Four former staffers in the Joe Biden White House will voluntarily take questions from congressional investigators regarding the apparent cognitive decline of the 46th president.  The two most prominent White House staffers will be former deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini, and Neera Tanden, the former director of the Domestic Policy Council under Biden. Tanden will meet with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee for a transcribed interview on June 24, according to a committee aide. Tomasini will take questions from the committee on July 18. On June 26, the committee will hear from Anthony Bernal, former assistant to the president and senior adviser to first lady Jill Biden. Ashley Williams, the former special assistant to the president and deputy director of Oval Office Operations, will meet with committee members and staff on July 11.  House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has subpoenaed Biden’s White House physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, to appear for a deposition on June 27.  The Daily Signal previously reported the committee had requested testimony from the five individuals.  Though Biden is out of office, questions have emerged about his cognitive state while in office, who might have covered it up, and who made decisions if Biden did not.  Specifically, questions have emerged about the White House’s use of the autopen to sign official proclamations and presidential pardons.  The former president and first lady and several Biden aides have continuously insisted that the 46th president was entirely alert during his four-year term. Biden has noted in interviews that his administration achieved historic change. The Oversight Project, a now-independent watchdog group originally created by The Heritage Foundation and not affiliated with the House Oversight Committee, first analyzed the autopen signatures. President Donald Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate the autopen matter. The post Former Top White House Aides to Field Questions on Biden’s Congnitive Decline appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Senate Republicans weighed Tuesday in on the riots that have been occurring in Los Angeles, stressing support for law enforcement. The protests in L.A. quickly morphed into outbreaks of violence against law enforcement, prompting President Donald Trump to send in the California National Guard and U.S. Marines. A majority of registered voters support Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to quell the disturbance, according to a new poll conducted by RMG Research.  “I think when it comes to the issue of safety and security, all you have to do is look at what’s happening and has been happening in Los Angeles to realize that our law enforcement needs all the support that we could possibly give to them,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said at a Tuesday press conference. “I was heartened to hear the mayor of Los Angeles say yesterday that her interaction with the American military, particularly the National Guard, has been one of collaboration, and to me, that’s how it ought to be,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in response to a reporter’s question about sending troops to L.A.  “It seems to most Americans that this is a very dangerous situation, and I really think the governor may be making a mistake there, politically, when the situation is fraught with the possibility of extreme violence,” Wicker continued.  In response to a reporter’s question regarding California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s contention that Trump’s federal deployment of troops was not needed in L.A., Wicker, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, contended that the governor of his state, Mississippi, would have been happy to have additional law enforcement personnel in his state. “In similar situations, I would say the governor of Mississippi would be happy to have all the help he could get,” Wicker noted.  Thune said he thinks that the issue of the violence in Los Angeles comes down to the basic role of government. “And I think that, as Sen. Wicker pointed out, it’s kind of a political imperative, honestly, because one of the most fundamental questions most people and most lawyers ask is: Is my family safe? Is my neighborhood safe? Is my community safe? Is my country safe?” the Senate majority leader explained.  “And [when] you can’t answer that in the affirmative, then you got a problem. And I think that’s what they ran into in L.A., which is why they needed some outside help,” Thune added.  “But at the end of the day, it was about preventing chaos and preserving law and order,” the South Dakota senator added.  The post ‘Law Enforcement Needs All the Support’ We Can Give Them, Thune Says of Troops Sent to LA appeared first on The Daily Signal.

