time in iraq over the years since first gulf war than cbs news correspondent than laura logan. this thing seems to be working all too well. it seems to be as these invaders came down on this march toward baghdad, everything seems to be clicking on all cylinders. well coordinated, who is running this thing? >> it's a very good question. because the leader of isis is the poet and floss fear and spiritual man, he's the one driving the vision of the state and governance that they want to institute. on the other side of that the military masterminds. there are number of them but among them there's the -- who we hear very little from who seems to be very powerful. then one of the others is man known as abu al iraqi who was hold, when he was released went over to the syria. but in syria has become a powerful force for isis. he's known as the prince over there. he believed to be recruiting people from syrian intelligence, has to be that on iraqi side of the border created structure that truly understands military movement on the battlefield. and not only how to take territory but hold

and later, laura logan's final returning the top of the hour for america's news headquarters. now back to howard kurtz and "mediabuzz." >>> more now of my conversation with fox's bret baier. >> when you took over "special report" five years ago and began to sit in this chair, you'd filled in regularly of course, but was there a little bit of nervousness because this had been the program that britt hume had established and created you and you were having to fill his shoes? >> big-time. those first few days i was looking at the groovg make sure it still said bret baier. >> once your name's on the graphic it's harder for them to get rid of you. >> yeah. is it the same with howie, "mediabuzz"? i say in the book i think there were people who looked at me taking over for britt with egg timers waiting for this to be changed out. and fortunately, the show continued to succeed and we built on the foundation that brit built. and knock on wood, it's been a great 5 1/2 years. >> does it bother you as a news man when critics say fox slants the news, fox makes so much of benghazi, fox is ho

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as you mentioned, 60 minutes did a good report, but for laura logan was eviscerated as a consequence. i think i would encourage the acquire sometee to really expert communications staff. that -- they will need to be able to work with reporters from the main media to reach out to them, in a fairly sophisticated way, to make sure the right bits of the story get out of the right time to the right people. we will be banging the drum here inthe heritage foundation our daily signal blog, and publications, and programs like this. whene are very grateful people cover those and they get seen around the country. even with very substantive coverage, and sometimes with the very biased coverage we have seen of benghazi by the mainstream media, there is and the american people a great distrust of the story that has been titled -- peddled by the obama administration. people are inflamed about it. this is a broad spectrum of people, not just republicans. huge scandal., polls also suggesting this. that reachingng out and persuading some of the reporters from the big newspapers, even if you work for th