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You see a boat almost floating to the top of its roof. This is the neuse river. Its 14 feet, the neuse river record is 21. 5. Its causing the houses to be destroys. Its making the recovery in fixing the power lines much more difficult as we expect a lot more rain this afternoon. Its expected to be here at least a calm days. The airport will be closed until tuesday or wednesday. Berare of alligators. So well try to not get eaten as we report this catastrophic flooding in jacksonville. Howie he wades into the water after these storms. The Mainstream Media reacted cautiously to the initial report that senator feinstein forwarded to the fbi an tea anonymous letter an anonymous letter saying a womb fan said Brett Kavanaugh held her down and he tried to force himself on her. Whether you are for kavanaugh or not its hard for everyone to know what to do with this allegation which is extremely grave and serious. But the identity of the woman is being hidden understandably. Howie kavanaugh said in a statement, i categorically and unequivocally deny the allegations. Joining me, emily jashinsky, sara fischer, and adrienne elrod. Should the media be wary of embracing this allegation from an unnamed woman from a time when Brett Kavanaugh was 17 years old. Emily this is one allegation, its anonymous. This person is not going to come out and vet it. The public hasnt seen the letter Dianne Feinstein has. We dont know why it took her months for this to come forward. Howie even some liberal commentators at msnbc reacting cautiously. Did the new yorker provide cover for the rest of the media to say its safe to jump on this story. Sara now that ronan farrow has developed a reputation, if hes going to come out and say i have seen some reporting on this, i want to go out on it. His reporting on les moonves and others, but it doesnt mights the be allend all. We dont have enough information, even from what roman farrow reported. Howie we are left with a letter we havent seen. Even hbos liberal bill maher says it makes us look bad. Adrienne im going to disagree with some of these liberal commentators. Since this is a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, the media scrutiny isnt wait should be. The metoo era has changed everything. What might not have been as newsworthy or relevant to getting confirmed to the Supreme Court or any judicial nomination, its changed now. Howie this happened at the end of the process. Does it give you any pause . Adrienne to real i evaluate this, the accuser need to come forward. Howie this is a trump Supreme Court nominee and farrow worked for the state department. After the hearings finished, she was willing to come forward and testify and be crossexamined. In the case of this unnamed accuser, no. Sara we dont know to what extent she has been pressed into answering. Ronan farrow is in a tricky position. He did an interview with npr where he pressed them to answer process questions about the senate when he was in the democratic administration. Howie Dianne Feinstein first received this letter in july, she didnt have kavanaugh about it. The San Francisco chronicle said what feinstein did is unfair all around to democrats and republicans on the committee. Thats unusual coming from the chronicle. Sara even when you have people like bill maher coming out saying all around, it looks like democrats are pulling this out to derail the nomination. Howie i dont want to minimize the woman who says she is traumatized by what happened 40 years ago. But you are right when you say it looks like a last hit. Adrienne its unfortunate its coming out now. But its coming out. These hearings should be delayed. Howie why do you have a different take on this . Adrienne i think the metoo hearing changed everything. What might not have gotten more scrutiny, now its getting scrutiny. 65 women who say they knew kavanaugh in high school who werent to an all boys high school, georgetown prep. Howie let me move on to a bombshell in the russia investigation. The Paul Manafort guilty plea. The president tweeting the illegal witch hunt still in search of a crime. He has pled guilty in the second place that was supposed to take place and he signed a Cooperation Agreement with robert mueller. Is the media speculation about how much of a serious threat to the president this is, is it justified or overblown. Emily Paul Manafort was the manager of Donald Trumps campaign and in regular contact with prorussia forces in ukraine. It was the bipartisan swamp. He was working with the Podesta Group on behalf of prorussian forces. Its more bipartisan than the media reported. Howie he was at the Infamous Trump tower meeting along with Jared Kushner and donald trump, jr. Sara look at papadopoulos, look at gates. If there is anyone who would be able to prove a collusion, not saying there was. But if there was someone who could connect the dots, its someone with the closest ties, Paul Manafort. Howie the president praised manafort for not flipping. Now Rudy Giulianis lawyer telling sean hannity the guilty plea is irrelevant. Adrienne this is a big deal and it interrupted hurricane coverage when the Paul Manafort guilty plea came forward. There was no one on the campaign with bigger ties to russia. Howie the thing he pleaded guilty to and have been convicted of had nothing to do with donald trump and the campaign. Let me get a break here. Hurricanes have much in the news. Well have more on tropical depression florence. The president s handling of the hurricane have much in the news. Very much in the news. Omar, look. [ thunder rumbles ] omar, check this out. Uh, yeah, i was calling to see if you do laser hair removal. For men. Notice that my hips are off the ground. 