A shocking statement from a president who won the election with help from moscow and 2016. And signals to Foreign Governments around the world think about it, the 20 20 campaign is open for business. Setting aside the question of why you would have George Stephanopoulos standing over the president in the oval office. I dont know who approved that. But what about this notion accepting foreign intel about an opponent and what he was put in a situation was beyond me. You dont want to Foreign Government or foreign entity giving information because they will want something back. If anyone knows that is the president. He opened his of white up to the attacks. Some start with the president said sitting in his desk in the oval office that even adds insult to injury if you will. Is it not on americans . It was actually junior set up because the media mom will fall right into his track. Recklessly fueling fake phony outreach for a nonstory for days. After years of calling the investigation of russia election interference a witchhunt, with the president open the door with George Stephanopoulos . And some are not defend him then yet are leaves over the top, what was just a hypothetical question. Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving the white house after constant clashes with the press. You said yourself you blindsided. Actually didnt use that term. You send a pair. With all due respect you dont know much about me in terms of what i feel and what i dont. Will look at how shes handled the job and the demise of the daily press briefings. Plus, jon stewart plenty of Media Attention by castigating congress who ignore the plight of First Responders have been ailing since 9 11. Shameful. It is an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution. Lets face it, how much coverage with the hearing have gone if the comedian had not shown up . Howard kurtz, this is mediabuzz. [music] President Trumps own words about dealing with dirt from Foreign Governments sparked one of the biggest media explosions of his tenure. After this oval Office Exchange with abc George Stephanopoulos. Your campaign this time around foreigners, if russia, china or someone else offers you information should you call the fbi . I think maybe you do both. I think you might want to listen theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from norway, with information on your opponent. I think i would want to hear it. You want the kind of interference in our elections . It is interference but i would take it. If i thought there was something wrong maybe i will go to the fbi if i thought there was something wrong. But if someone comes up with research, lets call the fbi, the fbi does not have enough ages to take care of it. But you go and talk honestly to congressman, theyll do it, there was had. Thats the way it is. Question is not to analyze this molly hemingway, Senior Editor at the federalist and a Fox News Contributor. Susan ferrechio and richard fowler. Radio host and also Fox News Contributor. Molly, this in my view is a self affected wound. Why did he deflect the question instead of giving an answer that he knew would create a media uproar . Initial figure with that but interested in what the media is doing the claim now, you see all of the outrage. People say how could he say this . How can he take foreign information . You actually have the real world come in a hypothetical world, the real world you have the entire country subjected to a yearlong Conspiracy Theory that was the result of taking information from foreigners whether it was christopher steele, the british supposedly great spider turned out to be really awful or the russian sources that he sourced i dont want to go down that road. I do want to go down the road because its absolutely absurd here. Hold on. Campaigns sometimes higher foreign operatives, agents, cambridge analytica. My question is, why did donald trump open the door . Maybe to make sure people know that there was a campaign that actually did get information sourced to Foreign Governments. That campaign was a holy Clinton Campaign, the Democratic National committee. They secretly said they were buying Legal Research when they were actually buying a dad say that they fit to the media and that is why they are so mad here that orbit held responsible for taking this information and using it to really hurt the country. It got that into the government. We now know the end of the meal investigation that it was all lies, and we do not have immediate interest in finding out who hired these people, why, what they were doing, how they fit it to the government. Its a huge scandal and the media need to cover and they refused to because they are implicated in it. Susan, one time he got annoyed and called stephanopoulos a wiseguy. With these prosecutorial questions . Well, i think they were fair questions. The present let him in for hours all around asking many questions he wants, warmed him up got him ready to answer a question like that. Any reporter would have asked them questions like that. And the responsibility was on the press team to manage this in a way that he would not wander into a trap like that. And i think your first question is the most interesting. Why did he say that . My response is that we will never know. We will never understand why trump blurts these things out. I will give you my theory in a minute. By the way the press team, is not just liberal naysayers. Solar ingram and Brian Kilmeade being skeptical of how the president handled it, Lindsey Graham said it was a mistake. That doesnt fit the definition of a successful i agree with you. Whats more, what is said here is that people are trying to interject politics into this. He sat at the oval office and at a resolute desk and little said it was okay for president of the United States president