Our job is not to try and please the president: JAKE TAPPER: Here's another question, in the midst of these major earth shaking issues surrounding the ceasefire last night, life and death issues, why was President Trump so focused on attacking CNN for an accurate report we put out on a real statement put out by Iranian government officials?
O'Donnell criticized Hegseth for using the phrase 'leave no man behind,' stating that it reflects an old school mentality that ignores the presence of female soldiers in the military.
Tapper included Kent's post from Saturday evening, which shared a post from Drop Site News that said Tasnim News, a media outlet tied to Iran's theocratic regime, was reporting the Trump administration had lost hope about bringing home the soldier and had pivoted to attempting to kill him.
Lavrov claimed Moscow was intent on defending 'international law' and rejected any notion of Russia breaking international law in Ukraine, asserting that its forces never targeted 'exclusively civilian' targets.
Markwayne Mullin, the new Homeland Security Secretary, demonstrated how to clean a garbage disposal in a vintage commercial, showcasing his plumbing expertise. Cain remarked that this background makes Mullin a great DHS secretary.
To me, it's cringe because the reason people watch CNN is for the credibility of Jake, and Anderson, and [Erin Burnett]; and there is you know sort of this illusion, if you want to put it that way, about television news. It's larger than life, the colors are brighter than in real life, it's big fancy sets that glow, and that's what it is.
May Almighty god continue to bless our troops in this fight. And again to the American people, please pray for them. Every day. On bended knee, with your family, in your schools, in your churches, in the name of Jesus Christ.
It's not just the solicitation email. I mean, last week we were talking about the video game analogies that they were making on social media about this war. And there's a kind of flippant nature to some of this. I mean, it was this is striking to me, the President took a phone call today from a reporter because apparently everybody in Washington has his personal cell phone number.
The conservative commentariat now spends most of its time talking to itself about itself. It is increasingly divorced from the issues that impact actual Americans. It can't even pretend to care anymore. I'm disgusted by the whole thing at this point.
The other piece of this that I found really disturbing in the messaging around the war recently is some of the language in the description of their opponent. Sort of the way they seem to create this image of the Iranians and all of their sort of proxies or allies, the sort of imagery that they conjure up. And I think that it takes a certain amount of arrogance and I'm also going to say it, a bit of racism, to constantly talk about people like they are savages.
We stand by our journalism. Politicians have an obvious motive for claiming that journalism which raises questions about their decisions is false. At CNN our only interest is in telling the truth to our audiences in the U.S. and around the world and no amount of political threats or insults is going to change that.
We recently acquired information that as of early February 2026, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial vehicles from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United State Homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California, in the event that the US conducted strikes against Iran. We have no additional information on the timing, method, target, or perpetrators of this alleged attack.
This is his attempt to fix the midterm election and save his own ass. I brought this up during the monologue the other night and I guess this didn't sit too well with one of the Schmittheads on Newsmax who would like to report me to the authorities.
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Fake news reporter' [Scott Nover] said we declined to comment for this story, Kelly wrote on X. Not true! He just didn't like my comment because it exposes how little the Washington Post cares about access for photographers. They just fired all of their White House photographers!
Two Pennsylvania teenagers crossed into New York City Saturday morning for what could've been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather. But in less than an hour, their lives would drastically change as the pair would be arrested for throwing homemade bombs during an anti-Muslim protest outside of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's home.
Do you have a Zoolander problem? Couric asked Newsom on her podcast Next Question, referring to the 2001 Ben Stiller comedy about male models. The pair laughed as Couric asked, Are you just ridiculously good-looking as Vogue said? No, seriously, what do you do about that? Couric was referring to a Vogue spread for Newsom that described him as embarrassingly handsome.
The White House is reaching out to a very important, very big part of the population, including and especially those, I think that they consider their base gamers. It's part of the sort of the 'bro culture' that Donald Trump used to win. It's part of Pete Hegseth, why he's the secretary of war and why it's not the you know, the Department of Defense anymore. So it's part of the selling of the war, and we'll see if it's effective.
When Americans die in combat, the country learns their names. That principle has held through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and through administrations of both parties. Casualty reporting connects the public to the human cost of decisions made in Washington and carried out on distant battlefields. It's not only a time-honored tradition, but the right way to honor those who lost their lives.
I stand before you today with one unmistakable message about Operation Epic Fury. America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy.
Sure, Iran will still be able to shoot some missiles and still be to launch one-way attack drones at civilian targets, and their proxies will attempt to attack our embassies, bases and soft targets. They are terrorists, after all. And they need to target civilians because they can't fight toe-to-toe. But we will find them, and we will kill them.
In an evening Truth Social post, Trump framed the invitation as a form of vindication. He noted that the dinner dates to 1924 under President Calvin Coolidge, and invoked the nation's upcoming 250th birthday before declaring that correspondents now "admit that I am truly one of the Greatest Presidents in the History of our Country, the G.O.A.T., according to many."
