>> you've gone from calling them scum to sleazebags. >> i'm not a fan of tom brokaw. never was a fan. it wouldn't matter if i were abe lincoln doing the debate. krauthammer would saying negative. and media interest in last night's debate surges after bernie sanders improperly obtains data, but he quickly apologizes. will the press tune out this debate once again. plus the explosion of "star wars" hype. the real reason one network is going ga-ga. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." donald trump is still driving the campaign debate, still leading big in the poll. in his only fate-to-fay, he sought down at trump tower. welcome. >> thank you. >> jeb bush went after you in the debate, he now has an ad. he seems to think he can revive his campaign by attacking you. >> i thought he was weak. he had a couple sound bites giving to him by his people, i guess his pollsters. he hit me a couple times and i hit back harder. look, he's a low-energy person, a weak person, and honestly that's not what we need. we need somebody who's strong who can get things done. >> you choose your insults very carefully. again and again you say hillary clinton doesn't have the strength and stamina tore president. >> umpts i'm not talking about age. >> are you suggesting she's frail? >> i'm suggesting she does not have the strength or stamina. >> what does that mean? >> she sees you guy foss about ten mys, for a little while, it's all rehearsed and stage. they'll pick a couple people out of the audience. she'll still a little ants table and she goes around for five or six days and you don't see her. >> are you suggesting health issues. >> no, no, i'm saying she's not strong enough to be president. we need a president that can go 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. she can't do it. look, hillary clinton goes away three, four, five days. you have a very good guy, mr. henry, right? good man. >> ed henry. >> ed henry. he sees her, and all of a sudden she's gone. she just goes away. constitution need something who can go ahmet time, would you our country is in such trouble. and welcoming your call for deeper -- could pewter an phrase -- >> it could and, you know, the smart people would say that's a smart thing. what do we need problems for in obama and putin don't get along. he even called me brilliant. isn't that nice? >> you said that was an honor. >> i think it's an honor. hey, i complement people sometimes, maybe sometimes you don't mean it, but i think he meant it. i tell you what. what's the purpose? i do feel that russia, instead of being this group that we don't talk to, we're always -- i think they can be used for the good. we want to knock out isis. >> russia has troops in ukraine. russia is prop up assad. do you want a friendly relationship or adver sear? >> let's start off with assad. first we're fighting assad and isis, and assad is fighting isis. we've got all these fights going on, and we don't know what we're doing. we have to get rid of isis. we have to do it faster, powerfully and get it done. as far as assad, you just wait. russia is on the side of assad, so are iran and other people. i just think our first -- the first thing we have to do is knock the hell out of isis. assad is a bad guy, but you know what? the people we're backing might be worse. we've seen that between libya and iraq and all these people. we get rid of the so-called strong men or dictators or whatever you want to call them and it ends up being ten times worse. had we spent zero dollars in iraq and all of the places over there, we would have been in much better shape. right now the middle east is a powderkeg. whether you like is a dam had you says or not, he was great at one thing. he killed terrorists. they were executing terrorists on a daily basis now it's the harbor of terrorism. you want to be a terrorist, go to iraq. we have really messed up the middle east. >> let's talk about -- >> by the way, i think russia can be a positive force and ally as always opposed or fighting with russia. let's talk about some of the journalists not in the opinion business. tom brokaw. do you want me to comment on tom brokaw? i'm not a fan. never was a fan. when i did "the apresentition" he came over with me, and said thank you, mr. touch, it was good for him with his newscast, and now all of a sudden the first chance he gets, but he thanks me so much, thank you for doing seven a great job because it was so successful to the brokaw, and i understand somebody has to bring up when there's a problem. there's a problem. there's something wrong. something is going on. this is will level of hatred. whether it's a 25% group or 10% group, there's a level of hatred. we have to figure out what's going on. >> let me read you some others campbell brown, telling her colleagues in the tv business, for one week don't say his graham. >> you know what's interesting about campbell brown? for years i haven't heard of her name. i didn't even know she was still alive, but i guess she is. >> ben smith, buzzfeed he told reporters okay to call him a mendacious racist. shackman says people should boycott your businesses because he thinking you're a racist and neofascist. >> i'm the only one who speaks my mind and t truth. i have great friends who are muslims -- some of them are not so thrilled, but