the former president, mara, in which donald trump said robert hur s going to investigate joe bide joe biden. he s a nice guy, but jack smith, his own special counsel, may very well turn out to be a criminal, he s in a mental state of derangement. his wife donated to the obama campaign, but does the press no longer deem it newsworthy that donald trump makes these types of allegations against a law enforcement official? well, yeah. i mean, i think you can just look at the new york post or fox news and remember when he announced his election campaign, florida man announces re-election, page 26. there s no do you want that the majority of no doubt that the majority of conservative media, fox first and foremost, has a strong desire to move on from donald trump and are not paying enough attention and giving him the air time and inning they used to. howard: well, of course, the question is what about the voters. and, you know that s a different question. howard: right. because he s th
with donald trump and his classified documents? time will tell, obviously, but they ve got a helicopter or drone, i can t tell the difference these days, circling over the wilmington the, delaware, residence of the president. and, remember, this is very, very reminiscent of all of that media coverage crushing down on mar-a-lago. but i think the more almost worrisome and notable point about this is we have two potential 2024 presidential candidates unable, both of them, to follow one simple rule, do not remove documents from the white house unless you can put hem in a secured area them in a secured, and a corvette garage or a beach club do not count. and i think that the press is going to go after that. howard: i think we have a slight difference of emphasis here, but we ll see. when we come back, the media dig up incriminating new details about george santos, and some republicans knew about his lies during the campaign. oh, what s this? the sofia vergara collection
that santos got payments as late as 2021 from a florida-based outfit called harbor city capital. can you tell us what went on with that? well, it s a huge amount of money, and it s more compared to what he had said two years ago or when he filed his documents that are supposed to be filed when you re running for office, 20 months late, by the way. and if you re talking about the press coverage here, one single reporter from a small long island newspaper called the north shore howard: north shore leader. maureen dealingly, give her maureen daley, give her an award. not only did they dig a little deeper, he had said he had a mull i million hamptons house, now, he does not. they went to his rented queens row house and took photographs of that. howard: right. they dug in and found that he has an auto low loan. it s a way bigger problem for the gop and not so much george
expansion, they re going to hire for personnel, everybody thinks, oh, gee, whatthey come after me? howard: on the other hand, mara, the white house says this will let the fat cats off the hook, the nonpartisan congressional budget office says it ll be a decrease of $100 billion in revenue because of not going after the well-heeled and the press used to moderate these debates, and i think now it s kabooky theater based on the underlying facts. it s hard for the press to the moderate these debates when the press isn t seen as a legitimate, dispassionate moderator. the fact is that the the irs has been one of conservatives most hated agencies and, you know, it s in the eye of the beholder. if there s less money percent irs, sure, there s less money for the all of a sudden admits, but who mostly gets audited? rich people and corporations. and it just depends on how strongly you feel about the irs. this is a totally politicized argument. i think all of those fact checks are almost irre
midterms. hay knew they had a problem with vice presidential documents that should not have been in the garage or next to the corvette or any of this err stuff can other stuff. i think the tone of this is different than anything else i ve seen with the possible exception of the debacle in afghanistan. i was thinking the afghanistan was similar. howard: yeah. i love that you both have optimism that the press will do a good job covering this. i am just so chastened by what we ve seen in the last couple years. even what we know about the biden story has largely been fed to friendly, compliant reporters, the entire news that there were these classified documents was given to friendly reporters. it wasn t tenacious reporting that brought this out. what s interesting to see with is whether the press can move into why exactly were these documents being hidden, strewn all over the place? what is going on with this university of pennsylvania biden center which has gotten more than $100