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MEDIA BUZZmeter

Trump Says He’ll Release Billions for Derailed New York Tunnel Project—If His Name is Slapped on Penn Station

MEDIA BUZZmeter

FOX News Podcasts

Society & Culture, News, Tv & Film

4.1582 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Howie Kurtz on President Trump willing to release federal funding for the Gateway Tunnel Project in New York if Penn Station is named after him, the ongoing disappearance case of TODAY show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother, and The Trump administration's new policy making it easier to remove or discipline up to 50,000 federal workers. Follow Howie on Twitter:⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@HowardKurtz⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For more #MediaBuzz click here 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.

0:05.0

I can't believe I left out the best quote.

0:10.0

You know, in yesterday's podcast I was summarizing and quoting from Susie Wiles, the White House Chief of Staff,

0:18.0

things she had said on the record, some of which have either been

0:22.0

forgotten or were never reported in the first place. And I guess it was on a jump page. She said,

0:27.8

the White House Chief of Staff said, I am not a bitch. And I think that should go down in recorded

0:33.3

history. Well, I guess this is the time of the week when everybody is planning for Sunday Super Bowl.

0:39.8

It seems like a lot of the attention has to do with the halftime show, Bad Bunny, and everybody

0:47.3

just assumes that the New England Patriots are going to clobber the Seattle Seahawks,

0:51.6

and that may well be the case. The Patriots, of course,

0:54.7

once dominated the Super Bowls and the Tom Brady era. But, you know, people want to have a good

1:01.6

time. And of course, one of the things that gets debate the next day is who had the best commercials,

1:05.2

who had the worst commercials, a little less focused, I think, this time around on the actual game.

1:12.6

Well, in my new video podcast, I had a chance to interview and we'll post the link to this

1:19.6

earliest afternoon.

1:20.6

Tricia McLaughlin, who's the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security and the top spokesperson for Secretary Kristy Nome.

1:30.8

And we had a lot of back and forth.

1:32.9

She tried to defend ICE and the ICE tactics.

1:37.3

A hard thing to do at this point.

1:40.3

As I push back to say, you know, even President Trump says ICE needed a softer touch.

1:48.2

And Trisha McLaughlin said she agreed with that.

1:51.9

Then why did you call Renee good a domestic terrorist?

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