Regular MSNBC guest Elie Mystal called on other countries to sanction the United States, claiming that especially after the American military carried out strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, &#8220;we are the bad guys on the world stage.&#8221;
Mystal, who also serves as justice correspondent for The Nation, joined ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid on her new eponymous show to discuss the targeted strikes against Iran, and they both appeared to take the side of the world&#8217;s most prolific and eager state sponsor of terror.
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Elie Mystal: &#8220;Our country is THE bad guy on the world stage. The world needs to stand against America. Sanction us.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/3OjPx52Ryn">pic.twitter.com/3OjPx52Ryn</a>
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&#8220;Joy, I’ve argued — and I don’t say this lightly — but our country needs to be sanctioned,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point.&#8221;
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&#8220;And I’m not even gonna say that we’ve only been a menace for the past three or four months, right? Like when does the international community decide that enough is enough?&#8221; Mystal continued. &#8220;I know we’re rich. I know we’ve got a lot of money. I know that people want to buy things from our country because we’re rich, or want to sell things to our country because we are rich. But at some point the international community has to stand up to us because we are a bad guy on the world stage, right? And so we should be sanctioned. We should be sanctioned and rebuked.&#8221;
Mystal has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/regular-msnbc-guest-all-laws-passed-before-1965-should-be-presumptively-unconstitutional">also claimed</a> in the past that all laws passed prior to 1965 — specifically, before the passage of the Voting Rights Act — should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;
&#8220;Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here,&#8221; Mystal told the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View.&#8221; &#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221;
Just two months before President Donald Trump won his second term in the White House, Mystal argued on Reid&#8217;s now defunct MSNBC show that Trump only had a following because he&#8217;d rallied around supporters &#8220;just as despicable.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason why it doesn’t end his career is because his supporters are just as despicable, all right?” Mystal said. “Like Trump’s whole thing, he’s a narcissist, right? And so his whole thing is to have a complete lack of compassion and empathy for everybody else. It’s all about him. It’s all about him, him, him, me, me, me. He’s probably the least compassionate president we’ve had in 200 years since Andrew Jackson. And it works for him because his supporters are just as ungenerous, and have just as little compassion and empathy for others.&#8221;

American Violence And The Trump Insurgency: Malcolm Nance In Conversation With Elie Mystal

MSNBC Regular Wants Other Countries To Sanction U.S.: ‘We Are The Bad Guys’

MSNBC Regular Wants Other Countries To Sanction U.S.: 'We Are The Bad Guys'

Iran Airstrike

Joy Reid

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Military

MSNBC

Politics

Sanctions

A study published on Friday revealed just how many times reporters and anchors on cable news outlets CNN and MSNBC referred to the violent protests and riots in Los Angeles as &#8220;peaceful.&#8221;
The Media Research Center (MRC) evaluated coverage of the protests — targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and attempting to prevent them from carrying out raids — on the two major left-leaning cable networks ranging from June 7 to June 11, 5:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. ET. During that time, as rioters burned cars in the streets and threw cinder blocks at law enforcement, the protests were called &#8220;peaceful&#8221; some 211 times.
According to the study, CNN aired more than half (123) of those mentions and the other 88 were seen on MSNBC&#8217;s coverage.
Fox News anchor Dana Perino brought up the study with former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; on Monday, and the two discussed the obvious disparities between what people saw playing out in Los Angeles and what CNN and MSNBC were saying about it.
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CNN &amp; MSNBC referenced the anti-American LA riots as &#8220;peaceful&#8221; over 200 times.<a href="https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kayleighmcenany</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaPerino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaPerino</a> to discuss our latest study on <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/ltAwz97vv8">pic.twitter.com/ltAwz97vv8</a>
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&#8220;The Media Research Center shows that between June 7th and 11th, CNN and MSNBC had a reference to the protests as &#8216;peaceful&#8217; 211 times — as if they were trying to really make the — drive that point home,&#8221; Perino said.
&#8220;Yeah, and I actually saw this pivot in real time where it was &#8216;peaceful, peaceful, peaceful,&#8217; and then on that Sunday afternoon the cars were burning, there were scooters being tossed onto the hoods of police cars, and all of a sudden that &#8216;peaceful&#8217; adjective made its way out of the coverage, at least temporarily,&#8221; McEnany replied.
A <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/bill-dagostino/2025/06/13/study-cnn-msnbc-overwhelmingly-call-riots-peaceful-la-burns">report</a> from MRC&#8217;s Newsbusters cited several examples from CNN and MSNBC noting that multiple personalities had used the term during the studied timeframe.
&#8220;The intention, it seems, is to lump in violent rioters and peaceful protestors,&#8221; Brian Stelter said on June 9 on CNN.
Two days later, CNN anchor Erin Burnett said, &#8220;There were some incidents of violence. There were specific individuals involved in that. By and large, peaceful protest.&#8221;
On June 11, MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes said, &#8220;Donald Trump can try to turn the military into a partisan tool, mobilizing the National Guard and even the Marines against peaceful protestors.&#8221;
The same day, anchor Nicolle Wallace added, &#8220;Donald Trump referred to those peaceful protestors exercising their First Amendment rights as insurrectionists.&#8221;
According to the MRC, the only statements that were evaluated for the purposes of the study were those made by anchors, reporters, and guests who were supposed to be &#8220;non-partisan.&#8221;

