desantis as the man who could prevent their future national nightmare of a return trump trip to the white house. now the media consensus is that trump should be the nominee because he would be the easiest candidate for joe biden to be. that is up to question giving democratic doubts of the president s age and fitness the nap spill he took at the air force academy. media favorite to media piñata. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. we will look at why kevin mccarthy dominated the debt ceiling coverage over biden and how it is being spun. ron desantis had indicated finally taking some swings at donald trump. much of the media is peddling the florida governor. if you say cuomo did a better job with cuomo than kobe did, first of all, that is not what he used to say. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. you don t think they will play dirty with ron desantis. they will burn this man to the ground. somehow desantis would be part of it by lacking.
general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
Desantis as the man who could prevent their future national nightmare of a return trump trip to the white house. now the media consensus is that trump should be the nominee because he would be the easiest candidate for joe biden to be. that is up to question giving democratic doubts of the president s age and fitness the nap spill he took at the air force academy. media favorite to media piñata. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. we will look at why kevin mccarthy dominated the debt ceiling coverage over biden and how it is being spun. ron desantis had indicated finally taking some swings at donald trump.
Balking at a deal to hurt joe biden? why did a lot of them sign on to the original house deal that would prevent a default? that would seem to be counterproductive. look, i think the president has been put in a bit of a corner, painted himself into a corner because they said we re not going to negotiate assuming the republicans might not get it together and get anything passed, but they did more than a month in advance, and i think that s the problem that s been facing them for the last several weeks now. howard: yeah. on the other hand, lucy, i always thought this would come out, i don t think there s going to be default, at the last minute they ll come up with some face-saving compromise. it s a totally manufactured crisis, obviously. but biden will say, well, i didn t negotiate on the debt ceiling. the spending cuts are something else, and kevin mccarthy will say, well, no, he caved and did give us at least some of the spending cuts. i m not sure it s a manufactured crisis. i do
9:00 am on the east coast, 6:00 am out west. marathon talks lead to a new debt deal. at least in theory. the president backs it. so do leaders of both parties. still, no reason to celebrate just yet. in syria, a violent crackdown on anti-government protests. more than 7 0 people killed and counting. and new this morning, a big change to health coverage. the federal government will require insurers who provide birth control without co-payments. now, in just a few hours, we could see the beginning of the end of the debt crisis. it s been the issue in washington for weeks. and you re probably tired of the finger pointing and doomsday predictions. today, that could all come to an end if the house and senate approve a compromised plan. the deal identifies about $1 trillion in spending cuts over ten years and raises the debt ceiling by about the same amount. bipartisan committee must find ways to trim another trillion a, a so-called deficit posse. the president and house spea