. >> so if you look at those specific criticisms katie couric has been sued for defamation the washington post retracted a headline. i never had to make a retraction. there is nothing else for them to say but i have the mainstream media to print hundreds of corrections about me never in my career made a mistake there rises to the level they have made mistakes by the way the mainstream media use anonymous sourcing. item number problem with anonymous sources but you cannot do that always to make your point you have to use them sparingly and be credible. "the washington post" literally had to retract his had led about me three weeks ago that james o'keefe selectively edited this but i did not. that the producer from a man to retracted that why don't they say that? he actually did retract his article. so to look closely at the fact i never specifically said that they do choose ad as a characterization this is one of the things i am fighting. >> host: will those tactics were?. >> they are eager miss lee effective i just moderated a panel here after invest and to appeal to the self-interest. he

authors will include alfred can, best-selling for walter isaacson, nbc news katie couric and many more. for information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch previous festival coverage, click the book fairs tab on our website, booktv.org. >> you are watching book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. we are at the paris hotel for freedom fest libertarian convention where we are interviewing authors speaking here. up next with us, michael medved. here's his most recent book, "the american miracle: divine providence in the rise of the republic". mister medved, what was your goal with this book? >> my goal was to answer a fundamental question that i think has profound consequence to all our politics and all our culture and the way americans feel about our country. the question is how did america rise to world dominance? it would have been unpredictable from the perspective of the 1600s before america had even begun to be settled.north america was largely wilderness, likely settled. there was a disparate number of native american cultures. and all of a sudden you ha

. >> guest: if you look at specific criticism nothing is significant, katie couric did deceptively editor documentary and been sued for defamation. the washington post retracted headline about me. i never had to make such a retraction. these are obvious occasion and ad hominem. there's nothing else for them to say. i have gotten mainstream media to print hundreds of corrections about me. i never in my career made a mistake arises to the level they made. mainstream media uses anonymous sources. i don't have a problem with using anonymous sources but you can't only use anonymous sources to make your point. you have to use them sparingly and be credible. a lot of these, i use the example of the washington post who literally had to retract a headline about me three weeks ago. the headline was james o'keefe selectively edited this out. i did not selectively edit out the fact in question. he retracted that. why isn't everyone saying he selectively edits? he did retract his article. if you look closely at the facts. i never actually specifically made any specific edit, they are just using that t

eastern, nbc news correspondent katie couric reflects on the trump campaign and the 2016 presidential election on her book "unbelievable: my front row at to the craziest campaign in american history." >> there are legendary stories about his press person getting into it with reporters. what was unusual was the very public nature. the way he would go after reporters from the stage of rally and encourage the crowd to turn on us and boo us. announcer: at 9:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, the former host of cbs face the nation on the impact of changing technology in journalism in his book "overload: finding the truth in today's deluge of news." >> the first thing we have to keep doing is doing what we're doing. that is trying to sort out the truth from the false. it is an overwhelming job. we are dealing with so much more information. we have access to more information than any people in the history of the world but we are running a little short on curators. we are getting savage information that we cannot process it. announcer: for more of this weekend's schedule go to booktv.org.g -- ann

it's a huge story when katie couric took the cbs anchor chair.ent, workman-like, paid a lot less. but the most of lucrative market is morning television. that's jeff grower. g-l-o-r. let me know what you think on twitter @howard kurtz. and write to us mediabuzz@foxnews.com. [♪] arthel: washington plays a waiting game as special counsel robert mueller makes a significant step in his russia investigation. the "wall street journal" reports that the investigation has netted its first diment. eric: the investigation into russian interference which includes claims of collusion between trump's campaign and the russians. so far

tom brokaw, dan rather and peter jennings were succeeded by diane sawyer, brian williams, katie couricnew crew of anchors is competent, workman-like, undoubtedly paid a lot less. the big three draw a combining 24 million viewers. glor. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you'll like our facebook page, check it out. let me know what you think on twitter, and if you want to write to us, media buzz@foxnews.com. you can't catch the show live, dvr. we'll see you next sup, back here at 11 eastern with the latest buzz. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> believe me, if you're the person, you know. you have already been told you are a target. >> we don't know who is being charged. we don't know what they are being charged for. the only conversation i had with robert mueller it was stressing to him the importance of cutting out the leaks. >> i'm on the committee, which is investigating the whole alleged russian collusion. and i have not seen one bit of evidence. >> when they start rallying against things and they succeed, everything starts unraveling. let the tax write

