joining me howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and host of "mediabuzz." thanks for joining us. we're in a very strange place, when you turn on the conservative pundits they're lying to themselves about the math. i only care how the numbers are stacking up and they're constantly talking about how he is not going to be the nominee. and it is tough to reconcile these. how does this whole thing play out in your mind? what if he is the nominee? how do they kiss and make up? >> i don't think there will be a lot of kissing and making up, melissa. some are still in denial and coming up with these scenarios, if this happens and this person drops out and sun comes up over here maybe trump can be defeated. increasingly likely donald trump will be republican nominee. where does that leave people like "national review" editor rich lowery, bill krystal, jonah goldberg attacking trump as a person and fang conserve in their view, they're in a -- fake conservative, they are in a box. melissa: they? everybody is hating on each other. then when the nomination happens, someh

here to weigh in, howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz" on fox news.good to see you. >> same here, trish. trish: you know he has got a point, right? the media is out there praising rubio but isn't that kind of natural, given that rubio sort of came from behind, expectations were low where donald trump himself kept saying how he was winning, winning? so in a way, i wonder if he is set himself up for this by creating expectations that were too high? >> trump has a legitimate beef and our spin shouldn't be more important than the voting results but it is like the stock market where companies have to beat the street. trish: i like that analogy. >> because the final polls showed trump winning, pundits expectations he would win. therefore a respectable second place finishing is like the biggest loser. because marco came up from distant third to almost catching trump for second he was declared to have all this momentum. it is perfectly valid complaint by trump but stepped on his own storyline saying senator cruz stole the elections. i spent a week in iowa. lo

. >> so relaxed, this is "media buzz" and i am howard kurtz. with donald trump now the clear g.o.p. frontrunner it is worth recalling how many dismissed his chances eight months ago. >> this is donald trump's biggest day and he will be ignored from here on. >> he trounced the other candidates in new hampshire and the media haters were not gracious. new york daily news called him dead clown walking came back with "dawn of the brain dead," blaming the state's mindless storm anies and this screamer "new hampshire goes racist, sexiest," and sliming the state voters. with the action shifting to saturday's south carolina primary with chris christie and carly fiorina dropping out, cbs tried to pin down the canidates and there were fisticuffs. >> in 2008 talking about president george bush's conduct you were surprised nancy pelosi did not try to impeach him and i quote, "that would have been wonderful." >> as a businessman i get look with everyone. i am sick and tired of him going after my fee. my dad is the greatest man alive in my mind. >> gin to us analyze the campaign coverage, heidi pr

this is "media buzz" and i am howard kurtz. >> when the media spotlight shifted from iowa to humanitarian pundits were in full spin of the caucus won by ted cruz promising donald trump to cry "foul." >> marco rubio was the big surprise, the big win, though, of the night, really, out outperforming. all the big story could argue is marco rubio, ted cruz won but he was always in the calculation, but marco rubio almost tying donald trump. that is a big deal. >> no mistake, donald trump and clinton were losers but they are still strong figures in the race. >> as for donald trump, as much as he hates to lose, that is exactly what happened. >> the headlines were trump comes in second and he is humiliated. these pepper the most dishonest people ever. okay? ever. >> donald trump, no good. rub, unbelievable night. up believable victory. >> unbelievable. and donald trump accused cruz of stealing the election on twitter and on the air taking issue with the campaign over a controversy a.m. mailer and for spreading a false rumor about a rival. ted cruz responded with mockery. >> what he did is disgusti

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i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." when the media spotlight shifted from iowa to new hampshire, the pundits were in full spin mode about the caucuses won by ted cruz prompting donald trump to cry foul. >> marco rubio was the big surprise, the big win of the night. really outperforming which i thought was fantastic. >> the big story could argue is marco rubio. ted cruz won but he was auls lw in the mix. that is a big deal. >> make no mistake, trump and clinton were losers last night. but they are still strong figures in this race. >> as for donald trump, as much as he hates to lose, that's exactly what happened to him in iowa. >> the headlines were trump comes in second. he's humiliated. these people are the most dishonest people ever. okay? ever. trump, no good. rubio, unbelievable night. unbelievable victory. >> unbelievable. but then frump accused cruz of stealing the election on twitter then on the air taking issue with the senator's campaign over a controversial mailer and for spreading a false rumor about a rivala

