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ass of 2015. that's it for today. have a great week and we'll see you next fox news sunday. satellite. "media buzz" with howard kurtz begins right now. on the buzz meter this sunday hillary clinton now has, well the appearance of competition, but the media aren't taking bernie sanders and martin o'malley all that seriously, except on msnbc. >> do they belong? bernie sanders. the beltway media has been treating bernie sanders almost like a gadfly. but bernie sanders has been bucking that. >> the republican field grows larger with rick santorum and george pataki jumping in but are even the conservative media dismissing them as also rand? >> so it's not going to be a good run for someone like rick santorum who's been around for a very long time who's come in
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nearly last. >> well today, rick santorum announced the launch of another losing santorum for president campaign. >> maybe news outlets are just trying to winnow this crowded field. "vogue," marie claire "cosmopolitan," and others swooning over the first potential female president. and one editor donating to the hillary clinton campaign. are they in the tank for her? and a look at the denny hastert investigation. iran begins an outrageous secret trial of a "washington post" reporter accused of trumped up spying charges. the paper's editor will be here. plus he's hanging it up after half a century of folksy anchor in an increasingly shrill media universe who will remain friendly with the politicians he interviews. a conversation with bob schieffer. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz."
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martin o'malley jumped into the presidential race yesterday, but maryland's former democratic governor generating little excitement in the media, and being overshadowed by vermont senator, bernie sanders. >> it's very possible bernie is the chief challenger to hillary and not martin o'malley. >> i think he's potentially better positioned than any of the other democrats who are lining up to run against hillary clinton to make her sweat, to give her some headache. >> i don't think most people when they give serious consideration to candidates think that a socialist will be elected president of the united states. >> and with rick santorum and george pataki joining that crowded republican field, even conservative pundits couldn't muster much enthusiasm. >> i think that because there are so many additional alternatives now, and a person like marco rubio gets your attention, you think, oh, that's new, that's different, i want to hear a little bit more of that and rick santorum will have to break through. >> i think rick santorum was lucky the last time around
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brett, because he was sort of the last plausible one standing up against the presumptive nominee, mitt romney. >> i read this morning, someone thinks it's a great irony that people aren't taking george pataki seriously right now, but there is no doubt you look at his qualifications on paper, easily the most qualified republican. >> joining us now to examine the 2016 coverage mercedes schlapp, former bush white house official. susan ver richio. and joe trippi democratic strategist and a fox news contributor. mercy, george pataki pretty successful three-term governor of new york. they're barely being talked about on the political shows. is that a mistake by the media? >> no it's not. i think i have one conservative blogger and radio host waiting to come out and basically say, well george pataki said, i can beat hillary clinton, someone
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said can someone give george pataki a cold shower. there are so many candidates the limited resources on the media side and the media is being realistic. like really can these individuals pull it off? nowadays everyone seems to be running for president. >> but being realistic on the basis of o our early judgments, almost a year before the primary starts. and we try hard to find sound of commentators talking about particularly santorum and pataki it was hard to find. >> but we've talked about this on the show. it's an important topic, we're doing it. santorum not only did he win 11 states he won iowa. and he wasn't just someone who got iowa i think he appealed to voters who mitt romney could not get out to the polls. he couldn't get those voters out. part of the reason mitt romney lost. i think we are, perhaps, filtering out potentially significant candidates that the voters would like. you know bernie sanders, a lot of people who bernie sanders' message really appeals to. >> and martin o'malley seven
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years as mayor of baltimore, getting into the race yesterday and media treating him rather dismissively. you worked for 2003, 2003 howard dean was a masterist. >> i think that o'malley likes the way things are shaping up. >> low expectations? >> exactly. >> coming at it from a campaign operative point of view we know we understand internally, that to the media is going to winnow everybody else out. they're going to try to narrow it down to two people that you just want to be one of the two people. and right now, everybody thinks -- >> who elected us to perform this function? you're saying this is reality? >> i was talking about reality from -- as somebody who's putting a campaign together you understand that's going happen. >> and you know candidates have to go to iowa and new hampshire. that local press is actually incredibly important for those candidates. that's why governor pataki actually did more new hampshire press this past week than national press. we're all focused here in washington but it's really in those early states that it
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counts. >> here's the conundrum if you're running a campaign you need to get attention. you can get attention by setting your hair on fire but american people don't want a president who sets their hair on fire. >> we all thought in the press that hillary clinton was the inevitable candidate, the winner in 2008. that was -- we were wrong. >> and we barely covered rick santorum until the last couple of weeks in iowa when he started to catch fire and ended up avoiding that primary by eight votes. here's the thing. so bernie sanders -- i'm not going to sit here and predict that bernie sanders will lin the democratic nomination, but he's really getting talked about on msnbc, he's barely been mentioned on fox. he seems to be leading a little bit of a movement. could the pundits be underestimateing at least his impact? >> i think so. hillary clinton is already pivoting to the left, in part because elizabeth is not warning, but her politics are popular. bernie sanders is the running version of elizabeth warren.
