presents -- a primetime special, a sit-down with donald trump. have a great week. donald trump embroiled in a new media controversy as the "washington post" on tans a 29-year-old tape of the businessman supposedly posing as his own bubble cyst and telling about the relationship with marla naples and other people. >> he's living with marla and has three other girlfriends and she's not going to say, all right, i really want to get back, you know. she wants to get back, she has told it to a lot of her friends, she's told it to him, but it's so highly unlikely. that's off the record. >> trump says that's not him, but either way is this ancient audio really news? and what about today's "new york times" investigation saying he sometimes crossed the line

with women in his life which he calls a lame hit piece. an all out media frenzy over trump's drop by with paul ryan, breathlessly covered on cable minute by minute. >> all eyes on that building, the rnc head quarters on capitol hill right there. >> we're going to begin with that big meeting for donald trump coming face-to-face with house speaker paul ryan in washington this morning. >> the next few hours pivotal for the future of the republican party. >> donald trump goes to washington, the highly anticipated meeting is now under way. >> are journalists utterly hyping this brief get together? megyn kelly finally sits down with donald trump for a fox special this week and tells mimi about enduring months of personal attacks. >> at times it was difficult. there are certainly times where i would have liked to have come out and said something but i knew that was not in my best interest and i knew that was not my role. it's been difficult, it's been dark, i've also had a lot of

silver linings, it's brought my husband and me much closer. >> a candid conversation about how becoming a high profile target has affected her life and career. plus a credibility crisis for facebook after accusations that mark zuckerberg's company is suppressing conservative news, but does this really warrant a senate investigation? i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." ♪ donald trump's short meeting with paul ryan relentlessly hyped in an endless media circus ended with a joint communiqué, nice sounding statements and no shortage of pundit tree. >> are you endorsing donald trump? >> look -- >> if you are not what is holding you back and do you really have a choice? you've ruled out voting for hillary clinton, endorsing her. >> the process of unifying the republican party which just finished a primary about a week ago perhaps one of the most

divisive primaries in memory, takes some time. >> it was a very positive step toward party unity. i mean, it felt like he blinked that, although it had the per sideways ichbs of a fortune cookie message a. to me this whole meeting was like two girls in high school who goss accepted all year about each other and now they're sharing a class project and they have to work together. >> donald trump, the self-proclaimed great negotiator came out of the most important meeting of his political career with nothing. >> by friday the morning shows were hammering trump about now controversies, the "today" show focused on this 1991 phone call obtained by the "washington post" which the paper said was the donald posing as his own pr man, talking about his relationship with his then girlfriend marla mainless. >> i can tell you there was never any talk of marriage from donald's point of view. i can also say that marla would like to get married obviously but it was just something -- it was just too soon. >> are you aware of the tape?

is it you? >> no, i don't think it -- i don't know anything about t you're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all. i have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and when was this, 25 years ago? >> in the early's 90. >> you're going to low as to talk about something that took place 25 years ago. >> sue carswell said trump fessed up soon afterwards. >> you believe it was trump, he faked it. >> he apologized afterwards and said he was sorry. i think he should come clean and apologize to me now. >> joining us now to analyze the campaign coverage heidi przybyla, senior political correspondent for "usa today," kelly riddell deputy opinion editor for the washington times and molly ball political reporter for the atlantic. >> i've listened to that tape many times, it sounds like trump, that i can tell you, but whether it's him, whether it's not him, whether he was just enjoying himself with reporters

a century go, is this "washington post" story big news? >> the story itself is probably not that big of news, from those who care about donald trump, his supporters and detractors, it's more the cover up that became the news because there was no question that this is donald trump. okay? he testified in 1990 that he went by that name. people magazine said that this was kind of a running joke between them that he, you know, would mask raid as this guy john miller. why not just admit it and move on? >> in fact, this people reporter told the "new york times" this story on the record last month and it was published, but it's the audio which is very entertaining to listen to that has made this a bigger story. how big a story is it? >> buzzfeed came out with a story in april that was very similar. and reporters were commenting on that story. i don't think it's going to change anything, it's more of an entertaining story. what was interesting about the "washington post" article, though, is they had a 44 minute

conversation with donald trump that talked about his finances, his views on the economy and what was published, when he hung up on them after they asked him about using this pseudonym and that was what the entire story was on. have we seen anything else on his views on the economy, on his finances? nothing. nothing like that has been reported. >> or the line somehow went dead. >> yeah. >> did trump keep this story alive by denying it on the "today" show or at least saying it didn't sound like him? >> i think heidi is right about that. by denying it he turned it into a more perplexing thing than it otherwise might have been. this is something we already knew he had done and the audio was the new element. when you hear it becomes even clearer. it's fun to listen to, it's kind of hilarious, it doesn't seem like the kind of thing that's going to make a voter out there in america go this man can't be president because he played a joke on a reporter on the phone, but of course it's a story, it's something we didn't know before about a very notable person and then he goes out there and tries to deny it which doesn't make

any sense. >> people already know about donald trump, his business life, the reality tv show life, his playboy life, i don't know how much new information is there, but on that point there is a big "new york times" front page story today crossing the line, trump's private conduct with women. trump, by the way, tweeted this, everyone is laughing at a lame hit piece they did on me and women. i gave them many names of women i helped to refuse to use. what does this add up to 50 women in his business and personal life describing anecdotes of their interactions with the billionaire? >> it painted a very contradictory picture of donald trump. on the one hand there were vignettes in there of extreme examples of women feeling like they were treated as almost cattle. on the other hand you had really kind of an unusual structure 20 years ago of women being in some of the highest roles of authority at his company. so i think for people who like him there's something to find in it and for people who don't like

him. i don't think it changes the baseline much. >> a man that used to own pa gents wanted his contestants to be pretty and skinny. is this really news? we already knew this about donald trump. a lot has been reported. he wanted to have a playboy image and that's what he put out in the early '90s. some of this is coming back to haunt him, but people who like him will find excuses, he promoted some of the women to the highest ranks 20 years ago in the construction business. >> right. that was not very widely done. one of these women he either called her overweight or teased her you like your candy, but we became a very senior trump organization executive. another woman was surprised that he asked her to put on a swimsuit at a mar lag ga pool party but then she dated him for a few months. >> i don't think it's a contradictory story, i think it's a well done and nuanced story. it paints a complex picture of a complex human being. if you wanted to caricature donald trump and say i hates

women and thinks women are stupid that's obviously not the case. it puts a lot of flesh on the bones of character i think a lot of us suspected about trump or could tell from his public behavior, that he can be kind of creepy sometimes, but he also sees women as, you know, important people in his business and has not shut them out because of some sexist idea that women can't perform those functions. so i thought it was a complex story. >> the good thing about the story is that the women were on the record so this is not some unnamed sources thing. >> we showed you some clips earlier, you were all laughing a bit, the paul ryan meeting, the buildup for days. we saw trump getting out of his car, we saw his plane on the tarmac, when was it going to take off. i get the larger issue here that there has to be some rec sill situation between donald trump and the paul ryan wing of the republican party, but what explains this sort of media circus? >> the absurdity of it was really crystallized in one head line, i think it was an msnbc head line that said breaking news alert, donald trump gives

thumbs up. they had split screens of every possible vantage point outside the building including -- >> and fox had it, too. >> includes trash cans. part of it is there is always this new york kind of hot house tabloid media atmosphere around donald trump, but now that he is a presidential candidate he should be conforming to the washington, you know, media standards instead of the other way around. i felt like a lot of these reporters just became kind of like entertainment tonight reporters. yes, this was an important meeting but both of them set expectations beforehand and said there is not going to be much coming out of this. this is the part of a process. >> that's exactly why do think we can say trump whipped this up into a spectacle. he agreed to have the meeting. there was going to be no endorsement, they weren't going to have a detailed discussion of policy. paul ryan and donald trump disagree on a lot of issues, immigration, taxes and so forth. that struck me that wasn't what this was about, it was about the spectacle wasn't it? >> i don't think it's possible

