your mouth and pull the trigger if you re in part of this [bleep] fraud. howie: reuters tracked down nine people who left such messages. this is the incredible part. they admitted to it. they thought it was fine to curse and threaten people who were doing their jobs. one man left a message with arizona secretary of state katie holmes office saying she would hang, quote, from an f dashing-e tree. most of the cases don t get prosecuted. while the press is starting to pay attention, there should be a much bigger story. i m howard kurtz and this is media buzz. howie: ahead of the media totally botched the kyle rittenhouse homicide case, the media hadn t been all that concerned with rising prices, not the world s sexiest topic but when the biden administration announced the annual inflation topped 6%, even some pundits sympathetic to the president acknowledged he faces a major political problem. everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more and it s worrisome.
a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. developing at this hour, some new reaction to the rnc censuring congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger for their role in the house probe of january 6th. that resolution receiving some major backlash for referring to attack as, quote, legitimate political discourse. fellow 1/6 committee member jaime raskin just telling me what struck him the most about that move. they re licensing political violence in america. they re essentially embracing insurrection and coup as a mode of taking power in the country, and one thing that was particularly alarming to me about it was that it wasn t even clear that donald trump was the one pushing them to do this. they ve so internalized the command structure of the new republican party under donald trump as a cult leader that they just do his will without even being told. it comes as former vp mike pence delivered his ha
A very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. developing at this hour, some new reaction to the rnc censuring congresswoman liz cheney and congressman adam kinzinger for their role in the house probe of january 6th. that resolution receiving some major backlash for referring to attack as, quote, legitimate political discourse. fellow 1/6 committee member jaime raskin just telling me what struck him the most about that move. they re licensing political violence in america. they re essentially embracing insurrection and coup as a mode of taking power in the country, and one thing that was particularly alarming to me about it was that it wasn t even clear that donald trump was the one pushing them to do this. they ve so internalized the command structure of the new republican party under donald trump as a cult leader that they just do his will without even being told.