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On trump. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. The debate will be hosted by bret baier and Martha Maccallum. I spoke to the anchor of the story from new york. Martha maccallum, welcome. Hi, howie, good to be with you. Howie i havent seen a build up like this for a first debate at the beginning of a campaign since that 2015 Fox Debate With Political Newcomer donald trump. I turned to the other channels i see fox debate. What are people saying . Why do you think that is . I think theres a lot of enthusiasm. I think people are much more politically engaged and probably since that 2015 debate and i think that people see this as , you know, entertainment that is very eye opening in terms of whats going on in the political world, so i think its a huge opportunity for these candidates on this stage and we see it acrosstheboard that people are just more interested in politics they are more interested in whats going on, so i think its great. Howie people didnt talk about politics or talk about civilians now as much as they do now. You would think that donald trump having a massive lead in the primary as much as 40 points in national polls, that that would take some of the zing, some of the suspense out of it but that doesnt seem to be the case. You know why i think that is , howie . Ive been looking a lot at the polling that we have just coming in over the course of this week and that lead, you know, shows up in a lot of polls, and it looks durable at least for now, but what you also see in these polls is that theres that kind of 37 that are solid trump supporters. Then youve got 30 and change that say im persuadable. These are all Republican Voters in this poll. 37plus, im persuadable, im open. 25 say they put themselves in the nevertrump category, right . So thats about 63 who are open to someone else, interested in someone else, and people say, you know, they look at all these other candidates what are they doing . Hes so far ahead but when you look at it that way you can see why they do see a path. It is early on. There are going to be a lot of shifts and one of the most interesting things to watch on wednesday night, you know, a couple people will really stand out. A couple people may end this race for themselves that night so it will widdle down and thats the other reason people are excited to watch. Howie trump has made it clear now hes not coming and let me refrain that because he loves to inflate a guessing game, so there could be last minute surprise, but lets assume that he sticks with his position. Does he become less of a spectacle, not just lower ratings but does the Star Power Go Down to put it historically . I find it interesting. Hes made a couple of choices in the path 24 hours or so, howie. One was that he canceled that News Conference that he was going to have on monday morning, right . So hes not going to come out and state his opinion and his case in the georgia situation and then do you know just a few hours later no im not going to debate either so im kind of wondering whats going on, why hes turning down these opportunities to speak to the american people, on the one hand that has me curious as someone who covers this race. On the other hand, i think that this makes a huge opportunity for all of these other candidate s because if hes not there, they are going to have a lot of space to really make themselves heard, and some of them will start to chip away at his numbers. Theres no doubt about it so i think that makes it even in some ways more interesting, actually, howie. Howie i think the spotlight will shine a little more brightly on them. Unlike any campaign in our lifetimes, Donald Trumps four indictments are dominating his campaign more than the debates i would say. I look at the coverage and its less Iowa State Fair and more Courtroom Hearings about scheduling. I think it was the Wall Street Journal a week or so ago that said this was a carnival that is rotating between courtrooms and rallies, and i think that is a very apt look on what were going to be watching. This is a completely unprecedented political experience when you have a layer and weve been keeping a running chart, to show how it all lines up with iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, march 5 super tuesday. All of that on top of these court dates that are put throughout the entire process. It will happen per him because he will have to spend time on these issues, and you know, how it plays well see , but weve seen that these indictments have only fueled peoples support for him. There are people who are rally ing to his side, because of them, but i think overtime and watching this play out youll have other people who are in that 62 who are saying you know maybe theres some place where theres a little bit less drama and the same kind of effectiveness so i dont know. Thats the opportunity though thats out there for these other candidates. Howie theres not much question as in the primary, of course a general electoral is a different situation but martha, a majority of republicans according to the polls that weve all seen, believe that these indictments are the result of a Weaponized Justice Department or a partisan democratic district attorneys, and theyre not interested in the details. They sort of tune it out so you think that that in some ways muscles the impact. You know, i think thats really unfortunate and i dont think its that surprising, howie. I mean, they see situations whether its Hillary Clinton and donald trump or hunter biden and connections that have been laid out by a number of witnesses to joe biden that people, that there should be more curiosity driving these issues, right . But they see one situation and handle it one way and one the other way and i think the distrust in the system and the Department Of