LA Riot Fever Spread to Downtown Santa Ana Yesterday - National Guard Deployed Today

Harvard Continues Two-Track Response to White House

UPDATE: Terry Moran was fired from ABC News on June 10. ABC News’ suspension of Terry Moran comes too late. Moran has been a powder-keg of bias that was due to blow up at any moment. On Sunday, his hatred exploded with this attack on Donald Trump’s domestic policy adviser Stephen Miller:  “The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.” Prior to the X.com post that got him suspended, a combative Moran fought with Trump in his April sit-down interview.  Moran tussled with Trump over trade policy: “Now we have this trade war with China….Moody’s and other analysts say is gonna cost American families thousands of more dollars per year. And there is a lot of concern out there. People are worried, even some people who voted for you, sayin’, ‘I didn’t sign up for this.’” Then there was his back and forth over the (recently returned) Kilmar-Abrego Garcia. While arguing on behalf of MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia (KAG), Moran inexplicably asserted that the tattoos on his hand were photoshops.  THE NEW CHEAPFAKE: Terry Moran advocates for MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego-García, calls the MS-13 tattoos (that Abrego's wife has been careful to hide on social media" on his knuckles a "photoshop", gets promptly wrecked by Trump pic.twitter.com/hqw1EWnWjE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 30, 2025 This prompted Trump to hit Moran about his “dishonesty.”   Trump makes Moran pay for asking "do you trust (Putin)?", rubs his face in Kilmar Abrego-García's tattoos again. pic.twitter.com/7WNcXAYb1P — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 30, 2025 Moran’s behavior during his one-on-one with Trump and his nasty post about Miller is a continuation of his leftist bias, tracked here on NewsBusters.  In his coverage of Trump, Moran has called Trump a “Fuhrer,” and accused him of “stirring racist fears,” with his “Neo-Nazi ways.” In sharp contrast, Moran has been soft-hearted in his coverage of Democrats and progressives. In 2009, Moran gushed: “Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office.” In 2019, he hyped Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign: “Will America feel the Bern?” adding that the Vermont Senator has “made democratic socialism cool for millions of voters.”   The following are just a few of the most obnoxious takes from the recently-suspended Moran (via the MRC’s archives):     TRASHING CONSERVATIVES   Trump’s Hold Over GOP Is Like the “Fuhrer”  “He [Donald Trump] has the Republican party as a personalized power like we haven’t seen. It’s a caudillo, it’s a Caesar, it’s a Fuhrer, we don’t see that in this country. We do now.”— ABC senior national correspondent Terry Moran on ABC News live coverage of Trump impeachment, February 10, 2021.   Trump “Stirring Racist Fears”  “Looking to shore up shrinking support with the white voters he needs to recapture the White House, the president boasted about rolling back an Obama era fair housing rule, stirring racist fears….The policy was aimed at encouraging communities to address the impact of decades long segregation and discrimination in America's neighborhoods tying federal funding to efforts to bridge inequality. President Trump targeting a regulation that overwhelmingly helped low income minorities….In a year already fueled with racial tension and social unrest, stoking the flames of that upheaval.”— Correspondent Terry Moran on ABC’s Good Morning America, July 30, 2020.   “Women Will Die” Because of Supreme Court Roe Abortion Ruling     “This is the most consequential Supreme Court decision in decades. It changes the status of American women as citizens of the United States and as citizens of their states. That’s the big picture. But let’s not mince words, women will die because of this ruling.”— Correspondent Terry Moran on ABC’s This Week, June 26, 2022.   