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As allegedly straightforward journalists seek to aid Democrats in their mission to pin the government shutdown on Republicans, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joined Comedy Central’s The Weekly Show podcast on Thursday to sabotage that message and praise Democrats for shutting down the government. Hayes ranted, “And so, I think the Democratic Party and consultant class has to internalize this idea of taking risks because you are behind, because the brand is not very good right now, and that means not just conserving what you have. You are not up a few scores with five minutes left.” Host Jon Stewart then interrupted to add his agreement, “You're saying, ‘Don't play prevent defense.’”     Resuming his speech, Hayes concurred, “Don't play prevent defense. And I do think, and look, there are races where you should play prevent defense. Like, I would have not told Spanberger, ‘Hey, you should do five debates down the stretch in the last two weeks.’” Turning to the government shutdown as an example, Hayes cheered, “I think the risk calculation of the Democratic Party, its leadership, generally, is too risk averse. And let me just say one last thing. The shutdown is a great example. They have pursued a fairly high leverage and high risk strategy around the shutdown, and I think it has redounded to their benefit, and I think a more risk averse strategy, which is ‘people are gonna blame us, we're the party out of power, it's gonna be bad,’ all this stuff. This, these elections happened against that backdrop. I think the higher risk, higher leverage strategy they pursued has been rewarded, and I think that should be a lesson for everyone about what your general risk profile is.” While Hayes applauds Democrats for trying to use the shutdown to save Biden-era Obamacare subsidies—including those for rich people—three percent of all flights in the U.S. were cancelled on Friday due to the shutdown, with that number expected to grow to ten percent by the end of next week. As Americans suffer due to Democrats’ political games, it was nice of Hayes to accidentally tell the truth about who is shutting down the government. Now, if only the supposedly non-partisan journalists could listen. Here is a transcript for the November 6 show: Comedy Central The Weekly Show 11/6/2025 CHRIS HAYES: And so, I think the Democratic Party and consultant class has to internalize this idea of taking risks because you are behind, because the brand is not very good right now, and that means not just conserving what you have. You are not up a few scores with five minutes left. JON STEWART: You're saying, “Don't play prevent defense.” HAYES: Don't play prevent defense. STEWART: Alright. HAYES: And I do think, and look, there are races where you should play prevent defense. Like, I would have not told Spanberger, “Hey, you should do five debates down the stretch in the last two weeks.” STEWART: Right. HAYES: Absolutely not. You're up ten points. Don't do that, right? But generally, I think the risk calculation of the Democratic Party, its leadership, generally, is too risk averse. And let me just say one last thing. The shutdown is a great example. They have pursued a fairly high leverage and high risk strategy around the shutdown, and I think it has redounded to their benefit, and I think a more risk averse strategy, which is “people are gonna blame us, we're the party out of power, it's gonna be bad,” all this stuff. This, these elections happened against that backdrop. I think the higher risk, higher leverage strategy they pursued has been rewarded, and I think that should be a lesson for everyone about what your general risk profile is.

On Thursday, MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough, Chris Jansing, and Katy Tur flipped out over immigration agents arresting an illegal alien and teacher, Diana Galeano, who tried to evade police by running into a daycare where she worked, with Scarborough claiming that she was "abducted" by ICE agents. As weekend host Antonia Hylton appeared on Jansing's show, she similarly claimed that agents "abducted" her, and Tur still had not done her homework and was unsure whether Galeano was in the country illegally. On Morning Joe, Scarborough went over the top as he misleadingly claimed: I mean, yesterday you actually had ICE agents raiding a preschool -- ICE agents raiding a preschool and grabbing a teacher, abducting a teacher in that preschool --grabbing her and taking her out. I wonder how that plays in Peoria. Not good. I wonder how that plays with young voters who fled the Republican party as quickly as possible a few days ago. About 20 minute slater, co-host Mika Brezinski read a brief on the story and admitted that the illegal alien in question had run into the daycare after agents attempted a traffic stop: ... a Department of Homeland Security official later said it all stemmed from a failed traffic stop involving the teacher and another man, saying the pair fled into the daycare and tried to barricade themselves inside, quote, "recklessly endangering children." At 1:21 in the afternoon, Jansing devoted eight minutes to the story. She began: There's outrage and a lot of questions in Chicago after officials there say armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of the daycare facility where she works and arrested her in front of teachers, parents and young children. Before interviewing a local Democrat alderman, she spoke with Hylton about the story, who began by lamenting: ...what's particularly interesting -- and to many community members alarming -- about this is that this appears to be one of the first incidents in which federal agents have followed people into a private school. Hylton soon cited a statement from DHS informing viewers that the two illegal aliens had gone