Podcast giant Joe Rogan mocked mainstream news organizations during a broadcast of his show this week for ignoring the biggest stories happening in the world today.
Rogan made the <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/joe-rogan-blasts-media-for-conveniently-ignoring-major-stories-instead-continuing-to-push-january-6th-coverage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarks</a> Tuesday on &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; while speaking to physician Peter Attia.
“The media has lost its hold over the narrative,” Rogan declared. “Now, the media conveniently leaves out anything that it doesn’t want to be at the front and center — in terms of things that people concentrate on and talk about.”
“Like one of the greatest examples that’s happening right now is this massive protest in France. Massive protest in France. Nine million people on the street, literally up in arms,” Rogan said. “Macron in France. Takes his f***ing $80,000 watch off under the table while he’s talking to people about tightening up and about how you know this has to be done.”
“All it is, is like ‘January 6th. January 6th. Did you see what they did? — Trump is coming back, but January 6th looms large,&#8217;” Rogan said in mocking the news covered by mainstream organizations. “How about the fact that the guy who’s the president right now can’t form a f***ing sentence. He makes up words and stumbles through things and no one says a g*****n thing about it.&#8221;
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Rogan railed against far-left woke initiatives last week that he warned were really shams that political elites use to force people to submit to their ideological wills.
“Look at what they try to do, look at what people try to do to stop criticism on Twitter, they f***ing send the FBI to Twitter to try to remove people from Twitter because they’re saying things that interferes with the way they govern,” Rogan said. “All that s*** is natural and the Founding Fathers were the only people that put together a system to mitigate that.”
“Over time these f***ing c****, these corrupt s***heads have done an amazing job of trying to chip away at that or convince people it should be chipped away at, and convince people that ‘freedom is not important, what’s important is equity and inclusiveness and diversity,’” he continued. “No no no that is a sheep costume the wolf wears, and the wolf is control, the wolf is control over people and forcing people to bend to your ideological will, whether it’s the will of the people on the right or the will of people on the left. That’s the form that it comes in, it comes in the form of ‘equity and inclusiveness.’”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ted-cruz">Sen. Ted Cruz</a> (R-TX) slammed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas during a hearing on Tuesday over the Biden administration&#8217;s ongoing crisis on the U.S. southern border.
Cruz went to work on Mayorkas after getting him to admit that the U.S. saw its lowest level of encounters on the southern border in 2020.
“Let&#8217;s look at CBP encounters &#8230; it drops to the lowest level. Then boom, what happens? You show up!&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And that red line is you! That red line is Joe Biden! And you&#8217;re claiming nothing happened, oh gosh, this was here before us. No! You made the decision to allow this!”
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WATCH: Sen. Ted Cruz EVISCERATES Alejandro Mayorkas: 
“Let&#39;s look at CBP encounters&#8230;it drops to the lowest level. Then BOOM, what happens? You show up! And that red line is you! That red line is Joe Biden! And you&#39;re claiming nothing happened, oh gosh, <a href="https://t.co/STd2aMobb3">pic.twitter.com/STd2aMobb3</a>…
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Cruz also got Mayorkas to admit that he had no idea how many migrants have died trying to get through the southern border in 2022.
“Of course you don’t! I know how many died, 853!&#8221; Cruz fired back. &#8220;You go back to 1998, you see it&#8217;s consistently between 300 to 400… Suddenly 2021. What happens? You get in office!”
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DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas admits he doesn’t know how many migrants have died under Biden.
Sen. Ted Cruz: “Of course you don’t! I know how many died, 853! … You go back to 1998, you see it&#39;s consistently between 300 to 400… Suddenly 2021. What happens? You get in office!” <a href="https://t.co/sYPraUXxm2">pic.twitter.com/sYPraUXxm2</a>
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Cruz later enraged Mayorkas after demanding that Mayorkas resign from his job over how poorly the Biden administration has handled the crisis.
&#8220;Mr. Secretary, I want to say to you right now, your behavior is disgraceful. And the deaths, the children assaulted, the children raped, they are at your feet,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;And if you had integrity, you would resign.&#8221;
&#8220;The men and women of the Border Patrol, they&#8217;ve never had a political leader undermine them,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;They despise you, Mr. Secretary, because you&#8217;re willing to let children be raped to follow political orders. This is a crisis. It&#8217;s a disgrace. And you won&#8217;t even admit this human tragedy as it is crisis.&#8221;
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Mayorkas responded by saying he would not &#8220;address&#8221; Cruz&#8217;s remarks because he found them to be &#8220;revolting.&#8221;
“Your refusal to do your job is revolting!” Cruz fired back.
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🚨 Ted Cruz blasts Mayorkas: “If you had integrity, you would resign… You&#39;re willing to let children be raped… This is a crisis. It&#39;s a disgrace&#8230;”
Mayorkas: “What the Senator said was revolting. I&#39;m not going to address it.”
Cruz: “Your refusal to do your job is revolting!” <a href="https://t.co/4euM7lNLHV">pic.twitter.com/4euM7lNLHV</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1640760076322439174?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Another highlight from the hearing showed Mayorkas repeatedly dodging Cruz&#8217;s question of whether there was a crisis at the southern border.
“1 word. 1 syllable. 3 letters,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;That&#8217;s how someone answers a question &amp; does their job. You&#8217;re being a politician misleading the American people.”
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Under questioning from Ted Cruz, Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refuses to say if there is a crisis on the border:
Cruz: “1 word. 1 syllable. 3 letters. That&#39;s how someone answers a question &amp; does their job. You&#39;re being a politician misleading the American people.” <a href="https://t.co/PsrZQ7C1Lo">pic.twitter.com/PsrZQ7C1Lo</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1640756637760716816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently mocked President Joe Biden over a gaffe that the president made while speaking in Canada last week.
Addressing the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Biden thanked the Canadians for their commitment to accepting more migrants from Latin America.
&#8220;So today, I applaud China for stepping up,&#8221; Biden said as the audience instantly burst out in laughter. &#8220;I applaud Canada. You can tell what I&#8217;m thinking.&#8221;
&#8220;So that&#8217;s addressing the Canadian Parliament. And listen, fine, so he had a slip of the tongue. Everyone does that. Biden does it a lot,&#8221; Cruz said. &#8220;But I just want to point out that&#8217;s the entire Parliament of Canada laughing at the President of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, Canadians are many things, but fundamentally, they&#8217;re polite. They are very polite,&#8221; Cruz continued. &#8220;Just how bad do you have to screw up to have a roomful of Canadians laughing at you?&#8221;
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<blockquote>SEN. TED CRUZ (R-TX): That kind of weakness means our enemies are laughing at us. But you know what&#8217;s even worse? Not just our enemies, our friends are laughing at us…
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: So today, I applaud China for stepping up. [laughter] I applaud Canada. You can tell what I&#8217;m thinking.
CRUZ: So that&#8217;s addressing the Canadian Parliament. And listen, fine, so he had a slip of the tongue. Everyone does that. Biden does it a lot. But I just want to point out that&#8217;s the entire Parliament of Canada laughing at the President of the United States. Now, Canadians are many things, but fundamentally, they&#8217;re polite. They are very polite. Just how bad do you have to screw up to have a roomful of Canadians laughing at you?
BEN FERGUSON, CO-HOST: And he&#8217;s saying you can tell what I&#8217;m thinking, which is what they&#8217;re laughing at the cognitive part.
CRUZ: I  wish the verbal slip was not actually indicative of what this White House is doing. Unfortunately, it is.</blockquote>
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Cruz Torches Biden: ‘How Bad Do You Have To Screw Up To Have A Roomful Of Canadians Laughing At You?’