Justice and the fbi, those are at levels we havent seen in a long time. I think those institutions should really be asking themselves how is this happening how have we allowed this trust to deteriorate . Its a very serious issue in the country so i think thats why you get a little bit of tune out to the details because people are not trusting it which is something that i hope these institutions start taking very seriously at some point. Howie were just in a hyper partisan situation. Chris cristi may be the toughest debater on that stage and he laid out for me what he was going to do when he was on immediate mediabuzz and hes moved up a little bit in the polls but many republicans believe hes just trying to tear down trump in other words some of that support may or may not go to him. Well see. Yeah, hes a fighter, and he, its very interesting to me that chris cristi story, because he had an opportunity to run for president and that turned out to be romneys Rom It Nation and he decided to wait and be governor again so a lot of people thought it wasnt a path for him. He has a path in new hampshire. Its not huge but hes neck and neck with ron desantis right now so hes getting attention in that lane. Hes saying im in that lane with those 63 . Those are my people. The people who are already in the trump category, they arent interested in me and thats fine thats why hes not even going to iowa, so i think this story is far from written, howie, and i think that chris cristi is one of the interesting people to watch in it. Howie yeah, absolutely, and its also interesting and we have that leaked memo from Desantis Pack saying dont attack trump, in fact defend him , if cristi asks a question, so hes got his or her own strategy and some of them just dont want to offend trumps loyal base thinking they can peel off some of those voters. How many of the barbs do you think will be aimed at President Biden or do you think well see a lot more republican on republican violence . Well they have to get through both hoops right . The first hoop they have to get through is the republican hoop so they have to, to some extent, go at each other, or they have to really stand out on their own and make people sit up and take notice, and then after that, theyve got to get through the hoop of going up against joe biden at least if he turns out to be the candidate he certainly appears to be on that track right now. Anything can happen, but you know, they have to kind of thread that needle pretty carefully but they do have to, we watched how the former President Trump just sort of picked people off one after another on that debate stage, and so that is part of the process. Well see if the way he did it changes the game when we get to milwaukee. Howie all of them have their prepared oneliners. Does that make it more of a clam edge for you to try to get beyond that and get to the substance what would you actually do about whatever the issue is . I think thats the challenge you know it well, howie, of listening to the answer and see ing if theyre actually making attempt to answer the question that was asked and then circling back around pinning them down to it if they havent. Politicians are very good at launching into it and you saw it in that desantis memo. Say these things, at least three to five times, right . Hes not alone. They are all having these same kind of meetings. These are the points you want to be sure to hit over and over so yes, i think when you start to hear that drone, you want to jump in and say no, no, wait a minute this is the question were talking about and we need answer so were moderators in this environment, its not a one on one interview situation which is different than this. Its for us to put that question out there and hopefully we get some debate going on that between the candidates because thats why they call it a debate howie youve done this many times, but i have to ask given the global attention to this first debate. Are you feeling some pressure . Of course. You know, but thats the kind of pressure we thrive on, right . We like these big moments. We love covering them, and it forces you to really buckle down and do your homework. Fortunately we have a great team , brett and i have worked together a lot over the years, and were putting our Heads Together everyday for several hours a day, and it definitely is the kind of thing you wake up in the morning and start jotting things down on your phone because you want to figure out a better way to ask a question but its really actually the pinnacle of the kind of thing we love to do, so were excited. Howie big game, big pressure, Martha Maccallum, thanks for joining us. Great to see you as always. 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That means a lot for my community and for every community. Howie we all knew that Fannie Willis the d. A. In Fulton County georgia was beginning to bring a racketeering case against trump, though we didnt know there be 18 other defendants including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows. The participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the county of the votes of the president ial electors. Thats exactly why all of these indictments are happening now. Make trump look like a criminal. Then next year, in 2024, trap the leading republican in court. Drain his resources. Here is where it goes off the rails. He promises evidence, which we all know now doesnt exist, for his very base less claims of fraud. After i read through this latest indictment of trump, i found myself asking, how can we now really say that were any better than what were seeing in the old former soviet union . The president of the United States has absolutely no power to intervene in any way in the Georgia Criminal Prosecution of Donald Trumps criminal enterprise. Howie joining us now to analyze the coverage