i'm mouther kurtz -- howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: most of the national media kiddescend quickly on ohio after that toxic train wreck because, well, they're more focused on major e cities hand the tiny town of east palestine which is all too easy dismissed at flyover country. but by the third week, the environmental damage and the political sniping had finally made it a big story. candidate donald trump saw an opening, went to east palestine with trump water to help fill the void is. >> unfortunately, as you know, in too many cases your goodness and perseverance were met with indifference and betrayal in some cases. biden and fema said they would not send federal aid to east palestine under any circumstance. howard: the next day transportation secretary pete buttigieg finally showed up. >> are we concern a week after the accident happened. >> i felt strongly about this and could have expressed that sooner. >> pete buttigieg and other officials of the biden, in the biden administration, yeah, even pete buttigieg says he could have gone there sooner. >> and if he had

this is the voice of god mentioned by the stake efforts of st. pyrazonas, did the kurtz gather the ringingarus, the fishing rods of the festival near the tomb pyrana, the shape of a statue to whom? yes, lyusya a year and two years ago, exchanging experience on interprofessionals in kanauats to call a skin pharynx, practicing on her non-one and a half and ringing keyboard to try out i collected a new unknown one for the master class. there is such a bit poetic name. yes, a prayer in bronze. why prayers in bronze? because each bell either has an icon and not a single icon, and when the ringer rises to the bell tower, he creates a prayer, there are special prayers. and when he rings, he again rings with a prayer and the bells carry their sound. they, again , baptize from the ground, bring people goodness and health, and the evangelists classify temple bells from the head, and several tens of tons. whether standing throw in klitschko christ you have cross? how to destroy such called ones is necessary for a person, the great physical turbidity was doing something there, and blagovest and the re

howie kurtz has the story for us. >> hi, martha. successful author of the modern era. it's been a rough couple years for j.k. rowling. the creator of harry potter has been under fire since 2020 as her thoughts were perceived at attacking transgender people and now she's speaking out. >> i never set out to hurt anyone. i was not uncomfortable with getting off of my pedestal. >> rowling agreed to be interviewed for a podcast questioning whether she's been subjected to witch trials. the podcast will be posted next week. in this excerpt, rowling reflects on her ordeal. >> what has interested me in the last ten years and the last two or three years ex-particularly on social media, where you ruined your legacy. oh, you could have been beloved forever but you chose to say this. i'm like you couldn't have misunderstood me more. >> what if -- >> now, in the resulting backlash, which includes some of her fans, harry potter actors like emma watson spoke out against the author. ratcliffe said transgender women are women and erases the identity

media buzz host howie kurtz and gillian turner are here with me.rtha: i have often equated cell phones and social media to cigarettes. and that it took decades to understand the physical health that cigarettes presented to people, right? then we had all of these hearings on capitol hill where the tobacco people had to stand up and say whether they did or didn't accept that there was a serious health issue from these things. we're getting to that point. we're getting there with social media. what do you think about senator hawley proposes here, gillian? >> the first thing it's not arbitrary. it's an extension of a slew of recommendations that experts have been proposing with and experimenting with, which is to reign in parental control so parents have more oversight and protect kids from the worth effects of the social media companies. it's a sense call approach. there's other members floating different ideas and legislation right now, this is the most comprehensive one out there and the strictest barring all americans under age 16 from using this.

by biden's age and the media is out of touch with how the democrats view their leader i am howard kurtz, this is "mediabuzz". ♪ speed what had kellyanne conway joins us to talk media, politics and the super bowl , the media praised president biden speech for the several partisan shots at the gop such as audit portion and touting bills with some republican backing such as the big and for structure law. >> we do these projects, again i get criticized but i make no expenses for we are going to buy american. >> this is one of the best beaches joe biden has delivered as president. >> president biden speech full of lies in the clichÉs classic old-fashioned liberals which lists the propaganda misinformation as we speak yeah the folks at fake news cnn, msnbc, people writing at the new york times washington post slobbering over joe's remarks. >> how happy were democrats with the state of the union on a tale of 10 - 10.9. >> 12. >> it was deaf, nimble, fiery and feisty and gave as good or better than he got. >> it sounded like a true maga speech to me he plagiarized the entire term platform. if a

