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schools. >> lairs and race baiters want you to think that fauci is not to be believed. >> tony fauci has not been elected to anything. he had the same job for nearly 40 years, this guy, fauci may even be more off base than average epidemiologist. >> democrats want to keep lockdown indefinitely. dr. anthony fauci also seems to favor what the democrats want and that is massive restrictions with no end in sight. >> it's almost fauci versus the president's view on this. science versus the president. howie: joining us guy benson and griff jeff kins and in los angeles leslie marshall, radio talk show host, guy, we have conservative commentators including several on fox

chastising dr. fauci, liberal pundits defend him, should the 79-year-old doctor be the focal point? >> guy: no, although people are frustrated. when you're angry and frustrated you look for people to blame. that's natural, that's what human beings do. i think that fauci is playing the role that he should be. he's the doctor, he's the medical expert, he's bringing his best advice on that front and he's very candidly and openly admitted that he's not in charge of making decisions about the economy, he hasn't been elected to anything. there are politicians and leaders like the president who have to weigh some of the varying factors, he just brings one of those to the table, very important one, of course. i think a lot of the president has been stoking the narrative, trump versus fauci for a long time and still they are getting it right. howie: the press likes the fight, i'm shocked.

he e-mailed "the new york times" to say that a premature opening could cause needless suffering and death when in testimony he was more nuance and more diplomatic. he said they'll be no vaccines by september and students may face difficulties. i don't think he's looking to pick a fight. >> leslie: i don't think he's picking a fight. one of the things he said, dr. fauci in his role, before any of us knowing his name is responsible for a medical and scientific data with regard to public health, not with regard to one city, not one state, on a whole to public health. you're looking at mass numbers. there are realities and the reality is months ago we didn't have this deviation of coronavirus that is affecting children and mimics kawasaki

syndrome take place in new york and other places like italy. there's a concern. i have two children and i have to say i want our economy open, i love my kids and i want them to go to school and i want them to be alive and i don't want them to come home in a body bag and that's his responsibility. howie: if we get stuck on your husband to come in, do you think the media which thrive on conflict want to, are casting this as a trump versus fauci debate? griff: i think president trump brings it on himself, howie, just this week the president said vaccine or no vaccine we are back. now, fauci has said from the beginning, i hope i'm wrong and get blamed for being too strict because that will mean we will have better numbers in flatting the curve. he's not deviated. he's been solid and firm on that and when it comes to vaccine you've not heard fauci deviate

from 8 to 12 months. the statement from president trump is a shot at fauci and helps feed the narrative that there's tension between the president and his top doctor. howie: and of course, we have seen the coronavirus task force in terms of television. there's a media debate about reopening the economy. here is what the president told maria bartiromo. maria: do you think your critics want you to keep it closed going into the election? >> yeah i do, i do, i think it's a political thing. if it was up to some people let's keep it close for a long time, let's watch the united states go down the tubes. howie: guy, the president said that opposition to fully reopen the party and the media says that's hogwash. guy guy i would say that some sf

the bad-faith critics of the president, look at the economy tanking under the president and two, anything that might be done to reopen the economy and reverse the trends is killing grandparents and if you're an evil master if you suggest it. it's a fraction of the left, not the whole left, some certainly are. i would say the biggest element of media bias right now and i think it is partisan is you look at how they are covering not just trump but governors. blue state governors have gotten the pass. red states governors have gotten all scrutiny and some unfair, we have seen axios and cnn, looking at spiking places like texas, it's because they are doing more testing. we are doing more testing and the metric to follow is not total positive cases, it's percentage of positive tests and hospitalizations. i think that's deeply misleading and it seems like there are

different standards for governors depending on the letter next to their name. howie: fair point but a little bit of media criticism lately of andrew cuomo for handling of new york. leslie, you touched on this earlier. do you think anyone who wants to see the economy shut down for the next six months? leslie: i'm a liberal and democrat and i live in the bluest state of california, absolutely not. for people say it's political, it's political suicide for anybody to go back to their state from washington, whether you're a senator, whether you're a house member and to say, sorry, but you have to stay home more, sorry you're going to lose your business, sorry this many restaurants are going to close, this many mom and shop coffee stores. no, every politician needs to say, look, i helped create jobs, i help today make things better and politically let's be honest in an election year, democrat or republican, they are going the say if the economy is bad, it's your fault to whoever is running

