Critics mocked Congressman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-aint-worth-it-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-intervenes-in-verbal-confrontation-between-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-jamaal-bowman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamaal Bowman</a> (D-NY) for his comments suggesting that fossil fuels were the cause of extreme weather.
Bowman joined CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wolf-blitzer-to-karine-jean-pierre-is-biden-setting-himself-up-for-failure-by-focusing-on-abortion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wolf Blitzer</a> to discuss the imminent debt ceiling deal, and the New York congressman said that his real concern was the fact that the United States was still allowing drilling for fossil fuels. He then attempted to draw a straight line from fossil fuel use to extreme weather events.
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Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman: &quot;We need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely &#8230; we need an expedited way to get us to clean, renewable energy, or we will continue to have these severe weather events.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PGlq7knU0N">pic.twitter.com/PGlq7knU0N</a>
&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1663534402260045825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Number one, we need to stop drilling for fossil fuels completely,&#8221; Bowman told Blitzer. &#8220;But number two, we need an expedited way to get us to clean, renewable energy, or we will continue to have these severe weather events that we have been having for quite some time because of the warming of the planet.&#8221;
Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) pushed back on Bowman&#8217;s claim, arguing that the New Yorker&#8217;s proposition would bankrupt the American energy sector. &#8220;Far left Democrats are doubling down on policies that would destroy the American energy sector and hurt hardworking Americans struggling through 40-year-high inflation,&#8221; he tweeted.
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Far left Democrats are doubling down on policies that would destroy the American energy sector and hurt hardworking Americans struggling through 40-year-high inflation. <a href="https://t.co/zg16UFt7ZX">https://t.co/zg16UFt7ZX</a>
&mdash; Brian Kemp (@BrianKempGA) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrianKempGA/status/1663583530041868293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Others addressed Bowman&#8217;s claims in more mocking tones.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s sort of fun that people have come all the way around on Rain Dances, at least,&#8221; Logan Dobson <a href="https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/1663540502640066563" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response.
&#8220;&#8216;We must cripple all domestic energy production so the sun God may bring us good weather!&#8217; The climate cult is completely insane,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1663540042927579137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a> @comfortablysmug.
Radio host Jesse Kelly <a href="https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1663542344388411392" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> the fact that cutting out fossil fuels — especially without the technology and infrastructure already in place to make up the difference in available energy — was a recipe for disaster on a massive scale.
&#8220;REMINDER: This is a call for genocide. Start treating these people like the biggest genocidal monsters in human history. Because that’s what they are. Humanity runs on oil and gas. You cannot declare war on oil and gas without war on humanity itself,&#8221; he said.

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Jamaal Bowman Says Fossil Fuels Are Causing Bad Weather – And People Have Thoughts

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CNN anchor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/wolf-blitzer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wolf Blitzer</a> asked White House Press Secretary <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> whether President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> was &#8220;setting himself up for failure&#8221; by placing so much weight on abortion.
Blitzer referenced the president&#8217;s recent comments <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-doj-moves-to-challenge-states-over-abortion-laws-with-new-task-force/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promising legislation</a> that would codify a federal right to abortion — ahead of a midterm election that could easily cost him the majorities in both the House and the Senate, which he would need if he hoped to pass such legislation.
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&quot;The President believes that we should treat women with compassion and dignity&quot; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> Karine Jean-Pierre tells CNN&#39;s <a href="https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wolfblitzer</a> that <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> will &quot;continue to fight&quot; to protect abortion rights for women and work to codify Roe v. Wade: <a href="https://t.co/OBECkfYXbb">pic.twitter.com/OBECkfYXbb</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1582513287455023109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Tonight President Biden is making it clearer than ever that he&#8217;s counting on the issue of abortion rights for women to bolster Democratic candidates as the high-stakes midterm election gets closer and closer,&#8221; Blitzer began, introducing Jean-Pierre as his guest for the segment.
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&#8220;As you know, for President Biden to make good on his pledge to codify Roe, Democrats would have to keep the House majority, pick up Senate seats, and eventually change the filibuster rule as well,&#8221; Blitzer continued, turning the direct question to Jean-Pierre: &#8220;That&#8217;s a very tall order. Is the president setting himself up, potentially, for failure?&#8221;
Jean-Pierre deflected on the question about the midterms, citing the Hatch Act as the reason she couldn&#8217;t get into the politics of the situation. She then pivoted back to abortion, arguing that Biden was only weighing in on the issue because Republicans were putting &#8220;women&#8217;s health at risk&#8221; and &#8220;criminalizing doctors.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, what you heard from the president is his continuous fight to fight for millions of women across the country when we saw what the Supreme Court did in this unconscionable decision to overturn Roe. It put millions of women’s lives at risk,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Here’s what’s at stake, Wolf, and this is why this is so important, and this is why you will continue to hear from this president on this issue, and we have, is that we’re seeing these draconian laws across the country in — by Republicans that are putting forth laws that, again, is going to put women’s health at risk, but also criminalizing doctors for doing their jobs,&#8221; Jean-Pierre continued.
Recent polling indicates that more Americans are concerned about the economy than they are about abortion rights, however. And the latest predictive maps at RealClearPolitics show Republicans taking control of both the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/house/elections-map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House of Representatives</a> and the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2022/senate/elections-map-rcp-projection.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> after November&#8217;s midterm.

