Of leftwing commentators who are fans of joe biden, think hes been a good president but simply believe hes too old to run for a second eternal. More on that coming up. The networks called the South Carolina race after a big media buildup within seconds last night as donald trump won a landslide 60 of the vote on nikki haleys home turf. Its just embarrassing to lose by that kind of margin where you were governor. Theres no other way to view this other than a huge setback for her struggling candidacy. This time the former e president came out first. Now theres a spirit that that i have never seen. We ran two great races [cheers and applause] but theres never been, ever, theres never been a spirit like this. We need to beat joe biden in november. Finish i dont believe donald trump can beat joe biden. Howard haley had already served notice that she was staying in the race. Of the same politicians who now publicly embrace trump privately dread him. They know what a disaster hes been. I feel no need to kiss the ring. Howard but the most unusual moment was when she spoke about her husband. Trump had vaguely taunted her about his absence, hes a National Guardsman serving a 1year Deployment Serving overseas. I wish michael was here today, and i wish our children and i could see him tonight, but we cant. Hes serving on the other side of the world where conflict is the norm. Howard that emotional response was striking because haley is usually so scripted and disciplined. But it was too late to make a difference, a point that trump had driven home. Youre not supposed to lose your home state, shouldnt happen anyway, and shes losing it big. Howard nikki haley can keep on running, but the media will write her off losing her last real shot at stopping the coronation. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Howard joining us now to analyze the cover averages, mollie hemingway, editorinchief of the federalist, and richard fowler, radio talk show host. Both are fox news contributors. Im tempted to say what are we going to do for the next nine months, but trump wins iowa, new hampshire, nevada and now South Carolina. Can the media now basically declare the republican race over . Well, it has been over for a fairly long period of time. This was a particularly humiliating loss for nikki haley in that she used to be the governor of South Carolina, but its a free country. Shes allowed to run. Nobody believes that she will win the nomination. She knows shes not winning the nomination. So as she continues running, i think the media should focus more on what her mote if vegas is. We know a lot of democrats are supporting her both financially and in oral argument, but but why is she running . Is it just to hurt trump, or is there Something Else involved . Howard well,ing you anticipated my question for richard which, by the way, New York Times news story today did call it a coronation which i put in semifacetiously. Thats the question that news outlets keep asking on the air, in print, online and asking the candidate why is nikki haley still in this race. I think it is the right question to ask. And i think its also worth looking at last nights numbers to get some takeaways of what is nikki haleys path understanding that shes very unlikely to win the president ial nomination for the gop. Heres what you see, and every time shes run shes gotten about 40 of the vote. Our recent fox news vote voter analysis e said 59 of the people who voted for Nikki Haley Last Night would not vote for donald trump in a donald trump potential reelection, sort of serves as this quasirepublican incouple. Bent. Howard is shes a spokeswoman i what youve seen is trump hasnt done much to expand his base. But how do i get more voters, how do i make up the 7 million voter gap that the i lost to in 2020. And if hes not expanding his base and theres more and more republicans saying, 59 of nikki haley voter s saying i will not vote for this guy 59 this creates a problem for him. And while he creates a new sneaker and thinks thats going to appease africanamerican voters, in policy hes failing when it comes to expanding the voter base. Howard well, the sneakers are selling like hot cakes. Not true. Hot. Howard there is a New York Times piece just the other day saying that haley is hanging around in case trump deals over or he is convicted in up one of these criminal cases, and the exit polls from South Carolina, similar to other states, say about a third of those said the would not support they would not support the former president if hes convicted, but theres a lot of ifs in there. Yeah. Nikki haleys not going to be the republican nominee. Theres just no way shes going to be the republican nominee. People do need to think what exactly is going on, why is she running, why are democrats so supportive of it. While there has been openness to someone other than donald trump, the more she continues this campaign, it will sour her with Republican Voters