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worse folks as soon as they can, including expanding mental health screening pro and program servers, kurtz veterans to help other veterans understand what they're going to get them to help they need. we got to do more. and 4th, last year jill and i re ignited the cancer moonshine that i was able to start with . president obama asked me to lead our ministration. and our goal is to cut the cancer death ridge least by 50 percent. the next 25 years turn more cancer, death sentences to treatable diseases provide more support for patients and families. as personal as so many of us. so many of us this audience joining us or morrison can this, are an irishman, the daughter of immigrants from panama. they met and fell in love in new york city and got married the same chapel hill and i got married new york and kindred spirits . he wrote us a letter about a whole daughter, eva, and i saw her just before i came over. she was just a year old when she was diagnosed with rare kidney disease. cancer. after $26.00 blood transfusions, 11 rounds of radio sheet, 8 rounds of kino came out. one kidney remove, g

going in and it's kurtz coming out. that's the, that's the dilemma that these people are faced with right now. they're constantly be confronted by 2 equally repugnant alternatives. and they're having difficulty finding the mean, the middle ground that would allow the unification of the country. well, it's very interesting on that side of it and ultimately it, this isn't going to be anything that in any time soon, you know, i just have to, you know, one last question before we go and my produce was wonderful. she's kind of commenting on your interviews, you're giving it a, do you think that in the end, the turbans right now have been the new way for the men to be able to actually act out for the men to kind of get involved in this. and you've got kids doing it, but they're, you know, like i said, it is all ages, teenagers, kids, all of them. do you think that's going to have an effect with this idea of now knocking off people's turbans at the religious sector as they're walking down the street just out in public? that's

and i'll hold that pull, dusty. courtney kurtz got me out of the camp after my photo started circulating online for to him and tunnel and got all the i s, whoops. arabic, one, german and english, one english and a picture of me and my child was online, mit lankin, so they put a bounty on my head, $70000.00 schemes. it's the $70000.00 for the person who cut my head off or whatever allow food in meaning day in a pocket. i don't feel homo. mike refused to give up. back in germany, he continued his fight in court. mike messing versus the federal republic of germany. he was represented by duke, shown him a lawyer from hanover who taken on many such cases in 2020. the german government always offered the same arguments. what is your, what is the german government wanted to bring the young children back without their mothers, without accompaniment exult, chicken. but that would have just led to even more trauma for the children, for, of course. and of these a kingdom with those children. some of them had been born there on did gone through war 3 hunger bombing ray. i lived todd and he thought t

i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ >> peppered with questions from reporters about the shootdownared suddenly they struck a softer tone. there was not that much they are after. >> benign and totally explainable reason certainly don't have to be nefarious at all. >> biden made his first public remarks. >> we don't yet know exactly what these three objects were. nothing right now suggest they were related to china's spy balloon program. if any object presents a threat to the safety of the american people, i will take it down. >> joining us now with to analyze the coverage and in new york. both are fox news contributors. we see this with the very limited number of interviews that joe biden does. the first instinct is usually not to talk. >> you hear from some of the folks at the white house that joe biden is actually the best communicator in the white house. i think that he is better than a lot of the other folks on his team. when his absences felt particularly on something that dominated the news coverage, got so much attention, that is something that does not help to encourage peo

an mvp has not won the super bowl since kurtz warner did it way back in 1999.s since kurt warner have gone to the big game as mvp and they have all lost, but if anyone can break that streak, it's patrick mahomes. we'll find out on sunday. >>> all right. let's look more at the history happening in the gate later. both quarterbacks, patrick mahomes and jalen hurts spoke about its significance. here they are. >> i think it's historic. i think it's historic of what's to come. so many kiddings out there, so many kids that, you know, they may tell them to change their position or do whatever it is, but it can be done, it can be done, and this is a historic show. it will be a show. it will be a fun one. >> it's a historic moment and to be part of it with two historic football teams, it's only the people who laid the foundation before us, and to be playing with a guy like jalen who i know is doing it the right way, it's going to be spatial moment that i hope lives on forever. >> now, of course, the first black quarterback to start and win a super bowl was doug williams

