foods go way up. put your half-eaten cracker into an onion dip twice, it's enough to spread disease. >> it's gross. thanks for watching. >> don't double-dip. see you next week. the mainstream media savaging donald trump, portraying his campaign as collapsing and the republican party in revolt. >> i am told that senior officials at the party are actively exploring what would happen if trump dropped out, how to replace him on the ballot. >> his campaign seems to be deploding. >> trump's only chance at winning the presidency is to stay on message. america is in decline and he can fix it. if he fights everyone who comes after him, he'll lose. >> some questioning whether trump is crazy. >> seems like a lot of people

around him, even in his managerial inner circle are not only wondering about his insanity but his ability to control himself. >> we have republicans saying again, privately, mentally -- like, have you ever seen him like this before? >> i've known him for a decade. i've never seen him act like this before. it's unhinged. >> republican nominees fighting back and denouncing media dishonesty. >> we're going to punch through the media. we have to. "the new york times" is totally dishonest, totally dishonest. washington post has been better lately but not good. and cnn -- boy, cnn -- it's like all trump all the time. all trump all the time. you walk out of an interview and say, that was a good interview and then you get killed for the rest of the weekend. >> was the coverage unfair or cover his missteps and a

republican rebellion? hillary clinton holds her first press conference this year. plus, what the blank is going on with pundits using language on the air. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." what could easily be called the worst week of the campaign for trump. >> let me refocus you back on this khan situation because the press is running wild with it. in hindsight, wouldn't it have been smarter for your campaign just to pretty much ignore him? >> well, you know, i was watching television. i said, isn't that nice, isn't that nice and all of a sudden i was viciously attacked on the stage of the democratic national

convention by mr. khan and i responded to that vicious attack. >> president obama quickly adding his voice to the chorus. >> does it make you question his fitness to be president? >> yes. i think the republican nominee is unfit. to serve as president. >> newt gingrich blamed part of the problem on media bias but also on his friend. >> he has not transitioned to being the potential president of the united states which is a much tougher league. i think what he's done is very self-destructive. >> gingrich and rudy giuliani and others would stage an intervention to push trump to be more disciplined. campaign chairman paul manafort denied that, accusing some of saying untrue things but the barrage continues.

>> this is the behavior of an erratic dictator that the party is realizing they cannot appease and should not appease. >> stop saying done stuff, whether he's talking about nukes or khan. stop saying dumb things. >> kristal ball and a.b. stoddard. molly, hit by a titanic tidal wave. >> it's certainly true that donald trump has had a horrible week of campaigning and that's mostly self-inflicted. at the same time, the media is

going way overboard and they are losing any semblance of objectivity. it's a major talking point of the hillary clinton campaign to present donald trump as unhinged and whatnot. they shouldn't just be going along with that. >> are you saying that the mainstream media are echoing hillary clinton's talking point or they happen to share the same opinion of the trump candidacy? >> again, donald trump shouldn't be giving them so much ammunition. >> okay. so he's made some mistakes and slipping in the polls and the press likes to pounce on that. but is some of this flat-out media bias? >> i mean -- okay. some of these stories were silly, like the baby story is silly. >> what, that he threw a baby out of his rally. >> i had trouble fitting on a single sheet of paper the list of really out there offensive things that he did that would have tanked the campaign of mitt romney. you start with the gold star

family and then you go on to him seemingly not to realize that putin had gone in too crimea, so that dangerous ignorance. then he's not able to name a single female other than his daughter that he would consider putting in cabinet and releasing a list of economic cabinet of all white men. that's not even mentioning the press conference that he gave where he would not endorse kelly ayotte or john mccain and he pauses five times to stare at his own mug on the television screen. it's nuts. >> a.b.? >> this is a completely unprecedented week. >> how much of this tsunami by the press is justified, in your opinion? >> well, i think if you put the polls aside and look at what kristal has listed, shoot

himself in the foot. this is one of the most epic meltdowns in american political history in just the last seven days. he could have been talking about 1% growth reported that last friday. does he know that putin is in -- he picked a fight with paul ryan. all of this was totally donald trump doing it to himself and you know it's deliberate to dominate the news cycle. the campaign revealed that's what he was going to do. he's still doing it. he's going to work in a general election. >> i think in the primaries it helped him but it's not just liberal media, molly hemmingway. david brooks of the "new york times" inflated self-esteems, aggression, charles krauthammer,

