now, the polarizing media environment means pro-trump people will feel offended by the attacks, pro-biden feeling the harsh words were justified. i'm trying, as always, to stick to the facts, but i get the deep level of distrust. none of this moves the ball or helps solve a single problem facing the country starting with covid. it's just more finger pointing that some folks may well be tuning out. january 6th remains a double tragedy. the violence two blocks from here, a year ago and the toxic politics that have led to a more divided america. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: ahead, brian kilmeade joins us on the media coverage of this emotional week. the 46th president devoted much of his speech in the capitol rotunda to denouncing the 45th prime minister. >> we didn't see a -- 45th president. >> we didn't see a former president who had just rallied the mob to attack sitting in a private dining room off the oval office in the white house watching it all on television. and doing nothing. for hours. a former president of the united states of america has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election. howard: trump hit back with tough statements calling biden a failure. the complicit media calls it the big lie when in actuality, he says, the big lie was the election itself. the democrats want to own january 6th so they can sow fears and divide america. i say let them have it because america sees through their lies and polarization. and the pun pundits are also using strong language. >> all of this may be a turning point for president joe biden. his speech today was the most direct and powerful since he took the oath of office. >> this was the theater of the politically absurd. none of these democrats really believe our government faces an ongoing threat from maga mobs. >> if you think that speech was partisan, then you believe the former president's lies. it's only a partisan speech if you think there's somehow a truthful dispute here. >> what he did was he scolded millions of americans for what he believes something very bad that they can did. he's presuming their guilt. he's assuming their guilty. that's not what a president should do. >> the gaslighting from the democrats, the mob in the media, is reaching record levels. fake hysteria, crocodile that tears. analogies to 9/11, pearl harbor and even the holocaust complete with a special performance from cast of "hamilton." >> the former president responded with his usual desperate pleas for attention. we're not going to give him any air time tonight. howard: joining us now to analyze, ben.com domenech -- ben domenech and julie banderas. ben, what's your take on the media cover only on the first anniversary of that tragedy and president biden's speech many particular? >> well, i'm glad that you used that chuck todd clip, because it was something i was going to bring up describing your reaction to that speech as being partisan is itself in some way an indication that you've bought into everything that donald trump says about the election or something along those lines. that's absurd. that speech was partisan. it was very clearly partisan. it was just as partisan as don lemon or joy reid or chuck todd is or anybody on these other networks who espouses these views. and i think it's very unfortunate and a mistake politically on the part of the president to go down this road. we we saw what happened in virginia in november when you had this lean in for the previous month, essentially, from democratic candidates trying to wrap january 6th and everything that happened on that day around all these different republicans. it didn't work then, and i don't think it's going to work now. and i think that the media that's carrying water for this speech suggesting that it was something that was appropriate given the context of this, you know, the is just completely off the ball. i think the average american, democrat and republican, can say that what happened on january 6th was very bad, that it was something that was embarrassing, that we ought to look into it, we ought to make sure it never happens again. they also have the ability to say this was not 9/11, this was not pearl harbor. we do not remember this in the same context as those terrible days. it's disrespectful to do so. and the fact that kamala harris did that and that joe biden seemed to lean into with it as well, i think, was reprehensible and a huge political mistake. howard: julie, why do you think president trump canceled his press conference? he put out a lot of strong statements, some of which i read, that got very little media attention, and you heard joy reid say we're not going to give him any air time. >> i don't know why he canceled his speech but, quite frankly, i do think it was the right thing to do. yes, perhaps he could come out and speak after joe biden's speech because while he didn't mention the former president by name, he did make very direct attacks to him, so much so that one reporter actually asked him and he rejected the idea that his speech was divisive, by the way, asked him if he thought his speech by attacking the former president was dividing more than healing. and the president basically came back and said that the way you have to heal is to recognize the extent of the wound -- howard: let me jump in, let me jump in because we have that sound bite. it was cbs's nicole killian asking president biden about