this is mike huckabee from new york. stay tuned for justice with judge jeanine. "sunday morning futures." i'm maria bartiromo. on the buzz meter this sunday, president obama overseas and under fire as david wilkes says he has a certain shortcoming. >> the man has problems in the middle east, a manhood problem in the middle east. >> is that a low blow or is the media holding the president accountable on foreign affairs. rancher clive bundy spouts blatantly racist views about the negroes. and how did tmz break the story of the race ifft rant by the owner of the l.a. clippers? nbc brings in a consult and to the analyze david gregory by talking to his wife and friends as "meet the press" slips to

third place. kaen that really f ee ee een -- problem. and why she's going public with her painful past. well, you know, i mean, i can't deny that when margo committed suicide, which was an incredible surprise, i thought oh, my god, the baton has been passed to me. who else does it go to but me? >> and her feelings on the abuse allegations against her one-time co-star, woody allen. i'm howard kurtz and if is "media buzz." tmz sometimes breaks very big news. the website obtaining an audio tape of donald sterling in an

argument with his girlfriend. >> that bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people. do you have to? i'm just saying in your lousy [ bleep ] instagram, you don't have to have yourself walking with black people. >> joining us to examine the way this was broken, matt lewis, dana millbank, columnist for "the washington post." tmz is known for checkbook journalism. does it matter how the tape was obtained? >> as long as it's not fake or put together, edited poorly, no, it doesn't matter unless you're sitting at columbia journalism in an ethics class. in this day and age, no one remembers who broke what, who paid for what. remember radar online got an audio recording of mel gibson

saying that he beat his girlfriend. >> and threatening her life. >> right. it was awful. >> it becomes part of the public persona of that person. >> the nba is investigating, various nba stars are speaking out. even president obama in malaysia calling donald sterling ignorant. the question about the source, if it was the former girlfriend now, sources are often motivated by revenge. this is not a he said, she said. tmz has this tape if indeed the tape is fully authentic. >> right. if it is authentic, we have to say that now, although it appears it probably is, it's horrific. i'm trying to explore what the political ramifications of it? one is clearly this underscores the fact that latent racism is still a thing, evening amongest supposedly sophisticatede. >> even among people who employ african-americans to put the ball in the hoop on their basketball team. >> in an industry that is heavily african-american. expect conservative outlooks to

point out his past contributions to democrats. push back that way. >> let me bring dana in and bring back the media an. that is this. all kinds of news organization on the planet following tmz's lead in reporting the contents of this audio tape. it's very different than a few years ago where maybe there was more wariness, not only towards tmz but a lot of these gossip sites. >> everybody has a smartphone with audio and video capability. think about the most damaging thing to mitt romney, some guy who was a bartender filming him at a private event. that's how journalism is now. basically everybody has a camera or audio out there and assuming it's not the veracity is not challenged, it does not appear that it's being challenged in this case. then you're good to go. >> the clippers put out a statement saying, not challenging that this is his voice, saying if it is indeed

authentic, but also raising questions about this woman, saying we believe she gave the tape to tmz, which seems reasonable and questioning her situation, shall we say? >> what a mess this is. it seems that the wife of the owner sued the girlfriend for, what did they say? >> it's being called embezzlement. >> i think it's cars she was given, expensive clothes, money. >> given by her close friend donald sterling. >> correct. that part of it all seems to muddy what's actually happening here, which is that allegedly, if the tape is correct, as we're all saying, this man is a racist. >> that is -- that conclusion is hard to avoid and we will see how the investigation goes in the coming days. he does have one bit of history we should mention, he paid nearly $3 million to settle a federal housing discrimination suit in which he was accused of

pushing black and latino enrenters out of his housing properties. > cliven bundy, the tone of the story has sharply changed since a "new york times" correspondent reported on outrageously racist comments at the ranch. bundy was talking about seeing black families at a local public housing project. >> i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro. the oldest people and there's always a kid and half a dozen people sitting on the porch. they didn't have nothing to do. they didn't have nothing for their kids to do. they didn't have nothing for the young girls to do. and because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? they abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned

how to pick cotton. and i've often wondered, were they better off as slaves, picking cotton, having a family life, doing things or better off under government subsidy? >> matt lewis, this guy, clive bundy was built up as a symbol of resistance to overzealous federal authorities with be that part may be true. i have many hours of coverage on fox news, in light of these blatantly racist comments. he repeated them when he tried to dig out of the hole. was that a mistake? >> absolutely. i'm old enough to remember before fox news, before the rise of talk radio and alternative media. i don't want to go back to those days where there was a major media filter. i think it is also worth asking, at some times, is a conservative media a net negative for the conservative movement? i think this might be one of those oaks. >> why? >> cliven bundy was a story before fox news and talk radio jumped on it.