Today – Season 67

Study Shows How Many Times Cable News Outlets Referred To Violent L.A. Riots As ‘Peaceful’

Study Shows How Many Times Cable News Outlets Referred To Violent L.A. Riots As 'Peaceful'

Los Angeles

Riots

As President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — along with others in the administration — joined together to celebrate the U.S. Army&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-comes-out-as-pro-parade-as-trump-celebrates-armys-250th-birthday">250th birthday</a> on Saturday, several at MSNBC appeared to struggle with the fact that the overall vibe on the ground was less fraught and more fun.
Host Chris Hayes compared the scene to typical Trump rallies — which he claimed could be &#8220;very tense&#8221; and sometimes had a &#8220;dark, malevolent energy&#8221; — and then seemed genuinely surprised to note that the scene playing out at the National Mall had a very different feel.
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Over at MSNBC, they&#8217;re almost SHOCKED the celebration of the U.S. Army&#8217;s 250th birthday isn&#8217;t &#8220;tense&#8221; and doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;dark, malevolent energy.&#8221;
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&#8220;One thing I will say — I want to go back to you, Ali, again, when we talk about the sort of tension in the country,&#8221; Hayes began. &#8220;And sometimes, you know, you and I have both been at Trump rallies, those can be, you know, very tense, a kind of — I would say a kind of dark, malevolent energy sometimes in them. Not always, but it doesn&#8217;t seem like that&#8217;s the energy on the Mall today, which I think is a good sign, right?&#8221;
&#8220;Correct,&#8221; Ali Velshi — who was on location — replied. &#8220;You&#8217;re — you&#8217;re really correct about that, Chris, and it&#8217;s something that we — that we were watching for. I&#8217;m just sort of surprised by the number of people who were at the front of the parade watching, cheering, and then would come and ask to take a selfie.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a very different mood here,&#8221; Velshi continued. &#8220;People seem to be going out of their way to say that they&#8217;re here to celebrate the Army&#8217;s 250th birthday.&#8221;
He said he&#8217;d seen one guy carrying a sign that said, &#8220;TRUMP 2028,&#8221; but that most people were not bringing politics into the celebration.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not dark. It&#8217;s not tense,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s different.&#8221;

US-Army-250th-Celebration

‘It’s Not Dark, It’s Not Tense’: MSNBC Struggles To Accept Fun Vibe Of Army Birthday Parade

'It's Not Dark, It's Not Tense': MSNBC Struggles To Accept Fun Vibe Of Army Birthday Parade

