fox news media analyst and host of "media buzz" howard kurtz has some observations. howard? >> good evening, bret. women magazines have long treated hillary like royalty. here she is on "vogue" two years ago. "elle" magazine just put chelsea clinton on the magazine. and seymour said she didn't see a conflict because she doesn't work for a news organization. i haven't seen any qualms or carly fiorina. "women are tired of hearing about how to be a feminist from media on the left and being told that hillary is the only option." >> how much effect does this have on the clinton foundation? >> back in 2008 blacks gave a boost to president obama and these women magazines, bret have millions of readers. when marie claire declares, "the new hillary isn't cold she's cool," that certainly doesn't hurt. >> howard kurtz, thank you. >>> a democratic candidate is trying to explain comments about sexual fantasies that have a lot of people shaking their heads. >>> first, history in the making and how it's being received. a big step towards the normalization of relations between the u.s. >>>

>> howard kurtz, thank you. >>> republican contenders are trying to stand out against a growing crowdke emanuel has coverage on the 2016 round-up. >> reporter: likely candidate chris christie are in georgia speaking at the state party convention. rubio took center stage this afternoon calling for a new era. what we need is transformational leadership. the kind of leadership that allows this country to fully transition from yesterday to tomorrow and allows us to achieve what we -- what is within our reach to achieve. >> reporter: cruz addresses the group this evening with a push towards a unified southern regional s.e.c. primary, with increased interest in georgia. chris christie spoke about the challenges of leading a blue state and sounded close to announcing a white house run. >> people say lots of different things about me both good and bad. but what they will never say is this. no one will ever say, i wonder what chris christie is thinking. >> and it seems to me everybody, that might not only be good for what ale us at home and around the world. we need clarity and attention. >> r

fox news media analyst and host of "media buzz" howard kurtz has some observations. howard? >> good evening, bret. women magazines have long treated hillary like royalty. here she is on "vogue" two years ago. "elle" magazine just put chelsea clinton on the magazine. and seymour said she didn't see a conflict because she doesn't work for a news organization. i haven't seen any qualms or carly fiorina. "women are tired of hearing about how to be a feminist from media on the left and being told that hillary is the only option." >> how much effect does this have on the clinton foundation? >> back in 2008 blacks gave a boost to president obama and these women magazines, bret have millions of readers. when marie claire declares, "the new hillary isn't cold she's cool," that certainly doesn't hurt. >> howard kurtz, thank you. >>> a democratic candidate is trying to explain comments about sexual fantasies that have a lot of people shaking their heads. >>> first, history in the making and how it's being received. a big step towards the normalization of relations between the u.s. and

i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> martin o'malley juneed into the race yesterday but the former democratic governor-general rated little excitement in the media and being overshadowed by vermont senator bernie sanders. >> it is possible bernie is the chief challenger to hillary clinton and not o'malley. >> he is better positioned than the other democrats who are lining up to run against hillary clinton to make her sweat and give her some headache. >> i don't think most people when we give serious consideration to candidates think a socialist will be elected president. >> with rick santorum and george pataki joining the crowded field, even conservative could not get enthused. >> because there are so many additional alternatives now and a person like rubio gets your attention, that is new that is different, i want to hear more, and rick santorum will have to breakthrough. >> i think rick santorum was lucky the last time around because he is the last one standing up against the presurfive nominee mitt romney. >> someone said it is a great everyone any people are not taking g

"media buzz" with howard kurtz begins right now. >>> on the buzz meter this sunday hillary clinton now has, well the appearance of competition, but the media aren't taking bernie sanders and martin o'malley all that seriously, except on msnbc. >> do they belong? bernie sanders. the beltway media has been treating bernie sanders almost like a gadfly. but bernie sanders has been bucking that. >> the republican field grows larger with rick santorum and george pataki jumping in but are even the conservative media dismissing them as also rand? >> so it's not going to be a good run for someone like rick santorum who's been around for a very long time who's come in nearly last. >> well today, rick santorum announced the launch of another losing santorum for president campaign. >> maybe news outlets are just trying to winnow this crowded field. >>> "vogue," marie claire "cosmopolitan," and others swooning over the first potential female president. and one editor donating to the hillary clinton campaign. are they in the tank for her? >>> and a look at the denny hastert investigation. >>> iran b

