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on the buzz beater this sunday, the media on high alert grappling with the horrifying ambush of police officers in dallas. sparking a fierce racially charged debate. >> once again, we're waking up to a shock, 11 officers shot in dallas. five of them have been killed. >> we're bringing you grim news this morning, that horrifying scene in dallas overnight. the deadliest attack on law enforcement since 9/11. >> some commentators pleading for a civil dialog and sympathy for both sides. >> this is the act of an awful human being who did something terrible at the same time we saw peaceful protests going on there. what i don't want us to do, this moment is overly politicized.
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let's talk about the mix between race and police. silence is a sense to every cop hater, every race baiter. >> others pointing fingers at police, black activists, at president obama, at donald trump. >> the president come out and imply that somehow the police are in some way the bad guys, this puts their lives at risk. >> barack obama's speech helped dispel this. people don't like to hear this. we're not having an honest conversation about why this type of thing is occurring because everyone on the left wants to look at this through theeth know centric and racist eyes of black crime, i believe. >> you have african-american families worried that when they walk out the door, they might not be, might be the last time they take their last breath, for whatever reason. on top of that, you have an environment that's heightened by the rhetoric of this political season. >> people are talking about building walls.
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folks are talking owe spewing hate in the name of political ambition. >> is the press calming or inflaming the situation? a partisan media slug-fest as hillary clinton evades indictment but gets a public scolding from james comey. some pundits are slamming the fbi director. plus, donald trump slashing his number of tv interviews and denouncing unfair coverage especially on cnn. >> these are sick people. they're bad people. they're bad people. what you do is don't watch cnn anymore. >> i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ ♪ >> the protests in dallas were proceeding peacefully when a black army veteran who proclaimed he wanted to kill white police officers started doing that. the demonstrations taking place
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across the country thursday night were in response to two earlier tragedies. the first, the fatal police shooting of alton sterling, a black man selling cds. it was captured on video and causing a media outcry. >> the new and chilling video, the deadly police shooting, the justice department on the case. officers wrestling with a man on the ground. then firing multiple times. tonight, his 50-year-old son breaking down. >> that was followed a day later by another fatal police shooting in minnesota where a black resident named philando castile was killed during a traffic stop while a horrifying video was shot by his girlfriend in the car and live streamed on facebook. >> it's happened again. >> a second time in two days. a black man is shot dead by the police and, again, there is video evidence. >> good evening. for a second day in a row, we've been confronted by graphic images of a man dying after
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being shot by police under questionable circumstances. >> joining us now to analyze the coverage of these awful events, heidi przybyla, senior political editor for usa today. keli goff, host of the political party. lisa boothe columnist for the republican examiner and molly ball, political reporter for the atlantic. keli goff, do you see a shift in tone, a lowering of the temperature in the way the media are covering both the massacre in dallas and these two fatal police shootings? >> in a word, yes. this has been an incredibly tragic week, howard. but if there's any sort of silver lining, it's that the media coverage has been much more responsible than it has the previous incidents. that's across the board. for instance, you saw in terms of conservative media, you saw cam edward, the host of nra radio saying why isn't there more outrage about the fact that philando castile was a licensed gun owner. he's credited with actually pushing the nra to talk about
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that. hot air condemned the air of alton. there was another police shooting that took place in new york. the reason that hasn't gotten as much coverage is because the person involved in that shooting is alleged to have -- for that reason, it wasn't lumped into the coverage of castile and sterling. >> heidi, on the other hand, we had the new york post morning after dallas. civil war. put that up and we also is had a report, headline on the drudge report, civil war, black lives kill. so some of this has been pretty inflammatory stuff. >> that is why it got so much attention. because to kelli's point there were relatively few headlines like this. for the most part, i agree the media gave a pretty sober assessment in the aftermath of this. i'm going to do something unusual and credit in part the politicians. on which day do you see paul ryan, hillary clinton and donald trump give a similar response to
