Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Julian assange and, of course, the media and punching back on twitter, lets get back to my interview with sean spicer, i spoke to him from trump tower. Sean spicer, welcome. Thank you, howie. Donald trump tweeted, im asking the chairs of the house and Senate Committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it. I can understand his concern, but does that signal as president he will be ordering Leak Investigations to find out Reporter Sources . Well, its not the Reporter Sources, its trying to figure out where it came from. Theres a big difference between reportest doing their job and
sourcing thicks and people in the government improperly giving Classified Information to people or potentially doing that. I think theres a big difference whether youre targeting the source or recipient. Right. Trumps twitter Feed Paralyzes and some seem say, hey, we shouldnt cover tweets which is ridiculous, why do you think the sho
as conservative knew existed. conservative commentators that despise julian assange, making him into an icon because he damaged the democrats during the election. i think among conservatives there s mixed views about julian assange because national security issues were at stake and now there s still mixed views of julian assange if you read hotair.com, they take what julian assange has to take with a lot of salt and looking at exactly what he did expose and whether or not that was helpful to republicans in the election. six years ago sarah palin linked assange to a terrorist when he attacked personal emails that they were boring. what s going on here? people don t have principles.
as conservative knew existed. conservative commentators that despise julian assange, making him into an icon because he damaged the democrats during the election. i think among conservatives there s mixed views about julian assange because national security issues were at stake and now there s still mixed views of julian assange if you read hotair.com, they take what julian assange has to take with a lot of salt and looking at exactly what he did expose and whether or not that was helpful to republicans in the election. six years ago sarah palin linked assange to a terrorist when he attacked personal emails that they were boring. what s going on here? people don t have principles.
sussman campaign director for center of american progress action fund who worked on president obama s 2008 campaign. mary catherine ham, from hotair.com. author of end of discussion. and fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. emily, emily he you worked on his first campaign, if he was running again in 2016 would you volunteer again? i would go right back in. i think a lot of the country would be there with him. however you feel about the president i think there is no question he is winning the war of ideas and winning the rhetoric. can diets from both sides of the aisle are starting to use, this big populist moment which the president capitalized from the beginning that has been the core of his economic begin today. even republican candidates are using phrases like income inequality wage stagnation. everybody is using these ideas. i think the question for 2016 is going to be, do people believe candidates have policy that back this up.
motive behind jihadist. martha: i don t know that they haven t. let s talk about this bring in our political panel. juan williams, and mary catherine ham of hotair.com i say it twice. wee appreciate it. welcome to you both. good to see you here this morning. if you look online seeing exchange you had with pamela geller everywhere. we want to have you on talk a little bit more about this first question to you do you think that she has a right to do what she does? of course. and i think we all do. i think americans believe in free speech. almost like a civic religion, if you will martha, but the point is, that she engaged in behavior that was, i think almost reckless. i think it was provocative. i think she knows it was provocative. and you know, had some terrible consequences in terms of the injury to the security guard who was shot and death of two people. i think she knows this. martha: all right. so the comeback to that, mary catherine it is american