<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-behar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Behar</a> claimed on Thursday that Republicans were &#8220;in bed with the Russians&#8221; and would have been referred to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee if it were still a functioning body.
Behar made the comments during a broadcast of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; where she and cohost Whoopi Goldberg complained about Republicans in response to a series of video clips showing them clashing with Democrats on Capitol Hill.
&#8220;I’m discovering that most of the folks on the other side are the snowflakes. They’re the ones that are afraid of information. They’re the ones who are afraid of history. It’s not us. It’s y’all,&#8221; Goldberg claimed.
&#8220;Why are they in the bed with the Russians?&#8221; Behar asked. &#8220;I mean, we grew up in a time when if you were pro-Russia in any way, you were hauled before the HUAC Committee and your life was ruined and you were blacklisted. Now all of a sudden these people are all about Russia. Why are Americans accepting that?&#8221;
&#8220;They call the Democrats &#8216;Commies,&#8217; they&#8217;re the Commies!&#8221; she added.
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Whoopi claims Republicans &quot;have forgotten that we the people make the decisions about what goes on in this country,&quot; as if Republicans were not elected by the people. She also claims, without evidence, that the GOP wants to make women property again. <a href="https://t.co/ujN1H4Opof">pic.twitter.com/ujN1H4Opof</a>
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Goldberg went on to argue that it was harder to get through to Republicans because &#8220;they&#8217;ve forgotten that we the people make the decisions about what goes on in this country, and every time they try to usurp that &#8230;&#8221;
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She then pivoted to talk about women&#8217;s rights, suggesting that Republicans wanted to go back to a time when women had no agency and &#8220;didn&#8217;t exist&#8221; unless they were married. &#8220;Why would you want to go back to that?&#8221; she asked.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand why we didn&#8217;t get angrier sooner, and I know people are angry now because I hear it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But why are we going backwards in a way that&#8217;s not good for the economy, it&#8217;s not good for the country?&#8221;

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‘They’re The Commies!’: Joy Behar Says Republicans Are ‘In Bed With The Russians’

'They're The Commies!': Joy Behar Says Republicans Are 'In Bed With The Russians'

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Russia

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

Dozens of National Public Radio (NPR) employees signed on to a letter suggesting that their now-former senior business editor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Uri Berliner</a> was spot on in his assessment of the liberal bias that has taken over the network.
New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin shared screenshots of the letter, addressed to CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Maher</a> and Editor in Chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-chief-hits-back-at-whistleblower-who-says-colleagues-secretly-agree" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edith Chapin</a>, which claimed that Berliner&#8217;s essay in The Free Press had left many of them feeling as though they&#8217;d been personally attacked.
&#8220;About 50 NPR employees sign a letter to CEO Katherine Maher and top editor Edith Chapin calling for, among other things, a public rebuke of the &#8216;factual inaccuracies and elisions&#8217; in Uri Berliner’s Free Press essay,&#8221; Mullin&#8217;s caption read.
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&#8220;We&#8217;re writing to urge stronger support for staff who have had their journalistic expertise called into question by one of their own in a public forum,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;We also urge more transparency regarding the consequences of making unauthorized public comments that seek to change NPR&#8217;s editorial direction.&#8221;
The letter went on to say that while both Chapin and Maher had shared their objections to Berliner&#8217;s claims — namely that the outlet been wholly disinterested in presenting stories that might hurt President Joe Biden or help former President Donald Trump — the employees were concerned that their efforts to spur policy changes through Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were being undermined by Berliner&#8217;s public comments.
&#8220;Staff, many from marginalized backgrounds, have pushed for internal policy changes through mechanisms like the DEI accountability committee, sharing of affinity group guidelines, and an ad-hoc content review group,&#8221; they wrote, complaining that Berliner was getting more attention and apparent change from a short essay than they had after years of work.
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Their concern on that point, they said, was that others within the network might get the idea that a pointed editorial was more effective at forcing change than going through proper channels.
They also complained that Berliner&#8217;s essay had &#8220;made their jobs harder&#8221; and called on Maher and Chapin to clearly &#8220;offer public support and defense of those individuals whose work was directly undermined by the opinion piece.&#8221;

US-BUSINESS-NPR

Dozens Of NPR Employees Write Letter Proving Uri Berliner Was Right About Everything

Censorship

Media Bias

National Public Radio (NPR)

U.S.

Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-andrew-klavan-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Andrew Klavan</a> sat down with political commentator Megyn Kelly on her eponymous <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-megyn-kelly-show/id1532976305" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> Wednesday to discuss a range of topics, including the recent outrage from the Left over women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark&#8217;s rookie salary.
Clark, who became the all-time leading scorer in NCAA basketball during her senior season at Iowa, was selected No. 1 overall in the WNBA draft earlier this week, and many on social media — all the way up to the White House — took issue with Clark’s contract compared to what rookie NBA stars make. Kelly began the segment by quoting a social media post by President Joe Biden, who <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1780354983457644819" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in part, “Even if you&#8217;re the best, women are not paid their fair share.”
“First of all, who the hell wants to hear from this White House — which is allowing and trying to make it more expansive for boys to play against girls in women’s sports — about fairness, right?” Kelly asked, before describing the controversy over Clark’s four-year $338,000 contract compared to last year’s NBA first-overall draft pick Victor Wembanyama, who <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/gap-caitlin-clarks-wnba-salary-male-counterparts-draws-outrage-rcna148024" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a four-year $55 million contract.
“They’re not paying these guys in the NBA that much money because they love throwing their money away; they’re paying it because that’s how much money they’re bringing in,” Klavan said. “That’s how capitalism works. If you’re bringing in the money, you get paid for what you do.”
“And listen, Caitlin Clark is a wonderful athlete,” the Daily Wire host continued. “In fact, her college championship game was watched more than the men’s championship game, and if she can do that in the WNBA, believe me, she’ll be earning that kind of money when she re-negotiates her contract.”
Klavan said that paying Clark similar to what NBA players make wouldn’t work with the economics of the WNBA as the NBA brings in roughly 100x the revenue of the professional women&#8217;s league. The author of “The House of Love and Death” added that the debate over WNBA players’ salaries highlights deep hypocrisy from the Left.
“The Left started out by saying to us, ‘There’s no difference between men and women. We have to treat them exactly equally.’ And now they’re saying there’s so little difference that a man can be a woman, and if you say that a man can’t be a woman and play sports at another level in the women’s game, you’re being somehow bigoted,” Klavan remarked.
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“The entire thing is genuinely an attack on women,” he continued. “It genuinely is a hatred of women. And I really do believe this, by the way: I believe the Left despises women at their core for the simple reason that the things that women do occur in a different moral structure than the things that men do.”
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Andrew Klavan, Megyn Kelly Call Out Hypocrisy Of Leftists Enraged With Caitlin Clark’s Salary: ‘The Left Despises Women At Their Core’

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Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin warned on Tuesday that it could be risky for prosecutors to put former first lady <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/melania-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melania Trump</a> on the stand in her husband&#8217;s Manhattan hush-money trial.
Because the case centers on hush money allegedly paid by former President Donald Trump to ex-porn star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair quiet, Hostin argued that the right response from Melania Trump could create reasonable doubt for the jury.
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Sunny Hostin fears Melania Trump being called to testify in the hush money trial against former President Trump because she could easily convince the jury he&#39;s not guilty. &quot;&#8230; you&#39;re going to have at least one juror on that jury saying, well, if she doesn&#39;t care, why should I?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/k6QSTCnygF">pic.twitter.com/k6QSTCnygF</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1780614894301176244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I will say this. New York has this marital communications law, spousal privilege, and so he would have to waive that privilege for her to testify and I don&#8217;t think he would do that,&#8221; Hostin explained. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think he wants her to testify, I don&#8217;t think he wants to put her through that, I don&#8217;t think she wants to be put through that.&#8221;
&#8220;So I can&#8217;t imagine the prosecution would call her, because that is really a gamble,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Because if she says on the witness stand, you know, &#8216;He told me that the affair — was not true, and I believe him&#8217; &#8230; you&#8217;re going to have at least one juror on that jury saying, well, if she doesn&#8217;t care, why should I? And so I just think it&#8217;s such a big gamble, I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to waive his privilege to put her on the witness stand, and — I don&#8217;t think she&#8217;s going to testify.&#8221;
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During the first two days of the trial, a handful of jurors were selected and Trump&#8217;s attorneys made <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-may-be-forced-to-miss-his-own-scotus-hearing-sons-graduation-due-to-hush-money-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">several requests</a> related to the trial schedule. Judge Juan Merchan denied their request for the former president to be excused from court in order to be in attendance when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on presidential immunity. Merchan did not give a final answer regarding Barron Trump&#8217;s graduation ceremony — which is scheduled for mid-May &#8212; but told Trump&#8217;s team that it would depend on whether things were proceeding on time.

Melania Trump

Ex-Federal Prosecutor: It’s A ‘Big Gamble’ To Put Melania On The Stand In Trump Hush-Money Trial

Ex-Federal Prosecutor: It's A 'Big Gamble' To Put Melania On The Stand In Trump Hush-Money Trial

