Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) handed her party a problem it spent Sunday morning refusing to answer when she laughed off a slate of far-left policy positions as the excesses of &#8220;Woke 1.&#8221;
Two of the biggest Sunday shows put Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s remark to Democratic guests as a loyalty test, and both guests gave a near-identical non-answer. NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker and CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper each raised it on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EukfmKkYwS4">Meet the Press</a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCBVnEyVdwQ">State of the Union</a>,&#8221; respectively.
Welker put the question to Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) directly, quoting Ocasio-Cortez and asking whether he agreed.
&#8220;She said &#8216;Woke 1 was crazy,&#8217; effectively suggesting some progressive views just went too far in the 2020s,&#8221; Welker said. &#8220;Do you agree with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that Woke 1 was crazy?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t know what these labels mean,&#8221; Khanna replied, immediately pivoting to a recitation of his own record: &#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what I&#8217;ve always stood for. I have never been for defunding police.&#8221; He went on to volunteer that he has &#8220;called for abolishing ICE.&#8221;
Welker followed up by asking about Francesca Hong — the Madison democratic socialist who narrowly lost Wisconsin&#8217;s Democratic gubernatorial primary on Tuesday — and the resurfaced post in which she called for getting rid of Thanksgiving. &#8220;Did that kind of rhetoric hurt the progressive cause?&#8221; she asked.
Khanna refused to give an inch. &#8220;I really feel bad for what happened to Francesca. And I know it&#8217;s fashionable to distance yourself. I am not,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I was proud to endorse her and she&#8217;s far more than the caricature that was presented.&#8221;
Notably, Ocasio-Cortez herself never endorsed Hong. Asked in the same ABC News <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwAnMLBSOw">interview</a> that produced the &#8220;Woke 1&#8221; line whether she would, she said her focus was &#8220;winning back the Congress&#8221; — putting her in line with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and the national Democratic Socialists of America, all of whom stayed out. Khanna did not.
On &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Tapper raised an almost identical line of questioning with Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD), referencing Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s comments and pressing Moore for his view.
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Democrat Governor of Maryland Wes Moore plays dumb when asked if Democrats went too far by calling to defund the police:
“I said I don’t know what woke 1 is, but frankly I don&#8217;t know what woke 2 or woke 3 is either.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/PFVN265qYw">pic.twitter.com/PFVN265qYw</a>
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&#8220;Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to have acknowledged the overreach of the 2020 era of progressivism last week. She said, quote, &#8216;Woke 1 was crazy,'&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;You were asked about that. You said you didn&#8217;t know what Woke 1 was. So I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out how to ask this question. There&#8217;s no official definition. I think Woke 1 generally refers to what are now viewed as excesses of the progressive movement — defund the police, a far-left view of the world that views the world in terms of only oppressor and oppressee, language policing, holiday policing, cancel culture positions that turned off a lot of middle-of-the-road voters. What is your take on that era, even if that wasn&#8217;t part of how you ran or thought or governed — and what does the Democratic Party need to do if they hope to win outside of blue states and congressional districts?&#8221;
Moore took a position almost identical to Khanna&#8217;s, replying, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s funny, it&#8217;s true — I said I don&#8217;t know what Woke 1 is, but frankly, I don&#8217;t know what Woke 2 or Woke 3 is either.&#8221; Moore then pivoted to gas prices, recounting a conversation with a woman at a Delmarva Shorebirds game who told him she can&#8217;t afford to drive to her doctor&#8217;s appointments. Tapper did not follow up.
Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-has-an-excuse-for-the-lefts-most-radical-woke-1-era">further popularized the phrase</a> during an August 9 appearance on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; where she too was attempting to put some distance between herself and the less popular policies of the far left. Anchor Jonathan Karl had asked her about Hong&#8217;s record. The line wasn&#8217;t hers: she borrowed it from New York City Councilman Chi Ossé, a fellow socialist who deployed it in May while explaining away his own 2021 <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/nyregion/nyc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-freezing-eggs.html">declaration</a> that &#8220;a cis white man should not be the next speaker of the Council.&#8221;
“I have a local city councilman that has this saying, ‘Woke 1 was crazy,&#8217;” Ocasio-Cortez <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwAnMLBSOw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told Karl</a> during an interview. “What’s important is that we have to assess what a candidate is saying now.”
She went on to blame the pandemic for the era&#8217;s excesses while insisting the debates it produced were worthwhile.
&#8220;I think that the doors were really open in trying to entertain any and every policy that was going to get us to a better place. And I actually think that the discussions that were had in that time were quite fruitful,&#8221; she said.

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Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie on Friday released the full text of two previously undisclosed <a href="https://x.com/PimaSheriff/status/2083266827707363582?s=20">ransom notes</a>, hoping the public can identify the author by analyzing the writing style nearly six months after the 84-year-old grandmother vanished.
The Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the newly released notes contain &#8220;distinctive patterns of word choice, syntax, and phraseology&#8221; that could help identify the person responsible for Guthrie&#8217;s kidnapping.
The first note, sent to KOLD on February 2 and addressed to NBC &#8220;Today&#8221; host Savannah Guthrie, described details inside Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s home, including a damaged flood light and a white Apple Watch near her bed. It demanded $4 million, then $6 million, for the 84-year-old&#8217;s safe return by a February 9 deadline.
&#8220;She will be held for ransom and once payment is received she will be released unharmed,&#8221; the note addressed to the Today Show host read. &#8220;If payment is not received by the last deadline on Monday the 9th at 5 p.m., she will be killed.&#8221;
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Nancy Guthrie Investigation Update: Video &amp; Ransom Note Details 1/3 <a href="https://t.co/O0HDb8asMX">pic.twitter.com/O0HDb8asMX</a>
— Pima County Sheriff&#8217;s Department (@PimaSheriff) <a href="https://x.com/PimaSheriff/status/2083266827707363582?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 31, 2026</a></blockquote>
The full note also included additional threats that investigators had not previously made public.
&#8220;Your mother is aware of this and her life is in your hands. It is in the best interest of everyone to have this completed as soon as possible. You will not be able to contact me from here on out, there will be no negotiation. Do not play games, law enforcement will not be able to help you.&#8221;
A second note, sent on February 6 and addressed to the &#8220;Guthrie Family,&#8221; claimed Nancy Guthrie had died shortly after being abducted.
&#8220;We did not fully grasp the seriousness of her physical condition. We never intended to hurt her, that was not our intention. She perished shortly after she was taken. We believe it was heart related,&#8221; the note said.
&#8220;She is buried in nature now. Nothing you could have done could have changed the outcome. We want your family to know this and hope you all can find peace. We are truly sorry.&#8221;
Savannah Guthrie said during a March <a href="https://www.today.com/news/watch-full-savannah-guthrie-interview-rcna265446" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Hoda Kotb that she believed the two ransom notes were authentic. While several other letters have surfaced during the investigation, the family has publicly acknowledged only the two released Friday by the sheriff&#8217;s office.
Investigators said they are releasing the full notes because they believe someone who has interacted with the author may recognize the writing style.
&#8220;These communications reveal distinctive patterns of word choice, syntax, and phraseology that reflect the writer&#8217;s unique linguistic style,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said in a press release.
As the six-month anniversary of Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s disappearance approaches, investigators are also asking the public to revisit the FBI images showing a masked man outside her home before she vanished. Authorities believe the individual may have surveilled the property on more than one day before abducting Guthrie during the early morning hours of February 1.
Investigators urged anyone who noticed unusual changes in someone&#8217;s behavior around that time, including sudden travel, unexplained injuries, vehicle cleaning or repairs, or an unusual interest in the investigation, to contact law enforcement.
Earlier this week, Savannah Guthrie shared an emotional Instagram video describing the family&#8217;s ordeal as &#8220;a nightmare that will not end&#8221; and begged for her mom’s abductor to &#8220;do the right thing now.&#8221;
&#8220;Help us bring this situation to an end. For all of us, no matter where we’ve been or what we’ve done, I believe there is always a way home,&#8221; Savannah said. &#8220;Please make the right choice.&#8221;
The FBI continues to offer a reward of more than $1 million for information leading to Nancy Guthrie&#8217;s recovery. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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The man who breached security and confronted “Today” show host Craig Melvin in the studio on Thursday was supposed to be behind bars on felony charges.
NBC News confirmed in a statement on Thursday that Andrew Truelove, 41, “entered an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A” at Rockefeller Center Plaza around 9 A.M. and approached Melvin, allegedly using racial slurs and asking for TV host Al Roker. He was quickly detained by security.
“An individual entered an unauthorized area in a vestibule near Studio 1A. The person approached anchor Craig Melvin, who alerted security,” the statement says. “The individual was detained and taken into custody by law enforcement without further incident. There was no altercation, and no one was injured.”
“Today is cooperating fully with law enforcement as they investigate the matter. NBC and Today take the safety and security of our employees, talent, staff and guests extremely seriously,” the statement continued. “We are reviewing the incident and our security protocols and remain committed to providing a safe and secure environment for everyone who works at and visits our studios.”
Court records obtained by <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/16/today-show-alleged-intruder-andrew-truelove-has-criminal-history/">TMZ</a> show that Truelove shouldn’t have been walking free in the first place. The “Today” show trespasser recently pleaded guilty to felony criminal mischief after being accused of damaging multiple vehicles, the outlet noted. He was sentenced in June to six months in jail and five years of probation. 
Truelove is a repeat offender with three pending criminal cases in New York, including charges of misdemeanor assault, reckless endangerment, criminal trespassing, and trespassing. He pleaded not guilty in all those cases.
