"mediabuzz" with howard kurtz is next. have a great mother's day. >>> on the buzz meter this sunday, monica lewinsky, breaking her silence in "vanity fair," saying that the media along with bill clinton's as and a special prosecutor maid her a scapegoat in the impeachment scandal. why is the press still treating her as a laughing stock when clinton is portrayed as a global startsman? >> getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. i needed to take care of myself and my family. no one else was worried about me. >> is it time, 16 years later, for the pundits to cut her some slack? will lewinsky's re-emergence affect the coverage of hillary clinton. >>> plus, a new report suggests lara logan may never return to "60 minutes" after her botched benghazi story pill would that punishment be too harsh? i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." everyone has something to say about monica, the young woman at the center of the white house sex scandal 16 years ago has rekindled the cultural and political debate with an e

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page, post video there and we answer your questions.e're back next sunday morning. set your dvr, 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >> it is monday may 5th. acrobats fall hundreds of feet to the ground in front of horrified families at the circus. how did this happen. >> a select committee is now set to investigate benghazi. we are live in washington with what's happening today. >> olympic snowboarder shaun white crashes the prom. >> he was like guys, shaun white stole my prom date. >> this girl will never forget her prom night. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ >> it is may 5th, cinco de mayo. welcome to "fox & friends first" this monday morning. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. we begin with chaos at the circus. a terrifying turn acrobats plummet nearly 40 feet to the ground. >> safety inspectors at rhode island are looking for clues as to what went wrong here. kelly wright is live in the newsroom with the latest. i can't image seeing that in person. it's horrifying. >> it was supposed to be

that is it for "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz, happy mother's day.k page where we post the video. we are back here on sunday at 11:00 and 5:00 eastern with the latest buzz. >> i am chris wallace, an international effort to free hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls kidnaped by islamic extremists. protesters take to the streets. and the internet. they are expressing outrage over the abduction. as the world rallies, what should the united states do? >> there is no question we are racing against the clock here. they have been gone for a long-term. >> we will sit down with former united states ambassador to nigeriania and the cofounder of the fund. >> house republicans named members of the select committee to investigate benghazi but will

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i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." from the moment that tmz posted the audio tape of donald sterling telling his pal not to be seen in public with blacks, the combination of race and sports proved explosive. >> donald sterling going on a racist tirade. >> donald sterling. >> l.a. clippers, donald sterling. >> the anchors were joined by famous faces from nba history who rallied against the owner of the l.a. clippers. >> it is one thing to say something controversial but another thing to say having repugnant. >> we cannot have an nan owner discriminating again a black lead. >> he should not own a team and should stand up and say i don't want to own a team. >> we don't want donald sterling the face of the nba. >> donald sterling backed out of discussions to lead on "20/20." leaving v. stiviano to talk about their relationship. what you is the misconception about you? >> i am a mistress or who are -- whore, speculation of not real journalists not doing their job and asking the wrong people information about me that they do

i'm howard kurtz. check out our facebook page, post video there and we answer your questions. next sunday morning. set your dvr, 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >>> and we start with a fox news alert. republican lawmakers now digging for answers on benghazi. this while democrats this morning are pushing back, adding fresh momentum to the growing scandal, those newly released e-mails raising more questions about the white house's response to the terror attack. hello, everyone, welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. >> good to see you this sunday morning. house speaker john boehner calling for a select committee to investigate how the white house responded to the attack that left four americans dead, but a democratic member of the house intelligence committee is dismissing the new revelations today, calling speaker boehner's committee a waste of time and

send me a tweet @howard kurtz. did karl rove cross the >>> karl roev touched off a media furor this week when he questioned the extent of hillary clinton injuries, even suggesting she might have suffered brain damage. >> i didn't say she had brain damage. she had a serious health episode. i mean, she basically is out of action from -- she's in and out of the office for starting on the 7th of december after she returns, she returns on a friday from the czech republic, then it becomes over a month long period where she's got a serious illness, ending up in the hospital, we don't know what the doctor says," said what she's got to be concerned about. she's hidden a lot. >> rove's detractors pounced on his remarks. >> with shocking comments from karl roev -- >> this vicious assault by karl roev. >> i think this is the worst kind the republican consultant behavior this kind of personal negative attack. >> i think what karl did was purposeful and brilliant. >> rick, by and large, karl rove has gotten denounced by this, in

