michael sÁnchez on what he did and didn't do in this tabloid mess, i'm howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. ♪ >> after long complaining that he's soft on white supremacy, most of the media dismissed president trump's voice when he said this. >> in one voice, our nation must condemn, racism, bigotry and white supremacy. >> much of the focus has been on el paso gunman with journalisting says manifesto of hispanic invasioned some of trump's own words, the dayton was liberal has drawn less coverage. >> the dayton situation, he was a fan of antifa, a fan of bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, nothing to do with trump but nobody ever mentions that. i don't blame elizabeth warren and i don't blame bernie sanders and i don't blame anybody. i blame these are sick people. >> joining us to analyze holy hemmingway, kavanaugh confirmation, gillian turner, correspondent and white house official and richard fowler, fox news contributor. molly, journalists, commentators say as we just heard president trump is a racist, president trump is a white supremacist and maybe leap that he's condoning, directly r

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howard kurtz picks it up from there. >> msnbc host lawrence o'donnell made a stunning serious charge based on one unnamed source. >> this single source has told me that the trump, donald trump loan documents their show that he has cosigners. that's how he was able to obtain those loans and that the cosigners are russian oligarchs. >> really? >> after trump lawyers sent nbc a letter calling the story false and defamatory and he said he went outside the network's normal vetting process. >> saying as i discuss the information was simply not good enough, tonight we are retracting the story. we don't know whether the information is inaccurate but the fact is, we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast and for that, i apologize. >> president trump took to twitter to call the former democratic senate aide crazy. >> he's been saying stuff for four years, it's just as wrong but this is one that he was forced by nbc to apologize but they are really despicable people. it's fake news. >> it's hardly unprecedented, cnn and abc have also had to retract stories but o'donnell's blunder drew almost no

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[laughter] but the political changed the fact of what howard kurtz called the spin cycle inside the clinton propaganda machine and i'm not being political here, this is just reality and history. i then was w visited so this cos back to who was the team by someone i see some people who might be as old as i am and you remember something called watergate. at one of the heroes of real truth seeker was sam dash. sam had been a very successful assistant d.a. in philadelphia and he was also an academic at georgetown, and i know sam well. sam comes to my office and says ken, your being of your because of your republican credentials. yes, i noticed that sam. i am not a republican, it's worked very well known i am a prominent democrat, and he said you should consider chicken a balance. there was something i had not expected to do, nor to have to do but as we geared up finally i will say for the trial, have as it turned out that there was serious fraud there. in little rock and as we gear up for the trial, against the sitting governor and james and susan mcdougall names from the past, but some you may

howard kurtz picks it up from there. >> reporter: lawrence o'donnell made a stunningly serious charge against the president of the united states based on one unnamed source. >> a single source close to deutsche bank told me donald trump's documents, he has cosigners, that is how he was able to obtain those loans and the cosigners are russian oligarchs. >> reporter: after trump lawyers sent a letter calling the story false and defamatory he admitted an error in judgment, he gone outside the normal vetting process. >> if true as i discussed the information was simply not good enough. we are retracting the story. we don't know whether the information is inaccurate but the fact is we do know it wasn't ready for broadcast. and for that i apologize. >> reporter: donald trump took to twitter calling him crazy. >> lawrence o'donnell has been thanks the fifth four years, it is just as wrong. he was forced by nbc to apologize but they are just really despicable people. >> reporter: this is hardly unprecedented, cnn and abc had to retract stories but o'donnell's blunder drew almost no media cove

among those alluded so far, that's it for special edition from media buzz, breaking news, i'm howard kurtz if you have a chance check out podcast, stories and you can subscribe apple itunes, google play or foxnews.com, we post original videos and i'm sure a lot to tuck on twitter, we will continue here on fox with coverage of the shootings, we are back in dc sunday with the latest buzz. (rock music) - [announcer] your story doesn't have to end. as an organ donor, the good in you can live on. in fact, you could save up to eight lives through organ donation. sign up to give the gift of life after you're gone. you'll be happy you did. just maybe, someone else will too. sign up online today as an organ, eye, and tissue donor, at organdonor.gov, it saves lives. >> two incredible places, we love the people, this has been going on for years, and years in our country, we have to get it stopped. heather: monday august 4th and this is "fox & friends first", happening right now at 4:00 a.m., here on the east coast fox news alert for you, president trump condemning america's second deadliest weekend a

with the list of media buzz, howard kurtz.or tonight. >> the cnn moderator did not have to work as hard because these democrats came ready to rumble. the heated debate and it was very heated really turned on the counterpunching and personal attacks. the moderators made a decision to give a whole lot of time to joe biden and kamala harris for the slugfest, we saw a more energized and prepared joe biden and in my view that was the right decision because those are the two top contenders on stage, here is dana bash with pointed questions for senator harris and the vp. >> vice president biden's campaign calls your plan a have it every which way to approach and says it's just part of a confusing pattern of equivocating about your healthcare stands. >> he said in the past the democrats who want to keep the private insurance industry are defending a healthcare system that is not working. >> sort of like waving a red flag and the bulls came charging and they took each other on which is what you want to say, shouldn't be just about mode