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Wolf Blitzer To Karine Jean-Pierre: Is Biden ‘Setting Himself Up For Failure’ By Focusing On Abortion?

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Texas DPS Lieutenant Chris Olivarez said that law enforcement officers had not entered Robb Elementary School right away because they were concerned that they could be shot.
Olivarez spoke with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Situation Room,&#8221; and Blitzer asked why officers had waited outside rather than rushing the school and engaging the active shooter at the first possible moment.
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&quot;They could&#39;ve been shot. They could&#39;ve been killed,&quot; Texas police lieutenant explains why law enforcement did not go into Uvalde school right away. <a href="https://t.co/lfzTtAQqFg">pic.twitter.com/lfzTtAQqFg</a>
&mdash; Virginia Kruta (@VAKruta) <a href="https://twitter.com/VAKruta/status/1529977770931113987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Olivarez began by explaining that officers had gone into the school very quickly, but they had heard the gunfire and called for backup, opting to wait for the assistance a tactical team could provide rather than charging into the classroom where the shooter had already barricaded himself.
&#8220;Don’t current best practices, don’t they call for officers to disable a shooter as quickly as possible, regardless of how many officers are actually on site?&#8221; Blitzer asked.
&#8220;Correct,&#8221; Olivares agreed, but then he went on to explain why the officers at the scene had chosen to take a different approach. &#8220;The active shooter situation, you want to stop the killing, you want to preserve life, but also one thing that – of course, the American people need to understand — that officers are making entry into this building. They do not know where the gunman is.&#8221;
&#8220;They are hearing gunshots. They are receiving gunshots,&#8221; Olivares continued. &#8220;At that point, if they proceeded any further not knowing where the suspect was at, they could’ve been shot, they could’ve been killed, and that gunman would have had an opportunity to kill other people inside that school.&#8221;
Since the shooting on Tuesday, a number of conflicting reports have come out about when police officers first engaged the gunman and whether or not they could have or should have entered the school sooner than they did.
Initial reports suggested that a school police officer had engaged the shooter before he entered the school — but DPS <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/confirmed-shooter-was-not-confronted-by-cops-before-entering-school-through-unlocked-door/">officials confirmed</a> on Thursday afternoon that he had not been stopped prior to entering the school through an unlocked door.
&#8220;Texas DPS now says that there was no school police officer who encountered or engaged the mass shooter at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Shooter was not confronted before entry and it appears he walked into the school through an unlocked door, per DPS,&#8221; Fox News reporter Bill Melugin <a href="https://twitter.com/BillFOXLA/status/1529895723243909141">tweeted</a> following a press conference with local law enforcement.

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CNN medical expert Dr. Leana Wen said that it might be time to lift mask mandates — not because they don&#8217;t work or because the threat has passed, but in order to &#8220;preserve public health authority for when it’s needed again.&#8221;
Wen explained that she was not saying it was a good idea for people to stop wearing masks, but that governments needed to ease up and allow people to make the decisions for themselves — arguing that people were more likely to accept later restrictions coming from &#8220;public health authorities&#8221; if they were first given back some of their liberty and autonomy.
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In the coming days, we will see many Governors and local leaders lift mask mandates. This is the right step, and marks a needed shift from government-imposed requirement to individual decision. It helps to preserve public health authority for when it’s needed again. <a href="https://twitter.com/wolfblitzer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wolfblitzer</a> <a href="https://t.co/66zwIw6vgH">pic.twitter.com/66zwIw6vgH</a>
&mdash; Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrLeanaWen/status/1490683302004547587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You say we can start removing at least some coronavirus restrictions,&#8221; anchor Wolf Blitzer began, adding, &#8220;Now, tell us why?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I agree with Colorado, with many other local and state&#8217;s jurisdictions that are beginning to lift government mandates,&#8221; Wen replied. &#8220;And I think this is the key: I&#8217;m not saying that we should be stopping masking, but rather that this needs to shift from a government requirement to an individual decision.&#8221;
&#8220;The government can&#8217;t keep telling our citizens that this is a five-alarm fire all the time,&#8221; she continued, suggesting that the move was at least as much about human behavior as it was about available data. &#8220;People are just going to start tuning it out and not pay attention, they&#8217;ll be desensitized.&#8221;
&#8220;And so what needs to happen is we need to end the state of emergency and preserve the ability of public health authorities to reinstitute mandates in the future if we more and more dangerous variants later,&#8221; she concluded, effectively arguing that public health authorities would have no power to implement future mandates if they pushed the people too far.
&#8220;Keep up the pressure, y&#8217;all. It&#8217;s working,&#8221; RedState managing editor Jennifer Van Laar <a href="https://twitter.com/jenvanlaar/status/1490772831356874752">tweeted</a>. &#8220;Also, elect people who will change public health laws because we can&#8217;t ever let this BS happen again.&#8221;
A number of officials have rolled back mask mandates in their states — most notably newly-elected Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R).
Democratic Governors Phil Murphy (NJ) and John Carney (DE) have also announced a plan to remove school masking requirements in a matter of weeks, prompting a response from White House press secretary Jen Psaki at Monday&#8217;s briefing.