into the school after fleeing a traffic stop by car, but she still ended up fretting: HYLTON: But what we've heard from people, Chris, is that this was shocking and traumatizing not just for the people involved in the initial traffic stop, but for children who witnessed agents entering, again, a daycare, a preschool armed -- visibly armed. JANSING: Little kids. HYLTON: Yes, little kids who have seen this who are in shock that a teacher or person who's been part of their day to day lives was abducted in front of them this way. People described kids running and screaming and looking for cover because they were, of course, confused about what was happening here. Toward the end of her 1p.m. show, Tur set up the segment: Parents in Chicago are outraged after ICE arrested a teacher at a daycare in front of young students. It happened at a Spanish immersion private school as parents were dropping off their kids. Federal agents entered the daycare and detained the teacher after they chased her inside, allegedly following a traffic stop. Local officials and witnesses say the agents grabbed the teacher as parents and students looked on. She then interviewed one of the parents, Adam Gonzalez, who provided video of the arrest that has been circulating. At one point, Tur was wondering why immigration agents were pursuing her after it was mentioned that Galeano claimed that she had papers: TUR: And she was saying that she has papers. So if it's a -- GONZALEZ: Yes. TUR: -- a traffic issue, it shouldn't just -- if she has papers, shouldn't that just be a, you know, a local law enforcement issue? A citation? In contrast with MSNBC figures who complained about agents pursuing Galeano into the daycare even while admitting that she was trying to evade police, on Wednesday's Fox News at Night, journalist and guest Emmett Miller informed viewers that, even in Illinois, it is a criminal offense to evade police which will definitely get you arrested. Transcripts follow: Fox News at Night November 5, 2025 11:31 p.m. Eastern TRACE GALLAGHER: There's a video of a woman being arrested by ICE -- this thing went viral today. ... ICE Chicago at a daycare, right, when you see them bringing the woman out. And, of course, they kept saying -- the activists are just going after ICE, saying they're targeting a daycare. ... The Department of Homeland Security was talking about what actually happened in this thing. ... But what they were saying is that this is a woman who actually came into the country in 2023, right? She came into the country allowed in by the Biden administration, and then she brought in her kids. She had somebody smuggle her kids in, says DHS, a month ago, and they ended up in a shelter, and they arrested her, and she ran into this daycare center, and she threatened the kids inside, Emmett. So that's what they say. You get one story from the activists and one from the actual officials. EMMETT MILLER, FORMER TELEVISION JOURNALIST: Right, they tell you what they want you do know rather than what you should know. And what you should know is that her name is Diana Galeano -- what you should know is that she was running from police. The police have the lights and sirens on, she evaded them, they pulled over in front of the daycare. The police don't know what's going on -- they're making a targeted arrest. Two people run inside the daycare -- of course they're going to bring them out. Here's a pro tip: If you're running from the cops, you probably did something wrong, okay? Number two, it doesn't matter whether you're an illegal alien, which she was, or whether you're a U.S. citizen. If you're running from the cops in Illinois, it's either a felony or it's a class A misdemeanor. Class A misdemeanor? One year in jail, $2,500 fine. They're going to arrest you. So someone looking from the outside of the video making a judgment about whether or not her legal papers were in order or weren't in order, or she's being targeted for the brownness of her skin has no idea what the cops are actually thinking when they're trying to pull someone over who's running from them. GALLAGHER: That's exactly right. (...) MSNBC's Morning Joe November 6, 2025 7:07 a.m. Eastern WILLIE GEIST: So, Joe, Karl Rove writing about something that we've been talking about a lot: overreach. The promise of immigration, sealing the border, and getting rid of, as the President said, murderers and rapists has now become getting rid of day laborers at Home Depot, having masked men at schools and daycare centers to get people out of the country. (...) JOE SCARBOROUGH: On the overreach on immigration, I've said it for some time -- why the President can't just say the Southern border is secure -- "we win" -- and compare the Southern border in his year to what Joe Biden's averaged over four years. That's a win. He's never going to get the numbers. He's never going to get the numbers regardless of what Stephen Miller or anybody else says in the White House that Joe Biden got deporting immigrants because there were a lot more here by the border. But he will cause grave damage to his presidency and to the Republican party if he really does believe, as he said on 60 Minutes this past weekend, that he doesn't think these seizures and this treatment of immigrants that caused the Pope and archbishops across America and the world to condemn it. He doesn't think those have gone far enough, that's, well, first of all, that's a real problem on the human level of course. I mean, yesterday you actually had ICE agents raiding a preschool -- ICE agents raiding a preschool and grabbing a teacher, abducting a teacher in that preschool --grabbing her and taking her out. I wonder how that plays in Peoria. Not good. I wonder how that plays with young voters who fled the Republican party as quickly as possible a few days ago. (...) 7:27 a.m. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And several families in Chicago say they are horrified after armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of a daycare in front of young children. Local officials say the agents entered the daycare yesterday morning and removed the teacher while the young children, parents and staff were present watching. One local official called the arrest "violent" while one of the parents described the situation as heart-wrenching. In one video taken at the scene, the woman who was arrested can be heard telling authorities in Spanish that she had papers. ICE did not immediately comment on the incident, but a Department of Homeland Security official later said it all stemmed from a failed traffic stop involving the teacher and another man, saying the pair fled into the daycare and tried to barricade themselves inside, quote, "recklessly endangering children." The man's status remains unclear, and we'll continue to follow this. (...) Chris Jansing Reports November 6, 2025 1:21 p.m. CHRIS JANSING: There's outrage and a lot of questions in Chicago after officials there say armed ICE agents pulled a teacher out of the daycare facility where she works and arrested her in front of teachers, parents and young children. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Our families have been traumatized. The children were crying, the parents were crying. ADAM GONZALEZ, PARENT: It's really heart-wrenching to know that someone who has poured herself into my child is no longer here. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: My four-year-old already is crying at home right now asking me about how her teachers are going to be safe. UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #3: What are we supposed to tell our children? JANSING: MSNBC's Antonia Hylton follows this for us. She joins me now. What more do we know about what exactly happened here? ANTONIA HYLTON: Well, Chris, we've tracked a number of these incidents here in Chicago and across the country, and what's particularly interesting -- and to many community members alarming -- about this is that this appears to be one of the first incidents in which federal agents have followed people into a private school. This is a private daycare and preschool, and so for federal agents who normally have conducted operations outside of or actually take care to be far away from schools -- this is sort of part of an escalating pattern that we've seen in Chicago where there have been allegations of teargas near elementary schools and things like that, but this is one in which agents pursued this woman who they say was in the country illegally from Colombia into a daycare in which she worked. It's also a confusing story here because while we hear that she is here present illegally from DHS -- the federal government -- Congressman Quigley has said that she had work authorization, was working legally here at this preschool, and there are also allegations from people like Congresswoman Delia Ramirez who says that they're in the process of getting additional video and more angles and security footage of this incident that they say will go directly against what we've been hearing from DHS. Not only have they described her as present in the country unlawfully, but they said that this all stemmed from a traffic violation and an attempted traffic stop. Tricia McLaughlin from DHS said law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailants sped into a shopping plaza where the person driving the car was a man and the female passenger fled the vehicle and that that's basically what led to the agents pursuing her inside the school. But what we've heard from people, Chris, is that this was shocking and traumatizing not just for the people involved in the initial traffic stop, but for children who witnessed agents entering, again, a daycare, a preschool armed -- visibly armed. JANSING: Little kids. HYLTON: Yes, little kids who have seen this who are in shock that a teacher or person who's been part of their day to day lives was abducted in front of them this way. People described kids running and screaming and looking for cover because they were, of course, confused about what was happening here. And so there are a lot of questions that community members as well as members of Congress in Illinois have about this and expect there to be more developments on this soon, Chris.  (...) Katy Tur Reports November 6, 2025 2:52 p.m. KATY TUR: Parents in Chicago are outraged after ICE arrested a teacher at a daycare in front of young students. It happened at a Spanish immersion private school as parents were dropping off their kids. Federal agents entered the daycare and detained the teacher after they chased her inside, allegedly following a traffic stop. Local officials and witnesses say the agents grabbed the teacher as parents and students looked on. Joining us now, Adam Gonzalez. He was at the daycare to drop off his son and recorded that video you just saw. So, Adam, what happened? ADAM GONZALEZ, PARENT: It was a regular Wednesday morning. I was taking my son to school. We were getting ready to go inside, and I noticed something wasn't right. There was a sinking feeling that this is not a normal day, and, as I got out of the car to see why there was lights flashing -- to see what was happening, I noticed armed men in body armor with masks over their faces, I heard a teacher yelling, "I have papers," in English. I saw people carrying their children. I know there are children inside because there's a group of parents who dropped their babies off early, and it was devastating to see her -- to hear her crying. I'm still really tore up about it. You know, the name of the school means "Little Ray of Sunshine" in English, and our babies are little rays of sunshine. And to see a teacher dragged out of a daycare by masked