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>> sarah huckabee sanders stepping down as white house press secretary after a tumultuous tenure with reporters. >> ,you are a parent do you have any sympathy for these people going through? >> anna you want to get some more t.v. time but i want -- >> is a no win job copy to the president and the antagonistic press corps. she's taken a lot of personal abuse. but many been critical how she's handle the job. >> i cannot imagine what a difficult position should address such a nontraditional president and how to convey and explain his position. usually republican press secretaries have a difficult time but this is unlike we've seen we have seen. >> this is not really her decision, the president he said he rather talk to reporters virtually every day than have any staff member. >> right, he is in control of

his own message to the media. he talks them every day on twitter, constantly on the lawn before he gets on the helicopter. it's impossible if you have a relationship with your own media stop because you conflict with them all the time than they are portrayed as liars. really a no win. i wonder whoever succeeds him, if they can be successful any more than sarah sanders. >> yes. sarah sanders her reputation josc took his biggest hit over happen after james comey was fired. and she told reporters that she heard from countless members of the fbi that they are grateful for the presence decision. she later told the investigators it wasn't true. it was a slip of the tongue, heat of the moment. and she got beat up by the press for not expressing. >> i will give her a point she's had a tough job. a prisoner whose created his own news, he's on twitter and she's the briefing room and happened simultaneously so it's tough. i think the white house can have improvement in the job if they decide to go back to daily

press briefings. telling the truth number one. and number two more portly, really figuring out how this president will communicate with the white house press corps being that there is a press briefing room. are you just going to get rid of press briefings altogether or just have them shop every day and say no briefing. >> we see how he communicates, on the run, in -- on the fly. some journalists really offer harsh assessments after the news let's listen. >> i will not miss her. [laughter] >> we were the first hour to ban her tape and so, i literally and figuratively will not miss her either. she suffers from lie -abetes. sex lies and videotape.>> journalists kicking her out the door. >> these are people that say the most horrible things against sarah sanders. all while they have major troubles with their own

journalism. and a large situation with the press corps of them not telling stories accurately, not reported things accurately not thinking about the major stories are of the day. i did a major problem with truth telling in the country and everybody could improve on it but we absolutely need to see better behavior by the press corps. >> maybe they would report stories accurately there was more press briefings in the white house released accurate information which -- >> you touched on something which is the president might say something for which there is no evidence or exaggerated. then the press secretary wants to defend without personally vouching for someone or something that may or may not be true.you don't personally know if it's true. >> harper of job, what makes us different is she literally miss tsang i made that appear. >> she did admit that. and sarah sanders says there's a difference interview between misspeaking were not doing something then maliciously

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but there's this stunning admission.neutrality for the sake of neutrality doesn't really serve us in the age of trump. think about that. the chief white house correspondent is saying out loud that trump is so dangerous that he cannot be neutral which is another word for fair. they told publishers weekly they are not to suss the story when it is a matter of right and wrong. right and wrong in the opinion of journalists. sure!he admits to grandstanding, showboating but not as obvious disdain for the white house to request -- >> can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight? >> can you promise that you do? make sure that goes viral. >> jim acosta has an agenda especially in immigration or the he's crossed the line. most especially the time when he refused to give up the microphone. >> mr. president, if i may ask a question, -- >> that is enough.that's enough. >> pardon me ma'am. >> mr. president.

>> that is enough. cnn should be ashamed to have you working for them. you're a rude, terrible person. >> it was amazing to watch. jim acosta did benefit of course when the white house overreached and yanked his credentials which were restored after lawsuit supported by most of the media. prompting jim to shout, we beat trump! jim acosta should be grateful for the president who kept calling on him, raising his profile so he could write his book, the enemy of the people. speaking of cnn, the president told a really sexist joke this morning about his morning anchor when she was winning an award drawing groans from the audience for the hollywood reporter says, with this line. i was going to say i love waking up with you every morning but i want to say i love waking up to you every morning. you can't really say stuff like that about women anymore. but she brushed off saying she was not offended. i had, the dnc says they want fair journalists as debate moderators. about msnbc uber liberal rachel

maddow? but first, marta donald trump have an interview with george stephanopoulos and dig himself into a whole? anthony scaramucci is on deck.

