MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said Tuesday on his show “All In” that Republicans like Donald Trump Jr., Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who have posed with guns behind them, were akin to the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Hayes said, “It’s been unclear for some time exactly what Donald Trump does, but like his father, he does love to make content. This weekend he […]
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Representative Liz Cheney (R- WY), one of ten House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, said on Tuesday during a Reagan Institute event that the Republican party needs to “make clear that we aren’t the party of white supremacy” in the wake of the deadly Capitol riots. Cheney said, “Certainly the potential of a 9/11-style commission, I think that is very important. I think […]
CNN’s chief national correspondent John King said Monday night on “Anderson Copper 360” that former President Donald Trump was “stained by history” for his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and the riot on Capitol Hill. King said, “Look what happened today. America marked this horrific, horrific milestone, 500 thousand of our friends and neighbors and relatives dead from COVID. Most of that is on President Trump, […]
Meghan McCain told her co-hosts Monday on ABC’s “The View” that President Joe Biden should replace his chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci. Referencing Fauci’s appearance Sunday on CNN, McCain said, “Next week it’ll be a year since we left studio, and I have been very responsible in many different ways as so many Americans have been, and the fact that Dr. Fauci is going on CNN, and he can’t tell me that if I […]
Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that based on a New York Times report that the Justice Department was investigating Roger Stone’s ties to some of the Capitol rioters, it was becoming clear that former President Donald Trump “a planner” of the so-called insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Plaskett said, “As for what this new report is showing with regard to Roger Stone and […]
CNN media analyst Bill Carter said Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) lowering American flags in recognition of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s death was not appropriate. Anchor Brian Stelter said, “Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday at the age of seventy. He has been remembered as a hero to some. He is remembered as a hate-monger on the left. He was clearly a harbinger […]
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Weekends” that America has “one functional party and a cult of personality around Donald Trump,” referring to the Democratic and Republican Parties, respectively. Reacting to a video of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) being asked if he acknowledged President Joe Biden as the “legitimate president of the United States,” Schiff said, “This is […]
White House press secretary Jen Psaki avoided responding to questions about whether President Biden still believed Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is the “gold standard” in leadership during the coronavirus pandemic during an appearance on Sunday’s broadcast of ABC’s “This Week.” Anchor Jonathan Karl said, “OKy, I want to turn to another controversy that raged this week. Andrew Cuomo under fire for allegedly not being transparent and misleading […]
Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) trip to Cancun during deadly cold weather in Texas was a “big mistake.” Anchor Dana Bash asked, “Let’s talk about the criticism and there is a lot of it, some downright anger at Republican leaders in your state, whether it’s your Governor Abbott for his handling of the storm, […]
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said Friday on “All In” called Republicans that challenged the outcome of the 2020 presidential election on the basis of alleged inconsistencies “fundamentally wicked.” On January 6, after the Capitol riots, seven Senate Republicans and 138 House Republicans objected to certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral results and six Senate Republicans and 121 in the House objected to certifying Arizona’s results. Hayes said, “You know, […]
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace praised President Joe Biden Friday on “America’s Newsroom” for “not getting pushed around by the left” on issues like student loan forgiveness. Wallace argued that “puts him more in the center.” Anchor Bill Hemmer asked, “How would you size up the first month of the Biden presidency, the good and the bad?” Wallace replied, “I think surprisingly good, has been how disciplined he has been. […]
Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Live” that President Joe Biden’s major immigration reform will finally pass because Democrats control the House, Senate, and move forward votes. Menendez said, “We have a president in President Biden who has leaned into this. The legislation that I introduced today and Congresswoman Linda Sanchez has introduced in the House is basically the legislation that President Biden envisioned […]
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Thursday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was “tone deaf” to fly to Cancun, Mexico with his family while his constituents in Texas are dealing with widespread power outages caused by a deadly winter storm. Blitzer asked, “A quick question before I let you go, chief. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, he’s now back in Texas, in […]
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace, Wednesday on “Deadline,” played the Trump Plaza Casino building in Atlantic City being removed by a controlled implosion several times while hoping it was a “metaphor” for America being done with the former president. Wallace said, “Tim, I saved this for you. I feel a little — well, I don’t feel bad playing it. Let me play this is the implosion of […]
MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Wednesday’s broadcast of her show “The ReidOut,” gave her take on the legacy of late conservatives talker Rush Limbaugh. Reid said, “Rush Limbaugh died today at the age of 70 from the complications of lung cancer. And I would argue that he is among the three people in recent American history who had the most influence in building the modern Republican Party. […]
During Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” former Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) accused both former President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) wings of the Republican Party of not caring about democracy. Franken said, “He’s a pretty cynical guy. I mean, that’s who he is. And that speech, of course, I think as you indicated, that was targeted at corporate donors who after January […]
President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that he inherited difficult circumstances for the coronavirus vaccination rollout because former President Donald Trump “wasted so much time.” Anchor Anderson Cooper asked, “Are you concerned about the rollout of this online? Because it has been incredibly confusing for a lot of people, not just, you know, older people, it’s younger people just trying to […]
President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that former military and former police officers were fueling the “growth of white supremacy.” Biden said, “I got involved in politics, to begin with because of civil rights and opposition to white supremacist, the Ku Klux Klan and the most dangerous people on America continue to exist. That is the greatest threat of terror in America, […]
President Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall on Tuesday that when he came into office, they “didn’t have” the coronavirus vaccine. Biden made the statement despite health care workers receiving the first doses in mid-December 2020, well over a month before he was sworn in. Biden said, “There’s just not all of a sudden 600 million doses are going to appear. What’s going to […]
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday on “Newsroom” that after former President Donald Trump’s term, the “Republican Party can no longer say that they don’t agree with the insurrectionists, with the bigots, with the racists, with the white supremacists, with the anti-Semites.” Responding to reports about Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s (R-IL) family disavowing him for voting to impeach Trump, Lemon said, “There’s so much there when it […]
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat” that an independent commission investigation into the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol would help to stop any future “would-be Trump tyrants.” Blumenthal said, “We need to reverse the rising tide of extremist violence in this country. The mob that Donald Trump mobilized was armed. The Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police recovered firearms on that day. […]
Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC that both an independent commission and a “white nationalism task force” to investigate the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol were needed. Anchor Katy Tur said, “So is the House going to just wipe their hands of this now and move on or will there be a 9/11 style commission looking into how it will happen? Is there more […]
Representative Sara Jacobs (D-CA) on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Reliable Sources” that America needed a truth commission to establish a common narrative on racial injustice and white supremacy. Jacobs said, “We know the violence on the 6th was predicated on the idea of the big lie, the fact that this election was stolen, despite the fact that Donald Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security says it […]
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) post-impeachment speech condemning former President Donald Trump “put a load on the back of Republicans.” Saturday, McConnell said that Trump committed “a disgraceful dereliction of duty” by his actions before the deadly Capitol riot and was “practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that […]
Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted to convict former President Donald Trump at the conclusion of his second impeachment trial, dismissed the long-term implications of opposing Trump by telling ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the Republican Party was “more than just one person.” Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: You probably saw that statement from former President Trump yesterday, he said his political movement has only […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he has had “fantastic conversations” about the way President Joe Biden “sees things” on climate change, NATO and Iran. Partial transcript as follows: BRENNAN: Thank you for joining us. I- I wanted to ask you a little bit of your reflection on what just happened overnight. You strongly condemned the attack on the US Capitol […]
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Democrats need to “spend months and months unearthing all the evidence that can possibly be gotten to through a 9/11-style commission” on the Capitol Hill riots. Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Coons, you just heard Congresswoman Dean right there on the necessity of a 9/11 Commission. You agree? COONS: I do. George, this […]
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that vaccinating all teachers was not a requirement for schools to reopen safely amid the coronavirus pandemic. Partial transcript as follows: STEPHANOPOULOS: Dr. Fauci, thanks for joining us again this morning. I want to get to the vaccines in a moment, but I know you heard that debate at the […]
