I think question you also have to ask, was this a coup or a firing or both . He was responding to a recommendation, and now its completely undermined when the president said i was going to do it anyway. Is, you know, who to believe . Nobody. I think that Donald Trumps comments yesterday in a strange way blew the lid off of his own coverup. Howard those media accusations following shifting white house accounts after this president ial interview on nbc he made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Howard and the president now suggesting he may just do away with White House Press briefings. First of all, you have a level of hostility thats incredible. And its very unfair. Howard would that hurt the administration as much as the press corps . Plus, jimmy kimmel takes a victory lap over his emotional plea for obamacare. Is he now a political partisan . Im howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. Howard President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetoric against the press corps over its saturation coverage and highly controversial coverage of the firing of james comey, telling judge Jeanine Pirro that he may have a solution for his Communications Team not being able to keep up with him. We dont have press conferences, and we do you dont mean that. Well, just dont have them unless i have one every two weeks that i do myself. We dont have them. I think its a good idea. First of all, you have a level of hostility thats incredible. And its very unfair. Sarah huckabee is a lovely young woman. You know sean spicer. He is a wonderful human being. Hes a nice man. Howard joining us now from new york to talk about way this storys being covered is Kellyanne Conway, the president s counselor. Thanks for coming in. Hi, howie. Howard would you recommend as his counselor that the White House Press briefings be abolished . Im very happy that the president gave three big interviews this week. It goes with what jeff mason said at the dinner a couple of weeks ago which is that the press has access to this white house. The president gave interviews to nbc, fox news and Time Magazine this week. So theres not a mystery about a what he thinks on everything. I would go to the other point of what the president said to judge Jeanine Pirro. He said the level of hostility to the people who work for him is really something. And do you see what some in the media are doing while sean spicer or Sarah Huckabee sanders are giving their press briefings, theyre Live Streaming them. How many people are talking about Health Care Reform today . Did it go away as an important issue . No. Its always the, its the issue du jour, its the explosive, what they decide is the explosive, my developically obsessive story of the week, and they go on that, and its presumptively negative. Were a white house that presents the president himself as the best communicator and the best connector that ive ever seen. And hes given tremendous access including this week. Howard well, the unusual firing of the fbi director is the story du jour. Let me ask you this, because i think a lot of the contentiousness in the White House Briefing room this week followed what the press portrayed as conflicting white house accounts about the firing of james comb hawaii and whether or not it was done solely at the recommendation of rod rosenstein. Let me play a little bit with nbcs lester holt. Youre saying i accepted their recommendation. You had already made the decision. Oh, i was going to fire regardless. He made a recommendation. Hes highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The democrats like him, the republicans like him. He made a recommendation. But regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. Howard this led to a million headlines, white house changing its story, president was going to fire comey anyway. The president said hes been thinking about if this for a while and that he watched mr. Comey testify the week before. Hes been thinking about this for a while. And then independent of that, his Deputy Attorney general who oversees the fbi, thats his job, came to this conclusion on his own 14 days or so on the job and made the recommendation. Now, i would also point out a whats really important here is everybody is saying comey was investigating. No, comey wasnt investigating. The fbi was investigating, and the fbi will continue to investigate. The acting director of the fbi, many mccabe, said very clearly under oath, first, that the investigation is not impeded and, secondly, he has adequate resources. That is the direct opposite of what many people in the media print and electronically were saying about this. This is a man, the acting director of the fbi, has expressed confidence to continue the investigation, and the president himself has said he wants the investigation to go forward and to conclude. The leader, leader mcconnell has said the house and senate are also looking at this. So the idea that any of this is, you know, breaking news, the fact that the president has been watching what others have been watching. And, you know, its the democrats who for months were criticizing director comey. And it is, director comb hawaii himself had said that he went out and he told, quote, that was a hard call for me to make, to call the attorney general, loretta lynch, and tell her im going to do a press conference, but i cant tell you what im going the say. That wasnt a hard call, it was the wrong call. Howard right. And mr. Rosenstein has mentioned that its a usurpation of the powers of the attorney general, and that they dont do press conferences. Howard whenever this question comes up about the russia investigation and alleged ties between Trump Associates in moscow, i always say lets slow down because not much is proven, but when the president again talking to lester holt says when i decided to fire comey, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing is a madeup story. Its not a completely madeup story in the sense that there are real, serious investigations here as to to whether theres