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MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joy-reid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joy Reid</a> suggested that the criminal trials against former President Donald Trump amounted to a racial reckoning of sorts, claiming that the &#8220;DEIs&#8221; were &#8220;bringing it home.&#8221;
Reid made the comments on Monday as the New York hush-money trial was just beginning, saying that she thought it was &#8220;wonderfully poetic&#8221; to see black public officials like Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis leading the cases against Trump.
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Joy Reid suggests that the criminal cases brought against Trump is racially-based vengeance by black officials:
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&#8220;But for me, there is something wonderfully poetic about the fact … the first person to actually criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;The very kind of person that his former staff, the people who worked for him, Steven Miller, etc., want to never be at Harvard Law School. But he was. And he came out and graduated, and he’s prosecuting you, Donald.&#8221;
Reid went on to reference Willis in Georgia and New York Attorney General Letitia James, noting their roles in other cases against the former president.
&#8220;And a black woman is doing that same exact thing in Georgia and a black woman forced you to pay a $175 million fine,&#8221; Reid said, calling into question the status of the bond that was posted on Trump&#8217;s behalf. &#8220;The people who put it up, that might not be legit.&#8221;
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&#8220;Donald Trump is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial democracy that he’s trying to dismantle. … It says something good about our country that we’re still capable of having that happen. Go, DEI. My DEIs are bringing it home,&#8221; she crowed.
Trump, like many Republicans, has <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/03/03/trump-plans-crush-dei-affirmative-action/72774345007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">railed against</a> the focus on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices, telling voters in New Hampshire earlier this year, &#8220;We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the entire federal government.&#8221;
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has also taken steps to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-governor-joins-desantis-bans-using-funds-for-dei-at-all-state-agencies-universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ban DEI programs</a> in Florida colleges and state offices.

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Joy Reid Suggests Trump Trials Are A ‘Poetic’ Racial Reckoning

Joy Reid Suggests Trump Trials Are A 'Poetic' Racial Reckoning

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Joy Reid

MSNBC

Veteran news anchor Katie Couric outed former colleague Bryant Gumbel as &#8220;incredibly sexist,&#8221; claiming that he suggested she should deliver her baby &#8220;in a field&#8221; and come straight back to the show rather than taking some time off for maternity leave.
Couric made the comments during her recent appearance on comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast, where she also said that Gumbel&#8217;s attitude was similar to that of many of her male colleagues and the overall culture at NBC at the time.
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Katie Couric on Club Random with Bill Maher revealed a couple of interesting facts about her time working on the &#39;Today Show&#39; with Bryant Gumbel and Matt Lauer: Couric: &quot;He [Gumbel] got mad at me because I was doing something on maternity leave, and he was giving endless shit for… <a href="https://t.co/9KjrtZSbGY">pic.twitter.com/9KjrtZSbGY</a>
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&#8220;He was prickly, but, what a talent. He’s such a seamless broadcaster, eloquent. I mean, when that countdown would happen — five, four, three, two, one — he would just hit it perfect,&#8221; Couric said of Gumbel.
And while she did have a number of nice things to say about him — she called him a &#8220;natty dresser&#8221; and noted that he was intelligent and &#8220;really talented&#8221; — her overall assessment was that he was &#8220;complicated.&#8221;
She went on to say that things kind of came to a head when she planned to take maternity leave when her first child was born.
&#8220;And he was giving me endless s*** for taking like a month or two off. I was having my first baby,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He was like, ‘Why don’t you just drop it in the field and come back to work right away or something?'&#8221;
Maher, who is friends with Gumbel, pressed Couric on that point and said that it sounded like he probably meant that last remark as a joke — and while Couric conceded that he&#8217;d been &#8220;kidding,&#8221; she said that wasn&#8217;t the only thing he had said on the matter.
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&#8220;He was goofing on me but giving me a lot of s***. But it was emblematic of sort of an incredibly sexist attitude,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;It was a very different environment,&#8221; she said of NBC at the time.
Maher noted that there was an &#8220;old boys club&#8221; feel to the interoffice politics at major networks at the time, adding, &#8220;And women had to put up with more. They just did. I mean, you know, not to get all fuzzy and Lifetime Channel about it, but people like you and Barbara Walters or just like women comedians of a certain age, you have to really tip your hat to them because it was harder.&#8221;

TODAY – Season 73

Katie Couric: ‘Incredibly Sexist’ Bryant Gumbel Told Her To Give Birth ‘In A Field’ And Come Back To Work

Katie Couric: 'Incredibly Sexist' Bryant Gumbel Told Her To Give Birth 'In A Field' And Come Back To Work