to overhype the significance of the conflict between paul ryan and donald trump. >> we tried to overhype it. re tried really hard. >> the most important thing happening in american politics is the sort of internal divisions of the republican party. >> yes. >> on the other hand, staking out that meeting doesn't get you anywhere toward understanding it. i do think that something happened in that meeting, i don't think it was all -- some people think it was all kabuki because politics is all choreographed and nothing to have come out of it that we didn't know in advance. i don't think that's true and i think the human interaction between these two men as they try to navigate this very uncomfortable sort of marriage of convenience over the next six months is going to be a huge story. you just don't get any information out of standing outside the building. >> kelly, there has been some media attention, it's been overhad doed by these stories about women and 25-year-old phone calls and like, where trump some people say is either softening his position on certain issues, like the temporary ban on muslim immigrants, now he says what he proposes is just a suggestion,

he was thinking of having a commission with rudy guiliani to look at this. is that an important -- more important development and are the media kind of portraying him as backing off some of his core positions? >> i think that it is a more important thing to look at rather than -- i learned that paul ryan had a breakfast burrito before the meeting. i did not need to know that. but, you know, trump made some major -- he backtracked a lot on his tax policy this week as well as the immigration ban, the news listen ban. >> he would dispute this but he is describing this in a more nuanced way. >> every single proposal from every politician within they're running for office is just that, it's a proposal, nothing get passed unilaterally without any compromi compromise. so it's a starting position. >> why don't you both jump in on whether or not the substance of the trump platform is getting enough attention compared to sees sideshows. >> i think we're not prioritizing because every day there's something new for the media, some kind of new bait for the media to chase and we need

to stay more focused on the core things that we should be holding his feet to the fire on. for example, the muslim ban because i do think that's important given it is the main ten et of his platform and it is a pledge that brought a lot of new people to thinks side. the same thing with entitlement reform, these are big key areas where he digresses from the party and thinks that, again, explain why he has gotten the support. >> is the press chasing every shiny object and getting away from issues that people care about? >> i think what we've learned about the way trump operates is that he tends to take all sides of any given issue and he will make all these statements and he is flying by the seat of his pants. to evaluate him through the conventional lens of the political press, every time he says something that contradicts something he says before that means he has taken a new position. i think a lot of times it means that he's saying what the person he is in front of wants to hear. >> i disagree with that a little

bit. i think he's been very clear with the wall on the border, for example, that's one of the main ten et cetera and he hasn't backtracked what that. he got into the muslim ban thing because they asked him a trick question, if the mayor of london comes over are you going to ban him. >> ahead megyn kelly on the impact of her long battle with donald trump on how she does her job and on her family. within we come back we will talk about substance with trump refuse to go release his tax returns for now and the media giving him a pass.

most of the media haven't made a major issue out of donald trump refusing to release his

tax returns but the issue has been coming up in television interviews. >> but people are suspicious that you're not releasing because in january of 2012 you said to me that mitt romney was making a big mistake by not releasing his. >> he wasn't under audit, i'm under audit. no lawyer would say release it when you're under you had a sniet what is your tax rate? >> it's none of your business. you will see it when i release. >> then you said you would release your tax returns when secretary clinton released her e-mails, she has turned over all the e-mails in her possession. >> there's plenty missing. i read yesterday there are a lot of e-mails missing. i know she is a good friend of yours and you worked for them and didn't reveal it. >> i think what george stephanopoulos didn't reveal was contributions to the clinton foundation. >> trump says he's under audit. why aren't we seeing that this year. >> there's usually an uproar, that's been standard fair since the 1970s.