in new york , rich lawry and in washington marie har, former state Department Spokeswoman and fox news contributor. Rich the media is been in wall to wall mode since fani willis delivered these indictments and this is the case where trump tells gathering gary cohen secretary of state i need you to find 11, 780 votes. Is this indictment having a big impact . Its bigger than some of the others. Its hard to keep track now, howard. Howie thats key and we do this for a living. We do this for a living. Yeah, so it gives trump a shortterm fundraising balance but weve learned recently, you know, his funding has basically been drained by all the legal fees involved and the prosecutions and it gives him the attention of the candidates they all have to talk about trump thats all that matters and creates a Sympathy Effect among republicans and republicans think its intuitive ly correct when trump was saying they could indict for any of the stuff at any time if i was just going playing golf , retired they wouldnt indict me. They are on this schedule right now in order as pete hegseth was saying there to tie me up with legal fees and to tie me down in terms of time and resources next year. Howie right. Well that assumes its an organized effort because obviously you have state and federal prosecutions. We were always shocked that trump seems to go up after each indictment has a huge republican primary lead but we look at the overall overall electorate in the latest fox news poll slate majority says the former president committed serious crimes in these investigations. Is that part of it being overlooked . I think so, howie, and look, martha made some really good points in the last segment with that great interview you did. Howie thank you. About the huge percentage of republican primary voters not general electorate voters republican primary voters looking for someone else, and we see every time theres an indictment he does raise money off of it but if you look at the sec data from the last quarter that we now have, each time, he raises a little less. So its like every time theres another indictment, i think up until this latest round, which comes to 91 indictments, right, howie . We wouldnt hire someone to work with us, im not sure why republican primary voters some want to make him president but every time we see this , his support wanes a little bit so i totally agree with martha. I dont think this story is over yet. Were in totally unprecedented times and i dont think we can assume when he gets in court, all of this evidence against him during the primaries that that will not mean that someone else wont rise to the top. I think the story is far from over. Howie well the voters will get their say. Rich, through multiple indictments lose their impact and shock value. The first time the former president of the United States never happen when they reported for the fourth time. Yup, yeah, just personally, i watched the first arraignment. I watched the Motorcade Heading to the courthouse, in manhattan and then i was talking to a friend i think it was the january 6 indictment i forget, which, and he was telling me i have it on right now. Hes heading into the courtroom im like what . I forgot about it. It didnt even interest me so yeah, its lost its shock value but look these are serious legal cases. Howie especially this one. Maybe they arent tried before the nomination is settled i think its kind of hard the timing. To say were going to indict him on all this stuff and try him immediately on all of them has just in hair entertainment due process issues, right . Because how many trials can you prepare for at once, but they certainly want to do something before the general election and they are just inherently tied up in politics and i just think its the whole thing is a bad idea and probably going to end badly. Howie that sets up my next question because if you just look at georgia, as you know, Rudy Giuliani is ripping fani willis saying this is ridiculous application racketeering laws, mark meadows wants to move trial to federal court. Why would fani willis want to try 19 cases and deal with 19 lawyers and sets of objections . Well, thats a great question. Im not a legal expert. I will defer to her on how she wants to handle this prosecution but georgia is a great example politically, howie. The fact that donald trump is screwed up the republican operation in that state they lost two senate seats. He lost the state to joe biden, and that state that is in many ways quite conservative is now trending blue so i think, howie, there are a lot of Republican Voters when asked by a pollster foil loyalty of donald trump and say they will vote for him but privately when they get in that voting booth i think they vote for someone else. I think they vote for mike pence , lets not sleep on him. I think they vote for ron desantis and vote for tim scott. Howie we shall see. Some of the polls are a little skewed potentially. Howie donald trump canceled a Press Conference he was going to have tomorrow. I want put the graphic up but he says he has evidence about the election in georgia but his lawyers say he should present it in some more formal legal fashion. Donald trump listens to his lawyers . Yeah, i know, this goes to what a bad idea this must have been, [laughter] that on this one, one of the lawyers actually managed to convince him. Obviously being trumps lawyer is one of the worst jobs as an attorney in the United States, because hes not going to listen to your advice and attack the prosecutor and judge and just an attack dog thats what he does but occasionally you can talk him down and apparently he did in this case. Howie just briefly so after two and a half years donald trump says he can disprove the georgia accusations but hes holding off for now. Because he cant and we all know that the facts are not on his