i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." george stephanopolis burst on to the national scene at the top white house campaign advisor to the clintons and later joined abc as a liberal commentator and when hillary clinton made the first white house run he was interviewing her as an abc anchor. >> looking back did the clinton administration you came out against free trade agreements but did the clinton administration does not do enough to address the down side of globalization. >> you remember this because george worked in the 1992 campaign and george and i actually were against nafta. i am talking about him in his previous life before he was an objective journalists and did not have opinions about such matters. >> now as co-anchor of "good morning america" and hot of "this week," he failed to disclose $75,000 in donations to the clinton foundation and even if he covered the political uproar of the finances and talked about the donors on the show. >> the influence comes with access and that has to shape the thinking of politici

let's check in with howard kurtz, see what's going on on his program. >> hello maria.ng to look at the stunning indictment and coverage against the -- the charges against former house speaker denny hastert. look at some of the presidential candidates who got into the race this week on both sides, how they're getting very little coverage. maybe the media prematurely writing them off. and as he steps down after half a century at cbs, final conversation with bob. >> all right. see you in about ten minutes. we'll be there. as you just mentioned, hillary clinton has a new challenger and the republican field expanded last week. former maryland governor martin o'malley taking the plunge for the democrats, throwing his hat in the ring for president yesterday. george pataki and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum also making their bids for the gop. your thoughts on the new field, ed? >> they had their highlight this week. santorum who's the runner-up last time because he was a conservative alternative, will be crowded out by other conservatives who are new faces this time

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." ♪ >>> it had been 28 days since hillary clinton took questionsrom media prompting an interruption in iowa. >> wait. yes. maybe when i finish talking to the people here. how's that? >> [ inaudible ]? >> i might. i'll have to ponder it. >> but the former secretary of state did break her silence fielding questions from five reporters in less than five minutes, such as this one on foreign government donations on the clinton foundation. >> your opponents say the foreign donations and private e-mails are examples of the clintons having one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everyone else. do they have a point? >> i am so proud of the foundation. i'm proud of the work that it has done and that it is doing and i'll let the american people make their own judgment about that. >> and over the weekend, reporters were plowing through her e-mails after the state department made them public. chris starwall is joining us susan for the washington examiner and national public radio, a fox news contributor. chris, does it now look like great g

tonight, host of fox news "media buzz" howard kurtz take as look. >> reporter: they are completely different personalities but ben carson carly fiorina and donald trump have one thing in common they've never held elective office. they say their background gives them an appeal. they are outsiders with private sector savvy, untainted by the dirty business of politics. >> does he really think he has a chance of being elected president? how do you answer that? >> well i would answer it by saying my life has been so full of people telling me what i couldn't do that i would be more concerned if they told me i could do it. >> some people have suggested and even as i ask it i realize that you're really running to be the running mate. >> i come from a world outside of politics where track record and accomplishments count. words don't. >> reporter: the citizens politician has always had a certain appeal but they stumble over the issue and their own words. ross perot once led the general election polls but didn't win a single state. herman cain was briefly a gop front-runner before quitting the race. f

host of "mediabuzz," howard kurtz is here to discuss these money matters. >> good evening, bret.ke huckabee kicked off his campaign he talked about his modest upbringing. >> i don't come from a family dynasty but a working dynasty. i grew up blue collar not blue blood. >> former governor making plenty of money in recent years, including at fox news prompting politico to dub him the 1 percenter, especially for republicans like mitt romney he was like an out of touch plutocratic, things that he said i like being able to fire people and drives a cadillac. drawing media scrutiny with business week proclaiming, jeb bush has a mitt romney problem but will democrats going back to fdr and jfk often assumed to be champions of the middle class. still, journalists blow the whistle when candidates engage in blatant poor mouthing as hillary clinton said about her $5 million in speaking fees that she and her husband were dead broke when they left the white house. this week bill made it sound like they are just scraping by when nbc's cynthia mcfadden asked him would he stop giving those $500,00