Stunned by Trump’s Anti-Semitic “Neo-Nazi” Ways     Anchor George Stephanopoulos: “Students of history will take note of that slogan, America first.”Correspondent Terry Moran: “It’s a loaded term in American history. Now, he defined it here as total allegiance to the United States of America, and it is something, as Cecilia said, this is why he was sent here by people who want to hear that message of America first. However, it carries with it overtones from the 1930s when an anti-Semitic movement saying, ‘We don’t want to get involved in Europe’s war. It’s the Jews’ fault in Germany!’ Charles Lindbergh led them. It is a term, as he defined it his way, but the words themselves carry very ugly echos in our history.”— ABC News live coverage of Trump inauguration, January 20, 2017.   Trump is a “Laughingstock in the Capitals of Europe” “He’s [Donald Trump] got an agenda in the world which is disruptive, like his agenda at home. They [European leaders] want to come to terms with it. He’s been sent by the American people to change things. Right? And they’re ready to do business with him....And they’re lost in the weeds of this adolescence out of Washington....The White House, at this point, is a laughingstock in the capitals of Europe.”— Correspondent Terry Moran on ABC’s This Week, March 19, 2017.   PRAISING PROGRESSIVES   Biden “Hit Hard” In His State of the Union Address “A lot of Democrats over the past few weeks have been panicking. I’ll bet the vast majority of them feel better tonight. Because the President did hit hard….This was the old time religion, the middle-class, working-class, labor-Democrat agenda. And he reached for it again and again and again, both in terms of the values. That line, ‘you can’t love your country only when you win.’ The best line of the speech. Fair play and decency are bedrock values in the middle-class. No matter who people voted for, the notion that you don’t love your country if your guys lose doesn’t sit well with them. And then right across that economic agenda, hitting again and again and again, middle-class, middle-class values.”— Correspondent Terry Moran during ABC’s live coverage of the State of the Union address, March 7, 2024.   Awed by Adam Schiff’s Impeachment Trial Performance      “Adam Schiff addressing the Senate sitting as a court of impeachment with a proper legal argument. It was meticulous and well organized...At times, he tried to rise to a level of eloquence and to stir a sense of responsibility for the Senate....Even rising to the level of senatorial eloquence, if there is such a thing. In contrast to the rhetoric that we live with every day. The kind of brash and proudly profane Trumpian rhetoric where argument consists of gainsaying your opponent or calling them names.”— Correspondent Terry Moran during ABC’s live coverage of Senate impeachment trial, January 22, 2020.   “Will America Feel the Bern?” Sanders “Made Socialism Cool for Millions” “Will America feel the Bern? That’s the question this morning. Bernie Sanders has made it official and he’s betting that this time at 77 years old his no frills, no nonsense, no apologies proudly progressive agenda can carry him all the way to the White House….In 2016 Bernie Sanders changed the Democratic party. He made democratic socialism cool for millions of voters.”  — Correspondent Terry Moran on ABC’s Good Morning America, February 19, 2019.   Obama Is “Taking a Step Down Into the Oval Office”     “I like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first president since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I mean, from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an executive position that he has to perform in, in a way.”— ABC Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran to Media Bistro’s Steve Krakauer in a February 20, 2009 “Morning Media Menu” podcast.   Moran Gushes About Obama: “The Thrill, the Hope,” “Is He the One?”     “You can see it in the crowds. The thrill, the hope. How they surge toward him. You’re looking at an American political phenomenon....He inspires the party faithful and many others, like no one else on the scene today....And the question you can sense on everyone’s mind, as they listen so intently to him, is he the one? Is Barack Obama the man, the black man, who could lead the Democrats back to the White House and maybe even unite the country?...Everywhere he goes, people want him to run for President, especially in Iowa, cradle of presidential contenders. Around here, they’re even naming babies after him.”— Co-anchor Terry Moran on ABC’s Nightline, November 6, 2006.