the tone of speech. let's roll it. >> calling him out divide more than it heals, sir? does calling him out divide more than it heals? you've talked so much about healing, sir, healing this country. >> look, the way we have to heal, you are to -- you have to recognize the extent of the wound. howard: julie, finish your point. >> you're ripping off the band-aid and actually reinjuring the country by going down that road again. the point here is to move forward and to learn, and ben just made a perfect point. not only is this not to be compared to 9/11 or to pearl harbor, this is a dark stain in american history. does it represent american conservativism in this country? absolutely not. that is where the mainstream media has gone wrong for exactly one year. every single night when you turn on msnbc or cnn, all you see is them talking about january 6th. we realize the insurrection was an absolute disaster, we realize that the extremist followers of president trump's who then just got voted out of office obviously took it too far. could the president have said more to stop them? yes. do i believe that the president perhaps inspired these lunatics? perhaps. but is the president responsible for the deaths? if absolutely not. and that's what the mainstream media a has made it out to be. howard: often times, as you point out, it's the only story especially at night. ben, when journalists say there's no evidence that has surfaced to support donald trump's claims of widespread election fraud or that some trump supporters committed serious crimes on january 6th, those are facts. why do many people on your side perceive that as an anti-trump stance by the press? >> well, i think one aspect of this is just total incuriosity about what we do know about election fraud or stories that are within that area. there is a rush on the part of the media to dismiss any stories along those lines and essentially acting as if they don't matter because they don't want it to reflect some broader belief that the result of the election, the outcome of the election would have been changed. on the flip side of that though, transparency is something we should all welcome. transparency both when it comes to our elections and also when it comes to january 6th. the fact that this commission that nancy pelosi formed has focused a lot more, it seems to me, on going after republicans and even members of the media, members of this network, as opposed to focusing on the real questions that i think are very important about the security precautions that happened that day, the fact that we're, you know, standing here today and the inspector general of the capitol police, according to them only 30 out of more than 100 recommendations that they made about changes to the security policy in the capitol have even been taken up or advanced in any way. they're serious questions about what went wrong, and i think we deserve to know the answer. howard: since you point out the committee controlled by democrats, that committee has asked for voluntary cooperation from seine hannity and -- sean hannity and released a new text, i'm very worried about the next 48 hours. hannity's lawyer, jay sekulow, says the requests were serious constitutional issues including first amendment concerns. but the broader question is, and i think you started to touch on it, if i canned get you to wrap up the point, by going after trump, mark meadows, people at fox, why is it -- do you think the media ever suggests the possibility that some of the actions by this panel might be partisan? [laughter] >> they act like it isn't at all. they act like this is something that's above board when in reality what we know is, from my perspective, this is a part saab fraud. it's not something that's actually interested in getting to the bottom of a lot of very real questions that we have. and, again, i would encourage transparency there. thousands of hours reportedly of video that hasn't been released. i think that anything that that doesn't violate a serious security concern ought to be, and the more they lean into going after these various figures, the more it comes across as targeting people they disagree with in media and politicking as -- politics as opposed to getting real answer. howard: julie, weigh in with the coverage on the january 6th committee. it's an important investigation, but of course there's lots of accusations that helps democrats politically, and and that's why they're pushing so hard. >> look, the ratings, when you look at the ratings of the mainstream media while the former president was in office, they were great. all they did was go after president trump and attack him on a nightly basis, and it worked. their viewers loved it. but now they've got a president whose butt they kiss every day, so they've got to do something to get the ratings to move beyond, you know, the asterisks that some of them are scoring. so, yeah, of course we're going to talk about january 6th because it's the last thing they designate as, like, the former president's last hoorah, and they love to blame him for january 6th. so, of course, they're going to talk about it for a year. it obviously isn't helping them because their ratings have continued to go down, and i don't think this is going to pull them out of it. howard: alleged butt kissing aside, joe biden doesn't make anywhere near the level of news that donald trump did. he doesn't engage with the