i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." we begin with president trump expelling a record-breaking 60 russian diplomats. but the "new york times" based on three unnamed sources reported his former lawyer john dowd broached the subject of pardons for paul manafort and mike flynn. the white house is denying the story and dowd gave a flat discussion. as far as i know, no discussions. joining us, gail troasht. mara liasson, and jessica tarlov. so the "new york times" story would be significant if pardons were potentially being dangled in front of witnesses. how does it stack up against the

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i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." we begin with president trump expelling a record-breaking 60 russian diplomats. but the "new york times" based on three unnamed sources reported his former lawyer john dowd broached the subject of pardons for paul manafort and mike flynn. the white house is denying the story and dowd gave a flat discussion. as far as i know, no discussions. joining us, gail troasht. mara liasson, and jessica tarlov. so the "new york times" story would be significant if pardons were potentially being dangled in front of witnesses. how does it stack up against the expulsion of all these russian diplomats? gayle: the people who were actually in the room deny it happened or those discussions were had. but we have action by president trump to expel these diplomats in connection with other countries. and we heard the main real media go on the offensive for many many months. they see that hanging. they don't give it that much reporting. howie: this pardon story was wall-to-wall coverage when it broke. jessic

i'm howard kurtz.re has been an avalanche of negative headlines after ronny jackson pulled the plug on his run for the va secretary. less than 40 hours after the president suggests he might want to bow out. president trump: i told admiral jackson just a little while ago. i said what do you need this for? this is a vicious group of people. i don't want to put a man through a process like this. it's too ugly and too disgusting. what does he need it for? to be abused by a bunch of politicians who aren't thinking nicely about our country? howie: he decided he didn't need it. >> these are all false accusations. they are trying to destroy a man. >> joining us to analyze the coverage. mollie hemingway. and shelby holliday, and juan williams. the larger media is donald trump employs people and possibly they aren't properly vetted. mollie: we don't have a cabinet secretary at the veterans administration. this is a very important agency that serves the health of our veterans. that's an important story how he's n

final thoughts on barbara bush, i'm howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ ♪ howie: we will get to the memos in just a few moments, james comey to make a fortune, what was envisioned as love fest turn surprisingly critical. >> including calling his skin orange, looked like he had tanning goggles, some people say for lack of a better word that was catty, did you enjoy taking the shots tat president? >> i didn't think of them as shots. >> really? >> the folks haven't read the book. >> it's unfair to president trump because the question was if president trump was compromised by the russians, you say it's possible, it's likely but possible, it's possible that there's life on another planet. howie: joining us amy, fox news con attribute outer, susan, correspondent and mary, former state department and spokesperson. he started peddling his book, what changed? >> there was no way for the media to be as positive as james comey when firing. people were really hoping that the book would have new details or fuel the fire against trump and it didn't have those things and because he was so personal

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i'm not sure we are there yet. >> rick: howard kurtz, we look forward to your show on sunday and yourn to these hearings that will be must-see tv next week. >> great to see you, rick. >> rick: thank you. >> arthel: israeli air strike in northern gaza killing a palestinian man identified as an armed terrorist. meanwhile the israeli military beefing up security as a new round of protests planned for the israeli-gaza border tomorrow where violent clashes last week turned deadly. conor powell is live in jerusalem with the very latest. conor? >> yeah, arthel, you know things are heating up here in a really dangerous way when both israeli officials and palestinian leaders in this case hamas and gaza are issuing statements and briefings and warnings about what to expect tomorrow. we do expect to see tens of thousands of palestinians out along the israeli security border between israel and gaza tomorrow as we saw last friday. now, palestinians say these protests are to call attention to the israeli blockade of gaza and really awful living situation there while israeli officials are stressing

