this week. we have thousands of troops on the ground. how is that battle going to go? what is isis going to do? >> we just showed his picture. our condolences to his family and freiends. that will do it for today. i'll see you at 6:00 p.m. "media buzz" begins right now. the media salvaged donald trump over one response in the debate, sparking an outcry whether he'll accept hillary clinton if she wins. >> the media is so corrupt and the pile-on is so amazing. i will tell you at the time. i will keep you in suspense. >> one of the most stunning things i've ever heard in a presidential debate, ever. >> he basically laid in his own coffin with a hammer and nail and pounded the lid. lights out in american politics when you say something like that. >> he hit himself in the head and knocked himself out. >> giving the media yet another

hammer to pound trump into pudding. talking points does not understand why donald trump does not understand that stuff like that hurts him. >> how many people in scranton, pennsylvania care about what he said in that answer compared to people in newsrooms that are whimpering and whining with their, you know, their lattes. >> are the pundits giving trump short shift on his otherwise solid performance? are they soothing themselves for his conduct? and is chris wallace praising himself on the question about sexual assault by trump and bill clinton. >> i will say asking that in the moment with melania trump over this shoulder and bill and chelsea over this shoulder was harder than i thought it was going to be. >> a behind-the-scenes look with

the fox tv host. plus, a new trove of hacked e-mails show more between the clinton campaign. i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." the media narrative began to build this week with donald trump making the case that the election is fixed and the press pushing back hard. >> when i talked about a rigged election, when i talk about the press taking people with absolutely no case whatsoever and trying to put it on front pages, that in its form, it's a media rigging of the election. >> do you really think we're part of a global conspiracy, really? honestly? >> fox hasn't been great, but the others have been really bad. >> this is about delegitimizing the election. this is about rationalizing his defeat because there's nothing

gracious about donald trump. >> donald trump, once again without evidence, is questioning the very fundamentals of how we elect people. >> mr. trump talks about it being rigged. he sweeps all his grievances into one big puddle. >> then came the chris wallace discussion in las vegas that sparked the debate and reaction from the press. >> do you say that you will absolutely accept the result of this election? >> i will look at it at the time. i'm not looking at anything now. i will look at it at the time. >> there was even a time when he didn't get an emmy for his tv program three years in a row and he started to tweet that the emmys were rigged. >> i should have gotten it. >> is the press overplaying all this? joining me, erin pike, reporter for real clear politics. columnist for the washington times, and joe trippy, a democratic strategist and fox news contributor. so donald trump went to

gettysburg yesterday to talk about his policy speech. he talked about his female accusers, 11 of them now, and said every woman alive came forward to hurt his campaign. >> the events never happened. all of these liars will be sued after the election is over. but a simple phone call placed to the biggest newspapers or television networks gets them wall-to-wall coverage with virtually no fact checking whatsoever. >> erin, that became the story for the media, not the policy prescriptions. is that the media's fault or donald trump's fault? >> i think it's donald trump's fault, because he made news there. and when there is news, the media has to cover it. and they did here, so i think it was absolutely fair. >> suing the women is catnip for the media. of course, there are also questions about why so many women have come forward in such a short period of time. there is a porn star who came

forward yesterday with gloria allred talking about trump kissing her and propositioning her. is it fair or unfair on the part of the journalists to overshadow the more substantive part of what trump said in gettysburg? >> his gettysburg address, if you will, was very substantive. it hit on his ethics reform policies, kind of draining the swamp of nbc. these are overshadowed by the trump accusers. is that his fault? yes, but it's also the media's fault. they're looking at everything they can get from donald trump and blowing it up over his policies. this has become a fight of personalities on both sides. >> you're saying trump has given the media the ammunition and they've used it to blow up his campaign? >> yes, which is his fault, but they're also against him. there is no question the media is biased this election and they are all in the tank for hillary clinton. >> you don't go to gettysburg, you don't prep the press that it's going to be this amazing

policy speech about your first 100 days in office. >> and it was that. >> and start the speech off with, by the way, everyone who is accusing me is a liar and i'm going to sue them. that created the moment that the press had to report that. >> what about the fact that donald trump says the newspapers and other media outlets just throw this stuff up without fact checking, as if no one else is interviewed in each case, and try to tie it to the clinton campaign? he says these women either want fame or her campaign did it. any evidence of either of those? >> no. there is absolutely no evidence and the campaign says they had nothing to do with it, and until he can prove otherwise, he should stop saying it. >> just like there's no evidence of quid pro quo. with hillary clinton stuff, they won't touch it because it could

