smith investigation, the georgia investigation. so how do you play this as another republican candidate? you know, martha and mark, it s so fascinating to me there s no candidate out there either announced or figured this out. they will be asked more about trump than their own policies. they have to find an answer and get out of it and pivot to why they would take on joe biden. the cardinal mistake made for ron desantis or the people around him, he allowed himself to be seen as the alternative to donald trump. from the beginning, he said have said i m the alternative to joe biden. he should have taken on joe biden one-on-one and made trump a little bit more of a foot note. the problem now is trump will never be a foot note again. look at the top ten trending stories, eight or nine say donald trump and the other is them being asked about donald trump. someone has to figure this out.
howard: right. in terms of whether this is a good test the of democracy, i m not sure. the less sexy part of this story is there are all these downwind effects of how the case does or doesn t play out. and of course remember, this is just an indictment. this is not a conviction, right, and a lot of people including people on the left believe these charges will not stick. howard: right. and, in fact, if donald trump is acquitted, then it won t look so good for alvin bragg and probably makes trump even more popular. let me play a sound bite from a woman whose name is toss thed around a lot, stormy daniels, talking to the times of london. the first time i was, like, gold killer, slut, whore, you know, liar, whatever. and this timest the, like, i m going to murder you. are you frightened? for the first time ever, yeah. howard: clay, i ve got about half a minute. the press has kind of treated her as a foot note, but it sounds like she s worried because she s gotten a lot of death th
credit. biological women that deserve that credit. this is not about actual achievement or accomplishment it seems as this individual seems to admit in that comment, this is about there s a culture war, there s a big controversial around trans issues so let s make a statement. that s fine. it s clearly that s what they re doing here, right? yeah, reminded me of the nobel peace prize situation. apparently someone on the board of that decision making said 2019 when obama got it was the most controversial year. the asterisks about hair texture, skin color, in this case, transgender. if it were not so, it would have been she was the best woman of the year. but it wasn t. it was the box checking that you mentioned that is the foot note that is the headline. nobody says the names of anybody else like mitchell obama. but everybody else on the list
now turning the tables as we learn new leads on the biden family money trail. zero in on the remaining unknown biden who appears to have received $70,000 from the chinese electric company in a deal with the parent ties to the biden family enterprise. jonathan turley and joe concha standing by. first, we go to david spent who gist us the latest this afternoon on a friday from there on this case. hi, david. hi, martha. you mentioned aggressive. it s clear hunter biden s team has upped the ante. this counterclaim today it s a counter suit against this computer repair shop owner makes interesting observations and questions including questioning of who owned the laptop. i want to read this specific part. it s a foot note. it says this is not an admission by mr. biden that mack isaac, the shop owners or others possessed any real laptop
it and actually find out what the technologies were that were involved. if it was designed to actually collect data or if it was designed to test our response capabilities. neil: we ll watch it closely. a lot of unanswered questions, a lot of things that don t click. by the way, the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement earlier today when the first questions came up, what the heck is this thing. they said no, no, this is an air ship. it s from china. it s a civilian air ship used for meteorological purposes. going on to say the chinese side regrets the unintended entry in to the airspace. the chinese side will continue communicating with the u.s. side and will handle the unexpected communication. in other words, events out of your control. not everyone is buying that. a quick foot note on what we re talking about here. this is not just like a weather