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this. i think that the media -- i tell you what we need more of. i saw on this network actually, greta van susteren paying proper tribute to the officers and focusing on the egregious nature of this and reading a statement from black lives matter and trying to make the point that condemnation, whether black lives matter, protests or condemning all police or partisan sensationalizing black lives matter is exactly the kind of intolerance that has gotten us to this place. i was heartened to see newscasters focus on both things. >> we have a whole lot of media finger pointing. we played a little bit of that. my sense is that keli, there seems to be less of that this time. >> i sincerely hope that's the case. i think what we've seen and why you see public polling and only 6% of the public has full confidence in the media. that's because we see in individuals in the media service
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propaganda as opposed to the truth tellers they're supposed to be. i was watching cnn on state of the union and i saw the chief of police say brown has not rushed to politicizing this. as well as mike rawlings, the mayor there and both calling for peace and bringing communities together, having honest conversations that need to happen. he himself brought up to jake tapper and said, look, the media is complicit in driving this narrative where you've got 1% of police officers who are wrong, who are acting, who think they're above the law and they should be called out for and should let the justice system investigate and take care of the cases. 99% of the police officers are good. they are protecting individuals like they did in dallas, protecting the protesters. he was calling for the stopping of this sensationalizing that's happening in the media. this is an african-american chief of police that most people would agree has done a phenomenal job in leading the
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country and leading dallas. >> we can't make that point often enough about not calling -- of those who engage in brutality. molly ball, is this a brief pause and if this heats up as a campaign issue, will the media default to the usual left, right, police, blacks, narrative? >> well, i think as heidi was saying, it depends on which way the politicians take this. so far, this has been a series of incidents that america has found a lot to agree on about, right? the media is not always good at nuance or consensus rather than finding two sides to an issue. but in this case, you do have political leaders saying we can consider both of these being societal problems side by side without saying one is more important than the other without having to say one side is wrong. the problem with consensus is it obscures debate. there are policy issues that there is disagreement on. i think the hope would be that we can have discussions about
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disagreements on policy without it turning into a really divisive type of conflict. >> that's a great hope. for example on the killing of sterling in louisiana, it is a fact that he had a criminal record. but, again, are you seeing that kind of thing reported with a different -- >> i think this is one of the best examples of how mainstream media has become more responsible, howard. for a long time, there's been two sides in terms of coverage. either as victims or as alleged criminals. you've seen sort of the more white people who are involved with criminal justice system get the brock turner treatment. even after they're convicted of a crime of rape, they're referred to as a stanford swimmer. then african-americans who are victims of a crime, you would see, well, they have a mugshot from that time that they shoplifted when they were 12 years old or you would see a photograph of them making them look menacing or in a hoodie. social media started holding the
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outlets accountable. let me tell you something else we've seen, a more diverse newsroom. it makes a difference in how the stories are covered. we interviewed the first african-american managing he had toer of the post. we had a conversation about changing the face of the news, having a lester holt, having others, it makes it impossible for news rooms to get away with less responsible behavior they were aware of. walter scott's killing in south carolina was a major turning killed. >> he was shot in the back. >> captured on video and it's a standard feature. >> had there been no video -- >> i also think there's a responsibilities of those in the media where there's this broader narrative being driven. one that was called out by the dallas chief of police on state of the union that this oversensationalizing of the facts. the facts are not representative of the narrative being driven. somehow it's open season for police on african-americans and the country.
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or african-american men. that's not representative of the facts. i mean, if you look at the facts, there's more white people in the country killed by cops. cops are more likely to be killed -- >> 12% of the population. >> if you look at crime rates as well. it's not disproportionate. >> in terms of racial profiling, all of the data shows that's not true. in terms of shooting, that argument could be made. in terms of racial profiling, the reason the new jersey case that plays the state police -- >> let me jump in. whatever the statistics are, every person who is killed -- every death is horrifying when somebody is not committing a crime. but my theory here is not the reason more restrained tone. a sick deranged guy who wanted to kill white police officers. he said so openly. in the other two shootings, we don't know all the facts, the videos don't capture everything. it looks like two african-americans who should not
