general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
caitlin collins had asked a single question, these people were saying that trump, a former president and the leading candidate by far for the republican nomination, should be barred from tv, banned, exiled, silenced because they just don t like him. but that s ludicrous. this wasn t a rally where he just gets to pop off. and whatever you think of trump, shouldn t journalists question him as part of the campaign? as it turned out, the town hall turned into an absolute train wreck, even many people at cmn being sharply critical. but the alternative, banning trump from the airwaves, is suppression of speech, and that is not journalism. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, george santos versus the media mob as he is indicted for fraud. the first 24 minutes of the cnn event was spent on two of donald trump s true curing subjects recurring subject, the 2020 election and the capitol riot, and that insured a clash from the start. it was not a rigged election
jen psaki said they would approach without labeling, so psaki and other others rushed to say there was no crisis, but some journalists kept pressing the point. 22,000 unaccompanied children in our country right now. that s a record. that sounds to most folks like a crisis. well, look, it s way down now. we ve now gotten control. howard: and now with the president sending another 1500 troops to the border and pan pandemic era restrictions being lifted this thursday, the expected surge of illegal migrants is suddenly drawing far mored media attention, and there are still arguments about basic numbers. when it comes to illegal migration, you ve seen it come down by more than 90%, and that s because of the actions that this president has taken. howard: after the pundits pounced, karine jean-pierre clarified that that she was talking about one parole program. at this point, i don t care what you call the border situation, but it sure looks like a crisis to me. i m howard kur
after she tried to soften he remarks. the last thing i ever want to see in america is a civil war, but it s going that direction, and is we have to do something about it. howard: fox s laura ingraham eviscerated the idea, including greene s notion that people who moved from green states to red states wouldn t be allowed to vote for five years. first, a law prohibiting american citizens who have not committed a crime from voting would probably not withstand legal scrutiny, and second how would this, like, national divorce be good for conservativism? howard: now let s look at this grenade from the left. ripping nikki haley with msnbc host mythty hassad. she uses her brown skin as a weapon, and she uses her brown skin to launder white supremacists talking points. howard: we re talking about a woman of color, south carolina governor banned the confederate flag from statehouse grounds, and ali is making the racist charge shah thiess that she s a piece for mouthpiece for
howard stern had enough. i was watching msnbc. they were going [bleep] these indictment possibilities. the same discussion over and over again. it is very possible that president trump will be indicted. trump has now dominated the news for a week based on his forecast last week and it whether the commentary is good or bad that sucks up all the media oxygen. it is quite possible that manhattan da will bring an indictment against the former president and the stormy daniels case. could even be tomorrow, we just do not know. tune in anyway. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howard: there may be no indictment yet, but there is a furious debate about the case, the porn star, trump s handling of the probe and whether this helps or hurts him. in a great mood. he says he wants his front and center. he is loving being the center of the storm. he wants the high-profile arrests. he wants everyone to see how ridiculous this is. no one that believes that going and getti