be rumors, innuendos, we don't have any solid pay for play. there is a double standard here. >> wikileaks didn't dump that video out on the street. that was donald trump who said that, and we know that's what it was, and there's a difference. >> in some of these cases, erin, journalists have interviewed the women who made these accusations, but other people they told, in the particular case of the "people" magazine writer. it's hard to prove or disprove. >> oethe other thing i wonder i he's threatening to sue these women after the election. i think implicit in his threat is he may want to sue the news organizations as he threatened to sue the "new york times," although no lawsuit has come forward yet. >> the lawsuit he promises has not materialized. i'm sitting there in las vegas, this media file center, and i'm typing trump is having a good debate. in fact, this is the best performance of the three he has had.

chris wallace asks the question. trump gives the answer of, i'm looking at it at the time, basically saying he won't promise to look at the results of the election. i just said to myself and wrote, the other 89 minutes of this debate doesn't matter. is it fair to just pick that moment? >> that was obviously a huge moment. then donald trump did create a web for himself because he kind of waffled over the next couple days. but when he is making the case this election is rigged, not simply the media are biased, but the election is rigged, that's something the media needs to cover. many organizations did, and then they went and showed studies that show that voter fraud doesn't really have the bearing on the outcome of an election, which is important. they took that case very seriously which i think shows there is some thought into what donald trump says and how the media covers it. >> the next day after the las vegas debate, trump said, of course i would accept a clear

election result but i would also face a challenge in the election result. what about the media making this about moments, and it was that moment, and for days that's what we basically saw, heard about, debated in america. >> yeah, it was overblown. donald trump was a very reasonable response. if he said that the day afterwards that he did that night -- the hip ypocrisy of th media is amazing. trump confirms he's a threat to democracy in third election. this is so ridiculous that he's rigging this and it's bad. this is what they did in 2000 and 2004. >> this is about al gore following a legal challenge of 500 voter disputes in florida. is there a distinction? >> there is certainly a distinction, but beyond that,

what's really a maze mazing -- k the coverage has been amazing for a different reason. if you look at that transcript of what can i say wallace asked, he didn't ask him on the follow-up about rigging, he asked him about the principle and pride the country takes in the peaceful transfer of power and will you confirm your commitment to that? and that is what trump said, i'll lead you in suspense about. that isn't something we should roll our eyes at. that is what i think made that such an alarming statement. >> and politico did an article, the "new york times" did an article, talking about if trump loses this election, the riots that will help and how he might support the people he talked about, the muslims, the mexicans. this is all hyperbole. >> it is worse than hyperbole, it is inflammatory to start talking about violence breaking

out. nobody can contest donald trump's right to challenge a close race in one state that might tip the election. what do you think about joe scarborough saying, you know, this is a bunch of media leaders up in arms over this issue. the average american won't worry about a process question, especially when it involves a high political result, especially since we haven't voted. >> the media should actually go survey real voters to find out what they want to hear from the media and what they want to hear from the candidates. for the most part, with the exception of the last debate, it hasn't come out in the debates. it's been very personal throughout most of this coverage. >> since you raised that, chris wallace was responsible for injecting a lot of substance in this debate. i'll ask you to talk about it in one sentence. we'll start with you, erin. >> i think he was excellent. he has the most experience of any of these mod rarts and i

think he should get a debate in four years, too. >> kelly? >> a true, professional, balanced and fair journalist. >> usually when both sides complain about you, you're doing a good job as a journalist. he had both sides saying he did a good, fair job, which is unheard of. >> even howard dean, the liberal democrat, praises chris wallace's handling of it. before we go to break, alec baldwin again in the role of trump. >> every day i turn on the news and all of the newscasters are making me look so bad. >> how are we doing that? >> by taking all of the things i say and all of the things i do and putting them on tv. >> of course, trump last week saying alec baldwin's portrayal stinks and "saturday night live" is doing a hit job. there were some things about hillary but it was mostly about trump. e-mail me at mediabuzz.com.

