NewsBusters Feed
NewsBusters Feed

NewsBusters Feed

@newsbustersfeed

Tarlov Claims A Collins Win Will Mean More 'Women Bleeding Out' Due To Dobbs Decision
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

Tarlov Claims A Collins Win Will Mean More 'Women Bleeding Out' Due To Dobbs Decision

Ever since the votes were counted in Maine on Tuesday night, and Graham Platner officially became the Democrat's nominee to take on incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins in November, the leftist media has started to portray the match-up as a choice between a catastrophic status quo, and a super hero, who will help right all of the horrors created by Donald Trump. Wednesday on Fox News's The Five, Jessica Tarlov exhibited that hysteria, and it didn't go over well with Greg Gutfeld. The left has called Donald Trump a Nazi for years, and now they support a man who has a Nazi tattoo on his chest. The irony was not lost on Gutfeld as he tore into the strategy. GUTFELD: I step back and I see what happens when you frame everything as an existential threat. For Democrats, who are always fighting Hitler, every tool is acceptable including electing a Nazi to fight Hitler because you need to win the Senate to destroy Hitler. So if you think about all of the bad things that have happened, say, in the last 10 years or so, they are directly linked to this framing, that we're fighting a fascist dictator. They built a frame that excuses the behavior that they condemn.... And now you see the Democrat embracing a Nazi misogynist because the circumstances are life and death, even though they are not. The Democrats always portray this next election as something that will cause the end of the world. That way all of their so-called principles can easily evaporate. He then drew a distinction, and offered some advice to Democrats. GUTFELD: For us it's not existential. We think Platner sucks and he's a pig, but you know what? We'll keep living, but Democrats, they are like fentanyl addicts. And politics is their fentanyl. So they don't care what they look like when they are doing it. What should the remaining principled Democrats do? They should support Collins. She's a liberal Republican. She has an incredibly low American Conservative Union rating. That doesn't seem to me as an existential choice.... In reality, if Collins wins life goes on and nothing really changes. In politics, if Platner loses, a fascist regime will destroy democracy because in politics, the stakes are delusionally  high. Who made those stakes high? The Democrats. When it was her turn, Tarlov jumped right on Guffeld's take, and he fought back. TARLOV: And to what Greg said about nothing changes if Susan Collins is the senator, again, if she wins re-election, that is the problem for Mainers and that's the problem across this country. They want change agents.  GUTFELD: : What happens if you don't get it? TARLOV: What do you mean? GUTFELD: Does the world end? TARLOV: You know what happens? Susan Collins, who touts her independent streak, now votes with Trump 95% of the time. She continues to back his agenda and guess what, there's gonna be one, maybe two Supreme Court seats up, and Susan Collins will vote for his nominee, who will be an even younger Brett Kavanaugh, like she did for Kavanaugh, and you know who won't do that -- Graham Platner will stand in the way. GUTFELD: You're validating exactly what I said. You're painting some kind of existential -- TARLOV: I do think it is. Then Gutfeld cornered her. GUTFELD: : You would vote for him. TARLOV: I feel lucky that I'm not voting in Maine right now. I think It's a very tough decision. And then the real hysteria.  TARLOV: Susan Collins loves to say I'm pro-choice. The Dobbs decision, right. Throw it back to the states. We have 13 states alone that have trigger laws where if you are six weeks pregnant you can't get access to reproductive healthcare. That is something that mortally offends Susan Collins but yet she votes for Republican nominees to the core to go ahead and  put through a decision like the Dobbs decision. GUTFELD: Which would be fine.  TARLOV: No it's fine to you, it is not fine to the women who are bleeding out who can't get the care that they had. GUTFELD: Bleeding out? TARLOV: That's what happens, Greg, if you go to an emergency room -- [cross talking] GUTFELD: Do you see the point if Susan Collins wins millions of women will bleed out. That's what they want you to believe.  In addition to claiming that women will bleed out if Collins wins, Tarlov, who had previously said of Platner, "I find him to be toxic", wouldn't say if she'd vote for him if she could. This goes a long way in confirming Gutfeld's take on the left's existential threat narrative. 