at the highest level, they called me and said what you did is right, there's a problem, we have to get to the bottom of it. there's a level of hatred and viciousness that we have to find out what we're going to do about it. >> you have a bit of a pattern that some people find offensive. you initially said complete and total shut down, and then you backtrack -- >> i always sell very temporarily. tempora temporary. >> you had to know when you said that there would be a immediate gentleman explosion, that you would be attacked, many in the republican party tagged you. but then it puts you at the center -- >> and by the way, you don't say that. many agreed with me. >> many republican primary voters agreed with it. >> roughly half and half. >> whatever, but many agreed. >> is it part of your strategy to dominated campaign coverage by putting things out there that you know will get this tremendous reaction that even though a lot of it will be negative. >> you know my strategy? honesty. i say it like it is, like your old friend howard cosell. i tell it like it is. the fact is there's a problem. the way we're going to solve the problem is air the problem. i aired the problem. very going, it was about a week and a half ago, and i took in incoming from everybody. i said, wow, man, three days ago later, people are saying, well, we've got to discuss it, i'm not talking about just here, they're talking about it all over the world. now people are saying trump's got a good point, we have to sit down and have to discuss it, because there are real problems. i'm not only talking about in this country, but in many other countries. >> you told chris wallace that ted cruz is a bit of a maniac in the senate, not qualified to be president, and in the debate you said his temperament is fine, you two get along, but why did you call him a maniac? >> he said something about me and i said something with a little smile, and frankly i -- we had a lot of fun at the debate. i got to know him well over the last three days, i said he's final. he's actually a nice guy. i tell you about cruz -- he's the one person, and ben carson also, but then he hit me and i hit him, he retreated a bit -- not retreated. i really like him, and i really like ted cruz. a lot of people don't. i like him he's the one person that when i said things were right but controversial. a lot of things i say are correct, but controversial, because our world is so politically correct. you say correct things, all of a sudden they say basically they're basic statements, but ted cruz would back me 100%, i get virtually every time. you cover it better than anybody. >> after the maniac comment, two powerful voices in radio, generally supportive of you, said criticized you for taking on cruz. did that make you rethin it a bit? >> well, i like those two people. they've been very, very supportive, and it made me think about it a bit. mark and rush have been so nice to me, and -- and -- i did thin about it a bit. you said the cnn moderators were stirring up, trump set this, said that, you want to respond. you're the front-runner by a lot, you would say. >> by a lot. >> i didn't think it was that -- the first debate, if you look at the first big portion of the so, donald trump said this, said that, and i want, what's going on? even my wife commented, this is sort of terrible, like stirring up trouble, and here's poor jeb, getting killed in the polls, very ineffective candidate and they asked him a question -- donald trump said, the poor guy is standing there, and he gave a sound bite. >> and can't you can't insult your way to the presidency. >> and then i killed him after that. it was so easy. but they shouldn't have done that to him. it was unfair to him, but they gave him a trump thing, and i thought it was unfair to him. to be honest with you, i thought it was inappropriate. we'll have more of my sit-down later in the program. when we come back our panel weighs in. ar later on hillary, bernie and the democratic debate. hear! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. what would help is simply being able to recognize a fair price. truecar has pricing data on every make and model, so all you have to do is search for the car you want, there it is. now you're an expert in less than a minute. this is truecar. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic, why pause to take a pill? 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mercedes schl aisapp, and judy and molly -- what do you think about him deflecting the conversation? >> it's one of his most effective mechanisms are saying -- on the tom brokaw case, rightfully so, strom brokaw when he did that piece on him on the muslims and basically in essence calling trump a racist really trump had to punch back and responsibility. on campbell brown, i thought that was fascinating. he said he didn't know if she was still alive. >> very much alive. >> she left the media also, because she was raising two kids at a time. i think he fought hard on both occasions, and he wins that debate. >> what how he talked about rush limbaugh and mark levin. i think that's the only time he's taken a step back from, and the only time he's shown deference to media figures. >> i thought he was saying he had nothing -- and he said those guys made me rethink. >> he conceded, and