Katie Porter recounts how she and AOC hid in her office during the Jan. 6 insurrectionist riot.
"I'm a mom. I'm calm. I have everything we need. We can live for like a month in this office. And she said, 'I hope I get to be a mom, I hope I don’t die today.'"
Matthew McConaughey: "These bodies were very different... They needed extensive restoration. Why? Due to the exceptionally large exit wounds of an AR-15 rifle. Most of the bodies so mutilated that only DNA tests or green Converse could identify them."
CNN reporter asks British woman about Queen Elizabeth, who says she's not "the biggest fan of the queen" so she's not "upset or overwhelmed by it."
She adds it's because of "British colonial history" and "quite shady" things like Prince Andrew.
"Fair enough," reporter reacts.
MSNBC is the first network to pull away from Trump's speech after he says "if you count the legal votes, I easily win."
Brian Williams: "There are no illegal votes that we know of. There has been no Trump victory that we know of."
Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"
Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"
CNN's Brianna Keilar absolutely scorches her new colleague Sean Duffy:
"That's some anti-immigrant bigotry and it’s odd questioning of patriotism coming from a guy who spent his 20s on MTV's The Real World and the Real World/Road Rules Challenge" while Vindman served in Iraq
Both CNN and MSNBC beat Fox News across the board in ratings on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Prior to that, according to Nielsen, the last time Fox News lost to both networks in total viewers was over 20 years ago, on 9/24/2000.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer: You knew that there were innocent civilians in that refugee camp, right?
IDF spox: This is the tragedy of war. We told them to move south.
Blitzer: So you decided to drop the bomb anyway.
IDF spox: We’re doing everything we can to minimize civilian deaths.
Millionaire frozen-food heir Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson, currently hosting a primetime cable news show after getting fired by two other networks, has a lot of thoughts on privilege
Anderson Cooper tears into the MyPillow guy for pushing unproven coronavirus therapeutic as a "miracle" cure:
"You have no medical background. You are not a scientist... You are now on the board and going to make money... How are you different than a snake oil salesman?"
Things got HEATED between Cedric Richmond and Matt Gaetz just now.
Richmond: "It's not about the color of your kids. It's about black males...If one of them happens to be your kid, I'm more concerned about him then you!"
Gaetz: "Who the hell do you think you are?!"
Jake Tapper: "One doesn’t have to be brilliant to attempt a coup."
John Bolton: "I disagree with that. As somebody who has helped plan coup d’etat, not here, but other places, it takes a lot of work."
Last night, Tucker Carlson roundly mocked CNN for talking to Bill Gates about coronavirus policies.
Tonight, Tucker's guest to talk about coronavirus policies is the Barstool Sports guy.
Here's Lin Wood telling Georgia Republicans NOT to vote for Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue next month.
"They have not earned your vote. Don't you give it to them. Why would you go back and vote in another rigged election for god's sake! Fix it! You gotta fix it!"
Eight months ago, the man on the right had the top-rated primetime cable news show on television and a $20 million-a-year contract.
Today, he's interviewing a guy named Catturd while in flip-flops.
Judge Jeanine: "Didn’t Joe Biden go on the biggest spending spree in American history?"
Jessica Tarlov: "No...Donald Trump is personally responsible for 30% of the national debt."
[crosstalk]
"You asked the question. I answered it."
Dr. Fauci has had just about enough of Rand Paul, basically calls him a moron.
"This happens with Senator Rand all the time... If you believe 22% is herd immunity, I believe you’re alone in that.
Fox News' Sandra Smith wonders if Biden signing executive orders on his first day will show he's not for unity, asking "what message does this send."
Chris Wallace: "It says that he won. It’s as simple as that."
Tucker Carlson is now telling his audience to harass people who wear face masks outside.
If they see children wearing masks, Tucker says the response should be no different than when you see a kid being abused -- "call the police immediately, contact child protective services"
Fox News host Emily Compagno, yesterday, on the story of a 10-year-old rape victim who had to go to Indiana for an abortion:
"What I find so deeply offensive, they had to make up a fake one!"
Meanwhile, the alleged rapist was just arrested and charged.
According to the New York Times, employees at Twitter just began hanging up as Elon Musk was talking during videoconference call today, apparently deciding to quit and take the severance package as the 5 pm deadline passed.
