Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday shut down attempts by a journalist to demonize President Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies, noting that he was complying with federal law.
Noem made the remarks on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; with Margaret Brennan when asked about separating illegal alien families — which is done to ensure that children are not being trafficked.
&#8220;The administration has revived this policy of detaining migrant families, parents with children, in ICE detention centers,&#8221; Brennan said. &#8220;Bush did it. Obama did it. Biden did not.&#8221;
&#8220;Have you seen these Texas facilities where children are being held with their parents?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Are you comfortable with it personally?&#8221;
After a brief exchange, Noem noted: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that we&#8217;re actually reviving it.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s that President Biden didn&#8217;t follow the law,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t follow the law, in the fact that it&#8217;s always been equally applied until his administration, and then he made decisions to ignore federal law in how he handled immigration and enforcement within our borders.&#8221;
&#8220;Today we&#8217;re expanding our team at ICE, and we&#8217;re going to have an acting director in Todd Lyons, who has a long history with (border czar) Tom Homan,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They have worked together to build on these enforcement operations. We&#8217;re also naming a deputy secretary in Madison Sheahan. That was going to be another expansion of this team.&#8221;
&#8220;They have done incredible work cleaning up our communities and making them safer,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Adding more people to the team, with Todd and with Madison, is going to allow us to partner with local law enforcement officials to make sure that we truly are following through on enforcing the law. And, if you break our law, then there&#8217;s going to be consequences.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a> shuts down the Fake News&#8217; attempt to pin &#8216;family separation&#8217; on President Trump: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that we&#8217;re actually reviving it, it&#8217;s that President Biden didn&#8217;t follow the law. He didn&#8217;t follow the law in the fact that it&#8217;s always been equally applied until his… <a href="https://t.co/vWlaopl7ZJ">pic.twitter.com/vWlaopl7ZJ</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1898767374880481533?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2025</a></blockquote>

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CBS News host Margaret Brennan seemingly advocated for Democratic governors to push back on President Donald Trump over the weekend while interviewing New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D).
The moment on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; happened when Brennan asked Hochul about a contentious interaction that Trump had with Maine Governor Janet Mills (D).
Trump and Mills had the following interaction at the White House last week:
<blockquote>DONALD TRUMP: Is Maine here, the Governor of Maine?
GOVERNOR JANET MILLS: Yes, I&#8217;m here.
TRUMP: Are you not going to comply with it?
MILLS: I will comply with state and federal laws.
TRUMP: Well, I&#8217;m – we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it, because you&#8217;re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don&#8217;t.</blockquote>
&#8220;That was about transgender athletes on girls sports teams,&#8221; Brennan said about the exchange.
&#8220;Are you Democratic governors going to start to work together on this?&#8221; Brennan pressed. &#8220;Is there legal pushback?&#8221;
Hochul responded by claiming that Trump was &#8220;flooding the zone.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re attacking California when it comes to FEMA dollars,&#8221; she said. &#8220;They&#8217;re filing lawsuits in Illinois. They&#8217;re going after Maine on this, and they&#8217;re coming after programs that have been duly put in place in the state of New York.&#8221;
&#8220;What they&#8217;re trying to do is create this theater of all kinds of activity that is trying to be a distraction to us,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And when someone floods the zone in a football game, what you need to have is the defenders be very disciplined, smart, but also stand their ground. And that&#8217;s exactly what New York governors, the governor of New York will do, in cooperation with our governors.&#8221;
She claimed that Democrat governors would not &#8220;sit idly by and let our rights be attacked.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ll work with you when there&#8217;s common ground, no doubt about it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s build great projects and infrastructure. There&#8217;s areas where we&#8217;re going to work with you on immigration and getting the violent criminals off our streets. We do not dispute that. But don&#8217;t think that you can just come in and bully us around and not expect a reaction from governors.&#8221;
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she will cooperate with other Democratic governors to push back on the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to target some of their policies.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to sit by and let our rights be attacked,&#8221; she says.
&#8220;Don&#8217;t think that you can just come in… <a href="https://t.co/xP1o5Jkbx6">pic.twitter.com/xP1o5Jkbx6</a>
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1893694742770127032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2025</a></blockquote>

