It is not often that a report inadvertently and brutally exposes the left’s disregard for human life in service of their policy goals. But this report on the European heat wave does precisely that. Watch the report in its entirety as aired on CBS Evening News on Monday, June 29th, 2026: WATCH: CBS exposes European climate arrogance and steadfast refusal to adopt A/C in the face of a deadly heat wave, TONY DOKOUPIL: We are launching a new series here tonight, something we are calling The Big Question- the first one inspired by our news of more than a thousand… pic.twitter.com/nhTiVJYrLM — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 30, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: We are launching a new series here tonight, something we are calling The Big Question- the first one inspired by our news of more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Europe. The continent has more heat-related deaths per capita than anywhere else on the planet but in fact fewer hot days. So why is the heat in Europe so much deadlier than everywhere else? He is Leigh Kiniry with The Big Question. LEIGH KINIRY: In Europe, there's a perfect storm. The oldest population on any continent that's warming the fastest. France's record heat last week is linked to roughly 1000 deaths of mostly elderly. INE VANDECASTEELE: All climate related impacts on hazards, heat is the biggest killer. KINIRY: European officials are calling for change, but not the kind that may seem obvious. Install air conditioning, especially for vulnerable people, and save lives. Why is that not a solution in Europe? VANDECASTEELE: My honest response is I don't think that should be the solution anywhere. In the longer term, what happens is installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment so it will actually increase the speed of warming. KINIRY: It's also more expensive. Energy prices are much higher in Europe. Governments find other ways to cool historic and densely populated cities. In Rome, wearable technology is distributed to monitor the elderly who are by far in the most danger.  A recent survey in France said one in six people they surveyed said they'd rather suffer for the sake of the environment. Does that surprise you? VANDECASTEELE: No. We’re not doing this for us. We’re doing this for the future generations. KINIRY: Leigh Kiniry, CBS News, London. The Big Obvious Answer to The Big Question is that Eurocrats refuse to allow the adoption of air conditioning across the Old Continent, even as thousands of people die of heat-related illnesses. Over a thousand dead across the CURRENT heat wave is staggering, which makes Eurocrat rhetoric more maddening. This exchange is revelatory: LEIGH KINIRY: A recent survey in France said one in six people they surveyed said they'd rather suffer for the sake of the environment. Does that surprise you? INE VANDECASTEELE: No. We’re not doing this for us. We’re doing this for the future generations. There seems to be a script, because a French rapid response account for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the same thing: We're not banning A/C. We're making sure future summers need it less. https://t.co/18cl2RpRtU — French Response (@FrenchResponse) June 29, 2026 Meanwhile, thousands continue to die in furtherance of climate utopia. When explaining why the Europeans don’t adopt A/C, Kiniry cited higher energy prices. However, Kiniry fails to mention the staggering climate taxes levied on European energy. Additionally, Kiniry omits some of the auto-inflicted loss of capacity on the continent, such as the Germany’s decision to shut down their nuclear energy plants. That own-goal that left them reliant on foreign energy, which became prohibitively expensive at the outset of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Somehow, these facts get left off the reports.  The report’s exposures of European climate policy as both callous and ineffective are not intentional. But they nonetheless perform a valuable service inasmuch as they expose their viewers to the logical conclusions of leftist policy- thousands dead so as not to disturb the climate.  

