to the fox news channel. have a great week and we'll see you next "fox news sunday." >> we don't know whether the information is inaccurate, but the fact is, we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast and for that, i apologize. >> how do major media outlets keep making these reckless mistakes? the president rips the media for down playing the results of the g-7 summit and reporters respond with a laundry list of misstatements and shifting positions. >> clarify and back tack on

multiple statements -- backtrack with multiple statements made by the president with the world watching at the g-7 summit. why can't this president stick to the truth? >> those meetings of world leaders used to be kind of ho-hum haven't they? trump has changed that. >> the vice chairman of china called and wants to make a deal, but the phone call appears to not have happened, at least the chinese government says it didn't happen. >> watching the american media's coverage of the g-7, i can't help but think they can't go any lower. every story, cnn, msnbc, etc., are essentially taking the word of this oppressive communist government over that of their own country's president. >> we will have a reality check on the conflicting accounts from the summit. the new york times says trump allies are trying to embarrass and intimidate journalists by digging up old

tweets. news outlets do to political figures all the time. plus inspector general finds that jim comey broke the fbi rules in orchestrating a leak to the times after the president fired him, but he won't be prosecuted. does this end his romance with the press? i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. fox news alert, at least seven people are dead and several others are injured after a shooting in west texas on saturday. police say the man was being stopped by state troopers for not using his turn signal when he shot at them and fled. spokesman for the odessa police says at least one victim remains in life threatening condition. we will have updates throughout the day on this tragic situation. our other top story today of course is hurricane dorian, currently strengthening.

senior meteorologist janice dean is joining us now. janice >> we just got the latest information, 11 a.m. advisory i haven't seen a lot of hurricanes this strong. 180 miles-per-hour sustained winds. they have upped the winds, gusts of 220 miles-per-hour. this is going to cause catastrophic, life-threatening damage for the northwestern bahamas. this storm continues to strengthen and will probably be intact for at least the next 24 to 48 hours. and then beyond that, computer models look like they're trending westward, so we're not out of the woods for florida, and these are the advisories. i just want to make mention that we have a hurricane watch now for parts of florida. that means the hurricane center thinks that we're going to see hurricane-force winds in the next couple of days. the latest track as we go to 11:00 a.m., very close call here for florida, up towards georgia and the carolinas.

you're not off the hook yet. you need to be paying close attention to your local forecasts and your local officials. there will probably be evacuations all up and down the southeast coast. howie, back to you >> a monster storm, janice, thank you very much. president trump has been ripping media reports virtually every day this week. the washington post said he privately offered pardons in connection with getting his wall built. this was made up by the washington post only in order to demean and disparage fake news. axios reports that in at least two meetings trump asked for research on whether nuclear bombs could be used to stop hurricanes. tweet: >> joining us now to analyze the coverage, molly hemmingway of the federalist, a fox news

contributor and co author of justice on trial, the kavanaugh confirmation. and congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. and also a radio talk show host and fox news contributor. this washington news report quoting current and former officials saying president advised aides that they do other things that were illegal they would get pardons the president says it is completely made up. how do we resolve that? >> you say it quotes current and former officials. that's how they characterized where the quotes were coming from. the only on the record quote comes from a denial of the claim. this is a problem of reliance on anonymous resources. no way to check cha what's going on. -- no way to check what's going on. no one is willing to put their name on the record. this is the lather rinse repeat we have seen throughout the trump presidency, outrageous allegations to anonymous officials that you have no way of checking and then denials from people in office. >> the story did quote a white house official, unnamed administration official saying

yes the president did bring up pardons but he was joking but hard for us to tell as molly points out. richard trump says the axios report that he asked the staff, completely fictitious. axios says they don't just have sources but this was recorded in a memo. completely different versions. >> this is an interesting predicament for this president. in both of those tweets it was false information. he continues to say the wall is being built. what's happening on the southern border they are replacing wall that's already there, his new wall none of that has been built at all. >> that may change. >> the tweet states, it is a false tweet because the wall is not being built currently >> is he broadcasting the original allegation? >> of course. i think that sort of speaks to the problem of this president. he continues to blame the media for the fact he's not doing well in the polls or for the fact his economic numbers are sort of moving in the wrong direction. once again, he puts none of that blame on himself when he is the one and the white house is leaking this information and coming out with this information. >> susan, the white house chose not to comment on the axios