i think the reason why is he understands what most don't, talk radio has replaced a lot of traditional old media, as far as a way to get primary voters to like you. if he loses them, he's in huge trouble. he has to keep them happy, and that's what he's doing. >> molly, what did you think on his answer about hillary's stamina. she's pushing back. >> that's a very interesting talking point that is evolving, similar to the whole low-energy attack on jeb bush. he is clearly preparing for a general election -- it's a little rich for a guy who couldn't get through a three-hour debate without looking like he would wilt. >> of course he's interviewed every 12th minute. >> hi's much more accessible to the media nanny other candidate. >> possibly in history. >> i think it's commendable for a presidential candidate to expos themselves to that many questions from the media, but he has a real love/hate relationship for that reason. as campbell brown was saying, the media is his oxygen. he says outrageous things, the media coverings are covers it. he needs us, he doesn't need to air tv ads, but at the same time he's obviously critical of the press, easily one third of his hour-long speech is bashing the press, and often very crudely and by name. >> how can we complain when the front-runner is willing to subject him slid deaf adar, which i have always said the candidates should do. >> i think the media is becoming trump's super-pac. after the las vegas debate, for example, he was one of the few candidates who went back to the spin room and talked to every single reporter, including a local reporter in las vegas. there's not a bias in that sense. he's willing to go on msnbc "hardball." his message is not necessarily going to change. the reason he's been so dominant is being able to dictate what the news organizations are covers and at the end it's helped his poll numbers. >> people who don't like trump will pick up on the super-pac comment. you can always let us know what you think. ahead, more of the trump tower interview as the republican front-runner takes on internet security, jeff bezos and fox news, but first we'll weigh on the cnn moderators trying to goad the candidates into fighting and the media aggressively fact-checking ted cruz. i absolutely love my new york apartment, but the rent is outrageous. good thing geico offers affordable renters insurance. with great coverage it protects my personal belongings should they get damaged, stolen or destroyed. 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>> i think it's fine to let it all come out. i don't think the cnn debate became a character infighting. there were a lot of substantive question. the interesting wes was a hugh hewitt question to ben carson that raised a load of questions, that was on the killing innocent civil yang lives. >> so you're okay with killing hundreds of thousands innocent children? >> i think that's where cnn missed the market. >> but the sharp exchanges that everybody replayed, that was the product of questioning, trying to contrast that i positions on immigration and what happened in 2013, as well as nsa surveillance. >> and that was very substant e substantive. i think we learned a lot about what distinguishes the candidates, and that's what the debate was supposed to be for. there was a bit of name-calling, but i think there was lessen that than at a lot of the other ones the i think that's why there -- there was that one moment, but if you recall a couple debates ago when they were all attacking the moderators oughtal >> that was the cnbc debate. >> let me pick up on this with ted cruz. there's been a lot of fact checking about what he mend or what he now says he didn't mean in 2013 when he offered an amendment to the compromise immigration bill spearheaded by marco rubio in which he, senator cruz, at the time said he wanted the bill to provide and not a path to citizenship, but to legalization to get them out of the shadows. >> you repeated later in princeton if my amendment were adopted, this bill would pass. it sounded like you wanted the bill to pass. >> of course i wanted the bill to pass -- my amendment to pass. >> you said the bill. >> it doesn't mean -- what it doesn't mean i supported the other aspects of the bill, which was a terrible bill. >> good fact checking by the media? >> yes, i think so. senator mike lee came out and basically in defense of senator at the cruz, saying i was with him for three weeks during this whole process. in no way is he supporting amnesty. this is about choosing words very carefully from legalization to amnesty, it's very important to division that. >> we can't know what was in cruz' mind, but we can say here's what you said in 2013 and here's what you're saying now. that seems like a good function of journalism. >> it's a good reason -- and ted cruz has been trying to have it both ways on immigration and laterally getting away with it for years. >> because of good fact checking and the common issue. i think that was an excellent fact check, but there are two explanations for what ted cruz did with that amendment. neither looks good for him. there's his explanation now that it was sort of a poison pill. that looks disingenuous, or the other explanation is that he didn't mean it and that there's a conflict between what he said