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Reporter: &quot;What does it say then that a governor like Phil Murphy, who&#39;s been so closely aligned with the policies of this administration, would get ahead of the medical experts?&quot;
Jen Psaki: &quot;It&#39;s always been up to school districts [on masking], that&#39;s always been our policy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KCy58Xp70M">pic.twitter.com/KCy58Xp70M</a>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1490781410222764032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Psaki said the White House still recommended that children wear masks in school because that was the most recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but she noted that individual schools and localities were at liberty to adopt different policies.
&#8220;What does it say then that a governor like Phil Murphy, who&#8217;s been so closely aligned with the policies of this administration, would get ahead of the medical experts and say, &#8216;Never mind what they say, school districts, you decide&#8217;?&#8221; a reporter pressed.
Psaki said again that it had always been up to the districts but that the federal government recommended abiding by the current guidance.
The reporter pushed back, asking whether she believed that Democrats moving to lift mandates suggested a change in public opinion that might also warrant a change in federal guidelines.
Psaki insisted that she understood people were &#8220;tired of COVID,&#8221; but that the White House was not going to get out ahead of the CDC.

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On Tuesday, appearing on CNN with host Wolf Blitzer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi furiously and hysterically accused Blitzer and some of his colleagues of being “apologists for the Republican position” after Blitzer repeatedly asked her why she would not get together with President Trump to make a deal for a coronavirus stimulus bill.
Blitzer pointed out that Pelosi wrote to House Democrats that “the president only wants his name on a check to go out before election day and for the market to go up,” then asked Pelosi, “Is that what this is all about?  To not allow the president to take credit that there&#8217;s a deal that will help millions of Americans right now?” Pelosi answered, “I don&#8217;t care about that.  He&#8217;s not that important.  But let me say this, with all due respect, you really don&#8217;t know what you are talking about.”
Blitzer said of Americans, “They really need the money right now, and even members of your own caucus, Madame Speaker, wanted to accept this deal. 1.8 trillion dollars; Congressman Ro Khanna, a man you know well, I assume you admire him, he&#8217;s a Democrat, and he just said this, he said, &#8216;People in need can&#8217;t wait until February.  1.8 trillion is significant &amp; more than twice the Obama stimulus &#8212; make a deal &amp; put the ball in the McConnell court.&#8217;  So what do you say to Ro Khanna?”
“What I say to you is, I don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;re always an apologist,” an irate Pelosi snarled. “And many of your colleagues, apologists for the Republican position. Ro Khanna: that&#8217;s nice.  That isn&#8217;t what we&#8217;re going to do. And nobody&#8217;s waiting until February.”
“I want this very much now,” Pelosi claimed. “Because people need help now. It&#8217;s no use giving them a false thing just because the president wants to put a check with his name on it in the mail that we should not be doing all we can to help people pay the rent, put food on the table then enhance benefits that they don&#8217;t lose their jobs if they&#8217;re state and local. We&#8217;re talking about the consequences of a pandemic. The symptoms of a problem that the president refuses to address.  And that is the coronavirus. That is the coronavirus.”
“We know the problem out there but there are millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, they can&#8217;t pay the rent, their kids need the food,” Blitzer persisted. “1.8 trillion dollars. The president just tweeted: ‘Stimulus: go big or go home.’ He wants even more right now, so why not work on a deal with him and don&#8217;t the perfect, as they say here in Washington, be the enemy of the good?”
Pelosi, losing all sense of logic: “Well, I will not let the wrong be the enemy of the right.”
Blitzer: “What&#8217;s wrong with 1.8 trillion dollars?”
“Do you know what?” Pelosi asked. “Do you have any idea of what the difference is between the spending that they had in their bill and that we had in our bill? Do you realize that they have come back and said all these things for child tax credits and earned income tax credits and helping people who have lost their jobs, are eliminated in their bill? Do you realize they pay no respect to the fact that child care is very important for people whose children cannot go to school cause they&#8217;re remote learning and yet they minimize the need for child care which is the threshold with which people, mothers and fathers, can go to work if they had that. Do you have any idea at how just woefully short their concern —”
Blitzer: “That&#8217;s precisely why, Madam Speaker, it&#8217;s so important now. Yesterday I spoke to Andrew Yang, who says the same thing: It&#8217;s not everything you want, but there&#8217;s a lot there.”
Pelosi: “Yeah, but you know what? Honest to God, I can&#8217;t get over it. Because Andrew Yang, he&#8217;s lovely. Ro Khanna, he&#8217;s lovely. They are not negotiating this situation. They have no ideas of the particulars. They have no idea of what the language is here.”
Another slip: “I didn&#8217;t come over here to have &#8212; so you&#8217;re the apologist for the Obama — excuse me, G-d forbid.”
Blitzer, protesting, “Madam Speaker, I&#8217;m not an apologist. I&#8217;m asking you serious questions because so many people are in desperate need right now. Let me ask you this: when was the last time, Madam Speaker, you spoke with the president about this?”
Pelosi: “I don&#8217;t speak with the president. I speak with his representative.”
Blitzer, trying to be reasonable: “Why not? Why not call him and say, Mr. President, let&#8217;s work out a deal. It&#8217;s not going to be everything you want, it&#8217;s not going to be everything I want, but there are so many Americans right now who are in desperate need, let&#8217;s make a deal.”
Pelosi, haughtily: “What makes me amused if it weren&#8217;t so sad, is how you all think that you know more about the suffering of the American people than those of us who were elected by them to represent them at that table.”