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Katie Couric

Sexism

Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner is resigning from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> a little more than a week after he publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias in an essay.
In a post to X on Wednesday, Berliner shared what he said was his resignation letter to NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out</a> at the editor&#8217;s critique and has faced blowback over old tweets.
&#8220;I am resigning from NPR, a great American institution where I have worked for 25 years,&#8221; Berliner said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t support calls to defund NPR. I respect the integrity of my colleagues and wish for NPR to thrive and do important journalism.&#8221;
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My resignation letter to NPR CEO <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@krmaher</a> <a href="https://t.co/0hafVbcZAK">pic.twitter.com/0hafVbcZAK</a>
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He added, &#8220;But I cannot work in a newsroom where I am disparaged by a new CEO whose divisive views confirm the very problems at NPR I cite in my Free Press essay.&#8221;
The Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> the essay on Tuesday last week in which Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent.
His critique touched on topics related to former President Donald Trump, NPR&#8217;s COVID coverage, reporting on transgender issues, audience figures, the network&#8217;s own level of diversity, and more.
Berliner additionally wrote about how he tried to make some of his concerns known internally. He said no one ever &#8220;trashed&#8221; him, but he was repeatedly brushed off and nothing changed.
On Tuesday of this week, NPR&#8217;s media correspondent David Folkenflik reported that Berliner had received a letter informing him that he had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-suspends-editor-who-accused-network-of-bias-issues-final-warning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> without pay for five days starting on Friday.
NPR told Berliner he failed to follow the network&#8217;s rules and get approval for outside work for other news outlets. Berliner was also accused of publicly releasing proprietary information about audience demographics that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> considered confidential.
The letter, billed as a &#8220;final warning,&#8221; said Berliner would be fired for another policy violation. Berliner conceded he did not get permission to speak with Folkenflik, but said he thought it would be &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; if he were fired for speaking to an NPR journalist.
In the backlash that followed the essay, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> NPR&#8217;s funding be cut. And Maher, who has served as NPR&#8217;s chief executive for less than a month, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the &#8220;deeply simplistic&#8221; and &#8220;profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning&#8221; assessment.
Old tweets from Maher that displayed her personal views in favor of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal causes</a> began to resurface as the fallout over Berliner&#8217;s essay and follow-up interviews began to grow, fueling more criticism, particularly from the Right.
Maher called Trump a &#8220;racist&#8221; in a <a href="https://archive.is/9Egnx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 post</a> that has since been deleted and shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1323094291732815872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> of herself wearing a hat touting President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in November of 2020.
Journalist Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, posted to X on Wednesday a clip of Maher talking about the First Amendment and platforms dealing with &#8220;bad information.&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says the &quot;the number one challenge&quot; in her fight against disinformation is &quot;the First Amendment in the United States,&quot; which makes it &quot;a little bit tricky&quot; to censor &quot;bad information&quot; and &quot;the influence peddlers&quot; who spread it.
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Berliner told Folkenflik the posts indicate Maher is the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of the kind of leader NPR needs to be &#8220;unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about.&#8221;
Maher released a statement that said &#8220;everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen&#8221; in America.
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&#8220;What matters is NPR&#8217;s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public,&#8221; she added. &#8220;NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.&#8221;
The report from Folkenflik noted that NPR emphasized that &#8220;the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions.&#8221;
Folkenflik wrote that some in the newsroom acknowledge Berliner&#8217;s critique as valid, while others say they are no longer willing to work with him.
NPR&#8217;s chief news executive, Edith Chapin, reportedly announced that Executive Editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly coverage review meetings. Berliner reportedly said he welcomed the announcement but would reserve judgment until those meetings happen.

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Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin admitted that she was worried about the prospect of a Trump supporter being able to &#8220;sneak onto&#8221; the jury in the former president&#8217;s Manhattan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-all-the-trump-cases-stand-as-hush-money-trial-begins" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hush-money trial</a> but shared no such concerns that Trump haters might do so.
Hostin made the comments during Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The View,&#8221; telling her co-hosts on the ABC midday talk show that she did not believe anyone who supported Donald Trump could be impartial when it came time to examine the evidence and deliver a verdict.
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Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin fears a Trump supporter will &quot;sneak onto that jury.&quot; She suggests the surefire way to get onto the jury is to say &quot;I hate Trump.&quot; She&#39;s not worried about a Trump hater sneaking onto the jury. <a href="https://t.co/nHkXdyHKMV">pic.twitter.com/nHkXdyHKMV</a>
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Hostin began by noting that the obvious difficulty in finding a jury for Trump&#8217;s case stemmed from the fact that everyone knew who he was, and most people had strong feelings about him one way or the other.
&#8220;They are never going to find someone who doesn&#8217;t know about the former twice-impeached loser president, right?&#8221; she began with her standard Trump insult and referred to the trial as her own personal &#8220;Super Bowl.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re never going to find that. But what I did find also interesting about my Super Bowl is that — ah — the legal teams will be checking the jurors&#8217; social media to see if they can assess the truthfulness and intention of what they said during voir dire, which is their questioning,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I think that&#8217;s really really important because if you start liking Trump&#8217;s – and you follow Trump&#8217;s stuff on social media, are you going to — can you be impartial? I don&#8217;t really think so.&#8221;
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Hostin went on to suggest that Trump supporters might lie to get themselves on the jury so that they could force a mistrial.
&#8220;You get one person that sneaks onto that jury with untoward feelings, that person can hang that jury,&#8221; she complained.
&#8220;How do you sneak onto a jury, you have to be called,&#8221; Joy Behar protested.
&#8220;You lie,&#8221; Hostin replied, suggesting that Trump supporters could potentially lie their way onto the Manhattan jury simply by claiming that they &#8220;hate&#8221; the former president. &#8220;You say, &#8216;I hate Trump, but I can be impartial.&#8217; And all of a sudden that&#8217;s the person who won&#8217;t vote to convict.&#8221;

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Former Fed Prosecutor Apparently Fine With Trump-Haters On Hush-Money Jury, Terrified A Trump Supporter Will 'Sneak' In

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a> has suspended Senior Business Editor Uri Berliner after he publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias with an essay that began a media firestorm.
Last week, Berliner received a letter that informed him of a five-day suspension without pay beginning Friday, according to a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1244962042/npr-editor-uri-berliner-suspended-essay" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by NPR&#8217;s media correspondent David Folkenflik.
NPR told Berliner he failed to follow the network&#8217;s rules and get approval for outside work for other news outlets after his <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">essay</a> for The Free Press and follow-up interviews.
Berliner was also accused of publicly releasing proprietary information about audience demographics that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a> considered confidential, per the report.
The letter, which was called a &#8220;final warning,&#8221; said Berliner would be fired for another policy violation.
Berliner, a dues-paying member of NPR&#8217;s newsroom union, told Folkenflik that he would not appeal the punishment.
He claimed the figures discussed in his essay &#8220;were essentially marketing material. If they had been really good, they probably would have distributed them and sent them out to the world.&#8221;
Berliner conceded that he did not get permission to speak with Folkenflik, but said he thought it would be &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; if he were fired for speaking to an NPR journalist.
The Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust?utm_source=direct&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;fbclid=IwAR2BI7aGsLrw5JzADcxw-Ddx9IFpaQzQxVieieHiYiYvBozjQ3W_q8XSMoY_aem_Afb8djuPsGMotINI-8VtH0_ouA2n_5T1rMS3kvz8x_-AGiNOlKuozOh6WEdCnd1xeok&amp;triedRedirect=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published</a> the essay on Tuesday last week in which Berliner argued NPR &#8220;lost America&#8217;s trust&#8221; with its increasingly liberal bent.
His critique touched on topics related to former President Donald Trump, NPR&#8217;s COVID coverage, reporting on transgender issues, audience figures, the network&#8217;s own level of diversity, and more.
Berliner additionally wrote about how he tried to make some of his concerns known internally. He said no one ever &#8220;trashed&#8221; him, but he was repeatedly brushed off and nothing changed.
In the public backlash that followed the essay, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that NPR&#8217;s funding be cut. Despite his critique, Berliner said &#8220;defunding&#8221; was not the way to address the &#8220;missteps&#8221; he outlined.
NPR&#8217;s chief executive of less than a month, Katherine Maher, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nprs-new-ceo-scolds-25-year-veteran-for-expose-outing-networks-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lashed out</a> at the &#8220;deeply simplistic&#8221; and &#8220;profoundly disrespectful, hurtful, and demeaning&#8221; essay without mentioning Berliner&#8217;s name.
After Berliner&#8217;s essay was published, old tweets from Maher resurfaced that displayed her personal views in favor of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/business/media/npr-chief-executive-criticized-over-tweets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">liberal causes,</a> fueling more criticism, particularly from the Right.
Maher called Trump a &#8220;racist&#8221; in a <a href="https://archive.is/9Egnx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2018 post</a> that has since been deleted and shared a <a href="https://twitter.com/krmaher/status/1323094291732815872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> of herself wearing a hat touting President Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign in November of 2020.
Berliner said the posts indicate Maher is the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of the kind of leader NPR needs to be &#8220;unifying and bring more people into the tent and have a broader perspective on, sort of, what America is all about.&#8221;
Maher released a statement that said &#8220;everyone is entitled to free speech as a private citizen&#8221; in America.
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&#8220;What matters is NPR&#8217;s work and my commitment as its CEO: public service, editorial independence, and the mission to serve all of the American public,&#8221; she added. &#8220;NPR is independent, beholden to no party, and without commercial interests.&#8221;
The report noted that NPR emphasized that &#8220;the CEO is not involved in editorial decisions.&#8221;
Folkenflik wrote that some in the newsroom acknowledge Berliner&#8217;s critique as valid, while others say they are no longer willing to work with him.
The report said NPR&#8217;s chief news executive, Edith Chapin, announced late Monday that Executive Editor Eva Rodriguez would lead monthly coverage review meetings.
Berliner reportedly said he welcomed the announcement but would reserve judgment until those meetings happen.

