>> i better not mess this up. >> i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the denver broncos and seattle seahawks aren't the only ones heading for a showdown today. president obama faces off with bill o'reiley. besides the president's obvious distaste for fox news, which was clear at their last sit down, three years ago. >> do you think you're being treated fairley by fox news now? >> i would say that the news guys, i think, try to do a good job, although look, let's face it, fox news has a point of view. >> one of the stakes when they go toe to toe today. joinings us now, lauren ashburn. jim pinkerton, contributing editor at american conservative magazine, both are fox news contributors and fox news analyst, juan williams. president obama keeps complaining about fox. so why is he sitting down with o'reiley? >> howie, three words. bill o'reiley, bill o'reiley and bill o'reiley. there are other reasons, of course. how many people watch the super bowl? 108 million. >> so you're saying it's that he can't turn down o'reiley? it has nothing to do with the huge f

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media critic howard kurtz takes a look. >>> plus, the mid-term elections are just around the corner. will the . >>> where is the mainstream media on this? where is the establishment on this? can you imagine? we say this all the time, you sometimes get tired of making the point. can you imagine if this were george w. bush? we would be talking about a presidential crisis, front page, splashed across the front. george bush, dictator president. it is a big deal when you change the laws. it should be treated as a big deal by the media. >> and steve hayes, tackling another issue that comes up when discussing these power grabs. the issue of how the media is covering them. and while we've seen issues from some republicans and some legal scholars, some have even defended the president's use of the power. the washington's editorial page, obama's justifiable "power grab." and the rational response to an increasingly grid locked congress. and why obama's use of executive power is justified. howard kurtz with me now, and i'm sure that "the huffington post" would have defended george bush equally.

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media buzz with howard kurtz comes up here on the fox news channel right now. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, the racially charged murder case that was utterly inflamed by cable news is back in the media spotlight. george zimmerman returns to television after the trayvon martin verdict. and cnn gets hammered online for giving him a platform. >> do you regret that night? do you have regrets about it? >> certainly i've -- think about that night. i think i -- my life would be tremendously easier if i had stayed home. >> and another cnn anchor explodes over the mistrial of michael dunn on a murder charge for killing an african-american teen. in this case, over the playing of loud music. why does television turn these cases into national melodramas and are some commentators going too far? >>> everyone and his brother seems to be binge watching the entire season of "house of cards." >> it's not beginning the story that i fear. it's not knowing how it will end. everyone is fair game now, including me. >> but does the netflix really deserve all this great press? >>> plus, do business news cha

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howard kurtz is with me now. post was just as vocal in defending president bush with his executive authority uses. >> had this been george w. bush, megyn, changing unilaterally several times over and over the law, the main stream media would have gone ballistic. with a few exceptions, "the washington post" did mildly criticize, but the media are not raising these questions about barack obama. it is debatable whether he's exceeded his authority, but they're not even having the debate. >> why? >> well, i think part of the reason has to do with not because the media are in love with barack obama. for example, there has been critical treatment of the bomped rollout of obamacare and broken promises of you can keep your plan or doctor. but journalists are more sympathetic to the goals of the affordable health care act. but with president bush, in the dna of many journalists, they were opposed to what the bush/cheney administration was doing. >> it's not just obamacare, however. it's, i can kill an american with a drone

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good night, god bless, and stay tuned for judge with howard kurtz. >> here's howie. >> send your questions on foxnews.com. >>> on the buzz beater this sunday, bill o'reiley fans thought it was about time someone pressed the president about the lingering scandal. barack obama backers loved the way he stuck it to fox news. and the country got a super bowl showdown far better than the football game. >> you think i'm a little unfair to you? >> absolutely, of course you are, bill. but i like you, anyway. regardless of whether it's fair or not, it is -- it has made fox news very successful. i'm unfai >> here is what you guys are going to have to figure out is what you're going to do when i'm gone. >> was o'reiley just pushing conservative hot buttons, as his detractors say? was obama's anti-fox strategy coverage effective? and has coverage been fair? >>> the media debate over philip seymour hoffman, why is this news only when celebrities are involved? >>> female journalists, speaking online with their minds. >>> plus, jay leno bids an emotional farewell from "the tonight show." >> tonight is our

