Anchor <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-don-lemon-offers-bizarre-rebuttal-when-colbert-says-new-cnn-boss-wont-let-anchors-be-liberal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-don-lemon-offers-bizarre-rebuttal-when-colbert-says-new-cnn-boss-wont-let-anchors-be-liberal/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">Don Lemon</a> apparently stepped in it on Thursday morning when he argued — against “CNN This Morning” co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins — in defense of the U.S. men’s <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://dailywire.com/news/ill-be-ready-u-s-soccer-star-speaks-out-after-game-winning-goal-lands-him-in-a-hospital-bed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://dailywire.com/news/ill-be-ready-u-s-soccer-star-speaks-out-after-game-winning-goal-lands-him-in-a-hospital-bed/" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">soccer team</a> making more money than the women’s team.
Collins and Harlow argued that because the women&#8217;s team had traditionally done better in international competition, they should be paid accordingly. <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-journalists-must-treat-republicans-as-dangerous-to-our-society/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lemon</a> agreed that the members of the women&#8217;s team should be paid more than they were, but countered that the men were paid more because more people were interested in watching them play — and therefore willing to shell out more money for tickets and merchandise.
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Don Lemon leaves his CNN colleagues perplexed by stating the obvious about pay in US soccer:
“Everyone’s going to hate me … I’m not sexist&#8230;the men’s team makes more money, the men should get more money.” <a href="https://t.co/iZiwSHVBhd">pic.twitter.com/iZiwSHVBhd</a>
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Harlow began by suggesting that media and Big Tech were somehow responsible for suppressing public access to the women&#8217;s team, saying, &#8220;Until big media companies, Big Tech companies, advertisers, invest and put them on their airwaves more —&#8221;
&#8220;I understand what you&#8217;re saying,&#8221; Lemon interjected, but Harlow continued.
&#8220;No-no-no-no-no! And allow people to see it more and gain more fans, then you will push toward more equality,&#8221; she asserted, arguing that more visibility would make people like women&#8217;s soccer more. &#8220;But if they are blocked in so many ways and not invested in as much —&#8221;
&#8220;You guys are — I&#8217;m not sexist,&#8221; Lemon tried again.
&#8220;I know you&#8217;re not!&#8221; Harlow agreed. &#8220;But they don&#8217;t even have a shot.&#8221;
&#8220;I grew up the only boy in a family of all women, I understand what you&#8217;re saying,&#8221; Lemon said, pivoting to make his point. &#8220;But not everybody, honestly, has the same skill. Not everybody has the same interest in the sport. I think the women should be paid more, I do. But if the men —&#8221;
&#8220;You&#8217;re right that not everyone has the same skills because the women are better skilled,&#8221; Collins interrupted, prompting Harlow to respond: &#8220;Mic drop.&#8221;
Lemon continued, however, noting that the women were certainly very skilled in competition — against other women. &#8220;But if the women played the men, they wouldn&#8217;t be winning the way that they win.&#8221;
&#8220;Why?? What??!!&#8221; Harlow was clearly taken aback by Lemon&#8217;s statement. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to get into that argument.&#8221;
Following a lawsuit demanding equal pay, the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Team will receive half of the prize money the U.S. Men&#8217;s National Team <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/30/us-womens-national-team-will-get-half-of-money-won-by-usmnt-at-world-cup/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brings home</a> from the ongoing World Cup, including some $6.5 million from their advancement into the Round of 16.

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CNN panelists appeared baffled by the certainty with which analyst <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/bakari-sellers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bakari Sellers</a> claimed that President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> was likely to face a challenger going into the 2024 Democratic primary election.
While anchors <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/don-lemon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/kaitlan-collins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaitlan Collins</a> seemed to agree with part of Sellers&#8217; assessment — namely that Biden might decide against taking on the rigors of another campaign — they were less convinced that the Democratic Party would push other serious contenders to the forefront if he was still running.
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Noting that President Biden has not wavered from his initial claim — that he intends &#8220;to run&#8221; for re-election in 2024 — analyst Paul Begala added, &#8220;Why wouldn’t he? You have to ask somebody else, I think he&#8217;s doing a great job. I&#8217;m a – kind of a Biden guy, I like what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
Begala went on to say that there had been &#8220;a lot of emerging new stars&#8221; in the Democratic Party, however, suggesting that if Biden were to bow out, the party had enough depth to work around that.
&#8220;Why wouldn’t he is because of the toil of the campaign,&#8221; Sellers began, noting that COVID had actually taken away some of the typical campaign pressures because it allowed Biden to avoid a lot of the ground-game staples that previous and future campaigns would likely require. &#8220;I mean, the campaign is a monster in itself.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not saying that he can’t do it,&#8221; Seller continued. &#8220;The question he has to answer is, does he want to go through that, and go through, you know, primary debates? Because he’s going to be primaried. That’s a fact. That, we’re new age Democrats. Now, I’m going to support him in that primary, but he’s going be …&#8221;
&#8220;You think he’s going to get primaried?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;Of course!&#8221; Sellers was adamant.