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a trickle of hacked e-mails with the clinton campaign has turned into something of a flood. i talked to john horowitz. a new note by wikileaks was sent the day nbc's chuck todd pressed hillary clinton on "meet the press." it's titled "amazing."

amazing that some people still think it's worth burning so much interview time with person most likely to be next president on her emails. how much of a problem are those kinds of notes for john harwood on cnbc? >> i like him a lot. i've always respected him as a journalist and a person. he sent them an e-mail of a file he put together on mike huckabee questions. not some dirt file, but these are tough questions i prepared for mike huckabee. he did a presidential debate, and he's saying here's where huckabee is vulnerable. he said, watch out for ben carson, he's doing good. that sounds like you're on the te team. it doesn't sound like you're a journalist and it sounds like donald trump has a point. there are some who have picked sides in this race. it doesn't mean it's rigged but

it means there are a lot of people that are impartial. a top writer tofor to lipol sent some sections to podesta. because i have become a hack, i will send you the whole section that pertains to you. please don't share or tell anyone i did this. tell me if i f-ed up on anything. >> by the way, it was not a puff piece by hillary clinton in this case. it was hillary clinton is is doing a lot worse than bernie sanders months ago. >> so he's fact checking. >> he's fact checking. you don't send your story, you do it over the phone or characterize it to them in writing, but to say here's the story and i'm a hack, that raises eyebrows. glen thrush, mr. trump, worst

mistake of his life. hillary clinton, best in her career. trump failed to sustain an attack. four or five takeaways from the last debate, donald trump is awful. donald trump has a point. people are pounding him. he makes mistakes, yes, but are they fair? >> let me put up on the screen something glen thrush said defending himself. trump, all mouth breathers. it doesn't bug me, but these are angry gnomes who live in their parents' bamsements. >> i think some of the trolling was awful. did hillary clinton win the debate? probably. but 90-1? no. >> he got an off-the-record

interview with hillary clinton. it's tough to get any kind of interview with hillary clinton. he then said, can we put this on the record? he has gotten hammered because some people are saying he gave the clinton campaign veto power over what he was going to write. >> i don't know all the particulars, but i think it was fair for mike levovich to do that from hillary clinton. does it conflict you? yes, sometimes. you hear something off the record, you wish you could put it on the record. but he was doing his job. he said, could you put that on the record? he wasn't just lying down? by the way, he sent an e-mail to john podesto saying, i'd like to meet with you. you're on the clinton campaign. no, i'm not, i'm reaching out for an interview. >> everyone says you're getting some veto power, but trump goes offer on reporters all the time.

finally katie couric with yahoo was trying to get an interview with hillary clinton. she added, i'd like to do a separate piece of business for social media about 10 things you don't know about hillary clinton that would showcase her personality and vzhas a lot of voter potential. >> i would be worried about reaching out to candidates because you would say positive things. you're not going to say, i hate the candidate, i want to do an interview. where she stepped wrong was saying, here's where i can showcase her personality. that's where it looks very cozy overall, and in a lot of cases, as a journalist, you're not there to showcase donald trump or hillary clinton's personality. you're there to ask tough questions, period. up next, ivanka trump and melania trump. and how chris wallace prepared for the las vegas debate.

some of the women in donald trump's family have jumped on the bias bandwagon. his usually unflappable weighed in on a women's forum saying they refused to look into things while they're boycotting his products. >> i think it's very, very real, and i don't think i would say this to you even a year ago. i've seen it too many times. it's tremendous. i think from a media perspective, it's very hard to get an accurate portrayal of who he is as a person. it's borderline impossible. >> melania trump spoke out on fox and cnn this week saying her husband's talk about groping women on that "access hollywood" tape was wrong, but that billy bush, now officially fired by nbc, egged him on.

>> in one way it's hard because the press is very dishonest and it's a lot of lies they have written also about me and my husband. and you need to defend yourself all the time. >> his wife challenged the account to the woman who said trump accosted her even after they were a couple. >> the story that came out in "people" magazine, the writer said my husband took her in a room and started kissing her. she wrote in the same story about me, that she saw me on fifth avenue and i said to her, natasha, how come we don't see you anymore? i was never friends with her. i would not recognize her. >> but "people" this week quoted six people who said long ago they confided in them about

unwanted encounters with donald trump and when he was with melania. speaking of bias, i'm not sure i've seen a more loaded example than when trump campaign chief kellyanne conway was interviewed by nbc news anchor stephanie rule. >> look at your kihow do you lo when you go home at night? i'm not going to let my kids watch the debate. i don't let them watch donald trump for fear he will say to women in the audience "you're fat." >> really, a news anchor is so disdainful to one of the candidates that she asked a news anchor, how do you face your kids? fox's chris wallace on how he prepared for fight night in las vegas and whether he would do it again.

