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donald trump is doing. he has an army behind him. >> why does television news keep giving trump endless air time for phone interviews? and why did the presidential debate cause such a firestorm and hillary clinton turns over her private e-mail server in the face of an fbi investigation. is the trump phenomenon overshadowing her problems as well. >> hillary clinton's issues certainly involves e-mails but in the larger sense, it involves what it regurgitates within the voting public about the clintons that there's always something there with them. >> i think she's done. i think the e-mail scandals will find things on there that may or may not be top secret. >> the media fascinated by bernie sanders big crowds and more chatter that joe biden may jump into the race. even al gore. that's not happening. isn't this getting a little far

fetched? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> television producers usually hate long phone interviews because, well, there's nothing for viewers to look at. they are tossing out that rule for donald trump when the past seven days called into four sunday shows, "today" show, cnn's "new day" and a sitdown with sean hannity and even hillary clinton has gotten into the game. >> while what donald trump said about megyn kelly was o outrageous, what other republicans are saying about women is also outrageous. >> i think i'll do more for women. i cherish women. i think i'll do more for women than hillary can ever do. >> despite media predictions

that trump would be damaged by the fox debate, he's still riding high in the polls prompting some republican rivals to deflect media questions about trump while others are happy to whack him. one of the lines that jumped out of your piece was "we don't need another bully. we don't need a bully." squar >> you look at rand paul, he's failing in the polls. pathetic on military. he called me a year ago let's play golf. can we go and play golf? and trump said he beat him at golf. joining us now in los angeles, fox news contributor and former bush administration spokesman and from new york, julie, a democratic strategist also a fox news contributor and in washington, bob, editor in chief of "the hill." trump in iowa yesterday giving interviews on his airplane, on his helicopter. one of the airborne sessions was with chuck todd who asked him about his plan to go in and

seize isis' oil. how many ground troops? 25,000 perhaps. trump deflected that question and then we had this exchange. >> who do you talk to for military advice right now? >> i watch the shows. i really see a lot of great -- when you watch your show and all of the other shows and you have the generals. >> that sort of answer or when trump deflects policy questions, does media really care about his policy positions? >> i think they should right now it's a circus atmosphere in that they are rushing to talk about trump and the brand of trump and pushback that he keeps giving. clearly good television because he attacks individuals and so what i think trump has to do is begin to talk about policy in specific tones. the fact that he's watching "meet the press" for national security advice or military

information is really embarrassing. i think this is where trump is going to begin to unravel. >> i have heard pundits saying that now for weeks and weeks and he's not unraveling. >> he's still got time. it's still in the honeymoon phase. just getting to iowa. the iowa state fair is a circus. we have time. >> the circus is hard to dispute. this was a policy laden interview on "meet the press." trump said he would deport all 11 million illegal immigrants from this country and bring them back but not break up families. he doesn't talk about how much this would cost. chuck todd tried. are media here kind of surrendering to politics of personality? >> they're surerendering to politics of ratings. he can call in because he brings in ratings. that's the bottom line for media whether it's tv ratings or whether it's selling newspapers.

so the media is surrendering to the fact that you have a celebrity running which eyeballs to their brand and so therefore it's a symbolic relationship which is good for both. >> bob, surrendering to politics of ratings and clicks because trump generates controversy and traffic and he knows it. >> yeah. he knows it and that's why reporters like to cover trump because he gives them copy. he gives them ratings. he's interesting whatever you think of him. helicopter ride yesterday. he goes after politicians in a way that politicians don't go after one another. it's just that he's bringing in an audience that's not there before. my 15 year old watched the debate. he's never watched any other debate but he watched because of donald trump. >> your 15 year old had plenty of company as 24 million people watched that debate in cleveland. now, trump also taking his shots at the media and the fact that he and fox news have been at it since that debate in cleveland and gotten an enormous amount of

attention. trump brought this up yesterday in iowa. let's take a look. >> this last thing with fox, i mean, i love roger ailes but all you have to do is ask roger ailes who won. >> there's been a lot of rumor stories taking around taking that trump line that fox news somehow gave in to donald trump. what identify been able to piece together is it was a classic truce. neither side apologized. nobody won. nobody lost. people say he got an hour on hannity show. 11 other republican presidential candidates have gotten a full hour show on hannity this year. there was a difficult conversation my sources say when roger ailes told trump in a phone conversation ailes was not happy about the fact that trump had gone on msnbc and said that megyn kelly should apologize for him for asking tough questions at that debate and ailes said if you want to go to war, we can go to war. neither side wanted that war. it seemed like everyone was