In a statement by ABC News’s public relations department and shared with CNN’s Brian Stelter, the Disney-owned liberal network revealed Tuesday they fired longtime correspondent Terry Moran, less than a week after having been suspended for a late-night tweet smearing longtime Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller as “a world-class hater” whose “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.” Stelter broke the news right at 5:00 p.m. Eastern: Stelter added in a follow-up tweet that ABC also told him “we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.” Cue the laugh tracks for the absurdity of that statement. While Moran’s axing is something few could have expected if this had occurred, say, eight years ago, it does nothing to change their reputation of weapons-grade liberal bias. In the time since Moran’s suspension Sunday morning, ABC’s liberal bias hasn’t relented one bit, most notably blaming President Trump for the Los Angeles riots. Maybe now that Moran is gone he can have time to look back fondly on his 27-year career at ABC News, which included nearly every possible title: ABC News Live anchor, chief foreign correspondent, Nightline co-anchor, senior national correspondent, World News Tonight Sunday anchor, White House correspondent. And, at one point or another since 1998, Moran has helped lead ABC’s coverage of the Supreme Court, often their voice weighing in with joy (such as after the Obergefell decision or ObamaCare case) or rage at rulings. That also extended into actively working to sink a few of their nominations. Whether it was calling Donald Trump a “führer” or declaring “women will die” after the Court overturned Roe v. Wade or fawning over Barack Obama as someone who’d have to “step down into the Oval Office,” or declaring the 2024 Democratic National Convention “the best party I’ve been to in awhile,” Moran’s decades of bias have long been evident. Originally published ahead of his trainwreck April 29 interview with President Trump, our Geoffrey Dickens compiled a few examples of Moran’s worst moments here. And, for posterity, click here to read Moran’s bio at ABC News (which will soon be deleted if it hasn’t already). Our Brent Baker went back and found what will go down as Moran’s final on-air moment with the network. Ever a committed liberal journalist, Moran’s last segment was an interview on ABC News Live with far-left New York Times columnist Charles Blow about Pride Month: Someone should check on Mediaite’s Colby Hall, who kvetched about Moran’s tweet “having landed squarely in the middle of the culture war mosh pit, where such commentary is chum for partisan sharks desperate for engagement.” Hall further complained ABC’s move to suspend him was a sign they’re “still clinging to the tattered flag of objectivity, trying to draw lines in an industry where the chalk keeps getting washed away” and “violating journalistic standards of objectivity” while those most outraged “have zero standards” and are “not journalists.” Thus, in his world and those of media elites, only those whom are defined as card-carrying journalists or members of this or that club determine what is and is not a faux pas. Stay tuned to NewsBusters for more on this developing story.

School police in Los Angeles announced new measures to prevent federal agents from enforcing immigration law near public schools in California, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.Critics of the Trump administration have pointed to some incidents where agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to gain entry to schools in order to detain illegal aliens in deportation proceedings.'Our families are now forced to live in fear, looking over their shoulders on the way to school or their child’s graduation. This is just simply wrong.'Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said the school police would be deployed to ensure that the families of students were safe from federal enforcement at graduation ceremonies.“We stand strongly on the right side of law,” said the superintendent. “Every student in our community, every student across the country, has a constitutional right to a free public education of high quality, without threat. Every one of our students, independently of their immigration status, has a right to a free meal in our schools. Every one of our children, no questions asked, has a right to counseling, social-emotional support, mental support.”Los Angeles has seen violent rioting over the weekend from protesters opposed to increased deportation operations ordered by President Donald Trump. Dozens have been arrested by police, and National Guard troops have been deployed to the area as well as some U.S. Marines. Carvalho said school officials were prepared to oppose federal troops if they attempted to gain entry to schools with a judicial warrant. “I think that would be a preposterous condition,” he said. “But then again, we have seen preposterous actions taken recently by this administration. We are prepared for everything." The report noted that if federal officials obtained a judicial warrant, school officials have no legal recourse to oppose their entry into schools. Carvalho cited one example where a family was scared to see their daughter graduate because of the possibility of immigration officials catching them.