i am howard kurtz. it is hard to resist a with the phrase loony tunes talking about lewinsky and she described hillary clinton as ruthless and how hillary clinton viewed her husband's behavior. >> this is a trial. the idea that hillary clinton is ruthless is not news. >> republicans intend to reach back two deck aid -- two decades to tear down hillary clinton. >> hillary clinton didn't think too highly of monica lewinsky. wow! >> according to blair, it was a lapse but she says hillary clinton he tried to break it off, tried to pull away and manage someone who was clearly a loony toon but it was beyond control. >> however, its was consensual and not sex with any real meaning, stabbed up, lie down, oral, et cetera. is this news for 2016 or just a rehash by the media? we have fox news contributor who writes the top twitter column on fox website and anchor of "the hot lift" for the blaze and washington correspondent for the daily beast. how news worth they is this? >> applause to the author who wrote the st

media buzz with howard kurtz comes up next right here on the fox news channel on this super bowl sunday>> as you look at super bowl boulevard and there's the stadium. big game. >>> on the buzz meter this super bowl sunday, barack obama is suiting up for a game day face-off with bill o'reiley. why is the president playing ball with a network he clearly resents? >>> a former chris christie appointee claims the governor knew about the george washington bridge closures and isn't telling the truth. and christie hits back tt "new york times" for reporting it. are the media overplaying this latest charge? >>> and with the big game just hours away, i talk with michael strahan, now kelly rippi's co-host about what players really think about the media circus surrounding the super bowl and the treacherous terrain facing black athletes. >> have you ever, as an

howard kurtz looks at the controversial question of how old is too old. >> the age question is growing louder than just a whisper. raised by former can dt and now fox news host mike huckabee. >> look, if she's going to be at an age where it's going to be a challenge for her. >> if hillary clinton is the democratic candidate for president she'll turn 69 just before the election. >> stephen: that's right, fox news is ready to project that in the 2016 presidential election hillary clinton will be two years older. (laughter) i mean come on! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: come on. come on! i mean 69, that is old. like old, old. way too old to be president. i mean she's going to be almost as old as ronald reagan was. but remember those were man years. men age gracefully like robert redford or a nice leather wallet. >> jim, jim, why did you put up two leather wallets, i don't-- okay, now plus, plus it just goes to the question of trust worthiness. during the benghazi hearings, she kept changing her story. first she said she was 65. next year she's 66. where does it stop? so obviously the d

media buzz comes up with howard kurtz on the fox newschannel. >>> from a newly discovered archive.back into the old clinton scandals? >> monica lewinsky scandal coming back to haunt him and his wife's likely 2016 presidential bid. >>> what one of hillary clinton's closest friends wrote about some of her darkest hours. now public as the 2016 attacks get personal. >>> another setback for obamacare as part of the employer mandate is pushed back again. is the press minimizing the magnitude of the law's problems? chris christie still getting

media buzz with howard kurtz comes up here on the fox news channel right now. >> on the buzz beater this sunday, the racially charged murder case that was utterly inflamed by cable news is back in the media spotlight. george zimmerman returns to television after the trayvon martin verdict. and cnn gets hammered online for giving him a platform. >> do you regret that night? do you have regrets about it? >> certainly i've -- think about that night. i think i -- my life would be tremendously easier if i had stayed home. >> and another cnn anchor explodes over the mistrial of michael dunn on a murder charge for killing an african-american teen. in this case, over the playing of loud music. why does television turn these

