when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo ♪♪ - water?! - hey you! catch! mio. thank you! water tastes like, well...water. so we fixed it. mio. howie: it makes for a great liberal narrative, the program is the fault of right wing media and fox's rivals are in a frenzy about blaming the network. there are a lot of voices on fox news channel and many including me, the anchors who made a secretary pro-vaccination psa, want the tens of millions of holdouts to get the covid shots and that includes these conservative hosts. >> the disinformation is online. the vaccine is killing lots and lots of people or it changes your dna or there are little

microchips. none of that is true. >> even else, if you have -- everybody else, in if you have the chance, get the shot. >> please taco individual seriously, i -- take covid seriously. i can't say it enough. howie: on air reaction has been mixed. >> kudos to sean. people listen -- people who watch his show trust his judgment. >> conservative voices have influence and could change the hearts and minds of the hesitant. but let's not give them too much credit. howie: of course, we can't give them too much credit. there are a lot of people who are hesitant or outright refusing to get the life saving vaccines. that would be true if fox went off the air tomorrow. overcoming fears and doubts is a complicated problem for the biden white house and the finger pointing isn't helping one bit. i'm howard kurtz and this is

media buzz. ♪ howie: ahead, glenn greenwald joins us in an egregious case of media bias. president biden took note of fox's effort on behalf of vaccinations after a bit of a swipe at the network. >> one of those other networks is not a big fan of mine. one the one you talk about a lot. if you notice, as they say in the southern part of my state, they've had an altar call some of those guys, all of a sudden they're out there, saying let's get vaccinated. that's good. it's good. it's good. we just have to keep telling the truth. howie: many pundits are continuing to blame the gop along with the conservative media. >> it is also just empirically true, partisan politics, specifically republican leaders and affiliated media spewing lies about the vaccine, it's getting in the way of science and health.

>> one of the main issues we're facing in combating this disease 18 months into this is a kind of radicalization of the american right against vaccination. >> the white house is embracing a campaign of cut throat intimidation against anyone who questions the official position on covid. howie: even the washington post and other of outlets concede many republicans are pushing back against their party's vaccine skeptics. >> the way to avoid getting back in the hospital is to get vaccinated. ignore all of these other voices that are giving bad advice. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech, founder of the federalist and fox news contributor and in new york, liz claman, host of the claman count down. what do you make of much of the mainstream media blaming republicans, fox, conservative pundits for the obviously frustrating fact that millions

of americans don't want the vaccine? >> well, i don't think they have much of a leg to stand on. and i think that if you actually look at the evidence that we have from the populations that are most vaccine resistant, i think to a certain extent when jake tapper lays this at the feet of right wing media or of icials, -- or officials, he's saying almost half of african-americans and nearly as many hispanic americans have become fans of all of these places overnight because those are the populations that are the most vaccine resistant. we saw polling from cbs news this week, looking at those populations and they're vaccine resistant. only half of african-americans say they have gotten the shot or they intend to get one. that's a huge problem. that's not going to be fixed no matter how many times mitch mcconnell goes out there and says they ought to do so. so look, what i see on the right is overwhelming uninimity among

the political and media class that the vaccines are good and to the degree there's skepticism, it tends to be about should children be vaccinated or is it necessary to be able to go back to school as opposed to doubting the vaccines or saying there's an overwhelming danger from taking them. when kamala harris said she was opposed to taking a vaccine if donald trump told her to, something she would rebeat in the debate -- repeat in the debate, there was a 20 point drop in african-americans in terms of their faith in the vaccines. i look at the white house and their leadership on the issue. howie: more than 50,000 new covid cases yesterday. there are many reasons why people aren't getting the shots. there's racial and educational disparities. seems like the press wants a scapegoat. >> i really have to disagree with ben on what he said regarding uninimity within the

