coronavirus overtaking wuhan, china. what do we do? oh, you know who we could ask? the wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. the disease [laughter] is the same name as the lab are. [laughter] that s just, that s just a little too weird, don t you think? howard: here s i stewart on his apple f the show reflecting on the backlash. i thought it was a pretty good can bit that expressed kind of how i felt. and the two things that came out of it were i m racist against asian people and how dare i align myselfs with the alt-right. howard: unreal. i bring this up, of course, because parts of the biden administration now believe the kid thely virus did originate from that wuhan lap lab. we don t know for sure, but the media and social media played a key role in stifling any debate. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, brian kilmeade on his interview with ron desantis and the house investigating george santos. one politician who got beat up pretty badly
at the scene where his wife and son were killed, and the jury agreed after just three hours of clicks. i say anxiously awaiting because the trial was constantly airing on the three cable news network, often blotting out any other semblance of news. millions of people were hooked on the trial, and that s fine. but as tragic as this unspeakable crime was with, this was a local south carolina story involving a rich white guy that became a tv phenomenon because it turned into a daily soap opera. the tv bosses milkedded it, the legal pundits talked around the clock as with so many previous stories about murders or missing white women. now that more cough has been sentenced to life of in prison, or i m glad it s over, but i still don t think it had enough national significance to warrant constant live coverage except that lot of people, not including me, wanted to catch. concern to watch. savannah gut arely disappeared from the today show. savannah left early, she wasn t feeling great, s