moving on until friday. it was on friday a couple days after megyn kelly left on a preplanned family vacation that trump said in an interview that he possibly caused that vacation. that prompted a tough statement from fox news defending megyn kelly again calling this a ufo conspiracy theory saying trump and his operatives were wildly irresponsible and downright bizarre. bob, does trump hurt himself by continuing now nine, ten days after the debate to talk about megyn kelly? >> i think that he should move on. like any good boss, roger ailes defends his employees. you thought you had this truce and then trump couldn't help himself. reframe the whole debate. i think it's a distraction where he's not talking about things he wants to talk about like china and the wall and mexico and i think it would be best if he did not do that. i think he did well in the debate. his fight with megyn kelly was a bit of a distraction. >> some other fox folks speaking

out. democratic strategist tweeted this. we have that we can put up. maybe trump wants to be president of a cable network. everyone vacations in august. that's why i'm here in l.a. rick, your take? >> i think this is where trump really begins to lose it. he has great points about washington being a problem and politicians being people that we can't relate to. but when you immediately start acting like you're on "the apprentice" this is a problem. you look at how he would be viewed around the world with this type of attitude. you have to get people to follow you. this whole i won, you lost mentality is terrible and so juvenile that this is where people look at trump and say the entertainment is now going to stop because we have to get serious about electing a president. >> a new fox news poll out today still shows trump with a pretty healthy lead. 25 points nationally among

likely republican voters. the next closest candidate is ben carson with 12%. it shows that he's down among women by 3%. and then in the debate, the most people thought donald trump won the debate but 30% thought trump lost the debate. my question is moving aside from individual surveys, aren't the media now finally waking up to the fact that they underestimated trump and that he's striking a cord and there's a lot of anger out there. wasn't this a big failure on the part of the press? >> the media especially the beltway media and new york beltway corridor takes itself very seriously and this has shown all of us that the presidential campaign is into a. donald trump is nothing more than a reality star who has now taken his reality act to electing the leader of the free world which is pathetic and media didn't want to acknowledge that. that's what the summer of 2015 is.

that's not what fall of 2016 will be about. >> wait a second. you say it's pathetic. your side is loving this. liberal commentators love that we're in the summer of trump and in fact are trying to cast donald trump as the face of the republican party saying he may be more blunt and brash but he -- i'm not buying that. that he represents what republicans stand for. >> there's no question whatsoever the democrats are loving this. there's no question the clinton campaign is loving this because it takes attention away from other issues. i will say that from a press perspective, the press again continues to believe this is a serious enterprise and they don't understand what's become of the american public, which is that they have now started treating this campaign like a reality program and in fact that's a sad statement as to what politics as devolved into in our country in 2015. >> why would it be sad if in fact he is the republican front runner and he's making all kinds of news and a lot of it is conflict and conflict sells.

i think journalists you can be candid here don't want this to end any time soon. >> i think there's no doubt about it. we'll never forget the summer. whatever happens from this point on. but reporters are pressing donald trump on policy. you have to respect the fact that he is the front runner. that's why he's getting so much coverage because he has this solid 20%. whether he can grow that to 30% or 40% i'm not sure. if you compare it to hillary clinton and donald trump said this yesterday, hillary clinton is not doing a lot of national interviews. donald trump is doing interviews on a daily basis multiple times. >> hillary clinton has done won national interview on cnn. the more the media dismiss trump and challenge him on policy, the better he seems to do because he hits back at journalists. all right. let me get a break here. ahead on "media buzz" from los angeles, is the press now talking up bernie sanders because it's fed up with hillary

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hillary clinton's e-mail mess hit the headlines with the discovery of top secret material in a couple private exchanges pushing the story back on the network newscast. >> the race for 2016 and the firestorm growing for hillary clinton tonight. mrs. clinton now reversing course, turning over that home server after insisting she would not. >> hillary clinton's campaign is in damage control mode this evening as the fbi takes possession of her private e-mail server. >> julie, the media giving

hillary clinton a very tough time on this e-mail story. given the fact that she portrayed this as voluntarily turning over her server when the fbi already asked for it and insisted there was no classified material on any of her e-mail, isn't this coverage deserved? >> it's self-inflicted by hillary clinton. it's a puzzle why she acted the way she did with the server in the first place. i'm puzzled why she's had the treatment of the media she's had since her announcement and so she has nobody to blame but herself for the problems that she's encountering with the media. when you shun the media and refuse to do interviews and treat the media as if they are there to corn anate you, you ha no one to blame but yourself when the firestorm erupts. >> she likes using snapchat