. >>> coming up now, "media buzz" with howard kurtz. >> here's howie. >> send your questions on foxnews.comon the buzz beater sunday, bill o'reiley fans thought it was about time someone pressed the president about the lingering scandal. barack obama backers loved the way he stuck it to fox news. and the country got a super bowl showdown far better than the football game. >> you think i'm a little unfair to you? >> absolutely, of course you are, bill. but i like you, anyway. regardless of whether it's fair or not, it is -- it has made fox news very successful. >> but if i'm unfair -- >> here is what you guys are going to have to figure out is what you're going to do when i'm gone. >> was o'reiley just pushing conservative hot buttons, as his detractors say? was obama's anti-fox s

jon: here's a line from danielle kurtz in "u.s. news & world report." what the truth might be, she writes and what few politicians dare say, there might simply be some value in lower economic growth. i haven't seen that too many places, judy, but lower economic growth, in some quarters is a good thing. >> well, i, i don't see how you can possibly spin it this way. growth is everything. and you know, people love family values until they're actually forced to spend time with their family as opposed to choosing to do so. i think what didn't get enough attention this week was the brookings report which said there is going to be a redistributive effect of obamacare. that is, the poorer people will do well. middle class people and upper income people are going to lose income. nobody paid attention to that. but these, once again are all projections. >> right. because apparently, what obamacare is going to do, and in its full impact is have tax-paving citizens, funding the health care for people who, for whatever reason, maybe they can't work, or they don't wan

thank you so much, howard kurtz, for joining us. we appreciate it, as always.hoping for federal relief as the record-setting drought drags on. their extremely dry conditions impacting farmers, ranchers and soon will hit all of us consumers as food prices are expected to soar in the coming months. will carr is live in fresno, california, right now. will? >> reporter: hi, jon. well, the president is coming to press know later today to get a sense of the drought's impact, and over the past couple of days we've gone out with farmers and ranchers, and they tell us it's about as bad as it can get, and it could cripple their industry which brings in $45 billion a year. it's one of the busiest winters on record at cattle market. >> about four to five times as many cattle as we normally would sell this time of year. >> as many ranchers are forced to sell off all or part of the herds they've worked for their entire lives. >> i'm about 50% or less of my normal herd. >> reporter: the worst drought in decades has left grazing lands barren and ranchers can't afford to keep b

city at africa is built into a few nice pieces and a growing constellation of small american colonel kurtz the ammonia north of somalia has been america's main facility on the continent from the new decade. it houses about four files and medically and civilian personnel. but at the end of last year it was forced to stop line drawings in the area off the string of crashes and growing anger locals. the news. us forces are getting stretched very thin. they're being tasked with conditions will be on their numerical and logistics capability right now. they knew. all foreign interventions. is that the new conflicts expand through and all the next thing you notice the leader of troops and money does sustain these missions us take the kids ate junk and he says is happening in africa is so exciting overall. and we are really deeply engaged in and then the president the has instructed us that to really try that light our fire under our efforts. and throughout the continent what's not so exciting is the growth of as an anti with groups across the continent. thousands of american soldiers on gearing u

i'm howard kurtz.onverge with people who want to talk to us about we are back here at 11:00 eastern and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest >> it is monday february 17th. a plane bound for rome hijacked by its own co pilot? that co pilot now in custody and speaking out. why he says he did it. >> new and disturbing details emerging in the case against the so-called craig's list killer. how she was taught to kill and the mounting number of people who allegedly died by her hands. >> a 7-year-old boy out for a walk with his dog gets trapped for 14 hours behind a cement wall. how he survived the freezing cold temperatures will warm your heart. >> "fox & friends first" starts right now. >> good monday morning to you. you are watching "fox & friends first". it is february 17th. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather childers. thank you for stating your day with us. a co pilot under arrest after he hijacked an ethiopian air mine flight and flies to geneva looking for asylum. the man waited until the pilot to go

good night, god bless, and stay tuned for judge with howard kurtz. >> here's howie. >> send your questionsone pressed the president about the lingering scandal. barack obama backers loved the way he stuck it to fox news. and the country got a super bowl showdown far better than the football game. >> you think i'm a little unfair to you? >> absolutely, of course you are, bill. but i like you, anyway. regardless of whether it's fair or not, it is -- it has made fox news very successful. i'm unfai >> here is what you guys are going to have to figure out is what you're going to do when i'm gone. >> was o'reiley just pushing conservative hot buttons, as his detractors say? was obama's anti-fox strategy

