And is the press being critical of cruz picking Carly Fiorina as his running mate . And also one of his oldest friends, a conversation with Geraldo Rivera. Hillary clinton winning four out of five states bristles at the suggestion that she might notwi that was june 7th, 2008, when you got out of the race and endorsed president obama. June 7th, 2016, will be the california primary. I am ahead in the polls. I am way ahead. What about Bernie Sanders complaining that the press is unfairly writing him off . Plus, a report from last nights white house Correspondents Dinner and president obamas last chance to stick it to the press and other favorite targets. I want to thank the Washington Press corps, i want to thank carol for all that you do. You know, free press is central to our democracy and nah, im just kidding. You know ive got to talk about trump. Come on [ applause ] come on. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. It was only a couple of weeks ago that donald trump was calling most of the media dishonest. Do we like the media . No do we hate the media . Yes yeah but after he won pennsylvania, maryland, delaware, connecticut and rhode island mostly by landslide margins, he softened his view, at least for the moment. I want to thank the media. The media has covered me very fair for the last two hours. [ applause ] no, theyve been really very fair over the last few weeks. But a very different message from ted cruz as he was finishing third behind john kasich in four of those five states. Donald trump is likely to win some states and the media is going to have heart palpitations this evening and the media is going to say, the race is over. There was a ton of Media Attention when the cruz and kasich camps announced they would split up three states to give the other a better chance of derailing trump at least until the reporters got to ask the candidate about the deal. Tell your voters in indiana to support ted cruz . No. No. Im not going to tell anybody how to vote. Look, i mean, this is a party of resource. Is this collusion . What does that even mean . How is it not collusion . What do you say to those that it is collusion. Donald trump is saying that youre kol lewding. I understand that donald is going to whine. Thats what he does. Hes a soar loser. Joining me is amy holmes and susan with the Washington Examiner and joe trippi, democratic stat strategist and fox news reporter. He was talking about the pundits coming around on trump after the fivestate sweep. Take a look. People have allowed, reporters have allowed, journalists have allowed their own biases and hatred against donald trump. I hate to sound like a broken record, but you keep doing it. Do you agree with this . I would agree that donald trump and the media is frenemies. But if youre unhappy with donald trump being the frontrunner, she says blame tv and points to some really startling statics. Reporting that the donald trump has earned 2 billion in free media, that he gets hold on. Six times the appearances. Hes gotten way more coverage. Some of that is trump appearing on many of the Television Shows that his rivals wouldnt. But its also the media covering him Campaign Stops and rallies. I agree with that. On the one hand, yes, the media has been hostile towards trump but theyve also given him a lot of free advertising. I cant argue with that part. By the way, theres a new poll out today showing trump with a 15point lead in indiana which is a make or break state for ted cruz. But when the press now says trump is pretty crows to unstoppable, do you think thats going too far . No. I think the press was really excited about the prospect of a contested convention because weve never seen it. We go to these conventions, they are pretty boring. Exactly. But thats looking less and less likely because the math and hes much more likely to become the nominee. Ted cruz has no path there. This big win where he got 60 of the vote, thats when you really saw the shift, where the media started to say, you know what, this probably is going to happen. And the chance of a contested convention is really shrinking down to unlikely just because cruz has deflated in these what about scarboroughs point, that perhaps they would have come to this consensus early, either they dont like trump personally or they were invested in this notion that hes a crazy outsider. When he says the media, who is he talking about . Im just a were reporter talkin about the race. There has definitely been a concerted effort to be the antitrump in the media, if you will. So theres some truth to what hes saying. Joe trippi, what do you make of ted cruz saying that the media has heart palpitations and trump is the chosen candidate and then theres this twist that they are confident that he will lose to hillary in the fall. I think thats what you say when youre losing six straight contests. The fact still is that cruz i mean, he picks fiorina right now as vp. Why . To get attention. Thats what trump has been doing. He says things that gets attention and the press is going to cover that. When you ran campaigns, didnt you try to do things . Exactly. Sometimes its a policy speech to try to get people to cover you. But when rubio rubio tried to start saying outlandish things to get attention, it worked. It just didnt get him any votes. Ted cruz also theres another strategy at work. Its not just to deflect attention from his losses but blaming the media, attacking the media is the red meat that the right loves. The media is the right favorite target. Right. It worked for trump because trump has been blaming the media all along. Always been in the business of being attacked by both liberal pundits. Now you have this whole other debate. Is trump being president ial enough . When he called john kasichs eating habits disgusting, people said hes being less president