blood clots that can lead to death have occurred. tell your doctor if you have pain or swelling in your arms or legs, shortness of breath, chest pain and rapid breathing or heart rate, or if you are nursing, pregnant, or plan to be. if you have hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. more time is possible. ask your doctor about verzenio. howie: if there is a media consensus beyond the debate of whether our military should have stayed in afghanistan for 20 years or gotten out sooner, it's that the chaotic withdrawal was badly botched, that the terrorist murder of 13 service members was an atrocity. that no americans should have been left behind. it's stunning to watch president biden in a highly emotional speech after the last u.s. plane left kabul say these words. >> extraordinary success of this mission was due to the incredible skill, bravely and selfless courage of the united

states mill he tri and our diplomats and -- military and our diplomats and intelligence professionals. howie: howie: extraordinary success, that phrase brought the president plenty of criticism. the pentagon did good work in evacuating americans and afghan alleys. -- allilies. we haven't heard anybody say they did anything wrong. it was donald trump who signed the withdrawal agreement, also an attempt by pro biden pundits to conflate the decision to leave afghanistan with the awful execution that the whole world has witnessed. this broader debate is so important that it's our job to lift it above petty part sonship. i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz.

♪ howie: ahead my interview with larry elder, the california radio host who has a shot at becoming governor. as hard liners say it would have been better to leave some military contingent in afghanistan indefinitely, president biden used his televised speech to reject those views. >> so when i hear that we could have, should have continued the so-called low grade effort in afghanistan, at low risk to our service members, at low cost, i don't think enough people understand how much we have asked of the 1% of this country who put that uniform on. >> but there was so little sense of humility about the fact that the u.s. invaded this country 20 years ago and the toll that has taken and the lives that have been lost, not just on the u.s. side, but also on the afghan side. .>> if joe biden thought he

would wipe away the national disgrace of his afghan withdrawal by addressing the nation with an angry tone today. >> a lot of veterans are stick to their stomach and i think the idea of saying how successful this is -- >> it's not until president biden took office, he didn't just say it ought to end, he finally determined that he would get it done. >> instead of stopping the taliban and stopping a withdrawal and protecting our interest, joe biden was only worried about optics, projecting a different picture. this is a disgrace. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, alex wilkes, the lawyer and analyst and here in washington juan williams, fox news political analyst and former co-host of the five. when president biden calls the afghan mission an extraordinary

success, conservative pundits say that's absurd. more liberal pundits are saying he's right, it was an incredible mass evacuation but that's hardly the whole story. >> yeah. look, i think the president's speech was an attempt to put a bow on what's an indefenseable situation. that's what the white house is guiding reporters and liberal columnist allies is towards the success of the air lift but i think many people are asking why was there the need for that air lift to begin with. and that just seems to be evading the white house's grasp here. they keep going back to the reasons for getting out of afghanistan, which people had largely agreed with. they keep going back to the need to end the war. but everybody agreed that this was done poorly and i think that their attempt to he focus on the air lift is a way of distracting people away from what was a situation that was unfolding before our very eyes that was

clearly going very poorly. howie: right. we all have seen the images. juan, what bothered many media people on the right as i said at the top was the fact that the president and his top national security officials didn't admit that anything had gone wrong, everything went as well as it possibly could, nobody could have predicted the afghan collapse and all that. why can't commentators on your side admit that much of this was horribly handled? >> well, i think that the key point is that they got out of the war and obviously most americans agree with that, liberal and conservative. so we're talking then about the withdrawal and i think that there has been lots of dissent there. now, you can say, you know that, the divide between left and right, howie but i think you watch any channel in america, no matter their orientation and there's much coverage, almost saturation coverage of the foreign policy implications, the potential for future terrorist attacks as a result of the

withdrawal. discussion about the sacrifices that were made by the military over a 20-year forever period. so all of that is going on and then of course the 13 americans who sacrificed their lives in the course of the withdrawal drew tremendous attention on left and right. in my opinion, we have had an ongoing discussion here about the consequences of all of the president's actions. howie: well, until now, we'll get to that in the next second. we don't know how donald trump would have handled the execution of the withdrawal if he were still in office but a lot of conservative media people didn't criticize trump for making the deal with the taliban, releasing taliban prisoners and just say everything involved with this is joe biden's false. >> i thought it was interesting that the president reemerged in a big way on the media sides of things, giving several interviews about what he would