side. Hes lost every court case about this and look the fact that there are so many defendants here not just donald trump. This was a conspiracy. All of his top people working for him were indicted, Rudy Giuliani, mark meadows, these are really serious charges and he cant spin this away like hes always done. Howie all right before we go to break, rich, you have some news about the National Review Print Addition . Yeah, were going monthly which is a big deal for us we long ago became more than just a print magazine but print is key to our identity and this is not like a news weekly or something just getting smaller and smaller disappearing. Its a bigger magazine, sleek new modern design, better quality paper, everyone we show Ed Prototypes To has a wow effect and we think our readers will have exactly the same reaction when they get it in october. Howie wow effect i like that. All right next on mediabuzz we get a look at ron desantis secret Debate Strategy as hes in danger of slipping perhaps even further in the polls. This is your summer to smile. To raise your glass and reconnect. To reel in the fun and savor every bite. 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If all we are is listless vessels that are just supposed to follow whatever happens to am come down the pike on truth social every morning thats not a durable movement. Howie okay, rich well come back to Vivek Ramaswamy later i know you have things to say about that but the Desantis Campaign tells me the Dishonest Media are distorting the facts and that the governor was referring to trump and d. C. Insiders who feel entitled to vorticity your vote, but it sounds like hillary integrating trump voters as a basket of deplorables. As an insult listless develops doesnt really rate for me. Its clear to me what he meant. Hes trying to say literally trump shouldnt define whether youre a loyal republican or a loyal conservative, but it seems like one of those things now thats just going to enter and this is a snake bit campaign, howie. Its hard to think of one good news cycle that Desantis Campaign has had in the last six months. Theres some state level endorsements besides that its just been bad news story after bad break after bad news story. Howie there have been missteps , the debate about slavery and then changing campaign managers. I dont know if youre more excited about list also vessels but attack the media seems like a nobrainer seems for a republican candidate but take a Sludge Halperer to Vivek Ramaswamy who im sure a majority of americans have never heard of. Well first of all, his super pack never should have leaked this memo. I think that was a strategic mistake. It makes him look silly in many respects because he wont take on the elephant in the room. Look if hes going to be the nominee he has to take on donald trump. This weird attempt to hug him and defend him when he doesnt even show up to the debate and to try and get down in the mud with a candidate most americans dont even know, although hes rising in the polls a little bit , i dont think ron desantis has a strategy. I dont think he has any clue what hes doing here politically , and rich is right. I can not think of one good cycle, media cycle, he has had since he announced. He just cant figure out if he should go against trump, sort of go against him, he doesnt know what hes doing here. Howie i will concede that desantis has had a lot of problems, but the media have really pounded this guy every single day. No matter what happens, he gets a negative story. It really, they have it in for him but let me turn to this , because first of all, was that super pack memo wasnt leak ed it was posted on an obscure corner of the internet because they cant legally coordinate with the campaign but here is a suggestion on trump. Listen to this , rich. Hes a breath of fresh air, desantis should say, and the first president to tell the elite where to shove it and then, add that the former president was attacked all the time, provoke attacks all the time and it was nonstop. Forgive me. Isnt he running against donald trump . Well this is a dilemma, howie. The real thing, so martha emphasized one aspect of the state of the republican electorate. Half of it, twothirds of it, whatever is open to an alternative to trump. 25 just dont want him and then other 30 is persuadable, but a huge majority of republicans also dont want trump attacked, so how do you present yourself as the alternative and take him down from this huge commanding lead at the same time youre not seeming as though youre attacking him and the listless thing is a perfect example of this. Theres extreme sensitivity around trump, these guardrails have been created so if you say listless vessels everyone freaks out but trump can say desantis was grooming teenage girls when he was a teacher, he might be gay, even worst stuff out there and no one bats an eye lash. Howie yeah, well, it is a dilemma, just one second, it is a dilemma but at the same time, if you never criticized the guy, people will say well why dont i just pick trump so the memo also says, youll love this , a former political person, tell an anecdote about your family, show emotion, the kind of thing most candidates dont need tutoring on. Yes, i mean thats been one of rons biggest problems. Hes a little weird. Hes a little wooden on the campaign trail. There are these videos posted of him at the Iowa State Fair trying to talk to children and he doesnt know what to say to them. Hes a very sort of odd retail politician, right . Thats one thing donald trump is very good at. Love him or hate him, hes good at retail politics. Ron desantis isnt. I think the big question about the debate for ron desantis, because hes the second candidate under trump, but for all of them, how much do they actually want to talk about trump versus how much do they want to talk about their vision, their policy ideas . If they spend this whole debate defending donald trump or attacking him if youre chris cristi, none of them are going to benefit from that in the poll s, i dont think. Howie there will be some questions about trump but i dont think bret baier and Martha Maccallum will let it be about the guy whose not there. Rich, here is what i wanted to ask you earlier. You wrote about a month ago in a column in politico, get ready for the Vivek Ramaswamy moment and two days ago, time had how Vivek Ramaswamy became 2024s breakout candidate. What gives the media the magic power to declare the moments for candidates . Well what else is the media going to do . This is what it does and vivek, well see how long it lasts, but compared him in that column a little bit to mayor pete and mayor pete shouldnt have run for president but hes a very talented guy in many ways very wellspoken and never got corner ed on anything and vivek is the same way. No ones attacked him, trump certainly hasnt attacked him. The other candidates ignored him but beginning to eat into the vote of other candidates especially desantis so thats why you had that Debate Pointer in there. Howie you know if he is having his moment and starts to get more Media Scrutiny people start to look at some of his positions like raising the voting age to 25 and not a big supporter of aid to ukraines but maria ill say one thing for Vivek Ramaswamy. Hes done a lot of media interviews, he didnt have much choice but thats how he has moved up in the polls. He has, and thats sort of where hes like mayor pete but i also think hes like the andrew yang of this years republican primary class. He comes from business, a very outsider mentality trying to just shake it all up, and andrew yang had a little bit of a moment too. I think vivek will be an interesting addition to the debate stage but going back to the point you just made about desantis. They have to start differenting their policies and whether its weird ideas vivek has about russia and ukraine or desantis really controversial social stances on things like yes, slavery, that i hope is what the debate is about is what these candidates feel, what these candidates think and i think marthas right. Some will rise because of this debate. Some may have to end their campaigns because of this debate and a lack of fundraising a lack of support coming out of it, so its a really big moment for all these guys. For the record desantis does not have controversial views on slavery. He opposes slavery. That whole line well he says things and puts forward policies that certainly can be interpreted as controversial on slavery and maybe hes not explaining them the right way, rich, but the fact that they have been totally distorted. No. Hes messing with floridas curriculum on a whole host of issues at the university level, at the high school level. But thats a different issue trying to rewrite our history in a very controversial way and down playing our history whose supposed to write floridas curriculum . Its not down playing slavery. Hes not having a good campaign. Howie all right were debating it shows youre distort ing the facts. Hes opposed to slavery. Thats not true, rich. It says some slaves gain skills during the course of their have fun defending that. Have fun. Howie ill jump in as the referee. Thats the positive thing about African Americans not slavery. 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He defended what he needed to defend what he did on that day and defend his honor and desantis actually in a listless vessel thing is part of this , hes crawling up to being more aggressive and forceful against trump, but it goes back to the dilemma i was talking about but at thend of the day theres no way around him, youll have to go through him, and no ones going to win the Nomination Tiptoeing around trump. Howie Maria Anybody who attacks trump makes news. In fact a lot of these candidates the only media oxygen they can get is by answering questions about trump. What do you think about trump not being on the stage and all of that, but guys have four indictments. Any other campaign you can imagine wouldnt even a single indictment be fair game for the opponent . Absolutely. I mean, we are living in an alternative universe, howie. I think one of the worst ways a candidate can respond to questions about donald trump is to waffle, right . Either defend him, go out there and defend him, look i dont think thats a defensible position but go out there and defend him, say this is all the justice department, witchhunt or do what chris cristi is doing and go after him but doug burgham, the north dakota governor was on another network this morning and waffl ing and not taking a position and dodging and i think for candidates the worst place to be because it looks like you dont know what you believe and youre scared of the electorate and unwilling to take a position so you know, pick a side and run with it, but i do agree, pence is picking a new side here and thats a fascinating part of this race to watch. Howie his former Vice President , so rich, i think part of this is as trump could be on the stage or not all the stuff we do. The media are so fixated on the former president , and he does make a lo is endlessly fascinating. He does have the four indictment s, but i think it kind of puts the other candidates at a huge disadvantage even with the upcoming debate where the guy wont be on the stage. Theres just trump has this quality weve talked about this before where so its kind of a winwin proposition. If he shows up at the debate it be a massive story, all of the attention be about him and he be the biggest guy standing in the middle of the stage the way it was all through 2016, and then he doesnt show up for the debate and everyone else is diminished and the guy he hates and wants to