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be dead are dead. should still be alive or whatever the circumstances are. >> right. because, of course, the officers deserve due process, but there's one video you show someone who is clearly resisting arrest but at the same time is pinned to the ground without a weapon in his hand. that brought that into living color. at the same time, you have cops who had nothing to do with that who are slaughtered in cold blood. i have to say, full disclosure a long time ago, my father was a detroit cop. i want to disclose that. i always feel like there -- lisa is right. there has been a one dimensional focus on this since ferguson. and not focusing on what's happening from the perspective of the police officers when the police officers ambushed, it's like a 24-hour news cycle thing and we go back to the main narrative. i do hope that what this does, this video also changes the dialog and the way it's covered by the media. we need to do our job, stay
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focus odd n the facts. do we need more standards. that is a legitimate question. >> next too the lapd police, this wouldn't have happened this week. >> at the same time, is there more violence in some of the minority communities and does that inevitably bring the police into contact with them more. >> for all the encouraging things i'm hearing here, we have political figures, whether on cable news, or twitter, blaming president obama because he's supposedly anti-police, blaming other rit e. rhetoric. it's not like we've moved away from that. i'm wondering houp of that will return umt. >> we're a divided country, polarizing. i think what we see is when the nation feels scarred and injured by incidents like this, there is a desire to come together. to me that's heartening because it has seemed throughout the
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course of this, they've want today hate their neighbors and i think we're feeling a surge of the opposite of that, a surge of people wanting to feel a healing force. we'll see if that lasts. >> i'm glad that the media is seeing now to be part of that on the positive side. but the story is not over obviously. let us know what you think. media buzz@fox news.com. how one man was falsely accused in dallas on twitter and quickly vindicated thanks to twitter. later, hillary clinton escaping criminal charges but being publicly scolded by the head of the fbi. after a long day,
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joining us now is shan app glenzer. this was incredible. the dallas police department used twitter, tweeted a picture of a guy named mark hughes saying this is one of our suspects. help us find him. this was broadcast on television. what happened next? >> right after that tweet or shortly thereafter, another tweet showed mark hughes with a video and a tweet showing him in a crowd. exonerating him. after the shooting. he's talking with others and exonerates him from being a suspect in the situation. so within an hour or so, between these two tweets, he was accused and exonerated. >> that was amazing. mark hughes then spoke to local television stations. let's take a look at that. >> we asked him, said you know what, y'all have my face on the national news. are y'all going to come out and say this man had nothing to do
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with it. >> imagine going through that and being accused like that. >> it showed kind of the promise of twitter that you can get this information out really quickly. but the pitfalls in a situation, even as quickly as he was exx exonerat exonerated. it didn't stop the death threats coming his way. even though the video had surfaced, it was on twitter. he was still on national networks being accused of being a suspect. they're running the initial tweet. >> television was behind the lightning speed of twitter. so the minnesota case, this was the shooting of philando castile in the car during a traffic stop. his girlfriend, diamond reynolds not only used her phone to record the shooting, this was heartbreaking and incredible. but streams it on facebook live. what was the impact of that? >> it was amazing to me she had the presence of mind to stream the situation. just by using her phone, she drew massive attention to the situation all the way up the ranks in law enforcement and government and in a way, it
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leveled the playing field between a regular citizen, regular citizen, and in this situation an aggressive cop in a really tense situation. >> right. she was able to broadcast it herself in a way impossible even two years ago. there's been a lot of inflammatory stuff about dallas and other shootings posted on twitter. give us a couple examples and tell us whether the company should take the tweets down. >> 100,000 tweet sharing -- several read like this. then god said our brothers in dallas sniping pigs. salute them. >> wow. >> joe walsh a former illinois congressman said three dallas cops killed, seven wounded, this is now war, watch out obama, watch out black lives matter punks, real america is coming after you. >> that is inflammatory to say the least. does twitter have a responsibility to take that down or is that infringing on free speech? >> obviously, we don't want to
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infringe on free speech but i think yes, they have a responsibility to take it down. we want to make twitter a more hospitable place. also, not to serve as an additional vehicle for this hate driven speech that incites violence. >> it's hard to draw the line. shana glenzer, great to see you. divide in over the justice department closing its case against hillary clinton. up next, a huge amount of media attention for a high-profile lawsuit involving fox news.