have done differently, sort of a departure from what we've seen from ex presidents in the past. but a very interesting one, i think one that was news-worthy and people were interested in hearing about his perspective on this when he was giving his side of the story in terms of what he would have done and what the implications were, so i thought that round of media interviews was really interesting and i think probably since his social media exile in the winter was probably the most prominent we've seen him in the news in terms of being a foil to the biden administration in a serious way. howie: as you would expect, but of course he was part of the process and, juan, too many in the media i think as i said are conflating two things. i think you started down this road as well. the disaster of a chaotic withdrawal that led to the horrible suicide bombing, among other problems, and the decision to withdraw, which you're right,

new washington post bc poll says 77% of americans agree with biden's decision to get out of the 20-year war and which donald trump agreed with as well. >> in my mind, there was never going to be an easy exit from afghanistan. just ask the russians, ask the british, ask anybody. and of course we couldn't have anticipated what happened with the afghan government and, again, to my mind, the united states, you know, it did not go well. but we put so much money into the afghan government, into training the afghan military police, to literally arming them. so yes, you're right, you can say it's two separate items. with drawing from the war and how it was done. but in my mind, you can't guarantee anything in a military operation and i would be critical, i especially have great heart for those who lost r

her lives, our service people who put their lives on the line. it's a difficult task. i don't think you could have said it could be done easily or with some precision that would have prevented any problems. i just think it was a catastrophic situation, once the government and the military on the afghan side collapsed so rapidly. howie: there were a lot of predictions -- nobody thought it would happen in 11 days but there were a lot of predictions that the government and military would collapse quickly, is a lot of self dilution going on or perhaps misleading of the public. 60% in the same poll disapproved of biden's handling of afghanistan as opposed to more that three quarters who liked the decision. one thing that's unspinable by the media and that is the biden administration did leave, despite its promises, at least a couple hundred americans behind and tens of thousands of afghan allies who risked their lives to help us during the war. >> i mean, this is completely unspinable by the white house.

and i think that there was an attempt to do a lot of acrobatic word play at the press podium and an attempt for them to try to get their way out of this situation by sort of picking apart peter doocy's word, stranded. thats was sort of hotly debated there but in the end we saw that americans were left behind. howie: they feel stranded now. >> there is no way to get out of that. howie: juan, the press has been focusing on a couple of these really heartbreaking stories that makes it more than just abstract, for example, the wall street journal reporting an afghan interpreter who helped rescue senator biden when his helicopter and a couple other senators was forced down in afghanistan because of bad weather and he's asking the president to save him. the white house chief of staff 15eud they would do that. -- said they would do that. a woman was interviewed by voice of america, 25 years old, from

california, she is newly married, she is pregnant and she can't get out or she's worried about not getting out. here's what she had to say. >> i think to myself, i think am i going to make it home, am i going to end up living here, am i going to end up dying here. howie: and that woman said she had a valid passport, she couldn't get through the taliban lines. she was shot at when she tried to get out and clearly this is part of the story as well, would you agree? >> yeah, i think it's part of the story. again, i don't think we should get lost into this very emotional story and lose sight of the bigger picture. clearly, as you were saying earlier, this has been going on for some time, the idea that the former president trump said get out in may. president biden delayed it until august. why people decided that they could wait until the last moment or whatever, i think at some point despite u.s. reaching out, telegrams, e-mails, telephone, people who were delaying, and i

think they got caught. do i therefore blame the american media or the president or the american military? at some point, you say they got out 100 plus thousand people. that's an incredible success, howie. howie: they had to do it in a hurry. there's a lot of questions about several administrations and this travesty of a 20-year war p. i think the woman we just heard from, she is an important part of the picture as well. my heart went out to her and her family. i know you would agree with that. let me make a quick last point. >> i want to say f she was family, i would be in crisis over getting her out. howie: exactly. >> that's not to say that she and other americans and afghan allies couldn't have made an earlier effort. they have some responsibility. howie: she tried to get to the airport by her account and was shot at by the taliban. much of the press, including veterans who i respect, who covered wars, jennifer griffin, richard engle, clarissa ward,