then and now. i hope to have a chance to talk to senator crews about that, but in looking at major media outlets, new analytics said trump dominated to more than 13,000 mentions. cruz plummeted, i don't quite get this. marco rubio had a sizable jump from up 2800 to almost 4800, and ben carson dropped by more than half, down to just 1150 barely on the media's radar. coming up, donald trump in our "mediabuzz" bur view, why he really spends so much time denouncing reporters and pundits by name. bernie sanders apologized to hillary clinton, but is the press just tuning out that derace? freedom of speech versus national security. that was also on the agenda during our sit-down with the republican front-runner at trump tower. >> you said you would talk to people like bill gates about closing up that internet -- >> no, no, not closing the intern internet. >> those are your words. >> for isis, take those section where isis is, knock out the internet. >> you say only foolish people would raise concerns. >> only stupid time. i would go a step further. i'm not talking about closing it up on miami beach. >> how do you accomplish that? >> you do it technologically. these are people of the inventors of the internet isis uses the internet better than us. isis recruits. isis is recruiting our children using the internet. this was one point i'm saying about the internet. i couldn't believe it. i could see there was a little rustling in the audience. you said you have to be kidding, freedom of speech for isis? what i'm saying is they are recruiting our children and the children of other countries to go fight for them. i'm saying either close it up or would what i like better is to infiltrate of isis internet. >> i would love toss terrorists deprived of those online tools, but it may be complicated. >> i was referring to isis. >> i understand that. but in reaction, jeff bezos, tweeted a one-way twikt on one of his company's rockets. >> i wouldn't go on the rockets. i don't like that world. i've seen too many exploding, but you talk about jeff bezos. he bought "the washington post," and he bought it as a thing to buy influence so that he doesn't have to pay tax at amazon. that's my pin. he has power now. >> it doesn't affect the -- >> of course it does, howard. of course it does. he bought it privately so he can influence people not to tax amazon. c'mon, i thought you were smart. okay? the only reason i say that is "the washington post" treats me terribly. if i did 12 good things in one day, i would have 12 bat torrie. it's terrible, but the presses very dishonest. i've got from calling journalists comes to sleazebags. >> those aren't strong enough. >> you have to give us at adjective? >> you had in terms of the commutators, they have ripped you -- >> though rich lowery is coming along nicely, because he's getting it. he gets it. >> you hit him back in speeches, in interviews and on twitter. would you say fox is unfair in its news coverage? >> it doesn't matter. they do a story and then charles is crazed, george will is crazed. he starts to shake. >> they don't think you're a real conservative. >> you know what i am? i'm a winner. i've been winning all my life. they're not winners. number one, they said i'm not going to run. >> and you said you would be a summer fling. >> okay. now -- >> not only did i run, but i ran well and i ran smart. everybody who's come after me is gone. they're gone. they've disappeared from the earth. either gone or down to zero, and i mean jeb bush was supposed to win this thing and he's like reduced to rubble. >> you talked about cnn. it wasn't that long ago that sara murray is a terrible journalist katy tur, you're -- >> sudden howie? >> i'm judd trying to be fair. >> you weren't fair there. you weren't good there. more importantly, about about you guys, i'm not treated well when they do a story and then i by -- or george will, steven hays, they mentioned trump, and he goes -- it's like he becomes like a shaking monster. i've never seen anything like it. the level of hatred is incredible. i'm pretty much on their side on most of the issues. >> bill o'reilly said you were petty and thin-skinned. i say you have every right to hit back when you're criticized, but you almost seem obsessive about it. my question is that you can't restrain yourself? or is it a strategy because a lot of your reporters despise the media? >> it's neither. i don't mind a bad story when i do something wrong. when i do something wrong, a bat story doesn't bother me. >> you said you're controversial. people think you're divisive. >> i don't like a bad or false story or a false critique when i do something good. they don't give me the credit i deserve, which is not only -- i'll take something good, do something amazing, and they'll make it negative. so they're very biased. it wouldn't matter if i were abe linking, krkreithammer will say i'm -- it wouldn't matter who i was, they have the critique written up about me long before the debate even takes place. >> does it help -- >> they're dishonest people. >> dishonest because they disagree. >> and it's good when i fire at them. first it makes me feel good. second of all, it takes away credibility. you have to fight for yourself. that's a problem with our country, we don't fight for ourselves. we're not respected anymore as a country. look, again, if they critique me and i thought they were right, i wouldn't be upset by it, but when you do something great and they try and belittle you, you've got to fight. >> donald trump, thanks very much. >> thank you very much. after the break, the panel reacts to trump, and "new york times" engages in some stealth editing. was the paper trying to protect president obama. and why has abc given such a booster rocket greeting to the new "star wars" film? 