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narrative for the indicted ex speaker? hillary clinton numbers nose dive and many pundits are changing their time. is the press following the polls? >> the new culture wars part of the war over the "vanity fair," cover where bruce jenner comes out as caitlyn jenner. >> the main charge we have heard from the critics has been that they are hypocrites, they preached family values. >> going to total strangers and say, hello my name is so and so and i want to you know what i did with a child. >> did the interview expose a family in denial and two daughters lashing out at media for revealing the abuse by their brother, josh? >> when you found out this would be on the cover of "in touch

weekly," what was your reaction? [ inaudible ] >> they can't do this to us. >> were they victimized by a tabloid? >> gretchen carlson on how she has been stereotyped. >> i hit the bimbo try fec ta when i came to work at fox. >> no journalist has been able to coast a comment from dennis hastert or his lawyers over the money transferred related to a coverup, money over what sources describe as sexual abuse during his days as a high school teacher and wrestling coach. that got less abstract on friday

when "good morning america" aired this bombshell interview. >> i said, why didn't you tell anybody, stevie? he was your teacher. why didn't you tell? >> he looked at me and said, who is ever going to believe me in this town, who is ever going to believe me? >> joining us to examine the story and the latest coverage of hillary clinton is the co- >> thursday of "end of discussion how the left's outrage industry shuts down debate and makes america less frees." political reporter for the "washington post" and senior politics editor for "daily beast." >> how important is this interview who said her brief said he was sexually harassed years ago by dennis hastert? >> it is important. a ton of people are going to wash it. something 3.5 million work of bad happened here that worth covering up so obviously the

press will ask questions and should ask question as a public figure. it is a tricky story when you get to the fact the alleged victim is no longer with us and cannot speak to this and the guy who is being paid money who is in the indictment which is not for any sort of sexual abuse is for the structuring of the payment. we do not know who that is. it is a tricky story because an allegation can ruin lives and there is not a trial or charge. >> there has not been a trial chasm, or denial. cbs is quoting f.b.i. sources saying there are three alleged victims but it is alleged. jackie before this woman came forward showing pictures of her brother, the story seemed to be remote and abstract because this was no victim we could see. we have analogied victim. >> what is clear from the interview is that what has changed, the woman came forward in 2006 with the story and they did not run the story or go with her claims because they could

not substantiate it. i thought it was missing as someone who watched the interview, and read the story about it, it wasn't clear to me what changed or what new information they have about her claim. >> abc said that the original approach in 2006 was off the record and the other difference is this woman has since been interviewed by the f.b.i. but that is an interesting question. given that she did not provide abc with any voice mails or documents or letters did this meet the test for publication? >> i agree with jackie, it is hard to tell what had changed between the first time the woman came to abc and the time that the interview was aired. particularly since abc did not show us a trail of what they were able to get in corroborating the information from the f.b.i. having said that, clearly the entire landscape surrounding the story has changed.

multiple news organizes including mine have reported on the basis of law enforcement sources, the architecture of the allegations in the investigation. what has been missing and what remains missing is either a step-by-step account from one of the alleged victims presuming there is more than one; or, as you pointed out in your introduction, a denial or any theory of the case at all from dennis hastert. i cannot get my understand why a lawyer hasn't spoken up. >> i don't understand it. it is a strange indictment in that the heart of it, the alleged sexual abuse at an illinois high school is not spelled out. last sunday when brit hume criticized the indictment or raised the question, why isn't this also extortion by the person who was going to receive the $3.5 million he got criticized for being insensitive

to the cause of sexual abuse. >> that could be something that reporters are responding to because the environment is such that people want to be sensitive to alleged victims and are thinking that maybe someone did not have the ability to come to a person of power and make accusations and they want to offer a makeup call. there has been mature reporting on the indictment itself which is based on the old structuring laws and the press has been good abou out why that is an interesting way to take someone to tack. >> usually it is used against drug dealers. the liberal columnists have questioned whether this is overreach. on friday when the story broke cnn and msnbc covered it every hour sometimes up to three times an hour and fox news covered it once, a brief story on a special report.

