and we will focus on that. i'm glad you brought it up for our viewers. thanks, everybody. really appreciate it. i was going to say jackson hole, as well. instead i'm going to say hue let pack yau yard and home depot earnings. have a great rest of your week. on the buzz meter this sunday, new violence in ferguson early this morning in defiance of a curfew as the national media chronicles the chaos after the fatal police shooting of an unarmed teenager. the tear gassing of a television crew and the arrest of two reporters. >> let's go. let's go. you can move. let's go. move. >> sir -- >> let's move. let's move. >> sir -- >> this way or this way. >> but is the press helping to explain another racially charged controversy? and how has the release of that shoplifting video changed the media narrative? in a interview with hillary

clinton prompts the pundits to pile on and this new form of diplomacy. >> are you going to hug it out with the president? >> absolutely. >> hillary looks like a grown-up neocon republican. she's treating oh bam in like a drunk on the subway. she's quickly moving away. >> in her efforts to appear more authentic, she stepped in it and she went a step too far. >> but is this a real schism between the president and his former secretary of state or is the media embracing a phony narrative here? the sad death of robin williams, blunt talk about depression and the inevitable excesses. is the coverage ka thattic or celebrity exploitation? plus, nbc makes it official dumping dave gregory. can chuck todd revive the battered media giant? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz.

>> the looting and violence that erupted in missouri came too late for the sunday morning papers, but they added to the sense of chaos that kicked into a higher gear on friday when the troubling tale of just why a missouri officer shot and killed michael brown emerged. videotape shows michael brown intimidating a convenience store check and running off with cigars. it wasn't until a press conference hours later when reporters got the police chief to admit this had nothing to do with the fatal shooting. >> you're telling us that when the officer stopped michael brown the first time, he was not aware that brown was a suspect in a robbery? >> no, he didn't. i was walking -- >> that had nothing to do with the stop? >> he had nothing to do with the stop the. why at this point -- at this point, why didn't you stop

michael brown? >> because they were walking down the middle of the stwreree blocking traffic. >> fox news contributor lauren ashburn joining us, jim garrity, contributing editor at national review and joe tribity. how has this video of the shoplifting, which i've now seen about 10 nous times, how has it changed the story line of this tragedy. >> it has utterly transformed the way we look at this, the way reporters do and the way the public does. it doesn't matter what the police are driving. what they're saying is i don't know the images. what they're saying is yeah, i did. >> does it matter what the report erts and the anchor res saying? like wallpaper, despite the fact that there is no dispute that this robbery was not connected

to the shooting? >> absolutely not. this is something of the media going overboard and the police shouldn't have released it, either. even the fbi said don't do this. it will cause trouble. >> jim, how is it that it took skeptical reporters, hours after this thing was playing on cable news, to get the police chief to acknowledge that this is a shoplifting case and that the officer who shot michael brown didn't even know that the guy was a suspect? >> yeah. from the comments during that seemingly chaotic press conference, you could get the feeling that the police chief was not at the top of his game. >> you are being diplomatic. >> yet perhaps there's a little bit of crazy like a fox sort of thing because for several hours, putting this out there, this goes from the story of a bad cop shooting this poor kid telling us, wait a minute, if you're presuming it's him in the individual row -- >> his family's team is not denying at this point. >> all of a sudden he's not this

instant kidney more. now he's a bit of a thug. except a couple weeks later, the cop didn't know about -- you know, a couple hours later. but by that point, if you're watching mid day, it hasn't sunk in yet. >> i'm not saying this isn't news and it shouldn't be there. of course we need to know more about the 18-year-old who is now dead. >> this is clearly a case of -- this whole episode shows how the media is both manipulated and has to be there. they're manipulated when the video is released.did it anyway on purpose despite the fbi justice department saying don't do this. and then, but look, it's a requirement. it's a requirement of the media being there, putting the police chief in that position a few hours later and constantly grilling him until he fessed up and said it had nothing to do with the reason they were stopped. >> and that's good that there

were boots on the ground in order to do that and to get to the truth. >> chief todd jackson claimed that he had to release this video because requested by several media organizations and the family called it character assassination. talk about how the images of this story get the pictures have been so powerful have changed over the last week in the aftermath of the killing? >> well, in the very beginning, you see did victim lying on the ground. he was there for several hours. you hear that the police shot him several times, that he had his hand up in the air. you have social media going crazy saying i just watched the police shoot this guy as he was running away. >> enormous. >> then the robbery video surfaced. and then just friday and early this morning, 4:00 in the morning, there were people who were anti-curfew protesters coming out and it starts to change the way the coverage is shaped. because now you're thinking, gosh, these police have to deal with these very violent crowds.

>> think about how -- cable we have always thought of as inoperation. hungry for new pictures all the time. think about how often we've watched a blank podium, waiting for a press conference to start, everybody is at the edge of their seats saying what's going the happen? any news that comes out of this, whether it's protesters, tear gas canisters flying around, in some ways this is a fantastic story for cable news. images are violent, they're vivid. on the other hand, you have to wonder are these things getting worse because the cameras are there? is it the element of performance? >> the cameras are looking for new characters. kind of the hee roar ron johnson comes on the scene. >> the american capital. >> he's the violence of reason. >> one guy is going to solve all the problems. everybody is going to go home. never -- that was never going to happen and, actually, you know, just an injustice to him. >> there's also an old character, al sharpton, who shows up at these things. i have to say sharpton has condemned the violence.

they interviewed them on msnbc and then go back today, he once again is wearing two hats in a way that i don't think most in organizations will allow. we're going to do more on the ferguson coverage throughout this hour. but i want to turn to the political story that got a lot of heat and buzz this week. jeffrey goldberg conducted a substantive interview with hillary clinton on foreign policy with a few passages sfloeded in the headlines because they seem to diss barack obama, such as taking aim at one of the president's slogans. great nations need organizing principals, she said, and don't do stupid stuff is not an organizing principal. every pundit on the planet seemed to weigh in. >> hillary clinton wants to divorce herself from barack obama whose popularity on the handling of foreign affairs is declining. >> certainly fox news is taking it to be an attack on the president. which she had to anticipate.

>> she still seems so on board. so stiff. and so canned. let's be honest about it. so insincere. >> hillary versus obama spat. >> it's voracious. and people want to talk about political dust ups. yes, there was a bit of conversation about the foreign policy angle. whether 14e6s right, he was right. hillary and obama pals, a pair of signs, dance the night away. that was when they were in martha's vineyard. obama and hillary's hug-a-thon. >> it was fair rerestrained. for example, she said the fighting force to help the syrian rebel webs she didn't

name obama. the implication was there. but this was candid. >> here is the thing. the hug it out aspect is the frigging dumbest part of a really important story. i don't care if they get along. it's very high schoolish. someone is not speaking to someone else. the real question, what do we do in syria? >> but politics is high school, right? >> no, it's not. this is serious. >> stop right there. i think you should give him a hug. >> obscured what you think is a serious debate -- >> absolutely. >> what should occur? >> look, it's like the scene from casablanca. first of all, he beat her. she isn't president of the united states today because of this guy and she was always to the right of him on all of these issues from the beginning. she was always much more of a hawk than barack obama. she was for the war, he was against it. it cost her the nomination.

none of this should be a surprise to anybody. and guess what else isn't a surprise? she's running for president of the united states in 2016 and wants to separate herself from him. >> i want to let you finish your point, that's what strikes me is it is hardly shocking that somebody who is running would distance herself from the president of her party because she has to, especially at a time when huge foreign policy problems around the globe from gaza to iraq to syria because she needs to separate herself. and you're shocked by this? >> it's a criticism that makes of them look significantly worse. and it's more than just a routine, oh, they didn't agree about arming syria. it was just don't do stupid you know what. here is the thing. if only she had been in some position to influence foreign policy, if only she could have done something, she had some job -- >> is this going to help her insert the president. you're saying that the media is pointing out thatclinton was ru

some of these problems were growing and fetoring? >> the media has to do that, will do it, i'm sure. >> has the media done it so far? >> no. i think they will when she runs. but i think the fact that matter is, the media and the punt i didn't knowit pundits in the position of if only barack obama had listened to hillary clinton. >> that is a problem, but who else do they have? anyway, that's politics. >> let me get a break in here. we're going to talk more about hillary and the hug on the other side of this break. as i said, more on ferguson a little bit later in the program. send me a tweet about our show during this hour. @howardkurtz. we read the best messages at the ends of this hour. also ahead, a look at the excesses and covering robin williams's tragic suicide.