CBS Host Margaret Brennan Seemingly Urges Democrat Governors To Fight Trump In Courts

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Margaret Brennan, the host of “Face the Nation,” must have skipped basic World War II history wherever she went to school. It’s hard to fathom any other explanation for the indefensible <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-host-blasted-bonkers-claim-110009274.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADK89IUcImGk1CrzoyQDLZccqWrRkEJnE-20e6ra9rUwvHv7TEmGpUUphNaxHdos_ma3LvO08Gduee51bRmZKYJYQ7_PZ0PuTmHtNcxxWvGu7RxIoSUVdaVfiDCadd_qpzOyTz7iDto-xOE9Sjx2I5Qv6rFXbe9v486BIckLtmF5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claim</a> she made about freedom of speech while she was debating—sorry, “interviewing”—Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Vice President Vance’s deserved chastisement of European governments for their censorship regimes.
Brennan’s claim that free speech in Europe is dangerous because in Nazi Germany it “was weaponized to conduct a genocide” is so historically wrong as to be laughable.
Brennan believes that free speech existed in Nazi Germany? Really? I know that’s untrue not only from history, but from the experiences of my own mother and grandmother, who filled my youth with stories of the government oppression they saw and experienced in the 1930s in Nazi Germany.
Secretary Rubio quickly hit back, correctly observing that “free speech wasn’t used to conduct genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime.”
Brennan obviously does not seem to understand the difference between censorship and propaganda. Free speech swiftly disappeared in Germany after the Nazi Party took control of the country, and propaganda—not free speech—began spewing out of the government as well as the newspapers, radio stations, and “journalists” that the Nazi Party controlled under its new “Reich Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda.”
Perhaps CBS should give Brennan an all-expense-paid trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. As their <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holocaust Encyclopedia</a> explains:
“When the Nazis came to power in 1933, the German constitution guaranteed freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Through decrees and laws, the Nazis abolished these civil rights…. Starting in 1934, it was illegal to criticize the Nazi government.”
The Nazis closed down or took over anti-Nazi newspapers. In another move to control communications, the Nazis passed the Schriftleitergesetz (also known as the Editorial Control Act) in 1933, a law that required all journalists to be licensed by the government to practice their profession. As the <a href="https://arolsen-archives.org/en/news/nazi-germanys-schriftleitergesetz-the-end-of-freedom-of-the-press/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arolsen Archives</a> at the International Center on Nazi Persecution explains, anyone expressing anti-Nazi views would not be licensed and those who received licenses were “directly subordinate to the Ministry of Propaganda and accountable to the Ministry—instead of their publishers.”
The censorship regime didn’t just apply to the media of the time, newspapers and radio stations. It applied to ordinary Germans, too. Germans like my grandparents quickly learned that any criticism of the regime, any disagreement with the propaganda being taught to students in the public schools—even just a joke about Hitler—could lead to swift arrest and punishment.
Brennan apparently is unaware that the first German concentration camps were not set up when World War II started; they were opened almost as soon as Hitler and his party took over in the 1930s. Dachau, the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first</a> such camp for political prisoners and anyone else who criticized or opposed the government, Hitler, or the Nazi Party, opened on March 22, 1933.
Dachau and the other camps <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were used</a> to “imprison and intimidate the leaders of political, social, and cultural movements that the Nazis perceived to be a threat to the survival of the regime.”
Freedom of speech used to “weaponize genocide”? Wrong! Freedom of speech disappeared into Dachau and the <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentration-camps-1933-39" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numerous</a> other camps set up throughout Germany.
In fact, these camps, whose purpose was to suppress free speech and all opposition to the Nazi’s hideous regime, “became the model for the Nazi concentration camp system” during the war that was used to murder millions of Jews and others whom the Nazis considered “subhumans,” and to imprison Nazi opponents like Lutheran Minister Martin Niemöller.
Niemöller famously <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-niemoeller-biography#:~:text=Then%20they%20came%20for%20me,imprisoned%20for%20opposing%20Hitler's%20regime." target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> himself and others for not speaking out sooner about the suppression of the Nazi regime, including its censorship, saying, “Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”
What JD Vance did at the Munich Security Conference was to speak up for those Europeans whose freedom of speech is being violated today and for the vital importance of preserving that right. He was dead-on in criticizing countries like Germany and the United Kingdom, using specific <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/18/vance-speech-munich-full-text-read-transcript-europe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">examples</a> such as the German government going after individuals who post “anti-feminist” commentary online or the British government convicting an Army veteran of the “heinous crime” of silently praying close to an abortion clinic, if you can call 50 meters close.
Or the Swedish judge who commented on the recent criminal conviction of a Christian activist, saying that the country’s laws protecting free speech don’t extend to speech that risks “offending the group that holds that belief.” That is a perilous view that short circuits the ability of anyone to say anything critical about any belief because it might “offend” someone who holds that belief.
Vance admitted, “in the interest of truth,” that this was happening in our country, too. The Biden administration “threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation,” opinions that our own government disagreed with or didn’t like. But then Margaret Brennan probably sees nothing wrong with that either, since she believes freedom of speech can be weaponized if it allows unwoke, politically unacceptable opinions to be expressed.
Probably the most disappointing aspect of this whole affair—other than Margaret Brennan’s profound ignorance and apparent disdain for the First Amendment—is the hostile reception of European leaders to Vance justifiably calling them out.
The most important part of his presentation was the offer he made to cooperate with them in order to stop this type of misbehavior. “Just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds,” he said, “so the Trump administration will do precisely the opposite, and I hope we can work together on that.”
“We may disagree with your view, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square, agree or disagree,” said Vance.
For the citizens of Europe, including the members of my extended family who are still there, I can only hope that these EU governments finally start taking the same attitude as JD Vance towards their own citizens and stop raiding, arresting, investigating, and punishing them for expressing views that those governments disagree with or don’t like.
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Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Fact-Check For Margaret Brennan: Free Speech Did Not Exist In Nazi Germany

