of unlimited for only $70 bucks. and this rate is fixed. you'll pay exactly $70 bucks total. this month and every month. only at t-mobile. howie: the media are once again demanding action, meaning gun control, after a horrifying shooting in a colorado supermarket that killed 10 people. as a journalist, i covered so many of these tragedies, going back to columbine, virginia tech, sandy hook, charleston, orlando, las vegas, parkland. it's hard not to become numb. president trump is pushing what he calls common sense gun measures. much in the media are behind him. backing the biden agenda on expanding background checks and banning assault weapons is not

taking the poll of ticks out of the situation -- politics out of the situation, regulating guns or not regulating guns are political stances. with the nra in bankruptcy, law abiding gun owners feel that any measures is a slippery slope towards gunner rad case. those who rory about the failure -- worry about the failure to keep guns away from potential mass murderers are entitled to feel frustrated. i don't want to hear about angers or problems of the crazy people who open fire in public places. i don't care. they're insane. only about how they got the guns. the press should cover this debate. too many innocent americans are dying. but need to respect there's more than one viewpoint on this very emotional issue. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ joe biden who pushed for gun

control when he was vice president is doing that again. and sparking a familiar and polarizing on-air debate. >> we can ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines in this country once again. i got that done when i was a senator. it passed. it was the law for the longest time. and it brought down these mass killings. >> here we are again. the right just ramping up the rhetoric without being willing to do anything about the gun violence that is killing us. >> the democrats want you to think that they really, truly care about violence in america and saving lives. but we know the real truth, the fact is, their real priority is taking guns from law abiding americans. >> he faces opposition from a political party that does everything it possibly can to make sure that american mass murderers are the very best equipped mass murderers in the

world. >> barack and joe had full-time security. but most americans do not have access to private security detail and the second amendment is extremely important to them. howie: joining us now to analyze, the coverage, guy benson, the host of a radio show and podcast and liz claman, who hosts the claman countdown on fox. are most of the media embracing p president biden's gun control agenda, this measures, using the fallout from terrible mass shootings in colorado and georgia? >> of course, and they do it every time there's a mass shooting and it's horrifying to say that there is an every time, unfortunately that is part of the reality in this country. gun control advocates say that's the problem and we should have debates and pass laws. the medias and newsroom are populated with people overwhelmingly who are not at all familiar with gun culture. it's one of the issues on which

they are most biased with many blind spots. it's interesting that almost instantly after something like this happens we go to the typical arguing corners and you have people in the press talking about assault weapons and talking about background checks and as it happens out in the boulder shooting, that shooter bought his gun it appears legally with a background check and the city in which the atrocity took place has a ban on so-called assault weapons so sometimes we get ahead of ourselves on the facts and go back to familiar narratives. howie: right. although a judge had intervened on the boulder law. liz, doesn't the press also have a responsibility to point out, as everybody knows, that these t mass shootings have been going on for decades and something like background check loopholes has popular support but never passes congress. >> it's wildly popular, obviously. howie, you clarified that. but guy, it was after parkland that boulder which is here in

colorado, i'm here in colorado right now, boulder passed a ban on assault weapons assault style weapons and it was the nra which aggressively worked to turn back the tide. they were successful in that and 10 days before the boulder shooting that ban on assault weapons was overturned. so this is a very popular gun culture state and they wanted that. say i think that was an easy one for the press to cover because obviously that had been a vote and it had been passed. however, again, overturned. i think for the press, howie, it does turn into just what guy said, going back into the respective corners, sort of a rinse and repeat cycle and that's an absolute tragedy. it starts with the coverage of the breaking news. one day before the boulder shooting, then it goes into the debate and what was the motive and how did he get the gun, et cetera. but the issue here in colorado is trending assault weapon ban is trending but they've been

covering it very fairly i think here in colorado as they leave most of the debate style issues to the op-ed pages. howie: glad to have you on the ground there. the lack of legislation used to be blamed on the nra which is now bankrupt but picking up on what you said earlier, do you feel most journalists have any appreciation for the feelings of law abiding gun owners who fear, whether that's accurate or not, they are concerned that any gun measures would be -- would ultimately lead to something more drastic, gun confiscation or interfering with their rights? >> i think that's precisely the issue here. and it's true that a judge intervened on the assault weapons ban. we have no evidence that an assault weapons ban in one city would have prevented this from happening and often people who are insane, who shouldn't have access to guns or people who are evil and determined to commit crimes aren't going to follow laws. we heard most about background checks. they that was the buzz word in much of the media coverage and

colorado has universal background checks. as i mentioned, this particular shooter passed a background check. so that's what has been widely reported. so if you're a law abiding gun owner and citizen, you say okay, they're going to keep ramping up new laws to try to prevent these things from happening which i fully understand. are they going to start to ensnare me when you have other people out there who aren't going to follow the law if they want to commit crimes. howie: you know, liz, the new york post conservative editorial page shows this is not purely a left, right issue. the paper says it's a matter of life and death and will support president biden, and you see the headline there, get weapons of war off america's streets. not only liberals and conservatives arguing about this very difficult issue. >> well, yeah, and the new york post in parkland did the same thing, had it on the front page, saying ban high capacity magazines and assault style weapons. let's just really put a face on

this right now. tuesday is the funeral, howie, for officer eric tally, he was the first on the scene at the supermarket in boulder, he was picked off. subsequent police officers who arrived, they said they took heavy gunfire, very, very quick repeated gunfire and as we know ten people were killed including that very brave officer. so at some point you do see the one side saying guns don't kill people, people kill people. and it's a mental health issue. on the other side, you have people saying guns are too easy to get. again, you start losing confidence in the federal government that they are unable to figure out a way that is open to both sides to stop this total insanity and at what point -- we haven't had a federal gun law in 25 years. so you do start to look and say, you know, washington can't do anything except go to their corners. howie: and the media often get

dragged along. let me ask you this. just for viewers, who haven't followed this, the house did pass two gun control measures earlier this month, almost exclusively with democratic votes. the media can't blame it entirely on the gop. joe manchin of west virginia said he doesn't support the biden proposal. he has his own weaker compromise. in a 50/50 senate, that means that you couldn't pass this anyway even if -- because every democrat will not vote to support this. >> right. that goes to the vote tallies in the u.s. senate which are often a challenge with things. i would point out, there have been federal gun laws passed within the last 25 years including after virginia tech. they tightened up some background checks. i think it was called fix knicks and a lot of the times these laws do get passed, this was a bipartisan effort. people who even cheered those developments at the tile sort of forget they happened because it's on to the next piece of legislation and we saw this from

a number of democratic politicians saying we haven't passed anything in decades and decades. forgetting things that had passed that some of them in fact had voted for. howie: on that point, liz, and i am glad you brought the spotlight back to those who lost their lives and we shouldn't obsess about the crazy shooters because they are insane. are we going to see it again where for -- after the atlanta shootings, after the boulder shooting in the state where you are, it dominated the media coverage and in a few days it looks like nothing is going to happen and other stuff is in the news and media is going to move on and this will be off the front pages. >> well, i'm glad there is still -- glad, if you can be glad -- a unique horror to each of these shootings. the fact that the atlanta shooting happened days before what happened in boulder, eight people killed there, it becomes -- you would think a situation where americans are enured. for the first several days, people are focusing on this and

the same question continues to be brought up. why can we not, as such a great nation, figure this out to let law abiding gun owners hold ontheir guns and make sure that people who shouldn't have them, cannot somehow get them and when you look overall at the picture, 30,000 feet, i've been watching all sides of the debate and i've been watching fox news of course covering it heavily and laura ingram seemed off mark because she said this is -- they act like they care but really what they want to do is take away your guns. joshua johnson on msnbc, he had a gun owner on and he did say we want to hear from you guys, what would work from your law abiding perspective. because -- howie: i think you framed it quite well. >> we don't want to take away your guns, we just want to solve this assault rifle style situation. howie: let me jump in here. i want to get you both in on president biden's first news conference, i have a half minute for each of you. finally, a little bit of satire

last night on saturday night live. roll it. >> critics said i wasn't mentally prepared enough. but i think i proved them all wrong. howie: guy, the president took media flak for occasionally using note cards and using a briefing book. do you think the average voter or journalist cars about that? >> probably not. the reading notes things doesn't bother me. the what bothers me is the number of untruths that were told and the demagoguery that was unchallenged. the questions that were asked, the questions that weren't asked and the subjects that weren't broached. howie: liz, do you think that joe biden benefited in pretty low bar of expectations set by his detractors who said he's going to be too confused to even get through a lengthy news conference? >> bingo. absolutely. his detractors and the right wing media set the bar so incredibly low that if he gets

up there and does anything less than dodder on, it's look at how well they did. if they really want to figure of out a way to kind of do a grab him kind of thing, raise their bar. but the right wing media, the conservative media, they're saying he's got mental faculties that are weak, et cetera, else. but the whole point about the note cards, remember, after parkland in the listening session president trump was eviscerated for having notes on a car, a little crib sheet. one of them said a reminder to say i hear you. we don't want our world leaders riffing. we don't want our politicians just kind of going with the flow. yes, you want facts and figures on note cards. i mean, that's ridiculous. every ceo i interview, all good reporters they have notes with them. howie: journalists use them too. all right. i got to get a break here. another disclosure about andrew cuomo, this one involving his

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howie: as the border crisis intensified, more people are speaking out against president biden's stance on not allowing journalists to visit the overcrowded texas facilities. >> blocking access to the news media is not leveling with the american people, mr. president. >> the biden administration kept talking about transparency. we're not getting transparency with what's happening in the border. howie: kristin walker challenged the president at that first news conference. >> will you commit to allowing journalists to have access to the facilities that are over crowded moving forward?

>> i will commit when my plan very shortly is underway to let you have access to not just them but the other facilities as well. howie: the president didn't agree to a timetable, neither did jen psaki on fox news sunday this morning. i can't reach any other conclusion other than the biden team knows the media are heavily he focused on the border crisis and don't want pictures that would fuel especially the television coverage. >> it's completely unacceptable. if this happened with the trump administration with the same restrictions of the press, the explosion of fury would be louder. the biden administration created the crisis, they're sort of denying the crisis while blocking access to the press to document the crisis firsthand. there's an nbc news report that they're not allowing ride along for reporters at the border, they're saying direct questions to washington, don't talk to journalists down there. they're calling it a gag order, on top of the lack of access to

facilities, the kids in cage as the democrats would call them. it's outrageous. howie: liz, the white house did allow nbc reporter gabe g utierrez to go to an hhs facility, a nice one with a soccer field, not as overcrowded but not border patrol facilities that are badly overcrowded. let's hear from his report. >> the children we saw today were calm. they seemed to be in good spirits. but this issue is about much more than just this one hhs facility. howie: he knew what was going on. do you think it's the growing media pressure, though, that kind of prompted the white house at least to allow one reporter access to one facility? >> well, yes, but in and of itself, that's ridiculous. guy is absolutely right. you know, the biden administration was supposed to turn the page on what president trump was heavily criticized for and that was no transparency. they were supposed to be transparent.

the first move they make is to be nontransparent. it is ridiculous, outrageous and this is starting to get a lot of attention and traction with the media and you can see whether it's nbc or abc where she had her facts and numbers and she pushed him hard and at one point he said is that a real question. we've seen president trump bristle. they do that. the fact is, the press is pushing hard and they should. biden is very, very vulnerable to criticism here. howie: they interviewed a 9-year-old boy who walked from his country to the border. that was one stand-out moment. president trump certainly got lots of moral condemnation from the press over his treatment of migrant families, especially separating families but even knowing they would get beat up over it, the trump administration did allow journalists access to these facilities. >> yeah.

