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ukraine boarders. i would expect him to act while everybody else is busy elsewhere. >> big week for business. fourth quarter earnings out this week. i'll be watching bank earnings. thanks, everybody. thank you for being with me. on the buzz meter this sunday, it began with the massacre at a paris sa tierical newspaper that left 12 people dead, a vicious act of terrorism. it ended with two bloody shoot-out that's killed the terrorists. unfolded on the air waves and hit home hard for the media. >> on our broadcast tonight, massacre in paris. the deadly terror attack on french soil in half a century. >> breaking right now, a major operation under way as police surround those two brothers suspected in the deadly attack in france. >> nbc, it's reporting another shooting in paris. french radio is reporting gunfire at a kosher super market in paris and reports of one
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wounded and possible hostages, as well. >> in the last 30 seconds, we heard four, possibly five large explosions. now i'm hearing gunfire. multiple shots. automatic fire. >> breaking news now from the standoffs in paris. the siege is over. at least six hostages reported freed. four other hostages now reported murdered. three terrorists are dead. >> are the murders an assault on journalism itself? will the lead to self-censorship? how did nbc and msnbc get some of the facts so wrong? and should newspaper organizations be supporting "charlie had he bdo" by running the cartoon? mitt romney weighing another presidential bid, at least arding on to some leaks of the press. are journalists trying to draft him or be used? plus, bill cosby fights back even as new accusers surface.
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and nbc allows maria shriver to report on her own movie. i'm howard kurtz and this is ""media buzz."" "charlie hebdo" is now an everlasting symbol despining terrorists after the vicious shootings at the paris office that left 12 people dead. the paper was known for mocking islam and other religionans and after a cartoon poked fun at the prophet muhammad three years ago, the editor's offices were fire bombed. the editor refused to be stopped. >> we looked at freedom of speech. leave the rest. >> and front pages around the world paying tribute to this courageous man and his staff.
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>> the fact that this was an attack on journalists, back an attack on our free press. these terrorists here freedom of speech and free from the press. >> a debate he merged on cable news about just how the president and his aids were describing the attack. >> there is a long history of this white house being very reluctant to call something terrorism, but they quickly called it terrorism because it was so obviously terrorism. what they haven't done is called it islamic terrorism. >> i stopped people calling these people muslim terrorists. they have no respect for anybody else's life. that's not when a koran says. >> cnn used a strange word that was picked up. >> on this day, these activists found their targets and their targets were journalists and it
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was a clear attack on the freedom of expression, on press and on satire. >> activists? how about terrorists murderers jihadists? joining us now, fred francis, stacey mcclellan and a former defense department official in the reagan administration and miller iverson, a fox news contributor. fred, up to a million people are gathering on the streets of paris today in a unity march. the journalists of charlie hebdo proved that wrong. >> they were champions of free speech. i don't think it would work in this country. i found it offensive most of the time when i saw it. but that's part of the joy of a democracy. that you can do this. that you can be offensive, be cruel, be racist if you want. they were very often that way. is and so we've lost them, but in losing them look what's happened here.
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we have a million people on the streets of paris right now. maybe there will be some change. >> we've go the lost certainly the individuals who were killed, but the paper plans to publish next week it's interesting -- >> go on. >> his girlfriends said they didn't marry or have kids because he knew he would -- >> there was a debate, president obama has fallen shot bars he won't refer to these terrorists as islamic terrorists. is that more an important issue right now? >> it's a fundamental question. unless you call it what it is you don't know how to get after it and get it. the target of the veteran journalist in paris they targeted journalists, they captured journalists in syria and iraq. why? because they wanted to show the world, don't mess with us. don't report on what we're doing. don't offend us. this is how we respond. >> it's an important debate, no doubt. but in terms of what happened in
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france this week there is this whole debate, important debate a healthy debate about president obama's role. is that misdirected? >> i don't think it's misdirected. i think something very important happened in the reaction to this event. you now see today european leaders from all over the place converging in paris, marching in this march. they are calling this radical islamic, the ideology that gave root to this. and i think that at this point for the president, he doesn't even have to cross some kind of line. he can lead from behind. he can state the obvious now and join the rest of the world in naming this what it is. but in terms of the strategy in how you get after this and the failures of french intelligence, this is going be a huge debate. these people were on lists, they were booel being followed, but according to the french officials, there just wasn't the resources to track every single one of these people all the time. >> this is a failure of intelligence throughout europe. they have dropped the ball. they are overwhelmed by radical
