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Because of the losses. And did the prognosticators miss the magnitude of this by leaning too heavily on polls . Many turned to be out wrong. President obama being portrayed as some, set up, resigned and resentful. Is the press wright him off as a failure . The tv reporter who says they wouldnt run her pieces, the Obama Administration wouldnt see her and her articles were hacked. Plus, how rare is this . That is stupid. I apologize. Why jon stewart is sorry no are an unfunny joke. Im howard kurtz and this is media buzz. Not a happy night at msnbc especially as republican victory victories piled up. Some liberals held out hope for a gold line stance by the democrats. At the risk of being baghdad bob, i know it is tough now, but there is still a root to victory. Is this a wave tonight . No. It is not close to a wave. But it was a republican wave. Others grappled for explanations. Andrea mitchell saying democrats were dumb not to concentrate on the keen my while other issues were raised. A scare tactic by the republican opponent of democratic incumbents who tried to focus on isis and ebola in the scariest most nonfactual ways to take the eye off where is the debate off real issues. With the republicans on their way to win over the senate, it was time for sweeping judgment. I think it was much less of doing of the republicans than it was the self destruction of the democrats. And after the dust settled, some commentators made excuses for the president while others faced reality. Last night was a complete rejection of the president of the United States and what he stands for. You cant sugar coat it. After midnight, the mood at fox got a little giddy. Im afraid to look. I am too. Wow. This is just a howdy partners. Oh, dear. He did it. Really . Yes. I know i look ridiculous. But i figure by this time evening, either youre drunk or you have a sense of humor. Joining us now to examine the coverage of the mid terms after aftermath, Mary Katherine and emily cox and david zer wig. Mary katherine, given the magnitude of this victory, do you feel the Mainstream Media are giving republicans full credit or trying to minimize results . I think theres a tendency to minimize it. I think my bigger problem is from before the election. I will never forget the conventional wisdom for making me stumble through Allison Grimes. Right. Because she won by 15 point the margins is what makes us striking. There is a difference between local newspapers and local polles who saw what was going on. Des moines poll, register poll, and endorsement of gardner in colorado and rouner in illinois. So there seems to be a division there. We will come back to the position of polls. But the liberal spin, those who say oh, it is an off year, mostly red states, seems pretty lame. But those things are true. True, but. If you get an electorate in off years. Of course they matter, i would say that any party that loses tends to minimize their loss. These are natural reactions. That any journalist should buy into that. No. My problem is that while democrats lost, a lot of democrat policies won. Minimum wage passed in red states. Pot passed in california. So i think there is a tendency to look at candidates as nothing but symbols. But of democratic policy. There were actual policies on the ballots that wound up doing well in the same white male electorate that elected republicans. On Election Night, lets start with krp, you wrote that that network had the most reporters on the ground, but they the jay carney. And they used the former members of obamas administration. And they let them constantly deny reality with no one, none of the journalists present, except jake tapper occasionally, trying to knock them down. So honestly, i dont understand why they are still hiring. They think they have somebody on the right, somebody on the left. There were a lot of people on the left there. And carnie is the worst. He is the lying liar who lied for the administration. Most antipressed Administration Since nixon. This is the guy on cnn on Election Night telling you what it means, i dont think so. Since youre pulling the question, will you question the lineup as well . You saw it, actually. Andrea mitchell sitting next to al sharpton. Same thing with chuck todd. They make no distinction between an activist between al sharpton and journalist like chuck todd. You have al sharpton analyzing the race in pennsylvania saying how successful people were in getting people out to vote for the democratic cause and he is the activist getting them out to vote for the democratic part. No distinction, thats outra outrageo outrageous. All right, fox news, even beat the broadcast networks in ratings with 6. 