watched with secretary mayorkas, neither pressed him on the lack of transparency with how bad this situation is with the migrant deaths and what s being done. mayorkas blamed climate change, he blamed covid, he blamed poverty and violence. and perhaps that s a push factor for these migrants to come, but the pull factor is is the incentive that the smugglers are given to see that they can get the migrants here and no one s going to try and expel them. they re going to come illegally and be able to stay, that s what s behind this, and that s why you re seeing so many smuggling operations. howard: yeah. i know it s been overshadowed by a lot of other news, and i think this is going to be an election issue. griff, thank you. next on mediabuzz, some media conservatives pushing back on what journalists are hailing as compelling house testimony by cassidy hutchinson. but there is a split. we have guy benson on that.
legal, apparently. so you can argue about whether you like the optics of it or not, but it is allowed. i will also say it was a weird choice by trump administration in a way to do this, because they ved had major problems with it in the past. remember are when paul manafort turned on president trump after they pulled funding for his lawyers? it seems like you wouldn t want to put yourself in that position again if you were the former president. ow howe liz cheney said on abc, said the committee won t watch her character assassination, about hutchinson. you worked for two with administrations, donald trump has denounced hutchinson as a liar and a social climber, some media conservatives are going after her credibility. do you see that having an impact? and i ask that because she was a trump appointee. she wanted donald trump to do well, but after january 6th, what motivation would she have to go up to the hill and lie?
views is sickening. i can t believe that this is gonna happen. some fox news shows have posted both pro-life, and pro-choice advocates. this is a government doing the bare minimum, which is protecting the rights of a human being not to be murdered. both sides are pushing a controversy well beyond abortion rights. media liberals are warning that the courts conservative majority could toss out other laws on same-sex marriage, gun control, and privacy. media conservatives are tardy about respecting the courts independence and protesters demonstrating as conservative justices. abortion is an uncomfortable subject for public discussion that s from leakers and protesters, dark warnings about the future, many in the media are using the ruling as a springboard to store ideological points. rich quick to market thank you very much. in various pro-choice lights are
howard: let s touch on donald trump in 2024. laura ingraham told northern virginia magazine, i m not there for him yet. could you see some media conservatives winding up backing someone else as the republican nominee even if, as laura says, they supported trump s policies but maybe think another nominee would be better for the party? i think there are three legitimate questions that have got to be asked about donald trump s potential candidacy. one, he is going to be 78 years old. will he be healthy enough to run for office? two, what do the polls say? is he beating joe biden? is he beating kamala harris, is he beating whoever the heeding democrat is leading democrat is? because if he is not and an alternative republican is beating any of those people by a bigger margin, that s huge. and it ll affect voters, commentators and others. and the thirty factor is how many people third factor how many people might run against
woman. some media conservatives now slamming the president for playing racial identity politics. it s hardly unprecedented. in the 1980 campaign, ronald reagan vowed to put the first woman on the supreme court, and he did that with sandra day o connor. the press loves to trot out its short list, but given the racial and gender criteria, the list is much shorter this time around. there is one consensus across the media landscape, the democrats will be able to push through whatever woman biden picks, and it won t change the 6-3 conservative majority one bit. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. pleasure. howard: ahead, dana perino with her take on presidents insulting the press. and, hey, is tom brady retiring or not? as joe biden talked about the high court vacancy, commentators on the right and left really went at it despite the fact that