as the first prosecution and perhaps not at all. number three, trump s republican poll numbers have gone up as his most ardent supporters have rallied around him. trump s reaction on truth social is to blame d.a. alvin bragg s case on thugs and radical left monsters and accuse bragg of doing joe biden s dirty work. this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. the u.s. is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline, so sad. as for all the saturation coverage, the stark reality doesn t fully hit you untilst the happened, a former president of the united states has been indicted. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, alaner the can, wits on why he believes all four investigations of donald trump are unfair. the new york indictment caused a media eruption that quickly broke down along partisan lines. democrats are branding trump as a criminal. along with the 74 million people who voted for him. they think the m
are also censoring books that they don t like. so i m no longer buying in independent bookstores. i m buying at amazon and barnes & noble. howard: got it. but, you know, the issue of the four cases, any first-year student, law student, should win three of them. let s go over them one, two, three. georgia case, president says on a tape i need to find, find 13,000 votes. find mes they re there, they re to be means they re there, they re to be found. he didn t say invent, concoct, he said find them. you cannot make that the basis of a prosecution. in the d.c. case, he said although january 6th committee doctored the tape to leave it out concern he said i want you to go ott capitol and demonstrate peacefully and patriotically. you can t have a prosecution consistent with the first amendment when that speech is made. the third one is a serious one, and that is florida. he s guilty, i believe, almost certainly guilty in florida.
i mean, there were calls that we know about from kevin mccarthy, chris christie was on abc news, there were pleas from inside not just the republican party but trump s own base to beg the president to tell his supporters to go home. we may learn what all those communications sounded like, how they were met, who walked them into the oval office, whether ivanka or hope hicks or others articulated or expressed concern. i mean, we may really piece together the inside of the oval office, again, not because trump emailed anything, but because others may have walked out and sent an email to another colleague and said, i don t have anything yet. yeah, no, that s right. and we know that kevin mccarthy called from the capitol, begging the president to do more, to try to help, to call off what was happening. we know that the vice president was on the phone, calling back to the white house, trying to get a handle on the situation. we know that though trump
they would support any kind of let s call it what it would be a coup. those questions, why cash of the pael, why chris miller mr. sent to the pentagon as well as the questions about how they acted on january 6th and why there was such a delay in getting the national guard deployed ott capitol. are obviously key questions i expect he s going asked today and hopefully he is answering. hopely he s not up there trying to exert an executive privilege to try to avoid answering some of these questions. i wonder if you could take a step back as far as being chris we know more recently, betsy, you too. we have had these conversations around the mueller probe, the first impeachment, the second impeachment, around the new york investigations about how much they know and around who is talking. what seems to distinguish with 1/6 probe from everything that
administration. pat cell also really interesting because he was a senior defense department official on the day of the january 6th attack. to my knowledge, he s the first person from d.o.d. who has engaged with the committee. it is totally possible in the 400 people that liz cheney said they have spoken to are d.o.d. personnel but patel is the first one that we know about it. the question is, why did it take the d.o.d. so long to get the national guard to the capitol. he will likely be asked that in this interview. chris krebs is a very important character here. he has been outspoken after since he was ousted from the trump administration for telling the truth about the election. i think some of the questions the committee would want to ask him about could still reveal information we still don t have. it is a big afternoon. a huge one. we have the benefit of the vase