House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) earned an annoyed eye roll from CNBC anchor Becky Quick as they squared off over health care during a Friday morning appearance on &#8220;Squawk Box.&#8221;
Quick and Jeffries were discussing the apparent impasse between Republicans and Democrats over the Affordable Care Act — and how long an extension they might approve for the COVID-era subsidies — and Quick tried several times to point out that some Republicans were willing to work out a deal, but Democrats were still trying to make demands.
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Incredible exchange here as Hakeem Jeffries gets IRATE with CNBC’s Becky Quick for daring to press him on his robotic ACA talking points:
Quick: *Cuts Jeffries off to try to make him actually answer a question*
Jeffries: “You can ask the question, I’ll provide the answer!&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/gegocDMQja">pic.twitter.com/gegocDMQja</a>
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Quick began by pointing out that there was already at least one bipartisan measure — supported by Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Don Bacon (R-NE) — that had been proposed, offering a two-year extension to the subsidies in question. That would double the extension that Democrats had pitched weeks earlier — one year — as a potential shutdown-ending deal.
&#8220;If you want to get done, you are going to need at least some Republicans to come over, why not start with a one-year extension or potentially even a two-year extension?” Quick asked, noting that a three-year extension was likely to be “dead in the water.&#8221;
Jeffries balked, noting that Democrats had already tried promising to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension, but that Republicans had turned that down.
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&#8220;That’s different. I’m talking about what you have now. Let’s not go back to what’s done in the past and what has not been extended. If you want to get something that it has actually done, you need to do something that will have bipartisan effect,&#8221; Quick pushed back.
&#8220;You can ask me the question. I’ll provide the answer,&#8221; Jeffries said.
&#8220;Answer the question instead of going back,&#8221; Quick pressed.
&#8220;I’m providing an answer in order to provide context,&#8221; Jeffries argued, prompting an annoyed eye roll from Quick. &#8220;Republicans have repeatedly refused to take yes for an answer. It was a very reasonable multi-year extension that was offered. It was one year straight extension, plus a multi-year process through a bipartisan commission to more permanently resolve the Affordable Care Act issue. So having that context is absolutely important, regardless of what you may think.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s important context to make me realize that I don’t think you want to get a deal done,&#8221; Quick replied. &#8220;I think this is something where you’d like to see the rates go higher and allow the Republicans to hang themselves with that. Is that the answer? Is this politics?&#8221;
Jeffries bristled: &#8220;That’s absolutely a ridiculous assertion, and really shame on you for saying that.&#8221;
&#8220;Three years is not going to get passed, so what do you do?&#8221; Quick asked again.
Jeffries repeatedly claimed that the issue was &#8220;patriotic&#8221; rather than &#8220;partisan,&#8221; but failed to acknowledge the fact that both the one-year extension offered by Senate Democrats and the three-year extension he appeared to be set on would guarantee that Republicans would have to address the same subsidy fight in an election year. The two year extension — to which he seemed adamantly opposed — was the only offer on the table that would put the next subsidy battle in an off year.