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Started a blog. Shared a picture. Shared a moment. Turn your wish list into a checklist. Learn more. Do more. Share more. At home, with internet essentials. Howie even as Hurricane Florence was bearing down on the carolinas, much of the media began battering the president as a lousy president with no empathy for hurricane victims. President trump the problem with puerto rico is their electric grid and generating plant was dead before the storms hit. I think puerto rico was an incredible unsolved success. Howie he tweeted 3,000 people did not die in puerto rico. When i left the island after the storm left there were 6 to 18 deaths. Then a long time later they started to report much larger numbers like 3,000. This was done by the democrats to make me look responsible. He obviously did not feel a bit of grief for the 3,000 People Killed by those hurricanes. How stupid, how offensive, how offensive to the relatives of the 3,000 people who died in puerto rico. The leftwing media jumped on these numbers for political purposes but they have to foundation in fact. Howie the president said this was cooked up by the democrats. Whats your take . Emily the president is frustrated because there aring things out of his control. If there is something thats not compassionate about doing that, his reaction, his frustration is understandable. His reaction isnt understandable. This is not political. This is the deaths of people. This is peoples lives. And to push a Conspiracy Theory with no substantiation. I was disappointed that he did. Howie there is an argument to be made, this isnt a body count. Its a George Washington study that calculated how many more people died after the hurricane than a comfortable period before this form. I think thats one of the things that triggered a lot of the harsh reaction. The number he got when he was on the ground is going to be different than the number you are going to calibrate at the number of people who died because they didnt get aid. One of the numbers cited in the study is they dont think medical professionals knew how to fill out the death certificates. Howie the death toll is not 3,000, but its not 16. People couldnt get clean water or medical supplies. The media are casting this as the president turning it into politics. Adrienne hes blaming democrats for this. There is no political advantage to him doing this is to keep this in the news a little bit longer, and again i dont know why. Howie he feels this is a devastating storm on an impoverished island and he feels hes being blamed for the high death toll. Emily i think hes getting an under share of the blame from some people. The president of the united states, people did lose their lives, rise above it. Howie the media was bringing back last years matter, the president is not good at this. Hes selfabsorbed. Trump struggles to embraips concealerinchief roll. Emily he does get more than his share of the blame. And i understand that. Howie he is not bill clinton or barack obama. But i think the media just dont like his style. Saying this is not the approved way president s should deal with crises, because you have to hug more people. In other issues member thats the case. But on this i think we agree on this. He has turned this story on himself and hes not showing any empathy. Howie that part about the empathy is a value judgment. Its true President Trump didnt focus sustained focus on puerto rico compared to louisiana and texas last year. Puerto rico was not in the forefront of Media Coverage the wait others were. Sara puerto rico is a territory, its not a state. We are not dealing with it as being equal. The media didnt cover this hurricane the same way they covered the hurricanes in the mineland. Now that it happened over many months and we have the numbers, we should all be taking it seriously. Howie emily jashinsky, sara fischer, and adrienne elrod, thank you for coming by. At ally, we created a savings account with a great rate. But if thats not enough, our app helps monitor your spending too. And if thats not enough to help you save, we could start a carpool. Look at this traffic. Dont worry. Ok, if thats not enough well start a trainpool. Oh i have a meeting in five minutes. And if thats still not enough. I got it. Well just create a shortcut. Well do anything, seriously anything to help you save. Ally. Do it right. Talking 4th quarter . Yes. Im all about my bed. This mattress is dangerously comfortable. When i get in, i literally say ahh. Meet the leesa mattress. A better place to sleep. 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He respond saying i should have shown more care on the tweeting and the columns conclusion. Hell read the column again and see if i could have said it in a less offensive way to trump supporters. The New York Times with a headline, the you are taints . 