From a windy rooftop on the hill, President Trump is urging governors to move toward reopening the economy this after drawing harsh media criticism for declaring that he has the sole power to decide when the country goes back to work. The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots. The president has total authority to reopen the economy. The president s lies were so extreme about this today that it provoked one reporter to finally shoutout, thats not true. It is funny to think that they are saying that the president cant single handily open the economy but he should have single handily shut it down a long time ago. Howie but the president telling governors late in the week that they, in fact, will be opening with his support. Mollie hemingway and fox news contributor, Susan Ferrechio and m elleithee, the media was, thats nice, not realistic, not happening any time soon. Your thoughts . Mollie when President Trump made plan for reopen the economy, its almost difficult to criticize and we have a media that criticizes anything that President Trump will say about this and have a particular bias about reopening the economy, for some reason that the shutdown needs to think for long period of time perhaps until a vaccine is found. Not great that everybody in the media seems to share the bias and be so opposed to ending the economic catastrophe even as we are concerned about the global pandemic. Howie mo, do you agree that everybody in the media has the view and that theres been lack of adequate testing and 1 of the population and thats making it difficult and many politicians saying this as well to having confidence to reopen schools and the like. Mo i dont know a Single Person that says wouldnt it be great that the economy stays shut down any longer. I think what youre seeing is a real attention between urgency by some to get the economy reopened and the urgency by others particularly every Major Public Health professional especially those who work for the president who say we are not ready to do it yet and the media has been pointing out that tension very, very strongly, and when they see that tension from the same platform in a White House Briefing between the president on one side and his own medical advisers on the other, thats a legitimate story for the media to to push. And i think that there are those who are out there that the media wants to keep this thing shut down are completely missing mise boat in trying to stoke more tension. Howie well, i certainly would like it to be over so i can get out of the household more. The president largely stuck to the script when he announced guidelines and start today get into a back and forth with new york governor andrew cuomo. Andrew hes sitting at him watching tv, maybe he should get up and go to work. Second, lets keep a emotion and politics out of this and personal ego. Howie what prompted trump was saying tweeting during daily News Conference and the president tweeted stop complaining, stop talking and doing your job and he went into crazy nancy, crying chuck, radical left, do nothing democrats. When the press writes the story the president is being more bipartisan usually takes a couple of news cycles to change, right . [laughter] his reelection hinges on how the public judges outbreak, so when hes feeling criticism like that from governors we are not getting the supplies even though trump says they are getting the supplies or criticizing the federal government, the president is pulling back and thats what hes doing with the governors. Howie mollie, soon after fox news aired and we have protestors gather about harsh restrictions, liberate, minnesota. Whats your reaction to the call for liberation . Mollie well, theres a tension on how some states are handing restrictions strictly versus other states handle social distancing. Theres a range of possible ways to handle this and some states are really at the staff extreme and i want to point out about andrew cuomo, a couple of weeks ago that President Trump came in for a ton of criticism because he doubted whether andrew cuomo really needed 40,000 ventilators. He was asking for 30,000 from the federal government and trump said, i dont know if thats if thats quite right. Turned out that new york already reached its peak and i think they only used about 5,000 ventilators and i havent seen any media readdressing that issue after condemning trump so strongly for wonder if andrew cuomo had a really good handle on how much he needed. Howie well, thats a fair point, cuomo overestimated but he was dealing with worst case scenarios. On this point about the protests that are spreading to various states, mo, New York Times news story says the president is seeding any National Leadership on pandemic and choosing instead to divide the country to playing for political base. I dont know if you agree to that. Its not an editorial, its a news story. Mo i would agree with that. The president tweeting, liberate the states when the governors are adhering to the guidelines that he himself has set out. Hes out there, his white house has put out guidelines that social distance is required. That said that the governors of the states should make the decisions on the timelines that works best for those states. So now hes out there encourage ing these types of protests that are allowing people to protest in ways that will likely