The Los Angeles Times did a <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/from-a-one-way-flight-to-sleeping-in-a-parking-lot-diary-of-a-california-dream-gone-sour">lengthy profile</a> in 2023 about Truelove being homeless shortly after arriving in Los Angeles. The piece details how he moved from Virginia to California after getting off probation and serving time in prison on the East Coast, noting how he has PTSD and bipolar disorder. The outlet also mentioned one of Truelove’s previous crimes, which involved stealing memorial signs erected for Sandy Hook school shooting victims. LA Times reported that Truelove believed the event was a hoax.  
For his latest trespassing incident, Truelove was charged with hate crime-burglary, hate crime-menacing, hate crime-criminal trespass, and harassment at an arraignment on Friday. The judge set bail at $10,000.
Roker addressed the incident on social media, writing, “A really heartfelt thank you to all who reached out over the last 24 hours to check in on my brother, @craigmelvinnbc. We are both okay. It’s moments like these that serve to pull us together. You all, like Craig, said: &#8216;You come after one of us, you come after all of us.&#8217; We’ll talk about it this morning on @todayshow.”

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President Donald Trump reportedly walked out of a weekend interview with NBC News anchor Kristen Welker — some of which aired during Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221;
The interview was recorded in Wisconsin on Friday, and NBC News anchor Gabe Gutierrez revealed during a broadcast on Saturday that Trump abruptly ended the interview — after giving Welker nearly an hour of his time — as the two clashed over her questions about election integrity.
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𝐍𝐁𝐂 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐀 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘
The legacy media spent years insisting Donald Trump hides from tough questions. So it was telling when NBC sat him… <a href="https://t.co/f5qs40mRPC">pic.twitter.com/f5qs40mRPC</a>
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&#8220;As for that interview, Kristen and the &#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; team conducted it here in Wisconsin inside a barn at the request of the White House,&#8221; Gutierrez explained. &#8220;There were multiple interruptions when rain repeatedly was hitting the metal roof of the barn. Following those challenges as well as a back and forth about election integrity where the president disagreed with the questions, President Trump ended the interview about 50 minutes after it began.&#8221;
Mediaite shared a <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/ive-had-enough-trump-storms-out-of-meet-the-press-interview-in-wild-fashion-explodes-on-nbcs-kristen-welker-after-she-hits-him-with-fact-checks/">transcript</a> of the exchange, giving some insight into what ultimately led to Trump&#8217;s exit — and how it played out on Friday.
Welker began by pressing Trump on the &#8220;anti-weaponization&#8221; fund and whether that might be used to give taxpayer money to people who were involved in the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6th.
&#8220;Do you think anyone who attacked police officers on January 6th should get taxpayer money?” Welker asked.
“I wouldn’t be inclined to say so, but I have to see it,” Trump said, then pivoted: “I can tell you this: 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, cause you had a lot of crooked cops, you had dirty cops. Comey was a dirty cop. A guy like Bolton was a dirty cop.”
“But there is no evidence that people who—” Welker protested.
“Wait a minute. You think Comey was a straight cop?&#8221; Trump asked.
The conversation continued in that vein until Trump drew a comparison to the election in California — where votes are still being counted from June 2 primary elections — and argued that it was &#8220;rigged.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a dirty election. And it’s happening again right now in California,&#8221; he said.
“Do you have evidence to support that?” Welker asked.
Trump: &#8220;All I have to do is look.&#8221;
“But that’s not evidence,” Welker pushed back.
Complaining about the fact that the state was still counting votes nearly a week later, Trump asserted, &#8220;They’re crooked just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And &#8216;Meet the Press&#8217; is crooked.&#8221;
Welker insisted that she was not crooked, prompting Trump to respond, &#8220;Really? Well, you play right into their hands then. You’re either crooked or you’re stupid.&#8221;
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. President Trump just went berserk on the ELECTION FRAUD in California to Kristen Welker&#8217;s face, and she melted down
&#8220;They&#8217;re CROOKED just like YOU&#8217;RE CROOKED! You&#8217;re either CROOKED or you&#8217;re STUPID. You KNOW these elections are rigged.&#8221; 🔥
&#8220;They&#8217;re dropping fast… <a href="https://t.co/zufWPjjviA">pic.twitter.com/zufWPjjviA</a>
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The two continued to spar over that until Trump decided he&#8217;d had enough.
&#8220;You’re a one-sided crooked network. Sorry. Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;Mr. President, let’s – please, I traveled all the way to Wisconsin —&#8221; Welker protested.
&#8220;I’ve sat in the rain with you —&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;I traveled all – I know. I traveled all the way —&#8221; Welker tried again.
&#8220;I sat in the rain with you for an hour &#8230; on and off in the rain, and I’ve given you enough time. You ought to straighten out your press, because you know what?&#8221;
&#8220;Mr. President —&#8221; Welker kept trying.