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Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for continuing the obstruct the committee&#8217;s investigation into Biden&#8217;s and former President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of classified materials while not in office.
Warner made the remarks on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked if there has been any update on the matter since January.
&#8220;We need more information about these documents,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;And, more importantly, we need to make sure that what the intel community has done to mitigate the harm. And we&#8217;re still in conversations with the Justice Department.&#8221;
&#8220;The administration&#8217;s position does not — does not pass the smell test. We&#8217;ve got a job, not to go into the legal ramifications, but to make sure that the intelligence community has done what&#8217;s right,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve got some additional tools. We can restrict some of the spending. We&#8217;re in active conversations with the Justice Department. But we&#8217;ve got to get those documents.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He joins us from King George, Virginia.
Good morning to you, Senator.
SENATOR MARK WARNER (D-Virginia): Good morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It was a pretty intense five hours of questioning of TikTok&#8217;s CEO this past week.
Your bipartisan bill has White House support, and it would deal with TikTok by giving the Commerce Department power to review and potentially ban technology flagged by U.S. intelligence as a credible threat.
Will it pass in a divided Congress?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We&#8217;re now up to 22 Senators, 11 Democrats, 11 Republicans.
We&#8217;ve had strong interest from the House. I think they wanted to get through their hearing. And, clearly, while I appreciated Mr. Chew&#8217;s testimony, he just couldn&#8217;t answer the basic question. At the end of the day, TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. And by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party.
Or one of my bigger fears, we got 150 million Americans on TikTok, average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: &#8230; or mis or dis-information advocated by the Communist Party.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But has the White House made clear to you that they want this bill to pass and do intend to ban it? Or is a forced sale more likely?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, I think the White House is very in favor of this bill.
We give the secretary of commerce the tools to ban, to force a sale, other tools. And, end of the day, one of the things that may lead to a ban is, the Chinese Communist Party has said they felt like the algorithm, the source code that resides in Beijing, is so important that they&#8217;d rather see a ban than give that source code up to be placed in a third country, which, again, I think speaks volumes about the potential threat that this application poses.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the commerce secretary, though, recently said that the politician in her thinks a ban will mean losing every voter under 35 forever.
And if you look at use of TikTok, I mean, just last week, President Biden showed up in celebrity videos on TikTok from the White House. Plenty of lawmakers, including your Democratic colleague Senator Cory Booker, use it. A number of House progressives use it.
Given how important this platform is to Democrats, can you actually get TikTok taken care of before 2024, when you might need it for political outreach?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, Margaret, I think there&#8217;s a lot of creative activity that goes on, on TikTok, but I absolutely believe that the market &#8212; if TikTok goes away, the market will provide another platform.
And, at the end of the day, that could be an American company. It could be a Brazilian company. It could be an Indian company. All those companies operate within a set of rule of law.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, but the commerce secretary is saying there&#8217;s a political cost if it goes away. And that&#8217;s what she fears.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: I think&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you&#8217;re empowering her.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Listen, I have met with &#8212; I have met &#8212; I have met with Gina Raimondo on this issue.
I think she will make very clear that she believes TikTok is a threat as well. And, listen, if, at the end of the day, you could end up with a forced sale, and that forced sale also makes sure that the core algorithm, the source code, resides someplace different than China, that could be an outcome that would be successful as well.
At the end of the day, you cannot have American data collected, nor can you have the ability for the Communist Party to use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sixty percent of the company is owned by other investors, including U.S. firms.
So is this a policy that you really need to address with Americans to stop them from investing in companies like this?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, that&#8217;s one of the reasons why I think our approach, the RESTRICT Act, says, rather than dealing with TikTok in a one- off fashion, or, a few years back, it was Huawei, the Chinese telecom provider, or years earlier, the Russian software company Kaspersky.
We need to have a set of tools, rules-based, so they can stand up in court &#8212; TikTok would still did its day in court, even under our law &#8212; that says, if there&#8217;s a foreign technology from a place like China and Russia, and it poses a national security threat. And one of the things we also require is that the intelligence community has to declassify as much of this information as possible.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: So it&#8217;s not simply like, hey, trust the government. We got to make the case.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you, since you sit on the Senate Banking Committee, about this rolling turmoil that we are in.
Do you think there needs to be more regulation of midsize banks now?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: If it ends up that a stress test that would have been applied to these midsize banks would have spotted this, of course, I would add additional regulation.
I think, though, what it appears to me is, two things happened. One, basic banking regulation, if this has been only a $5 billion bank, not a $200 billion bank, should have spotted the fact that this management and the regulators missed basic banking 101, the interest rate mismatch.
And, two, one of the things that I think we also have to look at is, this was the first time we&#8217;ve had an Internet-based run. There was literally $42 billion&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: &#8230; taken out of this bank in six hours. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 25 cents on the dollar.
And I would like to know why some of the venture capitalists spurred this run in the first place.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Interesting topic.
I want to ask you, though, as well, about your relationship with SVB Bank and political donations. You received $21,600 from their political action committee, nearly six grand from its CEO.
Do you feel any pressure to give those funds away? Is there a point to it?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We&#8217;re going to hear the facts on Tuesday. And if there&#8217;s malfeasance at the bank, of course, I&#8217;m going to give the money back.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
Senator, before I let you know &#8212; go, I want to just follow up on what you shared with us when we spoke back in January, when you were very frustrated that the administration wasn&#8217;t sharing more information about the classified materials improperly held by the current president when he was out of office and the former president.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Mm-hmm.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You&#8217;ve been briefed. Any more clarity on this? Any further information?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We need more information about these documents.
And, more importantly, we need to make sure that what the intel community has done to mitigate the harm. And we&#8217;re still in conversations with the Justice Department. The administration&#8217;s position does not &#8212; does not pass the smell test. We&#8217;ve got a job, not to go into the legal ramifications, but to make sure that the intelligence community has done what&#8217;s right.
And we&#8217;ve got some additional tools. We can restrict some of the spending. We&#8217;re in active conversations with the Justice Department. But we&#8217;ve got to get those documents.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, Senator Warner, thank you for your time today.</blockquote>

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Twelve-time All-American female swimmer Riley Gaines slammed ESPN for airing a segment promoting a biological male over the weekend in the network&#8217;s coverage of &#8220;Celebrating Women’s History Month.&#8221;
&#8220;In 2022, swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I Championship by winning the 500 Freestyle,&#8221; the segment said. &#8220;The Texas native competed for three seasons on the men&#8217;s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania.&#8221;
&#8220;People will say, ‘Oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage so she could win,’&#8221; Thomas said in the segment. &#8220;I transitioned to be happy.&#8221;
Gaines fired back on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman.&#8221;
&#8220;The @ncaa is responsible,&#8221; Gaines continued. &#8220;If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You&#8217;re spineless @espn #boycottESPN&#8221;
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Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The <a href="https://twitter.com/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ncaa</a> is responsible. 
If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You&#39;re spineless <a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boycottESPN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#boycottESPN</a> <a href="https://t.co/DF3n5RWsmV">https://t.co/DF3n5RWsmV</a>
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The news comes as the World Athletics Council announced on Thursday that it will not allow transgender athletes to compete against women in female World Rankings competitions.
The move, which goes into effect this week, will ban “male-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty.”
“Decisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,” <a href="https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility">said</a> World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. “We will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years. As more evidence becomes available, we will review our position, but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.”
The organization said that it consulted with Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes’ Commission, and the IOC when making its decision and that there was “little support within the sport for the option that was first presented to stakeholders, which required transgender athletes to maintain their testosterone levels below 2.5nmol/L for 24 months to be eligible to compete internationally in the female category.”
World Athletics is the international <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/our-sport" data-reader-unique-id="30">governing</a> body for sprints, middle/long, hurdles, road running, jumps, throws, combined events, race walks, relays, cross country, mountain running, ultra running, and trail running.
“There are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in athletics and consequently no athletics-specific evidence of the impact these athletes would have on the fairness of female competition in athletics,” the organization said. “In these circumstances, the Council decided to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion.”