“I’ve spoken with parents who’ve told me that their daughter would be the first in their family to graduate high school, and they’re not going to be there to witness it because they have a fear of the place of graduation being targeted. What nation are we becoming?”RELATED: LA schools deny DHS welfare checks on migrant kids Biden lost, left exposed to trafficking Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images School board members spoke against the deportations in statements to the Times.“Our families are now forced to live in fear, looking over their shoulders on the way to school or their child’s graduation," said board member Rocio Rivas. "This is just simply wrong. It is also very, very cruel."Board member Tanya Ortiz Franklin made similar comments.“This isn’t about keeping our community safe," she said. "This is about a backwards belief about who belongs and who should be pushed out, locked up, and shut up.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Massachusetts' sanctuary policies, combined with the former Biden administration's immigration crisis, have resulted in a disastrous situation for the state's overwhelmed shelter system, which has become a hotbed of criminal activity and has led to the mismanagement of taxpayer funds.Jon Fetherston, a former director for one of those emergency shelters, a Marlborough Holiday Inn that housed hundreds of individuals, gained firsthand experience with some of the shelter program's most egregious and disturbing issues.'The system is bloated with bureaucracy and lacks meaningful financial accountability.'Fetherston, who worked as the shelter's director in 2023 and 2024, announced that his experiences prompted him to demand the federal government investigate Democratic Governor Maura Healey's migrant shelters. Fetherston called Healey's program "dangerous and corrupt," urging Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday to "immediately launch a full investigation" into "a disturbing pattern of criminal activity, sexual assaults, financial abuse, and the widespread use of no-bid contracts."He described the program as a "disaster for public safety, government transparency, and fiscal accountability" that has failed Massachusetts residents and the migrants it is supposed to help.Safety concernsAmong the most concerning failures Fetherston observed were rampant criminal activities within the shelters, which posed direct threats to vulnerable residents and the nearby community.Fetherston pointed to disturbing cases of sexual assault, including an instance where a father residing at the state-run shelter was accused of repeatedly raping his minor daughter, resulting in her pregnancy. Fetherston wrote to Bondi that the incident was not isolated and that he was "aware of other women and girls who were assaulted in shelters that had no adequate safeguards, supervision, or response protocols."Fetherston told Blaze News, "To this day, no one has been held accountable."RELATED: Blaze News original: Inside Massachusetts migrant shelters where crime flourishes under Democrats' watch Photo by Anibal Martel/Anadolu via Getty ImagesHe noted that the state's refusal to cooperate and share information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while "often obscured by political rhetoric," has resulted in "a real and urgent threat to community safety."Despite Healey's claims that individuals undergo background checks before entering the state-run shelters, criminals and migrants with active deportation orders were "knowingly placed in family shelters alongside children and vulnerable residents," Fetherston said."The governor claimed that all migrants were run through the Massachusetts [Criminal Offender Record Information] system," he continued. "That was a blatant falsehood. She later said she directed her staff to do so but produced no documentation to prove it, and no one on her staff was held accountable. Moreover, running migrants through the CORI system only reveals crimes committed in Massachusetts, rendering it nearly useless for individuals arriving from other countries. This was simply more gaslighting from the governor."Financial abusesIn addition to endangering the community, the shelter system wastes taxpayer funds through rampant financial abuses, requiring urgent scrutiny, Fetherston revealed.Fetherston outlined widespread fraud within the state's shelter system, which he called "staggering and frankly insulting to taxpayers."He stated that he witnessed vendors bill for services never rendered and government contracts awarded without proper oversight. Fetherston also pointed out that shelter staff would clock in for work and then leave. They used the hotel's rooms for personal purposes, booked personal rideshare services through the shelter's account, brought their laundry for the shelter's vendors to handle, and even advised migrants on how to manipulate the immigration system."The system is bloated with bureaucracy and lacks meaningful financial accountability," he stated.Fetherston's claims of financial mismanagement were backed by a state audit, which revealed issues in the shelter program's contracting and oversight processes.