regarding u.s. nuclear capabilities. or documents regarding chinese ballistic missile development or something like that. some innocuous phrase that signified the importance of the information without revealing it. i wonder, can they do that? i mean, they could, but it could be misleading because they are creating a new document based on their interpretation and i don t know if this is the role of prosecutors. we just follow the evidence. it is not left up to us to be the cliff notes of what is recovered. and so i hear what john bolton is saying. he wants the department of justice to get ahead of the game on the pr war. but that is not the job of prosecutors. prosecutors live by different set of rules than politicians do. we can not litigate our cases in the press. especially before there has ever been an indictments. and so i think the best strategy is what merrick garland is doing. he is releasing what he can release and he is standing up
on cnn sunday nights. there is just no one to root for in the johnny depp/amber heard trial. they both come off as awful people. a heard admitted this week that she hadn t told the truth about donating half of her $7 million divorce settlement to charity. and have you completely fulfilled your donations to the aclu and the children s hospitals? i have not yet. and why not? because johnny sued me for $50 million. mr. depp, you said i will [bleep] her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead. did i read that right? you certainly did, yes. howard: media outlets say amber heard is getting killed online, that she s losing the pr war, but both hollywood stars are blowing up their careers in this tabloid lowed that s it for this edition of mediabuzz. i m howard kurtz. we hope you ll check out our
of the facts and context that matters, but unfortunately most people never get to see that. from the perspective of people from the state of texas, does the governor end up winning a pr war, even if he doesn t deserve it. people never hear about the glimmer of hope or bait and switch. i know. i was doing the boring nerdy professor on you, stephanie. this is what it boils down to. it boils down to short term versus long term. in the short term, the governor and republican party have the some sort of voting restriction will be passed. in the long term, seeing how democrats gained in numbers. ten years ago, steph, they didn t even have enough democrats to matter if they all walked out. republicans had a super majority. in the last decade, slowly but surely democrats gained enough seats to stage the fight. they might lose this battle
that, if you re lucky enough to wiretap him or get someone to wear a wire, we don t have any reason to think that s happened, or if you flip somebody. that s why allen weisselberg is so important. and the fact that he doesn t seem interested in flipping tells me prosecutors do not have a direct line on donald trump right now. amanda, rank and file republicans, not the matt gaetzes or jim jordans, but rank and file republicans who tolerate donald trump, does this mean anything to them, does the tax stuff make it uncomfortable for them to deal with him in any way? listen, donald trump plays a good pr war. when i was listening to him at that sarasota rally, i just thought, this is the ukraine investigation all over again. essentially donald trump stood up and said, so what if i did it, which is exactly what his then chief of staff mick mulvaney said at the white house podium when asked questions about leveraging ukraine aid for dirt on joe biden, so what if we did it, right?
organization, a private company, a governmental agency, a mob family, you re insulated, right? you have people around you who do your dirty work, who sometimes take the fall for you. it s really hard for prosecutors to get to the boss. in my experience the only way you re really going to get to a boss is if he says something stupid in an email or text, we know donald trump didn t do that, or if you re lucky enough to have someone wear a wire, and we don t think we have that. prosecutors do not have a direct line on donald trump right now. amanda, rank and file republicans, not the matt ga gaetzes or jim jordans, but rank and file republicans, does this mean anything to them, does the tax stuff make it uncomfortable for them to deal with him in any way? listen, donald trump plays a good pr war. when i was listening to him at that sarasota rally, i just