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
That s been the case and i think there are other institutions that have done that, again, maybe we don t change anything. maybe we add a gaggle to the to the daily press conference, maybe we just invite more of the american people into this conversation, which i think the president elect is very keen on because this is a conversation that shouldn t be limited to just the big media, if you will. there s a lot of proliferation specially on conservative media side and people have done a good job and they should have equal access and have questions asked and answered to get that perspective out to key constituencies. thanks for coming in front of our cameras, hope you will come back. of course, howie. have a great weekend. joining us political commentator, amy holmes and charles, fox news contributor. erin, donald trump is accusing the media outright lying about
Know, the question is how many more times is that going to happen over the next few years. it was a little opening power struggle. howie: the house was also flooded with angry calls from constituents and that always gets the attention of members of congress. this happened on the morning where the big front page stories and new york times and washington post that basically said, this is the first thick you guys are going to do in the trump era? okay, there are negative headlines about house republicans all of the time. why does anybody think that this time negative headlines forced the republicans to reverse course. howie: very little effect? i think it s more the calls in trump s tweets. of course, when donald trump has has the ability to separate himself from house republicans who are not popular, still, he s going to do it. he is going to show independents. there maybe arguments both democrats and republicans hate the independent office but one
Somebody like that, i take it with a pride. howie: story that couldn t be confirmed and cbs try today retrack. editorial page has been tough on donald trump, has pointed out some statements that are inconsistent with the facts. mass illegal voting, birther issue with president obama. and the paper describing it that way and explain the distinction. first of all, politics speak untruths all of the time. a lot of people speak untruths a lot of the time and we report that and so the right thing to do, i believe, is to say, when someone says something we report what they say, somebody as important as donald trump, the president elect, which we reported and we measure what he says, examines what he says against the facts an we give an estimate as to whether or not as
Time star, your ego is soaring out of control? no. it s a little intimidating. but, you know, the beauty of working at fox, fox has a big audience. i m not going to convince myself that it s about me. where it works makes all the difference basically. howie: you do things differently at 9:00 o clock it s live hour in prime time. are you going to make tweaks and adjustments here? of course. my view is that you can have a newsy interview that cuts through a lot of the cant and gets to the core point, doesn t need to be confrontation and not direct, i think viewers want that. howie: founder of the daily caller, some media critics react to this by saying, you re sympathetic to donald trump and