With the general election underway‚ the campaigns are off to the races…and so are the networks’ respective political correspondents. And they seem to be all over the place‚ as their coverage of reaction to remarks made by former President Donald Trump over the future of Social Security. CBS barely covered the issue‚ lumping it in as a throwaway item within a broader political roundup by White House correspondent Nancy Cordes: NANCY CORDES: In the same interview‚ Trump suggested he is open to cutting Medicare or Social Security to save money. Biden seized on that in New Hampshire. JOE BIDEN: I'm never going to allow that to happen. I won't cut Social Security‚ I won't cut Medicare.  There is no video of Trump’s remarks‚ nothing to point to except Cordes’ interpretation of Trump’s remark and a sampling of Biden’s seizing. About 15 seconds within a 2-plus minute report. ABC aired the Trump remarks in question‚ but did not mention Trump’s subsequent clarification until the end of the report‚ which in summary was vintage ABC Biden sycophancy. Or apple polishing‚ as my colleagues refer to ABC-Disney News’ gleeful willingness to self-degrade for Team Biden: RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight‚ the stark difference between the two candidates on full display. President Biden seizing on new comments by Donald Trump. The former president seeming to suggest he would be open to cutting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. Correspondent Rachel Scott served‚ per ABC custom‚ as a human bullhorn through which Biden talking points were broadcast and amplified- whether on Biden’s budget‚ or on the “seizing”- a recurring topic throughout the evening.  NBC was the cleanest of the three on Trump’s remarks‚ and aired the clarification on Social Security earlier into the report than did ABC (the end) or CBS (not at all). In addition to airing the clarification‚ correspondent Garrett Haake included a Trump quote demonstrating further reluctance to cut Social Security. GARRETT HAAKE: The Trump campaign saying he was not talking about cutting benefits but cutting waste. Mr. Trump just last week posting‚ "Republicans have no plans to cut Social Security."   Of the three networks‚ NBC appeared to be the most reluctant to gaslight their viewers. Of note‚ NBC was also the only report to include Biden’s backtrack on his description of the illegal alien that murdered UGA nursing student Laken Riley as “an illegal”. Click “expand” to view the full transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective network evening newscasts on Monday‚ March 11th‚ 2024: ABC World News Tonight: DAVID MUIR: Now‚ to the race for the White House tonight. What former President Trump said just this morning about government entitlement programs including Social Security. President Biden on the campaign trail in New Hampshire‚ pouncing. Here's Rachel Scott.  RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight‚ the stark difference between the two candidates on full display. President Biden seizing on new comments by Donald Trump. The former president seeming to suggest he would be open to cutting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.  DONALD TRUMP: There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements‚ in terms of cutting‚ and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements‚ tremendous‚ bad management of entitlements. There's tremendous amounts of things‚ numbers of things you can do.  SCOTT: Biden tweeting out Trump’s comments with these words: "Not on my watch." Hitting him again on a campaign swing in New Hampshire.  JOE BIDEN: Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security‚ Medicare‚ are on the table again. I'm never going to allow that to happen. SCOTT: Biden today unveiling his budget wish list. A $7.3 trillion plan highlighting his priorities for voters. It includes $4.7 billion for border security. And a host of programs to help the middle class‚ including a $2‚600 child tax credit. A new tax credit for first-time home buyers‚ and lowering the cost of prescription drugs‚ including insulin. To pay for it all‚ Biden wants to raise taxes on corporations and impose a 25% minimum tax on people worth more than $100 million. The president again drawing a sharp contrast with Donald Trump. BIDEN: Do you really think the wealthy and big corporations need another $2 trillion tax breaks? Because that's what he wants to do. SCOTT: Biden pledging that nobody who earns less than $400‚000 will see their taxes go up.  BIDEN: Nobody -- not a single cent -- nobody will pay a single penny more‚ and they haven't thus far. Folks‚ it's about fundamental fairness.  SCOTT: David‚ back to Medicare and Social Security. Donald Trump saying today there's a lot you can do in terms of entitlements‚ in terms of cutting. Now‚ his campaign says what he was talking about was cutting waste‚ not the programs themselves. David. MUIR: Rachel Scott tonight. Rachel‚ thank you.   