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> the media has insisted for many, many months, but donald trump winning back ba-to-back primaries, they are grudgingly acknowledging he is a front-runner. >> a number of the pundits said, well, if a couple of the other candidates dropped out, if you add their scores together, it's going to equal trump. but these geniuses, they're geniuses, they don't understand that as people drop out, i'm going to get a lot of those votes also. you don't just add them together. >> and we have geniuses joining us to analyze the campaign coverage. mary katherine ham a fox news contributor. heidi priz bal la and julie raginski. mary katherine, i have argued for eight long months on this network the media must take trump seriously. are the pundits coming out of denial? >> there's a couple steps here. i don't know if you're familiar with the stages of grief. we've gone from anger to denial to bargaining. we're going to bargain hard and the media will be happy to cover all these scenarios. i think it is true that people can come together and coalesce into an anti

. >>> here with final thoughts chris stirewalt and howard kurtz, host of media buzz on fox news.hts. >> i tell you what, that was a rip snorter. that was pretty good. you have trump demonstrates that his voters are real, but they're not as real as the polling suggests. you have ted cruz delivers on his promise. he looks like a traditional iowa winner, like we've seen like huckabee and santorum, but he's got some steel in his belted radials, more money, more organization, nor national stuff, the chance to turn it into something else. but probably the single most important thing that happened, probably beyond anything else for the republican party is they started to get their act together. right? they started to figure out that you can't have a huckabee, a santorum and a cruz. you can't have a rubio and a bush and a kasich and a christie. and i tell you what, no human being in history has spent more money to finish at 3% than jeb bush. and so now as that part of the republican party, sort of the traditional republican party moves on, as that goes forward, marco rubio took a big ste

. >> i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> it's worth recalling how many journalist dismiss the chances eight months ago. >> i think this is donald trump's bigst day and ignored from hence forth. >> trump krounsed the other candidates in new hampshire this week and they were not exactly gracious. new york's daily news which called him dead clown walking after his second place finnish iowa came back with dawn of the brain dead blaming the state's mindless zombies. they had this screamer, new hampshire goes racist. sexist, xenophobic. the website sliming the state's voters. with the action shifting to this saturday's south carolina primary with chris christie and carly fiorina dropping out, they tried to pin down the candidates in last night's debates and there were fists to cuffs. >> in an interview with wolf blitzer talking about president bush's conduct for the war, you said you were surprised the democratic leader nancy pelosi didn't try to impeach him. you said, "which personally i think would have been a wonderful thing". >> as a businessman, i get along with everybody. >> i

howard kurtz. what is the value of the back and forth is what?the value for the media, we can't get enough of the slugfest. donald trump saying that ted cruz is a cheat and a fraud and he stole the iowa caucus and should be a do over. it is it an easy story to report. i am not going back to do a do over on. and senator going nuclear against trump and said if he was president we would find out he had nuked denmark. there is a silver lining and it is it a character test for the voters. and we get to see how they bounce back from a loss and deal with personal attacks and insults. >> is that learning about the character from something that is legitimate news item or something that the media created by some of the reporting that was done over the last woke? >> it is it a relationship. any time the press has a choice of covering a complicated issue and varying degrees of immigration and versus he hit me in the eye and i punched him in the stomach, i can tell you where the press is going for. trump and cruz haven't needed much prodding in order to start

. >> jon: but if howard kurtz is right, is that a result?get answers from the candidate you then turn around and blame his supporters for his success? what's his success is because you've got some people who don't care about the answers were attracted to the personality. look, trump resonates with people viscerally but not intellectually, not rationally. it doesn't matter what he says. here's a guy who goes to south carolina, puts down the bush family . dick cheney said he sounded like a liberal when talking about the iraq war. it doesn't matter what he says because he's not speaking rationally to the rational part of people's brain. >> jon: i'd say the same thing about bernie sanders on the other side. it's a hate of all things >> jo prospect though of donald trump wrapping up this republican nomination? the media must have grown comfortable with that. >> the train has left the station and you got union station behind me and i think it's a high-speed train. i don't see any way to stop him right now. there may be someone maybe when they get

changing the narrative, we were going to talk about howard kurtz. the chris christie endorsement changed the topic. we'll talk to it howard about the mastery of media, coming up. >> i am proud to be here to support donald trump for president of united states. i am doing this for a number of reasons. first is donald and i and our wife withes have been friends for over a decade. he is a good and loyal friend to our family and as we have been to his family. we have had wonderful times together. >> that was chris christie endorsing donald trump a minute ago. what does it mean for the race to the white house. and we have lesry here, ford, most political pros are dubious about endorsements and don't think it matters much. but did what just happen change the conversation away from what some perceive as donald's poor performance. ndonald trump got pushed around and watched in a cuban sandwich and rubio was the winner and now trump decided to is snatch it away and got himself a garden state pit bull and they will push rubio out of the race. >> going back to t