Later, Blitzer pointed out, “Here&#8217;s what you wrote in a letter to House Democrats, Madam Speaker&#8230; &#8216;The president only wants his name on a check to go out before election day and for the market to go up.’ Is that what this is all about? To not allow the president to take credit that there&#8217;s a deal that will help millions of American&#8217;s right now?&#8221;
Pelosi: “I don&#8217;t care about that. He&#8217;s not that important. But let me say this, with all due respect, you really don&#8217;t know what you are talking about. …&#8221;
Blitzer repeated, “1.8 trillion dollars is a lot of money. The American people need that money ASAP because they&#8217;re suffering right now.  I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s perfect&#8230;”
Pelosi: “You don&#8217;t care how it&#8217;s spent.”
Blitzer: “Of course, I care how it&#8217;s spent. But what I don&#8217;t understand is why not talk to the president personally. Call him up and say, &#8216;Mr. President let&#8217;s get a deal tomorrow.&#8217;”
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CNN changed a chyron during a segment early this week on the violent protests in Wisconsin over the weekend, removing the word &#8220;violent&#8221; from the chyron—even though the protests were, in fact, violent.
During a live broadcast on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,&#8221; the network aired the following chyron:
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Several seconds later the chyron was taken down and was then put back up on the screen after the network removed the word &#8220;violent&#8221; from it:
<blockquote>8PM CURFEW ORDERED AFTER PROTESTS OVER POLICE SHOOTING OF UNARMED BLACK MAN IN WISCONSIN</blockquote>
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Someone at CNN didn’t like the violent protests in Wisconsin being described as “violent” (observe the chyrons) <a href="https://t.co/oDN5V2muUN">pic.twitter.com/oDN5V2muUN</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1298227018979512320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A New York Times column from earlier this year, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/30/opinion/sunday/riots-george-floyd.html">argued</a> that when protests remain peaceful, they lead to progressive reforms, but, when they turn violent riots, they end up leading to calls for law and order—to the benefit of Republicans.
The protests had turned into a violent riot by that point because the state&#8217;s governor, Tony Evers, had <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/WIGOV/bulletins/29b954d">announced</a> that he was deploying the National Guard to Kenosha:
<blockquote>Pursuant to Section 321.39(1)(a) of the Wisconsin Statutes, the governor ordered into state active duty members of the Wisconsin National Guard deemed necessary to support to local law enforcement and first responders in Kenosha. Any Guard members called to active duty may only be used to provide support to local law enforcement and to protect critical infrastructure and cultural institutions necessary for the well-being of the community, and to provide support to first responders such as the Kenosha Fire Department. The National Guard may not be used to impede the ability of people to peacefully protest or impede the ability of the media to report on this situation.</blockquote>
“I know folks across our state will be making their voices heard in Kenosha and in communities across Wisconsin. Every person should be able to express their anger and frustration by exercising their First Amendment rights and report on these calls to action without any fear of being unsafe,” Evers said in a statement. “This is a limited mobilization of the National Guard focused on supporting the needs of local first responders to protect critical infrastructure, such as utilities and fire stations, and to ensure Kenoshians are able to assemble safely.”
Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, added: “Serving our fellow Wisconsin citizens and assisting civil authorities during times of need is one of core missions in the National Guard. Our Citizen Soldiers and Airmen are well-trained and prepared to assist in any way we can in an effort to preserve public safety.”
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On Wednesday, ESPN released <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29553829/espn-investigation-finds-coaches-nba-china-academies-complained-player-abuse-lack-schooling">a bombshell report</a> detailing how Chinese authorities allegedly abused players at NBA academies. Later that night, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver appeared on CNN with host Wolf Blitzer – and wasn’t asked once about the major new scandal.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kids-abused-at-nba-youth-training-camps-in-china-employee-says-it-was-like-working-in-world-war-ii-germany-report-claims">reported</a>, the NBA worked with their Chinese partners to set up training academies that allegedly beat kids who didn’t perform well enough.
“American coaches at three NBA training academies in China told league officials their Chinese partners were physically abusing young players and failing to provide schooling, even though commissioner Adam Silver had said that education would be central to the program,” ESPN <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29553829/espn-investigation-finds-coaches-nba-china-academies-complained-player-abuse-lack-schooling">reported</a>. “One former league employee who worked in China wondered how the NBA, which has been so progressive on issues around Black Lives Matter and moved the 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, over a law requiring transgender people to use bathrooms corresponding to the sex listed on their birth certificates, could operate a training camp amid a Chinese government crackdown that also targeted NBA employees.”
A former employee at a training camp in Xinjiang – a region known for concentration camps full of Chinese Muslims known as Uyghurs – told ESPN that working at the camp was like “World War II Germany.” Another former employee said the camp was like “a sweat camp for athletes.” One former coach told the outlet, “we were basically working for the Chinese government.”
ESPN reported that multiple coaches quit over the physical abuse they witnessed.
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<blockquote>NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer Mark Tatum, who oversees international operations, claimed that the league received a few complaints about the abuse, and claimed that the incidents were never reported to top league officials.
Numerous officials who worked for the NBA in China said that the level of abuse was “much more prevalent” than what Tatum had claimed.
