love to see how he's going to thread that question this week. because he pulled a jeb bush and needs to answer some questions. >> a big week ahead, because people will try to get anything on the shelf off the shelf today ahead of the memorial day weekend. a big week for housing too. on the buzz meter this sunday george stephanopoulos under fire for donating $75,000 to the clinton foundation and failing to disclose it to viewers or his abc news bosses. even when conducting a interview with the author of the book ripping that very foundation. now the anchor has apologized. >> as you know the clinton campaign says you shouldn't produced a shred of evidence that there was any official actions. we've done investigative work here at abc news found no prof of any kind of direct action. >> i should have gone the extra mile to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. i apologize to all of you for failing to do that. >> how deeply has the former clinton white house aide hurt

his own credibility, especially as he covers hillary clinton's presidential campaign? jeb bush kicks up a storm by ignoring a key part of meghan kelly's question. >> on the subject of iraq, obviously very controversial knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion? >> i would have and so would have hillary clinton, just to remind everybody and so was almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence that they got. >> how did the former governor bobble that question about what we know now, and will the media keep pressing him to disavow his brother's policies? president obama says the media needs to do a better reporting job on issues like poverty in order to help him change the minds of republicans and takes a swipe at fox news. and david letterman about to hang it up with an all-star parade of guests. >> at one point, we suggested

that maybe it's easier for a man or woman to be more effective out of office -- >> well you're about to find out. >> my god, i take that as a challenge. >> how did dave transform late-night tv? what about his liberal leanings? and can stephen colbert hang on to the cbs audience? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." george stephanopoulos burst on to the national scene as a top white house and campaign adviser to bill and hillary clinton, later joined abc news as a liberal kplen tator, and by the time hillary made her first white house run, he was interviewing her as an abc anchor. >> looking back on the 1990s, did the clinton administration and you've came out against free trade agreements now, but the clinton administration didn't do enough to address the downside of globalization. >> now, you remember this because george did work in that '92 campaign and george and i

actually were against nafta. i'm talking about him in his previous life before he was an objective journalist and doesn't have opinions about such matters. >> but now as co-anchor as "good morning america" and host of "this week," stephanopoulos failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the clinton foundation even as he covered the political uproar over his finances and talked about his donors on "the daily show". >> and what you get is access and you get the influence that comes with access and that's got to shape the thinking of politicians. >> he initially offered a narrow written apology, but on friday he expanded it on "ema." >> those donations were a matter of public record but i should have made additional disclosures on-air when we covered the foundation. and i now believe that directing personal donations to that foundation was a mistake. >> stephanopoulos repeating that apology on "this week" this sunday. joining us now, nina easton senior editor at "fortune" and a

fox news reporter. and dana milbank, columnist for "the washington post." nina how severe a blow is this to george stephanopoulos and his credibility? >> it's an incredibly severe blow. and i think what makes this especially egregious, it wasn't like he was doing an interview just with hillary clinton, he was doing -- reporting on the foundation that he had given $75,000 to. he was calling peter schweitzer on his partisan ties at a time when he had partisan ties, clearly, if he's giving still giving money to the clintons or still has ties to the clintons. and then going on with jon stewart, and not disclosing. i mean disclosing it by the way, on that last bit, where he apologizes disclosing it would have completely undermined any credibility he had to even report on this story. >> right, but at least he would have disclosed it and not withheld it. mercy, can republicans trust george stephanopoulos to be fair? >> it's interesting, because senator marco rubio this morning on fox with chris wallace basically said you know, i've

always viewed him as a fair credible journalist. but when you're looking at especially the conservatives on the right, they're saying this is questionable. i mean you go back to the 2012 -- >> do you think it's questionable? >> absolutely! you worry about the fact that will he be able to even give hillary clinton a fair interview, an objective interview? you know it makes everyone very concerned on the right. you're starting to see these stories pop up on "national review." rush limbaugh even talked about it about him, that he was never a journalist in the first place. so it does impact i think, george particularly for this particular presidential cycle where hillary clinton is running. >> i don't think it's fair to say he's never been a journalist in the first place. i think he's worked hard in 18 years to bring his partisan past behind him. this brings it up again. he's dropped out of moderating abc's presidential debate. abc was in jeopardy of losing that debate because of that controversy.