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that Republicans will impeach Vice President Kamala Harris if they retake the majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections. Graham said, “I thought the impeachment trial was not only unconstitutional, I condemn what happened on January 6, but the process they used to impeach this president was an affront […]
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” called former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial a “dramatic success in historical terms.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “So do you feel like this was a success? Or do you feel like because you failed to convict that you can’t look at it any other way than a failure?” Raskin said, “I think it was a dramatic […]
Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that Republican senators could have been persuaded during the impeachment trial to vote to convict former President Donald Trump if they were uneasy with the lack of concern Trump showed toward Vice President Mike Pence’s safety during the deadly riot at the Capitol. Hirono said, “I think if there’s any factor that might turn some Republicans […]
Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace said Friday that former President Donald Trump’s lawyers using a video montage of Democrats saying the word fight was “ludicrous” during his network’s impeachment trial coverage. Wallace said, “Honestly, I think it’s a silly argument. Using the word in different contexts means different things. One of the constitutional arguments of freedom of speech in the First Amendment, freedom of speech is crying fire in a crowded […]
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the Republican Party has become a Donald Trump cult lacking principles and ideology. Anchor Joy Reid said, “Congressman Schiff, do we need to start having a serious conversation not just about Donald Trump being a bad guy, but about the Republican Party becoming a radicalized anti-democratic institution? Because you can’t have […]
MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said on Thursday’s broadcast of “Deadline” said that former President Donald Trump is a “monster” who encouraged the mob at the deadly Capitol riot to hunt former Vice President Mike Pence. Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “What is this Republican Party if they are not for holding accountable he who incites an insurrection against them?” Heilemann said, “They care only about […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), now an NBC contributor, cried after watching the security videos presented by the Democratic House impeachment managers Wednesday on MSNBC’s impeachment coverage. Moments after the trail paused, anchor Nicolle Wallace seeing McCaskill getting emotional, said, “Are you OK, Claire?” McCaskill said, “Yeah, I’m OK.” Wallace said, “You need a minute?” McCaskill said, “You know, it’s just so hard, Nicolle. Watching my friends […]
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Tuesday on his show “Tonight” that those who stand with former President Donald Trump can not tell others to respect the police. After playing the video of the deadly Capitol riot presented by today the House impeachment managers, Lemon said, “Blue Lives Matter, huh? Law and order, law and order, respect the flags, respect law enforcement. Why don’t you just comply? […]
Tuesday during Fox News Channels’ impeachment trial coverage, anchor Chris Wallace praised Democratic House impeachment managers’ opening argument for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment. “I thought it was a very powerful opening,” Wallace said. “It had a lot of substance to it. It had a lot of technological slickness to it. The video of the events of January 6. The use of graphics to make the point about what’s […]
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” it was possible the level of coronavirus infections is “so low” by late fall, Americans could stop being advised to wear face coverings. Baier asked, “Is there going to be a time when we are going to have no masks?” Fauci said, “That will really be dependent upon how […]
Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In” declared that the Republican Party was “all about identity.” Rubin said, “What do they believe in? What proposals are they advancing? Aside from the ten Republicans who went to the White House with a smallish to tiny plan for rescue, the Republicans don’t believe in anything right now? They don’t believe that politics is […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) predicted Monday on MSNBC that many Republican Senators will vote to convict President Donald Trump after the House managers present their impeachment case, but the final tally will fall short of the 17 needed. McCaskill said, “What Liz Cheney has done is remarkable. She has stood up with courage and said, ‘Enough. I’m going to lead the non-Trump Republican Party. We don’t […]
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CNN’s”State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump’s impeachment was “clearly constitutional.” Anchor Jake Tapper said, “Just days after the Capitol riot, you came on the show, you said President Trump conducted impeachable offenses, he should resign, he could face criminal liability. Some of your colleagues have said he should be acquitted in the Senate trial on Tuesday. […]
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said former President Donald Trump’s tweet sent out during the riot on Capitol Hill on January 6 was enough evidence to convict Trump of incitement. In a tweet that has been deleted, Trump wrote, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set […]