for reelection. howie: well, griff, some people forget that journalists are employees too and the media business has been pretty hard hit, right? griff: absolutely, you've got tv ratings are up because people want information in unbelievably historic pandemic and the ad revenue is completely flat. the political season spinning whether it's local newspaper, tv station or radio station, it's just absent, very difficult time. i would just chime in by the way, my mom has great saying about rooting for failure, no reason to shoot yourself in the foot despite your nose, however, you're seeing a tone-deaf approach for officials, from frustrated business owners albeit local media or small businesses. howie: another one for you, griff, there's a viral video of news 12 long island reporter

kevin beasy, covering a rally for the reopening for the area and getting a lot of flak from the protestors, let's roll it. >> stop airing the trump briefings and you keep airing cuomo briefings. go home. [inaudible] >> you are the enemy of the people. you are the enemy. howie: so kevin said found this alarming, president trump retweeted the video saying great people and chuck schumer telling msnbc that some of the protests are overcovered. quick thoughts, griff. griff: i send my support in regards for kevin beasy for going out there. he went by himself, he was shooting with his cell phone and he was there to tell their story and they harassed him. they missed the opportunity with a guy that was there to be fair. i'm not sure the president tweeting supporting them is a

right move here. i've been in the reporter role when i've been out there back when war protestors during bush and obama years and we are telling your story, let us do it without being harassed. howie: fair point. i mean, he was there to put them on television. one sound bite, guy, that sums up the president's position is this one. >> america has risen to the task. we have met the moment and we have prevailed. so has this become a media debate about mission accomplish or no, no, things could get worse? >> guy: i think that some of the rhetoric could be premature and the president has said many times he's a cheerleader of the country and wants to keep morale high. some of the reports i alluded to earlier seems to poll in a direction where the dark situation is portrayed too darkly where some of the good news isn't getting reported in the way the bad news and there's

not enough context i would say, but if things let's say by september, october aren't feeling a lot better for a lot of voters, you better believe those types of sound bites will be in ads against the president. howie: okay, let me jump in, leslie, the doctor who was transferred at hhs testified before the house, he said that the trump administration wasn't telling the truth about the pandemic and we are facing tough times, cnn, msnbc carried a couple of hours of testimony, fox only a few minutes. how much has that broken through and not broken through and the president calls him a disgruntled employee? leslie: i think it's a pattern of behavior for the president. if somebody let's go, he didn't know them, he didn't do much, don't listen to him and especially if they say anything negative or contrary that he says, that's a pattern of behavior. i think it's hard for anybody in the position to say i dropped the ball or redropped the ball especially if you're the president because you're the

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howie: president trump has been tweeting about predecessor calling obamagate is worse than watergate. >> what crime exactly are you accusing president obama of committing and do you believe the justice department should prosecute him? >> obamagate, it's been going on for a long time. it's been going on before i even got elected and it's a disgrace that it happened.

>> what is the crime exactly that you're accusing him of? >> you know what the crime is. the crime is obvious for everybody. all you have to do is read the newspapers except yours. >> guy, the journalists have asked what he personally accused barack obama of, what's going on? guy: i think he's angry at what we are learning about and he has a right to be angry based on recently declassified documents and the inspector general report which seems like ancient history but quite relevant. i think there's some question about barack obama himself knew and when because we learned that sally yates at the doj learned from the president, barack obama, from the president himself that the flynn investigation was happening and that seems interesting at the very least. i think we will know a lot more about what did what and if there were crimes were committed when john durham swings into gears or issues indictments and people should generally feel powder dry until we hear from mr. durham.