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NPR Suspends Editor Who Accused Network Of Bias, Issues ‘Final Warning’

NPR Suspends Editor Who Accused Network Of Bias, Issues 'Final Warning'

Veteran news anchor Katie Couric balked at comedian Bill Maher&#8217;s assessment of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s town hall on CNN — specifically the claim that Trump was &#8220;killing it&#8221; — complaining, &#8220;He&#8217;s not a stand-up comedian.&#8221;
Couric and Maher clashed over the Trump town hall — and Maher&#8217;s assessment of the media&#8217;s failures when it came to covering Trump and his supporters — during a recent episode of Maher&#8217;s &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast.
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Bill Maher telling Katie Couric why he is bored with the &#39;negative view&#39; on Trump, and why he wants to represent the Trump voter&#39;s viewpoint as well: &quot;Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even… <a href="https://t.co/l24hPXicCo">pic.twitter.com/l24hPXicCo</a>
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Maher brought up the CNN town hall — which was supposed to have an audience made up of both Trump voters and independents — and noted that the audience had been very receptive.
&#8220;The audience loved it. The audience loved it,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;It was stacked with Trump supporters,&#8221; Couric complained.
Maher pointed out the fact that it was supposed to be an audience of Republicans and independents – and said that if CNN had failed to properly vet them, that was their issue to handle.
&#8220;Here’s what people saw in America. They saw Trump killing it. Killing it with the crowd! Then you cut to a panel of six people who all just do nothing but dump on him and call him a liar and America goes, &#8216;Oh, didn’t you just see that we like him?&#8217; And now —&#8221; Maher continued.
&#8220;He’s not a standup comedian!&#8221; Couric protested.
&#8220;What?&#8221; Maher asked.
&#8220;&#8216;He’s killing it.&#8217; He’s not a standup comedian,&#8221; Couric said.
&#8220;No, but popularity. Doesn’t matter. The people loved him and what he was saying,&#8221; Maher pushed back. &#8220;And then you cut to a panel of six know-it-alls in Washington who just do nothing but talk about the neg — and I&#8217;m all in on the negative, no one&#8217;s been harder on Trump than me, but I get it and I’m bored with it, and there’s a different way to do this, I think.&#8221;
&#8220;Not to defend Trump, but to defend the people who still vote for him. Because what they see on the other side, to them is even more dangerous. Because it&#8217;s very — closer to home: My kid is coming home from school and he thinks he&#8217;s a racist? He&#8217;s five, what have you been telling him? My son thinks maybe he&#8217;s not a boy and maybe that&#8217;s true, that happens. Those kind of things are what they say &#8216;That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m voting for Trump&#8217;,&#8221; Maher explained.
&#8220;A backlash to the pendulum swinging so far to the Left,&#8221; Couric said.
Maher concluded by saying that there were some Trump voters who loved him and some who didn&#8217;t but still voted for him because they believed he was the only thing standing between them and &#8220;madness&#8221; — and he argued that their position should at least be presented in media coverage.

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Kate Couric Balks At Bill Maher’s Recap Of Trump ‘Killing It’ On CNN Town Hall: ‘The Audience Loved It’

Kate Couric Balks At Bill Maher's Recap Of Trump 'Killing It' On CNN Town Hall: 'The Audience Loved It'

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy pressed Security Council spokesman John Kirby on President Joe Biden&#8217;s Iran policy, suggesting that he might want to take it a step further than simply the word &#8220;don&#8217;t&#8221; going forward.
At Monday&#8217;s press briefing, the first since Iran launched a direct attack on Israel over the weekend, Doocy pointed to the fact that Iran had acted in defiance of Biden&#8217;s warning — &#8220;Don&#8217;t&#8221; — issued late last week.
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DOOCY TIME: “John, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than just one word?”
WH’s John Kirby: “You — you’re referring to, ‘don&#39;t’?”
Doocy: “Yeah.”
Kirby: “And so, let&#39;s —”
Doocy: “Because he said —”
Kirby: “— talk about —”… <a href="https://t.co/KufejLZFnX">pic.twitter.com/KufejLZFnX</a>
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&#8220;John, has President Biden considered maybe beefing up the public Iran posture to be more than just one word?&#8221; Doocy asked Kirby.
&#8220;You — you’re referring to &#8216;don&#8217;t&#8217;?&#8221; Kirby clarified.
&#8220;Yeah,&#8221; Doocy replied.
&#8220;And so, let&#8217;s — talk about —&#8221; Kirby said.
&#8220;Because he said &#8216;don’t&#8217; and they did it anyway,&#8221; Doocy added. &#8220;So now what?&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about — what we did. Peter. Let&#8217;s talk about &#8216;don’t&#8217; and did,&#8221; Kirby continued. &#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about Saturday night. He made it clear that he didn&#8217;t want to see escalation in the region.&#8221;
Doocy interrupted, saying, &#8220;And yet, there was.&#8221;
&#8220;Eh, let me finish. He added military resources to the region right after October 7 and then, when we had an inkling that this kind of thing was coming, he added even more military resources to the region, more destroyers that were capable of shooting down ballistic missiles, fighters — fighter squadron that was able to shoot down drones and that&#8217;s what we did,&#8221; Kirby said.
Kirby went on to argue that Iran had &#8220;utterly failed&#8221; in its attempt to attack Israel, noting that despite the barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles, only a few had made it through Israel&#8217;s defenses.
&#8220;Yes, they fired an unprecedented amount of munitions, but how much of a success did they have, Peter? None. Zero,&#8221; Kirby added. &#8220;It was an embarrassing failure for the Supreme Leader, for the IRGC.&#8221;

