tomorrow, i'm gonna step out with my favorite girl. ask your heart doctor about entresto®. and help make the gift of tomorrow possible. we're here at hofstra university on long island where donald trump and hillary clinton will face off tomorrow night before what's expected to be largest television audience in the history of presidential debates. huge. i'm howard kurtz. this first debate follows a week book ended by violence. first the terror bombs in new york and new jersey and then police shooting in charlotte, north carolina. all of which should be prime topics tomorrow. most of the media thought trump would never get here, never be the republican nominee and three

weeks ago pundits were looking at the polls and writing him off. today "the washington post" poll shows a dead heat, clinton up by two points and this debate moderated by nbc's lester holt could alter the course of the campaign. which is why the media is absorbed by the expectations game. >> he's a bully and bullying with first woman to appear on this presidential stage. >> hillary clinton will be better prepared on the issues. she will be a straight a student. donald trump will be more unpredictable. >> she's prepared for all of those moments how did you treat monica lewinsky 20 years ago. why did you not respond on emails. >> the fact is that he has an easier path in this debate than she does. all he has to do is appear normal. >> joining us here outside of new york city, a fox news contributor and democratic strategist lisa boothe and a

political analyst and television commentator. i have some breaking news. jennifer flowers will not be here as donald trump's guest tomorrow night. even though she had tweeted she would. i know you all breathlessly were waiting to here that. this came after donald trump said he might invite her because hillary clinton was inviting mark cuban to psych out donald trump. this is a really serious matter isn't it. okay. lightning round, 20 second answer each. what is the media framing for what donald trump and hillary clinton need to do on the stage here tomorrow night. how is the media setting this up? >> i think the campaigns have the table set expectations. you look at the clinton campaign they put out a lot of information about bringing in psychologists. the campaigns themselves have table set for the expectations game. >> julie, i've seen 500 political panels on every station imaginable saying here's what the candidates need to do.

>> donald trump only needs not to fall down drunk and hillary clinton needs to be an a stunt and then he'll be declared a winner if he only shows up and does his job. it's already baked in in that you'll see donald trump declaring the winner of this debate as soon as it's over tomorrow night. >> a bold prediction. how much does this media framing the expectations, how will it affect way we all score this debate? >> the expectations game doesn't matter one lick. >> what? >> everything that happens during the debate will wipe away the pre-debate chatter. you have to look at the first debate from the last general election in 2012 when barack obama bombed that debate to mitt romney. and anything that went into the pre-debate chatter didn't matter. >> you're telling me i'm wasting my time. >> what are we doing here? >> it doesn't matter. >> we need to look at what they said and how they prepared. i don't know expectations matter

that much at all. we'll replay moment after moment that's good in that debate and that's what will matter. >> two or three moments we'll decide in our wisdom to define the debate. i know you want to respond. are the media placing much greater emphasis on what trump needs to do because he's the x factor, unconventional candidate, he's unpredictable. which donald trump will show up. >> i think it's fair because hillary clinton has been in elected office for quite some time. she has more experience in debates than any modern candidate or any candidate in recent history. so i think the expectations are naturally higher given the fact she has a lot of experience. donald trump is an outsider and further hillary clinton is somewhat the incumbent in this scenario because she has been the perceived front-runner. donald trump is the challenger. further her campaign has perpetuated that. they put out all the information

about preparation work that's gone in. so that sets the expectation much higher. >> i got an e-mail from rnc that says hillary clinton is such a goat debater that anything less than a flawless performance will be a failure. is the press setting things up. hillary clinton is expected to have, you know, deep knowledge of every policy that's discussed, she done get any credit for that. donald trump will be judged mainly on his demeanor. >> all donald trump needs to do is pass the so-called commander-in-chief test where people say he won't set the world on fire if he gets elected. >> i agree. the way you said it. all he needs to do. that's a lot. he needs to be seen as applausible president. >> it's not a lot because all he has to do is not allude to people having blood come out wherever or other previous things he's done. all he has to the is show up and be a sober candidate, a boring candidate and he'll be declared the winner.

