my debate with actor and activist rob reiner. after the election you called the outcome the greatest attack on democracy since world war i. rob: i not only agree with that, i would go even further. howie: i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." [♪] the justice department's inspector general ripped james comey in that report finding that he broke many rules. and the text between peter strzok and lisa page. page says trump is never going to be president, right? and strzok says no, we'll stop it. steve doocy was the first to interview the president, then followed by a scrum of reporters. >> what you have seen so far, should james comey be locked up? president trump: i would never want to get involved in that. certainly they seem like very criminal acts to me. i think the report yesterday more than anything totally exonerates me. there was no collusion. there was no obstruction. howie: joining me to analyze the coverage. mollie hemingway, sara fischer and marie harf, former spokeswoman for the obama administration. howie: that scrum

and, of course, rob reiner joined me to talk about the movie. welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> what was it that inspired you about these reporters and that "newsroom." >> i was in dra-- of draft age the vietnam war. with the invasion of iraq i couldn't wrap my head around the fact that we were going to war a second time based on lies. we have a line in the film where i say it's like watching your child run into the street, and being helpless in saving them before they get hit by the truck. that's the way i felt about it, in seeing us go to war, and i wanted to make a film about this for the last many, many years and i didn't quite know how to approach it and how to tell the story. initially i thought maybe i'd do it as a satire. i've done some satires in the past i thought maybe it would be like a "dr. strangelove" or something like that. then i saw a documentary by bill moyers and he interviewed these four journalists who got it right. i said, that's my way into the story. >> i knew jonathan lan dy and still do from the wars. we were co

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rob reiner and anthony. the former attorney general eric holder issue as serious warning what he is concerned is about to happen. >> i suspect that we are on a path where there's going to be an inevitable clash where the justice department won't go further. and something is going to happen. i don't know who gets fired or what, we're going to be buckle up your seatbelts we're going to nb a crisis. >> we are heading for a crisis. mr. holder knows why he feels now is the time that is where he thinks we're heading. some context? something we have been reporting on and legal experts and citizens, that donald trump is openly floating pardons for obstructions of justice. >> i think the president is trying to send a message to people who are involved in the russian investigation. >> and you know who is backing up that interpretation tonight? of all people? roger stone under scrutiny say that this whole thing is to send a signal to flynn, manafort and even mueller. and this is what can happen and says, quote, referri

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plus, an interview you will want to see with rob reiner. he is calling the pro-trump media essentially state-run tv. first, the big umbrella story of the week. the lying, the deception, the anti-media attacks. it is getting worse. are we actually reaching a boiling point? it sure seems that way to me. when the trump show returned from singapore, and landed on the white house lawn, the the story wasn't so much what he said, it was how dishonest he was being. >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. they were -- quiet. that's the democrats' law. we can change it tonight. we can change it right now. i will leave here -- no, no. >> you can feel the reporters' frustrations. you can hear them trying to correct the president. as you know by now, this policy about separating parents or adults from children was announced in a press release in april, then on camera by jeff sessions in may. this policy has been in effect now for a couple of months. the numbers are now coming in about how many c

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the protest drawing celebrity support as well with act rob reiner, and a singer among the protesters. as at another center for migrant away.en one teen has run gabe gutierrez has more. >> reporter: ther borde battle is escalating. immigration outside a tent city near el paso. >> so detain the families isot right. it's immoral. >> new questions about the skourt of migrant children, police in texas determine a 15-year-old boy ran away this shelter in browns she will yesterday. a source with d ect knowledge says he was in the proce of being reunited with a parent and is now believed to be in mexico. the non-profit running ther shelte we talk to them and try to get them to stay. if they leave the propey we ll law enforcement. the department of health and human services says it's caring for more than 2,000 separated minors. ny say the process of reuniting them with adult caregivers wil not be easy. >> how confuse something this process for them. >> completely confusing. they don't know the law speak theanl or and being told conflicting things. >> migrants like this woman are hoping for t e

