caitlin collins had asked a single question, these people were saying that trump, a former president and the leading candidate by far for the republican nomination, should be barred from tv, banned, exiled, silenced because they just don t like him. but that s ludicrous. this wasn t a rally where he just gets to pop off. and whatever you think of trump, shouldn t journalists question him as part of the campaign? as it turned out, the town hall turned into an absolute train wreck, even many people at cmn being sharply critical. but the alternative, banning trump from the airwaves, is suppression of speech, and that is not journalism. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, george santos versus the media mob as he is indicted for fraud. the first 24 minutes of the cnn event was spent on two of donald trump s true curing subjects recurring subject, the 2020 election and the capitol riot, and that insured a clash from the start. it was not a rigged election
fighters will withdraw from a high profile battle in ukraine next week. the major blow to russian president vladimir putin and what it could mean for the war if they do retreat. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments here. i want to begin in ukraine with the latest commenting from the leader of russia s wagner group, threatening to withdraw from bakhmut if he s not supplied with more ammunition. this graphic video with the bodies of russian soldiers, he would draw as soon as next wednesday, significantly after victory day celebrations in russia. this is a guy trying to earn putin s good graces, the latest declaration is shocking. reporter: the words in the declaration are not necessarily so surprising because we have heard him in recent days since last week make this claim that he says russia s ministry of defense is not providing his group with enough ammunition in bakhmut. what is surprising here is the tone that he has in these videos and the
i can t say for every single one. a couple of them probably they got out of control. good day. i m andrea mitchell in new york today. border patrol agents and heavily armed texas national guard troops are bracing for the expiration of title 42, put in place during the coronavirus pandemic to turn away migrants. a shortage of social services and judges to handle the flow. officials expect an increase along the 1,000 miles of the b border, creating a situation the president described as chaotic. joining me guad venegas and julia ainsley, 700 miles to the east in el paso, texas. julia, you have been covering this throughout the biden presidency. you have been there for weeks at the border. take us through the new rules the administration is putting in place and what you are seeing in texas. reporter: right behind me is a wall separating us here in el paso from suarez. they are put into buses here. they are taken to be processed. the chief of the border patrol told us that 17
it would be his first opportunity to offer the democratic response to over an hour of trump lies delivered by cnn, and over the course of the previous hour. so, this will be his first opportunity to react to things like a former president of the united states advocating a default on the debt, stuff that we ve never heard before. you know it s been a crazy hour when we didn t even have time to get to that part of global financial catastrophe, because there was so much other crazy we had to plow through first. i am appeared to see leader jeffries response to all of that madness. thank you, alex. have a great show. thank you. well, as i said, hakeem jeffries is our first guest tonight. and our first guest tonight was in the room yesterday in washington, nothing matters more than who was in the room. and yesterday, the democratic leader of the house of representatives, hakeem jeffries, was in the room with three other congressional leaders and the president of the united