ial. Overall, has he toned it down on twitter, he is not going after journalists by name the way he used to. Hes even sitting down with megyn kelly. I would say that he has toned it down. He is still trump and talked about lying ted and so forth. The media is actually, once again, following Donald Trumps queue when he says donald is going to be more president ial. The media is on the lookout to find evidence of this new president ial tone. There was a story that said his new Convention Manager and senior adviser, paul manafort, was imposing a more disciplined campaign and then there was a story saying there was tensions between him and the campaign manager, corey lewandowski, and and my sources say, look, every campaign has tensions but this is all overblown. As somebody who has been on the inside when youve had different factions, how does it feel to you . Probably that theres too factions and they are kind of trying to but in the end, trump is going to be donald trump. I dont think there really is a manager either one of them is in charge. They both have their lanes and try to tug him in either direction. In the end, hes going to you cant jump in front of the microphone. The candidate is the one out there and donald trump is going to say what he wants to say. Susan, there was a big story at the beginning of the week that ted cruz and john kasich and their team have reached this agreement. Cruz gets through the campaign in indiana without kasich and kasich gets oregon and what was the other state . Washington. Washington, yeah. So the media kind of laughed that out of the room as being a ridiculous idea. Do you think that was warranted . I dont know why that was laughed out of the room. That kind of behindthescenes scheming to try to deceive one candidate, all of this behindthescenes stuff happens quite regularly. The problem is as soon as we show, well, john kasich, this isnt a very big deal at all. Even though it had been advertised as being some kind of and it has fallen apart, actually. Theres been a lot of o occluding going on. The only difference is none of the frontrunners in the past have actually put out press statements and then we were appalled that they were not interested in the statement of colluding. The medias reaction to ted cruzs running mate, they said this was a desperate move. Maybe it was a desperate move but im surprised to see that news story. How would you describe the reaction to carly . It seemed to be overwhelmingly desperate. A hail mary pass and disrespectful to Carly Fiorina and the ted cruz campaign. They are in it to win it, whether or not we can prog naft indicate that that will succeed, i think it should be covered fairly neutrally. Cruz needed to do something. He needed to change the story line. He keeps getting whipped by trump. At least it got him some attention when he gave a speech introducing her, all of the networks covered it live. A day after he got trounced in five primaries. When hes not done well in the primaries. Cruz is running out of the hail mary passes because the game is about to end. When i interviewed Carly Fiorina when she was a president ial candidate a few months ago, there was chatter about the vp slot. Lets take a look at what she said to me. Exhibit a, how often have i been asked the question whether or not im running for Vice President. My male counterparts in this race are not asked that question. So theres no doubt that women still are characterized differently. She views that as sexist but i think a lot of candidates decide they may not go all the way and are trying to be the number two. A lot of people thought that about Martin Omalley and people are asking that about kasich as well. Or rubio early on, whether he was going to end up on the ticket. So it i dont think it was that at all. I think it was kind of desperate for cruz to do it when he did it. But the real play there was, frankly, to try to get women in the party who trump has huge problems with to try to get them in some way that it was a hail mary to get them to just briefly, susan, a mockery of Carly Fiorina singing a madeup song to ted cruzs daughters, these are the pundits who said shes too stern and so it seems in some ways she cant win. I question that whole singing business but, youre right, there is a double standard for her. Women, i think if theres one woman in a big field of male candidates, they are going to get that scrutiny and probably because shes the only woman in the field. I was going to break into song but decided thats not the way to go. Email us, mediabuzz foxnews. Com. Melania trump is ripped apart as dishonest. Another trump is denouncing the press. Melania trump spoke to gq magazine and the story focuses on her lavish lifestyle reports that her father, before he married her mother, fathered a son with another woman, a son that donald trump has never met. Joining us now is gossip reporter at the washington post. This is about melanias father back in slovenia, in 1965, is guy who has never been part of the family. Is that news . Is it news . It is what anyone who is running for president or married to someone who is running for president is going to have to deal with. I understand melania could be first lady but her father who isnt a public figure and doesnt live in this country. It would be hard to argue that this is relevant but its hard to imagine a world in which interesting details about someones Family History do not come out. I mean, this is so much of what we do in journalism when it comes to the president s and their families, getting into their origin stories, looking for some kind of meaning. Youre saying it has no connection to the president ial campaign but this is the world we live in . Listen, if youre doing a biography of First Lady Melania Trump and did all of this research, would you find this out and i dont see