Donald Trump

Military parade

U.S. Army

&#8220;The Office&#8221; star Rainn Wilson gave MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle some pushback during a recent interview, after she attempted to claim that public distrust in media could be traced directly back to President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Wilson actually posed the question, citing poll data and saying that some &#8220;40% of Americans don&#8217;t trust mainstream media.&#8221; He then pressed Ruhle to address that distrust and explain what she believed to be at the root of that problem.
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🚨NEW: &quot;The Office&quot; Co-Star Rainn Wilson refutes MSNBC Host Stephanie Ruhle for blaming Trump and <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a> for why faith in media has PLUNGED🚨
WILSON: &quot;I would push back: when I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of… <a href="https://t.co/X9coaOMoGU">pic.twitter.com/X9coaOMoGU</a>
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&#8220;Why is that? How did we get here?&#8221; he asked.
&#8220;Listen, we are seeing a huge loss of trust in all of our institutions. It&#8217;s the media. It&#8217;s medicine. It&#8217;s banking. It&#8217;s a huge problem because when you think about democracy and all of these pillars, they need to stand tall, they need to stand strong,&#8221; Ruhle replied, pivoting to blame Trump almost immediately.
&#8220;And sort of losing that trust is not by accident, it&#8217;s by design,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;If you remember when President Trump was running the first time, Steve Bannon once said, &#8216;The goal is to blow the whole thing up.&#8217; And so I think that you&#8217;ve got mistakes made or things starting to slip while at the same time there&#8217;s a concerted effort to destroy the media. Because the media — the news media — is, in my opinion, the last line of defense of holding power accountable.&#8221;
Ruhle went on to say that the &#8220;perfect storm&#8221; of Trump getting reelected and Musk drawing people away from traditional media had ultimately been what had brought about such high levels of distrust.
&#8220;This is where I would push back,&#8221; Wilson interrupted, adding, &#8220;When I see this kind of insight and passion being directed at the current administration and the lack of this kind of insight and passion being directed at the previous administration — where, again, I&#8217;m not talking about you, I&#8217;m talking about left-leaning news media organizations were kind of like, &#8216;La la la la, everything&#8217;s fine. Look, the environment&#8217;s — look, the economy is great, la la la, immigration’s not that much of a problem,&#8217; and really being Cleopatra, queen of denial. Thank you. Boom.&#8221;

Rainn Wilson

‘The Office’ Star Mocks Lefty Media For Digging Their Own Graves: ‘Cleopatra, Queen Of Denial’

Elon Musk

MSNBC anchor Symone Sanders claimed on Saturday that the deportation of Salvadoran citizen and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia was just one step on the road toward President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration deporting black American citizens.
Sanders began with an article written for The Nation earlier in the week — in which the author had suggested the deportation of criminal aliens, designated terrorists, and gang members effectively heralded the fall of democracy in the United States — and argued that &#8220;people of color and vulnerable communities &#8230; are next in line.&#8221;
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MSNBC’s <a href="https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SymoneDSanders</a> on Kilmar Garcia’s deportation: Black people “are next in line” <a href="https://t.co/e6EFVZrSJG">pic.twitter.com/e6EFVZrSJG</a>
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking about this all week, but Janai Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, she penned an op-ed in The Nation this week,&#8221; Sanders began. &#8220;And her op-ed talked about that we think democracies are — the way they die is dramatically, through these wars, and blood is shed, and it&#8217;s cinematic in a sense. But really, the realistic way in which democracies die, is it is dismantled brick by brick, piece by piece.&#8221;
&#8220;And she says that what we are seeing now with the lawlessness from this administration are really the canaries in the coal mine gasping for air,&#8221; Sanders continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m paraphrasing here. But to me, that is why Kilmar Abrego-Garcia&#8217;s specific case, the case of the gentleman who&#8217;s a make-up artist out of California who was also sent to that prison, that&#8217;s what the more — the 75% of the folks who have been sent, the men who have been sent there that don&#8217;t have criminal records — that is why this is so important.&#8221;
Sanders then pivoted to suggest that if illegal immigrants could be deported, it would not be long before citizens could also be deported.
&#8220;If they can do it to them, if they can snatch students off the street without any pushback or recourse, they will do it to any of us,&#8221; she declared. &#8220;To be very clear, it&#8217;s going to be the people of color, and vulnerable communities that are next in line.&#8221;
Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) agreed with Sanders&#8217; assessment, saying that was why the black community appeared largely supportive of bringing Abrego-Garcia back to the United States.

