>> no one can deny it even the media people most sympathetic to the president are letting him off the hook, over the absolutely awful images from a texas border town. the conditions and mistreatment of tens of thousands of haitian migrants have intensified the increasingly negative coverage of joe biden, but as appalling as the crisis is, too many media outlets seized on a report that turned out to be false. this was the lie that horse riding border patrol agents were whipping the migrants that included mentions why among others reuters, politico and a

cnn international correspondent. the el paso times reported that one agent swung his reigns like a whip, charging his horse toward the men in the river, later running a clarification that it was not a whip. these were reigns used to control the horses. english reported on the images with this headline. u.s. border patrol uses whips on haitian migrants. that interpretation later contradicted why its reporter not to mention the photographer who shot the pictures. >> there was a lot of talk about whips but what we actually saw was them using long reigns on their horses and flicking them towards people, so, i didn't actually personally see any whips. >> these networks, these people , had no interest in this story until they could create an acceptable villain in law enforcement. all these other bozos who pretend to be journalists then pretend to have a story. >> this in no way minimizes the humanitarian disaster at the

border and one of the series of mess that prompted this pronouncement not from biden's conservative critics but from nbc's chuck todd. >> i think he's got a pretty big credibility crisis on his hands. >> i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." >> ahead donald trump sues the new york times over the leak of his taxes, and why is television spending so much time on the sad killing of gabby petito? the mistreatment of the haitian migrants drew a sharp reaction even from biden supporters at the view. >> the way people are being treated on that, to me, is absolutely more disturbing. >> so disappointed in the biden administration today. so very disappointed. >> biden finally spoke to reporters friday after the televised images had drawn criticism even from kamala harris, with his special envoy to haiti resigning in protest and tough words from

most pundits left and right. >> do you take responsibility for the chaos that's unfolding? >> of course i take responsibility, i'm president,, it's horrible what you saw, to see people treated like they did , horses running over people being strapped, it's outrageous. i promise you, those people will pay. >> we've got a democratic administration overseeing boron horseback with whatever implement they were using in their hands, in the face of powering and terrified, folks fleeing crisis in the rio grande waters. that was not donald trump's customs and border patrol. that was joe biden's. >> the scenes in del rio look like refugee camps in sudan, hunger, children crying, make shift shelters, pleas for help. is this what biden meant by build back better? >> the humanitarian crisis at the border, what is the biden administration going to do? it's not enough to be horrified. it's on your watch, okay?

>> look at this , an ap reporter is even calling biden's self-inflicted crisis, " uncontrollable events." seriously, how are they uncontrollable when he caused them? >> joining us now to analyze, ben domenech, publisher of the federalist and mara liasson, both are fox news contributors. ben, why are so many liberal tv hosts and left-leaning outlets president biden over this undeniable disaster with haitian migrants rather than defending them as they usually do. >> well, i think you saw this week, this slow-rolling disaster really become something that was impossible to ignore. the past several months have been disastrous on the border. we've seen that area in crisis for quite a long time now, in ways that are really unprecedented when you look at the numbers, but this , i think, was the period in which it became impossible to defend the

administration and their approach. it's not enough to get on tv and just say don't come, you have to actually make policy changes that deal with this problem and i think to a certain extent, people who normally either hold back on their criticism of the white house or even carry water for them see this as something that's impossible to defend, and the distraction and embarrassment of that whole fake whip story was something that i think actually brought a lot of attention. it served as kind of an attraction of energy to this , because it was one so obviously false but then resulted in this role of a number of different democratic politicians including the president himself, criticizing border patrol that is clearly overwhelmed at this stage and just one more point, howie, about this. i think it's important to ask why these certain things happen. you know, you don't just have this group of haitians show up together in mass in a disorganized fashion. it's something that's allowed to happen by the mexican cartel so i hope a lot of these places

