biden s policies are different, i get that, but reporters pressed its aides, but not the president who takes very few questions, about this grim situation. some journalists are buying the white house explanation the problem is complicated. that s obviously true, but the tone is drastically different. the old media narrative, trump was a heartless hardliner. the new narrative biden means well but faces a difficult challenge. no amount of sympathetic spin can change that joe biden is now responsible. this is media buzz. i m howard kurtz. journalists keep rising the border crisis at white house briefings while the pundits are pointing fingers. so, how are you say that s not a crisis? it doesn t matter what you call it, it is an enormous challenge. it s something front and center for the president. we re just seven weeks into the biden presidency and already he s facing a growing humanitarian crisis at the u.s.-mexico border. the difference here, a lot of these children
candidate, except the one who has just been indicted, participated in a forward-looking policy driven forum in georgia. that all sounds refreshingly normal-ish, right? it s normal. maybe we are back to normal. except here s the problem, the big problem. things are not normal. the most important photo for history books this week, when we all look back, will not be of republican candidates cooking up burgers or standing onstage debating energy and tax policy on wednesday. it will be the mugshot of the ex president of the united states, from when he surrenders. for the fourth time, in just over four months. on charges that he orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to steal the 2020 election in georgia. on wednesday, the day of the debate, trump plans to release a prerecorded video on social media with the tv guy, formerly employed by fox. the next day, he may reportedly turn himself in. here s the crazy thing, as if all of that isn t crazy enough.
media with the tv guy, formerly employed by fox. the next day, he may reportedly turn himself in. here s the crazy thing, as if all of that isn t crazy enough. despite the indictments thing, the jail thing, and even the mugshot thing, donald trump is still absolutely crushing everyone in the republican field. by double digits. coming up, we will talk to steve kornacki and and i will pollster and sell sir that shows trump leading desantis by over 20 points. that s an interesting date underneath there as well. those candidates do not know exactly what to do with those numbers. they haven t moved that much in a while. so they keep talking about looking forward, and not looking back, instead of attacking trump head on. i don t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january. so i want to focus on looking
says she is past her prime. she will win over some of those white women who vote how their husbands tell them to. hey, sun y the desantis launch hasn t been perfect though. the twitter deal wasn t great and maybe i m being a little nitpicky, their advance team needs to up their game. the staff put him in front of a gigantic american flag which is good but the flag was too big. and when the camera took a tight shot at the desantis at the podium all you could see was just a giant white and red stripe. he looked like he was running for the president of poland. i m a tv guy. i notice these things. but desantis has been on message in iowa. listen. we allow the election to become about other things, other than biden s failures. if he is able to hibernate in his basement for the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. jesse: that was a clever way of saying if republicans
whoever does win the republican primary, trump or desantis, may be able to just waltz right into the white house. that is unless the fbi stops them. let s bring in charlie hurt. he is a washington times columnist and a fox news contributor. the musk-desantis event tomorrow, what are we expecting? well, ron desantis is stealing a page from trump s playbook. where you go around traditional media. you go directly to people. you hijack social media, just the way trump did in 2016. and trump proved that you can actually take it all the way to the presidency by doing that. jesse: i m the tv guy. i m nervous i might not have video to show. you described it perfectly. twitter spaces or whatever it is called is basically radio on the internet. that s all you need to know. and elon musk is going to be one of them talking and ron desantis. maybe they will be like little labels at the bottom so we know who is talking.