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>> his spin on it like everybody does. trump claiming exone moment, ge. bush landing on the aircraft carrier. >> media partisan crank up the volume as attorney general says historical power you would endorse? >> there's one key thing, we know that there was no he think there was spying but has no specific evidence. collusion. actually i'm very willing, we've had a white house aid speaking >> ashame to see bill to press, months with a special two-time attorney general. inte. counsel team, of course, negative assessment and i'm the fbi and doj were not spying on the trump campaign. willing to wait, there's no way around it, that's mission >> attorney general barr dealing a major blow to liberals accomplished and cleared of everywhere saying trump was right, the campaign was spied collusion. >> mission accomplished, i agree
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on. with no collusion, there still >> crucial debate or hot air as could be a lot coming from we wait bill barr to release liberal point of view, they are looking for something, that mueller report. something could be really, denied by the white house that really bad and -- he may flood sanctuary cities >> in terms -- obviously the mission accomplished reference was not done as complement to with detainees, pushing out the current president, but in terms of looking for something, kirstjen nielsen. once report comes out in coming >> if the rest of her life, they will think that's the woman who days endless media demands echoing the democratic subpoena, well, let's see the redacted put children in cages. portions of grand jury, does that reflect that there's always >> if you go to prison you get separate from your family. something, as soon as we find out one more thing -- >> we have never seen a president do systematic hurt to >> isn't that the basis of journalism, you are trying to dig in and spy on something homeland security, won't tell that's not there at face value. him what is wrong or illegal. redacted paper when it's black every, where i can understand >> it's not like secretary anybody from either side, you are going to wonder, i can't nielesn couldn't have spoken up read this at all, what does it sooner. even say if this is all black. then, in fact, lie about the >> the basis of journalism and policy. should not be done, we haven't proven it yet. >> but now they want to destroy >> you're biased and you are going there with a mission, you have to go there with open eyes
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her, make her perria, maddens, and unfortunately it doesn't happen all of the time. it's venomous. half a minute. how much of the whole debate is >> the president slamming "the new york times" over immigration media filling air time and the way we actually see 400 page story and saying it'll be gone report? >> it is interesting that we are in 6 years. able to argue for a report that we haven't seen. julian assange arrested, lawyers but didn't rise for level for argue whistle-blowing journalist. behind the scenes, a whole lot of fighting and feuding but has charge. the show become more relevant that's district federal court case, fellow prosecutor cases with strong conservative voice? i'm how wart kurtz -- howard doing 20 investigations happening, this was narrow investigation about russia and kurtz and this is media buzz. the russian government. >> we will all await the report, shake in homeland security ♪ >> 5 words on capitol hill, media explosion hitting those sparks and many have changed who believe mueller probe is legitimate to those improperly launched. view whether he's somehow acting that did nothing to cool things like a journalist.