CBS Evening News: Now‚ to America Decides 2024 and the race for president. Tonight‚ there’s a shake-up at the Republican National Committee engineered by Donald Trump. CBS News has learned that dozens are being pushed out as the former president's allies and his daughter-in-law take over. Here's CBS's Nancy Cordes with headlines from the campaign trail.  NANCY CORDES: Campaigning in New Hampshire today‚ President Biden brought up the company his opponent kept this weekend.  JOE BIDEN: He was with Viktor Orban‚ who talked about democracy being a problem. CORDES: Viktor Orban is the authoritarian-leaning leader of Hungary who has cracked down on the judiciary‚ the press‚ and LGBTQ+ rights. He drew high praise from Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. DONALD TRUMP: …because he said this is the way it's going to be and that's the end of it. He is the boss. And he is a great leader‚ fantastic leader.  CORDES: Orban later told the Hungarian press that Trump had promised he would not give a penny to Ukraine if elected. The Trump campaign disputes that. They’re also fielding questions about Trump’s abrupt reversal on TikTok. He now opposes a ban on the Chinese-owned social media site.  TRUMP: It was a meeting that lasted for a few minutes.  CORDES: in an interview this morning‚ Trump denied that his change of heart came after meeting with financier Jeff Yass‚ whose fund has a multibillion-dollar stake in TikTok's parent company. TRUMP: I don't think I ever met him before‚ but he never mentioned TikTok.  CORDES: In the same interview‚ Trump suggested he is open to cutting Medicare or Social Security to save money. Biden seized on that in New Hampshire. BIDEN: I'm never going to allow that to happen. I won't cut Social Security‚ I won't cut Medicare.  CORDES: In the wake of the State of the Union address‚ Biden is hitting battleground states and airing a new ad about his age. BIDEN: Look‚ I'm not a young guy‚ that's no secret. But here's the deal. I understand how to get things done for the American people.  CORDES: In Rome‚ Georgia this weekend‚ Trump called Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech a --  TRUMP: Angry‚ dark‚ hate-filled rant.  CORDES: Then he mocked the president’s lifelong stutter.  TRUMP: Listen‚ I’m going to bring the country to-to-to-to-gether.  CORDES: It was not the first time Trump has made fun of a disability or speech disorder. A Biden campaign official said that it shows that Trump is‚ quote‚ “weak and insecure”. It came in the same speech that Trump referred to reporters as “criminals”. Norah. O’DONNELL: Nancy Cordes‚ at the White House‚ Thank you.   NBC Nightly News: LESTER HOLT: Let's turn to the race for the White House now and a new clash over Social Security. President Biden accusing Donald Trump of suggesting he'd make cuts to the entitlement program. The Trump campaign firing back tonight‚ saying Mr. Trump never said that. Garrett Haake now with late details. GARRETT HAAKE: President Biden ramping up his re-election campaign tonight‚ attacking Donald Trump in battleground New Hampshire.  JOE BIDEN: Donald Trump said cuts to Social Security and Medicare are on the table again. I'm never going to allow that to happen. HAAKE: Hitting the former president after he responded to a reporter who suggested something needed to be done about entitlements.  DONALD TRUMP: There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements‚ in terms of cutting and in terms of also the theft and the bad management of entitlements. I don't necessarily agree with the statement.  HAAKE: The Trump campaign saying he was not talking about cutting benefits but cutting waste. Mr. Trump just last week posting‚ "Republicans have no plans to cut Social Security." The president today laying out his budget in a show of second-term priorities. The largely symbolic plan would boost spending to $7.3 trillion while raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations. The president calls for restoring the full child tax credit and proposes national paid leave. BIDEN: It's just about basic fairness. Just basic decency. HAAKE: Meanwhile‚ Mr. Trump in battleground Georgia blasting president Biden for saying he regretted using the word “illegal" to describe the alleged killer of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Police say the suspect was a Venezuelan migrant who crossed the border illegally two years ago. BIDEN: Lincoln Riley‚ an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal. I shouldn't have used “illegal”. I should’ve- it's “undocumented”.  JONATHAN CAPEHART: So you- you regret using that word? BIDEN: Yes.  HAAKE: Mr. Trump met with Laken Riley's family before his Georgia rally.  TRUMP: Well‚ he was illegal. And I say he was an illegal alien. He shouldn't have been in our country and he never would have been under the Trump policy. HAAKE: And today Mr. Trump's lawyers argued that the March start of his New York criminal trial should be delayed until the Supreme Court rules on his claim of presidential immunity. That judge could issue his decision as soon as next week. Lester. HOLT: Garrett Haake‚ thank you.  