&#8220;A country can never be great with a dishonest press,&#8221; Trump declared, ending the interview.
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🚨 OMG. President Trump CUTS OFF and WALKS OUT of a Kristen Welker interview
He looks her in the eyes and tells her SHE&#8217;S A LIAR, then storms off!
&#8220;The elections are like a 3rd world country. YOU&#8217;RE CROOKED&#8230;let&#8217;s call it QUITS. I&#8217;ve HAD ENOUGH.&#8221;
WELKER: Please, I traveled… <a href="https://t.co/dO37B7WPRS">pic.twitter.com/dO37B7WPRS</a>
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2063634419106115887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2026</a></blockquote>
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Trump Walks Out On NBC’s Welker: ‘You’re Either Crooked Or You’re Stupid’

Trump Walks Out On NBC's Welker: 'You're Either Crooked Or You're Stupid'

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For years, the legacy media has uncritically pointed to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as an authoritative source on extremism, frequently relying on its designations of &#8220;hate lists&#8221; in coverage of political and cultural issues, going so far as including Christian groups alongside neo-Nazi organizations and the KKK.
On Tuesday, however, the Justice Department accused the SPLC of secretly using donor money to pay leaders within white supremacist groups. The SPLC, which labels organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom as a hate group, was charged with multiple financial crimes, including money laundering and bank fraud. 
Prosecutors say the SPLC directed more than $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to such individuals while obscuring the transactions through accounts tied to &#8220;a series of fictitious entities.&#8221;
The charges come years after legacy media outlets have repeatedly cited the SPLC in reporting on conservative organizations and activists. 
The New York Times, for example, frequently refers to SPLC experts in articles on conservative figures and movements, including the late Charlie Kirk, whose Turning Point USA was labeled a “hate group.” In an article published on the day of Kirk’s assassination, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/us/politics/trump-charlie-kirk-ally.html?searchResultPosition=12">wrote</a> that his “rhetoric was long cast as racist, xenophobic and extreme by groups that study hate speech, including the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The paper&#8217;s obituary of conservative activist David Horowitz also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/politics/david-horowitz-dead.html?searchResultPosition=28">quoted</a> the SPLC, which labeled him “the godfather of the modern anti-Muslim movement.”
Other outlets have similarly relied on SPLC reports and designations. When the conservative grassroots group Moms for Liberty was added to the list in 2023, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/07/1180486760/splc-moms-for-liberty-extremist-group">reported </a>that the SPLC compared the parental rights group to “pro-segregationist parent groups.” CBS News, in its coverage, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/gov-desantis-appoints-moms-for-liberty-co-founder-to-state-commission-on-ethics/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h">pointed</a> to the SPLC&#8217;s claims that the group had a history of &#8220;harassing community members, advancing anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation and fighting to scrub diverse and inclusive material from lesson plans.&#8221;
The SPLC&#8217;s designation of groups opposed to transgender ideology on kids or that hold to traditional Christian beliefs has received much coverage over the years.
One article from NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/groups-opposed-gay-rights-rake-millions-states-debate-anti-lgbtq-bills-rcna21016">cited</a> the SPLC to identify groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and the American College of Pediatricians as the core of the “anti-gay movement.&#8221; Similarly, the Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/10/09/colorado-flag-program/">turned</a> to the SPLC to label the group Gays Against Groomers as “an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group.”
Groups concerned about Sharia law have also faced criticism from the SPLC. An article from NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/smart-facts/what-shariah-law-n859981">pointed</a> to the SPLC as a source in a report about momentum to ban Sharia law in the United States. It noted that one anti-Sharia group had been labeled a hate group by the SPLC. 
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/white-nationalist-hate-extremist-groups">framed</a> the SPLC&#8217;s 2024 hate list as driven by people critical of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. 
Reporting in 2017 on the annual hate group list, CNN ran a headline titled “Here are all the active hate groups where you live,” providing a “hate map” that included groups that held traditional Christian beliefs. They later changed that headline to “The Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups” after <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/302442/cnn-modifies-story-on-the-southern-poverty-law-centers-bogus-list-of-hate-groups-adds-editors-note/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">complaints</a> from conservatives.

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Listen to the latest episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fng-ep-15?elementPosition=8&amp;row=2&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">Finding Nancy Guthrie</a>, a special Daily Wire true crime podcast with reporter Lynden Blake on the most shocking missing-person case in America.
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LIVE UPDATES: Fresh Clue Emerges In Savannah Guthrie’s Mom Kidnapping Case As FBI Takes Closer Look

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Savannah Guthrie returned to NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Today&#8221; show Monday as the search continues for her missing 84-year-old mother, Nancy.
&#8220;We are so glad you started your week with us, and it is good to be home,&#8221; Guthrie <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3owh3HXBz-g">said</a> at the top of the broadcast.