ial campaign to get information from a Foreign Government. He said he would be limited to listen and might or might not call the fbi. You are the leader of the free world is a violation of federal law. Is actually not a violation. The law is not clear. You heard all over capitol hill this week. Actually proposing legislation to make the law clear. Its not a violation. We hear from the Senate Intelligence committee both democrats and republicans, working tirelessly to see how we sure of our election infrastructure. How we ensure foreign entities never and the president is okay with that. Molly, i will give you the floor. First i want the president the next day doing what i was doing i thought was a walk back in a phone call to fox and friends. Youve taken a lot of heat from the democrats. Of course you have to look at it because if you dont look at it you will not know if its bad. How will you know if its bad . But of course you give it to the fbi or reported to the attorney general or somebody like that. What did you think of that as an attempt to clean it up . And, was this an overreaction to what was only a hypothetical question . Were saying the president did this. He answered the question. Technically he said also the first interview you could do both, you listen and call the fbi. I actually dont believe people like of the canadian cousin says they called and said also looking from the airport running for president they will call the fbi. I dont actually think people actually think its a huge problem to get information from people however, if you do think its a problem that you absolutely have to get to the bottom where Hillary Clinton and Democratic National committee were doing by secretly lets not go down the road. Im the only person here thats worked on a campaign. In the Chinese Government called and said i have information about against whoevers going against. I would absolutely call the fbi. If you truly believe its a problem, if you genuinely believe the problem is very easy to see whether you do or not. If you do, you demand much more information about what the Clinton Campaign and Democratic National committee were doing. Wesley know how much damage was caused by this fake information fed to a compliant media and people in the government. And that 100 president and congress, is worthy of hearing. Lets have a hearing on it. Lets not sit here and after the president is saying sevent isnt problematic because it is. I am trying to focus on the Media Coverage. Molly is right is not enough Media Coverage but there is clearly a lot of courage, it wasnt just liberals who are critical. I have a theory, here it is. Before the long clip that we played they were talking about the president son, john junior justified on the hill in the Infamous Trump tower meeting where there was a russian lawyer who said, she had some dirt on her clinton. I think the president did not want to give an answer that wouldnt be interpreted as his sons position but i think he was also being defiant. He didnt want to give stephanopoulos what he thought was a politically acceptable answer. That is his answer to fight against the media always. To be in opposition to the media. But also stepped on positive aspects on how they handled this Media Coverage. And they also found there several times made by a russian government that were he could about that appear across the president got press this week about a New York Times story which said that he had told his aid not to acknowledge or to live according to the times, a devastating strata showed him trailing joe biden in key states for the president tweeted the fake corrupt news media said to have a leak. Actually the best numbers weve ever had, they dont exist, was a brief exchange that will play now. I never do. My poll numbers are great. What is the president said the fake corrupt media are reflecting phony . There are some that say he wouldnt win election then he wins so a lot of people have they can be wrong, the methodology can be wrong its way too early but he says they are made up. Right, in effect hes had his own poster say we did some different scenarios and some are good some are bad. But there is an issue will see a lot of courage of polls we see many coming out this week the say donald trump will be Bernie Sanders, i dont think anybody believes is produced with the number say. I am with you, theres a fox news poll saying joe biden is 10 points out of donald trump does before debates, we were campaign, both sides will get beaten up here but they came out after abcnews reported the numbers New York Times reported the present pennsylvania, wisconsin and said the polls do exist but weve done knew that are better for us. But thats the same thing as making up the idea. I think the president may have been speaking generally there. Kellyanne conway came out and said what he was really talking about was the media ignored the great numbers about the economy and some approval and favorability improvements for donald trump and they are focusing on the negative and he tends to be a generalist when he responds like that so its possible he was speaking more generally. Briefly, the people leaking this, are they trying to send the president message . Im not sure if they tried to send him a message you should probably check with his team on that. Was problematic as your the president lying saying these are phony polls. It is very direct it came from his campaign, this is sort of trying to tell the media there lying on him when the polls came from his people its baffling. And to clarify they now say these are outdated polls. More recent polls show him doing much better. Before break, after New York Times report yesterday, this is eyebrow raising. The us a step in the digital incursions into the russia power grid is a one to e putin. The president