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>> i'm not saying it. i'm asking the question -- >> i am just so tired. let's just stop making hillary, all of this about her being a woman. >> but john kerry would be talking about hug -- >> it's 20 06 phrase. that's more agreeshus than anything. >> everybody is piling on with hillary was calculating, she didn't handle it right, she handled it fine. is there any possibility that in answering those questions from the atlantic on foreign policy that she was just saying what she thinks? or do candidates not do that? >> i think she was saying what she thinks, butt was calculated. she knew exactly what she was doing and both things are probably true. >> right. so then you would say that then she looked bad because she walked it back, she called the president. she will call them as she sees them and then she will call back and apologize. but the second thing is, if she's saying what she thinks now, for the past four years she's not been saying what she

thinks. however, this is a big deal that basically she thinks the entire time we're pursuing the wrong strategy in syria, but she's going to salute and say okay, do it. now 170,000 people dead later -- >> in fairness, it's been reported that she was more hawkish, she did write about this in her book. what i want to know is where is the video of the alleged hug? why is it being hidden from the press? but a serious semi serious question for you, after the atlantic interview was published, there was a lot of sniping particularly in the newspapers between unnamed headquarter headquarter advisers and unnamed white house allies and officials except for david axlerod who took a swipe at hillary on twitter. should the media be reporting this background? >> every media organization will say, here is our anonymous sources policy. we will not use anonymous sources to disparage anyone. if you ask any media executive, that's what they stand by. in practice, it's completely

different. that is not what happens. and they're used because it's political theater. >> the media loves to cover food fights between two people in the same party, particularly when one of them is the president of the united states and the other one is running for president. >> and if that involves granting people anonymity, they're going to do illustrate? >> so be it. in that situation, particularly in a presidential campaign, it just gets rampant with the report. >> in a presidential campaign. let me just close by saying we have such a heavy news week that we only have time to talk about the indictment of rick perry. what is striking about that, the texas governor not exactly hiding at a news conference, he was on fox news this morning. i think even many liberal leading commentators and analysts are saying this seems like a flimsy indictment which the governor was just practicing politics by using his vee to power to force out an investigator. but it was locked up in a pretty

bad drunk driving charge. >> when we start going after governors because we disagree with a veto so we think he's going to get indicted, he has the legislative -- the authority in the constitution to veto this stuff. so i just think -- i look at this grand jury indictment and it doesn't make any sense to me, other than it's political -- try to embarrass him politically as he gets ready to run for president. >> and joe is a democrat. >> friends don't let friends drink and drive and remain in prosecutor's offices. >> that's a good line. >> i still think jim needs a hug, jim garrity and joe trippy. ahead, is chuck todd the man to fix nbc's meet the press debacle? up next, how much does that change the tone of the coverage? want to know how hard it can be... ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this.

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president obama felt compelled to speak up on behalf of journalists trying to do their job as protesters filled the streets. officers fired tear gas at them. we're looking at the pictures right now as they were setting up for a live shot and carried off their camera equipment. and two reporters, one for "the washington post" and one of the huffington post were arrested at a mcdonald's. the video of the reporter captured by "the washington post." >> you can move your car if your car sought here. >> it is. that's what i was asking. >> let's go. let's go. let's go. here is the door over here. let's go. >> armed officer with what can only be described as an assault weapon gesturing his weapon at me. so i couldn't help but have some of my attention focused on this

large gun in front of him. that's when they said let's take him. they threw me up against a soda machine, put me in handcuffs or plastic restraints all the while yelling at me stop resisting as i was yelling to them i'm not resisting. >> joining us from new york, joe concha and keli goff. those charges were totally trumped up, right? >> howie, if you watch that tape in full, on 23 separate occasions, that officer asked west lowery and the huffington post reporter to move. how do ryan and wes know what's going on out in the street where they can resist that order. before that video was shot, wes lowery was asked for identification for which he refused. this was clearly an action to provoke that officer. i'm going to stop you there. they were packing up their computer equipment which was plugged. >>. >> really? >> secondly, i'm sure you don't

condone slamming reporters heads into glass doors and soda machines. thirdly, the charges were so filmsy that the police chief shouldn't have arrested them. >> they shouldn't have been arrested. i'm not advocating that. how do you pack up when you're pointing a camera at somebody? here is how you know this was all about wes lowery expanding his television career. right after he was released from custody, it was all about tweeting out, calling maddow now, going on cnn, msnbc after that, fox, as well. this was a media tour that was only rivaled by hillary clinton's all in the efforts to give wes lowrey's byline a microphone and future career and nothing more. >> i think that's unfair. wes lowery is a good, solid reported. he was deluged with requests to appear on tv. i don't think this was self-promotional. let's agree to disagree so i can turn to keli.