stomp on desantis will be the focus of everyones attacks as are scorpions in the bottle so eventually this luck or whatever it is will run out but it hasnt yet. Howie regardless of who rich and other people think should have a moment and i only have a moment here, doesnt this nice segway, howie, wow youre a real pro. Howie [laughter] doesnt a stage where Vivek Ramaswamy can talk, nikki haley can talk, tim scott can talk, chris cristi can talk, represent a real opportunity for them to breakthrough a little bit, to normal americans. Absolutely. Absolutely. If donald trump were there, he would take up all of the oxygen like he always does and the conventional wisdom used to be there were two tickets out of iowa. This will give the candidates an opportunity to try and get one of them. Howie marie and rich, thanks for hanging with us this sunday. After the break its called The Blind Side the Oscar Winning Film Of A Promising Young Black Football Player that winds up a legal mess. Hit it it takes two to make a thing go right it takes two to make it outta sight one, two, get loose now it takes two to make a. Stay two nights and get a 50 best western gift card. Book now at bestwestern. Com. Conquer financial reports. Conquer 2000word essays. Conquer a 6 course menu. 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The saga became a movie The Blind Side that won Sandra Bullock an oscar but now its a story of trickery, filing suit this week against the memphis family leann and shawn tuhey who orr thought had adopted him but it actually setup a conservatorship, and charges that the family deceived him but when penning a book a couple weeks ago he made no mention while describing his deprived childhood. Some that i lacked as a young kid for a long time, i wish i had life would have been a little bit smoother mentally for me. Maria a lawyer for the family sees it very differently. A bomb dropped on our clients to say they were devastated by these allegations is truly an understatement. Mike got every dime he had coming. Howie joining us now griff jenkins, the fox news correspondent and anchor. So youre from memphis you went to ole miss. Whats at the heart of michael suing this family . They did take him in and bring him up like a son. Griff as my personal connection , im as disappointed as anyone that this heartwarming feelgood story of 2009 and that great movie has a sad earning and clearly orr is emotionally let down he wasnt officially adopted but the real story gets a little more complicated but it hasnt stopped critics by the way a film critic from the npr said this is the poster child for hollywoods white savi or narratives saying the movie was sentimental trash. Thats not true. The ohers took him in and did help him achieve his ultimate potential, however they didnt legally adopt him. It was a conservatorship which the dad says was at the time the most pragmatic fastest way to get him to sign at ole miss, to help him get to college and play football then. Ncaa rules and concerns about them inappropriately directing him to that college because the tuheys gone there and were alumni. Howie in this lawsuit or who played for the super bowl champion Baltimore Ravens when they won says in the suit he received nothing from The Blind Side which generated p 300 Million Worldwide revenue so i dont know whose telling the truth here but its also odd that oher s hasnt said a word in public about this. Well and oher said he was playing in the nfl hes a super bowl winner with a ring on his finger. He didnt have time to really dig into these details and he recently had discovered the actual paperwork he had signed was a conservatorship but everybody thinks Britney Spears when you hear that and think oh, my gosh, however the tuheys attorneys and even Michael Lewis said there wasnt that much money made and of the money howie lewis blames hollywood. Griff and said hollywood executives got all the money. Howie but does oher have a right to feel deceived because he was under the impression he was adopted by this family which did do a lot for him and that cant be denied but actually technically it was a conservatorship. Griff absolutely he does. When you hear from the attorneys they say that oher tried to shake the family down, the attorneys words not him, for 15 million, in recent years howie give me 15 million or a sue . Griff or else theres negative press. We dont know much more about that. Thats a claim that the attorneys for the family have said, oher and his attorneys have not responded but it clearly looks like theres a bit of a history of why oher is estranged from the family. Howie boy this really turned ugly and hes written two memoires and one, he gives a sentence to the tuheys and also talks about the movie and how he doesnt like being portrayed as a really dumb kid. He says he was not. So there is several versions floating around here and until this came up with a lawsuit the media never dug into these discrepancies. Griff one of the things that oher says he was most disappointed about the movie going way back looking back at the history he was upset in the movie Sandra Bullock says she had to teach him how to block and he said no, no, i knew how to play football from the beginning. That heart is hollywood taking liberty which wouldnt be the first time hollywood script writers took liberties but i do say this i dont think he can make Sandra Bullock give back a best actors oscar, but it is sad as you were saying at the top to see this heartwarming story portrayed as that and now its just a bunch of lawyers making charges against each other. Griff thats right. They say they are going to legal ly try to end this conservatorship as soon as they can so who knows maybe theres a final chapter they can reconcile and Michael Lewis will get that story as well. 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