Savannah&#8217;s co-anchor Craig Melvin welcomed her back, telling her, &#8220;Yes, it is good to have you at home.&#8221; Both wore yellow as a symbol of hope, matching the yellow ribbons and flowers outside of Nancy&#8217;s home.
Savannah seemingly resumed her hosting duties effortlessly, covering the day&#8217;s news and conducting interviews, including a segment on the rescue of a missing Air Force officer in Iran.
Outside Rockefeller Plaza, fans gathered holding yellow ribbons, flowers, and signs of support, including messages reading, &#8220;We love you, Savannah,&#8221; and &#8220;We love you, Nancy.&#8221;
&#8220;These signs are so beautiful, you guys have been so beautiful,&#8221; Savannah told the crowd of supporters, at times appearing emotional. &#8220;I&#8217;ve received so many letters, so much kindness to me and my whole family. We feel it. We feel your prayers.&#8221;
During commercial breaks, Savannah interacted with her fans, taking photos and thanking them for their encouragement.
In a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWyvv8ME_Tb/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==">video</a> message shared on Easter Sunday with her church, Guthrie reflected on faith and hardship.
&#8220;Perhaps this is too dark a message to share on Easter morning, but I have long believed that we miss out on fully celebrating resurrection if we do not acknowledge the feelings of loss, pain, and yes, death,&#8221; Savannah said in the video. &#8220;It is the darkness that makes this morning&#8217;s light so magnificent, so blindingly beautiful. It is all the brighter because it is so desperately needed.&#8221;
&#8220;So, I close my eyes this morning and I feel the sunshine. I see a bright vision of the day when heaven and earth pass away because they are one on earth as it is in heaven. When we celebrate today, this is what we celebrate. And I celebrate too. I still believe. And so I say with conviction — Happy Easter.&#8221;
Nancy Guthrie was last seen ten weeks ago on January 31. Authorities in Pima County, Arizona, said she was forcefully taken from her home overnight. The Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to her recovery, in addition to rewards offered by the FBI and Crime Stoppers.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI.

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Taylor Sheridan, the Academy Award–nominated creator behind &#8220;Yellowstone,&#8221; will depart Paramount for NBCUniversal when his contract ends in 2028, according to a recent announcement.
This is a big deal because Sheridan is responsible for several other Paramount hits, including “1923,” “Tulsa King,” “Special Ops: Lioness,” and more popular projects. Sheridan didn’t give a statement explaining why he’s leaving, but anonymous sources say it was partly due to creative differences with Paramount&#8217;s new leadership.
This includes the director’s reluctance to work on a special project celebrating America’s 250th anniversary next year, which was reportedly requested by the company’s new CEO, David Ellison, whom President Donald Trump has called a good friend. Per The Wall Street Journal, Sheridan didn’t want to make anything “<a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/why-yellowstone-mastermind-taylor-sheridan-decided-to-ditch-paramount-2192d401">overtly political</a>.” 
It’s worth noting that while “Yellowstone” was very popular with a conservative audience, especially in the early seasons, the show’s creator explicitly stated that he didn’t want it to be.
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“They refer to it as ‘the conservative show’ or ‘the Republican show’ or ‘the red-state Game of Thrones,’ ” Sheridan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yellowstone-creator-taylor-sheridan-laughs-at-the-idea-of-series-being-a-red-state-show">told</a> The Atlantic in 2022.
“And I just sit back laughing. I’m like, ‘Really?’ The show’s talking about the displacement of Native Americans and the way Native American women were treated and about corporate greed and the gentrification of the West, and land-grabbing. That’s a red-state show?”
He said the same in 2019, calling the idea of “Yellowstone” advancing conservative ideas “the most ridiculous thing.”
Budgets are clearly a major concern months after the close of the $8.4 billion merger of Paramount and Skydance. Per a <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/10/paramount-layoffs-begin-ceo-david-ellison-1236600654/">memo</a> from Ellison, 1,000 employees are being laid off this week, and 1,000 more will be let go soon. The CEO told staff, “These steps are necessary to position Paramount for long-term success.”
Larry Ellison, the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, backed his son David Ellison’s company, Skydance Media, in its takeover of Paramount Global. While David serves as CEO, Larry remains the primary financial force behind the deal, operating largely behind the scenes. Ellison, who has a close relationship with President Trump, is also working with him on a deal involving TikTok’s U.S. operations.

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D.C. braces for “No Kings” protests as Democrats refuse to budge on the shutdown, two legacy media outlets face dramatic overhauls, and the largest media convention in the country uninvites two prominent conservative journalists — including one from The Daily Wire.
