we tackle all sorts of topics here. thank you so much. that's going to do it for us. so great to have you here. coming up now, "media buzz" with howard kurtz. >> here's howie. >> send your questions on foxnews.com. on the buzz beater sunday, bill o'reiley fans thought it was about time someone pressed the president about the lingering scandal. barack obama backers loved the way he stuck it to fox news. and the country got a super bowl showdown far better than the football game. >> you think i'm a little unfair to you? >> absolutely, of course you are, bill. but i like you, anyway. regardless of whether it's fair or not, it is -- it has made fox news very successful. >> but if i'm unfair -- >> here is what you guys are going to have to figure out is what you're going to do when i'm gone. >> was o'reiley just pushing conservative hot buttons, as his detractors say? was obama's anti-fox strategy

coverage effective? and has coverage been fair? the media debate over philip seymour hoffman, why is this news only when celebrities are involved? female journalists, speaking online with their minds. plus, jay leno bids an emotional farewell from "the tonight show." >> tonight is our last show for real. i don't need to get fired three times. i get the hint. i get the hint. >> why is nbc dumping the top guy in late night in favor of jimmy fallon? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." the coverage of president obama's appearance on fox news has been largely about fox news. now, that's in part because any bill o'reiley interview of that magnitude is going to be controversial, but also because the president deflected some of the questions by trying to make fox and o'reiley the issue.

it happened when o'reiley asked about benghazi. >> your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn't want that out. >> no. think did sxlsh that's what they believe. >> and they believe it because folks like you are telling them that. >> no, i'm not telling them that. >> it happened again when the questions turned to the irs scandal. >> these kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your tv station will promote them. >> joining us now, lauren ashburn, fox news contributor and author of the top twitter talk column on foxnews.com. rip gronell, from the bush ad n administration and bill press, nationally syndicated radio show host and former chairman of the democratic party a long time ago. people say o'reiley kept interrupting, kept interrupting. >> was he interrupted? i think he interrupted a little bit. at least that's what the consensus is. but he's goating a bum rap here. i think he gave a very fair interview. both of them seemed to be having

a good time. both of them were answering and not answering and answering. and it worked. it definitely worked. a lot of people say o'reiley was too easy on the president and a lot of people say he was too hard. split right down partisan lines. >> speaking of partisan lines, rick, the criticism on the left is that the conversation he did live, what did the president know, when did he know it about bengha benghazi, the irs, conservative object sessions. >> well, but they haven't been answered by this administration very well. what i think is a more interesting issue is how the media across the board on d.c. jumped on bill o'reiley. it was defending the president and really making fun of someone who interrupts the president. sbnation, owned by a liberal left wing blog said that it was off the rails. and the huffington post called it combative. now, when do journalists start to say, wait a minute, asking

tough questions is a bad thing? i mean, this is new journalism and i find that the crying from the media about a tough interview is just too much. >> but how many times have we seen interviews of the president where he gets to filibuster and just say his answers to the questions and they're not really answers. >> let me come back to the media coverage in just a moment. but on the basic of how did o'reiley do, yes, he interrupted. but isn't the goal of a journalist in that situation to hold the president accountable? >> i'm all for tough interviews. i think tim russert gave a tough interview. he's my gold star. but bill o'reiley was tough, but also i thought he was rub and obnoxious. but bill o'reiley is rude and object northboundus. it didn't bother me that much. as a member of the white house press corps.i've been there many, many times. >> let me jump in. why was he rude? >> because he jumped in too

much, i thought. and some of those comments -- there was one point where the president -- look, i'm trying to give you an answer if you would just listen. by the way, i think the president handled him well, too. here is my problem with that interview. as a talk show host, he didn't make any news. i thought he wasted his time. i have a freshman member in the house in my show and i'm thinking ahead of on time, how can i make news with this guy? bill o'reiley didn't make news because he asked old, tired, stale questions. >> this is about benghazi. >> but he did make news and yet the washington press corps. doesn't want to talk about -- >> what news? >> what was the president doing by saying there was a terror situation when he wasn't caught in a terrorist act? there is a problem there because they're trying to have it both ways. and we both know, bill, this was weeks before the president's re-election when his campaign slogan was al qaeda was dead. this was a huge problem --

