Not please the white house. The ag named david weiss the trump appointed u. S. Attorney in delaware who has been investigating hunter biden four years has a Special Counsel giving them greater powers and more independence. David weiss requested the move. Suddenly, constant coverage of hunter biden despite the Media Obsession with donald trump. Hunter bidens pleabargain on tax and gun charges spirit in him jail time fell apart. Now weiss will probably take it to trial. Even my devon archer testified next week that Vice President joe biden joined 20 Speaker Phone Calls with hunter and his associates and said the vp dying twice at a Fancy Georgetown Restaurant For The First Time the Hunter Scandal is getting too big for the media to ignore. I am howard kurtz, this is the mediabuzz. Howard the media has been a prime target as the pundits are debating whether Hunter Biden Story deserves more attention and now that question reverberates even more loudly. This is an investigation, it is a cov
reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, thousands taking to the streets in israel, blocking the country s main airport and make highways. prime minister netanyahu s latest attempt to curb judicial power just reignited massive protests. also, president zelenskyy arrives at the nato summit. he just addressed a crowd of thousands from an outdoor stage with many supporters in the crowd waving ukrainian flags. ahead, what to expect from his meeting tomorrow with president biden who says ukraine is not ready to join nato. and presidents of turkey just hours ago. his message of thanks now that turkey has lifted the last hurdle. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we begin in lithuania with president biden and president erdogan. chris, just a couple of days ago, the u.s. was suggesting that sweden would join nato but we didn t know when. they were not thinking it was going to be possible during the course of this summit. we got that surprise
i m alicia menendez with simone standers townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. donald trump delivering a new calling for, quote, compute complete immunity for presidents. plus, the house speaker cold water on congresswoman the net paragon will tell us where things stand. we will also hear from hhs secretary javier after record breaking care for the affordable care act. grab your coffee, settle, in to the weekend. we begin with donald trump ramping up his calls for presidential immunity. the former president posting late last night that, quote, without complete immunity, a president united states would not be able to properly function. this comes as trump gears up for a busy few weeks on legal and political fronts. appeals could go at either moment on those immunity claims. just days from now, the supreme court will hear oral arguments over whether the state of colorado can a boot trump from the presidential ballot. those cases
2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trump s ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recommend any wholesale changes at the fbi. the special counsel also appears to relitigate two of the cases he lost that went to trial, in which he brought criminal charges. the durham report has been contradicted by two of the reports, including one released in 2020 by the republican-led senate intelligence committee. the committee s report as well as one from the justice department watchdog found the fbi s investigation with some laws but warranted. and said the trump campaign closed a counter inte
i want to start with the evolution of a lie. this pin tweet is sticking it to the top of the rnc accounts page meaning they are proud of this. they do not want this post to get lost in the shuffle. the post shows video of president biden at the g7 summit watching a parachuting ■ç demonstration with other world leaders. if you only saw the moments the rnc decided to post of this video, the video makes it look like biden is confused or wandering off. the rnc s caption what is biden doing adds to that impression. but if you watch a longer version of that same moment, or you watch it from other angles you can see that biden is clearly watching other parachuters out of frame and giving them a thumbs up. but rather than include that context, 90 minutes after the rnc posted their video, the new york post reposted it. but this time, with the video cropped so you never see any of the parachuters biden is looking at making him seem even more out of it. and of course, hours later, th