since inciting legislation to tighten regulations on abortion clinics. and more recently executive order creating a prescription drug monitoring program to help deal with the open questions. that is it today. have a great week! we will see you next fox news sunday. howie: on the "buzzfeed" the media all >> i know there is a word out today supposedly that reince priebus knew all about this yesterday and they were going through the motions. i do not buy it for a second. i think this was executed gangland style. >> the situation in the white house in the last week was unsustainable. it could not continue like this. there needed to be a shakeup.

>> is basically not able to function and do his job. the best thing for everyone is for him to move on. >> is it share for the press; this chaos? is after scary muji vows to crack down on lakes to the press. >> you're either going to work inside the culture the way the president wants it will be on pennsylvania avenue out here, it is one of the other. >> when i put out a tweet and put reince priebus its name in there they assume it is because journalists know who the leakers are. so if reince priebus must explain that he is not a legal let him do that. there are people inside of the administration that think it is their job to save america from this president. that is not their job. >> can scaramucci really stop the leaks or the hopeless mission? and what about media criticism of the president castigating his own attorney general on twitter?>> how much longer

the attorney general be able to take all of this trolling? >> and he is thinking this is what it's like being president of the united states. my attorney general should defend me. he will be my protector. >> the very first senator who endorsed donald trump for president is now apparently donald trump's enemy according to donald trump. >> and some of the washington political elite, they are apoplectic about the attorney general jeff sessions being criticized by the president. he is a good man by the way. >> and are they taking his outing as donald trump? senate attempt to revamp obama care collapses. with john mccain -- are many cheering the republican failure?plus "rolling stone" is pining for new president who happens to govern our neighbors to the north. this is "mediabuzz".

>> it has been one breaking news bombshell after another or the media over anthony scaramucci declaring war on reince priebus and his language. and the president giving the job to general kelly. a classic shakeup with all such a commentary. and how the white house emerges from this tumultuous period. -- joe, the democratic strategist and a fox news contributor. given the saturation coverage of these ouster is, reince priebus before that it was sean spicer, the press using words like chaos and dysfunction. is it fair over the top? >> the white house did in a bit acknowledge themselves with the shakeup that things have gotten out of control. they need to reign the sin. there's too much freelancing,

too much leaking, i do not they use chaos but that kelly was here to restore order. i mean we have seen this play out in the media. inciting, backstabbing and now the white house is acknowledging that is the case by putting kelly in the two get order. >> care about 10,000 story saying that reince priebus is gone and now course is finally out. are they happy that he is left the job because he didn't get good press? >> i don't know if they are necessarily happy. i think that he would eventually go is accurate and that reince priebus - >> premature at times. >> i think he was put in a tough position of the president into a similar position as a steve bannon. there is not one keep a step and now they will be under kelly. and i think they want to make sure there's one person in charge to restore order, to make sure things are not happening. i think anthony scaramucci came in thinking he might be the one

to do that. now we hear that general kelly is in charge and i think he has very little patience for the drama and the chaos and hopefully moving forward we will see more water restored to the white house. >> john kelly is always a good reputation as a straight shooter but a low profile with the press. he will get more scrutiny. did they set expectations too high that he will come in and bark orders and everyone will salute? >> absolutely i think they are setting this too high. but the one thing i would like to remind everyone this past week -- the boy scouts, the pentagon, the police departments because of tweets that the president said in speeches pushed back against the president. and it points to the problem here that you can change the chief of staff but it still gets down to the communication problem that may not have been reince priebus or sean spicer. >> that has been a focus of a lot of the stories. that general kelly may be the

step of can he manage the boss who famously does things his own way? i do not know if that will change that much. the media have been going absolutely nuts over anthony scaramucci coming on like gangbusters. is this just good t.v.? >> some of this is just remarkable to think that a communications director, the person in charge of communications and messaging and to joe's point, communication messaging. there are good things that happened for the president's agenda. the announcement on jobs, heroes week, a boy scout, getting the recognition to the police officers that were at the shooting. but the communications director took them off of that communication message and the media, you know we have some high-profile going out there, the media followed the story. and that became the story and scaramucci became the news rather than other things happening at the white house.

to that point, i think they are trying to get the messaging back on straight and keep to the messaging. i do not know if kelly will be able to control scaramucci or the president's tweets.to that point it will be more of the same of the distractions and the off-topic messaging. >> will go back to more about what if and scaramucci. i think there was a phone call he believed was off the record. but he said there were people in the white house the thing that they have to save america from this president in the credit leaks and it may make them look better good. is he right?>> look, there are plenty of people in the white house again that give reporters stories. they want to get his or her narrative out to distract with the russian narrative for example. it is not all bad leaking. then for scaramucci to come out and accuses colleagues of leaking i think led to the response from some people saying the white house is out of control. i'm fearing for my safety to

come into work tomorrow. it is not a great environment to walk into when he is trying to build a new team and he himself has said i'm going to fire anyone and everyone in the white house and completely start over if we cannot get to the bottom of this. in terms of the leaking, we have to see if it stops. but i'm not convinced it is not coming from people at the top of the white house to simply get a storyline out. >> this type of leaking happens in every white house when you have different factions.it is one of the trademarks of this white house. there is more factions than anyone can even count. and so, how kelly or anybody can create a white house that you don't get the factions going to delete things -- quest a little bit of the battle because anthony scaramucci called the leaking, he said of the financial information and how much money he made from his former - a felony. and he tagged reince priebus.

politico put this out. and he did not back down. but leaking in this white house and every white house, haven't you been involved in campaigns we shared things he didn't want to attribute it to you? >> those things happen in every campaign and in every white house. again, it is about the factions. there are factions in the campaigns i was in that wanted me out.and vice versa. i'm not denying that. i am just saying that in this white house because of the way that the president set this thing up, with all of the different factions it becomes really impossible for any communications director or the chief of staff to maintain any kind of unanimity because of that. >> i just wanted to get the perspective that there is a lot of leaking that goes on here some out-of-control, some by

design, some at the direction of whoever is the boss. all right, another spectacular thing that happened this week was having to do with jeff sessions. the president continuing his campaign on twitter against his own attorney general and put up some tweets. number one, attorney general jeff sessions is the president has taken a very weak position on hillary clinton climbs wary there were email servers and leakers. and another one, so i aren't they looking into these clients?and - of bloomberg said you actually want jeff sessions to resign? why relay him twist in the wind. the president disputed that and then said this - >> but i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. almost immediately after he took office. and if he was going to recuse himself he should have told me prior to taking office. >> and note the presence that he would not have given him the job. the media describes this

campaign of humiliation to cyber bullying. is that a bit rough? the guy works for him and he is expressing his displeasure. >> you read the tweets. i don't think the president has ever publicly attacked the attorney general. maybe privately, maybe behind closed doors but publicly to your 30 something million followers attacking your attorney general. and not even over policy but over a decision that was made to retrieve yourself. commission investigation is open and you know it was an ethical decision he made. that is what, i think that is where the media was responding to. also then the republicans on the hill come to a concerted defense of him. there is also a response that. >> and the republicans, also many conservatives commentators criticizing the president for going after jeff sessions who they view as carrying on the agenda being aggressive in the justice department and so many of them have rallied. >> he is the former secretary

of state from ohio also in presence of voter fraud commission cannot defense of jeff sessions. many groups like the tea party patriots came out and said look, the obama administered to destroy the justice department, made it corrupt. jeff sessions is coming in, cleaning out and make sure the rule of law is restored. and if you look at the things that happened last week in terms of the ms-13 announcement.there were hundreds of members towards in el salvador and jeff sessions visited. getting results. an example people across working conservatives to liberals why the president would be attacking jeff sessions for a number of reasons. not just on that. >> right. and sessions in a conversation defended the recusal from the russian investigation. and he says he clearly wants to get some peace. joe, here's a liberal commentating. they said very nice things about the very conservative senator from alabama telling him not to resign. so subtle he is worthy of

defending because the president when they dislike even more wants him out? >> no. i think he did get a lot of support from liberals. there is a difference between not agreeing with him on a lot of policies implemented and his being an independent attorney general that the president should not be trying to force out in the wake of an investigation into the president. so there's a difference there about the rule of law and about protecting the institution of the attorney general. >> so much that they would let me get a break. when we come back, the president now dealing with anthony scaramucci and we will drill down on that as well. he has made some news. and later, a trump advisor on the coverage of all of this turmoil swirling around the white house. i've found a permanent escape from monotony. together, we are perfectly balanced,

