MSNBC news anchor Katy Tur pressed a guest during her show on Thursday about whether Republican lawmakers should be held responsible for gun deaths amid news of a school shooting that was happening at the time in Santa Clarita, California.
&#8220;You were just speaking about senators not showing the courage to put their seats at risk to pass common-sense gun reform, background checks, etc.,&#8221; Tur asked Ret. Special Agent Jim Cavanaugh with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. &#8220;Would you go so far as to hold them responsible for the deaths that are continuing, the lives that are continuing to be lost with gun violence?&#8221;
&#8220;I clearly do. All leaders have a responsibility to act responsibly to help the citizens and it is not responsible to block a debate or to block a vote and that is what&#8217;s happening,&#8221; Cavanaugh replied. &#8220;That is totally irresponsible, that&#8217;s not leadership, it shows no leadership integrity, it is done to protect their seats. They don&#8217;t want to have to vote on the bill because they are afraid in their state or district, their constituents won&#8217;t like the way the vote may turn out.&#8221;
Earlier in the interview, Cavanaugh accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of being too scared to bring a variety of Democrat-backed bills that would enact strict gun control legislation onto the Senate floor for a vote, claiming that Republicans&#8217; seemingly unpopular positions would put them in jeopardy of losing their seats.
&#8220;I would say to Mitch McConnell &#8216;ok boomer, put the bills on the floor — why are you afraid to let the bills be voted on and debated on the floor of the Senate?'&#8221; Cavanaugh said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the most un-American thing that I can think of.&#8221;
&#8220;Soldiers will risk their lives to save children, policemen will, firemen will, but senators won&#8217;t risk their seat to save the children&#8217;s lives,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;That is really disgraceful.&#8221;
McConnell, conversely, has put forth that he would hold a vote on the legislation if any of the bills would ultimately be signed by President Donald Trump.
&#8220;If the president is in favor of a number of things that he has discussed openly and publicly, and I know that if we pass it, it will become law, I&#8217;ll put it on the floor,&#8221; McConnell said in September.
However, the overwhelming majority of the rank-and-file Republicans in the Senate are staunch advocates of the Second Amendment, and, accordingly, many of the anti-gun bills that Democrats have passed in the House are unlikely to gain much traction and advance through the upper legislative chamber.
As Cavanaugh talked to Tur, the active shooter situation at Saugus High School was still occurring and little in the way of details had thus far been released by authorities — including who the gunman was, the motivation behind the spree, or how the firearm in question was obtained. Accordingly, it is not clear whether any of the pending legislation would have had any direct impact on the Santa Clarita school shooting.
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Katy Tur

Media Bias

MSNBC

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) fired back on Wednesday morning after MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace accused the New York congresswoman of being a &#8220;shill&#8221; for President Donald Trump.
&#8220;It would appear [Stefanik] is drinking the same loony tune juice with her breakfast as [former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley],&#8221; Wallace tweeted. &#8220;Going from occasionally reasonable Republicans to Trump shills.&#8221;
Wallace&#8217;s remarks were seemingly in reference to Stefanik&#8217;s parliamentary inquiry prior to hearing testimony from the witnesses at Trump&#8217;s impeachment proceedings. Stefanik, who has been critical of House Democrats&#8217; impeachment procedure, questioned House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) on when he would respond to Republicans&#8217; request to call certain witnesses.
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Hi 👋 <a href="https://twitter.com/NicolleDWallace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NicolleDWallace</a> ! I am flattered that you are comparing me to <a href="https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NikkiHaley</a> ! HUGE compliment! Instead of ever standing in front of voters as a candidate or putting your name on the ballot, you just keep attacking <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gop</a> women who have. Sad. Get outside of the <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> bubble! <a href="https://t.co/aBOn3lLuju">https://t.co/aBOn3lLuju</a>
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Accordingly, House Republicans sent Schiff a letter on November 9th that listed the witnesses they would like to bring to testify in front of Congress. The list included, among others, former Vice President Joe Biden&#8217;s son Hunter and the whistleblower who initially launched the impeachment investigation into the president. Schiff has still not formally responded to the letter.
The New York congresswoman then stated a point of order, inquiring whether Schiff will continue prohibiting witnesses from answering questions like he did during the closed-door depositions that he has been conducting over the past few weeks. The House Intelligence Committee chair subsequently denied blocking answers except to protect the identity of the whistleblower.
Only days earlier, Haley ignited a media firestorm after she provided an unequivocal defense of the president while promoting her recently released book, &#8220;With All Due Respect: Defending America With Grit And Grace.&#8221;
&#8220;I never had any concern on whether he could handle the job, ever … In every instance that I dealt with him he was truthful, he listened, and he was great to work with,&#8221; Haley replied when questioned about Trump&#8217;s capacity for the presidency during a live appearance on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today Show.&#8221; She further noted that she believes he is a &#8220;truthful&#8221; leader.
Haley was immediately met with accusations of auditioning to replace Vice President Mike Pence at the top of the ticket in 2020, or even positioning herself for her own presidential run the following election in 2024. She has repeatedly denied the accusations. Haley has not only been a vocal supporter of the vice president, but she has also endorsed a Trump-Pence ticket in the upcoming election cycle.
Also the former governor of South Carolina, Haley is largely seen as a leading conservative woman in the Republican Party. Although she has at times been critical of Trump, she has also become a generally close ally of the president&#8217;s over time. Stefanik, who became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress when she assumed office in 2015, applauded the comparison of herself to Haley.
&#8220;Hi [Nicole Wallace]! I am flattered that you are comparing me to [Haley]! HUGE compliment!,&#8221; Stefanik replied to Wallace. &#8220;Instead of ever standing in front of voters as a candidate or putting your name on the ballot, you just keep attacking GOP women who have. Sad. Get outside of the MSNBC bubble!&#8221;

Rep. Elise Stefanik

Congresswoman Fires Back At MSNBC Host For Attacking Her As A Trump Shill

Nicolle Wallace

On Tuesday, an MSNBC analyst ranted that President Trump is a Russian asset who had been compromised &#8220;as early as 1977&#8221; because his first wife, Ivana Trump, who hailed from Czechoslovakia, was under surveillance from the Czech intelligence agency, the STB.
As Joseph Wulfsohn reported for <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-malcolm-nance-trump-russia-agent">Fox News</a>, retired U.S. naval intelligence operator Malcolm Nance, appearing on “Morning Joe” to push his book “The Plot to Betray America,” boasted that he could &#8220;predict&#8221; events that others could not see.
Nance breathed that Trump &#8220;had been under Russia intelligence surveillance for a very long time, as early as 1977, with his first wife, Ivana,” adding:
<blockquote>Ivana was from the Czech Republic, which at that time was Czechoslovakia. Their intelligence agency, the STB, had her communications between the United States and the Czech Republic under surveillance and they knew an enormous amount of information about Donald Trump between 1977 and the mid-&#8217;80s.
And then, in the mid-&#8217;80s, Donald was starting to express interest in building Trump Tower Moscow, but more importantly, there was word from her family that he was trying to consider running for president against George Herbert Walker Bush, who was, of course, the former director of the CIA and the vice president of the United States. So, Russia became very interested in him.</blockquote>
Nance called Trump a &#8220;useful idiot” who had been exploited by Russia President Vladimir Putin, continuing that Putin&#8217;s &#8220;job was to manipulate people. It was to turn people into traitors … By 2014, [Trump] was making enormous quantities of money from the Russian oligarchy, but that is when he came to Russia and it became very clear to the Russians, this man can go from a useful idiot&#8230; to an unwitting asset where he&#8217;s being used and he doesn&#8217;t know it.&#8221;
More from Nance: “They put a set of rose-colored glasses on his face. Donald Trump sees the world only through Moscow&#8217;s point of view because he knows that is where an enormous quantity of money that he cannot access exists and would be made available to him. Is he is a next step, a Russian asset, where he is aware of those activities? [Former Special Counsel] Robert Mueller said yes, that he was well aware that he was going to benefit from Russia.&#8221;
Wulfsohn noted, “According to journalist Yashar Ali, the network (MSNBC) <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://yashar.substack.com/p/scoops-oprahmalcolm-nance-and-msnbc">notified</a> show bookers that they had to seek the approval of a higher-ranking booker in order to have Nance on their shows and was later ‘unbooked’ on several MSNBC programs by the top brass during the week the Mueller report was released.”
After the tragic shooting in El Paso, Texas in August, Nance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-msnbcs-4-craziest-claims-about-trump-ryan-saavedra">ranted</a> that President Trump was to blame.  He <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/07/msnbcs_malcolm_nance_trump_giving_subliminal_orders_to_white_supremacist_foot_soldiers.html">said</a>:
<blockquote>These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of what the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling and Donald Trump is giving them subliminal orders in their head. They are no different than the mobilized, self-starting, self-radicalized terrorists of ISIS here in the United States and Europe, who take cars and drive down streets.</blockquote>
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Miami Prepares For First Democratic Debates Of The 2020 Presidential Election