were those arrests and the seizing of equipment, did that become kind of a turning point in the tone of the coverage, kelly? >> absolutely. and i will say with all due respect to joe, i hate to hear the criticism he would have doled out about 50 or 60 years ago to reporters who may have been slow to pack up their gear when they were covering another crisis which is known as the civil rights movement. >> a little slow. >> so this idea that reporters shouldn't be documenting the behavior of people in authority when people in authority are part of the story and their behavior has been questioned by the reporters that were there, i think to criticize them for recording is odd, joe. they would have been doing their jobs to not record and frankly, i don't think it would have been a smart safety thing to do. not to be funny, but drawing the comparison, there were a lot of reporters who were assaulted, some were murdered during the civil rights movements. i almost wish they had cameras. to criticize for recording is bizarre. >> the images of the riot gear

and the armed personnel carriers and the tear gas, in some ways was that reminiscent of birmingham in 19 -- >> i don't know how anyone could watch the footage of what was done to those al jazeera reporters and not draw parallels. and i think this idea that once you see that footage, i don't see why anyone would not record their interactions with police. if you are a member of the press or a citizen. and i also think that not only do you and i seem to disagree with joe and howie, but let's not forget the letter that was signed by 40 major news outlets declined this atrocious behavior of the police. >> let me go back to joe. did the sheer volume of the coverage here, hour after hour, day after day, to do their jobs, is that exacerbated what is an undeniable tragedy no matter who is at fault and that is the killing of an unarmed 18-year-old? >> absolutely you, howie. twitter has become the news

network. there's abc, cbs, twitter, there's only 7 million tweets that mention ferguson. that poured gas in the fire. they are going down there and fuelling the flames, as well. >> you're referring to al sharpton? >> i am, exactly. the bottom line is, it's now a cottage industry when a white cop shoots a black kid or we saw with trayvon martin last year, cnn, hln quadrupled their ratings because of these events and isis is happen in gaza. that's why we've seen the coverage. >> i think that must be nice to have the experience in a country where you can dismiss it -- >> you don't get to do that to me, kelly. you're calling me a racist on national television? sorry. >> she's not at all. >> that's the inference that i'm being un sensitisensitive. >> you're the one that used that

word, joe. what i want to say is this idea that the coverage has inflamed, i'm going to draw the kwofrage from 60 years ago. there was behavior that changed 60 years ago because people realized the images were going out to the rest of te south did was being portrayed. new york magazine ran a headline about this, where you saw the police marching with the protesters and engaging them in a positive way. i do not think that would have happened if they knew how that was reflecting on their talent. >> and what twitter has done in a positive manner, and kili, i'm sorry if i overreacted. perhaps i did. at least now the police cannot control the narrative in terms of everything that is coming out. >> that is true. >> so there are positives for social media as well as negatives. i don't want to say that and i apologize to keli for overreacting. >> not a problem. >> there will be video of that, by the way. >> i don't know what the police version is and exactly what

happened. a lot of the coverage up to now has been one sided because we haven't had access to the other side. thanks very much for stopping by. >> thanks, charlhowie. >> ahead on media buzz, how about some of the reporting on robert williams' suicide, was it distasteful or just wrong? and the ugliness that drove his daughter off twitter. and later, can chuck todd pull "meet the press" out of its tailspin. so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there are no branches? 24/7 it's just i'm a little reluctant to try new things. what's wrong with trying new things? feel that in your muscles? yeah... i do... try a new way to bank, where no branches equals great rates.

good morning. new chaos in ferguson, missouri. dozens of protesters defied an overnight curfew. seven people are in custody and one man is in critical condition after being shot during the melee. several protesters broke into a barbecue restaurant.