lashed out saying they story state in the United States is substantially increasing Cyber Attacks on russia, is a virtual act of treason i want a paper so desperate for a story. Any story. Even if bad for our country. Also not true. The times responded that accusing the press of treason is dangerous. Describe the article to the government before publication as our story notes, the president s or National Security officials john bolton and the general who runs the us Cyber Command says there were no concerns. Perhaps the jury said to send the signal to moscow. If the ministration wanted to urge a time not to do the store that wouldve been the time. Siera santos is leaving. We look at her embattled record with the White House Press corps. And anthony scaramucci, the president s battles with the press reaching a new level. You ever wish you werent a motaur . Sure. Sometimes i wish i had legs like you. Yeah, like a regular person. No. Still half bike half man, just the opposite. Oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top . Yeah. Yeah, i could see that. For those who were born to ride, theres progressive. We like drip coffee, layovers and waiting on hold. What we dont like is relying on fancy technology for help. Snail mail we were invited to a y2k party. 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Usually Republican Press secretaries have a difficult time but this is unlike weve seen we have seen. This is not really her decision, the president he said he rather talk to reporters virtually every day than have any staff member. Right, he is in control of his own message to the media. He talks them every day on twitter, constantly on the lawn before he gets on the helicopter. Its impossible if you have a relationship with your own media stop because you conflict with them all the time than they are portrayed as liars. Really a no win. I wonder whoever succeeds him, if they can be successful any more than Sarah Sanders. Yes. Sarah sanders her reputation josc took his biggest hit over happen after james comey was fired. And she told reporters that she heard from countless members of the fbi that they are grateful for the presence decision. She later told the investigators it wasnt true. It was a slip of the tongue, heat of the moment. And she got beat up by the press for not expressing. I will give her a point shes had a tough job. A prisoner whose created his own news, hes on twitter and shes the Briefing Room and happened simultaneously so its tough. I think the white house can have improvement in the job if they decide to go back to daily press briefings. Telling the truth number one. And number two more portly, really figuring out how this president will communicate with the White House Press corps being that there is a press Briefing Room. Are you just going to get rid of press briefings altogether or just have them shop every day and say no briefing. We see how he communicates, on the run, in on the fly. Some journalists really offer harsh assessments after the news lets listen. I will not miss her. [laughter] we were the first hour to ban her tape and so, i literally and figuratively will not miss her either. She suffers from lie abetes. Sex lies and videotape. Journalists kicking her out the door. These are people that say the most horrible things against Sarah Sanders. All while they have major troubles with their own journalism. And a large situation with the press corps of them not telling stories accurately, not reported things accurately not thinking about the major stories are of the day. I did a major problem with truth telling in the country and everybody could improve on it but we absolutely need to see better behavior by the press corps. Maybe they would report stories accurately there was more press briefings in the white house released Accurate Information which you touched on something which is the president might Say Something for which there is no evidence or exaggerated. Then the press secretary wants to defend without personally vouching for someone or something that may or may not be true. You dont personally know if its true. Harper of job, what makes us different is she literally miss tsang i made that appear. She did admit that. And Sarah Sanders says theres a difference interview between misspeaking were not doing something then maliciously lying. I will make this point that in the 2014 fox poll, 81 percent of respondents said they believe president obama lied at least some of the time on important matters. So the idea that their allies only come from the Top Administration is complete bunk. Great to see you all this sunday. I had, the president s is the correct media are pushing phony polls does have evidence . And jim acosta admits is not neutral when it comes to covering trump. We look at his book in our media microscope. This is the couple who wanted to get away who used expedia to book the Vacation Rental that led to the ride which took them to the place where they discovered that sometimes a little down time can lift you right up. Flights, hotels, cars, activities, Vacation Rentals. Expedia. Everything you need to go. Expedia. A migfrom aimovig. To be there for the good. And not so good. 