howard: the mainstream media of every second of the generous experience and not just because they want to but face it nailed donald trump and ruin his chances of running again and get him off the hook it's no longer just a fake news media charging but the former president inside the capital rights trumps inner circle, republicans that he appointed, testifying under oath if you believe them and that gives the press cover, during those hail testimony to the likes of bill barton campaign

manager bill stepien and. >> i was demoralized because i thought he really believes the stuff and lost contact and become detached from reality. when iran into this and tell him how crazy some of these allegations were there was never an indication of interest in the actual facts. were doing our job much of the info you are getting is false. >> it's far too early to be making any calls like that. >> there was definitely intoxication but i do not know the level of intoxication when he spoke with the president. >> for the record rudy giuliani said he was false testimony from jason miller and he was not to get on election night when he

told trump to declare victory. trump set on truth social that the unselect are going to gets be because i'm the only one who can fix our endangered country. the television coverage has been wall-to-wall. >> what we learned today from the sworn testimony, those who work closely within president trump is that they knew he lied just as much as we thought he did. >> this is a key hearing that really showed trumps inner circle the president was told over and over again that he lost the election. >> this might not surprise you but the show is flopping pretty bad, they can't even get democrats to tune in, ratings are soft, nobody cares doing the latest anyway six hearing far more americans were googling gas prices then searching the web for january 6. >> what we have here is a badly divided media in a badly divided country. i am howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz". ♪.

howard: there's a whole lotta debate at the week's final hearing but it wound up with mike pence life and grave danger after president trump pressured his vp to block the election results based on john eastman pushing theories that he admitted were totally rejected by the supreme court. an outrage reaction from mike pence counsel greg jacobs. >> he was still pushing us to do what he had been asking us to do for the previous two days that that was certifiably crazy. >> now i'm going to give you the best legal advice or ever getting in your life get a great criminal defense lawyer. >> it started as a constitutional seminar but it ended as it episode of law & order, who did it, donald trump. >> even after donald trump was informed knowing his vp is there and in danger he tweeted about mike pence lack of courage and the rioters reacted.

>> we were one mike pence away. >> it's clear in what i said on that day mike pence was a profile of courage, he was the redeeming moment. >> joining us to analyze the coverage in jacksonville susan ferrechio chief political reporter for the washington times. and on long island tara palmeri who writes the washington for pop news. susan whether the hearings were good theater and totally partisan, are the media right in that they show disturbing new evidence that donald trump was linked to radical and potentially illegal scheme to block the election results? >> i didn't see it that way, i didn't learn a lot that was new, i think we knew that there were people telling trump that he wasn't going to be able to overturn the election, there wasn't enough evidence connecting every single state and all the irregularities that may have existed from the election. but it did give democrats a chance to finally showcase what they have been doing for months behind closed doors at these

hearings. there's been a lot of drama, people have been subpoenaed, people have been indicted for being willing to talk to congress, here they were able to show trumps zone inner circle captured on video and primetime saying they told trump it was over and that trump was resisting that. i think that's what they were aiming to do and they managed to get that message across, whether or not this is anything huge in a think most people are dragon on what happened during the election and trumps culpability in all of this, but again a chance to showcase and primetime at a key moment for democrats who are down in the dumps in the polls because what's going on in the economy and everything else. >> the first of the three was in prime time. >> it may be that most americans care about rising gas prices and other issues but the media had touted this it will be a blockbuster show that was good news dramatic video and testimony to demonstrate that

trump encouraged the rioters. but as the show got mixed reviews, what do you think? >> i actually think they were successful in telling the story, the narrative of what happened that day with clear defined characters in really setting it out like a primetime special. i certainly watch through and tried to be detached, obviously i covered this day-to-day but wanted to look at it from someone who sort of painted into it. the first day of coverage and the first day of the hearing was a regrouping experience that 11 minute video that was produced, i would say that is a viral video and i think they thought about that stuff and they decided they wanted the hippie soundbites in the videos that can be shared online. the truth is you not to get 60 million people sitting down watching tv but they might watch some of it later on instagram or social media like twitter or facebook and those little clips will help them decide. media has become a segmented somehow as television and a lot

