An Australian journalist was struck by a rubber bullet fired by law enforcement during a live shot covering a violent anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
Lauren Tomasi of 9News Australia, a CNN affiliate, was conducting a live broadcast when she was struck with the non-lethal projectile.
Video of the Sunday afternoon incident shows Tomasi standing to the side of an intersection in downtown Los Angeles as armed police officers confronted protesters.
“After hours of standing off, this situation has now rapidly deteriorated, the LAPD moving in on horseback, firing rubber bullets at protesters, moving them on through the heart of LA,” Tomasi said moments before she was hit.
In the video, an outraged bystander can be heard yelling at officers, “You just shot the f***ing reporter!”
Tomasi shrieks and limps away after the impact, telling bystanders, “I’m good.”
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U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in the heart of Los Angeles. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9News</a>
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The Australian journalist was left sore but not seriously injured, while her country&#8217;s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement saying, &#8220;all journalists should be able to do their work safely,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/09/us/la-protests-immigration-ice-trump">according</a> to The New York Times.
It remains unclear whether the officer had deliberately aimed at the journalist, and the LAPD stated to the Times that it did not have &#8220;any comment or statement on any specific incident pertaining to the protests.&#8221;
The LAPD did issue several “unlawful assembly” declarations over the weekend, warning media members to “please keep a safe distance from active operations.”
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An UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY has been declared for the Civic Center area of DTLA. 
A number of people have been arrested. 
All people are to stay away from the Civic Center area of DTLA. 
Effected areas: Alameda ~ Los Angeles St ~ Aliso ~ Commercial ~ Main St ~ Spring St ~ Temple…
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Rubber bullets have been regularly used by law enforcement for crowd control for years, but they can cause serious injury, as was the case for a British journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/09/australian-reporter-shot-with-rubber-bullet-while-covering-anti-ice-protests-in-los-angeles">hospitalized</a> by a rubber bullet over the weekend.
The Los Angeles anti-ICE protests, which began somewhat peacefully early Saturday after reported raids in the area, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-says-national-guard-moving-into-la-to-shut-down-anti-ice-riots">deteriorated</a> into more chaotic scenes by late afternoon, leading President Donald Trump to deploy thousands of National Guard troops in the afternoon.
The violence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-liberate-los-angeles-shut-down-migrant-riots-and-insurrectionist-mobs?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Vows+To+%E2%80%98Liberate+Los+Angeles%2C%E2%80%99+Shut+Down+%E2%80%98Migrant+Riots%E2%80%99+And+%E2%80%98Insurrectionist+Mobs%E2%80%99">continued</a> on Sunday afternoon, with rioters throwing objects and concrete at officers, setting vehicles on fire, and shooting “commercial grade fireworks” at law enforcement.

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Democrats and media talking heads spent Sunday morning attempting to downplay the violence and vandalism on display in Los Angeles, forcing Republican guests to defend President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to call in the National Guard.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
After Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents attempted to carry out several raids across the greater Los Angeles area — and were met with two days of protests and violence — President Trump activated the National Guard to help get the situation under control. Even as the National Guardsmen arrived in Los Angeles, Democrats on the Sunday talk shows tried to paint the ongoing riots as &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221; and Trump&#8217;s actions as excessive.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; it was noted that the National Guard typically would deploy at the direction of the governor of a particular state — and that Trump&#8217;s move to deploy them over the objections of Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was something that had only happened a handful of times in the past.
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“Typically, the federal government sends in the National Guard only at the governor’s request. Trump is bypassing Newsom, marking the first time a president has bypassed a state governor since the Civil Rights Movement.” <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorLAult?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TrevorLAult</a> has the latest: <a href="https://t.co/8cI4TBUlYx">https://t.co/8cI4TBUlYx</a> <a href="https://t.co/ANyXHzqsoW">pic.twitter.com/ANyXHzqsoW</a>
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House Speaker Mike Johnson told host Jonathan Karl that he wasn&#8217;t at all worried that Trump had gotten out over his skis in this particular situation, however.
&#8220;I think the president did exactly what he needed to do … Gavin Newsom has shown an inability or unwillingness to do what is necessary there, so the president stepped in,&#8221; he explained.
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“I think the president did exactly what he needed to do … Gavin Newsom has shown an inability or unwillingness to do what is necessary there, so the president stepped in,” Speaker Johnson tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> after Trump deploys California National Guard. <a href="https://t.co/XS5Rl4O1po">https://t.co/XS5Rl4O1po</a> <a href="https://t.co/JtuK9TyuHW">pic.twitter.com/JtuK9TyuHW</a>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; anchor Margaret Brennan pressed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on President Trump&#8217;s order saying that protesters would not be permitted to wear masks, noting that many ICE agents continued to cover their faces. Noem was not clear on how Trump&#8217;s order banning masks for protesters might be enforced, but she pointed out that the agents wearing masks were doing so because their lives and families had already been threatened.
&#8220;[It&#8217;s] for the safety of those individuals or the work that they’re doing, as far as protecting their identity.&#8221;
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After President Trump said that protesters in Los Angeles will not be allowed to wear masks, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says she “won’t get more specific” on how that will be enforced. But she defends law enforcement officers continuing to wear masks, saying it’s… <a href="https://t.co/ArkyBCa9V7">pic.twitter.com/ArkyBCa9V7</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1931738932217057301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are not going to let a repeat of 2020 happen,&#8221; Noem added, referencing the violent riots — dubbed &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221; by media outlets — that followed the death of George Floyd.
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&#8220;We are not going to let a repeat of 2020 happen,&#8221; Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says, referring to violent protests that happened that year, as President Trump says he is going to mobilize the National Guard for ongoing protests in Los Angeles.
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— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1931739078631850018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) said his main concern was that the riots in Los Angeles were just &#8220;the tip of the iceberg,&#8221; adding, &#8220;What I&#8217;m worried about is, this thing&#8217;s going to escalate,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be just L.A., it will be cities all over the country as we continue to deport people.&#8221;
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says the deportations that have led to protests in Los Angeles are &#8220;the tip of the iceberg,&#8221; as the number of deportations nationwide is &#8220;about to go way up.&#8221;
&#8220;What I&#8217;m worried about is, this thing&#8217;s going to escalate,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s not going to be… <a href="https://t.co/dVUNTFdS0f">pic.twitter.com/dVUNTFdS0f</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1931741077599670747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Sen. Cory Booker actually used the word &#8220;peaceful&#8221; to describe demonstrations that involved protesters hurling concrete and rocks at ICE agents and their vehicles.
&#8220;The reality is we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles. And again, any violence against police officers should not be accepted. Local authorities can handle that. But remember, a lot of these peaceful protests are being generated because the president of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law,&#8221; he said.
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On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined anchor Dana Bash to discuss the situation. And while he was supportive of Trump&#8217;s decision to call in the National Guard, he drew the line there — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth&#8217;s promise to have active duty Marines on high alert, he argued, was not necessary.
&#8220;The National Guard ought to take care of the situation,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RonJohnsonWI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonJohnsonWI</a> rejects Secretary Hegseth&#8217;s suggestion to deploy active-duty Marines to California: &#8220;The National Guard ought to take care of the situation.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BuX6Q8Ydyi">pic.twitter.com/BuX6Q8Ydyi</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1931709090448760867?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) offered his full-throated support to Trump, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why a governor would want to try to protect illegal activity inside a state. And the president has made it very clear, if the governor or the mayor of a city isn&#8217;t willing to protect the citizens of his state or the city, then the president will.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MarkwayneMullin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarkwayneMullin</a> on Trump bypassing California Governor Gavin Newsom on deploying the National Guard: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know why a governor would want to try to protect illegal activity inside a state. And the president has made it very clear, if the governor or the mayor of a city isn&#8217;t… <a href="https://t.co/M9qFgYcG82">pic.twitter.com/M9qFgYcG82</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1931712459586384043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bash also spoke with Rep. Nanette Barragan (D-CA), who argued that California did not need any help in managing the protests. She claimed that they were peaceful, and that Trump had only called out the National Guard in order to create the illusion of violent confrontation.
&#8220;We agree that, if you&#8217;re being violent, you should be arrested, you should be prosecuted. There is no disagreement on that… But this is not what&#8217;s happening. We are having an administration that&#8217;s targeting peaceful protests, people that are there to protest. The president is sending in the National Guard because he doesn&#8217;t like the scenes. He doesn&#8217;t like the scenes of people peacefully protesting,&#8221; she insisted.
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BASH: “What is your message to people who are getting violent?”
BARRAGAN: “It&#8217;s, don&#8217;t get violent… We agree that, if you&#8217;re being violent, you should be arrested, you should be prosecuted. There is no disagreement on that… But this is not what&#8217;s happening. We are having an… <a href="https://t.co/qNmYApIamQ">pic.twitter.com/qNmYApIamQ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1931729761224515822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour said this week that she prepared for a trip to the U.S. as if she were going to North Korea.
The British-Iranian journalist, 67, said she was &#8220;afraid&#8221; to travel to the land of the free to give an address at Harvard University last month.
&#8220;I have to tell you, when I went to Harvard to give this speech, and it was just a few days ago last week, I must say, I was afraid,&#8221; Amanpour said Wednesday on her podcast “The Ex Files,” which she hosts with her ex-husband, James Rubin, a former State Department official.
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🚨CNN hack journo Christiane Amanpour compares coming to the US to North Korea:
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&#8220;I&#8217;m a foreigner, I don&#8217;t have a green card, I&#8217;m not an American citizen, I&#8217;m fairly prominent, and I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea,&#8221; she said.
Amanpour has previously reported from war zones, including during the Gulf and Bosnian wars.
&#8220;I took a burner phone, Jamie, imagine that,&#8221; Amanpour told her ex-husband during the podcast.
She said she did not take her regular cell phone or her iPad, and she had &#8220;nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers&#8221; including those for her assistant, her ex-husband, her son, and a CNN lawyer.
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&#8220;I was really afraid. I&#8217;d even talked to the CNN security person, because I&#8217;ve heard that many, including British citizens, are being stopped at the border and questioned for hours and hours and hours,&#8221; Amanpour said.
However, she admitted she encountered no such issues on her trip.
“So, huge sigh of relief I breathed, but wow, can you imagine if I’m afraid, what do others think?” she said.
Amanpour previously sparked controversy when she compared the Trump administration to Nazis in 2020.
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This is ⁦⁦@camanpour on⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ comparing Trump’s tenure to Nazi Germany. How the hell is this sort of prejudice tolerated on mainstream media? 
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&#8220;This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,&#8221; she said at the beginning of her CNN show days after the 2020 presidential election. Kristallnacht or the &#8220;Night of Broken Glass&#8221; was a 1938 Nazi attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
&#8220;It was the Nazis&#8217; warning shot across the bow of our human civilization that led to genocide against a whole identity, and in that tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history and truth,&#8221; Amanpour continued. &#8220;After four years of a modern-day assault on those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges a return to norms, including the truth.&#8221;
Jewish advocacy groups criticized Amanpour&#8217;s comments, one <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/cnn-under-fire-segment-comparing-trumps-tenure-nazi-germany-1547258" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asking</a> her to &#8220;stop using the horrors of the Holocaust to justify an agenda.&#8221;

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After two horrific attacks in under two weeks — both perpetrated by anti-Israel terrorists who either claimed they&#8217;d acted on behalf of Gaza or shouted &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; as they carried out their violent acts — conservative pundits are drawing a hard line directly through the &#8220;Free Palestine&#8221; movement to the increasingly violent attacks on American Jews.