&#8220;By a serious candidate?&#8221; Begala appeared unconvinced.
&#8220;Did Hillary Clinton get primaried?&#8221; Sellers offered.
&#8220;Hillary wasn’t an incumbent …&#8221; Begala protested.
&#8220;She wasn’t an incumbent president,&#8221; Collins agreed.
&#8220;It doesn’t even matter if the candidate is serious or not. There’s going to be somebody …&#8221; Sellers tried again.
Begala continued to push back, saying that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton hadn&#8217;t been primaried when they were incumbent presidents.
&#8220;There’s going to be somebody, there’s going to be somebody,&#8221; Sellers insisted. &#8220;This is, this is not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama’s Democratic Party anymore. I wish it was. There are a lot of, there are a lot of us who are going to support Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;But who would primary him?&#8221; Collins pressed.
&#8220;I feel firm in the belief that he’ll get primaried from the Left,&#8221; Sellers said, arguing that Biden was likely to face a challenge from the far Left, from someone who felt that his policies had not gone far enough.
Sellers is not the only one exploring the possibility that the Democrats could put up a candidate who is not Joe Biden in 2024 — three weeks ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s midterms, The Washington Post put out a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/15/top-ten-democrats-2024-ranked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top-ten ranked list</a> of potential Democratic candidates — and while Biden was ranked first, the list also included Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to commit to a United States response in the event that Russia did — as many have warned — use chemical or biological attacks as part of their ongoing war in Ukraine.
CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed repeatedly for a definitive answer on the subject, but Psaki would only repeat President Joe Biden&#8217;s promise not to send American troops to fight the Russians in Ukraine.
&#8220;Jen Psaki says she is not going to get into hypotheticals when asked if a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine would warrant a US military response. Asked if Biden would let a Russian chemical weapons attack go unanswered, Psaki says, &#8216;We haven’t let anything go unanswered,'&#8221; Collins tweeted after the exchange that took place during Thursday&#8217;s White House press briefing.
&#8220;Psaki says President Biden’s position that US forces won’t go into Ukraine still stands,&#8221; Collins added.
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Psaki responds to question about whether the U.S. would act if Russia launched a chemical attack on Ukraine.
“We have not let anything go unanswered that President Vladimir Putin has done to date…What that would look like, I can&#39;t give you an assessment of that from here.” <a href="https://t.co/1H12YPNSYl">pic.twitter.com/1H12YPNSYl</a>
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&#8220;If Russia does conduct a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine, there will not be a military response from the United States—&#8221; Collins prompted.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to get into hypotheticals,&#8221; Psaki replied, adding, &#8220;What we&#8217;re saying right now is that they have the capacity and the capabilities. I&#8217;m also not going to get into intelligence, but the president&#8217;s intention of sending U.S. military to fight in Ukraine against Russia has not changed.&#8221;
&#8220;But that sounds like even if there is a chemical weapons attack, that calculus will not change, so I just want to be clear on what the U.S. response would be—&#8221; Collins tried again.
&#8220;Again, there has not been a chemical weapons attack,&#8221; Psaki replied. &#8220;We are conveying to all of you what the capacity and the capabilities of Russia are, what steps they have taken in the past &#8230; but the president and our NATO partners, they have not changed their assessment about their plans to send U.S. troops in.&#8221;
&#8220;Would President Biden let a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine go unanswered by the United States?&#8221; Collins tried a different tack.
&#8220;We have not let anything go unanswered that President Putin has done to date,&#8221; Psaki objected. &#8220;We have not let anything go unanswered to date, any steps that President Putin has taken to date. What that would look like, I can&#8217;t give you an assessment of that from here.&#8221;
Just two days earlier, facing questions from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland said that officials were certain that if a chemical or biological attack were used in Ukraine, the Russians would be the ones behind it. She also voiced concerns that Russia would gain control of Ukrainian research facilities that could give them greater capabilities on that particular front.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/100-marco-rubio-presses-state-dept-official-on-whether-russia-will-use-chemical-biological-weapons/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“Let me ask you, does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons?” Rubio asked.
“Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of,” Nuland replied. “So we are working with the Ukrainians on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces, should they approach.”</blockquote>

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CNN White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pressed CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky during a Wednesday morning interview, asking whether the newly released guidelines on quarantining and testing those with COVID-19 infection had more to do with business than they did with science.
&#8220;I want to start with the change in the CDC guidance,&#8221; Collins began, pointing to the announcement that the regular recommended quarantine for those infected with <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/cdc-drastically-drops-estimate-of-omicron-cases-in-u-s/">COVID-19</a> had been reduced from 10 days to five days for asymptomatic people — just half of what it was previously.
