Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was the only lead broadcast network morning show to mention Virginia’s special election that, pending voter approval, would gerrymander the commonwealth’s congressional delegation from six Democrats and five Republicans to 10 Democrats and one Republican in the name of “fairness.” Unsurprisingly, the liberal network took their elected allies at their word that it would only be a “temporary” map and it’s only in response to a “national fight started by President Trump and congressional Republicans in Texas.” WATCH: Tuesday's 'CBS Mornings' asserted Virginia Democrats are only gerrymandering the commonwealth to a 10D-1R map because "the national fight [was] started by President Trump and congressional Democrats in Texas and other states" and takes Virginia Dems 100% at their word that… pic.twitter.com/Ok3fAm5hwf — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 21, 2026 Fill-in co-host Matt Gutman made it sound uncontroversial: “Now, voters in Virginia will decide today whether to redraw the state’s Congressional map. Legislature wants to change these districts which were created by an independent commission. The new map will give Democrats control of every congressional seat in the state except one.” Speaking of benign, here was the wording of the question before voters: Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional districts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections, while ensuring Virginia’s standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census? Senior White House and political correspondent Ed O’Keefe spun from the get-go that this talk of partisan redistricting was a “national fight started by President Trump and congressional Republicans in Texas and other states to redraw congressional maps.” “Democrats, of course, did it as well in California and now here in Virginia, they’re trying to find another advantage for themselves in the east,” he added. Following a soundbite of a pro-“yes” ad featuring former President Barack Obama, O’Keefe doubled down, citing GOP redraws in Missouri, North Carolina, and Missouri that “could help the GOP win nearly 10 more seats in November.” Notice how the numbers were not relayed from Democrat gains in California, Utah (via a state judge), or failed attempts in New York. There are a number of misleading claims here. First, the new Texas congressional map still allows for Democrats to hold at least 21 percent of seats — which is eight out of 38 total seats — when the Lone Star State gave Kamala Harris 42 percent in 2024. Second, Virginia’s map would leave the GOP with only one seat — or nine percent — when they gave Trump 46 percent of the vote two years ago. Finally, has O’Keefe seen states such as Illinois? The left’s argument that gerrymandering has been one-sided is, at best, preposterous. But, yes, Republicans "started it" when it comes to "rigged" congressional maps

In his usual unhinged opening monologue on Monday night’s The Last Word, MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell compared President Trump's threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure in Truth Social posts to actual alleged war crimes committed in a Vietnamese village during the Vietnam War by William Calley. O’Donnell’s comparisons to Hitler and the Nazis have been prevalent ever since the start of the Iran war, as O’Donnell and his media colleagues set their sights on trying to tie Trump and war crimes. After the host introduced a Trump post that assessed “I’m winning a war by a lot,” O’Donnell went straight to war crimes: And as always, false was only yesterday that Donald Trump once again publicly threatened to commit war crimes in Iran, which is in and of itself a war crime, the public threatening of war crimes.   Monday Night, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell compared President Trump to alleged Vietnam War Criminal William Calley, who O'Donnell said murdered many Vietnamese villagers. He then implied Calley was not as bad as Trump since he did not say it was his "honor" to commit war crimes. pic.twitter.com/6W39jYQa7F — Nick (@nspin310) April 21, 2026   The new line was, essentially, that words were now war crimes.  Here’s Trump’s post, as read by O’Donnell, “We're offering a very fair and responsible deal, and I hope they take it, because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice guy, exclamation point. It will be my honor to do what has to be done.” Then, in O’Donnell fashion, he compared Trump to alleged war criminal Lt. William Calley who was deemed responsible for the deaths of hundreds in a Vietnamese village. The comparison essentially said Calley was not as bad as Trump:  Couple things: It will be my honor to commit war crimes is something that the worst American war criminals never said. Lieutenant William J. Calley, who murdered more than 340 Vietnamese villagers at close range, gunpoint, execution style. Men, women, children, babies, grandparents. Never said it will be my honor to murder Vietnamese babies. It's only Donald Trump who thinks threatening war crimes and committing war crimes will be my honor. This was reminiscent of when, earlier this month, O’Donnell commended Hitler for not being a cruel as Trump. According to O’Donnell, a Vietnam War criminal was better than Trump because he did not say it was his honor to commit war crimes, even if he actually did them, unlike Trump. Maybe O’Donnell had started to run out of comparisons to Trump to Hitler and Nazis, so much so that he needed something new. At the end of his monologue, O’Donnell went on to praise former President Obama’s Iran negotiations, turning into straight pro-Obama state TV: President Obama did not threaten to commit