the city remains on edge after a white police officers shot and killed an unarmed teenager. a cease-fire between slael a israel and hamas ends tomorrow. a palestinian negotiator says key sticking points remain. hamas is insisting the listed blockade of gaza, israel wants to make sure hamas doesn't rearm if goods are allowed in. we'll see you at the top of the hour for america's news headquarters. now back to media buzz. into just about everyone seemed to love robin williams for his actic intensity. his suicide came as a shock. every newspaper and network weighed in. >> great actor and comedian robin williams has died. the morin county sheriff's office confirming he was found

dead in his house. >> what we're learning about robin williams' shocking dead, the investigation into his suicide as tributes pour in. >> robin williams was often at his best when he was playing himself, funny, touching, always lightning fast. >> breaking tonight, what we've now learned about the final hours of robin williams' life. >> joining us now is david zerwig from the "baltimore sun." abc apologized for running streaming video of williams' house. cbs had the gal to interview somebody who had been in aa with robin williams. not a pretty picture. >> outrageous. howie, those kinds of excesses totally need to be denounced. there's no excuse for them. these are professional broadcasters doing really stupid

stuff. what do us on the air after someone is dead and call them a court for? what was shepp thinking? he was a veteran anchor. howie, it's so simple in some ways. the journalism that you and i were socialized to, if cable news just practiced that, which what do we know to be true? let's limit it to that. then you would be fine. >> and then you have social media with robin's daughter, zelda, quitting instagram because people were being cruel blaming her for her father's death. >> what do us about that? we know that's how social media is. what is it in the culture that makes people want to do that in the wake of something like this? look, the minute happened, i happened to be walking in the news room and they said robin williams is dead. they said do you want to write about it? i said this is going to stop -- to myself, this guy is that important. and do you know what was -- >> let me pick up on that. there were hours and hours and hours and no other stories virtually on television.

it wasn't the most important story in the world, but i didn't have a problem with the coverage. did you know? >> i had no problem whatsoever. i thought it was important. i think as our culture, i think 2 people who run the media tend to minimize the importance of culture figures like robin williams to our emotional, to our psychological and to our spiritual life. this guy touched the culture in deep ways. do know what was missing in all of this coverage that got high ratings for just about everybody, what is missing were analysts who told people why he was special. it's not enough to say he was a genius, he was a force of nature. remember when mike wallace died and you and i were on different channels, we went on to where did it matter. >> this is proven to be authentic because several days later his wife says he was suffering from parkinson's disease which might or might not have played a role. also, i did find a good focus on depression.

a lot of journalists talk can d candidly about their own battles with depression. here he is on the cover of "t e "time." what totally got over-shadowed was the death of lauren bacal. >> that's just the way the culture works. and don't forget, robin williams spoke to successive generations in different media. i'm surprised at how many people in their 20s came up to me the next day and wanted to talk about them. >> talk about the coverage in ferguson, missouri, and what has struck you with all the television presence there. >> you know, some people say we're not equipped to talk about issues like depression and mental health. race. we are awful when it comes to race. you know, i think that if you ask me what single event troubles you most, it was the police shooting rubber bulletes and tear gas canisters which you reported at al jazeera and other sorts of things to the press. but, you know, showing the officers how small -- here we go

again with all these excesses, and howie, this is basic journalism that we knew 20 years ago and forgot. especially in cable news when we're on a story. it's tough when you're out there and it's going and it's going and it's going. but you have to be better than they are right now. especially when it involves race. >> yeah. and the death of a young man. but it does get ratings. let me get a break here. don't go away. up next, nbc finally dumping daftd gregory after putting his through slow motion temperature temperature. but is chuck todd the right choice for "meet the press"?

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this week, nbc made it official gregory is out as being moderator of "meet the press." chief white house correspondent and msnbc morning host chuck todd is in. >> this is a disaster for the president. essentially, the public is saying your presidency is over. by saying a number like that, it was 54% saying that he no long every has the ability to lead. >> right. >> and solve problems. >> david, nbc's treatment of david gregory was shabby and inexcusab inexcusable, but it was the right choice to dump here? >> absolutely, howie. i felt he had a total lack of compassion compared to chuck todd's passion. chuck todd, whether it's true or

not, you have the feeling with him that you have with mike allen of politico, that he knows everything that's happening in washington and cares about it and that he's plugged in totally. >> not just in washington, but in 45 congressional districts. >> exactly. >> for people not familiar, it's a political junky, he ran the political hot line. so he's had to make a transition to television. in your view, thin, smart choice? >> oh, absolutely for him. look, he's not the consultant's idea of a host, which makes me love him, absolutely, first of all. >> that's interesting. >> he isn't. >> he's not a blow-dried anchor. >> he's not slick, he's not glib, he doesn't look that way. but number one, i believe passion is more important on television than a -- that good looks and hair. >> you have to believe that. >> yes, i have to believe that. but secondly, this guy really, really can lift this show out of the sort of malaise that it's in now. it's been sad to see this great froigs fall into the kind of