story about the hurricanes and then the president rips it afterwards and says it is made up and so forth. is that a strategy? >> clearly. he comes out and says it's wrong and fake news is lying and that's part of the narrative. trump's been very convincinconv. it's an argument that works well to him. to molly's point, you don't know if he's kidding or not. in the media so many reporters interpret what he says without recognizing his sense of humor or how he's sarcastic or how he approaches things. wow he's a crazy man, look he's ta talking about nuking hurricanes. he may have been joking about that. the wall is being built, the places where they're replacing the wall is making impenetrable to pedestrian traffic. the wall that was there before only blocked cars. it had holes that people could run through it. this is blocking thousands -- >> i'm not denying -- >> that's what the president

promised to do and that's what he's accomplishing. >> brief response. >> listen, i'm not saying he's not replacing the wall but the idea that he's building a wall on our entire southern border which he continues to say is not factual. >> let me go to the g-7. it is not surprising the press and the president have very different views out of that summit. you have journalists picking up on reports china denying his account that beijing asked for resume negotiations on tariffs and japan publicly disputing trump's account that an agreement in principle on trade deal saying talks are still going on. is it fair or unfair for the press to spotlight the diplomatic disagreements? >> it is totally fair to spotlight diplomatic disagreements. i agree with what susan was saying inability to understand what president trump speaks is hurting media coverage. it is totally fine if you don't understand him, but you probably shouldn't be a political reporter. here you have some unreliable narrators. donald trump unreliable to his hyperbole and exaggerations and china unreliable by being china. and you see the media sort of

agree with china and be so confused about how donald trump speaks. they need to get a better handle on understanding him if they hope to do their job. >> classic example of looking up and saying yes i'm the chosen one obvious to me sarcastic but the press took that seriously. you have these minor spats coming out of the g-7 such as trump saying melania has gotten to know kim jung-un and saying she never met him but she believes she knows him. is that a big deal? >> i don't think it's a big deal. the president has reliability questions that the american people see. this goes far beyond media coverage. you could talk to democrats, republicans, farmers anyone across this country that are feeling impacts of this unreliable trade war we're in. >> to button up this part of the discussion on g-7, there was more unity this year than last year when the president was more disruptive. you had the big story shift to the president talking about hosting the g-7 summit next year

when it is the u.s.'s turn. the president went -- the press went bonkers over that. >> the house judiciary is including that request as part of their impeachment inquiry. they are saying the fact he wanted to include his own country club is a clause issue. i think it's fine, but also fully report the story. there many venues being considered. that's one of them. there are reasons they considered that for the venue. it was not fully reported. it made it look like we're doing it here. it is not even official. it's still not decided yet. >> all right. so jim comey as you know, the department of justice inspector general saying that he violated fbi rules in taking home memos that he wrote about his dealings with president trump, saying the president demanded his loyalty. this was a dangerous example set by comey, according to the ig. the memos had sensitive but not classified information, some of which he leaked to the new york times through intermediary.

what do you make of the way in which this has been characterized by the press? >> he did mishandle classified information. he leaked sensitive information. the memos did contain classified information. he kept them in a way that was not what the fbi would like it to be. >> were they categorized as classified at the time? >> the issue being he leaked sensitive information. >> yes. >> he mishandled classified information including sharing it with people who were not authorized to see it. this report was so interesting in part because inspector general reports are usually pretty boring. this is the second report where the inspector general has really come out hard against james comey and his way of operating. what 's interesting the media portrayal of comey over the years, but when it comes to actual evaluation of his work, he's considered dangerous. he was said to have violated donald trump's civil liberties. these are very serious things, particularly for the nation's chief law enforcement officer. >> the president tweeted that