. >> reporter: this is howard kurtz, defense attorney, and here's what he thought about the murder case against his client, brad cooper. >> you need actual evidence to convict 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. >> reporter: remember that "i hate brad" day, the day the prosecution said the marriage hit its boiling point. 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 th

coming up howard kurtz fox news media analyst, not a slime ball at all. david: no way. melissa: he will sound off. david: the world is watching and waiting for a military response. u.n. inspectors making their way to the site of the gas attack in syria as the white house says all options remain on the table. melissa: full pardon for vice president dick cheney's former chief of staff, scooter libby. pulitzer prize winner, judith miller went to jail for not revealing her sources in the case and joins us live later in the hour. ♪ >>check this out. td ameritrade aggregates thousands of earnings estimates into a single data point. that way you can keep your eyes on the big picture. >>huh. feel better? >>much better. yeah, me too. wow, you really did a number on this thing. >>sorry about that. that's alright. i got a box of 'em. thousands of opinions. one estimate. the earnings tool from td ameritrade. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become i

. >> bill: we have a big hour ahead starting with howard kurtz on the media blitz. king on reaction to the interview. we start with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live in washington good morning there. >> thank you, bill. the inspector general concluded that former f.b.i. deputy director lied four times about his role confirming the existence of the clinton foundation investigation two weeks before the presidential election. this morning president trump tied mccabe to his old boss f.b.i. director james comey writing comey drafted the exoneration statement about hillary clinton before her interview. he based his decisions on poll numbers and described him and mccabe and comey as disgruntled and committing many crimes, he said. mccabe authorized lisa page and michael core tin to discuss issues we lateed to the clinton foundation investigation including a phone call between mccabe and senior justice department official. some of the key evidence in this case comes from text messages between page and mccabe. mccabe released some information to the me

seriously deborah they never addressed his issues soldiers on the ground had no idea about colonel kurtz's findings and his concern us was never shared with anybody the memo which is completely buried. they knew about this and they continue to free to do it. in the hell would you do that we'll willingly accept the risk. being shot we've. taken prisoner. but nothing was signed up to be poisoned by room. there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between the burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from clearly the cat was out of the bag the two thousand and six memo had basically said that the military was aware that the pollution levels around the pit were at an unsafe unhealthy level now they deal with the after them and always told west attempted to downplay it they have their own study. commissioned in two thousand and eleven with the institutes of health and medicine that study had said that they could not find a connection between the pollution levels around the pits and the health effects that the veterans were experien

then we did she kurtz to treat these complications and that. requests special to resist certain force sufficient to get any say let's work on the job and. we've sent a request to the i.d.f. asking for comment on the doctors without borders report as well as on claims that its crowd dispersal methods can leave people with serious disabilities or so far no response on that inquiry meantime israel says it uses normal lethal sponge tipped bullets however they are believed to be harder and heavier than older versions they can not only cause severe injuries but can kill last happened back in twenty fourteen but an israeli human rights group recently released a video showing soldiers in the west bank discussing the use of live i mean nation . one israeli ex policeman received a nine month sentence for killing a palestinian teenager in twenty fourteen but the court accepted the claim that he had mistaken a life bullet for a robber one the story caused outrage after earlier this month a palestinian girl who was sentenced to eight months in jail for slap

then we did she kurtz to treat these complications and that we will be able to requests special to resist certain for sufficient to get any say let's work on the job then what we have asked the i.d.f. to comment on these accusations and i so far we haven't received a reply that's how the news is though he's just come full four thirty here in moscow from a at the top of the. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle chromes foreign policy could be described as double speak the president doesn't have a defined policy approach even goals are difficult to discern is this what the art of the deal means is trumps foreign policy making america great again and the world safer.

