howie: this is media buzz. i'm howard cuts. ahead we'll talk about the legacy of rush limbaugh with help our oliver north and larry kudlow the former trump white house official weighs in on the media. it was the radio titan's sad death that prompted donald trump to break his silence since leaving office, calling into fox, describing rush as i replaceable and offering his views on the election. >> well, rush thought we won and so of do i, by the way. i think we won by substantially. i don't think that could have happened to a democrat. you would have had riots going

all over the place if that happened to a democrat. we did win the election as far as i'm concerned. it was disgraceful what happened, totally disgraceful. howie: and that not surprisingly touched off a media storm. joining us to analyze the coverage, in new york, will cain, co-host of "fox & friends weekend," here in washington, susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner and leslie marshall, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. will, media are acting shocked. in response to those call-in interviews on fox, news max aoan, some liberal comment trays are saying he shouldn't be allowed on the air to say those things. your take. >> we'll have to move beyond this idea that anybody who says something that you disa agree with, you must shut down and silence. this is a sickness in our

society. regardless of whether or not you agree with or think it's healthy what donald trump has to say, we have to move beyond this movement of silence. you know, donald trump is set to speak next weekend at cpac. i hope his message is one that looks forward, not backwards. i think this country is in the middle of a great reshuffling. we have massive issues. economic populism, an economy that's bifurcating into the elite and the common man, cancellation at home for anyone that steps out of what is fashionable in the given moment and we need -- the republican party for that matter needs to focus on how they will address those issues going forward. trumpism will be part of that. because donald trump led the way on many of those issues. i hope that donald trump manages to look forward in the coming weeks and how he can help lead, guide or contribute to that movement going forward. howie: susan, i agree that the former president should be

challenged if he talks about a stolen election. when he called into fox, we had just learned of limbaugh's death but will brings up it was announced last night trump to be the featured speaker at the cpac conference next sunday. will the media treat that speech as a huge issue? >> absolutely, because the president still controls or enjoys support of millions and millions of voters who voted for him in november and who continue to support him now. there's a new poll out that shows almost 60% of republicans want him to play some kind of major role in the party's direction going forward. so he is still the leader of the party. and i know that divides the party and there are a lot of people in the party who don't want him to be the leader. but he still controls a lot of voters. he has so much support. he is still the voice of the republican party, whether people like it or not. so i expect the speech to be covered that way. howie: leslie, let me play for

you a couple of liberal or left leaning reporters reacting to the president's call-ins to the three networks. take a look. >> donald trump once again was peddling lies that he won the election in 2020. he was also stoking anger out there among his base of supporters. >> what the former president is doing there is essentially expressing his dissatisfaction there weren't more riots. in response to the results of the election. howie: expressing his dissatisfaction there weren't more riots. i goes my question is, i understand the concern around the violence of january 6th when he was president. he's now out of office, he's down at mar-a-lago playing a lot of golf. your take on this attack on him speaking out? >> well, first of all, everybody has the right to speak out. and we'll all go to vegas betting at cpac donald trump

can't look forward, even though the rhetoric he's saying is based on lie. susan said something interesting. she said he still controls a lot of those voters. i think that's really key. there are people who feel very not just of the republican party as we saw on january 6th and we even have seen since january 6th and heard on social media. you know, quite frankly at the end of the day, have you to decide do you care about yourself and perpetrating a lie that led to danger, or are you going to get out there and like will said move forward. because quite frankly, trump is very powerful still in politics. trump is very powerful still within the gop. and he has to stop with these lies because some people believe them and quite frankly we've seen that could be very dangerous. >> leslie, i'll see your las vegas bet and raise you one. if there's anyone that loves donald trump more than donald

