Governor Gretchen Whitmer said during an interview over the weekend that despite what polling may show right now, this fall&#8217;s upcoming presidential election will be &#8220;close&#8221; in the state.
Whitmer made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; when pressed about President Joe Biden&#8217;s weakness in polling numbers.
&#8220;I think everyone should always focus on Michigan,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s always going to be close in this state. Even though we did something that hadn&#8217;t been done in 40 years by flipping the House and the Senate and all Democratic controlled at the moment. It&#8217;s- the work is never done. You cannot make any assumptions about what the next election is going to bring, based on the last one in a state like this. You got to show up. You got to do the work and show people that you really care about them.&#8221;
Whitmer said that her state was a purple state and that it was &#8220;absolutely&#8221; up for grabs in 2024.
Brennan then pressed Whitmer about polling that showed that voters overwhelmingly believe that former President Donald Trump would be better for the U.S. economy than Biden.
Whitmer said that she believes that there are several indicators that the U.S. economy is moving the right direction but acknowledged that the cost of living was still way too high and that not enough young people are able to buy homes.
Whitmer criticized Biden for the crisis on the U.S. southern border, saying that it&#8217;s &#8220;an emergency and it&#8217;s not been working for a long, long time.&#8221;
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Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said over the weekend that an unprecedented factor in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries means that it is going to be a lot harder to make accurate predictions about what is going to happen when it comes time to vote.
Christie made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan when asked if he will drop if he does not make the debate stage this week.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;ve told anybody yet who all of us are going to be on the stage, but I&#8217;m confident, Margaret, that I will be there and that we have all the qualifications necessary to get there,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Look, this field has already consolidated more than any non-incumbent field in this century,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Back this time eight years ago, we had 13 candidates still in the race. At this time back, you know, in 2011, we had eight candidates in the race. And at this time back in 2007, we had nine candidates in the race.&#8221;
&#8220;And so this field has consolidated significantly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And I suspect it will consolidate more after folks vote in Iowa and New Hampshire.&#8221;
When Brennan confronted him about how he thinks things are going to go given the fact that former President Donald Trump is currently leading, Christie mentioned that the criminal indictments Trump is facing add a lot of uncertainty to how things could shake out.
&#8220;The other thing that makes it different is he&#8217;s got 91 counts of indictment against him,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The day before Super Tuesday, he&#8217;s going to start a criminal trial, where his former chief of staff and one of the founders of the Freedom Caucus is going to testify that he committed crimes on his watch and was directed to commit crimes by Donald Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of things different about this,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s why anybody tried to predict this is just shooting in the dark.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you know exactly what&#8217;s going to happen at all until people vote,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look, if we listened to all the polling, Margaret, Hillary Clinton would be in her second term. So I don&#8217;t believe that polling is nearly as reliable as it used to be. And I don&#8217;t believe that people tell the truth to pollsters. And so, at the end of the day, everybody who&#8217;s trying to make these decisions now are just wrong. Let&#8217;s remember something. In this – in the Republican primary in &#8217;07, do you know who was winning at this time in &#8217;07? Mitt Romney.&#8221;
&#8220;You know who was winning at this time in &#8217;11? Newt Gingrich. And winning this time in &#8217;15 was Ben Carson. I don&#8217;t remember any of those presidencies,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, you know, my view, we can&#8217;t worry about that kind of stuff. What we need to worry about is the direction this country is going in. And most people don&#8217;t agree with it. And if you don&#8217;t agree with the direction of the country, why would you vote for either Trump or Biden, who have put us in this direction?&#8221;
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&quot;Anybody trying to predict this is just shooting in the dark,&quot; presidential candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/GovChristie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovChristie</a> says about the Republican primary. He says about polling showing Donald Trump leading the field: &quot;I don&#39;t think you know exactly what&#39;s going to happen at all until people vote.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/UfxGrafXAi">pic.twitter.com/UfxGrafXAi</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1731349753512808647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Christie: Due To Unprecedented Factor In Primary, Predictions At This Point ‘Just Shooting In The Dark’

