When looking at how the Regime Media report on any of the given issues of the day, you can be certain that the truest, purest victim of any of the calamities of the day is always going to be the electoral prospects of one Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior. There is no other rationale that could underlie the ridiculous and servile coverage accorded to President Biden’s executive order on the border, three years into the border crisis. And among the network evening newscasts, there is none more servile than ABC Whirled News Tonight. Here’s how they opened their newscast- by making certain that viewers heard the term “shut down” as often as possible:  DAVID MUIR: But we do begin tonight with President Biden taking drastic action on immigration and on the U.S./Mexico border. Strictly limiting the asylum process set to close the border to migrants crossing illegally when asylum numbers hit more than 2,500 along the border in between legal ports of entry. The president saying he had no choice but to take executive action, because he says Republicans in Congress rejected the bipartisan bill they negotiated themselves in the Senate, containing many of the very reforms Republicans had been demanding. They rejected it at the urging of Donald Trump. Of course, immigration and crossings at the border, a key issue in this presidential election. So, the question tonight, how soon could the border be shut down? ABC's Rachel Scott leading us off at The White House tonight. RACHEL SCOTT: President Biden taking sweeping executive action to address the crisis at the border, announcing plans to strictly limit the asylum process in a move that will temporarily close the border to migrants crossing illegally, at midnight tonight. JOE BIDEN: I've come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress refuse to do -- take the necessary steps to secure our border. SCOTT: It comes after Republicans in Congress rejected a tough bipartisan border deal at the urging of Donald Trump, who wants to run on the issue. Under today's new executive action, when migrant apprehensions average 2,500 a day over the course of a week, the asylum process for people crossing illegally would automatically shut down. ABC made sure that the term “shut down” got into the report three times, in addition to other similar terms such as “close the border” and “strictly limit”. Of course, the executive order does no such thing inasmuch as it codifies a daily average of 2,499 illegal crossings before the alleged “shut down” takes effect. And then there is the loophole for women and unaccompanied minors, through which a fleet of trucks can be driven. But the Precious must be protected, so “shut down” it is. CBS Evening News had the decency of abstaining from using this particular bit of hyperbole during their team coverage, headed by Nancy Cordes who focused on the politics side. A common theme throughout was the blaming of Republicans for Biden having to sign an executive order, without also noting that Biden ripped the border open via executive orders. There was also plenty of mention across the dial of the failed Senate border bill that would’ve codified a daily average of 4,999 illegal crossings before requiring border action, plus express asylum and a backdoor pathway to citizenship. But no mention at all of the House-passed H.R. 2. Republicans did pass a bill, just not the one Biden or his media wanted.  While CBS avoided the term “shut down”, there was other, more unfortunate hyperbole. LILIA LUCIANO: What is the consequence of deterrence policies from where you stand? JOANNA WILLIAMS: Different policies have been sort of in effect for over 20 years here at the border, and what they lead to is an increase in deaths. Their other option is to try to go out into the desert and avoid finding Border Patrol, and this is two days before our first heat wave of the summer. That’s right. People will DIE as a result of Biden’s executive order if CBS is to be believed.  NBC Nightly News, at least, offers their viewers a modicum of intellectual honesty along with their Biden apologia. LESTER HOLT: Good evening and welcome. President Biden tonight sidestepping Congress and taking his own action to sharply tighten controls at the southern border. With his signature alone, the president using his executive authority to shut down asylum requests when the average daily number of illegal crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2500. Tonight that average number tops 4,000, putting the new directive into immediate effect. The president looking to turn the tables on Republicans on an issue that has left him politically vulnerable.  At the end of the day, it’s always about the politics.  Click “expand” to view the full transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective evening network newscasts on Tuesday, June 4th, 2024: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 6/4/24 6:32:33 DAVID MUIR: But we do begin tonight with President Biden taking drastic action on immigration and on the U.S./Mexico border. Strictly limiting the asylum process set to close the border to migrants crossing illegally when asylum numbers hit more than 2,500 along the border in between legal ports of entry. The president saying he had no choice but to take executive action, because he says Republicans in Congress rejected the bipartisan bill they negotiated themselves in the Senate, containing many of the very reforms Republicans had been demanding. They rejected it at the urging of Donald Trump. Of course, immigration and crossings