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unpaiunpaid optatives will waito that. >> this couldn'ted as soon as the nine minute address is over. >> this is a humanitarian crisis. a crisis of the heart and soul. >> there are a half dozen things that were wrong. the big scam is he thinks there is a crisis. >> it could have come with a surgeon generals warnings. the president made a powerful compelling case on the wall. this is a national emergency and is situation is dyer. >> they move from accuse tor -- accuse torrey. also what about the article about donald trump acting as a
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agent. jeff bazos was having an affair with a tv journalist. we have more on the tv buzz. president trump is pushing back against two pieces breaking this weekend. they lost parol after the jim js
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comby firing. trump concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with putin. joining us now to analyze the coverage is beverly president of district media group and tv and radio producer. we have the culture analyst at the federalist. emily, they said days after the comby firing, according to sources. officials were so concerned by the president's behavior they investigated whether he was working on behalf of russia against america interest, big story? >> i searched this link on twitter to see what various journalist were saying about it. there is incredible eagerness among journalist to see the indictment of donald trump then the fbi. you get nine paragraphs down of the new york times report there is a note that says no public
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evidence has emerged to say he was taking money from the russian government. >> let me ask, richard. the president called into the show on fox last night and he said of the new york times story it's the most insulting article i have ever had written. this is the ninth paragraph. no evidence has been proven that he took money from russian government officials. >> a few things, it comes from what came from the mueller report. >> mueller is taking it over. >> both members is two parts. part of it is counter intelligence. they are working to protect our trade secrets and the other part is criminal. the counter intelligence investigation is different. >> it's a real shocker. it's graded as a news story. >> when you think of all of the
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news story they are not of any importance. they have not leaked anything. if it's not based on a court filing from the mueller report or team i give it less credibility. >> the washington post story said the president on several occasions concealed the details of his face-to-face encounters with putin. he took notes from his own interrupter. they didn't discuss what inspired. that's unusual but how damaging is it? >> it's damaging from a media narrative for this reason. trump said there has been no collusion and that's what mainstream media would like to attach him to but having notes for the meetings. we don't want everything released to the media. if we wants to help himself he
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does have recordings and for his own credibility they would like to damage him based on collusion and connection with russia. he should realize that and be above bar. >>reporter: this is the reason why he might not want to share details. worried about leaks. this story is an example of that. so were his phone conversations with world leaders. sometimes transportations were released. maybe he doesn't trust the people around him. he said i don't care, i'm happy to have this released. let's go back to the media hype. what did you make, as you saw at the top of commentators and anchors accusing the president of lying before he delivered the speech. >> it's the exinhibit ambition of the media. they assume the various thunks about donald trump. in some cases he has problems
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trafficking straight facts. there is no question about that and it's true. >> one quick example he said the former president supported him on the border wall. expresident's said that's not true. >> there are clear-cut examples. when they do things like this they muddy the water that's not helping. the fact checking was unhelpful. some of the fact checks were unbelievable. the things they rated misleading were, you know, how an exnumber of illegal aliens came across the border. >> some of them were misleading. he said mexico would pay for the wall and then said if we pass the trade deal the u.s. treasury will come up with $25 million. >> i agree. >> we have the sound bite. this is going out of order
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folks. this is what approximate president said after repeatedly saying we can play the tape all day long. this is what he had to say challenging news reports. >> i know the fake news likes to say it. when during the campaign i would say mexico will pay for it, obviously, i never said this and never meant they will write out a check. i said they will pay for it. >> well, that's a bit of the stretch and he's blaming the press. they shut down point out inconstancy. what's going on with all of the lying is on a whole different level. >> it's an complete double standard. this isn't the first oval office address. they didn't know if they wanted to cover it.