but if he can donate that how can he interview presidential candidates and things like that? >> it's created a real problem for himself and it's a stupid self-inflicted wound here precisely because he's labored for 15 or more years, just to get into a position where people were giving him -- i mean i remember you know, when he was first joining abc, i saw him at one of these events out here in iowa and i was joking about, you're going to be a journalist? he didn't think it was funny at all. but sure enough he really proved that he could be accepted by all sides. and that's why the idea of the contribution itself discredits him, and it's not to a campaign but the fact that he's giving money to the foundation the fact that a tv journalist like you probably makes so much money that they can give this much away is a further outrage. >> i'm up in the stratosphere with stephanopoulos. but, you know, abc told me that he is in violations of his policies but, it's okay it's just an honest mistake, we forgive him because he apologized. by the way, the clinton foundation does some good work around the world. many media companies, including

news corp., have given major donations, but they're not george stephanopoulos former clinton aide who has this problem. >> you know if you wanted he cares about aids in africa. there are lots of other less -- >> any other charity in the world. >> -- other charities. and the other important thing is timing of these donations, 2012 2013 2014 as hillary's revving up her campaign. and as he said on -- to jon stewart, if you're giving that money, are you expecting some access -- >> right, right. >> but let me talk about the way the story broke. the washington free beacon got this scoop, called abc for comment, and rather than commenting abc cooperated with politico in hopes of getting a more sympathetic story. what message did that send to other news outlets about whether you just throw something up online or do the right thing first and ask for comment. >> and i think they were clearly cherry-picking outlets. and it also goes to this what mercedes referred to as this

distrust of a conservative outlets and conservative commentators have had about george stephanopoulos. and i mean, he needs to go the extra mile to have credibility, particularly covering this election. >> you know i'm not somebody who shouts liberal bias every five minutes, but the day that this broke, which was thursday there were zero stories about this on msnbc and one segment all day on cnn. if this had been the equivalent of a conservative journalist with a conservative past those networks would have been all over it. my question to you, abc telling me george stephanopoulos despite bowing out of the debate will continue to lead 2016 campaign coverage. isn't there a shadow over that coverage now, or will this blow over? >> they're making i think, a mistake. primarily because hillary clinton is the -- will be most likely the democratic candidate, and so i think for george i.t. just represents a problem, when you are the lead political correspondent and really providing that objective analysis especially the fact when you saw that interview with peter schweitzer it was very

clear that his questions, it was almost like the talking points out of the clinton campaign where even peter felt attacked from george. so again, it really hurt him incredibly. going back to teenina's point, 2012 and 2013 they were clearly revving up for this campaign and there was clearly the idea the foundation was serving as a bit of a super pac for hillary. >> i've been very tough on stephanopoulos this week. i like george. he's a savvy guy. i dealt with him when he was a white house spinner and campaign agent in '92. so like you, i've watched him try to make this transition. but it's not just the fact that hillary is all but the certain democratic nominee. any presidential candidate that goes on if he does an aggressive but fair interview, people will say, it's because he's in the tank for the clintons or -- people watching will see him through a different lens. >> and what he's going to have to do is be particularly tough on hillary clinton now, sort of like a makeup call that the ref

has to do in football. and i think he's going to have to overcompensate now. if anybody should be disappointed about the whole stephanopoulos scandal, it's hillary clinton. >> you're saying he's going to have to bend over backwards. but do you think that he successfully made the transition and now has un -- >> that's why it's so inexplicable because i think nobody was really questioning his integrity before this. he finally made. >> well nobody? >> but people on your side -- >> not nobody but in the mainstream. >> when i was working at the white house -- >> the bush white house. >> the bush white house, it was clear that they thought that stephanopoulos would be fair. it's kind of what senator marco rubio described this morning. but with that being said now that we've seen the link to the foundation, the interview with schweitzer it brings to light the fact that republicans are going to be concerned. they do not want him to be involved obviously. not only if the debates, but, really are they going to accept an interview from him being so

