to me. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: what s striking about the growing coverage of the border mess is that the administration is taking flak from all sides regardless of ideology. like so many others before him, president biden has a taken a series of far smaller steps while trying to paint those limited measures in the best possible light which raises the question, when does selling a policy veer into overselling it? joe biden thinks the surge will be a big f-ing deal. it drove liberals nuts when the other guy did it, of course, but now the administration is tight-lippedded. if you re out there thinking, hey, i feel like i follow the news and we ve known that these deadlines were coming for months if not years, you re right. why has it been so hard for the biden white house to get their arms around this crisis? after all, illegal border
consumer cellular. howard: three months after his inauguration, president biden described the situation at the southern border that, well, he wasn t supposed to. a. [inaudible] refugees were working on [inaudible] howard: a crisis? huh-uh, can t e say that. top administration officials led by homeland security chief alejandro mayorkas had spent weeks telling reporters this was not a crisis.
raping her. worst thing you can do, the worst charge. howard: and asked about the infamous access hollywood tape in which trump says stars could grab women by their private parts if you look over the last million years, i guess that s been largely true. not always, but largely true. unfortunately or fortunately. howard: joining us now, kevin corke, who covers the white house for fox news. are the media doing donald trump damage by constantly replaying these excerpts even though he s denying everything? i think politically speaking this is very discharging because if you re on the fence or maybe thinking i voted for widen in 2020 the biden in 2020 because enough with the circus, this adds to that narrative that this is more of the sir circus you get. you may get good leadership, but a lot of people find that wince-inducing. howard: right. it s also easier to understand at least the investigation,
assignment. to some extent the, you could say it s the her fault and to some extent she s kind of trapped in this secondary role. well, that s right. and she needs to find a way for herself to move forward as someone that can find as an attractive candidate in the future. we all know that she probably aspires to run for president after joe biden s second em if he s reelected and, of course, there s questions about whether she would be called on to take over the job if he doesn t make it through his second term because of his age, because of some of his behaviors that make people question whether he s up for a second term. she has a lot of opportunities here despite the problems she s had thus far. it s all about how she s able to carry herself in the public eye. she s not been able to righting that ship so far. i don t think it s a question of what s gown on in her office, although some of her speeches have, you know, invited ridicule. who s writing those speeches? who is backing he
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