which is not good for her in the party. Most people dont want joe biden to be the nominee howard even among democrats. But theyve closed ranks, and theyre having a closed primary and not allowing debates or anything like that. The Republican Party should think about does it want to win, does it want to move on, or do they want to continue this . Howard well, as haley has increasingly sharped sharpened her criticism obviously former president , for a long time she was pretty mild, but when shes saying hes unhinged and hes in love with putin, he brings day yo chaos, has she alien may noted republicans to the point where her future in the party is rather limitedded . Well, i think youve got to be honest, and this is where i agree with mollish s e. I do think the former ambassador might be on some kind of Kamikaze Mission understanding that i likely will not run again. This is the end of it for me. But in this moment, im going to do everything in my power to call out the problems i have with former president donald trump. And like i said before, i think where she might have a little bit of runway to do Something Like that is that you havent seen from the former president an expansion of his base. How do you go, how do you make up that 7 million vote delta that joe biden had in the past election. How do you talk to voters that reason will be with you. How do you talk to voters who voted for you in 2020, Saw January 6th and decided you are no longer the president theyre going to vote for. All of these things set up a world in, which yes, theres issues with joe biden and also with donald trump. Howard the former president , even when he was in office, always talked to the media even when he was angry or using the media as a punching bag. Right. And, you know, we talk about how joe biden did in the 2020 election are. But leading up to the 2020 election joe biden was winning in National Polls by 10, 11, 12 . Now hes down by those numbers. I mean, hes down significantly. So were dealing with a very different situation and a very unique situation in that you have people in america being able to compare what life was like you should a Trump Presidency and what its been like under a biden presidency, and that fully explains why so many people are supporting trump over biden. Howard you know, it is the oddest election i think ive ever covered in that i dont think any nonincumbent has swept the first four contests on the republican side. So all of the Media Geniuses who said trump was very vulnerable and somebody and if only we could just get one candidate against donald trump, they all turned out to be wrong. Remember the whole, well, he hes not debating, and Republican Voters are going to punish him for that. Let me ask you have you take a step back, mollie, and then ill come to richard. How does a man who Many Republican if leaders castigated after the events of january 6th, condemned by the media and how does he bounce back to the point where he not if only is winning the nomination, virtually has it won, but is clobbering Everybody Else who is in the field . Hatred of donald trump by the media and even by the republican establishment has always been something of a feature, not a bug for donald trump. So the fact that people feel that way about a him does not hurt him with the american voters. Americans do very much feel like the country is broken. They look around and see the border is broken, Foreign Policy is broken, the economy is broken, crime in American Cities is broken. When they look out at the political landscape, they see a lot of status quo and that could be joe biden or nikki haley, but they see very few people who are looking at a tackling these issues in a different manner, and they already saw how he handleed them differently in his first term. Howard joe biden could always argue that the economy is getting better. Richard, is are the media upside estimated donald trump underestimated donald trump throughout this Long Campaign from the if four indictments, to civil fraud suit, the nato controversy . If most of which wound up helping him . Look, i think it depends on who youre talking to, and i dont think the American People are a monolith. I think it depends on what swath of americans you talking to. While you do see the president doing well amongst his base or you do see the president sort of reshaping and owning the Republican Party because obviously he does, the problem the president really runs into is how do i appease new voters to come over to my camp and think im the best candidate. Every poll says theres these big swath of voters, and i think it e matters how people vote in elections howard you said e earlier wait, wait, wait howard ill let you finish, but you said trump was not making much effort. No, hes not. And the past election in ohio, what we found was the number one demographic to vote to protect a womans right to choose was not women, it was actually black men. Black men voted