arises to take the top spot. carley: griff jenkins joins us. griff: when prices go up, it has nothing to do with president biden, when it comes down, he deserves credit. white house economic advisor doesn t like you to put it that way. i very much disagree with that framing. what is happening here is a president who is working tirelessly to address the largest, toughest constraint facing american households, the budgetary impact of elevated prices and we re showing you here today real results partially derive from concrete efforts he s taken. griff: this after kate bedingfield expressed frustration over not getting credit for deshrining gas prices saying the drop is one of the fastest in gas prices in over a decade, just this sunday we witnessed largest single day decline in national gas prices 2008. voters are not happy. new cnn poll 38% approve of his performance and 7-10 americans say biden hasn t paid enough attention to the nation s most pressing problems. govern
comment. carley: thank you. new washington post. todd: flawed coverage model of politics and government is bad for more than just biden results in distorted discourse that weakens democracy, the media needs to find different way to cover washington. joe concha joins us. to be clear, we re in the wrong for pointing out that joe biden s policy have destroyed a once thriving economy, right? joe: yes, todd, media coverage drove inflation to 9.1%. inflation was below 2% when this president took office. it was press looking to take down joe biden by driving violent crime up and out of control and negative media coverage opened southern border to allow migrants to pour into
launched, a superb, 18 correspond denned he is was 75. he worked for nbr and how do you remember jim angle? a wonderful guy, texan through and through. he was a washington insider and covered the town brilliantly. could hear the fort worth in his voice. texas twang. very encouraging to young correspondents like me 25 years ago who were looking how to cover washington. always had a kind word. always had advic advice for us. recent years i would get notes after i anchored special report or fox news sunday. he would say you re looking good, mike. really wonderful human being. i m heartbroken about his loss and our friend wendell goler before him. may their memory be eternal. i m sorry to see them go. howard: he was a great colleague and a very dogged reporter. thanks, mike. that is it for this edition of mediabuzz on this super bowl sunday. i m howard kurtz.
novartis footsteps and today apologizing for bad judgment. but many defenders of president trump and those who cover washington say this is how things work in our nation s capital. is that true? to find out if this is normal behavior, i m joined by a new york times reporter who wrote a story called how to get rich in trump s washington. i want to start with a tweet the president sent out that i thought was interesting that seems to acknowledge the allegation here. he says, why doesn t the fake news media state that the trump administration s antitrust division has been and is opposed to the ataround t purchase of time warner in a currently ongoing trial. such a guedisgrace in reporting. this understands that he precisely knows what is being alleged here. that s why they hired michael cohen to try to move the administration off that position. that s the whole reason. or to understand what is
bad judgment. many defenders of trump and even some of those who cover washington say this is just how some thing work in our nation s capit capitol? is that true. i m joined by nick comp sory where he wrote a story last year about lobbying called how to get rich in trump s administration. i want to acknowledge a tweet. he says, why don t the fake news media state that the trump administration s i made a not of pointing that out last night. it is precisely what is being alleged here. exactly why they hired michael cohen, to try to move the president off of that position. it s the whole reason, or to understand who is happening in