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The chief White House Correspondent is saying out loud that trump is so dangerous that he cannot be neutral which is another word for fair. They told Publishers Weekly they are not to suss the story when it is a matter of right and wrong. Right and wrong in the opinion of journalists. Sure he admits to grandstanding, showboating but not as obvious disdain for the white house to request can you promise that the president will tell the truth tonight . Can you promise that you do . Make sure that goes viral. Jim acosta has an agenda especially in immigration or the hes crossed the line. Most especially the time when he refused to give up the microphone. Mr. President , if i may ask a question, that is enough. Thats enough. Pardon me maam. Mr. President. That is enough. Cnn should be ashamed to have you working for them. Youre a rude, terrible person. It was amazing to watch. Jim acosta did benefit of course when the white house overreached and yanked his credentials which were restored after lawsuit supported by most of the media. Prompting jim to shout, we beat trump jim acosta should be grateful for the president who kept calling on him, raising his profile so he could write his book, the enemy of the people. Speaking of cnn, the president told a really sexist joke this morning about his morning anchor when she was winning an award drawing groans from the audience for the Hollywood Reporter says, with this line. I was going to say i love waking up with you every morning but i want to say i love waking up to you every morning. You cant really say stuff like that about women anymore. But she brushed off saying she was not offended. I had, the dnc says they want fair journalists as debate moderators. About msnbc uber liberal Rachel Maddow . But first, marta donald trump have an interview with George Stephanopoulos and dig himself into a whole . 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I get all of that but we have got, were going to election season will be focusing more results that we were that sort of stuff. I think thats what caused him does he have any regrets about the way he handled it . And i think so. I dont think he has any results. At the end of the day he has a certain style, if you look at the Approval Ratings and you look at things like the cnn poll, 54 percent of the American People think hes going to win reelection. And so i think hes got a style, he is sticking to the style and you cant really look at the economy and say the economy is going back, hes got so many things going for him in the right direction. I mean i would just say to him, lets focus on your economic achievements. We have so many of them, there is no reason to get caught in these cross fires with the media. Right. He said he walked back with fox and friends. And i agree with you. But you cant take the position that he didnt say anything wrong and then he walked back. If youd been Communications Director still would have advised him to clarify and put this behind him . Yes, you have got to walk that back. And i get it, listen, heres the thing, he is the president of the United States. And like you said on twitter, sometimes he really believes that when he is acting nonpresident ial on twitter by his own admission, it is in order to save his presidency. He sort of feels like the attacks are coming in in such a way that if he doesnt fight back he does want to end up like george w. Bush in 2006 where there was an onslaught of media. The president took the position of not fighting back. John kerry during the in of the attack that they give on him on the incident did not fight back these guys got rolled in the presence opinion is i want to do. I will come after these guys with the level of viciousness they are coming after me. And then the issue is you are the president of the states. The leader of the free world. Youve already won. So his response to be yeah but sometimes i need you in order to protect the presidency. I think thats where we are. Actually save the presidency. I know he views the Communications Channel as crucial to getting his message out pillow, sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving. He worked with her at the white house. I know you think very highly of her. Do you think the battering she took the press being called a liar and sometimes outrageous personal abuse, she was chased out of a restaurant in virginia. Took its toll in terms of her decision to leave . Well you know listen, you have to put into context. Shes got Young Children and is a 24 7 job and if you are burning for three and half years counting the campaign, i was friendly surprised she did not leave six months or even a year ago. And only because of the stress of the job and the burnout there. But i thought she did an amazing job. Heres the thing, okay, look at where we are today, Dwight Eisenhower lied about the they said to say it was a weather balloon. On the meter you have today. Unfortunately people get caught in mistakes or say things that are not honest. And she owned up to that and i respect her for it. I challenge anyone listening or anybody in the media, have you ever said anything you wish you didnt say . I know i certainly have. Trust me. Admit it right here on national television. Quick lightning round. I know you not coming back to the white house youd be open to it. If he did would you be in favor of restoring the press briefings which is essentially vanished . I ever said we do that. I things in the president s best interest. You know i do not like the enemy of the people think. He likes it so he will use every single day but i just think that your people in power, the Founding Fathers one of those to be checked and they want to the American People to be briefed and certainly it is 243 years later and the style of briefing today is different than what it was is donald trump really needed press secretary since he does so much with the media himself . Your old job as Communications Director has been vacant for months. Does he need a press secretary . I would say that his favor. Hes a very transparent. He goes out into sprays and takes one question at the next. I would love to have people add up all of the times that hes had his own quote unquote Virtual Press conference. Either in the east room or in front of the press on the way to the helicopter. I think you have to say hes probably more accessible than the last two or three president s per