fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz shows us what happened. >> reporter:snowden hiding out in russia seemed to be openly collaborating today with vladimir putin. it can hardly be a coincidence that the nsa leaker, a fugitive from american justice, got through on a moscow call-in show and was able to ask effect, whether his government does what the united states does by engaging in massive electronic surveillance. snowden end added his own spin that talk about president obama's program in a negative light. >> they also found they unreasonably intrude into the private lives of ordinary citizens. does russia intercept, store or analyze in any way the communications of millions of individuals? >> reporter: that bit of political theater gave the former kgb officer a chance to score propaganda points. putin boast thad while moscow of course engages in surveillance it is limited and quote strictly regulated by law. >> translator: so our special forces can use special equipment as they intercept phone calls to follow someone online. you have to get court permissio

>> right and i think -- martha: go ahead, katy. >> she did during the interview with howard kurtz shepoint a lot of issues when her stuff was not getting on the air across the spectrum with very serious situations and very serious scandals facing the obama administration, if it was republican president i think we would want to know about it, not to mention under a democratic president. nothing to do with not pinpointing. >> great to talk to you both. >> thanks. >> thank you. bill: beautiful day. final round of the masters in augusta. it was perfect to see a crowd favorite win another green jacket. here it is. >> you can see all -- >> watson wins another green jacket at augusta! bill: a lot of tears coming out of bubba watson winning second masters in three-year-old. his 2-year-old adoptive son congratulating him. how cool is that with the green a gus is a chirt on. -- shirt on. solid most of sunday and celebrated. there is a high-five around the crowd. southern style, they went to waffle house. martha: where else. bill: watson tweeted this picture, with his wife and some friend. calle

i'm howard kurtz. give us a like on our facebook page. check out our home page and follow us on twitter. back here next sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> good morning to you and your family. you're watching "fox & friends" first. >> we do begin with this fox news alert. hate in the heartland. a 73-year-old gunman opens fire outside kansas city, leaving two people dead at a jewish community center and one more at a jewish retirement home. >> kelly wright has the latest on this story for us this morning, including the suspect's ties to the ku klux klan. >> even more disturbing is the possibility, the motive may have been over religion. the alleged shooter was heard yelling hile hitler before opening fire on two jewish communities. glen frazier cross, he also goes by the last name miller, is now in custody.

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like. we post video there and engage in a conversation with you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >> good morning. it is monday april 28th. we begin with a fox news alert. horror for folks in the heartland. just utter devastation as tornadoes demolish entire towns. we have dramatic rescues underway as the new threat is bearing down on the region. maria molina is live there on the ground. >> actress valerie harper sued for getting cancer? the playwright demanding cash in a lawsuit that will make you sick. >> the owner of the clippers caught in a racist rant controversy. >> if you want to broadcast you are associating with black people. >> his players are protesting. can the nba step in? >> i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. thank you for starting your day with us. thousands of people are homeless in america after a killer twister hit the midwest. >> holy. >> oh my gosh. >> at least 16 people are dead in arkansas. crews are search

i'm howard kurtz. give us a like on our facebook page.ut our home page and follow us on twitter. back here next sunday morning at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> fox news alert. a bloody situation now in east ukraine. ukraine's acting president announcing moments ago he plans to launch a, quote, full-scale anti-privity operation with the country's armed forces against pro-russian separatists, vowing not to have a repetition, he says, of the crimean scenario. this comes after a ukrainian special security officer was killed and at least five others were wounded in a gun fight with pro-russian militia in the country's eastern region. hello, everyone. i'm aaron shaun. welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> the timing, today, of eric's killing is getting the world's

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like. video there and engage in a conversation with you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >>> fox news alert for you. good morning. millions of people are now in the path of a massive storm system, and it's making a bee-line for america's heartland. we want you to know about it. it's a line of storms carrying severe weather conditions, damaging wind gusts and destructive hail. not to worry though. we're going to tell you everything you need to know. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm jamie colbi. >> hello, and i'm eric shawn. tornadoes this afternoon are a real possibility in parts of the plains and midwest and, of course, it all adds up to a potentially dangerous day. >> and more now from the weather