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k" i'm howard kurtz. we're back here next week with your latest buzz. >>> well, are they in or out? we're waiting to find out if democrats will participate in the new select committee investigating the attack in benghazi. let's take a live look at capitol hill. that's where speaker john boehner, well, he's named the republican lawmakers now who will serve on that special panel, but at this moment it is not yet clear if democrats will even take part or if they will boycott that panel all together. hello, everyone. happy mother's day. welcome to america's news headquarters. i'm eric shawn. >> agreat to see you here. trey gowdy was joined as the benghazi special committee chairman and he's shooting down fears that the investigation into the deadly attack will not be bipartisan. >> i have no friends to reward and no foes to punish. we're going to go wherever the facts take us. facts are neither republican nor democrat. they are facts, and if we overplay other hand or engage in a process that's not fair according to the american people, we will be punished. >> i hope trey is going to sta

"mediabuzz" with howard kurtz is next.at mother's day. >>> on the buzz meter this sunday, monica lewinsky, breaking her silence in "vanity fair," saying that the media along with bill clinton's as and a special prosecutor maid her a scapegoat in the impeachment scandal. why is the press still treating her as a laughing stock when clinton is portrayed as a global startsman? >> getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. i needed to take care of myself and my family. no one else was worried about me. >> is it time, 16 years later, for the pundits to cut her some slack? will lewinsky's re-emergence affect the

i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." >>> the story began in april with a local news report about problems at the va hospital in phoenix. it went national two weeks later with this investigative report about the phoenix facility on cnn. >> a doctor who's left the hospital says that managers were actually keeping two waiting lists -- a sham list that made the hospital look like a model of efficiency and a secret list that showed the deadly reality. >> it took more than two weeks before the network evening newscasts latched on to this story. >> now we turn to the growing national outrage about what has happened to american veterans inside va hospitals. >> critics say backlogs are spread across the country and the va has been covering up the problem. >> not until the last few days has the media's coverage reached white hot intensity with some pundits and politicians calling for veterans secretary eric shinseki to resign. >> the white house knew. now, the "washington times" is reporting that the obama administration was notified about scheduling problems and delayed care at multiple v

howard kurtz is hear to tell us why now carney? >> it's fitting that carney is stepping down after being battered for days over the v.a. scandal and the benghazi emails before that, and the obamacare debacle before that, because his usefulness was coming to an end. he was so constantly been on the defensive that his ability to put a positive message out for the administration had faded. >> many reporters became to resent jay carney for the way that he accused them of part iship for asking tough questions. jay carney had to defend the indefensible. he had to explain or try to explain the less and less transparency at the white house, barring photographers from important events, and most especially of all, the government surveillance of ap journalists and our own james rosen and leaked investigations that seemed to criminalize reporting. >> well the change in podium will help? >> josh has a softer touch. even the great press secretary hes over the years can't work miracles when the news is mostly bad. >>> hillary clinton is launching

this is "media buzz," and i am howard kurtz. st in >> the story began with a local news reporter on problems at the v.a. hospital in phoenix and went national with this investigation about the phoenix amount on cnn. >> a doctor who left the hospital said that managers were actually keeping two waitingists: a sham list so they looks like a model of efficiency and a secret list that shows the reality that was deadly. >> it took two weeks best networks lasted on. >> new we turn to the growing national outrage of what happens to american veterans inside v.a. hospitals. >> critics say backlogs are spread across the country and the v.a. has been covering up the problem. >> only in the last few days did it reach intensity with pundits and politics calling for the veteran secretary shinseki to resign. >>the white house knew. the washington times is saying the obama administration was notified about scheduling problems and delayed care at multiple veterans affairs hop more than five years ago. >> if the allegations are true, it is dishon

howard kurtz is here to talk about a big fuss about a big change. why is executive editor jill a bram son's firing w. >> a pr nightmare for a paper that always uses his page -- >> was a bramson was she dmifed because of complaining about pay? >> it seems to have been a factor in my view but basically, he was unhappy with her management style, described as brusque and aloof. jill is not a warm and fuzzy character. you have to wonder if there was a double standard. there was -- there was a instagram photo of jill abramson putting on the boxing gloves. >> the new editor is the first african-american editor in the paper's history but all that has been totally overshadowed over the ham fisted handling of jill abramson and the pay discrepancy that accompanied her tenure there. >> how democrats respond in realtime to the house select committee on benghazi. >>> there may be a change in or or politics and -- oregon politics and that has some democrats worried. achieve it. ♪ driving rock/metal music stops ♪music resumes music stops ♪music resumes [announcer]

