joining us is media plus host howard kurtz. me give you a chance to question theunderlying premise . callings as says you believe these dosurveys where american media is a threat to democracy responsible for organizing this? >> i will compensate five percent we don'tbelieve the media is all . of course more and more of the media is of course a big fat target online, cable tv and everything else play polarizing will some of you formal political trends that has lots of each side and this blowtorch is it pasted into theme inflammatory a great static and get their message out for media g organizations, networks. >> and it's absolutelyburning the country . >> let me ask you this because ithink you're right . there's a difference between being white and being respected and i wonder what role the position pof use has impacted respect part of it. if you were toim call the name of the almost immediately people that say is associated with a w. i don't know what outlets are associated with breakdown littles d giving the facts. >> there ar

i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ howard: ahead, george santos versus the media mob as he isted for fraud. the first 24 minutes of the cnn event was spent on two of donald trump's true curing subjects -- recurring subject, the 2020 election and the capitol riot, and that insured a clash from the start. >> it was not a rigged election, it was not a stolen election. can you publicly acknowledge that you did lose the 2020 the election? >> let me just go onto you look at the vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras where they were stuff thing ballot boxes. >> i'm going to stop you there because there is no evidence of that. your own election officials testified to that. >> the presidential records act, i was there and i took what i took, and it gets declassified. biden, on the other hand, he has 1850 boxes. he he had boxes sent to chinatown, can chinatown, where they don't speak even english in that chinatown -- >> i've got to stop you right there. i would like you to ask the question -- >> it's very simple. >> that's why i asked it. >> you are a nasty

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i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: ahead, finally a debt ceiling deal, but is theoo quick to assume it will hold? from the right, from the left, ron desantis' twitter fiasco is the talk of the town. >> his live twitter announcement with elon musk, that did not go well after twitter had one technical glitch after another. but ron desantis is hugely popular. >> it really was an embarrassment for the desantis campaign. i mean, they said it broke the internet. they ended up with 200,000 people watching, listening. >> of course, it's not desantis' fault, that's on the tech guys at twitter. >> trump had the golden escalator, ron desantis got the world's most embarrassing 404 error. howard: and there were zero glitches when the florida governor spoke to fox's trey godden. >> you know, as president, i'm going to make sure woke ideology ends up in the dust bin of history. howard: joining us now to analyze the cover a, ben domenech and in los angeles, leslie marshall. both are fox news contribute us. -- contributors. ben, it was a disastrous lawn. putting that aside, what do

i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: what's striking about the growing coverage of ther mess is that the administration is taking flak from all sides regardless of ideology. >> like so many others before him, president biden has a taken a series of far smaller steps while trying to paint those limited measures in the best possible light which raises the question, when does selling a policy veer into overselling it? >> joe biden thinks the surge will be a big f-ing deal. it drove liberals nuts when the other guy did it, of course, but now the administration is tight-lippedded. >> if you're out there thinking, hey, i feel like i follow the news and we've known that these deadlines were coming for months if not years, you're right. >> why has it been so hard for the biden white house to get their arms around this crisis? after all, illegal border crossings across the southern border were at a 50-year low when barack obama and joe biden left the white house and turned it over to o'donald trump. >> over 6.5 million people illegally entering the country under joe biden becaus

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and on media buzz, howard kurtz explains ron desantis' campaign twitter launch and the line between desantisnd elon musk. griff: alexandria ocasio-cortez facing heat in her district during a town hall last night. some participants shouting out frustrations at the democratic lawmaker over issues like immigration, ukraine funding and the debt ceiling alexandria hoff it sure did get heated in that town hall. >> heated to say the least. they brought the heat. shouting at each other. and it happened in queens, new york, in a neighborhood called corona, where several took issue with rep cortez's stance on immigration and ukraine and one point she's talking about the debt limit and it spiraled. because we should eliminate the debt limit in the united states because of the constitutional-- . [applause], [shouting] >> what you voted for. where were you. boo! >> (bleep). >> stop it! >> okay. are you going to stop to the question. are we going to-- . we know about it. >>, [shouting] >> let the veteran speak. let the veteran speak! >> the pandemonium continued through what was supposed to be a question

president of the heritage foundation and media buzz here on fox news, howard kurtz.s is the editorial board on his legislative record, saying there is no denying mr. desantis gets things done. susan, that is what he has been arguing in iowa and new hampshire, he keeps going back to, part of it he has gop super majorities in florida, still he worked with them and got his agenda through. >> he won reelection by almost 20 points in a big state, a state historically has had also democratic voters. so, that is a really impressive reelection. he has gotten big things done that will get him in trouble if he gets to a general election. i think that is the challenge he faces. he needs to take on trump in the primaries and win there. if he succeeds in doing that he will have to deal in a more nice edge way with some of the things he has done in florida. >> shannon: as somebody gets in, everybody focuses why they think they would be a great candidate. have you to start interacting with them can be different, we saw pieces this week, they were not so kind to the governor and als

kevin roberts president of the heritage foundation host of media buzz on fox news howard kurtz good toelvia. this is the line from wall street journal editorial on his legislative record of government to santos. there's denying mr. desantis gets things done. susan, that is what he has been arguing in iowa and new hampshire these early places he keeps going back to pre-look at all the things i got done. he has got you be super majority in florida. still he worked with them and got his through prayer. >> not just gop he won reelection by was 20 points and a big state estate that historically has had democratic voters but that's a really impressive reelection we got big things done. big things agenda going to give him trouble if they get to a general election. that is a challenge he faces pretty to take on trump in the primaries and when they are. if he succeeds in doing that he will have to deal at a nice edge weight with some things he sent in florida. shannon: is somewhat get that a lot has a four they get in the focus on what they think they'll be a great candidate that your person wh

. >> reporter: this is howard kurtz, defense attorney, and here's what he thought about the murder caset 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. >> remember that "i hate brad" day, the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling 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 game you had played with the cops before? >> that's the introduced us to that game.

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