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Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum cornered Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) over a video he made with a number of other elected Democrats — most of whom had either served in the military or as part of the intelligence community — encouraging members of the military to refuse obedience to &#8220;unlawful orders.&#8221;
The implication, clearly, was that President Donald Trump either had already issued such an order or was likely to do so, and they collectively called on military service members to recognize that and stand down if and when that were to happen. On Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Story,&#8221; MacCallum pressed Crow  — an Army Ranger veteran who took part in making the video — asking several times what specific &#8220;unlawful order&#8221; had provided the basis for the video.
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Democrat Rep. Jason Crow is asked FOUR TIMES what &#8220;illegal orders&#8221; he and his Democrat colleagues are referring to in their video calling for an insurrection.
He can&#8217;t answer — because they are lying. <a href="https://t.co/vNQGGOegEQ">pic.twitter.com/vNQGGOegEQ</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1991264276191838608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8230; what law are you talking about that&#8217;s being broken? And then you said he&#8217;s &#8216;implying&#8217; that he might do something that they wouldn&#8217;t want to uphold or follow through with in the future,&#8221; she began. &#8220;What are you talking about specifically?&#8221;
&#8220;I appreciate you asking,&#8221; Crow replied. &#8220;Number one, the protests at Lafayette Square in the first Trump administration where he said, &#8216;Can&#8217;t you just shoot them? Can&#8217;t you just shoot them in the legs or something?&#8217; That&#8217;s a direct quote. And of course —&#8221;
MacCallum, apparently baffled by Crow&#8217;s response, pointed out, &#8220;That was not a military order, that was a comment. That&#8217;s not a military order.&#8221;
Crow attempted to argue that it was a &#8220;request&#8221; and that because President Trump had been the one to make the &#8220;request,&#8221; it should be interpreted as a de facto order.
&#8220;I&#8217;m asking, specifically, right now, what you&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; MacCallum tried again.
&#8220;Number two,&#8221; Crow forged ahead undeterred. &#8220;Yeah, number two, he&#8217;s also threatened to send the military into Chicago and other cities to, quote, &#8216;go to war&#8217; with those cities. That is a very, very disturbing thing. Number three, he&#8217;s also alluded to sending troops to polling stations, which is actually a violation of U.S. law, U.S. criminal law prohibits troops from going to polling stations &#8230; he&#8217;s alluded to that.&#8221;
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&#8220;You&#8217;re talking about allusions, you&#8217;re not talking about actual policy,&#8221; MacCallum pushed back, noting that he hadn&#8217;t mentioned a single thing that service members had actually &#8220;been asked to do.&#8221;
&#8220;What exactly are [you] talking about? Are [you] talking about not allowing gunboats to make it to the United States carrying drugs?&#8221; she asked, referencing the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to target narco-terrorists before they arrived on American shores. &#8220;Is that what you&#8217;re talking about?&#8221;
&#8220;Martha, here&#8217;s a novel idea,&#8221; Crow said, his tone sarcastic. &#8220;How about we actually prevent things from happening before they become a problem.&#8221;
MacCallum, still talking about the drug boats, shot back, &#8220;I think that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re trying to do!&#8221;
Crow then attempted to claim that he was simply &#8220;preparing&#8221; service members for the potential problems that could be on the horizon, prompting MacCallum to try one last time: &#8220;What specific order from the Commander in Chief, that we are asking our military to carry out, are you objecting to?&#8221;
&#8220;Martha, Donald Trump has made a series of very disturbing comments &#8230;&#8221; Crow&#8217;s response was the same as it had been throughout.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett got pushback from CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins — and a warning from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin — when she threw maximum effort into damage control on Wednesday, doubling down on comments she’d made earlier in the day.
Crockett, on the House floor, had made an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jasmine-crockett-tries-to-drop-a-bomb-but-trips-over-the-wrong-jeffrey-epstein">attempt</a> to tie a number of Republicans — from former Utah Senator Mitt Romney to Zeldin, among others — to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but her gamble went sideways when it turned out she was talking about the wrong Jeffrey Epstein.
Collins cornered Crockett on the subject on Wednesday evening, noting that after she’d claimed “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein” had donated to numerous Republican campaigns, Zeldin had informed her that those donations were made by Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, whose only connection to the disgraced financier was an unfortunate coincidence with regard to his name. Crockett, when confronted, doubled down — and prompted Zeldin to fire off a warning in response.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett responds to Lee Zeldin saying he never took donations from that Jeffrey Epstein — but instead a physician who is also named Jeffrey Epstein — following her comments on the floor. <a href="https://t.co/ReN4IbTW6K">pic.twitter.com/ReN4IbTW6K</a>
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1991344433888129365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Collins showed video of Crockett, on the House floor, saying that her team had uncovered donations from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein” to “Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, WinRed, McCain-Palin, Rick Lazio &#8230;”
“Yes, Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine,” Zeldin had replied at the time.
When prompted to respond, Crockett said, “Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there.”
She then blamed her mistake on Republicans, claiming they had not given her enough time to prepare, so she threw out that accusation to teach them a lesson about the dangers of making accusations without doing proper research first.
“And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I knew that they didn’t even try to go through the FEC. So my team, what they did is they Googled,” she said. “And that is specifically why I said, ‘a’ Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at least don’t go out and just tell lies. Because it was not the same one, that’s fine. But when Lee Zeldin had something to say, all he had to say was it was a different Jeffrey Epstein. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I wasn’t trying to mislead people.”
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Crockett went on to suggest that the Jeffrey Epstein in question could still potentially be the convicted pedophile: “Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says, that it wasn’t that Jeffrey Epstein, but I was not attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had maybe 20 minutes before I had to do that debate.”
Collins appeared taken aback by Crockett’s argument, noting,  “Yeah, but people might see that and say, well, you’re trying to make it sound like he took money from a literal sex offender.”
“But I literally did not know,” Crockett protested, adding, “Within 20 minutes, you could not find that out, not from just doing a quick search on FEC. So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it specifically that Jeffrey Epstein because I knew that we would need more time to really dig in.”
Zeldin <a href="https://x.com/leezeldin/status/1991354913612267754">fired back</a> again, saying, “When you find yourself in a hole, it’s best to stop digging.”
He said that in addition to public FEC documents stating that the donor to his campaign was a physician, it was worth noting that the donations she was referring to had been made after the convicted pedophile had died by apparent suicide in a New York jail cell.