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” denied she glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans. In a video clip, waters said, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back […]
Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) said Sunday CNN’s “State of the Union” that having a black custodial staff clean up what she called a “mess left by that violent white supremacist mob” on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol was “a metaphor for America.” Pressley said, “He will forever be the twice impeached president by the Democratic majority, and now the Senate must hold Donald Trump accountable […]
MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said Friday on “Deadline” that Republican House members who voted not to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committee assignments essentially “endorsed” her, which will hurt them in the next general election. Anchor Nicolle Wallace asked, “I wonder what you think about Republicans attaching themselves willingly to a QAnon conspiracy theorist?” Deutsch said, “Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your 2021 Republican […]
CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on Friday’s broadcast of “OutFront” that Fox News Media canceling “Lou Dobbs Tonight” was meant to hold the host “accountable” for peddling former President Donald Trump’s assertions of voter fraud in the 2020 election. Burnett said, “Breaking news, ‘Lou Dobbs Tonight’ which happens to be the highest-rated show on Fox Business, is suddenly canceled. Dobbs, who peddled false theories of […]
CNN anchors Don Lemon, and Chris Cuomo defended Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) emotional telling of her experience during the deadly riots at Capitol Hill on January 6. Cuomo said, “The story I was telling you about is when I got blown up in Iraq with my cameraman with the military police south of Baghdad. Here is my point. You go after AOC for her fear, saying it was […]
Thursday, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) criticized Republicans on MSNBC for supporting President Donald Trump feeding the country the “mother’s milk of domestic terrorism” by claiming President Joe Biden’s election win and “government was illegitimate.” McCaskill said, “What we have to do for a moment is take a time-out from the QAnon lady and crazy town and get back to the big lie because what we […]
Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Wednesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that the Republican Party will die if it continues to be the party of Donald Trump. While discussing if House Republicans are going to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her committee appointments, Kasich said, “I was the chairman of the committee that balanced the federal budget. I was the one that was able […]
Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” said the Republican base was “now is conspiracy theorists. It’s cowards. It’s opportunists. It’s grifters.” Discussing calls to remove her from committees, Hayes asked, “Did you expect that you would be pulled into this? Because you have become kind of a go-to figure in these moments for the Republican Party.” Omar said, “Sadly, this is the Republican playbook. We saw it […]
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Tuesday on the “Utah Politics” podcast that it is disingenuous for Republicans to criticize Democrats for spending trillions of dollars on another coronavirus relief package after the GOP did not express deficit concerns under former President Donald Trump. Romney said, “There’s no question that if you begin doing things which break precedent or break tradition, the other side is going to do that when they’re […]
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” declared that the Republican Party was not a “Trump-first party.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “This is going to be a lonely effort for a while, I imagine. There are some folks that are wondering is the Republican Party tied to Donald Trump, can that party survive?” Kinzinger said, “So I think that’s the question. I was […]
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) going to Wyoming to campaign against Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump was “totally GOP cancel culture.” Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I’m curious, is there just no room for disagreement in the Republican Party when it comes to Donald Trump? This is to me, […]
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude, Jr. said Thursday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the Republican Party were the “new Redeemers,” a political coalition following the Civil War. Glaude said, “I want us to understand is that Trumpism, Trump isn’t the problem. He’s just simply accelerated it, intensified it. Right? What we’re facing in this moment, I believe, are the new Redeemers. That was that political coalition in the aftermath […]
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” proclaimed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was “standing with the enemy of the Constitution” by meeting with former President Donald Trump. Anchor Anderson Cooper said, “Looking at the picture of Kevin McCarthy down at Mar-a-Lago today gripping and grinning with the man who promoted the attack on the Capitol, praised the attackers even after the fact, […]
Former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) said Thursday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” he holds the Republican leadership responsible for fostering “foster lies and misinformation” that enabled President Donald Trump, who Kasich called a “false prophet.” Kasich said, “The situation is that the Republican leadership has really gone along in fostering these lies, these conspiracies. You know, the election was stolen.” He continued, “So what has to […]
