CNN's Don Lemon defends questioning Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's mental fitness: 'It's our job'

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• CNN's Don Lemon defends questioning Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's mental fitness: 'It's our job'
• 'The View' hosts shut down claim that 'red wave is coming': 'You don't know that'
• DNC member tells CNN Biden shouldn't run in 2024, says voters are looking for 'change candidate'
• "The View" host Joy Behar says David Axelrod 'should keep his mouth shut' about President Biden's age

CNN's Don Lemon defends questioning Karine Jean-Pierre about Biden's mental fitness: 'It's our job' Posted: 16 Jun 2022 02:37 AM PDT  CNN host Don Lemon joined "New Day" on Wednesday to discuss his interview with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre the previous night, during which she criticized his... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

'The View' hosts shut down claim that 'red wave is coming': 'You don't know that' Posted: 15 Jun 2022 07:27 PM PDT  POLITICAL PERIL FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T BACK TRUMP? The co-hosts and guest co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin react to Tuesday's GOP primaries and discuss what issues are going to sway voters in November's... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

DNC member tells CNN Biden shouldn't run in 2024, says voters are looking for 'change candidate' Posted: 15 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT  Democratic National Committee member Steve Simeonidis, the former chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, spoke with Erin Burnett about why he is urging President Biden to not run in 2024 for... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

"The View" host Joy Behar says David Axelrod 'should keep his mouth shut' about President Biden's age Posted: 15 Jun 2022 01:16 AM PDT   BIDEN'S AGE A CONCERN FOR DEMOCRATS? As rumors of former Pres. Trump's plans to run again continue and his Vice Pres. Pence dodges questions about running in 2024, #TheView panel discusses if age... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

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Jan 6: Eager to troll Trump, 'Morning Joe' compares hearing viewership across all networks to 'The Apprentice'

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• Jan 6: Eager to troll Trump, 'Morning Joe' compares hearing viewership across all networks to 'The Apprentice'
• Stephanie Ruhle previously said Republicans 'want' higher inflation so they can 'blame the White House'
• MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Obama adviser Steve Rattner wonders if Joe Manchin deserves praise from the Biden administration for stifling Build Back Better and preventing inflation from being even worse.
• MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on gun control: ‘Lincoln was criticized for moving too slowly’ to ‘end slavery’
• Mark Levin tears sham January 6 committee to SHREDS: ‘An abomination to the American system’
• Washington Post reporter says it 'could be a little too late' for Democrats on the economy

Jan 6: Eager to troll Trump, 'Morning Joe' compares hearing viewership across all networks to 'The Apprentice' Posted: 14 Jun 2022 03:12 AM PDT  The co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were so eager to troll the former president and their ex-bestie Donald Trump that they rushed to bolster the viewership of the first primetime January 6... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

Stephanie Ruhle previously said Republicans 'want' higher inflation so they can 'blame the White House' Posted: 13 Jun 2022 09:36 PM PDT  Despite Democrats controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle demanded to know Sunday what plan Republicans have to "combat inflation."Inflation hit a... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Obama adviser Steve Rattner wonders if Joe Manchin deserves praise from the Biden administration for stifling Build Back Better and preventing inflation from being even worse. Posted: 13 Jun 2022 08:29 PM PDT   Former Obama adviser Steven Rattner and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough praised Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., for derailing President Biden's Build Back Better Act because interest rates would be even... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on gun control: ‘Lincoln was criticized for moving too slowly’ to ‘end slavery’ Posted: 13 Jun 2022 11:15 AM PDT  MSNBC host Joe Scarborough praised the bipartisan gun control plan made in the Senate on Sunday, comparing the actions to Abraham Lincoln ending slavery.Opening Monday's "Morning Joe," co-host Mika... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

Mark Levin tears sham January 6 committee to SHREDS: ‘An abomination to the American system’ Posted: 13 Jun 2022 06:45 AM PDT  Democrats call everything a threat to democracy. Guns are a threat to democracy. Trump is a threat to democracy. Truckers are a threat to democracy. Supreme Court Justices ruling on cases is.... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

Washington Post reporter says it 'could be a little too late' for Democrats on the economy Posted: 13 Jun 2022 12:52 AM PDT  Washington Post congressional reporter Marianna Sotomayor said Sunday during ABC's "This Week" that it could be too late for Democrats on the economy as the midterms approach. Host Martha Raddatz... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

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AOC dodges on whether she'll support Biden in 2024, focuses on midterms: 'That's not a yes'

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AOC dodges on whether she'll support Biden in 2024, focuses on midterms: 'That's not a yes' Posted: 12 Jun 2022 09:13 PM PDT  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., did not answer yes -- and instead focused on this year's midterms -- when asked if she would support President Biden if he chooses to run for re-election in... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

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Black gun owners sound off on 'ridiculous' Joy Behar's remarks: 'Her comments are stupid'

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Black gun owners sound off on 'ridiculous' Joy Behar's remarks: 'Her comments are stupid' Posted: 10 Jun 2022 07:16 PM PDT  Millions of African Americans across the United States own firearms, which appeared to be news this week to "The View" co-host Joy Behar. Now some are speaking out after she suggested that loose... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

Here's how Fox News tried to spin the January 6 committee's first prime-time hearing Posted: 10 Jun 2022 10:54 AM PDT  This column is about the media, and this moment exemplifies America's two parallel tracks of media. So if you watched Thursday night's hearing by the House's 1/6 committee, shown live by most of... Thank you for spending some time at my site : www.tranganhnam.xyz and in my blog : http://hocdethi.blogspot.com/. I hope you come to visit again soon!

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Understanding ‘Mass Shootings’

On the long list of excuses and deflections gun rights activists use to shut down any talk of gun regulation, one critical angle comes down to numbers. Mass shootings, school shootings, gun massacres — whatever you want to call them — only make up a tiny percentage of the number of people killed every year by guns in the United States. That's true. Relatedly, AR-15s, the mass shooters' firearm of choice, account for only a tiny percentage of overall firearms deaths in the United States. That's true. Indeed, some noted that the 10 African-Americans murdered in a Buffalo supermarket on May 14th may not even have been a majority of the African-Americans killed by firearms on that single day. Using these very real numbers, gun rights activists portray supporters of assault weapons bans, bans on high capacity magazines and the rest as reactive and innumerate. It's similar to the way that gun activists sometimes try to shut down restriction conversation by noting how people horrified by all the carnage don't know all the technical differences between this gun and that one.

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These numbers are real. Upwards of 50,000 Americans die every year by firearms, a number that massively dwarfs a dozen or two fatalities in even the biggest mass shootings. But the whole line of argument mischaracterizes the role of mass shootings in U.S. culture and society. It's an argument made in bad faith on the gun supporting side of the equation. But it exists on the restrictionist side as well. That's part of what gives the argument such power.

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School shootings and all of what we call mass shootings in the United States are properly understood as terror crimes. They function as such and they are intended as such. They cast a pall of terror far beyond those immediately affected by them. Definitions here get in the way of proper understanding. The most common definition of a "mass shooting" is an incident in which four or more people are shot in a single incident, or series of incidents closely related in time and location. That definition comes from the FBI and the Congressional Research Service. But that includes all sort of crimes most of us aren't thinking of when we think of mass shootings: robberies gone wrong, domestic disputes, gang killings. Those victims are just as shot. They are just as dead. But they're not what most of us are talking about when we talk about mass shootings. If they meet a technical definition then we need a new set of words to describe what we're talking about.

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The hallmark of almost all of these attacks is their randomness. Sometimes they target specific groups — African-Americans at the Buffalo Supermarket or the Emanuel AME church shooting in Charleston or Jews at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. But the shooter seldom has any relationship with his victims. He doesn't know them in most cases and they don't know him. They have no reason to know he's coming. Indeed, there's no particular person he's trying to kill. He's just trying to kill as many people as possible. In the vast majority of cases he's already decided he's going to die in the attack, which puts him beyond any negotiation or threat or deterrence. It's the randomness and spectacle that casts a pall and specter of terror far beyond the individual crime.

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From one perspective, racist or anti-Semitic or misogynistic attacks are in a different category from the more random school shootings that don't seem to have any clear purpose or ideological agenda. They are certainly different to the targeted groups. But I would argue that the commonality is greater than the differences. They are all massacres as spectacle and terror. And it is these crimes where AR-15s really are central to the deed. There's a reason why virtually every mass shooter uses one. They are symbols of overwhelming force and massacre. They also kill the most people in the shortest period of time.

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America has a whole other largely handgun-based problem. That's the one that facilitates the firearm suicides that make up almost half of all firearms death. It's behind most intimate partner killings, toddlers stumbling on unsecured gun and killing themselves, killings in robberies, gang killings and more. That's the source of the great majority of deaths. It's disproportionately a hand gun rather than a long gun problem. But it's mostly distinct from these terror crimes which have a logic, a goal and origins that are quite distinct.