i was talking to howard kurtz about this a few minutes ago.phanopolous at abc is too big to fail. they can't afford to let go of him, and they can't afford to discipline him in a way that i think would mean they would deeply disapprove what he's done. i think they don't quite know what to do. >> we knew he was tied to the clintons. first he came out and said i should have taken the extra step of disclosing i had made the donations, no problem with the donations. i probably shouldn't have donated. then he came out and said it was a mistake to donate but i did it nor great reasons and it was all public record. like the viewers are going to go online to decide whether any news people are on there as having made donations. >> i think it's in addition to that he participated in some of the foundations or at least it's offshoots events. and i think that he was in a different situation from most people in this business in that he didn't have a career as a journalist he had a career in politics he came straight from the clinton white house to abc news

host of "mediabuzz," howard kurtz is here to discuss these money matters. >> good evening, bret.kicked off his campaign he talked about his modest upbringing. >> i don't come from a family dynasty but a working dynasty. i grew up blue collar not blue blood. >> former governor making plenty of money in recent years, including at fox news prompting politico to dub him the 1 percenter, especially for republicans like mitt romney he was like an out of touch plutocratic, things that he said i like being able to fire people and drives a cadillac. drawing media scrutiny with business week proclaiming, jeb bush has a mitt romney problem but will democrats going back to fdr and jfk often assumed to be champions of the middle class. still, journalists blow the whistle when candidates engage in blatant poor mouthing as hillary clinton said about her $5 million in speaking fees that she and her husband were dead broke when they left the white house. this week bill made it sound like they are just scraping by when nbc's cynthia mcfadden asked him would he stop giving those $500,000 speeches w

. >> howard kurtz is the host of "media buzz." >> of course this went everywhere on the left wing blogs saying the commentators have not been kind to ann, thinking this is a moment in the debate because she refused to hug this woman. you say? >> people love to portray her because she wouldn't give her a hug. coulter was smart not to fall into this activist trap. the woman was trying to create a moment for ann and have an image that would go viral. she was even being diplomatic saying i have the flu. >> which she did have the flu, by the way, if you listen to her. it did seem like a trap. when you're on television everything feels magnified. you know -- well, not everything. but most things seem magnified and you always have to be aware if somebody's trying to bait you into something that you don't want to be involved in. >> this is a clear case of baiting. some people love ann coulter, some people can't stand her, sometimes she goes too far but in this instance her defiant anti-hug stance was the right one. by the way, all this publicity and all of those attacking her over this manufact

fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz, on president obama working the journalistic bumps. >> reporter: president obama did more than take swipes at fox news. he delivered a broader indictment. >> if we're going to change how john boehner and mitch mcconnell think, we're going to have to change how our body politics thinks which means we're going to have to change the way the media reports on these issues and that's a hard process because that requires a much broader conversation than typically we have on the nightly news. >> reporter: after the baltimore riots, media analysts saying that they jump on crisis while barely covering poverty and racial conflict. and there has been substantive coverage that hasn't been to the administration's liking. mr. president saying that many people didn't keep their promises. and the pacific trade agreement blocked by democrats and the media that exposed the waiting lists at the v.a. white house officials say the press focuses on politics rather than substance but don't make things easier by limiting access to public events. posting

i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> it was 28 days since hillary clinton took questions from the media prompting ed henry to interrupt her event in iowa. >> senator --. >> wait, wait. >> when i finish talking to the people here. how is that? >> you will move over? >> i might. >> i will have to ponder it. >> the former secretary of state did break her silence fielding questions from five reporters in five minutes such as this on foreign government donations to the clinton foundation. >> your were on popes say the foreign donations and the private e-mails are examples of the clintons having a set of rules for themself and another set for everyone else. do they have a point? >> i am so proud of the foundation and proud of the work that it has done and that it is doing and i will let the american people make their own judgments. >> by the weekend reporters plowed through her private e-mails on benghazi after the state department made them public. now, examining the coverage is chris stirewalt and susan ferrechio chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner and ma

