prosecutors to start probing those with access to his laptop and use it to pedal stories to the press. this is the same laptop that hunter left in a delaware repair shop. the same laptop that prompted twitter to block distribution of the new york post scoop on its existence. the same laptop that much of the media once dismissed as russian disinformation. i doubt hunter biden s request for information will go anywhere but he s making himself a bigger story and a bigger media target. i m howard kurtz and this is media gleet buzz. howard: we ll look at what s fueled the media uproar over the chinese spy balloon that spy jets shot down yesterday. it was instantaneous after the washington post had hard hitting faze for hunter biden. it s his laptop, which we ve been telling people for more than two this is the first time hunter biden said, okay, it was my laptop, essentially; right? hunter came out last night and said, daddy, they stole my laptop. he demanded daddy s justice
over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity have been
prosecutors to start probing those with access to his laptop and use it to pedal stories to the press. this is the same laptop that hunter left in a delaware repair shop. the same laptop that prompted twitter to block distribution of the new york post scoop on its existence. the same laptop that much of the media once dismissed as russian disinformation. i doubt hunter biden s request for information will go anywhere but he s making himself a bigger story and a bigger media target. i m howard kurtz and this is media gleet buzz. howard: we ll look at what s fueled the media uproar over the chinese spy balloon that spy jets shot down yesterday. it was instantaneous after the washington post had hard hitting faze for hunter biden.
has caused grievous harm to his client and his client s father. nice try. hunter biden s new lawyer can send as many outraged letters as he wants. i don t see what it really get him given that this was left at the repair shop. and, really, this is about the court of public opinion. and trying to make the case that the president s son is a victim of his political opponents and fox news. but here s the problem. one, if you look at it, you realize that this is not russian disinformation. this has been authenticated it. took some news organizations a year and a half to authenticate it. much of the emails have been verified. number two, hunter biden with this new pr strategy has made himself a bigger story and therefore a bigger media target. gillian: jeff, look at this. this is a new statement from abbe lowell tonight it says these letters do not confirm
this conspiracy theory that the president has been pushing for years was a total lie. donald trump was right, the attorney general, william barr, was right, spying occurred. reporter: the attorney general told msnbc the trump campaign was spied upon. based on a completely bogus narrative largely fanned and hyped by an irresponsible press. reporter: drew sharp criticism for being overly protective of his boss. the president dismissing the vote had harsh words for the press. not all of them but much of the media is corrupt. bad people, sick people and corrupt. reporter: the latest media target, mitch mcconnell, for telling fox news worked closely with the white house on staging the senate trial. media partisanship is as predictable as next week s expected house vote to back impeachment. the next question whether the tone of the coverage shifts when republicans control the process.