Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-clinton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clinton administration</a> official David Gergen, now a political analyst at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, warned late this week that Biden was in for a nightmare over the classified document scandal.
When asked by network opinion host Anderson Cooper how big of a mess Biden was in, Gergen responded, &#8220;It&#8217;s very, very big.&#8221;
&#8220;Not legally, but politically,&#8221; Gergen claimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s a very, very big deal.&#8221;
Gergen&#8217;s claim may not be entirely accurate, as Attorney General Merrick Garland announced last week that he appointed a special counsel to oversee the federal investigation into the scandal.
&#8220;I do think that they, that the Biden people, they may be making a big mistake,&#8221; Gergen said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think sitting there, hunkering down now, you&#8217;re just acting like it&#8217;s not out there &#8230; they&#8217;re going to get creamed doing that.&#8221;
Gergen said that the way the Biden administration has handled the matter is going to lead the American public to ask the question, &#8220;What are they hiding?&#8221;
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<blockquote>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: Want to talk about the political fallout, which could be considerable, and unwelcome to the administration, certainly, coming, as Phil Mattingly mentioned, with inflation cooling, and gas prices dropping, and the President&#8217;s approval numbers growing, in the polls, at least before this.
Joining us is CNN Senior Political Analyst, David Gergen, White House insider, for Democrats and Republicans alike, dating back to the Nixon years; also CNN Political Commentator, and former Pennsylvania Republican congressman, Charlie Dent; and CNN Political Analyst, Jackie Kucinich. She&#8217;s Washington Bureau Chief for The Boston Globe.
David Gergen, let&#8217;s start with you. How big a mess is this for the Biden administration?
DAVID GERGEN, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER TO NIXON, FORD, REAGAN &amp; CLINTON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST, AUTHOR, &#8220;HEARTS TOUCHED WITH FIRE: HOW GREAT LEADERS ARE MADE&#8221;: It&#8217;s very, very big. Not legally, but politically, it&#8217;s a very, very big deal.
This is a President who was marching upward. For the first time in his presidency, he&#8217;s got his numbers up, people are feeling better about the economy, for all sorts of reasons, to believe that he can now present himself — the fears that people like me have, about how old is he and can he govern well. Those fears will be dissipated if he were able to stay on that track.
But now, along comes this gigantic story, which was totally unexpected, and it&#8217;s knocked that — the knock for six&#8211;
COOPER: Yes.
GERGEN: &#8211;the original plan, now.
But I do think that they, that the Biden people, they may be making a big mistake, Anderson. I may be wrong about this. I think they&#8217;ve done a wonderful job being cooperative with the government, and they&#8217;ve done it, quote, by the book, as they were saying.
But I don&#8217;t think sitting there, hunkering down now, just acting like it&#8217;s not out there, is a good strategy. They’re going to get creamed doing that.
COOPER: There&#8217;s also been the drip, drip, drip of information.
GERGEN: Yes.
COOPER: Some of that unpreventable because they didn&#8217;t know a Special Counsel was coming.
GERGEN: Yes.
COOPER: But they did know when they had the President talk about the first batch of documents that were found&#8211;
GERGEN: Yes.
COOPER: &#8211;they had already known that there were other documents found.
GERGEN: Yes.
COOPER: You would think they might have just jumped — announced that all at once?
GERGEN: Exactly. That&#8217;s why they could have put that out there.
COOPER: Right.
GERGEN: And as matters now stand, that long delay in putting it out there is going to encourage people to believe, well what are they hiding?
COOPER: Yes.
GERGEN: And that&#8217;s where they — there&#8217;s a temptation in every one of these kinds of crises, to hunker down. And it&#8217;s the wrong temptation. It&#8217;s the wrong temptation to listen to — look to — you going all the way back to Iran/Contra, and other kind of crises, like that. You&#8217;ve just got to get the facts out.
COOPER: Yes.
GERGEN: &#8220;These are the facts we know. There&#8217;s some facts we don&#8217;t know. And we&#8217;ll keep you posted.&#8221;
COOPER: Jackie, do you think this largely takes away the White House&#8217;s ability to criticize former President Trump&#8217;s handling of classified documents? Obviously, yes, big differences between the two.
JACKIE KUCINICH, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST, WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF, THE BOSTON GLOBE: Yes.
COOPER: But how often does nuance breakthrough in political discourse, these days? I mean, rarely.
KUCINICH: Well, yes. And that&#8217;s the thing, right? This definitely muddies the waters in a way that, I think, Republicans are elated about.
I mean, going into, particularly on the House Republican majority, there was a perception, particularly among Democrats, that a lot of these investigations were going to be essentially fishing expeditions. Well, because of this, they were thrown a fish, and they&#8217;re actually able to grab onto something. And this, it does mute the ability to criticize President Trump in the — former President Trump in the same way.
And let&#8217;s be clear, this isn&#8217;t happening in a vacuum. We all kind of expect Biden to announce his plans for the coming presidential election in short order. We think it&#8217;s the beginning of this year. So, does this affect — I think there&#8217;s a real question about that. Does this affect, on that timing, should this continue, in the weeks and months to come?
COOPER: Congressman Dent, as we reported, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan is launching this investigation into the DOJ. Should the Biden administration be concerned about Republican oversight on this?
CHARLIE DENT, (R) FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE &#8211; PENNSYLVANIA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Absolutely, they should, because Jim Jordan must be absolutely giddy and salivating over this. I mean, politically, as just discussed, the waters have been muddied, even though there are real differences between the two cases.
But, Joe Biden, he ran for president on being competent. This looks like he was careless, and reckless, or his people were. I mean, for him to go out there and say that — well, first, bad news does not get better with time. The fact that they&#8217;re releasing this out in bits and pieces, &#8220;Oh, yes, we found some, by the Corvette, locked in the garage.” I mean, this is really not helping his case.
And plus, now that there is a Special Counsel appointed, again, that&#8217;s just more reasons for the Republicans to picket them. What they&#8217;ll find out? I have no idea. But, as a political matter, I think Republicans are thrilled because this really diverts attention away from many of their own problems. And so, they should be — they&#8217;re in a much better position than they were one week ago.
COOPER: I mean, David, I guess, Republicans, is there a Catch 22, for them? I mean, if they cry foul about this, about the mishandling by the Biden administration, wouldn&#8217;t that also put attention on President Trump&#8217;s handling?
GERGEN: Yes, I think they&#8217;ve gotten a little overheated here in the last few days in their criticism. And I do think they are the ones who want to step back and let the story be told by others.
But among other things, right now, Anderson, when you&#8217;re in one of these situations in the White House, you’ve got your team, your party is out, in the Congress and elsewhere, and you need to feed them things that they can use to defend you with. And the Biden people are not providing them the handles, the arguments, the counterarguments.