WATCH: MSNBC Analyst Rants Trump Is A Russian Asset Under Surveillance Since 1977

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Russia

The annual leftist Thanksgiving-bashing began this year with MSNBC&#8217;s Joy Reid trashing the &#8220;food holiday&#8221; for its &#8220;problematic&#8221; history while advising her viewers on ways to debate their Trump-supporting family members at the dinner table.
&#8220;We are just over two weeks away from one of the most beloved American food holidays,&#8221; Reid began, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-joy-reid-thanksgiving-food-holiday-trump">Fox News</a>. &#8220;Thanksgiving, where problematic actual history meets delicious cuisine, and many will be heading home to spend time with family and friends, eat a little too much and perhaps engage in a dreaded, contentious political debate with your cranky Uncle Roscoe when he starts yelling, &#8216;Read the transcript!&#8217; at the dinner table between bites of turkey and pumpkin pie.&#8221;
Reid then went on to instruct viewers that they should not be concerned with minute details or terms like &#8220;quid pro quo,&#8221; advising them to instead focus on terms like &#8220;bribery&#8221; and &#8220;extortion.&#8221;
&#8220;Here’s a hint: Do not worry about trying to explain the cast of characters &#8230; or the very overused term, &#8216;quid pro quo,'&#8221; Reid continued. &#8220;Most people can’t say it, spell it or understand it. What we’re actually talking about here is not a pithy Latin phrase. It’s something a lot simpler: Bribery and extortion. Beyond the whistleblower and over 100 hours of testimony backing up that fact, Donald Trump admitted to it, and even released edited notes from his call with the Ukrainian president — which, by the way, is not a transcript — that actually proved he did it! Even Uncle Roscoe and Auntie Carol ought to understand that.&#8221;
Reid&#8217;s instruction for leftists to use the Thanksgiving holiday as a venue to school their conservative family members has been a sensation among Trump haters ever since he won the White House in 2016. Last year, The New York Times <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38568/nyt-gives-you-advice-how-argue-your-ben-shapiro">profiled</a> ways for liberals to argue with their conservative family members at the dinner table, which was quickly outdone by Eater <a href="https://www.eater.com/2018/11/20/18099157/thanksgiving-family-politics-argument?fbclid=IwAR0YsQ1lgTdCAFJySsW-PMnTgGYL9sTGJPB0RLRWScdM-1OS1QQthuO_570">asserting that people are morally obligated</a> to debate racist Trump supporters before asking them to pass the gravy.
&#8220;Moderates everywhere still insist that being nice to your racist, Trump-supporting relatives at the Thanksgiving table is somehow going to be the balm that prevents us from ending up in Margaret Atwood’s Gilead,&#8221; Eater&#8217;s Amy McCarthy argued. &#8220;That assessment is, frankly, a steaming pile of bulls***.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no amount of civility that can balance the harm of xenophobic nationalism, and no amount of sitting silently while listening to someone spew racial epithets that will repair what Trump and his ilk have broken,&#8221; continued McCarthy. &#8220;Being progressive doesn’t just mean clicking &#8216;like&#8217; on left-leaning Facebook statuses. It requires a commitment to pursuing justice, even when it’s your weird uncle, even when it’s uncomfortable, and especially when there are other people in the room who you care about.&#8221;
Dr. Karin Tamerius, a former psychiatrist and founder of Smart Politics, outlined in the Times a &#8220;five-step method to help people have difficult conversations&#8221; over the Thanksgiving table.
&#8220;The civil rights movement, the women’s movement, the anti-war movement, the gay rights movement, the struggle for marriage equality — all gained acceptance through difficult conversations among family members who initially disagreed vehemently with one another&#8221; argued Tamerius.

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Advises How To Debate Trump-Supporting Family Members During Thanksgiving

Leftism

Progressivism

The following is satirical.
Media pundits seem to be discovering the hidden charms of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Ever since President Donald Trump arranged for the erasure of the ISIS leader, press anti-Trumpers seem to be asking themselves: If Trump ordered him killed, can he really have been so bad?
The Washington Post, where Democracy dies strangling on hatred after taking a heavy dose of mindless venom, called the terrorist leader an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/58280">austere religious scholar</a>,” and blamed the United States invasion of Iraq for distracting this “academic” from his intention to live a “quiet life as a professor of Islamic law.”
Never Trumper Max Boot, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/28/al-baghdadis-death-could-have-been-trumps-finest-hour-he-messed-it-up-anyway/">objected</a> to President Trump calling the austere scholar a coward saying, after all, the terrorist had been brave enough to blow himself and three children to smithereens.
I’ve prayed God would allow me to wake up in a world where I’m making all that up, but so far no dice. I haven’t even gotten to the satire part yet.
We can now look forward to articles from, say, The New York Times, a former newspaper, praising al-Baghdadi for his wistful appreciation of female beauty, and maybe Chuck Todd will chime in on al-Baghdadi’s artistic camera work as he made videos of innocent people being beheaded in order to recruit more austere scholars to his cause of slaughtering everybody in sight.
There was, of course, also al-Baghdadi’s fabulous fashion sense which led MSNBC to offer him a hosting spot on their new show &#8220;Muslim Eye for the Christian Guy,&#8221; which has now unfortunately been canceled due to Trump’s brutal indifference to fostering really good TV.
Meanwhile, McCarthyite Congressman Adam Schiff is whining because Trump didn’t inform him of the operation ahead of time. Trump said he worried Schiff would leak the mission to the press. But Schiff said that was absurd, according to anonymous sources on the Intelligence Committee who spoke with the Times.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/58280">Washington Post Changes Headline About Terrorist Leader’s Death, Calling Him An ‘Austere Religious Scholar’</a>

Washington Post

Media Asks: If Trump Had Al-Baghdadi Killed, Can He Really Have Been So Bad? [Satire]

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Chuck Todd

New York Times

Satire

On Friday, Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes and former Obama administration adviser Steven Rattner slammed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), calling her economic proposals &#8220;extreme&#8221; and suggesting that they would devastate the U.S. economy.
&#8220;Many of the things that she&#8217;s trying to address are real problems in the U.S. economy – the scale of inequality, the increasingly concentrated nature of the U.S. economy – but on balance, when you look at it, I actually think that many of her specific proposals, there are some that make a lot of sense, but many of them, when taken together, it would give a shock to the U.S. economy that on balance would be not good for the U.S. economy,&#8221; Beddoes said on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221;
&#8220;About 50% of the stock market and private equity companies would be affected by her re-regulation, by break up, by some of, one of her many very big, ambitious proposals, and I think it&#8217;s not just that there are individual policies that one can disagree with, and there are many,&#8221; Beddoes continued.
&#8220;The broader philosophy underpinning it, I think, has two elements: one is that she has an enormous faith in government and government regulation, and as we all know, government regulation has its downsides, and we may be in a situation where we need [a] different kind of regulation of some industries, but she is driven by a faith in government,&#8221; Beddoes added. &#8220;And the converse of that is that I think she&#8217;s driven by a real punitive dislike of much of business, and that is actually some of the underpinning of American prosperity – much of that underpinning. American capitalism is strong because of its business.&#8221;
Beddoes said that there was &#8220;quite a lot to be worried&#8221; about in regard to Warren&#8217;s policies, noting that while they may sound attractive to some, they would end up hurting the people that they are supposed to help.
&#8220;Well, there&#8217;s certainly a question about how she pays for some of her policies, but I think it&#8217;s not just how she pays for it, it&#8217;s the consequences, the unintended consequences of all of this re-regulation that she&#8217;s planning,&#8221; Beddoes said. &#8220;They sound attractive, you&#8217;re helping workers, you&#8217;re shifting the balance of power back to workers. That’s a great idea, but the way she&#8217;s going about doing it will have knock-on consequences.&#8221;
Beddoes noted that Warren&#8217;s wealth tax proposal, which would confiscate large amounts of wealth from America&#8217;s richest individuals, is an antiquated idea that many European countries abandoned a long time ago.
Rattner jumped in, saying, &#8220;I would say it&#8217;d be disastrous for the American economy.&#8221;
&#8220;The fundamental different view she has of what capitalism is – she says she&#8217;s a capitalist, but she&#8217;s not a capitalist,&#8221; Rattner said. &#8220;She&#8217;s really a democratic socialist in some ways, and she wants to fundamentally change the role of an American company, how an American company is governed, what it&#8217;s supposed to do, in ways that I think at least would be disastrous for the American economy.&#8221;
Rattner concluded, &#8220;I think you could make an argument that her plans and policies are far more extreme than Bernie Sanders’ in terms of its impact on the American economy and the fundamental way in which we do our business here.&#8221;
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MSNBC Panel Shreds Warren: ‘Far More Extreme Than Bernie,’ ‘Disastrous For &#8230; Economy’

