Georgia GOP Governor Brian Kemp urged Republican voters not to get distracted by the criminal prosecution of former President Donald Trump by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, saying that the case is unlikely to go to trial before the 2024 election.
Kemp made the remarks while speaking to CNN&#8217;s Kaitlan Collins on &#8220;The Source&#8221; about the state of the presidential race.
&#8220;I would just tell you that six months, eight months ago, I never thought this case would go to trial, before the election,&#8221; Kemp said. &#8220;And I think most people think that&#8217;s the case now.&#8221;
&#8220;So, as far as I&#8217;m concerned, I don&#8217;t think voters should get too distracted on all of this and just stay focused on what&#8217;s at hand, going into November, and let Judge McAfee make his ruling,&#8221; he continued, noting that McAfee was a just that he appointed because he&#8217;s a strong constitutionalist.
Kemp also said that the state is working on refining a piece of legislation that would allow the state to oversee district attorneys because some are not following the law.
He said that Republicans should instead be focused on selling the American people their vision for the country and what they stand for, not just what they are against, and cautioned that losing elections can have serious ramifications.
&#8220;I think, looking back, I mean, take the border for instance, right now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The reason the border is a disaster is because we didn&#8217;t win the 2020 election, at the presidential level. We got beat. We lost the election. Therefore, you&#8217;re seeing bad policies that have created a disaster, at the border.&#8221;
&#8220;So, it&#8217;s imperative that you win to be able to get into positions, like I&#8217;m in, where you can actually govern. And if you look at my re-election campaign, I mean, look, there was plenty of distractions, people trying to talk about this issue or that issue,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we kept telling the people of Georgia, what we&#8217;re going to do for them, what our record was, like getting the economy going, coming out of COVID, not backing down to people that were pressuring us not to reopen or shut back down, and to keep our kids in the classroom, and not to defund the police, and go after bad criminal actors, and antifa, and other people that were trying to burn down the City of Atlanta.&#8221;
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&#8220;We didn&#8217;t get distracted on these other issues,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what we need to do, in the presidential election, in my opinion.&#8221;
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Kemp Urges Voters Not To Be ‘Distracted’ By Trump Case In Georgia: Likely Won’t Go To Trial ‘Before The Election’

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Kaitlan Collins

Politics

Former Trump Attorney General William Barr weighed in on a federal grand jury charging former President Donald Trump with multiple felonies this week over his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The 77-year-old former president was charged on Tuesday with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
During an interview Wednesday night on CNN, Barr highlighted some potential problems with the case and the challenges it presents for the former president.
Barr said it was a &#8220;legitimate case&#8221; but was complicated and could have &#8220;issues of proof.&#8221;
&#8220;There are some downsides to it. I think there were reasons not to bring it,&#8221; he told host Kaitlan Collins. &#8220;I have said before I&#8217;m a little concerned about the slippery slope of criminalizing legitimate political activity.&#8221;
Barr said the Department of Justice would have a much harder time convincing the public that this case is fair and that the law is being applied equally because prosecutors &#8220;dropped the ball on the Hunter Biden investigation.&#8221;
Barr then addressed the argument from Trump and his allies after Collins pointed out that they are &#8220;saying he was just exercising his First Amendment right.&#8221;
&#8220;No, I really don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a valid argument,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;As the indictment says, they&#8217;re not attacking his First Amendment right. He can say whatever he wants. He can even lie. He can even tell people that the election was stolen, when he knew better. But that does not protect you from entering into a conspiracy. All conspiracies involve speech, and all fraud involves speech.&#8221;
Barr also discussed Trump listening to the advice of attorneys like John Eastman.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that dog is going to hunt,&#8221; Barr said. &#8220;First, as to people who had some knowledge of whether or not there was fraud, everyone was telling him that the election was not stolen by fraud. &#8230; He would search for a lawyer who would give him the advice he wanted. But I&#8217;m not even sure you would characterize what Eastman said as advice. I mean, it&#8217;d be interesting to see, but I interpret of some of what he was saying as essentially, &#8216;well, you know, it&#8217;s unclear here, and you could make this argument. I&#8217;m not saying the courts would accept it&#8217; and so forth.&#8221;
&#8220;And you act on that, it&#8217;s your own hazard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Also, I don&#8217;t think this defense of advice of counsel is going to go forward, because I think the president would have to get on the stand and subject himself to cross-examination in order to raise that. And he&#8217;d also have to waive attorney-client privilege.&#8221;
Barr said that he was positive that if Trump took the stand, he would do serious damage to himself from a legal perspective because a very skilled cross-examiner would grill him over &#8220;all the different versions of events he&#8217;s given over the last few years.&#8221;
Barr cautioned that people need to wait before making up their minds about the case because &#8220;we&#8217;re only seeing the tip of the iceberg on this indictment.&#8221;
When asked if he thought special counsel Jack Smith had &#8220;more&#8221; evidence that he was not showing, Barr responded, &#8220;Oh, yes. I would believe he has a lot more.&#8221;
Barr also said he believes that Trump knew that he lost the 2020 presidential election because of the public comments from some of his top outside political advisers at the time. They said &#8220;he was going to claim it was stolen if he was falling behind on election night, and that that was the plan of action,&#8221; Barr said, adding, &#8220;That&#8217;s my personal opinion.&#8221;
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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-releases-statement-about-kaitlan-collins-performance-during-trump-town-hall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaitlan Collins</a> will take over the prime time slot vacated by recently-ousted anchor Chris Cuomo, the network announced on Wednesday.
Network CEO Chris Licht <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/business/media/cnn-kaitlan-collins.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that Collins, 31, would host the 9 p.m. ET slot on weeknights beginning sometime in June — the highest-rated hour on CNN prior to Cuomo&#8217;s departure in late 2021 — but the title of her show has not yet been announced.
&#8220;Kaitlan will showcase why she’s one of the top reporters and interviewers in the game. She is a smart and gifted journalist who we’ve all seen hold lawmakers and newsmakers accountable. She pushes politicians off their talking points, gets real answers – and as everyone who’s worked with her knows – breaks a lot of news. Kaitlan will expose uncovered angles and challenge conventional wisdom to make sure viewers are seeing a story from every side,&#8221; Licht <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/cnn-kaitlan-collins-chris-licht-upfront-1235369840/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told CNN staffers</a> in an internal memo.
The move comes just a week after Collins served as the solo host for an often contentious CNN town hall event with former President Donald Trump, drawing both criticism and praise for her handling of the situation.
Peacock host Mehdi Hasan (&#8220;The Mehdi Hasan Show&#8221;) wrote an op-ed claiming that CNN had &#8220;set Collins up to fail&#8221; when she was named to host the town hall, saying, &#8220;The network put its star anchor and interviewer Kaitlan Collins in a room full of Trump supporters, who laughed at their cult leader’s crass jokes and applauded his cheap insults — including jabs at Collins herself.&#8221;
But a panel of commentators at CNN disagreed, referring to Collins as a &#8220;matador against a bull&#8221; and praising her for holding her ground against the former president.
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Collins previously served as a reporter for The Daily Caller and as CNN&#8217;s White House correspondent — and has since worked alongside anchor Poppy Harlow and Don Lemon before his recent and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cnn-fires-don-lemon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abrupt exit</a> on &#8220;CNN This Morning.&#8221;
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Harlow will continue to host &#8220;This Morning,&#8221; and for the time being, she will be joined by a rotating series of co-anchors.