joining us now is howard kurtz, host of "media buzz" here on the fox news channel.ht, if the olympics were being held in germany and a massive swastika showed up on the stage, nobody really commented on it. >> must be a big deal because it takes a lot to blow you away, tucker. >> it does. >> look, this is about a pivotal experiment. now, i understand nbc sports not wanting to stickumb in the eye country. but if you're going to bring up communism and mention that, maybe you could find a few seconds to say the pivotal experiment was an utter disaster and led to the collapse of this thing called the soviet union. so i was really puzzled by that. >> so tell us how this works, sort of behind the scenes. there has to be some negotiation between network airing this and the host country, no? do you think nbc is under pressure from the host country, russia, to down play the uglier parts of russian history? >> my educated guess would be no, tucker, nbc is not under pressure from russia but practice there's a self-imposed pressure. and the russian people have a long cultural h

andrew he about her confron at a timetation with richard sherman and back to "media buzz," with howard kurtz. have a great week. >>> a rant seen around the world when rip arrested sherman went off after playing the play that sent the the seahawks to today's super bowl the. >> take me through the final play. >> i'm the best in the game. when you give me someone lick crabtree that is the result. don't you of talk about me. >> who was talking about you? >> crabtree. don't you open your mouth about the best. >> i spotted the fox sportscaster at the media day in new york and we ran over with our cameras. >> erin andrews what everyone wants to know, what was going through your mind when sherman was getting emotional on the sidelines? >> i better not mess this up. >> you were feeling the pressure? >> i knew i would be crucified if i asked a stupid question. i was look down, concentrating on, okays i knew who he was talking about because he alluded to it in our private meeting with him at the broadcast crew but i thought the people might not know who he was talking about or do i go the other way, yo

fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howie kurtz is here with more. good evening, howie. i want to ask you. why do you think the fcc is asking questions about news gathering at tv stations strikes so many people as ominous. >> this is insidious, bret, because though the fcc has the power to regulate broadcast stations in the public interest, how much news they put on as opposed to "seinfeld" reruns, not supposed to get into content. obama administration is examining stations for perceived bias is just haywire, and who in their right mind wants the government deciding whether coverage is fair? >> is there a history here of applying political pressure on television stations? >> during the watergate period the "washington post" was investigating that scandal, richard nixon's fcc challenged two television licenses owned by "the post" company. that's a classic abuse of power and why this is so troubling. now the fcc in a left from chairman tom wheeler to the hill is talking about making changes here. the commission has no intention of regulating political

joining us from new york chairington a criminal defense attorney and from washington howard kurtz mostay. what did you take away from the study. >> this was bare lay story in florida until the trayvon martin and activists pushed it into the national media especially cable news which loves, which feeds on polarizing crimes, these racially charged crimes. left and right played inflammatory role here including sharpton as you mentioned who openly crusaded on behalf of the martin family and yet allowed to push his cause on his msnbc show night after night. >> he convicted zimmerman, sharpton did. that disturbed me ms. chairington, did it bother you? >> you have to understand that al sharpton is an activist. this is what he does. this is his role. for him to be passionate about a topic such as. this i don't think that anyone would be surprised. the fact that msnbc gave him this platform i think also they would know that this is al sharpton's forte. is he activist. he brings out these issues to the public to garner support whether it is to bring justice or make sure that america knows what's

i'm howard kurtz. let's continue the conversation on twitter. check out our facebook page.give up a like if you would. we are back here at 11:00 eastern and 5:00 p.m. eastern with the latest buzz. peter shumlin. chris wallace meeting washington's cutest celebrity, baby bao bao. >>> crisis in ukraine. who's running the country? we'll discuss ukraine's future and whether it will ultimately decide with the west or russia with two leading senators. dick durbin, number two democrat in the senate. and republican kelly ayotte, a member of the senate armed services committee. and we'll ask our sunday panel whether president obama has badly misjudged vladimir putin. >>> then, the nation's governors come to washington to tackle tough issues like immigration and