the transparency was much better actually during the previous administration on this front. and i would say the family separation policy was a disaster politically and on a humanitarian basis but that was short lived. a lot of the future policies beyond that, that actually helped clean up the mess down there and mitigate a lot of the struggle. those were swept aside by team biden, leading to the current crisis that we have and again, they're actively trying to cover it up. it's astonishing that president biden was asked about this. can you commit to transparency? he said, well, yes eventually. they said when. he said i don't know. how is that an acceptable answer. of course it's not. howie: axios obtained pictures of border facilities from -- that had been leaked to democratic congressman henry cuellar. i think it's clear that the media are going to get the images one way or another. the white house must know it's losing control of the narrative ant conditioned just say this is just a small problem that we are

dealing with. >> they let gabe go in from nbc. they brought him to a model -- howie: model facility, yes. >> president trump, he was highly critical of the press but this is where the press shines. freedom of the press. get that sunshine in there, blast in the light and the cameras and the action and you see what's going on and the press will find out and there should be respect for them and for anybody who is trying to get in there and see the true story. you can't just sit there and say i'll let you guys in when the optics look better, where we can clean things up. this is a humanitarian crisis and the press needs to be very, very hard and press an continue on that we have a moment of consensus, i think even the mainstream media are united that this is not acceptable. guy, liz, great discussion. thanks very much for joining us this sunday. ahead, we'll talk to ben domenech about the coverage of

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if you do run, will vice president harris be on your ticket. howie: joining us now is griff jenkins. the news conference had zero questions on the pandemic but asking him will you run almost four years from now and will you keep the vice president. what i didn't see were questions that directly challenged president biden. >> in was very little pushback. this was by many accounts a simple swamp fest. here's a secret i learned. no one in america cares about the filibuster or washington inside politics of how things get moved through the parliamentarian measures of the senate and house of representatives. but i think the fact that you have a border on fire, a pandemic still raging, two mass shootings in georgia and colorado and we're talking about the filibuster really was perhaps a low mark for what was the first press conference for a president who waited longer than any of his predecessors in the

last 100 years. howie: there was a lot of inside baseball politics, not that the filibuster isn't important. i'm watching this and correspondents are asking how are you going to push the voting rights legislation and wouldn't it be terrible if you couldn't do that and why don't you get rid of the filibuster and you had pbs quoting chuck schumer and jim clyburn, we saw katlyn collins invoking barack obama. but hardly ever did i see, which is how do you respond to republican criticism that x, such and such. >> i think so. they tried to drill into the immigration issues that's front and center, at least we saw it there, unlike in examples you're giving where there was none. but i think the fact that they allowed him to speak so long-winded and that he only called on 10 reporters total in the 60 minutes or so, it really defined perhaps the way things will be going forward and i hope

that changes because even the border questions with the exception of cecilia vega who did a great job of ask whether or not it was acceptable to biden, the conditions and the situation at the facilities, there was little pushback. we have an unprecedented crisis on our border and no one with asked at what point are you going to bring enforcement back because everyone in america knows that's why it's continuing to surge. howie: you of course have been there many times and there wasn't a lot of pushback and peter doocy was not called upon. overall, you have to take a step back. did this resemble any press conference, any one of them involving donald trump that we all watched for four years? >> if the trump press conferences were a free for all food fight akin to mixed martial arts fighting, this was truly a georgetown cocktail party akin to a match of crocuet. it was not close in comparison.

trump had jim acosta, george bush had david gregory, now why didn't president biden call on pewter doocy, maybe the p opportunity will come next time. howie: biden should do more of these, more often then doocy and others can get questions in. next on media buzz, the press reveals that andrew cuomo gave family members special treatment on covid-19 tests at a time when hardly anyone could get such tests. ben domenech is on deck.

howie: it was clear early in the pandemic that governor andrew cuomo and cnn host chris cuomo had a close relationship which played out on the younger brother's primetime show. >> this was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that double barrel shotgun that you have mounted on the front of your pretty face.