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islam. >> and do you think the coverage is adequately reflecting that? >> no. no one has even spoke of it. the fact is that you cannot cover as an intelligence agency radical islam in europe because it's so overwhelming. they have not spent the money to do it, neither the french nor the germans. and until they do that we're going to have what we have here. >> let me move you to another part of the media reaction. that is there has been a great debate about whether or not news organizations as a gesture of solidarity should run these cartoons, "charlie hebdo." and let me play four something a fox contributeor said the other day. >> the correct response to this attack, by all of us in journalism, who pretend to be so brave, if we had guts those cartoons would be reprinted on the front pages of the "new york times," "the wall street journal," "the washington post," the "l.a. times" tomorrow. they won't be. we will cry, but we're going to
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continue to sell sensor. >> the washington post did run one of the cartoons, but k.t., is it cowardly not to run these cartoons? >> i understand why news organizations don't want to do that because they're worried they're going to put their own people out there at risk. if everybody did it if he everybody ran these pictures and said this is what incited the violence, then i think it would be a strong statement. what we have we have all the journalists talking moral eye ground. we stand with charlie. they're not doing it themselves. >> we've seen those cartoons reprinted in a lot of places. and denmark i think is a really good example of this. the publication that first published the cartoon that got the danish journalist killed and charlie hebdo reprinted it and got fire bombs. every paper in denmark is now running it except for that one who says they have to protect their own people. >> fox news is saying the safety
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of its correspondents and questions of taste are at issue here. tcnn president tells people he's torn, he wants to run them, but protecting people around the world is more important right now. >> i agree with that. i don't agree that you run these. if you are a worldwide news organization and you're standing on the street in belgium or you're in beirut and it says cnn or you're the "new york times," you are a target. you are a big target if you run these things. and i feel safe as a journalist in this country. i don't have to worry about that in this country. but overseas -- if you are overseas correspondents, you need to be worried. >> the "new york times" explanation, we do not normally publish material deliberately intended to offense. there are consequences here. last night, a newspaper in germany, an arson attack that paper had run the charlie hebdo cartoon. >> i completely disagree. if there are any guts, any
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courage, any role a free media have, it is to go out and call it what it is. if we're self-censoring if we're cowering under the desk free speech is -- >> k.t., you've never been the journalist on the front line where you have guns from one faction over here and guns from one faction over there and they know you representative america, they don't know whether you representative nbc news or fox news, you representative america, you're a target. i say don't run the cartoons. >> why is it more than a symbolic gesture? what i would like to see is more and tns continued ajegsive reporting on islamic terrorists commentary, even mockery. but to run the cartoons some of which are offensive to various people's religious sensibilities. there are ka toons that show the toilet paper labeled the bible the koran. i will defend charlie hebdo's right to run that stuff, but i don't know that i wasn't it on my column and on my air.
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>> then the responsibility is to go into the no-go zones throughout europe and france and germany and switzerland and sweden and britain and report on what's going on. those are places where journalists don't go. >> but also i think there has been in the press this week the jennings of something that i hope continues which is a reporting on the muslim community and how radical islam fits in what the muslim community is doing to expel it or not doing to expel it. and that is i think one of the most important things to solve this problem and that has to be a serious concerted effort on the part of journalists. >> that's happened this week because it's a hot story this week. >> yeah. it has to continue. >> i'm sorry, but it's not going to continue next week. i don't believe it. i don't believe that moderate clerics are going to take up this time. they haven't. they've had plenty of opportunities since 9/11 to do so. they haven't. >> i would add that we need to work on anti-semitism in france and there's no accident that -- in one of the places where hostages were taken.
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but, you know, to come back to the courage of people who ran this charlie hebdo newspaper, the office was fire bombed in 2011 after the paper ran a muhammad cartoon that ond liberals. i don't want to in any way suggest or imply that the newspaper was responsible for this barbaric act, but there was an ongoing argument that had been criticized by french officials and the white house in 2012 the paper was being unnecessarily insulting or provocative towards religion. >> but this has change that. >> is it out the window? >> i think it's out the window. >> you can't blame the victim. >> sth knot the time to have this debate. now it's about a principal of western values. >> but you were very candid in saying some of this stuff you find offensive or racist and you don't have to offend it. >> no. i defend their right to do but did i but -- >> i'm offended by what you say but i will die for your right to say it. >> and they do every day. >> but, in fact, the french
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don't. okay? if we see a million people on the streets of paris today are they willing to put troops on the ground to go after radical islam? >> they are putting -- that's why the -- say they were attacking charlie hebdo. >> serious numbers of troops on the ground. we're talking about actually going -- if they want to be martyrs, let's make it so. we haven't seen the french do that. >> i think the most important point here is that this is a hot story now, but we all know how the media run from one crisis to the next. this cannot be forgotten about. and the other, overarching measure. what i take away is that freedom of speech means you have to protect odious speech, otherwise it is meaningless. i'm sure you have a lot of opinions out there. we're going to read some of your messages later. ahead, we'll talk to washington cartoonist tom polt about the risk of satire. when we come back nbc's colossal mistake on the paris terror attacks.