to protect a womans right to choose more than any other subgroup. This is a group that the Trump Campaign thinks theyre winning over. You know, Howard University just did a poll that showed Donald Trumps support among black men has tripled well, thats assumption their, mollirk e. Take it up with Howard University. And we just see in all of the National Polls people are extremely dissatisfied with the Biden Administration and how its handling these major problems. And you can, you know, i agree with you, itll all come down to the polls, but were definitely seeing some changes. The only reason i say its illusion their is a poll is a snap if shot in time. In 2016 black men voted higher for trump than in 2020, but the idea that in this election theyre going to entirely vote higher than they did in 2016 or 20 to 20 i think is illusionark a ry. Howard all rightful well, unlike last time, excuse me, donald trump didnt criticize nikki haley. He didnt even mention her. When we come back, the coverage of jim biden, the president s brother, called to testify how he made big bucks based on the family name. Jeopardize my vision. It was hard, but taking preservision was easy. Preservision has the exact clinically proven areds 2 formula recommended by the nei. 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Joe biden has never had any involvement or any direct or indirect financial interest in those activities, none. Now, what americorps paid jim biden 200,000, he turned around and wrote a check the Joe Insisting he was repaying a Personal Loan. Americorps collapsed, the dojs investigating major allegations of medicare fraud. So, molli everything, these are serious allegations. A lot of money was involved. No question that his last name was Something Else, jim biden wouldnt have gotten this business. But also when he says it was just rea payment of a Personal Loan repayment of a Personal Loan, 200,000, do you question that . Well, he was unable to provide any evidence that there was a loan or any interest paid. He said there was no documentation for this. He had a bunch of problems with his testimony. So you had what leaked to the New York Times, but then, you know, where he said theres never been any involvement in different things. He, he was confronted with claim, he said that he had never done this one particular Business Deal with hunter biden and tony bobulinski, and when they showed the paperwork with him signing off on it, he was, like, oh, i dont remember. There was also the issue where the Chinese Communist company gave diamonds to hunter biden, and he said he gave one to james biden, and james biden says he threw it away. This was kind of disastrous testimony. Howard okay. Richard, this is the problem with closed door testimony, we get selective leaks without challenging the fact that he changed his accounts, hadnt had this deal with the Chinese Company with hunter or and his mart merit partners. What do you make of that statement being leaked many advance to the New York Times and rather than coming out and making a short statement for the cameras . Lets zoom out, there should be a documentary around the nepotism that happens in washington, d. C. And the nepotism that happens in every industry howard ive covered a lot of president ial relatives. Right. Theres no difference here. You see people taking advantage of somebodys last tame to benefit. The concern name to benefit. Why this was more closed door testimony than open, Blockbuster Hearings in these particular cases is because there doesnt seem to be any clear connected evidence between this and the president of the united states. Since 2018 when the senate was investigating this to now that the republicans are investigating this, we are nine months out from the president ial election, and there still isnt any Bombshell Evidence that gets you to a Blockbuster Hearing or potential filings of Impeachment Articles that could be disinfected in a courtroom. Is and thats what lie bfers the oversight chief and the judiciary committee. They come on air over and over and over again, they continue to make these allegations, and there doesnt seem to be not clear evidence for them to subpoena anybody or to put the Impeachment Documents forward, and thats the problem for them hu hu well howard well, thats why you have investigations. There certainly are are unanswered questions, mollie. And do you think also this warrants more News Coverage . Oh, its fantastically interesting stuff, to have the biden Family Business be i under investigation. And its something that would be would be great if the media itself were investigating rather than working to run interference, which is usually what we see. But there is another problem other than just Impeachment Proceedings for joe biden which is the American People understand that the biden family benefited in really weird financial deals on the back of joe biden. And so they can claim that he had nothing to do with