at the border, a key issue in this presidential election. So, the question tonight, how soon could the border be shut down? ABC's Rachel Scott leading us off at The White House tonight. RACHEL SCOTT: President Biden taking sweeping executive action to address the crisis at the border, announcing plans to strictly limit the asylum process in a move that will temporarily close the border to migrants crossing illegally, at midnight tonight. JOE BIDEN: I've come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress refuse to do -- take the necessary steps to secure our border. SCOTT: It comes after Republicans in Congress rejected a tough bipartisan border deal at the urging of Donald Trump, who wants to run on the issue. Under today's new executive action, when migrant apprehensions average 2,500 a day over the course of a week, the asylum process for people crossing illegally would automatically shut down. They would no longer be allowed to stay in the United States while their claims are being processed. BIDEN: Doing nothing is not an option. We have to act. We must act consistent with both our law and our values, our values as Americans. SCOTT: The restrictions would only be lifted when apprehensions drop to 1,500 a day or less for two weeks. We haven't seen numbers that low in years. The president says there would be limited exceptions for unaccompanied children and victims of human trafficking. And he insists his position on immigration is far different than Donald Trump. BIDEN: I will never demonize immigrants. I will never refer to immigrants as poisoning the blood of a country. And further, I'll never separate children from their families at the border. SCOTT: Today, Trump says Biden is only doing this because he's desperate. TRUMP: Crooked Joe Biden is pretending to finally do something about the border, but in fact, it's all about show, because he knows we have a debate coming up in three weeks. The truth is that Joe Biden's executive order won't stop the invasion. It's weak and it's pathetic. SCOTT: Progressive Democrats warn Biden's move could backfire. PRAMILA JAYAPAL: They think it's going to bring Republicans over or some independents. I don't think it does. And I think in the end, we ended up hurting the very people that we're fighting for. SCOTT: But the mayor of Laredo, who stood with Biden today at the White House, tells me the president had no choice.  What type of impact is this going to have where you live? VICTOR TREVINO: Well, first of all, we don't have all the resources to deal with the migrants coming to our border, especially medical services, who are medically underserved as it is. And we don't have a lot of infrastructure. And being able to deal with poverty and people that are homeless would be another situation that we don't want to have that happen in our community. SCOTT: David, this new policy will be triggered when the daily average of migrant apprehensions exceeds 2,500 for the week. Tonight, administration officials tell us we have already passed that threshold, which means starting tonight at midnight, the border will temporarily be shut down for migrants trying to enter the United States illegally, and claim asylum. David? MUIR: So this starts in just hours. Rachel Scott at The White House. Rachel, thank you. CBS EVENING NEWS: CBS EVENING NEWS 6/3/24 6:30 PM JAMES BROWN: In just hours at 12:01 A.M. Eastern time, President Biden's aggressive new border restrictions take effect. I'm James Brown in for Norah O'Donnell. The impact of this executive action will be immediate. Soon, U.S. Immigration officials will be authorized to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims. The restrictions will stay in effect until illegal crossings dipped below 1500 migrants a day, and they will be triggered again if crossings spike. We have team coverage from the border to The White House, and that's where we start, with CBS's Nancy Cordes. Nancy, this is a dramatic election-year move. What does this mean? NANCY CORDES: J.B., what this means is that starting tomorrow, most migrants who cross the border illegally will not be allowed to seek U.S. asylum or remain in the U.S. They will be sent back to Mexico or their home country, and this will continue until illegal crossings drop to a level we have not seen in years. JOE BIDEN: The Republicans have left me no choice. CORDES: Flanked by border officials and Democratic governors, President Biden announced sweeping restrictions to the decades-old asylum system. BIDEN: This ban will remain in place until the number of people trying to enter illegally is reduced to a level that our system can effectively manage. CORDES: The rate of illegal crossings has fallen from its peak last winter, but remains historically high. And polls show immigration is a top issue for voters, who consistently give Donald Trump higher marks. DONALD TRUMP: On day one, we will seal the border. CORDES: But progressives in Congress argued that today's move by Biden undermined American values, and abandoned people fleeing violence and unstable conditions. While Republicans, who have urged Biden to take executive action, slammed him today for doing just that. TED CRUZ: Why didn't you do this in 2021? Why didn't you do this in 2022? MIKE JOHNSON: If he was concerned about the border he would have done this a long time ago. CORDES: The restrictions are sure to face legal challenges. The ACLU telling CBS News today, "We intend to sue. A ban on asylum is illegal, just as it was when Trump unsuccessfully tried it." Biden insisted his approach is more humane