closely linked to the clintons. >> let me make the statement from jeb bush four different statements about iraq over four days all beginning with this interview with meghan kelly on fox. >> you don't think it was a mistake? >> in retrospect the intelligence that everybody saw, that the world saw, not just the united states was faulty. by the way, guess who thinks that those mistakes took place as well? george w. bush. >> your brother. >> so dave and mike the former governor of florida went from that interview to telling sean hannity that he'd misheard misunderstood the question but he wouldn't answer the question saying it was an insult to the troops who served inlk about to saying that i wouldn't have invaded iraq in 2003 to then saying it's a mistake. the media kind of demand consistency on these things don't they? >> or at least not having five different answers in three days. >> one or two is okay maybe three? >> maybe once. the problem is he -- he had an easy out. he started to say, the next day,

i misunderstood the question. fine get out of jail free you're done! and he wouldn't do it. and i think the irony here he set out saying he's his own man and he's not going to be like his brother, and he proved it because his brother would say one thing and stick to it. and younger brother, jeb, has now said five things in three days. >> is the media criticism justified here? it's been really harsh, as jeb has kind of fumbled around. >> unfortunately, jeb bush carries the burden of his brother and his brother's legacy. so i think it's been very tough on jeb bush. but a lesson for jeb bush he's got to learn to lesson to the questions and not be on auto pilot in terms of answering these questions. >> that was my feeling, whether he heard the "knowing what we know now" or was so anxious to give the scripted talking point that he sort of blew past it, but the level of media criticism here is so intense, and i'm wondering whether you think this has been overblown at all? >> i don't, actually. and i say that while acknowledging that the media has a very short-term memory about

iraq and the fact that democrats like hillary clinton supported going in and media outlets like "the new york times" contributed to it. so that said this was a perfectly legitimate question for meghan kelly, for example, to be raising, and it was a perfectly legitimate reaction by the press to say, you know, he stumbled for, you know, for days before -- it was not an unexpected question. you should know what you're going to say. >> he had a year to prepare for this question. >> but is it -- i have a few seconds here. is it also that the press is trying to find some daylight between jeb bush and george w. bush or hang the bush presidency around his candidacy. >> it's a reality of covering jeb bush is george bush and you have to be ready for that if you're a so-called front-running candidate. >> we're going to continue this discussion on the other side. remember to send me a tweet, tell us what you think about this show or the issues we're talking about here, stephanopoulos stephanopoulos jeb, @howardkurtz or e-mail us mediabuzz@foxnews.com. first of all, when we come back are the media going

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we know jeb bush's terrible week in the media. we've gone from in the media, he botched the iraq question repeatedly to he's a terrible candidate, to some pundits saying there's no way he can win the nomination. possible overreaction here? >> i think so. i mean he's raising a lot of money. people do have -- you look at for example, a lot of the political operatives who have joined his team the grassroots -- >> i want to go back to that. because i think the press always underestimates you have to raise a lot of money in modern politics but the press always

equates raising lots and lots of money with success, and if you can't answer a question that's so predictable, then you can raise $1 billion -- >> again, that question is -- for him, i think he misunderstood the question. i think it took him a little long to clarify the question. >> a little long? a week. >> well you know, several days. it's interesting, he came back in iowa just yesterday and said i had a great answer but it was for the wrong question. and what these grassroots voters are looking for are issues about common core. >> this is going to happen over and over again. and i think what it is is jeb bush is this big piñata, as the sort of nominal front-runner at least in terms of money, and in the media, we want the best rates possible. so we're going to keep going after that guy, the way the media would go after hillary, if there were somebody viable working against her. so -- >> or if she let reporters within 20 yards. >> yes. >> and she would have to do that

if she, in fact, had a competitive race going on. but, no i think that is what we're going to see. >> the media had a huge role in building up jeb bush. >> that was the question i was going to ask you. he's the front-runner because we say so. >> he's got this staffer and that staffer and this money and he's lost up these donors and a big piece about how he's outbidding marco rubio in florida. you and i were talking about that. the media has done a lot to make him the front-runner. >> i will say this for jeb bush in contrast to the democratic front-runner he is answering a lot of questions, he's doing interviews. now, he's stumbling and maybe he's out of practice and not used to the sort of twitter pace of discourse, but he is not hiding from the press. >> this is a dress rehearsal. as we all know -- >> no no he doesn't get a dress rehearsal, because he is a bush. he is -- >> i know. but the american -- the voters themselves are not necessarily paying attention to what's going on other than what's happening in iowa and new hampshire. >> exactly, exactly.