beyond narcissism, hunger for approval and praise. when people on the right are saying this, how much does it hurt trump? >> the histrionics of it all. we've just come out of the democratic convention. he's had some major slip-ups. there's an understandable hillary bounce there. at the same time, i'm not sure that the electorate has shown itself to be committed to one candidate or another. anything could change this race and the way the media is presenting this is that it's completely over and no chance for recovery of donald trump, that's what i'm saying about going too far. they need to keep their emotions in check. they shouldn't be surprised that this is happening even. >> let me jump in. washington post, liberal columnist eugene robinson writing that he's convinced that trump is flat out crazy. other people are echoing this or questioning it. with the exception of krauthammer, when did journalists become psychiatrists? even you will say this is over the top, right? >> i think when you're going into what people's mental state

is, when you have a week like this one, it becomes difficult to explain his erratic behavior through any other lens and that's why, you know, i think actually -- >> he's not a polished politician. some people like that. >> okay. he's been on the stage for a while now. and what's different is that these things, whereas in the primaries, as you said, the comments seemed to help them at times. now you're seeing a very different dynamic f you look at the polls, we should not be, at this point if the race, it looks like a ten-point race and, yes, there's a convention bump, yes, all of that. but we shouldn't be at a place given people partisan preferences where you actually could have that kind of a landslide which is why i say we don't have the language or the urgency in the media because we run around with our hair on fire all the time to communicate just how unprecedented and tumultuous this week was for his campaign. not to say he can't wib. he still can. it was that wild of a week. >> they are riding off the

campaign based on polls that go up and down and at the same time, you mentioned his fights within the party. so he did on friday night endorse paul ryan, john mccain. with all of the enthusiasm of endorsing the zika virus. why is that such a big media issue? >> it's a big deal to republicans. that's why. what was the final straw? he refused to show any kind of empathy or respect to a gold star family. he made a joke about receiving a purple heart, didn't show that the reverence for the purple heart aware. what sent the chairman of the rnc over the top? it's about him shooting republicans and doing the opposite of unifying the party. that's why it gets covered. >> let's not forget that wisconsin is a state that he thinks he can win and that given the fact that we're taking colorado and virginia off the map, he's going to need to win.

>> none of these guys endorsed him. >> there's nothing different about what donald trump is doing here and it plays in to what people like about him, running against the republican establishment is part of his larger goal of running against the establishment in general. but speaking to the mental illness issue, too, what i don't like is that it applies so unevenly. you have on the other side of the aisle a candidate who has repeatedly told people that the big takeaway from her scandal with her e-mails is that she didn't lie. then she says she may have short-circuited. >> let me use our remaining time to talk about melania trump and what exactly was on her visa in 1995 when she was here working as a model. she became a naturalized american citizen. politico says there are these questions. why is this a big story? >> because trump's made immigration a big story. >> right. there's no evidence that i have seen that says that melania

trump -- maybe she shouldn't have worked when she was on a temporary visa that she did not become an american citizen legally. >> it appears that she worked for free and therefore that wasn't illegal. i think that she'll be exonerated by the facts that she didn't do anything wrong. is it fair to find out that that's a primary issue in the trump campaign? absolutely. the children shouldn't be with them but the wives always are. >> it's about donald trump spewing hate about foreigners. this grew out of nude photos from melania's modeling days. what do you make of those photos and the coverage surrounding it? >> i agree with a.b., that is totally fair game about her immigration status but i was outraged to see the publishing of these photos? what does it have to do with anything? and it's another attempt to

undermine a woman that she's a sexual human being. that doesn't say anything about what kind of a first lady you wou would be. >> and this is a common tactic. not a lot of outlets picked up and ran with that story. >> the new york pictures were all over the internet. let me here what you think. howard kurtz. when we come back, katrina pierson responds about the negative talk surrounding the donald trump campaign. when this busy family...