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>> why do you think they debated. we shouldn't cover it live. >> they hate him so much the office of the presidency should deserve the respect of it being taped and recorded. you would never here this by president of obama. i believe one of the reason they decided to cover it is so they could talk about the wall of misinformation. also because you have the rebuttal by nancy and chuck. they thought this would have been good tv. this is a seven minute address. in most cases i agree. they should be covered by all of the news outlets. this was not an unifying address. there is a difference when you sit by hind the desk and give a national address. >> you are criticizing the speech. we are talking about if she
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should have gotten nine minutes of broadcast air time. >> the reason being is it wasn't an address, like we all have to come together. this is a campaign speech he gave for seven minutes. >> lit me go to another sound bite. he walked out. there is a dispute about the facts. this is the sound bite. >> i didn't pound on the table, i didn't raise my voice. that was a lie. i don't have temper tantrums. it plays to his narratives. >> he's blaming the fake news. there is no dispute that he walked out. he said he said bye-bye. they were quoting the democratic leaders on the record. >> it's news worthy when it owes on the record when there are the democratic leaders in the house.
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i don't know if it's true it's fair and fair for the president to come on and rebut it. >> okay, there has been a media freak out over the president saying he will use emergency powers to get funding from other areas. for now he said he won't do that. lindsey graham said he spoke to him this morning and said he would rather make a deal. you would think the media criticism may have been a factor. >> not only did he have criticism from conservatives but from the house. you cannot do this. if you want to get money from the wall come to congress and make a deal. there is room for a deal to be done. the president needs to move off the deal that he will get $5 billion for his wall no matter what. >> there may be a deal but both
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said it's worth it. i asked those who wrote the story about the leak and he told me it's our job to convince people to tell us what happens inside. that's true whether they are white house officials, members of congress, or other journalist. these stories are revealed because they get past the talking point. emily jashinsk, someone inside that room betrayed him. >> absolutely. i don't think it's something he never would have expected it to happen. he's sitting in the room of journalist and they were briefed on the meeting. i don't know what that means. they are obviously not fans of him. it's going to leak. what's interested about this i can see him saying this on the record. >> that part is true. >> i'm told the tone was lighter. those genius thought it would be
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great. he tweeted about the off-the-record brief. he said who would have believed how bad it's gotten. beverly, i have reported on off-the-record meetings because i wouldn't bound by an agreement. if i was in the room i wouldn't tell anybody about it because you are giving your word unless the white house agrees to put it on the record. >> they broke the ethic rules you expect journalist to have. if you want to get good information to write better stories they will find more and more people, not just the president but higher ups that won't come forward with what's going on. the president has a point that leaks happen. >> the rest of the reporters should be serious. it makes future off-the-records less likely to happen. >> i spoke to my fox news colleague. he was in the luncheon and he
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said this is horrible. he said a reporter approached him about what went on and he wouldn't discuss it at all. he made the point that the white house might stop doing these. you shouldn't have off-the-record journalist but it's useful. you can find out what the president is thinking. i reached out to chuck todd and they said they couldn't discuss it because the meeting was off-the-record. it comes down to the question if you go eat the meal and accept the ground rules can you turn around and dish about what was on the menu. >> i actually agree with that. i don't think you can. those meetings are private. i remember the days on the obama white house. there is a risk when you make decisions like that. you give a punch -- bunch of
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people in. you know what will happen. >> what you don't want, what the white house does want is journalist to say, well, the thinking in the white house is or the emphasis on the speech is. this is what is said in a light or light moment. he has has the right to go bonkers. >> that's why this is a needless gift of ammunition to donald trump. he makes the press look like fake news and liars. it didn't have to happen. they could have go gotten him to say this on the record. >> they do the best job to cover the facts. when clouded by this this creates problems. >> he enjoys it because he likes to get out there on twitter. he said he's upset with the leak there is an aspect to that plays
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will leave the justice department in the coming weeks after a new attorney general is confirmed. >> fox news can confirm the man overseeing the mueller investigation deputy general rod rosenstine will depart in the coming weeks. around the time that the president attorney general will i can't remember bar is confirmed. that meant mueller could operate without the man who appointed him. not so fast, other media outlets said rosenstine wasn't leaving so quickly. >> our indication are that rosenstine wouldn't leave until he was confident that the mueller investigation was done or nearly done. >> if the deputy a.g. stays on until the end that's an very different the story. when paul manafort's story of a screwed up court filing. they said the former chairman shared poling data with a business associate tied to
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possible collusion. the new york times said manafort asked that the polling be passed to a russian person close to the kremlin. that was wrong. they wanted the data to guys in the ukraine. the daily caller ran a pretty inflammable headline about a congresswoman getting so much attention. this is the photo they described as a nude selfie from alexandria ocasio-cortez. the story itself said the photos were not of the congresswoman but of sidney leather. she engaged with anthony weiner. she tweeted about it calling it disgusting behavior. they changed the headline saying we regret the error.
