in firmed and it's in a matter of weeks and the spin is pretty unbelievable and i don't think the american people have quite digest it had yet, howie. instead of clarifying his exit, he gave effectively a campaign speech for kamala harris. the oval office is a sacred space usually reserved for really important moments like after october 7 and congressional compromised averted default on national debt and assassination attempt on trump. it's not for accusing your opponents of being a threat to democracy even thursday and saturdayedly, i would say it's also not for pushing your progressive platform and, you know, albeit backing harris. reading between the license. howie: presidents push plat for the purposes in oval office addresses and supposed to be a official nonpartisan speech in the way biden dealt with that and didn't mention trump's name and saying threat to democracy and said nice things about

kamala harris and didn't endorse her all though he did that separately. >> this is a president that took that moment to not only talk about why he was stepping aside and read between the lines there in the speech when he talked about the need for unification of the party and he not only talked about younger generation. i think those were echoes to what was going on honestly, specifically around a lot of individuals within the party who wanted to and had expressed -- and voters as well, expressed not wanting to see either of the candidates at the top of the ticket. they wanted to see a new, younger version and not a trump and biden rematch. beyond that it was one of conciliation to what matters, to the function of our knock seizure disorders and one in which we -- democracy and we do not elect kings and we are not an aggressive punctuated place that is absolutely fine with violence that wants to see that and i think he spoke to his record. it's very important that this president remind people of what he has done as president. when we talk about --

howie: but he's no longer on the ballot. >> he'll go down in history the most successful president this nation has seen since franklin delano roosevelt and hundreds of thousands of jobs and expansion of healthcare and bringing us back from a pandemic and civil rights and it matters he was able to say it from that stage and paying attention to the fact he's still coming back from covid. it was strong. howie: yeah, i was going to mention that because, i find it kind of sad because his voice was not strong. obviously he was getting over covid and he seemed older. he never talked about his age or his health, caroline. >> no, he didn't, and i think the american people were hoping for an explanation about -- i mean, even if it is a sensitive subject, your health ore deterioration, just explaining the inside baseball of what went on, i think it's a disservice to the american people that we don't know what happened. it is very turbulent, you know, last couple of weeks and he did,

i think, use that platform to push the same rhetoric after trump was nearly killed in a rally of you have a choice, american people, for violence or for hope. for freedom or for fascism. he didn't use those words but that was the implication and it did not, in my opinion, convey unity, and many of the media especially on the right agree with that. howie: few months ago on this program you talked about how privately insiders were saying that joe biden was very cogent away from the cameras, do you feel misled? >> no, a president that decided as he stated in his speech he was putting the country first and it was an extremely tough decision for him to make and only person that could have pushed him off the ticket was joe biden and according to to him the lord. howie: what about nancy pelosi and others behind the scenes and the media? >> we don't know where he was and part of that was also

looking inward to the party itself and looking at what was happening on the field because in addition to the fallout from the debate so far in the recesses now there's a new candidate and we've moved on. in addition to that, it was also talking to voters on the ground. many individuals who weren't excited about this election and we know it's going to be a nile biter and really close. he chose the best foot forward and best possible person to lead and carry that hasn't and will if any -- if we are to be able to tell by the past week of fundraising that kamala harris was able to do by the women with black women and black men call and white women and latino call, all the ones happening and all the money and organizers that have come after that, he made the right decisions. howie: little short on time and i want to ask you this, caroline, and that is the fact that the president, i think he was trying to say, hey, i'm relevant here and i'll push my agenda and nothing will pass by the biden congress in the final election and he wants to

underscore he's still the guy in the oval office. >> well, that's fine. he can insist that, howie, but he is in fact a lame duck president now with very short time to go, and there are still many outstanding questions as to why he hasn't resigned because if you can't campaign for another single day because you're too feeble, then the question is why can you remain commander in chief? why are you leader of the free world? howie: i love when people on the right say that and that would have made kamala harris president for three or four or five months. just briefly now there's a black woman heading the ticket, is that creating viz rale reaction for you -- visceral reaction for now. >> i'm excited for biden and harris and now it's solely harris we're seeing excitement on the ground from younger voters and constituent voters and this will be their first election to vote n. howie: excitement from you? >> i'm extremely excited for kamala and excited when she was announced for vp and logical choice and only choice expected

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howie: it was just after joe biden's disastrous debate that hunter biden drew plenty of media attention with a lawsuit against fox news. it was odd regard egg a mock trial streamed online in 2022, but the president's son didn't say anything till this past april when fox took down the video after receiving hunter biden's letter and suing on revenge porn law involving x rated images from his laptop. as soon as joe biden dropped out of the race this week, hunter biden quitely dropped the suit, i guess there was no further need for hunter, a convicted

felon, to distract from his dad's political problems. a fox news media spokesperson said this was a politically motivated lawsuit aimed at silencing free speech and pleased with the court's decision to protect the first amendment. kamala harris said or done awkward things over the years and con servetives made videos to mock here and some are reclaiming that using muse and i can quit cut edits to turn crazy into cool and making her into a meme, especially on tiktok. ♪ howie: tiktok has a hewn huge reach among young people and

most voters don't know what a meme is and what counts is irl, in real life. and this is bizarre, new york times issues a correction on its latest trump harris poll remove ago quote from one of the surveys. after being called out by the atlantic, the times realized that [inaudible] pleaded guilty in 2005 and sentenced to prison over an extortion scheme and planted a sever finger in a serving of wendy's chili. you can't make this stuff up. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz and subscribe to my media reports and we rip on the daily stories and back here next sunday. look forward to see you then at 11 eastern with the only media analysis show on national television.in ♪ g y be “the cost of doing business...” but at what cost? turn shipping to your advantage. with low cost ground shipping

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