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National Security Council Coordinator For Strategic Communications John Kirby said on Sunday that despite criticism Israel has taken over how it has conducted its war against Hamas, the country does significantly more than most countries to prevent the loss of civilian life.
Kirby made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan, when asked if the U.S. believes Israel was doing enough to prevent civilian casualties as the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry publishes unverified claims about the number of civilians killed.
Kirby said that in an ideal world the only acceptable number of human casualties that should ever occur is zero before acknowledging that some civilians have been killed as Israel hunts down the Hamas terrorists responsible for murdering 1,200 Israelis, wounding 5,300+, and kidnapping more than 240.
&#8220;In the last 24 hours, they have been putting a map online of places where people in Gaza need to avoid and need to go,&#8221; Kirby said. &#8220;They have also been doing it with paper and leaflets and that kind of thing.&#8221;
&#8220;My point is, Margaret, that it&#8217;s very rare for a modern military to take those kinds of steps, basically telegraphing their punches, before they actually conduct operations,&#8221; Kirby added.
Kirby said that while the U.S. was encouraging Israel to be as careful and precise as possible in their strikes against terrorist targets inside Gaza, it was important to remember what Israel is up against.
&#8220;Hamas deliberately shelters themselves inside residential buildings, hospitals and schools basically on purpose, putting civilians in the line of fire. And what Israel&#8217;s trying to do is get them out of the line of fire,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So, it&#8217;s an added burden that Israel has, as a modern military. And we recognize that. But it&#8217;s also a very difficult burden and obstacle for them to overcome.&#8221;
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&quot;The right number of civilian casualties&quot; in Gaza &quot;is zero,&quot; says John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council. He tells <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that the U.S. is working with Israel &quot;to get them to be as careful and as precise and as deliberate in their targeting as possible.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kafF2lOMPR">pic.twitter.com/kafF2lOMPR</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1731353837758238963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden over the weekend for the worsening crisis on the U.S. southern border as tens of thousands of illegal aliens are flooding communities every few days in an unprecedented onslaught.
Gonzales made the remarks during a Sunday interview with Margaret Brennan on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; while discussing how federal immigration officials have been completely overwhelmed by Biden&#8217;s border crisis.
&#8220;Right now, Border Patrol agents are showing up to operate in processing centers,&#8221; Gonzales said. &#8220;They&#8217;re not out in the field, so they&#8217;re not really doing their jobs. And they haven&#8217;t been doing their jobs.&#8221;
When asked what he meant by his remarks, he said that numerous agents have told him that they are forced to handle the processing of illegal aliens instead of being out on the border stopping drugs, criminals, weapons, and terrorists from coming into the U.S.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the failed Biden administration,&#8221; Gonzales said. &#8220;You know, when we talk about the border crisis, we know what the problem is. The problem is Joe Biden&#8217;s failed immigration policies. We see the images. We hear the stories, but we never hear solutions. Let&#8217;s talk some solutions.&#8221;
Gonzales said that what Biden was doing with extending the Temporary Protected Status of the 500,000 Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. was &#8220;encouraging&#8221; even more migrants to come to the U.S. illegally.
&#8220;These people have come over illegally into our country, and you&#8217;re giving them the access to work,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It undermines everything that we&#8217;re doing in Congress to try to come together.
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Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full 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.
<h3>ABC News, &#8220;This Week&#8221;:</h3>
During a panel discussion on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page touted what she said were two strong points — &#8220;two hopes&#8221; — when it came to winning in 2024, and neither of them was President Joe Biden.
&#8220;One is the economy is doing pretty well,&#8221; Page said, despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gallup-biden-polls-significantly-lower-in-six-key-character-traits-than-he-did-before-taking-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous polls</a> indicating that Americans do not believe that Biden has done well in handling the economy. &#8220;The other is the issue of abortion that has been so powerful in the midterm elections and could prove to be that again.&#8221;
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USA Today’s <a href="https://twitter.com/SusanPage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SusanPage</a> says Democrats have “two hopes” when it comes to winning in 2024.
“One is the economy is doing pretty well…The other is the issue of abortion that has been so powerful in the midterm elections and could prove to be that again.” <a href="https://t.co/En1y365Qmi">https://t.co/En1y365Qmi</a> <a href="https://t.co/iyJTYVQ6Z2">pic.twitter.com/iyJTYVQ6Z2</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1698359630772961283?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Politico&#8217;s Heidi Przybyla joined an ABC News panel discussion on &#8220;This Week,&#8221; and she said that there was nothing legally stopping former President Donald Trump from continuing his 2024 presidential run even if he were convicted and sentenced to prison.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing in the Constitution that says even if he&#8217;s convicted and goes to jail, that he can&#8217;t run a campaign from a jail cell under the worst circumstances,&#8221; she said.
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On former Pres. Trump’s legal battles, Politico’s <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeidiReports</a> says, “There&#39;s nothing in the Constitution that says even if he&#39;s convicted and goes to jail, that he can&#39;t run a campaign from a jail cell under the worst circumstances.” <a href="https://t.co/tFrn7MNWyW">https://t.co/tFrn7MNWyW</a> <a href="https://t.co/MvbckWT1OW">pic.twitter.com/MvbckWT1OW</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1698357971393065375?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;:</h3>
Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) joined CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; on Sunday morning, and he revealed that he had not ruled out appearing on a 2024 presidential ticket himself.
&#8220;I have not closed the door to that,&#8221; he said of a possible third-party run under the No Labels banner.
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“I have not closed the door to that,” former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (<a href="https://twitter.com/GovLarryHogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovLarryHogan</a>) says about potentially being on a third-party ticket with the group No Labels in 2024. <a href="https://t.co/jWbqZPBHP7">pic.twitter.com/jWbqZPBHP7</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1698352904514539606?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Hogan also took questions about the No Labels Party and whether or not they planned to disclose information about their donor list – and he said that if and when they ever officially &#8220;became a campaign,&#8221; the party would be obligated to &#8220;follow all the same rules&#8221; as other campaigns with regard to disclosures.
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Will No Labels eventually disclose more about its donors?
&quot;Sure,&quot; says former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (<a href="https://twitter.com/GovLarryHogan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovLarryHogan</a>), the honorary co-chairman, adding that if the group &quot;became a campaign,&quot; it would have to &quot;follow all the same rules&quot; as others. <a href="https://t.co/BhJcTwlML6">pic.twitter.com/BhJcTwlML6</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1698352515144708441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CNN, &#8220;State of the Union&#8221;:</h3>
Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) joined host Dana Bash on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; to discuss a number of topics, and the conversation turned to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his recent health scares — moments when he appeared to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kentuckys-democratic-governor-wont-commit-to-replacing-mcconnell-with-a-republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener">freeze</a>&#8221; while taking questions from reporters on camera.
&#8220;He was in good shape,&#8221; Rounds said of a recent conversation with McConnell. &#8220;He was direct. He said he fell. He said, ‘I had that concussion.’ And he said, ‘They warned me that I would be lightheaded in the future and that I have got to be aware of it.’ He said, ‘It happened twice.’ He said, ‘It just so happens I’m doing it in front of reporters.’ But he felt good yesterday. He said he’s got to watch his hydration levels.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRounds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRounds</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> that GOP Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell is in “good shape” following a second apparent freeze during a press conference in Kentucky. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/SvgpBQtiMG">https://t.co/SvgpBQtiMG</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1698366902475559163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>NBC News, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;:</h3>
NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd hosted The Atlantic&#8217;s Franklin Foer, who has written a book about President Biden&#8217;s first term in the Oval Office — and Foer said that Biden has &#8220;insecurities&#8221; about how intelligent people perceive him to be.
&#8220;He has this plagiarism scandal back in the 1980s,&#8221; Foer said, referencing one of Biden&#8217;s ill-fated runs for the Democratic nomination. &#8220;So when he walks into an interview &#8230; he wants to have mastery of what he&#8217;s discussing.&#8221;
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WATCH: Biden has “insecurities” about being “perceived as stupid,” says <a href="https://twitter.com/FranklinFoer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FranklinFoer</a>, who wrote a book about the president’s first term.
“He has this plagiarism scandal back in the 1980s. So when he walks into an interview &#8230; he wants to have mastery of what he’s discussing <a href="https://t.co/Qve4pM2BUn">pic.twitter.com/Qve4pM2BUn</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1698333893537956242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Foer also suggested that Biden&#8217;s tendency to use uncertain terms when discussing his political future might be his way of leaving the door open for a potential exit from the 2024 presidential race.
&#8220;When he talks about his life &#8230; he always talks about [how] he can&#8217;t see where fate goes,&#8221; Foer said.
Biden and a number of his surrogates have said on multiple occasions that the president still intends to go ahead with his reelection campaign, despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nearly-70-of-democrats-think-biden-is-too-old-for-second-term-ap-poll-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polls</a> that suggest even Democrats would prefer to see someone younger — or just someone different — on the ballot in 2024.
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WATCH: It would not be a &quot;total shock&quot; if Biden decided not to seek re-election at the end of 2023, says <a href="https://twitter.com/FranklinFoer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FranklinFoer</a>, who wrote a book about the president’s first term.
&quot;When he talks about his life &#8230; he always talks about [how] he can&#39;t say where fate goes. <a href="https://t.co/Ner7eaE3cx">pic.twitter.com/Ner7eaE3cx</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1698334366202486891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>FOX, &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221;:</h3>
Anchor Shannon Bream opened a &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; segment on President Joe Biden&#8217;s economic policies with a highly critical headline from The New York Times: &#8220;Biden Struggles To Make &#8216;Bidenomics&#8217; A Plus, Not A Minus.&#8221;
Bream brought in Jared Bernstein, Chair of President Joe Biden&#8217;s Economic Advisers, who argued as he has in the past that the Biden economy is strong despite criticisms and low poll numbers. Bernstein touted the record-setting job growth under Biden, then deflected slightly when Bream pointed out the fact that many of the jobs Biden claims to have &#8220;created&#8221; were actually jobs coming back after losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.
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WATCH: Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers <a href="https://twitter.com/econjared46?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@econjared46</a> joins to discuss the health of the economy and ‘Bidenomics. <a href="https://t.co/V9xcSVQdBy">pic.twitter.com/V9xcSVQdBy</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1698341416831774989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>MSNBC, &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221;:</h3>
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki to discuss gun violence, and he appeared to blame violent extremism and race-, sex-, and gender-based violence on conservative political rhetoric.
&#8220;There is a direct through line between the glorification and endorsement of violence that is happening in right-wing political circles and the usage of violence against black, brown, gay, lesbian, transgender Americans,&#8221; he said.
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&quot;There is a direct through line between the glorification and endorsement of violence that is happening in right-wing political circles and the usage of violence against black, brown, gay, lesbian, transgender Americans.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisMurphyCT</a> on violent extremism <a href="https://t.co/fu1Qb5nYQD">pic.twitter.com/fu1Qb5nYQD</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1698402572317450653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Meet the Press – Season 76