of the times the clips that are being shared are twisted to your own partisan views already. it's unclear if it actually helped democrats and republicans who are trying to essentially indict trumper prosecute them in the public eye get their message across but there was an exercise in telling the story how it will be told is because there's filters to the story we still have to see the pulling. >> i thought it was very uneven but new video that i had not seen of mike pence and his entourage fleeing down a staircase as approaching mob was trying to kill him some of them chanting hang mike pence some of them got within 40 feet of his hiding area, these are testimony from republicans trump had called him a wimp and the p word

and told the crowd that he lacked courage and cut out a false statement saying the vp would not certify the election results, that didn't happen. the day after the last hearing trump said mike did not have the courage to act again. there's a lot to absorb their particular about the former vice president. >> the outline to the very beginning they were going to try to show that trump potentially acted cruelly to try to get the vice president to overturn the election. whether there ever getting laughter trump criminally seems to be up for debate, i think what they're trying to do is go after him politically and one way to do that perhaps the best way is show him in action but in the life of the vice president in danger. politics is a huge part of this hearing you decide to say that flat out. they were really serious about this hearing it wouldn't just be about trump it would be why the capital was able to be breached

in the first case having worked in the billing for 30 years that was a phenomenal thing to see that the police were unable to stop that, they left all that out for this is about politics big time. what they've done here is try to really damage trump ahead of not just 2024 but 2022 the midterms are coming up they tried to connect it to republicans as well and i think they did do some damage by including the footage of the vice president it doesn't reflect well on president trump that he was in opposition. after the capital was early invaded by the rioters doing nothing and perhaps putting the vice president even more danger. >> i don't think there's any question that the democratic committee is trying to damage donald trump. as i said at the top here's the former president at a national rally the other day still sticking to the line he's been giving the public and political world and the media world for a year end half. take a look. >> what happened on january 6 was a simple protest that got out of hand as a crowd and whether unbelievable love and patriotism in the air. howard: except for the part involving the violence.

the new york times has a sweeping we can piece the new story not an editorial or column, it was all ally rigged voting machines, constitutional flexibility, republican witnesses, trump knew he lost the election but for the gop how central the lie is of a stolen election has become to the parties identity. whether the parties true or not and not all republicans agree, instead of a victory lap, that one organization said we told you all along and now it's been shown we are right. >> that's a tough one i actually did not read that piece but i would say based on the gist of it it does sound like they were given a lot of evidence to write that piece in support that theory based on what the hearing presented so i could see why they took that position produce all people in the president's inner circle essentially saying we told him that he did not win the election and he still went on to say he did.

he did have a lot of people who have never publicly spoken out about those days speaking out for the first time and not as a source close to the president or one of the presidents aids but in their own name. as a journalist it's very difficult to tell the stories because not many people are willing to go on the record at least not until their book is out were subpoenaed. as a journalist for the first time you could write that story in the new york times without anonymous sourcing. i could see why they went for the. howard: there's been a lot of you nominate sourcing, we had people on camera and under oath. the media focused a good deal on this charged up john eastman who spoke at the stop the steal rally before the wright on january 6 and push to block the election results the day after the writing and then he writes to rudy giuliani, by the way there still considering i think i may need one for his own role. does this justify a lot of the

nonstop coverage or is the incremental that most americans had not heard of? >> it's more of the incremental housing cuts here with what trump was doing and what was going on with his inner circle and the fact that morgan where people were telling him that he had to give it up but the smaller more determined group was saying no, you should really take steps to try to slow this down there were some irregularities here and just to go back to what we're talking about earlier this was an unusual election, the way they change election laws and mail-in balloting, there was a lot of things that were different in the way the votes were counted and a lot of things that made the public lacked confidence in the result, using the on the pulling today people still lack confidence in the 2020 results is not a legitimate and it doesn't make you criminal to question the election and a lot of people are still doing that and that's why here trump talking about notches voter

fraud target about $400 billion is spent by democratic operatives to get the vote out in key democratic areas, that's a huge story. >> they also lack confidence in the media saying similar things to what were hearing, we seen republicans say the hearings are joke, nobody cares, time to move on joe biden is a failure the story is old, we haven't seen the rnc leaders coming out saying trump is right, the election was rigged a few candidates have said that. it's kind of like a media void why are we hearing more defense from donald trump's own party. >> that's a really good question, i actually think if the party engaged more with the committee they would actually get more eyeballs, i thought about that to i want to get the audience will be bigger than 18 million people the first night if you had jim jordan the select committee even a people are just tuning in for the circus of it all but it may have benefited the democrats and

republicans like cheney and ken's injured because lee people coming and thinking that there watching the trial of both sides. and i think that's turned a lot of people off. howard: it did make it look one side. ahead, did the new york times make it safe to question joe biden's agent ability? when we come back what's behind the media backlash behind bill barr and others who testify behind these hearings? ♪ (music) who said you have to starve yourself to lose weight? who said you can't do dinner?

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the. >> bill barr another wormer officials testified in the house committee probe briefly hailed by the press for the candid accounts, look out here comes the media backlash. maybe the former trump days are telling the truth now but what took them so long? >> bill barr down the block, look at all the swagger in the

room, this is nonsense, idiotic, where was that in november or december, guys like bill barr happily spread trump lies before and after the election the democrats were perpetrating some kind of terrible shenanigans around the election. >> bill barr is been celebrated, remember they hated him and wanted to impeach him like muscle leaning now they love him because he's useful. >> the former trump aides refused to testify and gets lame for stonewalling and those cooperated like the former attorney general get slammed with why you're only telling us now is seems like a no-win situation. >> bill barr's book came up every 28, i don't know what they're talking about, there's been plenty of information about his criticism of trump's been out for months but the media love and trump turncoat and bill barr was the greatest one out of

the entire administration because he really was loyal to the president and he really aggravated democrats and trump critics throughout trump's tenure defended the president in particular on the mueller report and the whole russian collusion nonsense, that really angered democrats he was really enemy number one but now here he is the start of the january 6 primetime show and he was an absolute star and he served their purpose purposely. >> what a transformation, i had a chance to interview will bar about his book on this program a couple of months ago and i put the question of the timing to him, here's what it look like. >> should you have quit earlier and gone public with the greater concerns that you described in this book, any regrets on that? >> i did not have grave concerns before the election but you don't go out and say i think the president acts like a jerk a lot of the time. >> as attorney general barr did tell the ap while he was in office that he found no

significant election fraud in the 2020 election and also criticize trump's tweets for pressuring him on the justice department matters, the media just don't like these guys and pro-trump republicans on the other hand think they're being betrayed by the former loyalist. >> there's just a culture in washington as well you don't want to be seen as a person who's the talker or the leaker, bill barr likely has a career ahead of them in republican politics and for him to be speaking out against is going to make his future question whether they want him and him his inner circle and talking about the decisions been made and decisions were being made obviously trump is still a very popular president within the republican circle, bill barr to make this tight rope a little but i disagree a little bit about that but ultimately he wants to be seen ultimately valuable in washington.

howard: it matters to the media but does it matter to average voters that retire judge j michael has been a conservative for years testifying that trump had a treacherous plan to steal the election in a clear and present danger for 2024 or is that an inside beltway kind of thing? same. >> i think underscores really what the committee is after here, are they really worried about democracy or are they really worried about the fact that president trump can potentially be president biden in a 2024 matchup and this is the absolute best opportunity, they're taking their best shot at trump right now to take them down in the eyes of voters. that's what they're doing here, under every crack and crevice wherever they can to say this guy was off his rocker after the election and it shows he can't be trusted around the country again, that is the goal of this hearing so he was a perfect

witness for that, were looking at pulling the public's still have confidence in the 2020 election and that people still like president trump will have to see, as tara mentioning in the polls going forward, how are these hearings going to resonate with people, what are we gonna see in the months ahead as voters reflect on what they saw here during these hearings. >> i'm willing to concede that they may not live it at all giving them a concern but trump continues to argue that the election was rigged many republicans believe in the testimony seems to not support him. as a country now so polarized that we just can't agree on where things stand even if you buy the notion that this hearing is designed in the media are thrilled to see trump be damaged politically? >> right, this idea that the election was stolen is something that so many candidates, republican candidates have run-on during the primary election, the senate and the

house and in order to get an endorsement from president trump which is very valuable they need to pass this and claim that the election was stolen, this is a piece of republican only talking point but something that people are running on in their winning elections based on this proclamation. it's not going anywhere and i'm not sure the committee has done anything to make it go away. howard: some of them are in some of them are winning even if they don't buy the line. great discussion, up next, whether gun-control deals touted by the press is mired in the swamp. frank lewis winning the message were over the democratic house theory.