Tonight’s evening newscasts turned a blind eye to an emerging threat along our southern border: a migrant smuggling network with ties to ISIS. It is difficult to find a rationale for doing so other than a willful refusal to report anything that would further damage the Biden administration (and/or campaign) on what is its weakest issue: immigration. Watch this exchange between Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and FBI Director Christopher Wray: Today @FBI confirmed they are very concerned about a migrant smuggling network at our border with ties to ISIS pic.twitter.com/NLKGIK8W86 — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 11‚ 2024 That's a cut-and-dried assessment of a clear and present danger along the southern border‚ on the radar of our intelligence community as conveyed to the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. And absolutely NO ONE saw this story on their evening newscasts. ABC World News Tonight came the closest‚ only vaguely touching on the issue within a broader report on the emerging threats hearing that focused more heavily on Ukraine and China. Here’s that portion‚ as aired on Monday‚ March 11th‚ 2024: PIERRE THOMAS: The FBI concerned about the potential that terrorists and others might try to come through a porous southern border.  CHRISTOPHER WRAY: …a whole host of threats that emanate from the border. Some of them are criminal threats. We talked about fentanyl and violence. And then‚ of course‚ we have concerns that it could be a vulnerability that terrorist organizations could seek to exploit. That’s it. Wray talked at length about a very specific threat‚ and yet it was inexplicably deemed unfit to air. And yet as bad as that was‚ it was far more than was offered to the public by CBS or NBC. CBS only mentioned the hearing in passing within their report on the war in Gaza. No video excerpt. Only a passing citation of the Director of National Intelligence’s (Avril Haines) warning that “the war in Gaza will likely have a generational impact on terrorism.” NBC omitted the subject matter completely. At a moment time when the nation's southern border is at its most vulnerable‚ the Director of the FBI went before the Senate Intelligence Committee and warned about a migrant smuggling network with ties to ISIS. That‚ in conjunction with the outbreak of migrant crime across our cities‚ should've raised ALL the red flags‚ and drawn significant coverage across the dial.  To omit such a thing from viewers is a dereliction of duty in service of a political agenda‚ and is completely inexcusable.  

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the White House to change its Easter egg roll into a Easter potato roll.In a letter to first lady Jill Biden‚ PETA president Ingrid Newkirk floated the idea‚ suggesting the switch from eggs to spuds."Instead of promoting the deleterious factory farming and slaughter industries‚ will you please initiate the annual White House Potato Roll?" Newkirk asked in the letter‚ according to a PETA press release. She said potatoes "can be safely dyed‚ allowing for spudtacular traditional activities‚ such as rolling them‚ seeking for them‚ and decorating them. You could even hold potato sack races and games of hot potato!""Easter is not a time of renewal or joy for chickens on egg factory farms. It can take up to 36 hours in typically hellish conditions for a hen—who spends her entire life in a cage smaller than a letter-sized sheet of paper—to produce just one of the thousands of eggs slated to be used at the White House Easter Egg Roll‚" Newkirk claimed.According to the White House‚ the event is scheduled for April 1.Prior to the 2023 White House Easter egg roll event‚ the PETA president had pressed the first lady not to permit the use of real eggs‚ suggesting alternatives like "reusable plastic or wooden eggs—or even lovely painted rocks or egg-shaped balls." In the letter last year‚ Newkirk claimed that such a move "would make the event eggstra special for chickens and inclusive of all children who attend‚ including those who don’t consume eggs for ethical‚ environmental‚ or health reasons.""PETA opposes speciesism‚ a human-supremacist worldview‚" the group states on its website.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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