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Economy

The current president of MSNBC waved around a zoomed-in photo of the vagina of popular TV personality Maria Menounos at a staff meeting, a new book from journalist Ronan Farrow reveals.
According to sources in Farrow&#8217;s new book, &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catch-Kill-Conspiracy-Protect-Predators/dp/0316486639/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1QLCI8OR8XIPI&amp;keywords=ronan+farrow&amp;qid=1570061809&amp;sprefix=Ronan+Farrow,aps,125&amp;sr=8-1">Catch and Kill</a>,&#8221; MSNBC head Phil Griffin was known for his crass remarks. At a staff meeting, a source detailed that a &#8220;smirking&#8221; Griffin once &#8220;waved around a printed page bearing a zoomed-in image&#8221; of Menounos&#8217; vagina &#8212; the former &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; host apparently suffered a wardrobe malfunction while wearing a bikini in public.
&#8220;Would you look at that?&#8221; Griffin reportedly said of the photo, as he &#8220;exhaled hard.&#8221;
&#8220;Not bad, not bad,&#8221; he added.
Journalist <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/13/msnbc-exec-showed-off-revealing-pic-of-maria-menounos-reports-on-book/">Yashar Ali</a> obtained the troubling excerpt from &#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; and posted it to social media on Saturday.
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1. One particularly disturbing scene in <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>’s book&#8230;
Phil Griffin, the current president of MSNBC, waving around a zoomed in photo of Maria Menounos’s vagina in a staff meeting. 
Order Ronan’s book here: <a href="https://t.co/eLcNiasfdB">https://t.co/eLcNiasfdB</a> <a href="https://t.co/rZmD5vZRAh">pic.twitter.com/rZmD5vZRAh</a>
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According to <a href="https://pagesix.com/2019/10/13/msnbc-exec-showed-off-revealing-pic-of-maria-menounos-reports-on-book/">Page Six</a>, &#8220;Farrow also claimed that coworkers described Griffin as a crude boss and that while he was still a senior producer at &#8216;Nightly News&#8217; in the 1990s, once pressured female colleagues to go to a peep show in Times Square, New York magazine said.&#8221;
&#8220;Catch and Kill&#8221; details a slew of trouble for NBC Universal News Group outside of Griffin&#8217;s alleged unsavory actions.
According to another excerpt obtained by Ali, NBC News president Noah Oppenheim shrugged off audio captured by model Ambra Gutierrez of Harvey Weinstein admitting to sexual assault and pressuring the model. 
&#8220;Ambra Gutierrez captured Harvey Weinstein on tape admitting to sexual assault. According to [Ronan Farrow]&#8216;s new book, when he played this audio for NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, Noah reacted by saying: &#8216;Eh&#8230;I mean, I don&#8217;t know what it proves,'&#8221; Ali posted. 
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2. Ambra Gutierrez captured Harvey Weinstein on tape admitting to sexual assault. 
According to <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a>&#39;s new book, when he played this audio for NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, Noah reacted by saying: &quot;Eh&#8230;I mean, I don&#39;t know what it proves.&quot;<a href="https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2">https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2</a> <a href="https://t.co/c0qmzt7fWj">pic.twitter.com/c0qmzt7fWj</a>
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Ali added, &#8220;Another thing NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said to [Ronan Farrow] (according to Ronan&#8217;s book) after listening to this audio was: &#8216;He&#8217;s trying to get rid of her. People say a lot of things when they&#8217;re trying to get rid of a girl like that.’”
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3. Another thing NBC News president Noah Oppenheim said to <a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a> (according to Ronan&#39;s book) after listening to this audio was:
&quot;He&#39;s trying to get rid of her. People say a lot of things when they&#39;re trying to get rid of a girl like that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2">https://t.co/X2jJRCtjS2</a> <a href="https://t.co/cAZxxNVWgw">pic.twitter.com/cAZxxNVWgw</a>
&mdash; Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) <a href="https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1183492098957422597?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Moreover, Farrow uncovered a rape allegation against former NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; host Matt Lauer.
Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, said she was anally raped by Lauer in 2014 while covering the Sochi Olympics, as accusation Lauer has fiercely denied.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-lauers-rape-accuser-rips-his-defense-as-victim-shaming">The Daily Wire</a> reported:
<blockquote>After socializing at a hotel bar with Lauer and then-“Today” anchor Meredith Vieira, Nevils said she went to Lauer’s room to get back her press credentials, which she said were taken by Lauer as a joke. She then returned to his room a second time upon his invite, when the alleged rape took place.
“Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex,’ Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times,&#8217;” the <a href="https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/matt-lauer-rape-nbc-ronan-farrow-book-catch-kill-1203364485/">Variety</a> report said.
Nevils claims she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,&#8217;” Farrow wrote in his book “Catch and Kill.”
“Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow,” the book claimed.
“It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” the former NBC employee told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”</blockquote>
Nevils said she had sexual interactions with Lauer after the alleged rape, some of which she initiated.
Farrow is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best know for his reporting into the alleged rampant sexual misconduct from Democrat megadonor and Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.

Maria Menounos

MSNBC President Waved Zoomed-In Photo Of Maria Menounos’ Vagina At Staff Meeting: Report

Harvey Weinstein

Ronan Farrow

On Sunday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Republicans are not being patriotic by defending President Trump against impeachment over his phone call with the Ukraine. Speaking on MSNBC, Waters referred to Republican senators as &#8220;spineless&#8221; for not turning against President Trump, arguing that their lack of patriotism will harm the country.
&#8220;I am disgusted with those spineless members of the Senate who don’t have the guts to stand up for this country. Many of them have defined themselves as patriotic. They’re not patriotic. They are spineless and they’re not willing to step up and do what needs to be done in recognizing the danger of this president,&#8221; Waters said, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/maxine-waters-gop-senators-impeachment-unpatriotic">Fox News</a>. &#8220;They’re willing to harm our country, and so, I want all of the American population to understand who is in that Senate, what they’re doing, whether or not they want them to remain there if, in fact, they don’t come forward.&#8221;
Maxine Waters added that she has no idea how Republicans could &#8220;look their children and wives and community in the face&#8221; after supporting Trump. Waters opined that Republicans are &#8220;frightened&#8221; to go against him.
&#8220;I have no respect for any senator, any member of Congress, who is not willing to put themselves on the line for this country,&#8221; she said.
Maxine Waters&#8217; rhetorical extremism took an ugly turn last week when she not only said that President Trump should be impeached,  but should also be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maxine-waters-calls-for-trump-to-be-placed-in-solitary-confinement">placed in &#8220;solitary confinement.&#8221;</a> She also criticized him for suggesting that civil war could break out in the United States if the Democrats impeached him, arguing it amounted to a racist dog whistle.
&#8220;I’m calling on the GOP to stop Trump’s filthy talk of whistleblowers being spies &amp; using mob language implying they should be killed,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;Impeachment is not good enough for Trump. He needs to be imprisoned [and] placed in solitary confinement. But for now, impeachment is the imperative.&#8221;
&#8220;Trump is so irresponsible &amp; so hungry for power &amp; control, he would dare imply that a civil war will ensue if he’s impeached. He is dog whistling to his white supremacists to create fear &amp; intimidation [because] he knows he is going to be impeached. He knows he deserves impeachment,&#8221; she continued.
&#8220;Trump has corrupted so many members of his admin. The lies, coverups, shaking down foreign countries &amp; undermining our democracy will be recorded as one of the worst periods in the history of our country, all led by a dishonorable con man. Follow the facts, impeachment on the way,&#8221; she concluded.
Following that statement, Maxine Waters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maxine-waters-blames-trump-for-making-her-a-target-hes-setting-some-of-us-up-to-be-killed">also suggested</a> on MSNBC that President Trump&#8217;s rhetoric will lead to people like her being killed — even though she previously told anti-Trump extremists to harass members of his administration when out in public.
&#8220;[Trump] should not be going after anybody,&#8221; Waters told host Ali Velshi. &#8220;He is the president of the United States of America. He is setting some of us up to be killed. I have death threats constantly.&#8221;
&#8220;There are a number of people who have been convicted for threatening to kill me, and when he does that he’s dog-whistling to the white supremacists, the KKK, and the dangerous people,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We have stories about many of those white supremacists who do nothing but practice how they’re going to be involved in a civil war and fight against this government. This president is irresponsible in so many ways aside from making us a target of these white supremacists.&#8221;