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this is a candidate i thought would be a middle of the road candidate. >> rachel maddow on msnbc says there's a double standard in the media. that bernie sanders in some polls is at 15%, and yet he is still being treated rather dismissively whereas republican candidates who are at 5 or 6% get lots of coverage. >> well when everybody is 10%, somebody at 5 has actually got a -- i think, look hillary's numbers have come down a little bit, but not in a way yet that says either bernie sanders or o'malley or one of the other potential candidates can mount a challenge. i think if that ever starts to happen the race will close. but one of them has to create that interest -- >> and i think that the mainstream media, they want a race on the democratic side. it's kind of boring to have hillary and her scandals be dominating everything. they want a bernie sanders to come and talk about her -- >> there is. they do. it's boring. >> if we vote, we vote against the kor assassination. at the same time we're covering hillary, you know, 98% of the time and everybody gets the other 2%.
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but sanders made news unintentionally this week that mother jones unearthed a 1972 that a man's typical sexual fantasy is having a woman tied zpup up and abused and a woman's fantasy is being raped by three men simultaneously. what do you think sanders -- >> when you have five kids you don't think about infant sis. but the contenders actually jumped on these. some of these conservative journalists basically came out. erick erickson had a tweet that said a lot of people are outraged, it was like a "game of thrones" rape love of bernie sanders. and started talking about bill clinton raped women -- >> well not a fact. >> they tried to take a punch of it. but we know that whatever you write, even whatever you write in elementary school it's all open to the press to look at and investigate. >> attention -- >> be careful what you write. >> and what you put on your
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facebook page. before i get to you guys on this it has come up with senator sanders on "meet the press" this morning, here's how the exchange went with chuck todd about this article. >> can you explain this essay? >> sure. look this is a piece of fiction that i wrote in 1972 i think. that was 43 years ago. it was very poorly written. >> so sanders wasn't in college then he was running for governor actually but 43 years ago. so should this be a story? is it a legitimate story? is it an important story? why? >> absolutely. particularly because the left loves to accuse the republican party of not being the party for women, of being the party that takes away women's rights. totally fair game. >> anybody who says anything controversial about rape todd akin makes huge headlines? >> that changed the whole race todd akin's comments the reason he lost. i think it's absolutely fair game. why did he write that?
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how do those thoughts inform him today as a politician, as a human being? >> right now everybody that works for him is just glad he's not within five points of hillary clinton, because if he was, this would be i mean just a gigantic story and he would be getting hammered on all sides. >> right. it's gotten very modest coverage -- >> but because of where he is because he's low right now on the polls, this is just going to get washed over. >> and mother jones is a liberal publication and they're the ones that broke the story. >> kudos to them because i think it's important. >> i didn't particularly enjoy reading that but i want to turn our remaining moments to this indictment at the end of the week where it's just stunned everybody in washington denny hastert, speaker of the house, straight arrow, decent guy, now you have them facing charges for lying to the fbi, for making payoffs to cover up misconduct.