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MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens ‘Next In Line’ If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

MSNBC Host Says Black American Citizens 'Next In Line' If Deportations Are Allowed To Continue

Joe Biden

Kamala Harris

Symone Sanders

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross quickly backpedaled when presented with the latest details about deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claiming that the real issue was not his individual case, but the larger picture.
Cross made the comments during a panel discussion on CNN, responding to Shermichael Singleton’s point regarding Abrego-Garcia and whether or not the federal government should have deported him to El Salvador.
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This is hysterical. After <a href="https://twitter.com/MrShermichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MrShermichael</a> rattles off the newly revealed Kilmar Abrego-Garcia MS-13 and serial domestic abuse evidence to CNN panel — 
— woke Tiffany Cross declares “we can’t make it about Kilmar. That’s just one person.&quot;
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Singleton laid out a series of reasons that he believed Abrego-Garcia’s deportation was not only justifiable, but a “national security issue,” noting among other things that Maryland gang units had determined that he was a member of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13. In addition, more recent reports showed a history of allegations of domestic violence against his wife.
Noting that due process was obviously a concern, Singleton added, “I think there’s absolutely enough here to send this guy somewhere else. One, he’s already broken the law. We’ve already established that. Now you do have evidence that suggests he was a member or is a member of MS-13, he’s also a serial abuser. This is not the type of individual I don’t think any one of us would want in our country: he should be deported.”
Despite the fact that many Democrats have seized on Abrego-Garcia’s case — including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has tried unsuccessfully to persuade Salvadoran authorities to either release Abrego-Garcia from custody or at least allow him visitation — Cross jumped in then to claim that it was not really about him.
“We can’t make it about Kilmar,” she complained. “That’s just one person.”
“But that’s the case we’re talking about,” Singleton pushed back.
“It is,” Cross agreed, but then complained that the discussion should be about “the macro, not the micro.”
Cross went on to claim that President Donald Trump’s administration has been “indiscriminately” rounding people up for deportation.
“They are randomly deporting people without due process,” she claimed.

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WATCH: Ex-MSNBC Host Back-Pedals When Confronted With Reality

Illegal Immigration

Tiffany Cross

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross aimed a barb at Republican commentator Scott Jennings during a panel discussion on Wednesday — and then complained about people resorting to &#8220;personal insults&#8221; when Jennings fired back.
The conversation centered on Greenland, and blew up when Cross insisted that Trump&#8217;s goals — with regard to claims he&#8217;d like to take control of the island nation currently controlled by Denmark — were obviously colonial rather than, as the administration has repeatedly stated, strategic.
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CROSS: &quot;You&#39;re not a member of government, so you&#39;re irrelevant.&quot;
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&#8220;You cannot just go and say, &#8216;I like it, it&#8217;s mine now,&#8217; it doesn&#8217;t work that way,&#8221; Cross said, as Jennings visibly reacted to her claims. &#8220;That is what they&#8217;re trying to do, and in this new world order —&#8221;
Jennings laughed aloud then, but Cross kept going.
&#8220;Yeah, absolutely, when they&#8217;re looking at Greenland, they say, &#8216;I like it, I want to take it for mine,&#8217; is a very colonizing attitude,&#8221; she said.
Host Abby Phillip stepped in, assisting Cross in pushing back on Jennings: &#8220;Scott, you have said you are pro taking Greenland.&#8221;
&#8220;I have never, ever said we&#8217;re going to go to Greenland and quote &#8216;colonize it&#8217; or &#8216;steal it,&#8217; that&#8217;s crazy!&#8221; Jennings shot back.
Cross held up a hand, waving Scott off and adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m not even talking about you, you&#8217;re not a member of government, so you&#8217;re irrelevant in that point, I&#8217;m talking about the President of the United States doing that.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you were fired from your job, how relevant are you?&#8221; Jennings jabbed back, referencing Cross&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-one-will-miss-her-megyn-kelly-political-commentators-react-to-msnbc-host-being-dropped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ouster from MSNBC</a> after two years — during which she earned a reputation for racially charged commentary.
Cross immediately pointed a finger at Jennings. &#8220;If you wanna — Scott, if you wanna engage in personal insults —&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t, but you do —&#8221; Jennings pushed back.
&#8220;What you lack in a legitimate point you make up for in personal — in personal insults,&#8221; Cross said, bulldozing over Jennings – who smiled and raised his gaze to the ceiling — and adding, &#8220;The point I was making is in this new world order, we are looking at countries, whether or not they are an adversary or an ally, it is being determined on what kind of deal we can get, and we cannot govern, we cannot legislate that way.&#8221;
&#8220;Why?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;We are increasingly isolated on the world stage,&#8221; Cross insisted, despite reports of dozens of countries already planning to negotiate better trade deals with the Trump administration.
&#8220;No, we&#8217;re not,&#8221; Jennings rebutted.
&#8220;So if you want to engage in personal insults —&#8221; Cross just kept going. &#8220;If I were you. I would reserve that for your party —&#8221;
&#8220;We are not. We&#8217;re not isolated,&#8221; Jennings repeated, and others around the table all began talking at once.

