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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

Tammy Bruce, the State Department spokeswoman on the show yesterday,

and there was an interesting sequence of events going on behind the scenes.

We had booked her a couple of days earlier because so much foreign policy in the news, right? Gaza, Trump, Putin, and I was very happy to have her. And then Saturday, about five

o'clock, not the usual time for Trump to make one of his announcements. he did make an announcement that Tammy Bruce,

after six months on the job at state, was being promoted to become the deputy U.N. representative,

deputy U.S. representative to the U.N. with the rank of ambassador.

Now, I know how Trump thinks in terms of television, and I don't think that was unrelated to the fact

that we knew, and he knew, that she was coming on the show the next day.

So I asked her out naturally, and yes, she agreed it was a different

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