Weekend Media Wrap, Vol. 7: What You Missed If You Weren’t Glued To The Sunday Shows

Weekend Media Wrap, Vol. 6: What You Missed If You Weren’t Glued To The Sunday Shows

2024 Election

Fox News Sunday

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Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full 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.
<h3>ABC News, &#8220;This Week&#8221;:</h3>
The Washington Post&#8217;s Charles Lane raised one caveat during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;This Week&#8221; on ABC, noting that indictment fatigue — where it concerns former President Donald Trump — could be a real thing.
Lane posited that as the indictments continued to roll in, each one carried less weight because the novelty had begun to wear off. Not only that, each indictment appeared to do more to rally his base than it did to drive them away from him.
&#8220;He raised more money in one day off this mug shot moment than he did about the first indictment in Manhattan,&#8221; Lane said. &#8220;This has not only lost the power to shock certain people, it&#8217;s become a rallying point for him.&#8221;
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“He raised more money in one day off this mug shot moment than he did about the first indictment in Manhattan,” WaPo’s Charles Lane says of Trump. 
“This has not only lost the power to shock certain people, it’s become a rallying point for him.” <a href="https://t.co/5HKtET3SP1">https://t.co/5HKtET3SP1</a> <a href="https://t.co/GBlcp6rM4m">pic.twitter.com/GBlcp6rM4m</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1695838347455775166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Sarah Isgur commented on the situation as well, noting that the broad nature of the indictments could also create more confusion — and result in fewer people coalescing against the former president.
&#8220;I think part of the problem that we&#8217;re seeing with these repeated indictments, they&#8217;re very broad. Even some lawyers I don&#8217;t think can follow all of the different sort of charges and what they exactly mean,&#8221; she said.
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“I think part of the problem that we&#39;re seeing with these repeated indictments, they&#39;re very broad,” <a href="https://twitter.com/whignewtons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhigNewtons</a> says of charges against Trump. “Even some lawyers I don&#39;t think can follow all of the different sort of charges and what they exactly mean.” <a href="https://t.co/2V8tIXwhBN">https://t.co/2V8tIXwhBN</a> <a href="https://t.co/9XXEN7VMBX">pic.twitter.com/9XXEN7VMBX</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1695852018672312773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;:</h3>
Former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill sat down with CBS&#8217; Margaret Brennan on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; to discuss the recently confirmed death of mercenary Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently led a failed coup attempt against Moscow.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-russian-warlord-prigozhin-who-tried-to-overthrow-putin-reportedly-dead-in-plane-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prigozhin&#8217;s death</a> in a plane crash last week — which many suspect came about as the result of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-cia-head-petraeus-prigozhin-lost-his-wagner-group-should-be-very-careful-around-open-windows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">direct order</a> from Russian President Vladimir Putin — initially sparked rumors that he had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/second-jet-linked-to-prigozhin-spotted-sparks-rumor-russian-paramilitary-leader-is-still-alive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faked his own demise</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve all been expecting something like this,&#8221; Hill said, giving weight to the notion that Putin had, in fact, been behind Prigozhin&#8217;s death — and that he had intended to send a very clear message. &#8220;The message to the whole system is, &#8216;Don&#8217;t try anything&#8217; and even, &#8216;Don&#8217;t criticize.'&#8221;
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&quot;We&#39;ve all been expecting something like this,&quot; former White House Russia expert Fiona Hill says of the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.
&quot;The message to the whole system is, &#39;Don&#39;t try anything&#39; and even, &quot;Don&#39;t criticize.&#39;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HbBxLRgZZD">pic.twitter.com/HbBxLRgZZD</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1695837065714298941?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CNN, &#8220;State of the Union&#8221;:</h3>
Governor J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) touted his state&#8217;s access to abortion during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; claiming that women came to Illinois from neighboring red states — where abortions were harder to get — in order to gain access to those services.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPritzker</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> that women from nearby states are coming to Illinois because his state protects abortion rights. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/1KjyuH0R5S">https://t.co/1KjyuH0R5S</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1695858818142388561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Pritzker also told host Dana Bash that the state of Illinois had plenty of available jobs – more jobs than people, in fact. What Pritzker left out was the fact that despite the apparently booming job market, people have continued to flee his state in record numbers since he took office.
According to a census <a href="https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/opinion/columns/mark-glennon-guest-columnist-new-census-report-sheds-light-on-illinois-population-loss/article_f94ea242-0e07-11ee-8e60-bb36a5f0b8d8.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published in June of 2023, Illinois lost 146,000 residents in 2021 alone. Over 23,000 of them moved to Florida, and another 51,000 left Illinois for Missouri, Indiana, or Wisconsin. A <a href="https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-loses-a-resident-every-3-minutes-43-seconds/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Illinois Policy Institute indicated that one resident left Illinois every 3 minutes and 43 seconds. The number one reason given for the mass exodus? Overtaxation.
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. <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovPritzker</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> that there are more jobs than people in his state. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/gyWt7BtDLu">https://t.co/gyWt7BtDLu</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu/status/1695859288906842326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>NBC News, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;:</h3>
Former North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory, co-chair of the No Labels party, pushed back on the idea that any third party candidate was doomed from the start, arguing that the same people making the claim now had also &#8220;predicted Trump could never be president&#8221; during the 2016 presidential election.
Marks Moulitsas wasn&#8217;t buying it, however, claiming that No Labels &#8220;literally stands for nothing&#8221; and added, &#8220;You are creating this idea that there&#8217;s a mythical unicorn creature that will agree with these people who want something&#8221; that was neither President Biden nor former President Trump.
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WATCH: People claiming a third party can&#39;t win also &quot;predicted Trump could never&quot; win, No Labels Co-Chair <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMcCroryNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PatMcCroryNC</a> says.<a href="https://twitter.com/markos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@markos</a>: &quot;You are creating this idea that there&#39;s a mythical unicorn creature that will agree with these people who want something&quot; besides Biden/Trump. <a href="https://t.co/PjCh2z31P2">pic.twitter.com/PjCh2z31P2</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1695800665337889267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>FOX, &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221;:</h3>
Founding chairman of No Labels Joe Lieberman — a Democrat-turned-independent — continued the discussion on the fight to make a third party viable with &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; anchor Shannon Bream. And one of the main issues, as he pointed out, was ensuring that their potential candidate could make it onto the ballot in all 50 states.
The No Labels party has floated the possibility of naming a potential candidate on Super Tuesday, assuming that the two major parties fail to be on a path to nominating candidates other than Biden and Trump.
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WATCH: No Labels founding chairman <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeLieberman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JoeLieberman</a> joins to talk about the fight to have a third-party candidate on all 50 state ballots. Tune in! <a href="https://t.co/RC8cwn6x4e">pic.twitter.com/RC8cwn6x4e</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1695803206604128680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>MSNBC, &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221;:</h3>
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki attempted to clean up a mess she made earlier in the week with regard to abortion access. During the GOP debate on Wednesday, in an effort to rebut something that was said on the debate stage, Psaki claimed, &#8220;No one supports abortion up until birth.&#8221;
Critics quickly corrected Psaki, noting that a number of Democratic Senators had voted to allow just that — and several states already allow abortion through all 40 weeks of pregnancy for any reason.
Psaki addressed the topic again during her Sunday morning MSNBC show, &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki,&#8221; and adjusted her claim to say that no one was specifically &#8220;advocating&#8221; for more late-term abortions.
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&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1695843524334297488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Psaki went on later in the show to address the latest indictment against Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, pressing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on whether or not the former president might actually spend some time behind bars.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what the judge will do &#8230; but it&#8217;s feasible that Trump or others who violate these terms could be thrown in jail?&#8221; Psaki asked.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Bottoms replied.
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. <a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jrpsaki</a>: &quot;We don&#39;t know what the judge will do&#8230; but it&#39;s feasible that Trump or others who violate these terms could be thrown in jail?&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/KeishaBottoms?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KeishaBottoms</a>: &quot;Absolutely.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/z79AbEbrg8">pic.twitter.com/z79AbEbrg8</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1695848614172434768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Former US President Donald Trump surrenders to Fulton County Jail in election case