Ex-MSNBC Host Takes Cheap Shot, Then Whines When Someone Hits Back

Scott Jennings

Longtime MSNBC host Chris Matthews appeared baffled by President Donald Trump&#8217;s implementation of tariffs against Canada, asking how Americans were supposed to work around the fact that the United States imports a lot of lumber from its northern neighbor.
&#8220;We get so much of our lumber, our two-by-fours from — from Canada,&#8221; Matthews said during a Wednesday appearance on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; &#8220;What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?&#8221;
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Chris Matthews on MSNBC: 
&quot;We get so much of our lumber, our two by fours from from Canada&#8230;.What are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!&quot;
&quot;What is our plan now&#8230;? We&#39;re going to create more wood. Is that it?!&quot;
&quot;Are we going to make more wood in… <a href="https://t.co/cVlvJ6SvEu">pic.twitter.com/cVlvJ6SvEu</a>
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&#8220;This other thing — I watched on the evening news last night, one of the other networks, and I watched the issue of lumber,&#8221; Matthews explained. &#8220;Now, you see, we get so much of our lumber, our two-by-fours from — from Canada. That&#8217;s where we get it from. Canada! We get our newsprint from up there, for newspapers. The fact is, we get — what are we going to do? Have more lumber made in the United States now?!&#8221;
&#8220;What is our plan now?&#8221; Matthews continued in the same vein. &#8220;Oh, we&#8217;re not going to import wood, so we&#8217;re going to make more wood? We&#8217;re going to create more wood. Is that it?! I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re in a position to simply replicate the imports coming into this country with our own products. It can&#8217;t always be done. And I think — wood&#8217;s an example of that. Wood. Are we going to make more wood in this country because of our trade deal?! I don&#8217;t think so.&#8221;
Social media hit back, reminding Matthews of an Executive Action from the Trump Administration dated March 1, kickstarting the &#8220;Immediate Expansion of Timber Production&#8221; in the United States.
&#8220;That’s the idea,&#8221; an X post read.
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That’s the idea <a href="https://t.co/XiWPAfWyeD">https://t.co/XiWPAfWyeD</a> <a href="https://t.co/K5wtirWlpy">pic.twitter.com/K5wtirWlpy</a>
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&#8220;Chris Matthews is unaware of the existence of trees in the United States,&#8221; Jim Verdi posted.
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Chris Matthews is unaware of the existence of trees in the United States. 🤡🤡 <a href="https://t.co/MCpflHWcIm">https://t.co/MCpflHWcIm</a>
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Townhall&#8217;s Matt Vespa added, &#8220;Market illiteracy is one thing. I don’t know what this is … we impose tariffs and libs think wood vanishes. Globalist mind rot is a thing.&#8221;
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market illiteracy is one thing
I don’t know what this is … we impose tariffs and libs think wood vanishes 
Globalist mind rot is a thing <a href="https://t.co/TBin8FqwNc">https://t.co/TBin8FqwNc</a>
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Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) acknowledged on Wednesday that one aspect of the tariff wars had truly surprised him: how many countries the Trump administration said had come to the negotiating table, and how quickly they had done so.
Kennedy made the observation when he joined hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; admitting that he &#8220;frankly never saw that coming.&#8221;
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JOE SCARBOROUGH: Some of the smartest minds across the world are betting on a recession.
SEN KENNEDY: With tariffs, an eye for an eye just leaves both people blind&#8230;But then&#8230;an extraordinary thing happened! We have 195 countries in the world. Probably 40% have come forward —… <a href="https://t.co/30WYxnYuQ1">pic.twitter.com/30WYxnYuQ1</a>
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Scarborough set the oppositional narrative with regard to tariffs, saying, &#8220;Some of the smartest minds across the world are betting on a recession. What are you saying to your business leaders when they&#8217;re calling you about where this goes next?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, this is what I&#8217;m telling them,&#8221; Kennedy replied. &#8220;With tariffs, an eye for an eye just leaves both people blind. When a government imposes a tariff, it&#8217;s putting its thumb on the scale. It interferes with people&#8217;s freedom to exchange goods and services.&#8221;
&#8220;Some countries — China, the best example — have used trade barriers as a weapon to hurt the American economy,&#8221; Kennedy continued. &#8220;You said it — God created the world, everything else is made in China. President Trump decided to try to change this, and he, as we know, has imposed dramatically higher American tariffs on these countries.&#8221;
And that, Kennedy explained, was where the pendulum started to swing back: &#8220;But then, at least for me, an extraordinary thing happened. We have 195 countries in the world. Probably 40% have come forward — and instead of bowing up and fighting, they&#8217;ve said, &#8216;We want to lower our tariffs! Will you lower yours?'&#8221;
&#8220;I frankly never saw that coming,&#8221; Kennedy said, noting that he could not speak for what the president might do next, but adding, &#8220;I think it is a wonderful opportunity &#8230; I would pounce on this opportunity like a ninja. And I would use this as an opportunity to reduce or in some cases — Taiwan, Vietnam, European Union — go to zero reciprocal tariffs and then we can have free trade, let the best product at the best price win.&#8221;
Kennedy once again couched his comments by saying he did not know the White House&#8217;s plan and could only speak to what he would do in the current situation.