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chris wallace has been drawing rave reviews for his handling of the third debate. chris wallace worked hard. ap, he worked hard to keep it substantive with relevant questions. >> do you want to see the court overturn roe v. wade? you also voted against a ban on late-term partial birth abortions. why? for a bank you were paid $225 million, we learned on wikileaks you said, quote, my dream is a hemispheric open market with high trade and borders. >> chris wallace, welcome. >> good to be back. >> you could have started with the hot news stories, nine women making accusations, wikileaks

stories against hillary clinton. you decided to start with gun control and abortion. why? >> absolutely and consciously, i thought that this campaign and the previous debates had become so mired in all the muck, which those are legitimate issues, i knew i was going to have to discuss them, but i felt hungry and i thought the country was hungry to discuss the issues that a president has to deal with after a campaign is over. appointing supreme court justices, immigration, how you get the economy growing again, so i very consciously decided let's start with serious stuff -- i didn't want to spend the first 10 or 15 minutes talking about scandal. >> it certainly set a substantive tone. when you asked what turned out to be the question of the debate, would donald trump promise to abide by the election results, were you prepared for ht not? did you have a follow-up ready to go? >> i didn't have a follow-up

ready to go, but i certainly was prepared for that possibility. having covered trump and this campaign for 15 months or whatever it is now, there's nothing he can say or do that surprises me. so, look, it was an obvious question to ask. he had been saying for weeks that the election was rigged, that -- >> you had to ask it. >> yes -- that it was in the process of being stolen and that his running mate, mike pence, had said on sunday that trump and he would absolutely respect the results of the election, but trump hadn't said that. so it was an obvious question to ask. i will say even though i was prepared for the possibility he would not -- you know, he would say he wouldn't respect it, i was still a little stunned, as i think the audience was at the moment, and that wasn't a prepared follow-up. that was just, this is a big moment. here is a candidate -- we're not talking about gore and 500 votes in florida. we're talking about a candidate weeks before the election saying, i'm not prepared to

accept the results. i'm not committing to accept the results, and i wanted to put that in the historical context of saying, this is one of the tenets and the strengths of our democracy and you're willing to go against that, and it had a resonance. >> it seemed at times you were struggling to maintain control in las vegas, and at other times you broke in and interrupted hillary clinton when she was reciting the virtue of the clint clinton administration. >> i'll take you back through the scenes a little bit. we had done run-throughs on tuesday and wednesday before the wednesday night debate with a couple of students. a young woman as hillary clinton, a young man, a student, as trump. and one of the questions on tuesday was favorite pizza. one of the questions on wednesday was favorite movie, but the point was -- and they had clearly been instructed to

come at me, to interrupt each other. i understood that a lot of this was going to be me having to make decisions on the fly, instinctual decisions on the fly. do you jump in or do you let it play, and that that was going to be very challenging. >> on that point, did you struggle, first of all, with how to phrase the question to donald trump about the nine accusers talking about groping and unwanted sexual attention, and when he said the story has been largely debunked, did you think about challenging that? >> well, in terms of the phrasing of the question, no, i didn't struggle with that at all. it was a straightforward question and there was a right way to ask it. i also thought because this was the beginning of a segment, so this is where each one is going to get two minutes, that, one, i couldn't interrupt there. that was their two minutes. and two, i needed to have a part of that question for hillary

clinton so that she wouldn't just have two minutes to bash trump. so i put in the thing about, and he says that what you and your husband have done is worse. i will say asking that in the moment with melania trump over this shoulder and bill and chelsea over this shoulder was harder than i thought it was going to be. it was like, oh, my gosh, i'm asking this in front of these people. we're pretty tough and grisled, but there are moments when you sit there and go, i didn't quite know this was going to play out this way. >> there is a human element to this. let me ask you about that sequence. >> why would so many different women over so many different circumstances over so many different years, why would they all in the last couple weeks -- you deny this -- why would they all make up these stories, and since this is a question for both of you, secretary clinton, mr. trump says what your husband did and that you defended was even worse. mr. trump, you go first. >> so hillary came back and used

her time to talk about donald trump and women and never answered the part of the question about bill clinton's misconduct, or in her defense of his handling. do you regret dropping the ball and not going back to that? >> of asking trump about it? >> no, asking hillary clinton about bill. >> no. this gets to the whole question of what the moderator's role is. you ask a question, and they handle it. if trump wanted to go back on her, it would have been very easy for him to do. i also had a lot of material. there were a lot of scandals. i wanted to get to the clinton foundation, i wanted to get to the question in that same segment about whether he would honor the results, respect the results of the election. i wanted to talk about e-mails and didn't even get to that. so i was -- if trump wanted to do it, he could do it, and if he didn't, i was ready to move on. i had more ammo. >> you have gotten a lot of praise for this debate in las