.>> see, i said i was going to e nice and sweet. i was trying -- >> was it this or was it this? howie: the washington post and albany times union disclosed the governor secretly arranged for new york state officials to administer covid-19 tests whiz were very scare at the time to his family members including his brother and the state assembly made this part of the impeachment probe. joining us now, ben come niche. -- domenech. is this story damaging to andrew cuomo. the spokesman said it was part of contact tracing or is it part of the media drip, drip, drip that has led even a number of democrats to call for the governor to resign. >> it's both. i think what it ought to raise for us is a level of concern about existing in an era in which the heights of power, whether it be virtually any

institutions but particularly the media and american life is dominated by mono partisan force. as griff was saying, there's a real danger that when something like that happens that you get maybe one tough question, two tough questions out of any kind of politician availability. my real concern about this whole story line is why questions weren't being asked earlier along these lines and when you look back at that carrot top routine that was going on between chris cuomo and andrew cuomo on cnn, what you really wish is, that we had some kind of media questioning about their relationship, about any kind of preferential treatment at the time when it was so critical and when it was so clear that their relationship was so close that there was a potential for that kind of malfeasance and that kind of unethical behavior on the part of the governor. howie: this story has not been covered at all on cnn. but a spokesman for the network says of chris cuomo that it's

not surprising that when chris was showing symptoms because he did test positive for covid-19 and was concerned about possible spread he turned to anyone he could for advice and assistance as any human being would. is it helping your brother understandable on a human level or the standards different when you have a governor and prominent tv host? >> i think the standards change dramatically when the governor in question has enormous political power in that space in order to accept -- essentially cut in line, to gain access to things that no citizen can have. this is a very touchy area of policy, obviously. i know there are a lot of politicians who take it seriously who weighed on their own part concerns about whether they should cut in line in order to take the vaccine. you saw ron de santis saying he was not going to do that. this is a similar situation and it's one where the governor made a decision to effectively give special treatment to his family in ways that only he could because of the power that he had and i think that whether that was legal or not is as deeply

unethical and should raise even more questions about a governor who is already under assault for so many different reasons. howie: president biden, his most forceful answer at the news conference the other day had to do with his view of republican efforts in the state on voting rights. let me play some of that for you. >> what i'm worried about is how unamerican this whole initiative is. it's sick. it's sick. deciding in some states that you cannot bring water to people standing in line, waiting to vote. howie: that's a reference to the new georgia law. do you think had that journalists are embracing the notion that biden must find a way to pass the democrats' voting rights bill and oppose state efforts in republican controlled states which he describes as despicable. do you see the press as taking sides here? >> of course they're taking sides. it's a model partisan press. they're reporting this as if the

georgia law was something completely different than it is. the water related thing they're talking about, for instance, that wouldn't apply to nonprofits that were not trying to elect a particular candidate. the whole idea is that you can't have campaigns going out and handing voters gifts as they wait in line. whatever that is. in this case, again, the press is totally reporting any aspect of this debate as if republicans are racists who don't want minorities to vote and as if democrats are just trying to increase the ability out of the goodness of their hearts to make sure that everyone's allowed to vote, whereas what we should be asking is are we in favor of people voting illegally which is the kind of thing that hr1 and a number of these other efforts across the country, the democrats had hushed, would allow and would encourage in many respects. that's something a lot of americans have real issue with. howie: that's a fair question. in georgia, limiting voting from 9:00 to 5 so it's harder for people to get off from work,