&#8220;So how did the CDC settle on five days for everyone?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;We looked at several areas of science here. First, the science of how much how much transmission happens in the period of time after you’re infected. We know that the most amount of transmission occurs in those one to two days before you develop symptoms, those two to three days after you develop symptoms. If you map that out, the five days account for someone between 85% to 90% of all transmission that occurs,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/breaking-cdc-announces-shortened-covid-19-quarantine-recommendations/">Walensky</a> explained. &#8220;So we really wanted to make sure that during the first five days you — were spent in isolation, that’s where most of it occurs.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course there is this tail end period of time in the last five days where we are asking you to mask. But the other things we were looking at is the epidemiology here. We are seeing and expecting even more cases of this Omicron variant. Many of those cases are mildly symptomatic, if not asymptomatic,&#8221; Walensky continued. &#8220;And then finally the behavioral science. What will people actually do when they get back to work?&#8230;If we can get them to isolate, we want to make sure they are isolating in the first five days when they are maximally infectious.&#8221;
&#8220;So from what you are saying, it sounds like this decision had just as much to do with business as it did with the science,&#8221; Collins pushed back.
&#8220;It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,&#8221; Walensky replied, adding, &#8220;We have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic. Some science has demonstrated that less than a third of people are isolating when they need to. We really want to make sure we have guidance in this moment where we were going to have a lot of disease that could be adhered to, that people were willing to adhere to, and that spoke to specifically when people were maximally infectious. So it really spoke to both behaviors and to what people were able to do.&#8221;
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Walensky added that the rapidly increasing number of milder cases driven by the Omicron variant was likely to create a situation in which many people felt well enough to return to work — making them less willing to self-isolate even if they might still test positive for the disease — and the shortening isolation period was designed to help better target the days they might be most infectious and encourage them to stay home for that period of time.

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A tweet from CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins went viral on Thanksgiving as she celebrated with a crowd of other reporters about getting President Trump to answer questions from the press.
Collins and the handful of assembled reporters were mocked online for gathering closely together during the shot amid the pandemic, and for celebrating getting Trump to answer questions while many members of the press ignored Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his pick for vice president, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), largely avoiding taking questions from reporters during the campaign.
“If this was a thanksgiving dinner it’d be a crime in some states,” Joe Simonson, a campaign reporter at The Washington Examiner tweeted.
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If this was a thanksgiving dinner it’d be a crime in some states <a href="https://t.co/8LtEIxC2uK">https://t.co/8LtEIxC2uK</a>
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“Where is the photo of the crew that can get Joe Biden to answer one?” media critic Stephen Miller said.
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Where is the photo of the crew that can get Joe Biden to answer one? <a href="https://t.co/P9xxg8Us4c">https://t.co/P9xxg8Us4c</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1332140092937416706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“From an optics perspective in terms of an argument around objectivity, this wasn’t a good idea,” Joe Concha, media critic for The Hill, said.
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From an optics perspective in terms of an argument around objectivity, this wasn’t a good idea: <a href="https://t.co/y7HDh8LqKt">https://t.co/y7HDh8LqKt</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1332124330239684608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“This is not Kaitlan’s fault or any of the WH Press Corp (because they cover the WH) but I do hope we see this same enthusiasm in getting real Q’s to Biden,” National Republican Senatorial Committee Senior Adviser Matt Whitlock tweeted. “Biden went weeks at a time without taking questions (in peak campaign season) and Kamala Harris went literally months.”
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This is not Kaitlan’s fault or any of the WH Press Corp (because they cover the WH) but I do hope we see this same enthusiasm in getting real Q’s to Biden. 
Biden went weeks at a time without taking questions (in peak campaign season) and Kamala Harris went literally months. <a href="https://t.co/QGrhqRlpA4">https://t.co/QGrhqRlpA4</a>
&mdash; Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1332176722335326208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump took questions from the press while sitting behind a desk in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thursday. During the presser, Trump said he would concede the election to Biden if the electoral college voted to certify a Biden victory.
“Certainly I will, and you know that,” Trump said when asked about potentially exiting the White House, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/26/politics/trump-leave-office-electoral-college/index.html">CNN</a>. “I will and, you know that.”
“It&#8217;s going to be a very hard thing to concede because we know there was massive fraud,” Trump claimed. “As to whether or not we can get this apparatus moving quickly – because time isn’t on our side, everything else is on our side, facts are on our side, this was a massive fraud.”
Trump reversed himself the next day, posting on Twitter that “Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous ‘80,000,000 votes’ were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia &amp; Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem!”
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Biden can only enter the White House as President if he can prove that his ridiculous “80,000,000 votes” were not fraudulently or illegally obtained. When you see what happened in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia &amp; Milwaukee, massive voter fraud, he’s got a big unsolvable problem!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1332352538855747584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Twitter tagged the president’s post with a warning: “This claim about election fraud is disputed.” Media outlets project Biden winning the 2020 election with 306 electoral votes. Trump’s legal team continues to pursue avenues through the courts to overturn alleged voter fraud and highlight unequal treatment before votes are certified.
Asked if Trump would attend the Biden’s inauguration if Biden is eventually named the president of the United States, Trump said he did not want to reveal his plans.
“I don’t want to say that yet,” Trump said, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/trump-election-georgia.html">The New York Times</a>. “I know the answer, but I just don’t want to say.”

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