>> to be sure in a week or two, we'll be on to a completely different scandal that none of us can predict right now. >> it's been a long time since he's been on a campaign trail, over a decade. so you know, you can -- >> and that is starting to show. and i think some on the left in the media are using this whole thing as a chance to re-litigate iraq and talk about the anger that many of them felt about george w. bush's decision. of course other republican candidates jumping in and saying of course it's clear, if you know now, you would not have invaded. i hope to get to president obama committing this horrible sexist slight by calling senator warren elizabeth, but we are out of time. >> that's a shame, howard. >> does that speak to you? >> no, i think it's a completely and total non-issue. >> i remember senator boxer getting upset because the brig dare brigadier general called her ma'am instead of senator. up next verizon gobbles up aol and "the huffington post" and facebook cuts a deal with

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big week on the digital front, as verizon swallows aol, including the "huffington post," and facebook launches a partnership with the like of "the new york times," nbc, the atlantic buzz feed and national geographic posting some articles directly on the website rather than directing them to the news outlet. joining us darryl isy. so what do you make of the kinds of stories that these norgsews organizations are putting on facebook to be read on facebook. >> it's so interesting, this week everyone thought it was the end of journalism and everybody thought it was big, bad facebook. and both sides, the media

outlets and facebook really really tripped over themselves to make it look like none of those doomsday scenarios were coming true. so on the facebook side they gave up huge concessions to the media publishers to look like hey, we're just trying to get more people to read your stuff at a quicker load time. nothing else nothing to see here. and on the publisher side they wanted their readers to know that they weren't all going to be quizzes. "the new york times,"",,"",," "national geographic," all of these publications put out very long cabal "j" journalism pieces with the exception of buzz feed to say, look we haven't changed at all. but what everyone knows watching this we've got to look a lot longer than a weak to see if all of the fears of all of these agreements is really going to come true. >> i'm skeptical, i think this is a chance for mark zuckerberg to turn it into one of the world's best news sites. but if you're "the new york times" or a lesser publication

and people reading your stories on facebook they never come to your site, yes, you get some mad revenue and recognition, but facebook down the line could change the terms and make it a lot more onerous and everybody will be trapped in zuckerberg's world. >> and facebook will change the terms. we know they will. they it rate on their terms and fees constantly. this is why facebook was comfortable giving up so much concessions to these guys going into it because now that they have this group of publishers they can strong arm all the other big publishers to coming in because they're going to use the fact that yurss see these stories quicker, so it's more user friendly to support them in the news feed, other than everyone else, and everyone else who relies on facebook for travel will have to follow suit and facebook will change the rules. and it's not that facebook is an evil company, but they're not a journalism company. they have this weird thing where they don't share the ethics of journalism companies in terms of you know, fact checking making sure something is in the public interest making sure

it's the truth, but they have the weird moralistic puritanical strain where they don't want certain images being showed on their site. if these president clintonublications don't think long-term, facebook will be a de facto editor controlling what people see or don't, they're dreaming. >> so brief answers, would you make a deal with facebook? >> like i said you know, we don't rely -- we're not a big mass media publication. we speak to a very small, very intelligent audience that we think really you know, moves money around tech and controls the world. so we don't rely on huge social stream and we don't rely on this fire hose coming -- >> you're doing your own thing. >> we might experiment with it but i wouldn't bet my business on it. >> so verizon buying aol, which includes "the huffington post," $4 billion deal. i'm reading all these business writers praising this for the synergy of buying a once glorious digital company, i'm

thinking, what it doesn't make any sense, and you wrote it. what do you think of the coverage of this takeover? >> it was bizarre. i think every once in a while in the financial press, we have these moments where people come out and say all this stuff and the deal is so weird that financial reporters and tech reporters frequently have to feel like oh, well i get it i get it. so they keep repeating what the company said. but you've got to step back and say, okay either i'm an idiot or you're all lying, because none of this made sense. everyone kept saying is you know this is about mobile video, mobile video, as if verizon woke up one day and thought, we need to dominate mobile video, get us aol. no one thinks aol when you think mobile video. >> nobody. we've got to go. >> it's ad technology. it's absurd. >> we've got to go. we've got to go. >> -- will be as big as google. >> you know what you've also got a lot of press for, aol being bought by time warner the worst corporate merger of all-time. >> all time.