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joining us now from dallas to a week of hashly negatively press is christina you just heard my panelist saying that some of this is justified because of his remarks about the kahn family and not endorsing paul ryan. you can see some of this is because of missteps on your candidate's part? >> well, what i would concede is this is to be also expected after the convention, howie. this is not new in the last few cycles we've seen the democrats and the media take the opportunity for the first few weeks post-convention, they did it to john mccain and mitt

romney, and this is no different except we have a candidate that is going to fight back. and there were opportunities where we could have done a little bit better this week but at the same time we expect that, too. we are on the campaign trail working hard every day trying to get our message out there and sometimes it's not going to be perfect 24 hours. i will tell you this. the media is not even trying to hide it at this point. not just the wikileaks campaign working directly with them but even in an l.a. times op-ed where he asked the question, why have the rules of journalist been rewritten? it's very obvious now and the left is not even trying to hide it. >> let me play for you a little bit of donald trump at a rally yesterday in new hampshire. and here's what he said about hillary clinton. >> she is a totally unhinged person. she's unbalanced. all you have to do is watch her, see her, read about her.

>> so i've been arguing that it's unfair to call trump crazy, some of the pundits saying he's unbalanced, unhinged. that's a word almost that joe scarborough used. but if your candidate is using that word about hillary clinton, it doesn't seem like quite the outrage that it otherwise might be. >> i think the differences between the two campaigns rather than the media helping the campaign, mr. trump has talked about some of the instances that the secret service has talked about that they have experienced about hillary clinton coming off the hinges, being enraged, hearing things break in the white house. these are things that have actually happened and have been reported by the secret service. the stories coming up about mr. trump is just fake. it's the same thing they did to ronald reagan saying that he's unhinged and couldn't be trusted with the nuclear codes. he won by a landslide. we cannot pretend that donald

trump has not been out in the public eye for nearly four decades and all of a sudden he's unhinged and crazy and racist. that's not how it works. people know that. >> i'm glad that you conceded that everything did not go perfectly, which happens in presidential campaigns. to the extent that you think the media is piling on in a very unfair way, is it because they don't like trump personally, they don't want hillary to win or some deep-seeded bias, in your view? >> there's absolutely a deep-seeded bias that's been going on for quite some time. there's an article identifying 84 minutes on cnn's morning program contributed to the controversy, the especially pio only 27 seconds to the hostage payment to iroan. they are not even trying to hide it anymore. >> there's been a lot of stuff

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eric erickson, a blogger, really went off on donald trump. he said, donald trump wants to turn nato to a shakedown scheme and you people are cheering him on. you should be ashamed of the fact that your cult leader who claims to have been personally affected by 9/11, you disgust me in cheering him on. erickson later apologized saying i should not have written what i wrote in the way i wrote it. it was in anger.

now for the trash talk on the air which used to be very different from what some of us said privately. sure, people sometimes make mistake, make an f-bomb and apologize. it's very different when journalists and commentators deliberately use foul language. it's happened on the show. it's a way of being a bad boy or bad girl. sometimes kids are watching, you know, and it's been happening lately in connection with, yes, donald trump. liz mayer is a republican strategist, a pr person and formed a #nevertrumpmovement during the primaries. she was in recent trouble when she said this -- >> have you lost any hope that the gop can be more traditional or at least more displained? >> i lost all hope of that probably seven, eight months ago now, quite candidly. his message is being a loud mouth [ bleep ]. >> that's right. she used a nickname for a guy

named richard. she tweeted, yes, i just said blank live on cnn. sorry. not sorry. but she was a guest cnn host fareed zakaria talking about lack of foreign policy knowledge when he said this. >> there is a term for this kind of thing. this is a [ bleep ] artist and sometimes it's amusing and entertaining. >> not just b.s. but the full word. fareed usually makes high-toned arguments. that was beneath him. i have no problem with cursing up a storm but there's a time and a place but television news is not the place. isn't it interesting that the usual standards are suddenly being ignored when it comes to donald trump? the heck with that. and on "mediabuzz," hillary clinton holds her first press conference in 240 days and it wasn't actually a grilling. but first, two presidential campaign advisers on why trump's style is relentlessly negative.

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this is the complaint about donald trump not staying on message dominating the headlines. his past feud with megyn kelly included. >> just like hillary's commercials, they are so false. they are so false. like she's got the one with blood coming out of her eyes and i meant her nose or her ears, or her mouth. but these people are perverted. unbelievable. >> joining us now, barry, former senior adviser to the trump campaign who managed ben carson's campaign and sarah flores in carly fiorina's presidential campaign. after all of the criticism,

