ron desantis dropped out a couple hours after last week s program after canceling interviews with me and other sunday shows. and then pundits pressing nikki haley why she was still running in new hampshire? look at the media saying oh, this is donald trump s to have. look at the political class all coalescing saying everybody needs to get out. howard: if they wanted the republican race over this minute. msnbc looking at exit polls kept talking up haley s chances. fantastic news for nikki haley s campaign in terms of her chances that night. howard: it took 13 minutes after the polls closed for fox and nbc followed by cnn to declare donald trump the winner. on iowa caucus night rachel maddow boasted msnbc would not air one word of a trump s victory speech because there was cost to us as news organization for unairing true things. msnbc flopped after critics like me called this blatant censorship. we ll see how it goes. this is decision one we consider to be open-ended liv
health plans, not so much. that is until catholic leaders and some commentators began sounding off. catholics and christians all across america are fired up over president obama s approval of new regulations that require insurance plans of religious organizations to provide contraseptive coverage. why did it take news outlets a couple of weeks to catch up with the catholic protests? a former white house intern for president kennedy says she was his mistress 50 years ago. did he realize that you were a virgin? i think he did because he kept asking me if i was all right and i was all right. but she confirmed the affair nine years ago. was her book really worth an nbc primetime interview? plus are we ll look at the coverage of the sad and unexpected death of whitney houston. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. we re going to begin with the tragic death at the age of 48 of singer whitney houston, and joining us on the line from los angeles is cnn s larry