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howie: it was literally one hour after president biden delivered an emotional speech defending his afghanistan pullout, the first of several msnbc hosts decided another story was more important, so important they made it the lead story during their hours. >> you can imagine the alarm we felt when we heard about this on sunday from congressman madison cawthorn. >> he's not just some guy, he's an embarrassing, creepy, tree punching but sitting member of congress. howie: here's what the freshman

republican lawmaker from north carolina, madison cawthorn said at an event the previous weekend. >> our election systems continue to be rigged and continue to be stolen, it's going to lead to bloodshed and i will tell you as much as i am willing to defend our liberty at all cost, there's nothing i dread doing more than having to pick up arms a against a fellow american. howie: alex wilkes, is what madison cawthorn said it immediately replaces the afghanistan defeat as the lead story? >> certainly not. the afghanistan story should have been the lead of the day and i think there was an initial focus on it by the media for two reasons. one, you have a lot of the people actually who are sitting in the anchor chairs now who are the war-time correspondents do o decades ago so they have a personal interest in it and the second reason is the images

coming out of afghanistan are just so stark and they're just so plain to anybody seeing them, that it's a disastrous situation that was created by the biden administration that couldn't be hidden. now i think we have enough of the legacy media that has long protected the biden administration, that has long tried to sort of shepherd them along that they're anxious to move the story along, particularly now as the camera crews have left. howie: let me get juan in here. look, the comments by cawthorn were a legitimate story. you can feel free to weigh in on that. i wrote a column a few days ago a saying the political fallout from afghanistan would ease for president biden when the media perhaps moved on from the story in a month, perhaps three months, never imagined it would take one hour in certain places. >> i think that story goes on. as i said earlier in the show, i

think the controversy over the withdrawal, the deaths of american service people and the humanitarian sacrifice involved and the immigration even of, you know, bringing afghans to the united states, that controversy goes on so i don't think it's gone away. and to my mind, comments like those by the congressman really are damaging. again, they fit in and they do fly around especially the conservative echo chamber and influence the way americans think without saying, hey, wait, this is an extremist sentiment that really has no grounding in fact. it's not reality but it's said in a way, bloodshed, that would make you think this is something that's putting us as the american people at greater risk. it's just not -- it should not be allowed to pass without comment. i tell you something else, though, that i think goes without comment too. howie: let me jump in. cawthorn's spokesman said he was

not advocating violence. this is already starting to fade. by the following night, the day after president biden's speech on the withdrawal, there was no mention of the war on msnbc on the 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00 show. maybe one passes reference. is there an attempt now, maybe because there's less public interest when u.s. service people are out of of that country to memory hole this 20-year war. >> sure, i don't think -- howie: that was for alex. i'll come back to you, juan. >> well, i think the fact that we don't have reliable coverage coming out of the country itself, i think that's a major factor. i think what drew so many people into this story were the harrowing images that we saw coming out of afghanistan. i think now that that's a missing part of the equation, it's easier for the legacy media, like i said, that is anxious to move this story along, it's easier for them to

sweep it under the rug. howie: here's an example. just the other day secretary of state tony blinken held a news conference that dealt almost entirely with americans that were left behind. fox news carried it live. other important stories have emerged, the massive northeast flooding, texas abortion law but the war in some places has just kind of ceased to exist. >> again, i don't think so. we've been dealing here in the united states with tremendous crisis in terms of the impact of this flooding and storms and of course the continued rise of covid that has slowed or delayed our get back to work in person. so i think there are other stories. remember, media is about ratings. that's kind of the urgent story. to pick up on something that alex was saying a moment ago, though, we don't have the cameras, the kind of coverage inside, we don't have americans

on the ground there so, again, in terms of the american audience, they may feel like they have heard this story, they know this story, they're involved in the controversy and it would just be at that point just kind of putting too much on the cake. the other point i wanted to make is i think there are lots of these generals on tv who shouldn't -- who were involved with this forever war but they're allowed to just make comments and criticize everything as if they had not been a part of it. howie: there should be coverage and they were part of the story and they should be questioned. up next, an eruption of critical coverage as the supreme court declines to block a highly restrictive texas abortion law and mike huckabee joins us later on. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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and parade of pro choice anchors and guests on cnn and msnbc. >> if you ever wondered where you would be and what you would be doing and what it would be like for you when roe versus wade came to an end in america and abortion started to be banned in america. >> this is the single most insane law written about abortion in the republicans' decades long quest to overrule and circumvent roe versus wade. >> how is it an attack on women to ban abortion in texas. they want you to know if you're for this law in texas, you're the tell taliban. howie: that was an actual example. joining us now, mike emanuel, fox's chief washington correspondent. fox news has had relatively little coverage of the ruling. does this reflect dissent by justices, democratic criticism or that most journalists aren't