any reason why you would ignore it. The tone of the piece, not just the 100,000 dior Wedding Dress but comfortable with being admired as a specimen of physical beauty, shes not a bimbo but not particularly clever. Condescending . Its not kind. Is it condescending . I dont know if youd say its condescending. Its obviously not a story she would be hoping to see. How much more do you need to Say Something condescending . I felt like the overall impact of the story is not rough on her. Its probably rough for her, though. This is really her first exposure to this kind of scrutiny that any member of a first family or major part of a major family gets. Shes largely been in the shadow of her husband even though shes been a model. Ive had a couple of short conversations with melania trump. She seems to be a very savvy and classy lady with no desire to be in the spotlight at this time. I wonder if theres media elite snobbery. She wants to be a mom, she wants to be with her family, as being too boring or pedestrian, to be anything other than a trophy wife. You know, heres the thing. This is an exotic and new thing for the media, for the country to have not just a world famous reality star billionaire. Yes. On a ticket with a very colorful past but who has a potential first lady who is a former exotic slovenia model. You know, this is all about the Human Interest and texture and detail. Honestly, theres more interesting textured details of somebody whose job was being a lingerie model than somebody whose job was a hospital Vice President or lawyer. Amy, great to see you. Thanks for stopping by. Great to see you. I will say the author, yulha gotten a ton of antisemitic threats online. Some people who like trump or his wife have really unloaded. Ahead, well talk to Geraldo Rivera about beating up on trump despite their 40year friendship. First, the white house Correspondents Dinner. President obamas last chance to whack the press. H i was at the selfimportant and selfindulgent gathering at the white house Correspondents Dinner in the final year of Barack Obamas presidency. Of course, the dinner is supposed to be about journalists and politicians putting aside partisanship for one night. But in past years, we were overrun by the likes of tom cruise, kevin spacey all on donald trump. This year when it was less of a hot ticket, not so much. I took my iphone to the red carpet and looked at all there were a lot of people as the stars came through. A lot of big stars like, for example, reince priebus, the Republican National chairman. And we also had aretha franklin, the queen of soul. This is a Victoria Secret model named adriana lima. Bryan cranston from breaking bad. A guest of fox, jeff, big star in my eyes is Michael Kelly who plays in the house of cards. But on a night like this, we have Scottie Nell Hughes of the tea party network, big Trump Supporters and the two of them and Katrina Pierson introduced by jeff zeleny of cnn. For the president , it was a final chance to take jabs at the press and contemplate what it will be like after he leaves the white house. Even reporters have left me. Savannah guthrie, shes left the White House Press corps to host the today show. Norah odonnell left the Briefing Room to host cbs this morning. Jake tapper left journalism to join cnn. Hes about to go from commander in chief to couch commander. [ bleep ]. Chuck todd. Thats a joke you make when youre not coming back. And comedian larry wilmore, i thought he went over the line with some of his racially charged jokes and dropping the n word at the end of his routine. And journalists cajoled to their nerd prom. Hillary clinton accused of playing the womans card. Are they siding with her on this one. And later, Geraldo Rivera says youve got to be craze glee to be running for the republican no the media consensus of Hillary Clinton winning four out of five states and the democratic frontrunner on the eve of the primaries getting aggravated when Rachel Maddow asked what will happen if shes ahead in delegates in june. I have Great Respect for bernie but what he and his supporters are saying just doesnt added a up. I have 2. 7 million more votes than he has. I have more than 250 more pledged delegates. Susan, why was hillary getting so exercised . That wasnt a hairball question from rachel. She went through the same process in 2008. She dropped out when she had even better prospects and then Bernie Sanders has right now. She stuck all the way through it but i think they had been cutting was it an overreaction to what was not a hostile question . I think shes defensive about it because the problem she has is that Bernie Sanders still has a lot of momentum. He may not be winning delegates. And money. His fundraising is dropping off but he just raised 20 million in april. The question now is what does bernie want . Why doesnt he tone it down . Well, he can go and as you point out, money can go all the way to the convention. Talk about the pundits who are now saying, oh, we just think this is too much and he really needs to behave. Well, i think thats wrong. I mean, i think hes let bernie be bernie, let him Hillary Clinton did. The point she is making and i think its laughable in the coverage, is she got 58 to his 42 in new york. We all called it a wipeout. Shes beaten him 5842. So that frustration going on with him with maddow, hey, its not close, guys. So donald trump is getting a lot of heat over this womans card issue. He called in to the today show and spoke with savanne vanna gu savannah guthrie. You said the only thing she has going for her is that shes a woman. Not because shes a lawyer, former secretary of state. Do you understand why people would find that to be a demeaning comment . No. I would find it that its a true comment. The only thing she has going for her is that shes a woman. Amy holmes, does it seem