trump, it is the mainstream media. they'll be the ones looking to look backwards, they're going to have a hard time letting go of donald trump. .we need to silence donald trum, but we can't stop talking about donald trump because he's a real ratings boom to whatever network talks about him. >> i don't think we should silence him. i don't think we should silence him, will. i don't think we should silence him. i'll take your bet. let's do a bet. five bucks to be fair, five bucks you owe me if he mentions the election was stolen once which would be looking forward. >> i'm not making that bet. >> because you know i would win. >> i didn't make a prediction. howie: you can take this outside. i do agree he with will's point that the media love the fact that he called in because now they get to do these trump secretaries which are good for ratings. susan, i reported this week based on sources that because of the twitter ban, donald trump has told people he's relieved he doesn't have to tweet on everything every hour and his

advisors are helping to rein him in and they're doing carefully crafted statements that are vetted by the staff in part. let me play what the former president had to say about twitter this week. >> we were being really harassed on twitter. they were putting up all sorts of flags. it's become very boring. we don't want to go back to twitter. howie: so does being off twitter to some extent take him out of the game? >> absolutely. he had millions and millions of followers where at any given moment he could speak to them whenever he wanted. he could get his message out unedited, usually, twitter at the end started to edit and ban him. but he had that forum at his fingertips, whenever he wanted it and that's gone now and conservative media on the social media platform in conservative voices don't have that right now because they've been pretty much

deplatformed in many ways which is a whole other topic. now trump doesn't have that format where he can just reach out to people whenever he wants and i think that helped generate a lot of his followers, just getting -- just through twitter and social media. that's where so many people are getting their information today. howie: you know, trump, here's an example, trump put out a statement, blistering statement against mitch mcconnell calling him an unsmiling political hack who doesn't know how to win. mcconnell gave a speech on the senate floor saying the former president was guilty of dereliction of duty in the capitol riot. politico reports that aides convinced trump to take out of the statement the notion that mcconnell has multiple chins. you know that would have made it into the tweets. let me ask you, nikki haley says in a wall street journal op-ed that the media, the liberal media she says want a nonstop go of p civil war, they go berserk every time a republican criticizes donald trump as she

did recently saying he led us down the wrong path on the capitol riot and we shouldn't have listened to him. does she have a point that the press whips up republican division? >> no, i don't agree he with that first of all, she got punished for that. she wasn't allowed at the meeting that she requested with donald trump at mar-a-lago. i think that's a perfect example. look, the gop is doing its own damage. the media doesn't need to do anything. there are some people on the left who are getting popcorn and enjoying watching the fight just as people on the right and watch the in-fighting between two dress i'ves and middle centrist democrats. look, the gop has to make a decision. are they going to be the party of reagan, are they going to be the party of trump? there's a lot in both factions. they're fighting. that warring has led to thousands of people leaving the gop, some elect r&d officials becoming independents. i don't think the media is doing

this. i think the people within the gop are doing this. it will continue until they redefine what they party is. howie: the media are relishing the so-called republican civil war. i take your point. we have people like mitch mcconnell sort of openly going against the president he served for four years and you have state and county parties passing resolutions against republicans who voted for impeachment or conviction, that was not all dreamed up by the media. let me come back to this question of donald trump and the media, what i'm calling addiction which i don't think has been broken. is the press happy about all of this? because if you took trump out of the equation, if he was just going to play golf for the next six months, we would only have to cover the top story, hugely important story which was the biden administration's flog to improving the struggling vaccine rollout program and while that's crucial for the country, it doesn't generate news every day. >> we're talk about donald trump making three phone calls

this week. the media is addicted to donald trump. if i might just make this point to what leslie was talking about and you, howard, this republican civil war. this is what happens when you lose. you reimagine, you re-- take another look in the mirror and decide who you are. donald trump largely is responsible for repositioning the republican party, in i would suggest some good ways over the last four years, meaning paying attention to economic eliteism, forgotten man, also times have changed. i believe there's a neo racism taking place on the left. we always have to focus on skin color. in the midst of the change, the republican party has to decide who they will be. let me explain this. when you win, you sometimes don't look in the mirror. you don't reimagine. democrats won. and right now they're not looking in the mirror about the fact that they have largely championed shutdowns of the economy, shutdowns on businesses and schools, kept kids from being educated. they're not looking at themselves in the mirror about this which affects everyday americans. that's the story 1-a.

