in boston, where biotech innovates daily and our doctors teach at harvard medical school, and where the physicians doing the world-changing research are the ones providing care. there s only one mass general brigham. this is the worst case of coverage of a criminal trial and more than half a century that i have been observing media obsessions with criminal trials including o.j. simpson. it is the worst i have seen. legal expert speaking out of the media coverage of kyle rittenhouse trial and verdict this is house judiciary chair jerry nadler all of our federal review of the jury s decision despite president biden saying he stands by what the jury has
howard: in the days before a kenosha jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse, judge bruce schrader unloaded on the coverage. when i talked about problems with the media when in this trial started, you re there in part because of grossly irresponsible handling of what can comes out of this trial that s really quite frightening. howard: joining us now from new york, alan dershowitz, author of the book the case for vaccine mandates. you were ripping the coverage saying that cnn and other networks were acting like vigilantes. explain. this is the worst case of coverage of a criminal trial in more than a half century that i have been observing media obsessions with criminal trials including the o.j. simpson case.
line of inquiry but that was quite a while ago. i want to talk about media obsessions. the so-called mosque, the islamic center three blocks from ground zero. how did the press allow that to chew up weeks and weeks of air time? one of the ways was president obama s reaction to it. in the very beginning he talks about freedom of religion, and then all of a sudden he sort of flip-flops that. i can see that level of coverage. i think that s really important. but i also think that this was the third rail, right? this is the third rail where you re talking about 9/11 and what happened on 9/11 and the people who are associated with that. but it was purely symbolic. so? it was. and, look, i think one of failings was to allow talk about victimization, i mean, the families of 9/11, i have enormous sympathy for them, but they re not the only american voice. and the voice here that somehow the themry of their loved ones was desecrated by this mosque is run by people who are exponent