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she's alleging sexual harassment saying that ailes made comments about her physical appearance and once told her that they should have slept together long ago. in a perm statement, ailes said her allegations are false, this is a retaliatory suit for the network's decision not to renew her contract. her low ratings were dragging down the afternoon lineup. when fox did not commence any negotiations to renew her contract, ms. carlson became aware that her career was likely over and conveniently began to pursue a lawsuit. ironically, ailes continued, fox news provided her with more on air opportunities over her tenure than any other employer in the industry for which she thap thanked me in her recent book. this lawsuit will be vigorously defended. carlson's real story generally won the time slot but the lowest rating show on fnc and lost in the key viewing demographic to
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cnn. she makes comments about steve doocy saying he created a hostile work environment by treating her in a condescending way. they gave full confidence with ailes and doocy and say there will be an internal review. in her bapg books back last year -- she thanked him and wrote i'd love to stay at fox. thanks for suggesting a primetime special. ailes in a memo obtained by law news.com that we've confirmed told the top executive that quote, i met with gretchen last night and i think we'll give it another chance picking off the opportunities she had requested. ailes wanted to move the suit to a confidence arbitration. carlson's lawyers say he's trying to force the proceedings into secrecy. carlson herself says in a statement that she took this quote difficult step because "i had to stand up for myself and speak out for all women".
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i understand why the media would jump on such allegations but that's what lawsuits contain. according to nonresources they'll stick to the facts in covering this case. ahead, donald trump's new tv strategy. behind-the-scenes look at why you're seeing much less of the republican nominee. but first, with the fbi not pursuing criminal charges against hillary clinton, some pundits focus on the fbi's damning evidence against her while others attack james comey.
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for many months hillary clinton and her surrogates largely dismissed the scandal over her private e-mail server as a little more than a media obsession. the press faced a different challenge when fbi director james comey decided against seeking criminal charges but publicly scolded her for mishandling classified information. many news sources framed it
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differently. >> a year-long fbi investigation into hillary clinton's server scandal is over. ending with a devastating account of how the former secretary of state has systematically misled the american people for 16 months about almost every facet of the scandal. >> hillary clinton had a big win today. in the sense that this was a major cloud hanging over her head, heading into her convention and trying to launch the fall campaign. >> look, she wasn't indicted today but she was convicted. director comey convicted her of lying about not receiving or sending classified markings. >> the good news for hillary clinton is that the justice professional will not disagree with comey, the fact is she wasn't indicted. that's the bottom line legally. >> even so on msnbc they were con trating the condemnation with hillary's history of denial. >> opted for convenience, use my personal e-mail account which was allowed. >> they were extremely careless
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in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. >> i thought it would be easier to carry just one device. >> she also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read ee maim. >> we went through a thorough process to identify all of thigh work-related e-mails. >> lawyers doing the sorting for secretary clinton in 2014 do not individually read the content of all of her e-mails. >> what do you think about the waisome news organizations talked about the rap and what the fbi director said in his scathing comments. >> i'm going to reprimand tv here. i think that the major newspapers actually did appropriately after comey's statement express what that was. it was pretty damning. a lot of weight. >> a lot of weight to it. tv seemed to break along more part son lines. at fox, it was top of the broadcast. at msnbc, it was pushed on in
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the broadcast and fax did this immediate analysis of how this is similar to other cases citing this naval reservist. but then it was reverse after comey's testimony where a lot of the talking points were directly addressed that initial murrah was a different set of facts. in fairness, both news organizations should give proper coverage of both the statement and the follow-up in terms of him explaining why he came to that conclusion. >> i think the right leading emphasized that james comey knocked down much of what hillary clinton has been saying for more than a year. at the same time, i was watching msnbc that day and by the middle of the day, many programs weren't even leading with comey or the fbi. they were leading with the fact that president obama was campaigning with hillary clinton and got to the stuff later. >> or given a free pass because they were not suggesting criminal charges even though what the fbi director said the only reason she's not being charged is there was no
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precedent that had been set. he clearly indicted her on mishandling classified information. i think that's troubling. it's the same thing after the benghazi committee when she found out she did lie about the narrative about the obama administration and she was driving about the what happened with the paris attacks in the beginnings. they said it was a protest to a video as opposed to a coordinated attack. we see the media give her a free pass. >> even in the network newscast, they were not easy on hillary clinton. there was a lot of focus at least in those outlets on comey's scathing remarks. >> i said that nuance is hard for the immediate yachlt you saw more responsible cats accounts of this had to acknowledge it was a good news, bad news story. it was better if she was indicted. >> we agree on that. >> being the active fbi investigation chapter of the
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scandal. the story is not over. absolutely, it revealed a lot of very damning things about hillary clinton's conduct and contradicted a lot of her statements. i think that was acknowledged in the more balanced coverage of this. >> hillary clinton didn't talk to the media about this for several days and then after the heartbreaking day in dallas, she did a short five-minute interviews with cnn, msnbc and abc about the dallas ambush. each one got a couple of questions in about the e-mail investigation. here she is with wolf blitzer on cnn. >> do you acknowledge you were extremely careless? >> well, i think that director clarified that comment to some extent. pointing out that some of what had been thought to be classified apparently was not. >> didn't change his basic view of her. carelessness. you cover hillary clinton. should the media insist that she
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hold a full-blown news conference and address this extraordinary event where the presumptive democratic nominee was lectured by the head of the fbi. >> if there was ever a more compelling set of circumstances for hillary clinton to hold a news conference, it was this event. it didn't happen. a lot of people have -- this is prompting people to uncover why this is. she has a personal hangup dating back to 20 years when she held a news conference and tried to clear up whitewater which never led to charges. but to me, the more troubling explanation is that she's personally not a good format for her. that is not acceptable and i do worry as a member of the media who has been through administrations about it. frankly, it started under the bush administration in terms of less and less media access. it got way worse from what i understand under obama. and now absolutely, you bet, this is going to set a precedents for how -- if she gets into the white house how she deals with the media. >> let me ask you this, lisa.