trump goes to this rally and is it fair for the press to say this is a candidate who has trouble staying on message? >> certainly not seen a lot of discipline in the last seven or ten days, right? >> when you were advising the campaign, did you suggest that the campaign be more focused as you go and talk about a, b, c? >> i think these rallies are -- if it's 30 minutes of top of the heads thinking, they are less useful. they should have a message. they should have a focus. >> but sarah, maybe this whole set of on-message and talk about the old-fashion approach favored by the press, discipline candidates. maybe it doesn't reflect trump's personality and his personality is what got him to where he is now. >> not only that, it's favored by the press. they would complain that both candidates were so on message and technically behind the scenes to aides like why can't

they say something new and that's when you get them covering, my bag didn't come off the bus in time and snark messages to reporters. on the one hand, reporters love this and on the other happened, they love reporting how bad it is. >> i think you nailed it. does it matter right now how most of the media are pounding trump like we have shown and even calling his sanity into question or do a lot of people dismiss that because they don't love the press either? >> if you're traveling with the campaign, both campaigns, t not of a sudden think they are horribly biased and don't listen to them. that's happening across america. >> but some of this is also, as i mentioned earlier, coming from the right. you have big name commentators, the national review and weekly standard totally opposed to donald trump during the primaries and charles krauthammer, bill kristol. does that criticism hurt the

republican candidate and undercut the notion that this is all liberal media bias? >> yes and no. there's obviously people within trump's base where they like him more. >> because they don't feel that such columnists true conservatives in the way that they think they are sort of elitists? >> there's intellectual thing that called the globalization and all of the stuff that trump complains about. on the other hand, there's absolutely a percentage of the republican party that does read them, that does listen to what george will has to say and they say, well, if they think he's unhinged, maybe they know something, a lot more. that being said, you look at the rally where they are talking about megyn kelly and there's a guy going, yeah. that's trump's base. so it's clearly not affecting him as much as the mainstream media might like it to. >> he's always running at the press and also needs to expand his base in a general election

beyond those -- everybody hates the media but those who really despise the media. >> i disagree with you a little bit. it's all about turning up, right. we have two of the world's most unpopular people, most well-known people running against each other. no amount of advertising i think is going to change much nor is much coverage. these people are -- it's baked in. now, trump, i think, if you look at these rallies, the amazing thing to me as a tactician, they get 20,000 people to come while hillary's getting 50 people in cleveland. >> yes. >> it's phenomenal. so if trump is in a fight with john mccain or paul ryan who both of him he reluctantly endorsed and wasn't quite there yet, do they care about that? >> they are with him, actually. washington has a 7% approval rating for a reason, right? it stinks and they are going to get an applause line.

>> there was a great debate when she went down to the polls and when she's running for vp she can't win. how hard is it to change the media narrative and how hard, therefore, is it for donald trump to change the wrap that the press has on him right now? >> it's hard to change the media narrative by just going to media to try to change it. on the other hand -- and i'm not the first person to say this, his polls will go back up. this isn't going to be just a slow and steady slide down. they are going to go back up and anything the media loves is a comeback story. >> so this race has always tightened. people will say, uh-huh, he's turned the corner. >> the prelims, to borrow an olympic term, we're not even at the main stage yet. >> the press is so fickle. sarah, barry, thank you very much. great to see you here. ahead on "mediabuzz," frank luntz and trump's slippage in

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of this with reporters across the country. [ applause ] especially those news organizations that travel the country with you everywhere you go. >> for the most part, the journalist did not exactly grill the democratic nominee. >> most meaningful conversation you've had with an african-american friend. >> the democratic party, does your campaign take latino voters seriously or are you taking them for granted that they will vote democrat? >> i take them seriously because i've had the great privilege of working for many years with latino leaders, activists, business men and women. >> we're back with the panel, krystal ball. seriously, do you take latino voters seriously? >> there are a few softballs in there but also tough questions. she was asked about her statements on james comey and her e-mails and whether what she

said was truthful and she also got questions about the obama legacy, some latinos have called him the deporter in chief so she got tough questions there. that's a backdrop about whether the democratic party takes latinos seriously. >> in my view, there were a couple of tough questions but also questions like you've accused donald trump of using sexist and racist languages. mike morell came out and said that donald trump was unfit. what do you make of that? >> one of the most awful things about this press conference is that the journalists themselves were applauding her. they were clapping. that is not appropriate behavior. >> this was a conference of black journalist associations saying most of the people were not reporters, but i take your point, i was not there. >> the questions themselves were way too easy. when you're dealing with hillary clinton, you don't present a question that it's easy for her to evade answering it.