war crimes in Iran. To achieve that agreement, President Obama sent the most experienced and expert negotiating team ever sent on a diplomatic mission for the United States of America. As MS NOW and other media had tried not to portray themselves as pro-Iran, O’Donnell ended his monologue as he read a tweet from the Iranian Parliament Speaker that threatened to “reveal new cards on the battlefield.” O’Donnell’s comparison of Trump to an alleged Vietnam War criminal continued his trend of war crime derangement. Did he have any comment on Obama's 542 drone strikes during his presidency? The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell April 20, 2026 10:16:31 PM Eastern (...) LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: And it also seems apparent that Donald Trump is running this war himself, mostly by tweet. At 2:11 p.m. today, Donald Trump announced, “I'm winning a war by a lot! Things are going very well!” That is Donald Trump's latest assessment of his war, “I'm winning a war. But as we know, that assessment is subject to change at any moment. And as always, false. It was only yesterday that Donald Trump once again publicly threatened to commit war crimes in Iran, which is in and of itself a war crime, the public threatening of war crimes. Donald Trump said,  “We're offering a very fair and responsible deal, and I hope they take it, because if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single power plant and every single bridge in Iran. No more Mr. Nice guy, exclamation point. It will be my honor to do what has to be done.” Couple things: It will be my honor to commit war crimes is something that the worst American war criminals never said. Lieutenant William J. Calley, who murdered more than 340 Vietnamese villagers at close range, gunpoint, execution style. Men, women, children, babies, grandparents. Never said it will be my honor to murder Vietnamese babies. It's only Donald Trump who thinks threatening war crimes and committing war crimes will be my honor. And Donald Trump threatening “No More. Mr. Nice guy” in capital letters with an exclamation point, really has no meaning for a person who has not spent one day of his life as a nice guy.  Donald Trump has gone from saying two weeks ago, there was no need to negotiate anything with Iran because he had already won his war, to now publicly and repeatedly sending his completely inexperienced negotiators who have never negotiated with Iran to come up with a peace deal. (...) 10:20:15 PM Eastern  O’DONNELL: President Obama did not threaten to commit war crimes in Iran. To achieve that agreement, President Obama sent the most experienced and expert negotiating team ever sent on a diplomatic mission for the United States of America. The negotiating team included Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist, and other nuclear experts.  There is not a single nuclear expert in Donald Trump's negotiating team. Just a couple of real estate guys. Donald Trump's negotiating team includes his son-in-law, a real estate operator, and JD Vance. And they are up against this. At 5:12 p.m. Today, the speaker of the Iranian parliament tweeted, quote, “Trump, by imposing a siege and violating the ceasefire, seeks to turn this negotiating table in his own imagination into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering. We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and in the past two weeks we have prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield.” (...)

A convicted murderer who sent a violent death threat to Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons has been arrested, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested U.S. citizen Daniel Barber in San Francisco on April 10, DHS reported in a statement recounting details of Barber’s email threat: “‘Your Gestapo Nazi maggot ICE agents should be terrified,’ Barber said in an email sent on June 6, 2025. He added that ICE law enforcement officers ‘deserve’ to be ‘executed right there as well with two f**king bullets to the back of their maggot Nazi heads!’ “Barber added, ‘And that is not a threat, you little f**king b*tch, but simply my opinion as to what those worms deserve. I’ll be f**king praying daily to the universe Americans start rising up and giving them, and you, exactly that.’” Barber has a lengthy criminal history, including a conviction for murder and robbery with intent to cause bodily harm in 1990. He also has multiple arrests for burglary, battery, and vehicle theft, DHS notes. “Comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences,” Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said, explaining that sanctuary politicians have created an environment that encourages rampant assaults on law enforcement: “As our ICE law enforcement officers remove murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists from American communities, they are facing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults, an 8,000% increase in death threats, and a more than 3,300% increase in vehicle attacks.” Despite the surge in threats and assaults, ICE has remained undaunted in its work to enforce the nation’s immigration laws. “We are NOT afraid of you,” DHS declared in a warning to would-be attackers in a social media post last December following the arrest of twin brothers charged with making terroristic death threats to then-DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin. “Let this be a warning to anyone who dares threaten or attack our law enforcement and DHS officials. We will find you, we will arrest you, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law,” DHS promised in the post.  “The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law must stop,” Bis said.