they have a show that purportedly covers media in a fair way, and howard kurtz went on the show, andk made a decision, not to cover this explosive scandalous story for the viewers. so the fox viewers are not hearing a word about this on the channel. >> it is interesting to see if it does make it to trial for april whether some of that will in fact break through. oliver, appreciate it as always, thank you. >>> we are joined by the washington white house bureau chief, and i wanted to ask you about this, because we are three years removed or 2 1/2 years removed from 2020 and the lies, and no penaltys the or coverage on the primary right wing network covering this, and admitting the lie, and now the republican speaker of the house calling for, and now released those january 6th tapes to tucker carlson with pushing back on the facts, and you have trump saying again, and that lie is not dead, and it is going to play a factor in the 2024 race? >> yes. you can see a number of republicans carrying on the conspiracies about the elections and advance them on the coattails of the former presiden

ah, ah, what a 3rd of the country still remained beyond da sites control the kurtz alongside european and american special forces controlled the ne turkey controlled the northwest to contain the carts and back the opposition and it label in the south. a large zone was controlled by us forces and israel carried out regular air strikes against iranian positions in syria to completely reclaim the rest of his country. aside would ultimately after confront all of these conflicting forces. ah, i got it with the cell and had of within, within a few minutes, vladimir putin came to this is the russian base in syria. but the war was becoming expensive for him on the outcome was still uncertain. starting a war was one thing ending it was quite another he had a number that a follow up discussions with pohden. i believe that the russians were very much interested in reducing the russian true presence in syria. but to do that, to avoid losing their entire investment in the country, they had to have a more stable assad regime. in 5 years, the russians had not only kept the syrian government in power

this is over quite a wide area, from kupiansk up in the border, to the kharkiv region, down to shock kurtzeters away. so, this is a wide area that ukraine is trying to defend. of course, this continues fighting that continues around the embattled city of bakhmut, which the russians have been trying to take for months now. we know that russia is deploying more and more manpower. the governors of both donetsk and luhansk region have talked about that in recent weeks. the governor of luhansk region, the ukrainian government, he says russia may be trying to sell a victory in that region, take over the whole of that region to bring something home, perhaps for the anniversary, which is less than ten days away, the anniversary of the invasion. he says there are less than ten settlements left for russia to occupy in that region. so, we know they're worried about the number of troops. there's now questions about whether russia may be bringing in more air power. the financial times quoting two officials briefed on the matter, saying western intelligence believes russia might be amassing air power on

and on media buzz, howie kurtz will cover the ohio train derailment and the polarization surroundingresident biden's trip to kyiv. that's tomorrow 11 a.m. eastern. be sure to tune in. aishah: florida governor ron desantis and former president donald trump hosting duelling donor events with both hoping to bring in big bucks. this is the latest in a flurry of moves suggesting that desantis is gearing up to announce a 2024 presidential bid. alexandria hoff is here in washingtons for us with the latest on this race. hi, alex. >> that's right. the g.o.p.'s nomination battle has not been made official yet, but the tug-of-war over palm beach's big money donors kicked off. president trump who is making the third straight run made the first at maga, inc. in mara lago, described as an intimate gathering. a few miles away, at palm beach, florida governor ron desantis is holding a retreat with 150 top donors. he's not expected to make an announcement on a rumored run this spring. the governor talked about the media criticism he has received. >> it's hard for them to keep up with you when you're

hobbs, check your local listings for time and channel and media buzz, kellyanne conway joins howard kurtzbreaking down donald trump and liabilities as a 2024 candidate. that's 11 a.m. eastern on fox news channel. mike: border patrol chief speaks out to griff on the uptick in chinese nationals illegally crossing into the u.s. okay everyone, our mission is complete balanced nutrition. together we support immune function. supply fuel for immune cells and sustain tissue health. ensure with twenty-five vitamins and minerals, and ensure complete with thirty grams of protein. migraine hits hard... ...so u hit back with ubrelvy. u put it all on the line. one dose of ubrelvy quickly stops migraine in its tracks within 2 hours. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy, the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. so it's decided, we'll park even deeper into parking spaces so people think they're open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can't hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someon

