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Dana Bash did double duty on Sunday. Not just hosting CNN's State of the Union—but serving as a Biden campaign surrogate, too! Bash began by confronting her guest, South Carolina Republican Senator Tim Scott, with a Biden campaign ad attacking former President Trump on race. [When's the last time Bash used a Republican attack ad to put a Democrat on the spot?] When in response, Scott alluded to accusations Kamala Harris had made against Biden on issues of race during the 2020 presidential election cycle. "[H]is own Vice President, Kamala Harris, said he supported segregation," he recalled.  Bash rose to Biden's defense: "Senator, just one thing, on the Kamala Harris: you were talking about when they were running against each other for the nomination. I'm just giving context to our viewers of when it happened." Translation: What Kamala said then doesn't count now. Just forget it!  But as Scott pointed out, "She made the statement, literally on TV. It's not something that cannot be confirmed." And what did Kamala Harris say on TV? In the presidential debate of June 2019, Harris told Biden: "It was actually hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. It was not only that but you also worked with them to oppose busing. " Scott was correct in saying that Kamala's accusations were something that could be confirmed. As for Kamala's comment about Biden talking about segregationist senators, here's what Bash's own CNN has reported at the time: "[Biden] does have a history of praising several senators who supported segregation and opposed the Civil Rights Act . . . Biden praised then-Mississippi Sen. John Stennis, a staunch segregationist as a 'hero' and 'a hell of a guy.' "Biden also has praised South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, who ran for president as a segregationist in 1948 as a Dixiecrat." Biden also described segregationist senators Stennis, Thurmond and Eastland as "my friends." And Harris was also correct in saying that Biden worked with segregationists to oppose busing. As per this NBC News article, "Joe Biden didn't just compromise with segregationists. He fought for their cause in schools, experts say." But none of that stopped Bash from defending her boy Biden, brushing off Kamala's comments with the equivalent of a, "nothing to see here, move along!" Beyond Kamala's slaps at Biden on race, Scott was also correct in mentioning that Biden had in the past complained that desegregation would force his children to grow up in a "racial jungle." The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN State of the Union 5/26/24 9:10 am EDT DANA BASH: I want to turn to something you mentioned at the beginning of the interview, which is a rally that the former president held in the Bronx on Thursday to try to win over black and Latino voters. I want you to watch a new ad from the Biden campaign this week. BIDEN CAMPAIGN AD: Donald Trump disrespecting black folk is nothing new. It's why Trump stood with, violent, white supremacists, warned of a bloodbath if he loses the next election, and if he's president again, vowed to be a dictator who wants revenge on his enemies. BASH: So senator, what do you say to black Americans, black voters, who watch that ad and share those concerns about Donald Trump? TIM SCOTT: Well, here's what I can tell you, is that under Donald Trump, we were better off. The two things that are driving black votes back to Donald Trump: jobs and justice . Number one, under Donald Trump, our wages were going up, right now, fairness is going down. But if you're really concerned about racial justice in America, let's not forget, Joe Biden is the guy that talked about racial jungles as a result of desegregation. Let's not forget the fact that Joe Biden is a president who said if you don't vote for me, you can't be black. An old white dude telling me I can't be black if I don't vote for him.  This is a president who said that the Republican party wants to put you back in chains. The only person I've seen restraining black folks economically is a Joe Biden economy. So I find it quite insulting to suggest that Joe Biden does not have serious concerns when his own Vice President, Kamala Harris, said he supported segregation.  And if you look in cities like Chicago today, the elimination of charter schools under Joe Biden resegregates schools in America. We need four more years of common sense under Donald Trump, and not four more years of segregation under Joe Biden, and his approach to allow poor black kids to go to any school in their own cities. BASH: Senator, I think we're, just one thing on the Kamala Harris. You were talking about when they were running against each other for the nomination -- SCOTT: I think she, I think she made the statement literally on TV. BASH: You don't think calling Joe Biden somebody -- SCOTT:  It's not something that cannot be confirmed. BASH: Yeah. No, no. I'm not, I'm just giving context to our viewers of when it happened.      