6 million viewers. Really, we have not made enough of those numbers. You and i go well, i go back to late 70s when dan rather and cbs and nbc owned Election Night coverage. We partsed them like we were covering the kremlin. How come that person had to sit at the second furtherest desk. They owned it. To see fox dominate the networks is astonishing. And also, you know, what was it, only 8 years ago, 10, 12 years ago, cnn owned cable night election coverage. To see them swamped by fox was, i think, a seismic shift. Come for the coverage, stay for the cowboy auction. I would say my favorite coverage is punch drunk coverage. That is true for the entire entire thing. Good thing it didnt go later. Like 4 00 in the morning. You mentioned the polling. My beef is journalists and pundits who want to sound informed by the different races. And the preelection polls, kay haguen in north carolina. Iowa said to be tight. Arkansas for Goodness Sake with 16 points. Yeah. It wasnt a historic mistake to bet the house on polls of many of which were utterly wrong. I was guilty as well. Buying that kentucky is closer. Arkansas was close, and but yeah, this is a problem and something the Polling Industry has to deal with. I think some republicans and conservatives maybe would have gone further in calling nonsense on the polls had they not been burned by the romney polling disasters of 2012. It may be that the Polling Industry lets things look at itself. But journalist who treat these as gospel need to examine, especially in mid term, when you dont know how itll turn out. Polsters need to work on it. I think media people need to become aware of how polling works. I think they need to educate themselves. In college, i had to take statistics. I dont know why other people, before you do this for a living. Youre still ticked off about that. Continue your report. On Election Night, it is not college football. Early returns are not First Quarter scores. I had a lot of people saying hope when clearly there wasnt. Local papers and polsters seem to have a better beat on what was going on. The morning register nailed the iowa senate race. National polls, not so much. In your state, maryland governors race, nate silver, democratic lieutenant governmentory, brown, 94 chance of winning, 94 percent clans and by 94. 7 percentage points, and he lost by 5 . You wouldnt be more wrong. I have seen interviews where instead of instead of defending it insanely, saying the peaceants in maryland didnt poll enough and bad data, either stop polling or the data they gave us was bad data so it is not our fault. That is explanation from political journalists. Okay, the question of polling and projection on Election Night, on boomer tv, coverage now led by Mark Halperin of game change fame i thought they were awful. I was really upset when they went after fox for calling the colorado race at 10 00 for gardner over udahl. One was patty solace doyle and Hillary Clinton. Other was bill burton, doyle said they were wrong. A democrat would win. And burton says this interferes with the electoral process. Got on the high ground, sanctimonious. It was nuts. Ap confirmed what fox said. Then they said, oh, yeah, gardner won and they acted like nothing happened. Forget the last 15 minutes where we have been trashing fox. Lets turn to president obama. Interesting on face the nation. Do you like politicians and obama had to insist he does love his job. Why did the press so hammer the president on that 73minute News Coverage where he when Something Like this happens, there should an acknowledgement and some sort of change. And it didnt seem that was forthcoming and they wanted to get that out of him. There seems to be no shakeup forth come org change of gears. I think that what they wanted and they werent getting it. Some leftleaning columnists after that appearance, the president seemed in denial over the magnitude of these results. I dont think he is in denial, i think he doesnt care. I think he is one of the happiest people in the world right now. He is done dealing with elecections. And you know, i dont think he respects the press at all. I dont think the press has done much to earn his respect. And why should he change . I dont think the Republican Party will come in with a lot of change either. I think we will see more status quo. Maybe higher pitched battles. But i dont think the americans will ask for compromise or get compromise. Do you think that he didnt think a lot he does critique the media, especially cable news. I think they have done plenty during his runs they tried, but that doesnt mean yeah. But the way that he is dealing with this, the press is finally f going, hey, you are supposed to react to this. Dont forget, they called james rosen a criminal. And the attorney general signed that yeah, for doing his job as a journalist. And which eric holder finally expressed regret and oh, so great cnn and npr reported on thursday night and friday that Loretta Lynch would be named as new attorney general nominee. Josh earnest said, no decision has been made, then realizing the story had been made, and then said, yes, we will announce it tomorrow. Ahead we will talk about the mysterious hacking of her home and office computers. When we come back, pundits say mid term office is good for hillary . Rand paul was set