Politics may serve time in prison. A 32yearold man molesting a 14yearold girl is disgusting and should transend politics. These acts allegedly took place in 1979 and the first time she discloses it is now. Howie President Trump, Mitch Mcconnell and others say moore should quit the race if the allegations are true. Four women say judge moore pursued them while they were teenagers. President trump says he believes Vladimir Putin is sincere in denying election hacking. Louis c. K. Admits Sexual Misconduct after allegations by several women. A stunning account of how Harvey Weinsteins detectives tried to intimidate journalists who were hot on his trail. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The Washington Post story on Alabama Republican Roy Moore is based on a series of interviews with a 14yearold who says roy moore accosted her. The first time was kissing. The second time he took off her clothes. He took off his own clothes. I have not been guilty of Sexual Misconduct with anyone. These allegations came just four weeks before the general election of september 1. September of september 12. Why now. Howie joining us to analyze the coverage. Mollie hemingway, Juan Williams and erin mcpike. Four women who dont know each other. Reporters came to them. One said she was 14 at the time and she voted for donald trump. Mollie this is an important story. But this is a media environment where other stories have fallen apart if it was three years ago when the cover story was written about a gang rape at uva. They rerexively they reflexively accepted the story and it came out to be untrue. There is a different standard on that. But people are used to Sexual Assault not being as credible as they are first presented. The Duke Lacrosse Team was accused of a gang rape. The people accused were actually declared innocent. There is a media environment where people arent necessarily going to accept what they are told by the media. Howie the Washington Post talked to two friends who she told she was dating an older man. On the radio with Sean Hannity Roy Moore said this. Do you remember dating girls at that time . Not generally, no. If i did, i am not going to dispute anything. Howie that was not a hard denial. Juan so much of what he said to hannity was emphatic. Then he said that. I think what you just played up produced that into their mind what roy moore is disputing. Its not okay to be going out with teenaged girl. Howie there is this tweet from roy moore whose Senate Election battle is next month. The obamaclinton machines liberal media lap dogs Just Launched the most of vicious and nasty attacks on me. Erin the important thing with this story is you have all four of these women on the record. The post interviewed kaufman six times. They talked to the friends of the other women involved because they wanted the story to be airtight. That story is airtight. Howie i take your point that not every allegation is true. Some are defending moore but mostly not. They are saying he should quit the race. Mollie stories about Sexual Assault are not easy to report. There has been quite a bit of fervor about this story, not as much calm thought about it. But its a very difficult story and these are very serious allegations. Juan in the political context, the journal stories you cite, yes. But the loss of a republican seat to a democrat, and right now that race is very tight. And to say the democrats set this up to defeat roy moore, the problem is people are saying exactly how is she part of the machine. What is in her interest to expose herself to the criticism and allegations that she is part of the democrats at this point. She is a trump voter. Howie the post gave this story to breitbart. But then you have steve bannon, the chairman of breitbart saying this and harkening back to the fact it was the Washington Post who broke the access Hollywood Tape about donald trump. Is it just a coincidence that the bezos Washington Post did the access Hollywood Tape, and then hit the did on roy moore . Howie what do you make about this, since the post had broken the story about president obama. Erin i have seen campaigns try to get ahead of stories before, but not like that, to actually reveal everything in the story that is going to be coming out. Howie lets talk about selective outrage in the media. You have pundits denouncing roy moore. He has been removed from the state Supreme Court in alabama. Then democrats when they are accused of Sexual Misconduct, then they are saying the allegations are untrue. Mollie George Stephanopoulos pulled the original trick of going to breitbart when the Washington Free beacon had the story about him giving money to hillary clinton. But this is such a bigger context. People are pretending this is a genuine story. The Washington Post has taken a position of being in the opposition to the president. People are sceptical about the story itself. Its somewhat unfair because the story should stand or fall on its own merits. Erin to your question to molly that its based on partisanship, i take issue with that friday in colorado, a story about a state representative who is a democrat, who another state democratic representative accused of aggressively sexually harassing her. In the same story the democratic speaker of the house called for her resignation and she