One coach said that a Chinese coach threw a ball at a young player’s face from point-blank range and then “kick[ed] him in the gut.”</blockquote>
Yet CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer failed to ask NBA commissioner Adam Silver about anything related to the league and China. Blitzer interviewed Silver for nearly 16 minutes but focused on bringing basketball back amid continuing coronavirus fears. The interview with CNN took place two hours after ESPN dropped its report.
Silver has championed progressive social justice policies in the United States, allowing athletes to place league-approved statements on their jerseys – none of which pertain to the horrors currently occurring in China regarding Hong Kong or Uyghur internment camps.
When the Chinese training camps were announced in 2016, Silver emphasized that education would be part of the program.
&#8220;Top international prospects will benefit from a complete approach to player development that combines NBA-quality coaching, training and competition with academics and personal development,&#8221; Silver said at the time.
The ESPN report noted that players in the camps were not attending classes.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared that COVID-19 should be labeled the &#8220;Trump virus&#8221; during a Tuesday night interview on CNN.
Pelosi&#8217;s remarks come as President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to the virus as the &#8220;China virus&#8221; to denote its origin. Relations between the U.S. and China continue to disintegrate, and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials are <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/china-government-propaganda-coronavirus-cnn-msnbc-hillary-clinton">using clips</a> from CNN, MSNBC, and Democratic politicians as propaganda.
&#8220;We have lots to discuss,&#8221; CNN host Wolf Blitzer said to Pelosi at the beginning of the interview. &#8220;But let me start with the president&#8217;s news conference he just had on the pandemic. He encouraged people to go ahead and wear a mask. He admitted that things will get worse before they get better. He said, eventually, it&#8217;s going to disappear. How far do you think all that goes in addressing this crisis that&#8217;s still killing hundreds of Americans every single day?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think with the president&#8217;s comments today, he recognized the mistakes that he has made by now embracing mask-wearing and the recognition this is not a hoax. It is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction, and, in fact, clearly, it is the Trump virus,&#8221; said the Democratic leader.
&#8220;Well, what do you mean when you say &#8216;the Trump virus?'&#8221; asked Blitzer.
&#8220;The Trump virus,&#8221; said Pelosi. &#8220;If they — if he had said months ago, let&#8217;s wear masks, let&#8217;s not — let&#8217;s socially distance, instead of having rallies and political, whatever they were, then more people would have followed his lead – he’s the President of the United States – instead of being a bad example, making it like a manhood thing, not to wear a mask. So, in any event, it was weird because a briefing on the coronavirus should be about science, and that is something the president has ignored. It should be about governance, and now, he&#8217;s finally embracing, saying, &#8216;Okay, it&#8217;s okay to wear a mask.&#8217; So, I think a good deal of what we have suffered is clearly the Trump virus.&#8221;
The Democratic speaker went on repeatedly to refer to COVID-19 as the &#8220;Trump virus.&#8221;
Video and transcript below:
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<blockquote>CNN HOST WOLF BLITZER: We have lots to discuss, but let me start with the president&#8217;s news conference he just had on the pandemic. He encouraged people to go ahead and wear a mask. He admitted that things will get worse before they get better. He said, eventually, it&#8217;s going to disappear.
How far do you think all that goes in addressing this crisis that&#8217;s still killing hundreds of Americans every single day?
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Well, I think with the president&#8217;s comments today, he recognized the mistakes that he has made by now embracing mask-wearing and the recognition this is not a hoax, it is a pandemic that has gotten worse before it will get better because of his inaction, and, in fact, clearly, it is the Trump virus.
BLITZER: Well, what do you mean when you say “the Trump virus?”
PELOSI: The Trump virus. If they — if he had said months ago, let&#8217;s wear masks, let&#8217;s not — let&#8217;s socially distance, instead of having rallies and political, whatever they were, then more people would have followed his lead – he’s the President of the United States – instead of being a bad example, making it like a manhood thing, not to wear a mask.
So, in any event, it was weird because a briefing on the coronavirus should be about science and that is something the president has ignored. It should be about governance, and now, he&#8217;s finally embracing and saying, “Okay, it&#8217;s okay to wear a mask.” So, I think a good deal of what we have suffered is clearly the Trump virus.
BLITZER: So, what you&#8217;re saying is that thousands of Americans have died because of what the president has done or not done. Is that what you&#8217;re saying?
PELOSI: Yeah. Yes, that&#8217;s what I’m saying. I think it&#8217;s clearly evident. We&#8217;re approaching 4 million, approaching 4 million infect — people affected by this, infected by it. And a large number, you know, like 140,000 who have passed away.
If it&#8217;s important to wear masks now, it would have been important to wear it in March, instead of telling us that by April, we&#8217;d all be going to church together. I wish that were the case.
But he had no scientific basis for that. And so, if they don&#8217;t return to science and governance, and that&#8217;s a way that we can overcome this. We hope and pray for a vaccine, God willing that will be soon, but when it comes — it&#8217;s still months away and people will die. So, let&#8217;s hope that the president comes closer to embracing the reality of this pandemic. This Trump virus.</blockquote>

As U.S.-China Relations Disintegrate, Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi Declares: It Is The ‘Trump Virus’

CNN has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over an ad featuring footage from CNN&#8217;s coverage of the government&#8217;s response to the COVID-19 pandemic that the network claims is &#8220;deceptive&#8221; because it suggests that a CNN analyst agreed that President Trump&#8217;s actions saved potentially millions of lives.