i'm howard kurtz. hope you're enjoying your easter sunday.ok page and give us a like. post our original video there and let us know what you think on twitter. we're back here next sunday at 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> fox news alert, on this easter sunday. a new wave of deadly violence in eastern ukraine that is stoking tensions there even further. at least three people are now dead and several others injured after a shootout at a checkpoint that was set up by pro-russian separatists. hello, everyone, and welcome to america's new headquarters. >> thanks for joining us. you have to wonder why this is happening, eric, because this clash seems to be the first since diplomats actually reached an agreement. it happened late last week, and it was supposed to ease all of these tensions. well, now ambassador to the ukraine is casting the blame squarely on kiev. listen. >> unless the

i'm howard kurtz.post plenty of original video and check out our viewers. check out the things you may have missed at foxnews.com/mediabuzz and follow us on twitter as well. we are back here next sunday morning, 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> this hour, there are new signs of hope in the search for flight 370. now a total of three signals have been picked up from the bottom of the indian ocean. the chinese ship detected two of those signals on friday and an australian ship carrying sophisticated deep sea sounding equipment reportedly heard the third signal in a different area yesterday. of course the big question right now, trying to find out if those signals do indeed come from the missing plane's black boxes. hello, everyone, and welcome to "america's news headquarters." >> i think the families are not the only ones hoping that

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like. we post video there and engage in a conversation with you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >>> fox news alert for you. good morning. millions of people are now in the path of a massive storm system, and it's making a bee-line for america's heartland. we want you to know about it. it's a line of storms carrying severe weather conditions, damaging wind gusts and destructive hail. not to worry though. we're going to tell you everything you need to know. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm jamie colbi. >> hello, and i'm eric shawn. tornadoes this afternoon are a real possibility in parts of the plains and midwest and, of course, it all adds up to a potentially dangerous day. >> and more now from the weather center. what should people be looking out for? >> on an average year we would have had 374 tornadoes by now, only 120. so the slowest start to a tornado season. that likely to change today and also very heavy rain with all of th

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"mediabuzz" with howard kurtz begins right now.a great easter. >>> on the buzz meeter this sunday, the finger pointing is getting ugly. conservative commentators accusing barack obama and eric holder of exploiting race to their advantage. >> but to those two men, race has been a shield and a sword that they've used effectively to defend themselves and to attack others. >> and today the right wing media is proving the point, one side accuses the attorney general of, quote, playing the race card. fox news accused him of playing the victim and whining about how he's treated. >> are the media

howard kurtz is in new york tonight. good evening.rage are these things getting in national news outlets? >> with a few exceptions, usa today, cbs this morning, the mainstream media has largely run away from this story. i believe they have made a collective judgment that this is old news, that the country has ved these are inemta developments. also because fox has covered this story aggressively, i think there's a view in much of the media this is just another fox story and then therefore somehow less important. boy, you look at that white house briefing today, there were a lot of networks and even "new york times" engaged in this questioning today. >> yeah. abc jonathan gull aasking questions as well. >> tell us about this. >> this is fascinating, ap reporter matthew lee in change with a state department spokesman. i know it is bs and this is killing you guys. been watching fox news toght and the amount of misand disinformation including repeated references to this guardian story is frankly shocking. he was not slamming fox. >> that

howard courteous with -- what howard kurtz is saying. >> it's a highly emotional inflammatory debate surrounding a tech executive many people have not heard of it. when eich donated to prop 8. >> when you have a hollow can you say designer. -- other gay comment taters like former comment tate tore andrew sullivan accused his side of bullying and intimidation. some liberals agreed that say hounding a man out of a job for taking the same position that broek barack obama and hillary clinton held in 2008. >> there is political fastism. >> we have to be very careful we're not practicing a new mckarthism. >> what about the -- the network couldn't find a -- deep on a inside page. while the new york times gave the story front page prominence, usa today stuck ton the business page with no hint of criticism of the company's move. now there's an online backlash which some say they are deleting the company's fire fox browser. public attitudes are clearing in shifting in favor of same-sex marriage. consider this, if a conservative company would have pushed out ceo for supporting gay marriage, the

howard kurtz takes a look. >> mark and i are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year. >> it's a feel good story of course involving a woman who grew up in the white house and whose mother may try to move back. >> we learned hillary clinton is going to be a grandmother. >> but the blessed event is already be likened to a rather celebrated birth in britain. >> move over george. >> some of the punditry borders on parody. as far as sympathetic roles go, it doesn't get much better than that. apparently nancy pelosi whose grandchildren surrounded her when she became the first woman to run the house is just old news. "the new york times" asked so seriously does the word grandmother connote authority, durability, wisdom or a less flattering set of associations? >> instead of hugging and kissing strangers babies, she will have one of her own. >> there's even some chatter that chelsea and her husband timed the pregnancy to help her mother or at least it's an awfully nice coincidence. >> hillary clinton will have a bouncing toddler in her arms. >> it was a minor blip i