they helped elevate him, turning him into a folk hero and egg the to ary on. once he shows himself to be a racist, that ends up impugning the conservative movement, i think unfairly but you could argue, hey, you built him up as some sort of a hero. and now msnbc and liberal outlets will spend weeks on this, pushing the narrative that conservatives are evil, racist, mean people. >> we shouldn't imply it to everybody. in my view, fox news fell short on this story on thursday. all day long until a special report at 6:00 p.m. eastern, there was virtually no mention of these racist remarks by clive bundy when everybody else was covering it. to ignore a major story at a time when the network, among others, as you say, had devoted a lot of time to covering this story and building up clive bundy, i think that gives him ammunition to fox's detractors.

dana? >> i absolute your manhood for bringing this issue up, howie. i think it's around important discussion to have. this was largely a fox news driven story. and -- >> you don't agree with matt that it's a conservative media story, you think it's a fox -- >> it may have well been out there. this is the 800-pound gorilla. this is what put this on the radar screen for the whole nation. >> let's not forget, the bureau of land management showed up with lots of armed guards, there was a confrontation. it doesn't take away necessarily from the argument of this guy. >> i think it was somewhat foreseeable. the problem here is people confused people who are interested in small government, the tea party, with something entirely different here. this is far out on the fringe. this isn't tea party. this is anarchy. i think people jumped into that without thinking where this was going to be. >> president obama said something interesting about sterling, the clippers' owner.

when there are ignorant people, if you give them enough time, they'll destroy themselves. i'm paraphrasing. >> i think conservative outlets and folks like sean hannity were expecting this to be like a ruby red branch davidian situation where a cliven bundy would have been turned into a martyr. unfortunately, i think president obama gave him enough rope to hang himself. >> let me jump in. this was getting coverage on the fox network on thursday. you wrote a twitter column. >> it had 4,000 plus comments on it within a couple of hours. i think the media, when they are going after someone they make into a folk hero, a la cindy sheehan, who in the bush administration lost her son in the iraq war and then staged a protest in front of george bush's ranch. then she came out and said she didn't pay her taxes.

she didn't think she should pay her taxes and that the president should be impeached. >> what's lesson here? >> the lesson, i think, when you build up someone like this and don't take the opportunity either because you don't have the time or inclination to vet someone, it's go inge to come back and bite you or has the potential to do so. >> in fairness, once fox got to prime time that day when the story broke "new york times" in the, greta, megan, o'riley, sean hannity denounced this. hannity got the most attention because he had given cliven bundy the biggest platform, interviewed him and his wife a couple times. >> i believe the comments are downright racist, repugnant, bigoted and disturbing. i find the comments to be deplorable and i think it's extremely unfortunate that cliven bundy holds those views. >> i give him credit for saying that. >> i absolutely give him credit for saying that, too. i believe he went on to say he was still supportive of that

kind of rebellion. i think that the problem is, my colleague ash eric wimple said you don't get bundy a la carte. you get the whole package. >> "the new york times" deserves credit for revealing these remarks. it was an audio tape. actually, a videotape that helped somebody on the cell phone. you were making that point earlier. finally, the times put the racist portion on the jump of the story. i'm burying the lead. everybody else knew what the lead was. send me a tweet @howardkurtz. ahead, my interview with mariel hemingway. are the pundits being a bit too harsh when they say the

david brooks has been widely quoted this week, the conservative "new york times" columnist was on nbc's "meet the press" and had this to say about foreign policy. >> let's face it, obama deservedly or not, does have -- i'll say it crudely -- but a manhood problem in the middle east. is he tough enough to stand up to someone like putin. in the middle east, there's an assumption he's not tough. >> he's talked to president obama a number of times. he's not an obama hater. you wouldn't think he'd go there with that manhood phrase. >> very alpha male. if you show the rest of the clip, chuck todd agrees with him, even inside the white house, this is a question. margaret thatcher was a woman. she was tough. the iron lady. when you inject masculinity and

