our thoughts remain with those impacted by hurricane ian. for those who need help, please ask for it. and if you can give help, please, give it. on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. when hurricane ian came ashore yesterday afternoon and what was one of the stronger storms to ever hit the united states, period, and after a terrifying night in southwest florida daylight today brought harrowing evidence of the destruction of a storm like that brings. this is fort myers beach, one of the barrier ion islands that in slammed into as a near category five storm. for the hurricane it was a popular beach destination full of resorts and restaurants. as you can, see much of it has been leveled. when local resident told his local tape paper, quote, fort myers beach is gone. this is the causeway leading to sandoval island, just west of
even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story triggered a media explosion, especially the part about donald trump repeatedly holding on to documents so sensitive they could only be seen in a secure government room and a deep s
great thing for america. of. lisa: i think if you re desantis or some of these republican governors, they would say i have my own agenda that i ve been working on, to your point. and liz cheney, you know, she lost by 40, but i so i think that a ship s sail for her. the flip side is also looking at democrats, right? so, you know, as an incumbent president, it s the hard to lose, so how beatable is joe biden? oh, i i think he s imminent innocent concern imminently beatable. the problem that democrats have, you know, they ve been able to sort of tape paper over a lot of their difference cans over the years. you know, most recently because they were pretty united in their dislike of donald trump who was in the white house at the time, but they have to they are, you know, it is a very disparate, they ve got real problems in their party, and that s how they wound up with joe biden in the first place. now, joe biden has turned out to be even worse than anybody predicted. it s going to
our thoughts remain with those impacted by hurricane ian. for those who need help, please ask for it. and if you can give help, please, give it. on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. when hurricane ian came ashore yesterday afternoon and what was one of the stronger storms to ever hit the united states, period, and after a terrifying night in southwest florida daylight today brought harrowing evidence of the destruction of a storm like that brings. this is fort myers beach, one of the barrier ion islands that in slammed into as a near category five storm. for the hurricane it was a popular beach destination full of resorts and restaurants. as you can, see much of it has been leveled. when local resident told his local tape paper, quote, fort
inflationary if side. again, you don t have to pick him versus me, you can pit him against goldman sachs, against moody s, even one of his former mentor, joe stiglitz, who all said to look at the full come by mission. this is not leading to combination. howard: i wasn t trying to start a fight between friends, but the new york times says that president biden agonized over this. the headline was he gave in to pressure. to his credit, he cysted pressure from chuck schumer and elizabeth warren to forgive $50,000 per student. but here s what the president said a month into his term on cnn. it depends on the idea that i say to a community i m going to forgive the debt of billions of dollars for people who have gone to harvard and yale and penn. i don t think i have the authority to do it by signing a tape paper. howard: was joe biden right then? well, you are right with the following: this was one of those proposals where a whole lot of