Fox News contributor Guy Benson made the case during a Monday appearance on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; where he explained that the disturbingly violent acts — such as Mohamed Sabry Soliman fire-bombing adults and children at a pro-Israel demonstration or Elias Rodriguez gunning down two young Israeli Embassy staffers without provocation — were not outliers. Instead, he said they were the manifestation of loud calls across American college campuses to &#8220;globalize the intifada&#8221; and to stop Israel &#8220;by any means necessary.&#8221;
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🔥 <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@guypbenson</a> speaks the PLAIN, HONEST TRUTH:
&#8220;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!&#8221;
&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221;
&#8220;Two students at Harvard in 2023 physically assaulted a Jewish… <a href="https://t.co/16hjxyvnrG">pic.twitter.com/16hjxyvnrG</a>
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&#8220;I saw an observer yesterday note, &#8216;Hamas supporters aren&#8217;t just burning American flags in our streets. They&#8217;re now burning Americans in our streets!'&#8221; Benson began. &#8220;When we hear these chants of &#8216;Globalize the Intifada,&#8217; &#8216;by any means necessary,&#8217; ringing out in our cities, on our campuses at these hate rallies, this is what it actually looks like in practice.&#8221;
&#8220;It looks like a governor&#8217;s mansion, torched in the middle of the night with a Jewish leader sleeping upstairs with his family,&#8221; Benson continued, referencing the arson attack against Governor Josh Shapiro during Passover. &#8220;It looks like two employees of the Israeli Embassy in this city, our capital city, murdered in cold blood at a Jewish museum. And it looks like these elderly Jewish Americans fire-bombed at a peaceful rally on behalf of releasing hostages in Colorado.&#8221;
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&#8220;The pro-Palestine movement is a VIOLENT movement!&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Their rhetoric is violent, they justify violence, they celebrate violence, and increasingly, they are engaging in violence not just over there, here in the United States. It&#8217;s a disgrace, and it has to stop.&#8221;
Benson also called out the media coverage of the attacks, adding, &#8220;If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of &#8216;national conversation&#8217; would we be having?&#8221;
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If a right-wing movement had burned down a governor’s mansion, murdered two foreign diplomats &amp; firebombed kids and elderly people at a peaceful protest — in the span of a few weeks — what would the coverage look like? What sort of “national conversation” would we be having?
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1929386771168538786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN Republican pundit Scott Jennings took things a step further, saying during an appearance on &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with Jake Tapper that the pro-Palestinian movement in the United States was effectively a domestic terror organization.
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What more do we need to see before we acknowledge this &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?
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&#8220;This is horrific,&#8221; he said of the fire-bombing attack in Boulder. &#8220;What more do we need to see, Jake, before we realize this &#8216;free Palestine&#8217; movement is nothing more than a domestic terror organization?&#8221;
&#8220;The rise of antisemitism in America, the rise of the number of people who have come to America who hold anti-American views, anti-Western views, and antisemitic views — and are now willing to act on it – it is absolutely outrageous,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;And I think as a society, we need to understand. We are dealing with domestic terrorism, it&#8217;s growing more violent by the day, and if we don&#8217;t deal with it, these kinds of things are going to keep happening in cities all over the place. It&#8217;s awful, and we need to come to grips with the fight that we&#8217;re in right now in America, a fight for the future of our country and the future of western civilization.&#8221;

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings left Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) sputtering her objections during a panel discussion after he laid out several of the more unpopular cultural issues behind which her party has thrown its support.
Dingell began by expressing a sentiment that a number of Democrats have in recent weeks, saying that it clearly was not enough of a strategy to simply oppose President Donald Trump or oppose Republicans — and that in order to win elections going forward, the Democratic Party needed to paint a clearer picture of what it stood for.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepDebDingell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDebDingell</a> says the Democrats need to stand for something — but they already do!
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&#8220;Democrats have to stop being &#8216;against Donald Trump&#8217; and start being &#8216;for&#8217; something,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll defend the Democrats,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;They are for things. Illegal aliens. You&#8217;re for boys in girls&#8217; sports. I mean, you are for things. And that&#8217;s why you have such struggles right now in your party, because you&#8217;re not for anything that&#8217;s on the right side of any of the 80-20 issues that are driving this cultural divide in America.&#8221;
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Jennings then pivoted to address the Democratic Party&#8217;s bench going into the next presidential election cycle, and he conceded that he saw some talent in Governor Wes Moore (D-MD).
&#8220;The other person who spoke in South Carolina, Tim Walz, is a special mixture of extreme buffoonery and a mean spirit, which is a toxic brew,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;He is not the future of the Democratic Party. Moore is interesting. Moore is interesting, probably more interesting than some of the radicals you have out there, Crockett, AOC, I mean those are the true leaders of your party right now —&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s not true — I&#8217;m not gonna even let you —&#8221; Dingell attempted to push back.

CNN Panel Gets Heated As Republican Reveals What Dems Really ‘Stand For’

CNN Panel Gets Heated As Republican Reveals What Dems Really 'Stand For'

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CNN data analyst Harry Enten voiced his disbelief on Monday as the latest polls show that Republicans have eliminated the Democratic Party&#8217;s double-digit advantage in one key metric: which party looks out for the middle class?
