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Monday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) said President Donald Trump’s military knowledge was “an inch deep.” Host Jake Tapper said, “What’s your take on, the status of the war?” Kelly said, “Well, I think he doesn’t know what to do at this point. And this is what happened. Happens when, you don’t listen to people around you. I think he has. He has a lot of. Yes, people around him, a lot of yes men. Certainly, Hegseth is one. Hegseth also unqualified for this role as a Secretary of Defense. But he does have some people that…
Nearly 90 people have been killed since Friday despite a US-brokered ceasefire, according to Lebanese officials Israel has intensified its “brutal bombardment” of southern Lebanon, expanding evacuation orders to more villages, RT correspondent Steve Sweeney has reported from Beirut. Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 87 people in the neighboring country since Friday, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.Local authorities said 39 people were killed on Saturday alone after strikes hit 22 towns and villages in southern Lebanon. On Monday, Israel issued evacuation orders for several more villages, bringing the total to 84 since a US-brokered ceasefire took effect in…
On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” former Trump Deputy National Security Adviser K. T. McFarland said that the IRGC is never going to come to an agreement. Host Chris Cuomo asked, “[H]ow do you balance…pressuring the regime without suffocating the Iranian innocents?” McFarland responded, “I think you compress the timeline, for five months is way too long. Compress the timeline, so that if you have resumed military action, say, for example, in a week’s time, that you, then, within maybe one, two, weeks’ time, you eliminate all those remaining military targets. You probably work your way down to second, third,…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” host Larry Kudlow said that the gas tax is a user fee for roads that goes “toward the highway road system, which is usually on the verge of bankruptcy. You take that money out, you’ve got a problem, and it’s a user fee.” Kudlow said, “Everyone loves tax cuts. I love tax cuts. I want to cut the capital gains tax. I want to cut personal income taxes. I’d like a 15% corporate rate and an individual rate. … But, on that point, it’s Congress who has the authority over the…
A poll shows incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass falling flat with voters, while former reality TV star Spencer Pratt has improved his position against runner-up council member Nithya Raman in the nonpartisan mayoral primary. Surveying 531 likely voters May 1-4 with a margin of error +/- 6.1 percent, the poll from Abundance Network in partnership with Tavern Research showed that Bass has hit a ceiling while Pratt and Raman are racing to take her on in a head-to-head matchup for mayor of Los Angeles, California. “As Nithya Raman and Spencer Prattʼs numbers continue to rise from early March polling, Mayor Karen…
Administration officials are trying to win Hill Republicans’ blessing for $1 billion in security funding that could go toward parts of President Donald Trump’s ballroom project. Secret Service Director Sean Curran is meeting Tuesday with Senate Republicans. He’ll face several senators who aren’t convinced or are outright opposed to green-lighting the money. Expect Curran and GOP leaders to pitch the funding as necessary for White House security improvements and helping the Secret Service keep up broadly with growing threats. The funds are part of a larger party-line spending package that would mainly support immigration enforcement. Trump has given lawmakers until…
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stated that Iran is essentially being run by the IRGC. Burgum said, “[E]ssentially, Iran is now the IRGC. It’s — we’re down to a sanctioned terrorist group. The IRGC is the one that’s controlling — trying to control the strait. This is a situation where the whole world has to stand up, because we can’t have one terror group controlling this kind of flow of energy, which goes to countries all over the world.” He continued, “And so, again, the U.S. taking the lead. But I think…
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” former Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette argued that we should do permitting reform to increase refining capacity and also have “perhaps some incentive for refiners. Let’s take away the renewable fuel standard nationwide and allow them to produce one gasoline for one country” to increase gas output. Brouillette said, “Larry, one of the things that we can do today to help reduce fuel prices across the country is increase our refining capacity, and there [are] a number of ways to do that. Obviously, permitting reform, allowing more infrastructure to be built, but we…
Monday on MS NOW’s “Deadline,” former FBI Director James Comey said President Donald Trump has a “bottomless desire to gain revenge against those who’ve criticized him.” Host Nicolle Wallace said, “I went back and looked and Donald Trump first use Twitter to call for your prosecution in 2017 or 18 and some combination of Don McGahn, then the White House counsel, Jeff Sessions, and the US attorney, Bill Barr, who came next. There was one guy in between, and then Pam Bondi, I guess, who allowed this to go forward, but only at great cost of that office, which was…
The Gulf nation reportedly feels increasingly abandoned by Washington over the latter’s failure to respond to Iranian attacks on its infrastructure The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has carried out covert strikes on Iran in retaliation for attacks on its infrastructure, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.The strikes suggest Abu Dhabi is increasingly willing to act on its own rather than rely solely on US deterrence amid growing frustration with Washington, analysts say.According to the report, the unacknowledged strikes included an attack on a refinery on Iran’s Lavan Island in early April, just before US President Donald Trump…