howie: media not good at keeping powder dry. the first person i would like to call to testify in political crime in scandal in the history of the usa by far is former president obama, just do it, no more mr. nice guy. the senator doesn't plan to call former president at hearings but a lot of media outrage about all of this, your thoughts. leslie: well, first of all, again, there is no crime that we know of and i'm sure when durham's report comes out we are going to see that. second of all, president obama is not going to be called and probably wouldn't appear if he were and quite frankly i wouldn't blame him. this is -- if everybody wants to blame the left with coronavirus of politics, this is politics of its finest. we have an election coming up, people forget. this is a diversionary tactic and this virus is something we can't seem to completely get

under control and, of course, we can't get a vaccine as quickly as we would like in world that we live in and that's the reality. obamagate is just a good head line. howie: well, griff, explain to people further, acting of national intelligence intelligence rick grenell provided documents which were made public by senators, 16 obama administration officials including joe biden had asked for unmasking, the tactical person of the person talking to russian ambassador and turned out to be mike flynn and here is what the president had to say. >> he has no idea he knows nothing about anything, nothing at all and then gets released today that he was the big unmasker, so how do you know nothing if you're one of the unmaskers. howie: president trump talking about joe biden, explain unmasking and relatively common

practice, if you would. griff: crime was committed that flynn's name was leaked to the media, on january 12th, the exact day that biden requested. that's why president trump was mentioning it. the list that includes top obama officials requesting of unmasking of flynn's name are simply possible suspects of who may have leaked it. we don't know and we may never know. on the other side of this is the view that this is the very common practice, the intelligence community uses, 10,000 request to unmask names last year, 2019 and averages 9, 10,000, but what we are going to get to and to guy's point, the durham investigation should it find that there was some connection between this list of unmaskers in the name of flynn being leaked to the washington post, well, that will be prosecution, quickly one last point, we saw a tweet from mark, the attorney who represented the whistleblower in the ukraine

call, he says he believes there may be reason to prosecute here, so it's far from over and, of course, with lindsey graham's hearing starting early june. howie: guy, some journalists are saying that releasing names could set dangerous precedent guy: yeah, look, i think a lot of people on the democratic side have been leaking for a very long time to their friends in the press who have reported it and if republicans go through in this case an official process of the classification and that gets reported, o that's a problem, we have to worry about press all of a sudden, it's not a real story anymore even though we were treated to nothing but russia coverage for 3 years, this is another side of that same story, suddenly we are not suppose today talk about it. i'm not going to play along with that game. howie: leslie, the biden

campaign put out a statement about cbs reporter katherine harris who broke the unmasking story. partisan right-wing hack for who is conduit for right media. >> leslie: i agree with him 100%. second, joe biden has actually talked about how it's necessary for free nation to have a free press. he's written about that and spoken about that and quite frankly, there should be some hand slapping here and there should be a statement from the biden campaign stating that this was not something that the former vice president is in favor of. howie: right, cbs katherine harris, she breaks a lot of national security exclusives, thank you, panel, ahead nascar is reopening today. we will talk with sports reporter who covers but up in the case chuck todd apologizes

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that was because of incompetent leadership at the cdc and i think dr. redfield should resign. howie: never heard a reporter who says about agency chief in this case robert redfield and there was this about the coronavirus task force. >> getting rid of alex azar was a response, he was replaced with mike pence. howie: i think you get the idea. times says in a statement don mcneil, jr. went too far, job is to report the facts and not to offer own opinions. we are confident that reports on sign and medicine for the times has been scrupulous fair and accurate. will readers have that competence. this interview bristled with bias. chuck todd apologized on meet the press, here is how the media handled clip with cbs interview with bill barr, how history will

view of dropping of charges against mike flynn. >> history is written by the winners, it depends on who is writing the history. howie: but very next words cut by meet the press. >> but i think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law, it helped -- it upheld the standards of the department of justice and it undid what was an injustice. howie: todd says that they didn't edit words but only played two clips. >> the mistake and had i seen the part of the interview i would not ended conversation the

way i did. i'm very sorry for that mistake. we strive to be better going forward. howie: glad chuck todd apologized and took full responsibility even after the president called for firing. media tips scales against trump and team. ahead joe biden using msnbc on stepping defense on sexual assault allegations. that's next. ings you love. and if we can't offer you the best price we'll help you find a better one. it's not always the lowest! even if it's not with us. that's how we've done it for the past 80 years. not just today, or this month, but always.