request before you go, you had to twitter battle with a rock star sometimes played a springsteen. Hes started in and called you a nitwit trying to get a job back in the white house. You called him a second fiddle with a tent fiddle intellect. You said no one knows he is pradaxa has some of his albums so i know he has. David crosby, should you be trading licks with a guy who plays guitar for a living . Listen, you know, he started punching at me. My attitude is, im a new yorker this is why most new yorkers respect the president s punch back. He started with me, point is im a stranger, he doesnt know me from a hole in the wall. No reason to be attacking me. I just started give him a few shots and good news for him, he raised his profile and hopefully he will sell more albums. Nothing against nils and i wish him the best but why take a shot at me . Im not doing anything to live your life im living my life. Look at my twitter feed, never take a shot anybody unless they are coming after me. Youre a high profile guy. So you take the president s approach, you counterpunch. 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I bring the president is literally an existential threat. Joining us now in new york, National Review writer and Fox News Contributor and trolley. Charlie gasparino. Why do they get so fired up as if the other candidates are just some kind of sideshow . Right. I think part of it does have to do with the polls and that biden is so much further ahead than the other candidates. But also i think a lot of it has to do with the reason why he is so far ahead in the polls which is the name recognition. Someone has a headline that caesar exchanging jabs against each other everyone knows who youre talking about. Everyone knows biden. Some of the Democratic Candidates i mean, if i did not work in media i would not have known of them. Like who is andrew you pass them on the street and have no idea. Animal to walk on the street and say hi im andrew yang and i will believe them. Chris i think the present was a twoperson race because its expensive to cover 23 candidates and there is only so much airtime and only so many common interests. Yeah but you know i dont think the president is rooting for joe biden over the other ones. I just think that as kat said one thing about biden is an interesting guy. If you covered him for years i know him because hes got a lot of friends on wall street. This is one tough s. O. B. Hes really getting under the skin of donald trump. Knowing the president , you have him by the you know whats. At least when he starts mentioning his name. That is what hes doing here because joe biden is hitting a nerve. Right. I covered bidens first president ial campaign which led the second, didnt turn out so well. Let me play free something as the president had to say. About the former Vice President this week. He looks different than he used to. He asked different than he used to. He is even slower than he used to be. Obviously thats a shot at his age. He is 76 and donald trump to turn a 73. He will suggest that joebiden is too old , do you have a right to treat those skeptically . I things are because age is a number that matters but a little bit, right . Someone being 76 were being 73, it means Something Different for every individual. I think that the problem with joe biden is that hes given specific things for the media to seize on an issue. Number one, the whole where is biden thing . He has been out there i think this is part of the reason why the media focused on his age but not so much danger Bernie Sanders even though Bernie Sanders is even older. Because Bernie Sanders is out there, he is speaking with energy, hes marching with mcdonalds workers. Joe biden for we know he could be taking a nap, we dont know what hes doing. And he also makes outdated cultural it allows donald trump to make a comment like that. Charlie i will jump in. After the president ial marks political same democrats are talking about the age and whether joe biden is too old to be an effective candidate is overplaying the issue or just vertically fair game we talk about i think it is fair game but it opens up donald trump to a lot of issues. Listen, you know joe biden is in great shape for 76. Clearly when you get old you get a little slower so the media has to bring that up at then you have to bring up donald trump, joe biden works out every day. He is in great physical shape, is donald trump in great physical shape . I mean think about it, think about how joe biden is going to come back and i think the media will go into whether donald trump has or is is in good physical shape to run for president. Will he survive another four years . Thats the problem we start bring up age and health. The other side will come back and the media will be forced to cover Donald Trumps health more than ever before. I do think the fact that joe biden is keeping a light schedule does feel some of this but of course a strategic. Before go, joe biden the press that was going to be horrible candidate, kind of snapped back a little bit some of the reporters on the trail. Lets take a look. [inaudible] you said biden was going to plummet. Kat that was isaac of the atlantic many journalists have said this purdue think bowden was expressing a little frustration there with the press . I think he absolutely was. I think he also before he starts bragging about how he has maintained his spot at the top, needs to realize that it is still very early and weve seen certain candidates start to gain steam. Particularly elizabeth warren. Right now the media is mostly focusing on warren, sanders and biden. But is still very early in the early polls in the republican race in 2016, if theyd been correct we wouldve had candidate jeb bush. Thats right i agree with you. I have to get a break here but it is ridiculous. 