barring -- excuse me, requiring id or driver's license before you can cast a mail ballot, there is an argument that the republican governor brian kemp and others are trying to make it more difficult to vote and that would benefit his party. >> i think that if you have to put your driver's license number or the last four digits of your social security number on a mail-in ballot that is better than having a signature comparison that can be disputed or can be fought over. that's something that i think ought to be add gudes kateed and we -- adjudicated and we should have the argument. for the president to condemn it as the new jim koa and the press echoing it in every respects and i think there will be almost no effort to have more clarity if we have a permanent mail-in t voting s system will be treated as a race focused political

partisan effort when the polls actually show that americans across the board want to have more faith in their election process and in the institutions. howie: i know you feel strongly about the second amendment. can you understand why some americans feel that passing for example expanded background checks is a common sense approach that would not infringe on the rights of law abiding gun owners. >> i certainly think there's support broadly for broader background checks. but i think, again, this is an area where the media runs with with this narrative that something like this would prevent the kind of shootings that we see happen all too often in america when the he reality is, it would not. and that as we know, the vast majority of these shootings happen with handguns that you're not going to be able to ban in any real respect and it would not be altered i think by any kind of policy. we have a deep mental health crisis in america that we just shift aside and just talk about the weapons that are used instead of addressing it. howie: it's a difficult and

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howie: laura ingram interviewed donald trump the other night. he had this to say about the capitol protests that led to a riot. >> it was zero threat, right from the start. it was zero threat.

look, they went in. they shouldn't have done it. some of them went in and they were hugging and kissing the police and the guards. you know, they're persecuting a lot of those people. howie: joining us now from philadelphia, ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor and dnc chairman. governor, the president did say had they shouldn't have done it. when he talks about zero threat and hugging and kissing, it caused a huge media controversy as he weighed in on what some of his supporters did on january sixth. >> we've been through about a quarter of the year. that's the most idiotic statement i've heard in a quarter of a year. 140 police were injured, one policeman was killed. how do you call that a threat, it's a threat to police and family that don't have him around. police suffered broken bones. the attack, you saw it on tape. it was brutal. it was brutal. they were yelling hang mike pence, hang mike pence.

that was evil attack and for president trump to say -- it's the stupidist thing he said since he said there were good people on both sides in charlottesville. howie: i was talking with ben domenech about the voting rights, media debate, in terms of capitol hill and in the states and we talked about the georgia law, the republican governor there just signed. it seems to many people that the media are on the side of the democrats on this as opposed to giving both sides. what is your take about particularly some of the new restrictions embodied in that georgia law? >> not just the georgia law but all over the country. 232 different pieces of legislation were put in by republicans in the various states which limit access to voting. we should be trying to increase access to voting. america for a democracy has a lousy record of turnout. so when you end the voting day at 5:00, when it used to go until 8:00, tell me how is that

preventing fraud. the only thing it prevents is working people not having the opportunity to vote. because they don't get off work until 4:00, 4:30. it's tough to get to the polls by 5:00. howie: in terms of the president's first news conference, you've had many news conferences in your years as a politician, how do they not ask a single question about covid-19 or the economic impact in they seem out of touch. and what do you make of the fact that fox's peter doocy, a member of the five network pool, was the only member of that pool not to get a single question from president biden? >> i dislike that when democrats do it. when we canceled the be date tht was supposed to be on fox, i said publicly that was the wrong thing to do. fox is an important media outlet. for us to kiss off and say we're not going to -- we don't want to communicate with anybody who watches fox, it's idiotic as

well. there are people who watch fox that aren't died in the wool conservatives. you can reach them if you come up with good arguments. and fox by the viewership it has should be -- when you're given ten questions at a press conference, fox should be one of them. howie: i agree with you. >> he gave such factual answers, full of data, that he ran out of team. i really believe that. i don't think it was pernicious to cut fox out. i hope it wasn't. i hope they include him in future press conferences. howie: some would call the president's answered long-winded. he stopped and apologized sometimes for going on and on. that is his still. given that he didn't suffer a lot of political damage, should he do more news conferences, as opposed to waiting another 64 days. >> yeah, he should do more of it. donald trump in his fourth year almost had none. howie: but he talked to