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Fox Reporter: White House Might Want To ‘Beef Up’ Iran Policy Beyond ‘Don’t’

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Every Sunday morning, legacy media outlets are taken over by elected officials, aspiring elected officials, administration insiders, and the usual collection of talking heads — all of whom are there to discuss specific policies, push talking points, or simply promote their own campaigns.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to unravel a full week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
<h3>ABC News, &#8220;This Week&#8221;:</h3>
White House National Security spokesman John Kirby made several media stops on Sunday in the wake of Iran&#8217;s direct attack on Israel, among them a brief interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
During his appearance on the show, Kirby urged the terrorist group Hamas — which started the current Israel-Hamas war with the unprovoked attack on civilians that took place on October 7 — to accept a deal that would force them to release Israeli hostages.
&#8220;Hamas needs to take that deal,&#8221; Kirby said noting that it would include a &#8220;six-week ceasefire to allow for an increase in humanitarian assistance.&#8221;
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“Hamas needs to take that deal.”
White House’s John Kirby tells <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a> that Hamas needs to accept the current proposal to release Israeli hostages and grant a “six-week ceasefire to allow for an increase in humanitarian assistance.” <a href="https://t.co/h7VBBYZNMq">https://t.co/h7VBBYZNMq</a> <a href="https://t.co/zcgEczyHh2">pic.twitter.com/zcgEczyHh2</a>
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During a roundtable discussion later in the show, the conversation turned to abortion, the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, and the 1864 Arizona law that the state&#8217;s Supreme Court said could be enforced in the absence of Roe. Former interim DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile weighed in on the law, which would ban most abortions in the state.
&#8220;Will Democrats make sure that those victims, those women who are having these horrifying experiences get to tell their story? Absolutely,&#8221; Brazile said.&#8221;And who&#8217;s responsible? Donald Trump.&#8221;
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&quot;Will Democrats make sure that those victims, those women who are having these horrifying experiences get to tell their story? Absolutely,” <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonnaBrazile</a> says after Arizona near-total abortion ban goes into effect.
&quot;And who&#39;s responsible? Donald Trump.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/SnNmoO3FYY">https://t.co/SnNmoO3FYY</a> <a href="https://t.co/J4USrUcL9s">pic.twitter.com/J4USrUcL9s</a>
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<h3>CBS News, &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221;:</h3>
Former CENTCOM Commander Gen. Frank McKenzie joined host Margaret Brennan on CBS&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; to discuss Iran&#8217;s direct attack on Israel, and he made it clear that he believed Iran had shown its hand — and that it wasn&#8217;t a good one.
The attack showered Israel with missiles and drones, most of which were repelled by the Iron Dome defense system — and according to McKenzie, the combination came as &#8220;close to a maximum effort as they could generate.&#8221;
&#8220;Iran could not replicate last night&#8217;s attack tonight if they had to,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Iran is relatively weaker than it was yesterday.&#8221;
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Iran&#39;s drone and missile attack on Israel &quot;was close to a maximum effort as they could generate,&quot; former CENTCOM Chief Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie says.
&quot;Iran could not replicate last night&#39;s attack tonight if they had to&#8230;Iran is relatively weaker than it was yesterday.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VTjsJvRyvK">pic.twitter.com/VTjsJvRyvK</a>
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McKenzie went on to say that in the aftermath of Iran&#8217;s actions Israel would have more support behind a retaliatory strike, but that they should still exercise &#8220;restraint&#8221; and tailor any military response to have a &#8220;definable beginning and a definable end.&#8221;
&#8220;Israel can name its price right now,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;But it&#8217;s also a position that calls for exercise in strategic restraint.&#8221;
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Israel&#39;s response to Iran&#39;s attack should be &quot;narrow&quot; and have a &quot;definable beginning and a definable end,&quot; former CENTCOM Chief Ret. Gen. Frank McKenzie says.
&quot;Israel can name its price right now&#8230;but it&#39;s also a position that calls for exercise in strategic restraint.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HTtr1gQdIS">pic.twitter.com/HTtr1gQdIS</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1779537353515651582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h3>CNN, &#8220;State of the Union&#8221;:</h3>
Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-blasts-biden-for-not-standing-firmly-with-israel-i-dont-agree-with-the-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Fetterman</a> (D-PA) joined CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; where he told anchor Jake Tapper that he was frustrated with President Joe Biden&#8217;s failure to stand as firmly with Israel as he had promised.
Fetterman went on to attack the far left within his own party, saying that he would never &#8220;capitulate to the fringe&#8221; and adding, &#8220;I will never pander to that as well. In fact, that helps, that empowers Hamas. And Hamas is actually convinced that they are winning the PR war, and they’re never going to negotiate at this point.&#8221;
&#8220;They think they’re going to hold on to the very end,&#8221; Fetterman continued. &#8220;And I know why they’re not willing to provide any kind of proof of life. And I don’t know why there’s not more of that conversation in the media. Like, what about the hostages? What’s happened to them? Where are they now? And let’s just bring them home.&#8221;
