On Friday, NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff made several appearances on MSNBC to promote an anti-Trump documentary he helped make based on a book he wrote about the 2018 policy of separating illegal immigrants from their children at the border. On Morning Joe, in the absence of Joe and Mika, Jonathan Lemire showed a trailer for the film and then introduced Soboroff and film maker Errol Morris as guests: That was a look at the powerful new documentary from NBC News Studio, titled Separated, based on the New  York Times bestselling book of the same title from NBC News national and political correspondent Jacob Soboroff and directed by Academy Award-Winning filmmaker Errol Morris. Without putting into context that the Trump administration was trying to keep illegal aliens incarcerated until they could be deported, which meant their children had to be separated from them, Soboroff claimed the purpose of the policy was to "hurt" people: "...- 5,500 kids were deliberately separated from their parents for no other reason than to harm them -- to hurt them -- to scare their people from coming to the United States." Soboroff seemed content with the Biden administration's disastrous -- and sometimes deadly -- handling of illegal immigration as he answered a followup question: WALTER ISAACSON: You just mentioned that it's part of a pattern of deterrence that's happened for two decades now. What is the alternative to that? SOBOROFF: The alternative is a system as the Biden administration had laid out when Alejandro Mayorkas came in as the Homeland Security secretary -- one that is orderly, humane and fair. I'm not an immigration policy expert -- I'm a journalist who witnessed this myself -- and what I can tell you is what happened in the summer of 2018 was not that. Morris soon declared that he was "scared" of Trump and that "I wish Donald Trump would deport himself." A few hours later, as afternoon host Katy Tur also spoke with Soboroff and Morris, she observed the timing of the film being released during the presidential election: "When you started this, Donald Trump wasn't running for office again. I think we could say that, right? Do you see it now as a warning?" Morris reiterated his fears: I think he was always running for office. He was always somewhere lurking in the shadows, and he's frightening. I can tell you, quite simply, he frightens me. It's a visceral reaction. I don't even think it's intellectual anymore. Soboroff hit Democrats from the left as he complained that they also in past administrations have pushed a policy of "deterrence" against illegal immigrants. And, when the duo appeared again on Deadline: White House, host Nicolle Wallace recalled that children were kept in cages during the Trump administration without mentioning that the cage-like structures were built by the Obama administration for practical reasons to help protect women and children. Transcripts follow: MSNBC's Morning Joe October 4, 2024 9:41 a.m. Eastern JONATHAN LEMIRE: That was a look at the powerful new documentary from NBC News Studio, titled Separated, based on the New  York Times bestselling book of the same title from NBC News national and political correspondent Jacob Soboroff and directed by Academy Award-Winning filmmaker Errol Morris. The film describes the impact of the Trump administration's family separation policy at the southern border. And both Jacob and Errol join us now. ... So this is a story that obviously you have been covering for a long time. Viewers of this network will feel like they know it, but tell us why this film is so important. JACOB SOBOROFF: Well, I mean, don't take my word for it. Listen to what the George W. Bush-appointed judge in the Southern District of New York who stopped this policy said about it. He said it was "one of the most shameful chapters in the history of this country." Not my words -- Dana Sabraw's words, Republican-appointed judge -- 5,500 kids were deliberately separated from their parents for no other reason than to harm them -- to hurt them -- to scare their people from coming to the United States. It's part of a pattern of immigration policy in the United States that is bipartisan that revolves around deterrence and scaring people from coming here by hurting them and most profoundly obviously with this famous example of the Trump family separation policy. And there is still questions about why this happened, how it could have happened, how the nation let it happen, and that's why Errol and I decided to get together to make what Errol has done -- a spectacularly beautiful film that only Errol Morris can make. WALTER ISAACSON: You just mentioned that it's part of a pattern of deterrence that's happened for two decades now. What is the alternative to that? SOBOROFF: The alternative is a system as the Biden administration had laid out when Alejandro Mayorkas came in as the Homeland Security secretary -- one that is orderly, humane and fair. I'm not an immigration policy expert -- I'm a journalist who witnessed this myself -- and what I can tell you is what happened in the summer of 2018 was not that. (...) He (Trump) wanted to reinstate it, and he still has not said whether or not he would reinstate it. And that's why there are, you know, that's why I think the film is so important -- what Errol has done -- is so important -- to answer questions about what the future holds as much as it does in the past, including what the Biden administration has promised but hasn't done, which is have a wholesale radical departure from an immigration system based on deterrence and cruelty (?). LEMIRE: So, Errol, there's also of course a timeliness to this film because it's not just that Donald Trump was President. He is the Republican nominee for President. He stands about a one in two chance of being President again. And some of his policies, including forced deportation of immigrants including some who are here legally, is what he is saying, very much your film has a timeliness here. Talk to me about why you think it was so important to come out now and your, frankly, fears of what the next Trump term will look like. ERROL MORRIS, FILM MAKER: I'm scared. I wish Donald Trump would deport himself. LEMIRE: Fair enough. And with that, we'll leave it right there perfectly and briefly said with some real brevity. (...) MSNBC's Katy Tur Reports October 4, 2024 3:59 p.m. KATY TUR: When you started this, Donald Trump wasn't running for office again. I think we could say that, right? Do you see it now as a warning? ERROL MORRIS: I think he was always running for office. He was always somewhere lurking in the shadows, and he's frightening. I can tell you, quite simply, he frightens me. It's a visceral reaction. I don't even think it's intellectual anymore. (...) SOBOROFF: He's put it in the context -- Errol has the way only Errol can as a film maker -- of decades of bipartisan deterrence-based policy. What Donald Trump did wouldn't have been possible were it not for Democratic administrations creating -- its treating immigration as a deterrence policy -- something to punish and harm people for coming to the United States to do, and that's how we ended up with the separation policy -- how we ended up where we are today. (...) MSNBC's Deadline: White House October 4, 2024 5:45 p.m. NICOLLE WALLACE: Earlier this week at the vice presidential debate, J.D. Vance opened the door to returning to one of the darkest periods in our country's history, and that was Donald Trump's policy of forcibly separating children from their parents who were trying to immigrate to the country. Thousands of children were taken from their parents under this policy -- some as young as four months old -- and kept in wire cages. (...) JACOB SOBOROFF: We're looking down the barrel of the exact same policy potentially happening again in this moment, and they're employing some of the same rhetoric. And I do want to point out, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't -- and part of the reason that we wanted to tell the story is we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the bipartisan deterrence-based nature of immigration policy in the U.S. The Biden administration just put forward one of the most conservative immigration bills in the history of the country. But nobody has ever done what the Trump administration did, and nobody has used it, employed it, deployed it in the campaign in the way they're continuing to do. ERROL MORRIS: We hear arguments that this has been done before, that this is no different from what was done in the Obama administration, the Bush administration, the Clinton administration. Did they have immigration policies that were draconian -- that were filled with, I would say cruel policies, but nothing on this level.

