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Weekend Media Wrap, Vol. 25: What You Missed If You Weren’t Glued To The Sunday Shows

Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

ABC News, “This Week”:

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Weekend Media Wrap, Vol. 25: What You Missed If You Weren’t Glued To The Sunday Shows
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Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.

For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.

ABC News, “This Week”:

A panel discussion on ABC’s “This Week” focused on the 2024 election and what it could mean for the future of the United States.

USA Today’s Susan Page noted that most of the main issues — states attempting to remove former President Donald Trump from the primary ballot, Trump in court for any number of the other indictments against him — were going to play out in the court.

“The action in the Supreme Court will be more crucial determining who wins,” she said.

The Associated Press’ Julie Pace pointed to President Joe Biden, who has already made it clear that his campaign will once again be driven by stoking fear of what could happen if Trump won reelection.

“Joe Biden feels like pushing that message—leaning into what could happen if Donald Trump were to have a second crack at being president is really the crux of his campaign,” she said.

Former interim DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile borrowed a line often stated by the Biden campaign in 2020, saying, “Democracy is on the ballot.”

“It will be on the ballot in 2024, 2026, 2028, because Donald Trump is poisoning the well once again,” she said.

CBS News, “Face the Nation”:

House Speaker Mike Johnson sat down with “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan, and he outlined the reasons it was important for the House to move forward with an official vote on an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Johnson explained that taking the vote was a “necessary step” that gave the House the power to enforce subpoenas related to the proceedings — subpoenas like the one with which Biden’s embattled son Hunter already refused to comply.

“We’ve not made a determination that impeachment is going to happen here,” Johnson continued, making it clear that the outcome had not been predetermined. “You can’t prejudge an impeachment inquiry.”

CNN, “State of the Union”:

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) joined anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union,” where he voiced his concerns about the fact that no one appeared to have been apprised fully of the situation when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized on January 1.

“I do wish that had been disclosed,” Clyburn said, adding that he believed it was Austin’s “duty” to keep people informed.

Clyburn also spent part of his interview claiming that former President Trump — who had barely announced his candidacy at the time — was somehow at least partly responsible for the mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015.

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NBC News, “Meet the Press”:

President Biden’s Deputy Campaign Manager Quentin Fulks joined “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker to discuss the administration’s major priorities going into what could be a tough campaign and then a potential second term in the White House.

First on the list, according to Folks, was “restoring Roe v. Wade,” although he was not clear on how the Biden administration planned to move forward on that — and made no mention of why they had not taken action on that front in the 18 months since the landmark abortion case was overturned.

Also on the list were “banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” “capping the cost of insulin,” and “forgiving student loan debt.”

Folks did not mention a plan to improve the economy, tackle inflation, reduce the overall cost of health care, or prioritize education, however — all of which are, according to a recent ABC News/IPSOS poll, the top priorities of American voters.

FOX, “Fox News Sunday”:

“Fox News Sunday” anchor Shannon Bream spent a good portion of Sunday’s broadcast discussing the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, noting that the record-breaking numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border almost daily — over 300,000 in the month of December alone — was enough to cause even Democratic mayors and members of Congress to call on President Biden to take action.

Bream spoke with Mayor Mike Johnston (D-Denver, CO) about the influx of illegal immigrants in his city and what he intended to do about the situation.

Johnston argued that the crisis was “solvable,” saying that one major problem was that the illegal immigrants were being bussed from border states into self-described “sanctuary cities” but they were not being granted work permits.

“When we have 30 or 40,000 people arriving without work authorization, without federal support, it is going to be a huge strain on cities. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t solve it,” he said. “We could solve it if we actually had work authorization for folks that came, if we had resources at the border so that you could adjudicate these asylum claims faster, we have folks that arrive in Denver and their court dates are 2029.”

MSNBC, “Inside With Jen Psaki”:

Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki opened her show with a monologue about the craziness of the current times — and as per usual, the focus of all the craziness was, in Psaki’s estimation, former President Trump.

She laid the groundwork in a timeline, noting that on Friday — just one day prior to the third anniversary of the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill — the Supreme Court had agreed to hear Trump’s case regarding Colorado’s efforts to remove him from the Republican primary ballot.

“Even if the justices do leave Donald Trump on the ballot, his position as the pro-insurrection candidate isn’t really in doubt, right?” Psaki claimed. “He’s not running from the insurrection, he’s embracing it.”

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