i'm howard kurtz and miss is "mediabuzz." "the washington post" reporting on escalating clashes between the president and chief of staff john kelly. sources say his authority has been diminished and he has talked about quitting. the white house says it's made up coverage and a hit job. mollie hemingway, sarah westwood and capri cafaro join us. this article quotes a senior official. don't these high-level leaks undercut the president's abirt - ability to say this all garbage. mollie: the standard in journalism is 100% of what you write has to be true. it's okay to use them but there is overuse by many in the media. howie: the article says the president still respects general kelly. so are journalists right in being sceptical? >> i think so. this is something that has been coming up time and time again. on one hand president trump said everything is all quite on the western front and -- all quiet on the western front and two days later people get fired. this has been common practice that people talk on the case of anonymity. it

♪ howie: this is "mediabuzz" and i'm howard kurtz.he media were given only a few minutes notice before the united states and its allies bombed syria's chemical weapons. president trump: these are not the actions of a man, they are crimes of a monster instead. howie:einstead. howie insteadhow -- howie: the strikes have sparked debate. joining us, gillian turner, guy benson and adrienne elrod. gillian, the airstrikes were successful. but we have a classic media debate some saying the president should have gotten congressional approval. others are saying he is betraying the non-interventionist he ran on. gillian: nothing grabs the american press attention and spins earn one * in a frenzy more than a pending war. the fact that reporters can't get in on the ground and cover what's happening in syria from the inside is leading to the wildly different opinion about whether this is the right thing to do. howie: by and large the mainstream media approved of the attacks. it's the partisans on the left and right who were picking it apart. guy: t

fox news media analyst and h howard kurtz. >> it was widely viewed atz a debacle.rump said the dinner is dead. and many insist that the organization apologize with the targets at sarah sanders and mike pence. >> i like sarah and she burns fat and then uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye. if a tree falls in the woods. how do we get kelly ann under the tree. she thinks that abortion is murder. first of all, don't knock it until you try it. and if you try it, really knock it. you got to get that baby out of there. and ranchy jokes about the president's sex life and tampon and f- bombs carried live on cable. bloomberg who headed the organization saying in a statement unfortunately wolf's monologue did not support the free press. it was a fiasco that was a political gift for president president. >> they don't have sources. the sources don't exist in many cases and i could be up there tonight and smiling leak i love where they are hitting you shot after shot. they hate your guts. >> reporter: it has been under fireplace since it was a celebrity studded affair se

howard kurtz is here. how did mark zuckerberg do today? >> he was monotonous and kept saying we made mistakes and regret it but we'll try not to make mistake again. the nor said you started facebook in a dorm room. and he said china has some pretty good tech companies. kennedy: granted maybe he's not as socially adept as others who normally grandstand in congress. >> it wasn't a grilling the exception of ted cruz. the questions were so loosely framed, they were so vague. how would you define hate speech? and they were reading it off. how about doing a little research. coming up with examples and pressing him on these serious issues. these lawmakers look so culturally clueless and digitally clueless. zuckerberg was like the technology professor. kennedy: it's hardware companies as well. and it's laughable that the government is going to impose some rules that they won't work around because they are so many steps ahead. it bill clear when the senator from new hampshire said when companies don't do the right thing, it's my experience governme

[laughter] stuart: howard kurtz you're all right.rch paper alleges big airlines used to collude. >> basically cut back seats to raise prices. there's no proof that there's any agreement with the airlines that they are doing that, what the economists did was look at earnings stretching back to 200 the -- 2002. other airlines copy that. the federal government has tried to prove collusion in this -- in the airline space for years and this paper tries to do that after they found that one airline says we are going to cut seats, the number of seats go down 1 and a half percent. they try to establish the paper trail of collusion but you don't agreements on paper we are going to do it ahead of time. ashley: to emac's point they use capacity discipline. that's the code word between major carriers, let's cut back on seats available. liz: that's why they assert, there's no proof that the airlines are using the dog existle -- dog whistle words to do that. it's wall street getting that information. >> they are not stupid. liz: it's a stretch. thi