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) said over the weekend that changing the power dynamic in Ukraine is critical to forcing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the table and bringing the war to an end.
Crenshaw made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; with host Margaret Brennan when asked about what continued role the United States would have in backing Ukraine.
He said that the Trump administration wants lasting peace in Ukraine, which means that security assurances must be put in place to prevent future wars from erupting.
&#8220;I think the Europeans have to play a huge role in that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;One of the things that gets talked about a lot is European forces actually acting as a peacekeeping force.&#8221;
&#8220;The Ukrainians clearly have a seat at the table and then the United States will be the intermediary as we try to establish a peace deal,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But the Europeans need to demand a seat at the table by being uncomfortably aggressive, which is something they haven&#8217;t done. You should be threatening things to Putin that actually make you uncomfortable because that&#8217;s the only language Putin speaks is power.&#8221;
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He said that America&#8217;s message to Europe was that if they wanted to win, they needed to bolster their defense spending and not rely so heavily on the United States.
&#8220;You need to be talking about where you&#8217;re going to be putting actual troops on the ground,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Stop following our lead and actually take the lead. Let us be actually holding you back. That would be an ideal situation and vastly change the power dynamic when dealing with Putin.&#8221;
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CBS News host Margaret Brennan faced intense backlash on Sunday after she claimed during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that &#8220;free speech was weaponized&#8221; to cause the Holocaust.
Brennan made the comment during an interview on &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; while talking about Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s speech to European leaders last week in which he called them out for abandoning values like free speech.
“He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide,” Brennan said while talking about Vance&#8217;s speech in Munich, Germany.
Brennan was met with instant pushback online over her claim, including from top elected leaders.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) posted on X: &#8220;Free speech caused the Holocaust is an insanely stupid take.&#8221;
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&#8220;I&#8217;m glad Margaret Brennan blamed free speech for the rise of the Nazis,&#8221; said columnist John Podhoretz. &#8220;It&#8217;s always a virtue when a person in a position of authority and influence who was elevated beyond her station reveals her ineptitude and folly&#8211;so that the world can see her clearly henceforth.&#8221;
&#8220;This bonkers,&#8221; said Red State writer Bonchie. &#8220;Like pull her off the air bonkers.&#8221;
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This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. <a href="https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4">pic.twitter.com/mpWm6UH2F4</a>
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Radio host Erick Erickson posted on X: &#8220;Can we just talk about how a prominent American news anchor actually believes Nazi Germany had free speech and that supposed free speech is to blame for the Holocaust? That&#8217;s both deeply arrogant and deeply ignorant.&#8221;
Columnist Karol Markowicz posted on X: &#8220;It’s wild that this is how far the left has fallen. Free speech caused the Holocaust, you guys.&#8221;
&#8220;This is absolute lunacy from Margaret Brennan,&#8221; wrote journalist Andrew Kerr.
&#8220;I legitimately don&#8217;t know how ignorant you have to be to claim the holocaust happened as a result of free speech,&#8221; said Meghan McCain. &#8220;This woman doesn&#8217;t deserve to host this show and Republicans should stop rewarding this s*** by going on it.&#8221;