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cleaning this up here he said he is a schizophrenic that will be asked to resign soon. he said he wanted to kill all of the lawyers and senior strategy steve bannon was -- pleasuring himself in an anatomically difficult way. this is debate over his crude talk and his efforts to find out whether reince priebus was leaking against him. >> i've never had someone at that level of communications director for the white house, sort of unsolicited call up and start in. for one on demanding to know who my sources are. this is not done, no one would do that. >> having all of the x-rated language out there from the

phone call doesn't look good. some find it offensive. but it had the effect of bringing a thousand times more attention to scaramucci's attacks on reince priebus and steve bannon and leakers in the white house.>> look, i don't leave for second it was not a planned and executed phone call from anthony scaramucci. when you look at the lineup of events sean spicer resigning last friday, this phone call comes in. he talks about reince priebus getting fired or being forced to resign. he resigned on thursday night and forced out on friday. he is forced to drive home alone away from the motorcade and then awkwardly does interviews from the white house friday night.i think it was planned and i think that scared and i think that scaramucci - >> and he wanted to get the message but maybe not all of those words recorded. by the way speaking of these words we cannot send television, all of this painting going on over his language.

i'm sorry, are these people, have you ever worked in a newsroom? >> right. we're not a bunch of schoolchildren here. we are grown-ups and we can take it. i mean, i will say and maybe - i have been a journalist for 16 or 17 years.i've never had someone call up and present on the phone like that. maybe once or twice. i've never had anyone - >> have you ever had a call from robin emanuel? a dead fish to his opponents? >> i did not. i very rarely have ever had someone and especially his spokesperson. communications present here maybe a lawyer for someone or banker but never someone in the role of a spokesperson for an organization curse at me on the phone. >> did you ever do it? >> it is way over the top on this. in fact, following on all of this language, it really missed something for me to be good it did not get very much attention. the fact that he was submit

digital fingerprints, having digital fingerprints on people in the white house. >> investigating who may be among the leakers. >> right.and he contacted the fbi to have him go against these petty leaks. not the national security leaks going on. >> right. >> what i mean is that the press did not follow up on those very much. he did not hear very much about that. i think they would have been more important to investigate that rest those questions then to get all tangled up in the language. >> some of this deals with tone and like scaramucci had said as a patriotic american he should tell him his source. and reince priebus do not delete that. i will get to that in a second but i am told it was a joke you know, so unpatriotic of you not to tell me. what this was about was a single tweet. about a white house dinner that scaramucci attended with a president with sean hannity. and bill shine and obviously

scaramucci did not want that to become public. so all of this suggests that you have to use really, you have not to drop in f bomb. now to the mess get here muddled by all of this? >> i think you put out some good points. i would encourage everyone to talk in respectful and we should each other because we are all professionals trying to do a job and i do not think it was ever respectful to use that kind of language. but you know, you are now i think the message would be that you're now the communications director. you are the spokesperson for the white house. for the president. >> don't become the story. >> don't become the story and think before you open your mouth. >> have you ever use less than decorative language? >> absolutely but - >> i was smart enough to say how i did this. i was smart enough to say how we would have an off the record conversation. when you said that yes we are, then bam.

>> the content of the conversation, going after reince priebus with so much in veracity and the tension within the white house. >> perhaps. >> is about the content into it is he is going after. >> i think because reince priebus ended up getting forced out. thank you all very much we will see a bit later. and on "mediabuzz" the president facing a media firestorm over transgender people in the military. why was this an us on twitter? and also once again a healthcare bill with john mccain calling it out. on some embarrassing gas. hey, you bought gas-x®! unlike antacids, gas-x ® relieves pressure and bloating fast. huh, crisis averted.

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senate while battling a brain tumor. >> after campaigning for seven years on a promise to repeal and replace obamacare in this critical moment they could not get it done. and it was senator john mccain the self-proclaimed maverick who delivered the final blow. >> this was a massive blow to republicans, the president and their defining pledge to the american people. in the very early morning hours here the latest push to overall obamacare came crashing down. >> joining is now we have the reporter that covered the story susan from the washington examiner. so we fall in and out of john mccain over the years but now with this decisive of "the new york times", a stunning moment, a flash of the maverick john mccain unafraid of going his own way. many i think are relieved that he essentially saved obamacare for now? >> yes! and i think is interesting. from the time he ran for president in 2000 until now the whole is he is a talkative lawmaker.we flocked to him