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‘Stop Digging’: Lee Zeldin Hits Back When Jasmine Crockett Doubles Down On Jeffrey Epstein Flub

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CNN data guru Harry Enten said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump was blowing his competition out of the water — both Republicans and Democrats — when it came to his approval rating with regard to foreign policy.
Enten spoke with CNN anchor John Berman about the latest numbers, which show Trump, nearly ten months into his second term, has a 43% approval rating on his foreign policy positions. Berman asked for context, wondering how Trump stacked up against past presidents in their respective second terms.
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Trump&#8217;s foreign approval rating is up like a rocket compared to term 1.
He has the highest foreign policy approval rating at this point in his term 2 of any 21st century president.
Big reason why: Israel-Hamas conflict. E.g. His net approval is 40 pts higher than Biden&#8217;s was. <a href="https://t.co/8rzNjCphEJ">pic.twitter.com/8rzNjCphEJ</a>
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&#8220;This is one of the areas in which Donald Trump is performing significantly better than he was in term one,&#8221; Enten explained, noting that during his first term in the White House, Trump&#8217;s approval rating on foreign policy had been significantly lower at 35%. &#8220;Up like a rocket, we&#8217;re talking about 43% now, that&#8217;s an eight-point rise. On the net approval rating, that&#8217;s a double-digit rise.&#8221;
Berman noted that it was almost expected for presidents in their second terms to pivot to foreign policy and do whatever they can to cement their legacies before leaving office — and he asked Enten how Trump stacked up in that regard.
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Enten showed a graphic comparing Trump to the two other 21st-century presidents who served two terms — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — who had foreign policy approval ratings of 36% and 37% respectively, at the same point in their second terms.
&#8220;This is something I think Donald Trump really likes to look at because the bottom line is this presidents like to build their legacies off of foreign policy, and at this particular point the American people like much more of what Donald Trump’s doing on foreign policy than either of the two other twenty-first century presidents who serve at least — or served two terms,&#8221; Enten explained.
Berman asked whether Trump&#8217;s high marks on that particular issue had anything to do with how he&#8217;d responded to the war between Israel and the Hamas terrorists controlling Gaza, and Enten said it had likely been a major factor.
&#8220;The American people liked what Trump was able to do between the Israelis and Hamas,&#8221; he said — and pointed to Trump&#8217;s net approval on the Israel-Hamas conflict (+3) compared to former President Joe Biden&#8217;s (-37). &#8220;Joe Biden was 37 points below water by the end of his presidency.&#8221;

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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews found himself on the receiving end of two real-time corrections on major issues on Tuesday.
The first occurred when Matthews, during an appearance on CNN, claimed that Republicans in the Senate would “logjam” a vote on the Epstein files in an effort to “obey” President Donald Trump. But when the network cut away to Capitol Hill, they learned that the Republican-led Senate planned a vote on the measure within hours.
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EMBARRASSING: Watch as Chris Matthews claims the Senate is going &#8220;logjam&#8221; the release of the Epstein files only to be proven wrong by CNN&#8217;s Manu Raju. 
He also claims The Washington Post didn&#8217;t cover BMS at the White House, which gets debunked by a Post columnist who covered it. <a href="https://t.co/QnF5JUHVBs">pic.twitter.com/QnF5JUHVBs</a>
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“I think it’s awful that these people are obeying him,” Matthews said, suggesting that Republicans in the Senate were taking orders from President Trump on whether or not to advance the bill. “The Senate is going to do what it can to logjam this whole effort to get the truth out.”
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The network cut away to congressional reporter Manu Raju on Capitol Hill: “Yeah, this is huge news. The Senate Majority Leader, John Thune, indicating that this bill just passed the House by a 427-to-1 vote, now could pass the Senate as soon as tonight. In fact, that is what he told reporters just moments ago, he said that it could move &#8216;very quickly.’”
Matthews also took a moment to comment on the fact that Mohammed Bin Salman — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince — had been in the Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump.
“And the idea of MBS, excuse me, the guy murdered somebody — a Washington Post reporter — and The Washington Post never mentioned today any problem with that,” Matthews complained. “They never editorialized against it. The murderer of our reporter is meeting in the White House today, but we’re not going to mention it today because it’s owned by a Republican Trump guy.”
Matthews had his claim debunked in a later segment by Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who explained that he had written just such a piece and published it a day prior to Bin Salman’s arrival: “I’ve been aware for several weeks that the crown prince was coming.”

