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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

I was getting ready to do a special report last night and studying up on the topics.

What happens is you get, in this case, three topics, and you figure, okay, probably not

going to get to one of them.

Some other shows to give you like nine topics, and know you're going to get to a two or three.

So the big topic was the meeting that had not yet taken place between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.

I spoke about that and we'll pick that up in just a second.

The second topic was going to be the Arctic Frost investigation.

I don't know where they get these names, having to do with Jack Smith.

And this is pretty outrageous, I think.

Listening in on, or at least monitoring, I guess, would be a better way to put it.

Phone calls involving a bunch of Republican lawmakers,

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