but howard kurtz spoke exclusively with the actress caught in the crossfire who are fighting back.r from that film "personal best" and she's a big star. she and ed begly junior are the targets in james o'keefe latest offering. how so. >> they told me they were helping out a friend making a documentary by going to lunch at the polo lunch by meeting with a big time oil east tycoon. he was hired by james o'keefe. >> their friend says go to this hotel, meet with this sheik and help woo him to give me money which is anti-fracking. >> which the sheik says would help keep the u.s. more dependent on mideast oil. this is all fake. >> so the alleged hypocrisy that o'keefe is trying to highlight these environmentalist stars agree to go meet with this sheik, they don't seem to have any problem with the sheik financing with millions of dollars, a film that's anti-oil, anti-fracking, but willing to take his money and cover up the fact that he's donor. >> they are not getting a dime. >> i'm understanding his case. >> a short time ago mariel hemingway told me that while she should have been more c

i am howard kurtz. >> i am chris wallace, former vice president cheney and his wife in their first joint the white house. >> there has developed over the years of the obama administration the sense we have a weak government. >> we discuss ukraine, benghazi and hillary clinton. >> why would they want to see lewinsky in the public eye? >> dick and lynne cheney only on "fox news sunday." and karl rove spark as controversy over hillary clinton's health. >> do i think she has brain damage? no, she had a traumatic

joining us now from washington fox news media analyst ash burn see her howard kurtz on media buzz here a problem with this. i will tell you why in a element no. but i want to get your take. >> i am not defending jane fonda. i'm going to put that out there right away. jane fonda did something that was absolutely reprehensible. my uncle is a vietnam veteran. for that, for what she did and her statements i cannot forgive her. however, bill, that does not mean that we should take away her right to stand in front of a microphone and say what she thinks. >> who is doing that? who is taking her way her right to stand in front of a microphone. >> nobody is. >> what's your beef. >> i think what you are say something it's uncomfortable and controversial simply because she is a public figure who maybe didn't agree or stated things that you or other conservatives didn't like. >> i'm not a conservative. number one, i'm independent. and you will get a lot of letters from true conservatives scolding you. all right. here is where you are terribly misguided. >> let's hear it. i have been waiting for. t

reaction, joining us from washington leslie marshall and host of media buzz seen on sunday morning howard kurtzplain to me why the national media didn't cover it? >> most of the media are suffering from benghazi allergy syndrome. knee jerk reaction that this story is old, it's complicated, it's settled and the country has moved on. one more thing and you got backlash when you interviewed the president about. this oh, it's a fox news story. >> now we know it isn't. now we know that the white house mislead on purpose for political reasons in a presidential campaign. so, all of that blown goes to the wayside and now they have to, if they are honest saying this is a big story. it's a big story. >> it's a significant story. in some ways it's incremental advance on what we already knew. the white house was spinning in an election year to try to minimize the fallout on benghazi attacks. leading to the misleading susan rice talking points on those sunday morning shows, but even if you think it's not that big of deal, then cover it, analyze it, put it in context. don't black it out. >> all right. so i'm

media buzz's howard kurtz is here. >>> fast-food giving workers like mcdonald's, kfc, taco bell, striking over low pay. we're live in oakland as protesters make their case. even when they say it is not, it is always about money! melissa: tough day for the markets. look at that! all three major averages down more than 1%. let's bring in the panel. jo ling kent, jack otter from "barron's" and james frischling from new oak. what do you make of this market, james? >> ten per is pretty good guy. he speaks his mind. i don't think he talks his book. melissa: you don't think he talks his book. that is what a lot of folks think. he knew this, he watched the market and he is profiting. >> i say he doesn't care. what i mean there is a time to make money. a time to protect yourself. market all-time highs. fed thrown everything they can including kitchen sink with this i think he is telling people to take a little money off. melissa: we've been saying it for a while. why now? what is the tipping point, jack? >> we've been seeing this already in the market. small caps are in correction, down 11%. a fli

i am howard kurtz. >> i am chris wallace, former vice president cheney and his wife in their first joint interview since leaving the white house. >> there has developed over the years of the obama administration the sense we have a weak government. >> we discuss ukraine, benghazi and hillary clinton. >> why would they want to see lewinsky in the public eye? >> dick and lynne cheney only on "fox news sunday." and karl rove spark as controversy over hillary clinton's health. >> do i think she has brain damage? no, she had a traumatic brain episode. >> he is strong, doing great. >> karl rove explains the comments on our panel. >> growing allegations that veterans die waiting for treatment at v.a. hospitals across the country. >> isn't there evidence here of criminal wrongdoing that is falsifying records, false statements to the federal government? that is a crime. >> it should be, yes. >> outrage over a secret waiting list. how widespread are the problems? who knew about them? we will ask the leading whistleblower. >> our "power player of the week." a strategist on the chamber of commerce m