>> we've been over that so many times. he didn't does ask one question about snowden or nsa, not one question about syria, not one question about keystone pipeline. he could have made -- >> one correction, there was a question about keystone pipeline in the second part of the interview which aired the day after. but one of the things the president did was he deflected by counterpunching against oh rye will and against fox news from his point of view from our point of view was that an effective tactic? >> he kept saying things like these kind of things keep surfacing in part because you and your tv station will promote them, because folks like you are telling them. this is what the president kept reeling against. and he has been doing this for a very long time saying fox news is the problem. not the president and his policies are the problem. and i think that it plays to his bate base. if he's going to attack fox news, then the left is going to say, yes, go, president, go, president. and that's really what he's trying to do.

>> fox can be very effective foil for barack obama. at the same time, did he go too far in suggesting that he's almost weren't legitimate questions, they were just something from way out in the fox universe? >> yeah. i mean, i wouldn't have had a problem on with the president's answers if the white house press cor corps. had been trying to drill down on these questions. but they haven't. this was during the campaign, they were absolutely trying to whitewash the fact that on 9/11 we weren't prepared. >> wait, who is president of 9/11? oh, you're talking about the second 9/11. >> the anniversary of 9/11. >> can i say something? you're wrong. i'm there every day. the press corps. has drilled down and drilled down. there's no there there. leave it up. that's the problem and i think that's why o'reiley should have moved on to today's news. >> but circled back -- >> but in the second part of the

conversation, which wasn't seen by as many people as the super bowl questions, there were questions about out of wedlock babies, media, government, but let's come back to the keystone pipe like start, a new host on msnbc. >> i think what bill o'reiley was doing was sort of reheating all of the right wing means, all of the object sessions the right wing has. he might as well have asked him about the birth certificate. >> god forbid there is another point of view. i'm sure fox was happy to take it. >> so msnbc, they thought it was a terrible interview. >> right. they did. because as i said earlier, it goes along partisan lines. i have to say, if you look at the president and the way he was interacting with bill o'reileo' it was almost as if he was

enjoying incident blektal exercise. even the president said, you know, bill, i think your heart is in the right place. >> i think politicians better when they are pressed to bring their a game. these we'll meaning introduces. >> by chris matthews compared to this interview -- >> it was a love fest. >> yeah. and i think the media have a responsibility to say we want to challenge authority. we want to speak truth to power. so what if we're asking a million times about benghazi. there are still real questions. no one has been fired. no one has been fired. >> i'm not going to do it because i've been there and i've done it. i didn't have a problem with the interview. as a liberal, as a democrat, i thought o'reiley did a good job. i do think he was object northboundus, but he was pushing and that is what he's going to do. >> you're hardly the first person to aim that description

at bill o'reiley. the "new york times," for example, ran a very straight story on the interview, but the ap had a headline that i could not believe. president obama defends himself from republican charges. >> that's been the problem all along is that it is just a republican issue that we didn't have coverage in benghazi, that we had security problems, no one has been fired. all of these are just considered republican problems. and i think that's where most people get really outraged. >> and wouldn't your friends on the left cheer if an aggressive anchor or correspondent had pressed president bush on iraq and katrina? it can look very differently when it's a president who you don't like on the other end. >> totally. and i was very critical of the white house press corps. at the time for not raising those questions with president bush. i have heard this media push, push, push on carney and -- >> i would love to see the same. >> you can watch it every day

live. >> we had from bill o'reiley when he interviewed george w. bush, he said doesn't it bother you that people hate you? so bill o'reiley has been pushing presidents of both parties. >> let me get to another news item here. this is a fox buzz alert. a former state department official has pleaded guilty to leaking classified information about north korea to james rosen back in 2009. steven cahill was prosecuted under the espionage act even though he was dealing with a foreigner, not a foreign country. agreed to a 13-month sentence. it was in this case that the just department was newspapering and named him as a coconspirator, an outrage in my view since he was doing nis job as a journalist. once that sentencing takes place, that case will be closed. send me the tweet and we'll read them later in the program. when we come back, an argument over heroine after the tragic