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a fake image was circulating online. the headline was pure click bate. ahead on media buzz, what jeff bazo blockbuster divorce will mean for amazon. a media frenzy over micheal cohen. why it may not be that big of a blockbuster. one-millionth order. millionth order. ♪ there goes our first big order. ♪ 44, 45, 46... how many of these did they order? ooh, that's hot. ♪ you know, we could sell these. nah. ♪ we don't bake. ♪ opportunity. what we deliver by delivering.
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news that micheal cohen will testify before a house commit tie caught a media explosion from those who can't wait to here from donald trump's former lawyer before he goes to prison. >> spilling his guts and telling everything he knows about president trump. micheal cohen will testify publicly. >> cohen's decision has prompted comparisons to former white house john dean that broke ranks
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with president nixeson in 1973. >> the first question is last time you were here you lloy lieo us. are you lying then or now. >> joining us now is buck sexton. the radio host. also bill press from the bill press and friends podcast. the medias as we just saw he's the new john jean. he will tell everything he knows. it's like they are imaging rudy. he had the magic bullet. >> they are excited they can revisit all the things cohen has already said. >> you are talking about stormy daniels. >> he's an known and admitted fabricator. he's lied on both sides of the issue and he will bring up the same things we heard in the past and allow for the speculation olympics to go on around russian
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collusion or campaign payoff. despite the fact they never seem to get us to the point they say they will take us to where trump did something e illegal. >> this is why cohe cohen's alls are saying. he won't get into anything involving the mueller investigation. mueller would oppose that. he's been cooperating. now he's come clean and telling the truth. this will be a let down for a lot of journalist. >> i understand the buzz, i'm not a part of it. this guy for 12 years was donald trump's personal attorney, his fixer if you will. he arranged the payments to the women. it's a big deal. he's the centerpiece of the new york attorney general investigation. the new york u.s. attorney investigation. the mueller investigation.
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it's a big deal to have him testify. i worked for jerry brown and his motto was lower you investigation. >> lilen anyny davis said it wie personal and not partisan. he will be expoliced in the dirty deeds. he's broke and he's using this as a chance to vindicate his reputation and explain the past. we spoke in the program about the president's oval office address. the day of the address, hours before he had this to say this to kelly-ann. >> yes, can you promise you will? am i able to mention that to you. make sure that goes viral. by the way, this is why i'm the
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only people around here that gives you the time of day. let me get back in your face because you are such a smart-ass and would like this to go viral. >> white house correspondent saying can you guarantee the president will tell the truth. >> jim plays a very important role. he makes it effectively impossible to continue the charade you have. from a broad editorial prospective they launder liberalism to the audience. they believe they are getting object they've news. they believe they are getting the fact. when you see acosta do something like this it was meant to undermine. >> you need to go to the white house briefings.