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Ousted MSNBC host Joy Reid admitted that she would probably &#8220;freak out&#8221; if she saw a naked man while she was changing her clothes in a women&#8217;s locker room.
Reid was discussing the issue on Sunday&#8217;s episode of her &#8220;Reid This Reid That&#8221; podcast, and she referenced a recent incident that took place in California. Singer Tish Hyman went viral after she confronted a man in the women&#8217;s locker room at a Los Angeles gym — and she was kicked out because the man in question identified as transgender.
&#8220;I would be disturbed. I would be alarmed. I’m alarmed enough when I see a woman with her dangling boobies,&#8221; Reid was careful to qualify her statement. &#8220;If I saw a penis in the ladies’ locker room, I would freak out, too.&#8221;
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&#8220;What it’s saying is if I turn around and I see a pee pee, a penis in front of me inside of the room, I would probably go to management and say, ‘Wait a minute. Why is there somebody — a naked man — in this room?’” Reid said. &#8220;Because just the world we live in, just from a safety standpoint and just from a privacy standpoint … I can see why she would have gone and reported to management.”
&#8220;Because if she’s uncomfortable, does she not have the right to be at least uncomfortable with the situation?&#8221; Reid asked.
Former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines — who was forced at the 2022 NCAA championships to not only compete against a biological male but to change in the same locker rooms — was not terribly impressed with Reid&#8217;s sudden conversion.
&#8220;Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room,&#8221; she posted. &#8220;She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing.&#8221;
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Ah. Joy Reid says she doesn’t want to see a penis in the women’s locker room.
She’s going to pretend she’s believed this all along, never addressing the years she spent attacking and smearing women who said this exact thing. <a href="https://t.co/sNLz2DrvU7">pic.twitter.com/sNLz2DrvU7</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1991095270353084819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Reid sang a very different tune in 2016, when she used the phrase &#8220;bathroom panic&#8221; to describe the people who were freaking out about trans-identifying individuals using bathrooms that corresponded to their adopted gender rather than their biological sex.
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In 2016, Joy Reid repeatedly mocked anyone worried about biological males in women’s spaces:
“The sort of apocalyptic language… ‘bathroom panic’&#8230; which is the term I’ve coined for it as well”
“Should a transgender man with a mustache and beard be forced to walk into the… <a href="https://t.co/7xPRxuS5px">https://t.co/7xPRxuS5px</a> <a href="https://t.co/nrdBFCNzg8">pic.twitter.com/nrdBFCNzg8</a>
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) <a href="https://twitter.com/MediasLies/status/1990944055363350985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Ousted MSNBC Host Admits She’d ‘Freak Out’ If She Saw A Naked Man In The Women’s Locker Room