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some conservative commentators beat up on james comey, the guy the deputy -- rock solid reputation as a prosecutor. because he didn't issue an indictment. >> i think it's frustrating to look at we know and you have to respect the rule of law and his investigation, the fbi's investigation. i think it's frustrating to republicans is the unequal treatment in the media. take for example, donald trump issued a statement after the dallas shootings, i think it was over 400 words, multiple paragraph statement. daily beast, drew, one word. it was a very measured statement. i think it was more presidential than what we saw from president obama or even attorney general lynch. they took out one word and put it in the same category as a right wing host that equated the black lives matter movement to the kkk. we look at the gravitas with the hillary e-mail server and
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scandal and there's a general point that they're missing the national security implication. >> donald trump said that james comey is part of a rigged system. he went after the fbi director. he said that hillary clinton tried to bribe loretta lynch. courting democrats close to her as saying maybe she considered keeping lynch as attorney general if she wins the election. what did you make of the coverage of that? >> i think donald trump also spent a couple of seconds going after hillary in substantive terms on this issue and then said, i'm bored of criticizing hillary clinton. let's all agree that she's crooked. for a lot of republicans that was shocking that he would not make this argument in a really clear way that might win over a lot of voters who have been troubled by the trust issues around hillary. i think a lot of republicans who want donald trump to be a better candidate are frustrated that he's not making a more articulate case >> there was a rally where he
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read more extensively from hillary clinton's comments. but he also was taking on loretta lynch and james comey. molly ball, heidi przybyla. >> has it been constructive or polarizing? we'll continue this conversation later. the inside story on why you're seeing far less donald trump in television interviews.
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no accident the fatal police shooting of sterling in minnow owe it was filmed by a group called stop the killing. the fatal shooting -- police shooting of philando castile in minnesota, this time it was his girlfriend in the car who captured it on video. >> what would have happened if diamond reynolds hadn't broadcast live on facebook? >> if we had told our story, if she had not done that, nobody would have believed us. >> joining us to talk about this. guy benson and fox news contributor and keli goff of the daily beast. do you see a downside of a group that tries to capture on video the potential confrontations between police and minority members? >> i on balance, i think it's a good thing. this is accountability and it's sunlight. i'm an advocate. i think it's reasonable. body cameras are a good idea for
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police for these types of things to be adjudicated and the facts to come out. it's not a common practice across the country, i can understand why people want video evidence, especially if it comes down to he said or he or she said. >> your thoughts on this, keli. >> the sterling case in louisiana showed us the limits of body cameras. allegedly, they became dislodged during the tussle. that's what's reported. i think, yes, social media and the media video changed the game plan. the walter scotto physicianly changed the game because it contradicted the officer's version of events. the groundbreaking cover of this time it's murder, had black lives matter as the cover. because of that, now because of videos, completely changed the conversation. made it easier to hold. journalistic. higher accountability in terms of coverage. >> when white police officers in this amount of cases eye sen
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essentials choking. officers trigger happy or racist. >> yeah. i mean you definitely see that. that's why you see politician toss their credit. it's been a weird week where the politicians across the board have mostly behaved well and conducted themselves well saying let's not paint with an overly broad-brush when there's so much heightened sensitivity. of course the vast, vast, majority of police officers never behave this way. don't do anything that rises to this level of misconduct. which doesn't take away sometimes they do and need to be held accountable. it doesn't mean there's a war by police on black people that is so pervasive. it's a huge societal problem. >> the cruel irony in dallas is that these officers were protecting the right of the protesters to free speech and