because the messages just disappear. are the media drawing a straight line between this obvious debacle over the private e-mail and the problems she's having in polls with presidential campaign. >> i think you have to look at the media in two different ways. serious national security media who are looking at the details of the server and what she did with classified information only having one e-mail account and saying she didn't send or receive any classified information, that is not accurate. you can't do your job as secretary of state if you're not dealing in classified information. but political reporters are playing into the fact that hillary clinton is trying to throw this whole thing into politics. the comment about snapchat yesterday and laughing and yucking it up is a way to give red meat to the liberals to say here they go again. they're coming after me. this is all politics and she's going to try to deflect this. serious journalists are going to have to look at the details.

when the fbi gets involved, we have a problem. >> her campaign put out a lengthy statement calling this nonsense. at the very least we have a federal investigation of the handling of the private e-mail. bob, that fox news poll i mentioned earlier out today, hillary has a 19-point national league over bernie sanders in the poll. my question is, as serious a story as this is and deserves a lot of coverage and overshadowed by trump, is the press overreacting by portraying hillary's campaign as being in free-fall? >> political reporters love a race. no doubt about it. more of a race on the republican side than the democratic side. but these negative headlines have certainly hurt her numbers and they're not going to stop any time soon. that's why i think you have a lot of coverage of bernie sanders and remember bernie sanders doing well in a poll leading in new hampshire and then hillary clinton did not do well in iowa. finished third in 2008. there are questions. of course a lot of democratic

insiders say there's no reason that bernie sanders will be the nominee but it's a very unpredictable year. >> right. "the washington post" story today describing hillary's campaign and handling of the e-mail fiasco as rigid, insular, tone deaf, some of the problems she had last time. i think the press interest in bernie sanders is drawing huge crowds and we'll talk about that later is related to hillary's problems, sinking poll numbers and all of that. bob, julie, and rick, thanks very much for joining us this sunday. up next, what if virtually every pundit is wrong and donald trump will win the republican nomination? and later, what happens when women are vilified online from meghan mccain.

virtually all political prag prague northwe pundits are united in donald trump. jeff, maybe you revised your opinion. what if trump wins? why did you feel the need to write such a thing? >> the piece was not so much what if he wins but when and under what circumstances do voters do highly unusual, unexpected things. that's the point. when you look in the past, you can see certain parallels when minnesota elected an ex-pro wrestler jesse ventura as its governor and arnold schwarzenegger, why did they do

that? they did it for a couple reasons. there was a strong amount of discontent with things as usual and they saw something unusual. they saw a power they didn't know they had. when ventura got enough money to put on ads, when he qualified for the debates, they realized in minnesota, hey, we can do this. when the recall of governor gray davis actually made the ballot, thanks to a multimillionaire congressman who himself wanted to be governor, voters said we don't like this governor. we're ticked off at the electricity rates, we can do something about it. my point is we don't know yet about donald. >> you have all of these very smart political reporters and analysts and commentators and they are united in the belief that donald trump is not going to be the republican nominee. they know this history that you laid out as well as anybody. it's a problem they don't talk

to voters enough or tuned into the fact that usual rules might be shattered in this cycle? >> that's the key. for what it's worth, i don't think he's going to be the republican nominee. i think there is a plausible possibility, which i certainly didn't think when he first got into this. within the republican party, there's a strain that you can't call conservative because in a lot of ways donald trump isn't. a strain of outright anger and that the political process is corrupt so that all of the things that many of us, myself included, thought would kill trump, turns out to be not above but a feature. he speaks off the top of his head. it's better than prepared speeches by people who are paid to do it. does he fight back? does he hit back at people or even instigate fights? a lot of people said i wish i had the power to say that to my boss or my family member or one-time friend. he says what i want to say. that's what a lot of us miss

that had it had much more political potency. i won't think it will lead to him being the nominee. something to keep in mind. >> very visceral. what do you make of the whole dustup between donald trump and fox news which got new life when trump claimed credit for megyn kelly going on vacation despite the fact it was a preplanned family vacation and fox put out a statement calling trump's comments irresponsible. >> i should say that the same three fox anchors that anch ang viewers, they did same thing four arizona ago to republican candidates. for some fox viewers, its success comes by saying we'll give you the way of the world that won't be distorted. we'll be the fair and balanced ones. for some fox viewers, they see fox as home team announcer.