comey should be ashamed of himself. comey's tweet was among others i don't need a public apology from those who defamed me but a quick message sorry we lied about you would be nice. so he's fighting back. on the other hand, you can't dispute the facts laid out by the ig. >> comey's no boy scout. he will get no praise from me. i think the larger story happening, the underlying story is this the president and the white house have been so muted on protecting our elections and dealing with the fact that there is russian intrusion that comey and all these other characters have been able to have a larger space in the media narrative. the real story is this, our elections are still vulnerable to foreign threats and this white house has done nothing about it. >> that's totally not true. in fact, there have been several classified briefings where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle -- >> i'mot talking -- >> hold se briefings, not only was 2018 a secured election based on the improvements by this administration but they are

currently feeling pretty confident based on the actions they are taking now that the up coming elections are secure, and that's what they are telling lawmakers behind closed doors. they are coming out and telling us that to say they are doing that's completely false. >> you cover capitol hill, there's a bill in the senate right now that would secure our elections -- >> -- whether it would secure the elections. that's a democratic talking point. >> it is not a democratic talking point. i read the bill. it would also back up every vote by a paper ballot. mcconnell has done nothing on it. neither has donald trump >> that's not true. there is actually a bipartisan bill -- it is not that. >> stop you right now because we're running out of time. if democrats don't like jim comey because he didn't bring charges against hillary but then trashed her before the campaign.

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fox news alert, the president weighing in on the odessa shootings that claimed seven lives yesterday. great job by texas law enforcement and first responders in handling the terrible shooting yesterday, said the president. thank you also to the fbi, governor abbott and all others, a very tough and sad situation. joe biden has been telling this story for years, how as vice president he went to afghanist afghanistan, pinned a medal on a young navy captain who was a war hero. >> this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back, under fire, and the general wanted me to pin the silver star on him. i got up there and this is god's

truth, my word as a biden, he stood at attention. i went to pin him. he said i don't want the thing. howard: the washington post discovered it didn't happen that way, biden is conflating bits of several different tale. in the space of three minutes biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong as well as his own role in the ceremony. it was a little painful for me to watch liberals on msnbc, cnn, elsewhere saying it was okay he messed up virtually all the facts because his heart is in the right place. he wasn't trying to make himself out to be a hero, by the way, donald trump makes all these false statements. >> right, joe biden has received remarkably friendly coverage over the years, despite his lengthy history of false story telling, plagiarism, general lack of command of the facts. it is clear that the media generally like him. it is also interesting that this comes out during a democratic primary.

this happens to be the only story that are negative against democrats because he's running against other democrats the media may like. the story was very fair and straight forward. this is an issue going back decades that biden has had. similar to what derailed him in his first campaign. howard: it was said a reporter would be fired on this stuff. it was president obama who awarded a medal to the navy captain that biden was talking about. there was an army staff sergeant who did receive a medal from biden directly in 2011. my question is, how do you forget that? the post story doesn't resolve whether this was a memory problem, maybe it was deliberate, maybe it can't be resolved. he's told this story many times conflating all the different details. >> the biden camp needs to make sure he tells these stories accurately. howard: you're saying his aides have to crack down on the former vice president and get him to do a better job --

>> right. i think from the campaign side, if you look at it from their angle, listen, why would he do that when the polls have him ahead. the top ten candidates being on the same stage, how will joe biden fare on that? i think the media is covering him fairly and covering him accurately. i think the campaign has to do some cutting and shaping to make sure that doesn't continue to be a problem. howard: ultimately it is the candidate's responsibility. i've taken the position while biden has made a lot of gaffes lately, some of them are minor and the media maybe are playing them up too much because there are questions about his age and his memory, 76 and all of that. i don't put this in the category of a gaffe, susan. the worst part to me is joe biden doesn't seem to get it. he told the washington post columnist on his pod cast, quote, i don't know what the problem is. what is it that i said wrong? >> so interesting. it was reminding me remembering hilary clinton when she was running for president and she told the story about landing in bosnia and coming under fire, and it turned out that story

