howard kurtz, media buzz host says he never seen anything quite like this. howard. >> it is over.can all take a nap until november. even with trump suffering from self-inflicted wounds, criticizing a gold star family, getting into a feud with paul ryan, wandering off message, the negativity and the sheer personal intensity of this barrage he has been up against is truly remarkable. not just that the pundits saying bad candidate, slipping untiles to, some of them are saying he is horrible person. that he is a threat to western civilization. that he is crazy, actually questioning miss -- his mentality stability. never seen anything like it. liz: howard how much is happening to his poll numbers? >> there is vicious cycle. trump makes a mistake. hurts him in the polls. get commentary run on television, online, newspaper op-ed and amplifies and turns it into four, five, six days story. goes in another swing state poll, that also adds to a sense that the race is slipping away from him. everybody needs to calm down. it is early august, and races tighten. you have the sense with so much o

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i am howard kurtz and this is "media buzz" today. donald trump insists he wasn't going to pivot, he want going to change, and he seemed to make that clear by hiring bannon of the pro donald trump conservative website, breitbart, but the more immediate impact came from the tapping of a new campaign manager, veteran kellyanne conway popular with reporters and touting his speech where he said that he regretted causing anyone personal pain. >> you mentioned anyone who has been personally offended. will he reach out to the family personally? >> he may but i hope they heard him and i hope america heard him because of all the people who have been saying, let's get trump to by have the to be more presidential, that is presidential. >> joining us now from new york, political analyst former anchor from the blaze "amie hole remains, and hide, with "usa today" and here in los angeles, leslie marshall, radio host and fox news contribute report. when manafort stepped down in the wake of the big shakeup, you could see the pin ever involve during th

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here now howard kurtz, fox news media analyst, "mediabuzz" host. anchor, as a reporter, looking down the list what is going on, four huge stories in most recent news cycle. there is the second amendment story which is getting tons of coverage. email release, seems to show pay for play, came out against the clinton foundation. very damning remarks. omar mateen sitting behind hillary clinton at the rally. then there is also this story with julian assange out there implying that this murder of seth rich who worked for the dnc in washington, d.c. when he was shot in the back, he, the wikileaks is adding to the money that's out there as a rewarded for information saying that they want to protect their whistle-blowers. he came as close to saying that he was the one that leaked the emails from the dnc as he possibly could without actually saying it. these are four, huge, enormous stories. only one of them is getting a lot of coverage. that is the one that hurts donald trump. what do you think about that? >> trump has a point when he talks about the press

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howard kurtz, fox news media analyst, hose of "mediabuzz." good morning, bill. bill: what did you notice? >> there was serious and substantive coverage but by the next morning it was crowded, overshadowed by another very legitimate story line, that collided, 50 former republican national security officials saying donald trump is not fit to be president. senator susan collins saying she won't for donald trump. as the day went on, that became the story and the economic speech kind of got buried. bill: does that mean there are more interested in personality and not policy? because this is important stuff here. probably issue number one in the election. >> it is most important issue. journalists are not dying to delve into the intricate details how many income tax rates and what deductions there are, but if you have part of the republican party revolting against donald trump, not only a sexier story, but appeals to those, who are not enamored with trump's candidacy. now the story about trump's remarks about hillary clinton and second amendment peo

. >> we have howard kurtz. are you taking this information shared by julian a ssang. >> i find it manholed up in a embassy is lecturing the american media and recollectlkl jeopard otherwised lives of diplomat and soldiers is complaining about media organizations not wanting to publish hacked e-mails. forget political bias. i don't think we should publish illegally e-mails because it is fruits of a crime. >> if they come out with the documents, do you think the media owes it to the public or say it is done in a way that is illegal. >> i wish we could say we are not touching it. but that's not the world we live in. we faced it in the sony e-mail hack. once it is bouncing on the websites. it is news and you have to cover it. if someone brought me illegally hacked e-mails, i would choose not to publish. regards of julian's games are. raising the questions of the murder of the dnc staffer. he has an agenda and i don't think we should play the game. >> you bring up an interesting point with journalism. he is the prim

abby: howard kurtz is host of "media buzz." always good to see you. >> hi, abby.at from mayor giuliani. not the first we heard that. even yesterday a show i won't mention had a panel full of trump supporters basically venting about the media bias. what is going on here? have you ever seen anything quite like this? >> i have never seen anything remotely like this. i have been saying this for months. you have to discount a little bit what rudy said. he is a trump partisan. he got pretty good coverage as republican mayor of new york city. he knows how to work the press but the obvious distaste bordering on disgust that many journalists as well as commentators have for donald trump, he was able to defeat that in the primaries but, it has been going on for quite a while. in the last 10 days almost like the press put out a mob hit on donald trump. the imbalance is so overwhelming on many every media site and outlet it can no longer be denied. abby: so interesting. even "the new york times" had a piece about exactly that. they were basically saying, if you're working jou

