Death sentence . This was a craft political ploy. The democrats dumping franken overboard so they can claim the high ground and pursue allegations again President Trump and roy moore. The president of the United States would rather have an accused child molester in the senate than a democrat. If you give money to the or give money to the Republican National committee, you are giving money to roy moore and you are endorsing everything roy moore stands for. Let alabama decide would be the best way. Howie are the media taking sides in tuesdays election and tarring the Republican Party in the process. And trent frank resigned after an outrageous request to female staffers. An explosive email to donald trump, jr. Which turns out to be wrong. New reports on Harvey Weinstein using the press to protect him. An actress charging Dustin Hoffman with disturbing Sexual Misconduct. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. We didnt have to wait for the pundits to throw out a partisan comernlt when al franken resigned. He did it himself. Im well aware there is some irony in the fact that im leaving while a man who bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office and a man who repeated reply preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with the full support of his party. Howie joining us is kl rrl and dave is Corey Lewandowski and dave bossie. Many republicans adopting the republican line. If he has to resign how can the republicans battle the 9 if allegations roy moore denies. Al franken was groping women while they were asleep. You do Something Like that to somebody who is asleep, its disgusting, hes a pig. He should resign. But the people of alabama have to decide who they want to elect. Howie you just pivoted what the democrats did, then when it comes to roy moore you say its up to the voters. Corey what day is al franken leaving . He never gave us a day. Coming days, weeks, months. He may be there for another two years. If he does stay, the people of minnesota will decide. Howie is it fair for the press to revive the story from last year, you were there. More than a dozen womb pane knead a a dozen even woman made accusations against donald trump which he denied. Dave on judge moores side there are accusations that he says didnt happen. And the one piece of evidence, the yearbook, we know was tainted. Howie there were nine women. Dave you let the voters of alabama make the call for themselves. Howie the president has said repeatedly the russia investigation is a witch hunt. No evidence of russian collusion to be sure. But doesnt the flynn guilty plea show this is a legitimate news story. Story. The reason we talk about the investigation, let trump be trump. There was no collusion. I never spoke to a russian. If southern lied to the fbi about their contacts with a form government, it had nothing to do with the outcome of the campaign. Howie some say the president is out of touch with reality. He questioned the access hollywood tape. Some say he watches up to 8 hours of tv a day. Slurring his words in the jerusalem speech. Dave wspeech. Dave , whether its fans news and brian ross who the president said should be fired. It drove the markets down 350 points and set a media narrative based on a lie. Then you have the Deutsche Bank records supposed subpoena by the fbi. How report organizations got that. Howie the news organizations got that wrong. Dave and the stories about the empty arena which was packed to the gills. All the fake news, they cant help themselves. They hate this president. They will never let him succeed. Thats why he uses twitter and these speeches to speak to the American People. Howie i dont think its fair to say everything is fake. Dave let the media get it right and then the president wont be on them so much. But they continue to feed him. Howie corey, early in the campaign President Trump attacks john mccain. You told him to hold a press conference to clean it up. And he didnt back off and you thought the campaign was over. Corey you are exactly right, what i learned and what the American People learned, hes going to fight for everything he believes in, hes going to double down. He raised the awareness veterans needed more help in the state of arizona because the phoenix va was a disaster. And that became the story. The veterans support donald trump. The First Responders and the military support donald trump. Hes willing to talk about issues on the campaign trail that no other candidate was willing to. Howie the Supreme Court just cleared enforcement of the travel ban. The Trump Campaign called for a temporary ban on muslims entering the United States. The ban on muslim was so offensive it didnt make it into the travel ban. And you deal with this as a cold, political calculation. Dave President Trump is for America FirstNational Security and border security. Whether its kate steinle or the Supreme Court voting 72 to allow the ban to be upheld. This guy has the best political instincts in america. President trump is a master at understanding having his finger on the pulse of the American People. Corey and i talk about it in the book. When we are wrong, he lets us know we are wrong. But we think as the political professionals we know what to do. But he does. Corey and i talk about it in the book. When we are wrong we have to admit it. Howie you talk about the reaction when Paul Manafort tried to keep him off the sunday shows. He said i will go on tv any blank time i want and you you wont say a blanking word about it. Manafort who was replaced. Corey this is a truthful book. Way talk about in the bikes what he just mentioned. Donald trump has the best instincts. Paul manafort was down in florida telling the Republican NationalCommittee Members i am going to remake donald trump. You will see a donald trump 2. 