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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Trump Backing Off Plan for $1.8 Billion Slush Fund After GOP Outrage, Washes His Hands of the Kennedy Center

MEDIA BUZZmeter

FOX News Podcasts

News, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on the internal friction at 60 Minutes following the hiring of tech journalist Nick Bilton, President Trump considering dropping a $1.8 billion fund aimed at compensating January 6th defendants due to pushback from congressional Republicans, and the political fallout surrounding Democratic Maine Senate nominee Graham Platner after reports of explicit text messages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's the media buzz meter with Howard Kurtz.

0:07.0

I was just watching Jill Biden on television.

0:09.0

She's making the rounds peddling her book.

0:12.0

And she cleverly danced around the question of why her husband didn't realize he was too old to run again, and why did she praise him at the time,

0:23.5

although privately they both said he effed up. She cleaned it up a little bit. On a more human

0:31.0

level, and she also said that she thought that he would have beaten Donald Trump, and that's

0:36.1

hypothetical, but it's kind of ludicrous.

0:38.5

She also said that cancer has taken its toll on the former president, and she wouldn't

0:45.5

wish it on anybody.

0:47.1

He gets more tired.

0:50.3

He does go out and do things, takes the train a couple days a week, but by and large, it sounded like a struggle.

0:57.9

Okay, story number one is this absolute revolt, and that's not too strong a word.

1:05.7

War might be a better word at 60 minutes.

1:08.0

So if you thought before this, there was this borer at 60 minutes, well, compared to

1:13.7

what happened yesterday, now Barry Weiss, editor-in-chief, she's been under assault by journalists,

1:20.8

commentators, since taking that role, mostly from liberals, left-leaders who are convinced,

1:26.4

you know, she's some crazy conservatives.

1:28.2

That's just not true.

1:29.5

She's kind of a moderate liberal on most issues.

1:33.4

In any event, she's never worked in television.

1:36.3

And so then, and I've mostly defended her, but she has made some rookie mistakes.

1:43.5

So even as the headlines were swirling around Donald Trump's

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