." >> i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> it began as an online protest that erupted into a huge debate about toll the rans and same-sex marriage. the ceo of mozilla was forced out of the tech company that makes the firefox browser because he donated $ 5,000 six years ago to a cause to ban gay marriage. some took to twitter to demand his resignation. these reports does not describe his ouster as any kind of outrage. now there's an angry backlash over what the company did. joining us now, lauren ashburn, fox news contributor host social buzz. john arab is on as, and amy holmes who anchors the hot list at "the wlblaze." what's been the tone on twitter? >> it's been a virtual earthquake. i think a lot of people on the right are saying the company has been intoll rapt. here is one tweet. mozilla has proved today they are the true biggest. i'm done with firefox. i wrote a twitter talk column right after this happened and most of the tweets were saying people were taking firefox off their computer right away. however, there are employees from mozilla and others like cathy mcdaniel

this is "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz. >> president obama was giving praise to kathleen sebelius at t ceremony for her december parture but the white house wanted her out after politicians were calling for her to be fired, the administration, worked hard to stage manage the expert with expert handling of the media. >> she has symbolized, and personified the catastrophic disaster that oh -- obamacare has been. >> now she impose? because the administration cannot resist stepping on its tail and turning the first good news cycle into a story about firing people about the failures? >> we have fox news contributor who hosted "social buzz," and fox news contributor and former bush administration spokesman and syndicated radio host. >> "new york times" get as leak late in the day and posts the story. walk us through the spin the. >> gets the leak late in the day. this is the swan sing that the white house was able to put out to the "new york times" for sebelius calling her a fierce advocate and fearless and said she was tenacious, so "new york times" article had all of these wonderful t

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like.you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. at noon e tomorrow. >>> chris wallace. does a supreme court decision upholding race-based college admissions mark the beginning of the end for affirmative action? >> today this ruling say wonderful victory for the voters of michigan. >> with similar bans in several other states, what does it mean for creating diverse student bodies in our nation's public universities? jennifer rejection by the university of michigan inspired the case. debates of a rights attorney shanta driver who argued for affirmative action before the supreme court. then republican presidential hopefuls court pro-gun advocates. >> th

jenna: here with a look at how the media's covering system of the top stories, howard kurtz, host ofenna. jenna: so what's going on? there's a lot to choose from. [laughter] >> there sure is. we're going to lead with kathleen sebelius' resignation, and this was orchestrated like a symphony. "the new york times" reported late yesterday she wasn't force toed out -- that would seem heavy-handed, of course d but there was frustration at the white house over her performance, and at the time that administration aides worried that the crippling problems at health healthcare.gd damage the president's legacy. even sebelius he's interviewed says she hopes all the animosity will leave with her as if this was all about one cabinet member as opposed to problems with the law itself. jenna: you probably saw the president speaking about kathleen sebelius, there was a definite tone to that press conference, howard. do you think that tone will be successful in being carried over and the kind of juke lance, the celebration, if you will, that today had over kathleen sebelius' job and over what's to come

checking in with howard kurtz. what are you working on? >> hi marks rhea. we're examining the media uproar over tech company mozilla pushing out its ceo because he's opposed to same-sex marriage and obamacare, the upbeat coverage in the press over the 7 million signups. don't you think it's a bit early to be declaring this a success? >> yeah. only because i feel there are so many people who lost their coverage. i think there are people -- 6 million people who lost their coverage and thern when you get this 7 million number you think, wow, but we're not accounting for the people who lost coverage initially. >> and we don't know how many of those people have paid. we're moving into a more complicated phase, as we'll examine, which is this law going to help get health care costs down, which was the original promise as we move away from the numbers game of how many people sign up. we'll see how it actually works. >> the million dollar question, getting the health care costs lower. we'll see you in about 20 minutes. thank you so much. big news about your 401(k).

