false firefight in syria which turned out to be a shooting range in kentucky. this video obtained by abc news appears to show the fury of the turkish attack on the border town two nights ago. almost immediately the website gismodo said it was compared to youtube video from a kentucky gun range. martha: howie kurtz, host of media buzz. the reports are that abc executives are reeling from this whole thing. what are you hearing? i ll tell you what abc executives say in a moment but i ve got to tell you this was such a massive missed opportunity to have the woman, virginia jeffrey who turned out to be to be the chief accuser of one of the worst sexual predators of the modern era, a man who routinely abused young women, we heard amy robach, the anchor say in that moment of frustration that people were
saying at her network nobody knows who this guy is. excuse me. he was a wealthy guy who had been a pal of bill clinton. had been a pal of donald trump. operated in very high circles and had earlier gotten a light sentence in florida. people knew who damn well who jeffrey epstein was. martha: virginia roberts saying she was shocked they didn t air it because she believed it could be a game changer not to mention that a lot of people have been trying to interview her over the last several years. we have as well. wanting to be able to get her to come out and tell her very powerful story. the miami herald did an investigative piece in 2018 after this interview was done so obviously they would have been ahead of the game had they gone with this story, howie. right. they forfeited all the benefit of time and being out in front journalistically but i spoke late today, martha, to a senior abc news executive who says a couple of things. one, amy robach doesn t know all
i have had this story for three years. i have had this interview with virginia roberts. we would not put it on the. first of all i was told nobody knows who jeffrey epstein is. then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about prince andrew and threatened us a million different ways. we were so afraid we wouldn t be able to interview kate and will that that also quashed the story. martha: abc news now investigating the source of that leaked hot-mic moment from anchor amy robach claiming that the network deliberately quashed her interview with virginia roberts, an accuser of the late jeffrey epstein. abc said the interview did not meet their standards but the incident is drawing new scrutiny from their blunders of brett kavanaugh s accusers and the
constant self-righteousness and phoniness. is he going to hold his own network accountable? because he needs to write a book about this incident. most selective outrage over a massive lack of objectivity. where he works. he said he was a stenographer, clearly he is. the coauthor whose new book about fox one day will be just like her. he s dictating the whole thing. later in the program, you may not want to miss my one-on-one exclusive with the whistle-blower featured in this video here and we will have more on that later in the program but fake news is developing on multiple fronts tonight. abc news now has to apologize after actually using footage. to see that? that s actually from a gun range in kentucky. at the states told their viewers all this footage of violence and combat in syria, killing of kurds, that network finally issued a statement apologizing for committing the error but i ll let you decide to read how
is he going to hold his own network accountable? because he needs to write a book about this incident. most selective outrage over a massive lack of objectivity. where he works. he said he was a stenographer, clearly he is. the coauthor whose new book about fox one day will be just like her. he s dictating the whole thing. later in the program, you may not want to miss my one-on-one exclusive with the whistle-blower featured in this video here and we will have more on that later in the program but fake news is developing on multiple fronts tonight. abc news now has to apologize after actually using footage. see that? that s actually from a gun range in kentucky. at the states told their viewers all this footage of violence and combat in syria, killing of kurds, that network finally issued a statement apologizing for committing the error but