it, but you have all this evidence and people saying, yes, they were put on the phone with him, yes, they did meetings with him, you have text messages. Nobodys ever explained what 10 for the big guy would mean if it werent or puff joe biden. Everyone just understands this is a family that has gained a tremendous amount financially with no explanation for why. Howard yeah. But the key question remains did joe biden himself benefit or just acquiesce in or allow . Because they moved the goalposts a little bit saying he had no involvement with any financial dealingsing, and i guess now his brother or hunter, but at the same time, you know, he certainly didnt have we dont know of anything other than any substantive conversations, but we do know that he had the lunches and so forth. So i do think when your children are benefiting financially, that is a benefit to you. You also have these texts that are written to owe biden, and you have no evidence to support the claims they were mere if loan e payments. Howard richard, given the complexity of these matters, is this breaking through to average voters . Look, i think once again, like i said last segment, the American People arent a monolith. A lot of americans would understand that Joe Hunter Biden is not a boy scout. We could go further and say the president s brother is not a boy scout. But once again, we also know that theyre everybody in their family isnt boy scouts. I think therein lies the problem. You can say that this is a bad actor, its true, but there are also good actors in this family, and one of those in this movement until evidence proves otherwise is the sitting president of the united states. [laughter] theres another problem here which is its not just about the biden Family Business, but its also about the department of justice and how hay seem to be running interference for joe biden and have been doing that for years even after they ran the Russia Collusion Hoax which did so much damage knollie, until you can actually prove finite evidence that a connects the president to this, this is just another Witch Hunt Put on howard ive got to call aout here. Not a boy scout is an interesting [laughter] term for a defense. Richard fowler, mollie hemingway, thanks so much for join us. Why bigname liberal pundits are pleading the joe biden to step aside, but first, media debate over the president Sanctioning Russia with the killing of Alexei Navalny. Muck. Muck hey, jen. I need skin advice. Sure. Am i ready for retinol . Neutrogena® retinol . Yes it evens skin tone, and smooths fine lines, with visible results in just one week. Sounds like youve said that before. Once or twice. 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Howard joining us now, griff jenkins, fox news correspondent and anchor. Griff, was it inevitable that most of the media would say that these sanctions were minor or inadequate . Yes, i think so. Sanctions simply arent working, and its not just this administration. Theyre very difficult and its a very complicated thing. The treasury department, howie with, has this office of foreign assets control, and thats where they put these sanctions. So the administration is telling us, you know, this is the steepest package of sanctions, 500 targets. Theyve actually got about 4,000, and i give them credit for it. But as general keane rightfully points out, at the end of the day the point of the sanctions is to make putin feel pain and to stop his war machine. But as keane points out, russia grew their economy this past year by 3 , and their Gdp Defense Spending is at , twice what 9 , to twice what the u. S. Spends. Howard bret baier spoke president zelenskyy. Lets take a look. So will ukrainians survive without congress support . Of course. But not all of us. Howard i found that very chilling and, or obviously, the ukrainians are in a hole right now and running short on ammunition. But at the same time, as you point out, the sanctions because other countries are helping russia and putin to circumvent them, how much more could biden have done, hes done a lot of sanctions. Thats right. You put your finger on it, howie, the most important of the story, and that is no matter how stiff or how large a Package Sanction ises is on any country, in this case russia, when you have willing participants like china, india and brazil circumventing these sanctions, buying cheap oil in record amounts from russia, theyre going to continue to prop up russias economy and, ultimately, russia and putins ability to wage war in ukraine at a critical moment when youve put the pieces together. The american u. S. Military aid is stalled, and theres no indication that congress is going to get off the a bench and come to the rescue. Howard yeah. To wage a brutal war that he started without provocation. Now, youre at the border a lot. Why would the president is and his team leak to the New York Times that he may crack down on asylum requests, quickly deport