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
more closely and seems like another example of that with the head and those around him are giving a thumbs up for those who stay at arm s length and say that the president has behavior that he admire and he said that himself. ecuador is signalling that assange might get prosecuted and there is a debate over whether they should be prosecuted for anything and there is a narrow debate over whether at some point wikileaks did something that looked more like state action looked like that on behalf of russia. ted malik is not a household name and they reached out to get to wikileaks and here is new reporting from the guardian
evolution of views about assange? maybe so. that s the principle we would like to call saving the tape. we might see the rest of the conservative elites who are now, you know, siding with assange, flipping back is at some point wikileaks put out more about what s going on in the government in the next couple of years in trump s administration because inevitable things will go wrong. nbc joe scarborough, joe, what s repulsive says, hannity is the patheticically low ratings you have. i will let them have their food fight and watch. conservatives have always had a conflicting attitude toward assange. the information is important, how we are getting it, that s something we need to look
kilmeade. evolution of views about assange? maybe so. that s the principle we would like to call saving the tape. we might see the rest of the conservative elites who are now, you know, siding with assange, flipping back is at some point wikileaks put out more about what s going on in the government in the next couple of years in trump s administration because inevitable things will go wrong. nbc joe scarborough, joe, what s repulsive says, hannity is the patheticically low ratings you have. i will let them have their food fight and watch. conservatives have always had a conflicting attitude toward assange. the information is important, how we are getting it, that s something we need to look
coverage of the olympic. especially after complaints to twitter led to retaliation against the british newspaper critic. what were these companies thinking? a freelance reporter exposes new yorker writer joan elyra as a serial fabricator who made up quotes from bob dylan. and lara stonewalled him the whole time. he lied to me in that conversation, actually. he lied to me in his confession. we ll talk to michael moynihan about how he feels about costing lehrer his job. talk about lying, the former editor of the new york times is the victim of a hoax perpetrated by wikileaks. bill keller on that bizarre episode, media bias, and feelings about fox news. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. now if you had to pick a moment, a snapshot, a glimpse of the tensions between romney and the press corps, it would have to be this. at the tail end of a foreign trip consumed by negative headlines, the republican candidate was walking toward his car after a wreath-lay