Extra: The Durham Report And The Mainstream Media's "Eroded" Credibility

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 21 May 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The final Durham report was released this past week. Special Counsel John Durham concluded there was no justification for the FBI to even launch an investigation into whether former President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Conservatives maintain the report proved bias and corruption at the agency. The mainstream media and Democrats dismissed the findings and said the years-long Durham probe was a waste of time. After the reporter was released, Howie Kurtz, the host of "MediaBuzz," joined FOX News Rundown host Dave Anthony to not just discuss the Durham Report's findings but how the media responded. Kurtz was not surprised that many in the 'mainstream press' called it a 'dud' as many of them were obsessed with the Russian collusion story at the time and wouldn't want to acknowledge they were wrong. The host of the 'Media BUZZmeter' podcast also discussed how the media's credibility has never recovered from their coverage of the Trump-Russia investigation and why he thinks it would take a major bombshell for them to give the Hunter Biden scandal comparable coverage. Due to time limitations, we could not include the entire conversation in the FOX News Rundown segment that ran this week. In a FOX News Rundown Extra exclusive, you will hear our entire unedited interview with FOX News' Howie Kurtz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Fox News rundown, Extra.
0:07.0	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:09.0	Today we revisit what some people called Russia Gate.
0:14.0	The FBI's investigation into then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign in 2016,
0:20.0	which ultimately led to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation looking into
0:25.0	possible collusion with Russia.
0:28.0	A probe that ultimately fell well short of what Democrats hoped.
0:32.0	The other day, the special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the investigation
0:38.0	put out his report.
0:40.0	And John Durham concluded,
0:42.0	the FBI should never have launched the Trump probe, calling it seriously flawed
0:48.0	that the FBI lacked analytical rigor,
0:51.0	weeding out politically motivated evidence linked to Hillary Clinton supporters and campaign,
0:56.0	prompting former president Trump and many Republicans to call for the FBI to pay a heavy price or face consequences.
1:04.0	Though the Bureau says it already has implemented dozens of corrections,
1:09.0	after an inspector generals report a while back had concluded the FBI violated policies
1:15.0	and misled a judge in getting surveillance warns to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016 named Carter Page.
1:24.0	Well, anyway, Democrats called the new report a dud with ex-deputy,
1:30.0	FBI director Andy McCabe saying that Durham was doing a political errand for Trump.
1:37.0	And he defended the work at the time, saying the FBI did have a solid basis for opening the initial 2016 investigation
1:44.0	called Crossfire Hurricane.
1:46.0	All right, I have to stop there.
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