♪ ♪ ♪ howie: the president really got into it in news conference with chinese american reporter of testing and response to plenty of media flak. >> life is a global competition, everyday americans are still losing their lives and we are still seeing more cases every day. >> well, they are losing their lives everywhere in the world and maybe that's a question you

should ask china. don't ask me, ask china that question, okay, when you ask them that question, you may get a very unusual answer. >> sir, why are you saying that to me specifically? >> i'm not telling you specifically, i'm asking to anybody that asks a nasty question. howie: joining us mike huckabee, fox news contributor, governor, you've dealt with plenty of reporters as presidential candidate and little rock, was that a nasty question? >> well, it was an unfair question because she specifically made it as is if the united states is the only place where they are dying and clearly they are diego all over the world and clearly this originated in china and people have to start to recognizing that he's not xenophobic and china lied and made the pandemic

much worse than it had ever been and created global problem rather than something that could have been localized. howie: well, of course, her point why was she getting the ask china response. what happened right after that is that the president recognized cnn caitlin collins and then tried to move on, let's take a quick look. >> please, go ahead. in the back, please. >> i have two questions. >> no, it's okay. >> you pointed to me. i have two questions. >> next, next please. >> you called on me. >> i did and you didn't respond and now i'm calling on -- >> sorry -- >> the young lady in the back. >> ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate it. howie: the president abruptly ended -- >> good for him. howie: good for him, the prez was getting under his skin. mike: i think they are. wouldn't they get under yours if every time you're trying to give information all they want to do

is play got-you game. that's not how it works. you get a question you ask your question. if you don't want to ask a question and you want to give it to someone else that's the prerogative of the person holding the press conference in this case the president to say no. if you want to question you get it. howard, something that i feel that maybe needs to be said, i can say it as a person who has been on the president's side of the podium. there's no law that requires you to have a press conference and no law that requires you to answer the questions especially the stupid ones and sometimes people ask like it's trump's fault and he throws it back at them, bravo, i'm glad he's doing it because it really shows and let me give you great example, caitlin collins wearing a mask and then there's other shows where as soon as the press conference was over in the white house with kayleigh mcenany she

immediately takes it off and rubbing shoulder -- shoulder to shoulder with the reporters, everyday asking people how come you're not wearing a mask, mr. president and then she takes her mask off. it's so phoney. we all get it and i think it's just disgusting and it's so clear that the bias is just dripping out of these people. howie: well, let me briefly you get in on the coverage of the coronavirus because continues to be plenty of media criticism of the president for some journalists and pundits say minimizing the advice of people like anthony fauci and perhaps pushing for reopening of the economy that might be too much too soon? mike: well, first of all, fauci has virtually had a day bed at the white house. the man has lived there. to say that the president didn't take his advice is just on its face ridiculous. he's been at his side at every press conference for two months. he's allowed him to speak and invited him and deferred to him and he's followed his advice for

heaven's sake to the point that he did shut down the economy, something that i think we all know the president was load to do. and i would remind you this, while the president certainly has listened to him, it's not his responsibility to be dictated to by anybody. the president was selected, fauci wasn't. i don't mean that in a harsh way. howie: fauci said that he's just providing opinion. he doesn't make decisions. let me turn to what the president calls obamagate and he's demanding that former president obama testify and you say that the media are trying to ignore, but there haven't been plenty of stories of the president's accusations and response of obama people? mike: no, not in balance. there had been this against trump

people or bush administration, it would be page every single day. it's not the top, it's not been the major story and it should be because this is a huge issue. i will take one point of disagreement with the president on this, i don't think president obama should be forced to testify and the reason is not because he wouldn't have something to say, not because i don't think he was aware of the unmasking and may have ordered certain things, but i think it's the terrible precedent that we don't want to start because it has no end, but i do want to hear from james comey, clapper, brennan, strzok, page, the whole lot of them, i think there were -- there was some extraordinary activity that sounds criminal to me and definitely should be looked into and accountability for these people who abuse the power of the united states government to first of all stage an attempted coup against the president and then cover up what