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Go to xfinity. Com moving to get started. Nbc announced moderators for the first pair democratic president ial debates. They are lester holt, savannah guthrie, chuck dad, josc diaz and Rachel Maddow. Essentially, just endorsed impeachment. I think this is another one of those things are democrats are sort of outflanking themselves. If a president commits crimes, high crimes and misdemeanors, the way to congress is supposed to hold them accountable, is by opening an impeachment doing an investigation and then voting. Charlie gasparino, Rachel Maddow is smart, she is a rhodes scholar, a talented broadcaster but a fierce partisan who despises donald trump and conducts friendly interview with Democratic Candidates be known in media seems to be questioning her selection. Yeah, i mean rachel is a friend of mine ive known her for a long time. I worked with her. Shes a brilliant polemicist but thats the problem. It would be like having sean hannity do a Republican Debate of donald trump if he is being challenged this time around. Given his friendship and relationship with trump. Im not saying neither of them could pull it off. Maybe she can be really fair and accurate. Maybe sean hannity can be right on the middleoftheroad. The problem is there some a journalists out there that we dont need to enter into this debate. You can go out, find a straight journalist to do this and you dont need a distraction. I guess my issue is, we dont need the distraction to talk about Rachel Maddow. We should be talking about the debate. Okay we will talk about the debate in a minute. Let me play for you, how Rachel Maddow lead into an interview with kamala harris. Are going to be a formidable contender. Idols honestly think theres a good chance that youre going to win the nomination. Charlie says what if it was fox . What if it was brett baier, chris wallace, and sean hannity or lou dobbs . The New York Times says rachel will be a wildcard. It is as strong as they would go. Yeah, i think that there is a double standard here because i do think of charlie, sean hannity example came to fruition it would be an upper and it wouldnt matter if he actually did behave fairly. People would still say he had intercedes a little thing. I think people will be watching and seeing if she does behave as a journalist or she does behave as an opinion commentator. Because maybe who knows, she could ask some tough questions but we could also he see her there a lot of softballs are even play favorites because we have seen her use her platform to try to influence politics. But there are so many better journalists i mean theres somebody that are choices i should say. Rachel is not a journalist there so many better choices where they could have sidestepped the issue totally and again, you are right if this was the republican version of lou dobbs, forget it. It would be an explosion all over. Times square. Next to the times building. There really is a double standard but i will tell you it is bad and i think it could backfire. If she really going to go out there and pressed tough questions like megyn kelly did to donald trump back in the day. Is a good comparison and she does ask tough questions all credit her but certainly it hasnt been the track record on her show when shes interviewed a bunch of democrats which is a big form for terracotta candidates. It does it for us. Charlie gasparino, kat timpf good to see you. Still to come, how e a safe sleep aid and the 12hour painrelieving strength of aleve. That dares to last into the morning. So you feel refreshed. Aleve pm. Theres a better choice. The first survivor of ais out there. Sease and the Alzheimers Association is going to make it happen. But we wont get there without you. Visit alz. Org to join the fight. John stewart is a comedian by trade. I have toggled too many times mostly mocking republicans. But he is asking for bill to aid First Responders his health was damage or 9 11. A hearing in which some lawmakers failed to show up. Behind me, a filled room. Of 9 11 First Responders. And in front of me, a nearly empty congress. Sick and dying they brought themselves down here to speak. And no one shameful. It is an embarrassment to the country and it is a stain on this institution. And you should be ashamed of yourselves for those that are not here. That was powerful stuff. And stuart continues to press the message making the media rounds including today on fox news sunday. I come from the world of show business and i think if you were to take all of the arrogance and entitlement and elitism that people do not like about hollywood and show business, and you concentrated it in one city and gave those people actual power, that is washington. One day after the testimony they unanimously reauthorized the compensation fund. Baskets of this, how much courage really would hearing have drawn had he not shown up to shine a spotlight on the forgotten heroes of 2001 . That is it for this edition of mediabuzz. Im howard kurtz. Happy fathers day to all of you other dads out there. We hope you have a great day. Enjoy it. So get up, get some attention from your families. Check out my new podcast, as we rip on the days five hottest stories cure you can subscribe it apple itunes, google play or fox news podcast. Com. We hope you like our Facebook Page repost my columns every day, original videos just for the web. And lets continue the conversation on twitter howard kurtz. We will be here next sunday 11 eastern. Until then enjoy the latest buzz. Escalating tensions within the us and iran are continuing at this hour. Senior official telling fox news to ron tried to shoot down an american drone after arrived at the scene of last weeks tanker attacks near the strait of hormuz. 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