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Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Julian assange and, of course, the media and punching back on twitter, lets get back to my interview with sean spicer, i spoke to him from trump tower. Sean spicer, welcome. Thank you, howie. Donald trump tweeted, im asking the chairs of the house and Senate Committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it. I can understand his concern, but does that signal as president he will be ordering Leak Investigations to find o...

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What is this about? when youve got the secretary of state saying we may have a hacking issue that doesnt just garner headlines. that causes a whole lot of taxpayer dollars to look into that. >> it was blasted all over local news. a hit about it every 30 minutes yesterday. while i was watching on sunday. its still in the headlines this morning. kemp hasnt offered any evidence to back up this campaign. yesterday, he followed up by saying he was acting on information he got from his legal team. aga...

From the presidents own tweets. the ranting, the thin skinness, the obsession with comey, the unwillingness to deal with the truth of the hacking issue, let alone the question of collusion. all of that weve seen before. what wolff has done, it seems, from the excerpts, i havent read the book yet, has pulled this together into a very damning portrait but its just a book. we have more evidence to see. we have muellers investigation thats going to produce real evidence in addition to things that ha...

Sally, can you hear me? >> can you turn up a little bit? >> she cant hear me. tim, ill ask you, what stood out to you? >> oh, what stood out to me? well, my sense was he was trying to show off. he was in the middle of a restaurant, at a cafe at the club. what stood out to me, first of all, is that the basic themes that the presidents provided us. he doesnt believe there is a reality behind the hacking issue. for him its all about collusion which he didnt commit and the whole issue was created as...

Sally, first, what stood out to you? sally, can you hear me? >> can you turn up a little bit? >> she cant hear me. tim, ill ask you, what stood out to you? >> oh, what stood out to me? well, my sense was he was trying to show off. he was in the middle of a restaurant, at a cafe at the club. what stood out to me, first of all is that the basic themes that the presidents provided us. he doesnt believe there is a reality behind the hacking issue. for him its all about collusion which he didnt commi...

>> all politics is local. thats what your friend tip oneill said. >> all politics is local and if you can point to somebody else and say this terrible person in this other country is causing us all these problems, thats pretty good domestic politics. >> how concerned are you about the hacking issue, not just here or -- >> i think thats something to be very concerned about, absolutely. >> accept that the conclusion of the intelligence community that russia was hacking. >> yes. >> do you think the...

Rely on bonding over his common enemies. >> putin is not known to be a warm and cuddly guy so i dont think that bonding is necessarily his usual state of play, but he knows that donald trump is somebody who has a big ego, and he wants to have that ego stroked and so i think thats what vladimir putin would be going into this meeting knowing about the person that hes sitting down with is the type of personality and character that hes dealing with. as for donald trump and the election news, you kno...

Party does seem to want to run away from as quickly as it can. doesnt matter to you that you know the extent of any contacts between our government and whatever russian activities led to the hacking? >> first of all, on the hacking issue, im quite content to have any investigation anybody wants to have. other countries try to impact what happens in the united states. quite frankly, we try to impact what happens in other countries. thats not unusual. the first interference in the american electio...

Republican refusal to investigate. weve written letters to the republican chairman of various committees who have ignored them. the resolution of inquiry is a way of forcing the republicans either to have a public hearing on asking the department of justice to give -- to give to the congress all relevant documents on the business interests of the president, the emoluments clause, his dealings with the russians, or to force a vote on it. thats the only way we can force a vote on the republicans r...