joining us on the phone is judy kurtz.ome reaction first from maggie, who received an award last night he did she wrote the following -- the press secretary sat and absorbed intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth. instead of walking out on national television. calling it impressive. hey, mags,sponse -- all these jokes were about her despicable behavior. sounds like you have some thoughts on her looks, though? your reaction? caller: i think it was those jokes, especially about the press secretary, was the face of the trump administration at the dinner, giving that the president declined to attend for the second year in a row -- those really made people at the dinner most uncomfortable. i would say they would be considered the most cringe worthy, since she was sitting just steps away from michelle wolf while she was telling these jokes. i think the jokes that were a hit or more about the ineffectiveness of congress. that is always a hit here in washington, when michelle wolf set i hav

i will move on, i have a far more important subject for you, howard kurtz.chess of cambridge gave birth to a baby boy. happened this morning. don't know the name yet. the weight was eight pounds. what is with america's obsession with british royals and their offspring? >> i think should be a new rule. media only gets to go haywire when first baby of a royal couple. this is number three for william and kate. there is always this fascination, because we don't have any royalty in our politics, our president and vice president and even first ladies are often caught in the political crossfire. always fascination with royals. that ramped up with die -- diana and soap opera surrounding her aspirin ses. media love celebrity. they love babies and they what the name will be. i don't fully understand it. you're probably more fascinated than the average american. >> no, i'm not. what about you, howard? come on. when did you first hear this news? i know it broke this morning. when did you hear it? >> i heard it from your producers. i knew the baby was coming. i just didn

. >> sandra: host of media buzz howard kurtz joins me live. you were watching that live, howard. was cnn out of bounds here? >> first of all it was very cringe inducing to watch. it went on for five minutes. look, the question from the reporter was designed to embarrass kellyanne conway and out of bounds. why should a senior white house official have to answer for what her husband, who is a private lawyer and not really a public figure, is tweeting if he is being critical of the president? whether dana would have asked that of a male official are not, aren't spouses entitled to have their own political views? >> sandra: dana defended her questioning saying it is something everyone is talking about and wondering but went on to say it was meant to be a light-hearted moment. how did kellyanne conway deal with this, do you think? >> first of all when you say everyone is talking about it. we're talking about 500 people in washington good gossip. did you see what kellyanne's husband tweeted? the larger question, i think what really made this resonate is the way that kellyanne conway of

howard kurtz will analyze.fires back next. >> president trump: the democrats have really let them down. why did we re-engineer america's #1 detergent? because performance clothes have changed, but the challenge remains the same. and the generation may be different, but the color needs to endure. and the toughest stains come with their own rewards. we've re-engineered tide because no matter what life brings, our commitment to clean remains the same. now with 10x the cleaning power. tide, america's #1 detergent. >> bill: connecticut democratic congress woman esty. she says her decision is in the best interest of her constituents and her family in connecticut. >> heather: cnn's chief white house correspondent jim acosta facing backlash for shouting questions at killing daca at president trump color with his son and a group of young children at the white house easter egg roll yesterday. take a listen. >> president trump: the democrats have really let them down. they've really let them down. they had this great oppo

howard kurtz, good morning to you. this is like the swampiest night of the year, isn't it? your read on the fallout? >> let's start with not mincing words. michelle wolf was vile and nasty and it was an embarrassment. the president is right about that. huge embarrassment to the white house correspondents association and the media in general. you have the president railing against the media. the geniuses who thought to book an anti-trump comedian and dropping f bombs are refusing to apologize as a statement it's unfortunate, her tone didn't match the spirit of unity. that won't cut it. >> bill: some are suggesting there is hypocrisy. this is a night about the first amendment. where does the hypocrisy play in? >> the dinner has gotten away from celebrating journalism and raising money for scholarships. the people who don't like this president are always railing and talking online about his insults when he calls people morons, psych owes, idiots, sick, those people say michelle wolf was just telling the truth despite the fact she was telling jokes about ivanka in tap pons and

