Doj special counsel david weiss disclosing hell indict hunter biden on the gun charge that was to be dropped under that nowdefunct plea bargain deal. But joe bidens core problem is that hes the oldest president in american history, a subject hes been joking about. Someone said, you know, that biden, hes getting old, man, i tell you what. Well, guesses what . Guess what . The the only thing that comes with age is a little bit of wisdom. Howard with more negative polls coming out, many pundits are increasingly down on bidens chances. There is no way to spin this, america is deeply unhappy with joe biden. Howard this is a glowing media issue growing media issue because voters, including a majority of democrats, remain worried about a president whod be 86 at the end of his second term. Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Howard ahead, my sitdown with president ial candidate Chris Christie and whether his attacks on donald trump are backfiring. Commentators are debating joe biden and the age issue is, but it doesnt always break down along leftright lines. Owe bidens trying to pull off the. Impossible, the president no longer saying, oh, yeah, you think im old . Watch me. Weve watched him, and weve seen him fall down, fall asleep and forget where he is. You cant look at this and not say youre concerned. For me to come on television and say i dont find it troubling at all would be stupid. I wouldnt do that. What democrat voters think or what they want is not relevant to the party establishment. They readily concede that they hear doubts about whether biden is up to the job. Their response . Get other it. Democrats said it then, they said it before the election, they said it after he got elected time and again hes too old, hes outdated, he cant get anything done and then he passes more Bipartisan Legislation than anybody in to 20 the25 years. Howard and when the new book, the the last politician, quoted biden privately fuming after he made a misstatement aboutd Vladimir Putin and his staff had to clarify, was john kennedy ever babied like this . Peter doocy picked up on the anecdote. Reporter President Biden is the oldest president in u. S. History. Why does white house staff treat him like a baby . No one treats the commander in chief like a baby. Thats ridiculous. Reporter theres this book howard joining us now to analyze the coverage, ben domenech of the spectator if and in los angeles, leslie marshall, radio talk show host. Both are fox news contributors. Ben, is the coverage starting to reflect the severe problem that biden has with twothirds of democrats in the latest Wall Street Journal poll saying hes too old to serve a second term . I think that we saw in very close sequence a number of polls come through that detailed that its not just republicans who have issues with bidens age. Its independents and its even democrats. And they really would prefer that they had a different candidate to put up, someone who would speak to the future as opposed to the past, who, you know, hasnt had, you know, he talked about gaining wisdom, hes also gained a lot of baggage during that time. And i think what you actually see here is healthy in the sense that its representative of a broad swath of americans who with all agree about this. The problem, there is no real conceivable way out of this quandary. There is no conceivable way that democrats at this point can push biden away. Had the midterms gone differently, that was potentially a possibility, but they didnt. He is the candidate that they have to run with, and they have to get through the next 14, 15 months in order to try to reelecting the longest president. Howard yeah, thats a long period of time. Leslie, arent many journalists clinging to conventional wisdom, well, okay, bidens got his problems, but he cant possibly lose to donald trump . [laughter] well, it depends which poll you look at and on which day. I think the you have twothirds of americans in the latest poll showing they dont want donald trump the, they wouldnt vote for donald trump again, even people who voted for him twice. 44 of republicans dont want donald trump to run again. But joe biden and donald trump arent looking at polls and who wants them to to run, theyre both running. Will donald trump be the gop nominee . He might. Joe biden will be the democratic nominee, and democrats will vote for him. They complained about his age before and they voted for him in record numbers, and theyre going to, im going to forecast, do that again. One of the things i would agree with with ben is theres nothing that can be done about this. And its very interesting because we live longer now than we ever have. Our children and grandchildren will live longer because of science. Two, in addition to that the, you have people, there are different 80s, different 90s. Heck, some of us have seen there are different 30s. Theres nothing you can do about that. People can complain about you and say, oh, youre too fat and you can lose weight, but you cant change his age. And if youre attacking my age and not my policies, i think thats actually a win. Howard cant turn back the clock. Ben, its not just bidens physical and mental a acuity. The president and his spokesmen have been talking about bidenomics, talking about job creation, but a cnn poll says that 58 believe the president has made the economy worse. Whether thats statistically true or not, you cant just tell them, whats the matter with you . You need to feel better. Yeah, the message you the voter are the problem is not going to do a lot of good there. Leslie talks about the challenges of getting older and the inevitable sort of passage of time. The problem here is that the two issues that were going to be talking about with these two likely candidates are going to