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growing far more negative. with the death toll rising in gaza and memories facing of hamas' atrocities; killing families, children, babies, taking civilian hostages. all of which i think should be mentioned every day. much of the mainstream press is growing more skeptical and in some cases outright hostile. look at the verbiage by this cbs news anchor. >> we begin tonight with israel's invasion of gaza i go -- growing more intense. howard: not israel's realuation for a war started by hamas which is dedicated to wiping it off the map. bibi netanyahu's government didn't help itself by bombing the largest refugee center, and i get it, the israelis were targeting and killed a top hamas commander. hamas because this kind of embedding everywhere, using its own people as human shields, but many just position on the civilian deaths. watch this exchange between
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cnn's wolf blitzer and israeli military spokesman richard hecht. >> israel still dropped a bomb there attempting to kill this hamas commander knowing that a lot of innocent civilians, men, women and children, presumably, would be killed? is that what i'm hearing? >> that's not what you're hearing. look we, again, were focused on this commander concern. >> but you mow that there are a lot of -- know that there were a lot of refugees, innocent civilians, in in that refugee camp as a well, right? >> this is the tragedy of war. howard: the larger tragedy is how many people are blaming israel for the brutal and bloody war started by hamas and the rising tide of appalling anti-semitism that this conflict has unleashed around the world. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪
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howard: ahead, the backlash against some states for trying to kick donald trump9 off the ballot, and a closer look after all these years at the last beatles' song. much of the growing media criticism of israel and its war tactics is coming from left-leaning shows. >> i think most supporters of israel would agree with benjamin netanyahu in many ways except the benjamin netanyahu part. he will be remembered as the man responsible for the greatest slaughter of j jews since the holocaust. >> how expend bl are they if they have the head guy hiding within the refugee camp? >> they said there were hamas militants underneath, basically, in tunnels. but there's no back and forth here, we know they did. >> the perception of biden's ownership of this war will only grow as israel expands and extends its siege of gaza. >> it won't protect israelis, but it will kill an awful lot of
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children in gaza. >> nothing but vile, virulent, anti-semitic rhetoric. we've seen swastikas, chants for israel to be wiped off the map, calls for jews to be annihilated, if they do all of this while pretending to be peace-loving victims of oppression. it's the repulsive, it's disgusting. howard: now the spotlight is shifting to the house where new speaker mike johnson passed a bill providing bad arely-needed military aid to israel but zero funding the democrats want for ukraine. joining us now to analyze the cover average, mary katherine hamm and kevin walling who calls himself a joe biden democrat. mary katherine, mike johnson is drawing media flak for not going along with what even some republican senators including mitch mcconnell want to do which is pass an immediate bill tying aid to israel and ukraine. fair or unfair criticism? >> there can be criticism, but the most important part of the
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formulation is passed a bill, right? once you've passed a bill, part of your responsibility is taken care of, and part of the respondent so to negotiate with you -- the responsibility is to negotiate with you and manage to get something out of it. it includes something the president very much wants, israel funding. it includes cloodz it in a way that he doesn't like. i think we should cover that as media as a negotiation because that's what it is. howard: mike johnson sort of deflected questions and says he favors the second bill aiding ukraine, but the border security must come first. kevin, in his political bay -- debut, why would mike johnson take an israel-only stance? or is it a miscalculation tying the two together by joe biden? >> well, howie, it's clearly a win for the speaker because he kid get something past the finish line, that's something that torpedo'd kevin mccarthy back in september.