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off. >> i think there's spying did occur but the question is if it's properly predicated. i'm not saying that improper surveillance occurred, i'm saying that i am concerned about it and looking into it, that's all. but hey, we're all in this together. >> president trump having declared himself exonerated right, champ? wants to investigate the -i'm getting more nuggets. -how about some carrots? investigators. >> these were bad people and you don't want to ruin your dinner. this was an attempted coup, this -you're not my dad! -that's fair. was an attempted takedown of a overstepped. president and we beat them, we beat them. >> joining us to analyze the coverage, culture editor at the federalist. kristina partsinevelos, correspondent for fox business network and clarence page, columnist for chicago tribune. emily, spying, he's using
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trumpian language to favor. >> trumpian language is the key. this is part of an effort to depict barr who may be hiding or aiding the president's efforts to being exonerated in mule e -- mueller probe. the dictionary definition of -that's fair. touch shows how we really feel. word spying to surveillance. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? if we can all agree that carter embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz, page was surveilled, spied on, the first and only treatment of its kind make same exact thing but they offering people with moderate to severe psoriasis mean the same thing, it's an a chance at 100% clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of people quickly saw effort to depict bill barr as a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. someone who is bidding trump don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections campaign. >> barr clarified that he does and lower your ability to fight them. have concerns, so you think that tell your doctor if you have an infection, symptoms, some of the press oversimplified or received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz, the story essentially turning
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sound bite in several days of including worsening of symptoms. serious allergic reactions can occur. coverage? ready for a chance at 100% clear skin? >> isn't what we see often? i think just to your point, ask your doctor about taltz. emily, barr is not a novelist, he knew the words he would use, would get people loud, he did not supply any evidence and maybe he will in the future, the fact that he switched to surveillance, maybe i went too far, here we are debating it, maybe i looked up the definition that spy and surveillance, but overall, it was on silver platter and using it now to campaign, you see the text messages of spying, donate $28. down two runs in the ebottom of the ninth. because there's always another game on deck. with mlb extra innings on xfinity x1, you'll get up to >> but clarence, we have known all along that there was surveillance of carter page. 90 out of market games per week with mlb.tv included. get all the body sacrificing catches, [laughter] home plate heroics, and 6-4-3 double plays. >> yeah. a lot of pages in the story.
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plus, with x1 you can get every stat and every score let's turn to page here, that was uncovering any proper ties to russia, not necessarily aimed all with the power of your voice. that's simple. easy. awesome. at the campaign, are order mlb extra innings for a great low price and get mlb.tv included with your subscription. conservatives seeing spy words, go online to learn more. declare victory for their point of view. >> both sides are oversimplifying. our job is to simplify but you >> the images were just stunning, british police don't want to oversimplify, barr arresting jillian assange leading out of ecuadoran embassy is a reputable man, high in london where he's been for 7 credentials, that's why he won years, facing u.s. criminal praise initially. charges tie today leaking to but this was really amusing, by military and diplomatic material back in 2010. the way, spying did go on, he president trump deflected reporter's question on the didn't define it, against who, what actually happened and arrest. saying i'm very concerned about >> i know nothing about it. wikileaks, that's not my thing. and then the possibility -- he said, he started fudging the >> assange trying to make the case that he was operating, whole thing. well, like a reporter. this was certainly very helpful for donald trump, promotion for future rallies he has but didn't >> any journalist can be extradited for prosecution in the united states for having
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answer any questions, just raised them. published truthful information >> actually the way he framed about the united states. the conversation was the question whether it was >> everything i've document, adequately predicated or not which i think speaks to how much videos of killing of innocent testimony was overall. civilians, war crimes, this is [laughter] journalism. >> barr did say he is having >> kristina, jillian assange who help chelsea manning reveal justice department look fbi by diplomatic information in 2010, manning got 35-year sentence, media people on the right. helped them hack in pentagon >> his approach during testimony, again, i will use the word measured, he's not coming computer saying he's acting like out with bluster, he's saying, a journalist, really? we need to get to the bottom of >> they teach you that you cannot do anything for the it, there are fair and active journalism and if that legitimate questions as to what involves doing criminal happened and i'm pursuing them. activities, paying someone, does that involve violence, bribery, he's saying we are raising questions and pursuing. that's not the justified way to >> to that point i agree with you and i think he's not going pursue journalism and pursue a to show all of his cards just story and other situations with this case that could indirectly yet. the big question is should he have heard a lot of activists in other countries and things like have said that to begin with? that and also the other point why drop the bomb, spy, it's too, data dump, he threw a lot very sexy, we are all talking of information in wikileaks, is
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that considered journalism when about it. you are putting documents on. not as sexy as surveillance. we are talking about it. >> classified information, they >> two media narratives, polar talked to u.s. officials, redacting, hold things back, opposites, you have the mueller jeopardize somebody's life. investigation which as we now know no further criminal charges he didn't do any of that. let's talk about shifting, but nevertheless many people during this time in iraq war media conservatives denounced defend legitimate and you have assange and when president obama the flawed steele dossier, lisa commuted manning sentence after 7 years very critical, page and peter strzok, fast-forward to 2017, hacking illegitimate investigation and conservative press keeps promoting that. dnc emails and repeatedly trump it's amazing that it's the same i leftant -- elephant and people said this. are seeing it in a different >> wikileaks has provided things way. that is unbelievable. >> everybody will take the story and put it to reflect their own echo chamber which is often the wikileaks has new stuff, brutal stuff, wikileaks, i love case, we, doesn't have to be lie wikileaks and sean hannity says that, it'll be a continuous that assange is more credible story, we spoke about this 3 than media mob. years, 22 months of >> absolutely, there's no way investigation, fbi people were around that.