than Trump's. BIDEN: I'll never separate children from their families at the border. I will not ban people from this country because of their religious beliefs. CORDES: My colleague, Lilia Luciano, is at the border near Tucson, Arizona, one of the busiest sectors for migrant crossings this year. LILIA LUCIANO: We’ve just crossed into to Nogales, Mexico, to hear about what this executive order means for folks on this side of the border. JOANNA WILLIAMS: I think it’s devastating. LUCIANO: Joanna Williams runs the Kino Border Initiative, serving migrants in Nogales, Mexico. WILLIAMS Wwll, what's been interesting in the last several months is- it actually hasn't been that busy here and in this sector the numbers have been going down. The timing of this order is, therefore, purely political. LUCIANO: You've been here since October of last year? People like Pedro Solis wait as long as eight months for an appointment to ask for asylum using a U.S. government app, with no luck, many giving up. WILLIAMS: So the problem right now isn't that people don't want to use the CBP One app, they are applying for an appointment every single day. But there aren't enough appointments available. And again, this order doesn't increase that number of appointment availability at all. LUCIANO: What is the consequence of deterrence policies from where you stand? WILLIAMS: Different policies have been sort of in effect for over 20 years here at the border, and what they lead to is an increase in deaths. Their other option is to try to go out into the desert and avoid finding Border Patrol, and this is two days before our first heat wave of the summer. LUCIANO: And today, Arizona lawmakers passed a proposal to ask voters in November whether to make crossing unlawfully from Mexico into the state a state crime. JB. BROWN: Lilia Luciano and Nancy Cordes, thank you so much. NBC NIGHTLY NEWS: NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 6/4/24 6:31 PM LESTER HOLT: Good evening and welcome. President Biden tonight sidestepping Congress and taking his own action to sharply tighten controls at the southern border. With his signature alone, the president using his executive authority to shut down asylum requests when the average daily number of illegal crossings between ports of entry exceeds 2500. Tonight that average number tops 4,000, putting the new directive into immediate effect. The president looking to turn the tables on Republicans on an issue that has left him politically vulnerable. In his remarks announcing the new order, President Biden saying “doing nothing is not an option”, and that he would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation. But many Republicans in Congress tonight dismissing the president's actions as too little, too late. Our Julia Ainsley is at the border in Texas with more. JULIA AINSLEY: Facing fierce criticism of his handling of the border crisis, President Biden tonight unveiling new executive action. JOE BIDEN: This action will help us gain control of our border. AINSLEY: The executive order will bar many migrants who cross the border illegally from requesting asylum when illegal crossings are over 2500 per day, like they have been for the past three years. The restrictions last until they dip below 1500 per day. BIDEN: They choose to come without permission and against the law, they'll be restricted from receiving asylum and staying in the United States. . AINSLEY: It's 3:30 P.M. in Hidalgo, Texas, and this bus is transporting migrants who just came through the border wall. They'll be able to claim asylum, but those who cross after midnight will not. But there are exceptions to the restrictions, including unaccompanied children. Plus, migrants can still request asylum at ports of entry. Today's move comes after a record nearly 10 million migrants have crossed into the U.S. since President Biden took office. Our recent poll shows just 28% of Americans approve of President Biden's handling of the border. Today, the president blaming Republicans for blocking a bipartisan border security bill. BIDEN: I've come here today to do what the Republicans in Congress refuse to do, take the necessary steps to secure our border. AISLEY: But Republicans say Biden sparked the crisis by reversing Trump border policies, blasting today's movie as an election year stunt. MIKE JOHNSON: He can close the border down entirely. He is not going to do that. He has no interest in doing that. They want it wide open. So this weak measure here, don't be fooled. AINSLEY: While some Democrats also slamming the president's action. NANNETTE BARRAGAN: It's not a time for us to turn to Trump-era policies. It's not time to go and use the tools that Trump used. AINSLEY: Today we met a Venezuelan family who entered at a port of entry this morning. Using the CBP One app created by the Biden administration to book appointments for asylum screenings. They said they slept on the streets in Mexico while waiting. (SPANISH: How long were you waiting?) How long were you waiting? "Seven months and six days" he tells us, saying he came to the U.S. to work to feed his young family. HOLT: And Julia, we're already expecting legal challenges to this executive order. AINSLEY: Yes, Lester. The ACLU is threatening to sue, saying this order prevents migrants from exercising their right to claim asylum. Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents I’ve talked to say they're worried about a logjam- when migrants who can not claim asylum can not be deported fast enough. Lester. HOLT: Julia Ainsley starting us off, thank you.  