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that in the “core of the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives,” there are “legitimate white supremacist sympathizers.” Ocasio-Cortez said, “I actually sense a profound difference between the Republican Caucus of last term, the 115th Congress, and the Republican Caucus of this term, that we are now, what, a few weeks into at this point. […]
MSNBC political analyst Jason Johnson said Wednesday on “Deadline” that citing the example of QAnon supporter Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that Democrats should declare all Republicans are “terrorists,” adding “you can’t negotiate, you can’t legislate and you can’t work with terrorists.” Discussing Greene, anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “This isn’t even about views. She’s a conspiracy theorist, committed the very same kinds of disinformation act that today the […]
Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that there was “still the chance” that former President Donald Trump could “incite another attempt at the Capitol.” Murphy said, “So long as Donald Trump is the head of the Republican Party, they are going to find themselves in the minority. They are going to lose races for the House and the Senate, especially after the […]
Lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that the point of impeachment was to “protect the Republic” from former President Donald Trump and prevent him from holding federal office in the future. Raskin said, “We intend to show the worst presidential crime against the Republic in American history. The violence was terrifying and overwhelming. Five people died, police officer hit over […]
Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom” that the Republican Party has no future if it continues to allow “Trumpism.” Flake said, “There is certainly no future with Trumpism. It is a demographic cul-de-sac. I think most people, most elected officials, nearly all of them recognize that, but they deal with the reality right now if they cross the president, they’ll get a […]
Former Trump White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said during an extended interview for the “Facing Forward ” podcast that the Trump administration had no full-time team in the White House working on the response to coronavirus. When asked about President Joe Biden’s executive orders on the pandemic, Birx said, “I was an N of 1. So having a team at the White House […]
Former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that it was “shameful” that Republicans have continued to claim there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. Christie said, “This election was not stolen. All of the facts point in that direction.” He continued, “I’m a former prosecutor. I make decisions based upon evidence, not based upon feelings or partisanship or loyalty. You […]
Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he believed the Constitution only allows for current presidents to be impeached by Congress. Anchor Chuck Todd said, “Do you believe Donald Trump committed an impeachable offense?” Rounds said, “To begin with, I think it’s a moot point because, I think right now Donald Trump is no longer the president, he is a former president.” […]
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) warned on MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart” that former President Donald Trump would attempt “to take over legislatures, little towns and cities.” Therefore, she said he must be convicted in his impeachment trial to “take away his power.” Waters said, “I do believe he sent all of these domestic terrorists to the Capitol to take over the Capitol, and that […]
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the public was “going to get more and more evidence over the next few weeks” about former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the deadly riots at Capital Hill on January 6. Partial transcript as follows: KLOBUCHAR: I thoroughly believe that we can handle this impeachment trial and just as the American people are doing, juggle […]
Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that it was constitutional to continue with the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump even after he has left the office of the presidency. Anchor Dana Bash asked, “Many of your colleagues, I’m sure you’ve heard, argue that it’s not constitutional to convict a president who is no longer in office. Do you agree […]
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said in an interview Friday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that it was “chilling” how President Donald Trump “distorted” and “rejected” science. Fauci said, “It was such an unusual, aberrant situation where you had at the very top — and I don’t take any great pleasure in criticizing president leadership or the people around a […]
Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said Friday on MSNBC that the Green New Deal introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is “very far from being enough” action on climate. Thunberg said, “How can we expect people will want climate action? How can we expect people to support any kind of action when the general public welcome awareness is so low when it comes to the climate. […]
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that she did not attend Wednesday’s inauguration of President Joe Biden out of fear of her colleagues in Congress. When anchor Chris Cuomo asked why she did not attend, Ocasio-Cortez said, “I think we also had very real security concerns as we mentioned earlier. We still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress.” […]
Thursday on MSNBC’s “TheReidOut,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) accused Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) of committing a “contribution” to the so-called insurrection earlier this month, which he called a “major offense against the Constitution.” Anchor Joy Reid asked, “Ted Cruz made an attack on the re-joining of the Paris climate agreement, and it was the equivalent that if you don’t like English muffins, you hate British people. […]