comfortable with the idea of banning abortion after six weeks. >> my sense it reflects the inherent bias in the media, typically more left-leaning media and all of a sudden you look at this abortion law and say abortion after six weeks could be over in the state of texas and all of a sudden it's an opportunity the to kind of go on offense, if you're from that political perspective, to say, look, they're taking away your rights. there are a lot of conservatives who are pro life who don't think the law is terribly serious in texas but nevertheless it's out there and one day we expect that the supreme court may act on it but for now the supreme court let it go. howie: this was not a ruling on the constitutional merits. i want to ask about president biden who put out a very strong statement against the texas law but doesn't seem to anxious to talk about it on camera. he gave a relatively brief response when asked about it by a reporter. take a look. >> the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of

creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out -- and anyway. and it just seems -- i know this sounds ridiculous -- almost unamerican. howie: given his long-time pro choice stance, why does the press seem to want to talk more about it than the president. >> you look at the news over the past week or corks it's a barrage of bad headlines from hurricane ida to the afghan drawdown to the weak jobs report late this week, you would think the president would pivot and jump onto this with great offense to try to fire up his base but he was rather subdued about it and you look at the wave of headlines that have kind of been difficult for this administration, one would have thought they would have gone full-force with this to animate their base. howie: biden made a point of saying he respects those who disagree with roe v wade. the controversial thing is that

anybody can sue people involved in providing an abortion, not the woman, and if they prevail get a $10,000 -- critics are calling it a bounty. this isn't getting universal applaud from the right. >> the wall street journal editorial page making it sound likes it was unforced error, giving democrats am a anything's. a lot of -- ammunition. a lot of people think the mississippi law is a lot more serious, 15 weeks kind of standard enforcement, this texas law deputizes people to sue people for abortion. a lot don't think it will hold up if court. howie: we'll see what the ruling is when we have full arguments and all of that. this was an emergency move. mike emanuel, always good to see you. >> thank you, sir. howie: next, larry elder once seemed a long shot to replace

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howie: larry elder, the veteran talk radio host in la, is the leading republican candidate in california's gubernatorial recall, meaning he is poised to win if a majority vote nine days from now to dump democratic incumbent gavin newsom. the national press is filled with warnings about elder's candidacy. these pieces, larry elder talks a lot, too bad you can't believe anything he says. physician full frontal attack, larry elder is the black face of white supremacy, you've been warned. i spoke with the gop frontrunner from san diego. larry elder, welcome. >> howard, thank you so much for having me. i think the only thing i've not been called is attempting to

reenact slavery. howie: much of the national media is saying this is troubling, larry elder could win this thing. why do you think the press is being so tough on you? >> i think it's because the press oftentimes serves as public relations bureau for the democrat party and they're deathly afraid that larry elder, a black guy from the hood who went to public school might break the stranglehold. if it can be done in california, it can be done all a over the country and they're scared to death had. howie: on the radio you're paid to be provocative, whether opposing the minimum wage, calling global warming a crock, isn't it fair game for the press. >> i said global warming alarmism is a crock. i've been campaigning for five weeks.

no one asked me about any of those things. they asked about the rise in crime, the way the governor shut down the state in a more severe way than did the other 49 governors, a third of all small businesses are gone forever, half the jobs have been recovered as opposed to two thirds the national average, the rise in the cost of living. the average price of a home in california just hit $800,000, 150% more or 250% more depending on which study you read above the national average. i'm asked about the decline in the quality of public education. 80% of the kids educated in california are black and brown. howie: you say voters are asking as opposed to journalists. >> that's what people care about. howie: there was a cnn interview in which you said i don't believe science suggests young people should be vaccinated. newsom tweeted this, elder is spewing anti-vaccine lies, he's

willing to let young people die. your response. >> if he'll semiconductor becomes the govern -- elder becomes governor, people will drop dead in the streets. i'm not anti-vaxx. i've been vaccinated because i'm in a high risk category. i don't believe the science compels children to be vaccinated. they're not likely to contract the coronavirus, they're not likely to get really sick and go to hospitals and they're not likely to die. that's consistent with the science of people like dr. mart marquise makary. -- marty makary. he's trying to turn it into a referendum against scare. he can't defend his record. he can't explain why people are leaving california for the first time in our state's 170-year history. howie: let me jump in here. i want to give you a chance to respond to a story that's gotten a lot of play, quoting your former girlfriend saying six years ago you waved a gun at

her, she was terrified and she broke up with you. she filed a police report recently and they're not pursuing the case. did that happen. >> of course it didn't happen. what i find interesting about the story is the lead person on that story, the lead outlet on a that story is cnn. this is a company that has chris cuomo there, sitting up there, having advised his brother to deny the sexual harassment claims. the ceo of cnn, jeff zucker, with matt lauer, when he was engaged in his sexual activity -- howie: let me move on. you told the -- >> howie, on the campaign trail, the outlet that asked me the most about this is cnn. i think it's awfully hypocritical given their own history, that's all i'm saying. howie: you told the sacramento bee you believe joe biden won the election fairly and squarely. in a video interview you said you want to take a mull began on that and you don't believe it.