who was right? thank you is up to the viewerses would judgment is right. i will say are this is --. >> if you ran cable network would you air this throughout the day? i covered dennis hastert as a reporter on the hill so this is a very big story and it speaks particularly because of how we reacted during the foley scandal. not allegations are true, it is a very important story and in trust in government. i don't know if every american cares as much as i do. >> hastert has been out of the lime light for nine years but when he was speaker of house he was a power player in this city. it depends on how important it is when you go after a official official. it is harder to make that charge against a sitting speaker. a former official is under indictment that is easier. >> the chances of good coverage is not sensation amized is better when someone is out of the limelight not for alleged

victims if the charges are true. >> i got a news alert on my phone, saying we have the first video of hastert on his rot in plano, illinois, so someone is trying to stake him out. >> new to hillary clinton because there has been a lot of coverage this week over some sinking poll numbers particularly with cnn showing 57 percent believe she is not honest and trustworthy. here are the pundits weighing in on that. >> we have had democrats and many in the media reporting with glee she was not affected by the e-mail story and the benghazi story. clearly, she was going to be affected. >> the pounding on benghazi and e-mail server is nonstop and it worked. >> how much is hillary clinton's low key roll identity which you have covered not talking to the

press or dealing with the questions, contributed in your view to the showing up in the polls? >> i don't think the two are directly related. covering her there is a frustration level for me and among a lot of my colleagues we are not getting to ask some of the questions that bear on the job in the public perception of her trustworthiness face-to-face that often. she took questions two weeks ago on all of the subjects. >> if five minutes. >> and there were not a lot of follow-ups and the answers were not at extensive as they would be on a one and one interview. this is not possible with a group of reporters. she did appear to be spending to the criticism she wasn't taking questions and the fact, indeed,

their own polling showed she is remaining popular and frontrunner but --. >> in question. >> but the troubling thing, the rise in the number of people who say they don't find her trustworthy. >> shear why i partly disagree. by having the small groups of voters and by largely avoiding journalists, she is leaving a vacuum that is filled by e-mail stories, clinton foundation donation stories and speaking fee stories and stories of the press not getting access. jackie? >> what is the question? >> do you think there is a connection between the way she has run her campaign and not engaged on this very much particularly with the press and the fact this is finally showing up in the polls? >> there is a connection but it is giving relative strength to people would have declared against her like bernie sanders

and o'malley, creating october gin for them which could more problematic than polling numbers >> i have said it is chipping away at her image and she is not responding properly. now it is showing up in the polls, are we so addicted to polls we cannot see the evidence until a public opinion survey backs it? >> what are we to do we are pundits and reporters. we need a poll. look i wish she would respond for the sake of transparency and for the running of government and trusting these people and hearing from them. politically i am not sure i would advice her to respond because when she responds it was not effective. that is an issue they are wrestling with. it did leave a vacuum. when the poll numbers come in, guess what there is to cover despite reporters like anne trying to cover her there is not much. and it cascades.

>> i believe she did not answer questions on the e-mail business for eight days and it builds up. if she talked to the test routinely each engagement would not be such a big story. send me a twitter message and we can talk about the media aspect of what we are discussing on the program. hillary clinton's campaign shows a back ground briefing for the press and that sparks controversy. ar family and why two of their daughters are blaming the media for outing them as victims years after they were molested. get the complete balanced nutrition of ensure. with nine grams of protein... and 26 vitamins and minerals. and now with... ...twice as much vitamin d ...which up to 90% of people don't get enough of. the sunshine vitamin! ensure. take life in.