anything there. Howie, this has been going on for months. You basically could have a baby in the time theyve been investigating this. Former dni mr. Clapper said based on the information he had when he left his position, he saw no evidence of this he reaffirmed based on what he knew at the time, he saw nothing to suggest otherwise. You know, and, look, i think the best statement that was made this week, ironically, about the president s prerogative in firing the fbi director was by the outgoing fing bi director. Fbi director. Jim comey himself said he has long thought that the president of the United States has the right, has the ability the to fire the fbi director, and thats exactly what the president did. Howre howard we played some clips ott the top, the New York Daily News cover calling it a coup, mcclatchy used the word dictator, bob beckel called the president a liar and a boo toon. What do you make of some of this language and covering this admittedlyimportant story . Its irresponsible, and its conjecture, and its opinion. Its people passing themselves off as News Reporters when theyre expressing their opinions, and theyre using a lexicon thats never been used about a president of the United States, one who just this week was very accessible to the press in three major interviews. And ill let what the president said speak for itself on every single issue. But the media has to decide, too, what is its relationship with the white house, how does it want to cover the white house. Where are the editors . Some days i think a lot of these editors got fired. Twitter is not an assignment editor, its not a source. You know, i was out in the country, i was in five different states at the beginning of this week, and nobody there is talking about anything but jobs and health care. People at the end of the week were talking about cybersecurity attacks. Theyll probably continue to talk about it as they get back to their desks in the morning for work. The country is talking about things that matter to them that the president is working dutifully on every single day. Theres such a disconnect now between what people hear as noise and and what is actually news. And what theyre paying attention to every single day, what they will judge this president on ultimately is if growth improves. All these confidence measures youve seen from the manufacturers, the home builders, the Small Business own ors, the consumers themselves, the job production. If that actually continues, health care will get done. And there will be tack relief howard and we will cover that. And hes doing great advances across the world. He has a huge foreign trip coming up with five different stops and three bilateral meetings just this congresswoman coming week. Whos talking about that this morning . Howard its been overshadowed, no question about it. Thats a choice. Im sorry, thats a choice the media make. Howard i hear you. Somebody said, oh, wed love to cover x, but this overshadowed it. You have a choice to make. You can be part of the sameness, or you can go and cover things that actually matter to americans, and thats the responsibility of everyone, to cover the gamut of issues, all the things that the president is working on at any given time. Howre howard some of the people are opinion people. Heres the Washington Post this morning, and you and i have talked before about anonymous sources. One gop figure close to the white house mused privately whether trump was, quote, in the grip of some kind of paranoid delusion. No names attached, just that shot. Your thoughts. Well, thats terrible. And, frankly, i would just, again, show you said its somebody, close, quote to the white house. I dont know if they work at the coffee shop across the street, a tourist in lafayette park, because i do see that in a lot of these articles. A very major newspaper earlier this week reported based on a Single Source that the Deputy Attorney general had threatened to resign. That just was not true. The department of justice denied that immediately. I havent seen a retraction. I heard or everybody talking about it, and it actually said someone, close to the white house. There are people constantly on tv who have never worked in a white house, let alone this white house, telling the president what he should be doing. Hes the president of the United States, and he will execute on the agenda and continues to. He gets much more done that people dont cover, but the American People are watching very closely. I didnt run into one person in these five states that were talking about what the media covered. Howard right. And on this point about what the media focus on, theres another wave of speculative stories about sean spicer and others, and the web site axios today says there may be a huge reboot, the president could fire priebus, bannon be, spicer and others. Do you think the media have a little bit of an obsession over whos going to get canned . Howie, the fact is as they work on the 20th palace intrigue personnel story of this young administration, they totally missed the firing of jim comey coming. And, you know, the president has put together a team, and everybody works very hard there. And he knows it. But he is the ultimate decision maker. And the fact is, you know, these palace intrigue and personnel stories make my point and make the president s point about the type of coverage he gets. Makes my point completely. What are you actually covering . Are you covering whos up and whos down in the west wing, which you would know nothing about, or are you covering what impacts americans . Why they wanted this man to be president as opposed to his political opponent . They believe and already see the fruits of his labor, the job creation, health care is moving on. Somebody just asked me are you, in fact, going to get rid of the Obamacare Penalties . 6. 5 million americans chose to pay it because they didnt want to buy obamacare. Wheres that coverage . Howard no question. I also want to can ask you about this moment with cnns anderson cooper. Ive got to slip a commercial break in, a couple more break in, a couple more questions on the other i need the phone thats where i happen to be. To be the one that rings. 