>> going back to nixon. >> not only one year's worth, several years' worth. obama released 12 years' worth of taxes. i just think that trump is kind of taking advantage, again, of this news cycle where we're not able to prioritize and have the judgment to say what are the important things and to kind of hold his feet to the fire on these things. i think that the clinton folks will do that, they'll keep hammering this, but it is something that is very fair because we can learn a lot from those taxes despite what he says. >> when mitt romney dragged his feet about releasing his own returns in the 2012 campaign and finally released a couple years the press foundpounded on that. >> i think there's still time. i think it will happen. i think heidi is right that there are so many other things going on it gets lost in the cloud a little bit, but i do think that this is something -- especially if it becomes more of a talking point from the clinton folks -- that is going to continue to dog donald trump. the calculation for donald trump has to be the same calculation that romney was making, is it more damaging to have people

wonder what i'm trying to hide or is it more damaging what's actually in those returns? and at some point maybe that -- >> perhaps, kelly riddell, trump successfully calculates that his supporters don't care about media stories, or is it that the press treats him differently than every other candidate we've known? >> i agree with the panel and i think that we will see more on this, regarding his tax returns. >> and there should be more? >> and there should be more. you know, mitt romney only released his after harry reid went on the senate floor and basically accused him of not paying any taxes for ten years and the media picked that story and picked it up and ran with it as truth. i think you will see that happen to donald trump if he does not release his tax returns. there will be more questions than there are answers and it will become a liability for him. >> brief answer on that. trump's former butler, anthony senecal said on his facebook page president obama should be killed. "the new york times" pro filed this guy recently.

the campaign disavowed this, says he wasn't worked at mar-a-lago since 2009. is that much of a story? >> no, because he worked for him a very long time ago. trump cannot be responsible for every incendiary comment made by someone who may have worked for him decades ago. so no. >> look, the problem that trump is going to have in the general election is women and minorities. right now women and minorities have very strongly negative views of donald trump and every time another thing like this comes out tying him to some horrible racist it doesn't help him improve that image. >> on that difference of opinion, great to see you today. ahead on "media buzz" my sit-down with megyn kelly on being at war and then making peace with donald trump. next, james rosen on the missing state department video and how he felt when his question on the iran nuclear talks simply vanished.

. i was in the room in cleveland last august as megyn kelly refined the presidential debate question that rocked the campaign and made her a constant target of donald trump's taunts. now, the actor's long awaited interview with trump is airing in her first prime time special. here is a preview. >> you seemed to stay angry for months. >> yeah. >> was that real or was that strategy? >> well, i'm a real person. i don't say, oh, gee, i'm angry tonight but tomorrow you are my best friend. see, i do have a theory when somebody does it -- this could happen again with us, it could be even doing this particular interview, i have great respect for you that you were able to call me and say let's get together and let's talk. to me i would not have done that. >> i sat down with her for a wide ranging conversation in the kelly files studio in new york. >> megyn kelly, welcome. >> hi. >> how hard has it been over the last nine months as donald trum called you crazy not to fire

back? >> at times it's been difficult, i'm not going to lie. there were certainly times where i would have liked to have come out and said something, but i knew that that was not in my best interest and i knew that that was not my role. he kept trying to put me on the playing field and i kept trying to pull myself off. i think the truth is it was much harder for me husband not to say something than it was for me not to say anything. >> as you became part of the sort of ongoing trump story and then he blew off the fox debate in iowa, guests would say you didn't take the bait. all of that must have been uncomfortable. >> it's definitely been walk ard, there is no question about it and it remains awkward. i had a moment just the other day on the air when i had the trump spokesperson katrina pierson who i like a lot because trump and hillary were going back and forth on language about women and she took the position, katrina did, that he's never said anything about a woman that he wouldn't say about a man and i could see it coming at me like a freight train. i knew what word was drinking over both of our heads and it's

a situation where i can't not raise it because it was said about me, but i don't want -- i don't want to actively raise it because it was said about me, so i've tried to walk that line. >> when you asked donald trump for the meeting in trump tower you both said afterwards it cleared the air, it was like two diplomats trying to preserve a mid east ceasefire. what was the meeting like? >> i was nervous before i went over there that morning, i didn't know what to expect and i certainly woke up and thought, this is -- this is an odd day and i don't know what's going to happen here, but as soon as i saw him and received a very gracious welcome from him i knew we would be fine. i knew that it was going to be that kind of a meeting and not a contentious adversarial one. >> once the interview was announced there was in media chatter, me go begin has got to wipe the floor with him. she's got to dis member him. what did you make of that? >> i thought they were missing the point of what was going to