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the program for all the media praise the lawmakers missed their deadline and still have no deal. joining us from the white house's fox lucas thompson a gunman killing three people in alabama church as the negotiations still arguing the boyfriend loophole the nine guns to domestic abusers whether the romantic partners or spouses, was oppressed too quick to declare victory. >> it sure felt that way and even though the white house called a proposal, never mentioned a bill in earlier on "fox news sunday" we heard mike lee who said there's no deal at all everything that was touted as a breakthrough on sunday over a week later there is no legislation, there is no bill and he doesn't know if their voting he saying there is no proposal and no legislation. howard: that's a fair point, one thing i learned covering the hill over the years, for all the outrage coverage that we saw

over the horrible mass shootings in buffalo and texas in the public support for the modest changes according to the polls, until you have an actual bill language you have a press release, yum! nothing, your rhetoric and i was on "fox news sunday" with saturday how do i know if i support the bill if i see the language, that's why think that press often jumps into action to say they reached a deal and then it kinda falls apart because congress has struggled negotiating. >> as you see floating these ideas that take different subjects but remember during the trip of initiation the proposals to arm uae with drones it made big headlines that never showed up and uae that is language in congress a lot of times the headline takes off in terms of the follow-up that still lingers. >> there might be a lot of public support raising the age from 18 - 21 tobias about automatic weapons but on the

other hand then you give us the definitions and so forth and that's not even part of the negotiations, then returned to president biden who finally did a sitdown interview this is off-camera with ap it's not like talking to jimmy kimmel and said it was bizarre to blame inflation on the covid release plan he criticized the will company but it didn't make a whole lotta news is that because the president when it comes to the economy inflation doesn't have a whole lot anew to say in terms of concrete proposals? >> it felt like the president was saying what americans feel every day they are worried about a recession they think it's inevitable but sometimes saying recession is not in evitable someone puts that word and fears into people's mind and we see the stock market going down in oil prices going up in the president's approval rating tanking at the same time. howard: his people have said the economy is a lot of people

think. that's losing politics i wish president would do more these interviews and do them on camera i think it helps him but also i think it's a responsibility to us. at the white house lucas tomlinson. next on the bus the new york times as many democrats don't want 79-year-old joe biden to run again. why that story landed like a bombshell. >> tech: cracked windshield? schedule with safelite, and we'll come to you to fix it. >> tech vo: this customer was enjoying her morning walk. we texted her when we were on our way. she could track us and see exactly when we'd arrive. >> woman: i have a few more minutes. let's go! >> tech vo: we came to her with service that fit her schedule. >> woman: you must be pascal. >> tech: nice to meet you. >> tech vo: we got right to work, with a replacement she could trust. >> tech: we're all set. >> woman: wow. that looks great. >> tech: schedule now at safelite.com. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

howard: a new york times story sharply change the media conversation by taking whispers and shatter and some democrats questioning whether joe biden should run for a second term some saying flatly he should not. >> quickly is the president running for reelection. >> his answer is yes, he is running for reelection. >> does the president have the stand them a physically and mentally to continue on even after 2024. >> you're asking me this question, all my gosh is the president of the united states, i can't even keep up with the article that were talking about

is hearsay is fallacious. >> democrats are starting to jump ship as the new york post put it say it ain't joe, democratic doubts mounted on biden's 2024 reelection run. >> joe biden is not going to run their knocking to let him run he could not run. >> joining us to analyze the converging jason chaffetz from a republican congressman now a fox news contributor kevin corker white house correspondent for fox news. lots of commentators especially on the right have been holding forth on joe biden's liabilities and saying he would be 82 at the time of the next inauguration, what is that time story have a profound impact on boosting the media coverage of this sensitive subject. >> for liberal democrats, the new york times is it, it's a newspaper of record. for them to actually start saying out loud that the cognitive capabilities of the president are questionable and he may not have the stand them a, the desire, the ability to do

it and i also took it as a slam act kamala harris because you don't see her and see the natural conclusion that the vice president is going to step up. but the coverage has been obvious for some time because you have the feeling economy things are going well, yet the physical stumbling and then you have the daily gaffes every time joe biden speaks out loud. >> kevin we just saw kareem the press secretary saying hearsay but mostly it's democrats, mostly on the record, given the political thoughts on biden's political prospects, how is that fallacious. >> number one there actually saying out loud what a lot of people in washington have been whispering for quite some time. the other thing i don't know so much that he couldn't run i think it's a political calculation by not just the media but also by democrats. let me run a couple numbers by

