i will give you the wrong blood pressure medication if you're not telling me. >> it's the best job you have as a doctor to take care of people. absolutely. >> thank you, doctors. that does it for us. i'm arthel neville. >> thanks for watching every week. take care. on president obama under fire for freeing five taliban commanders as the media keeps digging out new information about his failure to consult congress and at the heart of it the conduct of bowe bergdahl. >> tonight we are hearing stunning new accusations from the soldiers who served with bowe bergdahl and those who risked their lives to save him. >> all the early joy and celebration over bergdahl's release has indeed been clouded over several growing controversies. >> he deserted not only the army, but he also left myself and my platoon and my company to

clean up his mess. >> raise your hand if you think he deserted? raise your hand if you have some question about whether he deserted? wow. >> has the media coverage been fair or politically driven? and why a some liberal commentators say bergdahl has been swift boated? bret baier's on his son's struggle for life and how he was torn between his television life and a baby with a defective heart. plus, the court says the people have a legal right to force google to delete unfair and negative information about them from online searches. it sounds tempting, but doesn't that trample free speech in this is "mediabuzz." >> it was remarkable how quickly the media narrative on bowe bergdahl duringed to harsh criticism of the president and the soldier for every aspect of

the decision to swap five taliban prisoners being held at gitmo. susan rice saying to the world that sergeant bergdahl served his country with honor, are you kidding me? and that's on top of the benghazi stuff. >> the fact is an american soldier is coming home. they're going to play to it the hilt as something wrong with president obama. it's his fault. high crimes and misdemeanor. >> why are we doing anything to get this guy back? he is ashamed to be an american. he calls america disgusting. >> this is an orchestrated smear campaign. the implication is that president obama should have left a u.s. soldier to die. but if he had done that, the same republicans would be attacking him for doing that. so the whole thing is completely outrageous. >> the administration's version began to unravel as news organizations focused on an e-mail from bergdahl to his parents saying he was ashamed to be an american, and begin interviewing soldiers who said bergdahl deserted their military unit and put their lives at risk.

>> what was your immediate thought when you learned and the fellow members of your squad and platoon learned that he was gone? >> i immediately said he walked away. he walked away. >> everybody that i talked to believed he deserted. is there any dispute about that? >> no. he deserted his post willfully and purposefully. >> he just vanished in the next morn when they were trying to do a role call, they couldn't find him and they realized this guy sneaked out. >> the white house pushback against the media was soon echoed by pundits such as msnbc's ari melber. >> a former p.o.w. under treatment now at a hospital is being swift boated by the anti-obama machine. >> brian williams asked the president about the decision, but he got the same talking points. >> what was the reason for not informing the eight members of congress who would customarily be informed by this? >> brian, i have to tell you the

same thing that i've been saying for the last several days. >> the president repeating his point that the u.s. should leave no soldier behind on the battlefield. joining us now to examine the coverage, lauren ashburn. jim pinkerton, a fox news contributor writes for the american conservative, and bill press, host of the bill press radio show. lauren ashburn, what is the most important thing the media did to change the administration's narrative about the bowe bergdahl release? >> absolutely no question it's the interviews that we saw just a moment ago by these soldiers, these soldiers who served side by side with bowe bergdahl saying that he was a deserter. you could see it in their demeanor, saying how could this man walk away from us, put our lives at risk by knowing that we would have to go searching for him? >> tim pinkerton, as you know, susan rice going out on the sunday talk shows more than a

week ago, talking about bergdahl serving with honor and distinction. got a lot of attention. and then on friday, cnn reporter jim acosta was able to get a brief interview with her, asked about that. she had a chance the back off. here is what happened. >> he is, as all americans, innocent until proven guilty. he is now being tried in the court of public opinion after having gone through an enormously traumatic five years of captivity. >> why such a focus on this phrase honor an distinction? >> because she seems to like it. i think it speaks to the tin ear of the contemporary democratic party for patriotic issues. they just don't have a sense of the military culture. this is not the fdr democratic party that won its wars and executed deserter. >> you don't think the media are make together much of it? >> i think lauren is right. his soldiers, his colleagues, every one of them is not even