sexuality into it, it seems personal. toughness is a fair thing to bring up. >> forget about chuck todd. dana milbank wrote the column which was quoted on fox news this day. you said of his asia trip, he essentially is a tourist. the problem isn't that he pro-ekt,s weakness, it's that he doesn't project much of anything. it sounds like liberals are banning the president. >> i wasn't questioning his manhood for sure. >> you were using different words. >> i think that was the problem with what david did there. i suspect if he had those words to use over again, he might have chosen different ones. it's certainly a long-standing and legitimate complaint to say is this president forceful enough? i wasn't asking for a different policy. i was saying whatever your policy is, keep articulating it. don't keep hopscotching around the globe and getting distracted from what your actual agenda is. i think that's a fair criticism. i suspect it's better not to

question the manhood of the president. particularly because it throws a lot of gasoline on the fire already when we're having a lot of racially charged rhetoric out there that i'm sure david did not mean to inject. >> even though david brooks did qualify it, the headlines also challenged his manhood, he did qualify, as we heard, it got him noticed, breaks through the static. >> it's mean spirited editing in some ways. you take what you want to hear about manhood and you forget that he said, whether deserved or not, or you know, they left out all of the -- >> i think it's a bad wrap. >> he gets a bum wrap. that's why people hate the media. >> reason 972. >> right. because things that are taken are small pieces, this has happened to me, i'm sure to everyone else at this table, when what you say afterwards is ignored. >> at the same time, can you imagine david brooks writing this in "the new york times" as opposed to saying this on a

sunday roundtable? >> he's criticized the president. >> for using the manhood phrase? >> i doubt it. i doubt it. i doubt it. >> has this changed the media climate now where we'll see more criticism in the backdrop is ukraine, with western allies not being able to stop what putt an pears on the verge of doing. are we going to see more criticism among foreign affairs. >> this is smart pr for david brooks. he gets atension. it's smart for the media outlet that misrepresent what he says. look at what's happening in ukraine, it's fair. >> i think every time we turn to foreign policy, there will be the criticism from the right that this president's weakness. i don't think americans will care a whole lot about foreign policy. >> they don't. americans traditionally are uninterested in what happens. the middle east could be, you know, an example of where they don't. but i think that it's in our dna or at least in tv watchers' dna

not to care whether or not the president is at a state dinner in malaysia. >> or eating great sushi. >> or bowing to a robot. >> this becomes a narrative. the problem is when narratives stick. >> this narrative is over for now. dana milbanks, matt lewis. thank you very much. nbc orders an assessment of david gregory. what's up with that? and later, mariel hemingway, what's it like dealing with the media having been a celebrity since she was 16. >> i have to be honest. i'm not the best celebrity. i don't believe in living out loud and airing everything. i don't feel that that is -- i think it's uninteresting. ke

there was a time when "meet the press" was the dominant sunday morning show under the

late tim russert. but it slipped to third place under david gregory who has a very different style. >> if you don't have the ability to shoot off 30 rounds without reloading that possibly you could reduce the loss of life. >> to the extent you have aided and abetted snowden, even in his current moments, why shouldn't you, mr. greenwald, be charged with a crime? >> things have reached ai point where nbc tried to improve gregory's performance by hiring what t"the washington post" called a psychological consult and the to talk to his family and friends. why have david gregory and "meet the press" slipped to third place? >> "a" it was a bad choice right out of the box. i'll tell you two reasons. one, david gregory has -- i'm just talking about the persona. god knows the person has been savaged enough this week. he has no passion.

tim russert was steeped in passion. it wasn't just passion for politics. it was a passion when he interviewed. he would be the prosecutor. he would laugh sometimes. this is a cool, hollow, flat character on television. >> off the air david gregory is a very funny guy who used to call into the show and do impersonations. i think he got more serious when russert died. >> he felt he had to is gravitas but it didn't work. it was the opposite. not coming across as having the passion for politics that russert had, he had a producer betsy fisher martin who was steeped in politics and was plugged in and had all that energy. she filled some of that void for him, number one, until she left. now who did they replace her with? they replaced her with rob yaron, a tv consultant, essentially from a consultant

company. what will he give you? phony ways to create passion. it's absolutely true. >> what we know he's doing or what david gregory is doing is trying to quicken the pace of the broadcast with shorter enter views, faster paced segments this happens in tv all the time. i wrestle with this all the time. the thing that made russert such a signature player are the longer interviews where you could drill down on an evasive politician. >> those are consultant tricks to try to get around what's not there at the core. in addition to a lack of passion, gregory also has a lack, again, this is a persona on tv, of authenticity. tim russert was an authentic person who cared about the buffalo bill. >> few of us are tim russert. >> bob schieffer is. bob schieffer. there's an authenticity to him that connects with the audience out there in america. this is your cool, flat tv host. this is what a consultant will