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the indictment didn't say what the past misconduct was. but it took half a day at most for the "los angeles times" to report and other news organizations, to confirm that this money, supposedly allegedly to cover up alleged sexual abuse with a male student back when hastert was a high school wrestling coach and teacher in illinois. should the media report that based on anonymous sources? >> i don't think it's helpful. i think it gets to point where denny hastert is being tried by the media first. when you're accused, you have rights the presumption of o innocence, and he's not really speaking. look the media will run with the sources, but at the end, like what we saw with senator ted stevens, we don't really know the whole story. it's a story the media wants to cover, it's salacious and shocking to all of us. >> and it's also a strange indictment. obviously, it has to be covered. this is a former speaker of the house, who, you know, i guess is alleged to have -- he was going
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to pay this person who has not been identified $3.5 million. he was withdrawing it carefully from banks as to not to trip the currency reporting limits. and yet the thing at the heart of it which is what was he allegedly paying to cover up was in the not indictment. and then you have, obviously, law enforcement officials leaking this to the press. >> but, look you didn't feed to be a lawyer to read the indictment and understand what this was likely to be. and when i saw that i looked at how many minutes is it before the press actually goes there. it was -- they're going to. and actually i thought they showed restraint. i thought it took longer and the story was sort of muted initially, before it went into high speed gear. it went there -- >> susan? >> very murky, murky details. even when i read the stories now, i still have so many questions. all you see is this massive,
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dark cloud over denny hastert. what really happened here? what's the crime? are they trying to talk about a different crime or about the structuring of payments. it's so murky and accuses him of terrible things without being very specific. that's the problem i have with it. >> he hasn't been charged with anything relating to this conduct of long ago. i presume we'll find out more about this as this unfolds. send me a tweet about the media. what do you think about the coverage of the topics we're talking about right now or about the show. we'll read some of your messages later on. ahead, iran conducting a secret trial of a "washington post" reporter on trumped up charges. the paper's editor will be right here. but when we come back which women's magazine editor donated money to hillary clinton and are these publications basically biassed in her favor?
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hillary clinton may be at odds with the mainstream media, but listen how she's fairing with a women's magazine. all of us at "vogue" look forward to putting on the cover the first female president of the united states. marie claire's says we're thrilled that hillary is in the race. we'd love to see a woman president of the united states. and editor in chief of "more" magazine is a hillary admirer. >> we're going to talk about that great woman, who i believe we just saw a poll that said she's the most admired woman in the country, if not in the world, hillary rodham clinton. that's what we love about her, is she has stood up for women when other people have not. >> leslie seymore recently donated to hillary's presidential campaign. she put it on her facebook page and urged other people to contributor. and she told me that these donations were a personal preference and there's no
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ethical concern because she says she works for a women's lifestyle magazine and not a news organization. >> i find that a really incredible statement. because a lot of these women's magazines have journalism in them. they have reporters who write stories that are considered to be fair stories, impartial stories. these are the editors of those stories. they pick the content of those things. i think this is such an important story, because all of this endorsement situation with these magazines is a free media for hillary clinton that none of the other candidates will get. and when september 2016 rolls around and you're at the checkout with your grocery cart and she's the nominee, i can picture every magazine with her picture -- "redbook," "oprah," you know how important that is? it's going to be a potentially huge advantage for her. >> >>more more"more" magazine like these other magazines, do cover some
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politics. so to say, not a news organization just struck me as an odd president. and they wanted to say, they wanted to elect the first female president, but apparently that doesn't apply to carly fiorina. >> and they had this shirtless, get out the vote campaign. and what "cosmo" did, they endorse all democrats, and not one republican woman in the midterm elections. it is clear they have a political ynd with these magazines. it is clear that they have a huge target audience, which is out of 15 million women that read these types of magazines. and yes, they are the cheerleaders for not only hillary clinton, was the democratic party. >> african-american publications i think, were a big help to barack obama in 2008 and ebony made him the man of the year person of the first, first time "ebony" had done that. so is this unfair in your view? that women's magazines are going to be a cheerleading squad for hillary? >> of course they are. >> you don't sound very concerned. >> but they're trying to sell magazines. they put on the cover.