continue to spread the virus without social distancing and that undermine the the leadership of the governors of the state with whom hes touting himself on the back for power, so i think it is a dangerous thing hes doing and the prez is calling him out on that. Mollie the media would be very upset if people said that during a pandemic you dont have your full First Amendment rights. People do have a right to protest and theres freedom of press and freedom of speech and when the rights are infringed and the media saying you dont have a right to protest at the time and you take what people say and no power to push back. Theres too much agreement in the media, i think, that these things should not be allowed. They would not take it well if he said during a pandemic you dont get to ask questions that are too tough of the president. They would rightly understand thats a constitutional threat. Howie susan, people absolutely have a right to protest the president was asked what about the fact that they are grouped together and not follow social distancing guidelines, he said their conduct was okay and Vice President pence deflected on the question this morning. Quick thought on that . Susan i heard the Vice President s interviews, in some of those cases the social distancing guidelines were not being followed and other cases they were from reports from yesterday. I think, though, to mollies point some of the social distancing guideline that is the president are put forward are being followed in arbitrary manner by the states. For example, not being allowed to buy certain products doesnt make any sense, closing certain things and not others. Its not exactly following the president s orders, taking it too far. Those are the people that the president is talking to when he tweets like this but again it raises the question you talked about, promoting social gatherings and people standing close together at the time when its not advisable. Howie yeah, theres a wide variation. Im tight on time, let me ask a couple of tight answers here. The president doesnt recognize he has total authority of economy, some conservatives, hey, sorry, thats not how the constitution works, should he have skipped and go to guidelines where he would work with the governors . Mollie he should have been credittized that he had complete authority. The media spent weeks and they were wrong then, he was wrong when he said he had complete authority. We have a constitutional system that devolves powers to the states and thats a good thing. Howie mo, did the press overreact, by the next day trump sort of backed off and said he would also authorize the governors to do their jobs . Mo look, i didnt hear a lot of people defending his comments on the first day. This is where mollie and i are in agreement. Huge overreach for him to say that and caught people off guard and opened up the possibility of of a dangerous constitutional showdown in the middle of a pandemic. Im very glad that the president backed off that the next day and referred to the governors but it did raise questions down the road if the pressure if the president is feeling additional pressure to reopen the economy and governors are going slower than he would like them to, will he try to force the issue. Howie right. Mo what happens in the governor of North Carolina doesnt open howie got to go. Fortunately he did not. If barack obama said he had total authority conservatives heads they would have exploded. The president clashing with reporters over this very issue, stay with us. If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, Little Things can become your big moment. Thats why theres otezla. 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They are trying to turn President Trumps handling into of this into a katrina and hes fighting them every step of the way and i think thats why they dont actually like that the press conferences are continuing. Everybody is seeing how the questions are asked and how hostile and unnecessarily that many people in the media are and its not a great look and thats why the press credibility numbers continue to plummet with so many people. Howie mo, i would say the politicization on all sides including the media and the president is entitled to defend record when up against reporters in briefings, when the president says to cbs reporter, the question was disgraceful, are these not legitimate questions . Mo i think its 100 legitimate question. The president is looking for congratulations on the job hes done and i think theres arguments to be made on all sides on the job hes done but one big question is about the month of february which a lot of experts said that the china travel ban bought us some time in order to do some of the things that we ended up not doing. So the president wants the congratulations on the job hes done, he would have to answer for that question and i dont think that was the illegitimate question. And the president should have an answer for that and that should be a softball for him. Rather than try to answer it he goes on attack against reporters. Howie susan, the new White House Press secretary who just started Kayleigh Mcenany slammed msnbc and cnn which she was once a contributor for not carrying the entirety of the White House Coronavirus briefings. Here is what she had to say. The news organizations across the country