On Monday’s edition of Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS and CNN International, journalist Walter Isaacson talked to George Stephanopoulos, the former Democratic operative in President Bill Clinton’s White House and now the cohost of ABC’s Good Morning America and the Sunday political roundtable This Week, about his new book The Situation Room -- The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis. The weirdest plug for the book was ABC's Jeopardy! Masters having George narrate a category on presidential crises.  After hailing President Barack Obama for making the call that took out Osama Bin Laden for 9/11, the discussion predictably turned to Stephanopoulos’s ongoing pretentious fretting about the possible reelection of Donald Trump. Isaacson set the Democratic operative turned media up to spread his fear-mongering about a second Trump term to a tax-funded media outlet. After Isaacson noted Trump barely used the Situation Room, Stephanopoulos pounced: George Stephanopoulos: He hardly ever went there. And his reason was not unlike that of Richard Nixon. In some ways, this was not his place and he was actually very suspicious of those who worked in the Situation Room. He famously called those people the Deep State, and he was a little paranoid about it. So, he didn't use it that much at all and didn't draw that much on the information from the Situation Room…. And I think that’s one of the most chilling conclusions about the Trump experience in the Situation Room: Those who had the highest, most sensitive national security positions, from his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to his defense secretary, James Mattis, to his White House chief of staff, John Kelly, to his national security adviser, John Bolton, are the ones who have the most damning critiques of his competence and character. Isaacson prodded his guest to mention “the unsung heroes of the Situation Room,” i.e. the permanent bureaucracy, i.e. the “deep state.” Stephanopoulos praised the dedication patriotism of the so-called “deep state,” (this after years of the media denying its existence) while basking in reflected glory. Stephanopoulos readily obliged. Stephanpoulos: ….their sense of duty, their sense of patriotism, their rigorous ethic of being apolitical, serving the presidency, not the president, was so impressive to me at a time when, so many are deriding the so-called deep state. I was talking to people from the Deep State every single day, and the biggest thing I learned is that they are the most patriotic people in the government, out there serving their country every single day to the best of their ability, and making it work in the highest-pressure situation, in the White House. Isaacson didn’t challenge Stephanopoulos or even suggest he was overstating things a bit, instead egging him on to suggest the media needs to keep its Trump coverage focused on how dangerous Trump is for refusing to accept the results of a presidential election that hasn’t yet taken place. Isaacson: You've been very eloquent about what's at stake in this election, and you've talked about the concept of the peaceful transfer of power being at the total core of what a democracy is about. What are you worried about and what do you think journalists should be doing in covering this? Stephanopoulos: I'm most worried about how, what is shameful and unconstitutional becoming normalized. I mean, for me, I think it's very possible to just say that the beginning and end of the conversation should be looking back at what happened on January 6th. You know, never before in American history has a former president incited an insurrection instead of handing over the reins of power. Never before in American history has a president continued to lie about that election after being both indicted and impeached. And also never before has a candidate for president refused going in to say, I'm not going to accept the results basically if I lose. The peaceful transfer of power is what's -- you know, is fundamental to our democracy. And what I'm concerned about as we all try to figure out how to cover this race every single day, is how that just becomes one more issue to be discussed, on a par with tax policy or environmental regulations when it's wholly another character. It's very difficult to keep that in context. And I think to keep the focus on how dangerous that is. A transcript is available, click “Expand.” PBS's Amanpour & Co. 6/4/24 2:19:29 a.m. (ET)   ISAACSON: The odd scenes in the situation room, a lot of them, are during the Trump presidency. And he doesn't seem to either care about the place, as you call it, the situation room, or the people, or the process. And he barely goes in and lets it work, especially during COVID, when the room was used to coordinate the response to the coronavirus epidemic. STEPHANOPOULOS: He hardly ever went there. And his reason was not unlike that of Richard Nixon. In some ways, this was not his place and he was actually very suspicious of those who worked in the situation room. He famously called those people the deep state, and he was a little paranoid about it. So, he didn't use it