wasn't correct. he ended up apologizing -- she ended up apologizing. it hurt her credibility. she was criticized during her campaign, remember the big lie about bosnia. biden runs the risk over time, you saw that washington post kind of warning shot story, we're watching you joe. we will be chronicling all your gaffes, etc. if he does become the nominee, it will be interesting to see once there is only one democrat as molly was saying and there aren't others they can pick and choose from, how closely will they follow gaffes? howard: talk to military people and find out the actual facts that happened in both of these cases involving war heroes that shouldn't be diminished. at the same time i don't quite understand why biden doesn't say hey i had this story and had this story i conflated the details and i'm sorry and maybe the story is over. >> it might be because he's had such a pattern of this to accept responsibility for this one could cause problems down the road. >> i think the people watching this show and reading the newspaper, they also realize that joe biden exists in a world

where donald trump is also around and donald trump is known for lying. he's known for twisting the truth. he's known for making up the facts. and so it exists in that chasm. howard: right, well therefore what joe biden did was not so bad. >> i'm not forgiving joe biden. howard: no, but a lot of pundits have said it's not really that bad if you look at trump. >> if donald trump is bad for all these different things to have other politicians do very similar things makes their argument not hold as much. >> i think the world is different. in a world where donald trump lies a lot. howard: i have to run. thank you very much. up next, a truly irresponsible mistake by msnbc's o'donnell, a new york times columnist loses it over a bed bug controversy.

howard: spectacularly reckless

charge to make against a president without any tangible evidence. here's what lawrence o'donnell said on his msnbc show. >> and this single source has told me that the trump -- donald trump's loan documents there show that he has cosigners. that's how he was able to obtain those loans and that the co signers are russian oligarchs. >> what? really? howard: soon after trump lawyers sent them a letter calling the story false and defamatory and demanding retraction. o'donnell took to twitter to show an error in judgment. >> last night on a show, i repeated a story that a single source told me about loan documents with deutsche bank saying if true, as i discussed the information was simply not good enough. tonight we are retracting the

story. we don't know whether the information is inaccurate. but the fact is, we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast, and for that i apologize. howard: well i'm glad he delivered a full apology. the president not surprisingly took some twitter shots at quote crazy lawrence o'donnell. >> lawrence o'donnell has been saying stuff for four years. it's just as wrong. but this was one that he was forced by nbc to apologize for, and what they say is his msnbc and cnn and all of them for the most part, but they're just really despicable people. it is horrible. it is fake news and it is a shame. howard: how did the veteran commentator and former democratic -- think he could air this and where are all the media denounce -- denunciations that

would have occurred if say fox news had made the same error? a teacher at george washington university tweeted that bed bugs are bret stephens. the e-mail was made public that caused avalanche of criticism for the msnbc contributor. >> all i would say is that teaching rhetoric like bed bugs or, you know, this is all wrong. there's a bad history of this. >> he said stephens was trying to send a message that people like me aren't supposed to write mean jokes like him. it was an exercise in wielding

power. stephens is now a harsh critic has now quit twitter. the president tweeted: >> stephens is a smart journalist, a pulitzer prize winner who in this case was too thin skinned for his own good. as we were going off the air last sunday, president trump tweeted from g-7 in france that media buzz and fox news quote are getting worse. i've been covering donald trump for many years. in this case he linked to his own tweet pushing back on unfavorable fox poll that i had discu discussed. just to be clear, i was saying fox isn't tilting the surveys against him. days later after a fox interview with dnc spokeswoman he tweeted this the new fox news is letting millions of great people down. we have to start looking for a new news outlet. fox isn't working for us

anymore. well, as it's been pointed out, fox doesn't work for the president. he's certainly entitled to criticize fox news division which is separate from the opinion folks just as he takes shots at other media outlets. the president as i frequently point out is often unfairly maligned by much of the press. i will try every day along with my news colleagues here to keep covering him fairly. coming up, we will talk about how the entire press corps bet on bad poll. are the pundits right in saying america has trump fatigue or are

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we're in the process of dealing democrats, republicans. they have been working very hard on it. they're coming back very soon, and it's a big package of things that will be put before them by a lot of different people. we have a lot of groups working on it. >> [inaudible]. >> well, i've been speaking to them. i've been speaking to a lot of senators. we've been speaking to a lot of house members, a lot of

republicans, a lot of democrats and people want to do something. so we're going to see -- this really hasn't changed anything. we're doing a package and we will see what it's all -- how it comes about. it's coming about right now. a lot of people are talking about it. and that's irrespective of what happened yesterday in texas. >> [inaudible]. >> we're looking at a lot of different things. we're looking at a lot of different bills, ideas, concepts. it's been going on for a long while, background checks. i will say that for the most part, sadly, if you look at the last four or five, going back even five or six or seven years, for the most part, as strong as you make your background checks, they would not have stopped any of it. so it's a big problem. it's a mental problem. it's a big problem. >> [inaudible].

>> china is moving along. we're doing very very strongly today by a number of great economists that because china has devalued their currency so much that in fact they are actually paying for all of the tariffs, we have in addition to that as you know they're pouring money into their economy. so those two things, they are paying for their tariffs. as you know, some new tariffs -- we're taking in tens of billions of dollars. we're giving some of the money to the farmers, making the farmers more than whole. the farmers are doing better than if china frankly were buying. i'm taking a piece of the massive amount of tariffs, we're giving them to the farmers who have been targeted unfairly by china. we are talking to china. the meeting is still on as you know. that hasn't changed.

they haven't changed and we haven't. we will see what happens. we can't allow china to rip us off anymore as a country. we can't allow china to take 500 billion dollars a year out of our country. we can't do that. >> [inaudible]. >> i have a great message for poland. we have mike pence, our vice president is just about landing right now. and he is representing me. i look forward to being there soon. i just want to congratulate poland. it is a great country with great people. we also have many polish people in our country. it could be 8 million. we love our polish friends, and i will be there soon. >> [inaudible]. >> speak up. >> [inaudible].

>> well, i think congress has got a lot of -- a lot of thinking to do, frankly, and they have a lot of -- they've been doing a lot of work. i will tell you on behalf of republicans and democrats, they have been doing a lot of work, having to do with guns, and i think you are going to see some interesting things coming along. on the hurricane, admiral, would you like to say something as to the size and scope of the hurricane? >> certainly, mr. president. thank you. this hurricane is very strong, category 5. we have talked about the wind. it will also have substantial destructive life threatening storm surge, fresh water rainfall, and four states, florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, can all expect to see tropical storms of hurricane force impact over the coming days so the time for preparation is now. >> i will be going with the admiral and many others over to fema in about an hour, and we'll

be having somewhat of a news conference over there where you won't have the engines blaring, but we will have a news conference over at fema so we will see most of you there. okay? thank you. howard: president trump telling reporters that dorian is one of biggest hurricanes we have ever seen and several southeastern states not just florida can be impacted. president also asked about background checks in wake of yesterday's texas shootings, he said for the most part sadly recent shootings he said the background checks are tougher, the background checks would not the background checks would not have stopped the weather's perfect... family is all together and we switched to geico; saved money on our boat insurance. how could it get any better than this? dad, i just caught a goldfish! there's no goldfish in this lake. whoa! it's pure gold. we're gonna be rich... we're gonna be rich!