It’s Friday, October 17, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Democrat Shutdown Enters Day 17</h2>
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Topline: On Thursday, the 16th day of the current government shutdown drew comparisons to the 2013 Obamacare standoff and is fast approaching the record 35-day shutdown of 2018 over the southern border wall. With lawmakers flying home on Friday, the shutdown is guaranteed to last at least until next week. 
Both parties are standing firm. Democrats are doubling down, demanding negotiations with Republicans over healthcare, and Republicans say they want the government opened first before they’ll talk. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants to negotiate on healthcare, specifically focusing on extending the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) tax credits, which expire at the end of the year.
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The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the shutdown will drag on until President Donald Trump does something to stop it, or if rank-and-file Democrats revolt against their leadership.
Democrats in trouble: No one ever comes off good in a shutdown fight, but Republicans have managed to stay on top of this one. They’ve stuck to their messaging, and they’re making it clear that they’re going to find ways for soldiers and other essential workers to get paid even though funding has technically dried up.
Democrats seem excited about keeping things closed. Schumer caught backlash last week for saying the shutdown gets better every day.
People are starting to notice that Democrats are programming events in a way that seems to suggest they know the shutdown isn’t ending any time soon. Wednesday night’s town hall with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was scheduled days in advance, and Democrats are using this weekend’s &#8220;No Kings&#8221; protests to push their shutdown messaging.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">DEI Targeted In NBC Layoffs</h2>
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Topline: Amid major shakeups across the broadcast media landscape, NBC announces it’s laying off 7% of its news staff. According to reports, diversity, equity, and inclusion roles are especially on the chopping block.
The layoffs are affecting about 150 journalists and producers out of a 2,000-person workforce. The main reason is that the company is spinning off its cable networks, such as MSNBC and CNBC, into a new entity called Versant.
NBC management says the cuts reflect redundancies tied to the reorganization. They say that many of the roles eliminated were simply shared support across NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC.
According to a report from The Wrap, DEI departments and positions are being especially targeted. The terminations are hitting the dedicated teams “covering issues affecting black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups” hardest.
DEI is DIEing: public opinion has shifted dramatically on DEI in the last few years.
Prior to the layoffs, NBC had teams specifically dedicated to those DEI categories, each with specialized websites called “verticals” devoted to covering topics and news relevant to them – NBC BLK for Black audiences, NBC Latino for Hispanic stories, NBC Asian America, and NBC OUT for LGBTQ+ coverage. The staff members for these verticals are almost all getting cut. Just two senior editors will remain to oversee content.
NBC says that doesn’t mean that coverage of those groups will disappear. They say the verticals, those specialized sites, will continue to publish content, but the content will be written by general reporters rather than those specialized teams.
On DEI specifically, it’s been a bloodbath throughout the news business.
During a major round of layoffs at the Los Angeles Times in January 2024, the newspaper cut the team for &#8220;De Los,&#8221; a vertical launched in 2023 to cover the Latino community, and a reporter hired specifically to cover Asian American communities.
In July 2024, CNN dismantled its “Race and Equality” team as part of a restructuring strategy. Just like with NBC, CNN said that the team would be integrated into the larger newsroom to “infuse” diversity coverage across all departments, but confirmed that the team as a distinct unit no longer existed.
DEI’s demise: The Trump administration set the tone. The president has signed multiple executive orders dismantling DEI programs throughout the federal government.
While NBC says this restructuring is to make a strategic shift to focus on streaming, it also provides the network with some distance from its cable channels, which have been roundly criticized for being overtly left-wing.
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Conservative Journalists Uninvited From MediaFest</h2>
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Topline: The <a href="https://www.cjr.org/feature/student-journalism-mediafest-fraught-religion-faith-reporting.php">Columbia Journalism Review</a> published a report revealing that a supposedly non-partisan conference, MediaFest, that’s taking place this week, pulled both Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan and The Daily Signal’s Virginia Allen from the event. The reason: a student media advisor said the two women espouse anti-LGBT views.
Morning Wire spoke with Olohan and Allen about their experience being blocked from MediaFest. (The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.)
Morning Wire: You were abruptly uninvited to this MediaFest event – and we’re just now learning the real reason why. First, what were you there to participate in? 
Olohan: I had been asked to be on a faith panel at this event. … As a Catholic, as a reporter, someone who has covered the culture issues, I would have been talking about these issues that I&#8217;ve covered so closely, abortion, marriage, gender, family, all these different life issues. … Let&#8217;s face it, a lot of the reporters who are giving us our news right now are not currently people of faith and they&#8217;re very religiously illiterate. We could have been offering a really interesting perspective here and unfortunately we won&#8217;t be.
Morning Wire: Instead you were disinvited. Did the organizers give you a journalistic rationale for pulling you out of the event? 