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howie: andrew cuomo's mishandling of nursing home deaths from covid wasn't drawing much national coverage. with the justice department launching an investigation msnbc and cnn are now tackling the story, including an interview with ron kim who said the governor called to threaten him. >> for 10 minutes he yelled at me, told me my career would be

over. he's been biting his tongue for months against him. i had tonight, not tomorrow, tonight to issue a new statement essentially asking me to lie and it really just put my family and my wife into shock and trauma for many hours and she couldn't get any sleep that night. members of the cuomo administration seeming to admit that they misled people on the number of nursing home deaths because they feared a justice department investigation. >> so governor cuomo who has declined to appear on the show despite dozens of requests over the past year, including this past week, made a bad decision that may have cost lives. howie: will, the allegations about governor cuomo and nursing home deaths in new york have been brewing for months. why is it now they that places like cnn and msnbc are more seriously covering the story.

>> the banging of the drums have gotten too loud. the governor covered up and lied about it when it start todd be exposed. they didn't want to talk about it because governor cuomo has been the mainstream media and the left hero, he represented the anti-trump position. anything that was anti-trump was good in the mainstream media's book, whether or not it was his press conferences, his government shutdowns or of business shutdowns in new york or whatever it may be that he did in new york, he was seen as a hero to donald trump's anti-hero. now that they realize the truth is the opposite, they held on as long as they can, as long as they could, but the drumbeat is too loud to ignore, howard. howie: leslie, a spokesman for cuomo who was there says the governor never threatened assemblyman kim, that he asked him to clarify his remarks. the governor did go out and denounce him on several issues. is this providing the kind of tv drama that does boost this kind

of story? >> yeah, it does. sadly, it boosts ratings, sort of like national enquirer television on major news networks, sadly. what happens is the people whether it's andy kim or governor cuomo become the story. the real story is how many people lost their lives and two, how much of that was due to mismanagement. three, whose mismanagement is to blame for that and four, the coverup of that when you have peek people like aoc calling out governor andrew cuomo and calling for an investigation, this is not about politics or partisan politics. this is about being honest about you human lives. howie: susan, the media hailed andrew cuomo for early pandemic briefings. he was given an emmy for that. he used to go on his brother's cnn show, hosted by his brother, chris cuomo under an exemption. cnn says that's no longer allowed. do you think there's a connection between the national focus on these allegations

against andrew cuomo and the fact that donald trump is no longer in office, dominating the news? >> yes, i think this was a prime example and this is a strong word of negligence in journalism. this happened in new york city. it was very obvious those numbers were under-counted if you looked at the data nationwide. there was something wrong with the nursing home deaths reported in new york. it didn't look right. it was very low numbers. new york post has been on this story from the very beginning. right under the nose of the new york times. that there were problems with these nursing homes deaths and that the policies of the cuomo administration led to these nursing home deaths. yet all the attention remained focused on trump and the flaws in his administration's dealing with the pandemic. truly was next. next. you -- negligent. you have major newspapers who looked at this and they're only doing it now, trump's out of office and this is an internal conflict between cuomo and his democratic administration.

howie: right. andrew cuomo acknowledged that it took months to release nursing home deaths and that it's nearly double. i want to play the governor at a news conference on friday in which he responded to the allegations. >> we were busy. we were doing our job. we're trying to save lives. no excuses. i was not aggressive enough. in knocking down the falseities. howie: cuomo says it's just political vilification about his opponents. >> the man who has had more exposure than any governor in the united states and won an emmy says the real problem is i wasn't exposed enough. you didn't hear from me enough. i would push back. it wasn't media negligence. it was media corruption. what it is, when you position everything as donald trump related, if donald trump's for an open of economy, you must be closed, if donald trump says it

originates in china, you must call that a conspiracy. when you position everything against donald trump it allows you to say cuomo is a hero and donald trump is an anti-hero. it's totally divorced from the truth. your only guiding light is orange man bad. that's the corruption of the media. howie: leslie, i have 15 or 20 seconds. would it be better for andrew cuomo to admit a mistake and apologize? is that part of what's fueling this? >> absolutely. we've seen it with politicians. americans, the voters specifically are very forgiving. it's long overdue. just own it and apologize and fix it and move forward. howie: and i'm sorry that we're out of time for this segment. leslie, will, susan, thanks very much. ahead, larry kudlow on battling the media from inside the trump white house. but up next, joe biden talks covid in his first town hall and doesn't exactly get grilled by cnn. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself,