close. now, "the new york times" is doing its best to smear the unit by running articling saying they're sloppy and the they finally found an american soldier they like in bergdahl. but the average ones being interviewed are unanimous on this. >> i'll come back to the smear question in just a moment. but bill press, after the e-mail from bergdahl to his parents widely reported ashamed to be an american, james rosen of fox news got hold of a report about his captivity. he tried to escape a couple of times, held in a cage. but also, according to this report, that he had played soccer with his captors and declared himself a warrior for islam. should that have gotten more coverage? do you have any question about that story? >> first of all, i think jim rosen is a damn good reporter and he is not a criminal co-conspirator as he was first called. but i read that story as well. it's a questionable source. you've got to say the guy who runs the source, who put it out there was once indicted for lying to congress. so you got to raise question

about that. >> the part about bergdahl being kept in a cage, now we know for weeks and months was confirmed by american military sources today in the times. >> right. and the pentagon did its own investigation of his captivity. they didn't come up with this, what was in the report, that after he tried to escape and was punished, that then he became more friendly with them. they treated him well. he was able to get out, play soccer, carry a gun. we don't know that that's true. if it is true, even, we don't know what it says. is it stockholm syndrome? >> it is being nice to his captors to try to stay alive? >> get more food and stay alive. i'm not going to judge what he said under captivity because i don't know what i would do. >> pulling back the camera a bit, there something of a media rush to judgment? is bowe bergdahl being court martialed by the press? >> absolutely i think it's a rush to judgment in some instances. early on there were questions raised about six to eight

soldiers who died who may have died looking for bergdahl. and "the new york times" itself actually said that is very murky. so there was that there was also early on 2010 rolling stone and michael hastings did this report here talking about all of the information that we knew about how he possibly was a deserter, yet at the time that didn't make any sense. and once all of this started to come forward, everybody started referencing the article. >> and just hastings also reported, the late michael hastings that there were disciplinary problems with unit which is something that has been picked up in the last couple days by not just "the new york times" and others. is that unfair to point out? >> hastings said the discipline pr plagued bowe's unit only got worse when immersed in the fog of war. as jim brought up, the headline today in "the new york times" is bergdahl was in unit known for its troubles why, is that a smear? >> i don't think -- the smear on

who? i'm sorry. >> you said earlier the smoker times was smearing -- >> here they are smearing the unit. bergdahl unit was known for its troubles. that's a smear. that is an attack. >> why are they focusing on this? >> because there were problems according to hastings and "the new york times." >> pulls its journalistist resources together. again, it's in the context of the times editorial saying bergdahl misunderstood. >> excuse me, this is on the front page. they're reporting the news. the news is the pentagon knew there were problems with this unit. obviously, security for that unit wasn't that tough if bergdahl was able to walk off at least twice and come back and his buddy soldiers, at least some of them they thought this was a good move on his part. it wasn't a smear. >> we saw earlier, msnbc's ari melber and the white house aides have started to put this out quietly this is swift boating. it worked for john kerry in the 2004 campaign. so he knows about swift boating, or at least he has it on his

mind. but is that a fair charge when i would argue that lots of news organizations that would not be described as conservative informations have been going out and finding out from the soldiers about bergdahl's conduct? >> jake tapper of cnn said better men gave their lives in looking for bergdahl, who wrote a book about afghanistan. every unit in afghanistan, look, it's a crazy war, and they're alone by themselves on little fire bases. of course they can't keep track of everybody. if that person chooses voluntarily to desert, to my floj has only been one deserter coming out of afghanistan. that's bergdahl. everyone else manages to deal with the situation and stay loyal. >> i believe overall with some exceptions, the media's response to the story has been shameful because they took a narrative. you just used the word deserter. the word you hear most often to describe bergdahl is deserter. we do not know that.