like a moth to the flame because he tells us what's going on. and he you know question about this is more what he did that what he said. he had done that before and move this forward to keep healthcare alive. then you would not have seen this narrative that he is a maverick and some kind of a hero. and that is all the media is supposed to be doing anyway which is covering the story. >> he did get some flack when he cast the initial vote which is a procedural vote. hoping that they could reach some kind of compromise.when he returns to the senate, john mccain also took a shot at this business take a look. >> stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and internet. to heck with them! [applause] >> speaking on behalf of loudmouths, was he talking about bombastic commentators on the right as well as a left? >> no! i could name them but you know the people that are heroes on

conservative radios that often come out against some of the leadership and republican party for being too moderate. they want to push it further. so - >> because they often criticize him about being a rhino. >> absolutely they're very sensitive to that on capitol hill and they are sort of back and forth there. i think they wish that he would be quiet you know. >> some republicans like mccain think that some of these folks who have a big following and are very influential on the right have too much power. they make them look bad.>> absolutely! and they do have power. these are, the talk radio on the right. - came out of conservative talk radio. the boast of his candidacy. they have the power to do that. there is reason for the republican leaders to be fearful of this. >> nest russian.

the media trying to play both sides. is there any way to spin this other than a total failure by republicans, the president by extension? and the gop on the hell they are talking about this seven years. >> well, first of all it is not over. still talking about moving this along. and you can look at this as a total failure on what they're trying to undo an entitlement pair which is nearly impossible for either party to try to reform over the years. >> do you think the magis aim too high? >> no, i just think that process, the politics, the entitlements and made it very difficult to do. it is not over though i do think that they will try to do something watch the next couple of weeks the congressional budget you may see something happen. >> sometimes is come back to life it happened with obamacare. and certainly with the house bill. susan ferrechio, great to see you. thank you for stopping by. and up next, president of former deputy campaign chief is waiting -- weighing in on the

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of view returned to a club advisor, and a fox news contributor. he sat down shortly before we came on the air. dave, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> and dysfunctional white house, the "washington post" floundering administration. the media narrative now is that this has been a mess. >> well, is "the new york times"! it is the fake news division across america. just a shakeup. >> dysfunctional nms is just over the top and the sensationalism you know in order to try to disparage this president. that really is part of the element that got him elected in the first place. the american people do not believe it. the american people cannot,

they believe it is big news. they believe that the american media now for stories on and tell it the way that they want to try and control and the president of the united states takes them on every day. using his social media platform and twitter and i like to tell the american people directly. without the media, directed when he believes. >> the winning president six months into his term. it would certainly suggest that there are some problems he is trying to fix. >> barack obama did this, george bush did it, clinton did it. everyone makes changes. it does not mean it is dysfunction. it means that people serve at the discretion of the president of the united states. and when he wants to make a change, it does not require catastrophe. it requires the president wanting to go in a different direction.

those are two different things. >> okay but here's one of the problems. reince priebus. white house officials are constantly leaking to the press about him. he got little respect. you think he was treated unfairly? >> now i think that reince priebus with all of the different factors we have all read about within the white house, was not set up to succeed if you will. he was not set up to fail but he was not set up to succeed from the get go. in the think it gave him a difficult set of circumstances to try and navigate. and i think general kelly will now come in. and be a commander of that white house. >> he is a no-nonsense - >> there austin that they report to the new chief of staff. that is a different characterization for them to put themselves in. to be subordinate to general kelly i think is an important first step. >> dues are that they will

salute? [laughter] >> a lot of unusual sympathy in the media in the last week or so for jeff sessions who has been targeted in a number of negative tweets. i think the media assumption is that the president would like his attorney general to quit. unfair? >> i think the president has been very clear and i think that attorney general jeff sessions fully understands that the president is disappointed in him recusing himself and making that initial decision which is cascaded into a major distraction. for the white house. >> for russia. >> it is a complete nonstory. it is a fabricated story. i worked on the campaign. this is an outrage to me. there are people, almost one year later talking about this worry when multiple congressional investigations, the department of justice,

independent investigation, millions of dollars of taxpayer money being wasted on these investigations. not one shred of evidence, 11 eight of evidence there has been any collusion between the russians and the trunk campaign.it is an outrage. that this continues. >> lester to the senate republicans failed to get a healthcare bill. they call this an embarrassment. the president not happy about it. in fairness, courage has multi been on mitch mcconnell. in the president, doesn't he share some responsibility that this is not gone through? >> i think it really lies. i think the american people understand the responsibility lies for those who have had seven years of planning to get to this point. it is not a surprise. action on the president's you know if you want to give them the. congress has had nine months to get this right on top of the seven years.that they ran election cycle after election