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involved, they're saying that there was no criminal collusion that's the case in so many different stories. within this report, read it -- julian assange not a good actor, bad actor in politics, i think may be corruption, maybe other things going on, i don't know, but what we do know it's not kristina point there critical collusion, you can infer point, data dump, difference whatever you want but that's not the job of a journalist. between journalism and conspiring with people which he's alleged to have done. >> evidence did not rise to a alleged to have done, exactly. level to be able to charge collusion and that there were but there's a question about the precedent here, we don't have inconclusive over obstruction of gatekeepers in the media. justice charges. there's reason to be concerned. a lot languaging. >> right, that's that's a fair point. he wasn't charged conspiracy, >> okay, but when the president espionage, clarence, the says attempted coup as we heard opposite view, media liberals moments ago, the language sometimes, conservative to are sympathetic, whistle blower liberal media plays attack on law enforcement. against bush's iraq war, so >> i've been in place that is which is it? they had coups, this is not a >> people believe what they want to believe. coup. i'm just marveled at donald [laughter] trump's vocabulary. >> not consistent. he continues to argue positions without bother to do any actual >> when the media opened up, research to back him up or make when fox and cable tv news,
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an argument other than to. other alternative media, delighted at new diversity, brace yourselves, buyer be ware. he was a very responsible journalist like very said, he didn't care about that, conduit for leakers. >> i think that's the selling point. not the best house guest, described as spreading feces as far as ecuadorans. >> the cat. >> 2010 when he was distributing all of these stuff, he's working with distributing through guardian, publications were sort of --
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>> yeah. >> so is that you think affect the way there's media for him even now? >> i think there's a little bit because they did work back then. character is not a reflection of what's going on, what happened in 2010, will they go back and say they were wrong in working with them, no, they got the information, we don't know the means. so if he allegedly did engage in criminal activity to get that, then it could be an issue. >> pentagon password is not something -- he uses journalism to cover what he does and sometimes it damages america. great to see you all this sunday clarence page, kristina partsinevelos, emily. the ladies of the view, the mayor swoon over mayor
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♪ ♪ >> the hottest candidate of the race, basically compared you to barack obama himself. how does it feel -- >> it feels great. i'm trying not to let it go to my head. >> media are swooning over a guy we never heard of, pete buttigieg, new beto o'rourke, exclusively on the left. ben shapiro calls him nice and refreshing. smart, modest and self-facing. mayor, road scholar, afghanistan war veteran who is formerly announcing today calls the flood of reaction after appearing on
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morning joe, now on the cover of new york magazine and la times called him the hottest thing in politics. so pete buttigieg largely unknown outside of political junkies has made a real impression, he's a very impressive guy. >> gushing coverage, huge boost, $7 million more than beto, passing kamala in new hampshire poll as well. that kind of traction has generated a bunch of pieces asking if america ready for gay president. pete buttigieg talks about his his that's active on twitter and gushing praise from journalisms since mayor speak at lgbt of his early struggles with his sexuality. >> if you had offered me a pill to make me straight i would have swallowed it before you had time to get sip of water. there were times in my life when if you had shown me exactly what it was inside that made me gay,
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i would have cut it out with a knife. >> not your typical scripted candidate, left-leaning media love that pete buttigieg is a liberal and speaks openly about faith and religious right is terrified of him but there was fight painting the vice president who turned the other cheek and never said a bad word about him as antigay and hardly seemed christian when pete buttigieg said it was difficult to imagine that president trump believes in god, for all the journalistic type, pete buttigieg a total long shot for the democratic nomination, his unique status, have to prove that he's more than media flavor of the month. on media buzz, national inquire emerged about scandals about to be solved. first president trump kicks out