armed men who didn't care what she had to say -- who didn't care it was a daycare -- who didn't care there were parents everywhere -- who didn't care there were children inside -- is absolutely devastating. I'm still in shock -- I'm still processing everything that's happening, and I just can't believe that would happen at a daycare. TUR: And she was saying that she has papers. So if it's a -- GONZALEZ: Yes. TUR: -- a traffic issue, it shouldn't just -- if she has papers, shouldn't that just be a, you know, a local law enforcement issue? A citation? GONZALEZ: I believe so. I'm not a law person official -- TUR: Yeah, I'm asking a legal opinion, but it -- it -- it seems strange. Can you tell me the reaction from the kids? (GONZALEZ) One of the local aldermen out there -- Matt Martin -- said that the teacher is being held in the Broadview facility that's outside of Chicago -- the one that's gotten so much attention. Can you just tell me what it's been like in your community lately? I mean, is this something that you have been preparing yourself for -- having to witness something like this? GONZALEZ: This is not the first time I've witnessed ICE rip people away from a business or out of their cars. Unfortunately for a lot of us in Chicago who look like me, who have a Spanish last name, this is our reality. It's in all parts of the city -- it's not just in certain neighborhoods. There are -- I've seen ICE take people on the side of the street that are street vendors, they have been outside of schools, they've been at hospitals, they're taking people from all of these places where people seek refuge and people are just there to work. So it's something that's been a daily reality for myself, people who look like me, people in my community, and it has to stop. TUR: You sound very emotional over this. GONZALEZ: It's -- it's been two months of terror. Being afraid to take your son to school and being afraid to go to work, having in-laws who are afraid to go to church, hearing stories in the community of people who are just afraid to live because of who -- what they look like. There's no other word than "terror." Our community is in terror. TUR: Are you afraid? GONZELEZ: Yes, I'm afraid -- I'm afraid for speaking up. I'm afraid for using my voice. This administration has shown they will target people, so I am afraid. TUR: Adam Gonzalez, I'm so sorry to hear that, and my heart goes out to you and all the kids and everybody who had to witness that at a daycare this morning. That's just an impossible thing to have to explain to young children and certainly a very difficult thing to witness no matter your age. Thank you for joining us today, though, and thank you for bringing us this story.

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the Trump administration a victory on Thursday, prompting bitterness not only from trans activists but from Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who suggested that the "regrettable" ruling might leave transgender-identifying individuals at risk of "harassment and bodily invasions."President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 directing his secretaries of state and homeland security to ensure that government-issued identification documents, including passports and visas, "accurately reflect the holder's sex."'Today, the Court refuses to answer equity's call.'The Trump administration's reversal of the Biden-era policy that enabled people to choose their own sex marker as well as a third marker, "X," instead of an "M" or an "F" marker, was poorly received by some radicals.Keen to have the government continue indulging their delusions, several transvestites joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and Covington & Burling LLP in a lawsuit over the passport policy in February.In April, U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Biden appointee, granted them a preliminary injunction preventing the State Department's enforcement of Trump's Executive Order 14168 while the lawsuit played out — but only as it applied to six of the plaintiffs. Months later, Kobick granted a class certification request and expanded the scope of her injunction.After its appeal was rejected by the First Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump administration filed an emergency stay request to the Supreme Court.To the chagrin of non-straight activists, the high court granted the stay on Thursday, stating, "Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment."RELATED: Trans-identifying teen agrees to plead guilty to plotting Valentine's Day massacre at high school Photo by Hyoung Chang/Denver Post/Getty ImagesThe court noted further in its unsigned order, which was opposed by all three liberal justices, that the "respondents have failed to establish that the Government's choice to display biological sex 'lack[s] any purpose other than a bare ... desire to harm a politically unpopular group.' ... Nor are respondents likely to prevail in arguing that the State Department acted arbitrarily and capriciously by declining to depart from Presidential rules that Congress expressly required it to follow."The high court concluded that absent a stay, the government would suffer a form of irreparable injury as the Biden judge's injunction could lead to foreign affairs implications.Justice Jackson noted in her dissenting opinion that "as is becoming routine, the Government seeks an emergency stay of a District Court’s preliminary injunction pending appeal. As is also becoming routine, this Court misunderstands the assignment."After casting doubt on her "obliging" colleagues' comprehension skills, Jackson — whose past opinions have bewildered her conservative and liberal peers alike — characterized the reality-affirming passport policy as "new" and legally questionable. Then sentences later, she acknowledged that it was