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that's what he's totally focused on, is maintaining that support from the caucus. i think, you know, the president and the team made a calculated decision to link all of these as aspects of the funding whether it be also the situation in taiwan and fighting the communist ccp there as well. and that was the determination of getting all four of those key components together instead of piecemeal because, again, some aspects are not popular with some democrats. howard: yeah. hill politics can be confusing, but is it a misstep, mary katherine, that you pass a bill that democrats are saying won't even be taken up by the senate, and president biden says he's veto? aren't you delaying aid to everybody in. >> well, you heavy noticed that the house is -- you may have noticed that the house is somewhat troublesome when it comes to getting everybody on the same page. [laughter] so i think when you have them on the same page on something as important as israel, you take the win that you can get, which
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i think johnson is focused on. and that gives you leverage to the at least. >> have this conversation and say, look, we did the thing. do you want the thing or not? howard: okay. so, kevin, what about the new speaker's argument that in order to pay for the aid to israel, $14 billion, we're going to take away $14 billion that biden got passed last year for the irs? >> well, this has been described by the president and others as a poison pill, and it's exactly what that is. the i.r.a. was one of the key components of a legislative win for the president. any efforts to dismantle that by piecemeal approach is not going to fly with this white house. and it's not the administration, it's republicans who said this is not going anywhere in the. upper chamber despite the house passing this bill. howard: right. and the congressal budget office, which is nonpartisan, says it would actually lose $26 billion because of the lost income from tax audits. all right. of the new peeker was elected so quickly that he didn't undergo media vetting, and now you have this is torrent of things he
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said saw -- 15 years ago, how he supported gay conversion therapy and america should be a christian nation. he responded to that on "fox news sunday." take a look. >> look, there are entire industries built on tearing down people like me. i understand that comes the with the territory. i've been labeled all kinds of stuff, but these people don't know me. howard: do these media attacks and criticism hurt him? he's already got the job. >> he does have the job and, but the attempt is to tie him in problematic stories about him to republicans who are running, right? this is a classic tactic. look, he reads like a vacation bible school dad on tv, right? i'm not sure that it's super easy to demonize him. nancy pelosi is a special character in that she helped a lot of the republicans work really hard for a generation to the make her sort of radioactive to the voting population and normal voters. i don't thinkst easy to do that quickly and certainly not with somebody who reads like that on tv. howard: yeah. and it's hard to do with
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somebody nobody had heard of before he got the speaker's job. so let's take the wider view now. kevin, do you see world and media opinion as i was saying mt. open turning on israel especially with the bombing of the refugee camp and an ambulance convoy? again, israel says -- [inaudible] >> no, you're absolutely right. we've seen that, this is day 30 of the war on hamas. you've seen that coverage shift. you've seen it even shift in the early days of the conflict against hamas in terms of the coverage whether it be the language between killing or murder or just in terms of -- or death just in terms of headlines. you're seeing that process play out, certainly. >> there are disadvantages in covering gaza because there's no one on the ground there as reporters, or very few. and the reason is because that's not a free democratic nation as israel is that allows that, right? >> 100%. >> you have to have the press to contextualize things. i think we should contextualize that. there's also the temptation to
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move to a next-phase story. we shouldn't move past the original attack, and that's some of what's going on. and there's an ideological bias toward this idea that's populated through the media that the oppression press -- oppressed has a right to retaliate in any shape or form while the oppressor gets very critical coverage, and in this case israel is the oppressor, and that's what you see in these protests and, unfortunately, too many newsrooms. howard: yeah. in fact, a new york times writer just resign after publicly embracing hamas. if top hamas official in a lend news tv the interview said they would do to israel again what they did on october 7th again and again. and then asked by the anchor if his goal was israel's annihilation, he said, yes, of course. so how do you, you know, people say israel should have a ceasefire, israel should negotiate. how do you negotiate with a terrorist group that has that a view of, you know, you don't
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have a right to exist? >> howie, there's no negotiating with hamas. hamas must be wiped off the face of the earth for any progress to happen for the palestinian people to begin with. this is a terrorist organization that has put down any semblance of free elections, they don't represent the majority of palestinians in the gaza strait. i'm hopeful, i saw the secretary of state over in the region, he was many jordan talking with the palestinian authority the in the west bank. i think we need to wipe hamas off the face of the earth and pivot back to actual conversations of a two-state solution where these people live many freedom and security with hamas off the map. howard: when a blood thirsty russian mob went searching for jews in an a airport where they clearly wanted to kill that just landed from tel aviv,-the associated press headline: crowd storms russian airport to protest flight of israel. protest? seriously? it was later changed -- >> but it was a very specific word that also starts with a p, pogrom. they're going after jews for
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their earth misty and religion, it's very scary to see, and covering it clearly is necessary. howard: yeah. but you made an interesting point about, you know, we all know about the news cycle and it moves on and what's the latest news and what happened yesterday. by way, for the first time yesterday there were a few reporters met into gaza with the israeli military including our trey yingst who will be on the program a little later. so you're sort of fighting against a lot of the instincts of the news business, and then, you know, there are also people in this business, the opinion business, who as mary katherine said, put israel in the role of oppressor leaving out facts that israel withdrew from gaza in 2005 and left it for them to run. and you can see they put lots of money into rockets rather hand helping their own people. >> 100%. and trey has been, obviously, excellent on the ground, incredible reporting. one of the things he has said, this idea of fog of war, that we are allowing to -- allowed to get things wrong, that we're
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allowed to manipulate coverage because of the fog of war. and trey has effectively spoken against that. we need to get the facts right on the ground. that's sometimes difficult, obviously, with a leadership in gaza that doesn't allow free are press, free exchange, free coverage. howard: right. and we saw the wolf blitzer exchange that, yes, israel was targeting hamas which embeds itself under hospitals, even used the ambulances for their wounded soldiers, the second part of that often gets lost. a lot of people see here, maybe selectively, israel dropped the bomb, and there were civilian casualties. >> i think we have to be grown-ups about what war looks like, because everyone can make the point that civilian loss of life is tragedy thetic, but hiding behind civilians is itself a war crime. civilian targets exclusively as hamas does are war crimes. and they have to defend themselves against this. what reporters should can ask
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themselves, do you care about civilian life and war crimes only when israel one that you can blame, or do you care about hem when hamas is making this problem both for israel and their own people repeatedly? howard: ahead, hunter biden says his prosecution is unfair because he was an addict. but when we come back, covering the the rising scourge of anti-semitism right here in our country. ♪ my brain. so i choose new neuriva ultra. unlike some others, it supports 7 brain health indicators, including mental alertness from one serving. to help keep me sharp. try new neuriva ultra. think bigger. dry skin is sensitive skin, too. and it's natural. treat it that way with aveeno® daily moisture. formulated with nourishing, prebiotic oat. it's clinically proven to moisturize dry skin for 24 hours. aveeno® >> tech: cracked windshield on your new car? bring it to safelite. my customer was enjoying her new car,
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howe the surge in anti-semitism here and around the world is frightening and heartbreaking. cornell university student charged with threatening to the slit the throats of vews at the school, a star of david being painted on homes where jews live. that russian airport mob hunting down jews who just landed from
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tel aviv. christopher wray testifieses he's worried about a major attack by foreign or domestic terrorists. >> i will say that this is a threat that is reaching in some ways sort of historic levels. in part because, as you know all too well, the jewish community is targeted by terrorists really across the spectrum. howard: protesters covered in fake blood disrupted another hearing when secretary of state blinken was testifying. >> ceasefire now! save the children of gaza! e. >> not in the face of intensifying competition concern. >> -- the u.s. is supporting a brute almas kerr, shame on you! howard: the rapidly rising surge in anti-semitism here where with jews are just 2 of the country, i don't think you have to be -- 2% of the country, i don't think you have to be jewish to be disgusted by what is going on. >> no, and it can be uncomfortable if part of your
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coalition -- look, it happens on both sides, they can find common cause, white nationalists and those who are pro-hamas and pro-palestinian crowd, it becomes uncomfortable to criticize that because it's like, oh, this was my place, and now i feel politically homeless, and this is going to make things uncomfortable for me. it has to be done because much of this is so beyond the pale. and, yes, some of it's free expression, and i want the allow for that finish. howard: peaceful protests, absolutely fine. >> credible threats, violence, shutting down other people's speech, these things should be punished particularly on campus where it's the out of hand. howard: right. particularly on campus, but it has spread far beyond with these major demonstrations. kevin, when you have the fbi head saying he peers a large attack against -- fears a large attack against jews, he shows it's not just hype. >> especially to your point on college campuses, the city scares -- squares, it's been fueling so much of this
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menialty.. responsible for 60% of the religious-based threats in this country. 2% to 60%. threats of anti-semitism is up 400% just in the last year. last weekend we marked five years since the tree of life massacre where 11 jews were slaughtered in their congregation, so this has always been a common thread in this country and around the world, but certainly the coverage has fueled a lot of what we're seeing in terms of that rise. howard: yeah. anti-semitism is not new, but it has been dormant at times or lower level, and now it's just exploding. i think what's particularly appalling is that many of the people cheering on hamas are left-wing professors at schools, intellectuals, pundits, and hay seem absolutely fine to ignore or not even try to defend the atrocities we talked about committed by hamas that is that righted this war. >> right. -- that started the war. right. it feels they're patting themselves on the back for being