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>> the washington post reported friday that the trump team had pushed a plan to send detainees to sanctuary cities sending a message for democratic strongholds like nancy pelosi san francisco district, the white house dismissive in statement saying this was a suggestion that was floated and rejected, but hours later, seriously considering such a plan. >> california certainly is always saying, we want more people and a lot of people in sanctuary cities, let's see if they have open arms. >> joining us kat kemp. both are fox news contributors. kat, the washington post story says this, based on memos the white house dismissive, trump comes out, yes, i am considering
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it. didn't he undercut his own communication's office? >> yeah, which is why i've never been jealous of anybody who has to work in communication's office, let me just say because this is not the first time something like this has happened. they worked hard to minimize this and say, you know, we talked about it, kind of we wanted to make it go away and then he did the opposite ensuring that it didn't go away by tweeting about it and saying, actually, yeah, i'm very seriously considering this and he just -- kind of makes me wonder how lined the two are, he doesn't really care, he likes to go directly to the people on twitter, he wouldn't have a communication's office if he could. >> sometimes it seems that way. "the new york times" has the story saying that the president told the now acting homeland security secretary to close the borders and said he would pardon him if he got into any legal trouble. the president denies this, new york star times story, knowingly
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wrong, never call today check the truth said the president, often don't exist, they lie and cheat, times and 6 years will be gone anyway. by the way, times reporter maggie tweeted, hey, you ought to check, we e-mailed 3 times for comments and didn't get any. >> yes, he often says that after the election "the new york times" was failing, they were about to go out of business and you have a times reporter saying, our subscriptions are actually way up. look, the president likes to operate this way, he's a party of one, he believes he's his own best communication adviser, he likes to talk to the press directly, he doesn't really want to vet his ideas, when he gets an idea, hey, let's send dems to san francisco, he blurts it out, san francisco a place that they would be welcome and a bunch of mayors said fine.
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>> certainly something that he put out there as being provocative. the media consensus was the president decimating the department, making kirstjen nielsen scapegoat, playing politics at the border and what i would ask in terms of media story, he's entitled to have a staff that he wants. >> a lot of people said look at all this, people in, people out, i thought he hired the best people but i think everyone on the right and a lot of people, what, this is a businessman, not a typical politician, if he wants to fire someone and get someone knew, fine, he wasn't satisfied with the job he was doing, he's got to have her be out and that's the way business works and that's the way he's running the government and i don't see nothing wrong with that. >> it was sad and wanted to thank the president for getting rid of her. a lot of leaks of her side saying she spent weeks resisting the family separation policy at
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the border, he argued he shouldn't close the border and generally she tried to steer away from things that might be questionable. >> she's a guardrail, agreed with his goal that she would push back against suggestion that is she thought wouldn't pass constitutional muster. what i think the real story is, when you see the headlines homeland security, sounds like he did something bad. president is frustrated because he can't get the department of homoland -- homeland security to carry out his vision and the career people and the people politically appointed doesn't feel comfortable to work -- but the bottom line, the way he should be measured or evaluated is not whether this is purge or not, he has the right to have anybody in his department or nobody if he doesn't want to have anybody. but the measurement is he