republican party and conservative voices and just looking at the facts, you do have the worst state right now howie as florida. they've seen a jump in the past six days, you've started to see 45,000 new caseses and a lot of this has possibly stemmed from the fact that not recently, because he has begun to say get vaccinated, i'm talking about governor ron de santis, but he is the torch bearer of this state and of donald trump's flag and he has not been, up until recently, very clear on this. you can understand why the media are basically trying to look at this and say that some of the red states, whether it's alabama, louisiana, florida, are starting to see the worst cases and many of them are of course not vaccinated. you've got to look at this and simply say that that's not saying get vaccinated when he comes out and says now that people should, he has to look at this and a he has to be very clear and he has to stop standing in the way of mandates that are trying to at least let

private companies ensure their customers and employees are vaccinated. howie: we'll talk about mandates in a moment. on the same day the washington post ran a piece saying a growing number of top republicans are urging people to get vaccinated, the new york times said many republicans declined to push back against sceptics in the party, like marjorie taylor green. almost looking for the dark lineing there. >> when i say near uninimit, it leaves out people like marjorie taylor green. one thing that is important is the distinction between policy making and advocacy among politicians for people getting vac nationed. i -- vaccinated. i don't think politicians motivate people all that much. all of their lecturing and demands have not resulted in the kind of outcomes you would see. if that worked, gretchen whitmer would have a phenomenal record, given the number of mandates and pleas she has made along these lines. what you're seeing in florida has a lot to do with the reality

that we're going to continue to see case counts become an issue. we're hopeful that these times you're not going to see death had counts become an issue which is the most important element here. howie: liz, sort of a question of media framing. you can let such pro-vaccination voices at fox like sean hannity and steve doocy become the story or not. you can say facebook is part of the problem through misinformation or you can say democrats want to censor facebook and all this i think exacerbates the debate, maybe obscures the need to convince more people to help their country by getting the shots. >> yeah. well, exactly. i mean, the media are not focusing on that particular issue of, listen, let's cut through the nonsense, i'm with you, howie. as you say. i'm with sean hannity, i'm with our network, fox business and fox news, which are running telephone numbers that you are actually learn about the truth. the good truth about getting vaccinated. my dad and my two uncles were surgeons. i've got six first cousins who

are doctors. i'm very pro-science here. and so, therefore, when you start to see that no matter what anybody says, whether it is individual governors, kaye ivy of alabama came out swinging, she was way stronger than arguably that voice of the republican party, if all the polls are right. it's donald trump that is the voice of republicans and the conservative party. he got the vaccine, albeit privately. he has said go and get the vaccine. a couple of days ago he came out and said people aren't getting the vaccine because they don't trust the election results. he tied that into politics. you can understand why the media, including the independents or the hill -- i mean, the hill had a headline that i saw that said only trump can fix this issue of people being too scared to get the vaccination because they do listen to him and he has not come out strongly enough and in fact kind of walked back some of this. facebook of course is a huge problem and by the way, it's not just conservative voice, howie,

it's robert f kennedy junior who came out as an anti-vaxxer spewing a lot of liberal negative anti-vax news and that's a problem. howie: on the question of mandates, a washington post columnist says it's madness, stop making reasonable appeals to those who won't listen to reason and said if you want to go to a concert, go to a plane or train or get to an office, you have to show proof of vaccination or a negative test. does that seem to you to be a smart direction for the media criticism to take? >> max booth never struggled with making evidence-free arguments. what we know from experience you across the country is we see very little difference in places where the mandates were put in place by government. now, i do think to liz's point earlier, there are differences when it comes to the ability of corporations or private companies to mandate certain things, the ability of colleges, for instance, to have mandates. we saw, for instance, the nfl this week talking about

potentially having games forfeited in the coming season. those i think will actually result in increased vaccinations in a way that these government mandates won't but, again, i get back to the idea that the biggest element here is the hypocritical approach we've seen from government leadership that said you could go back to normal if you have high levels of vaccination which we have in most of the country but instead we have, well, maybe we're going to have to mandate all your kids are going to wear masks for another year and the like as open discussion among our political leadership class we have the complication of the delta variant. president biden took flak for saying on facebook they're killing people, then came the walk-back earlier this week. take a look. >> facebook isn't killing people. these people are out there giving misinformation. anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it, it's killing people. it's bad information. howie: the 12 people according to a study were supposed to be responsible for two-thirds of