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that has sparked a debate over whether the actor is to blame. >> we don't really understand how it works. it is a disease. it is a sickness. and -- and yet we hesitate to treat it like that because of the moral dimension. we see it as a personal failing, as well. >> just a rick when you do these drugs. i have a problem with it being called an illness.

i think it is a problem. i don't think it's an illness. cancer is an illness. >> hoffman himself talked to "on 60 minutes" about his addiction back in 2006. >> on what i can get my hands on, yeah, yeah, i liked it all, yeah. >> and why did you decide to stop? >> you can panicked. you get panicked. i was 22 and i got panicked for my life. >> rick, we spent about 15 minutes talking about how terrible it was that this great, phenomenally talented actor died and then it's on who's to blame? is that the right debate for the media to be having? >> maybe. i have a problem more with greg that the word tragic and sudden is used. that should not be used. a tragedy is when a single mother dies of cancer or a family die necessary a car accident. that's a tragedy. this situation is sad, but it wasn't unexpected. and we could see this coming and

i think what we have to be able to do is really not glamourize this. we shouldn't have cameras at the funeral talking about who all was there. it was almost like a red carpet event. it was really terrible. >> but he has three young kids and he obviously struggled with this. the counselor said he was clean for 23 years. and so -- but this is the debate. is there a lack of sympathy because it was self-inflicted? >> well, i don't mean to quibble, but i think it's a tragedy when a father of three young kids dies suddenly at the age of 46. >> it wasn't sudden. >> yes, it was. >> it was coming. >> i think it's a tragedy when one of the greatest actors of our lifetime is gone whether we won't xoi enjoy his art any more. but this guy was the role model for so many people out there who suffered with this addiction because he did go clean when he was 22 and he was gone 23 years and then fell back. and i think it tells people that

it doesn't matter how good you're doing, how good you are, you could relapse, too. >> eric sorkin wrote a fascinating piece in which he said about addiction, he had a conversation with phipil seymour hoffman who said when we die, that's going to save ten people from dying from addiction. but by covering this, by covering this tragedy, we are bringing to light tissue of -- >> but i have a problem with that argument. the "new york times" a day or two after the death has a page story, hoffman's heroine points to grim trade. 67% seizures in four years. why does it take a celebrity's death to -- >> hello, this is a celebrity driven culture. we are driven by the fact that our celebrities do something. that gets the most coverage. miley cyrus makes news more than the president makes news. >> journalists need to grow up. they don't need to chase miley

cyrus and the philip seymour hoffman's funeral. they need to report, go after facts, stop retweeting and repeating -- >> but they are. they do. >> -- factual work. >> i'm not defending journalists here, but the american culture is a celebrity driven culture. people do pay attention to this rightly or wrongly. i think this large part wrongly. and there's some interesting stories in the "new york times" about the people who go to aa meetings and aa meetings around the country, what have they been talking about? they've been talking about philip seymour hoffman. it's a powerful lesson. they wouldn't be talking about it or get that lesson without the media coverage. >> this happens not just with heroine, not just with philip seymour hoffman, but it happens when someone dies of a heart attack who is a celebrity and -- >> or if ang lee ang leano has breast cancer and we start talk about it. >> but it implies that we don't

care about all the other faceless and nameless die of heroine -- >> i don't think so, howard. i think it means people are not going to pay that much attention to what we're writing unless there's a famous name attached to it. >> then use it as a hook to go into the real issues, not give me more recycled phipil seymour hoffman funeral updates. >> that's a good point to end on now. thanks for stopping by this sunday. another note, woody allen has an emotional op-ed in this morning's "new york times" denying that he sexually abused his adopted daughter two decades ago. dylan farron responded with a hollywood reporter piece saying she'll still speak out about the pain her father inflicted on her. i have no way of knowing who is telling the truth. all this heated up after an accusatory letter was plushed online by dylan farrow.