what's your position. >> i don't believe the election was won fairly and squarely. i went on to say there were shenanigans. there were shenanigans in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. we know the hunter biden story was spiked, voters say if they knew about that story, enough biden voters say had they known about that story they wouldn't have voted for biden. for two and-a-half years donald trump was pursued by a bogus story. the fear is they'll try to do that in the election, with the recall. when you hear anything suspicious, go to my website. we'll file lawsuits in a timely fashion. howie: you described the media attacks on you as a racial smear campaign, with the exception of the white supremacy column i referenced earlier, aren't most of these news outlets opposed to your consistent -- conservative

yet controlling. ideology. >> they're doing whatever they can to take me down. there was an article that all but called me a black david duke. they're going hysterical because of what i said. they're afraid i'll be able to break the stranglehold they had over blacks and browns for year. i'm going to do something about the crime, the lousy education, do something about the rise in homelessness, about our water crisis, poor management of the forest. what could be so bad? howie: larry elder, thanks very much for taking time to speak with us. >> my pleasure. thank you for having me we invited gavin newsom to join us next sunday. after the break, joe rogan gets covid and some detractors seem to be celebrating. mike huckabee on the politics of covid-19, next. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist.

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ivermectin, prompted plenty of chatter. >> unfortunately, mr. rogan is now understanding that this is no joke. he's promoting kind of a crazy jumble of sort of folk remedy and internet prescribed drugs. howie: rogan has since had a negative test. joining us now from little rock, mike huckabee, the former arkansas governor and presidential candidate, now fox news contributor. governor, joe rogan is not one of the four anti-vacation seen radio hosts who tragically as you know have died in recent months. former congressman joe walsh tweeted that rogan deserves this because he spread lies and misinformation about the vaccine. what's your opinion about people seeing pleased when someone they disagree with has gotten the virus. >> i don't hate anybody. i really don't. i don't dislike anybody enough to wish them to get ill or to die.

i find this just the most crazy thing. and this often comes from people who love to say love wins. if this is love, keep he me out of it. -- keep me out of it. people have died from covid. people have gotten really sick from covid. i don't care what their political view is, i find it absolutely nuts. a good friend of mine, phil valentine, a radio talk show host, he died a few weeks ago. it's a tragedy. he was a great guy a wonderful talent. i don't know why anybody would think it's a good thing that he passed away. joe rogan took ivermectin. it's a human medicine. there is an animal version of it. it won a nobel prize for science as a great treatment in human beings for parasites and various things. some doctors have prescribed it. i can't tell you if it's a great treatment for covid. but i'm not going to let somebody call it a horse

medicine and forget the fact that there is a human version of it, prescribed by medical doctors across the world. howie: i think ivermectin is a fair point for media discussion, given the fda said it's useless for this point. rogan said last spring he didn't think younger people need to take the vaccines, then he reversed himself. more broadly, we're up to 1500 new deaths a day, average a, for the country. we haven't seen those numbers in a long time. let me move to the texas abortion law, we talked about a lot of anger at the supreme court and at texas on the left. but even some conservatives say it goes too far. it's too draconian by allowing anybody to sue doctors, counselors, the uber driver who drives the woman to a clinic to get an abortion after six months and gives a $10,000 reward if you win. now, i know you're pro-life. would you have signed such a law as governor of arkansas? >> i'd have to look and see the consequences.

i think the part about you can sue for taking someone to an abortion clinic is problematic. i think a lot of people recognize it. but i'm just glad somebody's trying to do something about the epidemic of lives that we lose every year for no reason other than the fact that some people believe that an you abortion is something that a woman does to her body. it's actually something she does to her child and it's irreversible and irrevocable. i wish people would think about the ultimate way to resolve this is to deal with the fact of personhood. that when an individual has his or her life taken without due process, it's a violation of the fifth and 14th amendments. so the sooner we come to the conclusion that an unborn child is in fact a human being, a person, then the fifth and 14th amendment will take care of all of the abortion questions because right now we're losing a million babies a year with no due process whatsoever. howie: i understand the very strong feelings on this.