people who dont meet the new standards . After months of insisting that he doesnt have the power to do that . Because almost every poll out there among democrats and all voters showed that 70, 75 of americans say biden owns this rye sis is. Weve crisis. Weve been seeing the language change. Whats fascinating, howie, what im watching for is this is a real Watershed Opportunity for joe biden to do through Executive Orders even more than what trump did. If you bring back remain in mexico, if you use a kind of nuanced section of the Immigration Naturalization Act Called 212f which is what trump used essentially for the travel ban to deny asylum for those who even still come across, that would do a lot. And biden probably, the big question is, does he have time. If he does these things lets say next week, will it crack down on the crossings and stop, clamp down on the crisis . Who knows . Howard well, i would say just do it, dont leak it. But the thing i think that hes gauging is liberal backlash. Many of his progressive supporters are not going to like this. Griff jenkins, always great to have you on, thank you. Next on mediabuzz, more calls for joe biden to step aside, and theyre coming from media liberals. If i like to do things myself. I cant trust anything else to do the job right. Kayak. Aaaaaaaahhhh kayak. Search one and done. Feeling claritin clear is like. Is she . Playing with the confidence of a pro and getting all up in that grass as if she doesnt have allergies . Yeah. Nice. Howard joe bidens been a good president , say pundits on the left, but after the special counsels report saying he has a poor memory, even some of his fiercest supporters argue hes too old to run for a second term. New york times podcaster ezra kline says the president should go to the august convention and then bow out, letting the tell gates pick his replacement. Do the delegates. He does not want to risk being ruth bader ginsburg. So to say this is a media intervention, that people are worried about bidens age because the media tell them to, this is not a thing people need the media to tell them to see. Yes, i think he should find a way to step down as a hue row hero. Howard nate silver says its legitimate to view his age as disqualifying. Nate silver wrote a scathing peach saying in part, quote, hes losing now and theres no plan to fix the problems other than hoping that the polls are wrong. I think think the smart money is that biden does not run in november. Thats where id place my bet. Look at these recent headlines, can democrats replace joe biden . After hurs biden age comment, could any democrats really take his place . Could democrats replace biden as their nominee . If democrats might need a plan b. Howard others arent buying the joe must go stampede. Ive spent a good bit of time talking to joe biden oneonone, on the phone throughout the presidency. I can tell you he is, hes more together on Foreign Policy if you sit and talk to him than anybody if else ive talked to. Howard joining us now in new york, caroline downey, a reporter for national review, and in phoenix, lucy caldwell, an adviser to renew america. Kay line, these are not media rightwingers i emphasize. These are liberal pundits who say, oh, this is so agonizing but, hey, biden will be 86 at the end of his second term, and he should not run again. Howie, thanks for having me back. Like you said, legacy media is torn between feeling uneasy about bidens age and trying to deflect from it. The New York Times has flooded the news cycle with stories about bidens frailty. The atlantic says biden looks more like a statue of himself tan alive. N npr says bidens age is his biggest vulnerability. But theres other media thats really mad if that this issue is now top of mind for voters. Mother jones said bidens age has become a sensationalized black hole thats distracting from trumps alleged threat to democracy. So i think these mainstream publications see the delicate tight rope that democrats are walking with this. Howard a statue of himself, ouch. That hurts. Lucy, maybe these liberal pun admits are right, maybe theyre wrong, but their not so hidden concern, a lot of them bring up the fact that he passed up the super bowl interview, evidence hes not running a, quote, normal campaign, their real concern is he wont be able to beat donald trump. Well, yes. Weve talked about the super bowl issue before and, yes, of course, this is a question of fitness in the General Election and whether or not he will beat donald trump. But i would say with no disrespect to someone like Ezra Rah Kline, this, i think, is a matter of Media Prognostication without sort of the reality that political operatives are thinking about when they think about what would it take to replace joe biden. We are where we are. Joe biden is going to be the democratic nominee. People like Ezra Rah Kline are saying things like, oh, we should instead just rechoose all of the delegates. Do you know how