&#8220;A lawyer for CNN&#8217;s parent company WarnerMedia has written a cease-and-desist letter to President Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign over the misleading contents of a new campaign ad,&#8221; the network <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/media/trump-campaign-ad-cease-and-desist/index.html">announced</a> Monday. &#8220;WarnerMedia says the Trump ad is misusing CNN news coverage in a way that&#8217;s &#8216;false, misleading and deceptive.'&#8221;
&#8220;My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat,&#8221; Trump says at the start of the new campaign ad, a coronavirus response-themed ad released Sunday titled &#8220;American Comeback&#8221; (video below).
The ad then cuts to various critics of Trump&#8217;s initial ban on travel from China, including presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who accuses Trump of &#8220;xenophobia.&#8221;
That criticism is followed by a clip from CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer and Dr. Sanjay Gupta discussing the social distancing steps recommended by the federal government and taken by the states.
&#8220;Is it accurate that if these steps had not been put in place, &#8230; it could have been 2 million people down here in the United States?&#8221; asks Blitzer, while images of an airport screen showing &#8220;cancelled&#8221; flights and a Chinese airliner flash on the screen. &#8220;Yes,&#8221; says Gupta.
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But, as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/media/trump-campaign-ad-cease-and-desist/index.html">CNN</a>&#8216;s Brian Stelter explains, the network maintains that the framing and the editing of that exchange is &#8220;misleading,&#8221; giving the impression that Blitzer and Gupta are specifically referencing Trump&#8217;s travel ban rather than the broader social distancing measures recommended by his administration. Stelter reports:
<blockquote>The ad takes a segment from CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; out of context. On March 30, anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta, &#8220;Well, is it accurate that if these steps had not been put in place, the stay at home orders, the social distancing orders, as the President said yesterday, it could have been 2 million people down here in the United States?&#8221;
Gupta responded, &#8220;I mean, you know, these are all models, Wolf. It&#8217;s a little tough to say, but, you know, if you talk about something that is spreading, you know, very robustly throughout a community. You know, two to three times more contagious than flu, and up to 10 times, perhaps even more than that, more deadly than flu, then yes.&#8221;
Blitzer&#8217;s question was about &#8220;stay at home orders&#8221; and social distancing, but in the campaign ad, that portion of his question was omitted. After Blitzer and Gupta are shown on screen, the ad cuts to taped video that invokes Trump&#8217;s restrictions on travel from China, like an airport screen showing cancelled flights.</blockquote>
The ad &#8220;purposely and deceptively edits the clip to imply that Mr. Blitzer and Dr. Gupta were crediting the President&#8217;s travel ban policy issued in January for saving millions of American lives, when in fact Mr. Blitzer and Dr. Gupta were discussing recently implemented social distancing guidelines and stay-at-home orders issued by state and local governments,&#8221; Rick McMurtry, associate general counsel for WarnerMedia, wrote in a letter sent to Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh. &#8220;CNN hereby demands that you discontinue airing the advertisement with the CNN clip that has been distorted in such a way as to mislead the public.&#8221;
Murtaugh responded by standing by the ad and slamming CNN for &#8220;once again&#8221; finding a reason to block a Trump campaign ad. The network &#8220;has now rejected multiple Trump ads that are demonstrably accurate,&#8221; said Murtaugh, as reported by Stelter.
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The Iowa caucuses, the first night of the election cycle that Democratic Party voters get to cast actual votes,  has turned into a complete disaster.
As the results of Monday night&#8217;s caucuses continued to be delayed, those watching CNN caught a local Democratic Party official hanging up the phone on a distraught precinct secretary who had been on hold for almost an hour. Take a look:
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CNN got the caucus secretary from the precinct on the phone for an interview. He was on hold for over an hour, waiting to report his results. During the interview, someone picked up, but because he was talking to Wolf Blitzer, he was hung up on. Unreal. <a href="https://t.co/DZoLSpjZto">pic.twitter.com/DZoLSpjZto</a>
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As the clip above shows, Shawn Sebastian, a precinct secretary from Story County, joins CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer over the phone and tries to contain his palpable frustration with how the evening has unfolded.
&#8220;Shawn Sebastian is joining us right now from Story County, he’s a precinct secretary out there, what can you tell us about this delay in getting any results Shawn?&#8221; Wolf Blitzer begins.
According to Shawn, the app that the Iowa Democratic Party promoted as a means to report the election results turned out to be a complete failure.
&#8220;Well, Wolf, I have been on hold for over an hour with the Iowa Democratic Party,&#8221; a noticeably miffed Shawn tells the CNN host. &#8220;They tried to promote an app to report the results. The app, by all accounts, just doesn’t work. So we’ve been recommended to call into the hotline. And the hotline has not been responsive.&#8221;
&#8220;Have you gotten any explanation at all as to what’s going on?&#8221; responds Blitzer.
&#8220;No, I have not. I’m just waiting on hold and doing my best to report the results,&#8221; says Shawn.
It was then, after having waited for over an hour, that the Iowa Democratic Party official answered the phone. It did not go how Shawn expected.
“Hello. &#8230; They hung up on me. They hung up on me. I’ve got to get back to being on hold,&#8221; Shawn says as Wolf Blitzer expresses sympathy for his unfortunate situation.