Olohan: At first, they said that they had objections to our reporting and they tried to say we had accuracy issues and the articles that they had particularly objected to. … The story that they were really upset about that I wrote was an exclusive from Congressman Brandon Gill, and we wrote about legislation that he was trying to pass that would say that you could not flush aborted baby body parts into our water systems. … But at the end of the day, what we now know is that they appear to have a problem with the fact that we&#8217;re conservative journalists. We would not be pushing the ideology that they would prefer we would be pushing. At the end of the day, that seems pretty biased to me to get rid of a different perspective.
Morning Wire: As The Daily Wire noted in an editorial, while you two were excluded, the organizers had no problem inviting Nikole Hannah Jones, the radical far-Left author of The 1619 Project. The double standard is impossible to miss. Thanks, Mary Margaret. Joining us now is Virginia Allen. Now, as I understand it, you were told that you were being removed due to a report you wrote on the 13,000 missing migrant children that the Trump administration had found. What exactly was the organizers’ complaint there?
Allen: I wish I knew exactly. … I think they took issue with the fact that I had cited individuals in the Trump administration who have been very critical of the Biden administration for literally losing thousands of kids. I assume that they wanted me to also include someone from the Biden administration claiming, no, we didn&#8217;t, in fact, lose thousands of children. But by their own admission, by their own documents that came out from the Biden administration, they did in fact lose the location of unaccompanied alien children. … I think at the end of the day, it comes down to the fact that they didn&#8217;t like individuals speaking at their conference who are openly pro-life, who openly believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and who quite frankly are bold enough to sometimes report some of the good things that the Trump administration is doing for our country.
Morning Wire: The Trump administration is taking a very proactive, aggressive approach to shifting the landscape in terms of new media. Are you seeing in DC the effects of those shifts? Are there some positive signs for conservative journalists?
Allen: Oh, absolutely. … Under the Biden administration, we&#8217;re asking questions. We were sending those emails to the White House asking for comment and it was, you know, nine times out of 10 radio silence. Now, all of a sudden, we have an administration that’s willing to engage and speak to all media regardless of how big or small, leftist or conservative … and I think it&#8217;s a tone change that started in Washington, D.C., and now has rippled out across the rest of the country as more and more Americans are waking up to great news outlets like The Daily Wire, like The Daily Signal, who report fair and balanced, but are also very open about, hey, we are conservatives and we&#8217;re going to bring you the straight news and we&#8217;re not gonna put any leftist spin on it.

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NBC international correspondent Daniele Hamamdjian went all in on the anti-Israel propaganda as she covered the still-unfolding peace deal between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Hamamdjian claimed — during a segment that ran around 1:30 a.m. ET — that Palestinians were at least able to return to &#8220;their land,&#8221; land she said they had &#8220;fought for — for — for decades.&#8221; She also referred to Palestinian prisoners — some of whom she described as convicted murderers and violent criminals — as &#8220;hostages&#8221; held by Israel.
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WATCH: NBC’s Daniele Hamamdjian says at 137am Eastern Palestinians now “have their land” back that “they have fought for — for — for decades” even if “they have nothing [else] to go back to” and will welcome home their own “hostages” from Israeli custody&#8230;
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&#8220;October 31st, 2023, I remember distinctly, a UN official already describing Gaza as a graveyard for Palestinian children and here we are two years later, nearly 20,000 children dead and much needed aid,&#8221; she began, parroting the death toll promoted by the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry.
&#8220;They have nothing to go back to, but they have their land. And for Palestinians, boy, that is what they have fought for — for — for decades,&#8221; she continued, and she went on to describe the situation outside Ofer prison, where a number of Palestinian prisoners were set to be released as part of the peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump.
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&#8220;As part of this hostages for prisoners exchange, we will see 2,000 Palestinians released from prison. Who are they? Let&#8217;s start with right here, 250 security prisoners, convicted murderers serving multiple life sentences,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Some of them will be sent to Gaza. Some of them will be deported to third countries. Some of them will go to East Jerusalem.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, we&#8217;ve seen family members of those hostages trickle in to the city of Bethania, which is where I am, and they don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;s going to take,&#8221; she said, referring to the prisoners as &#8220;hostages.&#8221;
&#8220;In the past, it&#8217;s taken in some cases hours. And they were released in the middle of the night. In some cases, it&#8217;s happened quite quickly. So it might be a very long day here,&#8221; she explained before pivoting back to attack Israel for holding some of the prisoners.
&#8220;But over to Gaza, 1,700 Palestinians detained in Gaza will be released. They are in some cases minors, doctors, nurses, journalists who have never been charged. It&#8217;s really important for people to remember that they&#8217;ve been held under what&#8217;s called administrative detention. It&#8217;s a controversial practice that allows Israel to detain people for an indefinite period of time without charging them,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These people do not know why they have been detained and so, in the eyes of many Palestinians, you ask them, they consider those people held without charge also as hostages. And Palestinian officials will tell you that they believe Israel has been arresting them, arresting as many as they can to gather to amass as many bargaining chips as possible for these negotiations.&#8221;

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NBC police procedural &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8221; joined Democrats in continuing to paint Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as villains who have nothing better to do than to pluck innocent immigrants off the streets for their own nefarious purposes.
