Guilty, he cant win. Howie whats the impact of coverages Rudy Giuliani is reported to be under investigation and ambassador said he and president uses false charges to push her out. Many trump conservative allies turning on him for pulling u. S. Troops out of syria which our kurdish allies calling a betrayal an sustained military action by turkey. What a disaster, the statement, we defeated caliphate, the caliphate is destroyed, we would not have done that without the kurds who did all of the fighting. Thats what you get if youre an ally with donald trump and playing a major role and crushing the caliphate which, of course, the kurds did. The president of the United States is in danger of losing the mandate to heaven if he permit this is to happen. What exact dye do people on tv know about kurds, nothing, really, shock if anyone at msnbc ever met a occurred and yet suddenly today everyone in washington seems thoroughly outraged oh on their behalf. Why does current policy revolt on the right who back the president on impeachment and just about Everything Else . Harvey weinstein used allegations and former msnbc staffer accusinglongtime anchor of rape, shepherd smith leaving fox news 23 years after launch, why departure is growing so much media attention. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Howie media have been on red alert on President Trump defied request saying he considers the impeachment inquiry illegitimate, partisan and unconstitutional. Turns out that the whistleblower was in cahoots with schiff, whistleblower is a strong democrat and working with one of my opponents as a democrat that i might end up running against. The whole thing is a scam, its a fix. Howie joining us Mollie Hemingway of fedderist, Fox News Contributor justice on trial kavanaugh confirmation and future of the supreme court. Gil and turner, fox news correspondent and former White House National security, ray suarez, cohost of World Affairs and former correspondent for the pbs news, the media are appalled the white house refusing to cooperate, is it fair for his approach to be cast as stonewalling . Well, i think the big problem with Media Coverage of this issue is it is focusing on impeachment or alleged impeachment at the expense of larger stories, for years we have had media reports claiming theres thousands of people in bureaucracy and Intelligence Agency to out the president. We have years long issue with ukraine where ukraine was shown to have meddled in the 2016 with the Democratic National committee, this isnt in dispute, admitted to, emails and transcripts and all sorts of things that people are acknowledging the meddling, the larger stories are not put into this discussion, when people are talking about how donald trump is responding to inquiries about a particular phone call we are not seeing the coverage. Some journalists are saying, if they dont cooperate theyll do what is done with nixon impeachment, is there a danger for the press here in covering all of the tentacles of the stories. Theres a danger of the press in part the way news has changed since 1972 and 1973. It is more possible than its ever been in the history of American Media to come to a conclusion sitting at home in your living room couch and then go out and seek confirmation from the News Business for that conclusion whether youre pro, anti, you can be convinced of any argument you want to make. Howie because of fractured media environment . Absolutely. And so this creates real challenge for people who are trying to just play it straight and keep track of a fastmoving sprawling and complicated story in a part of the World Americans dont follow closely. Howie gillian, is the president in part helping to turn this into a process on pieces of twists and turns and subpoenas and Court Battles and new people being drawn into this and could many in the public view that as just more beltway bickering . No, is my simple answer, the president is not doing that, in large part the media is making process story, every News Organization at this moment in time is keeping their own roll call vote on what democrats impeachment, everybody is quarterbacking the story, one element the media is missing the sprawling nature of this impeachment investigation compared to previous investigations by which of president clinton and president nixon, with those of those investigations was handled by wasnt congressional committee, the judiciary committee. Today we have nancy pelosi a 6 committees investigating, six in total that are looking at wrongdoing by President Trump and i think the media should be covering that. Even more than that, no impeachment inquiry, theres been no vote to launch inquiry and this is very important when we are talking about legal battles and media have accepted democrat spin that howie what about the whistleblower, the Washington Examiner was reporting that the whistleblower, we still dont kw the identity. Perhaps part of his job, since we have the call between president and ukraines leader and texts about diplomats talking about ukraine, how much does the media care about whistleblower at this point . Things got diverted when President