Margaret Brennan Slammed Over Claim That ‘Free Speech Was Weaponized’ To Cause The Holocaust

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A guest on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; attempted to claim on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast that despite reports of pre-dawn raids and the confiscation of electronics, German citizens really do enjoy free speech — until they say something that law enforcement interprets as &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;
Dr. Matthäus Fink sat down with host Sharyn Alfonsi to discuss the topic, and he explained how the recent raids had played out.
&#8220;What&#8217;s the typical reaction when the police show up at somebody&#8217;s door and they say, &#8216;Hey, we believe you wrote this on the internet&#8217;?&#8221; Alfonsi asked.
Fink said that the initial reaction was typically disbelief — mainly because they believed they were entitled to freedom of speech: &#8220;They say — in Germany we say, &#8216;Das wird man ja wohl noch sagen dürfen.&#8217; So we are here with crimes of talking, posting on internet, and the people are surprised that this is really illegal to post these kind of words.&#8221;
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In Germany, posting hate speech online is illegal. The law is enforced with pre-dawn police raids. <a href="https://t.co/DNAJyNxILt">https://t.co/DNAJyNxILt</a> <a href="https://t.co/OHvWTVaRjQ">pic.twitter.com/OHvWTVaRjQ</a>
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&#8220;They don&#8217;t think it was illegal. And they say, &#8216;No, that&#8217;s my free speech.&#8217; And we say, &#8216;No, you have free speech as well, but it is also has its limits,'&#8221; Fink continued.
Fink also revealed during the interview that in addition to posting swastika images or any other Nazi symbols — and even denying the Holocaust – it was also illegal to insult another person in public.
&#8220;And it&#8217;s a crime to insult them online as well?&#8221; Alfonsi asked.
&#8220;The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet,&#8221; Fink replied, explaining, &#8220;Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay. Finish. But if you&#8217;re in the internet, if I insult you or a politician &#8230;&#8221;
The interview comes just days after Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-people-have-a-voice-vance-warns-europe-about-censorship-the-threat-from-within" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JD Vance</a> spoke in Munich about the dangers posed by European nations like Germany when they policed the free speech of and even outright censored their people.
&#8220;Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters. There’s no room for firewalls,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;You either uphold the principal or you don’t.&#8221;
It also comes just a few hours after &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; host claimed — during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio — that the Holocaust had been caused by the fact that &#8220;free speech was weaponized.&#8221;
Rubio quickly shut Brennan down, explaining that censorship had been one of the hallmarks of the Nazi regime.

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Guest On ’60 Minutes’ Claims German Citizens Have Free Speech — ‘But There Are Limits’

Guest On '60 Minutes' Claims German Citizens Have Free Speech — 'But There Are Limits'

