not please the white house. the ag named david weiss the trump appointed u.s. attorney in delaware who has been investigating hunter biden four years has a special counsel giving them greater powers and more independence. david weiss requested the move. suddenly, constant coverage of hunter biden despite the media obsession with donald trump. hunter biden's plea-bargain on tax and gun charges spirit in him jail time fell apart. now weiss will probably take it to trial. even my devon archer testified next week that vice president joe biden joined 20 speaker phone calls with hunter and his associates and said the vp dying twice at a fancy georgetown restaurant for the first time the hunter scandal is getting too big for the media to ignore. i am howard kurtz, this is the "mediabuzz". ♪. howard: the media has been a prime target as the pundits are debating whether hunter biden story deserves more attention and now that question reverberates even more loudly. >> this is an investigation, it is a cover-up, biden's attorney general, merrick garland handpicks the same delaware prosecutor who has been covering for the biden for the last 25 years. >> you would think the republicans would be thrilled by this news. no this republican party, you would think they would get a special counsel for hunter biden, alright, giddyup, we won. weiss role is to write a report to exculpate president biden. he spent all of these years steering the investigation away from biden. you are absolutely disgusting if you are going to forget this type of behavior. i say that to the republican establishment. there is to standards of justice here, hunter biden's laptop, and over here we are talking about in illegal scheme. howard: in new mexico the other day the president invited fox peter doocy to a restricted area. >> there is a testimony now where one of your son's former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business. >> we never talk business. i knew you would have a lousy question. >> why is that a lousy question. >> it is not true. >> joining us now to analyze the coverage from nashville clay travis the founder and cohost of syndicated radio show and author of american playbook, a guy for winning back the country from the democrats. in los angeles leslie marshall, the radio host and fox news contributor. most media conservatives are ripping merrick garland for making u.s. attorney david weiss the special counsel even though this is probably headed to trial. hunter could see jail time and with all special counsel's is probably going to drag on for months as they look at new avenues. that will coincide with president biden's relation campaign. >> i think the challenge here, doing a special counsel with the right decision. 100% the right decision. the problem is we saw the sweetheart deal, we saw the rig job that they tried to ram through as it pertains to the plea agreement. if the judge in delaware had not asked the most basic questions including whether or not was this dealing with the tax fraud issues and t as well as the gun charges but also for failure to register as a foreign agent potentially going forward and she saw and uncovered there was in fact an attempt to basically sweep everything hunter biden had done under the rug for no consequential punishment. if this u.s. attorney david weiss would agree to this deal i think there is a concern that the rig job still may be in effect even though the special counsel was the right move and we should've had it years ago. howard: let me redo my favorite sentence to the new york times coverage and that we will get to a question. he says the hunter allegations may even break out of the conservative echo chamber to the general public which is largely not paid much attention until now. the mainstream media have not covered it until now. but on this question of david weiss, trump appointed, republicans have said they want a special counsel. clay said he wanted a special counsel. as a negative reaction suggests that no matter what merrick garland did that it would be a lot of criticism? >> you when the new car. yes. absolutely. marsha blackburn put it in writing that she wanted the special counsel in the first conservative out-of-the-box complaining about a special counsel. by the way appointment of a special counsel does not necessarily lead to jail time whether hunter biden or anyone else. republican or a democrat president family member. here is the problem it is not that it was not covered. when i knew we were going to talk about this i went back and look to every single network, all the major networks have covered this. when we look at the cable network such as msnbc which is largely liberal audience that a been complaining about how much coverage they had on msnbc and cnn there had been repeated interviews whether of james comer for other people involved in this very heavily outspoken, jay tapper, i think what it comes down to, we hate donald trump more, recovering him more. when you look at and look back, donald trump has across-the-board more ratings for people than hunter biden read one it is a business, to, the voters don't care left or right about hunter biden, they care about the top issues, this is a kitchen table voter issue across-the-board whether you're a democrat, republican, independent or haven't decided to claim. howard: i'm sure a claim i take issue. i'm not saying with any coverage at all a comparison with what happened on friday and now i think it would be possible to ignore. why do you think the mainstream media, let's just say went pretty lightly on these allegations against hunter biden? >> i think because they initially