work from anywhere solutions, so your teams can collaborate almost anywhere. plus customer experience that finds solutions in the moment. ...and first-class benefits, like 5g with every plan. network, support and value without any tradeoffs. that's t-mobile for business. howie: it was a stunning, appalling, heart breaking failure, especially now that we know how badly our law enforcement sand intelligence agencies botched the runup to the capitol riot. the report by two senate panels generated a day's worth of headlines. because there was a bipartisan deal not to get bogged down on donald trump's role on january 6th, that wasn't good enough. they wanted more trump. isn't the whole thing trump's fault? our media echo system has become so focused on blaming trump and some republican lawmakers that we've lost sight of the massive

failures here. such as as the new york times noted, the fbi memo the day before, january 5th, warning of people traveling to washington for war, never made its way to top law enforcement officials, such as as the washington post noted, a series of omissions and miscommunications by the capitol police that kept vital information from reaching frontline officers. omissions? i'm so tired of hearing that this agency or that police department had the intel ant didn't notify other agencies about the threats. this is sheer incompetence. the assault on our democracy could have been prevented. i'm not saying the former president's role shouldn't be part of the scrutiny. if national guard troops were called out before the attack, not afterward, the violent that seared into our collective memory could have been avoided. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz.

♪ howie: ahead, the media coverage of the trump team directing park police to clear protesters outside the white house one year ago, turns out to be wrong. jeffrey tubin back on cnn months after a zoom call with an embarrassing apology. it's bloody obvious the media has been excited about president biden's trip to u.k. and europe for one overriding reason, he's not the former guy. >> the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together. >> the bar is low for success with him and putin because of the singular level of sucking up that trump brought to bear with putin. >> the first trip abroad by the president who comes after the president who saw zero value in our friends and allies and delighted in pandering to the world's most heinous dictators. >> the idea that america is back, i don't know if he

understands what had been going on when president trump was president and the foreign policy successes and how our adversaries viewed him. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech, founder and publisher of the federalist and leslie marshall. president biden is there to repair relations with the g-7 countries after years of which president trump disrupted our allies. does this come from the fact that most journalists agree with biden's approach. >> i think it does. i think it just is a styleistic differences that a lot of the journalists became invested in. we have a situation with our media today where the analysis depends less on policy outcomes, the destabilizing effects that we've seen in the early days of the biden administration are ones that should attract more coverage but unfortunately people are so bought in, so

invested in the idea that we've had the return to normalcy, that everything is fine and dandy, everything is looking up and you have a complete difference of approach when in reality we ought to be looking at frankly both what policies the biden administration is keeping from the trump years and the ones they're rejecting as opposed to evaluating it on surface level, just inch deep levels of looking at what's actually going on around the world. howie: i'm going to come back to that. politico headlines, biden flourishes in trump's absence from the world stage. some pundits are breathing a sigh of relief that trump is no longer on the stage. all joe biden had to do was not trip and fall off the stage and he gets glowing coverage. your thoughts? >> oh, i don't agree with that 100%. but i do think the return to normalcy and if normalcy means a president acting presidential or diplomacy or an individual such as joe biden versus donald trump being more inclusive rather than

exclusive with the international community and our allies, whether it's nato, the world health organization, the paris climate agreement and so forth, and a very different attitude with regard to russia and to putin specifically, trump cozied up to putin. trump at first refused to agree with our intelligence community regarding russia and their interference in the election, which was proven. it was almost like he sided with russia over the united states. we see a very different relationship obviously with joe biden. even putin himself yesterday did say although trump was colorful, and joe biden has been a career politician, he does think there are puerto ricos and cons with -- pros and cons with that, he also doesn't think there are knee jerk decisions. howie: it's interesting the way you partially disagreed with me. let me put up the cover of time magazine. we see biden in the aviator glasses looking kind of cool. let's contrast with one of many

time covers about president trump, he was he depicted as an orange blob. the headline is biden is taking on putin. as you were starting to talk about earlier, he hasn't done much to take on vladimir putin, despite the cyber hacking, despite the fact that the opposition leader has been jailed and yet he gets this sort of i'm taking on putin cover. >> this is just ridiculous. the fact is that the very biggest decision that he's made thus far has been something that the russians wanted and that our european allies have been in real tension with us about regarding this pipeline decision. you've had numerous events happen in russia domestically. you made reference to alexi novali and his group. it ought to have america standing by our interest in terms of making sure that there's more freedom within russia, making sure that there's more freedom around the world. and yet standing up to a dictator now just amounts to putting out preeses.