fox news media analyst and host of fox's media buzz howard kurtz looks at the question of how old isoold? >> it's been a subliminal issue but hardly a secret. if hillary clinton is the democratic candidate for president, she's going to turn 69 right before the election, but now the age question is growing louder tha eer than a s raised by mike huckabee. >> i'm not sure she's going to run. everybody assumes she will. look, she's going to be at an age where it's a challenge for her. >> charlie cook also questioning whether clinton is too old to run. saying she would be making a commitment that could last until the end of a first presidential term when she would be 73 or a second term when she would turn 77. and rush limbaugh picked up on the cook column. >> we put a picture of mrs. clinton up at rushlimbaugh.com, and we asked, does america do the american people want to observe the aging of this woman in office? >> is this fair? other political senior citizens have faced similar questions. john mccain was 72 when he ran. and ronald reagan, who was 69 when he took office, had to deflect

fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz rehashes the interview. >> they clashedver health care and benghazi, but perhaps the most revealing exchanges between president obama and bill o'reilly focused on fox news with the president arguing he's the key to the network's business model. >> you think i'm unfair to you? >> of course you are, but i like you anyway. regardless of whether it's fair or not, it has made fox news very successful. >> but if i'm unfair, i want to know. >> what are you going to do when i'm gone? >> o'reilly was on offense from the opening seconds of the super bowl interview, and the president played aggressive defense. his game plan, hit back at fox by suggesting that o'reilly was pushing its pet conservative causes. we saw that when o'reilly said the president's ddetractors believed there was a political cover up on mbenghazi. >> they believe it because you tell them. >> we saw it again with the irs scandal. these kinds of things keep surfacing in part because you and your television station will promote them. >> for a president who once call

fox news media analyst and host of fox media buzz howard kurtz takes a look. >> bill de blasio cruised into the mayor's office last fall with 73% of the vote. now he's in danger of being buried by a snow controversy and feuding with a tv weatherman. when de blasio decided against closing the city's schools yesterday before new york was hit by a foot of snow, al roker delivered icy blasts on twitter. so now my daughter's new york city public school is let out early. new york city mayor's office, schools, is it worth putting kids' safety at risk? and talk about a bad prediction. long-range de blasio forecast? one term. rather than ignoring the "today" show star who was off at the l relative ll lly bombe olympics, responded. >> i respect al roker a lot. it's a different thing to run a city than to give the weather on tv. >> roker also challenged atlanta mayor kasem reed, as did cnn for misjudging the magnitude of a huge storm that left thousands of motorists stranded just two weeks ago. reed apologized and atlanta was better prepared this week, but the lesson seemed lost elsewhere in the

howard kurtz is the host of "media bust." all right. howard, let me ask you about this. hollande and obama together. people are saying, wow, you know, i remember just ten years ago when we were talking about freedom fries and america didn't really like france all that much. are these two guys really that similar, and is there anything for americans to be worried about? >> the u.s. is nothing like france. our baguettes and pastries are far inferior. our president didn't just leave his first lady for an actress who he was visiting while wearing a motorcycle helmet. there's certainly cultural differences. as far as the economics, even though a lot of discouraged worke workers, france has a bigger jobless problem. this president obama, while he's certainly tried to add to the social safety net, is not an actual socialist. >> but steve, hollande is a socialist. so i think that's why some americans are looking at this skeptically. and you mentioned the 8% unemployment rate. that's been in france for 30 years. and we're talking about health care now, obamacare. do you see any s

he sent me over to what was then the collection incitement, but not for michael kurtz, and schmidt, thefine work of the archives, we would never have forced the austrians into a restitution plan. to the point about legislatures, we need them in good democracy. we need to make them better in bad democracies. in austria they vitiated all the laws of the property. we had to get them re-created. the list i came out were frightening in terms of the pressure it took to bring this about. we had a jewish ambassador at the time indiana. he wouldn't lift a finger. people don't want to get involved. so we need champions, but for the national archives, let me tell you, folks, these champions couldn't make the case. of the records i went through before greg's findings that was created, we have international archives are the blueprints for it was museum. when you see that it's pretty frightening. for his birthday, and maybe robert can confirm this, hitler would actually produce for college brochures about the size of the reader's digest of his favorite looted art in and he would send this to the fron