people will say he's a presidential candidate. >> i'm not sure that's true. debates are about moments. think about in 1992 george h.w. bush looking at his watch. in 2000 al gore sighing. what hillary clinton needs not do and i cry a little inside saying this is she needs not to have one of those conde sendise cackles. she will try to cut a regal figure. that's the best coverage she's ever gotten. >> as the man on this stage i won't talk about women's cackles or laughs i'll leave to it you ladies but you steam be falling into this trap of saying that hillary clinton has a different bar as well. says who? we're talk about the presidency of the united states. and yet they are going to be judged very differently? >> i think she -- she obviously

has put a lot of pressure on herself and she has prepared extensively. but i think all of these things we're seeing about the psychology, this is psyching everybody out. i think all of these strategy set up pieces are a colossal waste of time. >> including pieces about inside the debate, details of who is important training trump and hillary. >> i think the coverage is a reflection of what's being set up. you are saying i've done this preparation, i'm going to get into donald trump's head and you don't in a fall short realistically any reporter watching you had expectations you would perform at an x level and you don't get there you fall short. >> this does seem like, you know, a big super bowl with 100 million people or more expected to watch. let's talk about the moderator for a minute, lester holt of nbc. he be picked apart

by the press as matt lauer was as partisans of either party. >> lester holt has a tough job. he's the first out of the gate. secondly he follows matt lauer. they are from the same network. he'll be judged by that. matt lauer didn't do as good as he could have done. >> not uniformly. that was the view on the left that matt lauer was too easy. >> i heard from republicans who thought matt lauer was too tough on trump. i don't agree with it. lester holt has a very tough job. damn if he is, damn if he doesn't if he fact checks any of the candidates. if he fact checks people will say why are you letting them go out with these falsehoods. again he's first so he's breaking ground. >> we should give lester holt some credit. he's an individual. he's a different person than matt lauer. i think we can say with a lot of confidence that lester holt has

approached every scenario he's been in in the last year and a half with a high degree of humility. >> i'm not asking if he'll do a good job. my question is will he get hammered. in the "new york times" and the "l.a. times" and "the washington post" and politico there are pieces basically examining how in view of these reporters donald trump is a liar. politico headline, donald trump's week of misrepresentation, exaggerations and half truths. "new york times," whole page here. a week of whoppers from trump. i'll give this to you as you prepare your response. fine to hold candidates accountable but most is only at the republican nominee. >> yes because we're not seeing anything like this about hillary clinton. i was amazed by the tone of what the "new york times" did here. number two here says i was against going into the war in iraq. then it says this is not getting any truer with repetition. that was a snarky display.

it was amazing how the "new york times" took donald trump out. and the editor-in-chief of the "new york times" discussed their approach to donald trump this week in a podcast. saying we never really used the term lie in a headline before but they are doing with it donald trump. these media organizations are really taking him on right now. >> if trump says things not true, the pressure to fact check but a lot of these things are nuance or argumentative. does it seem unbalanced to you >> there's a sense a lot of reporters seem we perpetuate a falsehood. she's liar, he's liar. one of them does lie much more often than the other. i'm not suggesting she tells the truth. she lies like a politician and he lies like an alcoholic. >> it's clear bias.

i wish the "new york times" would indicate or show all the lies she's told just in regards to her private e-mail server. cover her as much information as they have there. what i hope from this debate is the fact checking is equally applied to hillary clinton and donald trump. hillary clinton there's a reason why her distrust numbers, the majority, so many americans distrust her to the degree that they do because she has given so many different iterations particularly with temp mail situation as well as the clinton foundation. >> that's an important issue as well. sean hannity made no secret of backing up donald trump's candidacy. we were not aware of sean hannity participating in a promotional video and he won't be doing anything along these lines for the remainder of the election season. leapt us know what you think. "mediabuz "mediabuzz".com. we break down the challenge for

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police shootings and rioting dominated the media coverage and will be a key topic in tomorrow's debate here at hofstra university. terence crutcher a black oklahoma resident was shot by a tulsa police officer sfongd a stalled car even though crutcher was not carrying a gun. >> i get angry because an officer of the law who is paid to protect and serve pre-judged my brother. pre-judged him. he didn't have a chance to live.