One of the things, for example, that has taken some of the sting off this, to me, is what we&#8217;ve experienced in recent years, is we&#8217;ve had an explosion in the number of documents that are classified now.
COOPER: Right, there&#8217;s over-classification.
GERGEN: Over-classification. Pat Moynihan, 15 years ago, headed up a bipartisan commission to look at secrecy. And what he found was there were 2 million people in the federal government who could slap classifications on documents. And there were 1 million people in private industry who had the capacity to put&#8211;
COOPER: It&#8217;s a lot.
GERGEN: &#8211;classifications on documents. And so, naturally, things just took off. And it made people, inside the government, increasingly complacent. And what you&#8217;re seeing, I think, and have — finding these, some of these documents, on a garage, for God&#8217;s sakes, is a sloppiness, a massive sloppiness&#8211;
COOPER: Yes.
GERGEN: &#8211;on people who don&#8217;t understand these. And actually, this is quite sensitive.
COOPER: Yes.
GERGEN: We should take this seriously. But they&#8217;ve been engulfed by a lot of this other stuff where, as Jim Sciutto was saying earlier today, on your — on this channel, he said, basically, you used to have a sandwich down, for lunch, and then you put a stamp out, again, begin putting the classification on it.
COOPER: Yes. Jackie, I mean, you&#8217;d mentioned this before. But, I mean, do you really think it potentially impacts Biden&#8217;s expected announcement for running?
KUCINICH: I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know, Anderson. I think it really depends. I mean, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to impact his decision whether or not to run certainly.
But we were going into this year, as Phil Mattingly mentioned, you had tagging on to the Senate. Republicans were in complete disarray, fighting amongst themselves.
You had the economy getting better. You had Biden touting the achievements from last year. And this really has kind of hit a wall, as a result of these revelations about these documents. So certainly, it dampens the momentum that this White House had, potentially going into a future announcement.
COOPER: And Congressman Dent, I mean, Senator Chris Coons, the Democrat from Delaware, obviously a big Biden ally, he was arguing that voters don&#8217;t care about the President&#8217;s handling of classified documents, that they&#8217;re more concerned about gas prices, grocery prices.
That&#8217;s essentially the same arguments Republicans were always making in the lead up to the midterm elections, and about stuff on Russia.
Do you think Coons is right?
DENT: Yes, Chris Coons is a good friend. And I think he is generally right on this question. But again, but if you&#8217;re Joe Biden, you really don&#8217;t want this issue around. The Special Counsel, sniffing around, nothing good will come of it.
And it&#8217;s true. Biden&#8217;s had good news. And Chris Coons is probably right that this is not the primary focus of voters.
But still, not a great issue, because it really speaks to a carelessness, and a recklessness, where Joe Biden has done his best to contrast himself with Donald Trump, who was always very careless, and reckless on many matters. And it just kind of undermines his whole argument.
But, at the end of the day, you&#8217;re right, or Chris Coons is right, that most voters are concerned about the prices of groceries, and gasoline, and everything else they&#8217;re dealing with.
COOPER: Yes.
DENT: Housing and whatnot.
COOPER: Yes. Charlie Dent, David Gergen, Jackie Kucinich, appreciate it. Thank you.
GERGEN: Thank you.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry">Prince Harry</a> is currently doing a press tour in anticipation of his memoir release on Tuesday, most recently sitting down with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper">Anderson Cooper</a> on “60 Minutes” in an interview broadcast Sunday night to defend the book’s existence.
The Duke of Sussex has been at odds with the British press for years, but in more recent months he’s shifted some of the blame for his troubles to members of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family">his own family,</a> including King Charles, Prince William, and now stepmother Camilla, the Queen Consort. Harry insists that he’s been forced to speak out in defense of himself and his wife, Meghan Markle. 
In “Spare,” the 38-year-old former working royal said that Camilla needed to revamp her public image and did so at his expense.
&#8220;She was the villain. She was the third person in their marriage,&#8221; Harry told Cooper of his stepmother. &#8220;She needed to rehabilitate her image.&#8221;
&#8220;You and your brother both directly asked your dad not to marry Camilla?&#8221; Cooper asked.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Harry replied. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t think it was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that surely that&#8217;s enough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why go that far when you don&#8217;t necessarily need to? We wanted him to be happy. And we saw how happy he was with her. So, at the time, it was, &#8216;OK.'&#8221;
&#8220;That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging within the British press. And there was open willingness on both sides to trade of information,&#8221; the Duke of Sussex continued. &#8220;And with a family built on hierarchy, and with her, on the way to being Queen consort, there was gonna be people or bodies left in the street because of that.&#8221;
In “Spare,” he wrote that Camilla &#8220;sacrificed me on her personal P.R. altar.&#8221;
&#8220;If you are led to believe, as a member of the family, that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you, is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as monarch by the British public, then that’s what you&#8217;re gonna do,&#8221; Harry added in his interview with Cooper.
During the interview, he said he was one of the “bodies” sacrificed to improve her reputation. It took decades for the public to accept Camilla as Charles’s wife as he had cheated on Princess Diana with her. 
Harry also mentioned the British royal family “trading” stories during the Netflix docuseries “Harry &amp; Meghan” when he discussed how royals would share secrets about different family members to avoid stories about themselves getting published. 
“The level of planting from other members of the Royal Family means in my mind they have written thousands of books,” he told Tom Bradbury during an <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/01/prince-harry-spare-itv-interview-prince-william-meghan-markle-1235214256/">ITV interview</a>, which also aired on Sunday night. “It got to the point where we had to leave. The distorted narrative is that we wanted to leave to make money but that’s not the case, we would have stayed for a life of service.”
He went on to describe how “some members of the Royal Family who have got in bed with the devil,” which in this case was the British media. 
When the Duke of Sussex was asked if he was “pretty consistently scathing” about Camilla and the British press, Harry said, “Scathing? There’s no part of any of the things that I’ve said are scathing towards any member of my family, especially not my stepmother. There are things that have happened that have been incredibly hurtful, some in the past, some current.”
Prince Harry&#8217;s highly anticipated memoir, &#8220;Spare,&#8221; will be available on January 10.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/prince-harry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prince Harry</a> is defending himself going public with allegations against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/royal-family" target="_blank" rel="noopener">royal family</a> ahead of his book release this month.
The 38-year-old British royal family member sat down with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anderson Cooper</a> for an interview with “60 Minutes” that will air on Sunday, January 8. Harry said he tried to keep conversations and family drama private, but claims that, ultimately, he was forced to go public to protect his reputation. 
&#8220;Every single time I&#8217;ve tried to do it privately there have been briefings and leakings and planting of stories against me and my wife,&#8221; Harry <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/prince-harry-tells-60-minutes-about-his-decision-to-speak-publicly-60-minutes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Cooper. &#8220;You know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it&#8217;s just a motto.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining … being done through leaks,” Cooper replied.