CNN Journo Who Sparred With Trump At Town Hall Nabs Chris Cuomo’s Old Prime Time Slot

Kaitlan Collins Nabs Chris Cuomo's Old Prime Time Slot

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CNN released a statement Wednesday night defending host Kaitlan Collins after she hosted a town hall for former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> in New Hampshire — his first interview on the network since 2016.
&#8220;Tonight Kaitlan Collins exemplified what it means to be a world-class journalist,&#8221; the network said. &#8220;She asked tough, fair and revealing questions. And she followed up and fact-checked President Trump in real time to arm voters with crucial information about his positions as he enters the 2024 election as the Republican frontrunner. That is CNN’s role and responsibility: to get answers and hold the powerful to account.&#8221;
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&quot;&#8230; to arm voters with crucial information about his positions as he enters the 2024 election as the Republican frontrunner. That is CNN’s role and responsibility: to get answers and hold the powerful to account.&quot;
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Collins appeared to have a decent start while pressing the president about some of his claims surrounding the 2020 presidential election and the January 6, 2021, riot, but she quickly lost control of the event.
Collins’ much-criticized performance came as news broke that CNN CEO Chris Licht was reportedly set to announce that the 31-year-old would be offered a new contract to serve as host of the network’s 9 p.m. primetime hour, which was previously occupied for years by former CNN host Chris Cuomo.
The report from Puck News said that Collins’ performance tonight is not expected to impact the offer that CNN is about to make her, but cautioned that with Trump, anything is possible.
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Puck News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-set-to-announce-kaitlan-collins-as-new-prime-time-host">reported</a> that the announcement is expected to take place in the coming days and would cap off Collins’ fast rise through the network from her time as a White House reporter who often got under the skin of former President Donald Trump to become a fresh face for the network’s primetime lineup.

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CNN Releases Statement About Kaitlan Collins’ Performance During Trump Town Hall