AP Urges Appeals Court to Ignore New Case Law That Could Spell Doom in Defamation Suit
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

AP Urges Appeals Court to Ignore New Case Law That Could Spell Doom in Defamation Suit

A highly anticipated ruling by the Florida Supreme Court late last week all but ensured the defamation suit filed by Navy veteran Zarachy Young against the Associated Press would get revived on appeal. And just days after telling Florida’s First District Court of Appeal to ignore the AP’s own stylebook in the case, the newswire’s lawyer wanted the court to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling as well. Those who have kept up with NewsBusters’ coverage of Young’s successful defamation suit against CNN, may recall that the news outlet attempted to get Florida’s 14th Circuit Court to put off progressing the case until the Supreme Court finally issued a ruling on Perlmutter v. Federal Insurance Company. Simply known as Perlmutter, the ruling provided new case law on, among other things, how trial-level courts were to apply a clear and convincing evidence standard to punitive damages claims in the pleading stage of a proceeding: The trial court does not act as a fact-finder in a proceeding under section 768.72(1). It must not weigh the claimant’s evidence, meaning that its role is not to decide the truth of the matter. In conducting its review, the trial court must “consider the record evidence and the proffered evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.” Of course, the allegations contained in the claimant’s proposed amended complaint are not themselves evidence—the whole point of a proceeding under section 768.72(1) is to determine whether the claimant can show reasonable evidentiary support for those allegations. How does did apply to Young’s case? Cutting through the legalese, when Judge William Scott Henry threw out Young case against the AP (and his case against Puck News) he argued against the quality of the evidence presented in the early pleading stage, and directly compared it to what was presented in the CNN case, writing: As discussed above, these decisions are not defamatory, but rather protected editorial choices.’ As such, Plaintiffs cannot rely on the choices made by Defendant to substantiate a claim for punitive damages. Since none of the statements in the Articles were defamatory and Plaintiffs have not proffered evidence of actual malice, express malice, or ill will, hostility or evil intention on the part of Defendant in publishing the Articles, Plaintiffs have not met their threshold burden of proffering sufficient evidence as would support a punitive damage claim in this case.  As part of his appeal, Young argued that was one of the reasons the ruling was improper.  A flurry of filings in the defamation case against the AP followed the Supreme Court’s Perlmutter decision. After Young’s counsel filed a Notice of Supplemental Authority on Thursday to bring the ruling to the attention of the three appellate judges who heard oral arguments, AP’s counsel Charles D. Tobin shot back the next day with a two-paragraph request for them to ignore the ruling: Appellee The Associated Press (“The AP”) submits this brief response to Plaintiffs-Appellants’ Notice of Supplemental Authority regarding the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Perlmutter v. Federal Insurance Company, No. SC2024-0058 (Fla. June 11, 2026) (“Perlmutter Op.”). Since the trial court did not apply the clear and convincing standard in its ruling related to punitive damages nor did it rely on anything submitted by The AP, the Perlmutter Op. does not apply to Section II of Plaintiffs-Appellants’ Initial Brief or Reply Brief, as their Notice of Supplemental Authority asserts. On Saturday, Young’s counsel requested the court strike the AP’s response, alleging it was an improper motion: “The Response is unauthorized by Rule 9.225, which governs the provision of supplemental authority to the Court following the conclusion of briefing. Further, the Response impermissibly contains argument regarding the authority cited in Appellants’ Notice.” While the Supreme Court ruling in Perlmutter didn’t address the key points of Young’s defamation case (AP’s stylebook, the use of “smuggling,” etc.), it directly pertained to how and why the case was thrown out in the early pleading stage of the proceedings. It was through discovery that Young was able to obtain the evidence for actual and expressed malice. The dismissal of Young’s case could turn out to be a short term victory that only dragged out the case for nearly a year.