judy kurtz is with us. ned ryan as well., all i'm saying, i don't care where you stand on this, top it, end it. stick a fork in it. you say what? >> one of the fundamental problems, you have journalists and government employees that want to be celebritiecelebritie. it creates an elitist mentality that separates them from people. government employees are supposed to be servants and journalists are supposed to be watch dogs. the other problem this dinner, the media has decided they want to be the opposition party. i was there as a guest of the "wall street journal." being in this middle of that, i realized this is another opportunity for the left to mock and savage conservatives and felt like a liberal therapy session. i felt -- michelle's wolfs comment were appalling and venomous. the association gave cnn an award for running a story that was leaked to them by james clapper. call me crazy, journalists shouldn't get awards for destabilizing or democracy. there's a real problem when you have journalists and government employees

howie: this is "mediabuzz" and i'm howard kurtz.ere given only a few minutes notice before the united states and its allies bombed syria's chemical weapons. president trump: these are not the actions of a man, they are crimes of a monster instead. howie:einstead. howie

howard kurtz back with us. you heard it. is that a fair explanation?k it was a very carefully-phrased explanation. the thing about mark zuckerberg as a witness here he is not really getting tough questions. he certainly didn't in the senate yesterday. he has his talking points. he regrets the mistakes of the past, try to do to it in the future but not shedding much light on privacy concerns. these issues have been raised for years. they have oef refused to do anything about it. now he is on the hot seat. i think the nature of these congressional hearings is not pinning him down. >> sandra: but an opportunity to explain him and his company and reassures investors and users of his services because the stock yesterday had a single biggest one-day gain in over two years. watching it this morning it was down a decent amount before he started speaking and it has started coming back up again. >> bill: these lawmakers haven't landed a scratch on zuckerberg. it hasn't been a grilling, a graduate seminar. good news for facebook. he didn't get pinned down. these

. >> chris and brittany kurtz tell us how it happened in their own words. >> it is four words. >> itgood, be kind. and it is the signature of do good and be great and he changed it to do good, be kind and i just threw a shirt together on my press and thought this will be fun to make him a shirt and snapped a picture and put it on instagram and that day we have so many people saying where do i get that shirt. while i was printing some out and sending them off to people and we had people saying where can we buy these. there was an e-mail signature and a simple t-shirt and we realized how much it resonated with people. >> people think it is a good message to send out to wear. but i don't think they anticipate is how it changes them internally. when i wear this it caused a change of behavior in me. >> do good, be kind. >> instead of focusing on anti-bullying, we focus on do good and be kind. >> you have something for me -- >> you could help yourself by doing [ inaudible ]. >> we start with being kind to yourself and how you talk to yourself and take care of yourself and how that helps or

. >> reporter: nathan kurtz is the lead sciencetitist of operation bridge.tors the ice's rapid changes and the connection to the global climate. >> without a doubt, this is the coldest moment i've ever experienced. how is this ground zero for climate change? >> snow, ice, it doesn't seem complex. when you start getting into the -- how all these things come together and form our sea ice pack and then how that is changing, all it is pointing to is thinking ice, shrinking ice cover. >> reporter: it leads to climate change. >> yes. >> reporter: during the coldest part of the year, the arctic experienced the warmest period ever recorded. the data you get here? >> yes. >> reporter: nasa invited us aboard their p3 ryan. i was angling for the best seat. flying at 1500 feet, and this is all you see. pretty nice. the man responsible for making sure the plane stays on course is john sontag, mission scientist. >> this is the front lines of climate change. >> reporter: sea level rise here is what we all feel down at home. >> you take away some of the sea ice, you make th

. ♪ ♪ howie: this is "mediabuzz" and i'm howard kurtz.e given only a few minutes notice before the united states and its allies bombed syria's chemical weapons. president trump: these are not the actions of a man, they are crimes of a monster instead. howie:einstead. howie