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they put on the cover what they want -- >> right. but why not carly? >> because if carly gets anywhere near the lead or gets the nomination there are -- they'll put them both on the cover and say, you go girls. no they will. >> so you're saying that hillary clinton is the princess di of the political world for these magazines, put her on the cover, women are interested in her, and that is going to, you know -- >> if she was the worst-selling has cover in 2014 for "people" magazine so i would argue that hillary clinton does not sell magazines. they're doing this because they support her. >> i think the idea of the woman president -- they may think sells their magazine. i'm not getting into why -- i'm just saying i don't think they're looking at this as journalists. i agree with what she said. this is about celebrating the potential of the first woman president in history. women's magazines are going to do that. >> not just the first woman
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president, the first democratic -- they want a democrat in office. it's who they support. >> i don't think that's rightwrong. but i also believe if carly were the front-runner right now on the republican side and leading all the democrats, they would be talking about the first women -- >> she'd get on "good housekeeping." >> the point you made about just one magazine, "cosmo" endorsing all female democrats in the 2014 midterms. so they say, we're not a news organization. >> but they have political reporters. >> whose work they publish, who make themselves out to be journalists. but also they are going to influence politics. these magazines, to be fair they don't just cover beauty and makeup and relationships. >> marie claire elle all of them go read the headlines when you're standing out the checkout counter, if you can stand it. they do serious journalism.
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it's not just fashion and makeup. >> but my favorite thing about cosmo, they put on one of the articles "how sexy voting can be." >> the shirtless guy, all right. >> thanks very much for joining us. ahead, as bob schieffer hands it up today we talk to him about politicians and if president obama has gotten a pretty easy ride. and the outrageous secret trial of a reporter in iran.
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iran has been holding "washington post" reporter jason resign since last july on trumped up spy charges. joining us now is marty barons
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executive editor of "the washington post." what happened when you tried to have reporters in a position to cover the trial and what does that tell you about the process? >> jason was our only correspondent in tehran and now he's been imprisoned for ten months. we asked for a visa to have a senior editor to attend mainly to serve as a witness to see whether he was being treated fairly. we never got a response from the iranian government to that request, and we're not allowed to observe the trial. >> this all must be so frustrating for you and your colleagues at "the post," to say the least. have you worried at all by being openly critical of the way this is being conducted by the iranian government you might be plotting the regime to be harsher towards jason? >> i don't think. this is a harsh regime. however you judge it. and we have to speak the truth. we have to speak with more clarity about his situation, and it's been an outrage from the beginning. here's a guy who was picked up and put in the worst prison in iran and held in isolation, without charges. he's now facing trial, it's a
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close trial. his lawyer is only being given an hour and a half with him, and his lawyer only found out that the trial was being held a week in advance of the trial itself. >> his lawyer got an hour and a half total with his client? >> an hour and a half. per client. >> excuse me. i want to try to give you a chance to address this. there was a report in iran the iranian media, that the government believes he might be a respond because of some correspondence with the obama administration. >> right. well, this shows how ridiculous it was. in 2008, jason was a freelance correspondent in iran. he wasn't working for us at the time. it was years before he worked for us and he apparently was working for a full-time job and when the obama administration -- during the transition period, they were taking application from people and he submitted an online application, through the normal channels got a form response and was never hired. so the notion that some sort of application like that and a form response and never being hired is evidence of being a spy is just preposterous.
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it shows how silly it is. >> it's his detention you've been fighting since last summer. more complicated because he had dual iranian citizenship. >> it is more complicated, because he has dual citizenship, the iranians don't believe that the u.s. have anything to say and shouldn't even be involved. they view him as an iranian citizen and he will be treated under iranian law and that the u.s. government has no role in that case. >> do you think that his face, really this case itself could be tied up with the nuclear negotiations that are going on between the u.s. and tehran? >> we don't know exactly, was there's been a lot of speculation about divisions within the iranian government. he was picked up by the revolutionary guard, he's being tried in a revolutionary court, which deals with national security matters, and there have been divisions between the revolutionary guard and the governor of the president uhani.