Trump released the call, there was a whole campaign that was built around this where there would be drips of information, characterize the call as deeply frightening when everybody can read and say we have a problem with this and we dont have a problem with this. It made the dripdrip story, media are struggling with how to handle it. Significant that he talked to adam schiff and didnt reveal that he spoke to a member of adam schiffs staff. You have to say which committees you spoke with, which members you spoke w he left that part blank. Howie foxs Katherine Harris to report that whistleblower had been in memo that white house official told him july phone call was crazy and frightening but we dont know who has said to have said this. Theres reporting and multiple sources of contemporaneous accounts, the person said crazy and disturbing, they didnt sit by themselves saying i feel crazy and disturbed, there were conversations, memos, text messages, emails, they were all coming out, everybody trying to write the last story of this story is going to be wrong. Gillian, you worked on the National Security council under two president s, four National Security essentials were so language that they raised with white house lawyer. Just another incremental part of the story. I would say its incremental but it is also significant in the sense that its not unusual and its not bad for National Security officials who were privy to the call to talk about it amongst themselves afterwards, thats in large part that National Security council to do and convert that into Foreign Policy, so how people felt about that call and if some people did feel or at least one person felt that it was crazy that is something that they absolutely should have discussed among themselves, that doesnt mean that the persons memo to themselves saying this was crazy and frightening then becomes the truth and becomes evidence. The New York Times talk about the sprawling investigation reports that Rudy Giuliani is under investigation in manhattan for probably lobbying, disputes that, after two associates were arrested who are helping him dig up dirt in ukraine, they were arrested on unrelated campaign charges. The media love portraying rudy unhinged, there was a lot of shouting and filler busting, is it clear that rudy did something wrong . More than a year ago, 2 years i think it was, charles grassily ask the department of justice to look into violation with the contractor. Federal registration act. Whether she was acting on behalf of ukraine without being registered. Theres all sorts of violations not being looked but when they with done by democratic operatives and people like that, thats why the media needs to cover the story, what happened in ukraine in 2016, people care claim they care about meddling, theres no dispute about this, you dont see it when youre hearing stories about this, further to that i would say that when you see it only that republicans get attacked for violations, this speaks to two standard of justice that is people are frustrated, if youre on one side of the aisle you get let go and if you are on the other side of the aisle you get sent to prison. You have the ousted ambassador saying rudy and trump helped her push out of the job of representing the u. S. In ukraine with false claims. Washington post lead story today gordons, is ambassador who is on those text saying theres no quid pro quo in the phone call, person familiar with testimony, its only true that the president said and not that it was the truth. The president said there was no quid pro quo, im not saying that. How much impact does all of this have . Its going to be raining shoes in washington so many left, the idea that you can make a final conclusion on what this all means based on one Incremental Development is crazy. Just briefly, gillian, fox news poll showing that 51 say that the President Trump should be impeached removed. 40 not impeached at all, mostly democrats in favor, 13 of republicans, the president then tweeted, id never gotten a good fox news poll, whoever their pollster is, they subbing according to the president , why was there so much attention in the poll. Gillian of course, a poll is a poll and fox news polling unit is one of the strongest in the country. Hats off to chris, unbiased journalists in the News Business today, so the idea, corrupted by politics is insanity. Not wrong for people to be skeptical of polling. Fox news poll joe donnelly. Fox news donnelly said they would win and lost by 6 polls, its possible that people polls are often wrong. They are also use today push certain story ideas and thats a problem. You follow the trend and not the number. Howie the president had given shoutouts this week to fox news commentators fox friends who he likes, even though he doesnt like the polls. Rare criticism from the president of conservative journalism over military decision in syria, john spicer weighs on the coverage of impeachment. This fall, book two, separate qualifying stays at choicehotels. Com. And earn a free night. Because when your business is rewarding yourself, our business is you. Book direct at choicehotels. Com especially