presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
showdown generating more headlines as it moves closer, kevin mccarthy offered a plan which president biden attacked as hurting low income folks, and the pundits joined the fray. kevin mccarthy trying to assure wall street they re not going to feel the pain, but their plan includes cuts to knapp benefits. s.m.a.p s.n.a.p. republicans. all republicans need to get behind that plan. if joe biden won t meet with them, won t compromise, won t adjust now suddenly these republicans, they broke all records for deaf creates and debts under comp trump, they re suddenly claiming they really care about deficits. it doesn t wash. howard: joining us now, mike emmanuel, fox s e chief washington correspondent. so does the coverage include a healthy skepticism that for all the jabs between speaker mccarthy and president biden and there ll be more that at the last minute the government won t default in. yeah, typically in washington