reporters every day. >> he talked to reporters when he was going out to the helicopter and he went like this, and you could hear the questions he wanted to hear, questions he didn't want to hear, he didn't hear. look, i think when i was in office i had a lot of press conferences and answered questions from the press but that was my style. i think joe biden's going to have more of these. i think he does very well. i think he connects. some of the answers i thought were terrific. the answer you played on voting rights i thought was poignant and right on. howie: if we can talk about the crisis at the border and particularly the president was asked -- jen psaki is asked why aren't journalists allowed to look at the overcrowded texas facility, it's a growing problem. >> they should be. they should -- journalists should be allowed. we should have a transparent

government. the vice president when he was running at a candidate promised transparency. i think he's going to give transparency. they were a little slow in this area but i think you're going to see it open up. look, joe biden has said he's going to tell the american people when things go wrong. he's going to tell them when things go right, like when we're going to have 200 million people vaccinated in the first 100 days. howie: we've got to go. ed rendell, we appreciate it. thanks very much. usa today fires its race and inclusion editor, a prosecutor under investigation over a 60 minutes interview and megan mccain on social media and depression. stay with us. we were alone when my husband had the heart attack. he's the most important thing in my life. i'm so lucky to get him back. your heart isn't just yours. protect it with bayer aspirin. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. ♪♪♪ it's velveeta versus the other guys.

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howie: dominion voting systems filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against fox news saying the network amplified false claims

about machines being man it lated to help joe biden and hurt donald trump during the election. they also sued rudy guliani and sidney powell. this follows another suit against smartatic. they said they are proud of election coverage. and they will vigorously defend against the baseless lawsuit in court. the media pounced on a 60 minutes interview with federal prosecutor michael sherwin after he stepped down as head of the capitol riot probe. >> it's unequivocal that trump was the magnet that brought the people to d.c. on the sixth. now the question is, is he criminally culpable for everything that happened during the siege? howie: no one seemed to care but i remember thinking how could this possibly be allowed with an ongoing criminal investigation. well, the justice department is now pursuing an internal probe of sherwin for granting the interview without permission.

>> don't accuse me of something that's a lie. howie: cbs forced sharon osborn off the talk after her meltdown about meghan markle, piers morgan and race. the network, partially claiming producers, said the episode was upsetting to everyone involved and osborn's behavior did not align with values for a respectful workplace. cbs did not address allegations of past racial slurs by osborn which she denies. sharon probably didn't help matters by ripping the talk in a couple of fiery f bomb interviews. usa today fired the race and inclusion editor for tweeting right after the boulder supermarket killings that it's always an angry white man, always, but the suspect of course turned out to be a muslim from syria. she blamed the ouster on what she called twitter but also apologized saying it was a careless error of judgment sent at a heated time that doesn't represent my commitment to racial equality.

she claimed that white supremacy permeates newsrooms and usa today is subserve want to white authority. speaking of twitter, megan mccain who gets in her share of battles on the view made a raw and candid admission about the impact of terrible twitter taunts on her as a new mom. >> it automatically becomes personal about how fatty am, i'm a disgusting while woman of privilege, i only get anywhere because of my dad. it has 100% impacted my mental health. i suffered from depression because of things people have done to me on social media. howie: it is depressing, social media can be an ugly and toxic place and would be a better environment if people would take on each other's ideas without all the personal abuse. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. i hope you like our facebook page. we can continue the conversation on twitter. check out my booed podcast, media buzz meter, you can subscribe at apple itunes, pod

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eric: this new reaction at this hour to the continuing influx of migrants at the southern border, with the number of unaccompanied migrant children in our country and in custody, well, that's increasing by the day. now more than 18,000 young people are being housed says the government as president biden and the administration is working on plans to try and stem the flow to the southern border. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. this is fox news live. hi, arthel. arthel: hello, everyone. i'm arthel neville. a group of gop lawmakers traveling south see the border crisis firsthand. former president trump going

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