as the first prosecution and perhaps not at all. number three, trump s republican poll numbers have gone up as his most ardent supporters have rallied around him. trump s reaction on truth social is to blame d.a. alvin bragg s case on thugs and radical left monsters and accuse bragg of doing joe biden s dirty work. this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. the u.s. is now a third world nation, a nation in serious decline, so sad. as for all the saturation coverage, the stark reality doesn t fully hit you untilst the happened, a former president of the united states has been indicted. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, alaner the can, wits on why he believes all four investigations of donald trump are unfair. the new york indictment caused a media eruption that quickly broke down along partisan lines. democrats are branding trump as a criminal. along with the 74 million people who voted for him. they think the m
Alexis. Congratulations on your graduation. And on that note, i wish you a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. Really happy to have you here. Here we go, ready . The clerk, this is the people of the state of new york against donald j. Trump smz 71911 24. Appearances, starting with the people, prosecutor joshua steinglass, for the people, susan, becky mangold, christopher conroy, and katherine ellis. Good morning. Defense council bove, joined by President Trump seated to my left and joined by todd blanche, susan and kendra wharton. The judge, good morning. Good morning, mr. Trump. So the matter called into the record is the peoples motion for contempt, meaning the prosecutions motion for contempt. The judge say, quote, before i hand down my decision, i did want to address the defense and mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, as you know, the prosecution has filed three separate motions asking this c
Congratulations. Thank you. And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Really happy to have you here. Ready . The clerk. This is the people of the state of new york against donald j. Trump, smz71911 24. Appearancing starting with people. Prosecutor joshua steinglass, for the people, assistant District Attorneys joshua stein glass, michael colangelo, becky mangold, christopher conroy, and catherine ellis. Good morning, emil bove, joined by donald trump and todd blanche, susan necheles. The judge, good morning. Good morning, mr. Trump. So the matter called into the record is the peoples motion for contempt, meaning the prosecutions motion for contempt. The judge says, quote, before i hand down my decision, i wanted to address the defense and mr. Trump. Mr. Trump, as you know, the prosecution has filed three separate motions asking this court to find you in contempt. In a moment, im going to hand down my decision on the third motion. Which i in which i find you in Criminal Contem
Has components of it that the i think really show a media landscape that is a little more nuanced than people might like to believe. i ve been really interested this week in the fact that a lot of the coverage around this, the questionableness of this case, whether or not this case had legs, is coming from what people might call liberal, mainstream sources, right? saying this is a bad test case. this is, this is not going to be the best moment for the left. howard: everybody shows pictures of stormy daniels. clay, the trump team s argument is that this opens a new era of divisiveness ask that some are republicans will retaliate by launching unfounded prosecutions against chem captains. but that s basically a prediction of a dark future. i think they re right. look, this is across the a cross the rubicon moment, in my opinion. again, 240 years, this hasn t happened. at some point in time, there will be a prosecutor remember, it s intensely