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State Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY) called on Monday for the mortgage fraud charges against her to be dropped, arguing in a 22-page filing that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration had engaged in &#8220;outrageous government conduct&#8221; in bringing the case in the first place.
Attorneys representing James argued in the filing that the charges themselves were &#8220;patently unconstitutional,&#8221; according to a CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/letitia-james-mortgage-fraud-charges-dropped-outrageous-government-conduct/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&amp;linkId=879195998">report</a>. They claimed that several officials within the Trump administration had embarked upon &#8220;months of unethical behavior&#8221; culminating in the allegation that she&#8217;d bought property in the state of Virginia, calling it a &#8220;second home&#8221; to secure a lower interest rate but instead turning it out as a rental property.
&#8220;If this brazen, continuous disregard for the law and the Constitution is not outrageous government conduct, nothing is,&#8221; the attorneys claimed, naming Fair Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte, top Justice Department official Ed Martin, and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the filing.
Pulte was the one who sparked the investigation into the New York Attorney General — who had herself run on a platform of &#8220;getting Trump&#8221; and then willed a case into reality in her attempt to follow through. Pulte referred James for prosecution, but her attorneys claimed that he had &#8220;transformed the little-known agency into a weapon to be brandished against President Trump&#8217;s political enemies.&#8221;
They also attacked the Justice Department&#8217;s special attorney for mortgage fraud, Ed Martin – who called for James to resign shortly after the charges were filed — arguing that he &#8220;has engaged in a well-documented series of actions that cannot be described as anything but outrageous.&#8221;
&#8220;The letter was not an attempt to investigate the facts, nor did it hide his plain intention to pressure the sitting Attorney General of New York to resign from office or face criminal prosecution,&#8221; the lawyers said, also asserting that it represented a violation of &#8220;various codes of professional responsibility and ethics,&#8221; among other things.
They were equally displeased with Halligan, and claimed that the case against James amounted to &#8220;vindictive prosecution.&#8221;
The attorneys concluded by claiming that the Trump administration was out to &#8220;punish AG James for daring to take a stand against the President—both in this Court and by making the investigation of her so public and intrusive that the pre-trial process itself serves as punishment.&#8221;

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Letitia James Wants Her Fraud Case Tossed Because Of ‘Outrageous Government Conduct’

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett raised eyebrows with a rap video she made for TikTok with Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist after endorsing him in his campaign for governor.
The <a href="https://x.com/garlin/status/1990443888046424553">video</a> begins with Gilchrist facing the camera — back-to-back with Crockett, who is barely visible behind him — lip-syncing to &#8220;What&#8217;s Up,&#8221; the 1993 smash hit by the 4 Non Blondes. Text on the screen reads, &#8220;POV you&#8217;re about to elect Michigan&#8217;s first Black governor.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I wake in the morning and I step outside. And I take a deep breath and I get real high. And I scream from the top of my lungs,&#8221; he mouths the words, and then the camera swings around to Crockett.
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POV you’re about to elect Michigan’s first Black Governor @Jasmine Crockett <a title="mi" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/mi?refer=embed">#mi</a> <a title="politics" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/politics?refer=embed">#politics</a> <a title="blacktiktok" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/blacktiktok?refer=embed">#blacktiktok</a> <a title="dance" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dance?refer=embed">#dance</a> <a title="jasminecrockett" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/jasminecrockett?refer=embed">#jasminecrockett</a> 
 <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - Garlin Gilchrist" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7573480236921326349?refer=embed">♬ original sound &#8211; Garlin Gilchrist</a> </section>
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Crockett dives right into her impression of rapper Nicki Minaj, dancing as she lip-syncs, &#8220;Bit**es ain’t sh** and they ain’t sayin&#8217; nothin&#8217;, A hundred mothafu**ers can’t tell me nothin&#8217;, I beez in the trap, be-beez in the trap, I beez in the trap, be-beez in the trap.&#8221;
&#8220;Idiocracy was a documentary,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/VickieforNYC/status/1990595198465028592">observed</a> New York City Councilwoman Vickie Paladino.
&#8220;Can you imagine our founders watching this …&#8221; Robby Starbuck <a href="https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/1990604192046809477">mused</a>.
Radio host Justin Barclay <a href="https://x.com/MrJustinBarclay/status/1990541102731178124">added</a>, &#8220;If one were seriously running for governor in Michigan, Jasmine Crockett wouldn&#8217;t be on your list to work with.&#8221;
&#8220;Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist just released this ridiculous gubernatorial campaign video featuring a sitting member of Congress. Gilchrist says: &#8216;Take it from Jasmine Crockett, Trump can’t tell me nothin’,'&#8221; Newsmax&#8217;s David Harris Jr. <a href="https://x.com/DavidJHarrisJr/status/1990818816465735847">said</a>.
The Gilchrist and Crockett video came just over two weeks after the White House posted a TikTok video using the same musical mashup.
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Gilchrist hosted a fundraising event featuring the Texas Democrat in Detroit over the weekend, and has also been endorsed by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). He is the first Democrat in a crowded primary field to state that the situation in Gaza is an active &#8220;<a href="https://www.wlns.com/capital-rundown/gilchrist-calls-situation-in-gaza-a-genocide-at-dearborn-convention/">genocide</a>.&#8221;

