as the first prosecution and perhaps not at all. number three, trump s republican poll numbers have gone up as his most ardent supporters have rallied around him. trump s reaction on truth social is to blame d.a. alvin bragg s case on thugs and radical left monsters and accuse bragg of doing joe biden s dirty work. this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. the u.s. is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline, so sad. as for all the saturation coverage, the stark reality doesn t fully hit you untilst the happened, a former president of the united states has been indicted. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, alaner the can, wits on why he believes all four investigations of donald trump are unfair. the new york indictment caused a media eruption that quickly broke down along partisan lines. democrats are branding trump as a criminal. along with the 74 million people who voted for him. they think the m
trump s republican rivals and just this morning former arkansas governor asa hutchinson said he s getting in the race which might mean a lot of people splitting the anti-trump vote, doesn t it put them in an impossible position because they have to, they think, defend him on this particular indictment? and yet he s sucking up all the media oxygen, and the only question people ask is, well, what do you think about the trump indictment? absolutely. and, look, chaos is donald trump s currency. that s how he got elected, he s going to get the nomination existence those the rivals because of of that. look, all the other candidates are just a side player because all the attention s on him. and here on capitol hill you ve got jordan on the judiciary committee, comer on oversight also trying to crag alvin bragg here here to testify. at the end of the day, look, we will know what the charges are and what the evidence is on tuesday, and that ll tell us a lot about really how successful he ll b
but so is biden under that theory, and so was pence. howard: do you mean georgia? no, i mean florida. howard: okay. the confidential material. howard: right. i think politically that case can t go anywhere because the american public is going to ask howard: oh, i see, classified documents. how do you selectively prosecute? but the weakest of the four cases is bragg in new york. howard: okay. so in the time we have left, you, of course, were a lawyer for donald trump in the first impeachment. that s right. howard: politically speaking, you re a liberal guy. do you want to see donald trump the lose the next election? i co. i do. and i don t want to see bragg help him win the election. i think that it s an interesting dynamic going on, i write about this in my book as well, the political implications of this this. the dynamic is that many democrats want to see trump win the nomination because they think they can beat him. and many right-wing republicans want to see him win t
bragg tried hard to to prevent michael cohen s former lawyer from testifying in front of the grand jury. he didn t call him, didn t give the e-mails. basically, costello burst into the grand jury and insisted on being heard. and i think it s unethical for a prosecutor to use a witness who has such a long history of lying. and, by the way, the history hasn t stopped. he tweeted other day a malicious lie about me. he didn t like the fact that i had called him a liar, which is true, and so he said i was associated with jeffrey epstein, underage girls on the island, all of that stuff. so he s continuing to lie. it s not as if god came down to him and said, you know, we know you lied to everybody, your own lawyers, the feds, the state, now please we know you re going to tell the truth. he s still lying happening now but isn t it true the, let me jump in, isn t it true that every day there are criminal trials where some corrupt figure, maybe mobsters who have lied to authorities, say, ye
prime time, cnn did, and they desperately need trump howard: so they re happy to have him back on center stage. the derangement syndrome is the foundation in many ways of their network. and so this is what they have to have. but i also think numbers reflect that people care and that you should be covering it. howard: yeah. i guess i agree with that. lucy, are the media addicted to the trump show? and isn t the former president driving a lot of the daily coverage with his constant attacks such as against degenerate psychopath alvin bragg? well, of course, donald trump is driving a lot of this coverage. donald trump is how we began talking about this indictment a few weeks ago, it was donald trump himself who let us all know that he expected to be indicted imminently. it was donald trump himself who made quick work and and republican colleagues of his of fund raising off of this howard: by the way, axios reporting that trump has raised more than $5 million since this yeah, ab