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
Mort Engelberg, who was a producer on films including Smokey and the Bandit and The Big Easy before transitioning into politics as an "advance man" for Bill Clinton, died.
is something that democrats are going to lean into to the same degree that they whether on the property question because the ultimate end goal here, as you and i both know, is that democrats would like to find a way to impeach clarence thomas or force him from the court which is the whole point of this. it s not actually trying to, you know, have some kind of high-minded attitude towards ethics requirements or reporting things generally. it is a partisan, political maneuver to get thomas off the court. howard: okay. so i want to read the response to what harlan crow said to steve engelberg which is group is funded by 36,000 donors and founded by two wall street journal executives, and crow s answers were published in full. but i worry about the supreme court getting to set its own murky ethics rules, and i think they should be tightened up, andish also mention that justice thomas plans to amend if his financial disclosure forms based on these stories. so let me turn now to alec