>> i'll be back tomorrow morning on the fox business network. >> donald trump rolling toward the nomination after another super tuesday. and the pundits obsess on delegate math and whether that might stop him. >> you don't buy the contested convention where you could go to a second ballot, third ballot and suddenly the person who brings the party together is not one of those two? >> i think it's insane. do you deny the nomination to donald trump? i think that's a very difficult case to make at this point. >> i don't think that trump will have enough to give him the nomination. >> more than 60% of republicans don't want him to be their nominee. that's the math. i don't see how he overcomes that when he gets to cleveland with less than 1,237 delegates.

>> but is the contested convention a fantasy? is the press making too much of trump comments that there might be violence if he's deprived of the prize? donald trump fresh off major victories overnight warning of riots if the republicans try to stop him at a contested convention. >> and while he's riding high, why is trump picking personal fights with journalists? marco rubio drops out. what was it like dealing with reporters during his flameout? we'll ask his husband and wife press team. another huge week for hillary clinton. news organizations now start ignoring bernie sanders and why are some liberal pundits ripping her as a flawed candidate that could louz se to donald trump. the gop senate says no way, no how. we chase down the republican leaders refusing to hold hearings or a vote, including orrin hatch who once praised garland. >> you said before he belongs on the court y not at least consider him now?

>> i isn't say that he belongs on the supreme court. >> is the coverage painting republicans as obstructionists? plus, a jury hits someone with a $115 million verdict for posting a hulk hogan sex tape. this will transform the boundaries of online gossip? this is "media buzz." >> donald trump had more huge victories this week winning florida, knocking marco rubio out of the race. during his victory speech, he challenged a pundit and then he said this. >> lies, deceit, viciousness, disgusting reporters, horrible people. some are nice. some are night. some really disgusting people back there laughing. >> and during a round of morning show interviews, trump used the

word that sent the press to their battle stations. >> it's where 100 and we're at 1100 and somebody else is at 400 or 500. we're way ahead of everybody. i don't think you can say that we don't get it automatically. i think you'd have riots. i think you'd have riots. >> and that one word is all it took, riots. >> it must be really good knowing these people are there and willing to fight for you and stick by you even if you shoot someone on fifth avenue. suggesting lawlessness, even off hand in response to a lawful but unpopular event isn't very presidential. >> you don't give me the nomination, forget the majority, if i'm the front-runner, give it to me or i'm going to -- sounds like he would encourage riots. >> one thing for other people to predict violence or even riots in a politician's campaign. another thing for the candidate himself to promise/threaten that and then not condemn that as a

possibility. >> joining us now to analyze the campaign coverage, senior political correspondent for usa today and joe trippy, democratic strategist and fox news contribut contributor. heidi sh i was surprised that the media went to death con one over the riots phrase. i thought it was high penitentiarybl -- high herbly b -- hyperbole. >> i didn't hear the comments myself. i read them. he said something earlier in the week if the race were that close and trump had just below the number needed to get the delegates and, you know, the republicans came in and swooped in with some other candidate, there would be mutiny, chaos. i heard him use the word, too. but when donald trump said it and because it came in context of a week in which there was actual violence going on and he

is in the spotlight for encouraging violence at his rallies, it took on a life of its own. >> what do you think, gale? this comes against the backdrop of many in the conservative media pushing the endless scenarios about what could, should, might happen in cleveland. they're in the never trump camp. >> yes. and this is nothing new in politics. you might remember that president obama in 2009 sat down with american ceos and told them that his administration was the only thing between him and the pitch fork. this is nothing new in politics. yes sh the conservative media, the far left and the far right are trying to keep anybody but trump from getting the nomination. so i think they continue to push the narrative as well. >> joe, are the media underplaying the explosion of anger, not necessarily violence, but chaos is a good word that, would take place if deals are cut and donald trump is denied the nomination if he is close to the magic number? >> absolutely. i said it.

i'll say it clearer. if they do this, it will blow up the party. now i wasn't talking about violence. >> you were talking about tnt and dynamite. >> it is a huge mistake to say -- look, regardless of the language you use, he spoke the truth. this is one thing about trump. he speaks something that his followers believe is true and that most of us believe is true which is if they did this, there is going to be chaos and disruption and a lot of anger out there. and in the media response by saying oh, my gosh, how can he say that? which just reinforces him with his supporters and actually -- and actually encourage more -- his strength and on coming primaries. >> seems to be a deep split in the coverage between those who say trump's got this thing wrapped up and those who say he could definitely be stopped at the convention. >> i feel like first and foremost, none of us have seen -- a lot of us -- not all of us, but have seen a contested

convention before. and so there is this not a lot of direction here. but -- >> reporters are dying for this to be a nabbing down, drag out, four days that really matter. >> but i think there is also some overcompensation going on here. you have the columnists on the right and left who have been very harsh on trump. then you have the herd. the herd was wrong in the beginning. everybody wrote him off. almost everybody. most everybody. okay. they wrote him off and skeptical about him and then here we are today flash forward. there is a lot of overcompensation at this point to say that you can't deny him what is rightfully his. he's done so well and exceeded our expectations. >> speaking of -- i want to get the sound bite in, joe. you can respond on the other side. here is ted cruz complaining about the extent to which day after day after day donald trump seems to soak up most of the media attention. >> donald trump practically goes to the bathroom and gets carried

live on network television. every speech he gives, he does a press conference that is like watching the shopping channel. he's up there selling sfaek steaks and steak knives and wine. the media desperately wants him to be the nominee. >> do you desperately want donald trump to be the nominee? >> no. i think if ted cruz said things were interesting that everybody wanted to see, he'd be on a lot more. and trump does say with regards to whether he gru with him or not, he says things that people find interesting. and i think that's part of the problem here. the other candidates haven't been able to do that. >> he makes himself accessible, too. >> this is a man bites dog story. trump is not a conventional candidate. it's a game. he goes out there and says things that a conventional candidate would never say. the press goes completely wild. and then we have this ability of donald trump to use jiu-jitsu to turn this negative media to his advantage. >> well, senator cruz went on to

say the reason the media won in his view is because they can turn on him and he could be a weak nominee against hillary clinton. senator cruz in a recent interview with me said virtually all journalists are partisan democrats. i don't agree with. that but that is his argument. >> the media leans more so. you have to agree. >> i'm not arguing that for a minute. the idea that we are orchestrating this in a way so that trump is the weakest nominee, there is a lot more to why he gets all this credit. >> the proliferation in the media that i can't believe the american people are still gullible to believe that we are this monday owe lift. we have gone from, you know, just a few major news organizations to news organizations like drudge on the right and huffington post on the left. how can they continue to believe this? >> has there been a nominee, potential nominee that's been as hammered and answered this, you know, pushed off by the media as donald trump? >> no. >> that's my point.

i mean if, the media had the power to decide things, donald trump wouldn't be the front-runner. >> one of the bizarre things about the campaign is the negative media attention which trump got plenty along with positives. actually, helps him in my view. all right. so we saw donald trump on tuesday night talk about disgusting media people. that sort of part of the thing. but in recent days, he has renewed his war on fox news anchor megyn kelly tweeting she is crazy, she is sick, her show sun fair, nobody should watch the show, calling for a boycott. this prompted a very strong statement from fox news on friday night. we can put it up on the screen. part of it says, trdonald trump attacks against megyn kelly is beneath the dignity of a presidential politics. it is deplorable for her to be repeatedly abused for just doing her job. heidi, what do you make of this

back and forth? >> let me say that in my particular position, i'm a young woman in this industry who is watching megyn kelly and women like her and are inspired by her success. so that extent, it's upsetting. that issy was motivated to get to the bottom of this. what did megyn kelly do to invite this latest storm of criticism? i went back and looked. what i found, check it out, people, go online, the tweeting started before megyn kelly even went on the air for election night. this is part of a pattern of trump kind of going off of the handle. he clearly continued to watch and sent out the tweets using loaded words like sick, crazy. and the fact is that megyn kelly was giving the same coverage of that -- those election results, mostly positive, that her male counterparts were on virtually every other network and, yet, there was not that kind of response. >> if donald trump wants to say