press. i've often said i think it is a bad idea. half a minute left for both of you. julie, on this washington post poll, 40% of republicans and 23% of democrats say violence against the government can at times be justified. shouldn't journalists, commentators and people of all stripes be concerned about those numbers? >> very. very. those are very dangerous and alarming words. violence is never justified anywhere. but let me tell you, under this administration violence has been justified in z many cities against police officers. i have said this time and time again, this violence almost seems acceptable. let's see, the bail reform laws in this country are awful, and the protection amongst those who are supposed to protect us is not there. they're not getting the backing from democratic law lawmakers and so, yes, violence is acceptable because there's no deterrent. absolutely no incentive to say you shouldn't do this because you're going to stay behind bars once you get arrested. no, you're going to be out the next day so you can offend again. howard: ben, half a minute for you. >> i think this is exactly the kind of point that president biden should have leaned into in his speech and didn't. when you have a third of americans, effectively is the number -- among independents, it was high as well -- who are saying this, it's demonstration of a trend that has been increasing that started many years ago, i think, and that really increased in the last two years both in the riots that we saw during the summer and then, obviously, on january 6th. and i think that that is a trend that affects americans on both sides of of the political aisle and ought to be of concern to all of us. but that distrust of institutions is very real. it's not going away, and i worry that that problem is not the one that people are focused on, they're just trying to turn it into a partisan tool to hit back against their enemies and not taking on this actual trend that should be of concern to all of us. howard: all right. we have a consensus that violence is never justified. ahead, brian kilmeade weighs in, but when we come back, the finger pointing by the press at the c cdc which is questioning whether we'll just have to live with covid. ♪ a new kitchen became part of our financial plan. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual advisor at nm.com kim is now demonstrating her congestion. save it slimeball. i've upgraded to mucinex. we still have 12 hours to australia. mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours. howard: with the number of new daily covid cases topping one million this week, most of the media coverage concedes that the biden white house is struggling though much of the criticism is directed toward the cdc and a growing recognition in the press that we just have to learn to live with omicron. >> we are still talking about not enough testing. this has been from day one in the old administration. i mean, it's ridiculous. >> it's also true that a biden has fallen short of making sure that all americans have access to regular, reliable and free testing. that's not where we are. >> the cdc is incoherent, their advice is erratic, and their crash of credibility is pulling down the president. >> it's almost as though we've seen over the past 4-5 days almost the normalization for vaccinated americans without underlying conditions, almost the normalization of covid as if it is the flu. get sick, stay at home, get over it, get back out in the work force. howard: and cdc chief rochelle walensky was on "fox news sunday" today after stories in "the new york times" and washington post faulting her communication skills. she's often having to walk back things like let's cut the isolation period to five days, but, no, you need a negative test, often contradicted by others in the administration. but also no one seems to be willing to say it's president biden's fault, he appoints these people, he's the one in charge. do you find that striking? >> i do, and i think there's something going on here that everyone should be awake to now which is you have a lot of anchors and pundits who are -- they're basically conceding a little bit to conservative media or to critical media or independent media about the way that people were demanding shifts and the way that these numbers were covered, you know, demanding, for instance, a distinction in case counts between people who are hospitalized with covid as opposed to because of covid. things that have been demanded for by a lot of americans for quite some time, even going back more than a year. and only now are people kind of getting around to conceding that these are things that we zephyr to know. and i think that -- we deserve to know. i think a lot of the pundits and media observers were kind of waiting for the biden administration to get it feet under it, to try to demonstrate they were going to be better on these points than the trump administration, and now the time has gone on too long, and they can't spin it anymore. they have to admit that this administration has not lived up to what it promised for the american people. howard: right. president biden took a shouted question, should americans prepare to live with covid forever. here's what he said. >> we're going to be able to control this. the new normal is not going to be what it is now, it's going to be better. howard: so, julie, do you think it's fair to put so much of the