they had done. howie: well, you say sounds criminal to you. the president says the former president committed a crime and that may be jumping the gun on the process here. the obama story, the mike flynn case, all important stories, don't you think americans are far more interested in the virus, going back to work, protecting their families, keeping their jobs? mike: well, i think they are and they should be, but i don't i don't want us to miss the single biggest political story in my lifetime whether people at highest levels of government, not one or two, but multiple of justice and intel agencies sought to up-end an election and to destroy a dually elected

president and i think it goes to the heart of our liberties. howie: mike huckabee joining us there, thank you, governor. mike: thank you, howie. howie: after the break joe biden says accuser is changing the story in sexual assault allegations. nascar is returning today. what does that mean for other sports? that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi. hey! - that's totally him. - it's him! that's totally the guy. safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

♪ ♪ ♪ howie: joe biden was back on msnbc once again asked about tara reade's allegation that he sexually assaulted her back in 1993. he addressed answers to voters. >> if they believed her i wouldn't vote for me. look at tara reade's story, it changes considerably. i don't want to question her motive. howie: joining us now marie harpf, runs the serve america pack. marie, joe biden is right that tara reade has changed story with reporters. tara reade lie today them, deceitful and didn't pay the rent, ripped them off and generally spoke positive about biden. my question is two part. is joe biden turning more aggressive in use of television

about these allegations and stories like the one in politico fair game? marie: i think they are serious allegations. he's called for a full investigation and we have seen news organizations whether it's the post or "the new york times" or politico like you mentioned really digging into tara reade's accusations, they've been trying to find any evidence that it happened and they are also locking at a pattern potentially of behavior by the person accusing joe biden of the very serious crime. so i do think it's fair game. he's called for journalists to look into every aspect of the story and i think it's fair when you're running for president and you make this kind of accusation, people should look into whether it happened and what your motives might be. howie: right. i don't think the fact that she had problems in the past mean

she's not credible. the president drew media criticism because testing may be overrated. here of what he said. >> we have more cases than anybody in the world, why, because we do more testing, if we didn't have testing, we would have few cases. they don't want to write that. howie: they don't want to write. correlation between testing and positive results? marie: the media have written that that the more you test the more positive results you're going to get. they have also quoted scientific experts across the world, across the political spectrum that testing is key to attacking this virus. we need to know how many people have it and this is one of the situations, howie, where the president says some things that may be dangerous or factually inaccurate and the press throughout presidency has had a challenge on how to cover the

things because you give the president, you give both sides an opportunity to put forward their point of view but when that point of view is dangerous or wrong, the press struggled with how to cover that accurately and paint a real portrait of what's going on at the white house. howie: you worked in obama state department, split between conservative media that are playing up the accusations about obama officials unmasking mike flynn and all of that and liberal media which are basically agreeing joe biden that this is all a distraction. what's your take on the coverage of the accusations? marie: you hit the nail on the head. what i have been paying attention to is not the pubbed its on the side of this, but down the middle news stories which make clear that in the trump administration tens of thousands of unmasking requests have been put forward unadjudicated by nsa and focusing on the facts here and

we have seen so many conspiracy theories spread on the internet particularly about what did or didn't happen in the russia investigation and a lot of that is being weponized in partisan ways, quite frankly in ways i've never seen before and it is really dangerous. media are struggling with thousand deal with something. the president is putting forward series that have no evidence but they have to give some credibility to it even though it really doesn't have any. that's a challenge for the press right now. howie: half a minute. the president on friday night fired latest inspector general at the state department, white house officials says it was at the request of mike pompeo. the washington post lead story today calls retaliatory purge, slow-motion massacre but he was obama appointee, why is the press treating it as such a huge deal? marie: fourth inspector general to be fired since the pandemic began, they often happen at friday nights and the media have

the challenge in covering really important stories that potentially have some wrongdoing in them but in this context of coronavirus where it's so hard for people rightly so to focus on anything other than the pandemic, but these are important stories. you heard republicans about whether this was an appropriate firing, the press needs to be able to cover the pandemic and significant steps the trump administration is taking, it's hard howie, that's hard right now. howie: all right, marie, thank you very much for joining us this sunday. marie: thank you. howie: still to come a pit reporters on nascar relaunching season today and how things are very different.