absurd that is and how ridiculous it is to suggest that we would now shift geers and that there would gears and there would be basically a Shadow Election to reselect delegates, the House Ol Delegates who will attend the dnc this summer . Do you know what with kind of people are who attend the convention . Probably not people who are going to create a moderating force in a General Election howard right. But the scenario is biden himself would throw open the coys of choice of a nominee. In terms of filing deadlines, nobody with nobody is going to take this away from President Biden. But if he did do this at the con celeb, and personally, i think theres no chance. Hes run repeatedly, but you would hen have Kamala Harris and gavin newsom and a bunch of democrats fighting it out which would be great for the press. Journalists would love this, but then that person would have two months to mount a campaign against trump. With yeah. Howie, like you said, the press would have a field day with that kind of circus. But im not so sure the Democratic Party establishment would benefit all that much from that, and, looking the fact is look, the fact electorally speak swing voters are terrifieded of an octogenarian president. Theyve seen what that looks like so far. Its gaffes, its slipups, its incoherence, its mumbling, and i think thats a National Security threat to a lot of independents. But the risk is that democrats, if they publicly plead with biden to ten down and he doesnt voluntarily tire, that does a lot of damage to his nomination. And the Robert Hur Report already did enough. Ats why no big name has challenged him. Im sure theyve all thought about it, dreamed about it, fantasized about it but, or you know, income bent president of your own party, you could be throwing your career away. And, lucy, is now a backlash to backlash, by which i mean that biden loyalists like Lawrence Odonald are say, oh, you want biden to okay, you want biden to back out . Which other democrat would have a better chance, would have better numbers going up against donald trump . And it does raise the question of not what the numbers are today, but they would then, of course, be the target of all kinds of attacks from the former president and the rnc. Well, sure. I mean, i think that its important to realize here that [laughter] that donald trump and joe biden in that matchup, we dont know how its going to play out. There the have been a lot of handwringing on both sides, but there are a lot of indications including this Quinnipiac Poll that a came out this week that joe biden is in a pretty good situation. And as we near the General Election, one of the things that were going to see is it is going to hit voters concern. [laughter] in the face that this is going to be a matchup between joe biden and donald trump. Donald trump continues to be himself. Hes out saying egregious things all the time. This week donald trump said that black people are going to embrace him because they love his mug shot. That is so violently offensive. So were going to see more more of a contrast between two old guys. And in terms of what caroline said, i would disagree with that. Look, joe biden is old, i would not dispute the fact that he is old. When voters are asked do you think joe biden is old, they say, yes. He is old. That is worrisome. That doesnt mean that they are not going to come home for joe biden. And the voters that were talking about are what we call the double haters who ultimately did come home for him in 2020 and i think may very well. So i think that savvy democratic strategists are looking at this on balance and saying were actually probably in pretty good shape. Howard well, both candidates obviously have their weak points. But meanwhile, let me get to this, a star witness in the biden impeachment inquiry, the nowindicted informant Alexander Smirnoff getting lots of coverage as jim comer soft pedaled his own probe in one interview but downplayed smirnoffs importance with sean hannity. As to whether or not we impeach joe biden over here or we just focus on holding him accountable, my goal is to get the truth out there and hold people accountable for wrong doing. That may encompass impeachment. If it doesnt, thats mine fine with me. We wanted to investigate it, but with we never knew who the informant was. All we knew if was what Christopher Wray said,ing now the fbi arrested him for lying. It doesnt make sense. Howard so, caroline, this gets complicated, but how can the fbi charge that this man, smirnoff, fab i candidated among other things meeting with russian officials and then turn around and say that he got all this from russian intelligence in and also what took the fbi so long with an informant that it had vouched for as being reliable for 14 years . Howie, look, i think at the end of the day we have to see what this is going to do for, you know, bidens will political prospects. Thats e what all eyes are on 2024. And this