that much at all and didn't draw that much on the information from the situation room. One of the odd things he had, situation room duty officers collect were the banners from news programs, not even the recordings of what was being said in the news programs, just the banners of what was going on below the screen. I end up titling that chapter "Postcards from the Edge." It's really just a series of oral histories from the people who served in top national security positions in the Trump White House. And I think that's one of the most chilling conclusions about the Trump experience in the situation room. Those who had the highest, most sensitive national security positions from his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, to his defense secretary, James Mattis, to his White House chief of staff, John Kelly, to his national security adviser, John Bolton, are the ones who have the most damning critiques of his competence and character.   ISAACSON: When we talk about the situation room and you write about it, you talk about the unsung heroes of the situation room, which are actually sort of the permanent -- the bureaucrats and the people we don't know that well. STEPHANOPOULOS: You know, for me, the best part of doing this book was every afternoon, having the chance to talk to these duty officers. I spoke with more than a hundred of them who served across administrations, who come from every part of the government to serve one to three years in the situation room, tracking information, synthesizing intelligence, setting up communications for the White House. These are the best of the best from the government. And their sense of duty, their sense of patriotism, their rigorous ethic of being a political, serving the presidency, not the president, was so impressive to me at a time when, you know, so many are deriding the so- called deep state. You know, I was talking to people from the deep state every single day, and the biggest thing I learned is that they are the most patriotic people in the government, out there serving their country every single day to the best of their ability, and making it work in the highest-pressure situation in the White House. ISAACSON: You talk about people deriding the deep state, of course the person doing that the most, or most prominently, is Donald Trump, as he's running for re-election. And he says he'll get rid of the civil service protections. He'll try to just root out this entire group of people who serve different presidents. How dangerous do you think that is? STEPHANOPOULOS: Huge, huge. And we came close. I talked to one duty officer, Mike Stigler (ph), who was actually serving inside the situation room on January 6th. When he was in contact with the Secret Service on Capitol Hill, worried that they were losing the vice president and explaining to me that most people don't know how close we came to losing the vice president that day. He and his fellow duty officers that day did worry that our institutions were crumbling. And, you know, they even started to implement these continuity of government procedures, which were designed to ensure that the government survived an attack like a nuclear war was being implemented on January 6th. Thank goodness. The republic did stand that day, the institutions didn't crumble. But Mike Stigler (ph), and he's talked to several of his colleagues, is deeply worried to see -- knowing what he had seen inside the situation room and inside the national security decision-making process during those years, that if -- in a second term, we wouldn't have that kind of guarantee. ISAACSON: You've been very eloquent about what's at stake in this election, and you've talked about the concept of the peaceful transfer of power being at the total core of what a democracy is about. What are you worried about and what do you think journalists should be doing in covering this? STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm most worried about how, what is shameful and unconstitutional becoming normalized. I mean, for me, I think it's very possible to just say that the beginning and end of the conversation should be looking back at what happened on January 6th. You know, never before in American history has a former president incited an insurrection instead of handing over the reins of power. Never before in American history has a president continued to lie about that election after being both indicted and impeached. And also, never before has a candidate for president refused going in to say, I'm not going to accept the results basically if I lose. The peaceful transfer of power is what's -- you know, is fundamental to our democracy. And what I'm concerned about as we all try to figure out how to cover this race every single day is how that just becomes one more issue to be discussed, you know, on a par with tax policy or environmental regulations when it's a wholly another character. It's very difficult to keep that in context. And I think to keep the focus on how dangerous that is. ISAACSON: George Stephanopoulos, thank you so much for joining the show. STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you, Walter.