vaccine misinformation online. have the media gone fairly easy on president biden over the initial charge that facebook is killing people, then the pull-back? >> yeah. more importantly, they've gone easy on him for not putting through mandates. he's the one who can say, for example, mandate that all federal employees must be vaccinated or all members of the military, for example. but yes, i think both facebook and joe biden are wrong here. joe biden came out and said facebook's killing people and then just a couple days later, last week, he walked that back. which is it? listen, facebook is the source of this huge undertow of incorrect and quite frankly damaging and very dangerous information. misinformation on the vaccine situation. facebook had no problem shutting down donald trump when they didn't like what he said. you're telling me that they can't shut down rfk junior or any of these other 12 out there? you know, give me a break. they have not lost control of

their site. they are able to do this. both of them should be working together to make it happen. >> i have to dispute this repeated use of the figure of 12 people being the source of misinformation, comes from a foreign minor organization that targets, quote, unquote, hate groups online including trying to get my publication, the federalist, deplatformed last year from google ads. they are a fraudulent group. they're not to be believed. and if you actually look at where this number comes from, i think you'll find there's no justification for it, the fact that the white house would use the foreign source to target americans online no matter what the issue is, it's very disturbing to me. i think we need better evidence on this. i think there's things facebook can do, of course. howie: it's amazing to me, five years ago facebook was playing defense about russian information. they're promising to do better. yet they turn down funding and increased personnel to deal with covid-19 misinformation. ahead, glenn greenwald joins us on media bias.

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howie: the pundits are lining up behind kevin mccarthy or nancy pelosi after their latest blow-up. the house speaker in what she called an unprecedented move rejected two of mccarthy's five republican appointees to the special committee that will investigate the capitol riots. the minority leader pulled all of this republican picks and the sound bite war began. >> it's an egregious abuse of power. pelosi has broken this institution. >> the other two made statements and took actions that made it ridiculous to put them on such a committee seeking the

truth. >> she already knows the outcome, so she doesn't need to bother to have anybody in the minority participate. so why do that? it is a charade. it is a disgrace. >> it would be an empty exercise if you have people on the committee who are there, simply to blow the thing up and that's what those guys were there to do. >> what nancy pelosi did today was prove kevin right on everything he's been saying about this from the beginning which is that this is about politics. >> everybody knows jim jordan is the anti-thesis of the search for truth about the january sixth insurrection. that's why the republicans wanted him on the probe that they oppose, to mess with him. howie: i'm struck by how quickly liberal pundits and networks lined up behind pelosi, of course you can't put jim jordan on the committee. obviously the speaker knew she was throwing a grenade that would destroy any faith in bipartisanship here. >> i think this was another tactical mistake on nancy pelosi's part.

i think that she could have had both of these folks on the committee and they might have had a couple of sound bites. they might have had a couple wins along the way. but ultimately she would have been able to claim this was a truly bipartisan commission. unfortunately, i think that she was in a situation where she was counting on the media to come and defend her no matter what she did and so she throws them off the committee which creates a weird circumstance where jim jordan can be the ranking member on the judiciary commit tt he can't participate in this commission, he's too extreme to go and participate in any way. to me, this is something that actually goes to kevin mccarthy's benefit, he has a legitimate excuse to pull from it and we end up with a partisan commission that nancy pelosi intended to have all along. howie: i'm also struck by how conservative pundits immediately supported kevin mccarthy who torpedoed a bipartisan independent commission and wants to keep the spotlight off of

donald trump's role on january 6th. >> yeah. but that's true. i think either way on both sides, the media needs to focus on something that is way less cat nip for cable news and more substantive on how do we prevent something like january 6th from happening again. why didn't we have the ability to get the national guard on-site? there is that existence of the phone call between kevin mccarthy and donald trump where kevin mccarthy reportedly said call these people off and you've got donald trump saying these are loving people as they're full-blown attacking capitol police who were there to defend both sides of the aisle in the capitol building. the media needs to stop with all of that and focus specifically on how do we investigate this? what were the problems? and i'm talking about the infrastructure, the phone lines, the ability to move national guardsmen across state lines. instead of looking at this issue