tom brokaw, dan rather and peter jennings were succeeded by diane sawyer, brian williams, katie couricpetent, workman-like, undoubtedly paid a lot less. the big three draw a combining 24 million viewers. glor. that's it for this edition of "media buzz." i'm howard kurtz. we hope you'll like our facebook page, check it out. let me know what you think on twitter, and if you want to write to us, media buzz@foxnews.com. you can't catch the show live, dvr. we'll see you next sup, back here at 11 eastern with the latest buzz. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ arthel: washington waiting for the shoe to drop as a federal grand jury reportedly approves the first charges in special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russia's election meddling. "the wall street journal"'s reporting authorities could arrest at least one person as early as tomorrow. hello, everyone, welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm arthel neville. eric: hello, everyone, i'm eric shawn. mueller has been digging into moscow's interference in the 2016 election including collusion between president trump's campaign and the

tom: i was on the today show with katie couric on the 50th anniversary and you try to think about what are going to say and i thought to myself, by then i had been speaking about these men and women in that time, at lectures and commencement ceremonies and so on. katie said what do you think and i said i think it is the greatest generation any society ever produced, survived the depression, not prepared to go then just as they were coming of the depression, they were asked to fight the greatest military regime ever assembled and they did that. i said i think that is the greatest generation society ever produced. african-americans fought very hard and very heroically. [indiscernible] they did all of that stuff. of notdy was conscious having christmas presents, for example. my dad's crew made them for us, so we had handmade things. on theould draw lines back of their likes to look like there are wearing stockings. whole emotion, and then when the time came, they setd have a real life, they out, building modern america and wanting to put the war behind them. it is one of my very favorite

nby, katie couric, unbelievable my front row seat to the craziest campaign in american history. >> it'so secret that politicians don't like reporters. nixon had a fraught relationship with his press corps. there are legendary stories about ron sigler his press person getting into it with reporters. what was unusual about this was the very public nature of it, the way he would go after reporters, myself included from the stage of rallies, and have the crowd, encourage the crowd to essentially turn on us and boo us. >> and at 9 p.m. eastern on after words, journalist and former host of cbs's face the nation bob schieffer in his book, overload, finding the truth in the deluge of news. he's interviewed by susan glaser. >> we have to keep doing what we're doing, trying to sort out the true from the false and that's an overwhelming job now, a bigger responsibility than we've ever had because we're dealing with so much more information. and we now have access to more information than any people in the history of the world, but we're running a little short on curators now. we can't process it.

katie couric is also a part of it as an executive producer.d everyone. at least in sense of watching the crisis that i remember vividly watching seeing it every morning when i was preparing for my talk show and watching these people screaming out for help, you know, watching the residents of flint saying, help us. this is the dirty water we -- woo bathing in, we're drinking. and they're telling us there's nothing wrong with this water. and we know there's something wrong with this water. we're getting sick, you know, the kids are affected. people are having miscarriages. there are lesions on people's skin. rashes. you know, and they're saying there's nothing wrong with this water when they know there is. that was what was painful about it to watch the fumbling governments handling of the situation rather than just acknowledging it, dealing with it. they pretended like there was no problem with it and these women from this community in flint made enough noise that they were finally able to get some national attention with this and something was

couric and trying to think about what i was going to say. by then i had been speaking about these men and women at the time. with katie she said what do you think? i thought it was the greatest generation. there was this big political push with this. out as they were coming they were asked to fight the greatest military machine ever assembled and they did that. katie i think that is the greatest generation ever they foughtause very heroically. david talked about getting scrapped in pittsburgh and living on a army base and everyone was conscious about not having christmas presents. his crew made them for us. love -- have lines in the back of their legs like stockings. it was a total immersion. when theyime came could have a relied they said they wanted to put the war behind them. when of my very favorite stories werei had stumbled on wounded for different parts of the world. they were shipped back to america and went back to michigan where they were put in a larger room for their companions. they had talked every day about what they wanted to do with their life after they had gotten repaired basically. .ne of them was