CNN’s chief political correspondent Dana Bash said Thursday on “Newsroom” that President Joe Biden’s press conference on his administration’s coronavirus pandemic response felt like “the adults are back in the room.” Bash said, “I mean if you take what you just saw and heard in totality, anybody who has any connection to reality about what is going on around them should have watched that and said, ‘The […]
MSNBC national affairs analyst John Heilemann said during his network’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony that seeing the past president’s standing with Biden was like “the Avengers, sort of the Marvel superheroes back up there together.” Heilemann said, “We had the insurrection two weeks ago. Last week we had the impeachment and with the inauguration today. Amazing, huge seismic stories that even in 32 […]
During his network’s coverage of President Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony, CNN political commentator Van Jones said that he was crying with joy while watching the first few hours of the Biden administration. Jones said, “It’s just memorizing to watch a functional government doing functional government type things. I mean, just a press conference, and there was a human, and the person said words, and the words […]
CNBC anchor Shepard Smith, also a former Fox News personality, accused some of his former Fox News colleagues of spreading “disinformation” in an interview with CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour. Discussing his role as a straight news anchor on Fox News, Smith said, “If you feel like the Fox viewers were getting mis- or disinformation, I was there to make sure that they got it straight. There were […]
CNN’s political director David Chalian said Tuesday during of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden that the lights set up around the Reflecting Pool at the National Mall to remember the 400,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19 are like “extensions of Joe Biden’s arms embracing America.” Chalian said, “The contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean, those lights that are just shooting out from […]
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi” that he was looking at charging President Donald Trump and others who spoke at the rally proceeding the deadly riots at Capital Hill on “inciting violence” charges. Anchor Ali Velshi said, “You are considering bringing charges, that’s what the reporting is, against people for inciting this riot.” Racine replied, “The reporting is accurate. The […]
Former lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign James Carville said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Weekends” that President Donald Trump was a “career criminal.” Carville said, “The suggestion that President-elect Biden pardons Donald Trump I would leave the Democratic Party and so would tens of millions of other people if there’s no accountability here. Look, when he becomes president, he’s got to put his agenda out and […]
Representative Peter Meijer (R-MI) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that he might not get re-elected because he voted to impeach President Donald Trump. However, he argued he put “country first” in doing so. STEPHANOPOULOS: You’ve even said that your — your vote to impeach, because the president still has such a stronghold on the Republican Party, so many in the Republican Party believe what he […]
Friday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said that President Donald Trump had “death and blood at his feet” in the wake of the deadly Capital Hill riots last week. Jackson Lee said, “The overall collapse of security including helping with the United States Capitol fell squarely at the feet of the individual provoking and stoking these fires, and that’s President Donald J. […]
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that she could not stay in the secure location with Republican members of Congress during the Capital Hill riots because they sympathize with a white supremacist causes. Maddow said, “Let’s talk about that in terms of members of Congress and congressional staff as well. You are saying that you didn’t feel safe going to that […]
Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) said Friday on ABC’s “The View” that all the Republican senators who forwarded President Donald Trump’s claims there was “wide-scale voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election knew it was a “big lie.” Co-host Sunny Hostin asked, “Senator Flake, the Capitol riots were the result of the false election fraud claims that you’ve said Republicans never really believed, but pushed for, […]
Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that “the Republican Party as a whole and overwhelmingly has been playing with the fire of white nationalism.” When asked if President Trump should be held accountable for the Capital Hill riot, Rather said, “The answer is yes. Donald Trump can be made to pay a price. I would argue that it is absolutely […]
CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” called Donald Trump a “secessionist, seditious president of the United States who inspired and celebrated a riot to burn down the Capitol.” Cooper said, “I wanted to bring in someone who masterfully told the story of Nixon’s final days, Carl Bernstein.” He continued, “Carl, President Trump lashing out over comparisons to Nixon is particularly interesting. […]
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that President Donald Trump was “the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.” Scaramucci then compared Trump to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Scaramucci said, “I think lawyers, legitimate lawyers are telling him that he’s in a lot of trouble. He incited a riot. He incited an insurrection. He’s arguably, at least in […]
