at a rally last week, lake advised supporters they can, quote, strapped on a glock to be prepared for the 2024 campaign. she urged military and law enforcement veterans to be ready. a representative said she would talk about the second amendment right for arizonans to defend themselves in general. that is not how some of her own supporters interpreted her, but one rally until he told nbc news, quote, the signs are all there for the possibility of a civil war. we are not talking about the movie. my panel is back with me. ameshia, i will start with you. who is the pick of the week, tom cotton art kari lake? reporter: these are dumb and dumber. i would argue that they are going neck and neck. that record leads to violence in the streets because coming from leadership positions to carry large voices. tom cotton is there right now. he has not one but two degrees from the harvard university. he knows better than what he is doing but terry lake, she is
howard: right. on that very point, one of the texts you referred to hunter biden says to a chinese executive he s trying to get money from i am sitting here with my power, as you said, and would like to understand why the commitment has knotts been fulfilled. but has not been fulfilled. but now ashley lowell, hunter s attorney, says in a statement these images are complete fakes, they are one-sided and slanted information orchestrated by disgruntled agents. so if that s true, ameshia, it s outrageous. on the other hand, i don t understand why lowell would met in this sit out there there for a couple of weeks and not deny it earlier. i just can t figure it out. i think because a lot of people didn t buy it, quite frankly, and there were some right-wing media hits that came from this, but the majority of mainstream media didn t grab on to out. it did have the air of i don t think anybody s son is that stupid to send those type of messages [laughter] howard: unless he made it up and
the very forces working against trump. howard: ameshia, you may not agree with the weaponization of government charge, but cnn also broke the story of the partial transcript of the same conversation before donald trump was indicted, so plenty of folks certainly have the impression that the network, like other news outlets, is working hand in glove with doj. i know that cnn is in a ratings war with itself, so at the end of the day with as much as they can break anything and chasing the tail of trump for as long as they possibly can, they re going to leak these. it is very interesting that they come in such quick sequence, and i do think that journalists and other media investigators should, you know, be on alert of that. but also where does this go? again, this is greatly impeding the trial in and of itself and the investigation, but i am more interested in what cnn is up to with with this here. also the fact that they serve to diminish already, i think, lax
faith in our systems of government. howard: right. well, i think what cnn is up to and they probably miss the ratings from when trump was president, also like a lot of organizations, is getting the scoop. and i know a lot of people it might seem like, okay, he says this but the transcript says this, might seem incremental, but the question is did he know he had a classified document, did he show it to somebody, and that s one of the key charges in this indictment. robby, ameshia, thanks so much. why is rfk jr. getting so much media attention? but up next, journalists still struggling to figure out what happened in russia with that short-lived military coup against vladimir putin. so people think they re open. surprise. [ laughs ] [ horn honks, muffled talking ] -can t hear you, jerry. -sorry. uh, yeah, can we get a system where when someone s bike is in the shop, then we could borrow someone else s? -no! -no! or you can get a quote
they re fakes. i, quite frankly, when i saw the messages thought the same thing. it s not that this hasn t happened to other people before with, we ve seen manipulation of messages. on top of that, i just don t ooh believe anybody could be that dumb, and they will have to investigate and see whether or not this transpired, but i do think that before people basically nail hunter biden to the cross on this one, there is some more investigation into those messages. howard: yeah, i would agree, ameshia. obviously, applies an iq test to her journalistic scrutiny. same question for both of you. have the media learned the lesson about blowing off and minimizing allegations about hundter biden, or are some is of the press essentially protecting joe biden? i mean, look, i think it would be a scoop if they could, even the mainstream media, if they could prove this, they d probably go for it. but i think there s less interest in covering it especially given everything going on in trump world: