presidential campaign sure was good while it lasted, and now he s getting buried a couple of months before he even announces. so trump turbo-charged by his indictment in the stormy daniels case has been rising in the polls, and desantis has been sinking. i ve argued for many weeks now against my guests that desantis needed to respond to trump s assaults rather than largely ignore him because he s busy with the florida legislature. now that s becoming the media s conventional wisdom. throw in the journalists who say ron desantis lacks charisma, and you have a whole new landscape at least for this week. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: when it comes to ron desantis taking knack over his war on disney flak over his war on disney, it comes from the left and the right. governor desantis is trying to stop bleeding on what s left of his unofficial presidential campaign. it s going to start to wilt a little bit. you just see he s got no answers, he s got no
howard: elon musk, who helped found artificial intelligence company that produced chat bots, now has second thoughts. he wants a sex month moratorium on the development of a.i. and i thinks it s too late for government regulation. if that s the case for a.i. and we only put in regulations after something terrible s happened, it may be actually too late. the a.i. may be in control at that point. we don t want this to be a profit-maximizing demon from hell. howard: joining us from connecticut, charlie gas freeway know gasparino. so on this demon from hell, elon musk isn t going to get his moratorium. microsoft and google are not going to go along, but what do you make of his efforts to pump the brakes on a.i.? i used to be called the demon from hell, is what i was going to say. [laughter]