CBS’s Cecilia Vega recently traveled to Texas to interview Gov. Greg Abbott for a 60 Minutes profile on the state’s fight with the federal government over border enforcement. Vega immediately reached for the most hysterical explanation she could think of, asking Abbott if the dispute was about secession. Before any questions, Vega set the scene as she narrated over some video footage: We were on the banks of the river before dawn with soldiers from the Texas National Guard. We heard the cries of people before we could see their faces. It wasn't until we moved closer that we realized how many people had just crossed from Mexico. The soldiers told them it was dangerous to cross here. ‘Help us,’ they begged. Some of the women cried, ‘we have children.’ We heard groans and found this young man twisting in the wire. He kept going. ‘Stay calm,’ they told each other, as families pushed their children through. Nearly everyone we saw made it across and into the United States. Thousands of people a day crossed here in late December, a record for this section of the Texas border. There were so many people, the U.S. Border Patrol had to transform Shelby Park into an open-air holding center.      Still narrating, Vega moved on to Abbott, “Weeks later, once the surge died down, Governor Abbott ordered his Texas National Guard to block the federal government's border patrol from entering the park without permission. Governor Abbott argued the federal government had failed to fulfill its obligation to the states. And in that, some heard echoes of Texas' history of rebellion and threats of secession.” Now sitting across from Abbott, she asked, “I can't believe, governor, I'm going to ask you this question. But I'm going to ask you. Do you believe that Texas has the right to secede? Is that what we're talking about here?” Abbott quickly batted the idea away, “Those are false narratives. What Texas and the United States have the right to do and that's to enforce the law.” Vega followed up, “You heard the argument against what you're doing out here. Each state can't control its own border policy. You're looking at a completely chaotic system. That's the job of the federal government.” Again, Abbott rejected the premise, “We’re not imposing a Texas border policy. Texas is very simply is enforcing the laws that are the policy of the United States Congress.” The rest of the segment tried to pain the situation at the border as inherently complex and even included former Border Patrol chief Raul Ortiz criticizing Abbott and President Joe Biden, but if it is really that complex, why did Vega lead off by wasting everyone's time by asking about secession? Here is a transcript for the May 26 show: CBS 60 Minutes 5/26/2024 7:06 PM ET CECILIA VEGA: We were on the banks of the river before dawn with soldiers from the Texas National Guard. We heard the cries of people before we could see their faces. It wasn't until we moved closer that we realized how many people had just crossed from Mexico. The soldiers told them it was dangerous to cross here. “Help us,” they begged. Some of the women cried, “we have children.” We heard groans and found this young man twisting in the wire. He kept going. “Stay calm,” they told each other, as families pushed their children through. Nearly everyone we saw made it across and into the United States. Thousands of people a day crossed here in late December, a record for this section of the Texas border. There were so many people, the U.S. Border Patrol had to transform Shelby Park into an open-air holding center.  Weeks later, once the surge died down, Governor Abbott ordered his Texas National Guard to block the federal government's border patrol from entering the park without permission. Governor Abbott argued the federal government had failed to fulfill its obligation to the states. And in that, some heard echoes of Texas' history of rebellion and threats of secession. I can't believe, governor, I'm going to ask you this question. But I'm going to ask you. Do you believe that Texas has the right to secede? Is that what we're talking about here? GREG ABBOTT: Those are false narratives. What Texas and the United States have the right to do and that's to enforce the law. VEGA: You heard the argument against what you're doing out here. Each state can't control its own border policy. You're looking at a completely chaotic system. That's the job of the federal government. ABBOTT: We’re not imposing a Texas border policy. Texas is very simply is enforcing the laws that are the policy of the United States Congress.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was recently asked about one of his boss' unrealistic green schemes, namely the installation of electric vehicle charging stations across the country. His answer prompted CBS' Margaret Brennan to laugh in his face. Apparently keen to keep the laughs coming, Buttigieg subsequently blamed airline turbulence on climate change. Only 499,992 to go Ahead of the 2020 election, then-candidate Joe Biden promised the American people in four debates and during his CNN town hall interview that he would build half a million new charging stations across the nation if elected. After taking the White House, Biden reiterated his promise, stating in November 2021, "We're going to build out the first-ever national network of charging stations all across the country — over 500,000 of them. ... So you'll be able to go across the whole darn country, from East Coast to West Coast, just like you'd stop at a gas station now. These charging stations will be available." That month, the then-Democrat-controlled Congress passed a corresponding $1 trillion infrastructure package. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and 18 other Republican lawmakers, evidently unswayed by former President Donald Trump's critiques, subsequently helped Democrats pass the measure in the U.S. Senate. Of the 1,000 billion taxpayer dollars sunk into the bill, $73 billion was designated for updating the nation's electricity grid so it could carry more renewable energy and $7.5 billion to build Biden's promised EV charging stations by 2030. According to the EV policy analyst group Atlas Public Policy, the funding designated for the rollout should be enough for at least 20,000 charging spots and 5,000 stations. Now years into the scheme, it appears increasingly unlikely that Biden's costly promise will materialize. In March, the Federal Highway Administration confirmed to the Washington Post that only seven of Biden's planned 500,000 EV charging stations were operational, amounting to a total of 38 spots for drivers in Hawaii, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to charge their vehicles. Politico noted last year that that a National Renewable Energy Laboratory study estimated the country will need 1.2 million public chargers by 2030 to meet the demand artificially created by the Biden administration's climate agenda and corresponding regulations. As of June 2023, there were roughly 