MSNBC

State of the Union

This Week

Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what they may have missed.
<h3>ABC News, &#8220;This Week&#8221;:</h3>
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pressed-on-hunter-dem-promises-a-report-on-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jamie Raskin</a> (D-MD) made a Sunday morning appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; where  he conceded that the road to appointing a special counsel — U.S. Attorney David Weiss — in Hunter Biden&#8217;s case had been &#8220;bumpy.&#8221;
Raskin correctly stated that his Republican colleagues had been calling for months for there to be a special counsel appointed to oversee Hunter Biden&#8217;s case, but then acted as though he did not understand why they would be upset — or at least wary — that Weiss was named to that position.
The concern, among many Republicans, is that Weiss already had a chance to prosecute Hunter Biden — and instead had been the architect behind a plea deal so sweet that the judge threw it out.
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Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that the process of getting a special counsel appointed to investigate Hunter Biden was “bumpy.&quot;
“But our job, I think, as political people is to allow the justice system to run its course.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/IJpOaZl5qN">https://t.co/IJpOaZl5qN</a> <a href="https://t.co/hCjLlwBUZC">pic.twitter.com/hCjLlwBUZC</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1690720049974149120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In another highlight of Raskin&#8217;s interview, the Maryland Democrat responded to repeated questions about President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son by promising a report — that would address former President Donald Trump and potential violations of the emoluments clause.
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“Hypocrisy” of Republicans criticizing appointment of special counsel in Hunter Biden case after they repeatedly called for one is “peak Washington,” Politico’s <a href="https://twitter.com/rachaelmbade?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rachaelmbade</a> says. 
“This really blows a hole in their top talking point.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/IjmnKQNyGa">https://t.co/IjmnKQNyGa</a> <a href="https://t.co/GwbpaONHuw">pic.twitter.com/GwbpaONHuw</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1690766235150008320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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ABC contributor Rachel Bade doubled down on Raskin&#8217;s comments, calling it &#8220;hypocrisy&#8221; and &#8220;peak Washington&#8221; that Republicans objected to Weiss&#8217; appointment — and then she went on to claim that Republicans were probably also upset that Merrick Garland had taken away one of their &#8220;top talking points&#8221; by naming a special counsel in Hunter&#8217;s case.
<h3>CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;:</h3>
Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) spoke with CBS host Margaret Brennan on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; where he voiced a number of specific concerns that he and others in his party share over the fact that Weiss was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden case.
Among those concerns, Turner said, was the fact that Weiss had &#8220;allowed the statute of limitations to expire on some very critical felony charges that could have been brought against Hunter Biden.&#8221;
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GOP <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeTurner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeTurner</a> says he has &quot;concerns” over the appointment of David Weiss as the special counsel overseeing the Hunter Biden probe, saying he &quot;allowed the statute of limitations to expire on some very critical felony charges that could have been brought against Hunter Biden.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/P9HaDB7Mtj">pic.twitter.com/P9HaDB7Mtj</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1690764958705889282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Turner also voiced concerns about the money President Biden has freed up for Iran, saying that Congress should be considering the possibility that such a deal could also have been &#8220;part of a broader deal concerning Iran&#8217;s enrichment program &#8230; If that becomes a secret deal, then that that&#8217;s obviously a great concern to Congress.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeTurner?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMikeTurner</a>, House Intelligence Committee Chair, says the Biden admin is “signaling” that its reported hostage agreement “is a part of a broader deal concerning Iran&#39;s enrichment program.” 
“If that becomes a secret deal, then that&#39;s obviously a great concern to Congress.” <a href="https://t.co/kQ1ULgRQ7D">pic.twitter.com/kQ1ULgRQ7D</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1690764225684123649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CNN, &#8220;State of the Union&#8221;:</h3>
Rep. Dan Goldman — who shot to fame as the attorney arguing for Trump&#8217;s impeachment — told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he was ready to see the wheels of justice turn in Hunter Biden&#8217;s case. &#8220;If Hunter Biden committed crimes, he should be charged with them,&#8221; he said.
His comments come just days after — in the wake of Devon Archer&#8217;s claims about then-Vice President Biden speaking with Hunter&#8217;s foreign business associates — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-hero-and-new-talking-point-arises-to-protect-biden-amid-devon-archer-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goldman insisted</a> to multiple media outlets that those conversations amounted to nothing more than &#8220;niceties&#8221; and conversations about &#8220;the weather.&#8221;
The White House continues to claim that Biden did not discuss business with Hunter or his partners.
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&quot;If Hunter Biden committed crimes, he should be charged with them.&quot;
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) speaks with CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper about Attorney General Merrick Garland naming a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden following his plea deal collapse. <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSotu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNSotu</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/7mOMPWFNrs">pic.twitter.com/7mOMPWFNrs</a>
&mdash; CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1690724621706731521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>NBC News, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;:</h3>
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) — who&#8217;s thought to be considering his own primary challenge against Biden — told &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Chuck Todd that he would like to see someone take a run at offering Democrats another choice.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-congressman-snubs-top-democrat-when-asked-who-hed-like-to-see-run-for-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omitting Governor Gavin Newsom</a> (D-CA) — who already appears to be positioning himself to take that role — Phillips suggested a &#8220;moderate&#8221; governor like J.B. Pritzker (D-IL), who has a reputation for being anything but moderate.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/RepDeanPhillips?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepDeanPhillips</a> (D-Minn.), who&#39;s advocating for a Biden primary challenger, says he doesn&#39;t &quot;think the president&#39;s corrupt&quot; as the probe into Hunter Biden continues.
&quot;It&#39;s the image. &#8230; We know what era we live in in partisanship. It&#39;s the attachment to the president.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/GvtWSHWT4y">pic.twitter.com/GvtWSHWT4y</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1690722188901408769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>FOX, &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221;:</h3>
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman — Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) — joined anchor Shannon Bream on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to discuss the recent forum held for the Gold-Star families who lost loved ones during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
&#8220;I will not rest until we do get answers and accountability and transparency as to what happened,&#8221; McCaul promised. &#8220;How did this go so wrong? And the Gold Star families are the best, you know, witnesses to this nightmare. They lost their 13 servicemen and women, Abbey Gate. We had the testimony of Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who said, &#8216;I had the suicide bomber in my sights, but I was not given permission to engage him.&#8217; And after that, the bomb went off killing 170 people, 13 servicemen and women.&#8221;
&#8220;And Shannon, this is sort of news breaking. We just have reported today a member of my staff Jerry Dunleavy with his book, &#8216;Kabul,&#8217; that U.S. intelligence had ISIS-K in their sights, knowing they were plotting to take out Abbey Gate on the very same day that it was taken down when the suicide bomber went off,&#8221; McCaul continued. &#8220;They asked the Taliban to go in, our U.S. military, the Taliban denied. U.S. intelligence requested an airstrike. Guess what, that airstrike was denied, was denied to go in and take out the very forces that then killed our 13 servicemen and women. This story gets worse by the day. And I will not rest until we get to the bottom of it.&#8221;
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WATCH: House Foreign Affairs Chair <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMcCaul?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMcCaul</a> joined the program to discuss new reporting surrounding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Tune in! <a href="https://t.co/D8zhec3cR7">pic.twitter.com/D8zhec3cR7</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1690738675045355521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<h3>MSNBC, &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221;:</h3>
Governor Jared Polis (D-CO) joined former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on her MSNBC show &#8220;Inside with Jen Psaki&#8221; — and he spent his time there arguing that former President Donald Trump was responsible for the extreme partisanship that marks the current political climate.
&#8220;If there is a market for sowing division, discord, and doubting the motives of those on the other side, some politicians will rise to that and market in that,&#8221; he said.
Polis suggested that Trump — and by a lesser extent, Republicans — were the ones engaging in such marketing. He made no mention of prominent Democrats who referred to the &#8220;other side&#8221; as a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-half-trumps-supporters-come-joshua-yasmeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">basket of deplorables</a>,&#8221; told black Americans they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/clyburn-i-cringed-at-bidens-you-aint-black-remarks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">weren&#8217;t black</a> if they voted for the other party, or spent years <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/slowly-walk-back-like-homer-simpson-into-the-bushes-ben-shapiro-notes-dems-backing-away-from-stolen-election-claims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undermining the integrity</a> of the 2016 presidential election.
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&quot;If there is a market for sowing division, discord, and doubting the motives of those on the other side, some politicians will rise to that and market in that.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/GovofCO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovofCO</a> on the hyper-partisan political climate and Donald Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Fu8KckSTDg">pic.twitter.com/Fu8KckSTDg</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1690758943721607168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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President Biden Arrives To Washington After Camp David Travel

Weekend Media Wrap, Vol. 4: What You Missed If You Weren’t Glued To The Sunday Shows