journalist bias, unfair, don't watch his or her show. that's fine. they can do that. journalists are not immune to criticism. but i think words like sick and crazy are over the top. >> it seems like it's an extreme form of language that he is using. listening to the back and forth between donald trump and megyn kelly seem like a duet of carly simon's song "you're so vain." he tells megyn kelly, oh, you're average. she said i'm doing just fine without you. so i think that she's been good to the last eight months to not respond very much to his attacks. and i think fox news coming out and making this statement kind of feeds into his victimization complex. and fox news the top people would be better served not to get into it and let megyn kelly handle it by herself. >> fox has to defend her. she is pushing into a new frontier here. this kind of attacking is not acceptable. they have to come out. she remains her professionalism by not directly responding and

getting into the mud. >> what surprised me is there is brief truce. he told reporters and told me after the debate in detroit she had been fair to him. but this does seem to flair up. i asked him, are you accepting too much about what cable pundits said? he didn't think. so he said does this sort of thing hurt him with women? >> absolutely. look being he has a huge gender gap. he is running very, very strong with white men. he has a problem with support among women, republican women. and i think going after megyn kelly doesn't help him. the only explanation i have is he views himself as a ratings bonanza noert worketworks much y the coverage of debates is so high in his mind. which i think is true. but -- so i think he wants to punish megyn kelly by trying to drive her ratings lower, turn the channel. >> right. >> it's just -- it's not working. and it's doing him damage.

>> whatever shows donald trump hears, he does look at the ratings. megyn kelly has the second highest rated show in cable news and so his lack of diplomatic relations with her has not hurt her show. i have to get a break. ahead, are the media tilting one way or the battle of the president obama supreme court nominee? when we come back, ashley parker of "the new york times" on becoming the tenth trump rally and why she was sometimes scared.

fighting broke out at a donald trump rally yesterday. take a look. >> police later led the

protester and african-american man who attacked him out of the arena. joining us is ashley parker, correspondent from "the new york times" who covered a number of the trump rallies. so you write a piece saying that you first felt unsafe at a trump event a couple weeks ago in new orleans. was that unnerving? >> it was just, you know, covering trump is not like covering a typical politician. and so at this rally, basically the energy became very sort of tense and very frenetic from the very beginning. and there was an almost constant stream of protesters getting ma with the crowd and the crowd was turning on them. you see protesters at other politicians' events but not at that level and not at that intensity. so it is noticeable. >> was it unnerving for you personal sfli. >> yes. as a reporter, you're sort of trying to figure out where do i want to be whether this breaks out and how are we going to cover this and what is the best position? >> you warned your editors, some time after this someone is going to get seriously hurt at one of

these rallies or worse. could you have written that story? >> we actually before chicago happened, we actually did write a version of that story where we talked about the role of the protesters at donald trump rallies and sort of the increasing intensity and just what it's like to be a protester and what it's like to be a member of the crowd. so we didn't sort of know that chicago was going to happen. we saw things headed that way. >> so after the chicago event with the violence breaking out and with the cancellation of that rally, you wrote a piece in the same piece you say that times both sides have behaved badly. but trump supporters have been unfailingly courteous. protesters made the minorities feel wrong. >> yeah, what you see -- and i'm hopefully in that piece i didn't create a false equivalency. there are plenty of protesters standing peacefully, silently and hauled out. they are pushed, they are shoved. but you also see protesters getting carried out and they're shouting and flicking off the

crowd and screaming and the trump supporters are screaming. it is like a mosh pit where tensions are high on both side. and that's where you see the kind of clashes and skirmishes occur. >> but don't the protesters go, there the ones that are more organized with, a purpose of shouting him down or getting the rally canceled or just being a disruptive force? >> sure. i think absolutely. at the beginning what you saw is just protesters and at a certain point they realized the way they could reclaim their voice, which is something you hear them speak a lot about, is to come to the events and interrupt them and force them to stop speaking or in the case of chicago, to shut it down and that sort of their form of social protest. >> i ask that because a lot of the coverage focused on donald trump and his words and punch in,i ing in the face as if he's responsible. sympathy people go there for the express purpose of disrupting. so i'm watching television friday night and seemed like things were going to get tense. there are all the television cameras here. and maybe do we give the protesters too much media