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meeting goal from stopping people and asking for asylum. >> others would say democrats don't have a plan. >> he's not asking them to make a deal. >> i understand. fast-checkers out in force when president obama's was brought into this, this is what president trump said. >> president obama separated the children, those cages that were shown, i think they were very inappropriate. i'm the one that stopped it. >> in fact, while there were some family separations during obama administration, it really ramped up to well over 2,000 families when trump adopted the zero tolerance policy and then he reversed it through international outcry. >> right. he really does need to be more careful because i don't know if he knows this or not actually i know he knows it because he talks about it all of the time, a lot of people in the media don't really like him so they are going to be carefully, very carefully listening to
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everything that he says and making sure that it's absolutely correct and even though president obama wasn't the friendliest on immigration either, plenty of things he could have pointed in terms of president obama supporting so -- deporting so many people and took it by far by saying that it was president obama leading to separation of families when it really was zero tolerance policy and anybody who did little googling could know that. >> many in the media don't like donald trump. mara to close off here, when kirstjen nielsen was pushed out, major news organizations saying the president was considering to bringing back the family separation policy, he denies that the next day. i didn't see anybody backing up the report. >> well, wait a minute, several places that explained he backed off as explicit policy, he said in the same breath it's deterrence. think want the -- they want the deterrence without explicit policy and the news organizations including npr
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>> no secret that the women on the view engage in bitter clashes and right now managerran mccain, strongest conservative voice often on receiving end. >> okay, so here is the deal, here is what's not going to happen today, we are not going to do that. >> new book says things are more heated off camera on increasingly polarized program. joining us from new york u new york bureau chief and author of the book ladies with punch inside the explosive inside story of the view, welcome, you say that megan mccain told you she turned down the job because of turnover but took it as father's urging and transformed the show, made it to saturday night live last night, take a quick look. >> can you let me talk. >> let me finish. >> your job to listen to me. [laughter] >> so has megan transformed the
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show, often seen as the other panelists are beating up on her? >> that was really funny last night at snl, megan is the real first conservative since elizabeth hassleback, they brought in a number of conservatives like candice but for the most time agreeing and megan has gone back to elizabeth paradigm where you have conservative really talking about conservative ideals and as a result of that, ratings are up on the show, it's the most watched the view has been in the last 5 years. >> in reading your book seems like 3 pages, make-up ready to quit or ready to quit, rosy o'donnell complained that whoopi goldberg was mean to her, doctor said she was asking health crisis and made life hell for everybody else? >> the show is very dramatic
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show. it's how the women are when the cameras aren't rolling but i was interested in the show because i've been covering it as a journalist for many years and there's a lot of interest about the view because it's such influential show and it really changed daytime tv and i would argue television in general because it provided this panel of women who didn't always see eye to eye debating about very serious political issues. >> yeah, when barbara walters created it did change daytime television but rosie o'donnell in response to your book says the negative stories about conflict, she's disappointed of you as human being, your response. >> i hope that rosy reads the book, the book also celebrates rosy and all that she has done in entertainment. talk show in 90's was incredibly popular, made daytime friendly to celebrities and i don't think she's actually read the book, i think she's looking up pick-up and headlines but the book is accurate reflection of what it was like to be on the show and.
