Much for joining us. Cnns primary coverage continues right now with laura coats and abby philip tonight, too big checkmarks. One has all already happened, and were expecting the other any minute now. And when it does, you can officially lock in your Matchup Cards for what might be the most important election of our lifetime welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im codes and washington dc, its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious and he will be the democratic nominee come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of states, State Of Georgia, one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done for trump tried to deny democracy and say, well, donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the star in terms. Are
The most important election of our lifetime. Welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight. Im abby phillip in new york, and im laura coates in Washington Dc. Its a short time ago. Joe biden made official well, the obvious yes and he will be the democratic nominee, come this november. He is celebrating clinching in a new video asking voters, are you ready to win . Well, tonight, biden adding important victories to his win column. Look at all of these states. State of georgia, a one that he won in 2020, put them over the top. Its also a state were done on trump tried to deny democracy. I say were donald trump is on trial for Election Interference. And tonight the president put the november choice and quite the story stark terms. Are we going to stand up and defend our democracy or let others tear it down so who are the others hes talking about . Well, its pretty obvious one person, its donald trump, who sits only a handful of delegates away. Now from locking up the nomination after romping
a goal nor some sort of accomplishment that he was looking for in sharing these documents. of course, there s some anti-government sentiment. howard: it s a dilemma, why would journalists blow the whistle on a leaker disclosing classified secrets, which is a crime, when they d eagerly accept such material which is not a crime? if the media agree with an i agenda such as when daniel ellsberg leaked the pentagon papers, they turned him into a hero. one crucial difference here, the top secret material wasn t given to a news outlet which could be held accountable, but mosted posted on social media where anyone could see it. so who, exactly, is responsible? more on this ahead with veteran national security reporter glenn greenwald. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ron desan us the just signed a 6-week ban on abortion in florida tweeting out a single picture after 11:00 at night. the governor s quiet move came as a ruling by a federal judge in texas again put
which any person including a freshman state legislator can catapult to national fame by going viral. there is a real problem with the pact that going viral is, there s an incentive to go viral. that is the opposite of powerful policy making, that is the opposite of sort of conducting the business of legislating. so, yes, they did break the rules. i agree with rich that the optics of what republicans did many in turn was really stupid, but, yeah, it can not be denied that they did break the rules. howard: i think you touched on this earlier, rich, but if there had been a end censure or reprimand, at the national level it would have been a one-day story, but the media have certainly provided a giant megaphone and kept this story going day after day after day, and now everybody knows names of the two justins. there s another thing. justin jones, you know, the media was obsessed with these guys for at least a full maybe, maybe more, great heroes, and and i had to learn from witter and
chris, assuming todd is right who is covers the clinton s presidency. there is that, is it baked into the cake question? i think a lot of this is baked into the cake. people have made up their minds largely of how they feel the president has handled interference with the election. there may be some people in the middle that you could hold one direction. i think the question i would have is how would president trump react? i am going to say focus on the business of legislating. president trump always gets side tracks on personal issues and drawing himself into battles with other people.