Enten laid out several polls — including one from CNN and one from Reuters — showing that Republicans held the advantage when it came to the economy, even after four months of what Democrats and media have repeatedly painted as economic upheaval and the stock market &#8220;going bonkers.&#8221;
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🚨HOLY SMOKES: CNN veteran pollster is completely FLABBERGASTED by new polling that reveals how Democrats are failing even FURTHER behind.
&#8220;How is that possible, Democrats?!&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE&#8230;! Adios, amigos!&#8221;
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&#8220;After the first five months of the Donald Trump presidency &#8212; the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, you&#8217;d expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy,&#8221; Enten began. &#8220;It ain&#8217;t so, it ain&#8217;t so! The party that is closest to your economic views, in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now, it&#8217;s still within that range, still within that margin of error — plus eight point advantage for the Republican Party.&#8221;
&#8220;How is that possible, Democrats?! How is that possible after all the recession fears After the stock market&#8217;s been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy? Are you kidding me?&#8221; Enten continued.
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He went on to note that multiple polls were telling the same story  — with some even showing Trump&#8217;s numbers going up despite the erratic markets.
&#8220;Despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy,&#8221; he said, &#8220;This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy.&#8221;
He finished with the key question — &#8220;Which is the party of the middle class?&#8221; — on which polling has traditionally skewed Democrat by double digits, and showed how Republicans had chipped away that lead dramatically since Trump was first elected in 2016.
In 1989, Enten explained, Democrats had held a 23 point advantage. They only lost six points over nearly three decades — dropping only to a 17-point lead after 27 years in 2016. The Democrats&#8217; lead dropped to just four points in 2022 and as of 2025, has disappeared entirely.
&#8220;This, I think, speaks to Democratic ills more than anything else,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE! Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away and now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone. Adios, amigos!&#8221;

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The reporter at the center of a recent defamation case against cable news giant CNN announced on Monday that he was leaving the network &#8220;after 8 terrific years.&#8221;
Alex Marquardt, who worked for ABC News prior to his nearly decade-long stint at CNN, was the focal point of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-found-liable-ordered-to-pay-5-million-to-navy-vet-in-defamation-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defamation suit</a> brought by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young. The network lost that lawsuit, and was ordered to pay out $5 million in economic and emotional damages. CNN was also on the hook for punitive damages, but the amount was never made public.
The reporter made the announcement in a post on X, saying, &#8220;Some personal news: I’m leaving CNN after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team &amp; the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad.&#8221;
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BREAKING: CNN reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/MarquardtA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarquardtA</a> who defamed Navy veteran Zachary Young announces he’s leaving the network <a href="https://t.co/l8tEkbWxJY">https://t.co/l8tEkbWxJY</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1929569012402311226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The lawsuit came about after Marquardt <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-under-fire-as-navy-veteran-testifies-in-1-billion-defamation-case" target="_blank" rel="noopener">featured Young</a> in a story about private contractors assisting with evacuations in the aftermath of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Marquardt framed the story in a way that unfairly painted Young as greedy and willing to capitalize on the pain of families desperate to get people out of the country.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Young’s attorney Kyle Roche claimed during opening statements that the CNN report was “reckless” and that the network had “set out to destroy Zach’s reputation.”
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&#8220;They didn’t care about the truth. They cared about theater and they cared about ratings,” he said, previewing internal messages from CNN editors who stated that Marquardt’s report was “full of holes like Swiss cheese” and “80 percent emotion and 20 percent obscured fact.”
Other text messages between Marquardt and Young — and Marquardt and his colleagues at CNN — played a role in revealing just how far the reporter had been willing to go for a story that Young warned him would result in legal action.
Marquardt did not give any indication as to where he might be headed following his departure from CNN.

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With the Republican-led One Big Beautiful Bill over its first major hurdle in the U.S. House, Democrats and media are making sure the knives are out at every opportunity lest it pass the Senate and give President Donald Trump another win.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Discussion regarding what the bill will and won’t cut — particularly with regard to Medicaid — took center stage on several broadcasts as Democrats and show hosts alike insisted people would lose health care coverage if it passed. The bill’s defenders argued that anyone stripped of coverage by this bill — namely illegal immigrants and those who were receiving payments through fraudulent means — should not have been getting Medicaid coverage in the first place.
On ABC News’ “This Week,” former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus defended the measure, saying that Medicaid had become bloated in recent years but that the cuts being discussed were targeted to remove benefits going to people who were in the United States illegally.
Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Donna Brazile pressed the point by first claiming that the Trump administration was cutting aid across the board, particularly to areas hit by recent storms — and she argued that the American people would not be pleased with the &#8220;bone-crushing&#8221; changes.
&#8220;We had 50 million people on Medicaid in 2011. Today we’ve got 80 million people on Medicaid. This bill doesn&#8217;t cut Medicaid, he said. &#8220;It says that for illegal immigrants, there will be cuts.&#8221;
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On GOP-led budget bill, former RNC chair <a href="https://twitter.com/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reince</a> Priebus said: “We had 50 million people on Medicaid in 2011. Today we’ve got 80 million people on Medicaid. This bill doesn&#8217;t cut Medicaid &#8230; It says that for illegal immigrants, there will be cuts.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qjCkcbK2qg">https://t.co/qjCkcbK2qg</a> <a href="https://t.co/1qfVKhXEae">pic.twitter.com/1qfVKhXEae</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1929198183277600981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The New York Times&#8217; national correspondent Astead Herndon said that Democrats were leaning in to what they saw as disappointment among Trump supporters because he&#8217;d been so focused on getting the budget bill over the line. He went on to claim that there was &#8220;a sense that he is not actually delivering on the core promises&#8221; — but he left out the fact that the One Big Beautiful Bill represents the fulfillment of major campaign promises such as &#8220;no tax on tips&#8221; and the permanent extension of the tax rates implemented under Trump&#8217;s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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NYT’s <a href="https://twitter.com/AsteadWH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AsteadWH</a> said some of Pres. Trump&#8217;s supporters are surprised “about the things that he has been focusing on&#8221; like tariffs or the spending bill, adding that there&#8217;s a &#8220;sense that he is not actually delivering on the core promises.” <a href="https://t.co/naOG3dmK1b">https://t.co/naOG3dmK1b</a> <a href="https://t.co/LE58bUd94u">pic.twitter.com/LE58bUd94u</a>
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Brazile also brought billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk into the conversation, saying that despite his announcement that he&#8217;d be stepping away from his role in the Trump administration, he had already done more damage than could easily be undone.
