alvin bragg, is moving toward a likely indictment. trump posted this yesterday on his truth social site calling for his supporters to take action. now illegal leaks from a corrupt and highly political manhattan district attorney s office indicate that, with no crime being able to be proven and based on an old and fully he debunked fairy tale, the far and away leading republican candidate and former president of the united states of america will be arrested on tuesday of next week. protest. take our nation back. this is an immense challenge for the media. many of whose members have longed for trump to be prosecuted. to be fair to an ex-president facing charges in a 6-year-old matter a this most people just don t consider that important. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: it was just six days ago that donald trump had his lawyer make the tv rounds to defend him in stormy daniels case. in a lengthy clash with ari melbe, attorney joe tacopina said trump did not
encounter one night, which trump denies, 17 years a ago. i m just so struck by the fact that this case is basically being partially discredited by the media, but then the call for protests, if you can give me this in half a minute, you also say is irresponsible. just because of his record on the capitol riot. i think, you know, it s not per se it s not illegal to call for protests. it s classic first amendment protected speech. but, you know, we have a history here howard: yes. and he gave a very fiery speech on the ellipse that ended up leading to the riot at the capitol. so i don t think the nypd s going to how something like that to happen, but i don t think he should may with fire like that. howard: yeah. hopefully, history doesn t repeat itself on this score. ann key mccarthy, always good to see you. thanks so much. next on mediabuzz, where was the press as silicon valley bank was making risky moves that led to its collapse? spoiler or alert, nowhere. charlie gas fle
raising what they pay to their employees. this strikes me as a short-term move of shifting people into their stores where they have such a big investment. neil: guys, put you down as a maybe on that plan. in the meantime, i want to thank kennedy, i want to thank charlie , meanwhile here is a wake up call total u.s. household debt is near it $13 trillion and our guys have the stocks to pay a lot of that down, not all of it. can t pay it all down. we re going to pay a good chunk of it after this.
rate would slide from 35% to 20% whose right to charles payne? charlie gas and we ve got kennedy here along with ben stein and adam leshinsky. charles payne? clayton: i don t know why he made it either or proposition. competition drives cost and goods like that but every company struggles and looks for the lowest tax domicile. even amazon is looking for someone to give them $10 billion in tax breaks, lower taxes don t mean anything to corporate america or the bottom line and to the economy. neil: and obviously companies rich with this stuff. i mean, apple comes to mind. they certainly seek out low taxes. listen i like mark cuban, nice guy. it s funny that he earned his billions or billion or whatever he s worth 2 billion and now he wants to deprive other people of potentially earning a billion by listen, the bottom line is this.
kennedy: the economy will do even better if republicans are finally capable of cutting spending. that s where you re going to be. neil: they re not capable of it. kennedy: but that would create the most hospitable market that charlie is talking about. ben: nobody can cut spending. part of this is the president listen, it is fashionable at this network to say oh, it s all those swamp dwelling guys in congress but let s be clear about where they go. they generally go where the leader of the party takes him. the leader of the party basically said let s do the tax cut, the personal side is insane you re essentially raising taxes on middle class people in new york and new jersey. neil: you re just angry they re raising taxes on you and you re taking it out on the president. in california, i just talked to ben about this he s not so happy and the small business tax is negligible and by the way the