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Democratic Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JohnFetterman</a> tells CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> that President Biden shouldn’t “capitulate to the fringe” in his party when it comes to Israel. <a href="https://t.co/pjDqi0sBPJ">pic.twitter.com/pjDqi0sBPJ</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1779567569252348359?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-iran-wants-to-make-israel-an-unlivable-place-so-it-will-collapse-economically-and-socially" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marco Rubio</a> (R-FL) also spoke with Tapper on Sunday, saying that through direct attacks and through proxies like Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran was trying to &#8220;make Israel an unlivable place.&#8221;
&#8220;Iran’s goal has always been the same, and that is to make Israel an unlivable place,&#8221; Rubio explained. &#8220;Iran knows it cannot beat Israel militarily, but what it does aspire to do is make Israel an impossible place to live and a place no one wants to visit.&#8221;
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Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Sen. <a href="https://twitter.com/marcorubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marcorubio</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JakeTapper</a> that Iran&#39;s goal is to &quot;make Israel an unlivable place.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KPliGEE8x7">pic.twitter.com/KPliGEE8x7</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1779566831734280477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h3>NBC News, &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221;:</h3>
Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) attempted to thread a difficult political needle during her appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; refusing to say whether or not she believed Israel&#8217;s actions in Gaza had reached the level of  &#8220;genocide.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to weigh in,&#8221; Whitmer insisted, despite the fact that Democrat opposition to support for Israel had driven thousands in her state to vote &#8220;uncommitted&#8221; rather than cast a primary vote for President Joe Biden. &#8220;A lot of these terms are used to inflame and divide us.&#8221;
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tlaib-loses-her-mind-on-fox-reporter-wont-address-death-to-america-chants-in-her-district" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rashida Tlaib</a>, another Democrat who represents Michigan, refused to condemn rally attendees in her district who shouted chants of &#8220;Death to America&#8221; and &#8220;Death to Israel,&#8221; claiming that she only wouldn&#8217;t address the issue because the reporter asking about it was from Fox News.
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WATCH: Some Democrats — including those in Michigan — are calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide.
The state’s Democratic governor won’t characterize it that way.<a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovWhitmer</a>: “I’m not going to weigh in. … A lot of these terms are used to inflame and divide us.” <a href="https://t.co/7zhXhOC7iT">pic.twitter.com/7zhXhOC7iT</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1779589523631972439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h3>FOX, &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221;:</h3>
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) joined anchor Shannon Bream on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; to respond to the ongoing situation between Iran and Israel – and he said that while he did not want the United States to be the &#8220;world&#8217;s policeman,&#8221; he also didn&#8217;t want that role to be filled by people like Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin, China&#8217;s Xi Jinping, and the Iranian Ayatollah.
&#8220;With those guys, if you turn the other cheek, you just get it in the neck,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;More sheep is not going to solve the wolf problem.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnKennedy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJohnKennedy</a> gives his advice to President Biden after Iran attacks Israel. <a href="https://t.co/dPMJNkZ7jz">pic.twitter.com/dPMJNkZ7jz</a>
&mdash; Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1779521719272624594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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<h3>MSNBC, &#8220;Inside With Jen Psaki&#8221;:</h3>
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki invited Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to her MSNBC show, where they did their best to breathe new life into the Trump-Russia narrative.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like Trump is the fourth branch of government and Putin is the fifth branch of government,&#8221; Raskin claimed. &#8220;The Republicans can&#8217;t do anything unless Trump approves it and Trump can&#8217;t do anything if his friend Vladimir Putin doesn&#8217;t want him to.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepRaskin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepRaskin</a>: &quot;It&#39;s like Trump is the fourth branch of government and Putin is the fifth branch of government. The Republicans can&#39;t do anything unless Trump approves it and Trump can&#39;t do anything if his friend Vladimir Putin doesn&#39;t want him to.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/wRe7MqJGpm">pic.twitter.com/wRe7MqJGpm</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1779569133299896720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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John Kirby also spoke with Psaki, telling her that Israel had sent a very clear message of strength in repelling Iran&#8217;s direct attack. &#8220;One of the messages that the president delivered to [Netanyahu] was be proud of what you were able to accomplish last night because that itself sent a very strong signal, not just to Iran, but to every other bad actor in the region.&#8221;
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NSC Spokesman John Kirby: &quot;One of the messages that the president delivered to the prime minister was be proud of what you were able to accomplish last night because that itself sent a very strong signal, not just to Iran, but to every other bad actor in the region.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/kyUQy9bnqN">pic.twitter.com/kyUQy9bnqN</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1779580690264117734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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