fox host howard kurtz tweeting that their job is to cover both sides.o, mike, i'm wondering, what is fox's response going to be? >> silence. and they've been silent all year every time the president has complained about the network. it's in stark contrast to axios and "the washington post" which both today defended themselves when the president complained. i think peter is raising something uncomfortable but important, when you have the president saying fake news all the time talking about real reporting. when you have a president who can't even stand seeing a democrat on fox news, it does bring up his mental instability in a way that is uncomfortable but really important to talk about. it's something that everyone sees -- >> mental instability? what do you mean by that? >> we all see it. we see the tweets. i see the statements. it's something going on in front of our eyes. the fox hosts who love him will never talk about this. everyone else sees it happening. peter says narcissistic personality disorder. i don't know what it is. >> you know talking to

the host of fox media buzz, howard kurtz. and mollie hemingway, senior editor at the federalist.day the president is pushing back on his critics who obviously have tied his tweets and his rhetoric to these actions, at least the ones in el paso. >> beta work trying to restart his campaign. i think it's sad that on a day when donald trump goes to these two cities to play the role of healer and she for so many past presidents have done, his other critics are saying you shouldn't go. that's the state of political polarization that is available right now. it's fine to say as many of the attractors do that donald trump is a flawed message or because of his sometimes divisive rhetoric. but, when you are making the case that he is the one spreading animosity, i think that shows how some of his critics are and i've become unhinged over this. >> bret: listen to the president and joe biden on hate groups. >> president trump: i'm concerned about the rise of any group of hate. any group of hate, whether it's white supremacy or any other kind of supremacy, whether it's antifa or any group of h

google play or fox news and original videos, we talk to you, we talk to you on twitter as well at howard kurtzthe conversation there about the media, so much to deal with this week, hard to squeeze it all in, we are back here next sunday at 11:00 eastern with the latest buzz. eric: president trump announcing at the g7 summit in france that a trade with u.s. and japan is, quote, done in principle and expects so sign that next month and the president says another massive trade deal could come soon with great britain and he says, quote, lots of fantastic mini deals and pushback against china. hello, welcome to america's headquarters, i'm eric sean. >> and i'm molly in for arthel neville. bilateral meeting with japan prime minister shinzo abe, america win for

i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz".♪ ♪ [music] the president dominating headlines again with a attack on two democratic congresswoman who are muslim by successfully urging netanyahu to bar them from a global effort to boycott israel from visiting the jewish state. >> they want to do boycotts, they said horrible things about jewish people. i think will be a terrible thing frankly, for israel to let these people who speak so badly about israel, come in. howard: in the global media storm that followed rashida tlaib and ilhan omar denounce the decision and when israel backtracked, tlaib rejected a visit with her grandmother. guy benson political editor at town hall at fox news contributor and host of the guy benson radio show. beverly hallberg president of district median former television producer and clarence page, columnist for the chicago tribune. everything up to israel to decide -- whatever your views of the islamic is and i've criticized omar sharply for anti-semitic comments. is it fair for the president to slam -- >> this is not about the president.i think he's drawing att

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fox news media analyst howard kurtz joins me now. this is interesting. i watched the whole trailer.in this. it's incredibly grisly, but it reminds me in some ways of "the hunger games." where it's a fight for survival. >> it sounds like an awful film. call it deplorable. how did suits green light this? we'll follow wealthy liberal vacationers as they go around shooting crazy conservatives? even as satire, doesn't sound like anybody i know would want to see such a thing. >> melissa: they're trying to make a commentary on, i wonder about the political message because they're trying to make a commentary on the people that think they own society and they're so much better, they don't even think of people on the right as being human beings. i mean, i don't know. i watch it. i was trying to figure out what it is. i would not watch the whole movie. frankly, it is so violent that i can't watch something like that. obviously, they had to pull the ads this week. the timing. do you think ultimately they still release it? given just the actors that i saw in it, they spent a bunch of money. >> t

. >> reporter: this is howard kurtz, defense attorney, and here's what he thought about the murder caseinst his client, brad cooper. >> you need actual evidence to convict and actual evidence is something that they did not have. >> reporter: no physical evidence, said defense attorneys kurtz and robert trankle to tie brad to nancy's murder. the awful scenes from the cooper marriage the jury heard no witness from either side had seen brad physically violent toward nancy. for the $300 a week allowance there was a reason, the defense argued. remember the couple had serious debt. the defense offered contrasting scenes of the cooper marriage from another set of friends. >> people who had known the couple for years, did not jump on this bandwagon to paint this as an abusive relationship. >> reporter: remember that "i hate brad" day, the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling point. on that very day, said laura hiller, nancy was making plans for saturday night, the day she disappeared. >> she wanted my husband and i to come over and play sequence with her and brad. >> was that a

