And i have the original statement, she was jolted backward and someone grabbed me tightly by the arm, yanked me down and i almost fell to the ground. I dont see that on the tape. We have the huge tape, the argument from the donald trump camp is no longer the Campaign ManagerCorey Lewandowski never touched the reporter Michelle Fields. Now, the argument is, well, the touching wasnt so bad. With two days until the wisconsin primary are the pundits getting pay back against donald trump . With all the tabloid charges and counter charges are the media covering this descent into the gutter or pushing it there . Thank you is something compelling with people seeking that much power who can affect your daily life when this are tabloid accusations made because when we talk about tabloids we are talking about distraction. It points to a coarse culture and eroded. This political season is reflecting that. My conversation with the ladies of out numbered. More negative emails on Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders on a winning streak. Is this being treated by the press as a real contest . This is media buzz and i am howard kurtz. The coverage of donald trump turned harshly negative after Florida Police filed a misdemeanor Battery Charge against the Campaign Manager, Corey Lewandowski, for grabbing Michelle Fields. The story is being fueled by a new security video and drum trumps criticism of the reporter. She said, by the way, she is not a baby. In her own words, i was just a momented backward. Well, she was standing there. Someone grabbed me tightly. Tightly . And yanked me down. She was not yanked, she did not have an expression. Initially, cory said he never touched her and that was not true. I dont think he knew her. Next day, Msnbcs Chris Matthews pressed donald trump on his pro life stance. Do you believe in punishment for abortion yes or no as a principle. There has to be some form of punishment. For the woman . Yeah, some form. The campaign was still clean that up and donald trump said this in an interview that aired today with cbs. I was asked as a hypothetical hypothetically, the laws are set now on abortion and that is the way they will remain until they are changed. You have talked about change, everything from libel to torture. The laws are set and we have to eleven it that way. Now they are rushing do clarify that statement the. We have amy holmes and kristen powers with usa today and Susan Ferrechio with washington examiner. Amy, the exchange teen donald trump and Chris Matthews, if it were legal, then women should be punished, retracting that quickly. An explosion of media coverage. Is that fair . It is fair. I give Chris Matthews credit for pressing donald trump on the question. I have interviewed donald trump in the past and it is hard to get him off the talking points but in the political arena he does not have many considered thoughts. Mean was a good interviewer when he is interviewing republicans. Now, when the candidate said the laws will stay the same meaning until he is president and appoints prolife judges. But the media that he misspoke and he is hostile to women and this is a huge mess for the g. O. P. Is the press take that too far . He has given them a lot to work with. It is true he is critical and says terrible things about everyone, men and women. But retweeting the picture of ted cruzs wife which he regrets doing, that is different than what he has been doing to the men because that is something for saying look at this women issue is not is pretty as my wife and women look at that and say, that is sexist, someone with an issue with women. Reminds them of an exboyfriend . It makes women feel like our most important quality is how we look and you are saying. It is not nice and it seems secretary sexist. I am pro life but that is way too many bridging too far. It is odd he would Say Something like that and not realize how explosive it is. I thought the questions by contribution math uses were fair but it fed criticism on both sides but fed the narrative that he has not through the issues. That is the important part. The media love to play gotcha with republican candidates on social issues like abortion and Chris Matthews did it in 2012 and George Stephanopolis did it with minimum romney talking about overturning an 50yearold thing preventing states from banning contra exceptions and matthews took trump down the same pat talking about punishment for abortion. He probably had never thought of it but it raceses the issue of, when is he going to start dud difficult start studying important issues for the country. He is unprepared and speaks off the cuff. What does it say of him as a candidate or someone to be president . Back to the column in the New York Times saying last time we spoke he leaked maureen dad, she gets him. And he admitted he made a mistake in retweeting the picture of heidi unflattering compared to his wife and then defaulting he is tougher on men than women. Donald trump has a pattern of attacking women based on appearance, ask rosie, and he has been attacking her for years and getting to the point of how the media is much more personal and much more aggressive with republicans on