the only way for trump to take the country back is to win the nomination and win the general election. protests are not going another the it, but everyone has a right to protest. ben, msnbc just called in every single person, absolute wall to wall. rachel maddow called in and said about the protest part, trump trying to raise the civic cost of indicting him so that,s she says, a threat of uncontrollable political violence would be triggered by any legal move against him. i mean, i don t take that seriously at all. i think the fact is that he s allowed to respond to something like this as the kind of exceptional, ridiculous, over the top thing that it is, you know, to indict a former president based on the evidence as thin as it is, the case as thin as it is and how unimportant this matter is to the american people is, frankly, irresponsible. of it s only going to increase the level of distrust americans have in these institutions, viewing them as simply the tools for advancing partis
(tony hawk) skating for over 45 years has taken a toll on my body. i take qunol turmeric because it helps with healthy joints and inflammation support. why qunol? it has superior absorption compared to regular turmeric. qunol. the brand i trust. howard: we ve of had 45 presidents in this country, and though some were embroiled in scandal, three impeached and acquittedded, richard nixon had to resign, we have never faced this situation: donald trump says he ll be arrested on use. criminal charges against the former president who just happens to be campaigning for his old job. the media spent sixes years six years hyping every investigation of former president trump, and he s still standing. the stormy daniels case is the weakest of all the current probes k and we ve known for weeks that the manhattan d.a.,
and that includes, frankly from their perspective, themselves since they put themselves in trump s position as being part of his supporters and, you know, among that same deplorable team of americans that elected him in the first place. howard: by the way, or alvin bragg, who is an elected democrat in new york, put out a memo saying we do not tolerate attempts to intimidate our office or threaten the rule of law. beyond that, there s been no comment about what trump did yesterday. so, kevin, you cover the white house, you now also now you also cover trump. biden has tried to appear hands off certainly in the justice county investigation, but he has no connection to the manhattan the d.a. bringing a state case, so how do you see that play out? i think what the president would probably like to do is let this play out in the court of public opinion. he knows prettily right now he s weak. the economy s not very good, the china problem is there, russia problem is there, so for him this
pugilist out there certainly on the presidential stage. howard: oh, yeah. you do not want to take this guy on when you have a record to point to. calling him ron romney maybe, people start back pedaling because i think that actually has a connotation. but if i were in desantis group, i d say let him punch himself out, rope a dope for a while, when it matters, we ll swing back. howard: you comake a good point that a lot of people haven t tuned in, and we do this for a living. when a trump superpac has filed an ethics complaint in florida, they didn t have really much evidence, and everyone covers it, is the former president trying to maybe throw a brushback pitch and hope that desantis says i don t need this and never get in the race? i think the former president is lettingen on that he s afraid of desantis. [laughter] that s what that is. he s not complaining about anybody else in this situation. i mean, it s afraid, you know, on some level. so that s the thing that i think is so
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