paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
cocaine addict. republicans hoping for so much more blamed the justice department. there continues to show a two-tier system in america. if you are the president s leading political opponent, the doj tries to literally put you in jail. if you are the president s son, you get a sweetheart deal. howard: and donald trump likened it to the a traffic ticket, but president biden who has often said his son has done nothing wrong was tight-lipped after announcement. [inaudible conversations] i m very proud of my son. howard: now, you can find similar cases where defendants drew hard hard harsher punishment, but this is no hunter biden has been an embarrassment, and this is hardly the end of the story. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, my sit-down with chris christie and my interview with conservative firebrand marjorie taylor greene. the pundits immediately clashed over hunter biden plea deal coming just a week after donald trump was formally charge
why do people agree according to jack smith to participate in the scheme at great risk to their freedom. and i ve always asked in a political context, but you re right, these were crimes especially if one was about getting rid of surveillance footage that were probably already on tape. carol, thank you for starting us off. and when we come back, much more on all this including one of the ex-president s lawyers reacting to the new indictment saying that jack smith s case against trump is one for the ages. plus these are the two leading candidates for the republican nomination. one facing even more criminal charges for his alleged concealing of classified documents. and obstruction of efforts to recover them. and the other is trying to tells us that there was a silver lining to slavery. go gop. a look at the choices the republican party faces next. and later in the broadcast, the extraordinary hypocrisy from the right when it comes to the boss wanting a server deleted. that and mor
people don t believe and they are trump supporters, but this is what ill argue is that you have to be concerned with his unwillingness to make an argument here, that anything will be different time around. he was asked specifically the appeal the independent voters, specifically suburban with, educated women voters who he lost in the counties of all these major cities and who have been a real problem for the go gop s ability to win a national race. he doesn t make an a argument for them. in fact, he turns swiftly into the 2020 the controversy, and that is radioactive to those voters specific isically. so if he s unwilling to make an argument, how does he earn anyone back? howard: yeah. on that point, kevin, the key aspect is that trump s advisers, including kellyanne conway and others, don t obsess the way he does on 2020. but as we saw there, he simply refuses. there s an old saying and i say it often, a reason the rearview mirror is a lot smaller than the windshield.
primary. howard: in a primary. he s not going to be right in the general election howard: explain. because that appeals to about 35-40% of the gop primary voters, i would say maybe even less than that. some of those folks are looking at maybe an option here. the options, however, have to make an argument proactively against trump, and they have to do it sometimes on these grounds request, and that is a real tricky prospect. he is unconventional and at times a successful political candidate for that reason. he s very hard to come at. howard: right. and if you come at him, you get punched back [laughter] and that s part of his political strength. but at the same time, is it there has been some softening of his republican support in the sense that to you look at the entire electorate that will vote in november of next year and that s the first that we ve seen them, otherwise he s been like a rocket ship. he s now doubled ron desantis. yeah, no question. i don t think he has mu