criticism on the cdc? rochelle walensky said to be getting media training, and is there a growing recognition by those of us in this business that we can't shut things down forever and that maybe we shouldn't count daily cases because it doesn't count -- [inaudible] >> okay. well, i do think that it's okay to say that the cdc's mixed messaging is confusing as all heck, and i don't think it's fair for, you know, the media to treat this as omicron, yes, it's going to stick around forever when the former president was attacked for not getting covid under control. now the current president who didn't get those home tests, millions of home tests out to all the families in the country that needed them before the winter holiday break, we don't even have those -- howard: colossal mistake. >> yes. and he agrees, and he admits it that he accepts the fact that that was a huge mistake. but for the media to go ahead and report as though there's nothing wrong and, oh, let's just live with it, that's not the way they'd be covering it if there was another president in the white house. and as far as the cdc is concerned, taking it from ten cays to -- days to five days, that's political pressure. medical professionals urge them to go back to the ten days. howard: it was designed to keep businesses running and planes flying. to your point earlier, ben, embracing the conservative viewpoint, i think in to 2020, you know, we did need to shut down because there were no vaccines and covid was killing hundreds of thousands of americans. now we do have vaccines. some people aren't taking them of course, omicron seems to be milder. do you think the fact that so many people are getting it has also contributed to this shift in media opinion? >> absolutely, howie. so many people within the industry and within politics, you know, have been getting it in all of these different infections. you have this -- so many false claims being made about what the world would like, what the world would look like back in march of last year, you know, when enough americans got vaccinated. you know, people who were out there, you know, including -- i have to say people like rachel maddow who were saying these things were essentially going to end all of this, you're not going to have to worry about getting sick, etc. and i think this created a false assumption in the minds of so many people about how easy it would be to avoid getting diagnosed, getting a positive test if they were vaccinated. and now that so many people who are not just vaccinated, but double vaccinate lded, boosted, etc., are getting it, so many people in the political environment are having to wake up and be honest about, well, i guess that's not something that gets you 100 percent scot-free. howard: yeah. >> i understand the challenge. i worked at hhs back under the bush administration. i know it's a channel. but what, again, to agree with julie, what the cdc has been saying, it's all over the map, extremely confusing to the average american. howard: i do this for a living, and i'm having trouble following it. [laughter] julie, half a minute left. a lot of schools are closing because a lot of teachers and staff and students have gotten this infection, and that's becoming a real battleground covered by the press. >> yeah, no. last week my kids were home schooled because everybody came bake from winter -- back from winter break, and there was a concern in our school they didn't want people to come back to school. thank you, biden, for giving me five days of headache on no alcohol because i decided to do a dry january on the same weekend. 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headlines around the world. joining us now, griff jenkins, fox news correspondent and anchor. grif, is it outrageous that he obtained this medical exemption to play without being vaccinated and then after refusing to talk to the press, yesterday he says in a legal filing, well, i already had covid last month, that's why i don't need the shot. on what planet would you let this debate go on for days and hold that information back? >> well, howie, australia's prime minister scott morrison agrees with you, rules are rules. but here's the bottom line about this. it's 3 a.m. in melbourne, in a matter of 7 hours, we'll find out whether or not the world's top tennis player will be deported because, as you mentioned, he got this medical exception from tennis australia because he had covid and beat it. yet now we're going to find out at this hearing whether or not that visa that he got and the exception will -- exemption will hold. it certainly looks like it's not. i think the important thick to note, howie, is most people started hearing about this, and remember, djokovic has spent four nights in a hotel that is usually held for patients being detained. many people say, oh, my gosh, another entitled sports athlete -- much like at aaron rodgers or kyrie irving. this is the difference, for the first time you have serbia's prime minister getting very vocal in her support for the tennis player -- howard: exactly. >> -- and the australian prime minister saying, no, we're going to draw the line. howard: saying australia lured him there, and they're treating him like a terrorist and conducting a witch hunt. djokovic thanked his supporters in an instagram video, but this guys makes millions of dollars. he's a great player on the court. why not talk to journalists, explain his