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>> they don't have briefings anymore. >> the president talks to journalist everyday. >> if you are a correspondent for cnn where you used to work is that an acceptable tone to take. >> i do not work for cnn and i'm not here to defend cnn. i will defend jim acosta. an anchor asked if you will tell the truth tonight. i believe it's important when the president said mexico will support the wall. they arrest 4,000 terrorist and they didn't. that was a legitimate question. wait, i want to make this point. i believe she's very good. on that day she lost it. she was amateurish and she
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should not have fallen and walked into his trap. >> this is gym acosta asking them to stop beating your fill in the blank he won't stop doing this. this is a terrible commentary on the way of so-called journalist. >> it's not the white house reporter's job to necessarily be liked by everybody. it's their job to ask questions. >> if someone asked obama if he would lie tonight you would yell be mad. >> i have gone to the briefings. go back to helen thomas. people were thorns in the side of the white house. >> you are inflating aggressive journalism. i want to talk about legitimate fact checking. last weekend chris wallace had sarah huckabee sanders on and
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challenged her about the claims that 4,000 known or suspected terrorist came through the border illegally. he said no, those were picked up at airports. kelly ann went on tv and said she misspoken. there is some legitimate fact checking going on not just with fox. >> this was a miss by the administration. to bill's point a moment an go they should get heat. there was some truth to the way they proposed these facts initially. it wasn't misleading. kelly ann corrected it. there are a lot of complex issues that come into play. >> i said brovo to fox and friends and smith. he went to the speech and said here is what he got wrong.
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>> i'll give them your address and they can send flowers. after the break, ocasio-cortez is picking all kinds of fights through the press. will she remove her status as a media darling. also the tabloids exposition of jeff bezos. how do you kind of buy a new car? it's used. it's for mikey. you know he's gonna have girls in that car. yeah. he's gonna have two of them. great benefits for veterans from navy federal credit union... our members are the mission.
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alexandrialexandria ocasio-cort. they warned her that she and her party were about to get subpoena power. here is what she said on 60 minutes. >> some people suggested that was an abuse of power on your part. >> if he felt really threatened by me i apologize, but i think frankly it's legal advis advicey person would give. >> why is she getting so much attention? joining us a new york journalist and david u.s. politics editor for daily mail. she did apologize to donald trump jr. that episode captured her shoot first style of tweeting. >> it was the kind of apology my 10-year-old daughter would give to my 14-year-old daughter.
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she won't have the power to investigate anybody. she won't be on the intelligence committee. maybe fina financial services. she has an inflated sense of her power. they helped her buoys that sense. she's small town and goes to yale or dartmouth and finds herself in the bottom 10% of her class. >> i wouldn't suggest that. you are a new yorker, do you see a clash between ocasio-cortez style and tradition bound dc establishment and media establishment. >> absolutely, i think alexandria ocasio-cortez is very direct. she has a no nonsense way about her. she grew up in the bronx. there might be a place for that. it will be interesting to see how that plays with the rest of
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her party. we saw a lot of democrats are saying and some with her own ideology. an ideology she embraces as well. they say she's not quiet fitting in and how will she find her place within the party to pull for this progressive agenda. she would like to move forward. >> you are pulling from a story that democrats are trying to reign in ocasio-cortez. the post gave her four pinokyos in the fact check. there is no such fund to finance medicaid for all. this is the tweet. the same number of pinokyos of how many americans died in puerto rico. she pushes back allot on journalist. >> it's not only that, howie. during her campaign she banned
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journalist completely. she was upset with cbs for not having black journalist. she went after one reporter for refusing to second of all steven king a racist. she sees herself as the far left trump. she will satisfy the progressive base. the question is whether or not the older established democrats in congress have their own way of doing this. don't throw so much fuel on the fire. we all look bad. >> there is one similarity to trump. she's sticking it from the left, her fans and they like that. chilly, let me play more of the anderson cooper interview on 60 minutes about her being fast and lose with the facts coming up. >> there are more people concerned about being precisely
