opinion. it didn t help that as the wall street journal reported, the fbi decided earlier there was no need to send agents to supervise biden lawyers collecting classified papers that they said they found. that reeked of a double standard. the washington post says biden world adopted a strategy of caution and deference toward doj, it was the goody two-shoes approach, more concerned with pleasing investigators than the public. here s a classic example. after white house sat on this story for two months, officials confirmed the cbs scoop about the first batch of documents found at penn biden center. now, the prime minister and his people already the president and his people already knew about the second batch but said nothing. it smelled like a cover-up. the post says some of biden s aides now regret the strategy. you think? here s the thing, anyone if can defend himself even when there s a justice investigation. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. if. howa
president s lawyers on their own timeline? it s just sort of a very absurd, almost comedy the of errors at this point, and the spin is pretty feeble. howard: except for the fbi search yesterday can excuse me, friday, and we don t know why that happened because the fbi initially declined, laura. and then, of course, it count get announced until saturday night which is when you always try to bury bad news. you know that as well as anyone. so it s just really striking to me how this is a story that should have been maybe a few days, and it just gets stretched out. well, you know, i think that s optimistic. i think that the press is looking for a scandal. 9 i think you hear guy s comments and yet he wants, you know, every move to be fold, every release, a press release on everything because the view is, is that this is ultimately, you know, condemnation before information. and i think that we have to get used to this biden administration that doesn t have leaks and betweens, it doesn t
somebody on the left that kind of likes him, you say, well, this goes too far. right. and again, we still don t know what evidence the prosecution does or doesn t have, but this is also a case sort of similar to this in npr, somebody got killed denly with a accidentally with a prop gun 30 years ago, there was no charges there. he really said horrible things about gun owners, about the nra. he, you know, for example, accusing, you know, dana loesch, she doesn t care how many bodies she steps over, and he ends up shooting someone which he she has never done. i understand that, but it s the also howard: baldwin could face 18 months in jail, an extra 5 years. and i just think these new mexico prosecutors, and just briefly, i think they re making an example of him and if it was a much lesser known figure, probably we wouldn t see this case. there s a piece in the new york times too, actors are concerned about this because a lot of them aren t gun safety
what s your take? yeah. we don t know all the info that the prosecution does or doesn t have, but there s been a lot of coverage of this. there s a piece in reason, i talked to a law professor who said you have to prove he actually thought about the fact that he thought it could be loaded before he, you know, that happened. and really that s hard to prove. there s a piece in slate talking to another lawyer saying there s different rules on a movie set for an actor. he s not allowed to make any other kinds of considerations bppedzs that. i think that a lot of people, you know, kind of want to see him charged because, quite frankly, he s kind of a jerk. [laughter] howard: is that sufficient reason for criminal charges? i don t think so. no, i don t think so either. howard: but it s an interesting point, which i ve noticed that. and legal experts have given their take, and many of them hi this is a hard case to win. but if you are conservative and you think alec baldwin is a jerk, rem