on the right focused on abandonment of americas kurdish allies and turkey continue to go bomb the region, dozens of kurds reported to have been killed and 130,000 people to be displaced and the president defends on other grounds. We are all over the world fighting wars, half of the places nobody knows what theyre doing over there. Howie who slew of conservative journalists and commentators and you have lindsey graham, nikki haley and republicans sharply criticizing the president , what do you make of this . Im not sure i would agree that the caucus gives a tremendous amount of support to President Trump. I would say theres a grotesque of representation of Foreign Policy approach in newspapers, donald trump did run on campaign to get out of syria, he was elected to do that, theres a rejection of this will from the people to not have such entanglements and you see that so much in the newspapers and in our tv coverage, president obama, 16 times said we would never have boots on the ground in syria and yet donald trump gets elected saying he will get us out of the situation, 3 years into the presidency finally happening, you dont hear the voices articulating why thats important, why the American People want this. Howie it is true that the president talked about endless wars, the media much more concerned about syria and turkey and the kurds lets just say than most average voters . Absolutely. Thats one of the ways that the administration could move away with the policy. The president didnt win on green lighting and being perhaps in direct confrontation with russia. Howie gillian, reported by fox and Many Organizations that pentagon was blindsided by the president s move, the kurds certainly were; not a heads up to president ial allies like lindsey graham. The press seems concerned with style and geopolitical decision. At this point we dont know what theyre doing anymore. Military presence is actually working on cross purposes. A few thousand u. S. Troops stationed in u. S. Border, we knew precisely what they were doing. That deserved to be looked at first. The president tweeted today. Turkey and the kurds, air strikes and the video footage and report of atrocity. Absolutely, the turks killed one on many including an infant, they have been attack hospitals, theyve actually been hitting close by the u. S. Military installations on the ground, so the turks have been disingenuous with President Trump and with everybody about what theyre actually trying to achieve in that region. Ethnic cleansing of the kurds. Nbc richard said that President Trumps syria decision is stain on history we are seeing commentary from from a lot of people instead of doing straight news. Theres an avenue here, we dont have good purporting on the ground and that can make it hard and we are getting input and this is something we have seen across media outlet, we dont have good on the ground reporting on this. We did not have an aim of defending this, you know, this particular group of ypg fighters in their battles with erdogan. We had an agreement with them. They were helping us wipe out isis. We had shared interest to take down the isis caliphate and we accomplished that and the American People yes, they found shared interest in defeating isis and thats what the American People understood, the idea that we would change, move the goal post and have different agenda items is not something that American People signed onto that and they should say that and get the American People the goal post didnt move is the point. One missing word in all of this coverage is again, abandoning the kurds again. We did it in the early 90s in the end of the first gulf war, thats whats boiling some of the Foreign Policy circles. Howie on the point ray suarez, gillian turner, Mollie Hemingway, good to see you. The New York Times gets ripped by joe biden, the president also gets a few no matter what i wore, i worried someone might see my bladder leak underwear. So, i switched. To always discreet boutique. Its shapehugging threads smooth out the back. So it fits better than depend. 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I understand that there are consequences from that exercise of in essence his freedom of speech and, you know, we will have to live with those consequences, we are not apologizing for darrell exercising his freedom of expression. Howie except you were initially apologizing and now basically trying to salvage that huge market in china. It was inevitable that the sports fan in chief would weigh in. Wrong to be putting pressure on the nba . The nba is a different thing, i watch this guy steve kerr, little boy so scared to be answering the question, he couldnt answer the question, he was shaking, i dont know. Are you okay with chinese pressuring nba over hong kong . They have to work out their information. Howie steve kerr and Gregg Popovich have criticized him in the past. Other troubling allegations about the network and Harvey Weinstein, first sean spicer on impeachment, syria and the media aleve it. Aleve is proven better on pain than tylenol. When pain happens, aleve it. 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