you, his right track, wrong track, 79% according to the pool even in the ap he has less than a 40% approval rating that's the calculus, i think the drumbeat is out there saying after the midterms mr. president it's probably time to make a declaration that your knocking to run again and then they can open the field. >> when they put them on the record is called reporting not hearsay. in this piece, david hasselhoff former white house official saying biden would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of the second term saying he doesn't get enough credit for his accomplishments but part of the reason is his performance, he looks his age and is as agile in front of a camera as he once was. he gives us a false impression. diplomatic but it feels like a punch given his duty to the democratic politics. >> democrats are actually saying it out loud on the record, this is also a big turn of events in the media to go on the record.

remember al davis used to own the oakland raiders and say just win baby, things are going well in the economy and there was a cohesive plan, i don't think there would be as much chatter but they know they're going to get a shellacking come november, the economy is not doing well and they've gotta do something, the guy at the head of the table which is the president of the united states. >> interesting football analogy. >> how concerned is the white house about about the story because anita as senior advisor and they total the times only one person steered in transition past trump's lies in court challenges and insurrection to take on january 20th and over the week of the washington post said obviously joe biden is sending every signal he's going to run again in he's going to declare early next year he wants it. i think that seem to be a reaction to all the tv segments by the time stories.

>> absolutely 100% correct, when they saw this happening in slow motion at all please on real-time in washington, i think they wanted to make sure that the perception from the perspective wasn't that the economy is bad and we have a guy who's not going to be here come 2024 we wanted tms that down but here's a problem i saw this in the post michael goodwin hua weise writes good stuff says bad policies cause trouble but the compounded when a president is so impervious he doesn't feel the need to change them this is a real issue for this white house when you have bad policies that you will about economy or sometimes policies that people wouldn't say are so bad but there subject to the bad economy i need is a have the feeling that he needs to make the changes i think there's a lot of democrats who say maybe it's time we make the change if he's unwilling. howard: that's with the new york post he certainly has not be the change of doing about more interviews. you alluded to this it eventually pivots as the conversation does the democrats

are not necessarily going to defer to kamala harris was their own political problems so they go through the whole list of democrats who ran last time and could run again, how much does this undermine the horse race game about 2024 joe biden within his own party. >> they are desperate for a message in a messenger. remember a couple weeks ago there is a story that joe biden is very frustrated he was frustrated with his poles and the lack of good coverage and the answer to that more cowbell we need joe biden talking the problem is when he goes out and starts talking to doing what he supposed to be doing he makes the situation worse not better than kamala harris is not there to back him up as a word salad every time they speak into the democrats, everyone on the house and those editors gotta live with what's going on. >> briefly, given the times not necessarily the newspaper kind of wonder the story through customs and now does not mean a cheap shot to talk about biden's

age falling off the bike, whatever. >> i think this is all along orchestrated effort to make sure that they send him out the proper way which is to say were letting you know now were ready to make a change and i think more cowbell is not going to work out as jason puts it. >> but a few months also is a longtime of politics, biden wants to run and he doesn't want to give it up but now it's an open media question. >> you can't keep running out to give your best chevy chase impression of general ford either. >> kevin corke and jason chaffetz. they say the republic is swimming at the genuine six hearing, a big revelation. frank luntz on the message board next. ♪ t in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. between the high interest, the fees... i felt trapped. debt, debt, debt. so i broke up with my credit card debt and consolidated it

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this on occasion where people hate him so much that he simply won't listen. those who support him so much that they hear nothing. i look at the hearings and i looked at your show this morning and you began a split screen of your cast in the video that's exactly what should be done the making people want the facts, they want the evidence, they want to see what happens not mean telling them or you exploited it through your lens or your context and the problem with the hearings they begin with the politicians and i'll tell you right now that that undercuts the credibility they could've been so much more forceful and know so much more expected. this is a long answer. >> the third hearing made the case, mike pence knew he had no power to delay or elect the results despite enormous pressure with his lawyers but he began with a talk among lawyers

until we got to the dramatic footage and vice president having to flee with conservatives as the mob was trying to find them. >> and you begin with the footage you start with the facts and then you explain them. those hearings would've been so much more impactful if they actually would've been the first few minutes, i saw things i've never seen before showed the nine minute footage and then set a simple question, how did we get here, you ask a question you don't make a statement. i say this to all the politicians and a lot of people watching you right now you'll be far better off bringing people in rather than pushing them by inviting them to make their own conclusions by showing them the evidence and then explaining what it all means. howard: did the one-sided nature of these hearings, no defense and no pro trump members on the panel make it easier for republicans to dismiss the proceedings and the media coverage as what trump is calling a kangaroo court.