and saying, you know, come on, loving people. i mean, the videotape is there, how east and on -- howie. and on the other side you had george stephanopoulos an hour ago, he had nancy pelosi and bob portman on both sides of this discussion and portman saying it's not helping if we can't get a committee together. howie: when pelosi says we can't allow the other party of lawmakers who don't believe in the mission, i think there's an amnesia. didn't democrats during the hearings were the house pen ghazi committee -- benghazi try to undermine the mission. minority parties always play defense on the investigating committees. >> this is why i think it was a mistake for her to do what she did, because in the sense of trying to keep this as a politically toxic issue going forward, nancy pelosi needs to keep january 6th in the minds of the american people as being

an insurrection, as being something that many figures have compared to 9/11 and the like. she needs to in other words make it seem a bigger and a bigger part of the conversation going into a mid-term that i think a lot of people believe will be very negative for her party. but by pulling the rug out from underneath it and having a commission that's only going to end up with republicans like liz cheney or maybe adam kin singer or ex-republicans who lost their primaries, that's something that i think a lot of people are not going to take seriously, so only the portion of america that truly believes they saw an insurrection as opposed to a riot, a protest gone out of control which did result in a lot of negative things and should result in the practical questions liz was talking about regarding infrastructure and policing, they're not going to get that. they're going to get a partisan activity that is only designed to help boost democrat hopes going into the midterms. howie: liz, i've seen a lot of journalists acknowledge that maybe kevin mccarthy did win

this round because without any republicans appointed by him, yes, liz cheney is on the committee, it will be easier for the gop to paint this as democratic sheer partisanship. >> it's confusing, i will say. if the republicans are pushing to be the party of law and order and the party of police, attacking democrats and rightly so about defunding the police if there are voices on the left that are doing it, how can they then be portrayed as being pro-police if they're fighting against the commission where police were brutalized and attacked. i think there's a lot more to go before we see an investigation. howie: ben, liz, thanks very much for joining us. up next, jeff bezos conquers space and rehappens his image. but is the washington post owner living up to his call for civility? civility

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flight by his blue origin rocket was something to watch and having anchored the equally successful landing by richard branson the previous week, i got caught up in the excitement. yes, the media called it the brazen battle of the billionaires but it was also a triumph for american capitalist. bezos was trying to cast himself as a visionary explorer who will spend part of his time on his climate change foundation. >> now, on how it felt. oh, my god! howie: participate it was hard -- at that point it was hard to think of him as the founder of amazon or the owner of the washington post who is often at odds with donald trump or as the guy who accused the national enquirer of extortion after the tabloid revealed his affair. bezos took over cable news with his own choreographed tv show. there were the subplots,

bringing along the oldest person to fly in space, and the youngest person and the side bars, he had taken amelia earhart's goggles on the flight. it was a complete info commercial. the plot twist, bezos handed out $1 billion awards for civility. >> not the person, you attackse been around a long time and they don't work. they've been amplified by social media. the first courage in civility award goes to van jones. howie: he is a liberal cnn commentator. he did work with the trump administration on criminal justice reform, look at how he reacted to joe biden's victory. >> if you're muslim in in this country, you don't have to worry if the president doesn't want you here. if you're an immigrant, you

don't have to worry if the president will be happy to have babies snatched away. howie: even anderson cooper was stunned by the award. the other award went to celebrity chef and humanitarian, jose andre. bezos and branson were you accused of wasting money on thrill rides for the mega wealthy. bezos didn't deny that, saying we can explore space and fix problems at home. i'm skeptical about a new era of space tourism. i think there are benefits of improving space technology without government money. as for the tv maker of bezos, when you know how to work the media, there are always second acts in american life. next on media buzz, npr accusing ben shapiro of practicing he polarizing politics. because he's a conservative? glenn greenwald is on deck.

