howard kurtz on this. first, let's check back with fox news congressional correspondent aishah hasnie live in d.c. we know this is part of the new omnibus spending bill. they're looking to ban tik tok on government devices. right, aishah? >> that's right. good afternoon to you, anita. when the president signs this omnibus bill, tik tok will be banned officially on government devices. that is a big first step for lawmakers on the hill. we're also learning more major actions come be coming soon. the "wall street journal" is now reporting that the biden administration is pushing for the sale of the app's u.s. operations in an efforts to separate it from its chinese owner bite dance. the journal writes this. the proposal for a forced sale has arisen in discussions by the committee on foreign investment in the u.s. and interagoty government panel that has been negotiating with tik tok for two years on the way to wall off the company's data and operations from the chinese government. experts tell the "wall stree

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let's bring in fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz.have been hearing about this chatter for years. is it really all that surprising to you? >> now we have proof what is stunning about the systematic targeting of conservatives is how sweeping and carefully planned it was. how those who complained were dismissed as conspiracy theorist and how top twitter executives lied about it as in oh we would never dream of shadow banning anybody for ideological reasons, false. two telling bari weiss we control the amplification of your content and normal people don't know about it. nobody knew about it. who would know? dan bongino was put on the search blacklist so nobody could find his post. here is his reaction? >> please, audience, look me in the face and tell me now all you media clowns and goons and nuts who told me i was the crazy conspiracy theorist, tell me we live in a free country. >> i wonder how we have a committee to carry this whole thing out? >> yes, and at the highest levels of the most sensitive cases is a super secret committee whi

howard kurtz has analysis of the latest report we begin with correspondent griff jenkins and what exactlye are learning a lot.

career she interviewed everything president from nixon to obama which i spoke with fox news's howard kurtz, host of media buzz about walters's astounding career trajectory. sheet >> she started as a today show girl which was a big break at the time and ends with the coanchor ship of the abc news. she goes on from there to interview presidents, celebrity's, murder suspects and in midcareer starts of you. >> reporter: started in 1997, the view proved influential to say the least. here's more review cohost and former cohost of "fox and friends" of elizabeth hassle back. >> always prepared, i learned to interview and learn more about the person you're interviewing than they knew about themselves. >> reporter: on her last show walters talked about what her legacy would be. >> how proud when i say all the young women who are reporting the news, anything to help that happen, that is my legacy. >> reporter: walters's spokesperson said she died surrounded by family and lived her life with no regrets. in washington, alexandria half, fox news. molly: we send our condolences to barbara walters's famil

howard kurtz reacting to the government on covid content saying it seems too familiar. >> medical school epidemiologist said vaccines were important for older patients but not younger people. he was slapped with a misleading label. he was shadow banned. you shouldn't like anything he had to say for his opinion and it is like the hunter biden laptop all over again except with life or death consequences. >> molly: life or death consequences with covid. >> we are. that's been proven. the magic that they have now is by silencing certain voices and we see this with levine when it comes to medical issues and now the transgender issue. the statement is there is no debate with signs or the science is finished. science is never finished. it is created by investigation, theories and debate amongst the experts. when you silence people a government can say no one disagrees. this is the new truth whether it's about vaccines, whether it's about gender-affirming care with minors. still a major conversation in this country. parents have a major role in this and deserve the truth and information they can

. >> rich: let's bring the panel, fox news media analyst howard kurtz, mollie hemingway, the editor in jessica tarlov, i want to get into the bar that needed to be cleared here for some of the discussion, some of the tweets they were talking about. there is different -- disinformation, people saying that covid makes you magnetic and sticking spoons for your head and then there is some real innocuous stuff, from what you have gone through, what is in here. >> it does seem that the trump administration was focused on the issue of being this information about runs on grocery stores, which is a little bit odd, because there were runs at the beginning of the pandemic, but secondly when the biden administration came and it was focusing on people, which is much more upsetting, anti-vaxxer accounts, and particular "the new york times" reporter that was controversial in this field, and the team was very angry, and wanted to d platform several accounts wanted know why berenson was still there, but now is the take away, martin called dorf, at harvard medical school, he tweeted in his expert opini

fox news media analyst host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz and leslie will.r, who said this is not congress' job to get in the middle of this. this should have been negotiated at the table. president biden said they are going to push it down the road to fight for this paid sick leave that is not in this deal. >> they should fight for the paid sick leave. i mean, you know, the president is a very prounion president. democrats are very prounion candidates. it's the right thing to do. i would disagree that congress shouldn't get involved because, you know, one of the things that the president has to do is has to care about national security. has to care about the economy. has to care about transportation. and all of that is wrapped up with this. so i think that the president did the right thing. and it's very hard position for him to be in because he had to look at the best interest of the country. but, also, appease the unions, which are huge supporters and that he will also say helped him to get over the finish line to become president in the last election. >>

howard kurtz houses "media buzz dent" in a fox news contributor, great to happy with with this. we have been waiting for the second release of this information on twitter emphasis part of elon musk as the new owner to kind of clear the slate intersight, look i want everyone to know what is happening behind closed doors because this isn't just an algorithm to take something off and nobody really knows how to set them or don't like. this is very intentional and so how we, let me start with you, your reaction. >> without a shadow of a doubt, twitter executives were lying appear at the technical, oh, we don't target conservatives. oh, we don't shadow ban. we certainly don't do it for reasons of ideology. it is all about ideology. and also just decided what they would think according to this company was misinformation which just means not in accordance with their left leaving world view. then you would be into trouble and people couldn't find your name. you couldn't get on trending topics and then finally bari weiss did a very good job, and a couple of staffers saying, "we control th