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Dec 4

CBS's Norah O'Donnell with an INSANE open to the 'CBS Evening News' smearing @PeteHegseth like it's the campaign all over again: "We begin with new reporting by CBS News. The highest priority of the president of the United States is the safety and security of the American people. As the commander-in-chief, presidents rely on their defense secretaries to help carry out that solemn task. President-Elect Donald Trump wanted a Fox News weekend host to hold that post. The 44-year-old combat veteran, Pete Hegseth. Tonight, that nomination appears to be on the rocks. Hegseth is facing new allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking. Tonight, CBS News has learned Hegseth may not have the support of enough Republican senators to be confirmed for the job, meaning his nomination is in serious jeopardy."

CBS's Nikole Killion also contributed to the network being out on the warpath vs. @PeteHegseth. Here's just a snippet: "Sources tell CBS News at least four Republican senators would likely withhold their support for Pete Hegseth if a confirmation vote were held today...op Republicans are voicing concerns about the 44-year-old former Fox News host was forced to step down as head of that nonprofit Concerned Veterans for America in 2016 after staffers accused him of financial mismanagement, sexual misconduct, and repeated intoxication."

@PeteHegseth CBS's Nikole Killion chased @PeteHegseth down a Senate hallway today, asking him if he could "describe the relationship with your mother?"

These people are sick.

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Dec 2

🧵WATCH: CNN's @ScottJenningsKY absolutely NUKES President Biden from orbit for pardoning son Hunter:

"Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it and that's that our government and our justice system is of, by and for the elites and nobody else. He ran to banish Trumpism from our political system in this country, and he has left it politically and now institutionally, the strongest possible political force in this country. It is a complete and utter failure by the head of the Democratic Party and the President of the United States. Never again do I want to hear, 'oh, Donald Trump's a liar. You can't believe anything he says. Donald Trump will abuse his power Donald Trump will only use the system to benefit himself and his family, and so on and so forth.' Never again. I have one question for Karen [Finney] and that is why did he need an 11-year blanket pardon going back to 2014, when Joe Biden was the Vice President? We are sitting on the biggest cover-up of who knows what crimes and Joe Biden amazingly knows exactly, roughly when it started. He knows just about when it all started. He's leaving office in complete and total disgrace. He is a liar and there is no other way to spin this today. This has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the character of Joe Biden."

CNN's @ScottJenningsKY on those claiming President Biden pardoning Hunter is just like when Trump pardoned key allies on his way out of office in 2021:

"Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump's fault that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump. 'Oh, he's appointing the wrong people.' 'Oh, he did it. Oh --" This is the worst possible thing a President could possibly do to his party and to the country to sit for a year and say, 'I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system, juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy.' These people are liars. 'Inflation is transitory.' 'Afghanistan is a success.' 'The border is secure.' 'Robert Hur is a liar.' 'The videos are cheap fakes.' 'Biden has a cold.' 'He'll never drop out.' 'Oh, I'll never pardon Hunter.' It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan, brain rotted people are going to be outraged by this today. He is going to leave off -- you think 38, 39% job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He's disgraced -- disgraced today. Outrageous."

CNN's @ScottJenningsKy with the mic drop to Karen Finney: "Stand up for yourself. You have to defend this. He's leaving office. You don't have to defend it. You don't have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong because everybody knows that it is. It's wrong. Are you fine with the lying? Are you fine with him sitting before the election all year and lying to the American people Are you fine with the lying about it?"

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Aug 27

.@ScottJenningsKY face-palms after @JamalSimmons says Trump “may think that he won that debate, but...he actually lost the war...because after that debate, Joe Biden left and..he ended up with Kamala Harris, so he should be careful.”

.@ScottJenningsKY was all of us.

.@ScottJenningsKY after @JamalSimmons suggests some sort of 4D chess in Trump beating Biden at the debate, but then losing the election to Kamala: “Zero for one? Jamal, Jamal, my brother and colleague, zero for — he literally ran a man who had been in politics for 52 years out of his chosen profession over a debate, I mean, look, I understand what you're arguing that you all traded in for a better candidate, but Trump won the debate. He is — he is not zero for one. Are you saying that he actually did so well that he did badly?”

Simmons: “But this is exactly the problem with campaigns — but this is exactly the problem we campaigns. Very often, people are focused on the minutiae of what it means in this tact or that tact, but the question is: Are you wearing the fundamental argument? And, for right now, Donald Trump may have tactically won the debate, but strategically, it may have cost him the entire election because he ended up with a much better candidate than the one he was gained aiming for and he's probably now a couple of points behind.”

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Aug 5

Just a master class schooling by Justice Neil Gorsuch when whacked from the left by CBS's Major Garrett.

Gorusch: "I read the other day that...I agreed with Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson something like 45 percent of the time. That’s the court I know."

Garrett: "But there are people who watch this right now and say I thought I understood what Roe v. Wade meant in our country. I thought I understand what affirmative action in college admission meant, and this court told me I didn’t understand what that meant and I wrongly relied on things that I thought were settled. What would you say to those?"

Gorsuch: I would say those are deeply complex legal questions on which reasonable minds can, of course, and do disagree. And that when it comes to Roe v. Wade, for example, what did the court decide? Decided that we the people should answer that question, not nine people sitting in Washington, D.C."

CBS's Major Garrett: "How about affirmative action?"

Justice Neil Gorsuch: "Much the same thing. What did we decide? We decided that all people are created equal, that it’s not acceptable in this country to discriminate on the basis of race."

CBS's Major Garrett: "And, for those who would say but I feel something’s been ripped away from me, you would say?"

Justice Neil Gorsuch: "I would say that we’re taking it back to you. In a democracy, you’re in the driver’s seat. You’re the sovereign. Those famous three first words of the Constitution empower you. Do you really want me deciding everything for you?"

Garrett: "And for a woman in a state where she no longer has the rights she once relied on, is that cold comfort?"

Gorsuch: "Major, all I can say is I don’t know better than you do on these questions. And that most major western democracies have decided these questions through the ballot box."

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Jul 8

🧵I transcribed the full back-and-forth with KJP and CBS’s @EdOKeefe. It was WILD. You're welcome, America....

O’Keefe: “But, Karine, you’re not answering the — the very basic, direct question!”

Miller: “[Inaudible]”

O’Keefe: “Has the Parkinson’s [inaudible] —”

KJP: “Wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Hold on. Wait.”

O’Keefe: “— come to the White House —”

KJP: “— wait, wait, wait a second —”

O’Keefe: “— to —“

KJP: “— wait.”

O’Keefe: “— eight times, or at least once, in regards to the President —”

KJP: ““I just —”

O’Keefe: “— specifically.”

KJP: “— hold on a second.”

O’Keefe: “That much you should be able to answer by this point —”

KJP: “But — no, no, no, no, no, no, —”

O’Keefe: “— after four days of reporting about it.”

KJP: “— no, wait a minute. Calm. Ed, please. A little respect here, please. So, every year, around the President's physical examination, he sees a neurologist. That's three times, right? So, I am telling you that he has seen an neurologist three times while he has been in this presidency. That's what I'm saying.”

O’Keefe: “Here at the White House or Walter Reed?”

KJP: “I'm telling you that he has seen them three times. That is what I'm sharing with you, right? So, every time he has a physical, he has had to see a neurologist.”

KJP: “So, that is answering that question.”

CBS’s @EdOKeefe: “No, it’s not.”

KJP: “No, it is. It is.”

O’Keefe: “Can —”

KJP: “You’re asking me —”

O’Keefe: “— Dr. Kevin Cannard come to the White House —”

KJP: “— I cannot —

O’Keefe: “— to answer questions about the President’s condition?”

KJP: “— but I just — I also said to you — Ed, I also said to you for security reasons we cannot share names. We cannot share names.”

O’Keefe: “You cannot provide names —”

KJP: “We have to —”

O’Keefe: “— of others he would have met with —”

KJP: “— we have to — we cannot —”

O’Keefe: “— but you share names of —”

KJP: “— no, no, no, no —”

O’Keefe: “— if someone came in —”

KJP: “— no, we —”

O’Keefe: “— with regards to the President.”

KJP: “— we cannot — we cannot share names of specialists broadly, from a dermatologist to a neurologist. We cannot share names. There are security reasons we have to —”

O’Keefe: “They’re already on the White House visitor logs.”

KJP: “— we have to protect —”

O’Donnell: “It’s public.”

O’Keefe: “It’s public.”

KJP: “— I understand that.”

O’Keefe: “I looked it up before I came out here.”

KJP: “I hear you. I —”

O’Keefe: “It is right there for anyone to see.”

KJP: “Ed, I hear you. I cannot from here confirm any of that because we have to keep their privacy. I think they would appreciate that too. We have to give them —”

O’Keefe: “Who would? The patient or the doctor?”

KJP: “— we have to keep their privacy.”

O’Donnell: “It’s public. It is public.”

O’Keefe: “It’s public information.”

KJP: “I — I — I hear you.”

O’Donnell: “It’s listed that he went to the residence.”

