pablo montoya came in first place. >> we say thank you to all of our veterans and their families. our have a safe memorial day weekend. >> on the buzz beat, hillary clinton finally make as few minutes nor reporters but they fail to pin her down on subjects ranging from the clinton foundation to her private e-mail to her personal wealth. >> was there conflict of interest in your giving paid speeches to the run up of your announcement you running for president. >> the answer to the second is "no." >> a why was it so easy for her to finesse the questions. and what about the friday document dump of the e-mail on benghazi? >> much of the media on ramadi is focusing on finger pointing. >> obama administration and the world have allowed the isis

savages to gain power and murder thousands of innocent people. thousands. >> how do you deal with the fact that the leadership of isis today were then out of the iraqi military by united states policy? how do you live with that? >> is the blame the other side approach doing any good as isis embryos stronger? >> abc keeping george stephanopolis in charge of the campaign coverage despite the failure to disclose the clinton foundation donations. with suspended brian anchor brian williams fighting for his job are the media coming under an ethical crowd? >> a liberal getting heat for ripping the left, and why is kirsten powers taking on her own side? we ask her. i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> it was 28 days since hillary clinton took questions from the

media prompting ed henry to interrupt her event in iowa. >> senator --. >> wait, wait. >> when i finish talking to the people here. how is that? >> you will move over? >> i might. >> i will have to ponder it. >> the former secretary of state did break her silence fielding questions from five reporters in five minutes such as this on foreign government donations to the clinton foundation. >> your were on popes say the foreign donations and the private e-mails are examples of the clintons having a set of rules for themself and another set for everyone else. do they have a point? >> i am so proud of the foundation and proud of the work that it has done and that it is doing and i will let the american people make their own judgments. >> by the weekend reporters plowed through her private e-mails on benghazi after the state department made them public. now, examining the coverage is chris stirewalt and susan

ferrechio chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner and mara liasson from national public radio a fox news contributor. chris stirewalt does it look like at long last, hillary clinton will be engages the press? >> in. she won't. she doesn't have to. these are the wages being paid to the political press corps for letting the obama administration get away with a bunch of hogwash for seven years where they will tweet it and live stream it and talk to the woman who eats fruit loops in the bathtub and complain it is abusive but they went along with it and the press corps will cover hillary clinton as if she were not smashing a grapefruit in their face each day. >> i love the way you tie the bathtub lady to hillary clinton. very astute. >> well, chris said she doesn't have to talk to the press. >> no. >> when she talked to the press she took a few questions on monday and two or three or

friday. does reporters do their job pinning her down? >> how much of a job can they do without the access? i was thrilled ed yelled out a question and forced her basically, to deal with the press in front of the constituents and cameras. what hillary clinton is doing is talking past the media though, and chris touches upon that. she was talking to the cameras look at footage on the news. she sounded positive. she sounded jovial and talking light of the fact that press doesn't get do her and there are other ways including youtube to get at does it wents. >> a few minutes is not a chance for follow-ups you can say i am so proud of the foundation work and dump the question. on friday a reporter asked what is your vision for iraq? like anyone who asks that should be sent back to juneism school. do you agree the media basically sort of pressured her into at least answering a few questions

with the constants drumbeat of, she is avoiding us and will not engage. >> media was right to insist she talk to them and she did because she had to. she could not go forever and over without talking to the press. what can you get done in five minutes. he is practiced she has to stick to the talking points. she is in a unique position that she is unopposed and does not have to give long searching interviews because she we does not feel pressure from anyone. >> some think it is whining by journalist whose want more access from any candidate but i am not sure i buy the notion she doesn't have to. yes, shell get the apparent nomination even if she goes away for a year but it is really important for a candidate including hillary clinton, to be seen as taking on questions engaged, doing the issues, when jeb bush is doing it and all the republican candidates are doing it doesn't she pay a price if she is seen as having a clean

campaign. >> i doubt it will work. mara is right. she can get through this because there is not a primary but she will get herself into trouble. however, it isn't whining by the press. it is consequential. what we have seen with the released e-mail, the questions are enormous. it is not that she doesn't want to answer the questions she cannot answer the question. sid blumentahl's involvement in profiteering in libya on her libyan policy while paid by the we we foundation, it is not she doesn't want to answer that, there is no answer. >> i am glad you mentioned that for the soundbite, sid blumentahl is a former clinton white house aide and board from being part of the state department by the obama administration yet has a back channel, peppers hillary clinton with all kinds of e-mails on libya while he is trying to do business in libya with business associates. that came up as a brief on monday press "avail." take a look. >> can you explain director relationship as secretary of state with sid blumentahl?