&#8220;Elon Musk may have walked away from his temporary special government job, but no one will forget the harm that he has done to not only America&#8217;s reputation across the world, but also the harm that he&#8217;s done to the American people,&#8221;she claimed.
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“Elon Musk may have walked away from his temporary special government job, but no one will forget the harm that he has done to not only America&#8217;s reputation across the world, but also the harm that he&#8217;s done to the American people,” <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> said. <a href="https://t.co/88pTxxsTQQ">https://t.co/88pTxxsTQQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/pVk9msZd0L">pic.twitter.com/pVk9msZd0L</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1929204844448952549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; anchor Margaret Brennan highlighted the fact that the Senate — if it passed the One Big Beautiful Bill at all — was likely to make changes, and she spoke with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about how those changes might be received.
Bessent outlined the items that he said &#8220;have to stay in&#8221; — specifically: no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans for American-made automobiles — and made it clear that it was not his call, but President Trump&#8217;s. &#8220;They&#8217;re not necessarily my red lines. The president has his campaign promises that he wants to fulfill for working Americans,&#8221; he said.
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President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” will be taken up next in the Senate — with some changes expected. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there are some items that &#8220;have to stay in&#8221; — no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans… <a href="https://t.co/MpAxXs2NBS">pic.twitter.com/MpAxXs2NBS</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929221177945272465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke with Brennan about the bill, which he opposes in its current form, saying that in his mind, &#8220;the math doesn&#8217;t really add up.&#8221; Paul has also vocally opposed Trump&#8217;s willingness to use tariffs as leverage to bring foreign nations to the table regarding trade agreements.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; on Sunday that &#8220;the math doesn&#8217;t really add up&#8221; on the cost of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill,&#8221; while outlining his opposition as the legislation moves to the Senate this week. <a href="https://t.co/p7VFMlpZcN">https://t.co/p7VFMlpZcN</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929251077364322647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Paul also said that if a provision raising the debt ceiling was removed, he would likely support the measure. &#8220;I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction,&#8221; he said of possible Senate changes.
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he thinks there are now four Senate Republicans who would vote to block President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;big, beautiful bill,&#8221; and &#8220;I would be very surprised if the bill at least is not modified in a good direction.&#8221;
Paul adds that he would likely support the bill… <a href="https://t.co/2VDikZ8hjZ">pic.twitter.com/2VDikZ8hjZ</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1929199658779455997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; anchor Dana Bash circled back to the idea of Medicaid cuts coming from the bill&#8217;s passage during an interview with OMB Director Russell Vought — and she cited Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and his comments suggesting that there would be cuts to the program.
&#8220;No one will lose coverage as a result of this bill,&#8221; Vought said.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not what Josh Hawley, who is not exactly a liberal Democrat, said. He said, &#8216;It&#8217;s wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here with Medicaid,'&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Well, we continue to work with people in the Senate as to working them through with the specifics of the bill, what it does and what it doesn&#8217;t do,&#8221; Vought pushed back.
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VOUGHT: “No one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.”
BASH: “That&#8217;s not what Josh Hawley, who is not exactly a liberal Democrat, said. He said, ‘It&#8217;s wrong to cut health care for the working poor, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about here with Medicaid.’”
VOUGHT: “Well,… <a href="https://t.co/1w99EWULm9">pic.twitter.com/1w99EWULm9</a>
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Bash also brought in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who blasted the bill outright: &#8220;Trump&#8217;s one, big ugly bill narrowly escaped the House of Representatives. And we&#8217;re going to continue to press our case across the country, partner with Senate Democrats in making clear to the American people the type of damage that this bill would do if it ever became law.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepJeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJeffries</a> says Democrats “can’t let our foot off the gas pedal” in opposing Trump’s tax and spending cut bill:
“Trump&#8217;s one, big ugly bill narrowly escaped the House of Representatives. And we&#8217;re going to continue to press our case across the country, partner with Senate… <a href="https://t.co/ikJ5aeUu4s">pic.twitter.com/ikJ5aeUu4s</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1929173562033619424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spin Cycle: To Deal Or Not To Deal — On Tariffs, Trade, And One Big Beautiful Bill

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CNN&#8217;s chief data analyst Harry Enten revealed on Monday that most Americans agree with the Trump administration’s assessment that higher education needs &#8220;a kick in the rear end,&#8221; with confidence in colleges plummeting to just 36%.
The decline in Americans&#8217; confidence in higher education has been dramatic over the past decade, Enten explained, citing a recent Gallup poll.
&#8220;You go back a decade ago, 57% of Americans had high confidence in higher education. &#8230; That number has plummeted &#8230; down to 36%,&#8221; Enten explained, speaking with Kate Balduan, adding that 68% of Americans believe higher education is &#8220;on the wrong track.&#8221;
The perception of ideological bias on college campuses is widespread, with Enten revealing that a plurality of Americans agree colleges have a liberal bias, while only a small minority disagree.