MS NOW’s Noriega Warns of World Cup Unrest in ‘Moment of Great Turmoil’
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

MS NOW’s Noriega Warns of World Cup Unrest in ‘Moment of Great Turmoil’

As the World Cup opened in the U.S. in Los Angeles on Friday, MS NOW’s David Noriega warned of possible political unrest in America amid the start of global soccer tournament. He said the World Cup was a window into “the politics of a host nation and into the geopolitical moment,” which he referred to as the U.S. hosting in “a moment of great turmoil.” Noriega's fearmongering came after MS NOW Reports connected the expiration of the FISA warrant program, set to expire on Friday, to the start of the World Cup. He then began his portion with an explanation of the security challenge of the World Cup, and explained possible protests that were, of course, anti-Trump. The LAPD told Noriega they “expect protests,” which Noreiga expanded upon and stated, “The protests could come from any number of places: anti-ICE protests, anti-Trump protests.” He also mentioned possible anti-Iranian Islamic Regime protests “by Persian communities in LA against the presence of the Iran team, the team representing the current Iranian regime here in the United States.” He also talked about LAPD staffing shortages and noted the federal government was essentially funding the police department through special programs from the Department of Homeland Security.   As the World Cup kicks off on Friday in LA, MS NOW reporter David Noreiga warned of possible unrest and protests in a "moment of great turmoil" as "World Cups are always sort of a window into the politics of a host nation and into the geopolitical moment." pic.twitter.com/bjhQDU7MOB — Nick (@nspin310) June 12, 2026   Noriega turned to talk about the politics of the moment, relating back to his mention of possible anti-Trump administration protests. He mentioned the “global significance” of the tournament before he came back to politics: The World Cups are always sort of a window into the politics of a host nation and into the geopolitical moment. In what could be described as a warning or a moment that framed the U.S. as an unstable country, he related the security of the World Cup events back to American politics and the period of global conflicts: And in this moment, what we're seeing is the U.S. co-hosting this event in a moment of great turmoil and uncertainty and instability (...) Noriega then opined there could be threats and unrest, from even possibly Americans: “(...) That's going to show up in a lot of different ways, whether it be threats or unrest from the American people themselves or something that we can't, at this point, even predict. “ Noriega’s reference to unrest from the American people seemed to frame his entire words about “a moment of great turmoil” as a hit on American politics and the current Republican administration. The fear of some international reporters - even American reporters like Noriega - who wanted to frame everything as a referendum on Trump policies was astounding. They have pumped out constant disapproval and a barrage of stories about denial of entry to a Somalian referee who has alleged ties to people associated with terrorism, even as a Democratic representative said it seemed to be a valid denial. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW Reports June 12, 2026 12:10:54 PM Eastern (...) Noriega DAVID NORIEGA: We spoke to the LAPD’s head of the incident command division, who said that they expect - it's a citywide challenge. They expect, for example, protests. The protests could come from any number of places: anti-ICE protests, anti-Trump protests, but also, interestingly, in advance of Iran's first game in the United States on Monday, protests by Persian communities in LA against the presence of the Iran team, the team representing the current Iranian regime here in the United States. The LAPD, Alex, has been facing pretty substantial staffing shortages for years at this point. When we asked them how they were sort of managing that in the face of this massively complex security event. They told us that they're confident. They're not worried about it at all, mainly because they have a bunch of overtime for their officers. That overtime comes primarily, or not primarily, it comes largely from an influx of funding cash from the federal government, the Department of Homeland Security. They're also working with the FBI, for example, on a counter-drone program. Cheap commercial drones are everywhere now, and they present a potential security threat.  Look, when I look at all of this, everything that I'm telling you, what I see is that this is a massive, globally significant event with huge crowds. The World Cups are always sort of a window into the politics of a host nation and into the geopolitical moment. And in this moment, what we're seeing is the U.S. co-hosting this event in a moment of great turmoil and uncertainty and instability, and that's going to show up in a lot of different ways, whether it be threats or unrest from the American people themselves or something that we can't, at this point even predict. Alex? (...)

