2020 conversation about this , where he said nothing ever happened. there were no conversations. i ve never talked to my son about, you know, never is a big word and when you say never, if you find one example of it, even one, and now it turns out that there are potentially dozens of examples, the question that i had and i think i ve said this to you before, howie, is what was joe biden saying on these calls? maybe they just were pleasant ares. maybe they were just a sign that hey, i m connected at the top level from hunter. maybe nothing ever came of them, but we need to know what he was saying, and what was promised. what was conveyed to these different clients in terms of any kind of outcome that was promised to them regarding what they were paying for it. they were paying for something from their perspective. what did they believe and what was promised to them is something i think we need to have resolved. howie: from a media perspective it seems to me the press has to be careful here
, because sometimes, the members go on tv and they say $10 million bribe and when i see evidence of that, that will be the overriding story in the united states of america. on the other hand, the lack of interest, amisha in the mainstream media for these allegations, which by the way, one of the main republican sources, is a fugitive from justice so that hasn t always panned out but most of the media just don t seem very interested in pursuing this as they would if maybe donald trump was involved. well part of that i think is because as you know the media is a business. there has been no legitimate fer ver across the nation around chasing these stories and there s conversation amongst republicans trying to connect hunter biden to joe biden and nefarious crime family for years and none of it turned up to anything. wait a second. you re saying the media are business and therefore, most of their customers, their consumers aren t that interested in this or don t believe it, and therefore, that s why they aren t pursuing it? that doesn t speak very well of
American policy toward these companies and toward these nations. the question is, what did joe biden do that went along with that? what did joe biden say, what did he promise? what did he affect in order to respond to that or was this just hunter is the greatest con-man in the history of the world promising people things he could never deliver? no, that is a good argument. i don t think that hunter is the greatest con-man or businessman in general. i can t argue that point. great artist though. i do believe there s something to be said about a majority of industries but also, somebody having the last name biden when your father is president and talking about it and being able to wield that whether or not and in this case we don t know that the president was involved and i think that that is the crux here. howie: before we go, joe biden finally acknowledged his seventh grandchild on friday night, hunter s four-year-old daughter navy. friday night, statement to people his friday night news dumps go, i find this completely abhorrent. i don t know why the president of the united states, who is
Him. maybe it ll impeach me because it s coming down, i don t know. i love that one. but mccarthy shift on impeachment has totally reset the media conversation. i believe that we will follow this all the way to the end and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry the way the constitution tells us to do this and we have to get the answers to these questions. he s focused on the american family, but they want to focus on his family. i m dumbfounded that all this growing body of evidence suggesting wrongdoing and certainly lies by joe biden about not doing business, not knowing about or talking to his son about business, is just yawn deaf by the mainstream media. this is sort of what they are trying to create. see the bidens do it there s some nefarious crime. it s a media blackout. we talked about it on cnn but they believe that this is information that warrants more investigation. i have a warning though at
They pumped the brakes a little bit and i think that s because they thought, you know, maybe if joe biden is not going to be somebody who can win re-election , then, you know, we should be aggressive on this and push him out. now, i think they re more dubious. they don t necessarily feel like they should pursue these stories if they are going to damage him in front of what is going to be a very significant presidential the flip side of this coin is that journalists would love to see donald trump as the republican nominee because they think that with all these criminal cases and of course he s presumed innocent, he is the best person for joe biden to run against. is he though? [laughter] well that s a good question but i m talking about a assumption which may be totally wrong on the part of the democrats but on the other hand if biden runs against somebody much younger then you have a different dynamic. this may sound very odd to your audience but i do agree very much with what ben just said. okay. with the understanding that
The same time for the gop as tantalizing as all this is you ve got to be careful of making joe biden out to be a victim, heading into 2024. mccarthy said an impeachment inquiry would help house republicans to investigate the president to which i ask have they not already been investigating for six months? howard: joining us to analyze the coverage ben domenech, fox news contributor and amisha cross, political analyst for sirius xm. most of the media view kevin mccarthy s sudden change of heart on impeachment as ludacris especially since he brushed it off last month. how serious is this? i think it s very serious and there s a difference between what he brushed off and what he s saying now. essentially what he brushed off was the idea that you should just bring impeachment to the floor automatically, that you should have a 48 hour period, basically, that goes right into impeaching the president. i think that what mccarthy is basically saying is we need to have an inquiry because we don t
Charges in georgia. this gives republicans a way to try to filter the media into something that is not donald trump, and it also gives them the opportunity to in some ways quell the momentum that joe biden has had in terms of the economy, in regards to interest rates, the staving off of what would have been a recession. there are a lot of great things this president has done and they are trying to shift blame. we assume the forthcoming charges. we don t month that for a fact. ben, hunter biden s former business partner, devin archer, i think we have a picture together who by the way has been convicted of fraud in another case says the president s son put his dad on speaker phone calls with lots of people like the top executive or a top executive i should say of the burisma and according to the new york post biden spoke only vague but doesn t this differ from the past white house denial s? of course it does and one of the things that joe biden is trapped by is that he was so definitive when it came to the
Little attention, new allegation s involving hunter and his father, some corroborated, some debunked, some disputed have surfaced and now the house speaker is actually embracing the idea of an impeachment probe and since there s no way the democratic senate would do that how should the press handle this? is it payback for the two trump impeachments? revenge for the trump indictment s? does it reflect a growing confidence that whistleblowers are correcting it to the white house miss deeds. it may just be an effort to damage joe biden before next year s election, in which case that will depend on just how much can be proven. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. president biden joked that with inflation declining, the republicans are going to have to find a new issue against
Trust the department of justice to be honest with us about all the different things that they have been looking at, based on both the commentary offered front-facing from these whistleblowers and what we ve seen from the department of justice in terms of their treatment of the hunter biden affair in all different manners. one thing that i do want to point out here is we are underestimating the amount of support for impeaching the president that doesn t come from the far conservative wing of the party. in fact, it is becoming a mainstream republican issue, meaning that the majority of the party we re at a tipping point now is in favor of impeaching joe biden. joe biden is the least popular president at this point in list archdiocese his presidency going back for 50 years other than jimmy carter. he s not a popular president. he does not have the support of the american people and in fact if you poll in the question the vast majority of the american people including independents are actually convince that he s done unethical behavior that may rise to the criminal, so from my
Perspective, this is something that we re, you know, mccarthy is basically responding not to the far right in his coalition. he s responding to the center. howard: an issue with many journalists criticizing the house speaker for taking this step and with ben saying well joe biden is unpopular that part is true but is your relative popularity something that should determine whether or not you re impeached or not? whether you re popular or not should never determine whether or not, you know, the house goes through with an impeachment but i do think that ben is right on at least one point here. this is no longer something that can be talked about as republicans. they are the majority of the party, those in leadership as well as those who may not have been the folks who were eroded against donald trump post the 2020 election are very much trying to make this happen. part of it, i believe, is because what we re watching with donald trump happen, all of the court cases that he s battl ing, the multiple states where charges have come up against him, the new news that we found out about the documents case, and the forthcoming