-- press releases. if that's the merit we're supposed to evaluate things on, it's deeply silly. it doesn't actually equate to any real results and i think that when you actually look back at the coverage that president trump received when it came to a lot of the decisions that he made, he was actually much more willing to send weapons to our allies in europe, much more willing to stand up against russian interests in numerous different indications a around the world. and i think that that actually was based on pragmatic concerns, policy concerns that were echoed by people like mike pompeo and others regarding the middle east and other interest that we have. so my point is just i don't think this coverage is serious. i don't think that it's actually engaging with what's really going on and i think that putin is looking forward to running circles around joe biden, not just now but in the future. howie: biden was asked why he plans to hold a solo news conference after meeting the russian leader in geneva, i don't want to be diverted by did

they shake hands, who talked the most. interesting. joe biden hasn't made a significant blunder, he announced the u.s. is giving pfizer vaccines to 100 countries. even the new york times said that biden isn't changing trump's america first approach very much and this all could just be, quote, diplomatic pantemime. >> i think it's too soon to tell. what is he going to do? we have bipartisan agreement that the president has to be very tough regarding ransomware and look putin in the eye and say, look, either you do something about this or we are going to and he those be very clear about what that we are going to is going to be. about that line in the sand. we haven't seen that yet, necessarily. it doesn't mean we won't. and if we do, that might be certainly a divergence from the former trump administration policy with regard to how they handled putin and how we handle certain threats. but at the same time, look, when

you look at the things that putin said in that interview yesterday, and when you look at some of the things that joe biden has said and one of the things that a career policies knows is, there is that -- it's almost like driving a clutch car, right. because putin in a sense is our enemy. right. when you look at freedom. it's almost laughable when you look at -- putin is a complete dictator. howie: i've got to move on. vice president kamala harris in central america this week, potential illegal migrants do not come. a lot of attention to this exchange with lester hold. >> do you have any plans to visit the border. >> we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. and -- i mean, i don't understand the point that you're making. howie: ben, why did that obviously stumbling answer to lester holt attract so much heed media attention. reporters have been asking about the visit to the border.

>> it attracted attention because it was part of an overall trip that was a disaster for the vice president when it came to communications. it seemed almost as if she was not prepared to deal with some of the most obvious questions that you had to expect would come from a trip like this. and i mean, the fact that she didn't have a prepared canned answer i think really demonstrates how unserious the approach has been to addressing these issues in the border, despite repeated calls, not just from republicans but from border democrat as well, that this administration needed to lean into these problems and address them more forcibly. unfortunately the vice president i think has been largely insulated from these types of questions. the fact that she was unprepared is in part due to the fact that the administration has kept her away from reporters, not had her go out and address questions in a repeated way and that shows i think the error of that judgment. howie: leslie, disaster is a strong word.

cnn reported some biden white house officials were perplexed at kamala harris bungling a question which everybody knew would be coming, part of any interview. very rare to t get those kind of leaks out of this administration where somebody is taking a shot at somebody else. >> howie, i'm a democrat and, ben, i'm going to agree with you and i know we don't agree on much. you've got to be prepared. everybody knows that question was going to be asked. look, if i were vice president and tasked with handling immigration, i would go to the border. i need see the problem with my own eyes so i can help to come up with solutions when i'm speaking to leaders in the pathway countries that come through to the united states. and she knew she was going to be asked that and honestly not only not prepared, i honestly was very critical on this network and on my radio show and on social media about this response and i was not the only democrat who felt that way so i'm not surprised on that. howie: i've got get a break. let me mention, president biden