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I turned it around and said, thanks for the trip down memory lane, we loved winning michigan. He rolled his eyes. Definitely what i call trumpist, which is many people are treated like house guests and when we go on tv, were not. And the fact is that it was, you know, we were watching cnn ahead of time, youve got six to one panels against the president. One of us tries to go ott there on his behalf and state the case from the position of the president. The suspicion and derision just generally toward this white house by members of the media im not mentioning any network, paper or individual specifically and the quest to go viral, that makes no sense. You must be lying. They say it to folks all the time. It really doesnt help democracy, and it doesnt help the body politic, because people are looking for the news. Theyre not looking for conjecture. They dont care if something goes viral and late night hosts get a couple laughs out of it. The idea that people are so presumptively thing towards so much thats going on, its frankly often why you see people on this network only for long periods of time. Because, you know, were faced with people with the famed, pained look, the fair rowed brow, the curled lip anytime someone tries to say something, including the president. I would point out to you the president s own quotes in Time Magazine. I thought it was incredibly revealing, and weve heard this privately and publicly previously. The president said hes given himself such a great gift, that its been so liberating for him to tune out so much of the negative coverage. And its not because he cant hear it, because he knows its not true. Howre howard you mentioned the Time Magazine interview, but you also had a contend ciaos interview with cnn morning anchor this week, chris cuomo, and the president was quoted that he was full of hatred. Now, its fair to criticize him, but hes not a lunatic. What does the president get out of that type of personal attack . I can talk about my interview. He used words, and i said you probably want that to go viral. You were describing a state of mind or a situation, not me, when you used the negative words. And i pushed back very forcefully on, again, which was something that doesnt always feel like someone is trying to get to the news report and the facts. It feels like theres this conclusion in search of evidence. And for the president to say, and i know this hurt some people, for the president to very clearly say he doesnt want the negative anymore, hes tuned it out x he never, quote, knew that was a skill to not watch all the negative its not because he wants to be surrounded by positive, hes the president of the United States. He knows how much negativing there is in the world. He gets a daily intelligence briefing. But at the same time, no good comes out of having to hear all the blather and having to hear all the nonsense and the negativity and the falsities. Again, people who have never worked in the white house, let alone this one, telling us constantly whats going on. Knows better, hes the president and hes rising above it. Howard you made a point about what the media choose to cover. What is the press supposed to do when the president tweets and says there might be tapes of his conversation with james comey but then declines to say more about it . How do you not cover that as a story . The president said hes not going to comment further on it. But the obsession with every tweet and every comment, and again, doing that my developically and not covering the jobs numbers, not covering the amazing trade deal that we just made with china. Its huge. Thatll impact many more people. And its like, oh, trade deal on beef with china, yawn. Thats news. That affects people. Thats significant movement. These job numbers, these economic indicators. The fact that health care has already is on its way to being repealed and replaced. The fact that leader mcconnell and the president are working so hard together and others to get a full replacement. That matters to people, im telling you. I talk to real people every day, and this is what they discuss in return. Howard maybe we should talk to more real people as well. Kellyanne conway, thanks very much for coming in on sunday. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Howard up next, our panel on the coverage of the comey firing and why some pundits are calling it a coup and worse. And later, a deep dive on the dynamics of the white house mr. Wise man. You wish to know how to protect your Sterling Credit score. My credit is off to a good start, but knowing so many things can go wrong with it. Kinda freaks me out. Well, unfreak yourself out. And download the free creditwise app from capital one. 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Plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. See why millions of people have already enrolled in the only Medicare Supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. Dont wait. Call now. Howard the Media Firestorm rages over President Trumps firing of james comey. Joining us now, aaron mcpike, White House Correspondent for independent journal review, Margaret Carlson with the daily beast, and molly hemingway, fox news contributor. Aaron, its a big story, a huge story. Does that justify the daily news cover coup to trump and these other words we played at the top, dictator, whiff of fascism . Maybe fascism is too strong to start out with, and we should leave a little more time to see how this plays out over the next month or so. Howard wait. Coup . The president firing his fbi director is a coup . Was that the daily news that you just showed . Pundits have used it as well. Okay, i want to go to Kellyanne Conways interview with you when she said the press didnt see this coming. Well, im pretty sure a number of reporters asked sean spicer and others a number of times if the president