we haven't heard his story. we know he walked off twice, and he came back to his post. a deserter doesn't do that. why did he go off? we don't know there are a lot of different reasons. to call him a deserter in the media i think is just going way over the line. >> here is the problem is that we can't talk to him. we don't know what he was thinking there is no way we can know his motive. but if you look into the eyes of those soldiers who said he deserted and they were there, you know, you need to report that. and then when you finally hear bergdahl's side of it, then the decision can be made. >> okay. but first of all, i want to make it clear, and not everybody at msnbc bought into this swift boating, chris matthews for example said everything he knows that has been reported has been true. turn for a second to the taliban video that everybody replayed endlessly, propaganda video of the handover of bergdahl. why does that get so much attention? and does it go to your point we haven't heard from him or even seen him? >> are you kidding? why did it get so much

attention? here is this central figure of this entire story, and we only have one picture of him in a military uniform? and now we get to look into his blinking eyes and imagine what happened to him or try to discern what the relationship was with his captors? you see him in a pashtun smock. you think okay, maybe he is sympathetic to them. maybe he is not. is he cognizant of what is happening? has he been tortured? you have to see that video to understand the story. >> but let's also talk about why we haven't heard from him. it's been a week. the problem they have is you keep seeing reports that he has been converted, james rosen he converted to islam. i think they're terrified of even letting him talk to his own family because they're afraid he is going to claire ldeclare allr on tv. >> give him a chance to do what he needs to do to get back to

his family. i also think it's important to point out there is at least one former soldier in his unit that told the pentagon, described him as a good soldier. 10 we have to -- there are other voices out there. we don't know the story. that's all i want to point out. >> the one thing i want agree on there are still unanswered questions because we have not heard but bits and pieces from bergdahl himself himself. also there has been bipartisan criticism on the hill about the administration's handling, the failure to notify congress. i think this has given the whole story a more of a bipartisan, not just one attack from the right. talk to me @howardkurtz. we'll read some of your messages later in the program. when we come back, should the media criticism of bowe bergdahl also extend to his dad? and later, an advanced look at hillary clinton sitting down with diane sawyer, and the subject turns to karl rove. what age you are. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+.

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bowe bergdahl now bowe bergdahl now recovering in a military hospital on the cover of "time" magazine with the headline "was he worth it? is that a fair journalistic question tim pinkerton? >> it's a fair question, but there are also larger policy questions. mike casey. >> former attorney general. >> for president bush. that this is part of the lawyerless strategy of closing down gaughan town mow. that becomes one of the focuses. >> i think the media are all in favor of closing guantanamo. of course we should shut the place down. but i think it's an important question when you read about how horrible these five taliban types are and realize they're back as arm man rosen wrote, it especially means obama has given up on the afghan war.

>> i have to say look, let's just focus on what this. it's an american p.o.w. who was this for five years. we had a chance to bring him home and we brought him home there is no larger picture here. this is not part of a strategy to totally reconvert the war on terror and all that. >> i need to come back to the media. you in the previous block said the coverage was shameful. but you seem to be saying that because we haven't had a chance to hear, understandably so, from bergdahl. but is there anything that has been reported? maybe some rhetorical excess that has been unfair in your view? >> i think two things. one, calling him a deserter is unfair. and not backed up by the facts. number two, cnn reported at least to learn references a little earlier, cnn, at least six people died searching for sergeant bergdahl. >> as it f it were a fact. >> as if it were a fact. the pentagon researched that and said no connection. the "new york times" said murky connection at best. so i think that was over or

overreporting, yes, unfair. >> i want to turn now to bob bergdahl, the soldier's father. i got into it with bill o'reilly on whether or not he was fair game. >> i'm not a fan of how bob bergdahl has conducted himself. but cut the guy some slack. the man shows up at the white house looking like a muslim. he speaks pashto. he thinks allah. it's inappropriate. your thoughts. >> no bill, i'm sorry. it's inappropriate that you, as well as joe scarborough from msnbc are attacking a man whose son has been held in captivity for five years. you don't know what that father has been going through unless you've been in that situation. what -- how can you even say or even question the motives of this father? you just don't know. and here is a man who has lost his son, possibly forever.

>> he doesn't know where whether he is coming back. >> i'm not in favor of everything bob bergdahl has done and said. it seems to me he doesn't have to be in the national spotlight. he is at the white house. >> you look at the picture of president obama, it was freaky to see the president treating the family as a yellow ribbon opportunity. >> why? >> because he didn't do it for the other 2,000 who have been killed in afghanistan, that's for sure. and he treated him, again, susan rice with honor and distinction. the case is murky at best. all these colleagues call him a deserter. and here he is getting -- >> i'm not going to attack the father for wanting his father home. i'm not going to attack the president for having his parent there's. and if bill o'reilly thinks everybody with a beard is a muslim, has he ever seen the gnats? did he ever see "duck dynasty"? this is insane. >> i do think that making it a big celebratory white house event the president set a tone for the coverage that he was a hero, that we in the media then

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bret baier was riding high at fox news when he and his wife amy had a baby, only to learn that a defective heart could kill him at any moment. young paul had two open heart surgeries and a stomach operation in the first year. and the pain and the pressure on his parents was of course crushing. he recounts that in a new book. >> it is hard to watch, sweetheart, when you see everything that went on? you're okay? and you did that race and everything. >> uh half. >> what do you say to the doctors and nurses when you see them? >> they saved my life. >> bret's book is called

"special heart: a journey of faith, hope, courage and love." i spoke with the special anchor report right here in studio 1. bret baier, welcome. >> thank you. good to be here. >> how hard is it to relive the agony of what happened in the writing of this book? >> it was tough. i didn't think it was going to be as tough as it was. and getting back into some of these e-mails and some of these moments was pretty emotional. and then as i was writing this book, we found out that paul, our son had to have a third open heart surgery. so the final chapter is the third open heart surgery. so getting into that and while i was finishing the book is -- >> it's largely a book about what happened in the past also became a duke about dealing with currently yet another surgery. but every page, it's a very personal book. any hesitation about going public with so much pain and personal story?

at a time by your own admission your family is under great strain and you were not at your best. >> we had long discussions, my wife and i about this. and we came to the conclusion that by putting this out there, it possibly could help other families. and not just if they have a kid with open heart surgery or some big surgery, but everybody has something, you know. every family has something to bear, some tough thing. and we thought that by showing how we got out of our darkest moment, that it could maybe help others. not to be cheesy, we actually just thought being as open as we could would be the best way to do it. >> it certainly makes for a compelling and sometimes painful reading. when you got the awful news when paul was born you have this great day, your son was going to be born and then you find out he may not live, you had to decide whether to wait about a week for a world class heart surgeon to return to the country, and you say in the book that you had to function right then as a reporter. >> yeah. because i was asking all these questions.

and automatically, my mind went to, you know, what i need to know to make this decision. but i couldn't outhustle this one. coy not outthink it. it was -- >> it was unknown fact turkey, unknown factors. and i wanted to affect it. i wanted to change the situation but i couldn't. we finally came to the point where decide the best thing to do was to wait for the surgeon to come back. >> during the ordeals and the operations and when you were able to eventually come back to work, but your son was still in grave condition, how were you able to concentrate on your job? >> it was tough. especially those first days. back when he was still in the hospital, my wife said to me, you need to go back to work, because i was pacing in the hallways, and we had gotten to a point where he was okay. >> she wanted some distance.

>> she wanted some distance, yeah. she said i love the relationship has worked over this time because bret travels a lot. but i really tried to focus. i was at the white house at the time. on the story of the day. and really just delve into it. and it helped me actually deal with getting through those moments. >> you got a voice mail message from president bush, which you let go to voice mail because you didn't know the president was calling. as you recounted the book, you sent these long and incredibly detailed e-mails with updates on what paul was going through, you and amy. was that therapeutic for you in you must have spent a lot of time filling in your friends and colleagues of what was going on in your life. >> yeah, it was cathartic, it really was. amy's reaction to everything was to internalize, go to paul, be with him, sing with him, make sure that he was taken care of. i did some of that, but mine was to make sure everybody was up to date. because i had all these people asking me what was happening.