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GOP Sen. Reveals What Surprised Him About Tariff Battle: 'I Frankly Never Saw That Coming'

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Actor George Clooney was reportedly livid after &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; host Mika Brzezinski suggested on live television that former President Barack Obama was pulling the &#8220;Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221; star&#8217;s strings.
Biden biographer Chris Whipple revealed details of the heated conversation — between Clooney and an unnamed MSNBC producer — in his upcoming book about the 2024 presidential campaign, &#8220;Unchartered: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.&#8221;
The exchange began with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-joins-chorus-of-stars-telling-biden-its-time-to-drop-out-of-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Clooney&#8217;s shock op-ed</a> after he attended a Hollywood fundraiser for former President Joe Biden, who was still running for re-election at the time. Clooney led with the fact that he considered Biden a friend — but then made it clear he believed it was time for him to step aside and bow out of the race.
&#8220;The one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can,” Clooney wrote at the time. “It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal‘ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/morning-joe-biden-team-says-obama-pushed-george-clooney-to-turn-on-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brzezinski</a> was on the air the next morning and argued that it &#8220;wasn&#8217;t George Clooney&#8221; behind the op-ed.
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Mika Brzezinski says &quot;there&#39;s a lot there&quot; to theory that Obama is behind Clooney op-ed.
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&#8220;This wasn’t George Clooney,&#8221; Brzezinski declared. &#8220;It just wasn&#8217;t &#8230; I think that Barack Obama has a lot of influence, and I think that there’s, there’s a lot there.&#8221;
Clooney, according to Whipple&#8217;s upcoming tome, was incensed. He reportedly called one of the &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; producers and gave him an earful, asking, &#8220;How the f*** could you let her link me with Barack Obama saying he made me write the op-ed?&#8221;
&#8220;You f***ed me… You’re my friend. You should have stood up for me,&#8221; Clooney continued, even as the producer pointed out he had nothing to do with Brzezinski&#8217;s comments, according to Whipple.
&#8220;George, this is not a f***ing movie,&#8221; the producer reportedly said. &#8220;There’s no script. It’s just not a movie where you go script page to script page.&#8221;