howard kurtz takes a look. >> reporter: two parents, both touched by tragedy, gave impassioned speeches on big stages. kitzer kahn, a muslim father whose son was killed in iraq denounced donald trump at the democratic national convention. >> have you even read the united states constitution? >> reporter: patricia smith, whose son was killed in benghazi, denounced hillary clinton at the republican convention. >> i blame hillary clinton personally for the death of my son. >> reporter: but only one of them drew enormous media attention. kahn's speech made the front page of "the new york times" and invited on cnn's "state of the union." >> that's again, the height of ignorance on the part of a candidate for the highest office of this nation. the way he showed disrespect towards the gold star mother of this country, that says it all. >> your wife? >> my wife. >> reporter: he was referring to trump's appearance on abc's "this week." >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> reporter: "the washington post" s

we'll talk about more on hillary clinton and her questions with the fox news media analyst and howard kurtz. you were able to say hillary, like i know her, a friend. secretary clinton take the questions first time since september. what is your impression of how she handled the questionses. >> ed o'keefe from the washington post implored her to do this more often. i must say i didn't think most of the questions were hard hitting. for a latino journalist to ask, are you taking latino voters for granted. that is a soft ball over the plate. hillary clinton did fine. but clearly as she is discussing had to back track on the repeated insistence that fbi director james comey vouched for her truthfulness saying she short circuited the truth in the previous answers. by and large, it was not the toughest news conference i have seen. >> one of the things we are speaking about is media trumpeting trump implosion but is it real? the media's criticism of of donald trump. but donald trump is out there and giving speeches and twitter all of the time. hillary is not doing that as much. how do you think that

favorite media critic, howard kurtz will weigh in on that. >>> number one issue facing americans is stilt economy. a brand new fox news poll shows americans believe trump is the only one that can turn this economy around. so will he stick to an economic message? our political all-stars are here. but back to our top story. the state department blatantly ignoring the justice department's objections to the optics of sending $400 million an unmarked cargo plane to iran as american hostages are released at the same exact time. but the white house is holding firm to it is narrative this was not ransom. this was just coincidence. watch josh earnest here, white house press secretary. he is dodging that question what would happen to the hostages if the money would not have been i had pa. he dodged it three times. >> isn't it essentially a ransom payment then, even if the u.s. does not view it that way? >> no. it is no the a ransom payment. >> would those prisoners have been released then if this money hadn't been paid then? >> i think what is true, is that there were a team of negotiators -- >> bu

howard kurtz, host of media buzz.he media all worked up about khizr khan's cause but what that writer said in that tweet about patricia smith, quote, i don't care how many children pat smith lost i would like to beat her to death, is this symptomatic of where the media really lies right now? >> that tweet was appalling and so was the criticism of patricia smith, she said this in interviews before, and my heart goes out to the families, she at least took a softer tone. fueled the story with criticism of the khizr khan family. putting that aside, absolute, stark, undeniable contrast in the way the media acted as the rocket fuel for khizr khan's speech and criticizing or downplaying patricia smith at the republican convention. trish: think about the media in general, the left obviously has a set of causes they want to advance in the media, most of whom are part of the left as opposed to being independent journalists embrace those causes. we were talking with caroline heldman, professor in california, as a woman, i got to

i'm howard kurtz and this is "media buzz." >>> donald trump insisted he wasn't going to pivot. he wasn't going to change. and he seemed to make that clear by hiring stephen bannon, the chairman of the vehemently pro-trump conservative website, breitbart. but the more media impact seemed to come from the topic of a new campaign manager, pollster kellyanne who is popular with reporters and touting trump's speech in which he said he regretted causing anyone personal pain. >> you mention anyone who's been personally offended by what he said, will he reach out to the khan family personally? >> he may, but i certainly hope they heard him last night. and i certainly hope america heard him last night because of all the people, david, who've been saying let's get trump to pivot, be more presidential, that is presidential. >> joining us now from new york, amy holmes, political analyst and former anchor at "the blaze," in washington, heidi, senior political correspondent for "usa today" and here in los angeles, leslie marshal, radio host and fox news contributor. heidi, when manafort step

howard kurtz takes a look. >> reporter: two parents, both touched by tragedy, gave impassioned speeches on big stages. kitzer kahn, a muslim father whose son was killed in iraq denounced donald trump at the democratic national convention. >> have you even read the united states constitution? >> reporter: patricia smith, whose son was killed in benghazi, denounced hillary clinton at the republican convention. >> i blame hillary clinton personally for the death of my son. >> reporter: but only one of them drew enormous media attention. kahn's speech made the front page of "the new york times" and invited on cnn's "state of the union." >> that's again, the height of ignorance on the part of a candidate for the highest office of this nation. the way he showed disrespect towards the gold star mother of this country, that says it all. >> your wife? >> my wife. >> reporter: he was referring to trump's appearance on abc's "this week." >> if you look at his wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say. maybe she wasn't allowed to have anything to say. >> reporter: "the washington post" s

senior writer for "the weekly standard," fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz, howard kurtz, and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, still a lot can happen. we are 90 days out. unpredictable things, we don't know. >> let's remember, this is about the worst two or three weeks trump has had of any candidate we've seen recently. so this is the trough, i think. it's also what's left of the bounce that hillary got, from a successful convention. also, the disappearance of her main challenger, bernie sanders. so you've got a consolidation on their part. but, given the fact that we have had a crazy year, and a totally unpredictable candidate, i wouldn't predict anything right now. but i would point out the great irony. trump's strategy has been to flood the media, the free media. and that works extremely well, when you're running in a primary against 16 other people. he got more than a half of the coverage compared to all the others. and he emerged as the winner. but it works precisely the opposite way, when you're in a two-way race, with the two most unpopular candi

let's turn to media analyst howard kurtz. >> murdoch who took over as chairman announced a new managementeam. the network will have would copresidents, one is bill shine who had been in charge of all programming for fnc and fox business network and will oversee all programming. and chief financial officer mark crans is retiring. two other fox news veterans are part of the announcement. suzanne scott has been promoted to executive vice president of programming and jay wallace in charge of the news division. the message is for all the controversy and speculation generated by ales depart temperature, murdoch has been saying with ales team. >> thank you, reporting out of washington today. >>> meanwhile, overseas today, at least 18 people said to be dead after bombs fell on a hospital for women and children in a series of airstrikes in syrian that's according to activists and rescue workers. two employees among the dead, including a nurse, we're told. happened at the only hospital for women and children in that town. rescue workers say they pulled ten people from the rubble still alive. this i

steve hayes, amy walter, fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz, and syndicatedharles krauthammer. charles, it seems to me that trump was taking quite a risk today hold thing meeting with the mexican president with so little preparation. pena nieto could have roasted him, but in fact, it was respectful, it was diplomatic, and it put trump on the international stage. do you think it will help him? >> yes. he took a risk and he pulled it off. look, the big negative about trump, the thing that the clinton campaign plays on, is the fact that it's hard to imagine him as president. being presidential is a thing he's been trying to do. his staff has been trying to get from him for the last six months. now here he is, standing on the world stage, with a world leader. this is a big step. he not only held his own, i think in some ways he sort of dominated the mexican president was rather defensive, asking for respect. trump, i thought, spoke well. and then if you noticed at the very end when they took questions, it was trump who took charge. he is sitting in the palace of

. >> joining me now with reaction, host of fox news media buzz, howard kurtz.tion to jorge's position. >> well, when jorge ramos says neutrality is not an option, well, hey, it stopped being an option for him years ago, especially after he staged that confrontation with donald trump last year, when he started shouting at him, you can't build a wall. was still yelling as security escorted him out. the problem is there are a lot of american-born journalists publicly and privately who agree with jorge ramos when it comes to donald trump. >> there's a question. you say he staged it. he had been trying to get an interview with trump. he'd been denied. he wanted to confront him on some controversial statements trump had made. as a journalist, i see no problem showing up at a rally and shouting your question at a guy who is dodge being you. we do it to hillary clinton too. >> he kept shouting and shouting and shouting. >> then when he took positions, it became advocacy instead of journalism. that's true. but his point, what about -- i mean his point is this is him. he

senior writer for "the weekly standard," fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz, howard kurtzicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, still a lot can happen. we are 90 days out. unpredictable things, we don't know. >> let's remember, this is about the worst two or three weeks trump has had of any candidate we've seen recently. so this is the trough, i think. it's also what's left of the bounce that hillary got, from a successful convention. also, the disappearance of her main challenger, bernie sanders. so you've got a consolidation on their part. but, given the fact that we have had a crazy year, and a totally unpredictable candidate, i wouldn't predict anything right now. but i would point out the great irony. trump's strategy has been to flood the media, the free media. and that works extremely well, when you're running in a primary against 16 other people. he got more than a half of the coverage compared to all the others. and he emerged as the winner. but it works precisely the opposite way, when you're in a two-way race, with the two most unpopular candidates in r

media host howard kurtz's thickness. e will ever hold an old-style press conference where they just go at it because it's not in her entries. you wouldn't take the risk. when you say? >> ago that clinton was down in the polls by six, seven, eight points, she might have to rethink that. she did do a couple of phone interviews relatively brief with cable networks because she was pressed on that and she didn't give any. she made pretty clear this is not part of their media strategy analytics that she will go the rest of the campaign without holding a news conference. it's not to make journalists feel good or validated or important. it is to show you can answer these questions. >> bears for journalists that have come out and said we are not fair to donald trump. e.g. write a piece and those people should resign and get out of the journalism business? >> what i said precisely as when jorge ramos, the univision anchor got on his high horse and set object is a must go out the window when it comes adult japanese made it clear he'

we ask howard kurtz on whether there is a bit of bias going on here. what do you think?ret donald trump gets far more media scrutiny and does far more interviews than hillary clinton. networks were consume sphd with donald trump's campaign shakeup. the krns evening news doing a full story on that. >> donald trump is rebooting his campaign and the first person to get the boot was his campaign chairman. questions about the clinton foundation were covered as a footnote on cbs and three sentence on nbc and abc. >> former president bill clinton made a major announcement saying the clinton foundation will no longer accept foreign or corporate donations if hillary clinton is elected president. >> all three newscasts prominently covering trump's postponing a planned address on illegal immigrants. >> donald trump putting a major speech on immigration on hold. >> questions swirling around donald trump and his stance on immigration, one of his signature issues. >> we learned the f.b.i. found another 15,000 emails from hillary clinton's private server. cbs and nbc did cover it, with

howard kurtz is here. thanks for joining us.but it is the video that is now surfacing. will we see the media react the same way when a kkk leader openly endorsed donald trump? >> apparently not. i don't think the media should play this game of trying to hold accountable or responsible any presidential candidate just because some fringe mark with odious or reprehensible views decides to grab ten seconds of the spotlight by endorsing him or her. there was that clamor where the press asked trump repeatedly do you disavow david duke? there ought to be the same standard. i ni this in both cases no politician can be held responsible for what some wacko's out there decide to say. >> it was pretty brutal for trump and his campaign when this originally broke. look at some of the headlines. ""the new york daily news," trump for prez. we also have a look at "time" headline. former kkk leader tells followers to vote for donald trump. that was in february. politico, trump declined to condemn kkk. politifact, donald trump's absurd claim he kn

can you confirm that is you, howard kurtz? >> that was at my college newspaper. i have grown. then. >> that is the greatest picture ever. that's now my screen saver. howie kurtz, you're a good man. i couldn't resist. it's so fantastic. >>> the trump campaign is saying in the wake of a piece written yesterday in part by maggie haberman who said the campaign is in cray i don't say and trump doesn't listen to his advisers, this is another example of bias and he's possibly pulling the credentials of "times" reporters. >> "new york times" news stories often had an underlying negative tone about trump. advisers hope to refashion a crudely effective showman into a plausible american president but they think trump may be beyond coaching. on the substance it appears to be a well reported story that matches some reports i have seen from others who say his advisers say he goes off script. he told me two nonmonths ago he might pull "the new york times" credentials. >> they're his rallies, and so isn't it an attack on the first amendment if you say i think your coverage is, infect, wo work

howard kurtz joins us. this has turned into what we say a thing.clinton's beach ways to make sure she wasn't actually saying aren't going to raise taxes on the middle class. how did it get to this point? >> let me shed some light on this. i listen to some sound clip. at the same time she misspoke. she does want to raise taxes and was verypen on it but do you call them the rich or not depends on how you look at people making $250,000 a year. i don't think it's fair to say trump falsified it, but it is misleading because while you can argue her policies will have a negative affect on the middle class, it not her campaign's position. >> the transcript of a speech that art. ashley: she misspoke your next one. hillary clinton took a few questions after addressing the association of black journalists and association of hispanic journalists. it wasn't exactly hard-hitting questions. watch this. >> what is the most meaningful conversation you can't? >> i can't compress into one conversation. they supported me. they chastise me. they have raised issues with