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Krystal Ball, former co-host of &#8220;The Cycle&#8221; on MSNBC, claimed on HBO&#8217;s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; on Friday that her former network has damaged left-wing causes by pushing Russia-related conspiracy theories about President Trump.
&#8220;Overall, I think MSNBC, in the Trump era, has done real damage to the left and I’ll tell you why,&#8221; Ball said on the show, as reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-msnbc-host-krystal-ball-says-former-network-has-done-real-damage-to-the-left-during-trump-era-by-for-conspiracy-theorizing">Fox News</a>. &#8220;I say that with love, I mean, these are my former colleagues, friends. The Russia story and what happened there was important, but it was not all-important, and they went so far in the realm of conspiracy theorizing.&#8221;
When Maher joked that Ball would be slapped with the &#8220;disgruntled former employee&#8221; label, Ball went on to say that MSNBC pushed some ridiculous theories, such as New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait claim that President Trump had been a Russian asset for over 30 years.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8220;Overall, I think MSNBC in the Trump era has done real damage to the left, and I&#8217;ll tell you why.&#8221; Watch <a href="https://twitter.com/krystalball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KrystalBall</a> critique her former network&#8217;s coverage on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RTOvertime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RTOvertime</a>: <a href="https://t.co/FvgNOD0ZgR">pic.twitter.com/FvgNOD0ZgR</a>
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&#8220;This is ridiculous, OK? This is way out from what journalistic facts said,&#8221; Ball said. &#8220;They built up expectations so much that when the report came out, you were like, ‘Oh, this is no big deal,’ when it was a big deal.&#8221;
As noted by Fox News, the former MSNBC host <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/26/ex-msnbc_host_krystal_ball_slams_network_over_russia_rachel_maddow_youve_got_some_explaining_to_do.html">previously criticized</a> MSNBC back in July for pushing conspiracy theories that damaged the Left.
&#8220;After watching seven hours of a spectacle that felt much more cruel than enlightening, I can no longer avoid pondering a question which honestly gives me no joy to ponder: Just how much damage has MSNBC in particular done to the Left?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Now this critique is not meant to be personal to the anchors and commentators there, many of whom I know — some of whom are actually close friends — having worked at that network for five years, but nearly all of whom got swept up in the ratings bubble that was feverish Russian conspiracy theories.&#8221;
Krystal Ball was not the only progressive who felt the Democratic Party pushed a little too hard on Russia conspiracy theories following the dud that was the Mueller report, which showed that Trump did not collude with the Kremlin. In fact, Michael Moore even told Democrats to literally &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49866/michael-moore-tells-democrats-stfu-after-frail-old-paul-bois">shut the f*** up</a>&#8221; after the whole fiasco blew up in their faces.
&#8220;A frail old man, unable to remember things, stumbling, refusing to answer basic questions,&#8221; Moore tweeted in July. &#8220;I said it in 2017 and Mueller confirmed it today — All you pundits and moderates and lame Dems who told the public to put their faith in the esteemed Robert Mueller — just [shut the f*** up] from now on.&#8221;
In a later tweet, Michael Moore even said that Trump has all the reason to celebrate in the wake of Mueller&#8217;s testimony, and it could very well assure him re-election in 2020.
&#8220;Trump must be gloating in ecstasy. Not because of the failure that is Robert Mueller — his report is still a damning document of crimes by Trump — but because Trump understands the power of the visual, and he understands that the [Democrats] aren’t street fighters and that’s why he’ll win,&#8221; said Moore.

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Ex-MSNBC Host Krystal Ball: Network ‘Has Done Real Damage To The Left’ Due To Promotion Of Russia Conspiracy Theories

On Friday&#8217;s overtime segment of &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; on HBO, former MSNBC host Krystal Ball claimed that the coverage of President Trump by her former network was ultimately damaging to &#8220;progressive causes.&#8221;
<blockquote>MAHER: Do you feel [that] networks like MSNBC, which you used to work for &#8230; help or hurt progressive causes?
BALL: Overall, I think MSNBC in the Trump era has done real damage to the Left, and I&#8217;ll tell you why.
MAHER: Damage?
BALL: And I say that with love. I mean, these are my former colleagues, friends. Look, the Russia story and what happened there was important, but it was not all-important, and they went so far in the realm of conspiracy theorizing – I mean, they had Jonathan Chait on&#8230;
MAHER: Well, it was a conspiracy.
BALL: They had Jonathan Chait on to talk about how Trump may have been a Russian plant since 1987. This is ridiculous, okay? This is way out from what journalistic facts said, and it&#8217;s to the exclusion of other stories that people actually care about – about health care, about trade, about the future of their lives, automation. These things are real, and they don&#8217;t get focus when you only look at one thing. So yeah, they built up expectations so much that when the report came out, people were like, &#8220;Oh, it was no big deal,&#8221; when it was a big deal.</blockquote>
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After Ball&#8217;s answer, Maher laid the blame for an alleged lack of accountability regarding the Russia investigation at Robert Mueller&#8217;s feet, and Ball agreed.
<blockquote>BALL: Why did we put our faith in a Republican? He&#8217;s a Republican; he&#8217;s a lifelong Republican. What [did] we think?
MAHER: But that was the mistake on MSNBC is making him into this hero.</blockquote>
Despite the mainstream press, including networks like MSNBC and CNN, aggressively pushing the Trump/Russia collusion narrative for more than two years — a narrative that ultimately ended up being disproven by the Mueller investigation — President Trump has retained his standing among a core base of Republican voters.
According to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_approval-6179.html#!">RealClearPolitics</a> average of polling, President Trump&#8217;s job approval stands at 43.8% despite near-universally negative coverage of him since before the 2016 election.
According to a report from the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/01/15/networks-trashed-trump-90-negative-spin-2018-did-it-matter">Media Research Center</a> (MRC), from January 2017 through December 2018, 90% of the coverage of President Trump from the major network evening news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC) has been negative, while just 10% has been positive. The analysis excludes &#8220;neutral statements.&#8221;
MRC states: &#8220;To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about the President or his administration from either reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources such as experts or voters. Evaluations from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included.&#8221;
Of the 858 minutes spent by the big three networks&#8217; evening newscasts discussing the Trump/Russia collusion story in 2018, 98% was &#8220;negative,&#8221; according to the MRC analysis. Of the 643 minutes covering immigration and the border, 94% was &#8220;negative.&#8221; The least negative of the big five &#8220;Trump-bashing&#8221; stories that received hundreds of minutes of airtime pertained to North Korea (410 minutes; 80% &#8220;negative&#8221;).

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WATCH: Former MSNBC Host Says Network’s Coverage In ‘Trump Era Has Done Real Damage To The Left’