who chose not to cover it and instead put on partisan individuals to put a lens on the news instead of hearing directly from the leaders, it is shameful. Howie now msnbc is break agoway a breaking away factchecking, cnn after trump finishes talks and prompted Kayleigh Mcenanys comments. Does it goo too far for the white house to say that it is shameful that the other cable channels arent taking the whole thing . Susan i think for the president , again, hes in the political fight of his life right now and when these Cable Networks cut away from the briefing, they are cutting away in some cases from very meaningful parts of the briefing that answer the very questions the reporters are hammering the president with. The big question of what did he do during the month of february, why didnt things change in february in a way that would have stopped this thing from spreading so all the questions can be answered by the professionals and have been answered. Dr. Fauci has gotten up and said, look, the president acted early. The president acted when we instructed him to on mitigation. The president did everything we told him to do along the way. Howie right. Susan if youre not airing that on the network, those very important questions that the reporters are asking every single day they are getting answers. Howie mollie, msnbc cut away from last nights briefing when Andrew Mitchell saying that the president was on a political tear. He was criticizing maggie, reporter. A story she had written or coauthored saying that mark meadows had cried a couple of times in meetings. They were saying the president confirmed it and said, well, he may have been crying for a different reason, so he went off on a long screen on the New York Times. Mollie i think the problem that we have with the media is not that they dont have information but cant be trusted to convey it accurately. If the last 4 years have shown us anything at all that the media doesnt understand the administration at all. Howie got it. Mollie i want to say on sourcing, theres an issue media needs to be held accountable and main people as much as possible. They dont even try. Howie all right, well, we try to provide some measure of accountability on this program. Mollie hemingway. Mo elleithee, Susan Ferrechio thank you for joining us. Thats straight ahead on it audrey thinks shes doing all she can to manage her type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but is her treatment doing enough to lower her heart risk . Maybe not. 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Howie President Trump told he we wanted to start a Daily White House talk radio show but he didnt want to compete with Rush Limbaugh according to New York Times and led to offer from the conservative host who recently received the president ial medal of freedom. If he wants to host it himself, he can do it. If he wants to do it for 2 hours, thats what he said, we could look at it as an audition. Howie an audition. Trump has 2day hour show called White House Coronavirus briefing. Abc george stephanopoulos, figure to have contracted virus since wife was infected and he shared the news on good morning america. Ive never had a fever. Never had cough, never had shortness of breathe, never had chills, any of the classic symptoms you have been reading about. Howie its stuff to stay safe when your spouse has it. We wish them both the best, and for Cnns Chris Cuomo who has been quarantined in his basement, hes the one that gave it to his wife. Kristina now has covid. Shes now positive, and it just breaks my heart. It is the one thing i was hoping wouldnt happen. Howie thats painful. We wish them both well. Cuomo closed show when he did soul searching about his tv job, he said i dont want to spend time doing things that arent valuable to me personally. I dont like what i do personally, that matters to me more than making millions of dollars a year. Cuomo also said that President Trump is a full of s. Now, look as the son and brother of new yorks governor cuomo. He walked it back and said he loves his job and is treated well at cnn. We are all a little bit frustrated these days. Still to come, finally some of the media, not all getting in on the allegations against joe biden from quarter century ago. We will have that for you in a moment dad, im scared. Its only human to care for those we love. And also help light their way. Its why last year chevron invested over 10 billion to bring affordable, reliable, ever cleaner energy to america. Howie fox news alert. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Fox News Sunday she expects congress to reach a deal soon on providing additional aid to Small Businesses devastated by the virus, recent legislation providing 349 billion has already run out of money. Theres growing concern about the longterm Financial Impact as the federal government is now on track to spend almost 4 trillion more than it takes in. Around the globe more than 2. 