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howard: joining us now here in washington is the veteran pollster. frank, i wanted to ask you about this running theme that's merging from many pundits left and right in fact. that the trump show, we just saw him speak to reporters as he does virtually every day is so constant and so relentless, so many tweets that many voters, they are saying wind up being exhausted by trump and that trump fatigue as they are calling it could hurt him with voters. anything to that? >> statistically more people get their information about donald trump from donald trump, from his tweeting, than they do from new york times, the l.a. times, the "wall street journal," combined, and the washington post. he's the first president ever that has the ability to speak directly to the country. howard: in fact he has his own channel. >> his own channel, his own way

of communicating. people get the news straight from the source. they don't have to get the interpretation. that's been a trump strength. however, there are times when those tweets have not done him a good service. whether he wants to admit it or not, there are times where he's caused himself some public relations problems. the challenge for him is to use that as effectively as you can by saying what needs to be said and not with all this other stuff that goes on. howard: obviously he would say he counterpunches, loves to pick fights. you have an example new york times columnist, he is personally zapped by trump exhaustion. i'm tuckered out. trump takes up too much emotional space. national view even trump supporters getting tired of his daily draw dra ma -- drama. i'm wondering if it's the journalists who are covering all the back and forth who are maybe be worn-out by the president. >> i think they are frustrated because they haven't been able to get to him. look, on this show i have disagreed with how he's communicated some of the stuff

he said. howard: he talks to them every day. >> they haven't been able to get him, let me rephrase that. they are frustrated with it because the president no matter what he says or what he does, he has a base he doesn't fall below and he's still in this campaign. he still could be re-elected. and they are frustrated because they disagree with him so much, and they haven't had the ability to crush him. howard: one thing the message the president has hit pretty hard is the media are trying and he says to crash the economy, to create a recession. now the economy is strong. no question about it. there are some flashing yellow lights. does the media have that power? is this a winning argument for the president? >> they absolutely do have that power. i think the president is correct here, that the media has gone at him, realized that the way they have criticized him has actually built some of his support, has justified his criticism that they are out to get him. the economy, it is like the bank shot in pool. they are going to sink a couple of balls. the public up until 30 days ago

absolutely believed this was the best economy they have experienced and thought next year is going to be better than this year. the work we're doing and others are doing within the last two or three weeks, the perceptions have cratered. you can't say it is because of the tariffs because they did not have an impact until today. howard: but you could say it is because of a volatile stock market. it is not all the press, you would acknowledge that. >> but the market has been up or down and the public ignored. howard: you are agreeing with the president that many journalists are deliberately presenting a pessimistic view of the economy as it will appear down the road because it is their way of getting at the president's strengths? >> i believe it's happening because it is a 3.7% unemployment rate. lowest unemployment rate for african-americans, latinos, youth, wages are up. all the data shows that things have gone in the right direction. so why should the numbers crater in the last 21 days? it has to be because of outside forces. howard: democratic race, a poll came out the other day showing biden the front-runner suddenly

in a three-way statistical tie with warren and sanders. the media went nuts over this. the next day two other polls gave them the same double digit lead, saying the poll was an out outlieer. >> it gets more attention if the poll is flawed. it gets more attention if it is outside the mainstream. viewers are more sophisticated than that. don't follow the national polls. they don't matter. i'm following what's happening in iowa -- >> state by state race. polls can influence fund-raising and things like that. >> we have learned in 2016 that the national perceptions were irrelevant. we learned in 08, hilary clinton was crushing obama but he did so well in the early states. i'm a pollster, let's give some advice. don't believe the national numbers. follow it state by state.

howard: i have videotape of you on this program saying bernie sander wills win the nomination. do you want to revisit that? >> absolutely. i think he's falling and falling. i'm watching elizabeth warren. i've seen her debate performances. elizabeth warren has the correct opening for democrats. she has the correct close. she always includes a fact. she tells a personal story and she has dig at president trump. those are the five key components to win a debate. she's won the debates. if biden doesn't figure out how to communicate straight to that camera, he's going to lose. howard: do you think the press would prefer warren to joe biden who is often painted uninspiring out of touch and kind of gaffe machine? >> ideologically i think the press is more in line with where warren is. but she's a better candidate at this point. joe biden has better experience than anybody running for office. howard: he's been around a long time. >> he's been around a long time. his communication isn't