>> see you later. david letterman hanging it up. an amazing career, but was it marred by that sex scandal. but first, president obama says he needs better media reporting to change the minds of john boehner and mitch mcconnell. brit hume has some thoughts on that.

president obama assumed the role of media critic at a georgetown conference on poverty, making sure he wants a different kind of journalism. >> and so if we're going to change how john boehner and mitch mcconnell think, we're going to have to change how our body politics this is which means we're going to have to change how the media reports on these issues. and that's a hard process, because, that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly

news. >> joining us now is brit hume fox's senior political analyst. let's start with a broad discussion. the president says we need better and deeper reporting on issues like poverty and the economy. haven't media critics have been saying that for years? >> for as long as i can remember and i've been in this business for almost 50 years, but we're a news media, right? and when all hell breaks loose in the inner city as it has recently in baltimore, you're going to get related coverage. >> everybody parachutes in. >> that's right. >> everybody says what are we going to do about urban poverty and racial tensions. >> and that triggers discussion segments to some length on chat shows and elsewhere. >> and then we all move on and a train crashes and we cover that. >> that's right. that's what we do. that's the nature of the news business. and he's not the first president or the first person to lament that but we're not in the business of convening seminars for the purpose of advancing the president's agenda on this or that issue, when they're not particularly in the news.

>> well, that brings me to that odd phraseology, when president obama says he wants a different kind of reporting, so he can change the minds of john boehner and mitch mcconnell. what does that say to you? >> well first of all, a big part of the job of a president is to find a way to work with people who disagree with him and to try to get something done. he's especially bad at this. i think he thinks their opinions are crazy and make no sense and therefore, there's no use trying to persuade them. the news media will try to change the atmosphere on the coverage. well some presidents have the ability to even do that. ronald reagan was able to do that occasionally, but not very often. it's hard to do as he suggests but -- i also think that he has a particularly viewpoint on these issues. where you never hear him suggest that the people who live in these terrible conditions are any any way responsible for that by the choices they make. >> i don't think that's entirely

fair because the president has talked about fatherless families and -- >> yes, he does. >> -- and the black culture. >> yes, but he speaks of it as -- on the one hand what he says is these conditions these conditions fatherless families broken homes, and the rest of it are a result of poverty and the conditions and not a cause of it. on the other hand he'll turn around and he did it in this presentation at georgetown and talk about how the statistics on poverty are wrong, because it doesn't include -- they don't include an array off benefits. on the one hand he's saying poverty's not all that bad, and on the other hand he's saying it's the cause of all these broken families. so you know, his own message is full of self-contradiction. >> one thing i think we'd agree on is that it's an important debate. and i would add, the media have done lots of substantiative reporting on obamacare, the va the secret service scandal that the administration hasn't liked. and also at the same time the president not giving the press as much access as previous administrations have done.

so we also have in this speech, where he's making a bipartisan appeal the president had a few words to say about fox news, take a look. >> and i think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don't want to work are lazy you know, are undeserving, got traction. i have to say, if you watch fox news on a regular basis, it is a constant menu they will find like folks who make me mad. i don't know where they find them. >> so then jon stewart and others followed up with clips of certain fox hosts and guests saying government programs make the poor lazy, the poor aren't that poor, because they have computers and cell phones these days. and i guess the president sees that as heartless. what do you think of him dragging fox in when he's doing this sort of bipartisan conference?