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A Cloudflare outage early Tuesday sparked a ripple effect that took down multiple platforms, from social media platform X and music streaming service Spotify to the artificial intelligence assistant ChatGPT, impacting thousands of users.
Cloudflare is an American company that provides internet infrastructure and acts as a &#8220;gateway&#8221; — providing security for multiple websites and acting as a content delivery network (CDN) to make sure things run more smoothly and efficiently — so when Cloudflare went down, multiple websites and applications felt the impact.
The outages were first reported, according to tracking website DownDetector, just after 6 a.m. ET as users reported error messages across X and other platforms.
Reports of X outages peaked at over 10,000 users affected. OpenAI saw fewer reports — just over 1,800 — but those reports peaked in the same timeframe. A number of other applications and websites — from Shopify, Google, and Amazon to DoorDash, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom — also saw reports of outages and error messages that peaked during the same time.
Cloudflare posted an update a short time later:
<blockquote>Our support portal is currently experiencing issues, and as such customers might encounter errors viewing or responding to support cases. Responses on customer inquiries are not affected, and customers can still reach us via live chat (Business and Enterprise) through the Cloudflare Dashboard, or via the emergency telephone line (Enterprise). We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem.</blockquote>
After several hours and numerous updates stating that they were still working on the problem, a follow-up message stated, &#8220;A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.&#8221;
They warned that some users might still experience lagging outages or error messages, and assured that they were monitoring for further issues.

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Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) revealed on Monday that her office had terminated a staffer who&#8217;d been accused of impersonating an attorney and pretending to represent previously deported illegal alien, Jose Ismael Ayuzo Sandoval, who was apprehended in Staunton, Illinois.
According to a report shared by Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin, the staffer embarked upon the charade while interacting with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in an effort to get the illegal alien in question — who&#8217;d been deported four times and had a DUI conviction — out of federal custody.
&#8220;Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) notifies ICE she has fired a staffer who was accused by ICE of pretending to be the attorney of a previously deported illegal alien in an effort to free him from federal custody. Duckworth tells ICE in letter that she was not aware of, and didn’t authorize or direct the staffer’s conduct,&#8221; Melugin posted along with a photo of a letter Duckworth sent to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons.
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BREAKING: Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) notifies ICE she has fired a staffer who was accused by ICE of pretending to be the attorney of a previously deported illegal alien in an effort to free him from federal custody. Duckworth tells ICE in letter that she was not aware of, and… <a href="https://t.co/Bg0UFzy9x5">pic.twitter.com/Bg0UFzy9x5</a>
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&#8220;Dear Acting Director Lyons,&#8221; Duckworth&#8217;s letter began. &#8220;I am writing in response to your November 12, 2025 letter regarding interactions between an employee of my Senate Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the St. Louis ICE Field Office.&#8221;
&#8220;Upon reviewing the matter, I can confirm that neither I nor my leadership team was aware of, authorized or directed what your letter described as the employee&#8217;s conduct,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;My office has terminated the employment of said employee, effective November 17, 2025.&#8221;
The Department of Homeland Security went public with the accusation on November 12, as Duckworth noted, and shared some information about what the staffer had done.
&#8220;This @SenDuckworth staff member allegedly claimed to be the lawyer of a 40-year-old illegal immigrant who had been deported to Mexico 4 times and had a DUI conviction, in order to seek his release from custody. He accomplished this by falsifying an official Department of Homeland Security form. We look forward to a response from Senator Duckworth,&#8221; DHS posted.
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This <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenDuckworth</a> staff member allegedly claimed to be the lawyer of a 40-year-old illegal immigrant who had been deported to Mexico 4 times and had a DUI conviction, in order to seek his release from custody. He accomplished this by falsifying an official Department of Homeland… <a href="https://t.co/R3ggCwolE6">pic.twitter.com/R3ggCwolE6</a>
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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Jennie Taer followed up with additional information a short time later, adding, &#8220;DHS tells me that the Duckworth staffer was posing as a lawyer to get Jose Isemal Ayuzo Sandoval, who was deported four times before and has a DUI conviction. &#8216;On October 29, 2025, ICE arrested Ayuzo in Staunton, IL. He was transferred to ICE St. Louis for processing where a Duckworth staffer allegedly tried to remove him from ICE custody by claiming to be his attorney,'&#8221; she said.
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DHS tells me that the Duckworth staffer was posing as a lawyer to get Jose Isemal Ayuzo Sandoval, who was deported four times before and has a DUI conviction.
&#8220;On October 29, 2025, ICE arrested Ayuzo in Staunton, IL. He was transferred to ICE St. Louis for processing where a… <a href="https://t.co/51MKTofg25">https://t.co/51MKTofg25</a> <a href="https://t.co/IteUO0fBze">pic.twitter.com/IteUO0fBze</a>
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JennieSTaer/status/1988730254307770501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and podcaster Andrew Schulz went scorched earth on the hypocrites who he said were celebrating the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, only to turn around and demand “due process” for suspected narco-terrorists attempting to flood the United States with illegal drugs.
Schulz, who hosts the “Flagrant” podcast, was speaking with popular radio personality Charlamagne Tha God — host of “The Breakfast Club” — when he made the point, saying that he’d just like to see some consistency across the board.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s just funny to me that there are people that were happy Charlie Kirk got shot because they disagreed on opinions and they&#8217;re fighting for due process for people who are driving fentanyl into the f*cking country!&#8221;
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— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1989787360104779826?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“It&#8217;s just funny to me that there are people that were happy Charlie Kirk got shot because they disagreed on opinions and they&#8217;re fighting for due process for people who are driving fentanyl into the f***ing country!” he exclaimed. “What the f*** do we live in!? Why do we have more humanity for people who are actually profiting off of killing Americans!?”
“You shouldn&#8217;t be like those people,” Charlamagne interjected.
“What do I gotta do?” Schulz asked.
Charlamagne’s answer was straightforward: “Don&#8217;t become what you hate.”
“What I hate?” Schulz asked, then answered: “I hate people trying to kill Americans! So if you’re trying to kill Charlie Kirk — or if you&#8217;re trying to bring Fentanyl in here — I hate both of y&#8217;all,” he added.
President Donald Trump’s use of precision strikes — to target and destroy boats suspected of carrying narcotics and drug smugglers — has been the topic of much debate among members of Congress from both sides of the aisle and across media outlets as well, and the reviews, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-strikes-another-drug-vessel-targeting-narco-terrorists-as-trump-floats-talks-with-venezuela">even among experts,</a> have been decidedly mixed.

