caitlin collins had asked a single question, these people were saying that trump, a former president and the leading candidate by far for the republican nomination, should be barred from tv, banned, exiled, silenced because they just don t like him. but that s ludicrous. this wasn t a rally where he just gets to pop off. and whatever you think of trump, shouldn t journalists question him as part of the campaign? as it turned out, the town hall turned into an absolute train wreck, even many people at cmn being sharply critical. but the alternative, banning trump from the airwaves, is suppression of speech, and that is not journalism. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, george santos versus the media mob as he is indicted for fraud. the first 24 minutes of the cnn event was spent on two of donald trump s true curing subjects recurring subject, the 2020 election and the capitol riot, and that insured a clash from the start. it was not a rigged election