cycle to repeal and replace obamacare. we won the house, we won the senate. doesn't end dunn's associates over the issue. raise money on the issue to get the people elected.now they cannot do anything! you know, senators - >> they are frustrated. you sound frustrated. >> i am! it is really a failure of character. >> the donald trump's advisors, the media focuses too much on these things. we have had the changing of the guard of the chief of staff, last week with sean spicer resigning. that kind of forces its way to the top in the media agenda. in other words, do we really not have a choice but to focus on all of this turmoil? >> to me, obviously the news at the white house is a big deal. any news of the white house is a big deal. so a change in chief of staff is an honest story but cover it honestly!

do not cover it, not you but others, the media, the new york times, the "washington post". you know the media entities are after this president. that is the frustration that i have that they do not give him a chance because they don't honestly depict the stories. >> thank you david bossie for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> next on "mediabuzz" the president facing a media firestorm. this time over transgender in the military. and why does he announce it on twitter? causing him to stop, drop and roll. luckily jack recently had geico help him with renters insurance. because all his belongings went up in flames. jack got full replacement and now has new pants he ordered from banana republic. visit geico.com and see how affordable renters insurance can be.

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media criticism at the president treated a new policy that would bar transgender people from serving the military. that was evident of the white house. why did you decide to do this since during the campaign he said he would protect the rights of transgender individuals? having them better on the issue than hillary clinton. what - >> joining is now we have emily, commentary writer for the washington examiner and francesca chambers, white house correspondent for daily mail.com.whether you agree with this and i he knew there had to be a combination. and we talked about the campaign about fighting for the rights of the lgbtq community.

>> yes and he understand social media and he knew this had to have an effect. >> people complained they were out of the loop on this. >> yes and it loving to massive store in a day where healthcare was probably foremost on the minds of most voters around the country. and in fact a lot of people. and that's what they were wondering about that they. >> francesca yes on this spectacle of supporters and sarah huckabee sanders in the breathing. have transgender people already having that would be expelled. and she was unable to answer the questions. >> is what makes this so fascinated. the department of defense to know about that this was happening and they have sarah huckabee sanders unable to say when the policy would take place. how long we could expect for this to be implement it and i think that is what made this such a media interest story with once again, the disconnect between the president and one of his cabinet secretaries.

>> there seems to be a lot more energy in the media on this on the left. so by our account, cnn announced that 36 segments in it msnbc 29 segments, fox news did eight segments. so there was a lot of outrage at the present would even go there. >> i think a lot of the mainstream newsrooms are dominated by people in socially progressive cities with similar backgrounds and for them this was a priority in a way that it is not. and i don't think they understand that the rest of the country people are still very deeply hesitant about transgender. and people are still in some areas just plainly ambivalent. and probably more concerned about healthcare than they are about this issue which of course is very important to the people but healthcare was affecting a lot of other people also on a different scale. >> and newsrooms mostly have progressive people that naturally feel this was the wrong move?>> i think part of the reason people were asking about it and covering it was because there was a lot of interest in it.

there's a lot of interest in this for people and whether you on the left or the right. but also on the day another thing was happening. what i had seen the press briefing, what in heck was going on with jeff sessions? so it is not just necessarily that they would be talking about healthcare but they would've also had to take more questions on jared kushner and the russia collusion story, there would have been additional questions on jeff sessions probably. there also is rex tillerson and the break he was taking. there was a lot of other things that were going on at that time. so it is not necessarily true that there would be in a conversation about healthcare. >> agreed but that is what is interesting to me. when you go to different news websites, they this was the headline. >> this was the big story for that day.>> that is what's interesting to me. because there's always this news impact. >> the policy not yet taking effectively depended on till a formal order.