>> well first of all, the idea that -- first of all, i think there are more people of the kind that he says we point out than is willing to admit. the second thing is -- >> by which you mean people who don't particularly want to work? >> people who don't particularly want to work or who are badly affected by welfare dependence and the rest of it or their dependence on government largess. but i don't think we spend a constant -- we have a constant menu as he put it of that sort of thing. you know o'reilly does segments some of them tongue in cheek, with jesse waters where he goes out and finds people who say, you know, this is great, i'm living off the government and eating like a king and so on. i just don't think that we do that. so his obsession with our coverage of seems to me to be misplaced. but it gets back to this. the idea that the people in these situations are simply victims. that's an idea that is deeply held with him. and he doesn't look at the other side of the argument.

he won't easthe's not interested and he doesn't believe it. >> there is another side of the argument and there should be a debate about that and i think we should agree on that. >> let me move you to george stephanopoulos you spent 23 years at abc and i think there's a consensus that stephanopoulos made an egregious error here by donating to the clinton foundation not disclosing it while covering the clinton foundation controversies. what about abc news which tells me that he was in violation of its policies but he'll still lead the campaign coverage in 2016 and just said oh, it's an honest mistake. >> well they've got a lot invested in him. and abc news like the other major networks is gradually, slowly but inevitably turning out the lights and they don't have you know, the kind of stars that used to populate the benches at those networks. so they have a lot invested in him and there's a reason they want to keep him going, just like at nbc, day didn't want to see what happened to brian williams happen. i don't believe that this early endorsement and no punishment to speak of is going to work though. because not only did he

contribute to the foundation without disclosing it he was also active in participating in the foundation's events. he needed to sever his ties to the clintons -- >> al the more so because of his history -- >> because he's their spokesperson and so on. and in this campaign with her at the center of it at this stage, for him to be look like he has remaining ties to them and as part of their group, is damaging to his credibility and you're hearing it everywhere. and i think abc news may have to take some further steps to overcome this problem. >> we will see. this story is not going to go away in my way. brit hume thanks very much for stopping by this sunday. ahead, bill cosby finally asked on camera about the tidal wave of sexual assault allegations, one of the strangest interviews you've ever seen. and coming up david letterman calling it quits on cbs. is his era of late-night tv now over and done with? vo: today's the day. more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir®.

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come here come here! no come here! come here and hug! >> no! >> i spoke earlier with "the hollywood reporter's" marissa guthrie in new york. >> marissa guthrie, welcome. >> thank you. >> how much did david letterman change late-night tv and did that approach grow a bit stale in recent years? >> before letterman, it's hard for some people to remember but before letterman, all of these late-night shows is were sort of pandering to hollywood and celebrity. and dave came along and he sort of stuck a pin in that helium balloon and blew that up. and made fun of celebrities and hollywood. and he would -- he is notorious for having these actors on and not really you know, letting them get away with coming there

and just like spinning their tired old story. he actually interviewed them and so a lot of them were afraid to go on, as a result. >> a lot of people now sticking pins in different celebrity guests. but looking at his political interviews whether it was barack obama or john mccain or that tasteless joke he told about one of sarah palin's kids particularly recently he has not done much to hide his liberal views. >> no. i think -- i mean i think that's been clear for a long time. you know which side of the aisle he came down on. and if it wasn't clear, it certainly became clear with that notorious interview with john mccain in the run-up to the election where john mccain canceled because he said he had to get back to washington but then he appeared on a news program and david letterman sort of called him out, and he was really really hard on john mccain. >> i loved his deal with jay leno for example, but was he also damaged -- a lot of people are singing his praises, and understandably he's had a great career but was he also damaged

by having sex with women who worked with him on show. he recently told "the new york times," would have been a good reason to fire me. >> yes. and other people probably would have been fired for something like that. i think dave -- the thing that he did a lot was sort of bring the audience into his psyche as it were and he did the same thing with that episode, when it all came out, because of the extortion plot. he had to admit that he slept with women who worked on the show that he was essentially their boss. and just went on and sort of made fun of it and made fun of himself. and then everyone sort of said okay yawn and that was it. >> just a comedian and all that. now, "the new york times" says a lot of late-night shows now are designed with lots of bits and skits, to generate clips that people increasingly watch online. so is the letterman era of having a more of a general variety show that you watch for a whole hour is that kind of fading now?