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humanitarians while not condemning the death of some 1500 innocent civilians, many of them children, old ladies. it's insane to sort of bypass that. howard: unthinkable. >> and that is because of this sort of oppression sor -- oppressor/oppressed ideology that gives them license to feel like they're the good guy while doing so, and that is a poisonous ideology that's desperate not just to the humanitarian teachers and professors, but down to students as well. and you see it on these campuses. howard: yeah e. starting with harvard and a lot of other campuses. let's take a look at "the new york post" cover from the other day, not a shred of decency. that's it, drop the banner. i think, kevin, our colleague, guy benson, writes that he is seething with rage when pro-hamas protesters rip down posters put up with pictures of israeli and some american hostages. even when they're called out on video, they're not embarrassed by it. i'm sorry, how sick do you have
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to be to do that? >> they're tearing down posters of young israeli babies off the streets. if there's one maybe good thing to come out of this, it's to see ordinary new yorkers confronting these individuals, right? not giving them license to do it, putting a face and an image in these videos, confronting these folks that aren't even jewish that stand with their jewish brothers and sisters against this kind of intolerance that we're seeing play out with these people taking down posters. >> we saw the construction worker, i believe, who spoke -- >> talk about a typical new yorker a too. >> you know what was fantastic about it, including the the profanity? he gave an explanation of how free speech is supposed to work which is he said you're welcome to the put up your own posters, and i'll disagree with them, but you're not allowed to take them down. that's not part of the deal in america. and i loved that. and we could sort of sanction people accordingly, we'd be in a better place. howard: i want to be fair here. s fine to say the palestinians are getting a raw deal in gaza.
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it is also fine to grieve for innocent palestinian families who are caught in the crossfire. not deliberately, but when you drop a lot of bombs, that's what happens. but then you cross over into this tearing down the posters, hatred of israel, blaming israel for everything even though israel did not start this war. >> i truly have trouble understanding it. what is the viewpoint being expressed here that you don't think these people exist? you don't think -- they're sort of inconvenient facts to you? they're children. they've been there a month now. st it's horrifying. >> and you do have a lot of palestinians that left their home. so i do want to balance this a little bit. but we can't forget how this war started, what atrocities, you know, and we keep repeating it, maybe you get numb to it. but what horrifying atrocities, very old people, very young kids and babies that hamas committed. that's what started this war. and i always think it's it's fair to point that out. mary katharine ham, kevin
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walling, thank you for being here. up next, hunter biden writes that he's the target of a vile misinformation campaign, but is that true? ♪ ♪ i hope you all like potatoes... these are fresh from my garden. what? is your... garden in idaho? no, it's in my backyard. ahhhh! always look for the grown in idaho seal.
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eventual case were the court of public opinion, i suppose if it might have some benefit for him. you know, the problem he has is that as far as a legal defense is concerned, it collides with his other argument which is that the reason that the biden family reeled in millions and millions of dollars from these foreign beneficiaries -- men it can to haves, i should say concern benefactors, i should say, is because he was a a high-level, quail-educated lawyer. yale-educated lawyer. so it kind of runs into his other defense which is that he was so addled by drugs, he congress function. and when -- he couldn't function. and when you get into a courtroom and you try to make that work, it just won't. howard: right. and, you know, look, of course the media are covering a criminal case against him. there's no choice there. right now you just have the
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lying to buy a gun charge, maybe more charges to follow. >> right. howard: but he's the president's son, he gets all this attention. i get that he's pushing back. but saying that i was an addict, i'm not now, as you say, is not a legal defense. >> yeah. and, howie, you mentioned lying to buy a gun. let's remember what he was lying ab, right? he was -- about, he was lying about his use of cocaine. howard: yeah. >> so it's kind of an unavoidable fact that if you're going to prove that case, you have to get into his addiction. but his claim that, you know, the criticism of him is over addiction and his attempt to make himself an avatar for addicts everywhere when, in point of fact, the cases against him or the investigations against him are about political corruption and lying to conceal his addiction. i just don't think this gets him very far. howard: given that president biden is facing a house impeachment inquiry, and i know you've written about whether it
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was repaint of a loan or not, did it come from -- repayment of a loan or not, does this kind of op-ed, count it hurt his father by bringing back attention and making hunter biden a news story for the press? >> well, i think what they've calculated, howie, is that he's already a story and that they have to spin it some way. at this point it's unavoidable, and so they want to make it a sympathy story. howard: i guess that's why you write an op-ed for "usa today". we're happy to have you pick this apart for us. andy mccarthy, thank you for joining us. next on "mediabuzz," we go to the israel for the latest on the war against hamas, and trey trey yingsting who is just back from gaza. he'll report many a moment. ♪ [car doo r slam] [camera shutter sfx] introducing ned's plaque psoriasis. [camera shutter sfx] he thinks his flaky, red patches are all people see.