finally starting to pay attention to it start digging into why these things are happening, why people are being moved in the way that they are, and who benefits from it. >> right that false whip story unfortunately went pretty viral and now thankfully the administration has gotten most of the haitian migrants to shelters but mara, the new york times hurled what we could be to be the worst possible insult to biden saying these images from del rio come straight from donald trump's immigration play book. fair point for the press to make >> look, there is a lot of hot takism going on, but the biden administration is in a big bind on the border, because they sent a more welcoming message and in that same segment on npr that you just pulled the quote from the al-jazeera photographer who said he didn't see any whips we also interviewed a reporter who explained the reason why all those haitians were at the border because through their own networks of information, a lot of it word of mouth, they heard that biden was going to be more

welcoming and one of the stories that i certainly hope we all look into is what the biden administration thought would happen at the border when it sent a more welcoming message. of course people were going to flock there and they got the message that if they have kids especially they were going to be let into the united states , and covid was another big driver of this. >> sure. that particular interview was with the al-jazeera reporter, but ben, i'm so struck by the way the incoming is coming from left and right as we pointed out as we've showed clip s you have conservatives saying look it's these more permissive policies that cause this surge and that earlier one with all the central american migrants going to mexico and then you have liberals say that deporting some of the haitians, biden is embracing laws and tactics, favored by trump, so everybody is unhappy. >> uh-huh, yeah, you have the progressives who are very unhappy with those images. you have the criticism from democrat members of congress, such as henry cuellar, you have

a number of different people who have been sounding a warning note on this for a while, but the phoning us has mostly been on what was going on in washington, on reconciliation, on all of these big budget deals that democrats are pushing through, and i think that this is a problem that you just can't ignore it anymore. the images are too striking. they are something that once you see them, they don't really feel or look like what something that should be happening in the united states of america, and you know, in the case of the people who are being confronted by those folks on horseback, you know, a lot of what was going on there was crossing the river in order to buy groceries and then sell them at marked up prices within these camps, to the people who are living there, and that's something that we never want to see happen along the border. this kind of chaos sends a message that the white house has to hate and until they make major changes in policy they are only likely to continue. >> yeah, they now ban the use

of horses and that's a stopgap measure. mara, after afghanistan, and the disastrous pullout thereafter the covid and all the people still haven't gotten vaccinated and ben mentioned the grid lock on the hill, is more of the press coming around to chuck todd's view that president biden faces a significant credibility crisis >> well, there's no doubt that this has been the roughest stretch for the biden administration, i think it's perfectly fair for the media to call that out. he's got a lot of problems, but to say that it's all over, or that he's a failed administration, i think maybe is going too far. there's a lot of pressure for pundits to make a grand pronounce am, and sometimes the more apocalyptic the better, but look this is a president whose elected to be competent and calm, and solve these big problems first and foremost, covid and anytime it looks like he's struggling, that hurts him and his party and it actually makes all of the problems harder to solve when the president's approval ratings are dropping

he's left juice to force the two sides in his party to come to a negotiated compromise on the reconciliation bill, for instance. >> yeah, it's kind of a spiral. let me play a clip from one of jen psaki's press briefings. pbs, was very adversarial to donald trump and vice versa and has been sympathetic to president biden asking this question. >> why isn't the president telling people, himself, these images that people say look like slavery, are wrong. me as president, i as president, condemn them. how is he not doing that? >> his actions make clear how horrible and horrific he thinks these images are. >> that was before the president finally spoke friday, but is it a factor for some journalists and activists that it's black people here who are being mistreated? >> well, i certainly think that the racial component here is one that attracts more attention, because it's so deeply

uncomfortable to see the imagery , like i said, sticks with you, but i want to circle back to something that ma ra said which is that this really does cut to the core of what joe biden's appeal was supposed to be. bringing back normal circumstances bringing back unity, bringing back stability, was a big reason that a lot of people supported him, and it's creating buyer's remorse in a significant way that you can see in the polling data heading into the mid-terms next year and obviously that that's a long way away but democrats already know the difference between having a biden administration that's at about 50% approval and the difference between having him in the low 40s or even hitting 40 itself, is the difference between an election that is still going to be very positive for republicans indiana all likelihood and one that is a wave that turns some of these purple states red and turns blue states dangerous for them, they're very aware of that and it's very present of mind. >> mara, biden spent days ducking the press not taking questions until he finally took