>> oh, i think, definitely. and i think, you know, in some of the interviews that dave has done recently you know, leading up to his last show this week he has talked about how the genera has changed and it is so much about the viral video, what can you do on the show that's going to go viral? and a lot of guests a lot of viewers do not watch the show on linear television. they watch the bits that are posted on youtube or posted on the network websites. >> i'm really hoping that this segment goes viral. i have about a half a minute. stephen colbert taking over shedding his buffoonish persona from comedy central. can he hold that audience? >> yeah, i think so. i mean i think a lot of people forgot or didn't know that stephen colbert was a very talented stand-up a very talented mimic, very talented impressionist, because he's been doing the same character for 14 years. and so i think he'll have no problems slidinge inging right into that time slot. >> when he starts we'll have

you back and give him a report card. thank you very much for stopping by. >> thank you. after the break, bloomberg's mark halpe asks ted cruz about his favorite cuban food and music. you've got to see this. and cnn grills seymore hirsch over his charges that the administration's description of osama bin laden's death is a fraud.

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verdict. veteran political analyst co-author of game change conducted an interview with ted cruz that set the internet ablaze. it focussed on the texas

governor's comfort. >> i grew up eating cuban food all the time. >> your favorite dish? >> we had plantains and beans and rice. >> you like cuban music? a favorite cuban singer? >> in that, i'm much orf a texan. >> can you do it in spanish? >> i'm going to stick to english but i appreciate the invitation. >> he's a smart guy. just went local on this. he obviously was trying to expose his fake hispanic especially when he asked him to speak in spanish knowing he's not fluent. he was right to apologize for his tone and inappropriate questions and ted cruz is pretty savvy in graciously accepting rather than whining.

>> this is based on mostly shadowing of resources, a veteran reporter makes a charge that the pakistanis knew where osama bin laden was hiding and obliterated the body. how did they handle giving her issue a platform? >> the basic headline here is pakistan knew where he was. they were keeping him there and one of their own turned him ore, specially to the u.s. why do you believe that story, especially leaning so heavily on just one anonymous source? >> well i don't think that's correct to say one anonymous source. the story says that i was able to vet and verify information with others in the community. >> i'm just saying you've made a big wager with a ped gri that -- >> excuse me. that's your definition. this is not a wamger. >> chris cuomo was skeptical. he had an amazing career.

this story reads like a wild conspiracy theory. it is based on two exintelligence officials. one of them didn't seem to have firsthand knowledge. no you'd have to believe that the president, seal team six, all of them are lying about what happened when bin laden was killed. still to come your top tweets. tom brady's suspension and bill cosby's strange and rambling response to the sexual assault allegations. he says she's an undisciplined overwaterer. she claims he's a cruel underwaterer. with miracle-gro moisture control potting mix, plants only get water when they need it. fight ended. or shifted? miracle-gro. life starts here. i love making sunday dinners. but when my back hurt, cooking all day... forget about it. tylenol was ok, but it was 6 pills a day. but aleve is just 2 pills all day. and now, i'm back! aleve.

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here are your top tweets. should they punish stephanopoulos? they don't need to punish him as long as they know he's not impartial. >> any story of does for the election would be biassed. he should be pulled from all election coverage. also got one here on the jeb bush segment. not a bush fan but the media were very mean spirited and petty regarding him this week. it looked like bill cosby might finally not be silent and then this happened. >> the point is okay listen to me carefully. i'm telling you where the road is out. now, you want to go here or you want to be concerned about who's giving you the message?

>> are you concerned at all that given the allegations that that may overshadow your message? >> i have been in this business 53 2 years, and -- i've never seen anything like this. and reality is the situation. and i -- i can't speak. >> one of the strangest television moments i've ever seen. as someone who grew up laughing with him, i have to say really? is that the best you can do because you owe us a an actual response to those awful allegations. that's it for this edition of media buzz. give us a like on facebook. we post a lot of original content and we can be part of your buzz. send us an e-mail with a media question. you might even get a response from me. also you can check out our pod

casts and other information on our home page. we are back here next sunday where you can check out the latest buzz. reaction coming back from lawmakers about the daring u.s. special forces raid in syria. this as we learn more about the secret mission including that a total of 32 isis fighters were killed and that we're told includes four of the terror group's leaders. i'm erik shawn. this is "america's news headquarters." >> i'm arthel level. this rare boots on the ground raid was conducted under the cover of darkness saturday and we're learning more about the isis commander killed in the raid including that he was in charge of the group's oil suppl