>> journalists from new york, anthony scaramucci. the one time white house communications director. give work with president trump on this abc interview.what did he just say of course i would call the fbi.what did he give his detractors in these answers to the george stephanopoulos? >> is the precept, the first clause was about his son anything he was being defensive about don junior and trying to explain that you know, he didn't say he thought there was a lot of innocence related to don junior. he walked back and now the

social media and everyone is on top of him and dissecting every single syllable. and every sentence and so forth. i get all of that but we have got, we're going to election season will be focusing more results that we were that sort of stuff. i think that's what caused him -- >> does he have any regrets about the way he handled it? >> and i think so. i don't think he has any results. at the end of the day he has a certain style, if you look at the approval ratings and you look at things like the cnn poll, 54 percent of the american people think he's going to win reelection. and so i think he's got a style, he is sticking to the style and you can't really look at the economy and say the economy is going back, he's got so many things going for him in the right direction. i mean i would just say to him, let's focus on your economic

achievements. we have so many of them, there is no reason to get caught in these cross fires with the media. >> right. he said he walked back with "fox and friends". and i agree with you. but you can't take the position that he didn't say anything wrong and then he walked back. if you'd been communications director still would have advised him to clarify and put this behind him? >> yes, you have got to walk that back. and i get it, listen, here's the thing, he is the president of the united states. and like you said on twitter, sometimes he really believes that when he is acting nonpresidential on twitter by his own admission, it is in order to save his presidency. he sort of feels like the attacks are coming in in such a way that if he doesn't fight back he does want to end up like george w. bush in 2006 where there was an onslaught of media.the president took the position of not fighting back. john kerry during the in of the attack that they give on him on

the incident did not fight back these guys got rolled in the presence opinion is i want to do. i will come after these guys with the level of viciousness they are coming after me. and then the issue is you are the president of the states. the leader of the free world. you've already won. so his response to be yeah but sometimes i need you in order to protect the presidency. i think that's where we are. >> actually save the presidency. i know he views the communications channel as crucial to getting his message out pillow, sarah huckabee sanders is leaving. he worked with her at the white house. i know you think very highly of her. do you think the battering she took the press being called a liar and sometimes outrageous personal abuse, she was chased out of a restaurant in virginia. took its toll in terms of her decision to leave? >> well you know listen, you have to put into context. she's got young children and is a 24/7 job and if you are burning for three and half years counting the campaign, i was friendly surprised she did not leave six months or even a year ago. and only because of the stress of the job and the burnout

there. but i thought she did an amazing job. here's the thing, okay, look at where we are today, dwight eisenhower lied about the -- they said to say it was a weather balloon. on the meter you have today. unfortunately people get caught in mistakes or say things that are not honest. and she owned up to that and i respect her for it. i challenge anyone listening or anybody in the media, have you ever said anything you wish you didn't say? i know i certainly have. trust me. >> admit it right here on national television. quick lightning round. i know you not coming back to the white house you'd be open to it. if he did would you be in favor of restoring the press briefings which is essentially vanished? >> i ever said we do that. i things in the presidents best interest. you know i do not like the enemy of the people think. he likes it so he will use every single day but i just think that your people in power, the founding fathers one of those to be checked and they want to the american people to

be briefed and certainly it is 243 years later and the style of briefing today is different than what it was -- >> is donald trump really needed press secretary since he does so much with the media himself? your old job as communications director has been vacant for months. does he need a press secretary? >> i would say that his favor. he's a very transparent. he goes out into sprays and takes one question at the next. i would love to have people add up all of the times that he's had his own quote - unquote virtual press conference. either in the east room or in front of the press on the way to the helicopter. i think you have to say he's probably more accessible than the last two or three presidents per request before you go, you had to twitter battle with a rock star sometimes played a springsteen. he's started in and called you a nitwit trying to get a job back in the white house. you called him a second fiddle with a tent fiddle intellect. you said no one knows he is pradaxa has some of his albums

so i know he has. david crosby, should you be trading licks with a guy who plays guitar for a living? >> listen, you know, he started punching at me. my attitude is, i'm a new yorker this is why most new yorkers respect the presidents punch back. he started with me, point is i'm a stranger, he doesn't know me from a hole in the wall. no reason to be attacking me. i just started give him a few shots and good news for him, he raised his profile and hopefully he will sell more albums. nothing against nils and i wish him the best but why take a shot at me? i'm not doing anything to live your life i'm living my life. look at my twitter feed, never take a shot anybody unless they are coming after me. >> you're a high profile guy. so you take the presidents approach, you counterpunch. >> just once in a while. i say what is this guy doing? but in most cases, no. >> good to see you, gotta go. thanks very much. i had, jon stewart shames

congress for ignoring 9/11 victims and maybe the media as well. coming up, media are laughing off as the president and joe biden slam each other. are they treating this as a two man race?