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howie: it's been wall to wall coverage in most of the media since the new york times reported that the trump justice department during a leak investigation obtained personal records from two top democrats on the house intelligence committee and some aides and family members. no charges were reported. doj's inspector general launched

a probe into the inquiry. many pundits are making fiery charges. >> they're literally spying on members of the press. they're spying on partisan political opponents. >> the media is totally up in arms over this trump era leak investigation into the schiff and swalwell and the reaction is so hyperbolic because some of these loons are calling for the arrest of trump's former ag. howie: ben, msnbc and cnn are on fire over this story, relatively little on fox, saying this was a pretechsed for donald trump to go over political opponents. the media framing of the media question is was this political spying. >> well, one of the things that we need to understand taste we went through this period where so many different aspects of these investigations were being leaked out to the press in inappropriate ways and i think

everyone knows that swalwell and schiff were too people who were regularly part of leaking those types of information, either through them or through their staff. that's something that i think is always going to prompt an inspection, an investigation of some kind, under any administration and regardless of which party members are going to bees part of it. i do think we need to know more about this. i'm glad there will be an inspector general looking into it and investigating this. but the simple fact is that if you're going to start leaking out information that is either classified or that is behind closed doors and you're a member of the house intel committee, there's going to be ramifications from that. that's going to happen regardless of which party you're in. howie: i have to add, no evidence was found. donald trump talked about adam schiff a lot. here as brief clip from last year, for instance. >> they ought to investigate adam schiff for leaking that information. he should not be leaking information out of intelligence. howie: well, they did

investigate adam schiff and the investigation had gone dormant. bill barr revived it when he became attorney general. as with subpoenas of records from reporters from new york times and the washington post, ultimately no evidence of illegal leaks of classified or secret information were found. >> this is weaponizing the doj against political opponents. i'm sure the minor that the records were taken of and family members betters of schiff and swalwell had nothing do do with any leak. this is troubling. the questions come up again, what did they know, who knew it and when did they know it. i didn't buy that barr and sessions knew nothing about this. you had a federal grand jury assembled. huh a gag order and -- you had a gag order. that means you had to have approval that comes from the top. congress needs to subpoena these individuals and have them testify before congress under oath. the american people deserve to know what happened and maybe when the left was saying that bill barr was donald trump's

attorney or that the doj was donald trump's justice department, when we see everything so far and we hear everything so far, maybe that wasn't so crazy. howie: well, the subpoenas went to microsoft and apple and service providers, ben, and leslie may not buy it but jeff sessions and bill barr are saying they didn't know anything about this, barr saying i never discussed leaked cases with trump. the media counter arrestingment was he didn't -- argument was he didn't have to, trump was out there accusing adam schiff of illegal leaking. >> illegal leaking is always a problem and deserves to be investigated, regardless of which member of which party is participating in it. we saw that happen in a repeated way during the trump era and i'm glad that in this instance there was not illegal leaking discovered when it was investigated. like i said, there's going to be an ig report. we'll know more about what went on. i believe bill barr when he says he didn't know about this personally and wasn't taking some kind of role.

but we'll find out what the ig report says. i think that illegal leaks always are going to attract attention regardless of which side is doing them, if there's any kind of plightization here, i -- politicization here, i doubt it. the leaking was so apparent, so obvious, it was going to attract attention. howie: therefore, there was an investigation, but again, no charges were ever brought. the mainstream media are going crazy over this, saying it has watergate overtones. the probe did go through the legal subpoena process through the grand jury and so on. could the pundits be jumping to conclusions here? >> absolutely. i'll be honest, you know, i'm not sure trump really knew about it but i think somebody within his inner circle definitely knew about it and i do think that those at the top of the doj or at least one person at the top of the doj had to sign off on

that, had to approve it and definitely is having perhaps some short-term memory difficulty regarding this because i don't think that they're being forth right and when they're saying they knew nothing about this. please. i mean, you know, it doesn't -- the justice department subpoenas federal grand juries, gag orders those don't just happen in a vacuum at lower levels within the doj we have rare agreement on that point, which is there are unanswered questions. ben, leslie, thank you very much for joining us this sunday. up next, the media have totally turned on joe manchin and it's getting pretty ugly. later, should cnn bring back jeffrey tubin after his misconduct on that zoom call? hooh. that spin class was brutal. well you can try using the buick's massaging seat. oohh yeah, that's nice. can i use apple carplay to put some music on? sure, it's wireless. pick something we all like. ok. hold on. what's your buick's wi-fi password?