give you. they have robbed the soul of tv news. >> he ran this by an nbc spokeswoman twice, nbc employed a psychological consult and the to talk to gregory's wife and friends to bring him alive on the air. gregory said this is utter fiction. nbc now saying it was a brand consultant. leaving aside the sman tiemanti what does that say. >> they're trying to find out if there's an authentic person there, too. it also tells me, nbc news itself, in fairness to gregory, nbc news itself is in a big downturn. >> he has a history as a good journalist, aside from whether he's a good anchor, good question. i have half a minute. the wrap on david gregory is that also he favors democrats, that he's harder on conservative guests. fair or unfair? >> i don't want to go there. i don't want to make this judgment. really, this is a disaster to

lose the show the way they've lost it, you know? along with their morning, along with their evening show is getting beaten. this is a management problem. i take it back to steve capus, who is now again, who hired him. i really do, howie. i think this is a larger problem for nbc news. they're better off blowing it up than trying to consult. >> sunday morning is very competitive. thanks for coming by this sunday. ahead, new e-mails shows how cozy cnn got with rahm emanuel for a mini series starring the chicago mayor. up next, mariel hemingway going public with the suicides in her fa of the

hour for "america's news headquarters." now back to "media buzz." mariel hemingway was born

into a famous family but one who has seen plenty of tragedy. >> it was like the kennedy family, the kennedys had horrible tragedies. we were the other american family that had this horrible curse. >> i come from seven suicides, perhaps more. >> i spoke to her earlier from los angeles. mariel hemingway, welcome. >> hi. how are you? >> i'm doing really well. >> in this documentary, you talk very openly about your parents alcoholism and seven suicides in your family, your grandfather, ernest hemingway, of course, as well as your sister margo who was an actress. is it hard to talk about these things? >> you know, people often ask me, like it must be so difficult. the truth is i've been talking about it now for a good long time. and that is kind of the point of the documentary. i didn't do this documentary

because i think my story is so incredible. i did the documentary because i actually think that so many people share in the kind of fear of talking about this issue, about suicides and mental illness and it runs in more of our families than we'd like to recognize. and by talking about it, i truly believe that the healing can start. you know what i mean? >> do you think the media are drawn to your saga and this whole question of mental illness and sue side because you have a famous last name? there has to be a celebrity factor? >> i think that, of course, you look at a family and you say, oh, ernest hemingway was wrought with this. what people aren't also looking at or they will, and kind of my passion in life, is to really explore the how great -- i've been given not just depression and suicide, i've already been given great creativity and an amazing lineage. it's the ability to look at the

good things swell the bad things so you can see -- have a holistic view of your life. for me it's about awareness, about where we come from, and when you have an awareness about your family and heritage and genetics and all the different things that make up the beauty of who you are, then you can make informed decisions about your own well-being, your health, wellness, all of that. >> did you worry when you were younger, particularly after margo took her life, that you, too, would be crazy or at least crazier than the little bit crazy that we all are? >> well, you know, i can't deny that when margo committed suicide, which was an incredible surprise, i thought oh, my god, the baton has been passed to me. now it's going to -- who else does it go to but me? i have an older sister who also suffers from mental illness who is wonderful, who's actually in the movie. but then after many years of,

like, intraspection, working on food and exercise and health, we talked about that before, i believe i found a way of living my life that keeps me in balance. i think it's important for others to know that. that there are -- there's help out there. there's ways of living your life that can help balance your brain. i'm not saying it may be a sole solution for every problem but it's certainly part of the solution. >> the fact that you write books about fitness and about nutrition and you're an advocate for a healthy lifestyle, that's perhaps not an accident, it's your way of coping with the nuttiness you came out of, the chaos you came out of? >> absolutely. no mistake about it. the reason i did it was essentially because i was scared and i was trying to survive. and then it became about, oh, my gosh, i know so much about this, my life is becoming more balanced, happy. i feel good every day. and i want to share that with