Shawn&#8217;s frustration with the Iowa Democratic Party&#8217;s gross incompetence resulted in him reporting the election results on Twitter:
<blockquote>I am the caucus secretary for Story County Precinct 1-1. I&#8217;ve been on hold for over an hour to report the results. We have 6 delegates.
First Alignment 
<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5">Sanders &#8211; 111</div>
<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5">Warren- 82 
Buttigieg 47</div>
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<div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5">Sanders &#8211; 2 
Warren &#8211; 2 
Buttigieg 2</div>
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I am the caucus secretary for Story County Precinct 1-1. I&#39;ve been on hold for over an hour to report the results. We have 6 delegates
First Alignment<a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> &#8211; 111<a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a> &#8211; 82<a href="https://twitter.com/PeteButtigieg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PeteButtigieg</a> &#8211; 47
Delegates Sanders &#8211; 2 Warren &#8211; 2 Buttigieg 2
Here&#39;s how it happened 1/
&mdash; Shawn Sebastian 🐺🐴 (@shawnsebastian) <a href="https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224538096571686912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On another panel, Van Jones characterized Shawn&#8217;s predicament as a &#8220;debacle.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re just starting to tweet out their results,&#8221; said Van Jones. &#8220;This is starting to look like a debacle.&#8221;
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On CNN&#39;s panel, <a href="https://twitter.com/VanJones68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanJones68</a> says a caucus secretary from a precinct is tweeting out results as the DNC struggles to report the numbers: &quot;This is starting to look like a debacle.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/9NPhJIGdGt">pic.twitter.com/9NPhJIGdGt</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1224542615724490753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Reporter Glenn Greenwald <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1224541968061075458?s=20">said about</a> the moment, &#8220;This inspires so much confidence — a caucus secretary having to report the results over Twitter because no Democratic official will take his call and he doesn’t know what else to do.
Republicans on social media largely seized the moment to troll Democrats.
&#8220;BREAKING: While Democrats can&#8217;t even figure out how to count their votes or use a simple app, [President Trump] has achieved RECORD turnout in the Iowa Caucus for an incumbent president Americans are fired up to re-elect Trump. Meanwhile Democrats are left confused. Incredible,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1224546212734390272?s=20">tweeted</a> TPUSA&#8217;s Charlie Kirk.
&#8220;The Democrats said if Trump wasn&#8217;t impeached, he would steal the election. It&#8217;s already begun. In Iowa,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1224560106747990018?s=20">tweeted</a> Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro.

WATCH: Local Democratic Official Hangs Up On Iowa Precinct Secretary Live On CNN

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On Thursday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about CNN’s fact-free reporting about climate change. Video and partial transcript below:
Remember that “Simpsons” headline? I always loved this headline, “Old Man Yells At Cloud,” and it just has a picture of the old man from “The Simpsons” yelling at the cloud. That to me is the Democrats. They&#8217;re yelling at the clouds.
There&#8217;s this terrible storm, Dorian, and Dorian is now, I think, moving over the Carolinas. It&#8217;s been degraded to a Category 2 as I&#8217;m speaking [Thursday morning], went up to a Category 3, but when it hit the Bahamas — it eliminated whole parts of the Bahamas. That was a genuine catastrophe. Last I heard, the death toll was around seven I think, but it&#8217;s obviously, unfortunately, going to go up.
So we talk about this fact that it&#8217;s a fact-free world, and it&#8217;s always Donald Trump&#8217;s fault. So Donald Trump, at some point, said that he thought the storm was going to hit Alabama, and all the weather people said no, no, no. The National Weather Service said Alabama is not going to see any impact from Dorian. This is important, because when the president says something, people pack up and leave — they evacuate and all this stuff, so it matters.
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If [Trump] was wrong, he shouldn&#8217;t have said it. If he was wrong, he should have admitted it. Then, [Trump] was talking in front of a weather map, and somebody had drawn on the weather map movement that made it look like the storm was going to hit Alabama. And Trump is still saying he was right about this, that there was a point when they said it was gonna hit Alabama. Who knows?
Who cares? This is what I mean. When they talk about a fact-free world, they&#8217;re always going after Trump&#8217;s gaffes. He talks carelessly, and you know, the way I hear him lie — he lies in this kind of harmless exaggerating way, and in this negotiating way. But we’ve kind of factored in the way Trump talks, most of us, those of us who are paying attention, those of us who are not trying to destroy him in order to give power back to the Democrats, which is a small number of people in the media.
But let&#8217;s compare that to the news media and to the Democrats. When we&#8217;re talking about the storm, does it hit Alabama? Does it not hit Alabama? Was it ever going to? I don&#8217;t know, a lot of times Trump turns out to have been right about this. I don&#8217;t know what he saw. But let&#8217;s talk about this. Temperatures, I think, have been rising somewhat. The question of whether that increases hurricanes is completely unknown. Nobody knows. There have not been any more hurricanes recently. The question is, does it make them more powerful? We don&#8217;t know.
Even the U.N., which has been pushing climate change like crazy, doesn&#8217;t know whether hurricanes get more powerful just in the same way that they don&#8217;t know whether [climate change] makes fires worse. It seems like there are fewer forest fires, but they burn worse because of poor forest management. That&#8217;s what it seems like. But there&#8217;s a lot of science that&#8217;s unsettled, this whole thing. However, is that unsettled on CNN? No, no, no my friends. On CNN, the science is done completely in the laboratories of their imagination and they&#8217;ve got it all figured out. This is what CNN is selling about Dorian.