Seven Republican senators voted Tuesday to confirm the latest Democratic judge to a 15-year term on the D.C. Superior Court. That might not be surprising on a normal day, but this judicial nomination was the first chance Republicans had to show even a limp semblance of resistance to Democratic lawfare after the country was plunged into a constitutional crisis by Donald Trump’s kangaroo court conviction. Some of the seven Republicans who lent a hand to the Biden administration are the usual suspects, like Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah). Another, Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), plays a conservative on TV but is a reliable vote for President Joe Biden’s judicial agenda. The final three — Tom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) — have no excuse. Republicans continue to support their own prosecution. It would be shocking, were it not so believable. Here’s the crazy part: Amid the former president’s persecution, these seven Republicans gave a stamp of approval to the Democrats’ judicial agenda because they wanted to. Democrats didn’t even need the votes to confirm. Since Trump’s conviction last week, Republicans have been paralyzed on what to do (if anything). Even those committed to action worry their power is limited and are afraid of overpromising and under-delivering, and thus far, no Republican senators have shown an appetite for the kind of parliamentary procedures necessary to grind day-to-day business to a halt. In the action club, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) became the 11th Republican to sign a letter committing to voting against non-defense nominees and blocking increases in spending, but they’ll need broader conference support to impact the spending agenda and truly wreak havoc on business as usual. To add to the frustration, it’s been fair game for more than half a century for the opposition party to try to block the White House’s judicial nominees during a presidential election year. Nicknamed the Thurmond Rule, the practice goes back to 1968. Even the low, low bar of not cooperating on judicial nominations and blocking spending increases is too high for Republican leadership, however, with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) signaling his opposition. Meanwhile, the Democrats march on. On Tuesday, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul indicted former Republican lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Jim Troupis, along with Republican political operative Mike Roman, for “forgery” over their efforts to contest the 2020 election. Reading the corporate media, you might be tempted to think the three men donned fake mustaches, dark sunglasses, and black fedoras to try to trick Congress into picking Trump as the winner. The reality is they worked on putting together a different slate of electors to vote should their lawsuit contesting the Wisconsin election succeed. Democrats have accused them of organizing “fake electors” — and the phrase is plastered all over corporate media stories. The term, however, is made up. Before Democrats started prosecuting Republicans, the preferred phrase was “alternate slate of electors.” John F. Kennedy used the legal tactic successfully in 1960 by to contest Hawaii. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens referenced it in his 2000 dissent in Bush v. Gore. More recently, Democratic commentator Van Jones and Harvard Law professor Larry Lessig discussed it in their CNN op-ed, explaining how Democrats could legally contest the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. That doesn’t mean the strategy was the best; it simply means it wasn’t remotely beyond the pale. Now, it’s a crime, and just as the ridiculous phrase “pre-planned” saturated media coverage as Democratic reporters sought to explain away the Benghazi attack, “fake electors” is the it-phrase to describe anyone who worked to contest the 2020 election. And questions are the new red line. “Donald Trump is threatening our democracy,” Biden tweeted last week. “First, he questioned our election system. Then, he questioned our judicial system.” While some Democratic state officials continue to try to kick Trump off the ballot and other Democratic state officials continue to prosecute Republican operatives, D.C. Republicans continue to support their own prosecution. It would be shocking, were it not so believable. Blaze Media's Steve Deace: We’ve got a big problem in Wisconsin Sign up for the Christopher Bedford newsletter Sign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford's newsletter. IN OTHER NEWS White House attempts to sabotage bipartisan ICC sanctions The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, 247-155, with 42 Democrats bucking Biden’s attempt to squash it. Party leaders spent the weekend negotiating the sanctions, brought in response to the ICC’s arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Democratic Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and House Foreign Affairs Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) taking the lead for Democrats. Democratic leaders withdrew from talks after the White House came out against the sanctions, criticizing them as overly broad, but saw defections from dozens of their members. The fire rises: Blaze News: United Methodist Church loses more than 1 million members in single day when group takes stand for 'God and His word’ Mainline Protestantism is in crisis. For decades, many of its leaders have traded old-fashioned Christianity for popular, left-wing appeal — while congregants have fled. Increasingly, the Global South has taken the lead in fighting back. The United Methodist Church is just the latest to suffer mass defections after embracing the LGBT agenda. Blaze News’ Chris Enloe reports: Weeks after the United Methodist Church voted to allow LGBT-practicing clergy and reverse prohibitions on same-sex marriage, the United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast... voted on May 28 to leave the UMC. The West African Methodists made the decision to leave the UMC “for reasons of conscience, before God and His word, the supreme authority in matters of faith and life.” The decision of the UMC to embrace LGBT culture and same-sex marriages "deviates from the Holy Scriptures," according to the EMUCI. The UMC church is, therefore, "sacrific[ing] its honor and integrity to honor the LGBTQ community." ...Over the last several years, thousands of UMC congregations in the U.S. have disaffiliated from the UMC, joining the Global Methodist Church or remaining independent. They left over the denomination's liberal drift. The Korean Methodist Church — which boasts approximately 1.5 million members — could soon also be on its way out of the UMC.

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