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Herring Networks, Inc., which owns One America News Network, a &#8220;conservative alternative&#8221; to the news, filed a $10,000,000 defamation lawsuit in a U.S. District Court in California on Monday against MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, Comcast, NBC Universal Media, and MSNBC Cable for defamation and censorship.
As detailed in a <a href="https://www.oann.com/rachel-maddow-lawsuit/">press release</a> Monday, One America News (OAN) is suing Maddow and her employer for making the false claim on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show&#8221; that OAN &#8220;really literally is paid Russian propaganda&#8221; — an assertion OAN says was made &#8220;maliciously and recklessly&#8221; and despite the left-leaning host knowing it was false. The defamatory claim, OAN says, was made shortly after OAN President Charles Herring condemned NBC&#8217;s parent company, Comcast, for engaging in &#8220;anti-competitive censorship.&#8221;
&#8220;The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC,&#8221; OAN announced Monday (full release below). &#8220;The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN&#8217;s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast&#8217;s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast&#8217;s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC&#8217;s most popular show — The Rachel Maddow Show — opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN &#8216;really literally is paid Russian propaganda.'&#8221;
The defendents, OAN maintains, &#8220;knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it.&#8221; Maddow and MSNBC promoted the false claim, the lawsuit asserts, specifically to damage the reputation and business of OAN because of the network&#8217;s conservative viewpoint and to retaliate against the network for Herring&#8217;s complaint about Comcast&#8217;s alleged censorship.
The lawsuit follows OAN&#8217;s demand for retraction issued to Maddow and The Daily Beast&#8217;s Kevin Poulsen in July after both pushed the Russian claim. As outlined by <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/29/one-america-maddow-daily-beast/">The Daily Caller </a>at the time, Poulsen wrote that OAN&#8217;s Kristian Rouz is a &#8220;Russian national on the payroll of the Kremlin’s official propaganda outlet, Sputnik.&#8221; Maddow said on her show the same day that OAN &#8220;really, literally is Russian propaganda.&#8221;
Maddow has repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories about Russian influence on her show, particularly alleged &#8220;collusion&#8221; between Russia and Trump and his associates.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45418/watch-rachel-maddow-collusion-delusion-video-greg-james-barrett">WATCH: Rachel Maddow &#8216;Collusion Delusion&#8217; Video By Greg Gutfeld Goes Viral</a>
Below is the full <a href="https://www.oann.com/rachel-maddow-lawsuit/">press release</a> from OAN (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>Los Angeles, CA—September 9, 2019 – Herring Networks, Inc., an independent, family owned national cable television programming company based in San Diego, California, filed a defamation lawsuit today in the United States District Court, Southern District of California, against Defendants Rachel Maddow, Comcast Corporation, NBC Universal Media, LLC, and MSNBC Cable LLC. The Complaint seeks damages in excess of $10,000,000.
Herring Networks owns and operates One America News Network (“OAN”), a prominent and popular independent television news channel providing Americans with a conservative alternative to the major liberal news outlets. The Complaint alleges that Comcast refused to carry OAN as part of its cable programming because OAN counters the liberal politics of its own channel, MSNBC.
The Complaint further alleges that one week after OAN’s President, Charles Herring, called out and objected to Comcast’s anti-competitive censorship in an email to Comcast’s President of Content Acquisition, MSNBC’s most popular show—The Rachel Maddow Show—opened with the show’s host, Rachel Maddow, telling her audience that OAN “really literally is paid Russian propaganda.”
OAN asserts that, in fact, Defendants knew this statement was false and that they acted maliciously and recklessly in making it. The Complaint alleges that the statement was meant to damage OAN’s business and reputation because OAN, unlike MSNBC, presents a conservative viewpoint; and that OAN was targeted in retaliation for calling out Defendants for their anti-competitive censorship in refusing to carry OAN on its cable system.
OAN is represented by Skip Miller, a partner at Miller Barondess, LLP in Los Angeles. Per Miller, “One America is wholly owned, operated and financed by the Herring family in San Diego. They are as American as apple pie. They are not paid by Russia and have nothing to do with the Russian government. This is a false and malicious libel, and they’re going to answer for it in a court of law.”</blockquote>

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Conservative Network Sues Rachel Maddow, MSNBC For Defamation

Americans just aren’t as concerned with the trade war as MSNBC thinks they should be, apparently.
On Thursday, the network ran <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/national-zoo-could-lose-pandas-over-trump-s-trade-war-67790405718">a segment</a> claiming the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. “could lose pandas over Trump’s trade war.” The 1 minute, 40 second segment offered exactly zero evidence that this was anything other than a completely made up fear from MSNBC.
“The president’s trade war with China could soon cost the National Zoo in D.C. its most beloved attraction,” said Ayman Mohyeldin, filling in for Katy Tur. “As tensions rise between the U.S. and China over trade, the pandas that thousands flock to see eat bamboo and tumble down their habit could be sent to China, which technically owns them. The vulnerable species is only on loan here in the U.S.”
Mohyeldin goes on to talk about Bei Bei, the zoo’s most famous panda cub, who is already scheduled to return to China in a few months under the zoo’s current agreement with the country.
As Mohyeldin reported, the 20-year lease on Bei Bei’s parents is up in 2020. “The zoo says it has not started discussions with China about the lease but are confident that they will reach an agreement or deal of sorts,” the host said.
Right there Mohyeldin gives away that this story has no basis in reality. Neither China nor the U.S. has suggested this is an actual possibility, yet MSNBC ran with the story anyway just to get people angered at President Donald Trump and his trade war with China.
It was President Richard Nixon’s wife Pat who helped bring pandas to the U.S., after she visited China with her husband, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported. The network included a clip of Pat Nixon suggesting “pandemonium” would break out in America once the pandas arrived.
“Pandemonium did, in fact, break out,” Mohyeldin said. “Suffice it to say, losing these majestic creatures after a trade war after seeing little Bei Bei grow up before our eyes would be for visitors and animal lovers around the world and here in the U.S. alike, unbearable.”
Again, nothing from China or the U.S. has even hinted that we are in danger of losing our pandas, and the National Zoo released <a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/459430-national-zoo-says-china-trade-war-wont-affect-dcs-pandas">a statement</a> to The Hill saying they don’t believe the trade war will affect the pandas.
“I’d like clarify that we’ve had 47 incredibly successful years of partnering with our Chinese colleagues, China Wildlife and Conservation Association, and our current agreement is through Dec. 7, 2020. Our giant panda conservation program is all based on science plans that both our scientists and their Chinese counterparts create and implement together,&#8221; Zoo spokeswoman Pamela Baker-Masson told the outlet.
But this was enough for MSNBC and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-a-trade-war-with-china-cost-the-u-s-its-pandas/">then CBS</a> to run with the completely made up story.
The story, intended to get people outraged at a Republican, is reminiscent of the 2013 government shutdown, during which the Obama administration intentionally shut down national parks that had not been shut down in previous government shutdowns just so that people would notice the government wasn’t running.

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MSNBC Claims National Zoo Could Lose Pandas Due To Trade War With China. There Is No Evidence To Support This.

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On Wednesday, President Trump&#8217;s personal attorney, Charles Harder, fired off a letter to NBCUniversal warning that a defamation suit would be forthcoming if NBCUniversal did not offer a retraction or apology for allegations reported by MSNBC host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell that Russian oligarchs co-signed loans to Trump.
<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-sends-legal-demand-comment-msnbcs-lawrence-o-donnell-1235171?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_source=Direct&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR) noted that O&#8217;Donnell was speaking to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow on &#8220;The Last Word With Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell&#8221; Tuesday night when he stated that a &#8220;single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that the Trump — Donald Trump&#8217;s loan documents there show that he has co-signers. That&#8217;s how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs.&#8221; He added, &#8220;That would explain, it seems to me, every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, if true, and I stress the &#8216;if true&#8217; part of this.&#8221;
O&#8217;Donnell also tweeted, &#8220;A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump&#8217;s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers. If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers.
If true, that explains every kind word Trump has ever said about Russia and Putin. <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLastWord?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheLastWord</a> 10pm
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In <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6359052-CJH-NBCU-Legal-Demand-Re-Lawrence-O-Donnell.html">Harder&#8217;s letter</a>, he wrote, &#8220;The Program and Tweet make the false and defamatory statements that &#8216;Russian oligarchs&#8217; co-signed loans provided to Mr. Trump by Deutsche Bank, and described these &#8216;co-signers&#8217; as &#8216;Russian billionaires close to Vladimir Putin.'&#8221;
The letter continued:
<blockquote>These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging. The only borrowers under these loans are Trump entities, and Mr. Trump is the only guarantor. Numerous documents for each of these loans are also recorded, publicly available and searchable online. Thus, actual malice can easily be proven based on your reckless disregard of the truth and unreasonable reliance on an alleged &#8216;source&#8217; who you will not even identify in your story and likely is seeking to mislead you and the public for political reasons or other ulterior motives.</blockquote>
O&#8217;Donnell later tweeted, &#8220;Last night I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president&#8217;s finances that didn&#8217;t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn&#8217;t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air. I will address the issue on my show tonight.&#8221;
THR noted, &#8220;The discussion of loans from Deutsche Bank come as Democrats in the House of Representatives attempt to subpoena documents from the financial institution … On Tuesday, Deutsche Bank confirmed in a court filing that its tranche of Trump-related documents include tax returns.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/28/media/msnbc-lawrence-odonnell-deutsche-bank/index.html">CNN</a> noted, &#8220;It&#8217;s not clear how O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s reporting made it to air, given that NBC News was unable to verify his reporting. Usually, at networks, journalists must clear anonymously sourced reports with the network before reporting them on-air or online — a process O&#8217;Donnell acknowledged he didn&#8217;t follow in his Wednesday tweet … No other network or news organization, including CNN, has corroborated O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s reporting. Notably, there was no mention of anything resembling O&#8217;Donnell&#8217;s reporting in <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiM_tCTkabkAhVtTd8KHTFJAeIQFjAAegQIABAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2019%2F04%2F18%2Fpolitics%2Ffull-mueller-report-pdf%2Findex.html&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ZzRtYDgTlod3Vqcd-bTN6">the report</a> issued earlier this year by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.&#8221;

MSNBC Host Reports Allegations That Russian Oligarchs Co-Signed Loans To Trump. Then The White House Sends A Letter.