attention or just the fact this is now thaning, a story, may encourage people to go and disrupt the thing and get on television? >> sure. i think what you're seeing is both from the side of the protesters who know that if he go and disrupt they'll get attention and also from the side of donald trump. protesters have become a part of his rallies. the way talking about, you know, making america great again as part of his rallies. and sometimes if there are not protesters, you see him say, where are the protesters? dough we have a disruptor? he egged them on and in a way he liked them. >> which adds to the excitement. ashley parker sh great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> thanks for stopping by. ahead, president obama in cuba today. why so little advance coverage of such a controversial trip? up next, how the media cover candidates who despise each other but suddenly proclaim mute aol admiration when it's time for an endorsement.

first the candidates savage each other and then they hug each other. they say this is business as usual in presidential politics. so what if they actually hate each other? >> i am not surprised that graham came after cruz. i have never seen two words used so much together as cruz and detest. hence, lindsey graham's, you know, bizarre marriage now with ted cruz. i actually think that in some ways it is awkward to me watching it. just a couple weeks ago chris christie in that last debate said a vote for trump is a vote for hillary clinton. >> lindsey graham had a bend over backwards in backing ted cruz after indulge about a violent fantasy about his colleague. >> if you kill ted cruz on the floor of the senate and the

trial is in the senate, nobody could convict you. >> and he was equally ted ldead the frontrunners. >> if you're a republican and your choice is donald trump and ted cruz that, is the difference between poison or shot, you're still dead. >> chris christie spent part of the campaign trashing trump. >> i just don't think he's suited to be president of the united states. >> why? >> i don't think his temperament is suited for that. >> only to wind up looking rather awkward at a trump news conference and later sounding a tad defensive. >> so, no, he wasn't being held hostage. no, i wasn't sitting up there thinking oh, my god what have i done? >> ben carson is also backing trump despite the billionaire using his life story to liken him to a child molester. >> he said that he's pathological and that he's got basically pathological disease. >> but the doctor hasn't framed his endorsement with surgical

precision including the xreeb r cerebral one. >> even if donald trump doesn't turn out to be a good president, think he'll surround him swefl good people. even if he didn't, we're only looking at four years as opposed to multiple generations. >> only four years. and then there was a question that seemed to stump rick santorum after he barked marco rubio. >> he's been in the senate for four year. can you name his top accomplishments? >> if you look at being a minority in the senate where nothing got date of birone, it' say there are accomplishments. >> then he had make a fuss over the endorsements. just smile when you take that knife out of your back and support the winner. hey, he may just give you a job down the road. coming up, hillary clinton cruising through the nomination but some doubt whether she can

beat donald trump. and the husband and wife team that defeated marco rubio to increasingly skeptical reporters.

hillary clin winning five more states this weekend clearly rolling to the nomination. some people are very excited. ♪ >> that was hillary on the comedy central show "broad city" n real life, they criticize the former first lady and skeptical about her chances against donald trump. first of all, heidi, her winning the five states and piling up the huge delegate lead, will the press cut back on coverage of bernie sanders at this point? >> t

>> the bus loads of reporters probably go away? yeah. >> they'll get a minivan? >> they'll continue to cover him much he's going to play a very important role in unifying the party as she goes closer and closer to the nomination. as we know, there have been some, you know, rough exchanges between the two. and he's actually not a democrat. you know? i think he feels a little less loyalty necessarily to do the things that the party is going to expect him to do to pri his people over. so i think they'll continue to cover him very significantly from that per view. >> in fact, they said the other day he wanted to run as a democrat. he can get more media coverage as running as an independent. so president obama going to the "new york times" privately telling donors it's time to unite behind hillary. isn't the white house wanted that story out? >> yes, they d they wouldn't have let it leak if it wasn't the case. i would disagree with heidi. i think they're going to go back on the coverage of sanders. i think that in this case it's very clear that hillary has been supported by the media and president obama han close we are