Chris Cuomo to Ted Cruz after Cruz attacks his brother:
"Why don’t you talk to the president like you talk to my brother? You afraid of him? ... My brother’s not the president. I’m talking about the president. The one who called you a liar, the one who said your wife was ugly!"
Dan Crenshaw doesn't like Chuck Todd bringing up the fact that he signed onto the Texas lawsuit to toss out swing state votes, then says "you guys in the press" like doing this because they're "largely liberal."
Todd: "Don’t start that. There’s nothing lazier than that excuse."
Fox News just interviewed a Pennsylvania man who went through the coronavirus quarantine process -- but he couldn't stop coughing during the interview 😳
Jake Tapper: You think Trump is actually concerned about corruption?
GOP Sen. James Lankford: Yes, I do.
Tapper: Can you provide me any examples of Trump expressing concern about corruption?
Lankford: You're trying to put me on the spot!
Oh man!
You gotta check out this back-and-forth between Don Lemon and John Kasich in which Lemon straight-up admonishes Kasich for thinking Trump's address was fine.
"Can I finish now?"
"No, you can't, John!"
Tucker Carlson in late March: "Of course, masks work. Everyone knows that. Dozens of research papers have proved it. In South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the rest of Asia -- where coronavirus has been kept under control -- masks were key."
CNN's Brianna Keilar to Trump campaign advisor Mercedes Schlapp on mail-in-voting:
"This is just pointless, okay. This is pointless. I get it, you’re just saying a bunch of crap. Okay. You’re saying a bunch of crap."
Welp.
Looks like Candace Owens flubbed her talking point.
Owens: "You are either on the side of mob rule or you are on the side of law and order. And I am on the side of mob rule. Tomorrow, I'll be casting my ballot for Donald J. Trump."
Tucker: "Amen. Nicely put."
Here's Tucker Carlson literally laughing off the New York Times investigation of him relentlessly spouting white nationalist talking points, just two weeks ago.
Immediate reaction from a CNN on-air personality to me just now on this Trump town hall: "It is so bad. I was cautiously optimistic despite the criticism. It is awful. It's a Trump infomercial. We're going to get crushed."
Hannity, after dumping Vivek Ramaswamy following a VERY heated exchange: "I think people who never held public office, like you, maybe they’re not qualified to be president!"
Yes, Hannity actually said that.
MSNBC's Hallie Jackson cuts short interview with Trump spox Hogan Gidley after he peddles conspiracies about widespread voter fraud and then deflects when asked if Trump has confidence in his FBI director.
"Nope, okay, I guess you're not gonna answer that question then..."
Jake Tapper asks the CNN control room to stop running footage of Trump visiting a Miami cafe right after his arraignment.
"I don’t need to see any more of that. He’s trying to turn it into a spectacle and into a campaign ad. That is enough of that. We’ve seen it already."
Chris Hayes calls out Fox News for lying about windmills being the source of power outages in Texas,.
"They want to take every policy issue and turn it into some painful culture war idiocy... They want to turn into a culture war, like the libs don’t want you to have power."
Dem Rep. Melanie Stansbury: "If Donald Trump doesn't get his way, he wants his loyalists to shut down the gov't. How do we know that? Because he posted it right here on his social media and his loyalists in this committee, who are doing his bidding for him today, retweeted it!"
Jake Tapper: "Make no mistake, the folks from this movement do not believe in free and fair elections. They do not believe in your vote counting unless you vote for them. Their platform is disenfranchisement and derangement. It is undemocratic and it’s frankly un-American."
CNN's Brianna Keilar absolutely shreds Peter Navarro, telling him he's "wasting everyone's time" when he tries to blame Obama for the administration not being prepared for the crisis.
"It's 2020. The president was elected in 2016. Can you get to a million ventilators?"
Caitlyn Jenner to Hannity: "My friends are leaving California. My hangar, the guy right across, he was packing up his hangar and I said, where are you going? And he says, 'I'm moving to Sedona, Arizona, I can't take it anymore. I can't walk down the streets and see the homeless'"
Former Obama economic adviser Robert Wolf: "[Keystone XL] wasn't really going to change anything to do with our oil supply. It was to export from the Gulf of Mexico."
Fox anchor Sandra Smith: "Hmmm, that's debatable."
Wolf: "It’s not actually debatable."