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as the manhunt for the paris kills intensified on wins, nbc nightly news identified a dramatic development and that continued on msnbc. >> we have breaking news. nbc has just learned that one of the suspects has been killed and two are in custody. >> a senior u.s. counterterrorism official tells nbc news that at this hour, one suspect has been killed and two other suspects are in custody. >> but seconds after chris hayes delivers that news nbc's pete williams started backing off. >> to be fair here, we just
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don't know exactly what the situation is in france tonight, well into the middle of the night. there have been conflicting reports all afternoon about whether an arrest has been made. >> and the next night a retraction for those who were relying on those unnamed u.s. officials. >> and while these sources have been reliable in our previous reporting, the intel they passed along to us last night turned out not to be correct. k.t., pete williams is usually a reliable reporter. but to report two of the suspects were dead and one taken into custody, this is a big mistake. >> and i think we're going to see more of it. why? traditional media is dying. newspapers are dying. people are still watching television, but increasingly getting their news from the internet. that means instantaneous. every few minutes you refresh your page. so the push will be for the mainstream media to try to get out there and be fast, too.
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the good old days when i was with the pentagon we took people like fred and put him on a boat in the middle of the water until the operation was over so there wouldn't be any leaks. >> fred, you worked for nbc news for decades. >> pete williams is one of the finest reporters in this up to. i've known him and worked with him for 30 years. he had -- .i've done some reporting on this. he had multiple sources from multiple agencies within the u.s. government getting information from french intelligence and french law enforcement over a period of a couple hours before he reported that. and his reporting has been so accurate over the last two decades with the same sources in the u.s. government, you would have to go with that information. and he did because it was -- but the information was bad from france. it was not -- the french were telling u.s., the fbi, the justice department and the cia the same thing. >> that's the risk. now, we saw this with cnn's john king reporting there had been
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another arrest in the boston marathon bombing. but here is the risk that pete williams took john king took and others have take us taken on fox and elsewhere, even if you are right what is the great skool scoop in getting that ten minutes before everyone else? the risk is tremendous. >> i think the risk is grater than the benefit of being right. who cares? like k.t. said, people are looking at the internet every second. what does it matter if you beat another network by 35 seconds? >> it matters, mara. not just -- with social media today, if a tweet goes out that nbc news has a break in the story, people switch to nbc news. >> but it's not worth the risking is what i'm saying. in other words, the benefit of that is not worth being wrong. >> my point to you is that in 23 years, it is rare that somebody like pete williams makes a mistake like this. >> and i said that at the top. >> overall, the reporting on this was good overall.
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>> no i want to make a point here. the french reported there was a third guy, the 18-year-old. he's released now. the french reported that boumeddiene was a suspect in the grocery store. she wasn't even in the country. so a lot of bad news is beginning to come down. >> there are conflicting issues being reported in the country. i can't resolve that right now. is there anything in the story we're missing? >> if it bleeds, it leads, right? we're all focused on paris. the real story of the week was the president of egypt came out and he went to the religious university in the muslim world and he said to them, to their face, you need a revolution. it is your fault that we are hated throughout the world. radical islam, i lay it at your feet, you have to change. that has had earthquakes in the arab world. >> the question i would raise is whether or not when we go to this nonstop coverage that the world world is offer, whether
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we're giving the terrorist what's they want to go out in some twisted blaze of glory. thank you very much for joining us. ahead on "media buzz," we'll go to paris for a love report for the challenges of covering this fast-moving story. this is the equivalent of the sugar in one regular soda. and this is one soda a day over an average adult lifetime. but there's a better choice. drink more brita water. clean, refreshing, brita.