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>> difficult thing when she was the on show but also made the show successful the first time she was on it. >> you mentioned hassleback, worked at fox news, ganged up on as conservative, she was furious at times at barbara walters, she told her on the air that they had to have reasonable conversations and not all the clashes and then incident where you describe where she started cursing off the set and you have audiotape of that. >> i'm not going back out, i can't do the show like this, she reprimanded me. she knew exactly what she was doing. read about that in the new york post. i quit, i'm quitting. >> was that typical of what happens at the view, not just with hassleback but you say what's on the air is a reflection of the very personalities that really sometimes don't seem to get along. >> right, most of the time the fights are real, elizabeth's
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audio shows how frustrated she was that she wasn't able to express her conservative point of view and barbara walters cut her off, in talking to mayingan, she said it's difficult zrrob, she decided to take the job because of her father and thought it would be a wonderful platform for her and it is, but it's hard sometime being the lone conservative in the panel and trying to represent all conservative point of views when the other women are liberal and frustrated and won't let you talk. >> jenni mcarthur was miserable. what about barbara walters, hold together the groups. >> barbara when she started the show never anticipated, she told me, she never anticipated that it would become so dramatic and contentious, she thought it would be a nice show with women talking about headlines to have day. one of the things i uncovered in the book is how good barbara was as producer and keeping running and masking some of the
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tension that is were happening backstage and barbara didn't really want to retire. when she left television in 2014 it was a difficult thing for her and she had a lot of complicated emotions and in some cases she put that out on jenny which she talked about in the book. >> remarkable career, far beyond the view. have to go but you said 20 publishers turned down this book, consistent in getting it published. >> and just made "the new york times" best seller list. >> all right. that's breaking news. great to see you, thanks so much. >> thank you, howie. >> still to come back, jeff bezos, why the owner now wants to sell the tabloid runs by donald trump's friend, the face of the national inquirer. ♪ ♪ ♪ if you have moderate to severe psoriasis,
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embarrassed and think of what happened here, the inquirer got into a death match with one of the richest people in the world, essentially, maybe not totally illegal but looks really sleazy, they tried to export jeff bezos. >> let me jump in and say that the inquirer's version of that is with us not extortion but part of settlement talks and they. >> going back and forth. >> right. >> i want to get that on the record. >> yeah, of course, a very fine line between extortion and a contract, i get that, legally but looks really bad and the lie e.tional inquirer accounts 5% of >> plus losing money. >> and 100% of our problems, i've done freelance work for
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ami, this was his baby, he likes running the national enquirer. he essentially convinced to get rid of this, this is something he really liked, gave him some degree of power obviously. yeah, i mean, that's essentially what i'm hearing. they say he was on board. pecker is telling others not so. we should point out that the national inquirer had its moments, nobody is ever going to get the national inquirer confused with the washington post, they broke some stories over the years. >> john edwards story. >> yeah. >> tiger woods and many other stories. let me provide political context here because as you know david pecker, close friend of president trump, the ceo of the company at ami, it was pecker and the company that struck inmuinty deal a few months ago
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admitting they were trying to influence the 2016 campaign by paying with former playboy model karen mcdoodle and made sure that the story never got out, part of immunity deal they can't break the law or they could be prosecuted for the first thing and then along comes the bezos controversy. >> right, one of the things people are talking about if you buy the national inquirer, the stories were over here. now legitimate question at cnn. howie, two things come to mind. in some way all the books help it is sale but also really bad stench for this thing. i kind of wonder who really wants to buy this? >> it's very mirky, ron, california's super market magnet, friend of bill clinton was in talks to buy it and now
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we are not buying it, we were never in any talks. >> david pecker and becker are long-time friends. national enquirer is sold, makes sense are sold in super markets. listen, a hard sell. i can't imagine how much it's going to go for and it might be a good thing that this thing isn't around anymore based on what happened just recently. >> they still have the brand name, obviously publications are struggling but finally, charlie, assuming it is sold, david pecker no longer running, the president lose by virtual of close friend selling this a publication that has very much been in his corner and during the campaign, you know, attacked the people who ran against him. >> yeah, this was like his -- the godfather, he wanted a hit done on ted cruz and i remember that ted cruz coverage which was absurd and disgusting but it might have won a few votes in
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the republican primary when he was saying ted cruz had multiple affairs and father may have killed jfk, these are stories that ran during the campaign and stuff on hillary. this is something that it's one less thing in donald trump's corner against media that essentially hates him. >> political player, got to having, charlie, thanks so much, that's it for this edition of media buzz, i'm howard kurtz, check out my new pad cast, we talk about the 5 hottest stories and you can subscribe for apple tunes, hope you like our facebook page you can read the daily columns, original videos, let's continue the conversation on twitter at howard kurtz, they told me i'm out of time, i will just say we will see you next sunday with the latest buzz naaah man, that was my choice. this thing's got reclining seats, dvd player,
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