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Joe Tacopina, former President Donald Trump&#8217;s attorney, said over the weekend that the president&#8217;s claims that he would be arrested Tuesday last week were based on leaks that NBC News had previously reported.
Tacopina made the remarks on NBC News&#8217;s &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when pressed by Chuck Todd on the matter.
&#8220;No, he didn&#8217;t make it up, he was reacting towards a lot of leaks coming out of the district attorney&#8217;s office,&#8221; Tacopina said. &#8220;There had been a leak, Chuck, that Monday, the day before that Tuesday, there was a law enforcement meeting, including Secret Service and NYPD, that was going to go through the logistics of the arraignment. And then there was, of course, a lot of rumors regarding the arraignment being the next day. So he just, I think he just assumed based on those leaks that that&#8217;s what was going to happen&#8221;
A spokesperson for Trump said several hours after Trump&#8217;s claim that they had received no notification that the president would be arrested.
&#8220;So it wasn&#8217;t about making it up, and certainly he doesn&#8217;t want to be arrested,&#8221; Tacopina added.
When asked if Trump&#8217;s team has been contacted about any &#8220;special arrangements&#8221; by the D.A.&#8217;s office, Tacopina said, &#8220;No, not through us.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, we&#8217;ve been in touch with the district attorney&#8217;s office regarding potential logistics of an arraignment, if it gets to that point,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But certainly it didn&#8217;t come from us.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CHUCK TODD: Joining me now is Donald Trump&#8217;s attorney, Joe Tacopina, who represents him in the New York case. Mr. Tacopina, welcome to Meet the Press.
JOE TACOPINA: Thanks, Chuck. Good morning.
CHUCK TODD: Good morning. Let me start with a simple question. Why did your client, Mr. Trump, make that claim that turned out not to be true? Did he make it up?
JOE TACOPINA: No, he didn&#8217;t make it up, he was reacting towards a lot of leaks coming out of the district attorney&#8217;s office. There had been a leak, Chuck, that Monday, the day before that Tuesday, there was a law enforcement meeting, including Secret Service and NYPD, that was going to go through the logistics of the arraignment. And then there was, of course, a lot of rumors regarding the arraignment being the next day. So he just, I think he just assumed based on those leaks that that&#8217;s what was going to happen.
CHUCK TODD: Has anybody in the –
JOE TACOPINA: So it wasn&#8217;t about making it up, and certainly he doesn&#8217;t want to be arrested.
CHUCK TODD: Has anybody in the DA&#8217;s office contacted you, or told you about special arrangements? Did he have any of this knowledge through you?
JOE TACOPINA: No, not through us. I mean, we&#8217;ve been in touch with the district attorney&#8217;s office regarding potential logistics of an arraignment, if it gets to that point. But certainly it didn&#8217;t come from us.</blockquote>