the times felt it owed woody equal time. the troubling thing here, the media are being used to exacerbate an understandingly and long running family fight. up next, the ugly online attacks that targets female commentators. and later, jay leno signs off on "the tonight show." why did nbc can the top rated host in late night? i have the flu, i took medicine but i still have symptoms. [ sneeze ] [ male announcer ] truth is not all flu products treat all your symptoms. what? [ male announcer ] alkseltzer plus severe cold and flu speeds relief to these eight symptoms. [ breath of relief ] thanks. [ male announcer ] you're welcome. ready? go.

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and then another, you did not hit the accident, the driver did, your dumb blom blond life flashed before you? >> it's great to be with you, howard. i made it here by airplane, by train, however on i made it. >> how nasty does it get for you on places like twitter? >> i anchor the real story and i like to keep it real. one of the ways in which we decided to keep it real was to ask people for their comments about the show, the good, bad and the ugly. i feel it's important to on occasion expose some of the ugliness because in social media, there's this thing about anonymity .there's no filter. and i feel like people say immediately what comes to their mind. >> things they would never say to your face. >> usually. but sometimes might. but i think it's important to expose it and also say their name because, you know, sometimes it hurts. but the reality of it is it has

happened happens to people who are in the public eye. and i think it's important from time to time to expose it. >> i think that's true, but i can't help but notice, particularly when certain women retweet the stuff said about them that it is sexist, it is ma sosh insist, sexual and violent. how do you cope with that? >> i'm an automatic target. number one, i have blond hair. >> so you've got the blond jokes. >> and it's add nauseam, one after the other. also, i'm a former miss america. so automatically people assume dumb times two. and i work at fox. there are a lot of people out there who don't like fox. so there are easy targets there. fortunately, i do not face some of the other criticism that other on women face with regard to the sexism thing. i have not seen as much of that. but it seems to be a lot about

appearance. i think women do face this more than i do. but a lot of the tweets and e-mails are about appearance. and what i would like to share is that i'll give one from ethel who will say how dare you wear that dress! how can you be a role model from your children and the next e-mail or tweet will be from bob, could you wear that dress every day? it's a differing of opinion and i have to take it with a grain of salt and you have to have a thick skin. >> can you wear that dress tomorrow? since you brought in being blond and former miss america, you one day came in and did a segment with no makeup. is it pressure on women to look a certain way and there's a wrap on fox, all these beautiful blonds and what were you trying to demonstrate by showing up in all your natural glory? >> well, that was the international day of the girl. so for me, there was a news peg for it. and i'm a huge believer in building your self-esteem from the inside out. that's the way i'm hoping to raise my children. so for me, it was keeping it

real, again. if i'm going to honor women in building self-esteem from the inside out, then i'm going show what i look like from the inside out. that's why it was so important to me. >> before we reach this question about online abuse, i know we all try to have thick skins in this business. isn't it depressing? >> no. my dad gave me the best advice of my life. he said gretchen, no matter what, no matter how hard you try, you're never going to get everyone to like it. >> it goes back to when you were miss america? >> oh, yes. that was the eye opening experience. >> it's a great honor. >> it's almost like your entire resume went out the window and people said what they said. >> let's talk about your show, which was a few months old now. i wasn't surprised that you have women's panels, but you have men's panels. >> the manel. i have to get you on the show even as a media guest. i think sometimes it's great to get three men together.