be, or you know, on the one hand the Court Challenges that donald trump faces, the legal challenges that he faces, and then on the other side the inevitability of the passage of time with biden. And one of those things, i think, is going to be something where its much, a much simpler story to tell in the sense that on the legal side of the things, you have to advance these complicate cases howard oh, its really complicated, hard to keep straight. And thats something i think that is a tougher thing to say than do you want to reelect a president knowing its very unlikely that hes going to finish out his second term . Howard leslie, cnns own poll has a 39 approval of the president , and you heard at the top dana bash calling this a devastating verdict, yet much of the press is treating this sort of as Business As Usual even though some of the partys liberal intellectuals are now saying were weve got to get another nominee . Because no big name democrat seems willing to challenge President Biden. Well, that happens with democrats and republicans. We all know the game, ben knows the game. If your partys in power, in office, your incumbent has the strongest chance of not only being the the nominee, of winning. Its hard to unseat an incumbent. Nobody runs for president to work for four years, they run for eight. And even though they want to put Governor Newsom in the democrat seat, hes not running this time around howard hed love to. I find it very interesting, howie, im old enough to remember when there were huge concerns about Ronald Reagan and his age and his mental ability, and republicans were like, no, no, no,. No problem. New theyre singing a different tune. Nikki haley says youve got to increases the retirement age. Are we going to the enter a logans run society where theyre putting us down at 30 years of age . Shame on us. And with regard to the economy, that is, honestly, Business As Usual. People feel the numbers later than the success of the numbers that were seeing in this economy. Howard leslie, i think you can relax at least for a few years. [laughter] ben, lets turn to hunter biden who will be indicted on the gun charge by the end of this month. He lied on a Purchase Form about not doing drugs. Hes doing plenty of drugs and could face a jail sentence. Are the media going to say, well, thats just his own conduct . Of course theyre going to say that. Thats predictable, theyve been doing it before. Few do the the narrative around hunter, its not that hes someone who is necessarily a threat currently to performance of the president in office or Something Like that, but its all this stuff in the past. Its everything related to what he did while joe buyen joe biden was Vice President and coming out of that, he used the family name to make money in ways that obviously republicans on capitol hill are just spilling out in front of the American People on a regular basis. This is obviously going to be the case for the an Impeachment Inquirely at this stage. So we also immediate to factor in a very high likelihood that when joe biden is run running for reelection, hes also going to be running as another impeached president. Its gotten to such a low level of threshold within american politics that it doesnt have the same meaning anymore. And quickly to leslies point about logans run, i would just point out that former president bill clinton is younger than both of these candidates. Howard wow. Keep that in mind. Were not doing logans run quite yet. Howard Media Conservatives eviscerated the justice for naming david weiss as the potential counsel saying hes basically protected hunter during that plea bargain that fell apart, but now he is going to bring the gun charge. He may have no choice, the statute of limitations is approaching, but does it diffuse if at least between these four trump trials leaving aside the civil students and the clear problems, legal problems, the president s son has . But, of course, hes a president ial relative, hes not shng somebody in public office. Maybe its because its earlier here on the west coast and i havent had my coffee if yet, but i wish both sides would shut up about indictment. On the left its just like, you know, its seriously, you know, its almost like crack, you know, for the left. And for the right too. On the right with hunter and on the left with donald trump. At the end of day, the the people that love and support donald trump dont care about the indictments. With regard to hunter biden, he is not running im going to put it out again, i dont think hes going to have jail time, and hes not the first kid of a president that has used the family name to make money. Trumps kids have done it, other people have done it in the past, you know . And that, using the family name, necessarily isnt illegal. Its not going to hurt joe biden, it is not a Kitchen Table issue on any voters mind on either side of the the aisle. There are republicans if trumps the nominee that might be looking howard ben, it will hurt joe biden if we find out more about the extent to which the president as Vice President was involved in his sons dealings, getting on phone calls and so forth. Leslies perfectly correct the say there are many people who have made money off of the family name and related to a president or Vice President. What they did not do is directly affect american policy when it came to decisions that were made, you know, in are key issues related to Foreign Policy and the hike that were urn joe bidens purview when he was Vice President. Howard i once covered billy carter, jimmy ifs brother with, and the embarrassing things he got into. When we come back, donald trump makes news by saying hell take the stand at one of his trials, but will that actually happen . Every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, Delicious