0. We say let trump be trump. He has been a phenomenal success. He knows what the American People want. He brought that message to them and thats why he was elected. Hes the blue collar millionaire. He see as what the people wanted and he delivers it. Howie you had a number of women coming out against candidate donald trump. He said those false accusers are killing us with the womens vote. Kellyanne conway said its note that, its that you fat shamed Miss Universe when she is trying to lose weight. He may have good instincts, but doesnt he pick unnecessary fights . Dave i told him many times not to tweet, and he felt it was the right thing to do, and he ended up being right. The name our book is about him speaking directly to them would i want him to not tweet here or there, sure . 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What we did there, anderson had a sitdown oneonone interview where she was very candid and talked about what she thought about that story regarding her husband on the billy bush weekend. Donald trump won the election at the st. Louis debate. Howie you say hope hicks had to perform what service for donald trump. Were you not covering up your own complicity in that service . Corey yes, i was. There was nothing on the campaign i didnt do. Howie you said you had to press his pants. Corey if i am going to steam the clothes forget the macdonalds or pull the car around. We didnt have the juggernaut of the clintons. There was five of us. Howie you both write you went to see the president last may. You thought you would be offered senior white house jobs. You were relieved when that offer didnt come. Dave for me, my family, my own health. I want to serve the president how best i can whether from the inside or outside. Corey and i are soldiers in that movement. But for me it was a relief i didnt have to go in and he was protecting us from potentially a staff shakeup that was coming. Corey dave and i both have young families. We put a lot of time into the campaign. Working inside the white house is like being at the super bowl. Its 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. No breaks. Dave and i had great surrogates on the outside. We can say and do things you cant when you are in that building. Howie dave bossie and Corey Lewandowski. Thanks for joining us. A damaging account from an actress who says Dustin Hoffman assaulted her 7 years ago. Hi. So i just got off the phone with our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. So the incredibly minor accident that i had tonight four weeks without the car. Okay, yup. Good night. With accident forgiveness your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Switching to allstate is worth it. Booking a flight doesnt have to be expensive. Just go to priceline. Its the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40 . Just tap and go. For the best savings on flights, go to priceline. Howie after the leaks began when donald trump, jr. Testified. We have an exclusive in the russia investigation. Donald trump, jr. Received an email with an encryption key for leaked wikileaks documents. Howie that actually came 10 days later. So rather than offering secret access, it allowed the campaign to hack messages that had already been made public. President trump cnn apologized. Thank you, cnn. Thank you so much. You should have been apologizing for the last two years. Jessica tarlov and mara liasson all are fox news contributors. Molly, how sear was was this blunder about the president s son . Mollie this was the first evidence of smoking gun of the russians trying to steal the election. It turns out it was like so many other stories on this narrative, a complete nothing burger. This is the pattern for so many of these stories. Its not the first time it happened to cnn or the first time it happened this week. But maybe the real scandal is how the media fell for this russian collusion trump narrative. Howie msnbc picked up the story and said they confirmed it. And cnn had to retract. Its not look good for the News Business in terms of these stories. Jessica it isnt. And thats why people on both sides of the aisle are saying maybe there wasnt a trump collusion story. Obviously the Mueller Investigation is finding things. And carter page and mike flynn and manafort wont win citizen of the year. But i do think it just feed donald trump and he can make that case. Howie multiple sources who told them about this email got it wrong. Does that get hip off the hook . Mara the clip you played said in september. But there is a big difference because at one point it wasnt public. But i think if the pressure is to come up with scoops that will show that donald