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howie: you how on earth did joe manchin become the number one target for abuse by the media especially liberal men day

tores commentators? listen to some of the vitriol. >> it's easy to say joe manchin does not care about black people. he's friendly with the chamber. he's friendly with big oil. those people want a oligarchy. howie: there was a tweet that said black voters are trying to save democracy for white supremacy to be upheld by a power hungry white dude. senator manchin is a clown. >> because of manchin's common sense constitutional opposition to the socialist left power grab, fellow democrats, the media mob, they are now denouncing his moves as racist. howie: joining us now, susan ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. what do you make of the bile directed at joe manchin by some of the media liberals because they're upset with his moderate approach to some of these

issues. >> from the outset, you said you're surprised by this. i'm not surprised at all. you could see it coming a mile away. because joe manchin, by all appearances, is single handedly blocking the entire democratic agenda in the senate. that's biden's agenda, it's the democratic agenda. they have this rare opportunity to pass legislation because they control majorities in congress and they have a president in the white house. so he's not the only one by the way. there are other moderates who probably side with him on these things but he kind of provides cover by being the most vocal. that's why you see the attacks on him. of course, by liberal men day tores and more -- commentators and more subtly in the mainstream coverage, the new york times coverage that he was serving as a blockade, that he was standing in the way of this reformative elections bill that doesn't get enough scrutiny in my opinion for all the things he does to benefit democrats and hurt republicans. it's a one sided bill. howie: this is the voting

rights bill. you mentioned the times. let me read some quotes. manchin said he wouldn't vote for a far reaching bill to combat voter suppression and restore many ethical controls on the presidency that donald trump shattered. that's in a news story. >> yeah. flip that around on the other side and you'll see the things that the election law may do to damage voter integrity and enable democrats an easier time at winning in the forthcoming elections. that's a big problem. if an election bill is one sided, you know any time one party is writing an election bilker it's just common sense they're going to go for things that will make it easier for them to win he elections. howie: i want to put up a headline before we run out of time. huff post, blowback at manchin would preserve jim crow to please gop. that's based on a quote from a democratic congressman. he's basically accused of being a racist.

he supports the john lewis bill. >> a way to cover that would be to say there is bipartisan support for the john lewis bill. democrats are saying we don't want this bill. we want this guy beganic 800 80- gigantic, 800 page bill. there's more ways to cover this. howie: joe manchin is fair game for criticism. some of the racist accusations i think are over the top. thanks so much. next on media buzz, how some bun pundits are rejecting an ig report before a photo on at a church.

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howie: fox news alert, porn has landed at heathrow airport on the way to windsor castle. he hasn't come out of air force one yet. this wouldn't be a royal story without harry and meghan. we'll have continuing coverage of the president's trip all day on fox news channel. the media had their narrative just over one year ago during the violent clash in lafayette park outside the white house. when u.s. park police and other cops using tear gas cleared protesters just before president trump emerged and walked to a nearby church for a photo op. >> he has to sic police on

peaceful protesters so he can make a big show of being the little big man walking to a closed down church. >> the president of the united states or someone under his authority ordered that peaceful protesters be cleared which meant they were fired upon. howie: now a report by the park police inspector general says the accusations were wrong, that park police planned for hours to clear the park for contractors to build taller fences. a top commander was stunned when bill barr who came to inspect the area told them of the trump plan. some journalists expressed skepticism while certain pundits mocked or minimized the report. >> it does sound like the park police accelerated their efforts when they found out the president was coming. how do they square that? >> the report doesn't say that they accelerated their efforts. >> sounded as if the inspector general was auditioning to become the inspector general at mar-a-lago. this is almost a whitewash of what occurred. >> the media mob is caught spreading another round of completely fake news because,

remember, in all the hysterical reckless coverage last summer after park police, remember they cleared out protesters in lafayette square, in d.c.? howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage, robbie saove, senior editor at marie harf, a fox news contributor. robby, the media automatically assumed last year donald trump must have ordered this, bill barr must have ordered this and the coverage of this in report in many cases kind of ridiculing it as opposed to examining where last year's narrative went wrong. >> yeah, you're right. this report really cuts against what so many talking heads and kind of progressive journalists, mainstream journalists said was the truth and clearly wanted to be true because it made donald trump look so bad and this report which is not -- maybe not totally conclusive in its finding and constrained to the park police behavior, but says that this was pre-planned and trump did not order this so the whole narrative about it really

was wrong and you know, you can continue to think the photo op was a bad idea and in bad taste and be critical of trump in any way you want, but the fact remains that if you take this report credibly and i think it's a good and thorough report, i think it is accurate, it should change your perspective on what happened and many in the media don't want to do that because they don't like finding out they were wrong or they distorted. howie: on that point, it doesn't mean that the police didn't overreact in gassing the protesters and so on, but even the relatively straight accounts of this new report by the new york times, the washington post, made no mention of the earlier coverage, what a huge story this was, almost like they were in denial about what -- what became an iconic moment based on something that the report does not support. >> well, you howie, i think the best media coverage of this report points out that it is one limited view of what happened. the ig did not interview anyone from the white house, no one from the secret service. i think the best media coverage

makes clear that while no one with the park police knew of president trump or bill barr's involvement, there is still a lot of open questions and i think one challenge for the media at the time was you had the white house on the record at the podium blatantly lying, saying tear gas wasn't used when reporters could see and smell with their own eyes and ears and nose what was happening on the ground and so the credibility of the trump administration was pretty low at that point. so i think the best media coverage takes this new information, puts it into context but also says there is still a lot of unanswered questions we don't know about what happened and the timing could be coincidental with president trump saying that famous walk over to the church but coincidences don't really happen in washington, so still a lot of unanswered questions for the press. howie: i agree on the unanswered questions part. the former president said he was totally exonerated by this report. don't the media have some

responsibility to grapple with their mistakes or if it was an exaggeration or of rush to judgment? it seems there was a determination by many people to say the report says this but we really know what happened. >> i agree, it's still an open question and there are unresolved issues about this but that was true back then, right. that was true when it happened. and the media acted like we knew the whole story here, we have all the relevant facts and we can condemn trump, we can explain to you exactly what happened even though we don't know then. then they're like we're not quite sure. you weren't sure then. you asserted what you thought was the truth because you hated trump and that fits your narrative. it's so difficult to say what happened in the heat of the moment between protesters and police and it's fog of war type scenarios and we often get bad early reporting, it behooves the media to wait but they never do. howie: if the report found out the white house ordered the

protesters be cleared, wouldn't the mainstream press be embracing the report rather than trying to poke holes in it. >> i think there was a lot of mainstream coverage of the report. there's a difference between reporters and commentators, people who have a political point of view. the best media coverage has made clear that this report is only one sort of limited slice of what happened and a lot of these journalists have anonymous sources telling them that at various levels the white house was involved and that they wanted trump to be out there publicly being seen as in charge and so, again, is it a wins kens? we don't know -- coincidence. we don't know. i think this is a story that has continued to evolve and the media has for better or worse tried to catch up with it as they've gotten new information. howie: i've got about a minute left. robbie, first. >> i think this is earth

shattering, it's entirely inappropriate for this kind of spying to take place, obtaining information on our congress people but these two have been supportive all along of spying, these democrats, adam schiff voted for not to rein in the nsa's warrantless spying on americans so now they're outraged when it happens to them but not on the citizens. howie: is spying the right word? they went through a grand jury process and they were legal subpoenas. >> sure. but it is a huge breach of trust between two different branches of government. and the trump administration and their supporters were always up in arms, they called things spygate, talked about the deep state. none of that turned out to be what they said it was. they were look at critical members of congress. this is an area where we need to know so much more. i think it goes to a previous

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he thought the camera was off. he was fired. there were uncomfortable questions, starting with this. >> to quote jay leno, what the hell were you thinking. >> obviously i wasn't thinking very well or very much. this was deeply more -- moronic and indefenseable. i'm trying to say now how sorry i am. entirely, in all seriousness, above all i'm sorry to my wife and family, i'm also sorry to the people on the zoom call. howie: robby, i'll agree with jeff toobin on deeply moronic. many critics say why is the network bringing him back. >> yeah, this whole segment was very uncomfortable to watch. i don't enjoy watching people embarrass themselves. i'm generally anti-cancel culture and for forgiving

people. what he has done is very bad. he's almost apologizing like he committed murder. yeah, i think if this was anybody else, it probably -- he probably wouldn't have been forgiven and brought back. i don't know. i guess i'm never too upset when we choose to forgive people. it's very selective who gets forgiven in this media environment. howie: i'm not saying he should be banned for life. if cnn was going to let him back on the air, at least it was with a difficult interview in which he had to answer were obviously for him, for us watching, uncomfortable questions. >> so awkward for everyone. they had to ask him the questions. i'm glad they didn't just bring him back on air and have him talk about the supreme court. that would have been weird. we haven't figured out how to --adjudicate when people get to rehabilitate themselves. he got fired from the new yorker where the incident happened.