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>> i think he is the weakest mentally. and i like running against people that are weak mentally. i think that joe is the weakest up here. >> i bring the president is literally an existential threat.joining us now in new york, national review writer and fox news contributor and trolley... charlie gasparino. why do they get so fired up as if the other candidates are just some kind of sideshow? >> right. i think part of it does have to do with the polls and that biden is so much further ahead than the other candidates. but also i think a lot of it has to do with the reason why he is so far ahead in the polls which is the name recognition. someone has a headline that

caesar exchanging jabs against each other everyone knows who you're talking about. everyone knows biden. some of the democratic candidates i mean, if i did not work in media i would not have known of them. like who is andrew -- >> you pass them on the street and have no idea. >> animal to walk on the street and say hi i'm andrew yang and i will believe them. chris i think the present was a two-person race because it's expensive to cover 23 candidates and there is only so much airtime and only so many common interests. >> yeah but you know i don't think the president is rooting for joe biden over the other ones. i just think that as kat said -- one thing about biden is an interesting guy. if you covered him for years i know him because he's got a lot of friends on wall street. this is one tough s.o.b.. he's really getting under the skin of donald trump. knowing the president, you have

him by the you know what's. at least when he starts mentioning his name. that is what he's doing here because joe biden is hitting a nerve. >> right. i covered bidens first presidential campaign which led the second, didn't turn out so well. let me play free something as the president had to say. about the former vice president this week. >> he looks different than he used to. he asked different than he used to. he is even slower than he used to be.>> obviously that's a shot at his age. he is 76 and donald trump to turn a 73. he will suggest that joebiden is too old , do you have a right to treat those skeptically? >> i things are because age is a number that matters but a little bit, right? someone being 76 were being 73, it means something different for every individual.

i think that the problem with joe biden is that he's given specific things for the media to seize on an issue. number one, the whole where is biden thing? he has been out there i think this is part of the reason why the media focused on his age but not so much danger bernie sanders even though bernie sanders is even older. because bernie sanders is out there, he is speaking with energy, he's marching with mcdonald's workers.joe biden for we know he could be taking a nap, we don't know what he's doing. and he also makes outdated cultural -- it allows donald trump to make a comment like that. >> charlie -- i will jump in. after the presidential marks political -- same democrats are talking about the age and whether joe biden is too old to be an effective candidate is overplaying the issue or just vertically fair game we talk about -- >> i think it is fair game but it opens up donald trump to a lot of issues. listen, you know joe biden is in great shape for 76. clearly when you get old you get a little slower so the media has to bring that up at

then you have to bring up donald trump, joe biden works out every day. he is in great physical shape, is donald trump in great physical shape? i mean think about it, think about how joe biden is going to come back and i think the media will go into whether donald trump has or is is in good physical shape to run for president. will he survive another four years? that's the problem we start bring up age and health. the other side will come back and the media will be forced to cover donald trump's health more than ever before. >> i do think the fact that joe biden is keeping a light schedule does feel some of this but of course a strategic. before go, joe biden the press that was going to be horrible candidate, kind of snapped back a little bit some of the reporters on the trail. let's take a look. >>. [inaudible] >> you said biden was going to plummet. >> kat that was isaac of the atlantic many journalists have

said this purdue think bowden was expressing a little frustration there with the press? >> i think he absolutely was. i think he also before he starts bragging about how he has maintained his spot at the top, needs to realize that it is still very early and we've seen certain candidates start to gain steam. particularly elizabeth warren. right now the media is mostly focusing on warren, sanders and biden. but is still very early in the early polls in the republican race in 2016, if they'd been correct we would've had candidate jeb bush.>> that's right! i agree with you. i have to get a break here but it is ridiculous. we haven't even had the first debate. after the next break, the dnc saysno presidential debates for fox . it is to partisan, what's going on up here? can't see what it is yet. what is that? that's a blazer? that's a chevy blazer? aww, this is dope. this thing is beautiful. i love the lights. oh man, it's got a mean face on it. it looks like a piece of candy. look at the interior. this is nice. this is my sexy mom car.