to declare the midterm for a referendum, not just on the president , but on Hillary Clinton, a point echoed by pundits, as well. Hillary a point ek echoed by pundits as well. Bill clinton was campaigning for candidates as well clintons couldnt help the democratic party. Particularly in states where the margin was supposed to be much closer. They can frame it that it is Hillary Clinton and bill clinton. Only because they were out there and barack obama wasnt. So the mid term losses are actually good for Hillary Clinton, according to her loyalists. Whether you agree with that or not, im sure you will tell us. Does that buy the spin . It is tough to argue that is good for her. It sort of remains to be seen what happens in the next two years. For certainly the war on women is more of a problem than it would have been. Less easily deployed. I think rand paul, to his credit, gave a hashtag to the idea she was part of what was to blame. The media takes notice of that. It is already packaged for them. I think thats powerful. Right. It seems to me that you could say yes, now Hillary Clinton can run against the Republican Senate as well as the house. There are things can you say. When you have a piece that mostly quote loyalists and you dont say, the other poll says this or this, that seems to be unbalanced. You feel like people have spoken and what did the hillary say in response to the people. What i want to turn out is that the people who turned out wouldnt vote for hillary anyway. When they turn out in 2016, they werent the people that will elect hillary. Her problem is those that didnt vote. Can she turn out the people that obama turned out. That remains to be seen. Coming back to the coverage, i think there is this game in journalism because hillary was campaigning for candidates what, she was going to say Allison Grimes because she lost by 15 point . We all pretend the endorsements aep rallies are important. Im not so sure the voters care. Im not sure the voters care. But i do think it is sort of fair in politics that if youre in charge of the rga, you get credit for that. If youre the giant force that clintons are, then you get a little bit of blame. Like Andrea Mitchell said, because the obamas arent out there and they are . Exactly. Exactly. Chris deserves some credit where as hillary wasnt directing Campaign Funds or anything. I think christie made four trips i think to maryland on behalf of larry hogan. I think he did help him to some extent. The obamas were in maryland continually. And he got help from clinton. There were cars going up and down my street with the bull horns on the tops saying, make history again. With Michelle Obamas voice. This is what lindon john syndon in the hill country to get elected. These guys are serious. Of course you want to report on people who are big names coming into your state. But how much does it matter . It got into National Attention because of the polls. He got clobbered. He was a terrible candidate. He ran a terrible campaign. He wouldnt come and do a debate in baltimore. He didnt. They had an empty chair and democratic primary for him. Terrible candidate. But larry hogan is an politician. Not very well known. Having christie there, i think because of his lack of sort of political background, helped him more than it might help someone else. And a point man spectacularly fairing maryland maybe this year not being a politician, a good thing. Thanks very much for joining us this sunday. Ahead on media buzz, jon stewart apologizes for a pretty dumb joke. Fox news parts company. And whether or not ed henry got the message of the mid term. The morning after mid terms that cost the party the senate, president obama said would he spend time with more republican leaders. Even joking with having kentucky bourbon with mitch mcconnell. I havent heard you say specific thing during News Conference that you would do differently. It is almost like you are doubling down on the same policy and approach youve had for six years. So my question is why not pull a page from the clinton play book and admit you have to make a much more dramatic shift in course for the last two years. Ed, what i what i would like do is to hear from the republicans to find out what it is that they would like to see happen. I spoke with ed henry at the white house. Welcome. During the president ial News Conference you accused him of doubling down on the same approach and policy because you felt at that point he hadnt eaten sufficient crow . No, more than it was an obvious question. First of all, he started out by saying, ive missed you. I think that was the whole press corps, not just me. How was that on the truth meter . He might have missed me a little. I like to go with three, four questions in my pocket. How do you get away with that, by the way. I dont mean you have maybe try to sneak a couple extra in there. You dont know if you will get called on second or if it is second in the News Conference then you clearly have to ask about the election. If you are called on