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howie: npr acknowledges that ben shapiro, the author, podcaster and proprietor of the conservative daily wire, generates more facebook traffic than any other news outlet but says experts worry he may increase polarization in the united states, some say he takes red meat cultural issues and gives them an intellectual sheen so they don't seem crazy. here's miles park. >> these are stories that either bolster the conservative agenda or focus on polarizing topics, lots of stories on cancel culture and critical race theory. it's not false information, just extremely biased which the site admitted by does say on their -- does say on their website. howie: joining us now from brazil, glenn greenwald, who

writes at substack and is the author of securing democracy. glenn, has it never occurred to the folks at npr that msnbc, huff post, the left win sites, also deal with culture war issues, also try to make democrats look bad, and yet the daily wire is accused of turning anger into an art form. is npr that tone deaf? >> i mean, it's the most extreme case to lacking self awareness i think i've ever seen, it's not just the sites that you mentioned but npr it self would rather throw acid than criticize a leading democratic party politician and at least ben shapiro is honest about his ideology, as are msnbc or fox opinion hosts. what makes this so galling is npr is accusing other people of being politically polarizing and serving a political side of the spectrum when that's all npr

does and ever since the george floyd killing, you can listen to npr and almost be guaranteed that the theme of npr will be some culture war issue about race, they almost flood the zone of coverage. so everything they're saying about ben shapiro is true about them, the only difference being that ben shapiro is candid about his views and npr pretends superiority. howie: ben shapiro reacted by saying npr is selling outrage over everything trump related. if the daily wire isn't publishing falsehoods and is completely upfront about the conservative ideology, what is the problem with his success? >> the problem is his success. that's exactly the problem. which is that, you know, i think people have foreof gotten that prior to -- forgotten that prior to trump's arrival on the political scene, most of these outlets were really struggling. msnbc was on the verge of firing

almost every one of their hosts, besides rachel maddow. trump was a sugar boost to them. now that he's gone, the audience is collapsing. everybody in media has seen their audience decline. but it's the liberal side of the corporate media that has really had this collapse because they placed all their bets on trusm and -- trump and with him gone, they encouraged the audience to believe there's no more reason to pay attention to politics. when they see independent voices being successful aspen shapiro, -- as ben shapiro, whatever you think of him, i've had nothing but negative exchanges with him is, they have the instinct to malign and silence you as the way to desperately preserve an audience for themselves and that's so much of what is driving the media commentary about people who are trapped within the corporate system. howie: let's talk about the vaccine debate. you say the widespread claim there's a surge in republican

politicians and pundits on the right issuing pro-vaccine messages, is a conspiracy theory, a fake conspiracy theory. explain. >> i think every governor or almost every republican governor for months has had the same view, which is we have this great vaccine program and we urge all of you to come and get it. donald trump himself, who the media generally says is a cult leader to conservatives, has routinely boasted i think validly about the job that his government did in delivering a vaccine more quickly than anyone thought was possible and he too has always encouraged people to go and get the vaccine. and even here on fox, sean hannity this week said go and get the vaccine and there were articles saying oh, why has he suddenly changed when you can go back months and see sean hannity saying i believe in the vaccine, i intend to get the vaccine for myself. they he created this narrative that right wing politicians, republican politicians, right

wing media figures have been telling people not to get the vaccine when all you have to do is go use google and see it's a completely fictitious narrative they've created. howie: well, there seems to be a turn in elite media opinion now, more anger being directed at the unvaccinated. take a look at cnn's don lemon. >> you've got to call it what it is. it's behavior that is idiotic and nonsensical. i think that you need to tell people that their behavior is idiotic and nonsensical. howie: does it help the situation to accuse people who he declined to get the vaccines of idiotic behavior? >> i don't understand when elites in liberal stems of society will learn that there are obvious attitudes that people who disagree with them are stupid and prim testify and deplorables does nothing but make those people tune out to what they're being told because