CBS’s @EdOKeefe: “And you’re going to allow this to fester —”

KJP: “I — I — guys —”

O’Keefe: “— longer, Karine —”

KJP: “— guys — guys —”

O’Keefe: “— unless the White House answers —

KJP: “— guys —”

O’Keefe: “— the question.”

KJP: “— hold on a second. There's no reason to get back and — go back and forth and be this aggressive.”

O’Keefe: “Well, we’re miffed around here about how information's been shared with the press corps around here.”

KJP: “What do you — what do you missed [sic] about? What do you missing [sic] about?”

O’Keefe: “Well, he just asked about.”

KJP: “What do you — and then every time, I come back and I answer the question that you guys ask.”

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Jun 28

🧵🍿 MSNBC's Joe Scarborough initial reaction to last night's #CNNDebate:

“Well, I think I should start by saying, without any apologies, that I love Joe Biden and Jill, and I will gladly debate anybody anytime anyplace, anywhere, over the issue of whether Joe Biden has been the most effective president in passing bipartisan legislation, in expanding NATO, in responding to the rising threat coming from China, by flexing America's strength around China, by having the strongest economy in the world, bar none, the strongest economy, actually, relative to the rest of the world in 50, 60, 70 years, the strongest dollar in half a century, the strongest military relative to the rest of the world. I would argue, and many others would argue, since 1945. I think his presidency has been an unqualified success. If, however, you believe, as do I, and as do so many people who watch this program, and who fear just how dark of a place a second Donald Trump term will take America, then I think it is critical that we ask the same questions about this man I love, respect, and whose — whose public service in saving this country from Donald Trump over the last three and a half years I honor and always will. I think we have to ask the same questions of him that we have asked of Donald Trump since 2016. And that is, if he were CEO and he turned in a performance like that, would any corporation in America, any Fortune 500 corporation in America keep him on as CEO?”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Biden's performance in last night's #CNNDebate:

“Um, if this were Donald Trump — time and time again, we talked about the Goldwater, where’s Barry Goldwater to walk over and tell Richard Nixon it was over, to tell Donald Trump it was over. Now, the question is, do Democrats need to do the same thing of Joe Biden? I mean, these — these are hard questions, but the fact is, friends, failure is just not an option. In 2024, failure is not an option. So, who I love, who I respect, who I revere for their work and their duty to service over their lifetime really is not relevant. It's not relevant for any of us. It is not relevant for Democratic leaders. It's not relevant for anyone. The question is, can — we know Joe Biden can govern.

I'll debate that issue with anyone, and I will win. I will destroy anybody that wants to debate Joe Biden's record over the past three and a half years. He can run the White House. He can run the country effectively. Despite the barrage of lies that constantly come at him, like Donald Trump's lies last night. But can he run for president in 2024? Donald Trump lied over and over and over and over again. And Joe Biden couldn't respond to any of those lies. In fact, as The New York Times said, he spent much of the night with his mouth agape and his eyes darting back and forth. He couldn't fact check anything Donald Trump said. Not only that, he missed one lay-up after another after another. He couldn't respond effectively to Donald Trump trying to overthrow American democracy on January 6. He couldn't respond effectively to Donald Trump's continued stream of lies about his own record, and he couldn't even respond effectively on the issue of abortion where, for some reason, he darted wildly to the issue of immigration. And on immigration, as I said yesterday morning, any Democrat that can't turn to their Republican opponent and blast them for killing the strongest, toughest border bill in the history of America, drafted by a right-wing senator from Oklahoma, may not be up to the job. And so that's the question.”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says Biden “tragically did not rise to the occasion last night” in last night's #CNNDebate:

“I know people are waiting and say — oh, and David Plouffe, I have such respect for David Plouffe, he said, Donald Trump really turned off swing voters in — in a lot of focus groups once they saw him again. And that makes a lot of sense. But the door was open so many times. This race should not be close. We've been asking, why is this race close? We have no idea why this race is close. We saw last night why this race has been close. And why I fear Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States unless things change. I will say, Mika, the one thing that I know you believe, it may have been because he was sick. And I'm open to that fact. I'll just say, as I said on the show, I spent three hours with this man, maybe, back in March. Three hours, cogent, on top of the issues, on top of every issue around the world. And, last night, he simply was not on the biggest debate stage ever. And I think what surprised me and what surprised a lot of people very close to Joe Biden is the fact that this man always rises to the occasion and last night was — was sadly for him, and I believe for Democrats and this country, and, again, if you believe what's at stake in this election is what we believe is at stake, I'll even use the word tragically, tragically did not rise to the occasion last night.”

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