On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; Shapiro talks about the liberal media&#8217;s reaction to President Trump canceling his trip to Denmark next month. Video and partial transcript below: 
The president&#8217;s going to war with Denmark. So, that&#8217;s exciting. And I know that when I woke up a couple of days ago, I thought to myself, You know what? Those Danes! We&#8217;ve got to do something about Greenland, man. Greenland! The future of America lies on glaciers. Now listen, I&#8217;m fine. I&#8217;m all for buying Greenland. You wanna buy it? And frankly, I don&#8217;t think it’s a big deal that President Trump wanted to buy Greenland. The fact is that the United States bought the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark. Solid real estate deal. But President Trump has decided that it is imperative that we get into a diplomatic spat when Greenland says it&#8217;s not for sale. We&#8217;re now gonna have an international issue over whether we buy a giant island that has 56,000 people on it.
What are we going to do? Like, Relocate populations there? Like, what are we talking about doing with Greenland that makes it so all-fired important that we&#8217;re now canceling state visits to Denmark? So President Trump is now in a personal spat with the prime minister of Denmark, which is just — that&#8217;s what we needed, right? I mean, I just talked about all the good policy Trump is pursuing but certainly what makes the American people feel more safe, and secure, and solid is when the president is in a pissing match with the prime minister of Denmark. Because of all the cruel, inhumane states on planet Earth that we need to face down and look directly in the eye — Denmark, man. Those Danes can&#8217;t be trusted, not in the slightest. Kim Jong-Un? Best friends! Prime Minister of Denmark? Screw that person.
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President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at the Danish prime minister — Mette Frederickson — saying the leader of the U.S. ally had made nasty comments about his interest in having the United States purchase Greenland. Trump announced on Tuesday night he was calling off a planned two day visit to Copenhagen early next month over Frederickson&#8217;s refusal to entertain the sale of Greenland. Apparently Trump tweeted this out. He said (paraphrasing), I thought it was not a nice statement. The way she blew me off. She shouldn&#8217;t treat the United States that way she said. Absurd! There&#8217;s not the right way. That&#8217;s not the right word to use. President Trump is an expert in the use of words. He has all of the best words. Is this worthwhile? Honestly, is it worthwhile? I understand he&#8217;s going to be Trump — we all get it at this point. But is that a good thing for his re-election prospects? Just generally, is it necessary?
So I&#8217;m giving you two big headlines for Trump. One: Actually promulgating regulations that will cut down on illegal immigration, and also will allow children to stay with their parents. After two years of controversy over that, that&#8217;s a big thing. Thing number two that&#8217;s a big thing: Planned Parenthood defunding. Big promise kept. Shouldn&#8217;t those be the things we&#8217;re talking about today? Well instead, we&#8217;re talking about Trump versus Ford, and Trump versus Denmark over Greenland.
Chris Matthews, of course, is very upset over this. [Chris Matthews impression] This is unbelievable! President Trump! Denmark! [I&#8217;m] Coming here in the morning! Combing my hair with a shoe! All crazy looking! I&#8217;m like, Why are you, why are you getting angry at the Danes!? Why are you so angry? I mean, I love Hans Christian Andersen. I like the old lady who lived in a shoe! All sorts of fairy tales, I love. I&#8217;ll tell you what I love most of all: I love coming in here, half-drunk, and talking about President Trunk and Bugsy Siegel and making gangster references! Go!
<blockquote>MATTHEWS: President Trump is picking a fight with a loyal American ally for no apparent reason. He&#8217;s canceled a state visit to Denmark, insulted its prime minister, and thrown in a historic relationship into chaos. Denmark is a good country. It&#8217;s pro-American as hell. It’s an ally like — we’ve dreamed the world would be an ally of any country like our country. And now this guy, like Bugsy Siegel, walks by like in a movie, Warren Beatty played the guy, goes by a house — I&#8217;d like that house! Goes in the house and says, I want to buy your house!</blockquote>
Warren Beatty! Love it! Yeah. Warren Beatty! It was terrible! Warren Beatty was great in &#8220;Shampoo!&#8221; Wasn&#8217;t as great in &#8220;Reds.&#8221; I like the message of the movie &#8220;Reds!&#8221; Very pro-communist! But I didn&#8217;t like, really, Warren Beatty&#8217;s performance, but this is just like Bugsy Siegel! That&#8217;s a movie nobody saw, right? It&#8217;s supposed to be really good. Wasn&#8217;t that good? Cause Warren Beatty&#8217;s kind of overrated. Kind of liked him in &#8220;Bulworth,&#8221; whatever that movie was! Remember that? Chris Matthews! MSNBC!
Sorry, once I get into the Chris Matthew [impression], it&#8217;s very difficult to get out of the Chris Matthews [impression].
In any case, you can see that the media are in it for it. The media would love a feeling of chaos. This is the Democratic campaign in 2020. Democratic campaign strategy 2020. Trump&#8217;s crazy. That&#8217;s the campaign. That&#8217;s the whole campaign. And Democrats are totally into it. And when President Trump gets angry about that, he&#8217;s not totally wrong.
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Chris Matthews

SHAPIRO: Trump Cancels Denmark Trip And Chris Matthews Loses It

Greenland

Trump Administration

MSNBC host Chris Hayes supported a call for protests at the private residence of a billionaire Trump donor after a guest urged demonstrators to show up at his home with “pitchforks and torches.”
“People of color are already targets under this administration,” Elie Mystal, the executive editor for the “Above The Law” legal blog, <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/msnbc-contributor-calls-for-pitchforks-and-torches-outside-of-trump-supporting-billionaires-house/">told Hayes</a> on Thursday. “I have no problem with shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I go farther, I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons.”
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">MSNBC Contributor Calls For ‘Pitchforks And Torches’ Outside of Trump Supporting Billionaire’s House<a href="https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a">https://t.co/M7sc4CFc9a</a> <a href="https://t.co/gTjcd7CTB0">pic.twitter.com/gTjcd7CTB0</a>
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon/status/1159643891366334465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“I’ve been to the Hamptons, it’s very nice, but there’s no reason why it has to be,” he continued. “There’s no reason why he should be having his nice, little party. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood that they reject this stuff.”
Mystal’s remarks were in reference to billionaire Stephen Ross, who recently held a fundraiser for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign. Ross is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Companies, which owns Equinox and SoulCycle fitness centers.
“Totally,” Hayes responded. “There have been peaceful protests outside [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s house and I imagine there will be peaceful protests outside [Ross’s house]. Again, it’s all speech.”
Accordingly, a crowd gathered at the Kentucky senator’s home earlier in the week as he was recovering from a broken shoulder. McConnell’s campaign posted a video of the “angry left-wing mob” that appeared outside his house during the night. On the recording, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50274/far-left-protesters-mcconnells-home-just-stab-ryan-saavedra">protesters can be heard</a> wishing harm upon the senator, such as saying they hope somebody would “just stab the motherf***er in the heart” and calling for him to “break his neck.”
“Trump is a bigoted demagogue and we all kind of know that. These people should be ashamed of supporting him. Right? Like, at this point you should basically only be able to contribute to the Trump campaign with bitcoin,” Mystal said. “But Equinox man is holding an ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ party and he’s surprised the people are getting up in his grill.”
“We know that there is no constitutional way to put pressure on these people’s exercise of their money as speech, but there’s darn sure social pressure that we have barely tried,” he continued. “It’s time for us to start trying at least.”
Hayes noted that conservatives are sounding the alarm on the “slippery slope” that could result in the widespread politicization of consumer decisions and subsequent boycotts based on mainstream political beliefs.
“They don’t want free speech, they want consequence-less speech, and that is what we cannot continue to allow them to have,” Mystal responded. “The way you avoid the slippery slope is don’t support people who cage children. Don’t support people who are racist bigots.”
“What we’re asking for is not actually all that much,” he added. “So, I don’t really worry about the slippery slope because I feel like if we have collective action, collective social pressure on our friends, and families, and uncles, and whatever, to stop supporting this ridiculousness, that we will actually get somewhere.”

Chris Hayes

WATCH: MSNBC Contributor Calls For People To Target Trump Donor With ‘Pitchforks And Torches.’ Host Chris Hayes Agrees.