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We can't address this problem without understanding it properly. And we can't be distracted by bad faith arguments that are facilitated by lack of a proper understanding.

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Michigan GOP Gov Frontrunner Arrested

We mentioned last week that after the top GOP candidates for the Michigan governor's race were stripped from the ballot over forged signatures, the remaining at least nominal frontrunner (poll leaders in most recent poll) was a guy named Ryan Kelley, who was literally part of the mob that stormed the Capitol building on January 6th and had a lot of connections to the guys who plotted to kidnap and murder Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Well, he just got arrested by the FBI. No details yet on what the charges are or why he was taken into custody.

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11:49 AM: Kelley's arrest was part of a raid on his home and stems from his actions breaching the Capitol complex on January 6th. Charges forthcoming.

See Also:  NBC Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to discuss key challenges facing the January 6 Committee ahead of their primetime hearings this week: getting a "distracted nation" to pay attention and understand what's at stake. "I think the biggest challenge for lawmakers here, as they talk about these sort of huge ideas of American democracy and sort of the experiment that we're all living in, benefiting from, possibly being brought to his knees, is whether or not they can make people care," says Alcindor. "The American public has been groomed to expect high value quick entertainment," says McQuade. "I think putting together a polished show can be very important."

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A Few Thoughts on the Hearings

I wanted to share a few quick thoughts with you before tonight's hearings.

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One very minor point is that for some time I've heard complaints to the effect of, "what has the committee been doing all this time? Most of what we've found out about January 6th has been from the media." This is mostly a misunderstanding. The great majority of reporting you've seen over the last six months revealing texts and other material about the insurrection originated with the committee's investigation. So this isn't an either/or. The committee investigation has almost certainly been the primary generator of new information even though very little of it has come officially from the investigation.

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The other issue is whether the committee can live up to the hype. Many Americans are convinced that none of this really matters. No one will face consequences no matter what is revealed. But precisely since many of the fruits of the investigation have already emerged in the press, is there a lot still to be learned? Is there enough game-changing information to sustain interest? I have no way of knowing the answer to this. But it has been striking to me that the top members of the committee have gone out of their way to say that there are lot of bombshells to come. We'll see.

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Finally, what is the goal of all this? I would say there are two goals. One is simply that when there's an armed insurrection aimed at overthrowing the government, you should compile a detailed record of what happened. You should do that regardless of whether it has any immediate effect on anything. The more practical goal of the hearings should be to put the country back in the mode it was in in the hours and days just after the insurrection. At the time the country overwhelmingly saw what happened as totally unacceptable and an effort whose leaders should either be prosecuted or at least written out of legitimate politics going forward.

See Also:  NBC Washington Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade join Andrea Mitchell to discuss key challenges facing the January 6 Committee ahead of their primetime hearings this week: getting a "distracted nation" to pay attention and understand what's at stake. "I think the biggest challenge for lawmakers here, as they talk about these sort of huge ideas of American democracy and sort of the experiment that we're all living in, benefiting from, possibly being brought to his knees, is whether or not they can make people care," says Alcindor. "The American public has been groomed to expect high value quick entertainment," says McQuade. "I think putting together a polished show can be very important."

You get a feel for that in the recording two New York Times reporters released last night from the immediate aftermath of the insurrection in which Kevin McCarthy told his GOP colleagues that Republicans couldn't "sweep this under the rug." It's a piercing, telling revelation since McCarthy quickly steadied himself and then spent the next 18 months sweeping the whole matter under the rug. But having that comment preserved does capture the shock and realism of those initial days.

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It is worth remembering that though I think there was always little chance of it happening in the 48 hours following the insurrection Vice President Pence found it necessary to release a statement stating explicitly that he had decided he would not seek to remove Trump from office by means of the 25th amendment. It was really a crazy thought since that was really never what the 25th amendment was intended for. But for a brief moment the possibility seemed very real. Real enough that Pence initially wouldn't say what he would do and then felt the need to address it directly.

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This was all before the establishment GOP decided that the insurrection was, if not good, then at least completely fine. Once Republicans became functionally pro-insurrection, to many observers of American politics the whole matter became just another squabble between the two political parties. Just more politics.

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You'll never get back to that original moment. The shock is gone. Too many people have spent too much time building stories which justify and minimize what happened. But that is or should be the goal: getting back as much as possible to that initial moment when the gravity and seditious nature of what happened was too clear to be ignored.

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