3 million cases of coronavirus. More than 161,000 people have died. New cases are slowing down a bit in western europe and south korea but russia is reporting a surge in covid19 infections. Most news outlines remain silent when Senate Staffer for joe biden alleged that he sexually assaulted her back in 1993 which his Campaign Strongly denies. Against the wall and his hands were down my skirt and up my skirt and he pulled back and said, come on now, i heard you like me. Howie New York Times ran a detailed account last week 19 days after it went public. Washington post interviewed reed last year but did not run the story after times piece. The paper was going to cover the story, quote, we need today introduce it with some reporting and perspective. He says the Sexual Misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh were treated differently because he was already in a public forum in a large way with biden on the verge of becoming nominee they werent, quote heated race from a clock ticking. Joining us from new york who now host sexton podcast and leslie marshall. Buck, tara reade has more corroborating evidence through Washington Post and interviewed a friend of reade who was told by reade about the alleged attack by biden and papers waited weeks to publish. Your take. Buck its one of the most egregious instances that we see. In this case the New York Times and Washington Post do the same thing and no justification for it which is why when you had the New York Times interview about this, i mean, the justification was laughable. No serious person would ever think that joe biden is not and hes running for president of the United States as much a public figure as really any human being on the planet. The idea that was put forward for why they delayed just shows you that there was a bit of panic, but we also have to remember not only as you said is there greater credibility to the allegations that have been leveled by readde than ford. Howie all right. Buck theres a sense that you could be a person who was guilty of this during the kavanaugh hearing, you should step down. The country deserves better. Democrats have no way of grappling with that standard now. Howie let me get leslie in. What do you get you that biden is running for president but no ticking clock, what did you make of that explanation by the times editor . Leslie i understood what he was saying but i honestly myself before he even gave explanation i would have said covid19 is taking up pages 1 through 12 commencing in march. I think thats a valid reason for one delay. Two that you have to interview everybody. I was very surprised and i wasnt happy about the delay with both the New York Times andrew the Washington Post in reporting this. Look, you know, i have a journalistic background and the job of the journalist is to report the facts and let either the viewers, the listeners, in this case the readers make their own determining and thats what i want to do as a reader and i think all readers of anything, New York TimesWashington Post or anything else. Its their job to investigate it and put the facts out. Howie leslie right, but leslie, does this put liberal women in the media in difficult position . Many of them have not exactly jumped on this the way they did with Brett Kavanaugh, with the allegation against roy moore, with the allegations against candidate donald trump, do you see a leslie look, im a feminist and victim of both assault and rape so i know what it feels like and i know what it feels like have someone accuse you of lying. Its disgusting, women or democrat or republican need to be women first. There are people on the right that didnt believe kristin blasey ford, because i can speak from this experience myself, i always start off believing the woman but then i do my own investigation and i do look at the facts that are there because sadly howie, although the overwhelming majority of individuals out are telling the truth when they come forward, there are times that a couple percentage of the time, 2 of the time where somebody may not be telling the truth and especially we see that in politics and i dont think investigations left or right are unwarranted. Howie i didnt know that about your background. Thank you for sharing that. Buck, when times did stories interview to top biden Senate Staffers who said that tara reade never complained to them about the boss as she has claimed and Washington Post said she changed her story, first biden touched my neck and shoulders and more recently when she was backing Bernie Sanders by the way did she describe sexual assault, so there was reason for some caution by the news organizations. Buck well, the news organizations didnt show any willingness to take into account remember, we are talking about fundamentally the double standard. Leslie, for example, was outlining what should be the standard and i would agree with that, some people bring false allegations, thats always something that needs to be this is fundamental to our Justice System and the media changed the standard very clearly and we all remember, we are all quite aware of what it was when it was somebody was going to be republican appointee to the supreme court. You mentioned donald trump and this time around its all changed. I mean, we are talking about skepticism which bring up, howie, from Media Outlets about the allegation, thats a new thing for them it seems when we compare to what was going with kavanaugh. Its really about looking at how the standard has shifted so very, very conveniently. There was contemporary contemporary, rather, corroboration for tara reade telling people she didnt know biden, she did work for biden, theres nothing about her story that seems like a thats not the case, not just with blasey ford, there were