>> another black man keith lamont scott was killed bay police officer in charlotte while awaiting for his son in school. in that case he had a gun but that's in dispute. the shooting led to protest, looting and rioting in that city with journalists on the front lines. >> does anyone know or see who did the shooting or are you concerned that we're not sure exactly what happened. >> you want to put it on news. that's what you're trying to find out if we have a video so you can elaborate and make up [ bleep ] the story. you want a video to fabricate, right? >> last night charlotte police releasing a video of the fatal shooting. joining us to analyze the home a former anchor at the blaise and a democratic strategist. as we put thunder video it's disturbing even though we're not playing the sound.

it's inconclusive. did the charlotte police said they were not going release this cave to media and public pressure in putting this out last night and what do you think overall of the coverage of tulsa and charlotte shooting? >> it seems so. you saw that police chief they were not going release this video because there were other facts that come in to play in trying adjudicate these situations. clearly it seems to me that and also the protests and the demands of protesters and the family that was shown the video privately and came out and said we want to see this publicly. what we've seen in both of these cases is that video is so powerful. when i watch the tulsa video in particular, i don't know what happened before, but i do what happened after and it seemed to me just from watching the video but, again, you need larger context. in the case of charlotte that larger context there's been a rush in terms of media and we're still trying to learn the facts. >> my sense, tell me if you

disagree, in both of these days media has been somewhat restrained rather than reckless in concluding the police officer acted responsibly or irresponsib irresponsib irresponsibly. >> it's a growing process for the media to figure out you just can't jump into these things. i think it is still happening on the street. i mean on both sides. and it's hard for them, the media not to get sucked into that because -- >> right. >> that's part of the coverage. >> there's another form of media which is social media. and it's all of us self-publishing whether posting video on facebook or tweeting or commenting. quite apart from the msn. >> charlotte officer who shot keith scott, he's black. on thursday after this officer

was identified "new york times" lead story in the paper put that in the 30th paragraph. "the washington post" put it in the 31st paragraph. "wall street journal" put it in the 11th paragraph of a 12 paragraph story. isn't that a high less relevant part of the story. >> i'm not sure it's relevant because the story is police violence against the african-american community and there are certainly african-american analysts who would say it's the culture of the police not necessarily the individual police officer. i don't think that's a fair criticism. i do think obviously that should be higher up in the story. is that necessarily relevant? i'm not sure. >> has nothing to do whether or not officer vincent acted properly or recklessly and a lot of people found -- and msnbc didn't mention it at all the niefgt r night of the riots. >> not getting the facts right. >> biomission. >> that fact should not be

buried but way more up at the top of the story. >> it's fair to say that it doesn't fit the narrative of white racist cops attacking african-americans. >> but i do agree that -- i'm not sure it's relevant to the real debate and the real lack of trust between police. >> getting short on time. do the media portray donald trump as being the law and order pro police candidate and is that accurate and is that how it will play out in the debate? >> that certainly how he markets himself. >> he's talked more about african-american communities now, in other words not just talking about the police and same question about hillary clinton who was going to go to charlotte today cancelled at the request of the mayor, portrayed being more on the side of the african-american communities and fairly or unfairly less concerned with law enforcement. >> that's exactly right. both have, you know, fostered those impressions of their candidacy. i hope tomorrow night during the debate that they are asked about this because where our commander-in-chief leads us when it comes to these thorny, i is

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you owe obama a $5 million donation., he's probably waitin on that check right now. you know, like most of our contractors. jimmy kimmel said he would love to ease up but trump makes it impossible by saying more outrageous than candidates of the last 20 years combined. what does it say that they are all catering to be a liberal audience? not one of them has any sympathy for trump's appeal or take on hillary clinton. even jon stewart occasionally would skewer the democrats. this is an coke of what's happening in the main street media. some journalists believe trump is so dangerous that stopping him is more important than following journalist rules.

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back here at new york's hofstra university and clinton-trump debate taking place tomorrow night in some ways reminds me of a famous face off in 1980. >> governor reagan campaigned against medicare. these are the kind of elements of a national health insurance important to the american people. governor reagan typically again is against such a proposal. >> governor, there you go again. >> joining us now are two people

with experience in moderating presidential debates, co-hosts of america's newsroom. beautiful morning here on long island. for all the policy arguments and fact check that surrounded these debates don't the media tend to cover them when they are over as a couple of signature moments like that one with ronald reagan? >> i think so. especially based on history and over time. i was making the point earlier today don't underestimate the value of just a really good one liner that actually is done in a way that's filled with humor. you can really leave a lasting impression that way. >> from what we hear, donald trump is hoping that's the case and he'll have a couple of those that people are talking about after this debate is over. trump campaign has put out the message in some ways they hope hillary ravles on for policy for a long time. she's hitting the books hard. that's not his strength. never has been. he's made it clear as president he'll deal with things as they

