cocaine addict. republicans hoping for so much more blamed the justice department. there continues to show a two-tier system in america. if you are the president s leading political opponent, the doj tries to literally put you in jail. if you are the president s son, you get a sweetheart deal. howard: and donald trump likened it to the a traffic ticket, but president biden who has often said his son has done nothing wrong was tight-lipped after announcement. [inaudible conversations] i m very proud of my son. howard: now, you can find similar cases where defendants drew hard hard harsher punishment, but this is no hunter biden has been an embarrassment, and this is hardly the end of the story. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my sit-down with chris christie and my interview with conservative firebrand marjorie taylor greene. the pundits immediately clashed over hunter biden plea deal coming just a week after donald trump was formally charge
they can t stop because it is election interference at the highest level. the unsealed indictment and engaging in a conspiracy for military documents. florida grand jury returned including one including the espionage. classified documents taken from the white house. culminating with the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. making the first on camera statement. and indictment was unsealed charging donald trump with violations of laws and obscurity to obstruct justice. violations of those laws put our country at risk. i may meet court on tuesday night. a partisan case. this is serious business. may or may not have a greater impact on the republican presidential front runners campaign. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. the charges against former president trump have rocked the media and political world with news outlets and commentators immediately picking sides. it is pretty aggressive to go after your political opponent on something you re probably five times more guilty
Jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. Thats a record. That sounds to most folks like a crisis. Well, look, its way down now. Weve now gotten control. Howard and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of Illegal Migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. When it comes to illegal migration, youve seen it come down by more than 90 , and thats because of the actions that this president has taken. Howard after the pundits pounced, Karine Jeanpierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. At this point, i dont care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz.
and a moderator. he praised each other and bashed the mainstream media. no shortage of hit pieces on you in the press over the last week or two. i thinks this is a function of these, the legacy media, these corporate journal they re in their little bubble. i saw a headline from the atlantic basically claiming that anyone who listens to this space on twitter basically a nazi. howard: but by then they d lost half their audience, so why did ron desantis roll the dice on twitter not blowing up like a spacex rocket? he s hardly a big fan of the mainstream media and not a great can orator, so he made the digital bet. the coverage of musk, who s been hated by left-wingers and admired by right-wingers. i mean, look at in this disgusting vanity fair headline, ron desantis the will formally announce with elon miss you can because apparently david duke wasn t available. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, finally a debt ceiling deal, but is the press t
alert here in washington. it was the day the house was going to vote on green lighting the impeachment probe of president biden. it happened to be the day that hunter biden was supposed to show up urn subpoena to testify behind closed doors. suddenly, the cable news networks were throwing out banners, unclear whether hunter biden will testify. and, boom, there was the president s son who had insisted on testifying in public talking to reporters. for six years i ve been the target of unrelenting trump attack machine shouting where s hunter. well, here s my answer: i am here. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it s shameless. howard: so hunter was using the media mob to try to turn the tables on the republican committee and make the case that he was ready to testify before the cameras knowing full well the panel had rejected the offer. and for all this t