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Howie: in the midst of a fierce media debate over the russia investigation, the hotly disputed memo and the state of the union, i was in new york when i spoke with sean spicer, the former white house press secretary. much of the media are painting a picture of the president going after the media to undercut the mueller investigation. sean: the president has a right to make his position clear on issues. between top investigators at the fbi, there seems to be some merit to the presidents concern. ...

Having a problem with a trust issue with the american people. how the media will handle this in the future will determine how people will feel about it. howie: the memo has been caught in the crossfire. "the plot to stop mueller." obviously republicans and some conservative media folks are trying to undermine the special counsel investigation, but it doesnt mean the information isnt accurate or relevant. gayle: the former director of the fbi james comey said the dossier was salacious and unverif...

Howie: sean spicer, thanks for joining us. after the break, more on the house memo. it

Howie: when you were press secretary did you get too personal in going after reporters? and did the president encourage you to take an aggressive tone? sean: i regret some of the reactions i had, regardless of whether they were deserved or not. on whether a reporter crossed the line or went too far. but i should have been the better person in that moment. there are times i look back and say two rights dont make a wrong and i should have been the bigger person in that instance and not kind of los...

Van jones instead of saying he did a great job, he read well from the teleprompter. he said he was delivering sweet-tasting candy with poison in it. and i agreed at that point. i think the coverage of the state of the union was quite fair. i didnt see a lot of people criticizing the democrats looking very sour. plenty conservatives looked sour with obama. howie: trump got a very big audience. more watched on fox news than any other network. then he said it was the largest state of the union ever...

Say, or people are saying. who are those people. i talked to 18 voters. here is what they say. i think reporters make up narratives that fit with what they believe. the problem is this. what makes this different is while reporters have always had an anti-republican and anti-conservative bias. regardless of party there has been a desire to develop the relationship recognizing i need you, reporters will tolerate republicans and conservatives. the difference with trump is because of social media, h...

Voted to release this memo. he was on cnn and he was talking about this. they were asked why they didnt release the democratic memo. you made this an oversight bipartisan process when you left the democrats alone. we didnt hear a lot about the content of the memo for a couple hours. he said why arent we talking about whats in the memo. whether the fbi can go to the court and present this information without saying it was from a democratic opponent of the president. jessica: there is reporting th...

Knocked down by the media fact checkers. mollie: when he made that claim i wanted to look into streaming and other media. it was a well-viewed speech. the way to respond to that is just the facts. howie: there are a lot more ways to watch these events. wish you were there on the set with me. on "mediabuzz." sean spicer on his rocky white house tenure. why president trump is skipping the super bowl interview.

They say this is an actual oversight question. what do you have to present to the fisa court to get a warrant. howie: a lot more to say, but i have got to get a break here. you may have seen me on fox a few times talking about my new book, "media madness. boom, it dropped off the radar.

Sometimes it should have been more carrot than stick. but it was never a direct order to attack this guy. i think sometimes i got into the moment because of what was not just perceived, but what was false reporting or false narratives being created. howie: as you are making the round do you have a sense some of your skeptics in the media want to see contrition from you and want to say im sorry, i screwed things up. sean: because its trump and because its conservatives. everybody who has had that...