covered the 51 intelligence agents who tried to claim that there was absolutely no truth to the hunter biden laptop in the first place. remember they said they had all the hallmarks of russian disinformation which allowed joe biden to be able to break out in the debate. the idea that there was absolutely no suggestion that his son was involved in any way and improper behavior. and the laptop was not real. remember this is a function with bare minimum of coverage. msnbc, abc, cbs, and the washington post in the new york times. over half according to a recent poll of democrat voters still believe the lie that the hunter biden laptop was in fact russian disinformation. i think what happened the media bought the lie, they did not cover it they argued that the exposé was trumped up and not reality. they covered it up on twitter and facebook and fbi refused to acknowledge the truth which acknowledge the laptop was real and they knew it was real. all of that now there is an embarrassment with all the connections that actually exist between hunter biden and all of the foreign entities that we are paying as well i believe joe biden because the new argument now, joe biden himself had nothing to do with it. and there's a lot of evidence joe biden was very involved in hunter biden's business deal. howard: let's get into that in a moment. leslie do you think there would've been the same level of coverage on msnbc for an example if this was a republican president and his family talking about shell companies, millions of dollars. have a hard time believing that. >> any network is going to do what's best for their bottom line, they are a business and the bottom line dictated by ratings, that's how they get the advertising dollars. any network is going to put out the story and going to appeal to their base to their viewers certainly do i think they will be more coverage on msnbc if this were donald trump and one of his kids, probably. like i said i'm a liberal democrat and the people on my side of the aisle of watching msnbc have been complaining that msnbc has been covering it in a couple more points. even steve ducey played peter doocy, his dad said on our network, they've not shown joe biden profited personally or broken any rules, what law did he break i think this is a question even some republican voters asked hunter biden is not running for office, he is the son of somebody who is running an office and running for office. it is clear that on my side of the aisle there trying to use hunter biden to take down joe biden to have an excuse to impeach because republicans have been promising kevin mccarthy has to deliver an impeachment if you put us in power and if we have control of the house we are going to impeach. howard: i don't think there's any question even people on the liberal side the hunter biden engaged in a lot of sleazy backbreaking, he admitted and then e-mail that they were interested in his last name he knew what was going on. he knew what was going on over the speaker phone calls. when you have devon archer the former friend and business part under partner testifying vp biden got on 20 speaker phone calls with hunter and his associates. he didn't talk business he talked about the weather. the fact that you can get the vice president of the united states on the phone repeatedly is the way washington works is an indication that you have clout. >> i run a lot of businesses, i sold one to fox two years ago, do not many times my dad has been on a business call in my entire career, 0. and i bet almost everybody out there in less than business with her dad, their dad has not been on the phone to talk to their business partners 20 times. i think this is important, the new argument, hunter may have been sleazy as you said, hunter may have been a criminal but his dad was not connected at all. there are actually a ton that criminal allegations that joe biden was involved. i think that this is my theory when joe biden got passed over for hillary clinton, i think he knew his political career believed his critical career was over let's turn on the money spigot it's time to cash in on my career because i'm probably not going to have a career going forward, politically but start making money. 10% for the big guy, the text message, the whatsapp from hunter biden threatening his chinese business partners if he did not get paid immediately there would be hell to pay while saying he was sitting next to his dad. the 20 calls as you mentioned, breeze must prosecutor being fired, the russian oligarch patriot half-million dollars left off any list of impropriety there, there's tons of evidence that the biden department of justice has covered up, look at the testimony under oath of the two irs agent, all that is credible far more credible than russia collusion or anything about the steele dossier with the media covered by crazy. howard: i had to get a break and i want to make the point, you said yours was a theory and there is no evidence despite some claims that money actually went to joe biden, if there is and is over. >> hold on, the evidence is there, it's not cooperated, i just laid out the evidence. howard: i will be happy to spend the whole show when it once it's cooperated. the 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candidacy is a vanity project. >> he is trading and on camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict on personal gain and fame. i have listened to him. i know him. i have no idea like anyone thinks he should be president. what i do know is, his candidacy is an embarrassment. howard: clay, whatever you think of the kennedys to watch 70 like that denounce rfk junior is kind of sad. >> it is. i give credit to rfk junior, we had about the radio show. i think he believes wholeheartedly in the ideas that he is advocating for and i think there is a substantial percentage of both democrat, republican and independent voters that dubai again to what he is selling. he's been as high as 20% i think in the democrat primary. i even think this may be a little bit crazy, i don't know what you guys think. it would not stand me if trump considered rfk junior as a running mate. i think the antiestablishment vibe of rfk junior and trump in 16 duck tales, that does not seemed like a crazy idea to me. howard: he has a lot of republican fans. he's privately complained to his relatives but told cnn i bear them no will ill families can disagree and love each other. >> that is true. i have people in my family that are democrat, married to republican and they certainly disagree although my cousin did make her husband sleep on the couch when he voted for trump. i am from massachusetts and without saying how, my family knows the kennedys. i went to the compound but i was a kid. the kennedy family is a close family. their protective family and very protective family not only of its members but of its name. one of the problems is not what rfk junior is saying about vaccines to start. it was the anti-somatic rhetoric that came out that was hurtful to the young man jfk's grandson whose father is jewish, his mother not still married to their dad, married a jewish man and this is a stain on the name, things that are coming out of his mouth are a stain on the name. also they are largely very strong supporters of the democrats, the democratic party in a democratic president. howard: i knew jfk junior and ted kennedy when he had his losing bid for president. this is not being about a bad candidate. abbottabad candidates. they say vaccines cause autism, wi-fi causes cancer, antidepressants cause mass shootings. you seem to like rfk junior but a lot of scientists say he is spreading things that are not true. >> leslie said he was a stain on the kennedy name. teddy kennedy killed a woman and managed to continue to serve in the senate for decades. you might disagree with rfk junior's opinion on anything under the sun as you just laid out, that is fine that is how marketplace of ideas work. so far as i'm aware he has not killed anyone. if you get to talk about anybody being a stain on the kennedy name, i think you have to start with teddy kennedy and i haven't heard anybody say the innocent girl that my uncle killed deserved better but they are upset because rfk junior is saying things that they don't like while running for president, give me a break. i know rfk doesn't get a share fake from the media. and there have been others that say he's an embarrassment. the kennedys were like one of the royal families of politics. and he wasn't the only one that did bad or questionable stuff and only one is going to play out in public. >> they don't like that, also if you are some of the family members they speak to, what is the motivation. let's be honest, i am not a betting person, all go to vegas and that my house rfk's knock wood to be the nominee read all that my kids. it's not going to happen and he's not running for vice president. i say that because you can say on the republican side there are people single digits under knock wood to be the nominee, they have the chance of being on the ticket. rfk is not going to be on the ticket. others say he's doing what ralph nader did bringing attention to their selves and bringing attention to their belief and their causes and things that may benefit them financially which causes that they are aligned with. howard: leslie, clay travis, thank you for joining us. up next president biden ms. speakes when it comes to what he's doing on climate change in the white house has to clean things up. ♪ the nelsons. and the caggianos. run with us and start telling your story. ♪ ♪ we're reinventing our network... ...with smarter, more efficient routes... ...so you can deliver more value to your customers. fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. conquer financial reports. conquer 2000-word essays. conquer a 6 course menu. rule over what you write with the smooth writing, longest lasting gel ink pen in america. do you g2? howard: president biden gave an exclusive interview in the weather channel and here's how it went. >> were you prepared to declare a national emergency with respect to climate change be back i've already done that. we conserved more land, we rejoin the paris climate accord with passenger hundred $60 billion climate controlled facility. >> you already declared that national emergency. >> yes. >> joining us now mike emanuel chief correspondent, stephanie abrams of the weather channel is no declaration of declaring emergency but she had the instinct to follow up. it was an awkward moment and biden had to backtrack and later the white house. >> politics one-on-one if you haven't done something don't take credit for doing it because you're based that cares deeply about climate, you reminded them that you didn't do it and they said why didn't you do it mr. president. it irritates people who are passionate about climate and it's probably not a good reminder going into campaign season. >> the reason they did not do it businesses don't like all the regulations but biden can legitimately claim to have passed the biggest climate spending package anywhere in history. why did he try to fudge and say he's practically done it. >> i think some of those politicians play fast with the facts so they want to say of course i've done that, of course i'm the climate president. but then when people can fact check like you it is a problem. >> it did not take me very long to do that in all honesty. howard: let me turn to a law that the president signed put his signature on it is a loll of the land late last year and what he now says. >> i'm about to sign the inflation reduction act in the law. howard: okay, now it was off-camera, the president said i wish i hadn't called it that. it has less to do with reducing inflation that it does with providing alternatives and economic growth, at the time he said the savings from this law would be indistinguishable from 0 in many of the media said they mocked the idea that said you slapped it on and it doesn't have much to do with inflation. >> is a moment of candor from the president that called adina a lot of americans are going to the grocery store and gas station and they're not feeling inflation is down, it may not be growing as fast as it was at the worst baha'i prices come down at the grocery store, i don't really think so and the gas station the prices are backup. if you're telling people this is the inflation reduction act, doesn't reduce inflation, you have a problem. >> it's not that it failed wasn't designed to reduce inflation it was designed to spend a lot of money on climate and other administration priorities. i will echo you and say you have a problem but i guess it was a moment of candor. mike emanuel, next on "mediabuzz", donald trump lashes out over his three indictments cutting into his campaign time, why did d.o.j. secretly subpoena his twitter account. ♪(e ♪ le screeches) (energetic music plays) there he is! it's right there! ♪ oh, he's straight ahead. he's straight ahead. straight ahead. go go go. ♪ cover more ground in the kia sportage turbo-hybrid. kia. movement that inspires. oh, booking.com ♪ somewhere, anywhere... ♪ ♪ i just want to lie motionless in a 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law, elections, these people should consider group therapy. the real jack smith is another attack dog in the kennel of antitrust prosecutors tried to make a name for himself. howard: joining us in miami gianno caldwell fox news political analyst and in chicago olivia beaver's who covers capitol hill for politico. maybe we can sneak in group therapy. this is the first time since a barrage of indictments that i have seen donald trump who would know for a long time look agitated in public, usually he might be privately frustrated or angry but he is a great this display mixed with humor but perhaps he realizes these cases will seriously cut into the time he has to campaign. >> no question about it too seriously cut. i don't think is just trump your intended bio but i think a lot of people that are watching us right now are irritated by it. when they see senator joe biden who had all these classify documents in his garage who should not of had all those classified documents in his garage seemingly get a pass versus donald trump. they kick in the door with the fbi guy weaning and taking everything that they can. it seems like there is to systems of justice, one applied to trump which seems like he's getting all the hard-hitting booze by the fbi but joe biden and his family are necessarily receiving that. i will tell you when it comes to this indictment, i know that it has certainly put some rutgers boosters onto the trump campaign before the indictment started hitting donald trump is raising about $129,000 per day now almost $800,000 per day. >> it's clearly boosted his candidacy. trump with all the other candidates was in iowa, he asked the question of my reporter, let me play it for you. >> is any chance you would take a plea deal. >> you don't ever take a plea deal. it's a wiseguy question. howard: will you take a plea deal, is that a wiseguy question? >> he still argues that his phone call with athens burger was in georgia, he was an elected official. howard: can you find the 11780 votes. he calls out a perfect phone call but you know as you were pointing out some of the cases are getting under his skin and he's been going after sandy willis the person looking into his actions in georgia and she is expected to be bringing maybe more than a dozen charges against him according to reports so he is going after some of her credibility or at least trying to before the charges even come forward. howard: trump is being trump, he calls jack smith for example he's gone beyond the range he's a sick puppy and now there is a question based on the judge's ruling friday whether the things he said will trigger any restrictions in the various cases. sense you mentioned fani willis the fulton county in georgia. let me play what the former president said about her the other day. >> they say there's a young woman, a young racist in atlanta, very racist and i guess they say that she was after a certain gang and she ended up having an affair with the head of the gang or a gang member. this is a person that wants to indict me. howard: i looked into this and the person questioning, she was not prosecuting him four years ago she was a defense lawyer for him and he was in the "rolling stone"'s inadequate relationship not an intimate relationship. should the president of former president be more careful or is it fine for him to attack whoever he wants to attack be more careful making the charges. >> when has trump been careful about making charges about anyone. i think donald trump is going to do what he's going to do it if it plays well for his base he's going to say and make those comments. if there were any truth to it it would make sense for him to mention it if he believed it was going to help him in terms of changing the look of her prosecuting him is and make it seem she is born of various. i don't have any evidence to support his claims and i would never make those kinds of statements and i don't think anyone else should but we do know who donald trump is he will do whatever he can to defend himself. sometimes he may say things that are not necessarily true. >> he made an attack ad against fani willis, let's play a little bit of that. >> bidens newest atlanta da fani willis so incompetent on her watch, violent crimes have exploded. howard: i've never seen anything like that, i've seen a million attack ads and campaigns but he's attacking a prosecutor who may bring charges this week, what is your thought on that. >> is unusual as we were talking about this is donald trump he is someone who strikes when you think anyone is coming after him whether they, if he feels under attack is going to find a way to hit them back, that is what has endeared him with some of the base, that's what they saw a massive fighter it doesn't surprise me that he is going after the people that are looking at him. howard: he changes the rules. >> we also gotta keep in mind, the ads that we are seeing, he's talking to potential jurors as well, he is attacking the credibility you will be prosecuting him in the particular court cases and other commercials come out of his back and how joe biden's family and all these things that happen in laying out for an audience that may not necessarily see these things to the mainstream media lens he's communicating to the audiences, very directly and that's why the reason we see the poll numbers go up in terms of people being asked and they think joe biden is corrupt and should be impeached, those numbers have gone to the roof since these allegations came out and this is another mechanism that they are using to get the message out to the masses. howard: trump is a huge amount of coverage even with the hunter biden story on friday. i am a little short here but let me ask you olivia, why would jack smith secretly subpoena trump's twitter account and they drag their feet and got find $350,000. there might have been a few drafts that trumpeted but overall i don't get it what does d.o.j. have to gain. >> we don't know what he was after but we do know in the indictment he refers to a lot of donald trump's tweets as part of the case he is presented against him. like you said there might be drafts or dm's, communication, the indictment made it sound like he is moving forward, jack smith is moving forward with the case and presumably donald trump is when issuing the tweets not an aide or someone else. that might also be somebody to factor into that. howard: i don't think he types it in the phone but they don't like donald trump. before we go ask theo's has published data indicating this to your point that each new indictment, the process is still going bonkers but it is less dramatic than the first one. the third one, the public interest is diminishing a little bit. let me get a break, ron desantis dumps his campaign manager in the left-leaning media celebrate in ohio vote for abortion rights. ♪ the day you get your clearchoice dental implants makes every day... a "let's dig in" 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polls, desantis support today is half of what it was in january. howard: to me the classics example of the media negativity with ron desantis he's there with his family that i was state fair yesterday or on friday. the washington post lead he got interrupted when a plane flew over saying be likable ron hecklers as opposed to focusing on his actual message. >> this is one of the more interesting stories i think i moved from california to right here in miami, florida because of ron desantis leadership and following the science and keeping us all safe but free. i gotta tell you at 31% in march according to real clear politics average and i do need that 50%, not 50 but 15 this is a terrible set of circumstances for any candidate especially someone who so many people including myself had high hopes for. what i begin to realize, breaking news unless donald trump actually goes to jail or something happens healthwise and there so many months out and looks like he's good to be the republican nominee. as a result, ron desantis is going to become out damage not with more people knowing his name and saying i like trump more and although for him but is coming out very damaged it's really weird. howard: olivia, firing your campaign manager, not that big of deal ronald reagan did and he won the presidency. what i don't get why is there so much negative media focus on ron desantis when candidates like tim scott and nikki haley are well behind him according to the polls. >> i think following there is good to be extra levels of scrutiny with the presidential race. he's had three staff shakeups, for him is unfortunate in terms of how it's overshadowed his campaign. then he had a hard launch with his attempt to do it in twitter spaces which did not go particularly well. howard: you made some mistakes, no question. >> also, your scene the campaign is not translating into the polls, his message he is trump without the chaos. the voters at the moment don't seem to be fighting, tim scott and other candidates are getting closer to him and number two. the question is is he going to be able to pivot or use the debate to refresh his campaign and all remains to be seen. >> we keep hearing the word reboot, i want to play the soundbite, ron desantis talking to nbc dosha burns talked about abortion and you know in florida he signed into law a six-week man, let's play it. >> i would not allow what a lot of the left wants to do which is override pro-life protections throughout the country all the way up until the moment of birth and some instances which is fantasized. >> i got a pushback, that is a misrepresentation of what is happening. at 1.3% of abortions happen at 21 weeks or higher. >> what you make of that exchange? >> they are going to be attacked that anybody wants to protect life. especially a republican. but i do think what ron desantis, part of his argument, i could be trump without the chaos but more electable then trump when it comes to a fight against joe biden and we continue to see that faye day in and day out whether it be on the abortion argument which i think a lot of conservatives have said we are going to stay out of it as much as possible because we saw what they did in the midterms. although were going to protect life of course or when you thing about what happened in florida schools in the one line and it was one line in the entire curriculum which seem to put slavery as a positive and attack people like byron donalds for saying no, we need to change this. it's becoming a slippery slope where ron desantis and trump is looking better and better to a lot of folks across the country especially conservatives but even some independence as well. >> getting sidetracked into the slavery was not a wise move. msnbc, cnn covered very heavily of victory for the abortion -related measures in the middle of the summer in ohio, fox barely covered it there was a sober tone celebrated on the other side. my question to you how big of a story was the thing in ohio. >> it was something that we were tracking. basically there was a boat about ohio's constitutional amendment threshold, it went from 50 - 60%. democrats were tying it to abortion but in part because republicans had also tied it to abortion. franklin rose, the secretary of state running for the senate in ohio, he said that they were linked and now democrats are saying they are linked as well. i knew republicans were upset with larose, they said they wanted the constitutional threshold to be separate. but that is not always how things pan out. howard: it was a story that the democrats liked. we got a go, olivia beaver's and gianno caldwell. the orioles announcer simon is sold in a victory for lisa marie presley's daughter. ♪ but now i'm working for schwab. i love to help people understand the world through their lens and invest accordingly. you can call us christmas eve at four o'clock in the morning. we're gonna always make sure that you have all of the financial tools and support to secure your financial future. that means a lot for my community and for every community. ♪ howard: baltimore orioles have the best record in the american league so everybody should be happy. nope. orioles announced kevin brown said something that wasn't even negative. it was a prepared graphic referencing past losses to the tampa bay rays in order to talk up the recent progress. >> the orioles have a chance to do something special today, they had lost their last 15 series here at tropicana field. howard: the orioles suspended kevin brown for making reference to past losses. in got whacked by other major league baseball announcers. yankees yankees announcer michael k. >> this make the orioles look so small and insignificant and minor-league, you embarrass the guy for no reason. and most importantly you embarrass yourself, what you did is disgraceful to the business, disgraceful. >> these announcers work for the team but if the clubs want them to be robots who never order a negative syllable there diluting their own product. kevin brown returned friday and praise the franchise. elon musk and mark zuckerberg appeared to the endlessly hyped cage fight and elon musk said adobe in epic location in italy. he talked to the italian prime minister, twitter and facebook will lifestream the event, the championship will not be involved but there is always a but, musk says he spent three hours on mri machine and may need mri surgery for his right shoulder. i'm not sure this will ever happen but the tech tightens know-how to jenna publicity. the private equity firm kkr has bought simon & schuster the storied american publisher, it is a classy outfit that the published couple in my books made over a billion dollars last year. the question i would ask how much is an equity firm or merely concerned with making money going to care about the core mission of putting out books. >> things got ugly when elvis presley's only child died, lisa marie presley was 54 when she succumbed to cardiac arrest in january which led to a court fight between her daughter riley keough in her grandmother priscilla presley elvis his ex-wife. priscilla challenged lisa marie signature on her will butter court ruled riley should oversee the estate even including the graceland. priscilla will be paid as a special advisor to the estate and she will be buried at graceland. riley keough told magazine she named her new baby to below storm after elvis' hometown and mississippi. barbie has surpassed $1 billion in ticket sales, those ticket sales don't include me. the movie has been a cultural phenomenon we sought we would let you know. that is it for this edition of "mediabuzz". i'm howard kurtz. three special councils to worry about so you don't have to. you can subscribe to my podcast "mediabuzz" reader, join the millions of people downloading this thing, you can get it added free if you do it apple itunes. we are back here next sunday. 11 eastern. the only media that announces 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