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howie: joe biden did his first town hall at president with cnn's anderson cooper in mill way you key and the interview was less than challenging. one question was cooper tried to get him to rip republican senators who voted last weekend to acquit donald trump. >> house speaker nancy pelosi called them cowards, do you agree with her. >> for four years all that's been in the news is trump. the next four years i want to make sure all the news is the american people. howie: joining us now is fox news correspondent griff jenkins. anderson cooper also asked how does it feel living in the white house. the main purpose with the questions was he let biden ramble on for two or three minutes at a time to the point where the president would apologize for going so long. >> you hi, howie. good morning to you. if donald trump had been there mauling in milwaukee. instead it was mostly balls and

a -- soft balls and a loose leash to run as long as you want. the obvious take-away -- to be fair, most of the questions came from the audience as well. the difficult subjects were not addressed and the audience wanted to talk about covid and yet there was no question about the cuomo nursing home scandals and there was no talk either of recent developments, like just 24 hours earlier the deputy press secretary, dj ducklo resigned amidst a scandal. really, it was clear that the tough subjects were not on the menu. howie: let's take a look at an exchange that had to do with what the biden administration said about reopening schools. roll it. >> your administration had set a goal to open the majority of schools in your first 100 days. you're now saying that means those schools may only be open for at least one day a week. >> that's not true. that's what was reported. that's not true. it was a mistake in the communication. howie: so president biden tried

to pass this off as a miscommunication. anderson cooper didn't follow up. savannah guthrie was tougher on his issue in an interview with vice president kamala harris. your take on that part of the town hall. >> we have to go back to why anderson asked that question. it wasn't something that came from a cnn reporter at the white house. i was peter doocy that first got that on the record and really anderson allowed president biden to do a clean-up on aisle 5 for his press secretary jen psaki who had said the one day. the part of the town hall that really struck me, if i could point out, howie, was that when the president said there was no vaccine when he came into office, where was anderson's pushback? it was blatantly obvious to everybody paying attention that biden got the vaccine when trump was in office. .howie: biden clearly misspoke on that. if you were the moderator, you would say what do you mean no vaccine. i think, look, anderson cooper spent the last four years

bashing donald trump. your point on that is right. i thought some of the toughest questions came from the audience, such as businessman who said a $15 minimum wage would kill us. >> yeah. you know, the audience's lives are being impacted by covid and in the oil and gas industry a lot of people are out of work and the last time anderson was tough on biden was at a town hall in september of 2020 on fracking that wasn't there. howie: great summary there. griff jenkins, great to see you as always. next on media buzz, how rush limbaugh transformed the media landscape with a special guest, oliver north. and larry kudlow is on deck. i have the power to lower my a1c. because i can still make my own insulin. and trulicity activates my body to release it. once-weekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. most people taking it reached an a1c under 7%. trulicity may also help you lose up to 10 pounds and lower your risk of cardiovascular events,

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connection with his audience. >> by virtue of you listening to the radio show and being active in the movement that we cherish and love, you have meant more to me, my family and my life than whatever it is i might mean to you, even though i know that's considerable. howie: joining us now to talk about rush's legacy is oliver north, the long-time fox news host and contributor who launched a radio show in the 1990s and is the co-author of veterans lament. you and i met when i would do your radio show. would you have gotten into radio if not for the wave created by rush and what did you learn from him about broadcasting. >> i learned to stick to the facts and one of the things about rush limbaugh was he would do it in such a way that it would just enrage his opponents. his detractors went after him repeatedly for closing his showo