still had confidence in james comey. And every single time they all said that he did. So we couldnt have seen this coming, and reporters were asking the questions. I think shes right that theres too much focus on palace intrigue and, you know, maybe all of those stories are wrong. So, look, i just think that that point was kind of misguided on some levels. Howard molly, you used a technical term this week, you said you were gob smacked by the medias coverage of this story. Is part of the media because i dont want to apply this to to reporters asking legitimate questions, going off the rails here . Yeah. Theres no question this was a huge story, the firing of an fbi director. What was so fascinating was how so many people in the media went into a take which required you to accept a Fairly ExtremeConspiracy Theory about russia and trump, and they interpreted everything through that Conspiracy Theory, that this must be an attempt to thwart an investigation even though there was no evidence that that was the case, even though trump himself said he believed that this might even extend the investigation, even though the fbi director has nothing to do with the actual investigation. They just immediately went into this very hostile howard well, he does oversee it. Hes the head of the fbi, yes, but this would not be the way you thwart an investigation since hes not the one actually doing it. But they did all of this sans evidence. And instead of thinking about why comey lost the confidence of the president and just accurately reporting what happened, they immediately went to the most extreme interpretation of event ares. And that makes it very hard for a viewer or for a reader to distinguish between legitimate complaints that the media have about trump, of which there are many, and completely illegitimate ones. Howard you could cancel briefings, you could do that. Another choice would be to can el lies cancel lies. Well, the first explanations of why and how comey was fired werent exactly truthful. Why is still one of those radioactive words. Its a big word to use, and you dont want to use it. I agree with you, characterizing whats happened as fascism, to go to that length instead of just putting out the facts, and, in fact, the facts are fairly damning, howie. And it took, think about it, it took woodward and bernstein and the Watergate Committee to deal with the coverup in the Nixon White House whereas trump comes out the next day and says that everything that was said the day before wasnt true. Howard but, wait, the facts are fairly damning. I could see saying this was not a polished performance, particularly by communication staff. They had one hours notice here. Ultimately, what this leads to and whether or not theres something here at the heart of the fbi investigation, we dont know at this point. We dont look, Sarah Huckabee sanders in her press briefing the following day actually offered several explanations for it. 24 hours later. So, you know, yes, there was a problem with the communications staff, but trump didnt give them the real reason for it until he went on tv in an interview himself and gave it. But can we stop and say there needs to be one reason and only one reason why someone gets fired . There are many reasons why comey lost the confidence of everyone on both left and right, and it doesnt its not believable hes saying he was thinking about this over time and it only it happened immediately. Who did he tell . Howard weve got to get to a break, sorry. The tyranny of television. Ahead, by the way, jimmy kimmel milking the publicity surrounding his emotional plea for obamacare. But first, does the comey firing justify the word coverup . You wont see these folks at the post office. They have businesses to run. They have passions to pursue. How do they avoid trips to the post office . Stamps. Com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. Get a 4 week trial, plus 100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. Go to stamps. Com tv and never go to the post office again. Howie President Trump tweeting that he might do away with the White House Press briefings. Reporters asked sean spicer why that would be. I think hes a little dismayed as well as a lot of people that we come out here and try to do everything we can to provide you and the American People with what hes doing on their behalf and yet we see time and time again an attempt to parse every little word and make it more of a game of got you as opposed to really figure out what the policies are, why somebody is being pursued. Howie would President Trump kill the briefings and as i ask Kellyanne Conway is this driven by by Sarah Huckabee and sean spicer . At the beginning of the administration we talked about how they could change things about press briefings. These are good point to be made that the media have still failed to come to terms with the fact that is somebody very different has become differently. That person does not play washington games the same way people are accustomed and the media should start respond to go that reality instead of trying to demand that this president fit into the box that all previous president s have fit. The president was bluffing. They are not going to get rid of press briefings. Of course, theyre not going to. He just wants to get a reaction. Howie trying to drive the press crazy . Of course, thats what he does. Its the job of sean spicer and Sarah Huckabee sanders to get hammered as you say by the press. It is their job to dodge punches every single day. Howie unfairly hammered because they make mistakes, we all make mistakes. It is my job to speak on behalf of the president of the United States. He said that to the press briefing one day. Howie they are given information on all the issues and sometimes they are not getting the full story. Let me get you in here, margaret. Thank you. About this as a very active president , it is not possible for surrogates to stand in the podium with perfect accuracy . Let me agree with erin, he was bluffing about no more press briefings. Its like im taking my ball and going home because i didnt get my bat. This is ridiculous thing to say. Hes not going to do it. Howie hold on. Hold on. I think its unlikely they will abolish the briefings. They can cut them back. What about the larger points that he feels its a game of got you and the spokesman or spokesperson were being hammered. The surrogates exploded a story that trump that rosenstein wrote a memo and gave backing for him wanting to get rid of comey. Howie comey mishandling of Hillary Clinton email. Right. There was so much on record about Hillary Clinton that that was so phoney you couldnt believe it for a second and rosenstein wasnt going to back up the president that he was the motivating force. Howie there was still this question, the whole got you game here and maybe its unfair to character ice it that way, we all know this was really about donald trump being uncomfortable and being a hoax and he got rid of comey. There could be a multiple reasons. As you said, what if the Russian Investigation doesnt lead to anywhere, will the press look pretty dumb for making such a big issue . Absolutely, they better hope that they get the goods that donald trump himself as an agent of the russian government which is what we have been hearing for six months. Using leaks that never seem quite to work out in a way we dont actually have the goods. Howie youre not saying there shouldnt be an investigation or other People Associated with trump might have had contacts like mike flynn . What we were told about russia actually meddling in the dnc emails and john podesta emails, we know that. We know that trump has people who hes hired who had some affiliations with russia. We dont have evidence of the conspiracy that the media have put forth and hammered day after day. The only way make sense of the media hysteria this week if you accept the conspiracy idea. We dont have the evidence for that and thats a very serious problem and its going to make the media look foolish unless they really unless somehow it does come out that donald trump is a traitor. It is true that the media tends to get hysterical since president was elected, since president elect trump. When he tweeted about the tapes, he knew immediately that every single journalist in the city was going to go to nixon. He wanted that. He wanted that. Howie let me close on this. Isnt there as we cover this a lot of hypocrisy on both sides, democrats hated james comey for what he did in the last two weeks of the Hillary Clinton and republicans hated comey when he didnt bring charges to Hillary Clinton. Isnt like comey was such a popular guy but now its yeah. Yeah. Both sides disliked him. Maybe he was doing something right. Trump brought all of this on himself because he couldnt control howie what about the coverage . Has trump put all on himself . You have two people hysteria in coverage, do you disagree with that . The way one story was put out and then the next day its completely erased by trump giving an interview, yes, that was a very poor way to do it and its selfdestructive. By the way, trump would have been a perfect foil for trump. Howie is there a degree of media hysteria as molly have said . Theres media hysteria. Howie let us know what you think, mediabuzz, are the media overreacting that there might be tapes of his conversations with james comey and later jimmy kimmel delights that hes an elitist freak. Constipated . Trust 1 doctor recommended dulcolax. Use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. Suppositories for relief in minutes. And dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. Dulcolax. Designed for dependable relief. Howie President Trump was asked about most eyecatching tweet of the week. What about the idea that in a tweet you said that there might be tape recordings . That i cant talk about. I cant talk about that. All i want for comey to be honest and i hope he will be. Howie tapes become instantly story, everywhere, echos of watergate, saturday night massacre with richard nixon. Overreacting to a single tweet . We actually got good Media Coverage out of it, good stories about it learning that, in fact, president s do take tape conversations in the white house. That is what is interesting, james comey, the media didnt do a great job of masking james comeys identity after he was leaking stories after firing and trump is frustrated with leaks and in large part because so many are untrue. We had stories on front pages of newspapers that the deputy ag threatened to resign, he denied on record. We were told that james comey was fired after asking more resources. Even though on the record we had multiple people denying them including the principals in question. This leak issue where the media relies so much on leaks almost to the exclusion of source, people with names, is very frustrating and i think thats the business about the tape came as a leak, comey told associates that trump had dinner a week into the administration and asked him to pledge loyalty and comey declined and said he would be honest with him. So the press covering a fake here, we dont know. In this case the media hysteria of what you speak is being fed by donald trump, by putting out a tweet which says he better not be saying this, i might have tape. Thats radioactive tweet to put on top of the bond fire thats already there. Theres something about trump in the way all of this was handled, if there was a way to handle it, as you say, comey was an equal opportunity target, maybe he was doing his job but nobody liked him. He could have handled this differently than having one story and another story and topping it off the cherry on the sunday is this revelation hes not going to talk about that he could be taping. Howie right. When i saw sean spicer deflect the question, i knew that they were going to leave it out there for the press continue to talk about, another distraction, possibly. Howie okay. How can you talk about health care when you have why arent we talking about health care this week when you have the president putting out this. One of the ways you can respond to this not deny its explosive or even problematic, is thinking about how we dont actually have good answers from james comey about whether he did or did not start an investigation of leak that is came out from the fbi which is really not just bad but criminal in some cases. He declined to answer whether he even done an investigation. That would be a good line of inquiry for the media to pursue, is there an investigation, whats happening there, why arent we getting leaks if its real. Howie i hope everybody is writing this down. It was a weird situation this week when the president met with the Russian Foreign minister and russian embassador, in u. S. Press allowed and the pictures emerge from russian photographer but the u. S. Press was barred an came from the russians. Great to see you on sunday. After the break, has there ever been a more dysfunctional relationship between the spokes people and the press . Ed henry is hon howie the dynamics between president ial press secretary, joining us ed henry, the rest of the Jackie Robinson story, good to see you. Same here. Howie theres the book. Great reporting based on leak that is President Trump is unhappy with communication team. Is it common to scapegoat if things go wrong . Yeah, people can get blamed. I think this president has unique challenges because he is a strong communicator when he wants to be, but when it goes bad he sort of doubles down on twitter and what not as his communication staff bears the brunt of the tough questions and the accusations that they want to tell them the truth because he changes narrative. Howie im moving so fast im susm such an activist president , they cant reflect my views with 100 accuracy. But where i think judge janine challenge him, you have the ability to slow down and howie just to be clear, we are not talking about slow down in terms of policies, its a free country. Lets wait a day, lets have a roll out, we will have man it map it out to it works to your benefit. Youre the president. When i hear Kellyanne Conway, you have her saying, you guys arent covering jobs, yeah, theres good stuff the president has been doing. You know who is also not talking about, the president. Kellyanne conway. She talks about it when shes complain to go you that all we are talking about is russia when the president is tweeting about russia. Howie he does talk when hes on the road. Firing the fbi director in this circumstance was going to be the dominant story. Its his choice and a lot of reasons why james comey should have been fired. Youre right, there was no road map or plan to implement it. Howie what about uil of the speculative stories of who is going to get fired . It could be spicer, priebus and bannon, most of the time nothing happens but also the president is unfair to sean spicer and Sarah Huckabee sanders. You went through a million briefings at the White House Correspondent, it can be contentious . Dana parino on. Do i think republicans often get tougher questions . A lot of times they do. The people in the Mainstream Media want to admit that or not. Look at the wall the all of the root of this according to New York Times story is that the president feels grievance, hes not gotten credit for winning the election and they say on the jump and unpredictable presidency shaped by deep resentment. Where is the front page story of deep resentment on the left and they dont feel credit on why they should have won . Hillary clinton talked about this a week or so ago and agreed and the leftist is marching the streets with anger and the New York Times is focusing on the president s anger. This president has not gotten a fair shake, thats true. My point to be absolutely clear is that he is not getting a fair shake but he sometimes makes it worse by engaging in these, maybe theres tapes, for example, of course, the White House Press corps will and should follow up on that. Howie i have been hearing we should abolish White House Briefing. What would it be reaction if barack obama would have fired director. You want to cancel briefings, fine, guess what, Kellyanne Con way. You will not get your message out there. Howie it lets the administration on cable to get the message out. Yes, theres got you questions. Deal with those and then talk about your message. Howie ed henry, wisdom and experience. Thank you for joining us. Jimmy kimmel said he shouldnt have used personal ordeal to go after President Trump. Is howie jimmy kimmel has gotten a whole lot of publicity which included a swipe for President Trump and appeal for saving obamacare. Not all the coverage has been favorable which has given him more comedic. I would like to apologize for saying that children in america should have health care, it was insensitive. [laughter] it was offensive and i hope you can find in your heart to forgive me. Howie it is a real newspaper and with lawmakers citing kimmel , while interviewing republican senator bill cassidy. I would like to make a suggestion as to what the jimmy kimmel test should be. I will keep it simple. The jimmy kimmel test i think should be no family should be denied medical care or emergency because they cant afford it, can that be the jimmy kimmel youre on the right track. Howie heartfelt moment about his son. Lets put the new york coverup. We had it up a moment ago as you see, Jeff Sessions dragging james comey off the plane, donald trump is looking on. Thats it for this edition of mediabuzz. Im howard kurtz. Let me know what you think of the show. Mediabuzz at foxnews. Com. See you then at 11 00 eastern n. Laura ingle is in for harris faulkner. The Trump Administration facing challenges at home and abroad as it ramps up the search for the next fbi director and response on the latest north Korean Missile launch. This is the fox report. The white house is responding to the latest provocation from north korea. It came just a day after a Senior North Korean diplomat said they would engage in talk with the u. S. Meanwhile, the administration wasting no time on the search for a new fbi director. They are weighing in on more