180,000 chargers nationwide. House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and other Republican lawmakers penned a February letter to Buttigieg and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, expressing concerns that "American taxpayer dollars are being woefully mismanaged." Over the weekend, Margaret Brennan pressed the issue further in conversation with the Biden DOT secretary on CBS' "Face the Nation." Laughable "Let me ask you about a portion of this that I think does fall under your portfolio, and that's the charging stations you mentioned. The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021," said Brennan. "Why isn't that happening more quickly?" "So the president's goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it's more than just plunking a small device into the ground. There's utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment." "But we've been working with each of the 50 states," continued Buttigieg. "Every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work." Brennan leaned in and asked, "Seven or eight, though?" "Again, by 2030: 500,000 chargers," responded Buttigieg. Brennan laughed at Buttigieg's suggestion, evidently unable to conceal her disbelief in the possibility that another 499,992 chargers could be installed and operational inside the next six years. "And the very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built. But again, that's the absolute very, very beginning stages of the construction to come," added Buttigieg. Despite the Biden administration admittedly being at the "very, very beginning stages," it is nevertheless trying to get gas-consuming cars off the streets and replacing them with EVs that will all rely on the handful of existing charging stations. In March, the administration announced a rule that would limit the amount of exhaust permitted from cars such that by 2032, over half of the new cars need to be so-called zero-emissions vehicles, reported the New York Times. Keeping it light While short on satisfactory answers, Buttigieg still had plenty of alarmism to go around. The DOT secretary told Brennan, "The reality is the effects of climate change are already upon us in terms of our transportation. We've seen that in the form of everything from heat waves that shouldn't statistically even be possible threatening to melt the cables of transit systems in the Pacific Northwest, to hurricane seasons becoming more and more extreme, and indications that turbulence is up by about 15%." A study published last year in Geophysical Research Letters suggested that clear-air turbulence "is predicted to become more frequent because of climate change," claiming that the strongest category of clear-air turbulence was 55% more frequent in 2020 than in 1979. Brennan pressed Buttigieg on whether the kind of extreme turbulence experienced last week by Singapore Airlines flight SQ321, which was traveling from London to Singapore, would soon become more common in the United States. "To be clear, something that extreme is very rare. But turbulence can happen and sometimes it can happen unexpectedly," said Buttigieg. "This is all about making sure that we stay ahead of the curve, keeping aviation as safe as it is." The "Face the Nation" interview was slapped with a community note on X, noting that National Transportation Safety Board data "shows there is no rising trend in aircraft turbulence incidents." — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The latest reboot from the "Mad Max" series was not enough to pull in moviegoers for Memorial Day weekend, marking another low point for the movie industry that saw the weakest numbers for Memorial Day in nearly 30 years."Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" garnered fantastically little at the box office, especially for a special, four-day opening weekend. With just $26,300,000 in its first three days, the holiday opening added just a few million to its total, finishing the long weekend with only $32,000,000, according to Box Office Mojo.This was barely enough to edge out "The Garfield Movie," with one stark difference. The reported budget for the lasagna-loving cat was around $60 million while "Furiosa" put up a tab of somewhere between $168-$233 million. As Screenrant reported, the movie would generally need to take in between $336-$466 million to be considered successful for studio Warner Bros., which may serve as a challenge.The stunning, brave, and powerful female-led film was the lowest-earning No. 1 film for a Memorial Day box office opening since 1995 when "Casper" took the top spot with just $16.8 million. The Australian post-apocalyptic adventure, coupled with the comic strip cat, also marked Hollywood's worst Memorial Day weekend for the industry in the 29-year span.Comparatively, things weren't looking so bad in 2023 when "The Little Mermaid" opened to $188 million on Memorial Day weekend. In 2022, Tom Cruise excited crowds with "Top Gun: Maverick" and had a $160 million holiday opening, finishing with $700 million domestically. 'This was indeed a historically slow Memorial Day weekend for movie theaters.'The lackluster Memorial Day box office should worry the entire movie industry, which NBC News noted has yet to have a box office smash in 2024. No film has broken $100 million in terms of an opening weekend this year, and that burden is now shifted to the shoulders of even more upcoming sequels and reboots."Despicable Me 4" is one possible performer, while the remake of 1996 hit "Twister" comes back with the aptly named "Twisters" in July. Disney's "Inside Out 2" and "Deadpool and Wolverine" are more sequels that have high hopes.A reliance on sequels hasn't been working out however, especially for the likes of Disney, which has announced it will continue to move forward with known storylines."I just think that right now, given the competition in the overall movie marketplace that actually there's a lot of value in the sequels obviously because they're known and it takes less in terms of marketing," said Disney CEO Bob Iger during a May 2024 earnings call.Despite sequels and reboots for "Indiana Jones," a "Haunted Mansion," and "The Marvels" performing terribly, Iger insisted this was the path forward for the company. This, of course, included "more Avengers.""The team is, I think, one that I have tremendous confidence in. And the IP that we're mining, including all the sequels that we're doing is second to none. So I feel really good about what's coming up," the CEO added.While "Furiosa" seemed to be plagued with being too long and providing too little, Comscore senior analyst Paul Dergarabedian simply noted that "this was indeed a historically slow Memorial Day weekend for movie theaters."Hollywood hopes its upcoming sequels will "allow the industry to hit the reset and get the industry moving in a positive direction," Dergarabedian told NBC News.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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