and i don't think those questions were tough at all. it was easy to give her basic response where she doesn't -- she's not confronted with the particulars of the way that she has lied about various scandals. >> maybe it's enough for her to get herself in some trouble. >> the backdrop here is that last sunday on fox news sunday, chris wallace pressed hillary clinton about the e-mail scandal because she's given so few interviews, it was the first time we've been able to interview her and she said that james comey said that her answers were truthful and this came up at friday's presser. listen to what she said. >> i may have short-circuited and for that i will try to clarify because i think chris wallace and i were probably talking past each other. >> what does she mean "short-circuited?" what does that mean? >> i don't know. >> everyone should listen to her answer and i want to give

kristen welker credit for answering her tough questions and for giving her a follow-up. you saw her barf out an evasive answer which was intentionally confusing and she said that she short-circuited. she has ways of making up jargon. when she was being investigated for a potential crime by the fbi, she called it security review. they don't do security reviews. >> when you say barf out -- >> people have to read the transcript of her answer. it was absolutely unbelievable. she continues to tell the same false statement. five of her e-mails she continues to use and it's just unbelievable at this stage that she's still doing that. >> what is surprising, legally at least, this case is over. the fbi has decided not to pursue criminal charges and hillary clinton can't help herself but try to relitigate, yes, but the fbi says i didn't do anything illegal when in fact comey said that she was careless. >> one of the things she keeps

saying is that she didn't lie in her private fbi conversation. that's not the only time she spoke about it. she testified in congress and james comey said if they wanted him to look into the falsehoods of her statements there, they would do that. >> that's a fair point. what about hillary clinton still stepping in this and now we have this new short verb. >> there were a lot of fact checks that found that she was not accurate. she has not, from the beginning, been able to deal with this issue head-on, acknowledge the mistakes that she made and move forward. so now she's stuck in this clintonian legalistic comments and it doesn't ring well. when you have the week that trump had, it doesn't break through. maybe it should. >> great to see you all.

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it's no secret donald trump has been slipping in the polls this past week but is the media making too much of that? frank luntz is joining me. is the press going too far saying in august donald trump is in real trouble? >> absolutely. it's a simple press test. ask someone of your 20 closest friends or associates, colleagues how many of them are voting for donald trump? when you do this in a state like missouri, iowa, florida, ohio, it's about eight, ten, maybe 12. when you ask a journalist, as i have done in the past week, it's maybe one or two. even i as a sometime republican pollster, it's only three or four people. >> you're suggesting there's a bubble here and we have the impression trump is imploding because most of the people that

we talk to or read or follow on twitter saying trump is in trouble. >> and i'm not suggesting it. i'm actually declaring it. >> okay. >> there is a bubble. the other thing is, trump is too available. why doesn't he say to the press, every time hillary clinton hold as press conference, i'll donate a million dollars to the veterans. >> she held one on friday but the first one in 242 days. >> yes. >> why would he give up a great message delivery system for him and he's good at it and even when he gets bad press, everyone is talking about donald trump. >> it's not a matter of talking about him, it's the quality, not the quantity. in fact, give me your phone. you've got your phone right there. if you were a trump strategist, i would absolutely take the phone and i would throw it away. i would dump it. because that's what is causing him a problem. he writes in twitter things that get turned on him. he delivers these offsides in his speeches. >> they want him to be more disciplined. let me ask you this. people forget that you were the

one asking donald trump questions more than a year ago when he ripped john mccain saying he liked people that weren't captured. is the controversy over what he said about and this family, it has nothing to do with politics. and this is smlg that trump understood. when trump says i am your voice, that works. when trump says, i'm the only one who can make the change, it doesn't. you talk about political correctness. it works. you talk about changing in washington, that's how trump survives the media. >> this doesn't mean that hillary clinton is getting good press, does it? >> no. >> donald trump is certainly getting a lot of bad press. >> she's getting horrible press. that's why they dislike both candidates. >> someone has done the polls and media coverage. this past week, no question about it, worst coverage of presidential campaign that i've

ever seen. how much does that hurt him given that most of the people who like donald trump think that we are biassed and unfair and playing field? >> 45% of americans have a strongly unfavorable opinion of him. never looked at someone that high. trump has to lower that. and it's going to kump in the debates. it's very simple proposition here. if donald trump ties her in the debate, he loses because of this negativity. he actually has to beat her. >> and he has to beat her in the estimation of all of the people who will control the microphones who are going to say for days afterward, he won, lost, blew it, she did well. >> actually because of social media, he doesn't. he has three key things. you've got to make a change. washington is broken. i'll be your voice. if those were his three themes, he wins. if they're not, he will lose. >> somebody that likes to give advice. still to come, we'll talk to greta in just a moment.