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i can't really speculate but a lot of people have focused on that. >> and by the way, it's not just that reporters aren't being allowed to cover this trial, his family was turned away as well. is that correct? >> that's right. his mother was in iran had been allowed to come into iran and was waiting there for a couple of weeks so she could attend the trial. she was denied entry into the trial. his wife who's also facing charges of her own, and she will face her own separate trial, he has not been able to attend the trial either. >> that is just amazing. and let me just say, this is all too reminiscent in my view of 1979. i think he's basically being held as a hostage. to call this a trial is very difficult. the trial has recessed we don't know when it's going to resume. and you and everybody who loves this guy is in the dark. >> that's right. they started the trial. it was a few hours it was held then it was suspended, and we don't know when it will be -- it was adjourned and we don't know when it will start up again. >> thank you so much for stopping by this sunday morning. >> thank you. ahead on media buzz did al
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sharpton involve god and climate change. but a conversation with bob schieffer as he signs off today from "face the nation."
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bob schieffer was a texas radio and newspaper reporter who forged a remarkable career at cbs news as a correspondent and analyst, evening news anchor and for the past 24 years, the host of "face the nation". >> is that the best you could do? this thing seems to be a disaster. >> if as you say, there is nothing there, mr. president, how can so many reputable, respected professionals be pressing along with it? >> well that's your characterization not mine. >> it appears that the white house strategy is going to be to picture you as a pretty boy, a lightweight. does that bother you? >> no it doesn't bother me. >> if i didn't know better --
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and i do know better -- you would think you might be a democrat. do you think you could get the republican nomination making those statements and taking those positions? >> you you can add that i'm one of the most conservative members of the senate. >> today is schieffer's last day, his final "face the nation" broadcast. i sat down with him in his office. bob schieffer, welcome. >> thank you. >> over the years, you've been doing this a lot of years has it become harder to knock politicians off their scripted talking points? >> well everyone is much more sophisticated now in information management but, you know, the politician's role is to deliver a message. our job is to get to the truth as best we can. and we have two different assignments. and so i think it's just part of the game. but, yeah it is harder. >> i was at a "face the nation" anniversary party for you and i was really struck because joe biden and john mccain opposite
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sides of the spectrum both came and sang your praises. so you have known everybody in this town for decades. the younger generation part of the wrap is well, maybe you guys were too cozy with the politicians. >> well you know, the thing now is nobody in this town knows anybody anymore. the politicians don't know each other anymore. they're only here for a couple of days a week and then they're back home raising money. i think it was better in the days when people kind of knew one another. yeah there were these charges about being too cozy but, it seemed to me the town worked a lot better in those days. i don't think anybody would argue with that. >> many people in this country, as you know think the three broadcast networks are too biased too liberal. would you agree looking back in the media gave barack obama an incredibly easy ride in 2008 and for much of his presidency? >> well i think, i think the whole political world was struck by this fella who sort of came
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out of nowhere with this very unusual name and when he won out in iowa, i think people sat up and took notice. >> but isn't it the job of journalists to be skeptical of the young phenom? >> yeah, it is. it is. and i don't know, maybe we were not skeptical enough. it was a campaign. howie, my feeling is it is the role of the other -- of the opponents to make the campaign. i think as journalists basically, what we do is we watch the campaign and we report what the two sides are doing. i think it is the politicians who make the campaign. >> but don't journalists have an adversarial role to play when you have a presidential candidate in the chair facing you -- >> sure. >> -- you want to be tough on that person? >> well i think you want to get to the truth. what you're trying to do is find out who this person is and who he's about. i don't think that always has to be adversarial. >> you took over as the cbs evening news anchor after dan