position, try to get some understanding for the fact that we didn't know he had covid last month? instead, he's been silent while he stays in the hotel that apparently is not a five-star hotel. >> one possibility is one of the things in his favor he's counting on is that he may become the greatest tennis player to ever play the game. he has 20 grand slam titles that he holds, a record tied with rafael nadal and roger federer. if he wins his tenth australian open, he will be the 21st grand slam title holder, the greatest to play the game, and the different is you never saw switzerland's leader rushing to defend federer. howard: he can't win if he doesn't play. look, let's talk about ann the tampa bay buccaneers releasing antonio brown after that bizarre incident last sunday. he later said i was injured but the coach disputes that. look, this is a guy who was caught using a fake vaccination card. have the press and the nfl enabled him for far too long? >> that that's the most dramatic way i've ever seen of saying take this job and shove it. you're right, in december he was suspended for three games, and now he walked out mid game on a team trying to get another super bowl ring. tom brady, interestingly, said kind things about him saying that he supports his friend. but he's a had a lot of problems from the steelers to oakland to the patriots and now the bucs, i'm not sure he's going to play again. howard: sports fanatic, griff jenkins, thanks so much. next on "mediabuzz," brian kilmeade on joe biden, donald trump, the an verse oif -- san anniversary of the capitol attack and what's left of the president's agenda. hello, for the last few years, i've been a little obsessed with chasing the big idaho potato truck. but it's not like that's my only interest. i also love cooking with heart-healthy, idaho potatoes. always look for the grown in idaho seal. we all get hit by the storms of life. for troy conquest, his storm hit after coming home from serving his country as a marine. i had noticed my legs were swelling and we went to main medical hospital and they said "mr. conquest, can you get up for your mri?" and i remember pushing up off the bed and i fell. next thing 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insurrection, joining me now, brian kilmeade, "fox & friends" cohost. brian, at the heart of the outraged media coverage of january 6 is donald trump's insistence -- several statements a day from him -- that he he did not lose the election. you have some thoughts about that. >> yeah, i do. i think that in life you have to learn to lose. hillary clinton has to learn that. you know, al gore pretty much did learn that. stacey abrams didn't learn that. and if you did, in fact, get screwed out of this election, put together an a-team list of lawyers and show us the districts and show us how. i have not seen any of that. and people were very receptive. you would have been very receptive if they showed prof of this. now, it defies logic to think a president could win by 7 million votes who never left his basement, who couldn't put together a clear speech, who never engaged in a challenging interview, who really struggled through every debate could actually win election. but in the end, i think you've got to channel back to andrew jackson, the guy the president also was compared to quite often, an outsider that defied logic, didn't want to be an insider to washington, hired his family. when he lost a controversial election despite winning the popular vote, a back room deal was cut with henry clay and john quincy adams, and guess what? he becomes secretary of state, does clay, adams gets the presidency, and he lost by millions of votes to jackson. jackson goes and wins the next two elections and becomes more powerful after being are president than being president. in life, we have to learn to lose, democrats and republicans. howard: is it anti-trump by the media to report the fact that there is no significant evidence of widespread fraud? and you said on "fox & friends" that trump's relitigating 2020 is not helping the country. >> couple of things. it isn't. it doesn't help him. but donald trump has defied everybody again. it was the worst day in he pali. they lost two senate elections and lost the senate in georgia. the next day you have the raid on the capitol after trump supporters went through to the capitol. now, when you look at the investigation, look at tucker carlson's originals. it actually brings up some great questions about it. as you brought up earlier in your show, the people that were beating up cops, people that were smashing windows, walking around with the confederate flagging, you know, and doing damage in nancy pelosi's office, they need to be prosecuted. we know that. but what you should also say to yourself in the big picture, that hurt donald trump as much as anything since. so they think he was sidelined. one year later he's as powerful as ever despite being off social media and is the number one contender to have the nomination next time when it comes back. that's why joe biden does his speech. that's why he says he's a defeated president, he was defeated by a margin of over 7 million votes -- howard: did you find the speech to be too partisan and not enough unity? because, obviously, there's been great debate over whether joe biden was justified or went too far in attacking his predecessor. >> a couple of things, howie. you've got