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gunfire in the distance. the israelis are trying to the engage anyone who tries to ambush their forces, and the battle is street by street. it is urban guerrilla warfare as hamas is popping out of tunnels and ambushing israeli troops. howard: joining us now is fox's trey yingst. give me the big picture, what insight died did you gain from from actually being able to go to gaza, and were you able to do the independent reporting despite the military escort? >> reporter: yeah, hey i howie, or it's a great question. and this was an opportunity we've been pushing for since the war began 30 days ago, trying to get access into the gaza strip to the see what it looks like and what the operations and the battles are like. they're ongoing even at this hour. we've been listening as the israelis launch new airstrikes existence gaza. but inside to you really got a sense of just how dangers the for the israeli forces. we took an armored personnel carrier with the israelis as they went to the a house they'd taken over, and on the way there, you could see on the
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faces of the soldiers the concern and the fear. we've seen the videos and the understanding that hamas and islamic jihad have anti-tank guided missiles and rpgs, and they've been targeting these convoys of soldiers going into gaza. so those moments in the convoy were probably the most intense, and it was the about 15-20 the minutes on the way in and again on the way out. we went more than a mile into the gaza a strip. and when we arrived, we were at a house. and within seconds of getting out of the apc, two bullets whizzed past, and the israelis were engaged in a new gun battle with hamas militants. i took away two major insites, one has to do with just how dangerous it is for the israeli forces, and the second is just how deep into gaza the israelis are, howie? howe to howe do israelis, not to mention israeli officials, recognize that especially with the bombing of the refugee camp and the ambulance convoy, and i know israel says that, you know,
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these are targeting hamas terrorists who embed in those the areas, but the world opinion and media opinion is growing increasingly critical. >> reporter: they're certainly aware of that,s and these are questions we still have to the ask the israelis even when we are embed with their forces. behind me, you can see the airstrikes continue against northern part of the gaza strip, but in terms of our embed with the israelis, all of the interviews we do in the video has to go through the israeli censor, and the censor will argue back and forth is and say it gives away too much military positions, and part of our work is fighting against that. we will not budge an inch when it comes to editorial. we have to be 100% free to report what we we see. we're only able to have the conversations when it comes to sensitive information that could lead to the deaths or injuries of israeli soldiers. and so we had a lot of back and forth with the israelis when we actually came out of gaza, and is we had to push hem and say,
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look, this information needs to get out as it is. we also had to ask questions about the rising civilian casualty rate inside gaza. howard: right. well, of course there are going to be some security restrictions as there would be if you were with american troops, and finally we are getting a firsthand report from you and others about gaza. you told axios about the war coverage generally that there's certain things we don't talk about. what were you alluding to? >> reporter: just how gruesome the details of this conflict truly are. there are things that we will not show on tv because they are too graphic. even descriptions of what was done to the israelis during the october 7th massacre just, we can't talk about them on tv because her so graphic. and it's important -- they are so graphic. and it's important for there to be a record of these atrocities committed against the civilian population, but in terms of showing people, it can be a graphic and a traumatic experience just to even hear about what happened here on the ground. howard: right.