disrepair. so you need somebody with this kind of energy to try to bring it back. >> insiders tell me that chuck todd has these challenges, making the transition from daily journalism to daily cycle to a weekly show, doing more online and he's a very frequent tweeter and making the show more relevant, which is another way of saying, wouldn't you say, that it's going to matter again? >> one thing about this, i think people don't understand. sunday morning television, people want experience. everybody in tv wants young, young, young. bob shaffer is number one for a reason because he gives you the sense that he has experience. now, ohioey, one problem with this transition, i think nbc has bigger problems. i think the production of that show has suffered. i wrote about a bad mistake. >> let's jump in. some people think chuck todd is liberal. but he regularly has republicans and conservatives on. but he is -- no one is expecting him to be tim russert.

is he a strong enough interviewer? >> i think he can grow into the tim russert role. but senior management, they've got a screwed up operation over at nbz news. how long will they stay with him if he doesn't get a rights bump? will they bring in consultants, will they bring in a psychiatrist to talk to him like they did david gregory? >> let's hope not. i don't think he needs any psycho analyzing. thanks for stopping by. after the break, was a cnn anchor acting an an advocate for the family of michael brown? and the fox news contributor has a problem, yes, with michelle obama's weight. our video verdict is straight ahead. ♪

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time for our video verdict where we rate tv clips based on whether they're good journalism and good television. michael browne gave his first interview. >> don lemon conducted an interview that was highly sympathetic and highly unusual. >> you're dealing with this right now. >> the best way i can. >> are you sure there's no justice? why are you wearing the shirt? >> because my son don't have justice. and we don't have no peace. he has no justice, we won't get no peace. >> and to you, mom, i don't even

know what to say to you except that every mother in this country, in this world is rooting for you. and so you stay strong, you have the entire world behind you and if you ever, either of you need anything, you know how to get in touch with me personally. >> that was cringe worthy in my opinion, i just feel like he crossed a huge line. it was so personal. >> personal in a sense that he was openly siding with the family. let's make it clear, these people just suffered an unimaginable loss. and of course he's going to do a sympathetic appeal. and there's no problem with it. >> the last time i checked, don lemon was an anchor. >> and we still don't know the details of the shooting and so by saying you come to me if you need anything, he was acting as an advocate. >> 2. >> i give it a 3. the women on fox were

outnumbered and seemed to be taken aback when one lucky guy weighed in on michelle obama. >> he took a swipe at her looks. >> we don't need the federal government applying projecting these standards upon us and michelle obama is like the duchess when she speaks. >> how well can she be eating? she needs to drop a few. >> oh! you did not say that. >> the worst thing a guy can do is talk about a woman's weight. and he should know that. >> you're saying i shouldn't mention the time you kept going back to the buffet. >> exactly right, get out of here. i give it a 3. >> you're giving it a 3? it was a low blow, but keith was trying to be provocative. >> the only thing you should say

about a woman when asked how they look, hold up his pinkie and say you look like this. a list of reasons th that b just made a whole lot of money. and those reporters who got arrested in ferguson.

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after washington -- the host of morning joe blames him and his colleague and lowry was quick to respond. >> when the cops tell you, for like the 30th time, let's go, you know what that means, son? it means let's go. >> it is too easy to criticize when you're sitting in a studio just like this and you aren't on the ground, you don't know what happens, you don't know what the conditions are, however, i do think that you need to be able to listen, you have to listen to the police, what they say, sometimes. >> scarborough. >> i would have been worried about getting arrested. >> not getting the story? >> actually arrested and the charges were so trumped up. the show is just what a difficult situation it was and i don't agree that joe said that

lowry was doing this to promote himself. that's it for this edition of media buzz. check out our facebook page. give us a like. we have posted a lot of original content there. we're back here next sunday, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest because. a fox news alert, chaos on the first night of a state imposed curfew in ferguson, missouri. officers once again using tear gas against protesters, more than one week after the police killing of an unarmed black teenager. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters. >> thanks for spending your sunday with us. i'm leland sitting in for eric shaw and good to be with you. police arrested seven people last night in ferguson amid reports of more violence and looting. also overnight a man was