hate and divisiveness for hope, love and unity. journalists on air described the marches being that way. it s ignoring these mars included a variety of issues messages that were violent and vulgar. howie: she dropped the f bomb on cnn. lawrence o donnell tweeted why should the networks protect the public against word we all use. we are supposed to [bleep] those words out. howie: it s hard when you don t have a script and it s live coverage. what happened yesterday was unusual. it was the day after the inauguration. it exceeded expectations of what the numbers were suppose to be. i think a lot of the coverage was quite gauzy.
nonstop coverage of the women s protests. cnn head lines, women s mars across the country send message to trump. i don t think it was overplaying. yesterday was pretty big news. you can get into did they overcover and fox under, and probably both of those arguments are correct in my view. howie: mollie hemingway, you had celebrities, you had madonna talking about blowing up the white house. she dreamed of doing this. i didn t see a lot of anchors coming on saying it s a reprehensible thing to say. it s not just how much coverage you are giving, but how you describe what s happening. but cnn reported it as rejecting
accountable. there is a line to be challenging and challenge facts. and then be cheering for them not to do well or appear like you are on one side. and clearly, the coverage of the campaign we saw elements of that. and opinion writing on front pages, and very aggressive coverage. so they have the upper hand right now, the trump administration, and we ll see where it goes. howie: bret baier, good to see you. next on mediabuzz, i ll tangle with corey lewandowski in just a moment. mom, i just saved a lot of money on my car insurance by switching to geico. i should take a closer look at geico. you know, geico can help you save money on your homeowners insurance too? great! geico can help insure our mountain chalet!
didn t like it. was this inauguration different from your anchor chair from the others you covered or watched in that protest and even some on the right not liking the speech? donald trump is almost like an independent candidate who has taken on both parties. bret: this is part of the completion of the takeover of the republican party. it s not a hostile takeover because people went willingly in part because of the actions of the obama administration and the action or inaction of republicans in the past. this was donald trump, this is what they wanted. a souped up inaugural version of a campaign speech. but that fit what they are looking to do, that is, change washington at its core in in that sense it felt very different. as far as the coverage it was great to work alongside martha and we did let it breathe a lot.
friends interview. the press briefing room, are you going to move it? we ll move it to a larger room and the press went crazy. but some people in the press will not be able to get in. howie: did the media win that skirmish? i don t think the outcome is clear yet. i think the trump administration as kellyanne conway said this morning wants to change the terms of the relationship between the press and the president. clearly there is a war going on between the press and trump. we can argue all day who started it, who fault it. i don t know anyone right now who can say honestly that the press is going to fairly cover this president. it seems to me they have set themselves up as the edge any of trump. i read their twitter feeds. i saw the inaugural coverage. it doesn t seem fair to me.