. >> actor and director rob reiner, one of many demanding the immediate reuniting of migrant families detention rally held today in texas. demonstrators gathered at the tent city at the tornillo port of industentry where my kbrant children are being held. the demonstration in tornillo was one of many this weekend. last week's executive order allowing undocumented parents and children to be detained together, more than 2,000 children have yet to be reunited. now the senate's top democrat is demanding that the trump administration appoint a czar now to help ree zero tolerance has left many people with zeroon wl be able to quickly unite the kids. >> president trump hit back on twitter saying, "w allow all of these people to invade our country. and nothose who do should be se back without a court hearing." the house and senate are moving forward on imkbrags migration r. despite the president telling republicans not to waste their time until after the elections. >>> benjamin netanyahu told his cabinet he held meetings with two senior members of the trump administration over the weekend. ne

. >> rob reiner also spoke saying he hopes people can take the energy from someone the immigration rowsnd transfer that into vote come november. you should also mention that tomorrow for the first time will get a chance to go inside the tent city and see with our own eyes what life is like for those immigrant kids. cut no cameras but we should get a better idea of how they are living in there. >> thank you. >> the latest from the white house. what to expect from congress in this week's immigration vote. ellison barber is live at the white house. does the administration have a concrete plan to reunify separated families? we will start there. >> yes, the president signed the executive order this past week and it had a fair amount of some specifics but not a lot of specifics but jeff sessions filed a request to try and modify the settlement but it did not lay out any specifics for re-unifying family separate at the board up you have a plan coming from homeland security and health and human services. they released a fact sheet last night outlining a reunification process for the 2053 separa

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julian castro was here as well as rob reiner, some of the kids were separated, might not be able to find their parents. >> we're with them, we're also in the same family. whatever we with do to get them out as soon as possible. whatever it takes. we don't stop until it's over. reporter: the department of health and human services is set to give us a tour of that so-called tent city tomorrow, our cameras will not be allowed inside but should give us a better idea what kind of life these young immigrants are living right now. jon? jon: jeff paul at the border, jeff, thank you. let's bring in the chief congressional correspondent for the washington examiner. so the president backed down on his zero tolerance policy in the face of withering criticism, but the problems continue to mount down there, and we're seeing the protests as well, susan? >> that's right, i wouldn't say he backed down, he said that he wanted the families to stay together at the border. that's a little different than reverting back to the old policy which was just catch-and-release. basically letting everybody go with not

. >> for more i'm joined by rob reiner actor and director offish shock and wwe," dal la lithwicking from slate and senior adviser from moveon.org. rob, this supreme court when it's full up with nine justices will decide the fate very well of this president. we've got a special counsel loaded for bear. all kinds of issues obstruction of justice and possible collusion with the russians and how -- what materials and what testimonies have to be accepted, whether he has to testify or not. and they're going to let him pick one of the people to decide his own fate. >> that's the biggest problem. i don't think we should get hung up on the egregious effects of what mitch mcconnell did to barack obama and a tit-for-tat kind of thing. we have a president of the united states that right now is under investigation for possibly conspiring with a foreign enemy power to disrupt our democracy and steal an election. i don't think we want as americans to allow somebody who is possibly colluding with a foreign enemy to making choices that are going to affect our lives for the next 30, 40 years. that's the i

top gaming companies are showing off their new products at the at twenty and expo three a show rob reiner. once everyone talking about here. well the air is sizzling with digital excitement mario let's just give you a little look see here at the scene is crowds thousands of people are here checking out the latest and greatest games their favorites you know the industry is worth we projected to be worth one hundred and thirty eight billion dollars this year and by twenty twenty one it's expected that it's going to rise to one hundred eighty billion dollars it's already the gaming industry has already long surpassed the recorded music and the cinema industry in terms of revenue as a source of entertainment so. who to ask about the a popularity of games then and avid gamer and we have one right here ruben. of the long beach california ruben this is your first time as a fan at the. three hundred two what do you think it's amazing the here is been very positive and there's so much to see you know what it what we've done your favorites list. the sunday with an intent of. how much time do you us

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all the time, governor you can have we rob reiner pointed out to holly courtesy, completely disagreedit is really important to get that pushback no jist from pe on the right but people of their own political ill. >> good to see chuck schumer say you know, this is not right what maxine waters said the red hen stepping down owner as executive director of a local business counsel, tweeted out this picture of restaurant in "new york post"ing a sign, saying sarah sanders welcome any time what response have you gotten after that. >> amazing to see, there is a small little restaurant in south wells new york put a sign out front saying sarah was welcome there any time, i posted the picture, and it had like 40,000 comments on it, it was prettle. i think people just are tired of this kind of vitriol let me be fair someone want apparently threw some -- chicken excremeantkrexcremeant you don't make america great doing smog vile like that owner of the red hen i think what she did was about zieblg that 4er7b i hope gets arrested for doing what they did maybe a person on the right they are a person