they don't expect fox people to be tough on republicans. you are supposed to be tough on hillary clinton and obama. the split between conservatives, many of whom read commentator magazine, weekly standard, national view, they're the most vigorous critics of trump and then you have other people who are watching fox saying what are you doing to my team? >> right. got to wrap it up. i tell you, having sat through debate prep in cleveland, they are tough on everybody. appreciate your perspective. thanks for joining us this sunday. >> okay. >> ahead from los angeles, one poll shows bernie sanders ahead of hillary in new hampshire. is the press now feeling the burn? first, rich lowery says that trump is the biggest whiner in politics. hat maker vincent brimble

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>> some of the harshest criticism of donald trump has come from conservative commentators. donald was pronounced the most fabulous whiner in all of american politics saying that trump acts like a spoiled child. >> one of the columnist says that you are the most fabulous whiner in the world. >> i think he's probably right. i am the most fabulous whiner. i do whine. i want to win. and i'm not happy if i'm not winning. i am a whiner. i'm a whiner and i keep whining until i win. >> joining us now from stanford, connecticut, is rich lowry and no whining in this segment. you would think that donald trump would hate the column you

wrote in politico. that wasn't his reaction. >> let this be a lesson to all of us. we all need to whine more. you never know quite what he's going to say. my point was his complaints about the debate are really silly. it's an iron rule of these debates if you're the candidate who is the highest in the polls, you're going to get more scrutiny and you're going to get tough questions. do we really believe if jeb bush had ever called a woman a pig that wouldn't come up in a debate? and trump and his fans argue the question should have been more substantive. you got several policy questions and whiffed on every single one of them. he's whining. maybe whining to win but certainly whining. >> sometimes let's lost in chatter about megyn kelly's questions is she was quoting trump's previous words. it's hard for the media to embarrass this guy. look at the way he handled that whining column. >> very true. unfortunately whining is not going to be policy and get him

to win. rich, it's the first time we agreed about something and that's whining with regard to donald trump. >> we have a consensus on the set. >> i'll have to reconsider my views now. >> donald trump -- we're here in l.a. donald trump is so much that celebrity. swooping in on the big helicopter. this is what people are lining up for. this is what the media is showing up with cameras rolling for. and he's eating it up. as long as you spell his name right, it seems to benefit him unfortunately. i think it's a sad statement in our political landscape right now. >> you say in another column clearly not a trump fan i'll put you down in that category, trump is incoherent on such issues as immigration and defunding planned parenthood. if you haven't noticed, republican voters who like him aren't particularly hung up on the specifics of his policy approach. >> no. no one has benefited so much from media coverage and media

attention as donald trump. it's really the starkest demonstration of the principle that there's no such thing as bad publicity that we've ever seen. he benefits from the negative coverage. he benefits from people saying he's going to be toast as they have repeatedly and been wrong because republicans are just so sick of our pc culture and our press when there are these shaming campaigns against anyone who says something controversial and usually the target slinks away, cries, apologizes, and trump went do thon't do that. every negative story or a controversy benefits him among his fans. >> your side of the media tries to say that trump embodies the ugliness of the republican party. that doesn't wash in my view because he's so different from every other candidate. none of them are like trump. for good and bad. >> i think the media has made donald trump number one.

i mean, seriously. one of the reasons the media shows up is because they want their ratings, they want to sell their newspapers and they want people to read blogs and columns. >> i don't think that gives trump enough credit. i hear the media are giving him this air time and this online coverage and therefore we are responsible for trump leading the polls. the viewers get a say. trump has media skills that compel a lot of journalists to cover him and if other candidates had that, they would get more coverage. >> a lot of it is name recognition key in an election for anybody. when people vote, it's the number one reason that someone says i'll vote for this person over that. you have that. and then you have celebrity. we saw that in california with arnold schwarzenegger who had zero experience and became governor of this state. >> and got re-elected. >> absolutely. but for -- when you talk about what donald trump is saying, i don't think it's all of what he's saying but how he's saying

it. you said this very different than the other people running. he's a real shoot from the hip, n non-pc, out of the beltway guy. that's working for him. >> rich, you talked about whining and other candidates cry or issue statements. trump doesn't do that. the way to which he picked a fight with fox news after that presidential debate in cleveland and as i mentioned, has taken various shots now and then since then although largely cooled off because of a truce, do you think that helps trump among people who don't like the media and don't like fox or just like to see trump take a club and whack people? >> it's mostly the latter. as long as he's on offense and throwing punches and attacking, his fans like that. howie, i don't know whether this is a conscious strategy on his part but he's a genius at changing the subject. after the john mccain comments, what happens? he gets up on stage.