In an episode that ran Thursday — just hours after a shooter targeted and opened fire upon an ICE facility in Texas — NYPD detectives squared off against ICE agents in an effort to keep them from deporting an illegal immigrant who was a key witness in a rape case.
Newsbusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/elise-ehrhard/2025/09/27/nbcs-law-order-svu-portrays-ice-agents-villains-allowing">detailed the episode</a> in question, titled &#8220;In the Wind.&#8221; It features an illegal immigrant named Jorge Ruiz, who is working as a building superintendent — and who has identified the suspect in a rape case. When detectives arrive to question him about the suspect, an ICE raid is already in progress. For the rest of the episode — which frames ICE as the bad guys preventing police officers from effectively investigating the rape case and then further complicating the prosecution against the alleged rapist — the NYPD and ICE agents are at odds.
The episode comes to a head when Captain Olivia Benson (played by Mariska Hargitay) is arrested when she orders her detectives to arrest Ruiz in an effort to hold him as a material witness and prevent ICE from taking him into custody.
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&#8220;Captain, ICE is on the way up,&#8221; one detective tells Benson.
&#8220;What?&#8221; she asks.
&#8220;How do they know?&#8221; Ruiz asks.
&#8220;Come. There&#8217;s a back stairway,&#8221; Benson tries to help Ruiz avoid the federal agents.
&#8220;No, wait. Don&#8217;t try that,&#8221; Assistant District Attorney Sonny Carisi warns her.
&#8220;Can they do this?&#8221; one detective asks.
&#8220;They don&#8217;t have a warrant,&#8221; another protests.
&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t matter. They&#8217;re Feds,&#8221; Carisi explains.
&#8220;So they take our witness, and we can&#8217;t do anything about it?&#8221; one asks.
&#8220;Hold on a second. I need you to trust me. Can you do that? Velasco, arrest him,&#8221; Benson says, indicating Ruiz.
She then tells the ICE agents that Ruiz is in the custody of the NYPD and cannot be removed until he testifies — at which point the agents arrest her for interfering in federal immigration matters. She is eventually released, however, and Ruiz is allowed to testify.
The writers could not resist taking just one more jab at federal immigration officials when the illegal immigrant is finally brought into the courtroom. ICE agents interrupt the proceedings, only to be reprimanded by the judge hearing the case.
&#8220;No, not in my courtroom. Jimmy, tell them they can wait outside, but they are not welcome here,&#8221; the judge declares.
ICE agents, in just the last eight months, have faced a nearly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reprehensible-assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-up-830-over-last-year">1000% increase</a> in attacks on themselves and their families. A number have blamed the media and Democrats for continuously pointing to ICE agents as villains, thugs, and worse.

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Vice President JD Vance let media outlets have it for continuing to paint law enforcement as the bad guys — in some cases going so far as to suggest that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were no different from Hitler&#8217;s Gestapo — saying that anyone who continued to do so could &#8220;go straight to hell.&#8221;
Vance, speaking from North Carolina on Wednesday, was responding to a deadly shooting that had taken place just hours earlier at a Texas ICE facility — and he argued that the media was complicit in the continuing attacks on law enforcement officers.
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&#8220;[NBC] said that immigration enforcement had detained a 5-year-old autistic girl&#8230;when you go around and lie about our law enforcement&#8230;what do you think is gonna happen?&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/fomqQKoUyw">pic.twitter.com/fomqQKoUyw</a>
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&#8220;[NBC] said that immigration enforcement – do you know what they said? — that immigration enforcement had detained a 5-year-old autistic girl in order to get to that girl&#8217;s father,&#8221; Vance began. &#8220;It turned out that story was a complete fabrication, it was a complete dishonest lie. &#8220;But when you go around and lie about our law enforcement and you tell them that they&#8217;re mistreating five-year-old girls, what do you think is gonna happen?&#8221;
NBC was forced to issue a correction on the piece in question.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article mischaracterized the activities of ICE agents in the video. The article has been updated.<a href="https://t.co/7tjdnE8tOU">https://t.co/7tjdnE8tOU</a>
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&#8220;Here&#8217;s what happens when Democrats like Gavin Newsom did, say that these people are part of an authoritarian government,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;When the left-wing media lies about what they&#8217;re doing, when they lie about who they&#8217;re arresting, when they lie about the actual job of law enforcement, what they&#8217;re doing is encouraging crazy people to go and commit violence.&#8221;
&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to agree with my immigration policies. You don&#8217;t have to agree with Donald Trump&#8217;s immigration policies,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;But your political rhetoric encourages violence against our law enforcement, you can go straight to hell, and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America.&#8221;

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