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professional sports during the pandemic, today nascar ramps up season returning to action at darlington, south carolina, race you can see on fox broadcast but with all kinds of changes including no fans in the stands, joining us jamie little, pit reporter for fox nascar who is joining today's coverage, jamie, how has the virus change the way you'll be covering the next race and are you worried about interviewing drivers and getting a bit too close? >> jamie: it's time to get back after 10 long weeks for all of us and it will change the way that i do my job, first and foremost there's usually four pit reporters on pit road covering 40 race cars, they are only sending one and that's to protect people. we have a limited amount of people at the track, only essential people that we need. everybody else in the la or charlotte covering everything that they need to do from those studios. for me i will be at the 600 covering the race for four hours by myself and getting information will be different, like you said, it's all about

social distancing. we can't get closer to 6 feet to talk that tease guys and get information and the way that i gather my story lines will be much different and a lot of time on skype and crew chiefs leading up to the race. howie: right, extra for the person doing a four-hour race. talk about nascar is taking steps to protect the drivers and crews? >> jamie: they wouldn't be absolutely doing this if we weren't doing it safely. every person that goes in the field will be tested, of course, everybody is wearing masks, some people wearing gloves. as a reporter we have to wear a mask and that's great. anything that it takes to keep us all safe and show that we can have live sports back. we can do it safely and this is something that can continue. definite i will keeping an eye on that and the drivers. usually access is everything in nascar. people get to talk to the drivers, they are mingling, all

of the teams are mingling with each other, that's not happening today, no practice, drivers will show up to right now and called, get in and go. no talking to anybody. howie: fox's joe says that adding crowd noise and virtual fans, but for you, what is it like to cover the major races and nobody in the stands and it's just quiet? >> jamie: i've never been in that situation. nascar fans are so loud. you have car engine noise, a lot of noise, ambient sounds that will bring naturally and that will come through. other sports, you really need that feel and vibe of the energy of the crowds, so i think it'll affect those sports more so than racing. howie: yeah. i've got 10 seconds.

people have been watching nascar drivers do video games. is there -- how much is there for sport to come back? >> jamie: we have been getting a million viewers and fox sports watching the guys play video games and play in i-racing, there's a hunger for it and we will have a second screen viewing part for darlington, join me and broadcasters starting at 3:30 a lot planned today, big day for the sport. howie: jamie little, glad that you're getting out of the house. good to see you. thank you so much. >> jamie: thank you for having me. howie:ly have final thoughts in just a moment so, draw the line. roundup for lawns is formulated to kill lawn weeds to the root without harming your grass. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. with safelite's exclusive resin,

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howie: journalists who get the coronavirus, chris cuomo, tend to use their platforms to speak out. mara, editorial writer and pundit, 33-year-old runner who came down with covid-19 and

still battling pneumonia, she writes this, maybe you don't live in a big city, maybe you don't know anybody who is sick and maybe you think we are crazy for living in new york, that's fine, you don't have to live like us or vote like us but please learn from us, please take this virus seriously. that's a terrific message as the country slowly reopens, living young in rural area, none of that will protect you if you're exposed. i know the media taking a lot of hits during the pandemic for hype, for partisanship, alarming people though it's obviously to play down 88,000 american deaths but some of us are also getting sick, sick of being cooped up for all the frustration we feel as we yearn for greater degree of normalcy i would echo the message, please take this virus seriously. that's it for this edition of media buzz, i'm howard kurtz. we hope you like facebook page and let's continue the conversation on twitter at howard kurtz and also check out media, excuse me, podcast media buzz meter, we will put that up, you can subscribe at apple

itunes or google play and now on spotify as well. we are back here next sunday, we will be covering the water front including the virus and very serious environment. we hope that you will join us then. see you in the latest buzz. ♪ ♪ arthel: new number on the coronavirus pandemic, almost 90,000 americans have lost their lives to covid-19 and close to 1.5 million have been infected. this as states across the country now accelerate their reopenings despite rising cases in some spots. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm arthel neville. eric: hi, arthel, hello, everyone, thank you for joining us, i'm eric sean, texas for one, forge ago head with the opening, that started 2 weeks ago. one-day total of new cases since thede