follow me on howard kurtz. we have a dialogue there. and visit our facebook page.t original content, respond to your question, in your buzz feature. if you happened to miss our program, check out our replay this sunday afternoon. i'll see you on the night of super tuesday. and we're back here next sunday with the latest buzz. >>> the republican presidential candidates now in the final sprint ahead of super tuesday. done touch, marco rubio ted cruz all barn storming trying to shore up last-minute support before voters have their say just 48 hours from now. hello everyone, and welcome to america's news headquarters i'm eric shawn. >> i'm arthel neville. ted cruz and marco rubio both soaping new lines of attack on donald trump, trying to gain much needed ground on the front-runner. >> you know who was helping fund the gaining of eight? little fellow named donald trump. it's interesting. he also says gosh

howard kurtz, so, does it boil down to cnn sent out a corrective tweet saying he's still in the racedn't report it on the air i guess until a significant time after or at least that's cruz's defense. >> cnn didn't really have to correct anything. the initial report said in a highly unusual move ben carson going off the trail. >> led us all to say, oh, when's happening with carson? >> cnn didn't say dropping out, suspending. but the voicemails and i confirmed authentic talked about suspending the campaign. he should move on. >> he was asked about it at the debate. >> yes, no. >> he was asked. >> he should have said it was wrong. he blamed cnn and didn't do anything wrong. the thing is the fallout over this controversy, a week latter, still talking about it. i think kind of cast a shadow on the win in iowa and kind of took the oxygen away from it and not made much news since. >> let's talk about beyonce. how did she tick people off? >> a halftime show with people in black panther-like uniforms, black power salute and singing a song and the video version on top of a police car sinking a

. >>> here with final thoughts chris stirewalt and howard kurtz, host of media buzz on fox news.oughts. >> i tell you what, that was a rip snorter. that was pretty good. you have trump demonstrates that his voters are real, but they're not as real as the polling suggests. you have ted cruz delivers on his promise. he looks like a traditional iowa winner, like we've seen like huckabee and santorum, but he's got some steel in his belted radials, more money, more organization, nor national stuff, the chance to turn it into something else. but probably the single most important thing that happened, probably beyond anything else for the republican party is they started to get their act together. right? they started to figure out that you can't have a huckabee, a santorum and a cruz. you can't have a rubio and a bush and a kasich and a christie. and i tell you what, no human being in history has spent more money to finish at 3% than jeb bush. and so now as that part of the republican party, sort of the traditional republican party moves on, as that goes forward, marco rubio took a big

fox news media biz host howard kurtz. joins me. the media decided trump will never lose. seems only three months ago they were saying he can never win. where is the truth? >> con from impossible to inevitable. certainly in very strong scenario right now. new media scenario possibly could maybe lose if he got one-on-one with for example, marco rubio. wave the magic wand, shove the otherwise out of the race that rubio could consolidate anti-trump sentiment, based on my reporting trump campaign finds that very amusing. >> we've been looking at numbers and what i find so interesting when you look rat polls in other states like -- at polls in other states, new jersey, massachusetts, trump is rolling up numbers that beats entire field, right? >> i was going to cite those. trump at 50% in massachusetts. 38 in new jersey, rubio 11, cruz 10. doesn't matter if you combine their votes. media at least view of people around trump trying to have it both ways. trump may have won 46% in nevada caucuses that means half of republicans oppose him. 79% of those who doesn't vote for marco rub

here is howard kurtz, host of "mediabuzz" on fox news. trump does have a point there, howie, doesn't he? the story is how strong marco rubio is. trump did beat him. if you look, we have the cover of "the daily news," dead clown walking. i mean he is still ahead by 20 points or so in new hampshire. is the media being fair? >> much of the media are not being fair. daily news portrayed trump as a clown when he got into the race. that trump underperformed and marco rubio overperformed. one is portrayed as disappointment and one is portrayed as amazing. first time candidate never done this, strong second place finish by trump in eye was is pretty impressive. he has a right to be kicked off. he totally moved story another direction with his twitter rant today. melissa: let's move on to that. he was gracious, got a lot of attention for that. some of us were suspicious that would really last. it didn't. he has gone on a twitter tirade here. does play well to the people that supported him because it is in character or is it a bad call? >> doesn't