on the other hand, roe v wade has been the law of the land for 50 years. we'll see when this gets a constitutional test. let's turn to the war in afghanistan, disastrous exit there. many in the media say, well, you know, it's not entirely president biden's fault because it was donald trump who negotiated the withdrawal with the taliban and that biden made the best of a situation with no good options. what do you make of that line of media defense of the president? >> it's utter nonsense. joe biden reversed every single thing donald trump did from the xl pipeline to the border situation and the border wall to agricultural policies, to forest policies. basically everything donald trump stood for, joe biden reversed it. for him to come in and say my hands were tied on this one, it's ludicrous. nobody can believe that. and the fact is, he made the decision to pull the military out before we had american citizens pulled out.

he put afghanistan people on airplanes and got them out, who had no siv, the special immigrant visa. he pulled them out with leaving americans there. this is nonsense. the fact is, if the media were covering this issue fairly and with balance, i guarantee you his poll numbers would be even worse than they already are. howie: i've got half a minute. i think there's a lot of coverage from the ordinary biden allies in the mead why -- media while this was going on. would you agree that the president was not defended by many of the media allies during the war withdrawal. >> i think they ignored it, except the ones that were on the ground. you had cnn's clayly say ward -- clarissa ward, richard engle. they practiced hon easts honestm and reported what they say, what

they saw was chaos, was disaster, was absolute insan sigh, especially when they report r&d that state department and military officials kept americans from getting through the checkpoints and getting on airplanes to get them the heck out of afghanistan when they really wanted to be. howie: i praised them as well, including fox's jennifer griffin. always good to see you, governor mike huckabee. thanks for coming by. >> you bet. howie: still to come, why mike richards can no longer produce jeopardy, al roker and he'd asner, that's coming up on the buzz meter (vo) unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. that's how we've become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction.

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howie: see if i can beat the clock only the buzz beater. go. i can never understand how somebody could dump mike richards as the host of jeopardy

but allow him to run the show as executive procedure. he lost that job and the role at wheel of fortune. if his past remarks disqualified him from t hosting, how could he stay on. they said when he stepped down as host would have minimized disruption. that hasn't happened. sony bares much of the blame for not vetting the guy. usa today fact check said president biden didn't actually check his watch during a ceremony for families of the fallen soldiers at dover. it appeared to be afterwards. the paper ran a correction, saying the photos showed biden checking his watch three times during the ceremony. a al roker was in new orleans covering hurricane ida, shrugging off critics who said the veteran weather guy shouldn't be there. >> i volunteered to come out here. this is what i do. howie: he had a message to

those who say he's too old to be chasing storms. >> guess what, screw you. okay. try to keep up. keep up, okay? >> al roker -- [laughter] >> i will drop them like a bag of dirt. howie: that guy doesn't mince words. speaking of meteorologists, willard scott, after serving as the first ronald mcdonald, when on to become a folk hero on the today show has died. he was a lovely guy, he wished people happy birthday. he proudly embraced his bufoon, saying i may be a corn ball but i am me and viewers just lived him. we've lost ed asner, the media contributes pouring in, after he gained fame. >> you've got spunk.

i hate spunk. howie: for he me, his most important role was as lou grant who dealt with complicated newspaper stories in a sophisticated way, with the owner demanding a routine speech be covered. >> are you kidding? we can get the speech from the pr guy. any kid can check out the rest. >> the bottom line here is mrs. pinchot feels we've gotten balanced with negative police stories. >> we don't make the news. >> sure we do, by what we pick to cover. howie: ed asner captured the newsroom angst and his political activism sparked a backlash that contributed to cbs canceling the show. that's it for this edition of media buzz. i'm howard kurtz. hope you're enjoying this labor day weekend. we hope you'll check us out on facebook and twitter and check out my podcast, media buzz

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♪♪ >> fox news alert, allegations of a hostage situation in afghanistan, congressman michael mccall, the top republican on the house foreign affairs committee telling fox news sunday there are six planes with american citizens and afghan interpreters on them being held by the taliban. good afternoon, welcome to "fox news live." i'm griff jenkins. >> i'm alicia acuna. two other stories we're following at this hour. new jersey continues the big clean-up after last week's record flooding. president biden will visit the area on tuesday and