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rather was forced out over the scandal about george w. bush and the national guard. you were supposed to stay a little longer you ended up staying a year and a half. was that a tough spot for you, coming in at a time when cbs' reputation had really been battered by what happened? >> yeah it was. maybe i didn't know it at the time. when they called me they just called me one morning and said go up to new york we need you to do the evening news. and i got to new york and they were all in meetings and i couldn't figure out who had called me. and then i stayed for a week. and they said we need you another week. and it became six weeks. and it actually wound up being nearly two years i was there. but cbs was in a tough place at that point and -- >> it had to be awkward for you. >> dan had always been a friend of mine. >> you two are from texas. you'd known him for years and years. >> so that was difficult. but, you know, they needed somebody to do the evening news. and they needed somebody to get things back on course and they said you're the one we've
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chosen to do that. and of course i had a whole lot of help in doing it. >> what about the trends of somebody who -- i mean your first job in journalism was a radio station. >> yeah, when i was in college, and then a newspaper reporter. >> so you've spent your whole career in the news business. what about the trend towards politicians and making the transition to become journalists or commentators or even anchors? >> oh, you know you can get to journalism in many different ways. mike wallace was a game show host and he turned out to be one of the great questioners of all time. >> he did all right. >> tim russert was a political aid and he tupperrned out to be a terrific terrific moderator of "meet the press." i learned a lot from him when he was there. >> while you two were trying to beat each other. >> we tried to beat each other's bains out. and we maintained a really good friendship. and i tell you, it's kind of like in sports sure you want to hit a home run, but when you hit a home run off the best
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pitcher in the league, you feel a little extra. and when i beat old tim, i felt like i'd really done something. and i guess tim felt the same way. but we -- off-camera we were very good friends. we had seats next to one another at the nationals games for many years. i have always had great respect for my competitors. i mean, you can't be a dodo and kind of get to this level. they're all good. >> as you know, some critics say, the sunday shows are not as important as they used to be in an age when political candidates are interviewed around the clock and can put their own videos online. any truth to that? >> we still get about 3.5 million people on any given sunday and that's a pretty good-sized crowd. and i think the reason people watch the sunday shows, i think the sunday shows are special. i think the talking heads on sunday morning are different than in some other hours of the day, because all of those shows are about trying to move the
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story forward. they're news driven information driven. they're not about anchor antics not about showing off. >> there's no cooking. >> yeah we don't have a cooking segment. and i think there's still a need for that. i think the reason that people watch any news program is because they want information that they think they need. and i think that's what calls people to a news program. if they don't think they need to know something, they'll watch an entertainment show or something else. >> the great commodity in television is youth. and you've been pretty successful in "face the nation," and you're 78. what do you think? >> maybe i don't scare people. >> bob schieffer, thanks very much for sitting down with us here at cbs. >> thanks howie. >> bob told me he's going to take three months off and decide what to do next. and his last guest on sunday was
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jeb bush. schieffer has a very funny story about hanging out with walter cronkite and other anchors of that era at a bar. check it out tomorrow on foxnews.com/mediabuzz. coming up next why haven't conservatives done comedy as well as left-wingers. greg gutfeld tries to make the mold. and later, does it matter she's a big fan?
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the conventional wisdom is only liberals can have successful comedy shows. greg gusfeld is about to challenge that notion with a new program that day abuseebuts tonight. i checked in with him from new york. greg gutfeld, welcome. >> thanks thanks for having me. >> you have been stunningly vague in describing this new program. so asking for a friend are you going to bring on guests and make fun of them? >> no i never do that. i'm a congenial host. i look at a show so it's kind of a cocktail party that you invite people over that you like and you have good-natured fun. maybe play a little yahtzee, some parchisi.
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maybe a fight breaks out. somebody has to go to the hospital. >> so you'll have drinking on the show? >> non-alcoholic beverage. >> the wrap has always been that conservatives don't do comedy very well. the most successful comedians, jon stewart, stephen colbert, david letterman, are liberals. do you buy that? >> to an extent i do. most of the right-wingers aren't funny. most left-wingers aren't funny, because, surprise most people in general aren't funny. but what you have is that most liberals go -- more liberals than conservatives go into comedy so you end up with more funny liberal comedians. that's the math. i stole that from andy leiby. >> good to give credit. >> why do you think most right-wingers are not funny? is it not in their dna? >> it's that they tend to go into other professions. it's kind of like saying why are there no left-wing military commanders. >> okay.