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hillary clinton campaign officials held a background briefing for reporters just over a week ago at the headquarters

in brookelynbrooklyn touching off a debate about why journalists go to these things and are they useful. ann guerin you were there. are there things you wish you could report from that briefing? >> some of the criticism of the briefing afterwards is that it wasn't substantiative or substantiative enough. there was some substance there. it was useful for me as a reporter covering her and covering the campaign and the structure of the campaign to hear in their own words kind of -- some of the theory of the case. i would have loved to have been able to quote from that directly. "the washington post" rules on deep background which is what the briefing -- that was the rule of the briefing mean that i really -- i was very much boxed in. all i could do is say what they said collectively and not use -- not attribute anything to anyone in particular person. and that really was a problem. >> that's the debate. look all campaigns have officials who talk off the record they talk on background.

this is not some reinvention, but it feels different in this case because there's so little access to hillary clinton or her top deputies. >> it also feels weird in practice. this is sort of an innocuous briefing about how many staffers you have and how you have offices. like why can't we just know that? it feels sort of pairranoid and bizarre. it doesn't look good for your campaign. >> and on that point, "the new york times" blew the whistle on an e-mail went out. this is from hillary clinton campaign official jesse ferguson because he never agreed to any background rules, and he said that hillary, according to this e-mail will lay out her view of challenges facing the country. this has to be on background from a campaign official? >> jesse's not the only person who does this. i get e-mails all the time like this is off the record this is on background. like i didn't agree to this. you can't just tell me this. that's not how this works. so i think overall campaign officials should know and stop

doing that. it's an agreement. it's not an order. >> i know but i'm so struck by you know it's the most bland stuff imaginable. lay out her vision for the future but don't attribute that to me. >> mary katherine, you write about what you call the outrage circus and you say msnbc stokes up outrage for the liberals and democrats, but you acknowledge many view fox plays that role for the right. why do you think the left is more guilty here? >> i think it's not just the left. and we point out that it is the right sometimes and we don't want to get better at this. the left is far better at it partly because they are more amplified, so when they large media establishment, sometimes entertainment, various nonprofits that get excited to be offended by everything they've ever heard. and it just doesn't end up making a real robust and interesting political debate or cultural debate for anybody. and i think not just public figures feel that sort of policing of language these days but it's trickling down to

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reeling from the molestation scandal involving their son, josh that prompted tlc to yank re-runs of their reality show "19 kids and counting," doing damage control in an interview with meghan kelly. >> this is a young boy who has come to you with shocking information. what did he say? >> there was so much grief in our hearts. i think as parents, we felt oh, we're failures, you know. >> do you think in particular your christian beliefs are at issue here? >> i think, you know what christianity is not about being perfect or being a perfect family but it's actually about being forgiven. >> and two of the family's daughters telling meghan they were horrified when "in touch weekly" published the juvenile police records essentially revealing that they and two other sisters were among the victims of their brother, josh. >> i feel like in this situation, we're, again, helpless as to the people handing over this report and then the tabloids taking that

and printing that and sensationalizing it and really using it for their own profit. >> well i see it as a re-victimization that's even a thousand times worse. >> joining us now to examine how the mainstream media are handling these sensitive stories, kathleen parker the syndicated columnist and pulitzer prize winner. let's put aside the legalities the freedom of information rules, you heard one of those daughters say that she had been revictimized a thousand times worse. how could "in touch weekly" and every other media outlet on the planet publish those juvenile records that essentially identify these women as victims? >> it's horrible i think. juveniles are protected from exposure and if they were still juveniles, they would be and these people would be culpable in some legal way. but this is just i think, unfortunately, a sign of our times when it comes to media. there are no ethics anymore among certain publications and

once something is out in the -- part of the public record everybody has to report on what is being reported. we saw this happen with monica lewinsky when drudge first reported who was doing what to whom. so everybody, even legitimate publications had to go with the flow. >> although there's a journalistic rule that we don't identify victims of sexual abuse, whether they're adults or especially whether they're children. in this case that was just thrown out the window. >> there willy, it wasn't. because the names were redacted. it was left to people to read the story closely and figure out who the victims were. but their names were redacted. >> it was pretty obvious. >> it was. >> because they were sisters. >> because they were sisters, yes. but they did what they needed to do the barest minimum, to make it okay, which is redact the names. >> katherine, let me turn to this are liberal media types taking a special joy in attacking the duggar family not letting them off the hook because they're christian