there is a report out this morning you have exchanged several mails. >> i have many, many old friends and i always think that it is important when you get into politics to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what is on their minds. he has been a friend of mine for a long-term and has sent me unsolicited e-mails which i passed on in some instances and i see that is just part of the give-and-take situation. >> the situation did not include libya. >> no. >> there was no attempt to presser on the specifics. it is difficult on the road on the fly. >> on the road on the fly -- there is no time. the media can do due diligence even if they cannot get a long interview with her. there is not a lot of indepth coverage. the question is, as the mails come out piecemeal is the media going do keep looking into all of the e-mails coming out or

drop this? will it be an old story? is the media going to give her a pass on all of in over the long haul? that is a huge question. >> i think some of this gets to the benghazi timeline is complicated. >> it is murky. we are in a 140-character e-mail time. >> the story was broken by "new york times" and private e-mail story so, what happens if the liberal media giving this treatment. >> "new york times" is doing yeoman's work. they are doing a great job of covering hillary clinton as basically treating her as a hostile witness. that is what she is. they are doing a great job. the decision, whoever has the decision to leak to the "new york times" in a break so it was not a friday afternoon news damp and go to the bottom of the sea. >> treatinger hads a hostile

witness? >> i think so. they want to avoid so much hostility between the campaign and the press it was toxic. now it is inscum -- incumbent to have a successful campaign that she look ream rather than looking like she is ducking every question. jeb bush is make a point of this showcasing the ability to take questions from anyone and not be ruffled. at least by ordinary people. >> but contrasted with jeb bush who takes the questions at almost every stop or every day really that is striking contrast. what about the friday document dump by the step of hillary clinton's e-mails on benghazi, susan used word "murky." well some say it was not really covered. >> it was covered. i didn't find a bombshell in there maybe someone else did. i didn't find any smoking gun in

there and i don't know if the committee will. >> let me move on to what i found to be a fascinating exchange with senator ted cruz with a texas reporter for kbmt and the subject was gay marriage which republicans are asked about and the public opinion obviously, is shifting on gay marriage ireland yesterday approving the recovery endumb. if we can put it on the screen the reporter said do you have a personal animosity against gay americans and the senator said is there something about the mess that is obsessed with sex? why is it that the only question you want to ask concerns homosexuals. okay you can ask those questions over and over again. >> the reporter asked do you have a personal animosity against gay americans? and the reporter said do you have personal animosity against christians?

>> you can ask any fooler question you want. it would be foolish to say of a person who has said on the record a million times he has no personal animosity to gay americans, talk about hostile kind of question, that is hostile. ted cruz profits from it. the reporter gave cruz an opportunity to swing harder than he bely would and say why are you such a weird oh? why are you creepy? >> senator said briefly talking about he thinks msnbc is setting the template and they have few viewers and radical and extreme partisan outlet. ted cruz does not need to complain about the media coverage. he knows the reporters don't like him. what do you make of this? >> it highlighted the focus the media makes along these campaigns. i saw this with rick santorum three years ago. >> he complained of being asked predominantly in a way that the

g.o.p. rivals were not. >> same will happen with ted cruz and he said in the exchange why aren't we talking about foreign policy? the frustration is the media is focusing on these candidates, the achilles' heel issues like gay marriage or abortion and excluding subjects of substance. >> for ted cruz focused on the primary only, this is probably a good tactic and it is good to bash the liberal media but i don't know over the long term if that is a good strategy but for right now it is good. >> he left him off the hook for the interchange. cruz did not pile open, saying no problem mark, we all have a bad day. >> when you ask a series of

condescendsing questions about spanish knowing full well that ted cruz is not fluent... >> plenty of media handling over isis but is this the same or part of the debate? love