often with talent on loan from god. they regarded it as hubris. he said it was humility. many detractors didn't believe in the same god and the ideas that rush had about respect for hard work, his undying -- literally to the day he took his last breath a couple days ago was for the country that would we -- country that we have come to love so much and he loved it. his attitude was midwestern america, the heartland of america. howie: i understand -- go ahead. i wanted to say i you understand he also helped you with conservative causes. >> he did. he did. he was very, very generous with his time. he would call me up and i would answer the phone, hello. he would say general -- he would promote me. general. limbaugh here. it was probably coordinating one

of those events like he would help freedom alliance and help with all kinds of conservative causes and he would do it in such a way that it was actually enjoyable. he helped me make -- he wrote seven books himself. he helped me become a best selling author and i was on his show a number of times. i brought with me something, howie, that i didn't tell you about when we were setting this up. it's a letter i dug out from his mom, okay, and here's what it says. colonel north, a short note to let you know how wonderful you were on cnbc's talk live program. right. roger ailes hired you and me and griff jenkins who was on a moment ago. i spoke with rush and asked him for your address. you two were just great together. you both are so believable. press on. i'm looking forward to reading your next book. right. my best to you and your family. howie: mother's seal of approval. from his mom.

that's where he got the value system. howie: rush's face is one of those on the cover of my second booking hot aimplet -- hot air. i covered him since the '90s. you mentioned critics. let me turn to that. obviously, he spent a lot of time beating up on liberals, democrats, the drive-by media. he said things that women, minorities, that gays found offensive. solet me ask you about the way two different new york times knew news stories described him after his death. one said he had been fomenting mistrust and hatred on the right. another story in the times said he was crucial in making digs information, false rumors and fringe ideas the right's new you -- new reality. your reaction. >> this is a man who loved america, loved the hard work values. he was a hero to people who are heroes, soldiers, sailors, guardsmen, marines, law officers, first responders, those are the people he admired

the most. i don't believe that rush thought of himself the way they did. i mean, his humility was there. there was a lot of self deprecating humor in all of things that he did. i look at those kinds of people who regard him a person who could put articulate ways, the value us that they held dearly. the reality of it is, the minor -- look at, none of us are perfect. but rush -- certainly rush limbaugh was not. but the ideas that rush he's espoused. the value systems, that's the kind of things that i focus on and his friendship was valuable to me. his perseverance was a great example. he was diagnosed over a year ago with terminal cancer. didn't expect him to live to christmas. he lived two months beyond the prognosis. howie: and kept doing the show. >> what he did -- absolutely. and after the ear implants, i

remember talking to him about that, i said can you hear. he said not well enough yet. i'm going to go bilateral. he got the second one in. it resolved a lot of the problems. he couldn't hear. i had enormous admiration for him. howie: he said at the outset i'm an entertainer first, a conservative second and this is show biz. your point about how he would go hard after political opponents, did he contribute -- he certainly wasn't the only one -- to a culture now, cable news including those on the left, even among politicians to be more outrageous and more incendiary to break through the static? >> absolutely. as he said so very clearly. he was an entertainer. and yet many times you could see right after lunch, when he came on here on the east coast of the united states, you would hear people say later in the day something that rush had said and he had given them words to use to describe how they felt about various situations, most of them

positive. the front page of yesterday's wall street journal was perseverance, dropping the mars lander out of the hatch, it's something he would have on the air today because it's so positive brought our country. that's the kind of thing he had enormous admiration for is people who could do those kinds of things unlike anywhere else on the planet earth. howie: when he launched his show, there was no real internet, no social mead y he provided an alternative for so many people who didn't trust the mainstream media, got be on 650 radio stations. oliver north, thanks so much for doing this. >> rest in peace, rush. thanks. howie: indeed. after the break, from trump world back to cable news, larry kudlow on the media's treatment of his former boss and the current president. liberty mutual customizes- wait... am i in one of those liberty mutual commercials