a couple press questions on friday, we played the clip earlier, and letting his aids take the heat even kamala harris went out there, the vice president, saying human beings should never be treated this way was it a mistake to let several news cycles go by without biden trying to communicate directly through the media? >> yeah, that's a really good question. the media is always focused because look, we're in there everyday, it's our job. how often is the president taking questions? and if he's not taking questions or holding enough formal press conferences for our liking we tend to think that's a bad thing i think overall, the most important thing is that the white house figure out a way to stabilize all of these various crisis and get their message out. how many times biden takes questions from the press and how long he stands there for q&a i think is less important to the public. >> i'm not doing it as a scorecard. i just think that when you have this disaster unfolding on our television screens, the president looks like a bystander when he's not taking questions from the press.

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confidentiality agreement two decades ago in settling a suit over a family inheritance but this much is true. mary trump acknowledged in the daily beast podcast one of the three times reporters named as defendants got her to cough up the confidential returns. >> it's entirely done to the brilliance of ann craig, for one reminding me that i had them and two, so effectively and tenaciously, i mean, it took her months before i did, so it's entirely down to her. >> the times says this lawsuit is an attempt to silence independent news organizations, and we plan to vigorously defend against it. ben, this is a breach of confidentiality suit, not a liable suit and here is mary trump who hated her uncle for two decades admitting that a new york times reporter persuaded her to turn over the president's tax records. does he have a case at least against her? >> it certainly seems like he does, given the nature of this

agreement, us it's not one that we know the specifics about necessarily yet though i'm sure we'll learn about them during the course of this case. i be much more concerned if i were in her position in this circumstance than i would if i was at the new york times, but we should keep in mind that this is part of this overall trend of adjudicating a lot of things like this that i think is going to become an even bigger and regular part of covering politicians going forward. you may have seen, for instance, the allowance that the lawsuit defamation suit brought by congressman devin nunes against journalist ryan lizza was allowed to proceed this past week. this is going to be a type of thing that i think we see happen more and more regularly in the era when records like these are very much in demand and there's plenty of outlets that are willing to run the risk of reporting on. >> right well people have the right to sue but it's very difficult under existing liable law to for public figures, to successfully sue.

mara, what's the case against the new york times, it won a pulitzer for its tax reporting, investigative reporters press sources to provide documents all the time. this didn't come from government and the times never signed any kind of confidentiality agreement. >> yeah, it's hard to see what kind of legal jeopardy the times is in, how much legal jeopardy mary trump is in is another matter and i certainly don't know but donald trump is letigio .us and he's sued lots of people and organizations through the course of his career and i don't really know what this suit gets him, especially if he can't prevail against the new york times. >> it's obviously choked you up look, ben, the media's reaction to this litigation has been to quote harry trump as saying donald trump is a blanking loser and to bring on all these legal experts who say trump was avoiding taxes, but while the 2018 times story was denounced by president trump as fake news, here in the suit he's asking at least 100 million

in damages. isn't acknowledging that the story itself was true. >> i think that's the risk that you run by getting involved in the letigious response like this. >> not to mention depositions. >> yes, i think that's always something that can result in all manner of things but as mara said this is an individual who even prior to becoming president was very letigious and would go after people in different ways this is another example of him doing that but i think we should not forget how differently the times story was treated in terms of the records that were reported on versus the treatment of the hunter biden story, which is only now, it seems, getting the kind of credibility treatment from major outlets, it's as if they just had to wait long enough to treat the story seriously and the questions that were raised by it. personally, i never was as curious about donald trump's tax returns as other people were

i feel like it's one of those things where you open the vault doors and there's not as much there as you moo it have thought, but i do think that this is going to be something that keeps this story in the news, whether that's something that is wise for him to do or not is up to him. >> i just happen to have some examples of past lawsuits by donald trump. his campaign, you've seen out of new york time last year over opinion columns, he sued a journalist over 2005 book questioning his net worth and in the 80s trump sued the chicago tribune over the architecture critic panning his plan for a skyscraper there and mara, he didn't win any of those. no he doesn't have a good track record with these lawsuits and as ben said, they might boomerang because they keep all these questions about him out in the public. >> ben i've got about half a minute. you made a point earlier that you think this may become an increasing common feature of politics where politicians sue journalists who god knows are not very popular, but does that

