former president. most trump supporters don t trust what he calls fake news, but now if we re reporting facts that while we can debate the politics or particulars can t be spun away. it s a fact that trump seized to own one development this week to demand that he be reinstated as president or granted a new election even though both are impossible. and the next day while release leasing this photo, the justice department accused trump of likely concealing and moving classified documents, some of them top secret, in an attempt to obstruct the probe. last night trump called those involved sick people. we will examine whether the president is rooting for trump to be indicted. it s almost true he may never be charged. whether a double standard is applied to president biden. does the nonstop coverage of trump go too far? that s the question. i m howard kurtz, and and this is mediabuzz. howard: when doj said in that court piling that donald trump had held back at least 100 cla
up to. they want to to keep trump front and center because they know while he s still popular with a session segment of republican voters, the kinds of people need to win over, independents, democrats who are dissatisfied with covid policies, school policies, they are turned off, frankly, by donald trump s aptics. no, i think ron klain wants people talking about trump all the tile. time. howard: well, that s the opposite of what he said. pundits go on and on and on about trump and the doj and the affidavit s coming and, wow, it s really redacted. i get it s a great detective story, but even when nothing has happened for days, that seems to be the default programming. with the story so far, it is developing in little, incremental bits. somebody file, and then there s a deadline for the counterfiling, we re not sure when it s going to come howard: any minute. any minute. this whole investigation is truly made for television
coverage in that sense. we are guided by daily deadlines that they are up against that we then are have to cover. howard: debate has been going on since about 2015, robbie, when cnn and fox covered the trump rallies and the president as president he was always punching and counterpunching, going, you know, calling people names and that sort of thing. it s drawn endless coverage, usually negative coverage from the media. but i think it crowded out everybody else. that was true when he was president and right now seem to be true as well. no, it s absolutely true. when trump seeks the potlight, he gets it spotlight. sometimes when he doesn t necessarily seek the support spotlight, he gets it. obviously, look, you can t beat up on what pundits o i guess, people like us sitting around a table discussing it. it s important, it s news. it s a major and unprecedented action even if you think it s meritedded, even if you think there s something to the investigation which he has
look at their pocketbook issues, how is their family doing, how that impacts them. and so i think a lot of the news cycles flip like. howard: right. i think there s still plenty of time for things to to swing one way, the other and perhaps back. howard: i agree with you. mike emmanuel, great to see you. next on mediabuzz, is cable news spending too much time on trump while all but ignoring the process of governing? that s what the white house says. stay with us. ech:auto glass damage, let safelite come to you. pop rock music tech: my customer enjoys time with her family. so when her windshield got a crack. she scheduled with safelite in just a few clicks. we came to her house. .replaced the windshield. and installed new wipers. that s service on her time. grandkid: here you go! tech: wow, thank you! customer and grandkids: bye! tech: bye! don t wait, schedule now.
shah covering russiagate. i think their limited time is best spent rebutting that, and that s how we get into these cycles where it might seem like deflection, but it s the actually a rebuttal of what s coming out of the the legacy media, because they re doing the same thing without having learned some of those important lessons. can it become deflection? absolutely. i also think a lot of it is rebutting really bad behavior we re seeing again. howard: right. of course, if both sides are talking about trump, then donald trump s probably happy about that. but at the same time, it doesn t help the gop in the midterms because they want to talk about looking forward. i ve had several former trump advisers confirm that to me. laura, when donald trump s seizing on facebook suppressing the hunter biden laptop in 2020 after a warning of russian disinformation that turned out to be bogus, you had the former president demanding he should be reinstated or granted a do-over election, most of the