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how should television anchors go about interviewing donald trump? i sat down with fox's on the record. welcome. >> nice to see you. >> how do we cover this campaign in a hyperpartisan atmosphere where donald trump is depicted not just as unprepared or bigoted but crazy and a threat. >> we can take a breath. we can step back. there are two way dozen s to do. we can hammer him or we can ask the hard, tough question. we can do it politely and get the same information. let the viewer/voters decide. >> you have interviewed trump many times. you ask him what his critics say, let him respond. how much of a challenge is it to interview this guy known for

barrelling his way through interviews? >> i let him talk. people don't tune in to hear me talk. they tune in to hear him talk. >> you have big ratings. >> no, no, no. if i ask a question, i let him go. if he's going to say something wild and outlandish, that's his problem. not mine. i'm not going to be part of it. i will not provoke it. then i will ask a follow-up question. one of the big questions was about his taxes. he says that i advised him not to release his taxes that were in audit. if you read the whole thing, if i'm your lawyer, i say don't release the ones in audit. there are a lot not in audit. release those and i'm not your lawyer. release them all. that doesn't get talked about. >> megyn kelly said the media loved trump during the primaries, big box office attraction. now the mainstream media hate donald trump. do you think that's going too far? >> the media takes sides. i think the media sees which way the wind is blowing. a lot of people don't go beyond the beltway or new york city. i think they talk to each other and party with each other.

when you hear the media use the same words to describe something, for instance, trump's speech the other night that the convention was dark. they all used dark. when mitt romney chose paul ryan to be his vp, it's a bold choice. just listen to each other. they are watching too much cable tv. >> following each other on twitter. >> they need to get out more and actually talk to the people instead of listening to each other. >> what you are suggesting it's not a level playing field. this is what donald trump says, dishonest press. >> he knows how to come back. he takes to twitter -- i have no sympathy for donald trump and hillary clinton. they can have as much air time as they want. no boo-huoo that -- if he wante to explain something, he is welcome to come on my show. >> hillary clinton has done fewer interviews. >> i did -- eight times traveled with her overseas. >> is she being, especially in the last couple weeks, is she

being overshadowed because there's so much about trump, trump did this, did that, down in the polls? >> she is playing media game. she's smart. a lot of democrats won't come on fox news, because they use it as a fund-raising tool. money comes in when they complain about fox news and send out e-mails looking for funds. she knows what she's doing. she could have as much air time as she wants. if she's overshadowed, that's her decision. >> to the extent to which trump is getting hammered for just about everything, do you think this reflects the fact that many journalists -- >> some is -- when people get hammered -- okay. >> he made mistakes. those should be covered. sometimes he keeps negative stories alive. at the same time, do you think that some journalists -- you talk about new york, washington, everybody they know doesn't like trump and therefore there's a certain kind of group think that sets in. >> no. i think that what happens is that i don't think anyone is

willing to step back and look what he says and analyze it. i think once you are on that roller coaster ride going in one direction, you can't reverse it. whether or not it's -- whether or not trump says anything that perhaps should get a different type of reporting i think people are set in their ways on trump in the media. >> you see a lack of context? >> he deserves a lot of it. lack of context, but he deserves a lot of it. he's fiery, he is -- people put the cameras on him and he talks. i'm not saying he doesn't deserve a lot of this or even all of this. i'm just saying that the med media -- sometimes the media doesn't have independent thinking, bold, dark, are my examples. >> good to see you. i'm howard kertz. check out our facebook page. e-mail us. we post a lot of content there. continue the conversation on

twitter. a lot of you let me know what you think. we got through it. we will be back next sunday at 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't do it! fox news sunday's next. i'm chris wallace. hillary clinton opens a big lead in the polls. what can donald trump do to cut into it? >> donald trump is not qualified to be president. >> she's a monster. she's actually not strong enough to be president. >> today, a debate between one of trump's most trusted backers, former house speaker, newt gingrich, and clinton supporter, congressman javier bacera about the race, the issues, and trump's missteps. then -- >> $400 million gets flown at night into iran. who could approve a thing like that? >> we do not pay ransoms. we didn't here and we won't in the future. >> the