Trump Supporters

MSNBC has promoted extreme conspiracy theories about President Donald Trump and white supremacists this week in the aftermath of the racist terror attack that happened at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas Saturday.
The media and Democratic Party rushed to blame the president for the deadly attack, claiming that his rhetoric was responsible for the massacre that killed nearly two dozen people, despite <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/has-anyone-actually-read-the-el-paso-manifesto">potential evidence</a> to the contrary.
MSNBC led the way in making wild and unsubstantiated claims about the president, claiming that he was talking about committing genocide and that he was secretly sending orders to Nazis.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2019/08/06/nicolle-wallace-trump-talking-about-exterminating-latinos">said</a> on Monday (emphasis added): &#8220;What do you do when, certainly, the last Republican president fought for, sought and it&#8217;s not ideal but had 44 percent of Latino voters. So politically powerful inside the last Republican administration. President Obama used the power of the presidency to try to pass comprehensive immigration reform, with the Latino community, Latino leaders, at the table. You now have a president, as you said, talking about exterminating Latinos.&#8221;
MSNBC analyst Frank Figluizzi <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/456499-nbc-analyst-trump-re-raising-us-flags-on-aug-8-very-significant-to-the-neo">said</a> on Tuesday: &#8220;It’s the little things and the language and messaging that matters. The president said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until Aug. 8. That’s 8/8. Now, I&#8217;m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter &#8216;H&#8217; is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them the numbers 88 together stand for &#8216;Heil Hitler.&#8217; So we&#8217;re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8.&#8221;
MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/07/msnbcs_malcolm_nance_trump_giving_subliminal_orders_to_white_supremacist_foot_soldiers.html">said</a> on Tuesday (emphasis added): &#8220;These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of what the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling and Donald Trump is giving them subliminal orders in their head. They are no different than the mobilized, self-starting, self-radicalized terrorists of ISIS here in the United States and Europe, who take cars and drive down streets.&#8221;
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/morning-joe-host-claims-trump-wants-white-nationalist-inspired-attacks">said</a> on Tuesday (emphasis added): &#8220;You have to ask the question, Joe, and I’ll ask you, isn’t it okay to deduce that at this point this is what he wants? He is inciting hatred, inciting violence, inciting racism if he doesn’t unequivocally call it off and say, this is wrong and we stand together against this and we are doing this, this and this to help fight hate crimes. I mean this is a president who seems to want these things to happen.&#8221;
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Nicolle Wallace: Trump “talking about exterminating Latinos”
Frank Figliuzzi: Trump raising flag on 8/8 signals “Heil Hitler” to Nazis
Malcolm Nance: “Trump giving [Nazis] subliminal orders”
Mika Brzezinski: “This is what [Trump] wants” <a href="https://t.co/KfhdTJTMuj">pic.twitter.com/KfhdTJTMuj</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1159342750455590913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: MSNBC’s 4 Craziest Claims About Trump Following El Paso Tragedy

El Paso Shooting

On Tuesday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; Ben Shapiro discusses The New York Times&#8217; decision to dilute the truth in the face of opposition. Video and partial transcript below:
Joe Scarborough made the connection complete yesterday, when he suggested on his show that anybody who supports President Trump is by necessity supporting white supremacist terror attacks.
<blockquote>Scarborough: For those of you who are funding Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign, you may want to take note that because you keep writing checks to this president, it&#8217;s on you. It really is, it&#8217;s all on you because you are funding this white supremacist campaign, CEOs, you really are. Business people, millionaires, and billionaires, it is your money that is funding this white supremacy. Because you won&#8217;t tell him to stop.</blockquote>
Who&#8217;s not telling him to stop when he said all the bad stuff that he said in the past?
I’m pretty sure a lot of people were telling him to stop. And by the way, if you support Trump in his re-election bid because you don&#8217;t trust Kamala Harris, or Elizabeth Warren, or Joe Biden, to run the country, this does not make you a white supremacist. The attempt to tie politics to this event is a deliberate attempt to elect a Democrat to the White House. That&#8217;s what this is about and here&#8217;s how you can tell.
So, today the media actually started to cover this thing the way they should cover it. So, The New York Times yesterday ran a ridiculous and bizarre headline. Their ridiculous and bizarre headline, which I pointed out yesterday, was something to the effect of, Donald Trump condemns racism, but says nothing about guns. Here&#8217;s the exact headline; it was, &#8220;Trump Condemns White Supremacy, but Doesn&#8217;t Propose Gun Laws After Shooting.&#8221; And as I pointed out, that&#8217;s not journalism. That is The New York Times saying what they wish he had said, not what he said. What he actually said was that white supremacy is evil. Wouldn&#8217;t that be the headline? &#8220;Trump: White Supremacy Is Evil.&#8221; A very easy headline to write. Trump condemns white supremacy; that&#8217;s where the headline ends.
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Okay. So, I pointed that out yesterday. Well, apparently the editors at The New York Times actually got the message. And so their headline on the front page of The New York Times today was &#8220;Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism.&#8221; Trump urges unity versus racism; that is a factually true headline. Now, you may think that it&#8217;s disingenuous. You may think that as Don Lemon does, that it rings hollow. But the actual headline, if you are a news person, is that Trump urges unity versus racism, and it&#8217;s not a biased headline. That is a very straightforward headline.
The entire Left went insane. Beto O&#8217;Rourke came out and said it was disgusting that The New York Times had run that headline. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, as is her wont, accused The New York Times of white supremacism. So, I guess it was Nancy Pelosi three weeks ago, and now it&#8217;s The New York Times pushing white supremacism, apparently. Nate Silver, who is at FiveThirtyEight — obviously is of the political Left — said, &#8220;Not sure Trump urges unity versus racism is how I would have framed the story.&#8221; Then AOC says, &#8220;Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by — and often relies upon — the cowardice of mainstream institutions.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">Let this front page serve as a reminder of how white supremacy is aided by &#8211; and often relies upon &#8211; the cowardice of mainstream institutions. <a href="https://t.co/ynjgtT66yI">https://t.co/ynjgtT66yI</a>
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1158557383767052293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Weird. I remember that time that Trump called the New York Times fake news, and everybody was like, &#8220;Oh, my God, that right there is an attack on the First Amendment. It&#8217;s an attack on the press.&#8221; When AOC says that The New York Times is forwarding white supremacy, I guess that&#8217;s not an attack on the press because it&#8217;s AOC, and we all love AOC, right? I mean she is the wisest, most benevolent, most beautiful among us, the most brilliant, thus, when she rips into The New York Times as an institution of white supremacy filled with cowardice, not a problem at all.
So, what did The New York Times do? The New York Times switched its front page, not kidding, because of the blowback from the Left, because many on the Left were suggesting they were gonna cancel their subscriptions over the headline, the factually accurate headline. The New York Times reversed itself and pulled down that headline and put up a new headline. The headline was &#8220;Assailing Hate, but Not Guns.&#8221; Now, that is not actually a factual headline. The president actually called for certain gun regulations, including red-flag regulations.
That is editorializing. &#8220;But not blank,&#8221; is not a factual reportage decision; that is an editorializing decision. That&#8217;s the kind of headline that I could write after every Barack Obama speech. &#8220;Barack Obama endorses X but not Y,&#8221; Y being a thing I wanted him to endorse — that&#8217;s editorializing.
So, The New York Times a paper that used to be vaunted — it used to be their slogan — their slogan used to be, &#8220;Without fear or favor.&#8221; It was a statement made by the founder of The New York Times 100 years ago: &#8220;Without fear or favor.&#8221;
Well, forget that. Now it&#8217;s &#8220;Fear of the Left means that we will favor the Left.&#8221; So they&#8217;re going to switch the headline. Why? Because it would undercut the narrative that the Left is attempting to drive if Trump actually did urge unity versus racism.
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New York Times in New York City