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it was amazing on friday to watch the deadly drama in france unfold on cable news. hours of tensions and piecemeal information culminated in police assault on the two hostage locations, the death of three terrorists, some hostages being freed while others unfortunately were killed. greg joins me now from paris. up to a million people gather on the streets to that city to unity march, you lived in that city for several years. talk for a moment about the role of charlie hebdo and its konl
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controversial role in culture, if you would. >> charlie hebdo really made a splash here. it was hard to describe to our audience back in america the impact of that newspaper and the cartoonists. the best way i could describe sit if say, jay leno, david letterman, jon stewart and a bunch of other comedians were in the same office and they all got assassinated. it's almost the equivalent of what the folks here in france feel. they love satire, they love their cartoonists. >> that's striking analogy. so when you were covering the unfolding events live and we knew very little, even initially whether the two hostage situations were connected there were a lot of false rumors flowing around. i mentioned the erroneous report on nbc. talk about how you decide what you can report, what you can confirm and what you cannot.
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>> howard, it was a real challenge. this was a breaking story, breaking on all sort of fronts. but that's what we're paid to do to sort it all out. the french government, not all that bad. access not great. but we're talking about safety. i listened into your prior segment. the twitter sphere, very dangerous. it can be a big help, but it can lead you down the wrong way. at the end of the day, in this story, it takes knowledge of this country and people that know it. my producer has been here in france for 15 years. before i would go with anything i would say call the police, call the interior minister get it nailed down. once we got it nailed down, then we can come out with it. it is better to get it right than to get it first and not correct. also i think important so add is the context. the breaking news, very, very
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important. but putting it in context what this means to france, the population here the problems with an appointment etcetera, very important to understand. from my experience, french people are pretty receipt sent to give their emotions, but in all my time here, i've never seen them so open and so willing to talk about what they're feeling. a big flow, big story here in this country, howard. >> really important words here, more important to get it radio right than to get it first. that is why you didn't go with the reports about a gunman being at the eiffel tower. thanks for joining us. coming up we'll talk about the impact of the paris massacre, "the washington post" cartoonist tom toles. and later the media say mitt romney is considering a run for president. really? ♪ ah, push it. ♪ ♪ ♪
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sdz. a fox news alert. i'm eric shawn. as we have been showing you the world comes together against terrorism. it is an astounding scene in paris, up to 1 million people on the streets marching against radical islamic jihad, defyiant against the attacks, the grocery store, charlie hebdo and against the police. french president francois hollande saying today paris is the capital of the world. and there are fears of terrorism spilling over into germ fee. a tabloid newspaper there that republished cartoons from the french satyrical newspaper charlie hebdo. this happened in hamburg. no one was hurt in the arson attack. two suspects have been arrested along with the cartoons, the newspaper ran the headline this much freedom must be possible. the latest news i'm-on-eric shawn. see you at the top of the hour.
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now back to "media buzz." tweets are pouring in. it's crucial that journalist doesn't become a victim of censorship as a means to prevent terrorism. tom toles cartoonist of "the washington post" made a statement after the charlie hebdo massacre with this cartoon showing an automatic weapon and a pen labeled free expression. i spoke to him earlier. welcome. >> glad to be here. >> this cartoon really sends a message. what message were you trying to send? >> well, car teens are supposed to be very very simple. and this one mostly is. so i'll give you the simple version first. it was my immediate reaction to the tragedy of this past week and obviously it was not just an attack on specific cartoonists, it was more generally an attack on freedom of expression generally. so i wanted an image that portrayed the factors here.
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there was -- on the one happened, there was the automatic weapon fire that was used in the terrorist attack and murders. and on the other hand there's the lowly pen of a cartoonist which i labeled as free expression. what i wanted to do was to take off on the idea that the pen is mightier than the sword. that's the simple part. the pen will endure. that's the simple part. i'll stop there. >> so let me jump in and ask you whether you worry at all that the murder, the mass occur of journalists, that it could lead to a softening or self-censorship among commentators and cartoonists? >> well, actually that's on my mind after this incident. it's always on my mind. it's an ongoing issue in journalist. and then opinion journalism in particular. and the jury is still out. there was a heartening, a very heartening response globally to
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this tragedy. the overwhelming public outturning in france and in the united states and around the world of people taking just the opposite of a cowering stance. the we are not afraid. and it's -- >> very encouraging. >> it was a public recognition of the importance of reexpression. it remains to be seen what kind of -- i mean freedom of expression is a very complicated thing. the market forces, we will -- >> the cartoon, you're in the satire business. it will be too offense to some people. >> it's an interesting cultural different between european cartooning and american cartooning.