people, that i know that how we live our every day life, the normal things that we do, how do you wake up in the morning? these kinds of things, i wrote -- my latest book is called "running with nature" that i wrote with my partner, bobby williams. that's what that is about, exploring the simple things we do and how that creates happiness, joy, well-being. how it balances the brain. it's part of a bigger conversation. and i want people to know that there are many different ways to address this issue. >> there's no magic formula, no ten steps to a happy life? >> no. >> everybody has to find the answer for themselves. >> there's also no pill you can take. there's also no pill you can take. >> it would be so much easier. >> to make all things better. we as a society, we think, oh, if i take something, it will be good. now, it might be a good way to give yourself a break but it's not going to be the sole solution. >> right. i always wondered this about you, because ernest hemingway killed himself a few months

before you were born. obviously his legacy and shadow has loomed large for you. is that strange for you? >> i've never been mariel smith. i've only been mariel hemingway. it's odd because -- >> you never met him. >> because he's so big -- i never met him. he's bigger than life. he's considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. so that's big. but it's also such an honor to be a part of a legacy that is so creative, so full of imagination and that's the part of what i've inherited that i think is extraordinary. and i feel as though i'm going to dive into what that really means for my own life. i no longer fear going crazy or doing all that. i'm sort of like, wow. we have a clip in the movie about that. i feel it's a family about joy

and happiness. there doesn't have to be, you know, doesn't have to go hand in hand with depression and sadness and suicide. and killing yourself. it's not about that. it's about let's find what's good about this, let's find the positive in this and work from there. >> more of my conversation with mariel hemingway in a moment, including her thoughts on the allegations against her old friend and co-star, woody allen.

more now of my conversation with mariel hemingway. >> you've been in the media spotlight ever since you made the movie "manhattan" deck okays ago. has that men the, especially when you were younger and now, dealing with the gossip and rumors about your life, how do you cope with that? a lot of people aren't in love with that part of celebrity. >> you know what, i am so not -- i have to be honest, i'm not the best celebrity. >> you're failing at the task of being an a-list celebrity? you're admitting this right now? >> i'm just failing. i just don't go to events. i know, i went to the golden globes this year. that was i abig deal. it was fun. it's if unthat i don't do it that often like i do, i'm looking around like, wow, i know him. >> you do that because you want your privacy? is that a deliberate lifestyle

choice. >> i am a very private person. i don't -- you know, it's ironic that i made a documentary but it's not a reality show. a documentary. there's a story being told. i don't believe in living out loud and, like, airing everything. i don't feel that that is -- i think it's uninteresting. i think it makes for an, actually, very unare interesting person. i would rather see people be dynamic and show creativity and where they could go. not that i don't love reality but real reality to me is exploring and having different adventures and seeing what you can do with your life and create new things. >> not just being a bald-faced name in those gossip columns? >> exactly. exactly. >> we know a lot about your life. it is true that your first kiss at the age of 16 was with? >> woody allen. i fully have to admit that. i mean, it's no the that i didn't kiss anybody.

that was my first make joout session. >> in front of the camera. >> i remember when they said, cut. i said -- i looked at the camera and i said, i don't have to do that again, do i? >> so now that "the new york times" and mia farrow ahave brought up this older allegations of child molestation on woody allen's part, you know him, he denies this strenuously. how does that make you feel? >> i -- you know, i don't pretend to know what goes on behind closed doors. i don't know mia. i know woody. i think that he's an incredible filmmaker and i love him as a human being and as an artist. you know, that stuff i know nothing about. i don't condone that behavior. but i find it unusual that somebody who never did that all of a sudden does that. but i don't know. i really -- that would be -- >> we don't know the truth of what happened.

i just wondered how you felt about watching that come back in the news? >> it's sad. it's very sad. because both sides are in pain, obviously. >> yes, obviously. many actresses talk about the difficulty of finding good parts as they get older. do you find yourselves doing battle with the youth obsessed culture of hollywood, like that sign behind you? >> there is a youth-obsessed culture. the good news is, as you get older, there's always a part for somebody's mom or grandmother. >> i don't see you being cast as grandma. >> well, i don't think so. >> not yet. >> here's what's interesting about that. is that television nowadays and television meaning all cable, netflix, and some really great shows on network really show some very fabulous female characters. and i am so excited by that. i'm actually developing a

television series for tv or cable or whatever it's going to be. because i think that that's the place where a woman can actually express herself in a really powerful way. look at robin wright penn in "house of cards." an extraordinary role. she's in her late 40s -- maybe mid-40s. she doesn't want to be insulted. she looks amazing. >> it's done online. >> it's a great character. >> that's a technological advance that didn't exist five years ago. when you get your series up and running, you have to come back and talk about it. >> i absolutely will. >> mariel hemingway, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you so much. the own documentary airs tonight. go to our website, foxnews.com/media-buzz.