two other women, one was clearly lying about Brett Kavanaugh. Howie clearly unsubstantiated allegations were reported. I have to jump in, there was selfediting of a sentence after Biden Campaign complained, no pattern of Sexual Misconduct beyond hugs, kisses and touching that women made them uncomfortable. I feel half a minute, still today after the two major papers have weighed in and made it for everyone else no mention on cnn or no mention of msnbc, how do you explain that . Leslie theres no explanation for that, you to report the facts and let your viewers in the case of cnn and other Major Networks make the determination and they are going to be biases as we all know that. We come to the table with our biases. Allegations numerous allegations against the president and people who support and love the president chose not to believe those and im sure there are some in the Biden Campaign that feel the same way about the former Vice President as well. Howie stay put. Right after this theres a whole lot of people endorsing joe biden. Theres a president ial Campaign Going on. Is anybody paying attention . Thats next. Howie overshadowed by other news but joe biden has finally picked up some key endorsements at least on video from rival Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and barack obama. If i were running today, i wouldnt have run the same race or have the same platform as i did in 2008, we have to look to the future. Bernie understands that and joe understands that. Howie buck sexton saying that barack obama would run a different way in 2020, seems backing more Progressive Agenda for his former Vice President and Bernie Sanders supporters but in terms of Media Attention here is the former president of the United States. A 12minute video was pretty much ground out. Buck obviously anything that is going to get through the covid19, all the focus on that right now is going to be barack obama putting a video like this, everybody feels like biden is the last man standing and its not really anything it almost feels like this is a default move by obama and whatever he has to say about it its not clear that it moves the needle that much for biden. We will see what bernie supporters think. Howie yeah, leslie marshall, you can just imagine the huge stories, endorsement falling in line if we didnt have a coronavirus pandemic and yet it seems the media, you know, fairly or unfairly have marginalized biden because hes candidate, leader to have party but he doesnt have any formal role in battling the virus. Leslie well, first of all, covid19 takes front seat and im never a big fan of endorsement t. I dont see endorsements moving the needle any time for anyone. 3, puts to bed that obama wasnt going to endorse biden. Here is the problem what the endorsements cant do, howie, they cant get the enthusiasm that joe biden in a sense is lacking as candidate compared to donald trump and his base and in addition if Bernie Sanders cant get the voters to come out to vote for him how is he going to get them to come out and vote for joe biden and also obama comes out with this video much loved and i think because of covid it took a while to trend on twitter. I dont think that these endorsements by Elizabeth Warren, senator sanders, former president barack obama are going to do much for the former Vice President. Howie i agree the media way overplay endorsements but might help with fundraising. Washington post feature, buck says the following that biden has been doing tv interviews from delaware is shrunking down and the candidate has never been quite seen so small. Fair or unfair assessment of the virus situation . Buck i think it is fair if you are looking tat optics at the optics of this. Of course, the incumbent has platform advantage. Thats never going to change. In an era where you cant do normal campaigning and who knows when that is going to change, you are seeing the guy in his basement and looks like bloggers and podcasters and the rest of us across the country who are stuck at home, really feels like theres only hope for the campaign, as if theres a major change in ability to get out there. Who knows in that will happen and trump doing a 2hour press conference, love it or hate. Some people feel differently about it. Its putting them out there and he looks like a commander in chief. Howie you cant ignore it. Love it or hate. Ive been podcasting from my house and we are all in the same level. Finally, leslie, some pundits are saying maybe this helps joe biden because it makes the election more of a referendum on the president S Performance in handling coronavirus. La time column in your city says joe biden is stuck in his basement it just might help him win. [laughter] leslie i think quite frankly when you just look at the way our country is before covid, during and after god willing soon covid, its going to be a referendum. Look, trump has his base. The people who love him are going to vote him and the people who dont and hate them are. We arent looking at those people. We are looking at that sliver. I think he needs to get out as soon as possible. Come on your show, howie, and every network that he can because quite frankly the president has couple of hours of free advertising and Campaign Rallies on National Television due to covid every day. Howie all right, im inviting joe biden right now if he wants the platform. Thanks to both of you buck sexton, leslie marshall, good conversation. Took a liberal comedian to accuse the media of pushing panic. We will have the story next. Lets find the food that you like. Petsmart has everything your pet needs delivered directly to your door. Or save 10 when you buy online and pick up in store. Now with curbside pickup. Shop petsmart. Com or download our mobile app today. Yeah. This moving thing never gets any easier. Well, xfinity makes moving super easy. I can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. Wow, that is easy. Almost as easy as having those guys help you move. We are those guys. Thats you . The truck adds 10 pounds. In the arms. Okay. 