Time now for mediabuzz. Donald trump was all but written off a month ago, but the con coverage is changing in the latest president ial polls. I spoke to him earlier by phone from new york. Donald trump, welcome. Thank you, howie. Hillary clinton called half your supporters a basket of deplorables, racists, sexist, xenophobic. When mike pence was making the rounds of the media with wolf blitzer and others, he was asked to call david duke deplorable and when he criticized duke but didnt use the word deplorable, what do you make of that . Its the media, the media is trying to do what they can to stop whats happening. Mike was very rough on david duke, but he didnt want to fall into her word. He didnt want to use her word, and you understood that, because no matter what he said, he would have been criticized. And i was impressed with mike, and i have been very, very impressed with mike. He was very, very tough on david duke, i can tell you that. Colin powell in those hacked emails was very critical of you and Hillary Clinton, calling you a national disgrace, among other things. Your response to the former secretary of state . Well, ive not been a fan of his. I thought when he was talking about weapons of mass destruction, he really let us down a very horrible path that, obviously, the administration picked up and they went into a war that they shouldnt have gone into, but i was never a fan of his, and we can do a lot better, so, you know, i guess he knows my feelings about him, and, you know, might as well say whatever he wants to say, but hes known my feelings about him. Right. Youve been ripping certain News Organizations on twitter, calling cnn a disgrace and an arm of the Clinton Campaign, accusing the New York Times of dishonest hits and calling msnbcs morning team two clowns. How do you benefit from that . Well, i want to set the public straight, because im being hit. The New York Times did a story on women and donald trump and past relationships and all the women came out and said they think donald trump is terrific. It was a totally phoney story and the New York Times fully understands that, made it a frontpage story. That was one thing out of many. Hit after hit after hit, no matter how well you do, they refuse to do it, then you see some of their reporters, martin and some of the others, they have twitters that are just horrible what they say on twitter and they are supposed to be objective reporters. So i just like to set the record straight and whatever it is, it is, thats the way it goes. At the same time, youve now lifted the restrictions, youd yanked the credentials of a bunch of News Organizations, why did you change your mind on that . Just because they cant treat me any worse, i might as well let them be there. Lets turn to the debates. You said you would prefer no moderators, quote, the system is being rigged so it would be a very unfair debate. How is the debate system rigged . Well, it is a rigged system. The whole thing is, if you look at whats going on. Look, matt lauer did a fine job. Matt lauer was very tough on me and, i guess, he was tough on her. I thought, frankly, he was tougher on me. I won that evening, the forum, the nbc forum, and according to every poll and everybody just about, i won that evening with hillary. Lauer got hammered by the press. And they hammered lauer, but matt did a fine job. Matt was very tough on me. So what happens, its called gaming the system, like a great basketball coach, like bobby knight, who was one of the greats, he would hit the referee and keep hitting him and in the end was hoping for the favorable call. Well, they are hitting matt lauer and that sort of indicative, they are trying to game the system. They want, and i think its terrible, but they want the host to go after trump, and thats what they are doing by gaming the system. And you understand it as well as anybody. Lets not even have a host. Lets see, but i would say that would be great. But do you think that lester holt or martha radich or Anderson Cooper is going to be pressured into not being fair with you . Sure, i think thats whats happening right now by the way they are hitting matt lauer, because matt lauer they felt wasnt as tough on me, and he was just as tough, if not tougher, but by doing that they are gaming the system, thats what they are doing and why they are doing it, for the debates. I think that and i think you think that, too, howie. Youve made yourself clear. I think lauer did a good job. He was tough on me, i thought he did a very professional job. Lets move on, you said in many interviews, including with me, you opposed the iraq war before it began. I looked at the forums you cited and dont see any clear evidence of that. Of course, you had a lukewarm comment to howard stern. That was long before the war started with howard, thats the first time the word iraq was ever mentioned to me and that was a long time ago. Wait a minute, it was very lukewarm and then i spoke to neil caputo and that was very much on the other side, but i spoke to other people and if you look also, speak to sean hannity, whos a terrific guy, by the way, speak to him and he and i used to have arguments about the iraq war. Sean believed in the iraq war. We used to have arguments about it, big arguments, and that was before the war started. I was a private businessman, no responsibility to take a public position before the war and criticized the invasion after it began . I fought with sean hannity over it and the neil cavuto statement is pretty close to being like dont go in and dont make the mistake of going in. I said, i think, the economy has to come first. And also if you look shortly thereafter, one of the major people on television actually say, you know, whether trump was for it before the war, the fact is he was totally against it in the esquire interview, which took place pretty quickly after the war started. To me its not even the same thing. I was against it before the war started and i hear more about this. But sean hannity will tell you that. I used to argue with him all the time. All right. The medias credibility is now at an alltime low according to a new poll, 32 having confidence in the press and you said the other day on a radio show you take some of the credit for that. When you look at it, do you feel when it comes to credibility its you versus them . I think the media is disgraceful. I think they are unbelievably dishonest. Im not talking about you, im not talking about certain people, because ive got tremendous confidence and tremendous respect for certain reporters, set set cetera, but large portion of the media is disgustingly dishonest, i could name all of them that way, and probably some day i will, but they should be ashamed of themselves. And im very proud of the fact that at rallies, well have 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 or more, i will call the media out, and i think the word has gotten through, and i think the people, otherwise, look, im leading in so many polls, im leading in a lot of people that are starting to think im leading in almost all of the polls if you take a look at whats happened. How could that happen if people really believed the media, because all they want to do is write negatively about me. It is so biased. You talk about cnn, its called the clinton news network, cnn. It is so biased, its ridiculous. And they are very dishonest and very dishonest people. I call them out and im proud of it and now i see their poll numbers are at an all time low and frankly i think i have something