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> nbc's cynthia mcfadden accompanied bill clinton to nairobi where the backdrop for their "today" show was groups of poor, black children being helped by the clinton foirkz. the former president deflecting questions about donations from foreign governments and" the organization only accepts cash from six western countries. >> absolutely not. it's an acknowledgment that we're going to come as close as we can during her presidential campaign to following the rules we followed when she became secretary of state. >> what about the money going directly into clinton's pocket? >> working americans look and say, $500,000 for a speech -- >> wait a minute, wait a minute. why shouldn't -- it's the most independent i can get. i have turned down a lot of them. if i think there's something wrong, i don't take it. i do disclose who gave them to me so people can make up their own mind. >> she's running for president. will you continue to give speeches? >> yeah. i got to pay our bills. >> joining us to analyze the coverage matt lewis, senior contributor at "the

media buzz top of the hour howard kurtz right now with a preview. >> good morning.e'll also look at media beating up on jeb bush over here. but we're going to lead with the george stephanopoulos mess at abc. how much damage did he do to his own reputation as a journalist to the network? even though he's bowed out of the republican debate can he continue to cover the 2016 campaign after giving that money to the foundation run by his former boss and one of our guests coming up at the top of the hour will be brit hume. >> he gave $75,000. >> $75,000, didn't tell viewers, didn't tell his own bosses at abc. now very much in damage control mode. >> we'll see you in 20 minutes. we'll be there. jeb bush is trying to set the record straight about his comments on the iraq war. and it looks like the 2016 field is about to get bigger. our panel on that as we look ahead on "sunday morning futures" right after this. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used

i am howard kurtz. we hope you like our facebook page we post a lot of content there.t sunday morning at 11 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. >> i am chris wallace. six baltimore police officers now face criminal charges in the death of a young black man. >> the findings of our comprehensive and independent investigation have led us to believe we have probably cause to fryer criminal charges. >> we believe the officers will be vindicated as they have done nothing wrong >> we have a report from baltimore. we will discuss the case with marilyn congresswoman donna edwards and freddie gray family attorney billy murphy. >> from ferguson, to new york city to baltimore. >> we as a country

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> george stephanopoulos burst on to the national scene as a top white house and campaign adviser to bill and hillary clinton, later joined abc news as a liberal kplen tator, and by the time hillary made her first white house run, he was interviewing her as an abc anchor. >> looking back on the 1990s, did the clinton administration and you've came out against free trade agreements now, but the clinton administration didn't do enough to address the downside of globalization. >> now, you remember this because george did work in that '92 campaign and george and i actually were against nafta. i'm talking about him in his previous life before he was an objective journalist and doesn't have opinions about such matters. >> but now as co-anchor as "good morning america" and host of "this week," stephanopoulos failing to disclose his $75,000 in donations to the clinton foundation even as he covered the political uproar over his finances and talked about his donors on "the daily show". >> and what you get is access and you get the influence that comes

howard kurtz, sheriff david clark, president. law enforcement legal defense fund and chris is here but we go to trace gallagher in our west coast newsroom of how -- of how just four cases have fueled this movement. trace? >> megyn, it was last july 17th, 43-year-old eric garner was stand on a staten island street corner selling cigarettes known as lucys when police approached him. when police tried to cuff him garner resisted and was put into what officials ruled a choke hold though the police union disputed that definition. lying face down on the ground garner said "i can't breathe" 11 times and lost consciousness but cpr was not performed because he was still breathing police say. he was pro-ghounsed dead at the hospital an hour later. the medical examiner said he died of a choke hold and chest compression ruling it a homicide. but a grand jury decided not to indict officer daniel pant layaleo who used the technique. it sparked public protests and rallies. listen. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't br

. >>> i'm howard kurtz and this is " "media buzz." >>> as protests mounted after a 25-year-old name freddie gray died in the custody of baltimore police stephanie rawlings had this to say about the demonstrators and later about the media reporting her remarks. >> it's a very delicate balancing act, because while we try to make sure that they were protected from the cars and the other, you know, things that were going on we also did those who wished to destroy, face to do that as well. it is very unfortunate that members of your industry decided to mischaracterize my words and try to use it as a way to say that we are inciting violence. >> but journalists covering the riots had bigger problems than mere rhetoric. at least nine were injured, some of them suffering broken noses, as the danger was obvious, with criminals setting fires and looting stores. >> one person has turned this entire quiet area -- we are being sprayed with mace, we are being sprayed with pepper spray. >> i don't know exactly what it is that's been thrown in the air. i don't know exactly what it is but it is a bit acrid.