conservatives, have had a lot of kids and now appear to be hypocrites? >> i think the liberal media, i don't know exactly who you're talking about, but they would delight in such a thing, because conservative christians when they have problems, always are called hypocrites i don't know why. because to be a christian doesn't mean as mr. duggar said it doesn't mean you have to be perfect. it means you aspire to live in a perfect way, but we are all fallen as christians will tell you, and therefore mistakes are made by everyone. so it's unfair i think, to ever attack someone as a hypocrite because they've failed to live up to perfection. >> but that's what they were selling. their reality show is based on them being this perfect family. that's what they were selling. they're not music entertainers they're not actors. they're selling that they were this perfect christian family. and they chose to become reality figures. they chose to become reality stars. if you know that you have this shameful secret in your past why would you invite cameras

into your home? why would you open yourself up to that level of scrutiny? it boggles the mind. it is so insane. i just i don't understand it. i cannot wrap my head around why they would do that. >> i agree with you completely on that. in fact reality shows, as a whole, are mind boggling to me. i don't know why would anyone expose their children to any kind of scrutiny like that. >> i have all kinds of criticisms of the duggar parents and i thought they handled meghan kelly's questions very poorly, because they didn't have good answers. why they didn't go to the authorities sooner and all of that. but the worst thing, you've identified why would you put and make your family famous and put the cameras in their lives and make it a show when you know and everyone in the family knows you're hiding this. but on the question of the coverage lola let me flip the question. are some conservative commentators going easy on the family because it's somebody who is seen as on their side? >> absolutely.

i think that if this family was a group of atheists they would have thrown the book at them. they would have drawn and quartered the entire family in the middle of times square. and the fact that they've been a bit, i think a bit lenient on this family. they've been understanding. they've asked how josh is feeling, how the family is feeling. it's about how those girls are feeling and how those girls were victimized by their family. that's what it's about here. and yes, they've been victimized by "in touch weekly" and the tabloids that have published these stories, but they've also been victimized by their own family because the family has rallied to support josh and not rallied to support these girls. i think it was horrible that those two sisters spoke to meghan kelly. even though their names are redacted we didn't have to necessarily hear from them. we should hear from anybody in that family it should be josh. he should be out there defending his own actions. his sisters shouldn't be out there. they've already been victimized once by them. they shouldn't have to be re-victimized again by going on a mea culpa tour for him.

>> i would be much happier if we never had to hear from any of them again. but i don't think there are any atheists out there with 19 children but if there are, i would watch that show. >> i would too! >> i disagree on this point. which is -- yeah i would like to hear from josh duggar. he's the missing voice in all this. but i think since they've already been outed, if those two daughters chose to speak to meghan kelly and in effect voluntarily damecame forward as victims of sexual abuse, that is their right. but there have been a lot of criticism or hot takes on the interview itself kathleen, some say, meghan kelly should have been more prosecutorial with them. she should have nailed them. >> if you want to be prosecutorial with an interview subject, the interview will be very short. you know your objective to try to get to the heart of the matter and get these people to open up and tell you sympatheticomething. you might bring it up at the end. >> she asked a lot of tough questions, but she was providing a forum to hear the family's

side. >> and you have to be sympathetic to their feelings in order to get them to talk to you openly. that's why they probably chose meghan. >> lola -- >> but howard, there were some glaring omissions. when the father said oh, he's not a pedophile because he committed his actions when he was 14 going on 15, you have to be 16 to be a pedophile, she let that go. that's a problem. >> but you noticed it. >> i did. we all noticed it. >> my point is she gave -- >> there should have been a follow-up question like did you hear what you just said now? >> i think -- my view is that meghan kelly gave them plenty of rope and they proceeded in many of instances to hang themselves with that rope. >> i agree with you. the only winner was meghan kelly and fox. duggars did themselves no favors by showing up for that interview. >> and a writer for the daily beast, while conceding that meghan kelly asked important questions, said on msnbc, the interviewer should have wagged a finger at them and condemned them to hell. that's our media culture in a nutshell.