. >> reporter: nathan kurtz is the lead scientist of nasa's operation ice bridge.eam's mission will last for six weeks. >> in order to look at long-term changes, we need a long-term record that goes year-to-year. we need to put all of the pieces together to really find out what's causing changes. >> reporter: the data and images collected over the course of the spring will be taken back to nasa to be analyzed. and its findings made public later this year. when you hear politicians back in washington, d.c. say, you know, the science is inconclusive about climate change, you're actually creating the science in realtime. what do you think? >> i think that the data that we are collecting is valuable, it's real, it's showing changes that are happening and regardless of what some people might believe, the facts are the facts. they speak for themselves. >> reporter: climate change is real. >> climate change is real. >> jacob soboroff is back in l.a., joins me now. jacob, trump's nominee was just confirmed to lead nasa, a really narrow vote, what could he do to the agency'

fox news media does host howard kurtz joins us. >> nbc has had a tough year because of matt lauer.s nothing to gain from telling the story. she's not suing, not seeking a job. she spoke to "variety," a former war correspondent, reported for nbc, she described in pretty gripping detail what she said happened in the 1990s, a separate dominant couple of separate incidences with tom brokaw. take a look. >> i was terrified. i jammed myself up against the back of the sofa. i grabbed throw pillow and i am like this to show. with all the body language i could muster, i am terrified, i don't want him here, i'm not interested. i reached behind my head and he tried to force me to kiss him. i pulled back with all the strength i could muster and stood up. and i said, tom, i do not want to do this with you. i stood there for a couple of minutes and just shook out of sheer panic and then i called my colleague in washington and said, i'm safe. >> shannon: she shared this contemporaneously with people at the time, she mentioned it to friends and coworkers she trusted. >> "variety" book to two peopl

on his two hundredth birthday karl marx kurtz twenty one special and the documentary marx and his fears commenting double. this is newsnight from the leaders of north and south korea agreed to an unprecedented summit. in the korean. peninsula of nuclear. options followed with bring you complete coverage also on the program. for some a tree in washington history on the chance of i'm going back to meet u.s. president donald trump for a look ahead to a meeting the promises. from simple.

stay with fox news right now mediabuzz with howie kurtz is up next after this short break.great sunday, everybody. ♪ with expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪ even when nothing else is. keep her receipts tidy, . . . howie: jim comey memos are leaked to the press by congress igniting media debate whether they hurt or help president trump. >> there's nothing else in there, no red flags, no smoking gun that would incriminate the president. >> if you take the comey memos at their word they are devastate to go president trump with regard to him telling the truth. >> for him to write things down seems self-serving, seems as he was planning the first draft of the book that has now been published. howie: was comey's briefing of trump of steele dossier, journalists are turning

on the phone is judy kurtz, she writes for the hill newspaper. you can check it out on the hill.com. let's talk about the dinner. did comedian michelle wolf crossed the line last night? guest: that is the big question. problem for many performers, many entertainers who take on this dinner is it is one of the tricky as positions to be income a of the toughest gigs in washington. if you are too edgy and you cross the line, you are -- you get blasted. you can get criticized which we are seeing this morni

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stay with fox news right now mediabuzz with howie kurtz is up next after this short break.ave a great sunday, everybody. well, like most of you, i just bought a house. -oh! -very nice. now i'm turning into my dad. i text in full sentences. i refer to every child as chief. this hat was free. what am i supposed to do, not wear it? next thing you know, i'm telling strangers defense wins championships. -well, it does. -right? why is the door open? are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood? at least i bundled home and auto on an internet website, progressive.com. progressive can't save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. i mean, why would i replace this? it's not broken. >> lou: good evening, everybody. our top stories tonight. evidence against obama and clenton cronies continues to mount but the attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein are aligned with the deep state and stone walling congress's constitutional demands. a dozen republican law makers filed against the clenton. and la