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do you see your role as defending the trump policies that you worked on and being tough on the new administration? >> well, look, it's not exactly breaking news, i'm a free enterprise, private enterprise, supply sider who believes in lower taxes and regulations and energy and fair and reciprocal trade. i believe sincerely, this goes 30 or 40 years back when i first worked for president reagan, those are the kinds of things that will generate a great economy, put people back to work, give us long-lived prosperity. now, if president biden followed something close to that script, i would be much more affirmative and i would like that, by the way. it doesn't have to be democrats versus republicans. i'm a former democrat. a republican now. but unfortunately i think in the interview with steve mnuchin,

talked about this a bit, i think they've moved very rapidly towards a progressive left position on a lot of these issues. i don't like -- howie: didn't he campaign on that? that's why we have elections. didn't he campaign on a pretty progressive platform? >> yes, he did. okay. but he then tried to temper it a, as you well know, with talk about unity. there was some talk about moving to the center. that there would be more balance. it wouldn't be a far left progressive agenda. unfortunately, in the early weeks, what have we got a month here, it has been a left progressive agenda. he's going after the energy sector. you saw some of the consequences in texas. that's the tip of the iceberg. he's overturning trump policies with respect to immigration. we had border calm. now we're back to border chaos. this whole immigration program i think is very poor. one of the worst things i've seen is with respect to the iranian deal.

it looks like he wants to revisit a new deal, new nuclear deal with iran. those i think are huge mistakes. i mean, the question here is, look, first, will biden reverse trump policies just because it's an obsession? will he essentially cut off his nose to spite trump? or is he really going to listen to a broader, more diverse group of folks who will make this economy really hum? the economy is poised to roar. we're very close, as the johns hopkins doctor wrote, we're very close to herd immunity. howie: let me jump in. i think it's fair to point out that donald trump also reversed a lot of obama policies. but last month while you were still in the white house you offered some criticism of donald trump's post election conduct leading up to the january 6th riot at the capitol. were you disappointed in what he did? >> yes. i did. i was. i said that. i was disapointed. i was critical.

does it mean i don't admire donald trump? doesn't mean i didn't have a job of a lifetime under president trump and enjoyed it and we got along very well. my view, howie, in short has been -- and i've said this publicly many times. after the electoral college certified the election, i would have greatly preferred that president trump then pivot and talk about his achievements on the economy, on foreign policy, on trade and so forth. because they were consequential achievements. he's actually generated two recoveries, pre-pandemic and now during the pandemic. that's the way i wish he had gone. he didn't go that way. he criticized mike pence and so forth. that's then. okay. we'll see. but yes, i was somewhat disappointed in that. and as were others of my colleagues who of served in the trump administration. howie: yeah. but you chose to stay on while a few others resigned. now, look, you were a cnbc

connect connect day tore. >> i did stay on. howie: you were a media guy. did you feel when you suddenly you're on the north lawn, you're giving interviews, did you feel more hostility from the press, your former colleagues, because you were working for donald trump? >> instead of pure love? is that what you're thinking? [laughter] howie: kind of something like that. [laughter] >> okay. look, having come from the media side, i mean, look, i was in government and i was on wall street before all that. but yes, having worked in the media before, i generally try to have good relations. sometimes media folks came after me. look, the media love to hammer and pound republicans. they were mercyless and i think very, very unjust with their criticisms of president trump, absolutely merciless and unjust.

on the economic lane where i served principally or the trade lane, i thought they were basically pretty fair. you know, sometimes you get whacked because they're whacking your boss. that's part of the game when you're in it, have you to deal with that. some reporters are better than others, obviously. but i think on the whole the media that covered me gave me a pretty fair shake. there's always cheap shots, there's always this and that. that goes with the territory. i have no great complaints. howie: could you give an example? that's a fair an assessment. to give an example, you sometimes were sized for talking up the -- criticized for talking up the economy after the pandemic hit and after that you said the pandemic was awful. is that because your role was different as a white house official spokesman? >> well, some of that -- look, some of that stuff is taken out of context. i mean, by the a way, the economy has been good.

it's a v-shaped recovery. people may not have wanted to hear that. but that was the reality and i think i got that one right. so you know, context is everything. you can be snarky and take something and just look at it disjointedly. on the other of hand, you can give proper context. newspapers like the wall street journal, the new york times, actually covered that stuff with contexts i must say. i'm just -- there's a lot of fake news out there. some of our cable channel competitors are not so kind on the whole. i don't have any regrets. i love doing the job and i'm thrilled, absolutely thrilled to be on the fox team right now. howie: well, we're happy to have you, larry. hope you'll come back. still to come, why the media ar eviserating ted cruz and why isn't the lincoln project news atli the other cable networks?