to do with it, but im very proud of it. Let me finish on the question of the polls. By most accounts youre running a more disciplined campaign, giving scripted speeches, and thats a contrast to august when you were creating a lot of controversies, you say the press were making too much of those controversies, but sometimes youd make off the cuff remarks that would resinate for days. Do you think you adjusted and the previous style was a mistake when you were down in the polls now that youre coming back about even . I think i have somewhat adjusted. I thought i did very well before. When they said he did a bad three weeks, tell me what i did wrong, people couldnt even say. Theyd take something i said and take it out of context, shorten the sentence or do something else, chop it up into pieces and wouldnt sound like what i said. Do you express regret . You express regret for some of your personal attacks, that perhaps led you to change your style or not . I think maybe so, because the media was not treating statements fairly. They would chop them up and shorten the statement, didnt sound proper or didnt sound as good when they did that. It was very unfair. Now im doing it a little bit differently. Weve had a great month. I see were up in florida, up in ohio, were up in iowa, were up all over the place. And were up in the national polls, too. The Los Angeles Times just came out, were five orn the Los Angeles Times, thats a national poll, and and its a onepoint race according to a fox news poll. Its a onepoint race according to the latest fox news poll. Clearly, the race is tightening. I wanted a sense of how you have adjusted. Donald trump, thanks very much for calling into the show. Thanks very much, thank you. Interview took place before the press conference about birtherism. 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Officials are expected to hold a News Conference in minnesota in the next hour. Well bring that to you right here on fox news. I was at Donald Trumps hotel on pennsylvania avenue on friday, along with the rest of the press pack after he signalled he would finally talk about his stance on birtherism. Cable News Networks took most of the event live as trump touted the hotel and decorated veterans touted trump before he got to the main event. I think it may be one of the great Hotels Anywhere in the world. Thats the way it turned out. Hillary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what i mean. President barack obama was born in the united states, period. And he walked off without taking questions. Joining me now, kelly riddell. And joe trippy, the democratic strategist and fox news contributor. Erin, journalists were really angry, some of them were standing on chairs and shouting questions at trump as he walked away. Did trump do a bait and switch to draw that almost nonstop cable coverage for what we thought were major remarks on the birther issue . He shouldnt have said he was going to take questions and then not take questions. Im not sure he was saying that. Cnn looked especially whiney because all their anchors were saying we were duped. For at least a year the networks have been taking trumps events live. They could have decided to go into the event when donald trump started speaking about the birther comments. They didnt have to take the whole event live. The other thing i would point out, donald trump has been smeared through the press for being the king of tax breaks for all kind of other problems hes had with his hotel chains. Here he had an opportunity with two months left to go before election day to remind everything of the success hes had. Why people like him in the first place. I thought it was a smart Public Relations move on his point. Nobody forced the Cable Networks to stay with that event until he got to the main topic, but was donald trump, in effect, forced, pressured to do this by the media because his top surrogates, Rudy Giuliani and Kellyanne Conway went on and said we believe obama was born in the united states, then people asked why isnt he saying . He tweeted earlier dont believe anyone you hear other than me, im the official word on everything, so, yes, i think he had to come out and put this issue to rest, because it was percolating in the press and now he can say i believe obama is a u. S. Citizen and thats important in his rehabilitation effort. I would say what i found very appalling about the Media Coverage at this was the debate of donald trump is he corrected one falsehood, but then gave two others. Now, there is indisputable, Fact Checkers have said Hillary Clinton didnt start the 2007 birther rumor, but she, in fact, did. Started with a mark penn memo in 2007. She didnt personally. Her campaign did. He said she and her campaign. Then her Campaign Manager went on cnn on friday, yeah, we had a staffer who sent a birther email out and we fired them. That came from the campaign. Let me get you in on this, the staffer was a volunteer that was fired, internal memo, didnt talk about obamas citizenship, but talked about painting him as an other and a reporter now says blumenthal actually told this reporter that obama might have been born elsewhere, blumenth blumenthalen denies that. Is the press Holding Trump accountable for making this charge against Hillary Clinton himself in the same two sentences where hes saying i accept obama is american . Yeah, they are. Lets go back to the original thing, president ial candidate manipulating the media to get coverage, im shocked about that. So i agree about, you know, that theyve got duped into it, but then they went with it and stayed with it. On this issue, though, look, there were volunteers in the Clinton Campaign spread something or somebody not running for president. This is a guy who ran for president , is running for president , and the reason he got the nomination, big piece of it, was him playing to the Birther Movement and the coverage he got about that. So to show up five years later and just sort of, like, hey, i finished it, its over well get into this more later in the program, but there also seems to be a theme in the media that he didnt apologize, he needed to apologize because he did push this beginning five years ago. Fair or unfair . Has he ever apologized for anything . Of course he wasnt going to apologize. Thats not his style. Stop complaining about it. What did you think in my interview with him as he talked about the disgustingly Dishonest Media that he is saying in advance, the debate mod rate tors will all be unfair, preemptive strike . I think that started earlier with the matt lauer interview when Hillary Clinton started fundraising off of the fact that matt lauer was so unfair to her in that, and all of her surrogates went on tv and said matt lauer did not hit donald trump like he needed to, didnt fact check on the spot, and that was cig falling to lester holt, to chris wallace, to the moderators, you better, you better go after donald trump and you better, perhaps, lay off Hillary Clinton or were going to question your credibility. That assumes these are not journalists that can withstand pressure and i will withhold judgment until we see these debates. Let me know what you think on twitter. Ahead from Hillary Clintons bout to pneumonia to Donald Trumps visit to dr. Oz, is the press covering the health issue fairly . Plus, did the Network Change bill clintons meaning . Scalpel. I have no idea what im doing. Im just a tv doctor. I never went to college. scream i dont do blood. 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