CNN anchor Don Lemon said Wednesday night on his show that Americans who voted for President Donald Trump were on the side of “the Klan” and “Nazis.” Lemon said, “We’ve got to get down to the nitty-gritty of what this is. And it is about what I said, and I standby it, preserving whiteness in the worst possible way. If you find yourself, Chris, in a […]
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump will have a full trial in the Senate “for his incitement of an insurrection.” Markey said I was very proud of the way in which the House of Representatives conducted the debate and ultimately cast the correct historical vote to impeach Donald Trump. I think that it’s the only answer that can be […]
Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” accused her Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives of being involved in a “racist attempt to overturn an election” by voting to object to the electors and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win. Bush said, “Our Republican colleagues chose to do the work, to try to overturn the 2020 election. And on top of that, incite this […]
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that given reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that he believes impeaching President Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of the president influence on the GOP, in addition to the announcement by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will vote for impeachment, means the effort is “gathering momentum.” Blitzer […]
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that President Donald Trump intended to use his followers to attack “whatever entity” that’s “not agreeing with him” to continue to “rule” past his presidency. Discussing the deadly riot on Capitol Hill, anchor Joy Reid said, “We know that Dr. King’s real birthday on the 15th is coming, the official birthday on the 18th. There have […]
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) said on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) must be expelled from the U.S. Senate for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. Brown said, “What is to be done is we move forward on impeachment. I appreciate what you said earlier in the show when you said this is a crime against […]
Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) said Monday on CNN’s “The Lead” that any members of Congress who are found after an investigation to have “incited” the deadly riots at Capital Hill should be prosecuted. Anchor Jake Tapper asked, “Congresswoman Cori Bush says she will introduce a resolution to expel House members who voted to overturn election votes. That’s more than two-thirds of the House Republican members. Congressman Tom […]
Governor Larry Hogan (R-MD) on Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN accused President Donald Trump of being “responsible for inciting this riotous mob” at the U.S. Capitol earlier this week. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “The president incited a domestic terrorist attack on the U.S. Capitol. Five people have died, including Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick. “Does President Trump have blood on his hands?” Hogan said, […]
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” called for criminal accountability for President Donald Trump’s incitement of the riot on Capitol Hill last week. Partial transcript as follows: BRENNAN: You’re close to the president-elect who tweeted yesterday, “Our president is not above the law. Justice serves the people. It doesn’t protect the powerful.” What does that supposed to mean? Does he support potentially […]
Political commentator and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan declared Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press” that President Donald Trump deserves the “exceptional dishonor” of a second impeachment. Noonan said, “We are in a crisis. This coming week could not be more consequential, more weighted with history. From everything I hear, there are still active conversations going on in Washington with regard to the 25th Amendment and […]
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump should be impeached for inciting the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked “If an impeachment resolution comes to the floor, won’t many Republicans be hard-pressed to oppose it?” Christie said, “Listen, I think they’re all going to have to vote their conscience and look at what happened. […]
Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who before resigning was serving as special envoy for Northern Ireland, on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” called riots on Capitol Hill an existential crisis. Mulvaney said, “I feel a lot of emotions this week. I was shocked. I was angered. I was sad. I was embarrassed. I was frustrated. And I’m still trying to figure […]
MSNBC regular Donny Deutsch said Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that the “shame” from the deadly riots at the US Capitol earlier this week, means “Trump and Trumpers and his family” will be “banished forever.” Deutsch said, “This has always been about race. All of the Trumpism is a simple, simple thing. It’s that there are terrified, angry, fearful, ignorant people that understand by the year 2045, this […]
On Friday’s broadcast of “Newsroom,” CNN anchor Brianna Keilar went after Fox News host Tucker Carlson for his criticisms of her use of the word “insurrection” while describing the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Keilar said, “The attack on the nation’s Capitol was a deadly uprising. It was a violent riot, and it was an insurrection. It was sedition. It was incited by the president […]