disturb you at all, where this should all be fought out, while acknowledging that anybody who feels liable can go to court >> i think we should just look across the pond at the uk and see the kind of difficulty that you can get into simply for having someone like piers morgan criticize meghan markle on air. we don't want to go that direction here in america. we want to have a very strong first amendment protection for journalists when they report things out, and i think that we should really look at making it easier for people to essentially ensure themselves against these lawsuits and prevent them from being something that prevents you from reporting the truth. now, of course that doesn't include material that's truly deere fam a tori or is just a tissue of lies but we want to have that strength and in an environment where anybody can be a journalist when they just flip on a switch and connect to the wi-fi, it's going to become

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>> the media providing minute by minute updates on the democratic impasse over trillions of dollars in spending against the ticking clock of yet another very exciting debt ceiling show down. joining us now, mike emanuel, and mike, with the media providing these minute by minute updates particularly over this $3.5 trillion one-party spending bill it's a huge figure but like watching paint dry, nothing ever seems to happen or it's so incremental. is it hard to explain the details when most people's eyes glaze over. >> absolutely when you're talking about trillions of

dollars people look at that and it's like monopoly money, it's so hard to get your arms around that, except for when i go home and talk to my kids and they say is your generation going to dump this in our laps, dad, and so they know ultimately somebody will have to pay it back, and so that's a concern for some folks, but when you talk about big numbers like this , it is hard to get folks across the country to really understand what all is in there. >> you have nancy pelosi saying well we're going to vote monday, then abc this morning she said maybe we won't vote monday and the washington post headline the other day was president biden's governing agenda is at risk of unraveling on capitol hill, so the stakes are enormous , biden met with democratic leaders this week i bet most people couldn't tell you what's in this big bill or how it ties to the bipartisan infrastructure bill, which still hasn't passed. >> absolutely right and there's some thought they have to bring the price tag down to get the moderates on board they are putting pressure on the moderate democrats sagging if we don't pass this democrats are voted out of office but a lot of the moderates say if i

spend trillions of dollars in my district i'm going to be voted out so there's an existential threat for some of these members , and tremendous pressure all around this town, basically, because it is joe biden's agenda , trying to get across the finish line and there's no guarantees after the mid-term elections that democrats will be fully in power. >> i think they are quite well aware of and even if they cut that 3.5 trillion in half it's still a huge amount of money when you add in the other 1 trillion and the whole federal budget is 6 trillion but a lot of media focus on the debt ceiling actually there could be a government shutdown late this week, mitch mcconnell says of course, the debt ceiling must be lifted but my people aren't going to vote for it and we won't give you one vote. whose side are the media on in this kind of dance? >> he doesn't seem to care too much about his image with a lot of the press. he just knows there are a lot of republican voters all across this country who sent republican s to capitol hill basically to get a handle on government spending and the debt they've spent plenty of money so a lot of those voters are very unhappy with all of the spending

at this point but he says, somebody has to stand up at some point and basically, doesn't seem to worry about his public image. >> at the same time, he knows this can't, i mean, they can shut it down for a few days, its happened before, couple week, often the blame game, but bottom line is the u.s. government isn't going to default, i don't think. >> no, i think they know they are going toes pass it but basically he wants democrats holding the bag and they can go to voters across the country and say did you really want all this spending and all this additional debt? look at one party, they're responsible. >> not making any bones about the fact that it's a political move but a political town, great to see you on the set with me. >> thank you, howie. >> denouncing the arizona audit which was a disappointment as the 2020 election surges back into the news, stay with us. >> ♪

