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shannon. >> shannon: howard kurtz, thank you very much. following another violent weekend in big cities across the country the white house is pushing to move the goalpost on the whole defund the police narrative now pointing the finger of blame on that point on the g.o.p. >> let's talk about who defunded the police. when we were in congress last year trying to pass a rescue plan -- i'm sorry, not the rescue plan but an emergency relief plan for cities, it was the republicans who objected to it. >> the american rescue plan, state and local funding, something supported by the president. a lot of democrats who supported and voted for the bill could help ensure local cops were kept on the beat in communities across the country. didn't receive a single republican vote. >> shannon: the city council in oakland, california, is taking a big chunk out of the police budget. a senior correspondent eric shawn has details. good evening. all right, we will try to get back to it and reconnect with eric. moving on, the supreme court making news tonight by

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: ahead, former trump economic advisor, larry kudlowoins us on a wide range of issues, jon stewart talks up the wuhan lab leak theory, why that turns out to be serious shtick and we'll unveil a feature called buzz beaters. stick around for that. the reality, the geneva meetings didn't accomplish much was less dramatic beginning with pundits trying to analyze the russian leader's body language. >> he looked stern. >> stern? i thought he looked cul. howie: as biden fielded questions, the media split into warring camps over whether the sessions were worth it. >> there was a lot of hype around this meeting. >> what is something concrete that you achieved today and what were the consequences you threatened. >> whether i stopped it from happening again, knows i will take action, like we did when this last time out. and so there are no threats, just simple assertions made. >> the so-called summit with vladimir putin did absolutely nothing to advance any american interest in any way. that's a fact. >> even if you're a rank partisan, you see tha

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that needs to happen with other white people. >> john: weighing in now, howard kurtz.s an attack on white people for the sin of being white to say as we just heard that white people should undergo a period of deep shame is down right insulting and the other quotes from this video. one person saying that we should be in white accountability groups and white people don't understand racism is a sweeping and absurd generalization. i have no problem with people pointing out racism in this society, the legacy of slavery, police mistreatment of black men. we learned a lot. it goes off the rails to suggest that anyone by virtue of having white skin regardless of their individual conduct should be ashamed of themselves. it's hard for me to fathom. >> john: one screen in the presentation says exploring white racial identity will be a life-long process. it seems to contend people that are white to self-examination for the rest of their lives. >> right. regardless of what they have done, maybe they fought against racism, this is a form of racism. putting the onus on people because

howard kurtz looks at the latest of the series of revelations directly contradicting some of the mediareporting about our last president. we begin with representative omar trying to clarify her comparison of the u.s. and israel to hamas and the taliban. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has the latest. support and democrats from fellow criticism. >> there is an effort to bridge this democratic divide but for now some far left lawmakers are standing firm. this internal dustup after democratic congresswoman ilhan omar questioned secretary of state antony blinken during a house hearing on international criminal court investigations into u.s. and israeli actions in afghanistan. the palestinian territories. omar tweeted "we have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the u.s., hamas, israel, afghanistan, and the taliban." that prompted a dozen of omar's democratic colleagues to denounce her, but omar fired back accusing democrats of "harassment and silencing." instead of standing by her statement, midday today omar issued what she called a clarification "i was in no way eq

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: ahead, the naomi osaka mellow drama, i say the highestaid female athlete on the planet shouldn't be able to blow-off the press. as the coronavirus is finally starting to fade in america, the washington post and buzzfeed obtained thousands of dr. fauci's e-mails including praise from an environmental group that funneled federal money to the wuhan lab. >> some of your critics say this shows you have too cozy of a relationship with the people behind the wuhan lab research, what do you say to that. >> that's nonsense. i don't know how you get that from the e-mail. howie: reporters shouted questions at president biden about whether he still has confidence in fauci. >> you mentioned dr. fauci again, can you imagine any circumstance where president biden would ever fire him? >> no. howie: fauci defended himself on the e-mails in a series of msnbc interviews, including this one with rachel maddow. >> i've become the object of i believe inappropriate, distorted, misleading and misrepresented attacks. ist is what it is. it's happening. and that's u

i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ howie: ahead, the media coverage of the trump team directingark police to clear protesters outside the white house one year ago, turns out to be wrong. jeffrey tubin back on cnn months after a zoom call with an embarrassing apology. it's bloody obvious the media has been excited about president biden's trip to u.k. and europe for one overriding reason, he's not the former guy. >> the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together. >> the bar is low for success with him and putin because of the singular level of sucking up that trump brought to bear with putin. >> the first trip abroad by the president who comes after the president who saw zero value in our friends and allies and delighted in pandering to the world's most heinous dictators. >> the idea that america is back, i don't know if he understands what had been going on when president trump was president and the foreign policy successes and how our adversaries viewed him. howie: joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech, founder and publisher of the fe

here is fox news media alliston and post of fox's media buzz, howard kurtz. >> president biden is drawinghly favorable coverage for his european trip and meeting with vladimir putin. >> capstone for the career president biden spent decades on the international stage. >> all the more surprising that he snapped at cnn caitlin's collins for asking why he was competent pollutant would change his behavior. >> what do you do all the time? you don't understand that. >> the president pushed back in calmer fashion against the conduct of journalists. >> to be a good reporter, you've got to be negative. you've got to have a negative view of life, it seems to me. you never ask a positive question. >> this isn't the first time biden has lashed out at a shouted question like this one about his son hunter. >> i have no response. it's another smear campaign, right up your alley. >> biden has never approached donald trump's rhetoric in calling many media outlets the enemy of the people. trump was bombarded with negative coverage such as at the helsinki summit when he accepted putin's denial of russian ele

here's fox news media analyst and the host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz. >> president biden is trawg meeting with vladimir putin. >> it's a capstone for the career president biden who spent decades on the international stage. >> which made it all the more surprising that he snapped at cnn's caitlin collins for asking why he was confident that putin would change his behavior. >> i'm not confident. what in the hell -- what do you do all the time? you don't understand that you are in the wrong business. >> the president pushed back in calmer fashion against the conduct of journalists. >> look, to be a good reporter, have you got to be negative. you have got to be negative -- me the way you all you never ask positive questions. >> this isn't the first time biden has lashed out at shouted question like this one about his son hunter. >> enough to response. another smear campaign. right up your alley the questions you always ask. >> yet biden has never approached donald trump's rhetoric in calling many outlets the inform the people. trump was bombarded with media coverage is you such as the

let's bring in howard kurtz and host a media buzz.we now. >> president biden told reporters that he knows congress better than they do and he's right, unfortunately for the president i didn't stop him from blowing up the deal. he issued a veto threat by saying he wouldn't sign a carefully negotiated package unless he got a much more costly bill passed by democrats. the media was so busy blaming him for hammering it out, infrastructure deal of reward, bipartisanship for now. lindsey graham telling political them to extortion. the coverage shifts from republicans are furious, but very little criticism. over the weekend he had to walk back in a statement what he had said saying it wasn't his "intent" to tie these together. nothing to see here, and now they're saying, republicans are back on board after the cleanup. by sunday "the washington post" admitted the episode could be an embarrassment for biden, could be, generous to say the least and the talking points were still unclear. white house advisor refused to say that he had changed hi

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