MS NOW Slams Pro-ICE Christians as Hypocrites, Talks Up Lefty Agitators
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

MS NOW Slams Pro-ICE Christians as Hypocrites, Talks Up Lefty Agitators

On Wednesday's Morning Joe, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough lambasted pro-ICE Christians at the same time that national correspondent Jacob Soboroff gave encouraging words to left-wing agitators as he touted their anti-ICE harassment as successful. The segment was focused on Soboroff fretting over the increase in children who have been detained with illegal alien parents in family detention centers during President Donald Trump's second term. Scarborough called the practice "ghastly" and co-host Mika Brzezinski called it "sick" during the introduction. MS NOW Slams Pro-ICE Christians as Hypocritical, Talks Up Lefty Agitators pic.twitter.com/R286hNZiru — Brad Wilmouth (@bradwilmouth) June 12, 2026 MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Your analysis found at least 500 babies -- JOE SCARBOROUGH: This is just unbelievable. BRZEZINSKI: -- and toddlers have been detained by ICE -- SCARBOROUGH: How ghastly they are. BRZEZINSKI: -- and sick -- since President Trump returned to office in 2025. As is typical for the liberal news network, it was not mentioned that Trump's efforts have saved thousands of migrants from dying on the border and has freed thousands of illegal alien children from abusive circumstances who were lost by the Joe Biden administration. This is what partisan journalism looks like.  At one point, Scarborough started ranting against conservative Christians: ...we've been talking about the hypocrisy of Christian nationalists for, for quite some time. Anybody that supports this policy (who) claims to be a Christian is just, again, I don't know where they have been while the preachers have been preaching about what Jesus said. There's no mention of leftists talking up the "rule of law" and promoting the mass importation of illegal immigrants, and then undermining law enforcement during deportations. He soon added: So obviously Jesus making a great point that you go out of your way to protect children. And, by the way, people who claim to be pro-life -- "Oh, we're for babies when their unborn, but after they're born, they can be locked up in internment camps and, in just the worst --" It's really, I mean, it's just even -- even by hypocritical standards of people who call themselves evangelicals supporting this sort of stuff, even this is shocking to me. Toward the end of the segment, Soboroff credited anti-ICE agitators with deterring immigration enforcement in cities like Minneapolis and Chicago: Tom Homan has talked about maybe increasing enforcement in this very city, New York. ... not only will they come, guys, and run through the streets like they have done with Greg Bovino in these other cities, but the people will also come out. And I think that that is the most important thing to note is that that is what has stopped Greg Bovino. That is what stopped the mass deportation effort in Charlotte, in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in Los Angeles. All these places where I have covered it is the people standing up and pushing back. And it has worked every single time. By contrast, about a month earlier, Fox & Friends and other Fox shows informed viewers about left-wing activists who surrounded a hospital in New York after ICE agents arrested a violent illegal alien and brought him to the hospital for medical treatment. Getting him out against proved to be difficult. Fox Highlights Lefty Agitators Who Defended Violent Illegal Alien from ICE pic.twitter.com/aRYup0pehC — Brad Wilmouth (@bradwilmouth) June 11, 2026 Transcripts follow: MS NOW's Morning Joe June 10, 2026 7:19 a.m. Eastern MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I really appreciate your reporting, Jacob. You have new reporting for MS NOW in collaboration with the Marshall Project, looking at America's youngest detainees. Your analysis found at least 500 babies -- JOE SCARBOROUGH: This is just unbelievable. BRZEZINSKI: -- and toddlers have been detained by ICE -- SCARBOROUGH: How ghastly they are. BRZEZINSKI: -- and sick -- since President Trump returned to office in 2025. You spoke with some of the families that were impacted. What more can you tell us about what you found and what you heard from them? JACOB SOBOROFF: You know, I am actually extremely glad that the President has tuned in this morning because this is an extension of a policy that, during the first term, Physicians for Human Rights said was torture, according to the United Nations. I'm talking about family separation -- government-sanctioned child abuse according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. And with our reporting partners at the Marshall Project, this is the first of its kind in the collaboration between MS NOW and the Marshall Project. We have analyzed data from the deportation data project that shows 500, as you said, little kids -- babies and toddlers -- have been detained by ICE since the beginning of just Trump 2.0, and that is only through March of this year. We don't have data after March, but this will be lifelong consequences for these little kids inside a family prison in the United States. And let me say that one more time, a prison for families, the Dilley detention center in the United States of America that was closed under President Trump's predecessor, President Biden, and reopened by President Trump only for the reason detaining families with little kids inside of them. (...) SOBOROFF: ...what people who advocate on behalf of these babies and children want is to close this facility -- the detention center in Texas that the allegations of conditions are just horrific. ICE, of course, says this is a family-friendly facility; DHS says this is a family-friendly facility; and CoreCivic who -- by the way, is making a profit off of detaining babies -- BRZEZINSKI: So much money. SOBOROFF: -- and families at this facility -- says this is a family-friendly facility and that conditions there are decent. WILLIE GEIST: It takes some audacity to call family-friendly a place where you're detaining one- and two-year-olds. Can you speak, Jacob, to why the parents even were being detained in the first place because that's an important part of the story? In most of the cases in your reporting here, people who either presented themselves