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>> if you hated cruz this is a pretty fun week. howie: ted cruz says he obviously made a mistake and boy, is he right, by taking his wife and kids to a cancun resort while a crippling storm left millions in texas without power or water. cable news is treating this like a war crime with constant coverage. there he is at the airport with his suitcase, his wife saying it was never supposed to be an overnight trip. >> the texas senator who decided to leave it all behind for a long weekend at the ritz carlton in cancun. >> senator ted cruz and his really, really bad decision to take a trip to cancun. >> if there's a weather

disaster in your state, you don't go on a tropical vacation. >> the unmitigated disaster in texas and by that of course we mean ted cruz. >> a force in full effect, flying ted cruz, he's been totally shaped. >> you never want to be on the beach when your constituents are freezing in the dark. howie: cruz also got wrapped for saying he was trying to be a good dad. here's what he told fox news. >> i firmly planned to stay for the weekend and work remotely there. as i was heading down there, you know, i started to have second thoughts almost immediately because the crisis here in texas you need to be here on the ground. howie: if he stayed home he could have helped raise money for suffering constituents. you know what's really going on here? what's really going on here is that the media don't much like ted cruz. in fact, they are enjoying this, they are relishing this. and look, cruz is a loner, he is not a guy who -- sometimes he's

smug. this is payback for the media. moving right along, let's talk about the lincoln project. just waiting for the prompter to catch up. the sexual harassment allegations against lincoln project co-founder john weaver keeps getting worse and has got ample coverage at fox news. >> the lincoln project funded heavily by tech oligarchs was one of the most nasty political enterprises the country has ever seen. it's collapsing in shame. howie: even with mass resignations and outside probes, the co-founder saying the place should be should down, msnbc and cnn ignored the story. these networks constantly put lincoln founders on the air to he denounce donald trump. but now that their usefulness

ended there's little attempt at holding the group accountable. the website the 19th news reports that based on multiple sources some founders knew of the specific allegations against waver last march, nearly a year ago, even earlier than the ap reported and there were questions about the founder's enriching themselves. media outlets long complained that google essentially rips off content and reasons a digital fortune in the process. news corp. announced a three year deal with google providing material from the wall street journal, new york post, london's times and sun, various australian outlets in exchange for, quote, significant payments. youtube will also invest in video journalism. news corps' ceo says it will have a positive impact on journalism around the globe as we affirmly establish there should be a premium for premium journalism. the search giant has hastened the decline of newspapers, hedge fund thighs week about the tribune company and if google's

billions can help finance good jurchly. -- journalism that's long over due. i'm howard kurtz, check us out on facebook and twitter. you might want to listen to my podcast, see you next sunday with the latest buzz. or trouble falling asleep. because only tempur-pedic uses proprietary tempur® material, that continuously adapts and responds to your body, to relieve pressure. so you get deep, uninterrupted sleep. all night. every night. now's a perfect time to renew your sleep with the one-of-a-kind comfort of tempur-pedic, and save up to $500 on adjustable mattress sets. learn more at tempurpedic.com.

eric: it was loud, shaking, and scary as hell. so says one of the passengers and now the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause of that engine mishap when the united airlines flight that was forced to return to the denver airport yesterday afternoon after a suffering an engine failure after takeoff. nobody on board or on the ground was injured. aircraft debris from the engine rained down on homes and gladder a denver suburb. hello, thank you for watching the fox news channel. this is america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. hi, arthel. arthel: high hi, eric. hello, i'm arthel neville. we are following the crisis in