is that standard for these companies? yeah, you hear it every time, and a lot of times they re right, that they are fired for good reasons. [laughter] i m not saying this is the case. whistle-blowers are crazy, but that doesn t mean they re wrong. they re often right. snowden was right. he was a little crazy howard: i assume you mean obsessed. obsessed. the type of person who becomes a whistleblower isn t wrapped as tight as you think. that doesn t mean what they re saying is wrong, okay? their weird personality quirks are different than what they re saying. howard: we will watch that story. charlie, good to see you, as always. i want to take a moment to thank you for the outpouring of positive feedback about our balanced approach after the cancellation of the rival show on cnn. now, some people on twitter andbook said get off the air, you moron, but most embraced our commitment to fairness. that s it for this edition of mediabuzz. i m howard kurtz.
decide whether to support that or not. that doesn t mean he knew about the precise time or even the details of a raid that happened in august. on the other hand, i d say, howie, that, you know, they ve teed this up as a national security issue, and i know he doesn t want to appear, the president, to be interfering with the administration of justice and he wants to let the justice department be as if he were a fourth branch of government, but the president s most important responsibilities are national security. and if that s what this was, it s kind of foolish if he wasn t advised. there d be nothing wrong with him being ad vised, but if he wasn t, i d say that s more problematic. howard: it s a complicated story, thanks for helping us. andy can mccarthy, good to see you. next on mediabuzz, president biden drawing praise and sharp criticism for forgiving college debt. i ll talk to white housei ea education supervisor gene sperling many a moment. hello cashback!
even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story
hello again and thanks for joining us. i m ana cabrera in for victor and alisyn. today president biden will address the nation on the rapidly resurging covid pandemic. and how to mitigate the new threat, omicron, now the dominant strain in the u.s. accounting for 73% of new cases. cnn s chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny at the white house. jeff we ll hear two messages, uno one for the vaccinate and unvaccinated certainly president biden drawing a big distinction between those vaccinated and boosted and those not. simply saying it s not a repeat of march of 2020 for those who are vaccinated. but for those who are not, that is not necessarily the case.
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