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howard: and joining us now from connecticut is charlie gasparino, senior correspondent at fox business network. charlie, front page story, new york times saying that there's some trump allies, every loose thing, not an organized effort, who are digging up old tweets by journalists, in order to in the words, embarrass and intimidate journalists and news organizations, but on the other hand, the same technique, news organizations use all the time against politicians. what do you make of the distinction here? >> yeah, and also, same technique used by media matters for years to embarrass anybody that wasn't conforming to the

progressive ideological norms. i mean, you know, all you have to do is -- they did it to people on our network. you know, dredging up comments made to shock jocks ten years ago. my view is everybody should stop with this got ya stuff. it is harmful. and it's so beyond the point of the major stories out there. that said, you've got to expect the right to fight back if the left is doing it. and conservatives are not going to unilaterally disarm this war. it is a war. you know, reporters on both sides have records and people are going to -- in this environment, people are going to do this if the other side is doing it. but i will say, it is a horrible, horrible thing. howard: i agree with you. it is out of control. a lot of this is ten years old, when somebody was in college. on the other hand, these are public tweets. it is not going through someone's garbage. it is not digging up dirt. the back story here i want to get this out was that the surfacing of tweets by a senior times political editor whose

name with blatantly anti-semitic tweets -- >> he apologized for that. howard: the times say when it is different when journalists do it, but it is an effort to intimidate. i'm going to say everybody is being put through this who has ever said anything dumb on twitter. >> it is particularly hypocritical in this sense. i agree overall you should stop this when you're 15, whatever, you're in college, that's not the sum total of what you are as an adult. howard: right. >> i will say this, i've seen stories in the times about baseball players before they were drafted, whatever, when they were kids being held accountable and football players for their tweets. that's been in the mainstream media. that's absurd as well. so, you know, the pressure to reflect -- the press should reflect on its own. the times should take to heart what it is saying about itself and stop the got ya on tweets from kids. it is absurd at this point. howard: let me turn to another developing story, involving president's personal assistant, the woman who sat outside the

oval office. a lot of people don't know her name. >> i did not know. howard: she was forced out of her job the other day about some indiscrete comments she made about members of the president's family, off the record dinner and drinks with reporters at the new jersey golf club. the thing is because it was supposed to be off the record, that we have seen with sarah huckabee sanders this a woman who was obviously indiscrete but she lost her job because somebody among that group of reporters leaked this. my reporting as confirmed charlie the leak came from the white house bureau chief of the washington post, he's an msnbc analyst, passed the information to the new york times. i'm told he feels badly about it. but the president is saying that, you know, this is not fair to have off the record rules and then somebody issues it to somebody else. >> she should not have said what she said. that's her boss. that's crazy stuff to be going even off the record in that

regard. i will say this, though, i would like to hear the conditions of that meeting. i mean, was it really off the record? you know, how was it established? did everybody agree to an off the record thing? because if they did really agree to something being off the record, and then leaking it after that, that is really bad form. i mean, listen, i have reported an off the record conversation about jeffrey epstein, but he's dead. howard: right. >> there was a reason why i reported it. there's a public interest in this guy's background. there's not much of a public interest here by the way. howard: i'm not going to repeat it on the air. the washington post reported me to a statement, saying one of the best and most reporting in the news business never violated washington post standards or policies. the new york times wasn't off the dinner because you get around the off the record restriction because you were told this by somebody who was off there. >> well, if he's taking that information off the record and giving it to somebody, that is a violation of those policies, the

way i read it. now, i don't know what was agreed to. rucker is a really good journalist. i think at some point you need to hear how he handled it. i want to hear the conditions that he agreed to. it may not have been strictly off the record. >> he didn't respond to my e-mail this morning. the post is defending him. the sad thing she's 28 years old. they were having drinks and she said she shouldn't have said and now she's out of a job. >> this woman should not even be a national story. howard: yeah, i think if she hadn't lost her job, obviously this might have gone unnoticed. charlie, great to see you. >> any time. howard: thanks for stopping by as always. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. hope you enjoy your day. you can subscribe at apple itunes, google play or fox news pod cast.com. hopefully you look at our facebook page, i post columns

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