Is finally free. The wall street journal reporter take hostage by the brutal putin regime on totally fabricated charges has been reunited with his family after almost more than a year and a half along with exmarine paul whale season and others in a multicull paul whelan, multicountry if you had to boil down this brand new matchup to its essence, a former president against the a vice president who replaced the incumbent president, it might look like this. You know who s plain weirdsome and she s plain weird. She s a weird person. And, by the way, don t you find some of their stuff to just be plain weird or? howard: it s the weirdness olympic, you might say. Donald trump was asked how world leaders would treat kamala harris if she wins the the election. She d be like a play toy. Hay look at her and they say, we can t believe we got so lucky. They re going to walkal over her. And i don t want to say as to why, but a lot of people understand it. Howard: harris roused a big crowd in atlanta
Shock of to have the attempted assassination of donald trump 48 hours earlier had not worn off when the calls for national unity clashed with the finninger ifpointing over inflammatory rhetoric when we got our first glimpse of the former president of the united states, his ear bandaged where the gunman s bullet came within millimeters of taking his life. He will be the next president of the united states. ,. [cheers and applause] if. Howard: it was the an electric scene at the republican convention in the milwaukee which was also excited over trump s vp pick, j. D. Vance, who was battling largely negative commentary from the press. Journalists constantly recycled the ohio senate s blistering criticism from 2016 when he denigrated trump, and vance hit back at the media establishment. You text that trump is a cynical ahole like nixon who wouldn t be that bad and might even prove useful and that he s america s hitler. I bought into the media s lies and distortions. I bought into this idea
Tomlinson has the story. People in the nation s capital are on edge following a shooting in an upscale neighborhood while many were dining outside and sent patrons scrambling. The d. C. Police chief visited the crime scene. I m mad as hell about this and i hope you all are, too. We want to help people, yes, we should, but you cannot coddle criminals. You cannot. Chief, are calls to defund the police helping you? i don t think that those calls are helping. D. C. Police released this video showing two suspects wanted in thursday night s shooting getting away in a getaway car. And they called it a war zone. Violent criminals are not staying locked up. I see people doing violent crimes and i see them back in the community. And it breaks my heart. We need police now. We don t see them on bikes, we see them in cars. Just last month, the mayor bowser wanted to cut funding for police and now she says she wants to see the department quote, use any overtime necessary to stop the recent spike in
Censorship. I m jacqui heinrich. Griff: and i m griff jenkins. And the president has words. Let s go to the white house lawn. White house officials are doubling and trippling down on the president as comments on facebook. And the officials at the white house see this as a way to take aaggressive and stance to root out misinformation on facebook, on twitter on any type of social media, a way to stop this. Right now we re looking at the delta variant, incredibly serious around the country if you look at the numbers, they re climbing when it comes to the delta variant. Two weeks, griff, after the president declared independence from the virus on july 4th, those numbers continue to go in the wrong direction. Let s look at the latest numbers just a few hours ago from the c. D. C. About 160 million and a half people are fully vaccinated. That s 48. 4% of the total population not nearly where the white house wants to be in the pandemic. The president is looking at the social media companies a
News contributor, they do it from a place of moral righteousness. We stand for truth, justice and the american way. And usually exempt their side from the slightest scrutiny. I mean, let s go down the list of the things that are inaccurate on cnn and msnbc, and then we can talk about fairness in the media. Howard: now, of course, what i try to do is look at bias and blunders on all sides, and you ll see that on this program. Last night the washington post, new york times and nbc all acknowledged a major blunder in their coverage of rudy giuliani. We ll see how much attention that gets. I m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Howard: the new york times bombshell exploded across all the cable news networks. Federal investigators were serving search warrants on rudy giuliani at his manhattan home and office in a criminal probe of his dealings with ukraine. But what the times has now retracted aa long with nbc and the washington post is the allegation that the fbi briefs the former mayor o