obviously people who obviously think that you're dumb and moronic are not people you're going to trust and listen to and that's the other part of out, is the media outlets have lost trust and faith. there's a racial divide. the more you try and force people or coerce them or pressure them rather than persuade them to do something, it's just human nature that people don't want to be forced to do something they don't want to do. they need to be persuaded and that requires respect which a lot of the institutions of authority are lacking. howie: let me jump in. with mask mandates making a comeback in la and st. louis, you tweeted the other day if you walk into a grocery store and you're vaccinated, why does society have to be reshaped around those choosing not to be vaccinated. could people say that's kind of a callus approach to people who could get sick and die if they get exposed? >> i think what's been going on from the beginning is this

refusal to count the cost, not only of covid, which are significant, but also the cost of measures taken to fight covid which also are significant. and there's studies showing that people even when they're vaccinated are still afraid to go back to a normal life which is really harmful to society economically, psychologically and in every other way. so i think the more you see people still wearing masks and everything looking dangerous outside, the more anxiety you're feedingnd that is the question. if someone says look, i don't want protection from covid, i don't fear covid, the vaccine's available, i don't want to take it, why is society continuously structured with the excuse we have to protect them when they're saying i don't want this protection. i think returning to normal if you believe in the vaccine as i do is something that is imperative and continuing to say wear a mask, socially distance, keep businesses closed and there's a really terrible message to be sending in the post vaccine world.

howie: you unearthed an old tweet from chris hays. trump's obsession focus on a vaccine is nuts, totally immaterial to the short-term challenges that are substantial. ultimately he did produce and he has supported and i hope he speaks out more, the vaccines that are saving lives of many americans. great to see you. >> always great to be with you. thank you. howie: after the break, don lemon interviews joe biden in a cnn town hall that wasn't exactly an interrogation. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger. when you earn a degree with university of phoenix, we support you with career coaching for life, including personal branding, resume building and more. that's our promise to you. that's career services for life. learn more at phoenix.edu.

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kayak. search one and done. howie: no one was expecting a journalistic drilling when cnn tapped its most liberal voice, don lemon, to moderate a town hall with joe biden. at times they seemed like old pals. >> can you take us something behind the scenes, something that was extraordinary or unusual that stands out to you. >> the first time i walked down the stairs and they they played hail to the chief, i wondered where is he? [laughter] >> you think i'm kidding. i'm not kidding. >> it's a great tune, isn't it. howie: joining us now, marie harf, former state department spokeswoman and fox contributor. don lemon asked him questions about what are you going to do about the infrastructure or vaccine and so forth had. he didn't ask him about sharp criticism, didn't make much news, so what did it accomplish? >> well, first, i don't think that town halls are necessarily supposed to be interrogations.

and a lot of really good questions came from the voters who are supposed to be the focus of town halls. but don lemon did grill him on issues like the filibuster for example, he got applauds from the audience when he said how are you not looking at getting rid of this and i think the purpose here was to learn something about what joe biden is thinking, and don lemon is not a hostile interviewer. i watched the town hall and i came away knowing more how joe biden is looking at things. i don't know, i think that's a success if my book. howie: lemon pressed him from the left because he wants the filibuster abolished so he can get the voting rights bill. president biden said during the session you're not going to get covid if you have vaccinations. the washington post fact checker says that's not true. the symptoms are mild and you don't get hospitalized. crickets from most of the media. does biden get fact check with

any of the intensity that donald trump did every day. >> he doesn't lie with the intensity that donald trump did every day so i don't think it's apples to apples to compare them. when you look at cnn's fact checking. howie: that was wrong. >> when you look at cnn's fact checker, daniel dale, who was famous for fact checking trump and he also fact checks biden. i think there are fact checkers looking at what joe biden is saying. there's a long history of presidents doing town halls with networks or anchors they feel more comfortable with. i think the fact checker were out there. they were doing their job. howie: there was a period in the town hall when biden really stumbled, conservative commentators jumped on this. i want to play it for the viewers. >> and the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are -- why can't the experts say we know

that this virus is in fact -- it's going to be -- excuse me, we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved but permanently approved. howie: media conservatives, some saying, look, the guy has a problem. is that a fair criticism? >> well, joe biden has a long documented history with a stutter. he talked about it. and look, i was one of the people during the trump administration who said none of us watching on tv are doctors, none of us can diagnose what's going on with people. if they just misstate something or if something else is going on. i would caution everyone from trying to use what is a long history of joe biden not always being able to find the perfect words, he talked about that, use that politically. i think that's pretty gross from some commentators on the right, quite frankly. i couldn't even find my words there. howie: that's my point.