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>> donald trump unloaded on the media last night for their reporting of the arizona audit, commissioned by republicans which found no hard evidence of substantial fraud and in fact, awarded joe biden 99 more votes and trump 261 fewer votes but the former president doesn't see it that way. >> we also got the results of the arizona audit which -- >> [applause] >> -- which were so disgracefully reported by those people, right back there, and the headlines claiming that biden won. it's so difficult because the

washington post, the new york times, and virtually every mainstream media source, cnn forget it, they're so dishonest. >> joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york, alexandra wilkes, a commentator with america rising and clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. alex the republican president of the arizona senate which commissioned the audit by the cyber ninjas always makes me think of the teenage mutant turtles, numbers are numbers and truth is truth. here is trump trashing the fake news for reporting what is the press supposed to do when this audit says yes, joe biden won the state by more than 10,000 votes. >> well, i think the president has long had a beef with the media, but what the last nine months of him being off social media has really illustrated to me is that social media is not only a very powerful tool for the president to engage in all campaigns to engage with their support

supporters but all the journalists as well so you see with the rallies, the recount, that there isn't as much of an ability for the president to shape it while he's not on the scene platform where the journal its are and they're looking for stories and they're looking at the various reporters at these rallies who are covering the tweets, covering the facebook posts. it really becomes, you know, there's a dirth of commentary in the mainstream press that'll be interesting going into the mid-term elections where we see that, you know, his endorsement might be news worthy , how does that really bear out. >> well gone are the days when those rallies got wall to wall television coverage. clarence the report that raised hypothetical problems, signature s might have been suspect, mail ballots might have come from the wrong address, voters might have voted in multiple counties, so the press reported that but donald trump still is calling coverage of this arizona audit dishonest. >> well, you can cite anecdotes

all day long about what looks suspicious around the edges, howard. you know, i was investigating vote fraud in chicago in the early 70s and we found marginal offenses and when i say marginal, i mean not offenses that would change the outcome. bill barr when he was attorney general said there hadn't been anything that would have changed the outcome of that election, and now we see in arizona, joe biden has again won, giving him another celebration if he wants to, and at president trump, when all else fail, blame the media. that of course is the old political slogan and he's relying on it again. >> what about chicago in 1960, let me move on to the book by bob woodward and robert costa, which says that republican senators lindsey graham and mike lee, two trump allies, rejected the election fraud claims by rudy giuliani and other trump lawyers after the election lindsey graham calling it third

grade stuff and here's alex, the statement trump sent to the media. they should be ashamed of themselves for not putting up the fight necessary to win, do the media love it when trump seems to turn on his own allies? >> i think that's always the story that the media likes, but what i would say that these books aren't new, you know, going back to theodore white with the making of the president and back in the 60's you can always have these, you always have these books come after the elections with the anonymous sources in narrative form. it's always usually pretty easy to spot whose cooperated with the books because they happen to tell the anecdotes that make them look good, but i think that in terms of the reporting of this , and the president's response to this , it's kind of a wash because it's a little bit of an insider's game i think for most americans. >> that's an interesting point and i would point out lindsey graham not denying these particular quotes. separately the washington post posted a story based on a

lawsuit showing a trump campaign wrote a memo debunking some of the wilder claims coming from sidney powell and other trump lawyers and dominion, the voting machine company somehow manipulated votes away from trump, had ties to venezuela but didn't say anything about it so is that major news today? do people still care? journalists obviously do care. >> journalists care about conflict, and we certainly see it here. what intrigues me about bob woodward's new book is what it says about the disbelief on the trump camp, the trump side that he had won the election, and how bob woodward and bob costa paint a scenario there of rudy giuliani being the one who talks trump into the idea of challenging the election and claiming victory, and pushes it and pushes it again. somebody could put that bug in his ear, bill barr and others

didn't go along with it and aren't going along with it now but now the foundation of a campaign for trump's second election in his mind, and we may just see that happening. >> well the reason it matters is that trump is the de facto leader of the republican party will be a factor in the mid-term s and may well run again. let me move on, george bush hosting a texas fundraiser for liz cheney of course the daughter of his vice president, donald trump's reaction rhino republican named only former president george w. bush are endorsing war mongering and very low-polling liz cheney. alex, whose side might the media be on on this particular battle? >> well, it is pretty interesting to see the media all of a sudden, you know, find a warm embrace with people that they had previously characterized as war mongers, my report back in the day, they threw terrible insults at a form epresident bush, but now, they