we have some of the most great conversations and different points of view. they're usually on fridays. we also have a face panel. but most of the times that includes someone who doesn't believe in faith. one of the things we're trying to do besides keeping it real is have a lot of gefrts. i believe interviewing is a skill that i love to put on display on a daily basis and we try to have at least ten guests to get a lot in. >> but you're trying to broaden the subject matter and not just bring on the usual suspects. we all know the parade of people who appear on news all day long. >> exactly. it's one way to keep it fresh in the afternoon. >> interesting. the man panel. what's the name for it again? >> the mannel. and we're starting a veteran's segment every week. this past week, we paid tribute to a wonderful marine severely injured in iraq and now is getting one of those smart homes. so on a weekly basis, we'll be focusing on giving tribute to our veterans. >> now, you are down here for screening of a movie that you were in called persecuted.

is this your second career? how did it come about that you get to be a movie star? >> you know, i was asking to be in -- i have a very small part. it was so much more difficult to film the movie than it is to do live tv. >> why is that? >> they do all they takes. when we do live tv, we do it and we're done. if we flub the word we say oh, what's the difference? but this is behind the scenes there with the producer. >> but you have a very different tv role. you play a tv anchor. >> i'm diana lucas. and if you come late to the movie, you'll miss me. i also come back at the end and i'm part of the cliff hangar of the movie. but we're screening it for congress monday night. that's why i'm here. >> so it wasn't just like you could do one take and walk away. >> it was about 100 takes for this one main scene at the beginning. >> learning curve. >> i was like, whew, back to live tv. >> we're delighted you could be back down here joining us. talking about the online world and talking about your show.

gretchen carlson, thank you. >> thank you. ahead, jay leno out, jimmy fallon in. and later, facebook celebrates its 10th birthday. does that make mark zuckerberg a media mogul?

good morning, everyone. i'm jamie colby. welcome to america's news headquarters. the federal government is no longer borrowing some people who gave limited material support to terrorists from the united states. that was an executive action that also ease dollars rules for refugees with those seeking asylum. it's one of the president's first actions on immigration since pledging to overstep congress when needed in his state of the union address last month. an update now on the number of power outs in pennsylvania .maryland. it's down to 60,000. there were almost 180,000

businesses and residents that lost power when a snowstorm hit the region last week knocking down trees and power lines. and the united states picking up its second gold medal of the sochi olympics today, jami anderson winning the slope-style snowboarding event. quite an exciting situation in sochi for the u.s. i'm jamie colby. jay leno choked up the other night as he bid farewell as the king of late night tv. >> first year of the show, i lost my mom. second year i lost my dad. then my brother died. and after that, i was pretty much out of family. and the folks here became my family. >> so why is nbc dropping jay in favor of jimmy fallon? joining us now, author of "jerk how i wasted my life watching

television" and joe concha. adam, so tell me again why nbc is getting rid of the guy who's still number one? >> first of all, your question i believe is based on the illegal logical question that you would basically cancel your top show. that's something that's difficult to explain. the explanations really lie in, number one, industry issues. jimmy fallon gets a very high rating for his time period at 12:35 in the younger demographics, the younger viewers the network craves. they hope that he can come in and, in fact, even boost the number of younger viewers they were getting under leno who, in fact, was the top show for attracting younger viewers, anyway, at 11:35. >> is on that point, joe, ja winning the demo. and it seems to me i know a lot of elite critics look down on leno, but it's still hard to understand why he's being shoved off the stage. >> the demo is 18 to 49-year-olds that advertisers care about the most. that's the whole argument for

fallon is maybe he can bring in younger folks. but jay is winning the time slot, beating letterman quite easily who is older than him. he's beaten kimmel who is much younger, also in that demo, as well. howie, i've gone back on forth on this on whether this is the right decision or not. my conclusion comes in math and logic. there is only one other show on television that wins its time slot on a weekly basis and that is "60 minutes." to get rid of leno now, they feared losing fallon, but his ability to do songs and parodies and imitations is something letterman and kimmel can't do. i think the reason why they're going with fallon now is they're afraid when letterman's contract ends in 2015 that fallon could jump to cbs and they're left with who? seth myers. maybe that's the reason why there's a sense of urgency. >> we went through this before when everybody said conan was a hip, young comic. we don't want to lose him.