trump collude, you will be held to a high bar. The president of the United States has an explicit strategy to delegitimize the media and say its fake. So every time the media screws up its bad. Howie criticizing and attacking the fbi, one bit of commentary has gotten a lot of attention. It came from fox news gregg jarett talking about the fbi on hannity. Mueller has been using the fbi as a political weapon and the fbi has become americas secret police. Wiretapping, intimidation and threats its like the kgb that comes for you in the dark of the night banging on your door. Howie did he go too far . Mollie thats quite an extreme thing to say. Journalists like to think of ourselves as people who hold people of authority accountable. This something we have seen in our history, a highly politicized fbi where people have to come in and rein it in. And there are problems with the mueller probe. For journalists uncritically accepting everything that comes out of the mueller probe, maybe pose some questions. Just the hyper politicization of the people involved. By hasnt come through much media digging. Howie mueller has made mistakes. Jessica donald trump was talking about intelligence agencies and 1930s germany. There is valuable criticism of the fbi. We just heard that the morale is not where it is and its not hyper criticized. Mollie we are not getting good information from the fbi. Was this russian dossier used to secure a wiretap on an american citizen. If thats true, its horrifying. Howie two Top Democrats forced from congress. Did the press play a role . Well, like most of you, i just bought a house. Oh very nice. Now im turning into my dad. I text in full sentences. I refer to every child as chief. This hat was free. What am i supposed to do, not wear it . Next thing you know, im telling strangers defense wins championships. Well, it does. Right . Why is the door open . Are we trying to air condition the whole neighborhood . At least i bundled home and auto on an internet website, progressive. Com. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents, but we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. I mean, why would i replace this . Its not broken. Howie john conyers, the 88yearold dean of the house resigned after the Detroit Free Press called on him to quit. And the minneapolis star demanded al frankens resignation. If the president admits like he has done on tape that he assaulted women as a matter of habit because hes celebrity. Why shouldnt he retine today like franken did. Howie by taking those partisan shots at the president and roy moore, franken didnt apologize in his peach. Mollie accusing women of not telling the truth about what he said about them. I think the whole media approach has been one of mob hysteria rather than thoughtful reasoned debate about an important moment. Its important that we dont go overboard and remove due process. So many of these stories are not holding up journalistically. Howie after al franken announced hes going to resign. You have some pundits saying unwanted kissing and butt grabbing is not in the same category as others. Jessica there is a huge problem with blanket statements about sexual harassers. The fact that we even talk about al frank in the same conversation as Harvey Weinstein. There are a number of people out there that dont know the specifics of these stories. When you are talking about peoples careers, you need to know the details. Did he put his arm on her waist or did he rape her. Howie the franken photo was cringe worthy. Was the press following the lead of senators like kristen gillibrand. Mara the democrats havent thought this through. Do they want to say in every case even when the facts are different, is the punishment the the same, off with your head. Or do they want to be able to tell the difference between a false accusation. And career ending accusation. Right now they are saying anyone with any accusation against them is risky. Howie an unknown aide said franken kissed her. And another accuser wrote a moving piece in the atlantic. She said during a photoop he grabbed her waist. Mollie its not that some of these allegations dont stand up to a fireable offense or any punishment at all. The larger scene is one of mob hysteria. Sometimes these are attempts at courtship that fail. Sometimes its just dirty philandering. Howie john conyers looked like nobody was going to tell him what to do. I think the turning point was marion brown going on the today show, you can see the accusations. Mara there had been an actual process in congress, the Ethics Committee which people think is inadequate. We have the mob or pack mentality where colleagues of a member say you are out of here. Then the republicans are proposing, let the voters decide. Al franken if he wanted to could step down and run for his old seat. Howie trent frank said i talked to two aides about spur today i. And these women feared he wanted to personally impregnate them. Tar requirthem. Jessica it was totally weird. You think this is sad, they had fertility problems. The next day, there has to be something more. No one resigns right away. Paul ryan wrote a scathing letter. Politicians have so much money. Whats different about Corporate America is you have a