. howard: two weeks before the iowa caucuses in the republican primary has a new opponent from the ranks of those who say their defending democracy a single main democrat, secretary of state sh shanna bellows has knod donald trump off the ballot, one person a lifelong liberal a joe biden supporter following the lead of colorado supreme court in invoking the 14th amendment in declaring the former president and eligible. that would take the decision out of the voters hands and is an absolute media bombshell. when we look at iowa it s worth noting that very conservative republicans have one the complicated caucuses in the past, mike huckabee in 2008, rick santorum, 2012, takers 2016 and gone on to lose, the media s intense focus on iowa always gives the winner a boost, we ve never seen numbers like this with the fox business pull pain donald trump of 52%, ron desantis the 18%, nikki haley at 16% in iowa that s what we call a blowout, truck made a video urging iowa supporters to
the media would go easy on biden because, basically, he s not trump? that s out the window. look at sunday s new york times. biden s age is a big problem. polls show many americans consider mr. biden too old, and some democratic strategists do not think he should run again. monday s new york times, most democrats don t want biden to run again in 2024. that figure, 64%. tuesday, a times columnist pleads with biden not to run, and then there s the former president. tuesday s times, half of gop voters to leave trump behind, poll finds, and a significant number vowing to abandon him if he wins the nomination. trump s response, this is good, the failing new york times is down 40% year to date because if they are fake news. their reporters are dishonest. they hate our country. the new york times is truly the enemy of the people. now, of course the media would be committing hall practice if they didn t report on malpractice if they didn t report on biden s awful poll numbers or
be judicious about what they actually do, what they spend their time on, what they re telling the american people is important because a lot of people are are inclined not to pay attention anyway. and when they waste, in my opinion, some important air time, if you will, on this time of thing, i think it does diminish the overall impact that they might be looking for. howard: right. it certainly, in my view, was not nearly as strong as the other hearings, and i think that s a good point. laura, the other media bombshell came in the last minute when liz cheney, and they always do a tease for the next before the next hearing, said the media are saying witness intimidation. cnn and others reporting it s a support staffer at the white house, somebody who wouldn t ordinarily get a call from the president. so is that a bombshell or just an attempt that didn t succeed? well, i think president trump, a former president calling support staff for any reason when they are linked to this congre
federal court threw out all of the charges brought by the obama justice department. and i think the key context is that we ve now had a year of an investigation where many people who were saying too much is being made of january 6th was pointing to the fact that the justice department hadn t brought any charges after a year, merrick garland was getting very pressured politically by democrats, attacked by democrats. and then suddenly he holds a conference promising more charges and brings them. i think the question is, was it the response to the political pressure, and there s been very little discussion of that let alone skepticism. howard: yeah. and the media were always saying the doj had to be apolitical during the trump years. that s way it should be. it is a tough case to win. now, they have rhodes saying things like it will be a bloody and desperate fight, but you ve got to prove actual actions. we ll see how that turns out. look, that media bombshell replaces an earlier media ya
off the president, they do it almost every week. had sean spicer dealing with the all-out from helsinki. when we come back, michael cohen, secretly taping his former boss donald trump about a former playboy model. is that a media bombshell or not so much.