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demonstrate against them. but when some black activists say pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon, do people in the black community and journalists in the black community need to condemn that as well? we don't hear much of that. >> i looked at the drudge headline and i thought -- black lives kill. here we have a former congressman who happens to be white, joe walsh who tweeted. i doubt they would run a headline that say congress kills. we need to own our responsibility in terms of how we're covering all of this and do our part to tell stories responsibly instead of heightening rhetoric and heightening the temperature. i think that removing that direction, seeing newt gingrich get so much coverage for his statement saying none of us will understand what it's like to be black in america. snoop dogg is a rapper and the -- standing shoulder to shoulder with the lapd. i really do think it holds, howard, that we in media get the message that we're all in this country together and we all have
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a responsibility to do our part and see america be as great as it can be. >> the media, are they finally becoming more enlightened about the racial sensitivities and violence on both sides? >> it seems so, yes and i certainly hope so. >> matt lewis, in the digital age, he calls this a confession. he said police brutality it's a pervasive problem going on for generations. do you think white journalists are more sensitive to this, perhaps in the past to dismiss this as complaining about white cops. >> in a word, yes. video makes it impossible to ignore the problem. you know what else, howard, our country is more diverse. there's growing demographics. i have had white friends come to me and talk about being racially profiled. our culture starts to embrace each other. >> diversity in the media is a great point. keli goff and guy benson. thanks soefrp. the scoop on why donald
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effectively boycotting much of the television establishment here. he stopped appearing and calling into the network morning shows for now. what he has done is 20 aspe appearances. my sources say not even telling him about all of the interview requests. trump told me yesterday he thinks much of the coverage has
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been unfair and he makes a final request. we are back now. what does donald trump gain or lose without giving up a big chunk of this television platform? >> just know this is traditionally a time when candidates make themselves less accessible than they were in the primaries. trump has new management in town. the pros are in going off script at this time versus the primary, his base agreed with him on it. now you're seeing him go off script going on and on about the star of david tweet. he was angry. he thought it was taken out of context they a. they are afraid it will step on his message. >> when it come to saying saddam
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w was a bad guy, he believes that the media are seizing these things and blowing them up and he has to spend time correcting them. >> and we'll find out who is right. there are algs cons to this. any time the networks could decide not to give him that time to make the rebuttals. and we all know he is at a fundraising disadvantage. clinton is about to nail him in terms of negative advertising. >> yes. he isn't spending money on advertising. he is getting the news on the televisions. his staff says he is doing more local media, fine. i think whether he wanders off or not this is what they love about him rather than him reading that. >> yes.
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that's balance you have to strike. more and more of this political analysis is this is going to depend on base turnout. you do run the risk of depressing your base if you don't let trump be trump. trump is his own force of personality. at any time he could decide to change this approach. >> it is risky. >> yes. >> eight days to cleveland. v.p. process. bob corker have met with hichlt do you hi the press is addressing this as being chaotic? >> there are always names presented and names that are scratched off. this is the greatest washington parlor game that we played. let me share with you all the truth. this is also the area where the media is the most uninformed. these are the most tightly held decisions that are made. the media is assuming because there is so much between
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star, which is a star, not the star of david. when they told me the star of david i said you have got to be kidding. how sick are they in all weekend long cnn, dishonest, they say cnn won't talk about anything but the star. i have to say, fox has toughened me but at least they are fair. they are tough but they are fair. no body watches msnbc so i can't tell you. >> and trump did tell me that the washington post has been fairer to him lately. 15,000 journalists head to the convention. that's it for this edition. we posted a lot of original content on our facebook page. shout at me on twitter.
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we will be at the republican convention. we'll be there next send. ladies and gentlemen, see you then from cleveland. a time for reflection in a week of turmoil and anguish. we are looking to honor the five lives lost in a cold and calculated attack on the city's finest. welcome to a brand new hour. >> hello everyone. dallas grieves. tensions are on the ride. demonstrations continued over philando castile and sterling