hillary than he has been with bern previously. >> that second point is true. what about the thousands of questions about her e-mail? >> not enough. "the washington post" had a story about the e-mails two weeks ago putting forward the defensest e-mail scandal. i think that media, the leftist media is very much in the tank for her and i think that they will ease back on the coverage of sanders. >> i think hillary clinton may disagree with. that liberal pundits, some of them, not terribly excite d, saying she's our very and quinao and kale salad. >> look, i think what is fascinating to me is how the press, they were sparring for a fight on both side. they kept at bernie like tremendous oxygen including calling his win in michigan a historic upset which it wasn't. you now have a proper with all

the candidates are flawed. they all have flaws. and hers have certainly been out there for the world to look at for a long time. but, again, trump has had his flaws, so does cruz. >> so you're not surprised that some comments take theo some commentators are saying, gee, she could lose this in the fall. >> not only that. i don't want trump -- i mean, trump -- everybody is underestimated him the entire tile on the republican side y would the democratic party underestimate him? >> sure. >> you know, i think that's where the coverage is going to go. i think the coverage is going to become increasingly trump-hillary not trump sanders. >> let me make this turn. president obama is in cuba today. first time in 88 years. sitting president. and i was waiting to see all the advance stories about, you know, this very controversial policy and very historic trip. there have been almost nothing overshadowed by the campaign.

do you think the media just moved on this cuba question? >> there still is a lot of interest in what he's doing and criticism on both sides. i think it's more of a function of lame duckery as well as overcoverage of this -- having two contested primary battles in both the republican and democrat being side. so it's also a function of just resources. >> could it also be that many journalists privately agree after a 50-year boycott that it is time to recognize the regime so they don't think it's controversial? >> i would agree with. that the press privately agrees with the obama administration's policy on this. so you're not seeing the reportage of the human rights violations in cuba. you can kind of compare it to the iran deal. there is a lot more coverage of the iran deal and it's a very similar strategy in foreign policy that president obama has with regard to cuba. there is a lot more coverage of the iran deal and the human rights violations from 2009

revolution. >> the politics is what drives coverage. and there just isn't that much controversy even on the political side. >> one poll i looked at, 51 per supporting the president, 55% shorting diplomatic relations with cuba. >> that's right. you don't see republicans really using that as the wedgish knew this election that is happening in the past. i'm not saying it isn't one. i'm just saying it's not as intense and there's no reason for the press to cover it from that per inspespe perspective. >> we can always do another story about donald trump. >> that's right. >> we always touch on the story of the day. maybe now the country moved on. president obama will be interviewed in cuba so they lined up the media coverage. there joe trippy, gale heidi, great to see you all this sunday. after the break, president obama tries to pressure the senate into voting or picking merrick guard land for the supreme court. does the coverage reflect the hypocrisy on both sides? later, with hulk hogan's legal

victory, can gawkers devise a $115 million verdict.

republicans warned president obama not to send up a nominee to replace the late antonin scalia. this week president obama chose merrick garland. would he even get a hearing? >> in merrick garland, the president has chosen nominee who

has had support from both sides of political aisle over the years who in any normal time would be confirmed. it's no not a normal time. >> there is a republican gamble. republicans want to be strong but not obstructionists which can backfire to the benefit of democrats. >> joining us now in new york, an attorney who hosts the on line fox show sports court. and guy benson from town hall here in washington, also a fox news contributor. guy, the coverage hpresident obama picked a moderate, merrick garland. republicans wasn't even give him a hearing. >> it does. although the thing that strikes me most about the coverage of this story is how muted it is compared to what i think it normally would be in a political cycle like. this i think if n. any presidential campaign except for this one, a supreme court vacancy and appointment by the president by a lame duck president would be a blockbuster.