if you don't like them and don't like their ideology they should go to hell. >> i don't agree with that. >> they love their son and love their brother. we're missing that component. >> there has to be a compassion piece here, no matter how horrible you think they acted, it was hard for me to watch that interview and not feel some sympathy for them as parents. up next how the media are polarizing what will surely be the most famous "vanity fair" cover of all time. bruce jenner's transition to caitlin jenner. 73% of americans try... ...to cook healthy meals. yet up to 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more... ...add one a day men's 50+. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus it helps support healthy blood pressure with vitamin d and magnesium.

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>> caitlyn jenner transformed. for trans kids and trans adult they got a hero with the mostly nameless bravery that made the public journey possible. >> you write that the media driven media created conversation among the media. >> of course it is. i will tell you one thing not discussed across america today except as it relates to this

show is bruce to medicade. >> teach coverage? >> absolutely. >> you have the story of the week because that is what we do. what concerns me is why it is the story of the week? i want to be sensitive to people who are in this process of transgender transition. i try to be understanding of the complexity of that without being cynical. as far as the hero of caitlyn jenner it is terribly offensive. does it take coverage to do that? i assume personally, perhaps but as a hero to the nation, i think that most members define that differently. >> a reason is that the former olympic champion is incredibly famous and is there any question in your mind the mainstream media have been very positive about this episode with "new york times" having two stories about transgender people in general and the liberal commentators "she," is a hero.

>> the media has been overwhelmingly positive about the public transition. i have to say also; ahead to bring the kardashians into it, but chris ginner is a marketing genius and needs to teach at harvard. she has rolled this out masterfully and we have fallen to her expertise as a marketing genius. >> this has been flawless. flawless. >> but bruce medicade, incredible roll out starting with diane sawyer, and "vanity fair," but this is another side to this debate, a headline, caitlyn jenner needs our prayers and an effort to redefine normalcy and the "washington post" did a story on other side but for a lot of people you say, if you bring up the other side, maybe you a as a bigot. >> i agree this is a big

publicity success. remember if he or she did this rather quietly or decided to do some sort of show for no pay it would be somewhat easier to say gob, let's focus on the issue and not the celebrity aspect but it is all celebrity all the time and of course if you are not on board, you are a hater and i don't think -- it is unfortunate people take a position on transgenderrism, but people are asking to comment or to respond and they have to take, you know, suddenly they are a bigot or not quite sophisticated. >> everyone has a position, and i agree that transgender people should be treated with dignity and respect but i am seeing such a spectacle. here is fun on the detail show. >> -- open the daily show.

>> i got a couple of mains she looks bet than i document. >> she looks like a movie star. so glamorous. >> stunning, she looks beautiful. >> amazing. >> she is hot. >> i have half a minute so now caitlyn jenner is a woman and is treated and graded on her looks. >> they have object filed just like us. welcome to womanhood. you will not care about anything she has to say just worry about her hair and lipstick. >> they never cared what she had to say and now they have to pay attention. >> on that note my two guests --. >> do you like my hair, howie? >> it looks faaabulous. >> a transfers about gretchen's past from beauty pageant to fox and worrying about her weight. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