Monday marked the one-year anniversary of barbarians from Gaza murdering and raping their way through southeast Israel, killing the men, women, children, the elderly, and young people at a concert. How did CBS Mornings choose to remember that day? By lamenting that Israel responded with the overwhelming force needed to neutralize the threat to innocent people, and lying by omission to suggest the Israeli Defense Forces had not rescued any hostages. CBS foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer walked through the ruins of Kibbutz Be’eri as her report noted that October 7 included a “a pitiless attack on young people attending a music festival.” Adding: “It was chaos, a killing spree and mass kidnapping there and nearby Zikim where 101 were murdered, some burned alive in their homes and even babies abducted.” Those facts were followed up by Palmer lamenting how “Israel's response was immediate. It bombed Gaza then sent in ground forces.” “As for the physical destruction, on a recent visit to southern Gaza with the military we saw nothing but ruins,” she mourned. Palmer also seemed to suggest that Israel was intentionally bombing babies: …two million Palestinians trapped in a sliver of land the Israeli military bombs every day. The target they say is Hamas. The collateral damage can be anyone else no matter how small. As she made those comments, imaging of babies in hospitals flashed on the screen; without admitting that Hamas uses human shields.     Through lying by omission, Palmer suggested that the IDF had not been successful in rescuing any hostages. “The mission: to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages. A year later, neither has been accomplished,” she proclaimed. She also pushed a conspiracy theory that the Israeli government didn’t want to the bring the hostages home (Click “expand”): PALMER: Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, in hiding, is stalling on a deal and vowing to fight on. PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We will win PALMER: And millions of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-right allies are stalling, too. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We see that our government are full of shi[ bleep ] -- Excuse my language. And they do nothing. Our prime minister is a liar. PALMER: Over the past month, Israel's government has led the country into a bigger, riskier war. CBS’s own reporting back in August noted that the IDF had rescued eight hostages. That report, as with Palmer’s, failed to mention that United Nations employees took part in the capture and captivity of the hostages. Those rescued hostages were also ignored during Palmer’s follow up report in the next hour, when she spoke with Moran Yanai, a woman who was held hostage by Hamas but was released in a trade for terrorists. “In November, there was a cease-fire. Palestinian prisoners were released from Israeli jails, and Hamas let 105 hostages go in batches over seven days,” Palmer said. In between Palmer’s reports, co-hosts Tony Dokoupil, Gayle King, and Nate Burleson spoke with Leat Corinne Unger, who’s cousin Omer Shem Tov was still being held hostage. In keeping with Palmer’s narrative, Burleson and King tried to tee up Unger to blame the Israeli government for her cousin’s continued captivity: BURLESON: In your opinion, what do you believe is the biggest obstacle of why there has not been a hostage deal done? (…) KING: What do you believe, as we sit here today, what it will take to reach a deal? But she didn’t bite, keeping the focus on Hamas. “I mean, the Biden administration has made it clear that the biggest obstacle is Yahya Sinwar,” she said. “But I think that the international community has failed to pressure Hamas through Iran, Qatar, and Turkey, and they are prioritizing political interests instead of prioritizing the sanctity of human life.” Burleson got a little more direct in where he wanted the criticism to go. “How do you feel about the job Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing?” he asked. Unger did say she felt Netanyahu’s “focus is on other things right now. It hasn't prioritized the hostages” as attention moved to the threat in the north. She did commend the work going on up there in targeting more of Israel’s enemies. “I think it's great that we've made advancements with Hezbollah and taken out a lot of their leaders, but I wish he focused on his commitment to bring back innocent people who were stolen from their beds and from a field,” she said. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CBS Mornings October 7, 2024 7:06:46 a.m. Eastern (…) ELIZABETH PALMER: This is Kibbutz Be’eri, about three miles from Gaza. And reminders of the massacre are everywhere like the burned out house you can see behind me. It's where Hamas murdered Yuval Haran's father and kidnapped his mother and six other members of the family. It's just one of the traumatic stories that Israelis are reliving today, a year after the October 7th attack. [Cuts to video] The attack began with Hamas terrorists shooting their way out of Gaza, past Israeli border security to launch a pitiless attack on young people attending a music festival. It was chaos, a killing spree and mass kidnapping there and nearby Zikim where 101 were murdered, some burned alive in their homes and even babies abducted. Israel's response was immediate. It bombed Gaza then sent in ground forces. The mission -- to destroy Hamas and rescue the hostages. A year later, neither has been accomplished. 