One of the basic but false expectations people have in democracies is that they get to vote on the things that could change their lives forever. Nothing happens, we think, that reorders the lives of millions of people all at once without some sort of referendum or election.
Things have never really worked that way, of course. And for a few generations now — since the advent of modern technology and in particular, the Internet — that has become more and more evident. What happens, in practice, is that some new technology arrives, and all at once, life changes forever for countless people. In one generation, watching a movie meant driving down to the theater and buying a ticket in person. It meant putting on clothes and interacting with other human beings. No alternative was imaginable. And then, just a few years later, watching a movie became as simple as sitting inside your house and pressing a few buttons on a remote, or yelling commands at it like some sort of schizophrenic. It becomes archaic to think of anything else.
We&#8217;re all used to this kind of rapid social change at this point. These massive shifts happen before anyone studies what effects these new technologies might have on our brains and interpersonal relationships. The changes just happen, and very quickly, we all take them for granted. That&#8217;s all very familiar.
What&#8217;s not familiar is what happens when there&#8217;s a rollback on all of this. What happens when a modern convenience, for one reason or another, suddenly stops?
As of this week, that&#8217;s no longer a hypothetical question. After screenwriters in Hollywood went on strike a few months ago, the Screen Actors Guild joined them on the picket line last Friday. The combined strike means that, for all intents and purposes, the entertainment industry in the United States has shut down. The strike affects movies, television shows, video games, and more. It&#8217;s the first time this kind of strike has happened in more than six decades. In our online world of Netflix, Hulu, and Xbox Live, this is unprecedented, and for some people, terrifying.
For journalists in corporate media — who spend more time glued to screens than anyone on the planet — this is an extinction-level event. This is a catastrophe approximately on the scale of a Texas-sized asteroid hitting the Earth. These journalists didn&#8217;t care much about the explosion of that Russian gas pipeline, even though that might have started a world war. They didn&#8217;t care about the strange disappearance of that 9-1-1 call from Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s jail the night he died, even though that raised a lot of questions about corruption at the highest levels of the federal government. Journalists didn&#8217;t bother to panic over any of that. But a strike in Hollywood? They&#8217;re all over that story. For example, the Associated Press just published this dire headline:
<blockquote>&#8220;Hollywood plunges into all-out war on the heels of pandemic and a streaming revolution.&#8221;</blockquote>
That sounds serious. And according to the allegedly venerable Sunday show &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; on CBS, it is quite serious. &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; just invited the former CEO of Paramount, Barry Diller, to explain the fallout of the ongoing strikes in Hollywood. Here&#8217;s what the Hollywood shutdown means for you, according to Barry Diller:
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The SAG-AFTRA strike will have &quot;devastating effects&quot; if it&#39;s not settled by Christmas, IAC and Expedia Chair Barry Diller says, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> &quot;there doesn&#39;t seem to be enough trust and energy to get it settled soon.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/s0HgceAZD2">pic.twitter.com/s0HgceAZD2</a>
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The former Paramount CEO wants you to know that “what will happen is, if in fact, it doesn’t get settled until Christmas or so, then, next year, there’s not going to be many programs for anybody to watch.&#8221;
Do you hear that? Are you trembling in fear yet? There might not be any more programs for you to watch next year! The programs are going away! Think of the programs! What will you do without the programs?
It&#8217;s kind of funny when you think about it. The implication, conveyed with total sincerity, is that it would be somehow a bad thing if people stopped staring at screens for 10 hours a day and actually went outside, got some exercise, and maybe developed real human interests and personalities. Barry Diller is assuming that you&#8217;ll agree with him on that point as if it&#8217;s a given. If people went outdoors and got some sun, Diller fears, then one thing might lead to the next, and after a while, they might actually think and interact with each other. Their testosterone levels might even go up. We simply can&#8217;t have that.
What Diller said is interesting — not because he&#8217;s worth listening to, but because his desperation is obvious. Diller, and the rest of Hollywood, want to make sure you&#8217;re always consuming content on one subscription service or another. These people never pause to consider whether the content they&#8217;re forcing down your gullet is good or worthwhile; whether it helps you to be a smarter, better, more interesting person; or whether it makes your life better. They never ask themselves if people actually want to watch and listen to the slop they&#8217;re putting on these streaming services, and in movie theaters. They just expect you&#8217;ll be horrified at the prospect that the morphine-drip of content has been shut down.
Unfortunately for these executives, there have been a lot of data points that contradict that theory in recent months. Look at the pathetic box office returns of the new “The Flash” movie, or the “Mission Impossible” sequel, or the “Indiana Jones” and “Little Mermaid” catastrophes. All of these failures reveal that people are growing weary of what Hollywood is producing. They are exhausted by it. Bored of it. The numbers make it clear.
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For example, “The Flash” had a budget of roughly $220 million, and as of the latest estimates, it&#8217;s barely broken even. The latest “Indiana Jones” film cost around $300 million, and made about as much in the global box office. It&#8217;s a wash. The latest “Mission Impossible” movie, meanwhile, had a budget of around $300 million, and as of today, it has made less than $250 million.
These kinds of consistent shortfalls for big-budget films are unheard of in Hollywood. It&#8217;s bomb after bomb after bomb. So, what&#8217;s going on here? What possibly could explain these numbers?
Rather than confront that question honestly, corporate media is rushing to blame — can you guess? — COVID. 
According to the AP:
<blockquote>&#8220;Disaster &#8230; loomed in Hollywood when COVID-19 in March 2020 shuttered movie theaters, emptied TV studios and shut down all production. The recovery is still ongoing. &#8230; Box office remains about 20-25% off the pre-pandemic pace.&#8221;</blockquote>
In other words, by the media’s telling, the problem isn&#8217;t the content of these Hollywood movies. It&#8217;s not that people are tired of woke propaganda, derivative storylines, or franchises that tell the same  story repeating itself ad nauseam and never coming to a conclusion. The problem is that more than three years ago, COVID happened. The same excuse that the government used to fundamentally change the election system in this country, is also the same excuse that explains why no one is watching Hollywood movies anymore.
That&#8217;s a pretty pat explanation. Is it true? Let&#8217;s see: if that explanation made any sense whatsoever, you&#8217;d expect that every movie, regardless of genre, would be having similar problems. You&#8217;d expect that viewers would be tuning out across the board. 
But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening. Not even close. The film &#8220;Sound of Freedom,&#8221; which tells a true story about a hero who rescued sex trafficked children, is currently pushing $100 million at the box office. Word-of-mouth is especially strong. The film&#8217;s audience in its second week in theaters grew by nearly 40%. &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; managed to make all of that money, and build all of that buzz, on a shoe-string budget of less than $15 million. Somehow the &#8220;pandemic&#8221; from three years ago didn&#8217;t cut into their revenues. How is that possible? When all is said and done, “Sound of Freedom” will likely earn something like 10 times its production budget. To put that into perspective, for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” to earn 10 times its production budget, it would need to make $3 billion at the box office. And, to put it simply, that ain’t happening. 
As it happens, it&#8217;s not just &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; that&#8217;s reaching a large audience on a small budget. The Christian horror film “Nefarious” managed to make it into the box office top ten despite basically no marketing, no budget, and no stars. “Nefarious” came out at the same time as “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” and it still managed to beat expectations. There&#8217;s many more examples. Also this year, my own documentary &#8220;What Is A Woman?&#8221; became arguably the most viewed documentary of all time, again with very little marketing compared to something like “Indiana Jones” or “Mission Impossible.” What explains all this?
The answer is that people are still interested in films. The pandemic hasn&#8217;t changed that, no matter what the Associated Press and Hollywood executives tell you. What has changed is that people have grown tired of Hollywood. Mainstream films are redundant, hollow, and blatantly politicized. The industry is entirely out of ideas, and it treats its customers with contempt. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s really underpinning the crisis. And it&#8217;s why, despite what the panicked executives and journalists will tell you, the collapse of the mainstream entertainment industry would be no tragedy. It&#8217;s a necessary step in the process of creating something sustainable — an industry that produces content people actually want to watch. And that industry is coming, whether Hollywood executives and screenwriters want it or not.
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Robert Gates, who served as Secretary of Defense under former President Barack Obama, said during an interview over the weekend that he believes the extreme political polarization in the U.S. is the greatest threat the country faces.
Gates made the remarks during an interview that aired Sunday on CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan.
The comments were made after the two discussed the debt ceiling and the struggle in Washington, D.C., for leaders on both sides of the aisle to work together to resolve issues.
&#8220;I think it is the polarization in the country,&#8221; Gates said when asked what he thought was the greatest danger to the U.S. &#8220;We&#8217;ve always had polarization in America. If you go back to the Jefferson, Adams presidential race in 1800, the things that were said in that election would fit right into a current political environment. But what&#8217;s been different, more recently, is not just a measure of paralysis, as indicated by the debt ceiling, but a level of meanness and a lack of civility among our politicians, or the- the sense that somebody who disagrees with you is not just somebody you disagree with, but is an enemy, is a bad person.&#8221;
&#8220;This lack of civility is I think, something new and- and really is pretty pervasive in the Congress,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it sets a pretty bad example for the rest of the country.&#8221;
Gates said that political leaders should not &#8220;demonize people to disagree with them&#8221; and that Republicans and Democrats needed to find better ways to work with each other.
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Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, slammed the Biden administration on Sunday for continuing the obstruct the committee&#8217;s investigation into Biden&#8217;s and former President Donald Trump&#8217;s handling of classified materials while not in office.
Warner made the remarks on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked if there has been any update on the matter since January.
&#8220;We need more information about these documents,&#8221; Warner said. &#8220;And, more importantly, we need to make sure that what the intel community has done to mitigate the harm. And we&#8217;re still in conversations with the Justice Department.&#8221;
&#8220;The administration&#8217;s position does not — does not pass the smell test. We&#8217;ve got a job, not to go into the legal ramifications, but to make sure that the intelligence community has done what&#8217;s right,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve got some additional tools. We can restrict some of the spending. We&#8217;re in active conversations with the Justice Department. But we&#8217;ve got to get those documents.&#8221;
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<blockquote>MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic Chairman of the Intelligence Committee. He joins us from King George, Virginia.
Good morning to you, Senator.
SENATOR MARK WARNER (D-Virginia): Good morning, Margaret.
MARGARET BRENNAN: It was a pretty intense five hours of questioning of TikTok&#8217;s CEO this past week.
Your bipartisan bill has White House support, and it would deal with TikTok by giving the Commerce Department power to review and potentially ban technology flagged by U.S. intelligence as a credible threat.
Will it pass in a divided Congress?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We&#8217;re now up to 22 Senators, 11 Democrats, 11 Republicans.
We&#8217;ve had strong interest from the House. I think they wanted to get through their hearing. And, clearly, while I appreciated Mr. Chew&#8217;s testimony, he just couldn&#8217;t answer the basic question. At the end of the day, TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. And by Chinese law, that company has to be willing to turn over data to the Communist Party.
Or one of my bigger fears, we got 150 million Americans on TikTok, average of about 90 minutes a day, and how that channel could be used for propaganda purposes&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: &#8230; or mis or dis-information advocated by the Communist Party.
MARGARET BRENNAN: But has the White House made clear to you that they want this bill to pass and do intend to ban it? Or is a forced sale more likely?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, I think the White House is very in favor of this bill.
We give the secretary of commerce the tools to ban, to force a sale, other tools. And, end of the day, one of the things that may lead to a ban is, the Chinese Communist Party has said they felt like the algorithm, the source code that resides in Beijing, is so important that they&#8217;d rather see a ban than give that source code up to be placed in a third country, which, again, I think speaks volumes about the potential threat that this application poses.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, the commerce secretary, though, recently said that the politician in her thinks a ban will mean losing every voter under 35 forever.
And if you look at use of TikTok, I mean, just last week, President Biden showed up in celebrity videos on TikTok from the White House. Plenty of lawmakers, including your Democratic colleague Senator Cory Booker, use it. A number of House progressives use it.
Given how important this platform is to Democrats, can you actually get TikTok taken care of before 2024, when you might need it for political outreach?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, Margaret, I think there&#8217;s a lot of creative activity that goes on, on TikTok, but I absolutely believe that the market &#8212; if TikTok goes away, the market will provide another platform.
And, at the end of the day, that could be an American company. It could be a Brazilian company. It could be an Indian company. All those companies operate within a set of rule of law.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right, but the commerce secretary is saying there&#8217;s a political cost if it goes away. And that&#8217;s what she fears.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: I think&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you&#8217;re empowering her.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Listen, I have met with &#8212; I have met &#8212; I have met with Gina Raimondo on this issue.
I think she will make very clear that she believes TikTok is a threat as well. And, listen, if, at the end of the day, you could end up with a forced sale, and that forced sale also makes sure that the core algorithm, the source code, resides someplace different than China, that could be an outcome that would be successful as well.
At the end of the day, you cannot have American data collected, nor can you have the ability for the Communist Party to use TikTok as a propaganda tool.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Sixty percent of the company is owned by other investors, including U.S. firms.
So is this a policy that you really need to address with Americans to stop them from investing in companies like this?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Well, that&#8217;s one of the reasons why I think our approach, the RESTRICT Act, says, rather than dealing with TikTok in a one- off fashion, or, a few years back, it was Huawei, the Chinese telecom provider, or years earlier, the Russian software company Kaspersky.
We need to have a set of tools, rules-based, so they can stand up in court &#8212; TikTok would still did its day in court, even under our law &#8212; that says, if there&#8217;s a foreign technology from a place like China and Russia, and it poses a national security threat. And one of the things we also require is that the intelligence community has to declassify as much of this information as possible.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yes.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: So it&#8217;s not simply like, hey, trust the government. We got to make the case.
MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you, since you sit on the Senate Banking Committee, about this rolling turmoil that we are in.
Do you think there needs to be more regulation of midsize banks now?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: If it ends up that a stress test that would have been applied to these midsize banks would have spotted this, of course, I would add additional regulation.
I think, though, what it appears to me is, two things happened. One, basic banking regulation, if this has been only a $5 billion bank, not a $200 billion bank, should have spotted the fact that this management and the regulators missed basic banking 101, the interest rate mismatch.
And, two, one of the things that I think we also have to look at is, this was the first time we&#8217;ve had an Internet-based run. There was literally $42 billion&#8230;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: &#8230; taken out of this bank in six hours. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 25 cents on the dollar.
And I would like to know why some of the venture capitalists spurred this run in the first place.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Interesting topic.
I want to ask you, though, as well, about your relationship with SVB Bank and political donations. You received $21,600 from their political action committee, nearly six grand from its CEO.
Do you feel any pressure to give those funds away? Is there a point to it?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We&#8217;re going to hear the facts on Tuesday. And if there&#8217;s malfeasance at the bank, of course, I&#8217;m going to give the money back.
MARGARET BRENNAN: OK.
Senator, before I let you know &#8212; go, I want to just follow up on what you shared with us when we spoke back in January, when you were very frustrated that the administration wasn&#8217;t sharing more information about the classified materials improperly held by the current president when he was out of office and the former president.
SENATOR MARK WARNER: Mm-hmm.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You&#8217;ve been briefed. Any more clarity on this? Any further information?
SENATOR MARK WARNER: We need more information about these documents.
And, more importantly, we need to make sure that what the intel community has done to mitigate the harm. And we&#8217;re still in conversations with the Justice Department. The administration&#8217;s position does not &#8212; does not pass the smell test. We&#8217;ve got a job, not to go into the legal ramifications, but to make sure that the intelligence community has done what&#8217;s right.
And we&#8217;ve got some additional tools. We can restrict some of the spending. We&#8217;re in active conversations with the Justice Department. But we&#8217;ve got to get those documents.
MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, Senator Warner, thank you for your time today.</blockquote>