said i believe there should be extremely high standards of conduct for the state legislature. Howie there are exceptions. Mitch mcconnell didnt wait long before going after roy moore. With bill clinton and Monica Lewinsky many politicians and pundits made excuses for the president. This doesnt necessarily make the story untrue. You look at the evidence, the interviews with the four women. Do they have partisan motivation . Juan given roy moores evangelicals projection that he is a man of god and standing on the ten commandments, its difficult for people in the bible belt in alabama to make a decision here. When it comes to questioning the resistance, if you are looking at that story in and of itself in terms of the sourcing and people on the record. As a reporter, i have been a reporter for a long time, that story is pretty stuff. Howie the democratic mayor bill deblasio reelected to mayor of new york. When we come back, the media pouncing on the president s controversial comments about kim jongun and Vladimir Putin. Jongun and Vladimir Putin. Later, dana perino on the press howie President Trump is getting modest coverage of his trip to japan and south korea until this weekends tweet storm. Mollie hemingway, this is an unusual form of diplomacy. Mollie twitter just doubled its character count which i thought was a terrible idea. But its a perfect example how everyone hears donald trump differently depending on your perspective. I think the media issue is so many people in the media reside only in one camp. They only hear it as a threat and danger and dont hear it like so many other people in the world hear it. Howie President Trump doesnt speak in carefully scrubbed diplomatic phrases. Especially on twitter. Juan these are now official documents. Its in the just something got thrown out. Its real. And it comes from the commanderinchief and the leader of the free world. Yes, its funny in the schoolyard, but when im leader of the free world and he starts talking until these terms its a worry. Howie what the president had to say or didnt have to say about Vladimir Putin whom he met with at the Asian Pacific conference. He said to reporters, he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what they are saying he did. I believe when he says that he means it. He then tried taken in appearance with reporters to walk it back. President trump i said i believe he believes that. Thats important. I believe he believes he and russia did not meddle in the election. As to whether i believe it or not, i am with our agencies. Howie is this a misstep or miscommunication. Erin there is a lot of believing in there. I want to go back to this week. John kelly was asked about this by reporters on the trip. He said i tell my staff not to worry about this tweet. When sean spicer was press secretary he said the tweets speak for themselves and thats what Sarah Huckabee sanders says. Howie the transcript does suggest donald trump believes putin. People who heard the audio the inflection makes clear that wasnt his meaning. Mollie its also true that you see media respond to things he says or tweets and they overstate what they are saying. Its better to take a step back and look at the larger issue with russia. He did not its very difficult at a time like that. Howie another president said only haters and fools would be opposed to a Good Relationship with russia. Juan the thing is the context to the story is so important. We are in the midst of a parole to the extent and dangers of interest force in the American Election by russia. You think how is that possible given what the intelligence agents have said, his own cia director. This man has nuclear weapons. Howie most of president s do. Ahead, a bombshell report of Harvey Weinstein using private detectives to intimidate journalists investigating his conduct. County a deal well not approve in my administration because its too much concentration of power from the hands of too few. Howie reports that the Justice Department might be pressuring timewarner to sell off cnn. Is that true . There have been conflicting reports. Trump versus cnn. We know the president considers cnn to not have high journalist standards. The Justice Department in our reporting is putting pressure on them. The Justice Department wants at t to do this deal, creating a joint venture so the deal can go forward without warner and cnn in the package. Howie another version denied by the ceo of at t is that they offered to sell off cnn. Or sell off directv. Arent these sort of the normal kinds of concerns that come up in antitrust negotiations rather than a plot to get cnn to be sold . What is different about this is typically the Justice Department gets involved when two competitors are involved. In this case at t and timewarner arent direct competitors. This is what they call a vertical merger. The concern as we can deshine siefe decipher from the justie department. Saying we are not going to let you, if any other providers want questions. Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters it was she who did not want to have a q and a with reporters. Since previous administrations insisted on taking questions. Shannon the Barack Obama Administration had a similar situation where they did not take questions from the press in the First Press Conference. They learned from that, and they went to the mat on that going forward. Im sure this will not be the last time President Trump is in china. It sounds like its one of those common mistakes an administration makes early on when they dont know there is a way to pressure the chinese. Howie how much do you want to pressure the chain these on this when you need their help with north korea. Ahead. New testimony appears to knock down the most of salacious part down the most of salacious part of the trump dossier. My name is jeff sheldon, and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. Its great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize ive got a hundred orders i have to ship out. Shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. Its so much easier so now, were ready, bring on t. Shipstation. The number one ch of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get two months free. Howie the New York Times story on Sexual Misconduct by louis c. K. Has caused the cancellation of a story about an olderman pursuing a young girl. Everybody is a pervert. Im a pervert. Who cares. Howie the times quoted five women who said the comedian masturbated in front of them. He said people didnt want to hear it. I brought pain to my family, my friend, my children, and their mother. Netflix said it will no longer receive revenue from joint productions. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news just before the New York Times broke the story. Did he have much choice . This is an issue roiling the Entertainment Industry. Fx the next day canceled the louis c. K. Program and all the program he has an involvement with he will be taken off of. Howie it shows you the swiftness of the allegations in this environment. It took the New York Times which also broke the Harvey Weinstein story to get the women on the record, which is the key to any of these stories. Matt the louis c. K. Stories had been raw mored in the comedy circles for years. His comedy touches on this kind of rumor and sex talk. But women coming on the record to tell their stories. Its a very courageous thing these women did and that broke the tide. Howie there is a story in the Hollywood Reporter about Harvey Weinsteins detectives intimidating the accusers and journalists on the story. Is that your understanding of how he operated . Matt absolutely. It shows how this kind of behavior was kept under wraps for decades. These are former israelis hired to help Harvey Weinstein attack these potential accusers. They dug up dirt on various editors. He would try to do book deals with people to take them out of play. This is a very sophisticated and sinister in my opinion operation. Howie movie moguls would use bogus firms, contacting journalists and have it remain this secret . Matt i didnt know this was going on. I think a lot of people in the Entertainment Industry didnt know it was going on. Everybody i talked to in hollywood was shocked. We knew harvey had expensive lawyers. David bois is a 1,000 an hour attorney. They were very powerful and their job was the keep harvey out of the news in a negative contact. But we had no idea david bois who represented al gore in the recount was doing these kinds of thing. Howie david bois also argued the gay marriage in front of the Supreme Court. They are trying to stop the New York Times from publishing the Harvey Weinstein story. The times said we find this a betrayal of trust. Bois said he didnt know the details but he admits he made a mistake. Kevin spacey has been dumped from house of cards. More allegations against him, including a former boston tv anchor talk about an alleged Sexual Assault on her 18yearold son. To kevin spacey i want to say this, shame on you for what you did to my son. Howie when spacey goes off to sex rehab and he hasnt addressed any of these. Are the media justified in assuming he doesnt have a response and he must be guilty . We reached out on every one of these application instances and the fact he hasnt put out a statement is somewhat telling. A lot of the strategies for these people is to do one statement and they ask the original statement be included in the article. Harvey weinstein did that. The kevin spacey allegation is a serious one. There could be criminal charges against him. Police in a couple jurisdictions are looking into this. When you dont have much to say, thats when you dont do a statement. Howie a couple weeks ago kevin spacey was on top of the world. He had all these projects. I keep looking at the Hollywood Reporter and half of the page is these stories. Coming up, the media that pummeled sayfullpull pummele. Howie Sarah Huckabee sanders is starting to get the sean spicer treatment with a twist. Some pu some pundits are mock her appearance and her he nuns yaition while writing she is awful at this, which makes her an excellent fit. Then there is snl. Halloween is over but i see some of you are still in your journalist costumes. You deny any connection between the Trump Administration and the russian interest force. Howie i spoke earlier with dana perino, the cohost of the five and White House Press secretary for george w. Bush. White house press secretaries are always on the front lines. But some of the press are even cite sizing her appearance as in that snl clip. Does this go too far . Dana yes, of course. When