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can good looks >> can good looks be a problem for anchors? cigaretten camp -- gretchen carlson is author of "getting real." >> you decided you would try to become miss america base the on your violin playing and you were told you were too short. why did you want to dive into that? >> i gave up my goal of becoming a concert violinist and my parents were upset with me. they wanted me to find another goal to use my talent and my mom got a brochure that said 50 percent of the votes on miss america were on talent. i was studying at oxford and she

said you need to come home and be if your first pageant. she encouraged and we were a fantastic team. >> i love the interview question was about the role of media and the political process. you win the crown you want to go into tv and apply to richmond television station and the news director said he was...not interested because you had been miss america, was it something of a drawback? >> that would not be the first and last time i heard that. usually every job i moved to i came to necessity that my reputation would precede me in a stereotypical way. in other words i knew overtime that the newsroom would start about, here comes the former miss america she must be a bimbo so i realized that would happen. >> did that per you? >> i got tough skin early open. of course, originally, it bothered me because i was so shocked. it is like my resume went out

the window. >> we know why she was here. >> i had to prove myself again and made it my mission to work harder than anyone else to be the top reporter in the place. >> what happened in richmond when you covered a story in a rural area with a camera guy you ran into trouble with. >> this is serious stuff. in this book "getting real," i talk about being miss america and playing the violin, sexual harassment was something that happened to me when i was miss america and my first job. in that situation, on the job i was scared for my life because i was if a rural area with someone i didn't know before cell phones and i considered opening the door and rolling out of the car like you see in movies. >> after he put his hands on you? >> he put a microphone on me and mostly just talking to me about my private parts and making me incredibly nervous. i was on the job not long and i didn't want to report this and the news director at time realized something was really, really wrong with me and kept

after me to tell me what happened. tell him what happened. >> you were looking to report but, obviously you spent seven years at "fox & friends" and as you say you were the journalist on the panel and you were also a registered independent. did that create awkwardness on the conservative panel? >> not ought. what i loved about the show we never discussed what we were going to say beforehand so much many have misinformation like we are told what to say or we planned it out and literally i would see steven at two minutes before 6:00 a.m. and i would get a kick out surprising them. >> the big revelation your babysitter was michele bachmann and that stopped me. and when you were growing up you said your hour was on you about your weight. is that something you have struggled with? >> that is another revelation in the back. >> people thing you are on tv and everything is perfect. >> i still struggle with hit.

but i was a chubby kid and the best lesson from all of this and what i tell young people, i built myself from the inside out and i knew i was fat but i didn't give a rip and i wanted to empower young teens that, look you don't have to live a perfect life. i was fat. and i became "miss america." what happened, i got to the airport to start my year as miss america and all three rags, the old fashioned "national enquirer" and those type of magazines all said "blimpo wins miss america pageant." >> be careful what you say to the media howie i still would say the same thing. >> after all you have done you have your own show you talk about this on the air and you read the mean tweets dumb blond at fox. >> i reached and hit the bimbo

trifecta at fox news. the blond former miss america and now i work at f. listen i have come to understand when people don't actually want to debate you on the serious issues they call you a dumb monday from fox and that is what we face, unfortunately but: i have to say that i don't really pay a lot of attention to that anymore. if i read all of the blogs and every mail each day you could go home and off yourselves. you have to realize you are who you are from the inside. if people don't want to take you seriously, that is their progressive. >> their problem. >> their problem. >> great to see you. >> thank you. >> still to come, your top tweets, "new york times" accuses marco rubio of being a traffic

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re >> this is over the line. "new york times" investigating marco rubio we and finding 17 traffic infractions over 18 years and committed by his wife. seriously. the "new york times" denied they got this urgent information from "american bridge," which obtained them. come on, this is small stuff. if rubio wins the white house he will not have to drive. here are the top tweets on the duggar family scandal. is it too hard or too harsh? >> james "depends on who is covering," megan was fair but traditional media has been harsh too harsh. no one cared before. it is a chance to attack them because they are christian.

>> which media was outraged? >> everyone knows of making the transition from lighter something to something dead serious. jimmy kimmel has a classic example on hln. >> cleaning your cat box twice a month? no wonder the house smells. >> twice a month? >> i am tempted to make a rude gesture. >> twice a month? >> get a couple of extra boxes. clean it every day with a scoop is what i today my husband. >> random shootings in colorado. >> painfully awkward ladies try to take a very long pause. that is it for "media buzz."

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