ninth or tenth, you might ask about eblal or isis or some side issue. On this day, i think i was sixth. I give wolf blitzer credit. When i was covering the Obama Administration, he said, listen to the questions and answers. A lot of correspondents dont do that. They go with questions on paper. The question might have a gap. And then they say oh, china today said you were not satisfied with the responses because you said, i havent heard you say at in News Conference and you wanted him to give a greater acknowledgement that his party got she lacked. I think that stood the test of time. Lacked. I think that stood the test of time. The president has not acknowledge that he lost. Saying that his policies were on the ballot and they took a drumming, even the democrats acknowledge they got a drumming. It is simple math. I know you are half joking when you say he didnt eat sufficient enough crow. He also came back at me and said, you just want me to fire people or Something Like that. No, i think there is a serious question. I was asking about his leadership. I dont think there should be some some ritualistic firing. I agree with the president on that. A shakeup. I think that is an easy pundit thing. If you go back to 2006 when rumsfeld was fired, that wasnt just a personnel change, that was a change in direction. And bush saying the war is messed up, we have to fix it. And breaking from Vice President cheney. He went in a new direction. Let me ask but leaking. Politico says obama is fed up, he is resentful, has a band mindset, being trapped in a system that is broken and he cannot fix. What does it say to you that some of these sources are telling reporters this . Because i think they are trying to get his view out there and his view in part is, he is taking a beating over recent weeks about nobody want him out on the campaign trail. They are keeping him at arms length. I think the president himself, he didnt have to wait for the politico story, the president himself on the record basically got on the couch, or whatever you want to say, weeks ago when he did the speech and an al sharpton interview where he said, they may all be running for me but they have been big support. The democrats didnt like that. The president is saying, you have been with me. After the election, im the one that will pick up the pieces. Is this an orchestrated spin or are the aides themselves frustrated and leaking in a way that is not reflecting that well on the boss . Right. Some of it is spin. It is orchestrated in the sense that i think they are trying to figure out where do we go from here. And they are trying to say, look, it wasnt all about him. It was about some really bad candidates and some individual races and it was that the map was bad. Ab arkansas, north carolina, states, and let me cut in. He privately complained. It shouldnt be a judgment on him. He repeatedly asked are you getting the stuff that the he doesnt feel reputated. I think some of the best reporting we can do is listen closely to what the president says. You dont need anonymous people to tell you, the president is out there for 73 minutes, i think it was, basically saying, i heard the onethird who voted against me but i also heard the two thirds that didnt vote at all and said they didnt vote because they were protesting republicans and they are with me, almost is what he said. So i think he is saying it out loud. After that 73 minutes, i needed some kentucky bourbon. Good seeing you. Coming up, former cbs reporter sharyl attkisson, why her network stopped airing her investigative pieces. You might want to sit down and shut up for this one. Matt lauer with Chris Christie on the subject of heckling. Twhat do i do . You need to catch the 4 10 huh . The Equipment Tracking system will get you to the loading dock. There should be a truck leaving now. I got it. Now jump off the bridge. What . In 3. 2. 1. Are you kidding me . Go. Right on time. Right now, over 20,000 trains are running reliably. We call that predictable. Thrillingly predictable. Fox news alert, im harris faulkner. New reports u. S. Led forces may have hit the terrorist commander. Iraqi defense officials telling the Associated Press he may have been injured in yesterdays Coalition Air strikes in western iraq. Fox news has not independently confirmed this. The pentagon also is not saying it has any immediate information on any such air strikes. In germany, a milestone in freedom, the berlin wall came down 25 years ago today marking a victory over communism and unofficial end to the cold war. Some 1 Million People gathered in the suty watching white balloons released into the sky to symbolize the resistance of the barrier of east and west berlin. Im harris faulkner. We will see you tonight on the latest with the targeting of the isis leader. Sharyl attkisson spent 20 years at cbs news going on bombing missions, covering 9 11, winning emmys and other awards. But the network increasingly refused to air her investigative report, especially on Obama Administration reports