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Comedian Flames Hypocrites Celebrating Charlie Kirk Assassination, Demanding Due Process For Narcos

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed that the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden could not possibly have been “weaponized” because Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, was not a particularly partisan actor.
Schiff spoke on Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival, and he mocked his Republican colleagues in Congress — some of whom were actively targeted by Biden’s DOJ — saying that it was “absurd” to believe that Garland would oversee a Justice Department driven by politics.
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Adam Schiff: It’s “absurd&#8221; to say that the Biden DOJ was weaponized, because Merrick Garland wasn’t known as a partisan.
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“I listened in the Judiciary Committee to a lot of my colleagues across the aisle rail with just the most righteous indignation about the horrible weaponization of the Justice Department under that well-known partisan Merrick Garland,” Schiff began, his tone already mocking, prompting laughter around the room.
“And it was so fanciful as to be absurd, but they speak it with what appears to be total conviction,” he claimed, shifting his tone to convey shock. “And I don’t know, maybe they&#8217;re better actors than they used to be, or maybe they&#8217;ve so internalized the talking points that they&#8217;ve persuaded themselves …”
Schiff also raised eyebrows with other comments he made at the Texas Tribune Festival, particularly when he argued that lawmakers should not destroy presidents or make them “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-claims-lawmakers-shouldnt-use-politics-to-destroy-presidents">unsuccessful</a>” simply because it was “good politics.”
“That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it’s good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea,” the California senator said. “We have to figure out a way to stop viewing each other as our enemy.”
Critics, of course, quickly pointed out the fact that Schiff had spent a fair amount of his time and energy devoted to doing just that to President Donald Trump.
Schiff spent most of Trump’s first term telling any media personality who would listen that he had proof of Trump’s “collusion” with Russia — proof that he never delivered. He then served as one of the House Managers during President Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, presenting a case that was so one-sided that it provoked an angry response from George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-professor-jonathan-turley-congress-committing-high-crime-and-misdemeanor-in-impeachment-without-going-to-courts">Jonathan Turley</a>.

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Schiff Claims Biden’s DOJ Couldn’t Have Been ‘Weaponized’ Because Merrick Garland Wasn’t Partisan

Adam Schiff Says Biden's DOJ Couldn't Be 'Weaponized' Because Merrick Garland Was Not Partisan

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