and howard kurtz, host of fnc media buzz seen sunday at 11:00. quibble with the talking points, howard? >> bill, with those polling numbers, although you do have high negatives, you probably should consider running for president although it would be a big pay cut for you. >> yes, it would. >> i was happy to see fox news was the most trusted and least trusted polarize environment. >> i don't think the least trusted has anything to do with anything if you look at the presidential race it's about plurality of victory. we compete against the other networks in this country, sure. >> and you saw the gap between fox news 35%. >> huge gap. >> and the next was pbs way down. and that means -- it's not all conservative people. this was a random poll. random poll, all right? they didn't say we are going to dial up the conservatives. this was who they trust. that is the fact and these pinheads can spin it any way they want to. that's a fact. >> on your interview and i think there is another reason that president obama is sitting down with you not that he obvi

we are going to be joined by michael kurtz, who says an economic crisis in asia is highly unlikely. ♪> our next guest is the global head of equity strategy at nomura. you are saying the latest research says there is not an emerging markets crisis this year. who said there was? >> it was all over the media two or three weeks ago. certainly emerging-market economies having extraordinary levels of difficulty. it is difficult to differentiate between the higher quality and lower quality emerging-market risks. >> people are looking more selectively. it is not one space. >> argentina has profound problems. absolutely. expropriation of foreign assets. >> even that is under suspicion. that localrency businesses and local households are rejecting, let alone foreign investors. what did that have to do with taiwan or poland? we think we are seeing a rational process of differentiation between the better and worst credited emerging markets. that process arguably is the way things should be. markets, emerging structurally, in terms of current account balances, were largely strung along during the

howard kurtz is here now. to think the fcc wants to bust into the newsroom, of course the obama administration wouldn't mind a couple ears. when does the government have say in news coverage? >> they do renew the licenses for the stations. it is being passed on we are here to help you garther the news. but they can yank the lice license of any station they feel isn't up to snuff >> and federal officials are going to decide whether a newsroom is being fair, which i am not sure it is up to them to decide that, what county do we live in? we enjoy a free country and speech and now the fcc wants to change the constitution? does this have legs or no? >> i think they are starting to backtrack because of the talk. i don't think it will get off the ground. it was supposed to start in columbia, south carolina and that hasn't happened. there is a history of power here during watergate when the nixon investigation was being investigated and challenged the tv licenses of two stations owned by the washington corporation. ei

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howard kurtz is here.ularly sad and offensive. this nice heart warming super bowl ad brings a tweet by some unnamed staffer who was fired for this and rightly so. i'm sure most people at msnbc are horrified. but i have to question whether there's a culture at that network where there's such clothing of conservatives where it doesn't seem remarkable for somebody to put up in the network's name a comment like that suggesting rather explicitly that people on the right don't like the idea of racially mixed families. >> well, phil griffin tackled part of this question about intolerance over there. the ideology at msnbc. he says, quote, i think we've never had an ideology, an ideology is a single thought across all programs. we've never had that. obviously, i hire people who fit the sensibility. we do stay true to the facts. you have to build your argument. that's why i call it a sensibility. do you buy that at all? well, it's very obvious that a couple years ago in an effort to boost the anemic ratings that msn

and in the war on women -- >> well, joining us right now is the host of media buzz, howard kurtz.e papers, this avenue archive by hillary's late friend, diane blair, is drijing up the scandal in the '90s. there's a lot more insight into that than just what her husband did with monica lewinski and perhaps some other women. but there is an emerging consensus that we ought not to spend too much time raking over or what happened in the late '90s because the country had been through that and is it fair to hillary clinton because most of that is about her husband's misconduct. >> yeah. i don't know that i need to go back to the mid 90s. i'd rather here more about what she was doing as secretary of state. >> well, you know, when you run for president, we have to have the usual caveat that she has not made a definite decision on whether to run. everything in your life is fair game. i know a lot of people from the e-mail that i get are going to have views about her marriage and why didn't she leave him and all that stuff that we all collectively went through as a country in '98 and '99 and