CNN Releases Statement About Kaitlan Collins' Performance During Trump Town Hall

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> CEO Chris Licht is reportedly set to announce that 31-year-old Kaitlan Collins has a new contract to serve as the host of the network&#8217;s 9 p.m. primetime hour, which was previously occupied for years by former CNN host Chris Cuomo.
Puck News <a href="https://puck.news/the-kaitlan-era-begins-tonight/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=organic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the announcement is expected to take place in the coming days and would cap off Collins&#8217; fast rise through the network from her time as a White House reporter who often got under the skin of former President Donald Trump to become a fresh face for the network&#8217;s primetime lineup.
Collins is set to host a town hall event tonight in New Hampshire with former President Donald Trump, who has faced criticism for agreeing to go on the network with a journalist who has <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/trump-cnn-kaitlan-collins-00095114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shown hostility</a> toward him in the past while <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/27/us/politics/trump-republican-primary-debates.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggesting</a> that he may skip Republican Party primary debates — which critics claim is because he does not want to be compared on stage next to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
This will be the first time that Trump has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/10/trump-town-hall-cnn-heres-why-and-how-to-watch/70205770007/?taid=645c1e7e90f121000160dc85&amp;utm_campaign=trueanthem&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">allowed</a> CNN to interview him since 2016.
&#8220;They are rightfully desperate to get those fantastic (TRUMP!) ratings once again,&#8221; Trump wrote on social media. &#8220;They made me a deal I couldn’t refuse!!! Could be the beginning of a New &amp; Vibrant CNN, with no more Fake News, or it could turn into a disaster for all, including me. Let’s see what happens? Wednesday Night at 8:00!!!&#8221;
The report from Puck News said that Collins&#8217; performance tonight is not expected to impact the offer that CNN is about to make her, but cautioned that with Trump, anything is possible.
Trump is likely to face tough questions about the four criminal investigations that he is under, a civil court ruling that he committed battery and defamed E. Jean Carroll, claims that he has made about the 2020 election, and other controversies.
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CNN has also faced attacks from Left-wing media for giving a town hall event to the former president, who is currently leading in the very early GOP primary polls along with the Florida governor.

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CNN Set To Announce Kaitlan Collins As New Prime Time Host

Don Lemon

Just one day after the network severed ties with former prime time anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/contentious-spat-with-gop-candidate-may-have-been-don-lemons-last-straw-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a>, his now ex-cohosts on &#8220;CNN This Morning&#8221; spent less than one minute saying farewell to their recently-departed colleague.
Cohosts Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow addressed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/contentious-spat-with-gop-candidate-may-have-been-don-lemons-last-straw-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lemon&#8217;s</a> termination at the top of Tuesday morning&#8217;s broadcast — just 24 hours after he had shared the desk with them for the final time — and the only fitting word to describe their send-off was &#8220;brief.&#8221;
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Here is how <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNThisMorning?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNNThisMorning</a> handled the news of Don Lemon&#39;s termination. &quot;We wish him the best.&quot; We are &quot;really proud of this show.&quot; Then on to the news. <a href="https://t.co/8u7bY7BUEe">pic.twitter.com/8u7bY7BUEe</a>
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Harlow jumped into their farewell segment within seconds of opening the show — and less than a full minute later, it was all over.
&#8220;Well, good morning, everyone. It is Tuesday, April 25th. Welcome to &#8216;CNN This Morning.&#8217; We’re so glad you’re with us. We do begin, though, with news about this show,&#8221; Harlow began. &#8220;As you may have heard yesterday, CNN parted ways with anchor Don Lemon. In a statement, CNN CEO Chris Licht thanked Don for his contributions over the past 17 years, writing in part, &#8216;Don will forever be a part of the CNN family. We wish him well and we’ll be cheering him on in his future endeavors.'&#8221;
&#8220;Absolutely. Of course, Don was a big part of this show over the last six months. He was one of the first anchors on CNN to have me on his show. That’s something I’ll obviously never forget. I agree with Chris. We wish him the best,&#8221; Collins agreed.
Harlow went on to add that Lemon had been one of her &#8220;first friends&#8221; at the network when she first started at CNN — and then after saying again that she wished him well, she pivoted back to the show moving on without him.
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&#8220;Kaitlan and I are really proud of this show. We are so proud of the dedicated team that works around the clock to bring you the news every morning. And our priority is you, the viewer. We’re grateful you welcome us into your home each morning,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Absolutely. And of course, this morning we want to keep it within the focus on the news, where that belongs,&#8221; Collins delivered the segue. &#8220;So let’s get to it. &#8216;CNN This Morning&#8217; starts right now.&#8221;
Lemon&#8217;s exit came after a series of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/don-lemon-will-be-back-on-cnn-after-class-on-not-making-sexist-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">missteps</a> and rumors that he and his new morning show colleagues were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-co-hosts-tag-team-don-lemon-for-daring-to-defend-mens-soccer-team" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not getting along</a>.

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Don Lemon’s Ex-Cohosts Spend Less Than 60 Seconds On Rapid-Fire Farewell

Don Lemon's Ex-Cohosts Spend Less Than 60 Seconds On Rapid-Fire Farewell

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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Female Co-Hosts Tag Team Don Lemon For Daring To Defend Men’s Soccer Team

Female Co-Hosts Tag Team Don Lemon For Daring To Defend Men's Soccer Team

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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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Bakari Sellers says he thinks President Biden will have to go through primaries if he decides to run for reelection <a href="https://t.co/Mfs5sPiWkl">https://t.co/Mfs5sPiWkl</a> <a href="https://t.co/sjn8g6n9RC">pic.twitter.com/sjn8g6n9RC</a>
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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.
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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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“It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate,” CDC Director Walensky says on why the CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days if you’re asymptomatic. Our full interview: <a href="https://t.co/rO7blPFiPj">pic.twitter.com/rO7blPFiPj</a>
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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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