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factually correct then being morally right. >> being fac factually correct s important. >> what do you think about being morally correct is better than getting your facts right? it's about having the right facts. >> i see what she's trying to do. she's trying to move a way from her mistakes and minimize them a bit. can you minimize big inaccuracies not just from her. i think it would be been better to own up to the inaccuracies more. she did this more on twitter. i heard a sense of sarcasm as well. if she's trying to push this progressive agenda something her own party shies a way from. some of the democrats in the house and senate then you really need to make sure your facts are sound. if you want people to believe
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what you are trying to, again, push forward then you have to have a very bullet proof set of armor on you. that comes with sound facts. >> one thing i would have to say it's not the $21 trillion thing in the military. ocasio-cortez spoke about defending ice. she voted to defend ice as part of a big appropriation. i question if she was aware of that. it's not a matter of sometimes being honest and correct but a matter of competence. >> when she said on twitter pushing back on facts. she feels almost to have a chip on her shoulder about the media challenging her. >> she's a media darling. with power comes great
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responsibility. she has a huge social media platform with 2.2 million twitter followers. she's going to have more eyes on her. i don't know the statistics in terms of whether she's being under fire more than someone else. what i can say is this is the realty of the situation. it is what it is. >> when you invite that kind of attention you will get more scrutiny. chelsea and marcie, thank you so much. megan kelly's divorce is final. she will be paid the rest of her $69 million contract. she will be free to take another television job. i believe they used this to force her out over sagging ratings. susan is a surprise choice to take-over cbs news. she earned the job but can't hurt the network to have a woman
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pal. let's start with the business aspect. i'm tempted to say jeff bezos life is his business. >> you read those e-mails, come on. >> we'll get to that in a moment. >> i used to do a finance column for david pecker's fitness column. there are two stories here. he owns 16% of amazon stock. she's likely to get a chuck of his assets. she could be one of the leading sharers at amazon. does the company run differently if the wife -- macenzi bay soacs
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involved. she might have a post numb nump. >> there is a brief clip of the president being asked about the bezos divorce. >> mr. president trump, do you have reaction to jeff bezos divorce. >> i wish him luck, it will be a beauty. >> no love lost there. >> just to remind people. the national inquirer put-out a statement they have been investigating this story and this is the type of investigative reporting they do. david pecker and others got immunity after admitting working with the trump campaign to buy and suppress stories involving stormy daniels and karen
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mcdoogle. >> i know people that know the president and jeff bezos. the president despises jeff bezos. he believes he's editing the washington post. bezos said listen, i spoke to the editor twice a year and it's about finances. this is the thing, that was my initial reaction. this is a hit job by david and it's not better than the national inquire. yet, everything seems to be accurate about the story. the question becomes is this a worthy news story, i kind of think it is. it involves a high profile person, a lot of money, amazon stock. people want to read the dirty sort of laundry of the rich and famous. >> on that point, i should say
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representatives both put-out the world they were separated from their respective spouses. leaving that aside, if this is world's richest guy, amazon is the largest company. why hasn't there been nothing in the new york times and washington post. cnn has done a bit and others have done a bit. no one said the photos aren't authentic. >> they would have come out and said it already. >> are they protecting bezos. >> everybody is. i'm read iting left and right. you will saying the time -- >> if the times are covering the divorce but not all of the stuff the inquirer found. maybe it's so unseemly they don't want to do it. it e-mail just raising the question. >> there is a value to reading
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this stuff. i've read it and everybody else has read it. the real story is the divorce, the money, amazon, and the political aspect of whether he's been set up by someone who hates him that has a friend in the powerful tabloid. >> that's where we'll end it. that's it for this edition of media buzz. check out my podcast media buzz meter. you can subscribe at apple i teenitunes. check out our facebook page. we are also on twitter. we'll be back here next sunday. see you with the latest buzz. there's little rest for a single dad,
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president trump going on the offensive. there were reports that raised new questions about his relationship with russia and his one-on-one meetings with vladimir pu putin. >> the president is slamming a new york times story that claims he's firing a fbi director james comby. this is as the president also pushes back against the washington post report claiming he went to quote extraordinary link to hide details. even keeping senior white house officials in the dark.