not new so much as a reversion to the government's long-standing policy as it existed until at least the early 1990s.Jackson argued that the cross-dressing plaintiffs face greater harm absent injunctive relief than the government would face absent a stay, and expressed doubt whether the government faces any irreparable harm at all."But the Court somehow sees fit to grant the Government's stay request regardless, waving away its abject failure to show any irreparable harm and promoting a patently inequitable outcome to boot," wrote Jackson.Jackson suggested further that the indication of an individual's actual sex on a passport amounts to a concrete injury and echoed the Biden-appointed district court judge, writing that "transgender people who encounter obstacles to obtaining gender-congruent identity documents are almost twice as likely to experience suicidal ideation, and report more severe psychological distress, than transgender people who do not face such barriers."In her conclusion, the leftist justice complained that "today, the Court refuses to answer equity's call."Jon Davidson, senior counsel for the ACLU's LGBTQ & HIV Project, joined Jackson in complaining about the court's decision, stating, "This is a heartbreaking setback for the freedom of all people to be themselves and fuel on the fire the Trump administration is stoking against transgender people and their constitutional rights.""This decision will cause immediate, widespread, and irreparable harm to all those who are being denied accurate identity documents," said Jessie Rossman, legal director of the ACLU of Massachusetts. "The Trump administration's policy is an unlawful attempt to dehumanize, humiliate, and endanger transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans, and we will continue to seek its ultimate reversal in the courts."Attorney General Pam Bondi referred to the court's ruling as the administration's "24th victory at the Supreme Court's emergency docket" and noted, "Today’s stay allows the government to require citizens to list their biological sex on their passport. In other words: there are two sexes, and our attorneys will continue fighting for that simple truth."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

New York Rep. Elise Stefanik (R) on Friday officially announced her run for governor, challenging incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul (D). Stefanik called Hochul the “Worst Governor in America” and slammed her for endorsing Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor-elect.'I have a record of flipping a district that was previously held by a Democrat.'“Under her failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the nation with the highest taxes, highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills,” Stefanik wrote Friday in a post on social media. “When New Yorkers were looking for leadership from our Governor, she bent the knee to the raging Defund the Police, Tax Hiking Communist causing catastrophe for New York families.”Stefanik vowed that under her leadership, she would “make New York affordable and safe FOR ALL.”“Democrats, Republicans, and Independents will unify to save our state,” she continued. “It’s time to: FIRE HOCHUL. SAVE NEW YORK.”Stefanik released a campaign video highlighting New York’s affordability crisis and the influx of crime, prompting middle-class residents to flee the state, which she blamed on Hochul’s failed policies.RELATED: SHOCK POLL: Republican leads NY Governor Hochul one year before the election Elise Stefanik. Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesOn Friday, Stefanik told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” that “toxic” Hochul “bent the knee” to Mamdani “because she is hemorrhaging support, even in her own party.”Hochul won by 5.8 points in 2022 against Republican candidate Lee Zeldin, who is now the Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Donald Trump. The last time New Yorkers elected a Republican governor was in 2002. Despite the long streak of Democrat wins, Stefanik remains unfazed.“I have a record of flipping a district that was previously held by a Democrat,” Stefanik stated. “I’ve won every primary and general election, and we’ve overperformed — winning not just Republicans but independents and a fair share of Democrats as well — because my record has been delivering results for families, for small businesses, for our veterans, for our farmers.”Stefanik has secured endorsements from 34 Republican state assembly members and 12 state senators, according to her campaign. New York GOP Chairman Ed Cox also endorsed Stefanik, calling her “a unifier and a party builder with the brains, the guts, and the resources to win statewide next year.”RELATED: Trump slams Hochul’s endorsement of ‘communist’ Mamdani: ‘No reason to be sending good money’ Kathy Hochul. Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty ImagesHochul’s campaign fired back at Stefanik, describing her as a “sellout" because she has been Trump’s “number-one cheerleader in Congress and his right-hand woman in his war on New York.” The governor’s campaign accused the lawmaker of “gutting health care, jacking up costs with expensive tariffs, and cutting funding for our police, schools, and hospitals.”“Apparently, screwing over New Yorkers in Congress wasn’t enough — now she’s trying to bring Trump’s chaos and skyrocketing costs to our state. While Stefanik puts Trump first and New York last, Governor Hochul is lowering costs, cutting middle-class taxes, and fighting for the New Yorkers Stefanik abandoned,” Hochul’s campaign communications director Sarafina Chitika said. Blaze News contacted the campaigns of Stefanik and Hochul for comment but did not receive a response.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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