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the first pair democratic presidential debates. they are lester holt, savannah guthrie, chuck dad, josc diaz -- and rachel maddow. essentially, just endorsed impeachment. >> i think this is another one of those things are democrats are sort of outflanking themselves. if a president commits crimes, high crimes and misdemeanors, the way to congress is supposed to hold them accountable, is by opening an impeachment doing an investigation and then voting. >> charlie gasparino, rachel maddow is smart, she is a rhodes scholar, a talented broadcaster but a fierce partisan who despises donald trump and conducts friendly interview with democratic candidates be known in media seems to be questioning her selection. >> yeah, i mean rachel is a friend of mine i've known her for a long time. i worked with her. she's a brilliant polemicist but that's the problem.it would be like having sean

hannity do a republican debate of donald trump if he is being challenged this time around. given his friendship and relationship with trump. i'm not saying neither of them could pull it off. maybe she can be really fair and accurate. maybe sean hannity can be right on the middle-of-the-road.the problem is there some a journalists out there that we don't need to enter into this debate. you can go out, find a straight journalist to do this and you don't need a distraction. i guess my issue is, we don't need the distraction to talk about rachel maddow. we should be talking about the debate. >> okay we will talk about the debate in a minute. let me play for you, how rachel maddow lead into an interview with kamala harris.>> are going to be a formidable contender. idols honestly think there's a good chance that you're going to win the nomination. >> charlie says what if it was fox?what if it was brett baier, chris wallace, and sean hannity or lou dobbs?

the new york times says rachel will be a wildcard. it is as strong as they would go. >> yeah, i think that there is a double standard here because i do think of charlie, sean hannity example came to fruition it would be an upper and it wouldn't matter if he actually did behave fairly. people would still say he had intercedes a little thing. i think people will be watching and seeing if she does behave as a journalist or she does behave as an opinion commentator. because maybe who knows, she could ask some tough questions but we could also he see her there a lot of softballs are even play favorites because we have seen her use her platform to try to influence politics. >> but there are so many better journalists i mean there's somebody that are choices i should say. rachel is not a journalist there so many better choices where they could have sidestepped the issue totally and again, you are right if

this was the republican version of lou dobbs, forget it. it would be an explosion all over.times square. next to the times building. there really is a double standard but i will tell you it is bad and i think it could backfire. if she really going to go out there and pressed tough questions like megyn kelly did to donald trump back in the day. >> is a good comparison and she does ask tough questions all credit her but certainly it hasn't been the track record on her show when she's interviewed a bunch of democrats which is a big form for terra-cotta candidates. it does it for us. charlie gasparino, kat timpf good to see you. good to see you. still to come, how the first survivor of alzheimer's disease

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mostly mocking republicans. but he is asking for bill to aid first responders his health was damage or 9/11. a hearing in which some lawmakers failed to show up. >> behind me, a filled room. of 9/11 first responders. and in front of me, a nearly empty congress. sick and dying! they brought themselves down here to speak. and no one -- shameful. it is an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution. and you should be ashamed of yourselves for those that are not here. >> that was powerful stuff. and stuart continues to press the message making the media rounds including today on "fox news sunday". >> i come from the world of show business and i think if

you were to take all of the arrogance and entitlement and elitism that people do not like about hollywood and show business, and you concentrated it in one city and gave those people actual power, that is washington. >> one day after the testimony they unanimously reauthorized the compensation fund. baskets of this, how much courage really would hearing have drawn had he not shown up to shine a spotlight on the forgotten heroes of 2001? that is it for this edition of "mediabuzz". i'm howard kurtz. happy father's day to all of you other dads out there. we hope you have a great day. enjoy it. so get up, get some attention from your families. check out my new podcast, as we rip on the days five hottest stories cure you can subscribe it apple itunes, google play or fox news podcast.com. we hope you like our facebook page repost my columns every day, original videos just for

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