52,000 attributing it to nikki haley. The fourth paragraph said the ambassador said the plans patently false. I agree it not healthy for the body politics on either side. We have tried, the president has tried to turn down the temperature to give mere access. Howie jeff fager fired by cbs. And seen that google video . The executives trashing trump . Howie jeff fager was a cbs chairman and powerful force at the network. When we cover a story sunday night and it has impact monday morning, thats what you hope for. Howie les moonves was fired last week and another article in the new yorker reported that six more women are accusing moonves of sexual assault. Hes always treated me fairly. There is no excuse for this alleged behavior. Its systematic and pervasive in our culture. Howie he was once accused of grabbing an interns butt at a party. If you repeat these false accusations without any of your own reporting to back them up, you will be held responsible for harming me. He went on to say, be careful, there are people who lost their jobs trying to harm me. If you pass on these damaging claims without your own reporting to back them up, that will become a serious problem. The message was unacceptable. Howie joining me, charlie gasparino. I was stunned. He was essentially threatening the reporter for doing her job. Charlie and somebody he works with. Those of us look at this and said hes getting fired over a text message that said dont defame me. But when you read that. I have been threatened by all sorts of people. Never really people i work with or who are in positions of power in the country. Its tortious interference. They are calling you for comment and they are saying dont do your job or i will go after you. Howie i will just say it smells bad. Here is the cbs reporter jerika bun can. She was interviewed about that experience. This is someone who held an enormous amount of power who i respected and i was shocked. Howie fager said i dont think one text message is a reason to terminate someone after 36 years. Do you think this text message controversy was sort of a technicality, a standin for the larger concern about reporting on the culture at 60 minutes. Whether fager looked the other way or problems he had in other areas . Charlie i do. David rhodes said jeff is leaving because of his text message. Im paraphrasing. His departure is not directly related to the allegations in the new yorker about sexual misconduct. When you say it like that, you have got to think there is some other stuff there. Howie david rhodes, the cbs president. Charlie yes. I will just say this, howie, i have never been threatened like that and i have written a lot of tough stories and stepped on a lot of toes. Have you ever been threatened by someone internally . Howie i have had people say you better be careful and have people be mad after the fact. But others have gotten fired for taking me on. It was hours after our show last sunday this new yorker fees came out. Six women, two of them said he forced them to perform oral sex. One said he threw the woman against the wall and there was talk of retaliation and ruined careers. You broke the news last weekend, cbs made a point of saying moonves is out and the 120 million in severrans payments will be withheld. Do you think hell ever see any of that money. Charlie the 120 new is contingent on the investigation. So i dont have any sources on the committee thats investigating it. I do have sources inside cbs. And people inside cbs doubt hes going to get the full amount. A lot of them doubt hell get any of it. The reason why, if you read some of the coverage that came out of it, there was some point where apparently this led the board about getting someone a job who was making misstatements about his sexual misconduct. When you mislead the board like that howie thats the problem. There was a statement that said the cbs board initially brushed off statement by the women. An 83yearold producer. He won an oscar for pla noon. He said platoon. He said he didnt care in 30 women come forward. Hes our leader. Charlie its in need of a corporate makeover. It will probably get one. I have been speaking with a lot of people in cbs. Les moonves is not going to get of that money if any. They will have to revamp that board of directors. Howie it was a stunning quote. They will have to big out of this mess and change the culture. New flack for the bob woodward book. Google is saying they are not biased and their product is perfectly fair. Now we have a video. 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And i know many of you do, too. And i think thats a stressful time. And it conflicts with many of our values. Fear, i think, not just in the united states, but around the world, is whats fueling concerns, xenophobia, hatred and a desire for answers that may or may not be there. Howie joining us, kat timpf and cathy areu. Google leaders are doing this in front of video cameras. Cameras are rolling, and they assume everybody agrees with them. And there is even talk of helping employees move to canada. Kat there was serious talk about helping employees leave the country. I understand you talk to your friend yo talk to your frien. I dont understand why it was videotaped when you see the way this videotape has been used in the conservative media saying google is biased and there might be something to the idea that their bias impacts the way they do business. Howie they are entitled not to like the president. But they refer to trump voters as dumb and extreme and have a tendency toward extremism. Cathy its interesting that this was put out about a company that doesnt hide the fact that its liberal. Its an era of buyer beware and reader beware. We need to know who is telling us what. Howie the only problem with that is google is not a website you can believe or not believe. Going the put out a statement saying this is a meeting where everyone is free to express their opinions and our products are built for every one. When sergey brin we saw on the video saying that he find his offensive. Kat you know as humans your biases affect the way you do things. Especially when you are this emotional about something. Thats why we see a lot of conservatives pick up on this. There was an email fox news obtained that they were trying to turn out the latino vote that breitbart point out its more evidence that google was trying to help hillary clinton. Howie the president a week or so again said google was rigged against him and the right. I dont