“They will feed or have a conversation with the correspondent,&#8221; the Duke of Sussex went on. &#8220;And that correspondent will literally be spoon-fed information and write the story. And at the bottom of it they will say that they&#8217;ve reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment.”
“But the whole story is Buckingham Palace commenting. So when we&#8217;re being told for the last six years, &#8216;We can&#8217;t put a statement out to protect you.&#8217; But you do it for other members of the family. It becomes — there becomes a point when silence is betrayal,” Harry said.
The former working royal’s highly anticipated memoir, “Spare,” will be available on January 10. 
Harry and his wife, former actress Meghan Markle, said they left their jobs as working royals in 2020 to pursue a more private life after claiming the British press was harassing them. After this, they moved to California and later inked a deal with Netflix.
The limited series “Harry &amp; Meghan” was another attempt to justify their actions and explain themselves, but it earned <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/critics-slam-harry-meghan-as-a-deeply-tedious-wallow-in-narcissism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mixed reviews</a> from fans and critics. 
“So far, this is a well-filmed, comprehensive and deeply tedious wallow in narcissism,” a review from The Spectator said of the series. “The kindest thing that you can say is that the couple seem very much in love, although the levels of artifice involved here make such a judgment tricky.”
“What I mainly took away was the sense of a couple so in love with themselves that they had lost any semblance of self-awareness,” a Times reviewer shared.
Now royal followers are eager to see what Prince Harry will say in his memoir, which is rumored to be especially brutal toward Harry’s older brother, Prince William.

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CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anderson Cooper</a> and Andy Cohen rang in the New Year on the network by taking shots of non-alcoholic substances.
During a company town hall back in November, CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-cracks-down-on-drinking-during-new-years-eve-live-viewers-mourn-loss-of-hosts-on-air-antics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">informed</a> staff that he would put a stop to much of the drinking that has usually been a hallmark of CNN’s New Year’s Eve programming.
At the time, it was believed that hosts like Anderson Cooper would be allowed to keep drinking, but anchors and correspondents like Don Lemon would be prohibited from drinking during the broadcast.
However, Cohen exclaimed during live television coverage, “We can’t drink!”
Cohen said that he had a pocket of edibles. “Will I take them? I don’t think so,” he said. “I don’t know. It’s a long night. This is a telethon with no disease. Do you understand? We’re here all night! Passing time!”
Cohen and Cooper instead took shots of non-alcoholic substances.
“What we are doing is we are taking a mystery shot!” Cohen said.
They took shots of pickle juice and buttermilk, Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-andy-cohen-anderson-cooper-address-the-new-years-eve-no-booze-rule-but-its-okay-theyre-drinking-something-else/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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CNN&#39;s Andy Cohen, Anderson Cooper kept the New Year&#39;s Eve mystery shots going with a new drink: buttermilk <a href="https://t.co/5MxpKEO1Mh">https://t.co/5MxpKEO1Mh</a> <a href="https://t.co/cBYLkgUP7o">pic.twitter.com/cBYLkgUP7o</a>
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This year will be the first New Year’s Eve show overseen by Licht since he took over the network in February. During the meeting, Licht reportedly told staffers that drinking on-air eroded the presenters’ credibility and “respectability.”
Last year, the broadcast drew significant controversy when Lemon and Cohen both went on alcohol-fueled rants while on air. First, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-a-grown-a-man-kiss-my-behind-don-lemon-launches-self-pitying-rant-on-new-years-eve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lemon ranted</a> to fellow host Alisyn Camerota and comedian Dulce Sloan about criticism he receives. “I don’t give a — what you think about me, what do you think about that?” Lemon said. “I’m a grown-a** man. I don’t care what you think about me.”
“I am who I am,” Lemon continued. “I’m a grown, successful black man who a lot of people hate because they’re not used to people seeing me — and people like me — in the position that I am. To be able to share what I … my point of view on television, it freaks people out. And you know what? You can kiss my behind. I do not care. I don’t care. I really don’t care. I have one life, and this is who I am, and I feel very, um … blessed and honored to be in this position to be able to do this. So all the hate I get? It’s motivation to me. Bring it. I don’t care.”
Then <a href="https://ew.com/tv/andy-cohen-regret-new-years-eve-rant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cohen</a> fired a shot at ABC’s annual New Year’s Eve program, which could be seen from the CNN broadcast. “If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing,” Cohen said. “I’m sorry, but if you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing.”

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TV host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/piers-morgan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Piers Morgan</a> said this week that he was backstabbed by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anderson Cooper</a> during his tenure at CNN, adding that the network is &#8220;a lot less friendly&#8221; than Fox News.
“I gotta say, and this, you know, people can believe this or not, but I find it a very friendly collegiate place to work,&#8221; Morgan <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/piers-morgan-alleges-anderson-cooper-backstabbed-him-during-his-time-at-cnn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of Fox News during Monday&#8217;s <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/piers-morgan-on-murdoch-musk-and-yes-meghan-markle/id1643307527?i=1000590605096" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of &#8220;On Air with Kara Swisher.&#8221; &#8220;Everyone’s very nice.&#8221;
&#8220;When I was at CNN, it could be a lot less friendly than Fox,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;A lot more back biting, a lot more backstabbing, actually, in some cases — don’t wanna mention names, but Anderson Cooper knows where he is. And I found that Fox — I found that Fox is a different atmosphere by contrast.&#8221;
Morgan didn&#8217;t elaborate on the ordeal but went on to comment on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;fascinating&#8221; changes.
“The way — if you look at how networks have changed, what happened at CNN in the last few years was fascinating,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You know, they went from being a completely nonpartisan, impartial, non-political network to an outright open Trump bashing entity.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s anti-Trump refrains did not seem to pay off for the network, which has been through numerous shakeups in the last year.
Most notably, the network&#8217;s streaming platform CNN+ lasted only about a month before it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-is-shutting-down-cnn-after-new-streaming-service-struggled-to-attract-viewers-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dissolved</a> in April of this year.
A CNBC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-new-subscription-streaming-service-craters-after-launch-big-cuts-coming-reports">report</a> said the service was garnering fewer than 10,000 viewers on a daily basis and was only able to capture around 150,000 subscribers — a far cry from the two million subscribers CNN hoped to snag.
CNN CEO Chris Licht has also let go of high-profile journalists, columnists, and contributors such as Brian Stelter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-white-house-correspondent-john-harwood-out-at-network" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Harwood</a>, Jeffrey Toobin, and Chris Cillizza, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uninformed-vitriol-cnn-boss-chris-licht-swings-at-the-left-over-stunning-reaction-to-his-reforms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
The network&#8217;s boss shuffled CNN’s lineup, too. He moved host Don Lemon out of a prime-time slot and into a morning show with two other co-hosts. Licht attempted to move host Jake Tapper into former host Chris Cuomo’s prime-time slot, but Tapper’s tenure there proved to be short-lived. Cuomo had been let go by the network months earlier after an internal investigation reportedly concluded that the host had inappropriately attempted to help his brother, Andrew Cuomo, as the former New York governor was mired in scandal.