vegas, well deserved, in my view. >> thank you. >> do you think it could change the minds about the new side of fox news, especially those who thought it would be a conservative approach to this debate? >> look, i'd be lying if i said i didn't feel i had a lot at stake and that certainly added to the pressure or started the pressure, but i also very much felt all along that i was not just representing myself, but i was representing this news organization. the fact that i was the first fox moderator was a big deal, and a statement by something like the commission on presidential debates, a blue ribbon panel, that they thought fox was a legitimate news organization, i was a legitimate journalist, and i very much -- and i felt this keenly -- wanted to represent the organization well and to say to any doubters, forget about it. we covered the news ain as strog and fair and balanced a way as

anybody else does. >> we're out of time, but want to do it again in four years? >> i thought about it. if you had asked me about two hours before, i would have said, lose my telephone number. now, you bet. it was fun. >> chris wallace, thank you for sitting down with us. >> you bet. >> he didn't duck that question. coming up, did hillary clinton's weaker moments at the las vegas debate draw more coverage? a look at at&t's planned takeover of time warner. steel be chevy silverado to the aluminum bed of this competitor's truck. awesome. wooooow!! let's see how the aluminum bed of this truck held up. wow holy moly. that's a good size puncture. you hear aluminum now you're gonna to go ew. let's check out the silverado steel bed. you have a couple of dents. i'd expect more dents it's truck month! make a strong decision. find your tag and get over eleven thousand total value on this silverado all star. chevy clearly held up better than the ford.

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donald trump's big problem with the las vegas debate bloted out some of her biggest moments. he asked about late-term abortions, a question you rarely get from mainstream media. >> candidates don't like to defend their position on late-term abortions because more than 50% do not believe in late-term and partial term are illegal. it's something the media never asks. it's an important difference between the democratic and republican platform, and i thought it was an excellent question. >> chris wallace also asked the former secretary of state about the wikileaks and her position on the borders. she said we shouldn't let these

hacked e-mails affect our elections. how do they always turn it into a story about the russianrussia? >> she did it in a nationally televised debate with millions of people watching. >> so it's no secret. >> right. and the second thing is what chris wallace said in your interview. trump should have come back and challenged her on these things, and he just doesn't do it. he goes back into defending himself and actually starts to create the news stories that we're talking about today. i understand the reality, but trump kind of helps it happen. >> irma pike, hillary clinton has kind of disappeared for days before the debates, and i'm sure when there is trump news, that is a strategy. there's not much press about it. is that because the press would rather report on donald trump

because they think he's a juicy story and they know people don't like him much? >> i would point out she and tim kaine did take questions on her campaign last night, but again, when she was asked about wikileaks and asked about the clinton foundation, she dodged that again. i will say if she does become president, questions about the clinton foundation will dog her at every decision her administration makes with respect to any foreign government or any foreign entanglement that she has. >> every prognosticator looks at their map and says hillary clinton could win well over 270 electoral votes, over 250, and they said on "fox news this morning," well, this is the same thing that's been wrong with donald trump for the last year and a half. is that a fair moment even though the polls seem to indicate she has a substantial lead. >> reporting on the polls in the horse race will always happen, however, there might be this boom effect.

things are so over the top for trump and now there's things about clinton and does she expect a blowup race. it looks arrogant. >> are we at the point where the press doesn't want to be too aggressive with hillary clinton at the chance she could become president? >> your question is a good one because i think people are sort of conflicted with trying to report accurately that this thing looks like it could be a blowout. and they do not want voters out there and to shut off that there is some kind of race going on. >> we have to be really careful, polls or no polls, about declaring a race to be over. final thought, erin? >> look, i don't think we know what's going on in the down ballot races at all. the only coverage we're seeing is republicans facing this litmus test of will they support donald trump or are they writing

in mike pence instead? that's a problem because voters still need to go to the ballots to choose their senators, to choose their maryors, to choose their governors. >> erin mcpike, joe trippy, thank you so much for stopping by this sunday. donald trump got booed by the press as well as the analyst at this dinner. one in the crowd says there is more to the story. can you believe we're getting orders from canada, ireland... this one's going to new zealand. new zealand? psst. ah, false alarm. hey! you guys are gonna scare away the deer! idiots... providing global access for small business. fedex.