howard kurtz, media buzz. we are going to be hearing chairman grassley going after him. some oversight might be in order here. the senator has not said what kind of oversight. >> objections put in from the aclu, the electronic privacy information center. the association for computing machinery, public policy console. and public knowledge. senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. before we -- mr. chairman, i want to correct one thing i said earlier in response to a question from senator lee he, he had asked if why we didn't ban cambridge analytica at the time when we learned about them in 2015, and i answered that what my understanding was was that they were not on the platform, were not an app. developer or advertiser. when i went back and met with my team afterwards, they let me know that cambridge analytica actually did start as an advertiser later in 2015. so, we could have, in theory, banned them then. we made a mistake by not doing. so but i just wanted to make sure that i updated that because i misspoke or got that wrong earlier. >> now, senator whitehouse. >> t

howard kurtz, host of middle east yaw buzz -- "mediabuzz".ankly disgusting. >> you took the word away. i reacted with disgum. i'm outraged. i'm embarrassed for the white house correspondents dinner. and for the profession. this is a huge gift for president trump holding counterprograming rally in michigan and beating up on dishonest press. some people say this is the comedienne. this is the big annual washington dinner to celebrate journalism and completely and totally ruined by the decision to have this comedienne and for the association now not to apologize to sarah sanders to the rest of the profession, to the world for this completely horrible judgment. stuart: well the white house core respondents association -- correspondents' association, says she was hired, the comedienne was hired to deliver a unifying message. >> how did that work out for them? stuart: i don't think that is right. i don't think shy was hired to do that at all. i think they hired her knowing she would deliver something nasty about president trump. that is what they w

talk to media buzz host howie kurtz.ump, the press and the war over the truth." howard, who is obsessed with whom in this case? >> i think it is fair to say james comey and donald trump are kind of obsessed with each other. the rhetoric has gotten hot and heavy. the president is right, the one newsworthy that came out of the stephanopoulous interview on abc last night, comey acknowledging that he let the polls and perception hillary clinton would win the election affect the decision to announce he was reopening investigation that she now blames him costing her the election. beyond that stephanopoulous, obviously worked in the clinton white house provided a pretty sympathetic forum for comey to express some regrets how he handled the hillary probe and at same time kind of intensify the criticism of comey and getting pretty petty in the process, talking orange face, size of his hands, lent of his tie, using over the top phrases like a mob boss, that kind of dimmed his halo, anything is possible. here is a smart man. he kno

i am really excited and pleased to be here with my friend daniel kurtz-phelan to talk about his new book, "the china mission". we both came to live i think in the same class together.and when he laid out the ambition of his book, as all fellows kind of had to do and told me about the work process and research he was planning, i remember thinking i'm really glad you are writing a book and not me! it was really truly, just incredibly ambitious topic that he was taking on. and a great task. i'm happy to say and not just because it think highly of him but it is a terrific book. it is a tremendous narrative. part of history that with which i was not familiar and was shocked to find how unfamiliar i was with this incredibly consequential through two months that takes place that is sort of the boundary of the book. so, to briefly introduce the author, dan is the executive editor of foreign affairs magazine and to the top of this book really served on the secretary of state policy planning staff under secretary clinton. has the benefit of having both worked as a diplomat and with diplomats but a

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howard kurtz with me now, author of the book, "media mad necessary." secular humanism is the official position of america's media. is it? into i think that is going a little far. every day people get upset at public figures who say anything. i understand that some people found chuck todd's tweet offensive because the day of the crucifixion of jesus christ. he starts out by saying, no disrespect to the religious aspect because it is called good friday he involks that for a little self lessness on his part that sounds like a christian message to me. i think that is overheated. stuart: my reaction is overheated? >> the general people on twitter fulminating about this. you're always measured. stuart: we're episcopalian. we never get that upset. at least publicly. on the other side of the coin, president trump tweeted about daca over easter. i'm you are sure you have seen it. border patrol agents are not allowed to do their job at the border because of ridiculous democrat laws like catch-and-release. getting more draws. caravans coming. republicans must to