at legal ports of entry or went to an appointment where they thought they were safe and doing the right thing and were detained along with their babies. SOBOROFF: Yeah, the idea that an asylum -- a political asylum seeker would be locked up at all once they pass their credible fear screening at the border is different from things -- from how things used to be. And all of these families that are inside of here in one way or another -- these are not violent criminals. These are certainly not the worst of the worst. They would be in prisons or they would be separated actually from their children and locked up -- the parents in a separate ICE facility. These are people who just have immigration violations. And we're talking about when Joaquin Castro went there -- the congressman from the San Antonio area -- early on in this administration, there were 1,000 people inside this facility. That number has steadily gone down because of efforts by him -- and we're going to have this full report that airs on my show this weekend that's almost 20 minutes that shows how hard they've been working to get people out of there. But the answer is no good reason other than they have immigration violations. They came here as undocumented people seeking political asylum, and the President wants to lock them up with their babies. (...) JOE SCARBOROUGH: David, again, we've been talking about the hypocrisy of Christian nationalists for, for quite some time. Anybody that supports this policy (who) claims to be a Christian is just, again, I don't know where they have been while the preachers have been preaching about what Jesus said. "Let the -- let the little children come. Anyone that does -- does harm to -- to a little one better than a millstone be hung around his neck and sunk to the bottom of the sea than he was ever born." That's Jesus's words again. So obviously Jesus making a great point that you go out of your way to protect children. And, by the way, people who claim to be pro-life -- "Oh, we're for babies when their unborn, but after they're born, they can be locked up in internment camps and, in just the worst --" It's really, I mean, it's just even -- even by hypocritical standards of people who call themselves evangelicals supporting this sort of stuff, even this is shocking to me. DAVID FRENCH, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST: Well, you know, and what really compounds it, I think what's important about the report is that he was talking that these -- these families are guilty only of immigration violations. This is not a situation where you have violent criminals and children because, as was stated, in that circumstance, you would have separation. So you're talking about people who are guilty of, you know, entry into -- illegal entry is a misdemeanor. A visa overstay isn't a crime at all. And so you've got people who are guilty -- if they're guilty at all of a crime -- of something at a misdemeanor level leading to family detention for extended periods of time. I mean, this is extraordinary. And I think a lot of people aren't understanding how draconian and how punitive the Trump crackdown is. And then, when you do point it out, they raise the red herring, the straw man of, "Oh, well, you must be for open borders," that the alternative to this program is nothing but unrestrained immigration, when that is absolutely not true at all. CLAIRE McCASKILL, MS NOW CONTRIBUTOR: Jacob, I'm curious what's going on inside DHS with Markwayne Mullin and (Tom) Homan kind of taking over from some of the craziest folks that were running the place. It feels like to me that Stephen Miller is still pulling the levers and figuring out ways to find anybody who is not of white European descent to get them out of the country. What is going on now with the folks in charge compared to what was going on when they were murdering people in the streets of Minneapolis? SOBOROFF: There is no doubt about it that nothing has changed, Claire, just because Greg Bovino is not running around the country in his military costume, throwing flash bang grenades and smoke canisters at protesters, killing both migrants and American citizens alike with the operations all around the country, including Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. The underlying policy is still the same -- mass deportation is family separation by another name... (...) Tom Homan has talked about maybe increasing enforcement in this very city, New York. I talked to the mayor when he was mayor-elect about what that would look like in this city. And rest-assured, not only will they come, guys, and run through the streets like they have done with Greg Bovino in these other cities, but the people will also come out. And I think that that is the most important thing to note is that that is what has stopped Greg Bovino. That is what stopped the mass deportation effort in Charlotte, in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in Los Angeles. All these places where I have covered it is the people standing up and pushing back. And it has worked every single time. (...) Fox & Friends May 4, 2026 6:38 a.m. Eastern BRIAN KILMEADE: So you're not going to believe what happened yesterday. Once again, an ICE clash. To be in ICE these days is really to have to show some courage and know that you're doing the right thing. So in Brooklyn they found a Nigerian who overstayed his visa who is up for assault as well as drug possession charges. So they picked him up and brought him to the hospital for some of his injuries, at which time word went out to protesters and to anti-ICE protesters. And they created havoc, causing the NYPD to finally act. AINSLEY EARHARDT: So he entered the U.S. with a tourist visa on August 27, 2023 three years ago. He was supposed to go home on February 26, 2024, a few months later but he didn't. He refused to comply with officers' demands to exit the vehicle. Then he tried to hit the officers with his car, and then he became physically combative and tried to punch and elbow an ICE officer. So the officers -- they used minimum amount of force, they said. The suspect claimed he needed medical attention, then when they took him to the hospital in Brooklyn, he refused to comply, threw himself on the floor, started screaming. Eventually,  he was cleared to leave, and, when he did, word had gotten out, and, Charlie, there were 200 protesters outside trying to stop the agents from arresting him.