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A top House Republican expressed skepticism about calls to increase the federal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/banks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bank</a> deposit insurance cap.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-NC) cast doubt on such proposals Sunday on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/full-interview-rep-patrick-mchenry/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Face the Nation</a>.&#8221; Democrats have floated raising the FDIC bank deposit insurance cap from $250,000 to between $2-10 million. But McHenry said that Congress needs to balance the costs and risks to the financial system before making such a consequential change.
&#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve heard a proposal like that,&#8221; McHenry said. &#8220;And I have not had a single conversation with the White House or the administration about deposit insurance, changing the levels. What I will do though, legislatively, and in an oversight function is to determine whether or not we need to address the FDIC deposit level. We did it after the last financial crisis raising from $100,000 to $250,000. We had a temporary program, post-financial crisis to support deposits, to ensure that folks had confidence in their local bank.&#8221;
But McHenry stressed the need to balance the benefits and the risks.
&#8220;What I want to know is the trade-off though, the moral hazard of having more risk-taking in the financial sector, and also the impact it would have on community banks,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have far fewer community banks now than we&#8217;ve had in generations. That&#8217;s a significant problem for competition in the financial services arena.
&#8220;It is not a pure play of allowing a larger set of insurance coverage,&#8221; he added, &#8220;It costs the financial system significantly, and especially community banks. We need to look very carefully at this.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-democrats-say-fdic-should-reexamine-250000-deposit-insurance-threshold" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Top Democrats</a> on the committees overseeing the financial sector called for the FDIC to increase the deposit insurance threshold on bank accounts in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. The vast majority of depositors at the bank exceeded the $250,000 limit. Regulators scrambled to guarantee all deposits at SVB to avoid bank runs.
California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves on the House Financial Services Committee, floated the idea in an interview with The New York Times Tuesday.
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“When you have something like Silicon Valley Bank with over 90% of its depositors uninsured, do we increase the amount of premiums that banks will pay in order to have a bigger insurance fund or do we just remain the way that we are and take it on a one-by-one basis for consideration?” she said.
Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, said Congress should “reexamine, just overall, about why we have limits” at the $250,000 threshold.
“Some small business, some nonprofit, needs a place to manage its money,” she said in an interview with CNBC, via The Hill. “They need to be able to make payroll, they need to be able to pay the utility bills, and they need a safe place to have that money where somebody’s going to keep it safe.”
Warren on Sunday <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-fdic-insurance-cap-lift-silicon-valley-bank/">said</a> raising the cap has &#8220;got to be on the table right now.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that lifting the FDIC insurance cap is a good move,&#8221; said Warren. &#8220;Now the question is, where&#8217;s the right number on lifting it?&#8230; This is a question we got to work through. Is-is it $2 million? Is it $5 million? Is it 10 million?&#8221;