let's bring in howard kurtz, host of media buzz.do you think that the original headline was flawed? >> i think there was actually nothing wrong with the original headline, as somebody who has written a lot of newspaper headlines, it is hard to do this on your deadline pressure was short spaces. it accurately reflected the president's speech, but that was not acceptable in the current anti-trump climate. so the second paragraph of the story said in addition to the things that he said, he also did not bring up gun control and that is fine, and the paper can use other news analysis, columns to attack and rip apart the president's speech, but basically the times caved into the left-wing mob that finds a completely unacceptable and unwilling to stomach a headline that said, yes, president trump went on the air and condemned white supremacy, patriots and racism. >> dana: as a former republican press secretary, they would have lasted ten seconds and that job, because every headline is bad. and you learn to work around it. i've called so ma

howard kurtz, host of media buzz and kristen soltis anderson of the "washington examiner."at group, happy sunday to all of you. get back to the rhetoric for a moment here. here was a sample from the last week with several democratic candidates. >> both clear language and encode this president has fanned the flames of white supremacy in this nation. >> there is no national security when we don't have racial justice, let alone when we have a president who is coddling white nationalists. >> what he's done is spew hate and division his entire presidency. the incidence of hate crimes have risen all across the country. >> bill: by my count, charlie, has been called a white super misses, a racist, and a white nationalist. >> you know, tim ryan rightly says that he wants to bring the country together, and one of the truths after a horrific series of events like we've been through, as terrible as they are, people are kind of united. they are 100%, or at least 99% united in agony over what we have witnessed. and the idea that -- donald trump didn't start this. the idea that democrats

let's bring in fox news media analyst cohost of media buzz, howard kurtz. good morning to you. >> i talked to anthony scaramucci yesterday right after the president unloaded on him and he denied begging for a return to the administration. he said his first in d.c. almost cost him his marriage. more importantly, why is he doing this now customer the criticism that he just wants the media attention. what scaramucci told me is that he believes that the president's confidence but now believes those achievements has been overshadowed by what he believes is the present president bullying. >> he fired the first shot about a week ago. what was that all about? what triggered that? >> he had gone on various television programs including media buzz and after the president went after the four thick democratic congress movement of color and said basically he thought the present racist remarks should get toned down. what happened that is you can't really understate this, he has gone from saying that the president might jeopardize his reelection if he doesn't tone down the rhetoric to calling

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tune into media buzz tomorrow at 11:00 eastern howard kurtz talk about coverage of president trump atginsburg addressing her health on stage in washington as she spoke to 19th annual library of congress national book festival, mark meredith. hard to understate for implications as ruth bader ginsburg was talking. >> ruth bader ginsburg made public appearance this week after supreme court said earlier this month that 87-year-old completed radiation treatment for malignant tumor on pancreas, ginsburg spoke at national book festival in washington, d.c., says she's looking forward to the court's next term and spoke openly about her held amid the recent surgeries. >> so the audience can see that i am alive. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> and i am on my way to being very well. >> a lot of applause there, ginsburg was asked about how she's able to keep well in such a demanding job and if she's planning to retire any time soon. >> i love my job, it's the best and the hardest job that i have ever had. it has kept me going through four cancer battles instead of concentrating on my eighth, i

and then howard kurtz's panel will talk about the media coverage of those mass shootings in texas and to both of those states. tomorrow at 11 a.m. eastern. leland: iran is warning israel, saying that tehran would view the action as a, quote, clear threat and reserving the right to take action. this comes following reports israel was going to assist the u.s. to protect shipping in the strait with intelligence. and with that, we bring in former deputy assistant secretary of state in the obama administration, currently washington strategy group president joel rubin. good to see you, joel, thanks. always nice to know where the iranians stand. >> well, they certainly stand against israel, and there's no doubt about that. and if israel's going to support american intelligence-gathering -- leland: we know they do, they just said the quiet part out loud. [laughter] >> well, yeah, and that's always been behind the scenes, and now israel's getting overt, but israel has the right to do that, and we have the right and responsibility to get the most accurate information that we can about security

let's bring in our a-team, mary anne marsh, howard kurtz, and that david avella, chairman of gopac.to all of you. you are on the air over the weekend when all of this was happening. your thoughts now that we have heard from the president. >> well, i was glad that he called out some of these dark social media sites where these mass murderers hang out. he unambiguously condemned white supremacy. but there was a glaring omission, sandra. the expectation had been raised by the president himself into its this morning, talking about the need for tighter background checks work on purchases. there was nothing about that. just sort of a generalized call for a bipartisan solution. he has the unique opportunity here, you will recall that he brought in members of congress, both parties, even some republicans, he said he would take the heat, but after meeting with the nra, he decided to drop the background checks, the bum stocks prohibition. so the question is -- and congress has been so gridlocked, the nation is shocked and horrified by these twin mass killings, could president trump actually l

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