he took seven months off from cnn. so i think it's a really interesting question and i think the bottom line to all of this is that we can all hopefully agree that soon we don't have to do zoom calls anymore, we can see the end of the light at the end of the tunnel here and, you know -- howie: that would be good. >> this is one of those covid year crazy things that happened that i never want to have to think or talk about again, quite honestly. howie: we'll grant your wish. a new york times editorial writer and analyst drawing flak for what she described on air about a trip to long island. take a look. >> i saw dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with, you know, expletives against joe biden on the back of them, trump flags, and some cases just dozens of american flags which, you know, is also just disturbing because essentially the message was clear, it was this is my country, this is not your country. i own this. howie: so robby, seeing a bunch

of american flags disturbed her? >> yeah, i think this is a bad tactical move for someone who wants to oppose and fight racism to associate racism with the american flag which is just a very everywhere kind of symbol that everyone regardless of ideology for the most part, maybe not the extreme progressive left wants to embrace. then you cast more people as racist, make the problem worse and you make people not interested in solving racism. it makes it unhelpful way to talk about racism and i think it was a big mistake. howie: the new york times defended this, saying these were bad faith arguments taken out of context, her argument was that many politicize the american flag. don't trump supporters get to display the flag that we all love. >> i think some of the media coverage on the right

particularly was bad faith. there is a question in this country, i encountered it, when people on the right accuse me, a democrat, as not being patriotic. they say they own patriotism, they own the flag and they decide what that means. did she perfectly give voice to that concern? no, it wasn't perfect. i don't think she was saying american flags bother her. she should clarify it a bit. some of the media response was in bad faith. i think the trump supporters, many i encountered, seem to think they can define what patriotism is. we should have that conversation. howie: i thank you both. i think it would be good if she spoke out on her own behalf. still to come, a look at the coverage of the senate report on the awful event of january 6th

howie: when two senate committees did a rare thick, issued a bipartisan report on the intelligence failures surrounding the capitol riot, some in the media criticized, some were upset they side stepped their favorite target, donald trump. >> no mention of insurrection. no mention of the big lie and the right wing media that promoted it. what about his cull pant. what -- culpableity. he is never identified as a source of any of the fomenting that led to the day. .howie: joinings us now, mike emanuel. i don't know that the coverage fully captured how massive the intelligence failures were here. some people posted online, bring

guns. some were like it happened in january, it's old news, let's move on. >> nearly 100 page report and in it basically saying that there were at least some elements of capitol police that were aware that this was being planned in plain sight on social media with maps and tunnels and all sorts of things and it just didn't get to the proper leadership, at least that's what we were led to believe and so there's been a huge shakeup in terms of leadership on capitol hill. but a pretty blunt report in terms of intelligence failures and also leadership failures in terms of securing the united states capitol leading up to the january 6 attack and then during the actual attack, a breakdown in terms of a plan of how to get a handle on things and a lack of communication from top leadership to rank and file officers who were taking a beating there on the frontlines. howie: what about the insistence of pundits, a couple saying it doesn't mean anything, why wasn't trump in the report. i'm not saying donald trump's role on january 6 isn't important but if it had been

dealt with in this context it would have produced more partisan sniping. >> you're absolutely right. they stayed focused on the security angle, they stay focused on finding leadership failures but bringing the former president into it would have made this a very partisan thing and you likely would have had one party walk away and then it would have been a democrats only report and then there would have been less value in that so they stuck to what led to january 6th, what happened january 6th, why it took a while to get military presence there. there are people at the pentagon who were concerned about it looking like they were being heavy handed with american citizens on the lawn. howie: the optics. >> there were a lot of optic concerns and that's something you deal with when you're protecting the united states capitol. howie: what happened was something far worse than more optics. is it striking to you in this ray of deep -- era of deep poe hallization, that --

polarization that democrats and republicans were able to sign onto a bipartisan report. >> that was a big moment. we're looking at several funding deadline these days, wondering whether they're going to shut down the government because the two parties don't agree on much of anything these days. when you talk about a serious matter like that, institution of the united states government was under attack and they produced 100 page report and they came out with serious findings that may not have been everything that some folks wanted but it was very serious report and both sides were able to sign off on it. i think that was actually an encouraging moment at a time when things higher partisan, hyper polarized on capitol hill. howie: a serious report, a chilling report in many ways. mike emanuel, good to see you, thanks. one more for you, how i'm not of safe, journalists aren't safe, even the president isn't safe from washington's disgusting

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