Not please the white house. The ag named david weiss the trump appointed u. S. Attorney in delaware who has been investigating hunter biden four years has a Special Counsel giving them greater powers and more independence. David weiss requested the move. Suddenly, constant coverage of hunter biden despite the Media Obsession with donald trump. Hunter bidens pleabargain on tax and gun charges spirit in him jail time fell apart. Now weiss will probably take it to trial. Even my devon archer testified next week that Vice President joe biden joined 20 Speaker Phone Calls with hunter and his associates and said the vp dying twice at a Fancy Georgetown Restaurant For The First Time the Hunter Scandal is getting too big for the media to ignore. I am howard kurtz, this is the mediabuzz. Howard the media has been a prime target as the pundits are debating whether Hunter Biden Story deserves more attention and now that question reverberates even more loudly. This is an investigation, it is a cov
howie: just as an aside, television is losing interest in the campaign. you re seeing the cable networks giving air time to local murder trials involving people you never heard of. and joe biden will just token oppositions of absolutely no one by winning 96% of the vote in yesterday east south carolina democratic primary. the media had been insisting that president biden take swift action after iranian drone killed three american soldiers and for five days the criticism from commentators only grew louder. and it turns out that looking stern and furring your brow and saying don t into the camera isn t enough to stop iran. if iran wants to continue killing americans or trying to kill americans, should we not at least sync one of their ships? howie: this is a classic dilemma. on friday afternoon, the air strikes began hitting targets in iraq and syria and killing more than 40 people. this administration s idea of deterrence is trying really hard not to kill too many people
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
general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
ordered the pentagon to shoot it down as soon as possible. they decided without doing any damage to anyone on the ground, they decided that the best time to do that was out over the water within our, within a 12-mile limit. they successfully took it down. maria: but at what cost? coming up, the new chairman of the house select committee on china, wisconsin congressman, former marine mike gallagher, also a member of the house armed services and intelligence committees on how much damage has been done in one week after the secretary of state anthony blinken initially suggests just canceling his trip was enough of a response from america. it s a violation of our sovereignty, it s a violation of international law. and it was very important that we, of course, take the actions we did to protect any sensitive information, to protect our people and to make clear to china that, again, this is an unacceptable as well as irresponsible action. maria: then the surveillance balloon s