kind of complicates things. It certainly undermines maybe the credibility of the proceedings, but i do think that there is demand among maybe a lot of American People for maybe Impeachment Proceedings because of bidens abdication of duty on a number of different major domestic crises, the first one being the border which still weighs top of mind for many independents and moderates. And this is no end in sight. Theres no end in sight. So i do think impeachment, its still like a viable thing for republicans to pursue, but if the witnesses are go ahead. Howard well, it might be in terms of policy failures, and and thats not usually dealt with in impeachment, but here we have the focus on corruption. Let me finish by asking lucy, when you have jim comer saying, well, maybe well impeach, maybe we wont, maybe we wont have a vote at all, are the media right in saying this indictment of the informant has kind of blown a hole in this investigation . Well, of course it has. And, obviously, jim comer will find another reason to attempt to impeach joe biden. The impeachment, i think, will only rally the Democratic Base to biden and will only rally independents because of exactly what caroline just said which gives away the game, which is making the leap between dispute and disapproval of Policy Positions to a witch hunt over supposed corruption of the president s son who is no boy scout, right . The. Howard yeah, or we all agree on that. Hunter biden, not even jim bind, theyre not boy scouts. They made a lot of money. After the break, why Vladimir Putin who just had his opponent killed is now a 2024 campaign issue. Must be mechanic. Seems like the road im on every sign just seems unclear and i, i wish i was here ya know, if you were cashbacking you could earn on everything with just one card. Chase freedom unlimited. So, if youre off the racking. Or crab cracking, youre cashbacking. Cashback on flapjacks, baby backs, or tacos at the taco shack. Nah, im working on my six pack. Switch to a king suite or book a silent retreat. Silent retreat . Hold up yeeerp . I cant talk right now, im at a silent retreat. Cashback on everything you buy with Chase Freedom Unlimited with no annual fee. How do you cashback . Chase. Make more of whats yours. Howard after the tragickic murder of Alexei Navalny in a Siberian Gulag are, his widow, yulia, vowed to take over his campaign against the putin regime. Translator by killing alexei, putin killed half of me, Half Of My Heart and half of my soul. But i still have the other half, and it tells me that i have no right to give up. Howard in a fox town hall, donald trump made more extensive comments about the killing of russias Opposition Leader and related it to his own legal trials. He was a very brave guy because he went back. He could have stayed away, and its a horrible thing. But its happening in our country too. A lot of dough. It is a form of navalny, it is a form of communism or fascism. The guys a mutt job. Nut job is. Howard that last comment referring to judge engero in the in the civil fraud case. And the pundits are divided. They scramble to put him in jail, bankrupt him and even come after his fall family. And, by the way, they brag about it. Pretty up seemly to use navalnys name in this way. With trump its always me, me, me. Howard caroline downey, donald trump says the death of navalny was horrible but stopped short of discussing the russian leader who the media, joe biden and multiple the rest of the world saw was responsible for his murder. If. Right. That was a significant blind spot in his statement. Trump likes to invoke his own circumstances whenever possible, but in this case many people felt it came off as tone deaf. And the fact is trumps treatment and navalnys treatment in russia are night and day even if trump is facing political persecution by lawfare in the u. S. Russia, without question, is an authoritarian Surveillance State Run by a maniacal, murderous dictator. And and so this gave the press a really prime opportunity to jump on this and portray trump like a heartless dictator sympathizer. And and it was easy to avoid. All he simply had to do was condemn putin in stronger terms. Howard yeah, right. And, lucy caldwell, trump says he was tough on russia a when he was president , but he is taking huge media flak for not saying anything about Vladimir Putins role here. Yeah. I mean, respectfully, when we refer to Something Like this as a blind spot, this isnt a blind spot of trumps. This is a feature, not a bug. Donald trump has enjoyed being with cozy with Vladimir Putin. He has enjoyed being cozy with other dictators, and so what we see here is donald trump refusing to come out and condemn something that is really heartbreaking, heart a breaking, appalling harte breaking, appalling and reflective of the rise of authoritarianism globally and that he is not going to be a part of the solution, he is going to continue to be part of the problem not only through