president jay wallace while not condoning the antagonisticking tone said we do support open exchanges for the american people. and fox announced it would file a friend of the court brief in the case in which cnn won. i have been extremely critical of acosta, but i said the white house shouldn t revoke his pass. fox has been under fire this week over january 6th texts from three of its hosts, and here s what don lemon had to say about this network. why does jen psaki even continue to call on fox in the briefing room? your network is promoting bs and lies about what is actually happening in the country and helping to inspire and incite an since protection, why should they be able to take part? howard: i m sorry, but this is a really low blow. if he wants to score cheap points by pretending fox doesn t have a news division, by
to make my vision a reality my varilux progressive lenses provide seamlessly transition from near to far. with every detail in sharp focus. that s seeing no limits. varilux lenses by essilor. howard: the cable news wars have gotten incredibly heated, and fox news is usually the biggest target. we ll hear from bret baier in just a moment. but there is a proud tradition in the news business that even bitter rivals support each other when it comes to fair access to people in power. three years ago president trump s white house yanked jim acosta s e credentials following an outrageous incident in which the cnn reporter refused to give up the mic after asking trump several load ared questions. cnn filed suit, and fox news
years, almost 25, i ve been working here, and it s the same thing. it just goes in iterations in which the focus is all on the opinion folks who do do opinion and sometimes they re very controversial, but we have a news operation that s breaking news every day. you can t tell me what jennifer griffin and lucas tomlinson do at the pentagon, what our white house team does, what bill melugin along the border we re one of the only networks covering the border situation which saw the most, the highest number of illegal immigrants crossing in november ever in the history of the country, and yet we re the only network covering it. that is news. that s not made-up stuff. and, you know, we ve been fighting that battle a long time. but just like a paper, there s a news side and an opinion howard: i was going to say, in all the years i worked at newspapers, there were columnists who had fury opinion fiery opinions, and then there were the reporters.
that can make a story, you know, really people passionate about it. one of them is emotion and partisan politics, and this story has both of those things. because, obviously, january 6th has been widelien condemned by widely condemned by most people who aren t super fringe right. but because it was so awful, i think it creates a lot of passion in the democratic party and people are, obviously, really going to be following a story like this. howard: i think what paused a lot of journalists is he had been cooperating, and he wrote a book and then suddenly citing executive privilege and now risking prosecution. executive privilege doesn t extend to mark meadows. we all know that, and donald trump is no longer president. that aside, howie, you said it. we can t even go beyond. he defied a subpoena. i have a jury summons on my desk
ignoring the fact that peter doocy often generates news by asking important questions, he has lost sight of what matters in journalism. by that reasoning, what would stop a conservative president from declaring that cnn is a propaganda outfit and should be barred? funny, i haven t heard any media critics salem monowent too far say lemon went too far. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: i spoke just moments ago to bret baier, fox s chief political anchor who you see nightly on special report. welcome. thanks, howard. howard: don lemon saying fox news should be barred because he doesn t like them. what s your take on that? it s silly. it s an effort to get clicks or eyeballs.