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Trump’s Attorney On Him Claiming He Was Going To Be Arrested Last Week: ‘He Didn’t Make It Up’

Trump's Attorney On Him Claiming He Was Going To Be Arrested Last Week: 'He Didn't Make It Up'

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Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> responded in an interview that aired Thursday evening to two recent salacious media stories that claimed he ate pudding with his bare hands and that he authorized force feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-book-tour-looks-like-amateur-hour?ref=scroll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week that an anonymous source claimed that DeSantis once &#8220;enjoyed a chocolate pudding dessert&#8221; on a private jet &#8220;by eating it with three of his fingers.&#8221;
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview on Fox Nation with Piers Morgan, who mocked the report as being ridiculous.
&#8220;It was a very serious allegation,&#8221; Morgan said sarcastically. “In fact, I congratulated the journalist who broke it on the new &#8216;Watergate.’ But I have to put it to you, Governor. Have you ever eaten a chocolate pudding with three fingers?&#8221;
After laughing at the story, DeSantis responded, &#8220;I don&#8217;t remember ever doing that. I&#8217;m telling you. Maybe when I was a kid.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, there&#8217;s a lot of people when they go at you, sometimes they have like really good ammunition, like you&#8217;re a crook, you did this, you did that,&#8221; DeSantis continued. &#8220;For me, they&#8217;re talking about pudding like, is that really the best you got? Okay, bring it on.&#8221;
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&quot;Maybe when I was a kid [&#8230;] Sometimes they have really good ammunitation [&#8230;] For me, they&#39;re talking about pudding? Like, is that really the best you got? Ok, bring it on!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2wU5h9APrk">pic.twitter.com/2wU5h9APrk</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1639012213032894466?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis responded to a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/19/ron-desantis-guantanamo-bay-force-feeding/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from The Washington Post that suggested he had some kind of a role in force feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay by saying that the report was false.
&#8220;One of the things they said was that you authorized the use of force feeding [for detainees who were on hunger strike],&#8221; Morgan responded.
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&#8220;That&#8217;s not true,&#8221; DeSantis immediately fired back. &#8220;So I was a junior officer, I didn&#8217;t have authority to authorize anything. There may have been a commander that would have done feeding if someone was going to die. But that was not something that I would have even had authority to do.&#8221;
When asked again if the report was wrong, DeSantis responded: &#8220;Yeah, absolutely.&#8221;
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&quot;That&#39;s not true. Yeah, that&#39;s not true [&#8230;] I was a junior officer. I didn&#39;t have the authority to authorize anything. <a href="https://t.co/aKOC8SyjFM">pic.twitter.com/aKOC8SyjFM</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1638999899969826816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis Responds To Salacious Reports About Pudding And Force Feeding Detainees At GITMO: ‘Bring It On’

DeSantis Responds To Salacious Reports About Pudding And Force Feeding Detainees At GITMO: 'Bring It On'

Elections

Guantanamo Bay

Piers Morgan

Ron DeSantis

Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> laughed off criticisms in an interview this week from a few critics aligned with some of his political rivals who claim that he does not have enough of a personality to be the next President of the United States.
DeSantis made the remarks during an interview that aired Thursday evening with Piers Morgan on Fox Nation.
&#8220;One of the other criticisms that is used against you about your personality, probably because some people don&#8217;t know you very well, because those who do, who I&#8217;ve spoken to, tell a different story,&#8221; Morgan said. &#8220;But you&#8217;re being depicted in some of the national media as very intense, quite boring, charisma devoid.&#8221;
Morgan said that one critic who reviewed DeSantis&#8217; book said that DeSantis &#8220;would launch any charm offensive unarmed.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I appreciate the knocks on the book, it&#8217;s the number one book in America far and away,&#8221; DeSantis responded after chuckling. &#8220;I&#8217;ve sold more than any non-president in the history of the country in terms of the first week, so we&#8217;ve been doing pretty good, a lot of people like it.&#8221;
DeSantis then addressed the criticisms from some of the political opposition, saying that they are mad that he does not focus on being part of the social clubs that political elites operate in as he instead focuses on doing his job and then going home and being with his family.
&#8220;So here&#8217;s the thing, I think these are people who are in the political class, journalist class, politicians in, like, D.C. in particular, they get mad I don&#8217;t do the cocktail parties,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like rubbing elbows with other people. I like doing my job and then spending time with my family. That&#8217;s just what I do.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of the people that are criticizing, you know, they would say, &#8216;Oh, he doesn&#8217;t do well with donors. He doesn&#8217;t glad hand with them,’” he said. &#8220;And yet I raise more money than any non-presidential candidate in the history of America! Are you kidding me?&#8221;
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&#8220;So we tend to do well, but I do think that, you know, I deal better with regular people than I do with some of the people in the political class, and I think that has been true for the entire time I&#8217;ve been around,&#8221; he added.
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RON DESANTIS: &quot;They would say, &#39;Oh, he doesn&#39;t do well with donors.&#39; [&#8230;] And yet I raise more money than any nonpresidential candidate in the history of America. Are you kidding me? [&#8230;] I deal better with regular people.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VoPegI9aYR">pic.twitter.com/VoPegI9aYR</a>
&mdash; Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FLVoiceNews/status/1638996671731494912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 23, 2023</a></blockquote>
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DeSantis Responds To Opponents Who Claim He Doesn’t Have Enough ‘Personality’ To Be President

DeSantis Responds To Opponents Who Claim He Doesn't Have Enough 'Personality' To Be President

Florida

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-cotton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Cotton</a> (R-AR) said during an interview over the weekend that he expects President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> to sign legislation that was unanimously passed by Congress to declassify U.S. intelligence on the origins of the COVID pandemic.
&#8220;I do think he&#8217;ll sign it,&#8221; Cotton told Maria Bartiomo during a Sunday interview on Fox News. &#8220;I suspect they&#8217;re trying to get their ducks in a row on what they will and will not release.&#8221;
&#8220;But what I can tell you is the observations I made on your show now three years ago, and ever since then, have been based not really on any kind of classified intelligence, but just common sense and the facts in front of our faces,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I think any farmer or trucker in Arkansas with an ounce of common sense will tell you this virus almost certainly came from those labs, and a large majority of Americans now believe that as well.&#8221;
&#8220;The Biden administration simply doesn&#8217;t want to align itself with that view, they want to continue to stress the uncertainty or the lack of direct evidence — which we may never have, because China has covered it up — because they don&#8217;t want to be forced to take action to hold China accountable for unleashing this plague on the world,&#8221; he added.
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<blockquote>MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS HOST: Joining me right now is the man who first alerted the public to the probability that COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab on this program, back in March of 2020. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton is here. He sits on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees and Senator it&#8217;s always a pleasure. Thanks very much for being here.
SEN. TOM COTTON (R-AR): Thank you, Maria; it&#8217;s good to be back on with you.
BARTIROMO: Do you expect the President to sign that bill to declassify the intelligence around COVID-19?
COTTON: I do think he&#8217;ll sign it, Maria. I suspect they&#8217;re trying to get their ducks in a row on what they will and will not release. But what I can tell you is the observations I made on your show now three years ago, and ever since then, have been based not really on any kind of classified intelligence, but just common sense and the facts in front of our faces. I think any farmer or trucker in Arkansas with an ounce of common sense will tell you this virus almost certainly came from those labs, and a large majority of Americans now believe that as well. The Biden administration simply doesn&#8217;t want to align itself with that view, they want to continue to stress the uncertainty or the lack of direct evidence — which we may never have, because China has covered it up — because they don&#8217;t want to be forced to take action to hold China accountable for unleashing this plague on the world.</blockquote>

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Tom Cotton Weighs In On Whether Biden Will Sign Bill To Declassify Intelligence On Pandemic Origins

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-kelly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sen. Mark Kelly</a> (D-AZ) refused to back Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kyrsten-sinema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kyrsten Sinema</a> (I-AZ) over the weekend when asked about her leaving the Democratic Party late last year.
Kelly was asked about Sinema during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Jake Tapper.
Tapper mentioned how Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) indicated that he believes Sinema needed to be supported because of her &#8220;independent spirit.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you agree with him?&#8221; Tapper asked. &#8220;Or do you anticipate supporting whoever the Democratic nominee for that Senate seat would be?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of Senator Sinema. She hasn&#8217;t made an announcement,&#8221; Kelly responded. &#8220;What she has said is, she doesn&#8217;t want to be focused on politics right now. I have worked with her very closely over the last two years, I mean, really in a very positive way. She&#8217;s very effective in the United States Senate. We have got a lot done. And I look forward to doing that over the next months and the rest of this year.&#8221;
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Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly says nice things about his &quot;independent&quot; fellow Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema — but won&#39;t say if he&#39;ll back her for re-election in 2024. <a href="https://t.co/kSayDDpn4d">pic.twitter.com/kSayDDpn4d</a>
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<blockquote>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Lastly, sir, your fellow Arizona Senator, independent Senator Kyrsten Sinema, her term ends in 2024.
Your fellow Democratic Senator Joe Manchin said on the show that &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;I would think that she needs to be supported again, yes,&#8221; because of her &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;independent spirit&#8221; &#8212; unquote.
Do you agree with him? Or do you anticipate supporting whoever the Democratic nominee for that Senate seat would be?
SEN. MARK KELLY (D-AZ): Well, I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of Senator Sinema. She hasn&#8217;t made an announcement.
What she has said is, she doesn&#8217;t want to be focused on politics right now. I have worked with her very closely over the last two years, I mean, really in a very positive way. She&#8217;s very effective in the United States Senate. We have got a lot done. And I look forward to doing that over the next months and the rest of this year.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democratic-advisor-explains-why-sinema-left-party-and-why-it-might-backfire-anyway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Democratic Advisor Explains Why Sinema Left Party, And Why It Might Backfire Anyway</a>

Democratic Senate Candidate Mark Kelly Holds Election Night Event In Tucson

Senator Mark Kelly Does Not Get Behind Senator Kyrsten Sinema When Asked About Re-Election

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Arizona

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Democrat presidential candidate Marianne Williamson responded to allegations made this week by former staffers that she flew into fits of rage during her unsuccessful bid for president in 2020.
Twelve of her former staffers reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/foaming-spitting-uncontrollable-rage-marianne-williamsons-former-staffers-allege-verbal-abuse">told</a> POLITICO that Williamson — who was a self-help author and spiritual adviser before she threw her hat in the ring as a presidential candidate — was a very different person behind closed doors than she claimed to be.
“It would be foaming, spitting, uncontrollable rage,” one former staffer told POLITICO, on condition of anonymity. “It was traumatic. And the experience, in the end, was terrifying.”
Multiple staffers told the outlet that the candidate’s outbursts were loud enough on several occasions to prompt welfare checks from hotel security, and at least three cited incidents in which Williamson allegedly threw her phone at staffers who had set her off. All of the staffers who were interviewed recalled seeing her yell at people until they cried.
Williamson was given the opportunity to respond to the allegations during a Fox News interview on Thursday with host Neil Cavuto.
&#8220;This is what they do. This is what they do. These are the hits that they make,&#8221; Williamson <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcnW-ccp3PE">said</a>. &#8220;Hit pieces come. Mockery from the press secretary to the president comes, the women on &#8216;The View.&#8217; These are the dirty tricks that mean you are rattling someone. Somebody&#8217;s not happy that you&#8217;re there. Somebody feels threatened by the conversation that you&#8217;re bringing up. So, this is what happens in politics. And I&#8217;m not surprised it&#8217;s happening to me.&#8221;
Cavuto then brought up quotes in the POLITICO piece from former Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH), Williamson’s 2020 New Hampshire state director, who said in the report: “Those reports of Ms. Williamson’s behavior are consistent with my observations, consistent with contemporaneous discussions I had about her conduct with staff members, and entirely consistent with my own personal experience with her behavior on multiple occasions.”
&#8220;I could talk about Paul Hodes&#8217; behavior, but I&#8217;m not going to go there,&#8221; Williamson told Cavuto. &#8220;If anybody has ever felt that I was not respectful to them who worked for me, then I am sorry. But I also know that this is a hit piece. I think any time that somebody criticizes, you always have to ask yourself, is any of it true? Is 10% of it true? If 10% of it is true, then I want to correct that within myself and within my behavior.&#8221;
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&#8220;But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s going on here. Do I have some things to learn from any experience, including that one? Absolutely,&#8221; she added. &#8220;But I also think that people can see through the obvious game that&#8217;s being played here by establishment forces who don&#8217;t want me in the game.&#8221;

Marianne Williamson discusses her campaign platform with

Marianne Williamson Responds To Claims She Flies Into Fits Of ‘Foaming, Spitting, Uncontrollable Rage’

2024 Primaries

White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> said Thursday that President Joe Biden has made no decision on whether he will sign into law a bill declassifying intelligence on the origins of the COVID pandemic that was unanimously passed in both chambers of Congress.
The legislation was introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and has been fiercely opposed by communist China, which has <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-responds-china-opposition-covid-origins-bill-time-come-clean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pressured</a> him to abandon the legislation.
Jean-Pierre said that the administration was &#8220;looking at it&#8221; when asked by a reporter about the matter during a press briefing.
&#8220;And, as you know, just months after the president came into office, he asked his intelligence community to double down and to take a look of the, of, uh, the origins, of the COVID origins because we believe it&#8217;s important to get to the bottom of this,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And to get in also, if once we have, once the Intelligence Committee has made the, made their assessments clearly, we would share that with the public. As it relates to the legislation, we&#8217;re going to continue to, we&#8217;re going to take a look at it, and certainly we&#8217;ll have more to share.&#8221;
When asked if a decision has been made, Jean-Pierre responded, &#8220;No, we&#8217;re just taking a look, we&#8217;re taking a look into the — into the bill.&#8221;
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“I wonder if you do have an answer now as to whether or not the president will sign the covid origins intelligence bill that was unanimously passed?&quot;
KJP: *dodges* <a href="https://t.co/OJGScVbzo2">pic.twitter.com/OJGScVbzo2</a>
&mdash; Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarMachineRR/status/1636446372546113543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>REPORTER: I wonder if you do have an answer now as to whether or not the President will sign the COVID origins intelligence bill that was unanimously passed?
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: So, we are, thank you for the question. I know I was asked about it, I believe on the plane on Monday, as you just mentioned, so we&#8217;re looking at it. We have continued to share information with members of Congress. And, as you know, just months after the President came into office, he asked his intelligence community to double down and to take a look of the, of, uh, the origins, of the COVID origins because we believe it&#8217;s important to get to the bottom of this. And to get in also, if once we have, once the Intelligence Committee has made the, made their assessments clearly, we would share that with the public. As it relates to the legislation, we&#8217;re going to continue to, we&#8217;re going to take a look at it, and certainly we&#8217;ll have more to share.
REPORTER: You haven&#8217;t a decision whether to&#8211;?
JEAN-PIERRE: No, we&#8217;re just taking a look, we&#8217;re taking a look into the into the bill.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-to-declassify-intel-on-covid-origins-heads-to-bidens-desk-after-house-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Votes 419-0 To Declassify All Intel On COVID Origins</a>

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds Daily Media Briefing

Jean-Pierre: ‘No’ Decision On If Biden Will Sign Unanimously Passed Bill To Declassify COVID Origins Intel

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