In January 2018, the Democrats came out of a meeting with President Trump at the White House complaining that Trump used the term “s—thole countries” to describe poor nations who caused a lot of illegal immigration into America, like Haiti. We counted CNN saying the word “s—thole” 195 times in a single day to stoke outrage. Back then, Jake Tapper gave a softball interview to comedian Conan O’Brien who made a special for TBS (same company) mocking Trump by going to Haiti and telling everyone what a beautiful place it was. So it was interesting on Sunday when CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper began lecturing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on how much Haiti right now is a….well, don’t say it. But it would be cruel to send any Haitian immigrants back. Under President Biden, they were putting Haitians on planes and granting them amnesty before they landed. Mullin offered a classic response: "Is there a question in that?" MRC Business Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez and our evening-news and Sunday-show specialist Jorge Bonilla reviewed this sorry scene, recalling that some liberals in 2018 said America was the "s---hole country" because Trump was running it. This matches somehow with Joy Reid winning our Worst Media Quote of the Week last week for claiming black people don't celebrate the Fourth of July. Since Trump wanted the beautify the mall for the big national anniversary, the media mocked the return of algae in the Reflecting Pool between the Washington monuments. The Washington Post offered a sob story titled “Why Trump’s algae problem is much bigger than the Reflecting Pool.” Reporter Sarah Kaplan editorialized that Trump “has overlooked the real cause of unsightly — and often dangerous — algal blooms,” which of course was “pollution and climate change.” Nicolle Wallace may be popular among MS NOW viewers, and that might be because she says remarkably untrue things that please the so-called progressives. On Friday’s Deadline: White House, she boasted about how Barack Obama is still much more popular than President Trump, and she uncorked several whoppers, like Trump has “literally muzzled” half the media, and Obama had “no scandals,” no algae in the Reflecting Pool, and no wars. Enjoy the podcast below:     

After they minimized the influence of Democratic Socialists on the Democratic Party the week prior, Monday’s Morning Joe spent over two segments, elapsing over 20 minutes, on controversies related to the Democratic Socialists of America. Their first segment focused on the controversies surrounding radical DSA candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, as co-host Mika Brzezinski bashed Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) for “gaslighting” about the situation. Later, the final segment of the show, they discussed the harassment of leftist Democratic House candidate and current California State Senator Scott Weiner, as ADL chief Jonathan Greenbelt said the Democrat’s anti-Semitism can be defined by three letters: “DSA.” After a clip of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani played from an ABC softball interview, Brzezinski detailed the controversies of Mamdani-endorsed Chevalier, mostly pertaining to old social media posts where she “expressed support for abolishing police, prisons, and borders, as well as seizing private property,” among other things. Brzezinski shifted into a clip of Murphy on Sunday’s Meet The Press, where, she said, he “appeared to dodge” Chevalier’s past comments.   In response to Sen. Murphy’s non-answer on the controversies of Darializa Avila Chevalier, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski accused the senator of gaslighting: “We both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people." https://t.co/XhSsQrcYay pic.twitter.com/ExvsgcDcrn — Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026   She read an X post from her co-host and husband Joe Scarborough, who did not appear on Monday’s show, where Scarborough called on Democrats to “call out crazy,” before she tore into Murphy for “gaslighting”: And one of the most frustrating things about Trump's first presidency and his second, and folks who chose to vote for Trump the first time and then vote for him a second time, and then act shocked about the cruelty of the mass deportations, or to act shocked about the tariffs, or to say, well, I haven't been watching the news. I don't know about that one. That is like the most gaslighting experience one can ever, ever see throughout this entire political cycle or cycles. Because pretending you haven't seen it is impossible. It's an out. And now to see a Democrat doing it. And I like - we both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people. At the end of the show, a discussion began on the harassment of California politician Scott Weiner, known for his radical transgender policies, at a transgender rally. After a clip played of Weiner being yelled at by protesters, Brzezinski exclaimed, “Whoa.” Greenbelt was brought on as a panelist to discuss the Weiner incident, and remarked the DSA was the Democrats’ antisemitism problem: “The Democratic Party has an anti-Semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA.“   In the last segment of Morning Joe, ADL Chief Joanthan Greenbelt said, "The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA." The segment came after they once again focused on a DSA-related topic, as they discussed the incident… https://t.co/OD78EkVDKe pic.twitter.com/XtyhaXe2QA — Nick (@nspin310) June 29, 2026   At the end of the segment, former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin asked Greenbelt, “How much of this is about money?” She continued: “The idea that we spend billions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars investing in this government and the Israeli government, that is a source of a tremendous amount of tension with American citizens who, to Barnicle’s point, are watching what that money they believe is used to kill children.” Abedin’s question to Greenbelt represented the reality of the rise of the DSA. While not every Democrat may be completely DSA-oriented, some, like Huma Abedin, seemed to take similar positions on some topics, like Israel. For a show that downplayed the rise of the DSA after the NYC elections, it seemed like they realized their newfound influence on the Democrat Party was too big to ignore. MS NOW’s Morning Joe June 29, 2026 6:12:39 AM Eastern MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But Chevalier has been facing scrutiny over previously articulated stances and numerous social media posts that she has since deleted. And her appearance at a rally the day after Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7th, 2023, where attendees reportedly suggested the attack was justified.  In a now-deleted social media post between 2018 and 2022, multiple posts, Chevalier also used expletives to refer to former Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee, and expressed support for abolishing police, prisons, and borders, as well as seizing private property and calling into question Israel's right to exist. Other reports noted she called former president Joe Biden a rapist and disparaged white people in some of her posts.  Chevalier has said she regrets the posts, adding that she is, quote, “grown considerably since writing them.” Some Democrats have pushed back against her past comments, while others, like Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut, appeared to dodge these concerns. [Cuts to clip] SEN. CHRIS MURPHY (D-CT): [On 6/28’s Meet the Press] Yeah, well, I mean, I'm not super familiar with that race. All I'm saying is that this party has to have a real contest of ideas. And I just don't think that our defense of incrementalism has worked.  [Cuts back to live] So, I don't mind a contest of ideas. And I just don't know that we have had it to the extent that voters have been satisfied. Listen, it's no secret voters aren't super happy with establishment Democrats or establishment Republicans these days. I will say, though, what binds together, I think every Democratic candidate that is running, including the ones in New York, is that they are standing up to protect American democracy. And right now, the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York. BRZEZINSKI: So [laughs] Joe reacted to that response, posting on X quote, “Yeah. Well, I mean, I'm not super familiar with that race. This is what frightened Republicans do when confronted with the horrid things Donald Trump has said. Now, democratic senators are saying this about a congressional candidate who accused Joe Biden of rape. Stop. Now.” His memo to Democrats: “Call out crazy. Even when it's on your side, especially when it's on your side, voters will reward you for being better than Republicans.” I have to say, JMart, this is going to be an interesting issue, actually, for candidates on both sides of the aisle, because they're now many of them are old enough to have passed tweets and ridiculous statements, and voters are going to have to decide what the line is. What's the deal breaker? In this case, I think it's pretty clear. Some of these statements are complete deal breakers, and it's not hard to say. It's just not hard to say. And one of the most frustrating things about Trump's first presidency and his second, and folks who chose to vote for Trump the first time and then vote for him a second time, and then act shocked about the cruelty of the mass deportations, or to act shocked about the tariffs, or to say, well, I haven't been watching the news. I don't know about that one. That is like the most gaslighting experience one can ever, ever see throughout this entire political cycle or cycles. Because pretending you haven't seen it is impossible. It's an out. And now to see a Democrat doing it. And I like - we both love Chris Murphy. We think he's a great guy and serves our country. But don't gaslight people. I mean, this story is out there. And what is rehema? What is the line of past tweets being deal breakers? (...) 7:50:18 AM Eastern BRZEZINSKI: But on Friday, as State Senator Wiener, who is also openly gay and Jewish, was on his way to a Pride Shabbat service led by a trans rabbi, he was run out of San Francisco's annual trans rights rally by protesters, who swarmed him and screamed at him, accusing him of endorsing genocide in Gaza. We have video of the incident. And a warning: some viewers might find the images disturbing. [Cuts to video] PROTESTOR: You’re wonderful for trans people. You've been terrible. And you've been terrible -  you've been terrible - you've been terrible on Gaza. You do not belong here anymore, Scott. [Cuts back to live] BRZEZINSKI: Whoa. The Mayor of San Francisco reacted to the incident in a statement on social media, writing in, quote unquote, “the language directed at Senator Wiener was targeted, hateful and anti-semitic. In San Francisco, we welcome disagreement and respectful dialog around issues many of us feel passionately about, but we cannot allow harassment and threats of violence.” What is going on here? (...) 7:55:50 AM Eastern  JONATHAN GREENBELT: Look, the Democratic Party. And as you know, I worked in the Obama White house. I worked in the Clinton white house. The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem, and I can define it in three letters: the DSA. The DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. They should call it, you know, discrimination and stereotyping and anti-semitism. And I say that because we see this as the common thread that seems to link this party. And they're activists, they're not Democrats. But an obsession with the Jewish state seems to be the common denominator when you look at these candidates.  Now, look, I want to be super clear. There's problems with anti-semitism on the right as well. I'm not suggesting that this is only a problem on the Left. But we see this again and again and again. We see this in these congressional races last week. And by the way, we're seeing it right here in the city of New York with the largest Jewish population in the world. And we can talk about Mayor Mamdani, if you like, because he has been gaslighting our community for years, saying he believes in protecting the Jewish people, but then refusing to do so in ways that all other normal politicians in the past have done. So, yeah. Mika, you put it well. We have a problem. The democratic party has an anti-semitism problem. It is the DSA, and it needs to deal with this in order to make its Jewish, you know, members and Americans across the country feel safe. (...) 7:57:23 AM Eastern DAVE ARONBERG: Mika, good to be with you and Jonathan. I do, and I have an interesting perspective because I was classmates with Scott Wiener back in law school, and I knew him back then. He was known as a principled campus advocate for LGBTQ rights. And I do think that Scott compromised some of those principles when he did a sudden 180 for political reasons and adopted the blood libel that Israel's War against Hamas was a genocide.  But Scott learned the hard way, Mika, that the alligator is always hungry. You can feed it, and you can appease it, but eventually it's going to bite your face off. And you can sacrifice your principles to the anti-semitic mob, but it doesn't make them hate you any less. I mean, his position on Gaza is now indistinguishable from their own position. So, of course,, what you saw in that video was anti-semitism, because otherwise it doesn't make any sense. They berated and chased out a gay Progressive lawmaker because he's a Jew who simply believes that Israel has a right to exist. Meanwhile, Israel is the only country in the Middle East where a trans March like that could happen. (...) 8:01:21 AM Eastern HUMA ABEDIN: Jonathan, can I ask you, because so many of these candidates who are running for office are the Senate candidates in Michigan as well. How much of this is about money?  The idea that we spend billions of U.S. Taxpayer dollars investing in this government and the Israeli government, that is a source of a tremendous amount of tension with American citizens who, to Barnicle’s point, watching what that money they believe is used to kill children. GREENBELT: It's a fair question, Huma. You know, these issues from your time at the State Department, probably better than I do. If you look at the foreign aid budget and you look at the foreign defense spending budget, it's actually quite small as a percentage of overall U.S. Dollars. And you look at we spent a lot of money in Egypt, right?  ABEDIN: We certainly do.  GREENBELT: That's a country that persecutes gay people, persecutes religious minorities, etc. - ABEDIN: We can criticize that government too. GREENBELT: We do, but we don't. So the question we have to ask is, why the obsession with Israel, even before October the 7th, why were there people cheering on October the 7th here in New York City, after Jewish people, Israelis, were massacred, raped, and brutalized? I don't understand it. Until you start to peel it back. Look, we need to recognize that anti-semitism has been around for a long time. Again, the perceived misdeeds of the Israeli government or the Israeli military create a convenient target. But again, I don't think it's right to hold people collectively responsible.  And again, government dollars may get spent with this ally, but we spend them all around the world. I don't see people protesting the Egyptian government, the Saudi government, the Pakistani government. It seems to be that Israel is the only one that's held to this kind of double standard. That's the issue. (...)

In an attempt to guilt trip Americans into supporting the murder of pre-born children, Planned Parenthood has enlisted their twenty something year old “influencers” to win over hearts and minds on social media.  Come tour Planned Parenthood’s Museum of Poor Choices with me! pic.twitter.com/LdZLHKFuUX — Justine Brooke Murray (@Justine_Brooke) June 17, 2026 The activist-company has set up an abortion fun house, where they take you on a tour of victimhood and death. It can’t get cringier than this…  “The first room lists services Planned Parenthood’s health centers provide,” announced the influencer in the video. She named “gender affirming care,” aka, mutilation as casually as a hair dresser would list the types of blowouts you can get. “When people hear about Planned Parenthood, they may not realize you can get cancer screenings, PAP tests, annual wellness exams…” she added. “And more…” like killing your child!  In another room, you can watch a video of real-life customers boasting how the business helped them abort responsibility, with zero guilt attached. The “influencer” then takes you down a long corridor plastered with sad quotes and manipulated statistics, meant to make you feel sorry that you ever doubted the eugenicist-founded company’s right to take the lives of others.  With the same cadence as a Sarah McLachlan commercial, she displays each pro-abortion artifact like she’s showing pictures of suffering puppies who are about to be put down. Of course, these abortion-enthusaists would likely have much more sympathy for those dogs than the children who are ALSO being put down.  At the end of the corridor is a large sign that reads “MY BODY IS MY OWN.”  They seem to forget a baby’s body is also his or her own.   

While the Supreme Court didn’t hand down the birthright citizenship or transgenderism opinions on Monday, the government agencies case landed with the Trump v. Slaughter case, largely allowing him to fire appointees to boards overseeing government agencies. This left Disney-owned ABC News in a tizzy, fearing they would no longer “be independent, protected from presidential interference,” and President Trump can now “stick his fingers in there” and “dismantle” them. First, on a network special report, Supreme Court reporter Devin Dwyer lamented the Court turned away from Congress’s desire to have agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) “insulated from politics, only allowing people to be fired for cause.” Pitching in on the main network, ABC News Live host Kyra Phillips told virulent Trump-hater Rachel Scott that “clearly, this is going to give President Trump the ability to dismantle other agencies.” ABC News Special Report bemoaned Monday’s SCOTUS decision about federal agency boards means Trump will have “the ability to dismantle other agencies” except for the Federal Reserve, which will remain free of politicization...for now” pic.twitter.com/AItrDIWwS6 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 29, 2026 Scott concurred in the laments that appointees to other “federal agencies...could potentially be at risk here and most likely be going away.” In contrast, she said a separate ruling against Trump about the Federal Reserve would keep them free of “politicization...for now.” Continuing after the Special Report on the aforementioned ABC News Live, Dwyer told morning host Diane Macedo this “sweeping decision” could lead to “a major overhaul” of everything from “the NTSB to the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Election Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission,” all of which “touch all aspects of American life, setting regulations, doing enforcement of those regulations.” ABC’s Supreme Court reporter Devin Dwyer complains the Slaughter case means federal agencies will no longer “be independent, protected from presidential interference,” and President Trump can “stick his fingers in there and design those agencies as he wants” vs. letting “subject… pic.twitter.com/OSnwzikodH — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 29, 2026 Dwyer then leveled his biggest gripes and machinations about Trump “stick[ing] his fingers in” agencies when they should be “independent” (and thus unaccountable to the people): [T]hey are helmed by Republicans and Democrats. In many cases, they were designed to be independent, protected from presidential interference. But what Chief Justice John Roberts said today, in this opinion, is that the President does have the have the power under the Constitution to stick his fingers in there and design those agencies as he wants, that it was a violation of the separation of powers for Congress to prevent that. He concluded by huffing, “It really spells the end now of the idea that we have agencies in our government meant to be independent, meant to be bipartisan, meant to be staffed by subject matter experts, and a huge win for conservatives here, Diane, who had hoped for this separation for quite some time and fought for it in addition to President Trump.” “Subject matter experts” free from, again, any criticism. Legal contributor James Sample was also somewhat crestfallen (click “expand”): MACEDO: James, how do the justices differentiate between these two officials, and what sort of precedent does this set? SAMPLE: Well, at oral argument, Diane, there was much discussion about the idea that the Federal Reserve is a unique agency, that it has a unique historical pedigree. On the other hand, it had the exact same for cause removal protections from the exact same statutes that the other agencies with, who also had independent agency commissions had. And so the carve out for this exception is arguably inconsistent, but arguably sensitive to the core nature of monetary policy. And just to underscore Devin’s point, Diane, just how big a deal this case — the Slaughter case — really is in terms of the independent agencies, unless you’re over 90 years old, then this marks a fundamental structural change in the organization of almost every government agency that exists. So, in the short term, it is a victory for President Trump. But in the long term, it’s really a victory for the President, regardless of party. And this will produce some significant and big swings on matters of policy that affect everyday Americans over the years. Shifting over to CBS’s streaming platform CBS News 24/7, chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes feared what will happen at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Election Commission (FEC), as in the latter case, she speculated this could mean any Democratic complaints to the FEC about elections could be ignored as long as Trump is in office (click “expand”): CBS News 24/7 worries the Slaughter decision from SCOTUS will now mean election complaints to the FEC will only be heard, depending on who's in the White House pic.twitter.com/OQUaQiHedv — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 29, 2026 [I]f you think about it, the Federal Trade Commission, which has five commissioners, three Republicans, two Democrats, is like so many other agencies that have been designed this way to be bipartisan. And this shakes all of that up. So, consider, for example, the Federal Communications Commission, which is very powerful, which makes decisions about broadband, makes decisions about broadcast licenses and internet licenses, and now suddenly, if there is no Democratic representation on that board — you know, we don’t know exactly what the Trump administration is going to do, that really changes the way debates take place and decision gets made. So, we’ll see how far the President wants to go with this. (....) Think about the Federal Election Commission, which takes complaints from across the political spectrum. Imagine if now, instead of a couple of Democratic commissioners and a majority of Republican commissioners, when Republican is in the Oval Office, if it's all Republican commissioners, does that mean that only complaints by Democrats about — about complaints by Republicans, about Democratic candidates, that those are the only complaints that really get attention, and then it flips four years later if a — if a Democrat is in power. So, I think that there are a lot of unknowns here. And it's not just the FTC, the FEC, the FCC, it's the National Labor Relations Board. This really could be a very far-reaching decision. In contrast to all this hyperbole, here was how longtime CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford broke down the Cook and Slaughter cases. Can we have a news media that’s more like this that is straight to the point and no meandering punditry? Can we have a news media that's more like CBS's Jan Crawford explaining Monday's Supreme Court opinions?! Straight to the point, no meandering punditry. Just the facts. pic.twitter.com/tjdfo5d6HE — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 29, 2026 To see the relevant transcripts from June 29, click here (for the ABC News Special), here (for ABC News Live), and here (for CBS News 24/7).