it would dominate. it's like a second or third level story because of the trump factor certainly and also i think the timing of the ncaa tournament, americans just aren't tuning into this the way they might in a normal circumstance. >> wow. blown out by march madness. do you see much of this in the coverage? democrats and republicans are both hypocritical on this position. they change positions on which party controls the white house. >> i just want to point out guy's position that this is muted. it's far from muted. what's going on here, if you compare the bork nomination to july 1st of 1963, the coverage was all about bork and whether he was too far right. his position on abortion, his position on watergate. and now what we're seeing with the media is strictly a political issue, a political tug of war. everybody's fighting over the football. you have the broncos and the patriots. don't realize that the football is deflated or not. that's what's going on here. it's really unfortunate.

the word of the media is using is war, battle, and this is not a political issue. the constitution specifically says the president shall nominate and the president shall confirm. this isn't about going to war. i don't see any second amendment issues in here. >> that is not what the constitution says. the senate has the advice and consent role which can include under the constitution refraining or declining to confirm the nominee and to withhold that consent. but that's the political angle on. this you misunderstand my point about the muted coverage. i'm not saying that language doesn't get punched up occasionally. of course it z it's a sensationalized media environment. comparing this story what would frb a political standpoint, the degree to which it would be covered as a bombshell story is less so in this tike will than it otherwise might be. >> let me jump in and ask you wouldn't the coverage look very different if republicans had waited, merrick garland got

nominated and then come out with what they don't like about his record as opposed to mitch mcconnell and company declaring in advance that anybody the president sent up wouldn't get so much as a hearing? >> i think the media is derelict on both sides. you have npr a few hours ago, they covered it as what one of i had phone calls to supporters was that because the senate -- the republicans won the senate that now obama doesn't basically have any rights. like forget that we even have a president. and instead of the media covering it as an issue as to what it is, face value issue, they're covering this political war of the shirts and the -- >> let me read you a news story from "politico." they're preparing a campaign and the republicans stubborn opposition to merrick garland's nomination to the supreme court.

any thoughts on that and, again, this question i raise where we have videotape comments from republicans in the past saying there should be a vote whether republicans are in the white house and democrats in the past saying there shouldn't be a vote. >> no, there is just hackery and partisanship on both sides of this issue. it's the ultimate partisan fight a lot of the time. i think there would be a different tone with a republican in office. >> wait. what is the hackery on the left? i don't understand. with all due respect. i don't understand what the hackery on the left is that we have a sitting president who nominated and did his job. >> okay. i -- i appreciate drs >> a guy who the people on the right previously supported by the way. >> i appreciate the interruption and i will answer your question regardless which is the hackery on the left is joe biden making every single republican point that they're currently making back in 1992. chuck schumer, harry reed doing the same thing during the bush administration, obama in the senate, filibustering sam alito.

>> and mitch mcconnell the same thing. you have a half minute to respond. >> whatever happened in the past, that's like if you want to blame bush for all of this. i'm not going there. there is not an issue about '92 and biden this is about the fact that we have a president and i don't particularly care if you use the president who is a republican or a democrat. he's a sitting president and he has the job to appoint a -- or nominate somebody for the supreme court who both sides reefously liked. and that's what the media dsht question is the media should cover it that way. >> one sentence answer, you are disappointed in the media coverage of the supreme court nomination? >> i disappointed? >> yes. >> i always disappoint. >> all right. then you have more reason to be disappointed. it's a typical washington iru. there will be all the debates and it looks like republicans are not going to budge. great to see you both. next on "media buzz," alex koenen and kaitlyn koenen on defending marco rubio as the

media soured on the senator and nbc pulls the plug on a former obama operative.