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. time now for our "video verdict." this time, the white hot focus of our debate is you. >> uh-oh. well, wait. you'll talk about how incisive i was. >> i'll play someone else replaying what you had to say on last week's show. >> obviously news of a grand child is a joyous occasion. put politics aside and offer the clinton family a heartfelt congratulations for such a shrewd political move.

>> maybe this was planned. >> yes. >> maybe this was planned. we all know, only the most devious people would ever plan. >> did you see i was on colbert? >> you're fame out, but i guess he was kind of making fun of you. >> well, he knows talent when he sees it, right? >> i see, that's what it is. >> but he also thought you were a little out there. >> all right. let me get back at him here. i did not say that that is what i thought. i was reporting on what other people were saying. that's what we do in news. >> are you suggesting that this very talented stephen colbert, soon to be the next david letterman, was taking you out of context? >> i think so, and do i work for fox news, and does he do that to fox news all the time?

yes. >> you're saying he had an agenda. >> oh, i think so. he admitted to you in a "washington post" article that he's a democrat. >> but he made it sound like you were joining the chelsea clinton birther movement and thought hillary and her daughter got together with their calendars and figured out when is the best time to have this baby. >> all i'm saying is some people were saying it. saying it on twitter, writing about it in blogs, you know. got to wring that up if that's the other side of the story. >> do you believe in this conspiracy theory? >> no, no. >> and are you ticked off at colbert? >> no. he's trying to be funny. he's trying to be fun i. i mean, he says himself he's trying to be, you know, high class idiot who is just, you know, funny and it's all satire, so, hey, you know. that's not bad. all publicity is good publicity. >> the headline is you're accusing stephen colbert of being a high class idiot, the stephen colbert character who is a buffoon. >> he's got to stop attacking fox news if i'm going to watch him on "late show.

". >> unless he puts you on. >> okay, i'll do it. >> best tweets and new e-mails about a reality series showing a cozy

here are a few of your top tweets on the coverage of clive bundy and his racist thoughts. maggie, wake up, no one but fox covered the theft of bundy's cattle yet jumped on the racism.

where were the mainstream media on the blm armed assault? >> i respect you for bringing up the racist issue on fox news. it was surely needed to be brought up for discussion. and david gregory's struggles at "meet the press." i think he's been average as host with a strong liberal bias. russert was so good it's an impossible standard to meet. people sought alternatives. >> it's true. when you follow a popular anchor, take deborah norville who had to follow jane pauley who had been there for years and years, you know, it's hard to live up to those standards. >> yeah. it's a very unforgiving business on sunday morning and gregory is doing his best, i guess. in our press picks, this media fail. a cnn reality-type series called "chicagoland" turned into a pretty nice platform for rahm emanuel. >> i got talking to this young man, martel, and he was so engaging. he's a wonderful kid. there's something about his

personality, and i'm taken with it, and i'm trying to help him knuckle down and buckle down for college. >> well, now we know why "the chicago tribune" obtaining e-mails from the production company working with cnn talking to the democrat mayor's aide pitching a positive portrayal. our need for deeper access to show the best of who he really is and present him as the star that he really is. he want more of rahm in the series. rahm will look good making his points. executive producer mark levin who partnered with robert redford says you can't get access in chicago without having to do a certain dance. the end result is what is called myth-making and a re-election campaign vehicle for rahm. cnn not dissipating the e-mails said the mayor's office was never granted editorial control over the content or communications and no agency was ever granted authority to offer

the mayor's office editorial control. >> as an executive at "usa today" i did sell to cable networks based on documentary content but at the end of the day, you, "usa today" or cnn, are responsible for all of the communication that happens. >> that was a nondenial denial by cnn. it looks like those e-mails are embarrassing, and it looks like the pitch was that rahm will look good. apparently he did look good. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like. we post video there and engage in a conversation with you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >> good morning. it is monday april 28th. we begin with a fox news alert. horror for folks in the

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thank you for starting your day with us. thousands of people are homeless in america after a killer twister hit the midwest. >> holy. >> oh my gosh. >> at least 16 people are dead in arkansas. crews are searching for survivors in the rubble. you can see the path of destruction this is in the city of may flower. an entire neighborhood flattened cars and trucks tossed around like toys so many barely esca escaping with their lives. >> we pulled over because everybody else pulled over but we were already in the middle of it. >> twisters left one person