he gives out lindsey graham's phone number and mccain comments disappeared and we talk about trump giving out the phone number. same thing with the debate. i thought his debate performance subjectively and internals of the polls back this up was quite poor. but the conversation after the debate wasn't about his debate performance, it was about whether the questions were fair and about his feud with megyn kelly so he's kind of a genius at this. >> that was no accident. let me show you a cover in a magazine about the debate showing megyn kelly practically trying to choke donald trump. would tim russert or ted koppel after tough performances be depicted like that? anything sexist in this? >> quite frankly she was doing her job. it was appropriate that the only female on the panel would ask

this question. this is one of many tough questions you're going to get when you run for president regardless of your party and regardless of how much money you have in your bank account like he likes to remind us constantly. this cover bothers me but i'm not surprised because we see that in not just american politics will you american media and sexism is alive and well unfortunately in 2015. >> stick around. we'll have another no whining segment coming up. the tabloid headline would be socialist sanders surges. is the press big on bernie and later, meghan mccain on trump and how women are targeted for online abuse. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger.

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it and the question that they're looking at is can in three to four months at the most, the vice president accomplish and take a bite out of her with all of the years she's been planning for this run? >> i didn't get the am memo tha you're in new york. i thought you were still in connecticut. is biden chatter driven by elements of the press that fear that hillary clinton could be a weak nominee? >> there are two overwhelming factors there. obviously the tragic context of his son's death and then just the most engrained bias in the media is wanting a horse race. reporters want biden in the race. he's an unguarded guy in contrast with hillary clinton. it would be like christmas every day for reporters if biden ran so all of them are rooting for it. >> rooting for joe.

politico had a headline. biden said to be considering one-term presidency. picked up everywhere. the person saying it is carl bernstein. mostly his opinion. he talked to some people around biden and some say yes and some say no. speaking of a not hardened fact, a piece saying that there is a possibility al gore may jump into the campaign. your thoughts on the media turning to the former vp? >> this is malarkey. al gore is not going to run. this is almost an opinion that became complete speculation that became rumor that everybody ran with including abc news after buzz feed put it out. >> i know you would love to see

al gore run. it does look like it was a media driven fantasy. >> probably. on this horse race thing, there is a horse race on the democratic side. it's driven by bernie sanders. he was widely discounted initially including by people like me. he went around the media. generated enthusiasm among the grassroots and i don't think the press is taking him seriously enough. he's a real threat to hillary in iowa and new hampshire and perhaps beyond. >> i agree not taking him seriously enough. i think there needs to be more media scrutiny of his policy positions which he lays out there. very liberal policy positions by socialist center from vermont. all right. thanks very much for stopping by. after the break, meghan mccain on donald trump and how far is too far when women are the targets. hi my name is tom. i'm raph. my name is anne. i'm one of the real live attorneys you can talk to through legalzoom. don't let unanswered legal questions hold you up, because we're here, we're here, and we've got your back.

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twitter and facebook can turn into rough neighborhoods for people under attack as we saw after last week's fox debatg us now is the woman with some experience on that front, meghan mccain, premier network and fox news contributor. donald trump's comments, particularly the personal ones about megyn kelly, sparked a controversy about what to say about women in the public arena. what's your take? >> i don't think we should be discussing women's menstrual cycles in the media and what he said was incredibly misogynistic. people called in and said i was being too sensitive. i don't think we are. >> trump said you're being too pc, too politically correct, and i understand what you said about the personal nature of it, but isn't he as a candidate entitled to criticize a journalist who has questioned him?