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page and give us a like. we post video there and engage in a conversation with you. we're back here next sunday morning, 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. at noon e tomorrow. >>> chris wallace. does a supreme court decision upholding race-based college admissions mark the beginning of the end for affirmative action? >> today this ruling say wonderful victory for the voters of michigan. >> with similar bans in several other states, what does it mean for creating diverse student bodies in our nation's public universities? jennifer rejection by the university of michigan inspired the case. debates of a rights attorney shanta driver who argued for affirmative action before the supreme court. then republican presidential hopefuls court pro-gun advocates. >> the safety of our families is not something that people should be forced to hope government can provide. >> we cannot let them win. we cannot let them change who america is. >> firearms in the hands of law-abiding citizens. don't threaten our familie

. >> now, back to "media buzz," with howard kurtz. >> anyone who wants "the five" knows that bob beckeltnumbered on the show. i spoke with him in new york. >> welcome. i can't help but notice your happened is bandaged. did you get head up and take a swing? >> someone gave me heat. i got a disloathed finger. a jerk outside talking about my politics, can not stand it, so i have that all the time but he pushed me and pushed me and pushed me so i gave him a tap. that was it. i dislocated my fingers. i am too old for this. no good. >> do you get a lot of heat on e-mail because obviously "five" is four against one. >> i get used to being outnumbered. i have a thick design. i get a thousand comments a week saying, you commie, b...and i answer back, thank you, did your father marry your cousin or your mother marry your cousin? >> saying you my favorite liberal is not a compliment but what makes the show work we have good comb city and we don't carry it off the set or scream at each other. it is not crossfire format, and people are tired of that. they want to hear people differ but they don't wa

bottom line here is, folk, that i think that bill owe rewe o're can fix all of this, bring howard kurtz back on the air and explain one more time what the rules are about political money for people on fox news, because, gosh, after the way they ripped into me i'm foggy about this whole thing. i do own my own radio show. i do sell advertising on my website and no one tells me what to say. the unions are for the keystone pipeline. i am adamantly opposed to it. now, the other thing that i think is also very interesting is that the republicans and righties, they always say this is the free market. well, we're finding out now think is the paid for market. the stories do connect. you will not hear any of these right wing talkers on the take, be honest brokers and admit that 8 million people that signed up for obamacare is one heck of a number in six months. they wanted it to fail from day one because the people that are lining their pockets want it to fail. but it isn't going to happen. get your cell phone outs. i want to know ha you think. are conservative talkers on the take? i love that qu

howard kurtz is here. nice to see you. what does he say? seven million. we reached the goal. a party. >> he is going to declare victory and having come out earlier in the process to talk about how badly the website was botched the president wants to make himself feel good and he wants to be part of the evening news. >> you can say seven million. but how many didn't have insurance before? >> we don't know the answer to that or who have paid. but i think we have to say if we had known six months ago with the problems that the white house reached something close to seven million we would say they made progress. the more complicated thing now is does this work? will people pay higher premiums? and what about lowering the cost of health care. >> important story on the news. gm recalling more calls and a big hearing on the hill today. cbs led with that and nbc led with the un on climate change. this was on march 31st, the deadline for the health care exchanges. >> kathleen sebelius, she did a round-robin with a bunch of local station and one of was oklahoma city and this is what ha

howard kurtz, you say the media won't take no for an answer?> it is entertaining to watch and press at its absolute worse, jenna. again and again elizabeth warren is asked, are you running, thinking about running, might you run. she says no. if you get pundits and take the words and hold them up to the light and leave reading them backwards she is leaving the door ajar. the media are bored with hillary. looks like she will sail unopposed to nomination if she runs. almost like we're trying to coax elizabeth warren into the race to give us something to write about. jenna: reality show drama, if you will between these two women. what if it turns out if she runs. will you look at the press all along they were right foreasking. >> i'm not certainly saying politicians always tell the truth in this situation. for example, barack obama as i recall told the late tim russert that he would not run for president in 2008. so i don't blame the press for being cynical. i think there is an effort here to gin up something that isn't there. if it turns out i'm w

howard kurtz is a fox news analyst, the perfect guy to ask about this. what do you think about this answer that the toughest interview the president faced was from jon stewart? >> it was, obviously, zack galifianakis who really grilled the president. [laughter] look, if jay carney thinks that was an interrogation, he seems a little disconnected. but to the extent -- and without taking away from jon stewart's interviewing skills because he does have a way of eliciting information, those are basically friendly encounters. and if that was the president's toughest interview, then it says something about the white house strategy of putting him on more often with not just zack, but ellen degeneres, espn, "the view" as opposed to more tough-minded journalists. he did sit down this week with cbs' major garrett, but those tend to be shorter in tour ration. -- duration. jenna: jay carney was speaking with major garrett at the time, and one wonders what it does say specifically not only about the white house strategy, but just about how the white house views the med