happen. you know, trump and i have already had very contentious exchanges and what i call the olympic level of questioning at those debates. i don't think anybody would accuse me of giving any politician a pass in my interviews. but this is a different setting and it's a different kind of thing. you know, i don't feel any need to go in there and try to take down trump nor did i at those debates. that wasn't my goal at the debates, either. my goal here is to have an interesting compelling exchange with him and i did and i think the audience is going to feel that way, too. >> so when we see it on tuesday you say interesting, compelling, i mean, was it contentious, was it awkward at times? >> yes, it was. i would say overall it was cordial, but there were definitely some tense moments and some awkward moments and moments similar to what i just said. there were some moments where you could see where this conversation was going, there was no way around it and there we were eye to eye talking about some of the most awkward moments of this campaign.

>> what was in it for donald trump to sit down with you finally? >> i think many things. i think trump could have gone on and on the way he had been. i don't think he was looking necessarily actively to resolve this or make it stop. i don't think trump minds acrimony or controversy. >> do you think? >> right. it's not that insightful. but i do. i don't like that. i certainly didn't like being part of the story and i don't like acrimony. which is odd that i've chosen a job in cable news prime time, but in any event that's for another day. so i guess i think he saw that he was headed for a possible contested convention at that point because it was just before he secured the nomination. >> sure. >> and the general election and realize this had might be a good time to perhaps bury the hatchet on his end and perhaps we could show the world that two people who had been mired in this very difficult circumstance could come together and have an affable exchange.

you know, affable at least in its tone. >> i'm sure you have gone over this in your mind but when you look back at that first debate in cleveland. >> you've called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. >> for the record it was well beyond rosie o'donnell. >> yes, i'm sure it was. >> could you or should you have worded that question about women differently? >> no. i wouldn't change one thing about that question, not for a minute. >> everyone on this network is acutely aware and perhaps you most of all that trump's campaign has divided the fox audience with a lot of passion on both sides. have you tried to put that out of your mind as you go about doing your show, doing your job? >> yes, i mean, i can't -- you know, my boss, our boss, roger ailes has always told me don't go chasing an audience. you can't program your show that way, who will i bring in, who will i alienate. it leads to compromised journalistic choices. so my goal for the past year has

been to live up to that promise i made in the only statement i've made publicly about the trump attacks which was that i would continue to cover him without fear or favor. and i understood the risks of that because if you really do cover trump that way he does tend to attack you, especially if your name is megyn kelly. and i understood that some of his voters, some of his fans and some of our viewers might not like that and certainly i heard from them. and i understand that. they love him. they wanted him to win, they didn't want anybody, least of all a journalist, getting in the way or doing anything or offering coverage that might not reflect well on him or might impede his path. but that's for them to worry about. my job is to worry p something very different which is, you know, maintaining my integrity, maintaining the big j journalism job that i've been given and pressing forward on the truth. and i feel i've been faithful to that. >> you told "people" magazine

during this turmoil you experienced a lot of hate. that was the word you used. some of that must have been pretty ugly. >> you know, there's no question it's been a difficult year. how much good does it do to sit and wallow in it? not much. i'm not that kind of person. but yes i'm also honest. it's been difficult, it's been dark, i have also had a lot of silver linings, you know, it's brought my husband and me much closer, we were close to begin with, but we have been in the bunker together. >> that's interesting. >> with our three kids. >> you feel like you have this huge storm around you and you were holding on to each other for support to some degree. >> yes. when the you know what hits the fan you figure out acutely what's most important to you and i'm somebody who is always worried about my own mortality, even my father's death at an early age but this put a special point on it, reminding me what a short time we are here for, how howie, and what really matters and the things that matter most to me are in my apartment in new

york city, my husband and my three kids and to a larger extent my friends and my extended family and i have been surrounded by them and their love for the past nine months in an extra special way. >> more with megyn kelly in a moment. as she talks about the pluses and the pitfalls of fame. p?p?h

more now from my conversation with megyn kelly as we turn from the trump uproar to the price of fame.

>> the whole trump controversy, the fallout has undoubtedly made you more famous, you've been on the cover of "vanity fair," cover of variety. >> two of those have been prior to trump. >> to the extent it has raised your profile do you enjoy that kind of limelight? >> no. i don't -- i can't answer that yes in the way you phrased it because certainly it was very exciting to see myself on the cover of "vanity fair," that happened after trump. that's never been offered to me before. i'm sure that was connected to the whole dust up. so that was crazy, you know, it's like i saw myself on a newsstand next to a cover of oprah who is one of my idols and i thought, wow, what a thing, you know? but my goal is getting into news was never to be famous. and in fact there are significant down sides to fame. listen, i'm not going to be a justin bieber, right? i have a great life. >> i was going to ask you because -- and i could ask this about anybody in tv that has

achieved a certain success, fame and money is there a risk that it distances you from the audience? >> i don't think so. i think there is a risk it krups you as a person and that distances you from the audience, but i think my viewers know i'm exactly the same person as i've always been. let me tell you -- i have a book coming out in the fall, in this book i introduce you to my mother, when i get to know linda kelly through this book you will know i will never change. >> a lot of our colleagues in the news business, a lot live in new york and washington travel in certain social circles completely underestimated the trump phenomenon and the way in which he connected with the anger out there among many ordinary americans. >> no question about it. i mean, trump hijacked the republican party and it's been a spectacular spectacle, you know, to behold. i mean, it's really just been amazing. i think what happened this past year is the republican party elders did their level best to bring the voters to heel and

what happened instead was the republican party voters brought the party to heel and said, no more. this time we tell you what we want. and they got their way. they've been heard now, i think that's actually good for the republican party. whether trump can get that ball across the finish line, time will tell. >> some viewers may not know that you were a practicing lawyer, that you quit, that you took a job as a rookie reporter with the abc station in washington and later hired at the fox washington bureau. what possessed you to do that? >> well, i -- you know, smacked head first into the brick wall of unhappiness. >> that wall sends you a wake-up call. >> i realized, oh, man, that is just not as much fun as i thought it would be. to your question earlier about money will change you, that kind of thing, i had plenty of money when i was practicing law and i said, this sucks. i'm not happy. my closest friend at the time was a nurse, she was making 30 grand a year working in boston, she was making no money, but she was happy. we would go, we would have a

couple of 50 cent beers at his local bar and we would have a great time. for me it was in part a wake-up call that all this money and all these raises and all these bonuses and these accumulatccol great reviews i was getting weren't worth it. i wasn't happy. it dawned on me just because you are good at something doesn't mean it makes you happy and i resolve to change my life and in that moment my old friend dr. phil's saying dawned on me which was the only difference between you and someone you envy is you settled for less. and my promise to myself was that i would settle for more, so i did. so i worked to get a different kind of job that i would love and wound up taking a job that paid $17,000 a year, pays a lot more now. >> glad to hear that. >> but i earned that. i do not begrudge myself that because i earned it. i didn't come from a family with money. we went to the town park growing up, we took one vacation which was down to orlando in the family truckster.

so i earned everything i have and i still feel expected to the life that surrounded me when i grew up. >> you're talking to a kid from brooklyn. thanks for being here. >> great to see you, howie. you can catch me go megyn kelly presents, it doesn't just involve trump but other guests like motor vehicle alley douglas on fox tuesday night, 8:00 p.m. eastern. after the break facebook plunged into a crisis as ex employees said the conservative news was routinely suppressed or blacklisted, but does this warrant a federal investigation?