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>> pretty easy! because you need to have you know objective, conservative values to fight wars. there are no -- like there are no like left-wing mvp nfl quarterbacks. there aren't. i can't name a single one. >> left-handed. >> what else. people always say, why are there no right-wing comedians. why are there no left-wing, you know military commanders or professional athletes? it's hard to find a liberal golfer. >> so will you be rationing the news in a sociopolitical critique or are you just going to kind of be goofing around? >> well it might be a mixture of both. i'm looking at -- the way i describe this show, it's like what peewee's playhouse did to kid's shows, i'm going to do to basic news format shows. it's going to be an unpredictable, surprising hopefully not boring train
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wreck. >> and hopefully -- >> i like -- >> hopefully the humor will be a little evaluated from the peewee level, i hope. >> he was a >> sure absolutely. >> if i could be half as good as peewee. >> here's my final question. do you think there is something of a hunger for humor in the audience these days was the news can be so depressing? >> i think it's always been that way, since we first populated this earth 4,000 years ago -- i joke -- just in case. everybody likes to hear something funny, because that brightens their day, because the earth -- live on earth is hard. it's brutal, there's a lot of pain, there's a lot of tedious stuff. it's good to have a laugh, especially when times are tough. >> now that i don't have to stay up until 3:00 in the morning to watch you, i'll be checking out the new show. greg gutfeld, thanks very much for stopping by.
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find the time to do all this? easy. we combined every birthday and holiday into one celebration. (different holidays being shouted) back to work, guys! i love this times of year. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this.tonight, i want to address that pesky media. i shall
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first lady who struggles to seem real. >> citizens you will elect me. i will be your leader. >> so let's try one where you don't say i or even your own name. >> that will be easy. got it. >> hello. it is i, hillary clinton. >> now, kate mckinnon has told the hollywood reporter he's rooting for hillary. he's her ticket to fame just as darrell hammond spent many years playing her husband. >> i believe if there's one thing my presidency will be remembered for, it will be honesty and integrity. test. >> the same with will ferrell doing george w. bush. >> we are almost out of time. i will instead ask each candidate to sum up in a single word the best word for his
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candidacy. >> stra teej ri. >> and dana dar vicarvey doing bush's father. but here's the thing. mckinnen also made clear she admires hillary. i'd be to nervous to meet her. when tina fey did her portrayal of sarah palin. >> can i see russia from my house. >> we never knew how she viewed sarah palin and it's disappointing that kate mckinnon is revealing she's a fan. now her impersonations won't seem quite as biting. coming up a salute of sorts to the most patient man in television.i am buzzed off at al sharpton.
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at the past it's been right wing e van ja lists who say natural disasters are because of something. now here's al in the wake of the deadly storms in houston saying do you think it's related to climate control or gotd's rebuke? i'm just so sick of people who politicize tragedies left or right. at least 23 people died in those storms. time for your top medias. they're all gentleman but have no chance of ever being president. it's not the job of the immediate to tell us who is a serious candidate and who is not. and skully sudden i gaining a bit of fame. >> the most patient man on television endures the american public.
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>> i don't know what's going on in this world right now. obama is a muslim, and that's all i got to say. >> obama is not a muslim but thank you for making your comment. >> new jews are behind all of this. >> we should probably send in special forces similar to ram bow. i don't know enough about the military to. >> the tell them i'll blow your head off and it's done. >> having our government doo do absolutely nothing, it's freezen. >> okay. >> that's what brings us here. >> okay. >> he told me he grew up in a family of 12 kids hearing opinions ranging all over. he's used to it. he loves hearing all kind of viewpoints. skully says his kids now think he's cool because he's on john oliver. that's it for us. go to our facebook page and give us a like. we post a lot of original content there. you write to us at fox news.com
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and you can be part of our your buzz feature. as you know we'll be back here next saturday at 11:00 and again at five eastern with the latest buzz. right now, in our nation's capital, lawmakers are trying to save three key provisions of the patriot act that are set to expire in a few hours, at midnight eastern. our producers on capitol hill are telling us this. the nsa programs will stop tonight. the senate began a vote moments ago and the bottom line is, even if they did manage to pass an extension, it's too late. the bulk data collection part of the patriot act will lapse, at least for a short time. it's often called the nsa snooping program. the part of the patriot act carried out by the national security agency to collect american phone records