. >> joining us now, acclaimed film director and emmy award winning actor, rob reiner. . also, co-founder of spy magazine, kurt andersen. "fantasyland" is out in paper back. rob, there's a lot less of you. you look great. >> that's nice of you, mika. just a little bit. >> that's great, though. you are healthy. trying. >> semi. >> that's awesome. let's go to "shock and awe." >> yes. >> you put yourself out there politically and feel strongly about what's going on. what was the impetus of getting behind this project? >> i'm of that age where i was of draft age during the vietnam war and i couldn't, for the life of me, understand how we could go to war twice in my lifetime based on lies. so, when we were building up to the war in iraq, i felt like a parent whose watching their child run into the street, knowing full well it is going to get hit by the truck and not able to do anything to stop it and certainly, what we all knew was going to happen, happened. i have been wanting for a long time to make this film. i finally figured out a way to get into it. initially, i thought

. >> back with me jill wine-banks and joining me now maya wiley and rob reiner. he founders obviously deliberately wanted to steer the united states away from having a king but they did give the president one monarchel power which is the power of the pardon. "time magazine" you look at that on the screen, this is the new cover of "time magazine," king me, in which they are making the case that donald trump styles himself a king. >> yes. >> what do you make of that? >> he is -- you know, he has got oligarch envy, this guy. he basically wants to be one of those guys. he wants to be bputin. he would love nothing more than to be able to -- because every deal he does is transactional. he will make a deal with china so he can get $500 million for a theme park in indonesia. everything he looks at is through that prism. he would love to be in a position where every deal that comes through the united states he takes his cut. that's what he wants. and he is doing everything to make that happen. has diminished the press, he is attacking justice department, he is attacking th

howie kirtz interviews rob reiner about his angry rhetoric about the president. leland: the president doubling down on blaming democrats separating children and parents at their border. the democrats firing back saying the president is essentially holding kids hostage to get a more favorable immigration deal. hi, gillian. >> i don't know whether i'm going to sort it ow out, but i'll give it a whirl. >> the president plans to enforce a policy that separates immigrants parents from their children at the border in spite of his own publicly expressed hate for that policy. he writes democrats can fix the forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. this the day after he stunned republican leadership with a declaration on fox and friends that he would not support a compromised immigration plan of months in the making. >> i'm looking at both of them. i certainly wouldn't sign-- >> what does it-- >> i have to have a bill that has tremendous border security. i have to have that. >> the white house staff went on defense a

rob reiner at the border yesterday. >> i don't know.ollective groupthink and a little bit of self shaming and accusations going on inside of hollywood in the echo chamber and feel they have to ante up a little more against the president and his staff. that will blow back on them and what happens is you can't produce movies and television shows elevating 60% of the people. >> there was panic on the peter fonda movie, why would anyone see that? are they businesspeople? >> what he said was so egregious and outrageous, said about my son, i would be very lit up. i'm surprised the president has maintained his level of calm on what was said about his son. >> they have a lot of money, they don't care. >> there huckabee sanders started by saying in a hollywood actor encouraged people to kidnap children, peter fonda, some of those awful treats -- >> he didn't lose his job. rosanne barr says things that are not respectable, i'm not defending the tone or the rhetoric but there's an unevenness in the prosecution that is going on in our society. some

joining me is director and actor rob ryan ner and michelle ry reiner, thank you both for coming down.nks. >> let's talk about what the government is saying. i was talking with lawrence o'donnell on the show. he made a good point. at this point, these are their claims. >> yeah. >> but it's very complicated to just accept it at face value. >> yeah. the truth of the matter is there is no crisis except for the one that donald trump created. >> yeah. >> there is no crisis here. with you he cr but he created one, and clearly that's all he's interested in -- let's cut to the chase. this is about racism. this is pure and simple racism, that's all this is. he's hoping that the people who support him will be ginned up and running to the polls to make sure that brown people don't come into america. that's exactly what's going on here, and he -- and in the processes' destroying families. >> yeah. at minimum, michelle, it seems that the trump administration, the political people on his team believe that the base of the republican party will be more moved by this, by separating brown children and p

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