everybody loses their train of thought and biden is 78, even us younger people sometimes have that problem. msnbc and others are going pretty crazy over audio ex excerptfrom an interview with dd trump in which trump says of the protesters on january 6th, mostly a loving crowd, they were hugging and kissing and they wanted to protest a rigged election. is the public as interested in the trump books as the media seem to be? >> well, they they should be. we are learning so much more about the final days of the trump administration that i think the public should be and part of journalists' responsibility is to help the public understand why this is an important story. i don't think it should just be left-leaning media that cares about that. these comments were extraordinary. hearing donald trump talk in this interview in a way that is so at odds with the reality you and i and everyone saw with our own eyes, look, we can debate what should be done about a

select commit at this -- committee or how we should investigate it. it should be storely that everyone cares about we are always trying to question fairness. thanks very much. still to come, megyn kelly's twitter war. the buzz beater is next.

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baaam. internet that keeps you ahead of the game. that's cute, but my internet streams to my ride. yeah, well mine's always got my back. okay chill, 'cuz mine's so fast, no one can catch me. speed? we'll show you speed. wow! -that's nothing... ...because my internet gives me a flex 4k streaming box for free. impressive! that's 'cuz you all have the same internet. xfinity xfi so powerful, it keeps one-upping itself. can your internet do that? howie: time to see if i can beat the clock on the buzz beater. go. megyn kelly took a twitter swipe at naomi osaka for you appearing on magazine covers such as illustrated and time, after bailing on the french open. osaka returned serve, seeing as

you were a journalist i would think you would research the lead time on magazines. she accused kelly of spewing negativity. she swung back, she blocked me while taking a shot at me. guess she's only tough on the courts. truth is, she doesn't like questions she can't control, admit. we told you that maria taylor was angry after rachel nichols was caught saying taylor shouldn't have gotten a plum assignment for diversity reasons. now taylor left espn after the african-american rejected a contract that wasn't enough to overcome the bad blood. an npr story included a photo of another black woman at espn. breitbart is upset that tom brady joked around with president biden, saying many people don't believe he won the super bowl. when the buccaneers visited the white house. keep in mind, brady wouldn't

join his new england teammates in visits to the trump white house. now breitbart is running headlines saying five times brady called trump a friend before stabbing him in the back. a paper is being sued after a claim of a sexual assault survivor. the ban was lifted earlier this year. the suit says somnez was depressed and endured physical pain, embarrassment and humiliation. liberal new york times columnist is taking a leave of absence as he decides whether to run for oregon governor as a democrat. he returned to his family farm a couple years ago but the transition from pundit to poll sounds like a long shots. i'm buy yafd on this one.

-- buy yafd on this one. -- biased on this one. hulu'sspecial on paul mccartneys -- >> what do you remember about this? >> at the time i was working with this bloke john, now i looked back and lennon. harrison went do do do do. howie: it's kind of insane that the beatles who transformed music remain so popular half a century later and just cool that mccartney at 79 has embraced the role of beatles historian. that's it. there we go. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. senior producer has been with this program almost from the beginning and shely gets it on the air every week. there she is. today is her last day as she moves on to a new challenge.

lacey is incredibly hard working, organized, dedicated. just a wonderful person. we will all miss her. i hope you have a chance to check out my podcast, media buzz meter. we're getting out of time. the clock is thinking. we'll be back here -- ticking. we'll be back here next sunday, 11:00 eastern. we'll see you then with the latest buzz. uses unconventional thinking to help your business realize new possibilities. only one 5g partner offers unmatched network, support, and value-without any trade offs. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicators of brain performance.

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