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It's the Media Buzz Meter with Howard Kurtz.

This is just hilarious.

When I interviewed Doug Bergam, the Interior Secretary,

for our video podcast,

it was supposed to be at 1 o'clock.

And then his people called back and said,

well, he's been asked to come to the White House at 1 o'clock,

and so we changed the time.

The second question I asked to Bergam, literally, was, how do you feel about these televised

cabinet meetings? Just wondering what he would say. And here is, in fact, his verbatim answer.

When you're in public, I see my friends that are running

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