Fage total yogurt. Tech cracked windshield on your new car . You dont have to take it to the dealer. Bring it to safelite. We do more replacements and recalibrations than anyone else. Customer thank you so much. Tech vo schedule now. Singers safelite repair, safelite replace howard as the media keep Plague Up Tangle of legal developments surrounding donald trump, he addressed a crucial question with key radio host hewitt about the classified documents case. Will you testify in your own defense . Oh, yes, absolutely. Youll take the stand . That you would that, i look forward to the. Because thats just like russia, russia, russia. Thats all the fake information from russia, russia, russia. Howard and, of course, donald trump wants to testify and clear his name. That would be a huge story, but something tells me his lawyers are going to do everything they can to block that. [laughter] hugh hewitt a friend and im occasionally a guest on his program, and hes a lawyer himself, and he knows this is a bad idea. [laughter] you should not be answering this question [laughter] no. He absolutely not should not, and i dont think his lawyers will want him to take the stand because its simply too unpredictable in terms of any direction can he could go and the questions directed at him. Howard leslie, im not a lawyer, but ive covered many, many trials. Especially in the document trial, summiting yourself subjects yourself to crossexamination might be unwise. Oh, very unwise. You know, theres two reasons that a witness takes the stand. One is their lawyer thinks it will benefit their case and, two, they cant control their client, ask is and their client demands it and is writing the check that pays them to represent them. And i think i agree with ben that the attorneys, they will and they should do everything. We also is are to remember, and im going to say this as, you know, as respectfully as i can, sometimes the truth and donald trump have a, you know, problem meeting, you know, the lines. You risk perjury and, certainly, on crossexamination that would be difficult for any client, donald trump included. Howard all right. Weve given our legal opinion now. Let me turn to the georgia case with all those defendants including donald trump, complicated case. The District Attorney fulton county, fani willis, released a Special Grand Jury report that redded the the indictment of 39 people recommend ared the the indictment of 39 peopled people including lindsey graham, former senator Kelly Loveler and david purdue. As well as some trump lawyers. Let me play for you the reaction from lindsey graham. This is troubling for the country. We cant criminalize senators doing their job when they have a constitutional requirement to fulfill. Howard willis chose not to charge them, and the media were all over this. But to be fair, how do you conclude they committed no crime that rose to the level where im going to the bring an indictment, but you blacken their reputations anyway . Yeah. I think that was irresponsible and wrong to release that list of names, and i think it also makes the case seem in some ways less serious meaning that if if you had this kind of recommendation to indict, why not pursue it in you didnt, you know, pursue it for reasons that, you know, are unmoan to us in terms of unknown to us in terms of how much of a case they thought they could bring, you still have that power of the indictment. So for them to release the names without pursuing it is much worse, i think, in a way than for the cause of people saying this is a serious case and should be taken seriously. Especially lindsey graham, i think the idea that youre going to go around indicting sitting senators for political fights is very troubling. Howard supporters of fani willis might say shes restrained, he didnt indict everybody recommended. But in terms of prosecution, prosecutors are supposed to put or shut up. In other words, are bring charges or say nothing. Now, there was a famous exception when james comey eviscerated Hillary Clinton but didnt charge her. But this feels like a late hit. I have to say when i think that just people in the General Public who who dont know the law, didnt go to law school for five minutes like me, when you have enough information and you have enough to bring a person before a grand jury and that does grand jury does indict although people say you could indict a ham sandwich, i do think they should go forward. Its very sad, nobody should release names, but in this day and age somebody would have. Maybe she was trying to be transparent and say, look, there were indictments here. Why havent you indict them, thats the information you should be putting out. But the names would have come out, it just couldnt. Howard right. She made this public announcement and put out the report, and the problem, it seems to me, is how do you defend yourselfsome if go to trial, nobody wants to do that, but at least you have a public forum to explain yourself. If you get Media Attention, you can say i did nothing wrong. I find it really troubling. I also think, you know, again, theres this feeling of a lot of messiness around these legal cases. Some of them are more clear cut than others related to trump, but this is one more thing that i think people who add a slow candidate for him are going to throw out there. They were willing to go after everybody, and it only continues to further his argument that, you know, this isnt actually about me, this is about a anybody whos a republican. Thats why you need to be for him. Howard right. Are willing to indict not just a ham sandwich, but a turkey sandwich, and i think this is theres a little bit of a consensus here. Leslie marshall, ben. 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