so at the end of the day, i usually drink a glass of wine and sit at the computer and think about the day specifically. and fortunately, the way i remembered things i think laid it out for family and friends really what we were in the middle of realtime. and i was reporting on our own situation. when we compiled all of these together, we looked at them and said this could be a powerful story to help somebody else. get through something tough. >> and of course i have to ask you how paul is doing today. >> yes. >> and you must view your time with him as especially precious because of what you faced at the beginning. >> oh, yeah. every holiday, every birthday is really that much more special. he is fantastic. i mean, he is bouncing off the walls. he'll be 7 this summer. plays basketball, baseball, karate. he is doing great in school. he is the tallest kid in his class. so he is doing great.

in fact, i asked him what it was like to be on this book and what does he think about the book. and he said it's really cool because now i'm famous. and i went oh, man. maybe we need to work on that answer a bit. >> i teared up reading this book. it's really impossible not to. on a moment, bret baier on ankle or thing "special report" and in response to criticism of fox. and returning to cbs after her benghazi blunder. returning marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [ female announcer ] the complete balanced nutrition of great-tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals, antioxidants,

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a fox news alert now. i'm harris faulkner. breaking news is happening in nevada. we are just learning of a horrible scene there. we're told two men walked into a restaurant in las vegas, shot two police officers in what is being called an ambush. fox news now can confirm both of those policemen are dead. then we're told those same men went directly to a nearby walmart. you see the proximity here on the map. and now some first pictures into fox news from the scene. we do know those gunmen took the officers' weapons and ammunition off of the body. on their way out of that restaurant. so they were heavily armed by the time they reached the walmart. a s.w.a.t. team surrounded the store as suspects moved into the back. now police in las vegas are

telling fox the men are dead, along with at least one bystander. we'll see you here at 7:00 p.m. for fox report. more now of my conversation with fox's bret baier. when you took over "special report" five years ago and began to sit in this chair, now, you had filled in regularly, of course. was there a little bit of nervousness because this was the program that brit hume had established and you were now having to fill his shoes? >> big-time. the first days i was looking at the graphic to make sure it still said with bret baier. >> once your name is on the graphic, it's hard to get rid of you. >> it's hard to get rid of me. i say in the book i think there were people who looked at me taking over for brit with egg timers, waiting for this to be changed out. fortunately the show continued to succeed and we built on the foundation that brit built.

and knock on wood, it's been a great five and a half years. >> does it bother you as a newsman when critics say fox slants the news, fox is hostile to president obama? >> yeah. most of the loudest critics of fox haven't watched. and the people who are most adamant on e-mail i say have you watched my show? and most say no. and i say how about this. watch it for three days in a row, e-mail me back and see what you think. >> do they take you off on the offer. >> most do that and they e-mail back and say wow, i like the show. and when joe kleine comes out from "time" magazine and says this is the straight newscast at 6:00, i think that says a lot. we're proud of the product. >> obviously many of the commentators at fox are not fans of president obama. does that make it harder for you dealing with the administration, trying to get books and the like? >> it doesn't hinder that

ability to cover the news, even in the darkest days ow when the white house was saying -- using fox as a talk point from the white house. >> the president still occasionally takes a whack or two as he did with bill o'reilly in the super bowl interview. >> exactly. but as it was really intense, even during that time, we still covered effectively. people were answering calls, and we had responses. is it tougher to book interviews? i'm still waiting to talk again to president obama after the 2010 interview. and we hope he does come back on "special report." i can talk directly to the camera if you want me to. >> dude, what was going through your mind during the interview with white house spokesman tommy beater. >> did you also change attacks in the talk points? >> maybe. i don't remember. >> you don't remember? >> dude, this is two years ago. >> dude, it's everybody is talking about it. >> we're talking about the process of editing talking