and found her work hacked. She has a book and she joins me now. Welcome. Thank you. Cbs initially aired your stories on fast and furious and benghazi, then is dried up. What happenes . It is hard know what decisions were made at the higher level. But yes, i didnt seek out benghazi, neither did i seek out healthcare. Gov, they were assigned to me. They wanted me to go after what i could find out, factual good information. As i describe in the book, at some point it seem the light switch goes off when you get a lot of pushback from the white house and a lot of surrogate media jumps in and starts to criticize. Could it be, and ive been there as an investigative reporter, that you were wrapped up and the they felt the audience was tired of them. I guess thats one way it look at it, but i was told, when i posted the stories and they didnt make a broadcast, and i posted them on the web, that they were wildly popular. And i think we served viewers that looked for that kind of reporting. I cant coincide a loss of viewer interest with their lack of interest of airing stories. That happened suddenly while there was still a lot of viewing. You initially said scott walker liked your stories and then then they didnt run. The first story which had nothing do with political figures or politics, just great inv ininvestigation or the Level Department and we thought it was a terrific piece. Then a rewriting process. Yes. I call it best by cuts, and softening and changing and this did go after important powers that be. So you are left to wonder why in the end it was rescheduled and then never aired. I dont know why. I can only tell you thats what happened. You say other veteran reporters began to ask not to appear on the cbs evening news . Yes. There was pretty well known disagreements with this new era when scott pelley came in as managing editor and his executive producer. There was a lot of discontent. And a variety of problems, not just the idea of ideological bias, which was reported a lot in the press, but there were a lot of issues going on. And yes two reporters tried to negotiate contracts so they wouldnt have to eappear on the evening news because it was disconcerting with their script ideas and what they were doing with the story. Lets talk about cropping out an interview, and days after with president obama and that soundbite or some of it not used and after the second 2012 debate was a big issue about whether or not the president had or had not referred to the benghazi attack as a terrorist attack. Lets play a quick look at the soundbite that didnt initially make air. Do you believe this is a terrorist attack . It is too early know exactly how it came about, what group was involved. But obviously, it was an attack on americans. What did you do when you found out about that exchange after the debate and everybody in america and journalism at least was debating what president had or hadnt said. That exchange i believe should have been pulled on immediately after the debate which would have been very newsy at the time. Exclusive to cbs. And would have, appears to me, proves romneys point against obama. But i was covering benghazi and no one told me we had it. And directed me, the evening news, to use a different clip from the same interview to give the impression that president had done the opposite. It was right before the eye location that someone leaked out the transcript to others of us at cbs and we were shocked. We felt there had been something very unethical done to have kept that covered up. You say that top people of the network were misleading the public. Or they in this instance and perhaps others protecting president obama. The evening news people who had access to that transcript according to the emails i saw when it was sent from 60 minutes to evening news, the very day it was taken, they in my view skipped over it, passed it up, kept it secret throughout the whole time when it would have been relevant to the news. And i think that was because they were trying to defend the president. They felt that would be harmful to him. Now since have you written this book and there is a lot of publicity, there is effort, with ex colleagues including elements in the media to paint you as a right winger who is ideal ojically opposed to the Obama Administration and thats what is motivating. Your thoughts . I think if you look at the factual record rather than propaganda put out, you see even divided stories. Many going after republican targets, people say including several that won National Emmy award or look at issues under the Bush Administration. So if anyone looks at the factual record rather than reading second and thirdhand information, it belies that narrative. Given that you have done this with different administrations and different story and twodeca twodecade career, awardwinning career with cbs, does this tick you off . It doesnt make me happy. And is discussed in the book. With the narrative they are putting out is well foretold. You can go to page 343 on the book and i start a discussion on what would come when i would say the things publicly and what the narrative would be. You expected some of the backlash . Absolutely. In a moment, stay put, what really happened with the computer hacking and why that has become so controversial. Stay with us. S kakakakakaka put your hands together for new nestle© toll house s kakakakakaka delightfulls morsels, the chocolate you know and love now filled with caramel, Peanut Butter, cherry, and mint. So Peanut Butter up some brownies. 