Stephen Gutowski, Second Amendment expert and founder of firearms reporting site The Reload, has been brought on as a contributor under Licht&#8217;s tenure.
Tim Pearce contributed to this report 
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said during a new interview that aired this week that the recent attack on her husband, Paul Pelosi, would impact her decision about whether she will retire from Congress if Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives after Tuesday&#8217;s midterm elections.
Pelosi made the remarks during a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper on Monday when she was asked if she would retire if Democrats lose control of the House.
&#8220;Well, I have to say my decision will be affected about what happened the last week or two,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;And it will impacted by – well, I – let me just say this: I have been blessed by my colleagues. As Whip first, then Leader, and then Speaker of the House for four terms. That&#8217;s a great honor. Greatest honor I have, though, is to represent the people of San Francisco. To walk on the Floor of the House – every time I walk on, I think, ‘They chose me to be the one to speak for them.’&#8221;
&#8220;Imagine, I only thought I was coming for ten years at the most,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If that. And here I am. I never expected to run. I never expected to run for leadership. But people encouraged me to run, and then people go to run for leadership. And here I am.&#8221;
&#8220;But this institution is a great institution. My father served here, and I had great reverence for it. I was taught that as a little girl,&#8221; Pelosi continued. &#8220;And then when he was Mayor, of course, he always referenced his service in Congress. It’s a place where great things have happened for our country. To see the assault on January 6th on this Capitol was something that was so devastating and traumatic for many of us. Some of my Members who are calling me about their races now, and understanding the trauma we&#8217;re experiencing again with Paul – we&#8217;re revisiting the trauma they felt that day on January 6th, having the same root, disinformation and the rest.&#8221;
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<blockquote>ANDERSON COOPER: The assailant has told the police, it’s in a sworn affidavit that he wanted to take you hostage, interrogate you, break your kneecaps with a hammer if you didn&#8217;t give him the answers that he wanted.
NANCY PELOSI: For me, this is really the hard part because Paul was not the target. And he&#8217;s the one who&#8217;s paying the price, I mean we all are, but he&#8217;s the one who&#8217;s really paying the price. But it really – it’s really sad, because it is a flame that was fueled by misinformation and all the rest of that, which is most unfortunate. It shouldn&#8217;t – it has no place in our democracy.
COOPER: President Biden drew a line between what happened January 6th and the attack on your husband. The President said, and I quote, ‘The assailant entered the home asking, ‘Where&#8217;s Nancy, where’s Nancy?’ – those were the very same words used by the mob when they stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th.’
PELOSI: That’s right. That’s right.
COOPER: Do you draw that same line?
PELOSI: Absolutely. There’s no question. It&#8217;s the same. The same thing. A copycat or whatever it happens to be inflamed by the same misrepresentation.
But the fact is, right now, it&#8217;s time for healing. We want the country to heal. This is not a path that we can continue on. And we want people to run for office, local, in every way. And you can’t say to them you’re risking the safety of your families by going forward. There are no guarantees of safety.
I&#8217;m very pleased that in August we were able to reach a place where the Sergeant-at-Arms informed the Members of the House of an amount of money that they would have – $10,000 to – and have the Capitol Police come and evaluate what their needs were to make their homes safer, because there was a recognition when we’re gone, our families are home and, you know, that’s scary or even if we are home, but so we recognize that. It was figured that that amount of money could do what it needed to do in homes.
COOPER: But I mean, you have a large security detail, you have great protection around you.
PELOSI: Right.
COOPER: If this can happen to someone in your family, it can happen to any Member of Congress&#8217;s family.
PELOSI: That’s right.
COOPER: How does – no amount of security is going to stop that. How does this stop? How does this not happen again?
PELOSI: Well you would think that there would be some level of responsibility. But what – you see what the reaction is on the other side to this, to make a joke of it. And really, that is traumatizing too, but nonetheless, forgetting them. There has to be some healing process. And Democrats and Republicans, you know, Member of Congress, anybody could be a target. And we can&#8217;t – there&#8217;s no guarantee. But we can – in our democracy, there is one party that is doubting the outcome of the election, feeding that flame and mocking in the violence that happens. That has to stop.
COOPER: The former President of the United States Donald Trump, Elon Musk, others have spread stories casting doubt on what happened, fomenting conspiracy theories. What do you have to say to them?
PELOSI: It&#8217;s really sad for the country. It&#8217;s really sad for the country that people of that high visibility would separate themselves from the facts and the truth in such a blatant way. It&#8217;s really sad, and it is traumatizing to those affected by it. They don&#8217;t care about that, obviously, but it’s destructive to the unity that we want to have in our country. But I don&#8217;t have anything to say to them. I mean, we have nothing, there would be no common ground to have any conversation with them.
COOPER: Is there enough common ground as Americans to try to bridge this divide and lower the temperature?
PELOSI: Yes.
COOPER: Because, I mean, I think people on all sides would agree that it does not seem sustainable.
PELOSI: No, I completely agree with you. But I wouldn&#8217;t say on all sides. Because the fact is, this is a one-sided assault on our democracy, an assault on the credibility and integrity of our elections and the rest. There has to be some adult supervision on the Republican side, in order to say enough. Enough. But why not? We need a strong Republican Party in our country. I&#8217;ve said that over and over again.
COOPER: You want a strong Republican Party?
PELOSI: Absolutely. GOP – a strong Republican Party has done great things for our country. And they should take pride in that instead of yielding to a cult – to a thug, actually, the way I see it, but nonetheless, really to stay with the healing part of it. I think that prayers, I mean, we have been receiving so many prayers, thousands of well wishers with prayers for Paul&#8217;s healing. And I think prayers are a unifying force. I also think that there are enough people who, while they may not legitimately be Republicans and I respect that are not a party to feeding flame of violence and disunity in our country.
Let me just say that it&#8217;s about time, you know, it’s a time for healing, as Ecclesiastes says. It’s – Ecclesiastes says it’s time – there’s a time for everything. And this is a time long overdue for healing, to do so in a prayerful and respectful way, to do so open to hearing each other, about the future of our country. I do believe that our democracy is in danger because of what the others are saying about undermining elections even now as we go forward. I think that if enough people in our country are aware of what that challenge is, it might change behavior on the other side. But I do think that a good deal of healing has to come within the Republican Party itself. And it&#8217;s not up to me to tell them how to shape themselves. But, again, it is – to have them take pride in what they have been and what they have done for our country.
COOPER: If the former president, Donald Trump, runs again, do you think that healing is possible?
PELOSI: I&#8217;m really – I’m just not in a place where I’m ready to talk about what comes next. And tomorrow is a very big day for our country. Our democracy is on the ballot, our planet is on the ballot, our values are on the ballot.
COOPER: How concerned are you about tomorrow?
PELOSI: As I said, I have heard from at least 50 of our candidates in races that are, shall we say, in some view, too close to call, in our view, ours. And I feel optimistic, just depends on turnout. And I&#8217;m a former party chair. And I&#8217;m always about owning the ground and getting out the vote. And I feel confident that we&#8217;re in that position. Their races are close. Some of them could go one way or another. We could split it. We&#8217;ll see. But it&#8217;s up to the people, And whatever happens, we will respect the results of the election.
COOPER: I know – there&#8217;s obviously been a lot of discussion about whether you&#8217;d retire if Democrats lose the House. I know you&#8217;re not going to answer that question. So I’m not going to even ask that question.
PELOSI: Oh good, I’m glad.
COOPER: But I will ask, can you confirm that you’ve made a decision about what you would do?
PELOSI: That&#8217;s like asking the question, isn’t it?
COOPER: No, I&#8217;m not asking what the decision is. I&#8217;m just asking, have you looked ahead? And have you made the decision in your mind, whatever that decision might be?
PELOSI: Well, I have to say my decision will be affected about what happened the last week or two.
COOPER: Will it be – will your decision be impacted by the attack in any way?
PELOSI: Yes.
COOPER: It will?
PELOSI: Yes. And it will impacted by – well, I – let me just say this: I have been blessed by my colleagues. As Whip first, then Leader, and then Speaker of the House for four terms. That&#8217;s a great honor. Greatest honor I have, though, is to represent the people of San Francisco. To walk on the Floor of the House – every time I walk on, I think, ‘They chose me to be the one to speak for them.’
COOPER: They’ve chosen you for a long time.
PELOSI: They have, 35 years. Imagine, I only thought I was coming for ten years at the most. If that. And here I am. I never expected to run. I never expected to run for leadership. But people encouraged me to run, and then people go to run for leadership. And here I am.
But this institution is a great institution. My father served here, and I had great reverence for it. I was taught that as a little girl. And then when he was Mayor, of course, he always referenced his service in Congress. It’s a place where great things have happened for our country. To see the assault on January 6th on this Capitol was something that was so devastating and traumatic for many of us. Some of my Members who are calling me about their races now, and understanding the trauma we&#8217;re experiencing again with Paul – we&#8217;re revisiting the trauma they felt that day on January 6th, having the same root, disinformation and the rest.
So I think it&#8217;s really important for us to find a way to restore unity in the Congress of the United States. And to do so by showing who&#8217;s meeting the needs of the American people and, hopefully, pulling some folks to that point of view.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nbc-pulls-report-that-raised-new-questions-about-pelosi-attack">NBC Pulls Report That Raised New Questions About Pelosi Attack</a>

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CNN data analyst Harry Enten said Wednesday that President Joe Biden&#8217;s approval ratings were continuing to plummet because &#8220;inflation is eating his presidency alive.&#8221;
<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-predicts-republican-tsunami-the-best-position-in-over-80-years/">Enten</a> joined CNN anchor Anderson Cooper to discuss the <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/you-dont-use-these-tools-jake-tapper-corners-biden-econ-adviser-for-blowing-smoke-about-inflation/">state of the economy</a> and how that was impacting Biden&#8217;s approval numbers — and Enten noted that Biden&#8217;s disapproval rating was higher than that of any other president to date at the same point in his presidency.
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&quot;If you compare that to every single other president at this point in their first term throughout polling history, this goes all the way back since the 1940s, he is the worst on both,&quot; CNN&#39;s Harry Enten says. &quot;Inflation is eating his presidency alive.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bBobX3ZPA5">pic.twitter.com/bBobX3ZPA5</a>
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve decided to release the kraken,&#8221; Cooper said as he introduced Enten on Wednesday evening&#8217;s show.
Cooper noted that according to the most recent data, inflation had jumped again in June — rising 9.1% year over year — and that it was certainly an issue that was top of mind for a lot of voters regardless of their political persuasion.
Enten pointed to the polls from 2021 to 2022, which showed the president&#8217;s disapproval rating jumping from 44% in the summer of 2021 to 58% in the most recent <a href="https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_070522/">Monmouth poll</a>. It also showed that while a year ago, only 5% of Americans polled had seen inflation as the top issue on their mind, that number had also jumped — to 33% — according to the most recent poll.
&#8220;A year ago, no one was saying inflation was a concern outside of Larry Summers. Now, it is a clear number one issue, and we see this clear correlation as more people are concerned about inflation, Joe Biden’s disapproval rating climbs ever higher,&#8221; Enten replied.
&#8220;How does President Biden stack up against other presidents at this time in the administration?&#8221; Cooper asked.
&#8220;Yeah, so we can look at both Joe Biden’s disapproval rating on inflation and Joe Biden’s disapproval rating overall, and what we see is his disapproval rating on inflation is topping 70%. His disapproval rating overall is still in the 50s,&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;But, if you compare that to every single other president at this point in their first term throughout polling history, this goes all the way back since the 1940s, he is the worst on both.&#8221;
Enten added, &#8220;And the reason he is worst overall is because inflation is eating his presidency alive at this point.&#8221;

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‘The Worst Overall’: CNN Analyst Says Biden Is Suffering Because ‘Inflation Is Eating His Presidency Alive’

CNN Analyst Says Biden Is Suffering Because Inflation Is Tanking His Presidency

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Tuesday evening, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten had a pretty pointed description of how Americans feel about President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>&#8216;s job performance in the Oval Office as well as the state of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a> — in a word, it&#8217;s &#8220;awful.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/anderson-cooper">Anderson Cooper</a> interviewed Enten and asked him to explain recent data from the University of Michigan that measured consumer sentiment.
&#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s awful and how people feel about it is even worse,&#8221; Enten responded. &#8220;You know you look at the consumer sentiment right now, and what do you see? This is the worst consumer sentiment ever measured by the University of Michigan going all the way back since 1952.&#8221;
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Anderson replied.
&#8220;Even if you double my age, that doesn&#8217;t get you back to 1952. And while, I&#8217;m young I&#8217;m not that young, right?&#8221; Enten quipped.
The CNN journalist also observed that inflation had been a significant obstacle to previous presidents&#8217; agendas.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to remind you that inflation got Jimmy Carter,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;It killed that presidency.&#8221;
&#8220;And in terms of why are consumers feeling this bad?&#8221; the senior analyst continued. &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s pretty clear why they&#8217;re feeling this bad and that is because the Consumer Price Index is the worst it&#8217;s ever been in a midterm cycle since &#8217;74; It&#8217;s the worst it&#8217;s been in any presidential cycle or midterm cycle since 1980. So, it&#8217;s not much of a surprise. You can see it, it&#8217;s literally off the charts on the table on your screen.&#8221;
On Friday, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-reaches-8-6-setting-new-four-decade-high">reported</a> that the &#8220;Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 8.6% between May 2021 and May 2022, meaning that inflation surpassed record highs.&#8221;
Anderson then asked Enten, &#8220;And how does President Biden&#8217;s performance rate?&#8221;
&#8220;Awful, I mean,&#8221; Enten began to say.
&#8220;I knew that was the answer,&#8221; Anderson interjected with a laugh.
&#8220;But the answer is awful, I mean you know, I&#8217;ll compare it to Carter at this point in his presidency,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;Right? Look at the disapproval rating Joe Biden has in inflation right now. It&#8217;s over 70%. Carter — Carter was not even there at this point in mid-1978. When you&#8217;re doing worse than Jimmy Carter is doing in the minds of Americans on inflation, you know that they&#8217;re holding you responsible for the conditions that are currently on the ground that are hurting Americans in their pocketbooks.&#8221;
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CNN&#8217;s Harry Enten on Biden&#8217;s &#8220;awful&#8221; approval rating on inflation: Biden is &#8220;doing WORSE than Jimmy Carter&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/2vbBx4tLvE">pic.twitter.com/2vbBx4tLvE</a>
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Anderson Cooper told CNN’s viewers that “other networks” — presumably Fox News Channel and Newsmax — are actively “promoting” a second Civil War in the United States and “relish the idea of the destruction of society.”
“There&#8217;s a lot of people, who throw around the term civil war, and some on podcasts seem to kind of relish the idea of the destruction of society,” <a href="https://twitter.com/nickfondacaro/status/1479282284725510148">said</a> Cooper. “The very people who are, kind, of promoting that here, on podcasts, right now — and other networks — who probably have not done service, and have not seen it for themselves.”
Cooper made the remarks during Thursday night’s two-and-a-half-hour special, “January 6: One Year Later,” amid a panel of Democratic elected officials, especially Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ). “You two … have seen what civil wars look like up close,” Cooper said to Rep. Crow, a former Army Ranger who served three terms in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Rep. Gallego, who served as an infantryman with the U.S. Marines in Iraq. “You both have seen up close, through the window of a Humvee, and out on the streets, what happens when a society collapses.”
The host — whom CNN has increasingly tried to promote as its central anchor since the departure of its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, last year — did not specify which television networks or podcasts “relish” or are “promoting” the taking up of arms to overthrow the U.S. government. A scan of the transcripts of Fox News, Newsmax, and One America News Network turns up no incitements to violently seize power in the U.S. Capitol, while showing many condemnations of politically motivated violence.
Yet Cooper forecast that these unnamed malefactors “will be swept up in [the forthcoming civil war] and destroyed, as well as everybody else. I mean, that is not anything anybody should even talk about, or wish, ever think about happening.”
“Absolutely not,” replied Rep. Gallego.
None of the elected officials pushed back at the misinformation that broadcast television networks are praising terroristic violence.
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Chatting with his pals in the Democratic Party, CNN&#39;s Anderson Cooper claims &quot;other networks&quot; aka Fox News &quot;relish the idea of sparking another civil war. <a href="https://t.co/i0z1cuJTdV">pic.twitter.com/i0z1cuJTdV</a>
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Despite the lack of specificity, Cooper spent much of this week warning CNN of an impending civil war. On Tuesday, he interviewed Barbara F. Walter of the University of California at San Diego and author of the forthcoming book &#8220;How Civil Wars Start: And How To Stop Them.&#8221;
“In the civil wars you looked at, how do civil wars get started? And how close do you think is the United States?” he asked.
“Over the last five years, I&#8217;ve been watching what&#8217;s happening here in my own country, and one of the things that I&#8217;ve seen is that these same factors are emerging here in the United States — and they&#8217;re emerging at a surprisingly fast rate,” she replied.
“What factors are you talking about? What specifically do you look at?” Cooper asked. “What are the parallels?
“So, we don&#8217;t look at individual cases,” Walter replied, saying that her research revolved entirely around a “predictive model” generated by a computer.
She eventually named a loss of “democracy” and the instability that takes place when societies “broke down along racial, ethnic and religious lines; formed political parties along those lines; and then tried to capture power, to exclude everyone else.”
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper speaks with Barbara F. Walter, author of “How Civil Wars Start,” about America’s risk of sliding into a modern-day civil war.
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Neither addressed the role of theories like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country">Critical Race Theory</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/opinion-the-american-media-has-spread-russian-propaganda-more-effectively-than-russia-itself">balkanizing the United States along those very lines</a>.
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In a conversation with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, commentator Van Jones argued that Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal will encourage “white vigilante violence” in the United States.
“I do respect the jury system, and I do appreciate what the President had to say,” Jones said. “But there’s a reason that people are upset. And it’s that there’s a bigger context here. “This idea of white vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with… We have got a pattern now, where white men feel that they have the right to enforce the law themselves.”
“Somehow, there is a group of people that think that they have the right to take the law into their own hands,” continued Jones, citing the January 6 riot, as well as the Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery cases. “They can leave their home with guns and they can enforce their vision of the law on other people. That is a big problem.”
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&#8220;There is a bigger context here,” says CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/VanJones68?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VanJones68</a> about the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal. “This idea of White vigilante violence is something that we have to wrestle with… We have got a pattern now, where White men feel that they have the right to enforce the law.” <a href="https://t.co/g0SYzJ1R4e">pic.twitter.com/g0SYzJ1R4e</a>
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Rittenhouse — an eighteen-year-old who fatally shot two men and injured a third while defending himself during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin — was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kyle-rittenhouse-found-not-guilty">cleared</a> of murder charges on Friday.
Following the victory of Donald Trump in the election of 2016, Van Jones likewise <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/van-jones-results-disappointment-cnntv/index.html">rushed</a> to forward a race-based narrative. “You tell your kids don’t be a bully, you tell your kids don’t be a bigot… and then you have this outcome,” the CNN analyst said. “You have people putting children to bed tonight and they are afraid of breakfast. They’re afraid of ‘How do I explain this to my children?’”
“This was a whitelash against a changing country,” Jones said. “It was whitelash against a black president in part. And that’s the part where the pain comes.”
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-responds-to-rittenhouse-being-found-not-guilty-feeling-angry-and-concerned">statement</a> from President Joe Biden to which Jones referred says that the commander-in-chief feels “angry and concerned” by the jury’s decision in the Rittenhouse case.
“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken,” the presidet explained. “I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. I know that we’re not going to heal our country’s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.”
“I urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law,” Biden added. “Violence and destruction of property have no place in our democracy.”
MSNBC legal analyst Julius Kim also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bad-facts-msnbc-analyst-says-rittenhouse-jury-reached-right-verdict-but-it-may-send-wrong-message">argued</a> that the unanimous verdict sends “the wrong message.”