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we talked about the smell of death, which really got to me. let's show a brief clip of you covering when you were back in israel kind of a dicey moment. [background sounds] >> reporter: guys, we're just -- we can hear a direct impact, a rocket just slammed into the building right next to where we're at. howard: even by war time standards, this is a really dangerous assignment, as i don't have to tell you. how do you cope with that? >> reporter: it's incred by dangerous. and the place we're standing right now along the israel-gaza border, howie, we have ant 10 seconds to get to shelter when incoming fire happens. and you saw in that video the aftermath of a direct hit next to a kindergarten here in southern israel. we quickly got to cover. within seconds, a huge explosion rocked the outside. you could feel the ground shaking, and it was a miracle that no journalists were injured or killed. there were dozens in this area overlooking the gaza strip. we just have to have a plan, and
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we have a very clean plan. we also have a security team member with us. we have our flak jackets, and we even have an armored vehicle so that we can use the resources to insure that we can cover the story but do it in a safe way because if we're injured or killed, we similar many cannot bring this news to -- simply cannot bring this news to our viewers. howard: i admire the courageous reporting you and others are doing. you're working around the clock, especially with the time difference. do you get tired? >> reporter: i'm tired every day, howie -- [laughter] but i peel a massive responsibility to be here. and so i'm getting up the past 30 days we have on tv live each and every day blinging the latest -- bringing the latest developments to the our audience so they can get a clear picture of what's taking place here many israel. howard: right, it's a great service. stay safe, trey yingst. thank you. ahead, the beatles' final song 60 years later. but after the break, donald trump tells a new york judge to leave my kids alone as his adult
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aspen dental. book today. howe donald trump in a 2 a.m. truth social post denounced the new york judge hearing the civil fraud charges against him and his company, leave my children alone. you're a disgrace to the legal profession. but don jr. and eric trump did testify. >> -- attempt to get trump, the
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attorney general can try to, i guess, make more millions for the biggest banking institutions in the world before even having a day in court, i'm apparently guilty of fraud for relying on my accountant to do, wait for it, accounting. howard: their father is slated to take the stand tomorrow. that might attract some media coverage. joining us now, griff jenkins, fox news anchor and correspondent. donald trump jr., who was once on this program, has his father's pugilistic style, as we can see -- [laughter] and he says, look, i may have signed some papers, but i relied on the accountantses. >> first, let's start with the fact that in the any other news cycle, howie, this would be all anyone was talking about -- howard: yes, absolutely. >> this is the first time we will see former president donald trump take stand in one of his five trials, this is the civil trial brought by new york's attorney general letitia james, the other four are criminal
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indictments. howard: yes. >> so you're going to see probably a lot tomorrow of what you saw from don jr., which is the pugilistic. donald trump is going to take the stand in a trial where there is no jury sitting next to a judge who has slapped a gag order on him already and which in that statement you read he also went on to call this judge a developer-hating judge. howard: right. >> so we're in unchart territory for what's coming tomorrow, and it's interesting, we obviously won't be able to see it, but we'll get readouts, and right afterwards the former president will take to the microphone outside the court tohouse and talk about what he said. howard: i would bet 100% of my money on that. knowledgeable source tells me that trump's lawyers are seriously considering making a motion for a mistrial because the judge's law clerk, allison greenfield, keeps whispering to him and that's very unusual during a trial, but secondly,
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she's donated more than $3,000 to democrats just last year alone, and the limit for court staff is supposed to be $500. is that a legitimate beef? and secondly, is it wise for the former president to keep denouncing the judge? >> well, i'm not a lawyer, so i won't weigh into the merits of it. however, we have seen, obviously, the center of this case reinvolves around the accusation -- revolves around the accusation of falsifying business records. and this judge, by the way, has shown that he's favorable to some findings of the attorney general, letitia james, of which trump has called a racist. but i think the case you're going to see being made that's the loudest is, in this, you know, frivolous case argument that this is a total waste of new york taxpayers' collars going after -- dollars going after nothing and, of course, the former president, i am sure, will say that actually mar-a-lago and other properties are actually way more valuable than they were stated. howard: yes. >> we'll see where it goes.