points. that's what bureaucrats do all day long. >> i know tommy, and have i dealt with him when he was at nsc. i think that was tommy being tommy, and he just felt comfortable in that moment to say that. and -- but i was kind of shocked when it happened, which took me a second to come back and say, dude, i re-duded him. >> and you kept going in that interview. >> yeah. >> beyond what you had planned? >> we were getting a lot more things that seemed fairly newsworthy. so we kept on asking questions. and moved things around to be able to facilitate that. >> let me circle back to the book. it's not all serious before your son was born, you were courting your now wife amy. you tell a story about special preparations you had to make in your apartment before her first visit. this is the dark side of bret baier. >> she is a neat freak. i mean, she is ocd. i think she would like to have it cdo so it's in alphabetical

order. >> this doesn't quite describe you. >> no, i was not on the neat factor, and was actually very messy. and i say was, because she reformed me. but my apartment needed some serious help. and she came in to town and found a large pile of dirty clothes that i had hidden under a black sheet they thought would just be a black hole in the room in the back of the room. >> you cleaned this up. wasn't it after you had taken many other bags of dirty laundry? >> howie, you're such a great reporter. thanks for zeroing in on this moment. yeah, i had. and i had a serious clothing problem. i don't know whether it was a maytag that went wrong when i was a kid or something, but -- >> but obviously the relationship survived. >> it survived. >> and i'm glad to hear paul is doing well. bret baier, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks. >> after the break, maureen dowd gets sky-high, freaks out, and writes about bumming out on pot.

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time for some buzz briefs. time for some buzz briefs. now we know what president obama

looks like working out. and the cell phone video has been all over television. whoever caught obama yawning while weight lifting and hitting a stair master in a wausau hotel leaked the footage to a polish tabloid and of course it went viesh viral. i find the whole thing a little creepy. can't the president even hit the gym without being on secret surveillance video? maureen dowd said i felt a scary shudder go through my body and brain. i barely made it from the desk to the bed where i lay curled up in a hallucinogen state for the next hours. dowd had eaten a candy bar laced with marijuana in a state where that's not recommended, but ate 16 times the recommended dose and got a bit mocked on the internet. welcome back to earth, maureen. now for an update on a couple of media story, it's been a long time, last fall to be precise and cbs put lara logan

on a leave of absence over her botched "60 minutes" report oven benghazi who falsely claimed to be at the scene. now marisa guthrie, logan is back at work and will appearing on cbs programs and eventually "60 minutes." they had left her in limbo for two long. she'll now get a crack at rebuilding her career. sharyl attkisson made headlines when she quit cbs telling me the network had simply stopped running her investigative pieces on benghazi and other subjects. now attkisson is taking heat from the less. a website that says it wants fair reporting and is part of the conservative heritage foundation. well, anthony bourdain, the cnn food and travel guy says he doesn't like preaching to the converted. in a podcast on the nerdist website, he put msnbc on the menu. >> msnbc is like every show, they look like these stupid republican morons did today.

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has ruled that people have a right to be forgotten. and online search companies are required to consider requests to remove links that infringe on their privacy. i certainly can understand why people would want that. there are libellous things out there that are written about people and just bad information. and i think that a lot of people want to be able to have the control to get rid of that. >> well, sure. but where do you draw the line? in your case, for example, there's a picture of you that a website that's not a fan of you keeps putting out on google. have we got that? >> oh, come on. i'm glad we don't. good. keep going. oh, there we are. isn't that lovely? >> right. >> can we figure out a way to delete that? >> yeah. but it seems to me that there's a difference between something inaccurate -- i mean, you're going to whack we with that pad? >> i am. do it again and you're in big trouble. >> a difference between wanting

something that is inaccurate or libelous taken down from search links or it's just you don't like something that somebody said or wrote about you and you want that whitewashed from the internet. >> there are a lot of examples cited in this eu court decision and one of them is a spaniard who -- actually, this was in the "new york times." the spaniard who it was reported that he had to sell his house in his house in order to pay for his debts, and he thought that that with a influence the way that workers saw him. another one was seen skipping out on a dublin cabbie. picture was posted everywhere, except he was in japan, and it wasn't him, and the picture was taken down, but all of that information is still there and he wants it expunged. >> you have the french mother trying to remove photos of her scantily clad daughter. this is unrealistic. gaal google is not the only search engine around, a lot live on the internet, get posted on facebook and twitter. i don't know if you can wipe out all this stuff, and google which had 12,000 requests the first day. >> how many people do you need to handle that? how many people are you going to