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who has been openly advocating for Vegas casinos and hotels to completely open up, literally tells Anderson Cooper she has no responsibility to figure out how to do it safely.
"It is up to them!"
Pretty sure everyone dunking on Clarissa Ward and typing "LOL CNN" over comments she made while she was literally next to the Taliban on the streets of Kabul would be pissing their pants right now if they were even 500 miles from that situation.
Hannity's show is really just him talking to his same circle of friends, except now all of them have seen their influence completely fall off.
Just hard to overstate how irrelevant Hannity is at this very moment.
This is remarkable.
Jesse Watters claims the USWNT "are not helping their case" on equal pay because they disparaged Trump, thus hurting the World Cup's TV ratings because MAGA fans didn't watch.
The ratings were up 20% over last year's men's final.
Holy shit!
Michael Fanone shared with CNN a deranged voice mail that he received during his testimony today.
"You’re a punk f*ggot, you’re a lying fuck! ... too bad they didn’t beat the shit out of you more. You’re a piece of shit!"
This is demented and despicable!
Things got very hairy for NBC News reporter Shaquille Brewster during a live Hurricane Ida report from Gulfport, MS.
Some guy jumps out of a pickup truck and angrily confronts Brewster's crew, prompting a shaken Craig Melvin to express extreme concern for his colleague.
After mocking Biden for his press conference where he addressed questions about his memory, Fox News host Jesse Watters then welcomes on "South Carolina Governor Kristi Noem"
She's, of course, the governor of South Dakota.
You can tell Jessica Tarlov hit a nerve here by how Judge Jeanine and Gutfeld reacted -- especially when she points out how out of step the GOP is on abortion and other issues while simultaneously railing about the "tyranny of the minority" regarding trans kids.
I'm going to ask Fox News PR if Harris Faulkner can provide the name of the restaurant and date when this happened.
Will update if I receive a response.
Holy crap!
Appearing on Fox Biz, Louie Gohmert says "George Soros is supposed to be Jewish but you wouldn't know it from the damage he inflicted on Israel and the fact that he turned on fellow Jews & helped take the property that they owned."
Stuart Varney quickly moves on
Listen to this mother, who lost two children to fentanyl poisoning, tell the truth about both of her son’s murders because of the Biden administrations refusal to secure our border and stop the Cartel’s from murdering Americans everyday by Chinese fentanyl.
Brianna Keilar fired back at Tucker Carlson, who insisted the Capitol riot wasn't "insurrection" but merely a "political protest":
"He’s trying to eliminate the present... what he didn’t cop to is he is part of the illness, a propagandist, a liar, a parasite."
CNN's Dana Bash: You said in 2014 that Obama showed "failed leadership" with Ebola, when only 2 Americans died. Would you say Trump's showed failed leadership with coronavirus as 130,000 Americans have died?
Sen. Joni Ernst: "No, I think that the president is stepping forward"
BREAKING: Newsmax pulls the plug on Lara Logan after her appearance last night.
"Newsmax condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan and her views do not reflect our network. We have no plans to interview her again."
The bane of Peter Navarro's existence shows up yet again after he was found guilty of contempt of Congress, causing his post-verdict presser to quickly go off the rails.
"That man just assaulted me. He stuck a flag pole up in between my legs! ... I want to press charges."
LOL
Fox News anchor Bret Baier just completely dismisses Trump's complaints about Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony:
"Cassie Hutchinson is under oath on Capitol Hill. The president is on Truth Social making his statements."
NEW from me
Well, it's official. One America News has lost its last major cable carrier, as Verizon Fios said they couldn't reach an agreement with the far-right channel and will remove it from their lineup on July 31.
Jake Tapper, after 45 GOP senators vote to dismiss the impeachment trial: "Bill Clinton lied under oath and they thought that... he needed to be removed from office for lying under oath. Donald Trump incites a terrorist attack and they have a different standard."
So, ummm, WOW!
Fox News host Steve Hilton straight-up accuses his Fox News colleague Marie Harf of "covering up the corruption" of the Bidens in Ukraine because she worked at the State Dept during the Obama years.
"Are you kidding me?!?!" Harf yells at one point.
So Herschel Walker discussed his badge with NBC News' Kristen Welker, claiming it is "legit." The interview will air tomorrow on TODAY.
Anyway, here's his explanation, and, ummm: