The FBI Assistant Special Agent who insisted that the attack in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-orleans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Orleans</a> on New Years’ Day — in which Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, rammed his truck into a group of celebrants, killing 15 and injuring dozens of people — was not a terrorist attack, has reportedly been reassigned.
“The city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack,” New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell said. But Duncan, who was in charge of the investigation, initially stated, “We&#8217;ll be taking over the investigative lead for this event. This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is there are improvised explosives devices that was found and we are working on confirming if this is a viable device or not.”
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NEWS: FOX News has learned per multiple sources that Assistant Special in Charge Alethea Duncan from FBI New Orleans has been temporarily reassigned following her initial press conference in which she stated: “This is not a terrorist event.”
It was terrorism. After the original…
&mdash; Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1880316343381053477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of New Orleans, Alethea Duncan, has been &quot;temporarily reassigned&quot; after she contradicted the city&#39;s mayor by stating the terror attack was NOT terrorism. It was.
In other news, the FBI has shuttered its DEI offices. <a href="https://t.co/cfc37Fe8ac">https://t.co/cfc37Fe8ac</a> <a href="https://t.co/vUBAXVHV9t">pic.twitter.com/vUBAXVHV9t</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1880321633019392441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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A black and white ISIS flag was found on Jabbar’s truck.
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The FBI released a <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/fbi-statement-on-the-attack-in-new-orleans">statement</a> on New Years’ Day saying:
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Today, at approximately 3:15 a.m. CST, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 10 and injuring dozens of others. After hitting the crowd, he exited the vehicle and fired upon local law enforcement. Law enforcement returned fire, and the subject was pronounced deceased at the scene. Two law enforcement officers were injured and transported to a local hospital. &#8230;
An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject&#8217;s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations. Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s special agent bomb technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable, and they will work to render those devices safe. The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism. We are aggressively running down all leads to identify any possible associates of the subject.
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Two bombs in Jabbar’s truck, which did not go off, contained a very rare explosive compound, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-attack-transmitter-explosive-devices-fire-airbnb-fbi-rcna186223">reported</a>, adding, “The compound, called R-Salt, has never been used in a U.S. or European terrorist attack or incident.”

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FBI Agent In Charge Who Said New Orleans Attack Was ‘Not A Terrorist Event’ Reportedly Reassigned

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In a recent interview on MSNBC, President Joe Biden took another shot at red states, claiming they “really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy.”
Biden told MSNBC&#8217;s Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell, “I got a lot of criticism, understandably. We’ve invested more in red states than blue states. &#8230; For two reasons. One: red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy, the way they handle manufacturing and the way they handle supply chains.”
Biden then launched into one of his stories that may or may not have been apocryphal: “You know, I remember being out in Iowa, and I remember one of the big issues was there was a plant, a small plant of 300 people, been around for 70 years; my grandfather worked there, I worked there, my son works there, and they had the best education system at the time and made it the best state education system in the country, and all of a sudden the kid comes home after he graduates and says, ‘Mom, I gotta leave. There’s no job for me here. The factory shut down.’ Well, guess what? How do you run a country that way? How do you do that?”
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BIDEN: &quot;Red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy!&quot;
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Biden’s jab at red states simply does not comport with reality. As The Republican National Committee <a href="https://gop.com/research/red-states-are-outperforming-blue-states/">pointed</a> out last September, Labor Department data showed that through last August, “16 of the top 20 states for jobs recovered since the coronavirus pandemic began are led by Republican governors, and 16 of the states have Republican-controlled legislatures. Out of the top 10 states with the least jobs recovered, eight are Democrat-led. Republican-led states, on average, have recovered 143 percent of their lost jobs compared to just 118 percent for Democrat-run states.
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The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-states-winning-post-pandemic-economy-migration-11657030536?mod=hp_lead_pos5">reported</a> in July 2022:
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By many measures, red states—those that lean Republican—have recovered faster economically than Democratic-leaning blue ones, with workers and employers moving from the coasts to the middle of the country and Florida.Since February 2020, the month before the pandemic began, the share of all U.S. jobs located in red states has grown by more than half a percentage point, according to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Brookings Institution think tank. Red states have added 341,000 jobs over that time, while blue states were still short 1.3 million jobs as of May.
To track each state’s progress toward normal since the pandemic began, Moody’s Analytics developed an index of 13 metrics, including the value of goods and services produced, employment, retail sales and new-home listings. Eleven of the 15 states with the highest readings through mid-June were red. Eight of the bottom 10 were blue.
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President Biden Speaks At Commander In Chief Farewell Ceremony

Biden Rips Red States, Says They ‘Screwed Up’ Their Economies. The Facts Differ.

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Bob Uecker, who played <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major-league baseball</a> for six years for the Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Atlanta Braves before starting a legendary career as the Milwaukee Brewers’ broadcaster for a whopping 54 years, died on Thursday at the age of 90.
Uecker’s career was anything but legendary; he finished his career with a lowly .200 batting average and only 14 home runs with 731 at-bats. “To make people laugh is a good thing. I used to get questions from my kids about, ‘Why do you do that? Why do you talk about yourself the way you do?’ I said, ‘Because it’s funny and it makes people laugh,” Uecker said.
“Could he hit?” the legendary slugger Hank Aaron <a href="https://www.mlb.com/video/remembering-the-life-and-career-of-bob-uecker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quipped</a>. “I’m just glad I didn’t take his advice. (Hall of Fame pitcher Warren) Spahn, (Hall of Fame third-baseman Eddie) Mathews, myself, we would talk about hitting and everybody would tell, ‘Bob, this conversation you’re out of.”
“I roomed with him in St. Louis,” former Cardinals star catcher and later famed broadcaster Tim McCarver recalled. “And from day one he was screamingly funny.”
“If the ball club was going bad he could say something that could make everybody laugh, relax,” Aaron remembered.
Uecker would <a href="https://www.mlb.com/brewers/news/bob-uecker-favorite-stories-memories?t=brewers-history-trivia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joke</a> about signing with his hometown Milwaukee Braves for $3,000 in 1956, “That bothered my dad at the time because he didn’t have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.”
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“He’s very funny on the air. But he’s an exceptionally good broadcaster,” Bob Costas declared. “You really feel the game through him.”
“I think where he really shines is when the game is 11 to 2, and it’s the sixth inning, because then you have to go to plan B, and he starts telling stories,” Pat Hughes, his broadcast partner from 1984-1995, said. “That aspect differentiates him maybe, from any other play-by-play man that’s ever lived.”
“Bob is a comedic genius. And no one would have seen it had he not gone on Johnny Carson and done what he did,” McCarver asserted. Carson laughed so often at Uecker’s jokes that he had Uecker on frequently, more than 100 times, and called him “Mr. Baseball.” Uecker’s frequent appearances on &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; led to TV and movie roles. But in the end, it was baseball for which he was famous.
Milwaukee adored Uecker. McCarver noted, “When a man has two statues of himself, one outside the stadium and one inside the stadium, that gives you an idea of just how much Bob Uecker has meant to the city of Milwaukee.”
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On Wednesday, 42 GOP senators introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry rights in their home state to exercise those same rights in any other state that allows concealed carry while still abiding by that state’s laws.
 The bill also protects state sovereignty by not establishing a national standard for concealed carry.
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/214/text">bill</a> states:
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An individual who is not prohibited by Federal law from possessing, transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm, and who is carrying a government-issued photographic identification document and a valid license or permit which is issued pursuant to the law of a State and which permits the individual to carry a concealed firearm, may possess or carry a concealed handgun (other than a machinegun or destructive device) that has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce in any State other than the State of residence of the individual that has a statute that allows residents of the State to obtain licenses or permits to carry concealed firearms; or does not prohibit the carrying of concealed firearms by residents of the State for lawful purposes.
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“This legislation would reduce unnecessary burdens for law-abiding citizens and allow them to carry a concealed firearm in every state that permits it and I’m grateful for the overwhelming support from my fellow Republican colleagues on this commonsense bill,” Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn said.
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“This commonsense legislation ensures that law-abiding citizens can exercise their constitutional right to carry concealed firearms across state lines while respecting the laws of each state,” North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis stated. “This legislation is a critical step in protecting the right of self-defense for Americans, no matter where they travel.”
Last week, the House of Representatives introduced a companion bill, H.R. 38. The Crime Prevention Research Center states that nearly 22 million Americans hold concealed carry permits.
President-elect Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.cbs19news.com/concealed-carry-reciprocity-backed-by-trump-in-u-s-house-proposal/article_762fa78c-c0fb-5599-a411-308f8a04d8ed.html">promised</a> to sign the bill if it reaches his desk. The National Rifle Association (NRA), the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and Gun Owners of America (GOA) have endorsed the legislation.

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GOP Senate Introduces Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act

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As a possible ceasefire was announced between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, living in Qatar, expressed &#8220;pride&#8221; in the horrific October 7 massacre in which Hamas slaughtered more than 1200 people in Israel and implied his intention to repeat it, the Jewish News Syndicate <a href="https://www.jns.org/hamas-will-expel-israel-at-the-earliest-time-possible/">reported</a>.
Al-Hayya somehow twisted the destruction of Hamas by Israel as a victory, boasting, “Praise be to Allah, who fulfilled His promise, granted victory to His servant, strengthened His forces, and alone defeated the confederates.”
“To the leadership of our movement, both political and military, and the martyrs of all resistance factions and fighters—we exclude none,” he stated. “To them and to our people, we say: Blessed are your trades, our leaders and martyrs. It is indeed a trade with Allah that will never fail. And we will continue along the path of our martyr leaders until victory or martyrdom, Allah willing. Our great people, Arab and Islamic nation, and free people of the world: The &#8216;Al-Aqsa Flood&#8217; battle has marked a significant turning point in the history of our cause and the stages of resistance by our great people.”
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“Its impact will continue, Allah willing, even after the battle ends,” he said. “What occurred on October 7—a miraculous military and security achievement by the elite Qassam Brigades—will remain a source of pride for our people and resistance, passed down through generations.&#8221;
“The courage of our people and fighters has crushed the enemy’s objectives. &#8230; In conclusion: The liberation of Jerusalem remains our compass,” he declared.
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Its impact will continue, Allah willing, even after the battle ends. What occurred on October 7—a miraculous military and security achievement by the elite Qassam Brigades—will remain a source of pride for our people and…
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Last night. 
Palestinians put guns in the hands of children and scream “Allahu Akbar”
They do not want peace. 
You really want to give them a state while they are like this?
“Peace will come when they love their children more than they hate us”
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The ceasefire deal is currently on hold: On Thursday, Israeli government spokesman David Mencer <a href="https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-hamas-has-reneged-on-parts-of-agreement/?utm_content=349571277&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;hss_channel=tw-538525553">told reporters</a> that Hamas “added further demands that contradict the agreement with the mediators. &#8230; As of this time, the details of the agreement have not yet been finalized, and the negotiation team is continuing its efforts to reach a solution. The Israeli negotiating team is still in Doha as befits Israel’s willingness to finalize the hostage release agreement.”

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Hamas Leader: October 7 Massacre ‘A Source Of Pride,’ ‘Victory Or Martyrdom’

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On Wednesday, Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, flattened California Senator Adam Schiff when he consistently tried to deride her.
Schiff asked whether Bondi had the independence to say no to power, continuing, “The president has said Jack Smith should go to jail. Will you investigate Jack Smith?”
&#8220;It would be irresponsible of me to make a commitment regarding anything &#8230; without looking at a file,&#8221; Bondi responded.
“So you would need a factual predicate to open an investigation into Jack Smith?” Schiff asked.
“Not a summary by you sitting here,” she fired back, later adding, “72% of Americans have lost faith in the Department of Justice because of statements like this.”
Schiff continued by asking repeatedly about a possible prosecution of Liz Cheney, prompting an exasperated Bondi to ask why Schiff seemed more concerned about making a political point than about the disasters in his home state.
&#8220;No one has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney. We&#8217;re all so worried about Liz Cheney, senator? You know what we should be worried about?&#8221; Bondi replied. &#8220;The crime rate in California right now is through the roof. Your robberies are 87% higher than the national average. That’s what I wanted to focus on &#8230; if I&#8217;m confirmed as attorney general.”
Schiff talked about telling “hard truths” to Trump, asking if she would have &#8220;the gravitas, the stature, the intestinal fortitude&#8221; to tell him he lost the 2020 election.
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“Senator, what I can tell you is that I will never play politics,” Bondi answered. “You’re trying to engage me in a &#8216;gotcha.&#8217; I won’t play politics with any ongoing investigation like you did leaking your colleague Devin Nunes’ memo.”
When he asked about possible massive fraud in the 2020 election, Bondi answered that she could speak about Pennsylvania fraud, but Schiff cut her off.
Schiff then asked Bondi if she would caution Trump not to issue “blanket pardons” on his first day in office, saying that Bondi would not be able to review all possible pardons on the first day.
Bondi answered, “I will look at every file I am asked to look at.”
Schiff taunted, “Of course you won’t,” prompting Bondi to snap, “I would have plenty of staff. You said, ‘Of course you won’t.’ I’m not going to mislead this body nor you. &#8230; You were censured by Congress, Senator, for comments just like this that are so reckless.”
As a final example of Bondi’s mastery over the California senator, when he asked, “Are you ready to commit that none of the evidence in the January 6 investigation will be destroyed under your watch?”
Bondi again fired back, “Are you frightened because evidence was destroyed against President Trump that was false? Is that why you’re frightened now?”
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WATCH: Pam Bondi completely DESTROYS Adam Schiff, a man who disgraces any government door he darkens.
This is a masterclass on dealing with a pompous, slimy, show trail politician. Bravo, Pam Bondi. <a href="https://t.co/8iugTaS8ko">pic.twitter.com/8iugTaS8ko</a>
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Bondi Demolishes Schiff When He Taunts Her

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Connecticut Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, who was famously accused years ago of lying by claiming he had served in Vietnam, implied <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pam-bondi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pam Bondi</a> was lying in some of her replies at her hearing for Attorney General, prompting her to directly confront the insinuation.
“I am really troubled, deeply disturbed and troubled by some of your responses and non-responses to the questions that you’ve been asked today,” Blumenthal stated. “You say the right things, that you’re going to be the people’s lawyer. That’s what you have to say to be here, but I believe being the people’s lawyer means you have to say no to the President of the United States; you have to speak truth to power; you have to be able to say Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.”
Bondi tersely responded, “Senator, first, I need to clarify something that you said, that I ‘have’ to sit up here and say these things. No, I don’t. I sit up here and speak the truth. I’m not going to sit up here and say anything that I need to say to get confirmed by this body. I don’t ‘have’ to say anything.”
As The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/nyregion/18blumenthal.html?pagewanted=all&amp;referer=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2010 of Blumenthal’s actions:
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“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.” 
There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/nyregion/15blumenthal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now running for the United States Senate</a>, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records. &#8230;
Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the group in Norwalk. At other times, he has used more ambiguous language, but the impression left on audiences can be similar. &#8230; In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to 2009, he is described as having served in Vietnam. &#8230; It does not appear that Mr. Blumenthal ever sought to correct those mistakes.
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Blumenthal once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_MAB-bX7Ug" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a>, “Now, on a few occasions, I have misspoken about my service, and I regret that and I take full responsibility.”
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California legislators created a $21 billion “wildfire fund” to minimize risk to utility companies which could prove important if investigators find that such a company caused one of the recent major fires that have devastated Los Angeles County.
The fund permits Pacific Gas &amp; Electric Co., San Diego Gas &amp; Electric Co., and Southern California Edison to pay into it. If any of those utilities is found by investigators led by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to be responsible for a fire, they are enjoined to pay for the first $1 billion of losses. After that, the wildfire fund will have to cover the costs.
In 2019, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric declared bankruptcy after being found responsible for the Camp Fire, the deadliest fire in the state’s history. “The Camp Fire was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by Pacific Gas &amp; Electricity (PG&amp;E) located in the Pulga area,” the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210128061532/https:/www.fire.ca.gov/media/5121/campfire_cause.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. PG&amp;E later came out of bankruptcy.
Last month, the Biden administration <a href="//9160FEAD-AA4F-4135-A419-0C5F63184884/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave PG&amp;E</a> a record $15 billion low-interest loan commitment to modernize PG&amp;E’s hydroelectric infrastructure and upgrade power lines. “Officials with the Loan Programs Office said that because the loan is a legal contract, future administrations wouldn’t be able to claw back the funds,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
“The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the municipal utility that operates in Pacific Palisades, says it did not opt into the wildfire fund because it would have been too costly for its customers,” The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-15/why-edison-likely-to-survive-even-if-its-lines-caused-horrific-l-a-firestorms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “If the large municipal utility was liable for the Palisades fire, the city of L.A. could face exorbitant financial costs.”
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The 2018 Camp Fire was caused by high-voltage transmission towers that had been in place for roughly a century; the 2019 Kincade Fire was caused by a line built roughly 50 years before. There is speculation that the current Eaton Fire near Pasadena, which has killed at least 17 people, may have started around a Southern California Edison electrical transmission tower.
Michael Wara, former wildfire commissioner for California and a member of the California Catastrophe Response Council, said, “If the wildfire fund did not exist today, Edison might be in real trouble. We would see something probably similar to what happened to PG&amp;E after the Camp Fire.”
“If you are an investor in PG&amp;E or Edison, you might look at this and think, ‘Hmm, I thought the fund was big enough. Maybe now I’m not so sure.’ The fund is there to provide confidence. If the fund isn’t big enough, there will be less confidence,” he added.
“If a large portion of the wildfire fund’s $21 billion was depleted, that could affect market perception of the fund, negatively affect utility company credit scores, and plunge investor-owned utilities — which cover about 80% customers across the state of California — into chaos,” The Times noted.

Eaton fire in Altadena, CA.

California Utilities Have ‘Wildfire Fund’ For Insurance. It Might Not Be Enough.

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After Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) tried to consistently denigrate and mock Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, by suggesting in a snide voice that he lacked the experience to run the Pentagon, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) torched Peters with a withering reply.
Peters, who petulantly sneered at Hegseth for not meeting with him prior to the hearings, consistently harped on Hegseth’s alleged lack of experience with remarks such as, “We need strong management at the Department of Defense, first and foremost. We need someone who’s gonna grab the reins and give the taxpayers value &#8230; I know you had two previous positions. How many people reported to you in those positions? &#8230; What’s the largest number of people that you’ve ever supervised or had at an organization in your career?”
“We’re the board of directors here,” he boasted. “I don’t know of any corporate board of directors that would hire a CEO for a major company if they came and said, ‘Y’know, I supervised 100 people before.’”
“You talk about standards; I’m gonna go back to the CEO of the most complex organization in the world,” Peters taunted. “I don’t think there’s a board of directors in America that would hire you as a CEO with the kind of experience you have on your resume. &#8230; Do you think that the way to raise the minimum standards of the people who serve us is to lower the standards for the Secretary of Defense, that we have someone who has (here he started smirking) never managed an organization more than a hundred people is gonna come in and manage this incredibly important organization and do it with a professionalism and has no experience that they can tell us that they have actually done?”
“You have not convinced me that you’ll be able to take on this tremendous responsibility with a complex organization and having little or no significant management experience,” he concluded.
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“Senator, I’m grateful to be hired by one of the most successful CEOs in American history, should I be confirmed,” Hegseth responded.
&#8220;Mr. Hegseth, it seems to me that you&#8217;ve supervised far more people than the average United States senator supervises,” Wicker dryly chimed in, prompting laughter throughout the room.
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Michigan Dem Senator Sneers At Hegseth’s Experience. GOP Senator Crushes Him, Crowd Erupts Laughing

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With the Supreme Court prepared to rule on whether the Chinese social media app TikTok — which has elicited warnings from legislators of its pernicious influence in the United States — could be banned in the United States, another Chinese-owned social media app is gaining adherents at a rapid rate.
ByteDance, which owns TikTok, will likely have to sell the social media platform by January 19. Otherwise, it will be shut down in the U.S., unless the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Chinese social media app.
“Congress and the president were concerned,” Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/politics/supreme-court-tiktok-ban-law.html">stated</a>, “that China was accessing information about millions of Americans, tens of millions of Americans, including teenagers, people in their 20s.” That possibility could lead to China using the personal information for spying or blackmail. Additionally, concern has been expressed over disinformation purveyed from China.
Meanwhile, the social media app Xiaohongshu, which means “little red book” in Mandarin, “was the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple store on Tuesday,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/business/tiktok-rednote-xiaohongshu-app.html?partner=slack&amp;smid=sl-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “The Americans on Xiaohongshu have rallied under the hashtag ‘TikTokrefugee,’ which had been viewed 100 million times and sparked around 2.5 million discussion threads on the app by Tuesday.”
“Little Red Book” also happens to be the title of a book of sayings by Mao Zedong, the tyrannical former leader of Communist China. Under Mao, a reported 40 to 80 million victims died of starvation, persecution, prison labor, and mass executions.
In August 2023, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, who has led the fight to ban TikTok, wrote in an <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/as-tiktok-comes-for-american-businesses-its-past-time-to-ban-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a>,  “TikTok’s public-policy chief blatantly lied under oath when he denied US data is stored in China. ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, was caught in October using the app to spy on American journalists.”
“Almost a third of the country uses TikTok semi-regularly,” Rubio pointed out. He delineated how TikTok was undercutting American companies by selling products more cheaply through its app. “Who, for that matter, will even be aware of American goods on the market when TikTok’s algorithm begins — as it surely will — to favor Chinese sellers?” he asked.
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“China’s totalitarian regime hates the United States and is bent on displacing us as the world’s greatest power,” Rubio wrote. “If TikTok users believe their sensitive data are safe in Beijing’s hands — that Beijing wouldn’t use those data to influence, coerce, extort or spy on them in the case of a geopolitical conflict­­ — they need to think again.”
In March 2023, Rubio and Iowa GOP Senator Joni Ernst introduced the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/#:~:text=U.S.%20Senators%20Marco%20Rubio%20(R%2DFL)%20and%20Joni%20Ernst,partnership%2C%20or%20advertisement%20with%20TikTok." target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Funds for Enablers of Adversarial Propaganda Act</a> to deny federal funds to any individual or entity with an agreement, partnership, or advertisement with TikTok.
“Chinese-owned TikTok is a threat, but some entities, including our nation’s airports, are still willing to accept advertising dollars from the company. They are either naive, greedy, or both. Regardless, they shouldn’t receive taxpayer dollars if they are going to accept money from or partner with TikTok. These companies need to stop enabling Chinese Communist Party propaganda and espionage efforts,” Rubio <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-ernst-introduce-bill-to-deny-federal-funds-to-tiktok-partners/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.

The Little Red book Became No.1 Download on Apple’s App Store

With TikTok On Verge Of Being Banned, Another Chinese Social Media App Is Swiftly Gaining Adherents

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As MSNBC ‘s ratings have tanked after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency in November, the woman who ran the hard-Left network throughout almost all of the Biden administration has resigned.
Rashida Jones rose through the company from her position supervising daytime and weekend news programming. She <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/business/media/msnbc-rashida-jones-stepping-down.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">oversaw</a> the hiring of former White House Press secretary Jen Psaki to host her own show, replaced Rachel Maddow four days a week with Alex Wagner, and extended “Morning Joe” to four hours.
“After four incredible years at the helm of MSNBC and 11 years at NBCU, I have made the decision to pursue new opportunities,” Jones wrote in a memo to staffers.
“MSNBC’s ratings have steadily trickled up since a post-election exodus saw star Rachel Maddow plunge to her lowest ratings in nearly 10 years, netting just 86,000 in the advertiser-coveted 25-54 demographic two weeks after Trump’s win,” The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-president-rashida-jones-exits-amid-ratings-freefall/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “The network also saw its primetime ratings in November decline by 22 percent from October, though it was still up over CNN.” On December 31, Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2024/12/cable-news-ratings-2024-fox-news-cnn-msnbc-1236243730/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “In the past month, MSNBC averaged 660,000 primetime viewers, compared to almost 1.3 million in December 2023, as primary season was heating up.”
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Jones will be replaced on an interim basis by Rebecca Kutler, whom Jones hired from CNN in 2022, serving as senior vice president of content strategy. Comcast, which owns MSNBC, recently announced that the network, although keeping its name, would become part of a new entity run by the chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, Mark Lazarus. Lazarus <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/14/media/msnbc-president-rashida-jones-stepping-down/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lauded</a> Jones, saying she had “expertly navigated MSNBC through a years-long, unrelenting and unprecedented news cycle, all while driving the network to record viewership and making investments in nonlinear businesses.”
In a move to shore up sagging ratings, Rachel Maddow is expected to return to five days a week until April 30, when she will return to her once-a-week schedule.
Kutler was one of the driving forces creating CNN+, the news service that Warner Bros. Discovery shut down soon after its inception.

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Head Of MSNBC Out As Ratings Plunge After Trump’s Election

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On Monday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis announced he would call a special session of the Florida state legislature starting the week of January 27 so that the state can help the Trump administration enforce the nation’s immigration laws by implementing legislation that would impose additional duties on local officials, hold people accountable who are violating Florida’s anti-sanctuary policies, and eliminate any incentives for illegal immigrants to travel to Florida.
“We have worked very hard over the last four years to overcome a lot of obstacles that the federal government has put in our way across a wide variety of issues as they’ve borrowed and spent and driven costs up higher,” DeSantis began. “We’ve acted to reduce burdens on Floridians. whether it’s tax relief, toll relief, you name it, as they tried to throw roadblocks into education freedom; we worked hard and overcame it.”
He immediately turned to illegal immigration, stating, “And of course, the issue that was maybe the most significant over the last four years, the fight against illegal immigration.”
“When President Trump takes office again on January 20 we are going to see a sea change in policies, particularly with respect to the border and illegal immigration. And this is an issue that has been festering in this country for many, many decades although the first Trump administration was much more successful than others have been,” he declared. “This is the time to get it right once and for all. &#8230; We’ve been working with the transition team; I’ve been speaking with the president. We had the governors down in Mar-a-Lago. There’s going to be some ambitious policy changes that are going to be instituted on day one, particularly with respect to illegal immigration and major, major executive orders that are going to unwind the bad policies of the Biden administration.”
“We are not a state sanctuary state; we banned sanctuary cities my first year as governor,” he noted, “but we have a responsibility to be in this fight. State and local officials in Florida must help the Trump administration enforce our nations’ immigration laws, and we are going to need, in order to do that effectively&#8230; legislation to impose additional duties on local officials and provide funding for those local officials. There also need to be measures to hold people accountable who are violating our anti-sanctuary policies and then Florida needs to make sure that we don’t have any lingering incentives for people to come into our state illegally.”
“Therefore I’m going to call the legislature into special session starting the week of January 27,” he announced. “We have the next president taking office January 20. We anticipate executive orders to be issued immediately after the swearing in, in the inaugural address; we’re gonna have some time to process to make sure we’re doing what we need to do, but then we need to act and we need to act quickly. We don’t have time to waste.”
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“So it will require new legislation in Florida to ensure that the duties of both state and local officials are very clear and that those duties require them to be assisting the federal government in this regard,” he said. “We’re going to do it because I’m going to order that the state does it. Local, I think you’re going to have some different views on that and we’re not a sanctuary state, we banned sanctuary cities, but you have to have effective accountability to hold those folks accountable if they choose to go in a different direction &#8230; I have a lot of sheriffs out there that are chomping at the bit; they want to be able to help and they just need a little bit of funding so we have responsibility to provide that funding and we’re going to be calling upon the legislature to do that.”
“If you think back to the hurricanes we just had, they had looters in Pinellas county; I think it was like 45 of them that were arrested over a period of time, and I think 40 of them were in this country illegally,” he recalled. “I’m just thinking to myself, how the hell is this happening here on the head of a natural disaster? You’ve got people that come here without authorization and they go out and try to loot the place? Give me a break. Those people need to be sent back immediately.”
“If those duties are clear in law, I have the authority with respect to certain officials to suspend them from their office if they are neglecting their duties,” he asserted. “That is an authority that I have invoked when it’s been appropriate in the past. We also need to make sure that we don’t have incentives for people to come illegally&#8230;  We really did probably the strongest legislation in the country in 2023, so I think Florida has really done a great job — with one lingering exception.&#8221;
&#8220;Back in 2014 the legislature enacted and the then-Governor signed legislation providing preferential tuition for illegal immigrants, in-state tuition. &#8230; You were rewarding somebody for being here illegally; that in-state tuition has been on the books now for over a decade. We’ve tried to work with the legislature to get that repealed in the past. It’s something that always seems to fall out of the bill. No more excuses on this.&#8221;
“We need to remove all incentive to come to the state of Florida illegally, and that is one of them,” he concluded.
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