CBS News host Margaret Brennan claimed during an interview over the weekend that the Holocaust was caused because free speech was &#8220;weaponized.&#8221;
The left-wing host made the highly controversial remarks during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio while talking about Vice President JD Vance&#8217;s speech in Europe last week where he criticized the continent&#8217;s leaders for abandoning certain values, like free speech.
&#8220;What did all of this accomplish, other than irritating our allies?&#8221; Brennan asked.
&#8220;Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech and by someone giving their opinion?&#8221; Rubio responded. &#8220;We are, after all, democracies. The Munich – Munich Security Conference is largely a conference of democracies, in which one of the things that we cherish and value is the ability to speak freely and provide your opinions.&#8221;
Rubio said that a lot of things that Vance said &#8220;needed to be said&#8221; and that it was perplexing that anyone &#8220;would be upset about it.&#8221;
&#8220;People are allowed – you know, you don&#8217;t have to agree on someone&#8217;s speech,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I happen to agree with a lot of what he said, but you don&#8217;t have to agree with someone&#8217;s speech to at least appreciate the fact they have a right to say it and that you should listen to it and see whether those criticisms are valid.&#8221;
Brennan responded: &#8220;Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;And he met with the head of a political party that has far-right views and some historic ties to extreme groups,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the right.&#8221;
Rubio fired back: &#8220;Well, I have to disagree with you. I have to disagree with you.&#8221;
&#8220;Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that they – they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews.&#8221;
&#8220;There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;There was also no opposition in Nazi Germany. They were a sole and only party that governed that country. So that&#8217;s not an accurate reflection of history.&#8221;
WATCH:
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This is the first time I’ve heard the theory that the Holocaust wasn’t conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. <a href="https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4">pic.twitter.com/mpWm6UH2F4</a>
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 16, 2025</a></blockquote>

Margaret Brennan Claims ‘Free Speech Was Weaponized’ To Cause The Holocaust

Left-wing host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/margaret-brennan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Margaret Brennan</a> was forced to pivot during an interview on Sunday after a guest she demanded evidence from provided evidence that shut down her line of questioning.
The moment happened when Brennan interviewed Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, during a Sunday interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;
Mast said that he supported the &#8220;purging of people throughout the State Department&#8221; and &#8220;other agencies where we&#8217;re freezing aid,&#8221; which he said were &#8220;very important and necessary steps to make sure that we secure America.&#8221;
&#8220;You want to authorize purging of State Department personnel?&#8221; Brennan asked. &#8220;What does that mean exactly?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, if you want to take a look at the State Department, where DEI has been a priority over, let&#8217;s say, diplomacy, in many accounts, I can give you hundreds of examples of where they were authorizing&#8211;&#8221; Mast began to say before Brennan cut him off.
&#8220;What proof do you have of that?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;Sure. Let&#8217;s list them off. Half a million dollars to expand atheism in Nepal, $50,000 to do, let&#8217;s see, a transgender opera in Colombia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;$47,000 to do an LGBTQ trans comic book in Peru. $20,000 a pop to do drag shows in Ecuador. Shall I continue with more examples of where DEI was the priority?&#8221;
Brennan responded by saying that the government could just have &#8220;a review of things&#8221; and that foreign aid only comprised &#8220;less than 1% of the entire federal budget.&#8221;
&#8220;So we&#8217;re talking small amounts of money by comparison,&#8221; she claimed.
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Margaret Brennan, who recently got humiliated in her interview with VP Vance, gets humiliated again when she asks for examples of DEI waste in foreign aid the US gives.
Rep. Mast came with the receipts and owned Brennan.<a href="https://t.co/7LBWGbKmdT">pic.twitter.com/7LBWGbKmdT</a>
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1886140418359693320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>

Margaret Brennan Pivots During Interview After Brian Mast Shows Evidence Of Wasteful Spending

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Governor Tate Reeves (R-MS) slammed CBS News host Margaret Brennan after she suggested during an interview with Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jd-vance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J.D. Vance</a> that states like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mississippi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mississippi</a> wouldn’t be able to coordinate a response to natural disasters without the federal government’s help. 
Reeves ripped into Brennan on X after she pushed back on President Donald Trump’s proposals to transform the role of FEMA during her Sunday interview with Vance. Brennan said that states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky would suffer if FEMA took a reduced role in natural disaster response. 
“HILARIOUS elitism by [Brennan] claiming that Mississippians know less about emergency management than DC bureaucrats — all because her favorite Democrats in CA and NC have failed their constituents,” Reeves posted on X. “[Vance] did a great job handling her condescending questions. The disdain these people have for any Americans outside of their little bubble is so pathetic and revealing.”
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HILARIOUS elitism by <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBSNews</a> claiming that Mississippians know less about emergency management than DC bureaucrats &#8211; all because her favorite Democrats in CA and NC have failed their constituents.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> did a great job handling her condescending questions. The… <a href="https://t.co/YHWqWJhp6h">pic.twitter.com/YHWqWJhp6h</a>
— Governor Tate Reeves (@tatereeves) <a href="https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1883581254114930958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-overhaul-of-fema-floats-getting-rid-of-agency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> on Friday that he would sign an executive order that would “fundamentally” overhaul and transform FEMA. He also suggested that he may get rid of the agency altogether and hand over responsibility to the states. 
“You know FEMA has specialized expertise that some of these states just don’t have,” Brennan told Vance. “How will lower income states, the Mississippis, the Kentuckys, the Alabamas, be able to do this for themselves without federal help?”
Vance replied by saying that the reason behind Trump’s proposal to revamp FEMA was to ensure that disaster victims were able to receive support and aid as efficiently as possible. 
“The president, to be clear, is not saying we’re going to leave anybody behind,” Vance said. “He’s saying that the way that we administer these resources, some of which is coming from the federal level, some of which is coming from the state level, we’ve got to get the bureaucrats out of the way and get the aid to the people who need it most.” 
Trump has said it would be better if states were in total control of recovery efforts and the federal government would fund a certain percentage of the response. His proposals to change FEMA come after he has criticized the agency’s response to both Hurricanes Helene and Milton, saying that the agency slowed its response because many of those impacted were in conservative rural areas. 
During a Friday stop in Asheville, North Carolina, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-nice-trump-speaks-out-about-fema-denying-aid-to-his-supporters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out about</a> a FEMA scandal first reported on by The Daily Wire where relief workers skipped homes because of Trump signs or flags.
“A whistleblower testified that some FEMA employees refused to help people who display Trump signs on their property. I think that’s true, isn’t it? I read that. That’s not nice, that’s not too nice, is it? But whoever those property people were, thank you very much,” Trump said.
In November, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs">broke a story</a> that FEMA supervisor Marn’i Washington had ordered relief workers in Lake Placid to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” These instructions were given in person and verbally, whistleblowers told The Daily Wire. At least 20 homes were skipped due to the orders.

Mississippi Votes To Remove Confederate Symbols From State Flag

‘Hilarious Elitism’: GOP Governor Fires Back After CBS Says State Can’t Handle Emergency Response

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Vice President JD Vance mocked Margaret Brennan during an interview that aired over the weekend after Brennan argued that U.S. immigration policy should be different from the rest of the world because America is a &#8220;unique&#8221; country.
Vance made the remarks while talking about President Donald Trump&#8217;s desire to get rid of birthright citizenship for those who illegally enter the U.S. solely for the purpose of giving birth to a child who then is automatically a U.S. citizen.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a very basic principle in American immigration law that, if you want to become an American citizen, and you&#8217;ve done it the right way, and the American people in their collective wisdom have welcomed you into our national community, then you become a citizen,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;But temporary residents, people who come in here, whether legally or illegally, and don&#8217;t plan to stay, their children shouldn&#8217;t become American citizens. I don&#8217;t know any country that does that, or why we would be different.&#8221;
Brennan retorted: &#8220;Well, but this is a country founded by immigrants.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, this is a country founded by —“ Vance started to reply before being cut off by Brennan.
&#8220;This is a unique country,&#8221; she interrupted.
&#8220;This is a very unique country, and it was founded by some immigrants and some settlers,&#8221; Vance responded. &#8220;But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn&#8217;t mean that, 240 years later, that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary visitors, their children will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American citizenship.&#8221;
&#8220;America should actually look out for the interests of our citizens first, and that means, again, if you&#8217;re here permanently and lawfully, your kid becomes an American citizen,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If you&#8217;re not here permanently, if you&#8217;re not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and don&#8217;t plan to be, why would we make those people&#8217;s children American citizens permanently?&#8221;
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Vice President JD Vance: &#8220;This is a very unique country&#8230;But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn&#8217;t mean that 240 years later we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.&#8221;🔥 <a href="https://t.co/dLpIJa6bGu">pic.twitter.com/dLpIJa6bGu</a>
— William Martin (@wsmartin218) <a href="https://twitter.com/wsmartin218/status/1883548891486073054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2025</a></blockquote>

JD Vance Mocks Margaret Brennan Over Her Argument For What Should Set U.S. Immigration Policy