have to hire or is it going to hurt startups which i think it could if people have to constantly comply with all of this. google did say that the balance that was struck by the eu court was wrong. >> because google doesn't want to do this. >> of course not. would i love to know what people think. seriously, if you have things written but online or pictures that are there, tweet me @laurenashburn and we'll continue the discussion about whether or not this is free speech versus the right of human beings to have some privacy. >> yeah. i'm sympathetic because nobody likes the way in which something just sort of lives forever. you google search and this terrible thing pops up as the third most important thing about you because you said something stupid or someone said something stupid about you. >> that was untrue. >> untrue or sometimes true. still not sure. >> what are you saying? >> i don't go around making that face. >> okay. >> we'll get a better picture of you. still to come, your best tweets. john oliver takes on the fcc and an advanced look at diane sawyer's sit-down with aspiring author hillary clinton.

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he appears to have swiftboated himself and another says he's being tried in the press, whatever you call that these days. >> that's a good point, he is, and i'm looking forward when we can hear from him. >> right. but i don't want to discredit the really good reporting done about what has happened but there are more pieces of the puzzle. >> very glad that the soldiers came out to say what they said. >> figured john oliver would be pretty funny on his new hbo show but i didn't think that it would -- i hate to say it -- be educational. look what happened when he took on 13 minutes taking on the federal communications commission considering a plan to allow the creation of a fast internet lane for certain companies, a debate that goes by the rather dull name of net neutrality. >> the cable companies have figured out the great truth of america. if you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring. we need you to get out there and for once in your lives focus your indiscriminate rage in a useful direction. and you know what happened? massive numbers of people listened to john oliver, so

many, in fact, they crashed the fcc website. maybe serious journalists should take note. hillary clinton's book has been leaked right on schedule and she starts her tv blitz tomorrow. here's an excerpt of abc's diane sawyer asking the author about the concussion she suffered in late 2012. >> the clot in addition -- >> yes. >> if the clot had dislodged. you had trouble with vision? did you have trouble talking. >>? >> no problems. >> headaches? >> i didn't have any of that. >> i didn't -- i -- >> i felt fine. >> and what would you like to say to karl rove about your brain? >> that i know he was called bush's brain in one of the books written about him, and i wish him well. >> a little jab at karl rove there. >> but i think diane sawyer really did try to push her on her health, and a lot of people have said that diane sawyer is the person to come to, i think i've said this now, to get sort of maybe some softer questions,

but she really did hold her feet to the fire. >> she has a style where she sounds very conversational and is very friendly but she does not let up, and she asked a whole series of follow-up questions, see the whole interview tomorrow. >> love the john oliver piece. how can 13 minutes on net neutrality be fun? but it was found. >> sounds like it's news. >> he said it's wrapped up in something boring and then it crashed the website. really great piece of activism. i wouldn't say journalism, i'd said activism. >> he has a point of view but i would just say journalists could learn something from this comedian because we don't spend 13 minutes on almost any serious subject, and it was interesting bit of comedic satire there. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page, give us a like, ask questions there and we make videos to respond to you. you can also follow us on twitter and check out our home page. we like to continue the conversation that we start here every sunday, and we will be back here next sunday morning. remember.

if you don't catch us at 11:00 eastern, catch us again at 5:00 in the afternoon eastern time back here again with the latest buzz. i'm chris wallace. the firestorm over the deal to trade five taliban leaders for sergeant bowe bergdahl. today, setting the record straight on what we know and the questions still unanswered. >> we saw an opportunity and we seized it and i make no apologies for that. >> backlash from both the right and left on the president's decision to go it alone. >> the transfers went ahead with no consultation, totally not following the law. >> we have now created an inventive of united states to try to capture men and women in uniform in an effort to exchange them. >> we'll ask the former