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >> you have more careful about that kind of stuff. >> i posted it in haste. i apologized. >> the media new convention was that trump was soaring, cruz was fading and rubio desperately needed to attack trump which he did again and again at the cnn debate in houston. >> is that the part of the plan? >> no, no. >> you'll have many different plans. you'll have competition, you'll have so many different larges. >> now, he's repeating himself. >> no, i'm not repeating. >> what i'm seeing up here, first of all, this guy is a choke artist and this guy is a liar. >> one thing that was agonizingly evident as they smacked each other around, wolf blitzer repeatedly lost control of the debate. >> gentlemen, gentlemen. >> i want to clarify something. >> gentlemen, please, i want to move on. we want to talk about the economy. gentlemen? gentlemen? you have agreed -- >> you have not answered that question. >> you know what? call it what you want. call it what you want. people are not going dying -- >> all of you have agreed to the rules. i want to move on. >> ho

stuart: we need judgment on debate performance and who better than media buzz host howard kurtz who joins new hampshire. howard, i think it's a little unfair to compare marco rubio to richard nixon. >> that's a stretch. i think it's a stretch and unfair, but people are saying that it wasn't a great performance from marco rubio. as an objective judge of debate performance, what do you say? >> it was a rough night for marco rubio because it played in the narrative of a ovn over scripted candidate. and the headlines, rubio crashes and burns-- i think the pundits are more excited because they don't watch debates the same way. they think that most candidates memberize scripted sound bites and president obama is intentionally ruining this country and-- >> donald trump, his use of i'm going to call it foul language. roll that tape. we're going to bring businesses back. we're going to have businesses-- we're going to have businesses that used to be in new hampshire, that are now in mexico, come back to new hampshire and you can tell them to go (bleep) themselves. >> oh. stuart: now he says and yo

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howard kurtz, washington, d.c. thank you. martha: women in the u.s.nding hillary clinton. they say that she is being subjected to a double-standard out there on the campaign trail. is hillary clinton a victim of sexism? bill: nasty weather out there. tornadoes ripping across the south. some folks without power today, leaving behind a ton of damage in its wake. >> my car was shaking and, my window busted, and like, i seen it like coming at me. it was scary. bill: wild winter weather bringing snow, sleet and tornadoes. that is a heck of a combination. same storm making a slushy mess along the east coast. several homes turned into rubble in parts of the south. that right there is tornado, touching on border of alabama and florida, targeting gulf coast. that twister left behind a mess, knocking down trees and powers lines, several homes damaged. fortunately no reports of injuries. >> just a loud roar and i told my wife, i said get in the hall, with some pillows. we got in the hall, and covered up. and i my head swelled up, pressure in ears stopped up. we

howard kurtz season 0 the other side of the praek with his analysis of the moderators.about the debate all morning. we haven't talk a lot about the moderators. how did they do? out of 23 million americans, there is no one better than howard kurtz. >> the candidates were prepared to debate. the it wasn't very creative. it was, well, donald trump, says that you are an idiot and you accused him of going to new denmark. it's try to get the candidates to repeat what they are saying on the trail and in the ads. >> what do you think about martha? >> thes so good on military matters. there were time when she seemed to want to debate ted cruz, when she would challenge him. some people like that. some people don't. there were a couple of points i found a little off putting but she knows this stuff better than many politicians and it showed. >> she took me as credible. i thought she was pretty good. josh mcgelpen, how did do? >> i gave him b. i thought it was overshadow by the abc anchors. i had a couple of moments when he brought veterans issues. he brought much discussion to the

more from our fox news digital politics editor chris dyer waltz and our fox news media analyst howard kurtza little bit from the original expectations, but he did everything he needed to. and will -- there's no reason to think he won't continue to do so. that's story a. story b you just heard. marco rubio had a great night. not only did he run well, better here than expected, but also jeb bush did something that was very hard for him but probably will earn him a lot of respect from his fellow republicans by packing it in and clearing the way for rubio to consolidate the support like you're talking about and make this a game going into the 1st of march. >> howie, your thoughts? >> it's a bounceback for marc roe rubio. the press went too far in burying him after the robotic debate and the fifth place flop in new hampshire. but let's look at what trump just accomplished. seven nights ago just about this time he was trashing george w. bush over iraq and 9/11 in a republican debate. later backed off a bit. then he threatened to sue 2ed cruz. then he got into a war of words with the pope. with th

ken howard the -- appointed to the board. ceo george kurtz to tell us all about the biggest issues we should be paying attention to. what is the nation of the nation state actors? has escalated more than a year ago? mr. kurtz: we have really looked at the g a political landscape and see how this impacts -- geopolitical landscape and have seen how this impacts it. china is trying to figure out how to take care of the population by learning the tricks and trades of the companies in the u.s. david: what strikes me as the range of threats that you are highlighting in your new report. the number of new things that can go wrong here seem to be increasing by the day. these are countries where there are real specialists emerging in doing real bad things. how scared should the average company be? mr. kurtz: we are reaching the point where boards of directors have to have a plan for cyber security. we have 13 industries that are being targeted and a five-year plan from china to build a profile of what industries will be targeted and what technologies a