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Griff you know, howie, the fact that it took bill mahr to be the first one to come out that the media was oversensationallizing the first pandemic in our life is really quite telling in and of itself. The best line mahr had by the way he said you dont have to put hot sauce on a jalapeno but the show is a comedic one. Its serious. No one knows what is coming. To overscare people or drive up higher than needed their anxieties in fears certainly worth mahr pointing out. More people should perhaps have done it earlier. Howie right, on the other hand, theres the 24 7 nature of the coverage which we all participate in this crisis but when the media takes a closer look at the people who have tragically died and look at the businesses that have shut down and look at the financial problems and the longterm prognosis, it is scary but its also news. Griff sure it is and it needs to be balanced and needs context. That, of course, is the important part. For example, every day on fox news we give the new numbers which are worse than perhaps the day before, actually maybe declining in some spots but youve got to get the recoveries as well so that people understand it and when mahr was pointing tout headline that simply said its terrifying, hes right. Youve got to give more than that otherwise you drive the narrative. You attract people to perhaps the one and only thing that they see if they dont read the entire article and thats dangerous. Howie we dont need to shout out at people that its terrifying. Finally, President Trump lost page with matt, really nice guy, long ago, people are dropping like flies and drudge, ive known him since he started the site, the past 30 days have been the most eyeballs in the excuse me, 26year history and heartbreaking under such tragic circumstances. My view is he posts everything, a lot of it is protrump and a lot of it is antitrump. Griff good point, howie, the fight makes no sense because that the president is picking. Drudge getting the views. I would quote this to President Trump being the brother in the front seat of the car when a fight breaks out. You cant beat the guy follow the backseat because hes in a better position. Drudge isnt a reporter, he doesnt necessarily do original reporting. He puts things out there and as you point out for the last 25 plus years it has been goto site for conservatives, lawmakers and influential people. Howie all right. Well, now more for the drudge report. Griff jenkins, good to see you. Griff thanks, howie. Howie and we will be right they are the heroes, the helpers working on the front lines, and heres one small way that you can help them in return. Back. Feel the clarity of new nondrowsy claritin cool mint chewables. The only allergy product with relief of your worst symptoms, including itchy throat. Plus an immediate blast of cooling sensation. Feel the clarity and live claritin clear. Howie the media are in wash of false choices, either youre about saving the people from the virus but dont care about killing the economy or getting back america back in business but heartless of americans who may die as a result. Right or left, most people want to alleviate the pain and suffering from economic shutdown but save as many human lives as possible, but instead we see the president s media allies praising state protests to ease restrictions and the democrats allies hold lines to prevent unnecessary deaths. Because the media love conflict, ideological warfare, thats their default setting and thats precisely what we dont need right now. Have a healthy debate, sure, these are difficult issues, absolutely, but we are all in this together. We are all americans. Thats it for this edition of media buzz, im howard kurtz on rooftop of capitol hill. I try to make the point in media buzz meter about all of us being in it together. Hope you like Facebook Page and lets continue the conversation in twitter at howard kurtz. Theres a lot of journalism out there, theres been a lot of partisanship. I think we can do better. We will see you back here next sunday in the latest buzz. Eric this is fox news alert. There could be a new development on the front of medical research of coronavirus. We are waiting for new york governor andrwe cuomo outside of nassau, long island, you see the setup. Hes speaking at the center where they are researching plasma and the use of antibodies to fight coronavirus. This is the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Approaches 740,000 so far. Almost a quarter of a million cases in new york state alone and Nassau County where the governor will be speaking momentarily, well, that county