facebook is facing some tough media scrutiny after the texas-sized gizmodoch reported that they are suppressing

conservative news conservatives subjects like scott walker or cpac were bloc listed and news from right-leaning sites like breitbart and news max could not be used unless followed up by the likes of "new york times" or cnn. senator john thune fired off a letter demanding an explanation. joining us now is a commentator in washington. these facebook who have contractors, unnamed as we should stress, said it was common to suppress conservative topics and news. how much does this tarnish the media outlet? >> we had to assume this these were the biggest stories from across the web. you expect your friend's priest to be biased but not from the site itself. however, i'd be very surprised if this the affects how often people log into facebook. they are still going to go there and post pictures of their kids

and dogs. i don't think that's going to change. >> that part may not change. republican senator john thune conducting an inquiry demanding facebook explain its editorial process for the trending topics. if this letter was sent to the "new york times" or cbs or fox news it would probably say get lost so should the senator be involved in this sort of thing? >> probably would. my question is if the government is going to get involved in what facebook, a private company can emphasize on its site, where does it stop? is facebook going to be involved in what we can post on facebook in the allegations really upset people and rightly so. the market is what corrects this issue, not a government inquiry. i would argue that the senator has more important things to attend to than this inquiry. >> what would the government do if it doesn't like what facebook is doing, as you say, a private company? now facebook did while playing defense on this pr debacle release a detailed list of the guidelines used for this sort of thing. you can inject stories, the journalists who were hired, if users create something that

generate issues like black lives matter. you can black list, facebook understands these terms sound awful and say blacklisting really means if a story is a hoax and not connected to something in the real world. no coincidence that mark zuckerberg will meet with a bunch of conservatives including glenn beck. my question is if you're hiring journalists, whether they are trying to be biased or fair or not, isn't it inherently subjective what they think is trending? >> yes. most people even someone like myself in tech assumed that technology is what was driving, what was featured in the trending topics, especially because facebook touts over and over their investment in artificial intelligence, in algorithms, so in some way human involvement makes facebook look less smart and powerful than it was before. if there's any upside it appears robots won't be taking our jobs any time soon. >> that's a relief. a list of ten news sites most influential, fox news is on there. most of them "usa today," "new

york post," cnn, nbc, yahoo and so forth, but here we go. zuckerberg openly supports president obama on immigration. he gave a speech blatantly criticizing donald trump. tom stocky who runs the trending topics business gave hillary clinton the maximum donation. does facebook have an appearance problem here? >> of course it has an appearance problem. it wouldn't surprise me if they made a high level, you know, conservative hire and then in the coming months. it's also possible that the folks in the newsroom at facebook didn't even realize that this was a problem. they are maybe surrounded by friends and colleagues who just think the way that they do. >> out there on the left coast. >> yeah. and so, you know, it might not have realized it's a problem. they certainly do now and they are going to fix it. >> well, whether they fix it remains to be seen. shana glenzer, good to see you. >> why woody allen had a magazine barred from his event at the cannes film festival and what might be the most funny "new york times" correction ever.

the hollywood reporter was barred from an event with woody allen at the cannes film festival. the magazine's offense, running a column by the director's estranged son, ronan pharaoh, the former msnbc host and ripped the media for not pressing woody allen about sexual abuse allegations from decades ago involving his sister who was 7 years old at the time. farrow admits he succumbed from pressure not to pursue allegations about powerful figures. he said he worked hard to distance himself from his painful family history and now they are saying the media are protecting woody allen the way they protected bill cosby but the case with bill cosby and grown women is very different. he said he never read the essay because he never reads anything

about himself. his publicist bragged about pannishing the hollywood reporter. everyone makes mistakes and newspapers are pretty good about correcting them but in fixing a minor error in a story about muslim leaders battling isis the "new york times" created a classic because of an editing error, an article on monday about a battle being fought from a thee ledge call battle by muslims ims and scholar against the islamic state said the snap chat handle used by one of the muslim leaders speaking out. it's not suhaib webb, not pimpin4paradise 786. i bet they wish that message would disappear. i'm howard kurtz. let me know what we're thinking on facebook. so busy with the campaign we want to get back to putting your tweets on the end of the show. check out our facebook page. we post a lot of original

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