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And contractors say you are starting to sound paranoid. People want to say it isnt true, especially because of what has happened with the public of surveillance of private citizens. And journalist. And journalist. I certainly cant convince people otherwise if their minds are made up. But the forensic exams show what they show. That is irrefutable. Cbs news issued a statement about the intrusion. Cbs hired its own exam. For those that want to say none of it happened, there is nothing can i do about that. You have media flak for posting a video, we can pute that up, of computer deletion while on your computer in realtime. And critics say thats a malfuncti malfunction, not hacking. Some could conclude that but what i think is interesting is that people dont ask the same questions of the same skepticism of the experts who are willing to go on the record with conclusions based on almost no information that they are aiming at me with the same skepticism. I will tell you, that that was what i called, theres been a lot of misreporting about dates and so on, of visual anecdotes that were many months after we confirmed the three computer exams. Remote entry happened. I didnt know someone could operate your computer almost as if they were sitting there. They could do this remotely and they have installed that capability in my computer. So i guess with that in mind when this happened and knowing from my experts, the wiping, constantly shown on the screen, but the hyper speed wiping that occurred in the first couple of second that you can see, cannot be duplicated bay back space key held down. And some files deleted. You have a lot of experts who havent seen these computers. It is like these psycho analyst who are arm chair experts who i dont think know more than my own forensics team. You told the Huffington Post you dont know who is on the other end of the effort, organization, person, rogue person. Some interpret it as you are backing off. No. What i said is i do have a human source who told me who in the make row sense is responsible. I believe that to be true. Im not using that name because i have a human source im protecting and taking my attorneys advice. Secondly the Computer Forensics exams which indicates a government connection do not tell me who is sitting at the computer if such a things occurs. Who is the actual guy or guys typing in and hacking. Those are, i think, separate issues, but related. Is being in the spotlight and under these attacks change your view of career in the media. You have reported on events and dug into stories aep and now you are the story. Some of this occurred already, even though i fully and well reported on republican controversies and Bush Administration controversies. As soon as i did get assigned to and digging into obama controversy, the media, even at cbs, was turning against that. There were surrogates operating in the press and it is highly effective. Some of the propaganda campaignes. Thats what i talk about in stone wall. Half a minute. Does it seem like being more susceptible from the left than from the right. I think that shows when they pick up secondhand information without verifying them even though they do possibly be wrong and there is a warning of skepticism of coming out of mouths of those that question authority. I think we should question authority instead of all of the effort put into questioning those who question the authority, which i think is going on now. All right. Sharyl attkisson, thank you for being here. Next on media buzz. Jon stewart goes too far and makes a rare apology. And Chris Christie heckles himself. Video verdict is up next. You cant breathe through your nose, suddenly, youre a mouth breather. A mouth breather well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. Cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38 more. So you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do, sleep. Add breathe right to your Cold Medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. Breathe right. And look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender, in the sleep aisle. Chris christie who heads the Republican Governors Association was on the tv circuits Election Night. Circuit reveling in a number of victories. On the today show, matt lauerw also asked about his smackdown of a jersey heckler. Ti until that time, sit down and shut up are you going to have to control that side of your personality to be seen as president