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the fall of ramadi this week is a huge setback. there have been some good reporting on this turning point, some pundits are framing it as a

question of which president to blame. >> president obama and hillary clinton are responsible for the biggest betrayal of troops since vietnam. >> it's a very real consequence. from the u.s. invasion of iraq. >> susan, i feel like i'm back in 2003. is there too much partisan scoring points here? >> yes. first of all, it plays to everybody's -- whoever their -- chris matthews' viewers and sean hannity viewers. >> they are playing to their base? >> of course. but there's nothing to cover in terms of what to do next. and that's because -- and what is missing here is the coverage of how congress and the white house are unable and unwilling to come up with a real strategy for dealing with the crisis in the middle east. there's nothing to write about but there's also very little coverage that they are failing to come up with a plan. >> when asked about what would

you do about isis there were vague responses but that's precisely my point, which is it's so easy to rerun the obama versus romney debate and there are no great options to talk about what do we do now, short of sending in ground troops which most politicians want to avoid because it's not very popular. >> and when you listen to republicans, they are going to be tougher, kill more bad guys they wouldn't have let this happen. but they maybe would have done it earlier. there's not a huge shift with the exception of lindsey graham who is willing to put in troops. >> it's not very politics to say but kill them in much larger volumes with many more bombs. we're doing a limited number of missions dropping very few

munitions compared to complex in the past and the republicans say, smoke them. put the b-52s in the air and get serious about this. >> i'm watching chris matthews as an example, from msnbc for two weeks and he's going haywire. and then a lot of conservatives say, well if obama hadn't withdrawn the last 10,000 troops and it seems like it is so much easier to look at the past than to deal with the president. >> we have a system that's based on conflict between two parties to solve problems. and i'm okay with that. and the two parties disagree about whose fault it is and which way forward. that's why we have election. the real question here is for the republicans and democrats alike, was it worth it? the 4500 dead was it worth it? the tens and thousands with traumatic injuries to their bodies and their brain, was it worth it? and they don't want to answer that question because the answer is it depends on what we do now. >> and this is an outgrowth of

the now famous jeb bush, if you knew what you know now which you didn't know then would you invid invade iraq? i have people tweeting and saying this is a gotcha question. >> no it's not. the story not being covered, i will argue, is that the parallelization. they don't want to touch it. >> it's so much easier to blame the other guy. mara chris, susan, thank you for stopping by this sunday. ahead, the left accused of squelching free speech by kirsten powers. and abc and nbc under an

ethical cloud. what george

maybe we know why abc has staunchly supported george stephanopoulos. it's being reported that he's paid $100 million. this amid the anchor admitting he screwed up. >> 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. >> but when msnbc totally ignored the story when it broke, mia has a different view. >> he worked on the clinton campaign. he served under bill clinton. who would be so surprised that he is tied for the clintons? everybody on television has

biases. i think the important thing here and what was lost here was the lack of transparency. we all have to be -- look at joe and me. totally different world views. totally different ideology. >> joining us now for the b block is media critic for the baltimore sun. i thought i was one of the toughest critics but you wrote "george stephanopoulos is dead to me." >> well howie, here is what is upsetting. when we have to go to mika for information on media news we're all in trouble. she's clearer than these guys about it. she has a clear view. this is the upsetting thing about stephanopoulos. he says i should have gone the extra mile. no you should have gone the first mile for god's sakes, and disclosed this thing. it's so obvious. >> or not donated in the first place to the family foundation

of your ex-boss. >> but if you did, you should have told your viewers. you should have been square with them. that's what is so maddening about this. i've sat here and told you how smart he is yet he's so ignorant that he can say, it was a matter of pub electric record. by the way, it wasn't a matter of public record unless they disclosed it. so this outrageous. now where i think the real problem lies howie, is you're right, in asking about the salary it's totally about him. when i say dead to me i think in a political commentator, political reporter/anchor, he's dead to me. i don't want to hear what he has to say to me anymore. i'm 2016 election. i think he's so poisoned. any belief i would have in his work -- and people are saying oh zurawik, you're wrong. he's going to err on the other side. i don't care. that's not the way it's done.