believe executives tinker with every search, though they have been accused of pushing some conservative voices down and the algorithms are written by humans. Antitrump views taint the actual product. Cathy the algorithms were written by humans. This is something that does happen. Its not unusual. But now we have to question algorithms and wonder was the president right on this one. They are coming out. The executives did come out and say they were upset about this election and what could they do to change this trump era. They are human. But at the end of the day, its a company. Howie they are opinionated humans. Last year a conservative engineer was fired. Kat, a New York Times reporter showed us this video a few months ago. Kat that doesnt fit the editorial narrative of the New York Times. It would be google is completely unbiased and they wouldnt want this to come to light. It does make google look biased. But it provide clearcut evidence of it in the city. Howie still to come, new criticism about the bob wood boo thebob woodward book. Stay with us. While i was in the navy, i decided that i wanted to go for Electrical Engineering and you need to go to college for that. If i didnt have internet in the home i would have to give up more time with my kids. Which is the main reason i left the military. Everybody wants more for their kids, but i feel like with my kids, they measurably get more than i ever got. And i get to do that. I get to provide that for them. woman learned ao play second language. Applied to college. Applied for a loan. Started a business. Started a blog. Shared a picture. Shared a moment. Turn your wish list into a checklist. Learn more. Do more. Share more. At home, with internet essentials. Howie one million copies of woodward wards book fear have been printed. Its mostly Anonymous Sources in here. Why should people trust you. The incidents are not anonymous. It gives a date and time and who participates. Howie a number of interviews have tried to get woodward to say the president is kind of crazy. Any concern about Donald Trumps mental condition or that he has a deficient personality that cant handle the truth. Im not a psychiatrist and i dont dig into that. I worry about the emotionally overwrought part of it. Does that mean hes out of control . No. Howie some of these anchors are trying to say trump is unhinged. But he wouldnt go there. Kat i am shocked he wouldnt go there, i am not surprised by the question. There was breathless coverage of wolfes book. So of course they are seeing this as a bombshell, they are going to try to get the bombshell headline saying the author of this book says hes unhinged. Cathy, i think too many people have last their perspective and become unhinged about trump. Cathy woodward is an old school journalist. Nixon experienced that firsthand and there have been 7 president s since. Wood washed being from the washington most of. I worked for the washington post, writers and reports and editors, there are strict guidelines. Hes going to stick to the facts. Thats how we were trained and this book puts it out there for the reader. Those who support trump wont like it, those who do not like trump will love it. Howie on the today show, Savannah Guthrie pressed woodward about the denials. John kelly said that never happened, i didnt say it. Jim mattis quoted saying the president s understanding is like a 5th or 6th grader. He says he didnt say it. Are they lying . They are not telling the truth. How there are rob porter the former staff secretary said there are often misleading portraits, but didnt deny any of the sources in the book. Kat books like this in general, i dont understand the point of them. As cathy said, they just reiterate what people already think. Howie woodward spent many months going behind the scenes. You dont think there is any value in a book like this . I understand the point of it, but i dont understand if he thinks it will change any minds here. Anybody who thinks that trump is not a great guy looks at this as further evidence trump is not a great guy and the white house is in complete chaos. But people who support him say its anonymous, its just more leftwing people trying to smear the president. Howie you might be right by the not changing minds, but it generated an enormous amount of Media Coverage. By attacking by attacking woodward, didnt donald trump give this book a tidal wave of publicity . Cathy to question woo woodwards one of the countrys best investigative reporters. I have great sources within the white house and from the last three administration. I cant imagine his sources. Im a little jealous. I can sure he can pick up the phone and talk to anybody there. Howie he also knocked on peoples doors. You can criticize his background reporting techniques. But now that i am reading it. There is so much about what people thought and long scenes and meetings. Not always criticizing donald trump. It shows he spent a long time with confidants and white house officials. Thats it for this edition of mediabuzz. Andrew cuomo was running against actress cynthia nixon. He trounced her like 30 points. So why was there so much attention on something that was never going to be a competitive race . I would say one, its new york, and two, it was sex and the city. Celebbitys always get a lot hlot get a lot of coverag. Continuing coverage on fox of tropical depression florence. The death toll up to 14 since i have been sitting here. [ ] ask your doctor about taltz. If youre waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. Its time to get out of line with upmc. At upmc, livingdonor transplants put you first. So you dont die waiting. 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