social issues than democrats, i found if you want to talk about the gutter for asking donald trump if he knew or dated any women who had an abortion, for someone who is supposed to be a prochoice that is about a right to privacy and she is implicating another woman for him to expose as someone who sought an abortion i thought it was obnoxious and not the type of question that pro choice people get, do you know someone who has had the procedure and what are the effects . The point is, you are pro life but if you have been coplicit in aint portion it raises some questions about your belief system if you are really pro life. The person is pro choice she would say, yes. But a question of, has the policy affected or influenced someone that you know. I thought it was inappropriate. That woman deserves private summit. In the interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday the question is are you in the process of blowing the campaign. It is a bad week for donald trump because of his own missteps but is this a sense of pay back from the media . For exposing him for the missteps, misstatements and now, maybe, there is a sense he is on the defensive. They would do what they are doing to any republican candidate. But fought to a democratic candidate . Maybe they would. Worst have to be someone they didnt like. The point is, someone did look county you can get into what happened in the Michelle Fields situation but the bottom line Corey Lewandowski should have apologized. Whether the story was accurate or not, what he did was inappropriate. He should have said, i am sorry, i did not mean to scare you and it wont happen again, ask for forgiveness that is the thing the media will cover if it were a democrat. The videos show what happened was certainly more than Corey Lewandowski said, he obviously did touch and grab her and in my view what she said about being then to the ground did not seem to be the case but more importantly for Corey Lewandowski is what donald trump said about her and whether that fueled the media narrative he can be. Difficult or hostile. I am a reporter who has been in so men of these most of my career stuck in a crowd trying to get the microphone to hear. Never, never has anyone laid a hand on me. That is. You draw the line there. He should not touch her whether she fell, did not fall, to grab her arm. That is where i stand on that. This is an issue not about gender an issue about the press. You do not item the press. You do not handle the press. To turn it into an attack against women does anyone think if it was a male reporter,er cory on not dot same thing . It is how they are bullying everyone, bullying the press and that is the big issue. The media has a right for be angry about that and question the Donald Trump Campaign and should be questioning him more. In defense of the press coverage donald trump is giving it more leg sitting on cnn trying to lit gatt the case in defense of Corey Lewandowski and i have to point out in the same week he said women should be punished he said Corey Lewandowski should be defended for putting his hands on women . Donald trump has dug his own grave. Putting hands on anyone. On that point, and it was fading until the legal charge was brought and the prosecutor down in florida is democrat, but there were 16 conservative female commentators who signed a petition urging trim trump to fire Corey Lewandowski over this incident including fox news contributors and cnn contributors and greta took issue with that. Lets listen. Corey lewandowski has not had a trial and they are calling for his head. Why they tried and convicted him. Second, east women has now shot herself in the foot. It could be a hard sell for each of the women now covering the election to say she is first. I dont know about that. They are commentators. I dont think this is an issue like an ideological issue but an issue we agree he should not have grabbed her. Afternoon the fact that, and, then, to not apologize but to engage in character assassination. It is fair to say what she said was not quite accurate but something bad did happen and they should have apologized. As a commentator you sign a petition and say someone should be fired is that stepping out of the role of analyst who may or may not like trump and. Law is a line. Are you saying what is happening or what ought to be happening . Are you an analyst of evens or advocate for a position and it is blurred constantly. I would not do that ever continue i agreed. It would be better if they had a press organization sending something about not sticking your happened on the press like that. Just the other day in front of the Turkish Embassy of the secret service saying this is america you do not grab the press or kick the press. It is important. The reason this matters is we are two difficulties before the wisconsin primary and ted cruz has a lead and if donald trump loses wisconsin all the criticisms in the media are going to be on steroids. And then another two week until the knock primary. We will get the trump point of view with Katrina Pierson, the trump spoke person. 