his name is howard kurtz.e's what he said about what he's allowed to say about this. >> some of you have been asking why i'm not covering the dominion voting machines lawsuit against fox involving the unproven claims of election fraud in 2020. it's absolutely a fair question. i believe i should be covering it. it's a major media story given my role here at fox. the company has decided that as part of the organization being sued, i can't talk about it or write about it, at least for now. i strongly disagree with that decision, but as an employee i have to abide by it. >> that seems incriminating to me. they're saying don't talk about this on the air. he's their media con lum nis me. >> the case is specifically dealing with things that already happened, not things that happened later in time. so i don't think it would affect the case itself or the damages. there could be potentially punitive damages here. the 1.6 billion, obviously it could change the way fox does business, but it won't put them in bankruptcy. i

fox news media analyst and host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz. news editor at town hall.com. great to see all of you guys. thanks for being here in person tonight. andy mccarter and a bunch of other lawyers are saying that this move by hunter biden and his attorneys is essentially a political gambit. they say it's a distraction from the real political story of the day, which is the classified documents scandal. >> look, it's an obvious since october of 2020 when this story about hunter biden's laptop came out. but it wasn't russian disinformation. that it was a real laptop. just based on the fact that the campaign didn't deny that it existed and that it may have been hunter biden's. now, you have his attorneys coming out as you mentioned in the midst of this classified document scandal that doesn't just involve president joe biden when he was vice president or during his time in the senate. it also involves hunter biden staying at the wilmington home where classified information was found in the garage, where photos of hunter biden and the corvet

let's bring in our panel fox news media analyst and fox news media buzz howie kurtz.. we also have the white house spokesman out on the driveway taking reporter questions. is that a reaction to the hostility in the briefing room? >> well, taking reporter questions and not answering them such as were there any other locations that have been searched? look, even the president's allies know how badly he has botched. this i don't have any problem with not revealing at the fbi's request that there was a search of the beach house today. apparently nothing was found. but, why on earth did the biden team not reveal, this happened back in mid november that the fbi had searched the penn biden center here in washington? because there has been weeks of criticism, this is, of course, after the biden lawyers notified the bureau about this. weeks of criticism about well how come donald trump gets the fbi search at mar-a-lago treatment and joe biden people get to do their own search? they can't even put out information when it's favorable to them because this would show there wasn't

that was host howard kurtz, revealing that the company has instructed him to not cover it. it was probably a remarkable behind the scenes back and forth for him to even say that on the air. it is another instance of fox actively and publicly keeping its viewers in the dark, shielding the viewers from truth they might find objectionable. recent attempts to break through have failed. since recently, the network rejected a national primetime advertisement from the progressive group move on, which simply showed what hosts were saying in private. whether or not the dominion lawsuit succeeds in court, the american people have already won something important. it's where we start today, with some of our favorite reporters and friends. former senator claire mccaskill is here. also joining us editor at yar at "the bulwark. just charlie sikes is back. jason is ban back, an msnbc contributor and npr media correspondent, david fulcrum is back. sit start with you, david. fox is, if nothing else, most like the republican party in its ability to fall in line and remain dis planned when und

they have not mentioned it once and i have just read where howard kurtz has pretty much said it -- whofox news and consider their real news, said we are in a lawsuit so we can talk about it. while you are willing to promote a big lie and now you got called on it. you all can report on themselves. i know it was probably stock and everything else, it sounds like a crazy business idea. but why are these people considered news? host: edward, republican line in manhattan, new york city. caller: good morning cannot wait to be with you on c-span. i have been concerned since the very day that putin invaded ukraine and dutch about the slow pace of arms delivery that the u.s. and the eu are giving to zelenskyy. he has been begging for air defense systems, begging for weapons and tanks, aircraft. but we keep dribbling out this pace of arms. we are not going to defeat him. the goal is to win, to recover all of the territory loss and to win. it does not seem to be the goal of the administration or the eu. we are not going to win if we do not give him what he needs. and we keep slowly metering out t