seem to be or the media seems to be covering him much more favorably than they once did. i think though that look, this is going to be a story that plays out across several different platforms or several different campaigns over the next cycle, is where the president weighs in, you know, how ultimately it does, but ultimately, i don't think it's a surprise that the bushes are hosting a fundraiser for former vice president dick cheney's daughter. >> there's a lot of bad blood there. clarence, if george w. bush is a republican in name only does that sit that trump will use that label for anybody who doesn't agree with his vision of where the gop should be? >> well, we saw donald trump turned against his own vice president when he saw that mike

pence was not going to join in with him and the idea of tossing out the votes from the electoral college that enabled joe biden to win. only because mike pence was following the law, and donald trump insisted that he couldn't be bothered with that. that's the real reality here. donald trump decides who is a republican and who isn't. >> ultimately the voters decide , clarence page, alex wilk es. thanks very much for stopping by after the break, every outlet, updates on on the tragic killing of 22-year-old gabby petito but is it really about ratings? that's a nice truck. yeah, it's the chevy silverado. check out this multi-flex tailgate. multi-flex, huh? wow. it becomes a step. mom, dad's flexing again. that's not all. you can extend the bed for longer stuff. is he still... still flexing. that's right! and, it becomes a workspace... you can put your laptop here. i'm sending an imaginay email. hey dad, dinner!

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in filipino: you'll always be in my heart. >> gabby petito, the 22-year-old woman, who went missing while on a wyoming trip with her fiancee and then was tragically found dead, has been a tv news obsession. >> and we have a big development in the case of that missing new york woman, gabby petito. >> the growing search for missing 22-year-old gabby petito who disappeared after a cross-country road trip with her fiancee. >> the manhunt for brian laundrie ramping up after gabby petito's death is ruled a homicide. this case has really riveted the country. lots of coverage, lots of interest. we've talked a lot about it here on msnbc, and that is it's a lot of pretty white women. >> the way the story captivated the nation has many wondering, why not the same media attention when people of color go missing? well, the answer, actually, has

a name. missing white woman syndrome. >> joining us now from dallas, steve krakauer, a cable news veteran who published a fourth watched newsletter. make the case, why should cable news and a lot of other outlets be fixated on this one case involving a missing woman who was found murdered as tragic as it is. >> yeah, i think that on one level, this is cable news sort of being the affect where the cause, it was this trending story, that was happening long before it ever, gabby petito ever got mentioned on cable news , so you have hundreds of millions of mentions of gabby petito on tiktok and other places, there's a lot of interest already happening on social media and then it kind of translates and then it goes on cable news and become this national story although i have to say, i also question the timing a little bit, because there's lots, this is a tragic story and there are lots of tragic stories i don't know if all of those tragic stories are national news stories so just around the time that the biden

administration is going through perhaps the toughest time of the last nine months with the massive crisis in del rio, with the haitian migrants you talked about, they admitted to only about 10 days ago the failed mistaken drone strike that killed 10 and seven children, right around that time those stories take a back seat to the latest white influence. >> but are you suggesting that somehow this is to distract from joe biden's political woes or that we need some kind of other thing, because it's depressing to focus on covid and afghanistan, and haitian migrants. >> you know, i think there's a convenience to it. i think every day, there's a calculus made in a newsroom about what stories are the most important of the day, and it's very easy. i think that if say there were a different president the calculus of where gabby petito falls in the rundown be a lot different than when joe biden's president, but i also think, you know, there is this pushback and you heard it as this missing white woman syndrome. i think there's actually some validity to that because you do

see these stories certainly bubble up when you've got the video and of gabby petito and her boyfriend on youtube and the body cam footage and it is often these stories but at the same time you've got chris cuomo last week, you know, breaking down like it looks like he's breaking down iowa caucus results when talking about gabby petito's text messages and suddenly you get this pushback and instead of looking inward, having some self-reflection and introspection about why are we covering these stories so much, its turned the other way and there's a sort of interest sham ing of the audience. well why are you so interested in this? >> i mean, there is a certain logic when you say it's hot on tiktok and it makes the jump to cable news and then law enforcement gets more interested and then that in itself drives more coverage and everyone knows there's a certain demographic that really likes these stories and is all about ratings. is it not? >> it's a lot about ratings. this story makes a lot of sense on a show that i love like date line, rather than say the today show or the nbc nightly news. there's a place for stories like