>> absolutely you should had a counter testimony, you should had people challenging those witnesses but the conclusion that some people have come to this is simply the third attempt to impeach donald trump, make a mistake this have an impact on the scan to see if he should run and also make the mistake voters care much more about crime and immigration and this is simply not to the importance of the democrats started and the damage to the republic a party that the democrats started with but it is damaging donald trump, is this all backward looking is it important and tragic as generally six. it's a year end a half ago and while the media and the democrats are arguing that donald trump use similar tactics in 2024 with the state officials who were not there last time and most of the focus is on the past and a lot of people it becomes a history lesson. >> it needs to be a history

lesson and this is what i've learned we have to look people straight in the eye and tell them the truth and give them the context and provide them the facts. >> a lot of people don't believe the press because they think the press is so anti-trump and they think they are cooking the books or not giving sufficient way to what donald trump this day continues to argue and some republicans wish he would move on in 2020. >> it wasn't a rigged election. howard: why do many republicans and polls say they agree that joe biden was elected. in agree with donald trump understanding they have a strong support in affinity for the former president? >> that's exactly why paul simon, man here's what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. these trump people are so determined to back their guy that they simply don't hear any other evidence and they simply don't hear the facts. the only way you disabuse them is to show them, not tell them

and i go back to again and again, it's the showing that matters. and that's when the news media is getting it wrong. the people who produce those hearings don't understand that you begin with the visual, not and with it. howard: what about the fact that media are claiming vindication, we've been telling you this all along we have a former trump loyalist saying it. you have a lot of people dismissing the hearing and they may be right that the politics doesn't change one iota but what about the fact that you don't have republicans coming out and saying the candidates the election was rigged, donald trump is right. >> because donald trump is still the most popular person within the republican party. when he endorses that matters. it's five or 10% bounce. he's no longer the controller, he is no longer the emperor, he doesn't have that much control but more than any other republican alive and that's why

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howard: ready to race the clock on the bus, a bunch of staffers of stephen colbert's late show were arrested by capitol police in a office building with legal entry the producers including the guy of tramp the comic dog had gotten through democratic aid but then they were told to leave until leave and went back

and exported to a close building to take standups. they could face further criminal charges. he turned into a dumb and risky stunt by stephen colbert's gang. >> the football star turned gop from a senate seat from georgia has been a longtime critic of five of his black homes calling this a major major problem but the daily beast reports no content with the 10-year-old son he's paying child support for after a lawsuit in contrast to his republican relationship with his 22-year-old son christian and after more reporting he acknowledged another sanded a daughter who he had limited contact. walker argues he hasn't hated them, what parent would want their child involved garbage politics like this this would be entirely his business if he had been so outspoken. >> amber heard lost big time and the johnny depp defamation and tried to salvage her reputation on the today show. >> to my dying day i'll stand by every word of my testimony. but savannah guthrie push back

hard. >> i'm looking at a transcript that he said you start difficult fights and you say i did start a physical fight i can't promise you again, this is a black-and-white, i understand context that your testified and you're telling me today and never started a physical fight and he you are on tape say you did. when your life is at risk not only will you take the blame for things that you shouldn't take the blame for. >> he never hit use rebecca's that a lie? >> yes it is. >> i don't think she changed many minds. >> usa today has deleted 23 articles on gabriela miranda after they found evidence of fabrication, miranda has resigned after they found many quotes that could be confirmed this comes 18 years after i exposed fabrications by usa today reporting him in the top editor their jobs, the album hasn't been fixed, amazing.

will's and revealed she is a female partner but only because the sydney morning herald outed her she tried to defend his scoop along with his editor over two days that harold replaces column with a new one in which he apologized and said he had learned some difficult lessons, 2022, that's pathetic. the biggest critics of the news business, a few research reports said his journalist themselves, 71% say fake news is a very big problem but most still like their jobs. finally some words about mark shields who died yesterday, this is a guy after -- there he is mark shields was more than he can indelible credit but he held forth for decades on the pbs news hour in terrific, witty, good nature old-school guy who's fun to watch, fun to chat

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