“So, do colleges have a liberal bias? I think that&#8217;s really the question here. What we see in polling after polling after polling is that the plurality say yes. Overall, look at that. 45% of Americans overall agree with the idea that colleges have a liberal bias. Just 24% disagree with that idea.”
Among Republicans, the sentiment is even stronger, with “67% of Republicans&#8221; agreeing that &#8220;colleges have a liberal bias,” reflecting why many conservatives have long criticized academia.
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“This is why Donald Trump is so emphatic and so wanting to take on this fight because he knows that Republicans hate universities, hate the administrations, believe they have a liberal bias, and in fact the plurality of Americans overall agree with the idea, agree with Donald Trump, that colleges are in fact a place where bias reigns.”
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A lot of Americans agree with Trump: higher ed needs a kick in the rear end. Those with high confidence in higher ed has collapsed: 57% in 2015 to 36% now. 68% (!) say higher ed is on the wrong track.
Also, a plurality of Americans &amp; the GOP agree: colleges have a liberal bias. <a href="https://t.co/JZtup3BoGV">pic.twitter.com/JZtup3BoGV</a>
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1928088903279358015?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2025</a></blockquote>
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According to Enten, it&#8217;s no longer much of a question of if there is bias, but rather, “it’s a question of whether or not people agree with Trump’s tactics,” although they “definitely agree with him on the idea that there is a problem with higher ed overall.”
These poll results come as Trump has attempted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-freezes-all-new-student-visa-interviews-in-major-blow-to-elite-universities?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Freezes+All+New+Student+Visa+Interviews+In+Major+Blow+To+Elite+Universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crack down</a> on universities such as Harvard, which receive billions in federal funding and grants despite rampant DEI initiatives and tolerance of antisemitism on campus.
Trump&#8217;s tough stance on higher education may already be having an impact internationally. Webpage views for U.S. university courses from potential students abroad have plummeted by 50% between January and April, according to Enten, suggesting foreign students are looking elsewhere for their education.

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Amid Harvard’s clash with the Trump administration over fostering an antisemitic environment, the university&#8217;s John F. Kennedy School of Government tapped a CNN anchor critical of Israel and President Donald Trump to deliver its 2025 graduation address.
Christiane Amanpour delivered the address to the student body the day before the commencement ceremony, in which she hailed academics as fighting &#8220;on the front lines of the current struggle between the two halves of America.”
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CNN&#39;s Christiane Amanpour, known for anti-Israel &amp; anti-Trump controversies, delivered Harvard Kennedy School’s grad address, calling education &quot;on the front lines between the two halves of America&quot; and saying that Europe welcomes &quot;those who are having their roles taken away.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/uo2qQ7ZOT0">pic.twitter.com/uo2qQ7ZOT0</a>
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The speech comes as the Trump administration and Harvard continue to face off over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-cuts-ties-with-hamas-friendly-birzeit-university">campus antisemitism</a> and the school&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-other-countries-pay-nothing-for-foreign-students-to-attend-harvard?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Says+Other+Countries+%E2%80%98Pay+NOTHING%E2%80%99+For+Foreign+Students+To+Attend+Harvard">ability to admit</a> new foreign students. This week, the Trump administration announced that Harvard would lose close to all of its federal funding.
During the speech, Amanpour said that “we cannot surrender to any system that deems only power-approved speech or thought is allowed.”
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She added that “this is not the first time the press, the fourth estate, has come under such sustained threat from the executive branch,” citing the Nixon administration challenging TV licenses held by The Washington Post following Watergate.
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Harvard Kennedy School graduation speaker and CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour:
&#8220;We cannot surrender to any system that deems only power-approved speech or thought is allowed.” <a href="https://t.co/qXl8gx4XgA">pic.twitter.com/qXl8gx4XgA</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1927824825134834117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Amanpour said Europe was willing to take in “those who are having their roles taken away,” a likely reference to either foreign students being stopped from attending Harvard or researchers that may lose their positions following a cut to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-loses-another-massive-chunk-of-federal-funding?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Harvard+Loses+Another+Massive+Chunk+Of+Federal+Funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal funding</a> to the private university.
“As you know, we over there in Europe are happy to lay out the welcome mat to all of those here who are having their roles taken away,” she said. “ We want your scientists, your researchers, your professionals.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graduation-speaker-returns-honorary-degree-after-plagiarizing-speech-elite-womens-college?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Graduation+Speaker+Returns+Honorary+Degree+After+Plagiarizing+Speech+At+Elite+Women%E2%80%99s+College" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GRADUATION SPEAKER RETURNS HONORARY DEGREE AFTER PLAGIARIZING SPEECH AT ELITE WOMEN’S COLLEGE</a>
She added that the diversity, smarts, energy, and determination of foreign students are needed.
Amanpour also took a shot at Trump’s program to resettle Afrikaner refugees from South Africa in the United States, stating that she thinks about the legacy of Nelson Mandela when she sees &#8220;Afrikaner minorities, who were the perpetrators of apartheid, being brought into this country as refugees.”
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During her speech at Harvard, Christiane Amanpour took a shot at Trump&#8217;s Afrikaner program, stating that she thinks about the legacy of Nelson Mandela when she sees &#8220;Afrikaner minorities, who were the perpetrators of apartheid, being brought into this country as refugees.” <a href="https://t.co/29IXoy5Ao7">pic.twitter.com/29IXoy5Ao7</a>
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) <a href="https://twitter.com/KassyAkiva/status/1927822153895821637?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
Amanpour has a long history of anti-Trump controversies, including in November 2020 when she compared the Trump presidency to to the Nazi Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938. Amanpour <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-regret-any-pain-christiane-amanpour-apologizes-for-comparing-trump-era-to-kristallnacht?author=Jon+Brown&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98I+Regret+Any+Pain%E2%80%99%3A+Christiane+Amanpour+Apologizes+For+Comparing+Trump+Era+To+Kristallnacht" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later apologized</a> following public outcry and condemnation from former Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Omer Yankelevich.
In 2016, Amanpour said <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/5M-805aTBIc">she was “shocked”</a> that Americans who voted for Trump ignored “the vulgarity of language, the sexual predatory behavior, the deep misogyny, the bigoted and insulting views.” In 2023, she <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/18/christiane-amanpour-columbia-cnn-town-hall-00097644?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confronted former</a> CNN CEO Chris Licht for hosting Trump for a townhall on the network, POLITICO reported.
Amanpour also challenged CNN&#8217;s leaders in 2024 over Israeli influence over the network&#8217;s coverage of the Israel-Hamas war that kicked off when the terror group massacred more than 1,000 Israeli civilians on October 7, 2023, Business Insider reported. CNN has faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-blasted-for-report-on-israel-rearranging-weaponry-at-al-shifa-prior-to-news-crew-visits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">severe criticism</a> for its anti-Israel coverage since the war began.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/homeland-security-to-screen-immigrants-and-foreign-students-social-media-for-anti-semitism?author=Kassy+Akiva&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=29&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Homeland+Security+To+Screen+Immigrants+And+Foreign+Students%E2%80%99+Social+Media+For+Anti-Semitism">HOMELAND SECURITY TO SCREEN IMMIGRANTS AND FOREIGN STUDENTS’ SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ANTI-SEMITISM</a>
Between October 7, 2023, and November 17, 2023, Israel was accused of “genocide” or being “genocidal” 13 times on “Amanpour,” with Hamas only being accused of similar atrocities 3 times, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/11/22/ugly-tilt-pbss-amanpour-show-only-sees-genocide-israel-not?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Newsbusters</a>. 
In May 2023, Amanpour faced backlash after referring to a terrorist attack that killed a mother and her two daughters as a “shootout” during an interview with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. The victims — Lucy, Maia, and Rina Dee were shot by Hamas-linked terrorists while driving on a highway. Amanpour later apologized, saying she had “misspoke.” Rabbi Leo Dee, the husband and father of the victims, said he did not accept her apology, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/cnn-anchor-amanpour-apologizes-for-calling-terror-attack-on-dee-family-a-shootout/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">The Times of Israel </a><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/cnn-anchor-amanpour-apologizes-for-calling-terror-attack-on-dee-family-a-shootout/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
A 2007 documentary by Amanpour titled “God’s Jewish Warriors&#8221; <a href="https://www.jewishpost.com/viewpoints/cnn-and-christiane-amanpour-defame-israel.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faced criticism</a> from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America for &#8220;equating the extremely rare cases of religiously-inspired violence on the part of Christians and Jews with radical Islam&#8217;s global, often state-supported, campaigns of mass killing.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-cuts-ties-with-hamas-friendly-birzeit-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HARVARD CUTS TIES WITH HAMAS-FRIENDLY BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY</a>
Amanpour has had a four-decade career in television journalism, beginning at CNN in 1983. She has reported on international conflicts throughout her career and currently hosts “Amanpour,” CNN’s flagship global affairs interview program, and “The Amanpour Hour.”
“Anyone who follows world news recognizes her signature determination to cut through the noise and help her viewers better understand complex global events,” <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/announcements/christiane-amanpour-will-deliver-2025-hks-graduation-address?utm_medium=socialmedia&amp;utm_source=hkstwitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Kennedy School Dean</a> Jeremy Weinstein. “At this time of change and uncertainty, she is the perfect person to address the next generation of public servants as they graduate from Harvard Kennedy School.”
Amanpour, who was born in London to an Iranian father and British mother, was raised in Tehran before moving to the United States following the 1979 Iranian revolution.

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Former Republican National Committee co-chair Lara Trump said on Tuesday that she was grateful for journalist Jake Tapper apologizing to her months after a heated debate over former President Joe Biden&#8217;s mental acuity, but added that the CNN host&#8217;s change of heart &#8220;feels a little bit too late.&#8221;
Following the release of his book, &#8220;Original Sin,&#8221; which documents the cover-up of Biden&#8217;s decline in the White House, Tapper said he apologized to Trump for berating her after she pointed out Biden&#8217;s mental struggles during an interview in October 2020. Trump, the president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, confirmed that Tapper called her &#8220;about two months ago&#8221; to promise that he would go on TV to apologize. Trump said she appreciated &#8220;that he did keep his word.&#8221;
&#8220;He said, &#8216;I have this book coming out, and I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you. I plan, whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.&#8217; And I guess to Jake&#8217;s credit, he did that,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/lara-trump-reveals-story-behind-cnn-anchor-jake-tappers-a-little-bit-too-late-apology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
&#8220;I think the overarching thing here is that the damage is done,&#8221; she added. &#8220;We were so close to something so dangerous happening to this country. &#8230; And Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right.&#8221;
During the October 2020 interview, which took place just weeks before the presidential election between Biden and Trump, Tapper pushed back against Mrs. Trump for questioning Biden&#8217;s mental acuity, arguing that Trump was exploiting Biden&#8217;s stutter.
&#8220;I think what we see on stage, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Ok &#8230; I think that you were mocking his stutter. And I think that you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody&#8217;s cognitive decline,&#8221; Tapper replied.
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&#8220;I&#8217;m not diagnosing him. What I&#8217;m saying, Jake, is that we can clearly see that Joe Biden is struggling at many times on stage, and it&#8217;s very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world,&#8221; Trump shot back.
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Seems like a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 Jake Tapper, first, accused me of making fun of people with a stutter (an atrocious accusation) and then attempted to shut me down and ended our interview when I tried to warn people of Joe Biden’s very obvious cognitive… <a href="https://t.co/ZOxSGQP13J">pic.twitter.com/ZOxSGQP13J</a>
— Lara Trump (@LaraLeaTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraLeaTrump/status/1806420367415914571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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While on a media tour to promote his book earlier this month, Tapper <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wrn09T30I" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> British TV host Piers Morgan, &#8220;Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline,&#8221; he added.
Tapper has been blasted for publishing a book about Biden&#8217;s mental decline — an issue conservatives had been raising for years — after the former president left office.
&#8220;No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, &#8216;You know what, we&#8217;re going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.&#8217; It&#8217;s too late,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you&#8217;re going to get any different result. It&#8217;s the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now.&#8221;

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The U.S. House met its stated goal, passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend — and by Sunday morning, the talking heads were doing their best to direct as much rain as possible onto the House Republicans&#8217; parade.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan spoke with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about the total projected cost of the bill as well as some of the provisions that were included before it was sent on to the U.S. Senate.
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says $4 to $5 trillion over the next decade is &#8220;about the right estimate&#8221; for the total cost of President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill,&#8221; which passed the House last week, and he says &#8220;cuts to government&#8221; through the bill will give the American… <a href="https://t.co/VBNuI7huRY">pic.twitter.com/VBNuI7huRY</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926653258107338988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson said that $4 to $5 trillion over approximately ten years was &#8220;about the right estimate&#8221; for the measure&#8217;s total cost, but he also said that the cuts included in the bill would provide savings to taxpayers as well.
&#8220;At the same time, we have historic savings for the American people — cuts to government to make it more efficient and effective and work better for the people,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;That was a big campaign promise of President Trump and a big promise of ours, and we&#8217;re going to achieve that. So in the calculation here, there&#8217;s more than $1.5 trillion in savings, Margaret, for the people.&#8221;
Johnson referred to the bill as &#8220;arguably the most consequential legislation Congress will pass in many generations.&#8221;
Brennan pushed back, noting that the Kaiser Foundation had evaluated the bill and said that changes to Medicaid could result in 200,000 people in Johnson&#8217;s home state of Louisiana losing their health care coverage. Johnson said that the only thing the bill would cut with regard to Medicaid was waste and abuse.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a moral component to what we&#8217;re doing. When you make young men work, it&#8217;s good for them, it&#8217;s good for their dignity, it&#8217;s good for their self-worth and it&#8217;s good for the community that they live in,&#8221; he explained.
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The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates nearly 200,000 people in Louisiana could lose Medicaid coverage under cuts from President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill.&#8221;
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) denies that there will be cuts and says the focus is on &#8220;fraud, waste and abuse,&#8221;… <a href="https://t.co/JeKUjhH2Gn">pic.twitter.com/JeKUjhH2Gn</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926657133568839898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson also acknowledged that some Senate Republicans objected to the expanded SALT (state and local taxes) cap, but noted that the large number of House Republicans in blue states had made the expansion a &#8220;political reality.&#8221;
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Several Senate Republicans may oppose changes to the expanded SALT (state and local taxes) cap in President Trump&#8217;s &#8220;one big, beautiful bill&#8221; that just passed in the House.
Speaker Mike Johnson says &#8220;there&#8217;s got to be a modification to SALT,&#8221; and that this is a &#8220;political… <a href="https://t.co/iRPykObz48">pic.twitter.com/iRPykObz48</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926664743156142186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Brennan then spoke with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), who was in favor of the expanded SALT cap because Connecticut has a higher state and local tax burden, but opposed the bill otherwise.
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The House-passed budget bill&#8217;s SALT cap increase &#8220;is going to be good&#8221; for Connecticut, which has one of the highest state and local tax burdens in the U.S., says Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), but adds, the bill &#8220;fails spectacularly&#8221; otherwise.
&#8220;The American people want basically three… <a href="https://t.co/XdAjfZ3pXu">pic.twitter.com/XdAjfZ3pXu</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1926667714690433478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said that he believed there was enough opposition in the Senate to &#8220;hold up&#8221; the bill.
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Sen. Ron Johnson says there&#8217;s enough opposition in the Senate to hold up Trump&#8217;s &#8216;big, beautiful&#8217; bill <a href="https://t.co/yT8FaA6NBc">https://t.co/yT8FaA6NBc</a>
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1926727234477256757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Johnson also made an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he claimed that the bill was &#8220;immoral,&#8221; and added, &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong. It has to stop.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RonJohnsonWI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonJohnsonWI</a> says the House tax and spending cut bill is mortgaging American children&#8217;s future: &#8220;It&#8217;s immoral. It&#8217;s wrong. It has to stop.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/rd0Gnanxlt">pic.twitter.com/rd0Gnanxlt</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1926633584959324344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Speaker Johnson also made a stop on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; telling anchor Jake Tapper that he hoped to see it move through the Senate without major changes. &#8220;It&#8217;s best not to meddle with it too much,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerJohnson</a> warns senators about making changes to President Trump&#8217;s tax and spending cut bill: &#8220;It&#8217;s best not to meddle with it too much.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/SsBPUkYsev">pic.twitter.com/SsBPUkYsev</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1926628762889703470?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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House Lawmakers Pass Budget Bill Ahead Of Speaker Johnson’s Memorial Day Deadline

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