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Massachusetts Democratic Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elizabeth-warren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elizabeth Warren</a> called for a new Federal Reserve Chairman on Sunday as she lashed out at Jerome Powell&#8217;s job performance.
Appearing on several Sunday talk shows, Warren accused Powell of taking a &#8220;flamethrower&#8221; to regulations on big banks and failing to control inflation. In the wake of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/silicon-valley-bank" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silicon Valley Bank</a> collapse, Warren called for the Federal Reserve and Congress to impose more regulations. She also said that Powell should not be chairman of the Fed.
&#8220;Donald Trump ran for president saying he would lighten the regulations on these banks,&#8221; Warren said on CBS News&#8217;s &#8220;Face the Nation.&#8221; &#8220;And then Jerome Powell just literally took a flamethrower to these regulations in order to make them less and less effective.&#8221;
&#8220;Jerome Powell has said that all he wants to do is lighten regulations on the banks,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I opposed him as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank precisely for that reason. I said he was a dangerous man to have in this position.&#8221;
Warren went on to call for &#8220;accountability&#8221; from Powell and the financial regulators who &#8220;clearly fell down on the job&#8221;; and from financial executives who she says enabled the SVB collapse with risky investments.
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“We need accountability for our regulators who clearly fell down on the job,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenWarren</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> on the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, adding that it “starts with” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, who she says “was a dangerous man to have in this position.” <a href="https://t.co/B2VYr0uZYM">pic.twitter.com/B2VYr0uZYM</a>
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Warren echoed similar sentiments on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/full-warren-calling-data-privacy-a-tiktok-issue-by-itself-misses-the-elephant-in-the-room-165659205854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meet the Press</a>.&#8221;
“He has a dual mandate,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Yes he is responsible for dealing with inflation, but he is also responsible for employment. And what Chair Powell is trying to do– and he has said fairly explicitly– is that they are trying to, in effect, slow down the economy so that – this is, by the Fed’s own estimate – two million people will lose their jobs. And I believe that is not what the chair of the Federal Reserve should be doing.”
NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd then asked Warren whether Powell should be fired.
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&#8220;My views on Jay Powell are well known at this point,&#8221; Warren responded. &#8220;He has had two jobs. One is to deal with monetary policy. One is to deal with regulation. He has failed at both.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, I don&#8217;t think he should be chairman of the Federal Reserve,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;I have said it as publicly as I know how to say it. I&#8217;ve said it to everyone.&#8221;

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