. in the final weeks of marco rubio's campaign his supporters constantly demanded to know whether the senator was drop og out, his press team had to face the task rebutting the rumors. >> in florida there is only one candidate that can beat donald trump. that's marco rubio. >> before marco rubio was leading extensively and trump has picked up the pace after the past weekend. how do you reason that. >> the truth is that the polls have been all over the place. >> joining us know, al conan and caitlyn conan.

wasn't it hard as the losses piled up and the polls started sinking in florida to maintain an optimistic tone? >> it was very, very fun working with the press. we have a good relationship with the media and we are obviously in the media relations business. it's always a give and take. but it was very hard -- >> but every question is why is he doing so badly? and why isn't he going to drop out? and what is your idea on this poll or that poll. >> part of my job was to make sure we had our top tier surrogates at the base. cordy gardner was a trooper. he was there in michigan after one of the debates and. he kept getting asked what is it going to be if trump is the nominee? they asked him seven times. it was hard to break above the fray and stay on the misic. but we worked for marco. we believe in him. we are hopeful until the end. >> you had to insist or deflect

whether or not rubio would lose florida. you had to know if he lost florida he would be toast. >> i didn't know. to be honest i think marco maid that decision in the hours leading up to the polls closing. we believed there was a shot to win florida. osly it didn't worked out that way. it was a strange year. and i think the negative drum beat in the media was damaging to the campaign especially after the super tuesday losses. all everyone heard of what haase marco was loose losing. >> do you think the negative drum beat was unfair? overplayed? after all it began when the campaign was hitting rough patches and there was bad news. >> i think what was unfair in retrospect is donald trump got about 20 times as much media as the rest of the candidates campaigned. the day of the florida primary there was a report that there was $2 billion of free media

surrounding donald trump's campaign which is more than any other campaign in history and we are not even in the general election. i think the media has to look at that. >> almost until the end a lot of your rivals believed that senator rubio was a media darling and was getting a lot of positive press. >> all the questions ended up being about trump towards the end. a prime example we did a ton of national tv but it turned into an advertisement for donald trump every time he went on. >> that was frustrating. frustrating. in the end we did regional satellite tours. but even then the regional press and national press it was all trump, trump, trump. marco rubio did his best to rise above the fray. >> you had to defend marco rubio, your boss, when he started -- went through that speight of insulting donald trump over small hands, spray

tan, wetting his pants until he admitted it was a mistake. >> you mentioned cnn. i think cnn found their missing airplane with donald trump. and donald trump was the equivalent of a missing airplane for cnn's ratings. that's all they talked about. that's all they reported on. so in order to break into some of that coverage marco started engaging trump in ways that he later regretted. >> briefly, you guys working around the clock, sometimes traveling together. a bit of a strain on the marriage? >> it was so much fun. we have done this before. we have worked for o'candidates in different rolls but some people think it's crazy we do it together but we think it would be crazy not to. >> there is the sound byte, some people say we are crazy but we are not crazy. thank you for stopping by. still to come, what happened when nbc briefly hired a former obama operative. and hulk hogan's victory over case.

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nbc and msnbc have just confirmed that stephanie cutter a former top campaign aide to president obama had been hired as an analyst. but there was a conflict. the white house just announced that she would be part of those reviewing merrick garland. cutter is now only hired as a paid guest not an analyst. hulk hogan suing the gossip site gawker who posted a tape of him having sex with the wife of a close friend. it ended friday with a definite stating blow a 115 mmds verdict against gawker. sure it was hard to feel sorry

for hulk who talked up the sex capade on howard stern and others. hogan's team now boasting of public disgust with the invasionful privacy being disguised as journalism. gawker said it was constitutionally protected speech simply because it was a celebrity having sex and that gawker would draw the line, said sarcastically, at a 4-year-old having sex. was this news or exploiteding a famous person? gawker says it will appeal. if huge damages are upheld it could put the site out of business and redefine the boundaries ever what is acceptable in online journalism. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. thank you for watching. dvr us if you can be home on sunday. if you want to e-mail us, ask a

good question, media buzz at fox news.com. nice to have you along for the ride. we can also continue the conversation on twitter. we're back here next sunday president obama walking the streets of havana, the first american president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge went there in 1928. this is the next chapter in what the obama administration started about a year ago. some controversy over it. and arguably, a part of the president's legacy he wants to shore up before he leaves office. restoring diplomatic ties between the u.s. and cuba. he's only been on the ground there a few hours, and in that time, he and the first family, as you see here, have been on a walking tour of the historic old havana, a world heritage site. and so on the trip, it's him, first lady michelle obama, their two daughters, malia and sasha, and what is being described as a rather large