democrats, republicans, the people who win elections are the independents and moderates, and there's not an independent or moderate who would really believe that was a good move. that's what you say to george stephanopoulos, to anderson cooper, that's what you say on a sunday show. you don't say that marking an event that people should analyze, investigate, go ahead and do it, talk about security as well. and when you do look at this big picture about what happened that day, don't sit there and make it look pure politics. to me, he lost the major issue for him, the pandemic. people loved the way he was handling the pandemic, now they hate it. they don't like the way he's handled the economy. international relations is a travesty. afghanistan, the biggest travesty in the history of foreign policy, military operations. so he's got january 6th and voting registration -- legislation, that's all he has left. howard: i want to get to that in a second, but let me pray a sound from karl rove on "fox news sunday." he wrote a piece in the "wall street journal" saying republicans would have gone nuts if democrats had tried to block certification in a similar situation. here's what he had to say. >> look, republicans have to acknowledge that what happened on january 6th was atrocious and that the people who invaded the capitol, assaulted 140 police officers, every one of those people ought to be identified, prosecuted and found guilty, funnished. punished. howard: dick cheney was one of two republicans with his daughter on the house floor during the january 6th anniversary. does the press like these bush republicans who they attacked so frequently back when cheney was vice presidentsome. >> liz cheney would do a lot of benefit if they start looking at the security issues and don't pretend that there was a big conspiracy to take the capitol. there were some ugly things that happened, but if you look at donald trump jr.'s tweets to mark meadows, you see him coming out and saying get my dad on television, this is terrible. he was a keynote speaker at the rally. does that sound like part of a conspiracy? acknowledging that it was terrible, also add on another layer, hillary clinton never accepted he lost the election. john lewis said that the president was an illegitimate prime minister. and also when they were -- president. when they were trying to gavel him in as president, there was one objection after another. howard: let me jump in. hillary clinton did at least concede her election loss. but, look, the biden agenda, now the spending bill is going nowhere, pivoting to voting rights legislation. do you think the press is kind of rooting for this voting rights bill even though it looks like it's going to be very tough to pass because joe manchin and kirsten sinema don't have the 50 votes in the senate? >> i'm fascinated, by the way. they're just trying to -- it looks like the press, howie, i watched more of the other channels in getting ready for this segment because that's what your show does, see how they're covering it. they are absolutely flabbergastedded that build back better is not done. rather than focusing on it and knows these democrats are to so-called blame -- i think credit -- for jamming through these socialististic programs, they're actually using this statement. the republican legislators have jammed through restrictive voting laws. no, they're not. look at every state -- howard: wish we had more time. >> -- have consequences. yeah, and they're not. it's not legal, it's not going to pass. howard: all right. thanks so much, brian. big tech cracking down on marjorie taylor green and other conservatives. that's next.he mucinex lasts 12 hours, so i'm good. now move! kim, no! mucinex lasts 3x longer for 12 hours. people 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big tech companies are once again in high profile clashes with prominent people on the right. twitter has permanently banned marjorie taylor or green after her fifth violation. the republican congresswoman tweeted there are extremely high amounts of covid advantage a seen deaths. actually, serious adverse reactions are rare. now, donald trump called the move a disgrace to democracy, and marjorie taylor green said she called upon her fellow republicans to abandon twitter. >> but when a private company that is not elected by anyone in this country declares war on a sitting member of congress and a sitting president who happens to be both from the republican party, it's up to our leadership and it's up to our conference to do something about it. howard: joining us now from dallas, steve krakauer who watches the newsletter on the media. steve, in marjorie taylor green's criticism -- facebook suspended her for 24 hours over the same post -- she says almost nothing about her disparagement on vaccines is unsafe. don't social media sites also have a responsibility to keep vaccine misinformation off of their platforms? >> i'm not sure about that. i think that social media platforms should be platforms for speech and, you know, i'm someone who believes most speech should be allowed on a lot of these platforms. now, marjorie taylor green mentioned they are private companies, so they have the right to take her off. but it absolutely applies to the beta the rules on these platforms are enforced. you talk about misinformation, disinformation, what was happening at the supreme court on friday with sonia sotomayor talking