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howard: right. >> one thing is for sure, it's going to be -- howard: it's like the super bowl for people who always wanted to see donald trump testify even though there won't be cameras. and, you know, he's made some of these outers in the press, now he gets to make it at his own trial. -- trial. a huge amount of money at stake, but could this also target the successful businessman brand that basically helped donald trump win the presidency the first time? >> exactly. it goes after thing that matters most to the donald trump, which is the appearance of his incredible business acumen, the ability to the, you know, turn mar-a-lago into palm beach's signature estate. howard: [inaudible] >> goes after his ego, if you will. however, the other side of this slope is that the rigged, everything's rigged against me, this is rigged, they're always going after me, if they do, if trump's legal team can prove that this was really brought against him because of who he i-
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howard: yeah. >> -- and no other businessman would be sitting in court over these frivolous claims, then it's going to play to accusation that the machine, the lee tissue that shah james is rigged coming after him, and that's the theirive he wants in this election cycle, they're out get me. howard: unlike in the conviction of sam bankman freed who looted about $10 billion, donald trump says nobody lost money. okay, so there is an effort, donald trump, in fact, had a suit in michigan trying to kick him off the ballot citing the 14th amendment, anyone who engaged in insurrection and rebellion and took an oath to uphold the constitution can't be on ballot. similar cases in colorado. basically activist democrats in blue states. this strikes me as an absolutely awful idea. and what -- how infuriated would half the country be if the
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person they want to vote for isn't allowed to be on the ballot in some states? >> they'll be furious, howie. and, by the way, half the country or more is now going to get an education on section three, the clause in the 14th amendment, that bars anyone from holding -- howard: let me jump in because i want to play the former president's response on this very thing. >> if crooked joe9 and the democrats get away with removing my name from the ballot, then there will never be a free election in america again. we will have become a dictatorship where your president is chosen for you. >> i mean, look, let me just jump in and say, or look, you've got colorado, minnesota and michigan where this is in play. in fact, minnesota's supreme court is starting to hear it. however, if you remove him from the ballot, you're going to see a couple things. one, any of those cases will fast track to the supreme court -- howard: exactly, yeah. >> and number two, in a hypothetical, crazy world where nose states where he wasn't on
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the ballot enough voters wrote him in a write-in candidacy and he won, we'd be right back to the legal challenge because the clause says they can't hold office, not that he can't beon an actual ballot. howard: yeah. and some tv outlets seem to be rooting for -- you know, you don't like donald trump, beat him at the ballot box. thanks so much, griff jenkins. still to come, we'll hear john lennon's voice on the new beatles' song and this short contribution by me. ♪ ♪ alka-seltzer plus powermax gels cold & flu relief with more concentrated power because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz winter warriors with alka-seltzer plus.
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howard: it all started out like this -- ♪ ♪
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howard: and it wound up like this -- ♪ ♪ howard: and now new beatles' music in 2023. piano, a little out of tune. think about it, more than 60 years after the beatles got together, they just put out their final song. and speak as a beatles' a fanatic, it's a major cultural event with a brilliant media buildup, and they couldn't have done it without artificial intelligence. four working class kids from liverpool turned down by every major record label until one took a chance on them, and hay became the datest band in rock history. john lennon and paul mccartney became one of the great song-writing teams in history, and they changed the face of music forever. john was a crusader against the
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vietnam war, give peace a chance, and the nixon white house and and fbi tried to have him deported. but dreams of a beatles reunion were dashed when lennon's life was tragically cut short in 1980. >> when we lost john, we knew that it was really over. >> i was taunting yoko, and she said, oh, i think i've got a tape of john. howard: that ca access provided in the mid 90s included three eleven lennon -- lennon songs. but the quality of the third song was so bad they couldn't salvage it with george calling it blanking rubbish. now more than half a century after hay broke up, now and then is here. the new technology-enabling producers to isolate john's voice in a way that was previously impossible, a voice so achingly familiar. ♪ and if i headache it through -- make it through, it's all because of you ♪
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howard: next, the two surviving beatleings made their contributions starting with paul. >> he put the bass on, i put the drums on. howard: and heres it is, the four of them with a souped-up version of george's guitar the solo. ♪ now and then i miss you. ♪ oh, now and then ♪ howard:st a ballad, not one of john's all-out rockers, but it's a gift. and with paul in -- at 811 and ringo at 83 touring right now, that they continue to give to their fans more than half a century since the beatles broke with up. the excitement is amazing. they have their own station on siriusxm, some of their fans are
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grandchildren of the original fans. you have to admire their dedication to their craft. >> how lucky was i to have those men in my life. howard: how lucky we all were. that's it for this edition of "mediabuzz." i'm howard kurtz. thanks for watching. you can subscribe to media buzz meter, we've had millions of downloads. i riff on the day's top stories. and you've heard me say this before, we're back here next sunday, 11 eastern with the only media analysis show on national television. ♪
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