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With philips lifeline you get fast, easy access to help 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Stay in your own home and keep doing whats important to you. Get a philips lifeline today. While the negative stories swirl around donald trump we have Katrina Pierson from dallas, the donald trump spokesperson. Do you believe the media are pushing a theme that donald trump is hostile to women . Absolutely but we have then as republicans going up against the assumed nominee on the democrat side, Hillary Clinton, this is the narrative they would try to push regardless. They are starting early because they know that mr. Trump is on the way to win the nomination despied what everyone is saying in washington, dc and the beltway about receiving the delegates, his support is committed at 80 now. If he maintains the current support he will lockup the nomination. Do you see this as bias against republicans . Or is it an effort by the froze slow trump down or take him down after eight months of contentious relationships, contentious relations between donald trump and the media . There is a huge media bias and the republican establishment who are helping the media in the process not understanding that the same thing is going to happen no matter would the republican nominee is. To give an example, we have seen questions asked to republican candidates that are never asked of democrat candidates. Ranch, in the Chris Matthews, when is the last time someone asked Hillary Clinton about hypothetical states of abortion . Speak of that interview since you brought it up, trump now said that you now say that he misspoke when he answered the hypothetical question if abortion were illegal, should women be punished and the campaign clarified that. Do you think the press is refusing to take this. And just repeating it. It is worse than that. They are not discussing the context of the question. It was hypothetical. Abortion is legal in this country. It is not the context it was being asked. I have seen on other networks, cnn and msnbc when they talk about this or in the headlines they say that mr. Trump said he wanted women to be punished for an abortion. Period. The context is left out. I have to say, at the same time, donald trump has said a couple of times this was a convoluted exchange but msnbc cut part of it and msnbc said it is not true the air of the exchange was as it happened. You can see if it is msnbc or cnn, is the constitutional reporting not the interview. They are cutting out the cop t of the proposed hypothetical ban on abortion. That is the part they are runnings they have cut it out to make it look like donald trump wanted to punish women for an abortion. A it was the later reporting. All the reporting. Briefly on the dustup between Corey Lewandowski and Michelle Fields regardless of who is right and wrong would it be better if donald trump were more gracious toward a reporter who felt agrieved . I am not sure. We can say that in hindsight but this is another antitrump group that pushed this narrative remember, this is not something that happened and was immediately reported. It took days after a discussion and after a narrative was created on twitter for the woman to file charges against the Campaign Manager. So it is another orchestrated attack to try to continue the narrative. I have half a minute, what about the notion when donald trump had the big lead and should be trying to unify the party he keeps punching or counter punching, using twitter and, still, trafficking in the insults that got him to where he is but not the right tune for a republican frontrunner . Trump is mr. Trump, not politically correct and it is one of the biggest drivers of the campaign. He does call it like he sees it. Moving forward he is going to continue to make the decisions. At the same time, he has been attacked from 16 sides of sunday and from the media, the opposition, you name it, he is fighting back against everyone. To sit back and assume we as a campaign are supposed to take incoming from all sides and not respond . That not going to happen. I wasnt suggesting that. Good to see you, Katrina Pierson, thanks for joining us. Frank luntz on saturday night live, joining the assault on donald trump and ted cruz used the media like a love fest and some anchors push back. If youre going to make a statement. Make sure its an intelligent one. The allnew audi a4, with available virtual cockpit. Afternoon you both have a perfect driving record. Perfect. No tickets. No accidents. That is until one of you clips a food truck, ruining your perfect record. Yeah. Now you would think your Insurance Company would cut you some slack, right . 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That is what critics missed i have asked senator ted cruz people every week and said i will get on the plane and do it face and face and now he has appeared twice on media buzz and felt he was treated fairly and said he could do it again. We have tried john kasich and we had the problem with marco rubio who appeared once. Trump said yes, again and again and the candidates who say yes get more air time than those would say no. Is there a price for interviewing donald trump . After the wisconsin radio host has a conte