>> i can't verify this $105 million over seven years, but even if it's two-thirds or half of that to me abc believes that george stephanopoulos is too big to fail. on the other hand 40% want stephanopoulos banned from campaign coverage. he pulled out of the presidential debate but then how will he interview a candidate, including hillary clinton? >> that's exactly my point. if abc news wanted to behave ethically on this and not lose him, they should have said you're out of the 2016 campaign. we can't have you as the face of our coverage. >> how could you do that when he's co-anchor of "good morning america"? >> then they have to shift it or put a reporter out there on the desk and let them read the nice thing

things things where a lion chase the car. howie, you know that's exactly what it looks like he is. i'm angry because i gave him the benefit of the doubt for years. you know i said this guy can do it diane sawyer betweencame a fair journalist and he showed his strikes. >> he worked really hard to establish himself as a journalist and undid some of that. you've got abc chief anchor apologizing, brian williams on suspension fighting for his job, what do these and other episodes do to public confidence in television news? >> howie, i think it's awful. i think the same people who are angry, you know you use the term "too big to fail." in 2008 there's a lot of bitterness distrust pessimism, i think, even despair in america because of what happened in 2008 and nobody on wall street was punished in a meaningful way.

too big to fail. now we look at these anchormen who behave -- it is ethics 101. there's no gray area. what they did was so bad they should be punished. if they are not punished people say the same thing. it's all rigged. the rich people get away with everything. they are not on my side. they are playing for this or that. they are part of the 1%. why should i trust them? now, if somebody else comes along in news and convinces the audience that they are getting them the straight stuff, they are going to kill abc this year. >> i would argue it doesn't just hurt abc, it hurts all of us because they look at us as a bunch of insiders with politicians and maybe make too much money. next some on the left trying to squash free speech. not coming from a right winger but from kirsten powers.

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the title makes it sound like an attack from the right. kirsten powers' new book is called "the silencing." kirsten powers welcome. >> thank you. >> as somebody who spent a lot of time in democratic politics are you resigning from the left? >> no because i make a distinction between what i call the liberal left and what i consider your average democrat or another liberal who i may share the policy views of many of the liberal left. i don't share the view that it's -- that you should silence people who disagree with you. that's where i make the distinction. >> some of your friends and allies cannot be happy. you wrote a book on "an attempt to silence the sin from the real

world view". >> yes, there are some people unhappy but most of the people making the criticisms are not happy with the book. it's quite clear that it's not about how conservatives are being silenced. conservatives are some of the people evangelicals are some of them. a lot of the people that i interview are liberals themselves have been silenced or liberals very concerned about what they consider the silencing going on there are politicallypolitically politically agnostic. >> is this hard for you? >> did i think twice about writing this book? absolutely. but when i looked at the overwhelming evidence what i saw was a very serious cultural trend that i think is very damaging to the country and i think it's ill liberal. >> i have not been invited on a

variety of media outlets. >> you mentioned in the book, gloria steinem and others, what do they say? >> i recall a conversation with gloria where we were at an event and she basically leaned over and said you know why do you go on fox news? and i don't remember what my answer was but she just said it's coming at such a great cost. and i said you know i disagree. i think you should go on. i think people should get the whole picture of you and not the stereotype. >> and you wrote about the left war on fox news and megyn kelly, attracting looking blond anchor woman leads the pact at fox news. >> they were linking to a "new york times" profile of megyn kelly that did not in any way make that case about her. >> very positive. >> very positive about her as a journ lifts journalist. the fact that they took a quote out of the entire very positive profile shows that is what they are reducing her to. i don't think there's anything wrong saying women are