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Regular MSNBC guest and justice correspondent for The Nation Elie Mystal claimed on Tuesday that virtually all laws passed prior to 1965 should be considered &#8220;presumptively unconstitutional.&#8221;
Mystal made the assertion during a conversation on the ABC midday talk show &#8220;The View&#8221; while discussing his new book, &#8220;Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America&#8221; — and he argued that any law passed prior to the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be thrown out because until that law passed, &#8220;we were an apartheid country.&#8221;
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Guest on &quot;The View&quot; says all laws before 1965 should be ruled null and void: &quot;Why should I give a f*** about some law that some old White man passed in the 1920s?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/x4Y6veWgFg">pic.twitter.com/x4Y6veWgFg</a>
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&#8220;One of the laws you write about is playing out right now — the Immigration and Nationality Act,&#8221; cohost Sunny Hostin said. &#8220;Now, this administration is using this statute to justify the detentions and possible deportations, actually, of visa and Green-Card holders who they seek to deem a threat to U.S. foreign policy. What do you make of the administration&#8217;s use of the act, and, more broadly, is Trump really setting up a First Amendment showdown, which is what Whoopi&#8217;s been talking about?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, absolutely,&#8221; Mystal declared. &#8220;One of my premises for the book is that every law passed before the 1965 Voting Rights Act should be presumptively unconstitutional, right? Because before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, we were functionally an apartheid country. Not everybody who lived her could vote here.&#8221;
&#8220;So why should I give a **** about some law that some old white man passed in the 1920s?&#8221; he asked.
Mystal followed up his appearance on &#8220;The View&#8221; with a racially-charged post on X claiming that his book &#8220;seems to have pissed off the white wing so, as usual, I&#8217;m doing something right.&#8221;
Mystal often appears on MSNBC, and even joined network host and former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele just two days prior to joining &#8220;The View.&#8221; During that appearance, he claimed that the Trump administration&#8217;s efforts to deport criminal illegal aliens and gang members amounted to &#8220;fascism.&#8221;

Regular MSNBC Guest: All Laws Passed Before 1965 Should Be ‘Presumptively Unconstitutional’

Regular MSNBC Guest: All Laws Passed Before 1965 Should Be 'Presumptively Unconstitutional'

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Multiple MSNBC hosts issued on-air corrections on Tuesday for falsely reporting that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin &#8220;are very good friends.&#8221;
The correction appears to stem from a recently <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/gabbard-says-trump-putin-very-213620262.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retracted</a> Associated Press story, which claimed Gabbard said Trump and Putin &#8220;are very good friends.&#8221; The AP later corrected their reporting to clarify that Gabbard was actually referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not Putin.
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MSNBC set the record straight last night and corrected false reporting about DNI Tulsi Gabbard. <a href="https://t.co/b7MZEW1zwj">pic.twitter.com/b7MZEW1zwj</a>
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MSNBC&#8217;s Stephanie Ruhle read a correction on air Tuesday night.
&#8220;Before we go though, last night we reported on excerpts of an interview between the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and an Indian TV news network in which she said that Trump was good friends with a world leader. We said that world leader was Vladimir Putin, but the full interview shows that Gabbard was referring to Trump and Indian Prime Minister Modi. Clear that up,&#8221; Ruhle said.
The network&#8217;s Ali Velshi read the same correction an hour earlier during a different MSNBC news show.
&#8220;Alright quick note, last night &#8216;The Last Word&#8217; reported on excerpts of an interview,&#8221; Velshi began before reading the same statement as Ruhle.
In a statement on the error, the Associated Press <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/associated-press-removes-story-wrongly-claiming-tulsi-gabbard-said-trump-putin-very-good-friends" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it had &#8220;removed its story about U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard saying President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘are very good friends’ because it did not meet our standards. We notified customers and published a corrected story with an editor’s note to be transparent about the error.&#8221;
An updated version of the story now includes a note at the bottom saying the story was updated to correct &#8220;erroneous reporting.&#8221;
Gabbard made the remark during a visit to India for a conference in New Delhi.
“With President Trump’s leadership in the United States, of course Prime Minister Modi’s longstanding leadership here in India, we have two leaders of our two great countries who are very good friends and who are very focused on how we can strengthen those shared objectives and those shared interests,” she <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gabbard-russia-trump-putin-d4f20f73d1c16dd7e365eae782ff9c5f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Trump&#8217;s first presidency was dogged by years of false claims about his supposed ties to Russia. Democrats have continued to criticize Trump&#8217;s approach to Russia over the first two months of his second term.

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