SHAPIRO: The New York Times Has A New Slogan

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Barack Obama

Guns

Joe Scarborough

Media

Shooting

On Monday, Frank Figliuzzi, the former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, appeared on MSNBC and compared President Trump to a &#8220;Muslim cleric that’s playing the beheading videos and radicalizing you.&#8221;
Last week, Figliuzzi wrote an op-ed in The New York Times in which he stated, “Instinct and experience tell me we’re headed for trouble in the form of white hate violence stoked by a racially divisive president. He has chosen a reelection strategy based on appealing to the kinds of hatred, fear, and ignorance that can lead to violence.”
Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC on Monday, Figliuzzi stated:
<blockquote>What I see is uncanny parallels between the radicalization you see in Islamic, violent extremism, radicalization to commit jihad, to go to jihad, and then what we’re seeing in the white hate movement. It is radicalization, and so how do you stop it? We’re talking about health care, we’re talking about mental health, we’re talking about guns. And yes, we need to talk about all that, but one way to stop it is for that driving radicalizer — on the Islamic side, that Muslim cleric that’s playing the beheading videos and radicalizing you — that guy has to come out and say, &#8220;I renounce this, I reject it, I was wrong, I don’t need you anymore. Stop it. It’s not American.&#8221; And we didn’t hear that today. This press conference today by the president, to use a baseball phrase, was a swing and a miss. He spoke in collective language and passive voice, not in first person. He didn’t say, &#8220;I renounce and reject,&#8221; he said, instructed us to reject it, &#8220;the nation must condemn racism.&#8221; Well, guess what? We condemned it already. But how about you? You are the radicalizer in chief. We didn’t hear that today.</blockquote>
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Figliuzzi also spoke to MSNBC&#8217;s Brian Williams, where he doubled down on his &#8220;radicalizer&#8221; characterization and offered his take on the White House’s “ignorance of the adversary” when they announced flags would fly at half-mast until August 8:
<blockquote>What were the warning signs for me, Brian? Ironically, they weren’t from my experience in domestic terrorism but rather they were from my experience in international terrorism and radicalization to Islamic jihad. You see the same things happening now in white hate groups, in white supremacy groups, where not only is the internet facilitating the speed of radicalization but our leader, our chief executive, is seen as almost a mentor and a radicalizer. And unfortunately today we did not hear from that person that these extremists and unstable people look to. He spoke in the passive voice, in the collective voice; we didn’t hear first person from him. We didn’t hear, “I condemn white hate ideology.” We heard the nation must condemn it. Well, the nation does condemn it. But we didn’t hear what we needed to hear, so what happens is the extremists interpret what the president read off the script today as something he needed to say, something he didn’t really want to say.</blockquote>
He continued:
<blockquote>Now I’m not going to imply that he did this deliberately, but I am using this as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House: the numbers 8/8 are very significant in white supremacy and neo-Nazi movement. Why? Because the letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and to them, the numbers 8/8 stand together for Heil Hitler. So we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one’s thinking about this; no one’s giving him the advice, or he’s rejecting the advice.</blockquote>
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Frank Figliuzzi

WATCH: Former FBI Asst Director For Counterintelligence Compares Trump To ‘Muslim Cleric That’s Playing The Beheading Videos And Radicalizing You’

Radical Islamic Terror

White Supremacy

Following Tuesday night&#8217;s Democratic primary debate hosted by CNN, far-left MSNBC host Chris Matthews questioned presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) about the costs of her &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; policy proposal.
Matthews repeatedly asked Warren how much the plan would cost taxpayers, though he never did receive an answer from the senator. Clearly frustrated with Warren&#8217;s refusal, Matthews later knocked the progressive lawmaker on-air. &#8220;Warren wouldn&#8217;t answer that question,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1156401216164941827">complained</a>.
&#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; will cost taxpayers more money, Matthews told Warren. &#8220;You guys dodged that tonight. … How much will your taxes go up?&#8221;
Warren refused to answer, suggesting the real question is, &#8220;How much are your costs going to go up?&#8221;
&#8220;I know that argument, but you&#8217;re covering it,&#8221; pressed Matthews.
&#8220;&#8216;Medicare for All&#8217; is cheaper than our current system — that&#8217;s the Republicans&#8217; version,&#8221; Warren said.
&#8220;I know the argument,&#8221; answered Matthews, &#8220;that you put it all together and you reduce the cost of healthcare premiums, and you get more benefits, therefore you come out ahead, but will you pay more in taxes? Why don&#8217;t you want to answer that question?&#8221;
&#8220;It’s a question about where people are gonna come out economically,&#8221; contended Warren.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not my question,&#8221; Matthews said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not my question. That&#8217;s not my question. My question is how much will taxes go up.&#8221;
Warren, again, refused to answer. &#8220;The question is about costs,&#8221; she said, about how much you&#8217;re &#8220;digging in your pocket&#8221; to pay healthcare costs.
&#8220;Will your taxes go up?&#8221; the MSNBC host asked, again. &#8220;Will your taxes go up? &#8230; There is no answer to the question, will your taxes go up.&#8221;
Matthews then moved on with the interview.
Warren and presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) both support a radical universal &#8220;Medicare for All&#8221; program that would end private insurance and cost an estimated $32 trillion, $10 trillion more than the current national debt.
&#8220;Look at the business model of an insurance company,&#8221; Warren has argued, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/elizabeth-warrens-shift-puts-health-insurers-in-2020-crossfire.html">according</a> to CNBC. &#8220;It’s to bring in as many dollars as they can in premiums and to pay out as few dollars as possible for your health care. That leaves families with rising premiums, rising co-pays, and fighting with insurance companies to try to get the health care that their doctors say that they and their children need. Medicare for All solves that problem.&#8221;
Not all Democrats are on board with the controversial plan, however. Former congressman John Delaney, for example, has called the proposal &#8220;political suicide.&#8221;
During Tuesday night&#8217;s debate, Delaney bluntly told Sen. Sanders that his &#8220;math is wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s been well-documented that if all the bills were paid at a Medicare rate, which is specifically — I think it&#8217;s in section 1,200 of their bill — many hospitals in this country would close,&#8221; said the businessman and presidential hopeful.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to go around and be the party of subtraction … telling half the country who have private health insurance that their insurance is illegal,” Delaney suggested, adding, &#8220;The question is, why do we have to be extreme? I&#8217;m starting to think this isn&#8217;t about health care, this is about an anti-private sector strategy.&#8221;
As <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/447515-sweeping-plans-from-2020-contenders-come-with-trillion-dollar-price-tags">reported</a> by The Hill, Warren’s proposal to erase student loan debt and eliminate tuition at public colleges could cost $1.25 trillion, while her environmental spending plan comes with a $2 trillion price tag.
WATCH (relevant comments begin at the 1:30-mark):
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WATCH: Chris Matthews Battles Elizabeth Warren: ‘Answer That Question’

Health Care

Jake Tapper

Medicare

Taxes

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) slammed MSNBC and The Washington Post on Monday from the Senate floor over the baseless smears they have promoted that McConnell is a Russian asset.
McConnell&#8217;s impassioned speech came in response to attacks from over the weekend where he was labeled &#8220;Moscow Mitch&#8221; after left-wing columnist Dana Milbank wrote an op-ed about McConnell blocking a highly partisan Democrat election reform bill last week.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t normally take the time to respond to critics in the media when they have no clue what they&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;But, this modern-day McCarthyism is toxic, and damaging, because of the way it warps our entire public discourse.
&#8220;Last week I stopped Democrats from passing an election law bill through the Senate by unanimous consent, a bill that was so partisan that it only received one Republican vote over in the House,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;My Democratic friends asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill that everyone knows isn&#8217;t unanimous and never will be unanimous. So I objected.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the last several days I was called unpatriotic, un-American, and essentially treasonous by a couple of left-wing pundits on the basis of bald-faced lies,&#8221; McConnell continued. &#8220;I was accused of aiding and abetting the very man I&#8217;ve singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years: Vladimir Putin.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">&#8220;This modern day McCarthyism is toxic&#8221; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a>
&#8220;Lies, innuendo, baseless accusations&#8221; hysterical claims of &#8220;treason!&#8221;
It&#8217;s what the Democrats and their allies in the media have done to <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for 3 years
No one has done more to sow discord than them
Enough! <a href="https://t.co/qCCidhFE8X">pic.twitter.com/qCCidhFE8X</a>
— Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1155935744717778944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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McConnell continued: &#8220;Now, at least [MSNBC] is honest about what it offers, and it isn&#8217;t journalism. Immediately after the host finished his angry string of false claims [calling] me un-American, another panelist chimed in to applaud the remarks and here&#8217;s what he said: &#8216;We&#8217;re at war. It&#8217;s time for the Democrats to wake up and we&#8217;re not necessarily going to play fair.'&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s remember how deep MSNBC waded into the conspiratorial fever swamp over the past 2 years,&#8221; McConnell added. &#8220;They gave airtime to one guest who has publicly tweeted … that a former White House adviser was close to being executed for espionage and that Chief Justice Roberts had sent the marshal of the Supreme Court to the White House to threaten the president.&#8221;
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Mitch McConnell slams MSNBC: “They gave airtime to one guest who has publicly tweeted that a former White House adviser was close to being executed for espionage and that Chief Justice Roberts had sent the marshal of the Supreme Court to the White House to threaten the president” <a href="https://t.co/1daMR3ArIa">pic.twitter.com/1daMR3ArIa</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1155931447707881472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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