Someone should really review all the federal cases that had Sunny Hostin’s fingerprints on them. During Monday’s The View, the former federal prosecutor asserted, “I believe I have psychic abilities” and that her grandmother had told her she had “the gift.” Apparently, she wasn’t sharing her “gift” with those who needed it because she and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin huffed about how Nancy’s Guthrie was still missing and directly blamed FBI Director Kash Patel for it. Deep in the episode, they apparently ran out political topics to bloviate about so they discussed a study that said one in five people thought they had psychic powers. Obviously annoyed that she had to talk about the subject, moderator Whoopi Goldberg noted that they had five people at the table and Hostin’s hand shot up. “One psychic and four psychos!” quipped co-host Joy Behar. Hostin was adamant she was a psychic: No, I believe I have psychic abilities. I recall when I was a child at about five-years-old. You know, I grew up very poor and I dreamt a number. And my grandmother was, like, ‘we are going to play that number.’ We used to call it playing the numbers and my entire family won based on that number. “Well, my grandmother -- now I’m going to start sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had the gift,” she added.   Former federal prosecutor and co-host of The View, Sunny Hostin: "I believe I have psychic abilities." She's says "it's obvious" because she has dreams, "Well, my grandmother - now I'm going to sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had… pic.twitter.com/8tjyqfEqXK — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   Earlier in the show, Hostin and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin blamed embattled FBI Director Kash Patel for why Nancy Guthrie was still missing. Farah Griffin even had an issue with authorities getting a tip from the public that helped lead to the arrest of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin: FARAH GRIFFIN: And I'd also say, public trust in the FBI is low. I think of two very high-profile cases. Charlie Kirk's assassination, it wasn't the FBI that solved it. Eventually he was turned over by his own family. It was local law enforcement and, in fact, they put out inaccurate information early on. SARA HAINES: Yeah. GOLDBERG: Yes, they did. FARAH GRIFFIN: And then I think all of us are still praying over Nancy Guthrie just hoping she is going to be found. Like I'm starting to lose faith in our federal law enforcement and I've never felt that in my lifetime. Apparently, Farah Griffin was living in fantasy TV land where investigators always got their man in 30-60 minutes, including commercials. The FBI had over 93,000 open missing person cases with many that dated back decades. Then there’s the fact many cases rely on tips from the public, that's why tip lines exists. Investigators were not clairvoyant.   The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests Nancy Guthrie is still missing because of Kash Patel and suggests it's embarrassing the authorities relied on a tip to catch Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin: FARAH GRIFFIN: These positions matter. These are important positions of public… pic.twitter.com/orlwHuy9zL — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   But you know who claimed to be? Sunny Hostin. So, why wasn’t she helping with the investigation? Would it she want to show off against Patel’s FBI? “It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious,” she said in response to Farah Griffin. “Yeah. But he claims the FBI has done so much work but you pointed to the case of Nancy Guthrie. Where is Mrs. Guthrie?” Hostin whined about Patel choosing to sue The Atlantic, accusing them of defamation. And in terms of Kash Patel he is suing for defamation. The defense to defamation is the truth. And so, he's a public figure. That's a very high legal standard. That means that he has to show that The Atlantic reported this with actual malice.   Sunny Hostin also blames Guthrie's missing status on Patel and whines that he sued The Atlantic for defamation: HOSTIN: It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious. And I too having worked at the FBI as a… pic.twitter.com/qYnh5ihFow — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   “That is such a high standard and The Atlantic is saying they interviewed 12 sources, 12 people,” she proclaimed. Shouldn’t she already know as a psychic? The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View April 21, 2026 11:05:33 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: These positions matter. These are important positions of public trust and I'll especially focus on the FBI director. So traditionally, an FBI director is above the partisan fold. They really have the public trust. I think of Louis Freeh, Christopher Wray, Robert Mueller long before we knew him from the Mueller report. Because their jobs are so important. And right - WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And it didn't matter whether they're Republican or Democrat. [Crosstalk] SUNNY HOSTIN: You generally didn't know if they were Republican or Democrat. FARAH GRIFFIN: Exactly. Their politics didn't show. And this comes right now, this lack of faith and confidence in the FBI when we're at war with Iran. One of the FBI's jobs is to monitor sleeper terrorist cells in the United States. So, if Iranian-affiliated terrorist organizations try to attack the homeland. I don't want to hear these when that's a real threat. And I'd also say, public trust in the FBI is low. I think of two very high-profile cases. Charlie Kirk's assassination, it wasn't the FBI that solved it. Eventually he was turned over by his own family. It was local law enforcement and, in fact, they put out inaccurate information early on. SARA HAINES: Yeah. GOLDBERG: Yes, they did. FARAH GRIFFIN: And then I think all of us are still praying over Nancy Guthrie just hoping she is going to be found. Like I'm starting to lose faith in our federal law enforcement and I've never felt that in my lifetime. So, regardless of who you vote for, who's in the White House, you want good people there and I don't know if we have them right now. (…) 11:07:10 a.m. Eastern HOSTIN: It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious. And I too having worked at the FBI as a federal prosecutor, I've never seen a FBI be -- JOY BEHAR: J. Edgar Hoover, hello? FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't think she saw Hoover. HOSTIN: Yeah. But he claims the FBI has done so much work but you pointed to the case of Nancy Guthrie. Where is Mrs. Guthrie? The other thing that I will say is. He [President Trump] only had six women in his cabinet. For three of them to have resigned and stepped down that means 50 percent of the women have stepped down. There's a real problem there. And in terms of Kash Patel he is suing for defamation. The defense to defamation is the truth. And so, he's a public figure. That's a very high legal standard. That means that he has to show that The Atlantic reported this with actual malice. That is such a high standard and The Atlantic is saying they interviewed 12 sources, 12 people. So if those 12 people come forward during a deposition and tell the truth - GOLDBERG: It's going to be an interesting. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: That would make good TV. (…) 11:35:29 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I don't know what to do about this. Apparently, one in five Americans believe they possess some level of psychic ability. [Laughter] I didn't think this. According to a recent survey of 2,000 adults. There are five of us sitting here. [Sunny Hostin puts her hand up] BEHAR: Sunny! Sunny’s a psychic! HAINES: I said it would be Sunny. HOSTIN: It's obvious. BEHAR: One psychic and four psychos! [Laughter and applause] BEHAR: No. I’m sorry. GOLDBERG: That says it all. HOSTIN: No, I believe I have psychic abilities. I recall when I was a child at about five-years-old. You know, I grew up very poor and I dreamt a number. And my grandmother was, like, ‘we are going to play that number.’ We used to call it playing the numbers and my entire family won based on that number. [Applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: Ooh. Give us some numbers! BEHAR: Wait a second, that happened once. HAINES: Have you had an instance since you were five? HOSTIN: Well, I haven’t had that number dream, but I have had other dreams and they have come true. GOLDBERG: That's why you think you're psychic? HOSTIN: Well, my grandmother --now I’m going to start sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had the gift. HAINES: I just got my grandmother's name. I wish I got those abilities. BEHAR: If this were a real thing then all of the casinos would be out of business. (…)

Of all the liberals with a strange, new respect for papal wisdom, HBO’s John Oliver might be the most brazen. On Sunday, the Last Week Tonight host, who spends a great amount of time lamenting pro-lifers and religious people who operate under the assumption that the First Amendment applies to their views of homosexuality, became the latest to pile on Vice President JD Vance for his comments about Pope Leo and the Iran War when he told Vance to stay in his lane, which he argued was teaching sex ed with couches. Oliver introduced a clip of Vance by playing up the idea that Vance was doing something risky, “Now, when pressed on the pope's remarks, Vance took a bold swing.”   While throwing in a JD Vance-couch sex joke, John Oliver recently became the latest person to have a strange, new respect for papal wisdom, "Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the… pic.twitter.com/fIx7yKwCko — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 21, 2026   In the clip, Vance declared, “When the pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is a thousand-year—more than a thousand-year tradition of just war theory. Okay? Now, we can of course have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just, but I think that it's important in the same way that it's important for the vice president of United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy. I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.” It’s not a completely unreasonable thing to say. The United States did not attack Iran for the purposes of annexing its territory or some racist urge to wipe out Persian people and their culture. You could say Iran has an urge to wipe out Israel, just like their Russian allies certainly desire to do that to Ukraine. Nevertheless, an aghast Oliver reacted, “Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the clit is on a Togo sectional. Why would I even try to do that? He's spent his life devoted to this very subject. I'm out of my lane there!” Oliver continued with a reference to Vance’s meeting with Pope Francis, “Also, ‘Be careful?’ The pope's got a lifetime gig. He doesn't need to be cautious about what he says. He could start tweeting ‘Where's the album, @Rihanna’ every day for the rest of his life, and that still wouldn't change the fact he's considered the vicar of Christ. Literally the only thing he should probably ‘Be careful about’ is not meeting with JD Vance because, historically, that's been fatal for popes.” Popes simply don’t endorse military action anymore, so unless Oliver wants to announce he is a total pacifist, he should refrain from using Leo as a shield for his own agenda, especially considering that when the news cycle shifts to abortion, or same-sex marriage, or transgender-related things, Oliver’s interest in Leo’s thoughts will either disappear or shift to opposition. Here is a transcript for the April 20 show: HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 4/19/2026 11:14 PM ET JOHN OLIVER: Now, when pressed on the pope's remarks, Vance took a bold swing. JD VANCE: When the pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is a thousand-year—more than a thousand-year tradition of just war theory. Okay? Now, we can of course have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just, but I think that it's important in the same way that it's important for the vice president of United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy. I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology. OLIVER: Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the clit is on a Togo sectional. Why would I even try to do that? He's spent his life devoted to this very subject. I'm out of my lane there! Also, "Be careful?" The pope's got a lifetime gig. He doesn't need to be cautious about what he says. He could start tweeting "Where's the album, @Rihanna” every day for the rest of his life, and that still wouldn't change the fact he's considered the vicar of Christ. Literally the only thing he should probably "Be careful about" is not meeting with JD Vance because, historically, that's been fatal for popes.