about how many children are hospitalized could count as covid misinformation. i think what it comes down to is there's a clear bias here for certain kinds of speech when it comes to how these social media companies apply their rules. now, a lot of conservatives have large platforms, but when it comes to what they can kick them off for, it absolutely is biased in one direction. howard: i agree with your larger point. on the other hand, congresswoman green kept doing this, for example, in office she tweeted that the vaccines are failing, which they're not, and maybe a better solution is just to flag it it and say there's a dispute about it. she still, by the way, has her congressional twitter account. it has left-leaning companies so undermining their reputation for fairness that when they do take action that some would say is justified, it's written off by the right as pure politics. >> it is. and i think that, absolutely, i would agree with you that marjorie taylor green has spread misinformation about a variety of things on social media platforms. the question is what do we do about it. and i think there's two respects here. first -- two elements here. when they banned marjorie taylor groan, that ends up people leading to say, well, why, and starting to dig in more. when you can hide it from the public, it becomes even more intriguing to a certain group of people. it would be better to call it out and to leave it out there. the second thing that i think is really important is we are seeing right now -- think of the journalists. you would think they would have an interest in shining a light on everything, even digging in and maybe having some curiosity about other things. but instead we're seeing this rise of anti-speech activism in newsrooms in new york and d.c. they're cheerleading this sort of remember sorship, and i thin. what's going to happen? if we start regulating these private social media companies, we're going to -- it's becoming a slippery slope. you put another -- howard: it is, it is troubling. let me get to this other case where facebook barred the account of a small children's book publisher named bethany mandel. she was on fox business. >> there are woke people behind the screen at facebook, and they get these complaints, and they see, oh, it's books about ronald reagan and thomas sowell and amy coney barrett. that's offensive. howard: that was actually an fnc interview. a spokesman confirmed to me that this was a mistake and it's been up undone, but it seems like the mistakes always happen against people on the right. >> it definitely does. i think we -- [laughter] we know who runs these social media companies, we know who are the supposed neutral arbiterrer -- arbiters here. they're people on the left. look, i think this is a great example of the system working. bethny, who i love, went to twitter, called it out, it became this groundswell -- howard: right. but it became a big story in part because it was covered by fox. steve, we're out of time. great to see you as always. still to come, why the conviction of elizabeth holmes was a humiliation for tech. of stay with us. with chase security features, guidance and convenience, banking feels good. chase. make more of what's yours. aleve-x. it's fast, powerful long-lasting relief with a revolutionary, rollerball design. because with 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individual. i regard you as a visionary, next generation person. >> a health care pioneer is being compared to bill gates and steve jobs. this morning, elizabeth holmes is part of the new time 100 list just out. >> it's less expensive. the results are quicker -- >> yep. >> and if, in fact, it is widespread, you can have a huge impact on the health care system. >> that is our goal and our dream, yes. howard: the scam was finally exposed despite threatened lawsuits by wall street reporter john carry who on this program said this about the business journalists who dealt with holmes. >> she was outright lying to them, bald-faced lying to them again and again, and they didn't have any reason to think they were dealing with a pathological liar and a fraudster. howard: but for those in the media who lionized elizabeth holmes, this remains a huge embarrassment. cnn contributor mary cath katherine hamm recalled the awful shooting of congressional republicans at a baseball practice. hamm, who lived a block from the ballfield, covered that story but said the news vans left in 48 hours. she was challenged on the level of coverage posting a screen shot of her doing a report, and after a couple of rounds, she hit back. got jack to say about cuomo and too bin, but gotta fact check me when he's got nothing. the suspension of jeffrey toobin for pleasuring himself on a zoom call. i'll say this, mary katherine hamm can sure stand up for herself. it's become almost a daily occurrence, media figures announcing they've got breakthrough covid infections. whoopi goldberg, jimmy fallon, geraldo rivera and dana perino. >> i have two vaccines, i was boosted, i also got a flu shot and i spent the whole entire week of christmas sick as can be. two negative rapid tests, one positive tests and then a negative test in order to come back to work. howard: steve doocy told viewers what happened to him over the holidays. >> we gathered together as a family and then we -- a lot of people trade gifts. 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