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i'm not sure what everyone thinks that means. the standards of what is normal, visual discourse and cartooning in europe is a little bit different in the united states. they're more free wheeling. they go more for vulgar, confrontational imagery. automatically, right off the bat when i draw a car another one toon, i'm working in the american context which is more visually circumscribed. but it is not so much am i crossing the line, the thing i'm always asking myself is does this cartoon reflect what i want to say. i don't acceptscensor myself. there is a question of, you know images that are selected. that is a matter of discussion
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but as far as content, no, that doesn't -- that doesn't enter my mind. >> the pen is still a mighty thing. it's a little known fact that tom and i both work at the spectrum, the student paper at the student university of new york. great to see you again. >> great. thank you, howie. sarl at kinson filed suit this week against the justice department. she says she has evidence that the department is connected to the hacking of her phone and her computers. the justice department has been denying for two years that it had any involvement in the hacking which is suit says is verified by three forensic investigations or knew anything about it. atkinson told me she's pursuing the $35 million invasion of privacy suit to show that people victimized by this sort of practice aren't powerless to fight back. and on mead why buzz, bill cosby's tv wife seems to dismiss
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all those women accusing him of sexual assault. but first, the media says mitt romney may have changed his mind about running. did they hype a so-called coup against john boehner at the same time? ♪ ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! thanks, g.
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some reporters have asked mitt romney about running for president and his answers again
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and again have been the same. >> i have nothing to add about my own. i'm not running, not planning on running. i'm not going to add to the story beyond that. >> but you're not saying you're done? >> what i'm saying is that i'm not running, i am not planning on running. that's all i've got for you, chris. no more than that. >> now "the wall street journal" reports that the two-time candidate told a meeting of donors friday that he's considering another white house run in 2016 according to those present. and political sources say tell everybody in here that i'm considering a run. joining us now, christinea balentoni and lauren for us fox who covers the hill for the national journal. the press doesn't want to seem to take no for an answer from mitt romney. is this the latest example of trying to drum up a candidacy? >> it is an easy story for the press to do. we often talk about this on your show. because you've got all of this food footage, not just from his 2012 failed presidential bid
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against president obama but his failed primary bid in 2008. there are ways to get back into the story and the press loves tension and big permits. "the washington post" story on the front page this morning by phil rutger and bob costas, really interesting, but it gets to the drama between the bush family and the romney family legacy going back 50 years. this is something that the media can easily focus on. you've got all the sound bites. you've got the tension it's a great story. >> but with jeb bush clearly getting into the race, lauren and mitt making comments behind closed doors, is there any sense that you have that he may juflt be trying to get his name out there? >> already folks up in new hampshire are saying, let's make it a freeze on hiring for a couple of weeks while we get a sense of whether or not mitt romney just made an off-the-cuff statement or whether or not he's really -- >> i want your take on how seriously, right now based on what we know the media should
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be taking these rumblings. >> if he's going to make an announcement, he's going to tell donors before he tells the press, perhaps. >> or he's going to tell donors to tell the press. >> right. certainly we saw in 2014 that was part of his strategy. he was in a lot of chamber of commerce ads helping folks who were running for congress. so i think mitt romney definitely wants to stay relevant. >> no sooner are these organizations starting to run over this. these political advisers discount the ability of mounting a campaign as opposed to the ability of mounting a campaign. >> you have to take it seriously as someone who would be able to build up infrastructure. there's a question of advisers who are gone on to work for others. and the republican party has tend to do this. so yes i think the media should be. >> it's not that i don't take mid mitt romney seriously. the press didn't necessarily like romney in 2012 and seems to be rooting for him to run.
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you have these headlines. mitt, jeb, ready to rumble? >> it's an interesting news story. unlike 2012 when mitt romney was one of the establishment candidates late in the race, i think the press is hungry for a story when they get to put more .more conservatives establishment candidates up against each other and obviously bush and a guy who has run twice already for president is a really good example, especially if you're going to have donors fighting it out. >> it's a juicy story, but i don't want to be skeptical about what gets in. this week, john boehner easily reelected as house speaker. but you had a lot of media attention on what was called a coup attempt or a mutiny because 25 republicans ended up voting against him. does that hype for the sheer drama of it? >> i will defend this coverage. obviously, congress is our business, but you had way more republicans voting against boehner than ever before. you know he had a certain number of dissidents.