97 hostages taken on October 7th are presumed still to be in Gaza along with two million Palestinians trapped in a sliver of land the Israeli military bombs every day. The target they say is Hamas. The collateral damage can be anyone else no matter how small. As for the physical destruction, on a recent visit to southern Gaza with the military we saw nothing but ruins. Recent polling data shows a slim majority of Israelis want the war in Gaza to end in a deal to bring the hostages home. Easier said than done. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, in hiding, is stalling on a deal and vowing to fight on. PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: We will win PALMER: And millions of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ultra-right allies are stalling, too. UNIDENTIFIED MAN: We see that our government are full of shi[ bleep ] -- Excuse my language. And they do nothing. Our prime minister is a liar. PALMER: Over the past month, Israel's government has led the country into a bigger, riskier war. [Cuts back to live] Most of the hostages' families fear that means a death sentence for their loved ones. As one speaker said at a memorial we attended this morning, we all know this war is going to end in an agreement, it's just a question of how many lives will be lost between now and then. (…) 7:41:58 a.m. Eastern NATE BURLESON: In your opinion, what do you believe is the biggest obstacle of why there has not been a hostage deal done? LEAT CORINNE UNGER: I mean, the Biden administration has made it clear that the biggest obstacle is Yahya Sinwar. But I think that the international community has failed to pressure Hamas through Iran, Qatar, and Turkey, and they are prioritizing political interests instead of prioritizing the sanctity of human life. GAYLE KING: Yeah, Sinwar is the head of Hamas. UNGER: Yes. KING: What do you believe, as we sit here today, what it will take to reach a deal? UNGER: I think now that we're looking this northern front, we need to deescalate the situation and avoid a regional war, and the hostages must be at the top of the priority list. There should be no discussion of a cease-fire deal without a discussion of the hostages. So, if the international community comes together and really prioritizes human life and wants to avoid continued suffering in the region, which it's been a year of ongoing suffering. KING: Haven't they done that, Leat? Hasn't the international come together and say this has got to end? I'm trying to figure out what will it take to finally move the needle on it. UNGER: It's a good question. You know, I'm not a political adviser. I don't have any knowledge of it. At the end of the day, if they've done it, it hasn't been enough because at the end of the day Omer and 100 other hostages are not home. (…) 7:44:18 a.m. Eastern BURLESON: How do you feel about the job Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing? UNGER: I think his focus is on other things right now. It hasn't prioritized the hostages. I think it's great that we've made advancements with Hezbollah and taken out a lot of their leaders, but I wish he focused on his commitment to bring back innocent people who were stolen from their beds and from a field. (…)

A middle-school teacher and the chair of the Democratic Party in Jay County, Indiana, resigned both of those positions after he was accused of masturbating in front of his students and sending explicit photos to a person who identified herself as a 15-year-old girl.The eighth-grade students in Joel Bowers' sixth-period social studies class at Jay County Junior-Senior High School in Portland, Indiana, about an hour south of Fort Wayne, became increasingly uncomfortable during class on April 9. According to reports, Mr. Bowers, 37, refused to get up from his seat to teach the class that day but never really assigned students to perform any tasks.Bowers "would not get out of his seat and didn't tell us to do anything," a student later claimed.One female student reportedly took photos and video of Bowers during class that day and sent them to her mother. The video and photo evidence indicated that he had a white stain near the groin area of his pants, that his shirt was partially untucked, that he was sweating profusely, and that he had a hand under his desk."There was white stuff on his pants and he would not get up for anything," the girl said in a report submitted to school resource officer Cody Jesse a day after the alleged incident. "He had his hand down there and was sweating, but it was cold in his room. His hands was down there, but when someone went up there he would wipe his hand off with paper towel."Other students made similar observations, claiming that Bowers refused to leave his seat and told students to come to his desk if they had questions. When students began whispering about what he might be doing, Bowers allegedly told them he was looking at his phone for other reasons, the Commercial Review said.Some students even alleged that Bowers was ogling students' rear ends that day as well.When police and school administrators confronted him with the allegations, Bowers denied "touching himself in class," the Star Press reported. He also furnished the pants he had been wearing that day. Though the pants reportedly had a white stain in the vicinity of his crotch, just as students had said, Bowers claimed the stain was paint. Bowers acknowledged to police that he