<blockquote>BLITZER: We&#8217;re seeing firsthand the effects of climate change, as a powerful Atlantic hurricane is sitting right now off the coast of Florida. It could make landfall tomorrow in South Carolina ….
BLITZER: More extreme weather events, like Hurricane Dorian that&#8217;s churning toward the Carolinas right now.</blockquote>
<blockquote>BURNETT: Think bigger fires in the West, or deadlier heatwaves, supercharged storms like the one we&#8217;ve seen now, Hurricane Dorian, which is hovering off the coast of the Carolinas as I speak&#8230;
BURNETT TO HARRIS: When you look at the severe weather, certainly what we&#8217;re seeing with the hurricane now …
BURNETT: The top Democratic presidential candidates are all with us tonight on the heels of the deadly hurricane Dorian, which is leaving neighborhoods underwater in the Bahamas — utter devastation. It now heads north along the United States coast.
BURNETT: The storm comes as we are facing a catastrophe of unprecedented proportions. You know, Hurricane Dorian is just one, right. One thing, right, one side of that dangerous world that scientists say we are entering if humans do not cut carbon pollution.</blockquote>
<blockquote>COOPER: Flooded coastal cities, island nations under water &#8230;
COOPER: We&#8217;re coming to you, of course, tonight just as Hurricane Dorian, the strongest storm anywhere on the planet this year, has decimated parts of the Bahamas and is threatening the East Coast.
COOPER: &#8230; [T]alking about super storms and mass extinction, worsening drought.</blockquote>
They have it all figured out on CNN. They actually don’t even need scientists, they just have little scientists in their brains who run around doing experiments in their imagination, getting the results that they want to get. You could even hear the way Anderson Cooper was talking when he said [Dorian is] the “strongest storm anywhere on the planet this year.”
So it&#8217;s a bad storm, [but] we’ve had bad storms before. If my anecdotal memory is any use at all, when I was a kid, storms were much worse. We had these hurricanes, I remember my backyard — I lived out on Long Island. I remember these storms that absolutely flooded our neighborhoods, flooded, and we were fairly far inland, but we would just get absolutely flooded. Guys in hip[-high] waters coming down the street to make sure everybody was alright, boats being overturned.
Then they stopped for a while. They seemed to get better, and now [we’re starting] to see some of these storms again. But of course, it&#8217;s the reporting. I mean you heard that. That is completely fact-free reporting. They do not have proof that Dorian has anything to do with climate change, and they haven&#8217;t prove[n] that climate change is a result of human activity.
The climate is changing; the climate always changes. Human activity does create heat, I&#8217;m sure it does have an effect on the climate. We just don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s catastrophic. When they call you a denier &#8230; that is a way of comparing people who disagree with the Democratic panic on this, the CNN panic. This completely dishonest reporting on CNN, they&#8217;re comparing you to Holocaust deniers.
The Holocaust, the most completely documented atrocity in human history. OK, I mean the Nazis, say what you will about them: They kept good records. They kept good records, and we have their testimony, and we have the testimony of people who were there, and we have movies, we have all this [stuff]. If you&#8217;re denying the Holocaust, it&#8217;s because you are an anti-Semite. That&#8217;s why people deny the Holocaust, or you&#8217;re a nutty conspiracy theorist.
If you are denying that a computer model can predict the climate long into the future, you&#8217;re simply being sensible and sane. The climate is a vastly complex system that computers have not predicted very soundly in the past. So we simply don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. The other thing is, even in the worst climate predictions, the cost is not that bad. You know the cost of climate change is not that bad, but it is if you&#8217;re listening to CNN.
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Senior Trump administration adviser Stephen Miller humiliated CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday night after Blitzer claimed without evidence that &#8220;Democrats support border security.&#8221;
&#8220;The Democrats, all they need to do is support border security and the government will be funded,&#8221; Miller said.
&#8220;The Democrats support border security,&#8221; Blitzer interjected. &#8220;They don&#8217;t support $5 billion for a wall.&#8221;
&#8220;Could you identify Wolf for me, some of the kinds of border security you&#8217;re saying the Democrats support?&#8221; Miller fired back.
Blitzer couldn&#8217;t come up with any examples.
&#8220;With all due respect Wolf, they voted against Kate&#8217;s law, they voted against ending sanctuary cities, they voted against deporting MS-13 gang members, they voted against deporting violent criminals, they voted time and time again against a physical border wall to stop illegal entry,&#8221; Miller fired back.
&#8220;Where is the evidence you keep asserting they&#8217;re for border security?&#8221; Miller asked. &#8220;They haven&#8217;t been, they oppose closing loopholes for asylum that flood our system with meritless claims&#8212;&#8221;
Blitzer immediately cut Miller off, saying he wanted to &#8220;move on to another sensitive issue.&#8221;
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CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer claims &#8220;Democrats support border security&#8221;
Stephen Miller: &#8220;They voted against Kate&#8217;s law, they voted against ending sanctuary cities, they voted against deporting MS-13 gang members [and] violent criminals, they voted&#8230;against a physical border wall&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vRcAVuUAv4">pic.twitter.com/vRcAVuUAv4</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1075938552930656256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2018</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Blitzer Claims Democrats Support Border Security. Stephen Miller Humiliates Him.

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