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Mr. jay-z becomes the latest here. the rapper just recorded a song taking on critics who are blasting jay and beyonce for this recent trip to cuba. listen. >> never thought id be talking rap beef with jake tapper, but, jake, theres always a first for sneefrg i dont know why you say that. im straight up hip-hop. >> i mean clearly, but i wasnt clear whether jay carney was. lets talk jay carney. here he is. theres a reporter quoting these

Beach. >> queue the laughter. the voice of a white house reporter asking jay carney white house spokesperson about jay-z and beyonces recent trip to cuba. quoting this guy, jay tapper has been in a few of the white house briefings. in his whole time i wonder if hes ever seen anything like that. jakes next. hwelcome back.. nice to see you again! hey! i almost didnt recognize you without the suit. well, this is my weekend suit. weekend getaways just got better. well, enjoy your round! alright, tha...

Celebrating his republican nomination for congress. a little something caught our eye last night. standing to the right -- i mean standing right there to the left of sanford, a very, very attractive woman, happens to be the argentinian woman who derailed the political career in 2009. you remember he went missing for a few days. the staff didnt know where he was. he came back to the states and announced he was hiking on the appalachian trail. but it turns out he was actually in argentina with his...

Was still going on. theres a lot of things that we still dont know about this attack, and its been a long time. the question is, do people want to know? well continue to cover it. obviously here, but capitol hill doesnt seem to want to purr suv it as much as -- pursue it as much as everyone else. >> do you think hillary clinton is lying about, who cares, will bit her in four years if she wants to be president? >> you could forsee -- jay tapper said he could see it as a political commercial down ...

Others in the media have been following it. my colleagues have been doing the heavy lifting, even for us here at fox newschannel. but today, jay tapper, abc had a story and cbs news, also. so other news networks and organizations are starting to dig in. so we might see a change on this, senator. >> i hope so. i menged, how can they explain that a counter-terrorism security group, especially designed to convene and coordinate actions of government, in cases of terrorist attack, they toll them to ...

Following it. my colleagues have been doing the heavy lifting, even for us here at fox newschannel. but today, jay tapper, abc had a story and cbs news, also. so other news networks and organizations are starting to dig in. so we might see a change on this, senator. >> i hope so. i menged, how can they explain that a counter-terrorism security group, especially designed to convene and coordinate actions of government, in cases of terrorist attack, they toll them to stand down. how do we know tha...

Anything wrong with it. >> juan: what jake said in the article, jake was clear that both sides play this game. so it wasnt just saying that the obama people. the second thing i would say here is this. i think the big journalistic sin of our time is not bias toward one candidate or another. its equating that whatever anybody says is the equal what the other guy said. you can say the outrageous thing and you know what? the earth is flat. report it and say "a" said the earth is round. "b" said the ...

And did she suffer a bias? looking back, did they get so excited, media get so excited about the possibility of a obama presidency, they hurt her in the process? >> andrea: they did. they reported on things like her tearing up at a town hall. they focused on the wrong things. forget what the clinton campaign complaints were. look at the electorate. do we feel we know who president obama is four years later? no. the medias job to do the research. a lot of sus done our own. i think jake tapper wha...

Lead question, and does jake tapper have a point that we get wrapped up too much in day-to-day issues instead of the substantive issues. >> jake is a friend of mine. he was speaking out of frustration. as dana pointed out it is like chasing rabbits, that the media is kind of like grey hounds going after the rabbit on a stick. both campaigns do it. they try to put that rabbit out there for the day trying to steer the days events by what each candidate or the president is doing and saying. and the...

>> i think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office, and i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate on a topic like that. [cheers and applause] megyn: that was newt gingrich, one of the first to challenge the media coverage of the 2012 presidential race, but he of course was not the last. now this issue is getting new attention. because abc news white house co...