attractive. i have no problem with that. it's when they just dismiss somebody. and that's what i talk about with the liberal left. >> you originally saw conservatives and religious people as stereotypes and talk about what happened when george w. bush nominated his white house lawyer to the supreme court. you thought -- >> i had this conversation with somebody at fox news and isn't it great that he chose a woman? and i said she doesn't really count as a woman choice because she's conservative and an evangelical. and i'm very embarrassed to admit that now but that's a very commonplace view and i chronicle along with what i call the liberal feminist. people who care about dismissing women and saying that a conservative woman is not actually a real woman. >> some may say for a liberal to write about how the left is

killing free speech and you have a lot of examples in the book you've become more conservative a little bit while at fox we're trying to fit in more at fox? >> no. because it's not about ideology or whether you're a democrat or not. a group of people like i said i may agree with on policies. i just don't agree with the free speech. so it is purely about trying to encourage a robust debate and calling out people who i just don't consider -- first of all, they are not the majority. this is a very minority situation. >> if they had outside influence, it sounds to me like there is just a group over there and it sounds like you make the case that this mindset, not only do i disagree with you what you said but don't want you coming to my campus to -- >> no. it's absolutely very influential people and what i'm saying is that if you talk to most democrats, just find a democrat

on the street and tell them about this or even a liberal and tell them about the situation, the things i'm talking about in my book, they would say i'm not okay with that. on the campus you will see a handful of people who will get upset about something and make so much noise and then everybody sort of caves to this because they don't want to be seen as allowing somebody on campus who is creating -- making it unsafe for most students even though they want to be that person and that's what you see in the interviews that i do. that most people are saying we actually can handle this. >> kirsten powers, thank you for sitting down. >> thanks, howie. ahead on "media buzz," anderson cooper ends up on his own "ridiculist."

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here's a look at hillary clinton's private e-mails after state department officials released them friday afternoon. i checked in with james rosen, fox news' evening correspondent at the state department. james rosen welcome. >> thanks howie. good to be with you. >> about a third of the e-mails

were leaked to the "new york times." did that blunt the coverage of the state department release, make them seem a little less newsworthy? >> to some extent they did. perhaps there's been some speculation that perhaps it wasn't the benghazi committee that leaked the documents to "the new york times," as many people have suggested, but rather the clinton team to lessen the impact. there's no way to blunt the impact rather than dumping them out on a friday as you well know. >> on a friday on memorial day weekend. >> you bet. >> what was it like as a reporter to spend friday plowing through these e-mails? >> well it was tough. you had 296 e-mails to try and get through. they were released at 12:30 p.m. sharp on friday. eastern time. and so you had all of these reporters, hundreds of reporters

assaulting this website trying to get at them and trying to discern a little interesting nugget. >> you make it sound like the landing at normandy. >> well the pressure was on for sure. another interesting fact is that as i on friday was uploading nuggets that i was taking out of the documents occasionally on twitter, you even had interaction between reporters. i was the first to break the fact that the documents revealed that three days after the benghazi attack hillary clinton slept through an appointment where she was supposed to receive the president's daily brief, the most sensitive classified intelligence document that the intelligence community produces and alerted her staff to this fact by typing out an e-mail at 10:43 in the morning saying i just woke up so i missed dan, the presidential daily brief. i reported this and josh gersten of politico said well that was a saturday. the interaction among the media as the story was unfolding.

>> so benghazi has been pretty heavy investigated. is it possible that media expectations there would be some kind of smoking gun, e-mail perhaps inflated a bit too high? >> i'm not sure that there was an expectation, howie, principally because we learned that hillary clinton maintained all of her e-mails on a private server because she, of her own accord and by herself, had determined that roughly half of them were personal in nature. >> sure. >> so the working supposition of the media has been whatever we would see might have been subjected to the same kind of sanitizing process. >> we'll let you go. you're a big twitter aficionado. tweeting under his own name is this his strategy to engage with the folks or is it kind of a stunt? >> well i would be remiss if i didn't begin my answer by alerting your viewers to the

fact that you can all follow me on twitter @jamesrosenfnc. >> the president's new twitter handle @potus. very quickly, a comment from president clinton, asking for a friend if the @potus handle will stay with whomever becomes president. i think it's not going to make that much of a difference in terms of the communication strategy at the white house but follows along with lineage dating back to the last 50 60 years, politicians have been rushing to make use of the latest means of communication and often it's informal and outside of what we conventionally think is political. >> the reaction to the tweet is violent and racist in nature. remember it can be a very rough neighborhood. james rosen, thank you for joining us from the state department. >> thank you, howie.