should have ended their conversation after she told him she was actually 15 but that he 'got caught up in the moment,' the police report said.During the investigation, police uncovered a Snapchat conversation Bowers had with a user who identified herself as a 15-year-old girl. During their exchanges, Bowers allegedly sent the girl a photo of his erect penis.When confronted with the Snapchat evidence, Bowers said he initially believed the individual was 18 since he had met her on Free Chat Now, an online platform ostensibly restricted to those 18 and up. Bowers then allegedly invited the girl to move their conversation from Free Chat Now to Snapchat, where they could exchange photos and engage in what he described to police as "age play." Bowers acknowledged to police that he should have ended their conversation after she told him she was actually 15 but that he "got caught up in the moment," the police report said.Bowers said he wasn't sure exactly how old she was, according to the police report. Whether his interlocutor has been identified and confirmed to be a 15-year-old girl is unclear.Finally, Bowers allegedly admitted to police that he has sent nude photos to other women in the past and that he has done internet searches for "youngest or younger porn," the Commercial Review reported.Within days of the alleged masturbation incident, Bowers was placed on administrative leave, the Mercer County Outlook reported. He resigned from his teaching position on May 20.At the time of the alleged incident, Bowers was also the chair of the Jay County Democrats. He resigned from that position around the same time he resigned from his teaching post.Last Tuesday, Bowers was arrested and charged with performance before a minor that is harmful to minors and dissemination of matter harmful to minors, both Level 6 felonies. He was taken to Jay County Jail but later released on $3,000 bond.According to the Commercial Review, Bowers has no prior record aside from a traffic violation.Blaze News attempted to reach Bowers for comment, dialing multiple numbers believed to be associated with him. One number has since been disconnected. A message left at another number was not returned.Neither the school nor the administrator of the Jay County Democrats Facebook page, where Bowers is likewise still listed as an administrator, responded to a request for comment from Blaze News.H/T: Libs of TikTokLike Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Will Ferrell released a new Netflix documentary that explores the relationship between Ferrell and his “transgender” friend Andrew Steele, who now identifies as “Harper” — and it’s every bit as delusional as you might assume. “We always say ‘quote unquote’ or ‘so-called’ or ‘what’s referred to’ because there’s no such thing as transitioning. Your gender and sex are one and the same. They’re not two different categories,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments. “Now we’ve got a Netflix series saying that a man who has lived as a man his entire life is now a woman and should be accepted as a woman and should be able to go into women’s spaces to be regarded as a woman,” she says, adding, “and Will Ferrell is just like ‘It’s no big deal, who cares, like he’s just happy.’” And recent comments made by Ferrell make his deluded take on the matter abundantly clear. “There is hatred out there. It’s very real and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations. But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis-male,” Ferrell said. The famous actor also reportedly said that “it’s strange” to him because “Harper is finally her.” “If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself,” he added. “Remember, Will Ferrell is a multi-millionaire who has already made his career in Hollywood. He’s a man himself, and he has sons, and so these people who always claim they’re on the side of empathy I guess have a hard time understanding why we as women, as moms and parents who have daughters, why we would not want these men entering our spaces,” Stuckey says. While the film itself sets out to claim that transgenders are hated across the country, especially in red states, the film ends up disproving their own narrative. “Steele is treated warmly by people all over the country. Which I think is good, like I do think just in a personal interaction you can treat anyone, no matter who they are, warmly,” Stuckey says, noting that if the tables were turned, the reception might not be so friendly. “If you made a documentary of someone with a MAGA hat,” she says, “and he went to a bar in New York, I guarantee you he would probably be physically assaulted because remember, politics is the religion of the left. It is their theology.” Not only does the film disprove its own narrative but the questions being asked by Ferrell appear intentionally surface-level in order to keep “Harper” from facing any legitimate critiques. “The questions that are being asked by Will Ferrell aren’t like, ‘Okay, so you’re going to share a bathroom with these women?’ The questions are just like, ‘How do you feel? Does this make you happy? Are you your authentic self?” Stuckey explains. “We live in a world that says all of your feelings are valid. All of your feelings are not valid. They may all be real, but valid means they’re rooted in truth. Some of our feelings are just downright lies,” she adds. Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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