this absolutely, but where? if i was programming the cable news channel this would not be bubbling up as most important national news story that's happening in the world and to your point, ratings, i think, play a big factor here. >> okay let me just jump in on the missing white woman business because the washington post is a story and there's anothers about of all of the women of color who have gone missing or been murdered and how they don't get national attention leads off with a black mother in three in georgia missing since march and her family can't get any national national attention and this strikes a form of racial pandering. >> yes, and i would also say i think that it shifted because it's not just missing white women. it's white women involved in crimes i think is the larger point here, and i do think we've seen a shift in that. there was a reason that george floyd's trial was such a big media moment last year, and i think that with good reason. that is also a very important case that was happening and before, it was the jodie arias, and the casey anthony but yes.

>> going back to natalie holloway in 2005. we've got to go but i think there's a real backlash over this and it's a good debate, steve krakauer still to come, the view gets disrupted by its own breaking news, more bad news for chris cuomo and facebook's self-emotion the buzz beater is next. there's no other snack like a planters cashew. what else can go from your car's cup holder to a crystal bowl and seem equally at home? i guess the most well-rounded snack isn't round at all. it's more cashew-shaped. planters. a nut above.

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vice president? >> yes. >> okay, so vice president, no. >> no. >> let's do a tap dance. what happened is that sunny and anna both apparently tested positive for covid. >> in honor, they had plenty of time to kill taking audience questions before the vice president appeared remotely. >> we did everything we could to make sure that you were safe because we value so much. >> maybe they should have arranged those covid tests a little earlier. president biden was meeting with boris johnson each leader usually takes a couple of questions but after the british prime minister called on two british reporters cbs ed o'keefe tried to ask a question. >> [overlapping speakers] >> what is your response to the situation on the border? >> [overlapping speakers] >> white house reporters were furious at being vested by the brits, biden was trying to answer but couldn't be heard over the shouts of his aids

ushering out the press, just whose in charge here? former abc executive shelley ross is accusing chris cuomo, then also with abc, of harassing her citing a single incident in 2005 where he greeted her at a bar. a new york times op-ed wrote an apology that cuomo sent her afterwards saying now that i think of it i am ashamed which is the right reaction and she doesn't want cuomo to lose his job at cnn, cuomo told the times as shelley acknowledges our interaction was not sexual in nature it happened 16 years ago in a public setting, i apologized to her then and i meant it. >> during the trump years, commentators were routinely calling president crazy or sick or psycho on msnbc this week democratic pollster talking about trump's effort to overturn the election said this. >> i think that means calling donald trump what he is, he's a terrorist. donald trump is a terrorist. >> guess what?

zero pushback from the host. >> mark zuckerberg groomed a it secret plan to use facebook's value news feed to promote facebook, several executives were shocked the new york times reports but the ceo is tired of all of the criticism and apologizes for bias and misinformation so the news people will be used to promote positive stories about the social network and if zucker burgess owens wants to defend his company, it's great, but otherwise tell you how awesome it is. >> when i saw them saying your iphone could tell if you're depressed i think it was some tabloid story but no the wall street journal says apple working on technology to diagnose depression or cognitive decline, this raises privacy concerns but who knows, could save you a lot on therapy bills. >> siri, i'm in a really good mood today, that's it for this edition of media business, i'm howard kurtz we hope you'll also like our facebook page, where we post daily column columns and continue the conversation, check out my podcast mediabuzz beater

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♪. eric: mourners, family, friends, strangers, member of the public so touched by this tragedy sharing their grief our gathering in the emmiry of gabby petito. a public memorial service at the funeral home for the tragic woman to cap further the nation. she was found dead after going on a cross country trip with her fiance brian laundrie. an intense manhunt for him. welcome to