howard: those media accusations following shifting white house accounts after this presidential interview on nbc -- >> he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. howard: and the president now suggesting he may just do away with white house press briefings. >> first of all, you have a level of hostility that's incredible. and it's very unfair. howard: would that hurt the administration as much as the press corps? plus, jimmy kimmel takes a victory lap over his emotional plea for obamacare. is he now a political partisan? i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ howard: president trump is ratcheting up his rhetoric against the press corps over its saturation coverage and highly controversial coverage of the firing of james comey, telling judge jeanine pirro that he may have a solution for his communications team not being able to keep up with him. >> we don't have press

♪ ♪ howard: we're back live with kellyanne conway in new york. you had a couple of contentious interviews on cnn this week including this moment which went viral with anderson cooper. >> i was on i your show often last fall saying we were going to win duane michigan and how we were going to do it. howard: what did you make of the now-famous eye roll? >> first of all, a lot of folks want things to go viral. they think that's the job of the news media which it's not, of course. you should play the beginning of the clip where he had me sit through president trump, then-candidate trump on the stump in many different places praising jim comey, and it ended with grand rapids, michigan. i turned it around and said, thanks for the trip down memory lane, we loved winning michigan. he rolled his eyes. definitely what i call trumpist, which is many people are treated like house guests and when we go on tv, we're not. and the fact is that it was, you know, we were watching cnn ahead of time,...