“This was a tough case for the state to make, because we had what we call ‘bad facts’ in terms of the state’s case,” Kim said. “Kyle Rittenhouse was attacked; he was chased, and he was also approached by someone who had a handgun in his hands.”
“There were a lot of witness problems for the state in this case,” Kim added, acknowledging that the prosecution’s witnesses strengthened Rittenhouse’s case. “I think all of us who can see, we aren’t terribly surprised by the verdicts that we now have in front of us. But I am concerned that the wrong message has been sent to other people in the community.”

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On Tuesday evening, President Biden traveled to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for his first “Presidential Town Hall.” During the event, Biden spoke with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and answered questions “from the American people.”
“Some of the questioners here voted for him. Some did not,” <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/17/remarks-by-president-biden-in-a-cnn-town-hall-with-anderson-cooper/">said</a> Cooper.
Here are the key takeaways from Biden’s first town hall as President of the United States.
“No Vaccine” Lie, with fact-checkers coming to the rescue
On the subject of the COVID-19 vaccine, Biden openly lied about the availability or existence of the vaccine when he came into office.
“And the biggest thing, though, as you remember when you and I — no, I shouldn’t say it that way, ‘as you remember’ — but when you and I talked last, we talked about — it’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we came into office, but a vaccinator — how do you get the vaccine into someone’s arm?” Biden told Cooper. “So you need the paraphernalia.  You need the needle, and you need mechanisms to be able to get it in.  You have to have people who can inject it into people’s arms.”
Cooper ignored this falsehood, continuing with the discussion. 
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Biden says there was no vaccine when he came into office.
That is abjectly FALSE. President Trump brought about the fastest vaccine for a novel pathogen in history.
How does Joe get away with this? <a href="https://t.co/OcFeVbQ3At">pic.twitter.com/OcFeVbQ3At</a>
&mdash; Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) <a href="https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1361868170894704643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Rather than pointing out the inaccuracy, “fact-checkers” rapidly moved to defend Biden’s lie. Glenn Kessler, Editor and chief writer of Washington Post’s Fact Checker, described it as a “verbal stumble,” and a “typical Biden gaffe.” 
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It was a verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe, as he had already mentioned 50 million doses being available when he took office. Ex Trump officials should especially cool the outrage meter, as it just looks silly. <a href="https://t.co/HFjH01lXgH">https://t.co/HFjH01lXgH</a>
&mdash; Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/1361879261691396104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s fact-checker, Daniel Dale, defended Biden’s statement, saying that the president “clearly wasn&#8217;t trying to claim the vaccine did not exist at all under Trump.”
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Biden had said just prior that there were &quot;only&quot; 50 million vaccine doses when he took office. I&#39;m looking into that claim (and a bunch of other claims Biden made tonight), but he clearly wasn&#39;t trying to claim the vaccine did not exist at all under Trump. <a href="https://t.co/2EtKDWyR7o">https://t.co/2EtKDWyR7o</a>
&mdash; Daniel Dale (@ddale8) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1361876593921122305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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On the subject of Uyghur persecution, Biden says “culturally there are different norms”
During the interview, on the subject of Biden’s recent call with Chinese President Xi, Cooper asked Biden, “What about the Uyghurs? What about the human rights abuses in China?”
Fumbling on the subject of Uyghur persecution in the context of his “two-hour conversation” with Xi, Biden rambled about the Chinese history of victimization as justification for the Communist Party’s strict regime.
“I talked about this, too. And that’s not so much refugee, but I talked about — I said — look, you know, Chinese leaders — if you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been — the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home. So the central — to vastly overstate it — the central principle of Xi Jinping is that there must be a united, tightly controlled China. And he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that.”
He then appeared to dilute the immorality of China’s actions regarding the minority Uyghur population, saying that “Culturally, there are different norms that each country … are expected to follow.”
“I point out to him: No American President can be sustained as a President if he doesn’t reflect the values of the United States. And so the idea I’m not going to speak out against what he’s doing in Hong Kong, what he’s doing with the Uyghurs in western mountains of China and Taiwan, trying to end the One China policy by making it forceful — I said — and by the — he said he — he gets it.  Culturally, there are different norms that each country and they — their leaders — are expected to follow.”
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Joe Biden on China’s human rights violations: “culturally there are different norms”<a href="https://t.co/wjmxmBhv6O">https://t.co/wjmxmBhv6O</a> <a href="https://t.co/UfIBRpwzXO">pic.twitter.com/UfIBRpwzXO</a>
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Children are the “the safest group of people in the whole world”
On the subject of the COVID-19 vaccine, an audience member brought her young daughter to the microphone to ask about Biden’s plans for vaccinating children.
“As we’ve been talking about, the coronavirus is very real and very scary. And it’s especially scary for children who may or may not understand.  My children, Layla — eight, here — and my son Matteo — seven, at home — often ask if they will catch COVID, and if they do, will they die.  They are watching as others get the vaccine, and they would like to know when will kids be able to get the vaccine,” the audience member asked.
Biden responded, saying “First of all, kids don’t get the vacci- — get COVID very often. It’s unusual for that to happen. They don’t — they — and there — the evidence so far is, children aren’t the people most likely to get COVID — number one.”
“Number two, we haven’t even done tests yet on children as to whether or not the certain vaccines would work or not work, or what is needed. So that’s — so you — you’re the safest group of people in the whole world — number one,” Biden continued.
“Number two, you’re not likely to be able to be exposed to something and spread it to mommy or daddy. And it’s not likely mommy and daddy are able to spread it to you either. So I wouldn’t worry about it, baby. I promise you.”
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Q: &quot;When will kids be able to get the vaccine?
Biden: &quot;First, kids don&#39;t get COVID very often&#8230;So you&#39;re the safest group of people in the whole world. You&#39;re not likely to be able to be exposed to something &amp; spread it to mommy or daddy&quot;
So why aren&#39;t school open 5 days a wk <a href="https://t.co/uvzoWky4Q8">pic.twitter.com/uvzoWky4Q8</a>
&mdash; Mona Salama (@MonaSalama_) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonaSalama_/status/1361875169577435138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Yet again, Cooper failed to ask the obvious follow-up question of “If kids ‘don’t get COVID very often,’ and kids are ‘the safest group of people in the whole word,’ why are we forcing children into isolation, often with deadly consequences?”
Instead, Cooper moved on to ask when the pandemic is “going to be done,” and when we are “going to get back to normal.”
Softball questions instead of “where is Gov. Cuomo?” or “why didn’t you fire TJ Ducklo?”
Despite the scandal unfolding in New York, with Gov. Cuomo finally having <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/15/us/new-york-cuomo-covid/index.html">admitted</a> error after his administration’s decision to withhold data on COVID-19 death rates, Biden wasn’t asked one question about the man he had reportedly considered to be his Attorney General.
Multiple figures at CNN, the network who hosted this town hall event, have also refused to acknowledge the ongoing controversy.
This wasn’t the only topic ignored by CNN. When he entered office, Biden warned his administration of the consequences which would follow interpersonal misconduct. “I’m not joking when I say this: If you’re ever working with me and I hear you treat another with disrespect, talking down to someone, I will fire you on the spot. On the spot. No ifs, ands, or buts.” However, when White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-should-have-fulfilled-his-promise-and-fired-ducklo-on-the-spot-after-he-reportedly-sexually-harassed-reporter">accused</a> of sexually harassing and berating a Politico reporter, he was only given a one week suspension. He later resigned.
Instead, Cooper found time to ask Biden questions like “What’s it like?  How’s it different?” regarding his return to the White House, and “Is it different than you expected it to be, in some ways?”
Moving the goalposts and throwing Jen Psaki under the school bus
In December, Joe Biden promised “to bring the coronavirus pandemic under enough control to open most of the nation’s schools during his first 100 days as president.” In recent weeks, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was forced to walk back those claims, saying that Biden’s “goal that he set is to have the majority of schools, so more than 50 percent, open by day 100 of his presidency. And that means some teaching in classrooms. So at least one a day week, hopefully it’s more. And obviously it is as much as is safe in each school and local district.”
When Cooper quizzed Biden on his current position, “now saying that means those schools may only be open for at least one day a week,” Biden responded, saying “No, that’s not true.”
“That’s what was reported; that’s not true.  There was a mistake in the communication,” Biden continued. “But what I — what I’m talking about is I said opening the majority of schools in K-through-eighth grade because they’re the easiest to open, the most needed to be opened, in terms of the impact on children and families having to stay home.”
Biden then said that they would be “close” to opening schools at the end of the first 100 days of his administration. Cooper decided not to push Biden on his focus on K-through-8 schools and the dilution of his promise to being “close” after 100 days.
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WATCH: Biden reverses White House&#39;s previous guidance on school reopenings, says schools should open five days a week for in-person learning by end of April <a href="https://t.co/QAfJmogUzY">pic.twitter.com/QAfJmogUzY</a>
&mdash; The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1362055867160539141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ian Haworth is an Editor and Writer for The Daily Wire. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ighaworth">@ighaworth</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Here’s Everything You Need To Know From Biden’s CNN Town Hall

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CNN host Anderson Cooper compared the rioters who were involved in the breach of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 to people who were involved in carrying out the Rwandan genocide in 1994 — a catastrophic event that saw approximately 800,000 people slaughtered in the span of just a couple of months.
&#8220;Part of it, I think, just based on what you were just saying, it comes to mind, the idea of otherizing people is something I think we saw a lot of over the last four years. I mean, certainly we&#8217;ve seen a lot over the last decades, but it&#8217;s so easy to otherize people, to make people other than, other than American, other than patriotic, other than human,&#8221; Cooper said to a nodding Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a frequent critic of Donald Trump. &#8220;You know, and we&#8217;ve seen it in Bosnia, we&#8217;ve seen it in Rwanda, where radio was telling people that you know, Hutus, were telling the radio listeners that Tutsi were cockroaches for you know, getting them ginned up for genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;And you see it in in these videos where people who claim they are patriots are in the face of a police officer calling him you know, as we&#8217;re seeing it right there and and you know, gouging out of the eye of one, you know, squeezing one in, you know, a suffocating one in a doorway,&#8221; he continued.
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CNN&#39;s Cooper compares Trump &amp; his supporters on Jan. 6 to those that carried out genocides in Bosnia &amp; Rwanda: &quot;[W]e&#39;ve seen it in Bosnia, we&#39;ve seen it in Rwanda where radios was telling people &#8211; you know, Hutus were telling the radio listeners that the Tutsi are cockroaches&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/2oELRGqKeE">pic.twitter.com/2oELRGqKeE</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1359328430664388611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Cooper previously associated the events of January 6 with the Rwandan genocide just a few days after the riot happened.
&#8220;You know, I remember seeing you in the lobby of a hotel in Egypt in the midst of the revolution. And it was a really scary day,&#8221; Cooper said to New York Times columnist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-times-columnist-tom-friedman-on-china-at-least-they-dont-have-republicans-qanon">Thomas Friedman</a>. &#8220;I was, I was, I&#8217;ve seen a lot and I was very scared that day. Um, you&#8217;ve been to a lot of civil wars. You know, I was in Rwanda in the genocide briefly, I was in Bosnia, we&#8217;ve, you know, we&#8217;re in Iraq, Afghanistan, you&#8217;ve been around the world, you&#8217;ve seen a lot.&#8221;
&#8220;I hear people talking about civil war in America as if they know what they&#8217;re talking about, as if they know what that looks like,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And unless you&#8217;ve seen it up close, I mean, it is a horrible, horrible thing. I am so upset when I hear these people at rallies, Trump rallies talking about civil war as if it&#8217;s some sort of a cleansing.&#8221;
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Anderson Cooper also said this back on Jan. 12: &quot;I was in Rwanda in the genocide&#8230;.I hear people talking about civil war in America&#8230;.I am so upset when I hear these people at rallies — Trump rallies talking about Civil War as if it&#39;s some sort of a cleansing.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/y9U9OH6cv6">pic.twitter.com/y9U9OH6cv6</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1359329484915306497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 10, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Cooper made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-cooper-compares-trump-to-dictator-whose-son-shot-opponents-trump-jr-trolls-him-with-photo">similar comparison</a> late last year when discussing then-President Donald Trump.
“In the mid-90s, I think it was like ’96, I was in Kinshasa in the waning days of Mobutu, and Mobutu was a pretty awful dictator and when he finally fled the country and the rebels were moving to take the capital, his son drove around in a pick-up truck with a machine gun and settling scores with people he felt with people had not been supportive enough with Mobutu,” Cooper said. “Thankfully, it hasn’t come to that here, but I can’t believe we’re in a situation where a transfer of power is not — I can’t believe we are in this situation here — it just seems so petty and I know it’s about Georgia and I know it’s about setting up grievance politics that will perhaps allow him to run in four years.”
One major development from the Rwandan genocide took place last year when European law enforcement officials tracked down and arrested Félicien Kabuga.
Kabuga &#8220;was behind the radio station whose hate-filled invectives turned Rwandan against Rwandan, neighbor against neighbor, even spouse against spouse,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/world/europe/france-rwanda-genocide-kabuga.html">reported</a>. &#8220;[Kabuga] was the man, it was said, who imported the hundreds of thousands of machetes that allowed countless ordinary people to act upon that hatred in one of the last genocides of the past century.&#8221;

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Compares Capitol Hill Riot To 800,000 Murdered In Rwandan Genocide

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