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you can understand the basket gist of what's going on, and not watch the network news. you can get most of it from reading twitter. from trump, he can attack these guys. >> he with broadcast onter. >> the republican primarily voters feel the media treats them the way they see the media tweeting trump and they relate to it. this story was published online thursday about an off-the-record meeting that the president had with some columnists. mr. obama indicated he did not see enough cable television to fully appreciate the anxiety after the attacks in paris and san bernardino. the paper comes out, the print edition, that program is gone, a cup paragraphs were edited. does it feel like an effort to protect the president? >> it does, especially when they had a puff piece about him doing a puff piece with bear, and then they did it because of space reasons but added even more verbiage. my guess is the white house called "new york times," -- >> we don't know that. >> it's possible that the reporting was inaccurate. the fact they disappeared it. >> saying it's untrue, they portrayed it as a routine editing thing, and then also had the headline. and the paper comes out, and we have it right here. obama defense his response. what's your take? >> i think as betsy saidist perplexing they have not explained this, either the headline or the editing. there needs to be a correction a or a clarification if there was a reason behind it. i think that's more true for the editing. headlines get changed all the time and there's space considerations in print, but taking taking out that paragraph is perplexing and potential damaging. 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>> bernie apologized. and it shut down. he fired two campaign people and it is a digital watergate if it happened the way the clinton campaign says it happened. it got some attention, but of course the fact they have thies debates saturday at 8:30 p.m. it's not going to get the attention it should. last democratic debate was saturday night. a lot of people think the dnc is protecting hillary keeping these out of regular prime-time. but the networks maybe don't think there's much ratings in it or don't want hillary in the spotlight. >> it's a chicken and egg question. >> the networks lose more money if they preempt their prime-time program during the week tore pay deba debate. >> right. it's also true this is a really boring race. >> you came out and said it. >> it is a boring race. hillary is the front return by a mile and a half. there isn't a lot of characters. the republicans are fun, exciting. and there are some democrats who worry about that, who think that eastbound if even if this is the dnc, it's actually having the opposite effect because the republicans get all the attention so and voters are tuning in to a degree not seen in previous campaigns at this early stage soxt what you're really doing is just making hillary disappear and she's pretty good at the debates. >> she's pretty good at disappear, too. >> some journalists say, boring race, hillary is obviously going to win so why should we cover it? a lot of other people think, kuwait, hill wait, are the media at this moment giving rie ining hillary >> i put the blame on dnc. and debbie wasserman schultz said it's really the networks pushing the timesable dates we agreed to. i don't know if that's absolutely true because they're part of that negotiation prosuccepr process. >> how do you think martha and david did as moderators? >> i think martha was perfect. i think she did a very strong job as being able to ask the tough questions. she was able to bring out especially on the issue of isis and whether they would go in with ground troops or not. i think she was very effective. i think part of it is because she's on this on the ground global correspondent as well. >> exactly. she has the foreign policy knowledge to drill down hillary clinton. >> i took issue with this race doesn't deserve coverage because it's not exciting. the reality is bernie sanders has gotten more donation in the year than any other candidate in history. their base is energized. for reporters to ask like bernie sanders supporters don't get a say in what we cover, we should ignore that bloc i think is a mistake. >> i think a lot tuned out when bernie decided not to make an issue of hillary clinton's e-mails. people say he's not running to knock her off. >> that's the problem. i agree we shouldn't be ignoring t. but when bernie backs off like that, it doesn't look like he's serious. >> molly, betsey, mercedes, thank you so much. still to come, "star wars" storing to stratospheric heights especially with a network with a vested interest. when a moment turns romantic why pause to take a pill? 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