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get started at xfinity.com/myaccount showered david letterman with praise, way over the top on in my view during the runup to his final show. >> i'll be honest to you. it's beginning to look like i'm not going to get the tonight show. i want to thank the folks at home. people come up to me and say i've been watching you since your morning show and i always say have you thought about a complete psychological workout? the people who watch this show there's nothing i can do to ever

repay you. thank you for everything. you've given me everything. >> david zurawik is back with us. you say he infected the culture with irony and snark. >> it is a disease, young people that's all we have and we believe in nothing. seriousness of purpose is mocked. i think it's a really kind of cultural malaise and i think he's part of it. to blame can david letterman for it would bely ridiculous. it's all they have. no look at social media. it's filled with it in. >> you also say that the letterman show which went through a lot of changes over the years, giving baby boomer men a way to be silly or stupid and think they were cool. >> i can live with that. we all love our pets but i'll tell you what really troubled me

about letterman, politicians being able to bypass the press and go to the late night couch and talk directly to the people. i think that's a really bad development. you know it started on arsenio hall and clinton on the sax phone. >> i disagree with you. they all do it now, but with letterman who's liberal, he could have an intelligent political conversation with someone and i think that the current crop they're talented guys but jimmy fallon slow jams the news. they're not having those kinds of conversations. >> so he did it better than them. i'll grant you that and had a more intelligent conversation but this is what we're left with now but also with that i think in one sense it places the political discourse in an entertainment box instead of in the serious box of public affairs.

also it keeps unruly nasty reporters, honest reporters from asking hard questions. >> but it also lets politicians communicate with people who are not regular watchers of news. you have to go where the people are. >> i'm not saying it's all letterman but -- >> politicians should stay off and only talk to news anchors. i got you silence for a second. i think letterman has been a tadover praised when you consider for over these years he was number two to jay leno but others loved him. >> that was the result of this narrative after he didn't get the tonight show that dave is the hip, edgy daring guy. jay is the corporate hack who only says whatever is safe. you know what? david letterman is as much of a corporate hack.

anybody who fetegets a network show is not a radical. you're not going to take on capitalism and get a nighttime talk show. that was the difference. everybody did it. all the baby boomer male critics, and we were part of it that bought into that and aloved dave and mocked jay. i think it was unfair. >> it was not emotional but dave is not a weepy guy. you're not holding back. thanks for joining us. still to come your top tweets. avrnds anderson cooper tweets his way i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc.

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conservative family research council and now it is pointed out he posed for pushes with republican presidential candidate whose obviously did not know about this. tlc did the right thing saying they are saddened and troubled by to heartbreaking situation. we look at snapchat, and teens taking naughty selfies and now getting into media coverage. should hillary clinton answer more questions from the press or does it not matter? >> if it doesn't matter for the campaign how would it matter she is elected? the media has done little. responding to questions from the media only matters not agencies are truthful and factual. steve said, she brilliant she can make the media cover her and say nothing. no media asking stupid questions. >> when i see false stuff about me on twit other which happens all time i usually let it go but

anderson cooper could now believe he was quoted as saying graduating and bigger deal than scoring a hole in one since he never gave a speech the he tweeted at the source, do you make this stuff up? >> that is what everyone on planet earth pointed out that this is a comedy site, run by the same geniuses who produce this stuff. and some say it should have been my first hole "click home," it should have. at least he got a clue and good for him foe laughing about the initial cluelessness. that is this "media buzz." hope you all enjoy the memorial day weekend especially those who is served. we post a last original content. e-mail me at www.

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