come. whether or not he'll get stumped on a foreign policy question and be out of his depth in anyway could create that kind of moment and that's what the trump campaign is trying to avoid. >> fascinating for me to go back and look. nobody remembers president carter was hammering ronald reagan about medicare. everybody remembers there you go again. how far, there's this great debate raging in our profession. how far should lester holt go in trying to hold the candidates to facts or fact check them in real-time. in a general election debate is that the moderator's role? >> i think lester holt has to make that decision. what our intention was in cleveland a year ago and then des moines last january was to ask the question and get out of the way. unless there was some sort of glaring absence that we noted in the answer that was our intent. i was reading an article earlier today, jim lehrer who has done

his fair share of these presidential debates, go to the mirror, look yourself in the mirror and repeat three times it's not about me, it's not about me, it's not about me. if you live by that rule i think you're as a moderator once it's over you'll be viewed in a better light. >> but it's difficult because as a journalist when there's something glaringly inaccurate there's that need to clarify it for the people at home who are watching on tv. so he's obviously a very experienced journalist and reporter. so that's the line you have to walk. can it be walked well by people who do it well and i expect lester holt will do that. >> is it different when you're doing a primary debate and there are ten candidates on the stage you have more leeway to say well you said that mr. trump, governor bush, you know and so forth but here's what you said six months ago. here we have two nominees who frankly ought to fact check each

other if they think falsehoods have been uttered. >> i agree with that. >> exactly. i expect they will. they have been practicing. donald trump has said that he's not really doing the kind of actual run through where you stan behind podiums decent that. mitt romney did a ton of it when he was guesting ready for the debate. they will go at each other and fact check each other and it's easier now just two of them. it makes it easier. >> i was thinking about this a lot too. i really don't have a sense for how this is going to go monday night. he could lay back. she could lay back. she could go after him. he could go after her. they can go after each other. i imagine over the course of 90 minutes we'll see all five sides of that. and maybe ultimately how it comes back to your original point about the lasting impression, what will that be? look martha and i have been previewing this debate it seems like forever. i really think you just circle

october 1st on the calendar next week. you'll get four days to get over the initial impression and let the lasting impression marinate and sink in and that's where you'll find out next saturday after four days of polling, you'll get a sense as to where this race really is. that's my feeling. >> you got eight out of ten people saying it won't change their mind either way. those two could be the difference in a very tight election. it works out for them. they have to perform at a very, very high level tomorrow night. >> 90 straight minutes. another key difference people forget general election, audience is admonished to keep quiet. no hooting or hollering. we'll see you later today. next on this special "mediabuzz" from hofstra university how the new york-new jersey bombing suspect is being covered as well as the candidates responses. later can cable networks fact check donald trump with a few words at the bottom of the screen? picking up for kyle. here you go. you wouldn't put up with part of a pizza.

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candidates are engaging in some tough terror talks after bombings in new york and new jersey. highly likely this will be a topic at tomorrow's trump-clinton debate at hofstra. how much will that coverage of those attacks be in the debate. thankfully nobody was killed. given the heavy media coverage does it change the race and the

debate? >> i don't think it does at all. i think if it were worse it would but we've been through a number of these. i actually think the shooting in charlotte does have the ability to change the debate and the race. in part because that's going on in a swing state in north carolina where both of these candidates are spending an inordinate amount of time right now. >> there was an intense level of interest. the suspect was caught in a shoot out so quickly because of the fear people had, could this happen in their city. >> i think that's true. but what we do see with a lot of these attacks if they happen in this region, in new york, in new jersey, the media will spend a lot more time. people sometimes believe that's because media is here in new york and i think it's the center of the universe. because they have the resources to deploy very easily and the networks should think harder about that because it kind of skews the news judgment a little bit. >> cnn put up a graphic. i want said the bombings were a

win for trump. now 29 people were injured. it seems candidate of callous to reduce it to that. but we do get the political impacts of these events. >> i want shapes the trajectory of the race in the sense you don't have to have a bombing in washington, d.c. to be afraid that there could be a terrorist attack in washington, d.c. we've seen either isis inspired or directed attacks throughout the country. >> san bernardino. >> san bernardino. orlando, florida. minnesota. so, of course, it doesn't have to happen in new york city for a fear of terrorism. it's a top two issue. the funny thing about cnn is the fact that hillary clinton had actually said initially that it was a bombing and then proceeded to attack donald trump on leading with saying that it was a bombing but they cut that coverage out and "the washington post" had also reported going after donald trump about asserting that it was a bombing without mentioning the fact that hillary clinton had actually done so as well.

>> so the media's conventional wisdom is that terror attacks by placing an emphasis on tough response helps donald trump. but some commentators say well hillary clinton benefits because she's a former secretary of state who also has been in the situation room when plans were made to fight terrorists. how do you see -- do you think the conventional wisdom is simple. >> this is not a simple topic in general but what i said in the earlier segment is you have ultimately a commander-in-chief test that boston these people need to pass. when you have a terror bombing as you did last week, and in fact when you have something going on in charlotte and tulsa as we had last week it focuses people's attention who you want as the leader who has the temperament and commander-in-chief abilities to lead us abroad to prevent this kind of systemic terrorism to come here and who can lead us here at home to cure the racial

divides. that's what people will be looking at. >> it elevate the campaign above the jennifer flowers and twitter shots and all that. there's such an intense media focus on donald trump's rhetoric, whether he goes too far. we can rattle off 20 things he's said. let me play something that didn't get much media attention that hillary clinton said having to do with this subject. >> we know that donald trump's comments have been used online for recruitment of terrorists. we also know from the former head of our counterterrorism center matt olsen that the kinds of rhetoric and lancastguage th mr. trump uses is giving aid and dofrt our adversaries. >> aid and comfort is from the constitution. it's the treason charge. i didn't see virtually any news organization say hillary clinton -- imagine if donald trump had said that hillary

clinton was giving aid and comfort to terrorists. is there a double standard? >> there is. that statement is laughable. bill clinton himself has been featured in isis individualos. it's hypocritical for her to drive that statement. isis hates the united states and the west because of what we believe in because we are a democracy, because of the ideology that we share and hold as a country. they will attack usardless of what our presidential candidate and/or president says. it's ridiculous. >> certainly was a focus on trump when he said both barack obama, excuse me and hillary clinton could be seen as a founder of isis. but aid and comfort just kind of went past. >> yeah. i think that probably need to get more attention than it got but she also could have spent a little bit more time on it. we're still seeing her really talk about donald trump's temperament and not go into further detail about that. i think the campaign could push it further. >> brief comment? >> the only thing i would say the person who was equally

frustrated is hillary clinton. she clearly said it. there's frustration in her camp that the full press does focus on things donald trump says and in this case she clearly wanted to get attention for it and didn't get attention. >> the media reported and replayed it built i didn't see any oh, is this going too far. just seems to me perfectly to ask that of both candidates when they engaging this pointed rhetoric about their opponents. we'll probably see some of that tomorrow night and ask those questions again. thanks very much for joining us here on long island. after the break, donald trump has already called out nbc's lester holt. will he get hammered by the tv critics no matter how it goes, coming up.

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lester holt moderating the debate here at hofstra university tomorrow night fold by cnn's anderson cooper and martha raddatz and chris wallace in the third debate donald trump ratcheted up his attacks on the moderators. he said all the moderators will be unfair to avoid the media bashing. here's what trump and bill o'reilly said this week. >> martha raddatz who i worked with in boston brilliant journalist. she's a democrat. and anderson cooper, i think does a decent job but he's a democrat. two democrats. your showing up for that or what will do you? >> lester is a democrat. it's a phoney system.

lester is a democrat. they are all democrats. it's a very unfair system. i'm not okay with anderson cooper because i think he treats me very unfairly at cnn. >> joining us registered republican. what does trump gain by accusing all the moderators in advance of being unfair. >> i think he's been listening to his friend, bobby knight, gaming the ref. gee brought up bobby knight to me. >> i believe it. i think lester holt will call a fair game. obviously his body of work proves that. if you asked me that question in 2012 about candy crowley, i would have said her body of work is great and i wouldn't anticipate her being the story afterwards. she fact checked on the fly. mitt romney was neutered basically. he changed dynamics for that debate and the election going forward and crowley goes on an interview afterwards and says actually mitt romney was right in the main, i made a mistake. we have to watch out for that. >> these are all experienced, professional anchors but are

they under pressure to avoid the kind of skewering that lauer got in the wake of that nbc forum where critics on the left said he was hard on hillary, easy on donald? >> it would have to be if lester holt is going to be intim dat d dated by outside forces which i don't think he will. as you have seen with megyn kelly or with lauer during that commander in chief forum, anything short of throwing a pie in donald trump's face while causing him a lying, racist scene phone, is seen as a softball. >> as seen by journalists or commentators who don't like donald trump? some of them, it is clear, think that you should tackle him in a way that they wouldn't necessarily advocate for hillary clinton. >> it's the new rules of journalism set forth by hjorge

ramos. he was applauded by his commenta commentary. >> how did we get to the point where that is at least in some quarters of our profession the accepted media wisdom, that trump is a dangerous demagogue and it's our mission to stop him as opposed to let's be hard and tough but fair to both nominees? >> because many in the media led by "the new york times" and their editor say -- will say we have to take out trump for the good of the country. that they believe that neutrality is no longer an option because donald trump is a danger, and as a journalist they feel that's their duty. they haven't read their job description if that's the results. even jimmy fallon gets criticized. he's an entertainer. he beat kimmel and colbert combined last week because he understands it's all about entertainment, but because he wasn't hard on trump. he's not a journalist.

he got killed as well. >> i mentioned earlier in the program, joe, that samantha b. and kimmel a little bit and trevor noah, seth meyers, are acting like journalist. they're infusing their comedy with a lot of anti-trump stuff. >> their alienating half their audience. kimmel has adopted the johnny carson rule, be apolitical. nobody has a preconceived notion that you're going to be like stephen colbert which his show was in a loop in terms of vitriol against donald trump. it's more like preaching. >> better to singe but not burn. talking about trumps nomination, hacked e-mails. that's a private conversation. does it raise any questions about andrea mitchell. >> obviously she's in the hillary clinton camp. >> why do you say that? >> if you watch her reporting on

a daily basis, it seems to be pro-clinton -- >> she's also asked tough questions and this is a private e-mail that shouldn't have been hacked. >> yes, of course. but she needs to speak up when msnbc, the network, runs a promo with hillary clinton pointing at her in a press conservatives saying, andrea, you're my kind of girl. she should be standing up saying don't project me that way. >> joe con cha. >> good to see you in person. >> still to come, the cable networks are using their onscreen banners to fact check, well, one of the candidates. now we'll fact check them.

the other two cable news networks are using a new weapon against donald trump, the chyron. they now use them for fact checking and sometimes for snark. cnn may have been there first. trump calls obama founder of is

isis. he's not. and this one. trump's son, father apologizes, he hasn't. and have one, trump never said japan should have nukes. he did. msnbc has gotten into the act with this after trump acknowledged president obama was born in the u.s. birth in chief reborn. and this one, trump falsely claims clinton started birther controversy. trump says he watched nonexistent video of iran receiving cash. trump, clinton is in hiding, speaking next hour. it isn't that all of these are wrong, but sometimes the situation is a bit more complicated. clinton wasn't arguing president obama was literally the founder of isis, just that his policies helped fuel his growth. it's hard to make those distinctions in five or six words. the other day donald trump called for profiling of terrorists. >> they profile. they see somebody that's suspicious, they will profile, they will take that person and they will check out. do we have a voice?

look what's going on? do we really have a choice? >> cnn ran this banner. trump says, quote, racial profiling will stop terror. trump never said the word racial. we can debate whether or not that would be the net effect, but that chyron was factually inaccurate. if cnn or msnbc has ever used this approach with hillary clinton and her various controversies, well, i must have missed that. that's it for this, but let me say this, final word, there's nothing the media love more than a presidential debate, and pregame chatter, you can bloviate and speculate like a football fan before the super bowl and donald trump versus hillary clinton is a super bowl level event and everyone in america gets to watch the showdown and join in the postgame punditry. that's when the media's instant replay will help shape the argument, but you're free to ignore all that and make up your own mind. that is it for this special edition of "media buzz."

i'm howard kurtz. give us a like, let me know what you think on twitter. e-mail us mediabuzz@foxnews com. we're back in washington next sunday with the latest buzz. we are less than 48 hours away from a historic showdown. hillary clinton, donald trump will debate for the first of three debates inside this hall tomorrow night. just as a brand new poll shows the two candidates in a virtual dead heat. it's come to this, america. high noon on a sunday. good morning, everyone. special edition of "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer. >> one day away. good morning, everybody. i'm mar that maccallum. we're coming to you live from hofstra university in new york. tomorrow night the university will play host to one of the most highly anticipated political events, maybe sporting events. we'll see how the numbers are, that we have ever seen. this is