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trump. >> the people decided it is up to the media to have one policy and a totally different policy in 's okay. i don't know who they're angrier at, hillary, you or i. for example, here she is tonight in public pretending not to hate catholics. >> hillary clinton drew some boos as well. joe conshon, media reporter from the hill, joins us from new york. how did you see it? >> i saw it differently, on two occasions, the guardian reported the same thing, usa today did as well. they are the lone exceptions. the media my opia over trump wa

clear the next day. she was just as personal and nasty on some occasions. the difference is trump is polling at 18% in new york city. i would imagine that's 0.8% among the new york elites. therefore it was a hostile room. he didn't even get off the punch line in the last joke because obviously it wasn't very well received going in. >> probably not the most representative crowd of new york media elite. we talked earlier about chris wallace. how would you assess his performance. you have seen all the debates. >> usually not a big fan of conformity, howie, but from the washington times to "the new york times," from the huffington post to "the washington post" and, of course, the hill, we saw chris wallace did easily the best job as a debate moderator. let me tell you why. i saw it five minutes in. he didn't fact check the way we saw fact checking done in the past. instead, he did something called pivoting. donald trump was talking about immigration and hillary clinton having basically the same platform as far as building a wall on the southern border and

he said sht, all right, there t, let me stop you there and get secretary clinton in. secretary clinton, is that how you saw it? that's how you fact check. and finally he brought up topics that were rel haven't to this election season we didn't hear in the first 270 minutes in debate in the presidential debates and vice presidential debates. we saw the first question on the supreme court. we saw questions on immigration. we saw questions on abortion and late-term abortion -- >> let me jump in for a second. >> and then obviously fiscal policy. >> some of the reactions were like, hey, the fox guy was share. shou fair. should people be surprised? >> you would see he was just as tough on donald trump. he used graphics to fact check him in one of the primary debates. so he's got 50 years in this business and they weren't paying attention if they thought he would be biased going in. >> over the weekend breaking news, at&t agreeing to buy time warner for $85 billion. cnn part of time warner. how would it change cnn to be

owned by a giant phone company? this is an organization that spends a lot of money on international news gathering. >> absolutely. at&t is my service provider and they have the pipes to get to the end pointed. this is an end point. you can stream exclusive content now. that's not what at&t had. not just cnn but barner brothers, hbo, tnt, but here is the thing about this where i think if donald trump is elected they're going to run into a lot of trouble because he opposes it and maybe this is why. the fcc commissioner that approved the comcast acquisition of nbc universal was meredith baker. she then four months later went to work for comcast as a lobbyist. so when we hear about a narrative around a rigged system, i have a feeling donald trump if this story gets bigger will bring up that exact point that the fcc commissioner that amoved an nbc universe com caca then went to work for come cast four months later. a whole bowl of wrong. >> joe, good to see you.

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you wouldn't put up with part of a pizza. um. something wrong? so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? you want the whole thing? yes, yes! live whole. not part. aleve. donald trump has had a rough couple weeks but some of the rhetoric from the anti-trump pundits is getting out of control. here is cnn contributor and one-time watergate sleuth, carl bernstein. >> it means, i think, that he is setting himself up as the head of, again i'm going to go back to that neofascist term of a real neofascist movement and media empire with the people from breitbart. >> neofascist, really? michael moore is a liberal bomb thrower but even by his standards this is low. he said trump voters amount to

legal terrorists. he added you have to protect the population from trump like you do with a pedophile. that's pathetic. and then a psychiatric diagnosis. donald trump is mentally ill. after 16 nonts of campaigning and three debates, that has become all too clear. trump sees himself as the victim of a web of conspiracies everyone compasses house speaker paul ryan, the fbi, the cia, and the iraqi military. they can't stand trump, i get it. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you will like our facebook page. we post a lot of original content there. we respond to your questions on video. mediabuzz@foxnews.com. stick to the media. continue the conversation on twitterer @howardkurtz. just back from las vegas and a lot of journalists are saying when is this thing going to be over? we are so tired.

on the other hand, this is the most fascinating and craziest campaign any of us have ever covered. so that gives us the energy to go and keep on doing it. we hope you'll keep coming back here. we're back next sunday at 11:00 eastern with the latest buzz. hillary clinton and donald trump targeting the key battleground states as the clock is ticking down toward election day. yesterday mr. trump hit several states starting in historic gettysburg, pennsylvania, where he unveiled that plan for his first 100 days in office if he wins. mrs. clinton appeared in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, alongside her running mate, senator tim kaine. and today both campaigns swinging through other key states, florida and north carolina included, states that could prove decisive for the race for the white house. hello and welcome to america's election headquarters. >> hi, eric.