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Vice President JD Vance slammed Margaret Brennan during an interview over the weekend for trying to play &#8220;gotcha&#8221; games over the inflation from former President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration that has plagued the economy.
Vance had to explain to Brennan, who has a clear left-wing bias, that it will take a little bit of time for President Donald Trump&#8217;s policies to have an impact on prices going down.
&#8220;Well, there were a lot of things that contributed to higher energy prices,&#8221; Brennan claimed. &#8220;And there was record oil and gas production.&#8221;
Vance laughed back: &#8220;Yes, Joe Biden did many, many terrible things to lead to an increase in prices. I agree, Margaret.&#8221;
&#8220;But the price of eggs, the things that people see—&#8221; Brennan responded. &#8220;All the things you experience at the grocery store are what people touch and feel. That&#8217;s what – you were talking about bacon on the campaign trail.&#8221;
&#8220;Those things, when do consumers actually get to touch and feel a difference in their lives?&#8221; she snickered.
&#8220;Well, but, Margaret, how does bacon get to the grocery store? It comes on trucks that are fueled by diesel fuel,&#8221; Vance responded. &#8220;If the diesel is way too expensive, the bacon is going to become more expensive. How do we grow the bacon? Our farmers need energy to produce it.&#8221;
&#8220;So, if we lower energy prices, we are going to see lower prices for consumers, and that is what we&#8217;re trying to fight for,&#8221; he continued.
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President Trump’s actions to bring down energy costs won’t just benefit Americans at the gas pump, lower energy prices mean lower costs for Americans at the grocery store and in every other aspect of their lives. <a href="https://t.co/2KnIHSMCZ5">pic.twitter.com/2KnIHSMCZ5</a>
— Vice President JD Vance (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/1883544508740313212?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2025</a></blockquote>

Republican Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance Campaigns In Michigan’s Detroit Suburbs

JD Vance Dunks On Margaret Brennan Over Basic Understanding Of How Economics Work

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) went to battle with CBS News host Margaret Brennan during an interview over the weekend after she once again showed her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/margaret-brennan-norah-odonnell-slammed-over-debate-bias">left-wing bias</a>.
Johnson made the remarks during a Sunday interview on the network&#8217;s &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; program while talking about voter integrity efforts that Republicans want to see.
&#8220;I think there is going to be some cheating in this election,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I think noncitizens are going to vote. Look, case in point–&#8221;
Brennan immediately interrupted Johnson to note that it was illegal for non-citizens to vote in elections.
&#8220;Of course it is,&#8221; Johnson agreed. &#8220;But here&#8217;s the problem, there&#8217;s a number of states that are not requiring proof of citizenship when illegals are noncitizens register to vote. We know that&#8217;s happening.&#8221;
&#8220;Look, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, I was going to say he issued an executive order to clean up their voting rules heading into the election. Less than 30 days out, a couple of days ago, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-files-lawsuit-to-stop-virginia-from-removing-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls">the Biden Harris administration sued the governor</a> and the state, the Commonwealth of Virginia, to try to prevent them from cleaning up their voter rolls.&#8221;
&#8220;That kind of thing creates a lot of doubt and concern in the minds of a lot of the American people,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Why would they do that?&#8221;
Brennan claimed that Johnson was trying &#8220;undermine confidence in the integrity of the state elections&#8221; for simply mentioning what the Biden-Harris administration are doing.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not me undermining it. It&#8217;s the actions of the Biden-Harris administration and some of these states,&#8221; Johnson noted.
&#8220;We passed the SAVE act. You know, in the House, the SAVE Act says you gotta have proof of citizenship before you register to vote,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And Chuck Schumer and the Democrats blocked that in the Senate. We could have prevented this, the questions that people have about that, but the Democrats chose not to. They opened the border wide. A lot of people theorize that that was so that they could have non citizens to vote. These are realities, Margaret. I wish it weren&#8217;t true, but that&#8217;s what&#8217;s, that&#8217;s the concern that people have.&#8221;
Brennan responded that it was impossible for non-citizens to vote because it was illegal, to which Johnson noted that the SAVE Act ensured that the law is actually followed — something that Democrats do not want.
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