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i believe it was 12 or 13 in his last run for speaker. and so you had a bigger effort you had republicans that gave him a heads up saying, look, i'm from deeply red, this district, and if i don't vote against you, i'm going to get a primary and then you saw him punish people. this is a story about power dynamics on capitol hill. >> but at the same time, you will quickly agree that it was never seriously threatened. >> no he wasn't ever seriously threatened. and the way we covered it was always looking at there are surmths who are acknowledge stating to get rid of him. they are not going to be successful, but here is how they're trying to do it, here is what they're working on and here is what they like to say. >> republicans often say less leaning in their view. the civil war, the boehner battle was a good opportunity for them. >> certainly. and one thing that i thought was interesting about the coverage was a serious number of people, but it was never a serious effort. i talked to scott who is a congressman from virginia more of an established congressman. he said look i didn't even know
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that they were going to run a serious candidate against him, like daniel webster. he said i decided to change my vote against boehner last minute. >> congressman louis goldberg announced he was getting into the race he got three votes. >> and people were voting for themselves on the floor. if there was a real serious effort, it would have been more organized than just the morning of or a few days before. >> and there is a lot of consternation in the democrat party, as well. and we've covered that extensively with those arguments against pelosi and the tension there. >> i think the underlying tension is a better story than the pretense that boehner might have lost his job. christina, lauren thanks very much for stopping by. arch the break allen goes on the offense against a murky allegation of sexual abuse. and felicia reshad stands by her ex tv husband, bill cosby. our video verdict is next. she inspires you. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction -
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epstein has he nighed allegations in a lawsuit. also denying such a charge on the "today show" is harvard law professor alan dershowitz. >> your response to the allegations that you had sex with an underage girl all those years ago, what is your response? >> totally false and made up. she claims i had sex with her. the records will show i was on that eye happened once. >> did you have any contact with jane doe number 3 at all? >> no, i don't even know who she is. >> that is an unambiguous denial. and there's been some coverage and media chatter about bill clinton who was friendly with epstein. but the media needs to make clear no one has alleged any improper conduct by the former president. three more women if you're keeping count surface this week that bill cosby raped or sexually abused him. now his tv wife has stepped
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forward, phylicia rashad speaking to abc night line about cosby's accusers. >> what i said is this is not about the women. this is about something else. this is about the oh obliteration of a legacy. >> i do want to get your initial reaction to the allegations. >> well my initial reaction was, hmm, someone has a vested interest in preventing cosby to return to network television. >> i get that she wants to standby her man, so to speak and must be disappointed that tv has dropped reruns. but 30 women have told tales about cosby. while he hasn't been convicted of anything phylicia doesn't seem to have anything to say about them.
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all day long. and now introducing aleve pm for a better am. press piks, this was over the line. when they did a feature on the movie "still alice," brian williams went to one of his most famous stars. >> the film is something of a passion project for maria shriver who watched her own father slip away in the clutches of alzheimer's. >> a lot of people are comparing this to "philadelphia." alice can do for alzheimer's. >> her performance bringing new attention to a devastating disease.
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maria shriver, nbc news. >> why would nbc have the woman, an executive producer of the private, report on her own movie. they did mention her $15,000 fee which they noted she is donating to charity. they should assign the story to anyone other than maria shooifer. >> cnbc is still the number on business network, but it's been on a slide for a decade. the network's solution, dump kneelson. they say kneel son doesn't fully capture its ratings. here are a few of your top tweets. should media organizations run those charlie hebdo cartoons. yes, standing up to intimidation is more important than protecting people's feelings. the new york times offended
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christians and jews by showing senseless artwork. a lot of people are also pretending not to run the cartoons because they're offensive when they're just afraid. media should explain to audiences why they're choosing to run not to run, or to blur images. two television comics turn rather serious this week. >> i know very few people go into comedy you know as an act of courage, mainly because it shouldn't have to be that. it sount be an act of courage. it should be taken as established laws. but those guys at hebdo had it. >> all of us are terribly sad for the families of those victims, for the people of france and for anyone in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. it's not the way it's supposed
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to be. >> those were important moments for people who make their living by the laugh. helping the rest of us deal with this trauma by reminding us that we will all laugh again. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." we hope you'll like our facebook page. we post a lot of original content there. we respond with your buzz to your questions on video and in the comments. check us out there. check me on twitter. and remember we're back here next sunday at 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. paris standing tall in the face of terror. up to 1 million people taking to the streets following the deadly attacks in the country earlier this week. welcome to "america's news headquarters." i'm arthel neville.
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>> and i'm eric shawn. welcome. it's a powerful and unprecedented group of world leaders. they have been marching together in defines against the radical islamic terrorist threat. they and 1 million more on the street united with one strong message and that is enough. let's look live at paris and listen right now where it is just after 6:00