a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there s some anti-government sentiment. howard: it s a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they d eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn t given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted posted on social media where anyone could see it. so who, exactly, is responsible? more on this ahead with veteran national security reporter glenn greenwald. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ron desan us the just signed a 6-week ban on abortion in florida tweeting out a single picture after 11:00 at night. the governor s quiet move came as a ruling by a federal judge in texas again put
efforts mainly from the pro-choice viewpoint, and that s generating plenty of television session isments. segments. you may have seen a bunch of anecdotal stories, we re trying to see women of child-bearing age are getting denied access to medication. the woman who was toll she needed to fill two diapers with blood. abortion access post-roe was going to help them connect with american voters? well, instead over the past 24 hours they ve revealed themselves as not just out of touch, but, frankly, ghoulish. a kansas city hospital temporarily required a approval from a pharmacy before dispensing medications used to stop post-partum bleeding. democrats are claiming women with ectopic pregnancies a are no longer receiving medical care. more than half population not being able to make decisions when not even half of this body has a uterus. there s human issues at stake here. there are a lot of people unhinged in the pro-abortion movement. howard: it s really goi
howard: the washington post all but fingered the man who posted a massive haul of u.s. intelligence documents. the next day the fbi arrested 21-year-old guardsman jack teixeira who was trying to impress his friends in a chat room. national security spokesman john kim kirby said the media shouldn t touch this top secret material. this is information that has no business in the public domain. it has no business if you don t mind me saying on the pages of, front pages of newspapers or on television. howard: joining us now from brazil, glenn greenwald, who hosts a nightly show on rumble. i want to start with jack kirby s admonition to the media before the leaker was arrested. is it reasonable to ask people not to publish when the sufficient is on social media and access to the folks around the world? of course not. it s already out in the public. but i think the bigger point, howie, is one of the things we have to realize is the u.s. government abuses its secrecy
a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there s some anti-government sentiment. howard: it s a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they d eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn t given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted posted on social media where anyone could see it. so who, exactly, is responsible? more on this ahead with veteran national security reporter glenn greenwald. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ron desan us the just signed a 6-week ban on abortion in florida tweeting out a single
some additional gun control in the wake of all these mass shootings? that s definitely true. but i also think in this terrible, horrific, god awful shooting in tennessee, you had a trans shooter carrying out a massacre at a christian school. for the media that obsesses with narratives, that s not a their i they want to promote, not a narrative they want to delve into. a their iftive they really love is young african-american men supposedly being disenfranchised s. so the shooting itself disappears relatively quickly, and we have more of an obsession with these guys which, again, to me, makeses it even more outrageous. howard: right. rich lowry, lucy caldwell, thanks very much. ahead, glenn greenwald on why news outlets are trying to find the leaker of that massive down load.