outside of the rough and tumble of new jersey politics. First you assume i wasnt under control. I sat and took it for a while. And the hundreds of other peoplh deserved to hear what we had to say. That person had their say. It was time for them to sit down. Im not goingg to change. H thats who i am. Instead ofof controlling it,i you have to hide that side of your personality outside of new jersey . Theres no hope of that. What i liked about that is that matt lauer wasnt confrontational. He said some of your supporters love ie when you do that, make some e queecy, gave christie a chance to respond. Ge. Its a legitimate story and a legitimate issue. Jon stewart is promoting a movie he just directed and he said something on cnnnn he wish he could have back. I was on christian amanpouro show and i said this. Did you jvote . No. No . No. I dont even know wheretoda my g is. I did vote today. I was being flip. And it kind of took off. Should you know what, i want to apologize. I shouldnt have been flip about that. Dnt tt clear enough i was kidding andhi it sent a messager didnt thinktan voting was important or it wasnt a big issue. That was stupid. Hn im going to agree with jon d stewart. I dont understand why he joke thought it was a good idea to h joke about noter voting, but he was a standup guy. Sho he didnt issue a statement of apology, didnt just do it on twitter. E went on his show, said he was still sorry in front of his fans. Thats the way to do it when yo screw up, as we all eventually do. Stillll to come, your top tweets. A likely president ial candidateg leaves the mocking of megyn kelly. Still n for tomorrow . Tomorrow. Quick look at the weather. Nice day, beautiful tomorrow. Tomorrow is full of promise. We can come back tomorrrow. And we promise to keep it that way. Driven to preserve the environment, csx moves a ton of freight nearly 450 miles on one gallon of fuel. What a day. Cant wait til tomorrow. When i didnt worry about the hepatitis c in my blood. When i didnt think twice about where i left my razor. [ male announcer ] hep c is a serious disease. Take action now. Go to hepc. Com or call 1844444hepc to find out how you and your doctor can take the next step towards a cure. Because the answers you need, may be closer than they appear. Dr. Ben carson has had a dr. Ben carson has had a very Good Platform as a fox news contributor, even when taking questions like this. Wouldnt putting ben carson in the oval office be akin to putting a politician in an operating room and having him perform one of your brain surgeries . I dont think so. I think what is required for leadership is wisdom. And fox news ended carsons contract on friday, just as he was about to air a paid hourlong bio, the likely salvo in a likely president ial campaign. This was a smart move by fox because a man more or less running for president shouldnt be on foxs payroll. And Mike Huckabee is also weighing a White House Run as well. James comey says one of his aides impersonated an ap reporter. It was a fake ap story sent to a teenager as a way of tracking him down. The ap calls this unacceptable. I think its outrageous. The problem is it creates distrust and possible risks for actual reporters doing the actual job. Here are a few of your top tweets. The media missed the magnitude of the republican weighin. George mitchell, most reporters loathe the outcome and look past signs. Did they miss it . No, they tried to influence against it and then denied when it became inevitable. Swatter555, i think everyone was caught offguard. The media fell in love with statistical modulars. National review, jim tweeted, because humans choose to not see what they dont want to see. Now f youre in the tv business, theres perhaps no greater kick than being made fun of by saturday night live so when the comedy show tried out a character name megyn kelly, the fox anchor was quick to give her take. The woman who lived through this quarantine, kasey hiccups. Its caci with an i, i dont care if i have ebola. After growing up watching that program in my nanas living room, my take of sicily strong is pretty good. Her voice should be a little deeper and something should be a little smaller. Only she would make that observation. The actress did come off as a bit of floosy, but youve got to be able to laugh it off. Im howard kurtz. Thanks for joining us. Like our Facebook Page where we post original content, answer your question, post videos you dont see on this program. Were back here next sunday 11 a. M. And 5 p. M. Eastern with the latest buzz. Im chris wallace. Breaking today. Two americans held captive in north korea return to the u. S. With this countrys top spy. Plus, with control of both houses of congress, are republicans headed for compromise with president obama or confrontation . We are heading to washington. And we are going to make them squeal we have swept this nation with a compelling senate majority. Tonight we shook up the senate. You shook up the senate. 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