his own selfinvolvement and selfabrantizement, but also his, in comparing himself to navalny or but also in his refusal to condemn the murder of navalny at the hands of Vladimir Putin. Howard yeah. And keep in mind that the kremlin earlier almost succeeded in Poisoning Navalny before he voluntarily returned to russia and was jailed. Caroline, the media a are not just slamming trump, but any republican who sides with the former president and just gets tied up in the question of ukraine with funding as a putin ally. What do you make of that line of attack . I want to address lucys insinuation with this alleged putin wing of the party that liz cheney and other pundits have claimed. Its the unfair because its unfair because Many Republicans have always had Foreign Policy disagreements. Theres always been Division Within the gop on that question. And so you cant really conflate people sympathizing with putin and those who are simply asking that more attention be dedicated to domestic crises plaguing this country whether thats finish. [inaudible] [laughter] howard lucy, let me just jump in. Biden met with navalnys widow, yulia, we have a picture that the white house put out. And his mother, navalnys mother, says that the kremlin pressured her to accepting her sons body with which she now has by agreeing to a secret funeral, otherwise they would let the body decome pose. So if any decompose. So if any if Situation Calls for denunciation of putin and his thugs, i would think this would be it. Yeah. And, of course, we know that the russians really, really delayed getting that body to the navalny family because they were likely hiding the fact that he had been murdered, right . It was the not a situation where he just died from, you know, Mall Neuroifishment or from a fast or whatever. It is exactly the kind of thing that everyone, all of us regardless of political stripes, should be condemning. And this is not a moment to bring up, you know, differences among domestic policy, etc. You would say that is for another day. Condemn, condemn, condemn the murder of Alexei Navalny at the hands of Vladimir Putin. Howard all right. I will agree with that, that, you know, our Domestic Politics is messy, but this is an absolute outrage, world outrage. So good to have both of you, Kay Line Downey and lucy called well. Still to come, joe bidens angry with the New York Times, jon stewart responds to his critics, and a legal battle over the eagles lyrics. At st. Jude, the mission is just something that everyone can truly get behind. Look at our little st. Jude pin there on the fridge were just regular people donating. Yeah. And i think its cool to be able to make a difference in someones lives in a way that is meaningful. Your pride and joy is measured in acres. Keep them looking their best with the kubota lineup. Versatile sidekick utility vehicles. The 1 rated Tractor Brand for durability and owner experience. Professionalgrade mowers for a professional cut. its equipment built with one purpose. To get the job done right. howard it was on this program last week that i talked about jon stewarts return to the daily show and how liberal viewers didnt like him spending more time mock joe bidens memory issues than Donald Trumps own issues. Well, stewart, who hosts only on mondays, felt compelled to respond to the leftwing criticism. Quite frankly, the response to the First Show Last Monday was universally glowing. [laughter] receiving massive backlash from democrats [inaudible] [laughter] tweeted after nine years away, theres nothing else to say to the jon stewart bashing biden except please make it another nine years. Sorry, but i wont be watching you either. [laughter] okay. I mean, were just talking here. And ma rrly martha Ly Trump Tweeting not only is it not funny, its a potential disaster for democracy. It was [inaudible] if. Howard first rule of television, jon, you cant please everyone. President biden is extremely upset with how the New York Times covers the age issue, so says publisher a. G. Salzburger, telling the Reuters Journalism Institute we are going to continue to report fully and fairly not just on donald trump, but also on president joe biden. He is an historically unpopular incumbent and the oldest man ever to hold this office. Weve reported on both those realities extensively. Meanwhile, a mild New York Times fact check led to this appeal by msnbc analyst claire mccaskill. I move that every newspaper in america quits doing any fact checks on joe biden until they fact check donald trump every morning on the front page. It is ridiculous that the New York Times fact checked joe biden on something. Howard i know shes a former democratic senator, but ridiculous . No biden fact checks . Come on. Welcome to the Hotel California. Such a lovely place, such a lovely face howard Hotel California and other big hits by the eagles are the subject of new york trial. 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