‘Until these reforms occur, public funds are wasted, and the families who rely on the system suffer the most.’Massachusetts State Auditor Diana DiZoglio's Office released a report in May, which revealed that the state's Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities "failed to adequately assess and act upon the increased demand for shelter services, resulting in improper and unlawful no-bid emergency procurements for food and transportation services."The audit noted a "lack of fairness," "transparency," and "accountability" in the state's contracting process that resulted in "unnecessarily high costs and inefficiencies."The audit also revealed that the state "mismanaged" its contracts with shelters and hotels, pointing to "a lack of administrative oversight at EOHLC" and "creating an avoidable risk."RELATED: Illegal alien allegedly repeatedly rapes minor daughter, sent to another Mass. shelter instead of jail: Ex-facility director Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesFetherston's attempts to address these failures revealed deeper issues, including ignored warnings and personal consequences for speaking out.Fetherston told Blaze News that his efforts to expose the shelter system abuses came at a personal cost, including "direct retaliation." He noted that state officials consistently ignored his concerns.When Fetherston attempted to save taxpayer-funded resources, he faced intimidation from one resident who allegedly crashed a vehicle into his office after he announced that residents with EBT and WIC benefits would no longer receive taxpayer-funded diapers, wipes, and formula through the shelter."Taxpayers have every right to demand transparency and results," Fetherston told Blaze News. "That begins with full independent audits, strong whistleblower protections, thorough investigations, and a comprehensive overhaul of procurement and oversight processes. Until these reforms occur, public funds are wasted, and the families who rely on the system suffer the most."Fetherston asked the DOJ to open an investigation into "criminal activity and sexual violence within Massachusetts-run migrant shelters," "widespread fraud and misuse of federal and state funds," "the deliberate refusal to coordinate with federal law enforcement agencies," and "the pattern of retaliation against those reporting abuse, danger, or misconduct."The DOJ could not confirm receipt of Fetherston's letter.Healey's office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Coco Gauff has become the first American woman to win the French Open since Serena Williams, but her press interview that followed left those patriotic Americans who supported her — but maybe don’t see the world the same way she does — feeling a little less than inspired.“Obviously, there’s a lot going on in our country right now,” Gauff said, before explaining that she feels like “a representation” of “people that look like” her in America. She went on to say that those who look like her “maybe don’t feel as supported during this time period” and that her win can be a “reflection of hope and light for those people.”“After the election, everything, it kind of felt down period a little bit and things like that, and my mom told me during Riyadh, ‘Just try to win the tournament just to give something for people to smile for,’ and so that’s what I was thinking about today when holding that and then seeing the flags in the crowd,” she continued.“Some people may feel some type of way about being patriotic and things like that, but I’m definitely patriotic, I’m proud to be American, and I’m proud to represent the Americans that look like me and people who kind of support the things that I support,” she added.BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock and BlazeTV contributor Steve Kim are among those Americans feeling a little less inspired by her win after her press interview.“Let me just say this as someone that’s always proud to be an American, not a Korean American, not an Asian American, an American American,” Kim tells Whitlock. “I believe that she’s paying the guilt tax, that if you are proud to be an American and you’re a POC, the darker you are, you are expected to have some guilt and expected to do some finger wagging.”“There’s a pressure, to number one, feel some guilt. Number two, with that expected guilt, to then point the finger at America, claim some sort of oppression, whether there is or not, and you just can’t be proud to represent this great country,” he adds.“I like your guilt tax,” Whitlock agrees. “But it’s also part of holding onto your black authenticity. And so, to really be black, you have to wag a finger at America, or you’re not really black. You have to be a victim.”Want more from Jason Whitlock?To enjoy more fearless conversations at the crossroads of culture, faith, sports, and comedy with Jason Whitlock, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

It's been nearly a decade since Ubisoft first launched Rainbow Six Siege. In the time since, the multiplayer FPS has improved enormously, attracting a devoted audience and cementing itself as one of the best options in a genre that also includes PUBG, Valorant, and Marvel Rivals. To keep that momentum going into its tenth year and beyond, Ubisoft has put out a sweeping overhaul of Siege with today's launch of Rainbow Six Siege X. Even though it's only been out for a few hours, this decision seems to have been a good one, as the game's already attracted a massive player base and strong reviews on Steam. Continue reading Rainbow Six Siege X is live, and it's already sparked a surge for Ubisoft's FPS MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best FPS games, Best Rainbow Six Siege operators, Play Rainbow Six Siege