fallon is seen as a hip, young comic. there was the conan debacle before this. >> that's right. in a way, the fallon situation could play out, at least in the early going, in the same way in the sense that i doubt very much that "the tonight show" will instantly maintain its number one ranking as soon as fallon takes over. i have a feeling that in total viewers, 4 million on average every night for leno, will decrease when fallon comes on. and so for the first time in, well, many, many years, nbc will be lagging in late night behind, perhaps, letterman or kimmel. so it's not a sure thing. there's a lot -- there's a big gamble on whether the 4 million -- what will happen with the 4 million people who watch leno? will some of them stick around for fallon? will the older ones go to letterman and the younger ones go to kimmel or will they give up on late night altogether? >> i think it's a mistake we see commonly made. let's hire someone younger and if we do that, younger audiences

will do that. >> quickly, we're short on time. >> ncis is the most watched show on television. o'reiley factor, that hosts on 64, one more point. the daily show, jon stewart is now in his 50s. all these rate really well, despite the fact not having a younger guy involved. i don't think age necessarily brings you a younger audience, proven commodities in the case of jay leno is much more guaranteed. >> you snuck in your three. adam, let me play for you. leno on the "today show" and tell me how you think he really feels about being eased off for the final curtain. >> i mean, this time i was asked. the last time i was sort of told this is what's happening. if he wasn't here, would i still be here? probably another year or so. >> he's really ticked off, isn't he? >> i think he is. and, you know, it's hard to read him. he goes on "60 minutes" and acts, you know, his usual

blahsey self and says, that's show biz so you have a stack of money available for when that happens. i think the emotional farewell he made was a very telling moment .probably the most revealing moment publicly i've ever seen jay leno really crying and really saying, you know, this is not only about being famous and being the host of "the tonight show" every night but this is about going to a workplace for 22 years and if anyone who has been forced out of a workplace in that way kind of understands. the people you work with every day, if you're lucky, are really like family. and i think that's -- i think he was -- that was not an act. he's not an actor and i don't think the emotion was an act on his part. >> for a guy who tells jokes for a living, it was really a moving moment. just before we go, joe, somebody did a study, more leno jokes over the years about democrats. the top target for jay leno was bill clinton, 4,706 jokes.

>> i have a feeling if barack obama was able to finish out his term, he may have caught mr. clinton in that regard. >> george w. bush was second, by the way. >> there you go. but howie, i don't think this is his swan song, jay leno's. i know he has some coddy shows to do. fox tv is very interested because because they always wanted to get into that late night warp. 14.6 million people watched that finale. 4 million more than "breaking bad." 10 million more than "30 rock." >> thanks very much. >> thank you, howie. in our press picks, this was click bait. there was headlines across newspapers in the webb, bill clinton had a year-long affair with actress elizabeth hurley while he was president. there was a claim coming from actor tom seizemore. lots of websites ran the unsubstantiated charge.

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time for our digital download. facebook is cell breying its 10th birthday and it just rolled out a new app that serves up news stories from major media

organizations. >> facebook paper lets you pick the subjects you want to track. and that for the first time puts mark zuckerberg in the media kept business. but he doesn't say so. >> i really want to like this, but it's kind of clunky, you can only look at one story at a time and it's not all encompassing. you have tech, pop life, lol. >> isn't that your section? >> yeah, my favorite. the nice thing is that facebook has human beings decided what articles you might like rather than algorithm. >> and what's happening, i don't quite understand, because facebook has a billion users. and it's growing at a fast pace. this is meant to really get away from that stream where you constantly see, notice, who had what for breakfast, a picture of someone's kid, a news story. now you can just go to the news stories. but it is very limiting. that is the down side.