meanwhile there has been, is a good example and lots of media criticism let's just say unorthodox whether the president makes and announces decisions or announces a new chief of staff. he tweets speech is sometimes seemingly offhand. because he has thrown out the traditional models as a result the campaign. and this president does things differently.>> that he treated this is no surprise. again, with policies. i think it is wrong but - >> why is it wrong? >> i think it, this policy had basically invited people in the military to make a very personal psychological decision in the past year. what you can agree with or not but it is very personal and psychological and to tweet this downplays it. >> do think that he should not use twitter to announce the presidential decisions? i mean why not? >> in this instance manipulate made a decision to come out in the military, these are people serving their country and putting their lives on the line. you can make a decision to

agree with the decision or not but - >> this even extends to the staff shakeup we have all been taking about. ordinarily have the president with thanks reince priebus, welcome general kelly, the same with sean spicer leaving. and the media doesn't like this could have accredited -- a grudge about this. >> and his administration you can go to his twitter in front of what he is thinking. he just said the staff cannot keep up with what is going on and so the power, is very concentrated with the executive administration. >> is a social media president for the 21st century. thank you for stopping by this sunday. after the break, more on the anthony scaramucci storm. the x-rated brand that he thought was off the record and his attempt to clarify that. prevagen has been shown

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crude tirade raises journalistic questions. and they say he never put the call of the record so he is entitled to publish it. then anthony scaramucci believed that this was off the record and later tweeted i made a mistake and it will not happen again. so the good reporter also a liberal voice, did he burn him? >> i don't know really the details of how the conversation took place. traditionally the way i offer this as a reporter, someone calls me they're not used to doing the parties are not familiar with on the record or off the record. i give people the benefit of the doubt that they are talking

to me something personally when we are one on one. i think what makes it different is that this is the communications director. so in charge of communications. again, he talked immediately years even had his own t.v. program. he knows how the media works. when you call up of the of something to say that you don't want on the record acting as a spokesman you have to say that in make it clear. >> no question about that. but i've got dozens of questionably is from politicians and others in a way they would not want published. and i would jump in and say okay, are we talking here on the record? see what this attributed to you? because otherwise it feels to me like a little bit of gotcha. they are trusted me enough to unload and not carefully weigh every word. and i say you didn't say the magic words off the record so now i'm going to use this. but it is a judgment call. >> i would imagine there is a lot of debate about this in the newsroom. the question also, is there

news value to this? wonders value do we have? how does this help advance the story if we use this on the record even if they did not say off the record? i do not know if they went back into trying and discuss any of this at all.>> there was a follow-up call that scaramucci did not technically put off the record. and there was news value in that conversation. >> and he was very clear on a lot of the issues. >> and so we have reporters covering the crusade against the white house leakers. many reporters also are the recipients of the leaks. so is there too much self interest to treat this fairly? >> once this leaked or once leaks really became a party of the president and the attorney general, that is when i mean, i feel the organization really started following the leak story and it became a news story because it was a priority of the present. it was an initiative of the president. we write about what the president finds important what he is doing.

>> and you get leaks though regardless of that because you are a journalist. >> and if we get a leak it is what we will write about. descriptively to split them of this is a major focus of the president and administration. >> thank you shannon for doing extra duty. good to see.this sunday still coming, "rolling stone" storms over justin trudeau. but has another job in mind. stay with us. [laughs] ah... ahem... show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. ykeep you sidelined.ng that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you.

>> we in the t.v. business have all struggled on how to report anthony scaramucci's phone call. you saw me dancing around it earlier. this is a matchup from vice media. >> anthony scaramucci went off in an exploit entry. i cannot read all of the words. we can at least give you an idea. he said -- all of the leakers. he said reince priebus is a

quote - blank, blanking, bleeping, schizophrenic. >> holy blank! kind of a >> moment. "rolling stone" is out with a cover story in justin trudeau as just possibly the free world's best host. in the cover headline, why can't he be our president? when "rolling stone" despises donald trump that we know that the owner loved barack obama, endorsed obama an effect his web is canadian is as of the prime minister reminds him of obama. so let's look at the last sentence here justin trudeau's cabinet looks like a beautiful place you write out an american storm. well, i am sure that "rolling stone" could find a very nice office there, right? don't you think? that is it for this edition of "mediabuzz".

i'm howard kurtz. check our facebook page, give us a like. also we will continue the debate on twitter. let me know what you think on email. we tried to read all emails. we appreciate you joining us. there is so much news here every week we try to jam it all in. we are back your next sunday at 11 eastern. with your latest buzz. >> and an alert this afternoon and a sharp response from russia to the new sanctions bill passed by congress. president vladimir putin ordering the us embassy in moscow to cut the staff by an astounding 755 diplomats and aides. the bill is expected to be signed by the president. hello welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's news headquarters". i'm eric shawn. >> everyone i am arthel neville. and the order comes after the house and senate voted almost unanimously to slap new sanctions on russia for the