>> i thought megyn kelly's questions were totally in the line of questioning and in every way conceivable and i think he's not ready for primetime in the sense this is the kitchen. it's going to get really hot. you're running for president of the united states of america. it will get a lot dirtier and you'll have to answer more questions than megyn kelly asking him about misogynistic tweets. he's the most sensitive politician i've ever seen in my entire life and i just don't get it the. >> some of the stuff posted about megyn and others online were so vile. >> so vial. >> i don't even want to reference it. sometimes you get into controversies and get whacked online. i'm wondering if you think it's -- everybody in public life has to deal with the rough neighborhoods that particularly twitter can become but i wonder if you think it is worse for women. >> i definitely think it's worse for women. i think though if you get into this job, especially working in the media, it's just something you have to accept. i speak to a lot of college students and young girls and it's an unfortunate thing i have to bring up to them.

if you want to be a pundit or talk about politics on television, your hair, makeup and weight, all the things never talked about if you're a man, are going to be discussed and people on twitter are brutal. >> people are always talking about my clothes but do you think that drives some women away from -- >> i do. i think it silences them. >> political combat or journalism? >> i think it silences young women because if you see megyn kelly doing her job in every sense of the word, asking one tough question and all the things said about her afterwards. you're a woman watching that. you don't want to do this and i understand why because sometimes it's very, very difficult. >> i showed this cover of "the week" magazine earlier and shows megyn kelly practically choking or attacking donald trump. do you have a problem with this? >> i don't know what "the week" is. maybe they are trying to get publicity. >> it's a very well-read magazine and you want a provocative cover. >> maybe i'm just not reading "the week." >> would a male journalist have

that kind of caricature? >> of course not and i think they are trying to get publicity and no man would ever be characterize that had way. you think about michele bachmann on the cover of "newsweek" magazine looking like a craze person. >> yes. >> a long history of this having to do with women, especially conservative women in the media, and i think it's a really tasteless cover. >> bernie sanders weighed in on the question of sexism recently having to do with another female candidate. let's take a listen. >> did those people though who are making a link between her e-mails and trustworthiness, are they mistaken? are they giving in to gossip? >> let me be frank and i'm running against her. some of it is sexist. i don't know that a man would be treated the same way hillary is. >> so are -- >> really? >> are the attacks on hillary clinton also sexist? >> some attacks that have been sexist towards hillary clinton. everyone woman in public office will have sexist attacks. the e-mail leak i don't see that at all. >> e-mail leak, clinton foundation, all these things are

legitimate and any male candidate with the same set of circumstances would be roundly criticized. >> exactly. this is the problem when people cry sexism too quickly over things that are completely legitimate, then people don't take anything having to do with sexism or misogyny seriously. i don't know what bernie sanders is doing right there. i never really know what bernie sanders is doing. >> meghan mccain, thanks for joining us here in l.a. >> thank you. >> still to come, your top tweets and if stephen colbert's first guess is any indication, he could be back in the punditry game.

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but two nfl teams and hthe most striking is the 0th anniversary of the watts riots and the regulation of how bad the pulitzer prize winning paper's coverage was back in 1965. how rioters and negroes came to be used almost interchangebly. how the "times" set a black advertising salsman into the riots because they had no black report and the guy wound up on skid row. racial violence is a problem in the age of ferguson and baltimore but at least the media have made some progress on the question of diversity. time for your top tweets. are the media being fair or unfair to hillary on the e-mail story? jim hoffman, leading candidate for president is under criminal investigation by the fbi. questioning her about it is mandatory. amy fried, unfair as the media don't explain how clinton got e-mails not classified at the time and passing along unsourced partisan attacks. media, you included, hype everything in a 24/7 news,

capped making news and not reporting it and stephen colbert feeling anxious or so he told tv critics gathered here in l.a., not because he's taking over david letterman's show next month because he wants to be on the air making trump jokes now reducing him to what he called dry trumping. colbert who played a cable blow hard on comedy central would do less politics on cbs but his first guest in addition to jeb clooney will be jeb bush and has another dream guest in mind. >> this is not an invitation, mr. trump. this is a dare. i dare you to come on the show. >> and hey, trump just might do it, does everything else. here's hoping the real colbert is more balanced than the clownish character that ridiculed conservatives. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you like our facebook page, we post a lot of original content and respond to your videos. we're always back here next sunday morning 11:00 and 5:00 eastern and i should say 8:00

a.m. pacific and 2:00 in the afternoon here on the west coast. back here. see you then with the latest buzz. well, you know, it seems like the presidential race is in full swing. candidates preparing for the first presidential contest next february right now in the dog days of august. it's been a very busy weekend for all the presidential hopefuls as they are hitting the sunday public affairs news programs this morning after campaigning hard in iowa and that meant all the fried food at the iowa state fair. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. this is america's news headquarters. >> and i'm arthel neville. all this coming as we get a brand new fox news poll of the gop field following the first primary debate and kristen fisher monitoring the developments live from washington.