the content subjects are limiting and you can't choose a specific area of kept within an area of kept. >> right. it's not as personalized as it's advertised to be. and we have the "new york times," "washington post," cnn, but some lean left. late, vanity fair, and all week i found one national review story. so a balance problem. >> and it's also really hard to get the gestures down right. >> i thought it was just me. >> no, i can't figure it out. i was like down and over and i can't -- although the colors are beautiful. you get to see a beautiful full face picture. and the other thing is i searched forever to get it on my ipad. you can't. you can only get it on your iphone and on your ipod touch. >> i like the fact that you can click through to the articles which helps the "new york times" and whoever, cnn and vachb nity fair, but it competes with mainstream media.

>> and they're finding that people are stopping using facebook as much as they used to and they're just using this. because you can also get your posts and your feeds on it. this is really something by mark zuckerberg to burst into the next generation of facebook. sglnd a what about that? he was interviewed on the "today" show and he was asked the question about the coolness factor. let's take a look. >> we pay attention to every m demographic in every country. >> he pays attention to the demographic of every country? he could have said, yes, we're all for young kids and we really are trying to reach out to them. but if you talk to younger generations, they're off of it because their parents are on it. >> therefore it's not cool. they're all off on snap chat or something. not all off obviously, but the trend line is zuckerberg has something to worry about. >> i think he does. and he's using this as something that is sort of more he will

qua elegant and more refined. so i don't know if that captures the younger audience. but i'd love to continue this discussion on twitter which you always can't get on facebook. >> of course. still to come, how television sniffed at the beatles when they first invaded america. that is sort of more he will

here are a few of your top tweets. getting rid of jay leno, robo cop. another stupid move. fallon will be mediocre. and sure they dump him for younger. what could possibly go wrong? and president obama pushing back against bill o'reilly and fox, was it effective for obama to speak the truth about fox news trait to o'reilly's face? answer, extremely thomas, no, h

skinned. >> i think they had a great conversation. i don't think that was the case at all. >> okay. you've all heard endlessly about that electric television moment 50 years ago today when the beatles appeared on ed actually van. but how between the news business cover the fab four? listen to this report a couple months earlier. >> the hottest musical group in great britain today is the beatles. that's not a collection of insects, but a quartet of young men who spell it baetl-a-e-t-l-. if there is anybody's guess why they emerged to national prominence, but they did. >> not a clegs ocollection of in-secretaries. what the beegatles sounded like with all the screaming girls. ] foets foets

♪ one reason may be -- >> the rest of the word is still hearing the beatles just fine. >> i know you love the beatles. but there is one thing in all of this that you and james rosen will tell me, not everybody likes the beatles. there is a big percentage who don't. >> who doesn't like the beatles? >> my dad. >> how about your kids? >> they love the beatles. >> so it's been 50 years since they went on with ed sullivan and people are still playing the music. >> it is good music. you're right. but there are a lot of people who think this is too much about nothing. >> well there, is a certain baby boomer obsession here, i will admit. >> i wasn't going to say it. >> paul and ringo play tonight reuniting them in that ed sullivan theater. >> and you will be watching. >> i will be watching. that's it for this edition. let's continue the conversation

on twitter. give us a like on facebook. we post original videos, respond to your comments and we're back here next sunday morning 11:00 eastern and again 5:00 p.m. with the latest buzz. well, it's noontime and great to have you here. hi, everybody. i'm jamie colby. welcome to america's news headquarters. >> topping the news that the hour, eric holder getting set to extend new benefits at the department of justice to same-sex couples. but is he acting outside of his authority? we'll have a fair and balanced debate straight ahead. >> plus as double edged sword for drought-plagued california. hers getting much needed rain and snow, but als