Soboroff Kicks Off New Show By Hyping 'Joy' Of Anti-Trump Protests
Favicon 
www.newsbusters.org

Soboroff Kicks Off New Show By Hyping 'Joy' Of Anti-Trump Protests

MS NOW reporter/far-left immigration activist Jacob Soboroff debuted his new show on Saturday that he is calling Connect. In a segment where he explained the meaning behind the name, Soboroff recounted several stories he has done throughout his career that “connect” with him with people, including several that touched on immigration and the “joy” that “we’ve experienced together” of protesting President Trump. Soboroff’s dive into immigration began with Trump 1.0, but before that, he made sure to get in some climate change activism as well, “Or how about when I travel to Greenland to see with my own eyes how the changing climate there affects all of us here? I felt the connection as I watched the Trump administration deliberately and systematically separate thousands of immigrant parents from their children and what the American Academy of Pediatrics called ‘government-sanctioned child abuse.’”   MS NOW gave reporter/liberal immigration activist Jacob Soboroff his own show called "Connect," so he tried wax poetic on the first episode, "I felt the connection as I watched the Trump administration deliberately and systematically separate thousands of immigrant parents from… pic.twitter.com/AXGQieQgw0 — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 13, 2026   It wasn’t just Trump Soboroff was angry at. He then went after former President Biden from the left, “And as COVID ravaged the country, I felt it when I went to the streets as people across this nation protested systemic racism in policing and the murder of George Floyd. We connected as I traveled to Haiti to meet people deported to danger and potential death by the Biden administration that had promised a new approach to immigration in the wake of the Trump administration's cruelty.” After highlighting some unobjectionable stories from his career, including his personal connection with the LA wildfires, Soboroff turned to Trump 2.0, “A lot of joy has informed what we've experienced together this year. Americans standing up and pushing back and demanding accountability from our government. From downtown Los Angeles to the halls of 26 Federal Plaza here in New York City, to a Charlotte church and to the streets of Minneapolis.”   Later, Soboroff returned to immigration, "A lot of joy as informed what we've experienced together this year. Americans standing up and pushing back and demanding accountability from our government, from downtown Los Angeles to the halls of 26 Federal Plaza, here in New York… pic.twitter.com/C1Ty1jz5HU — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 13, 2026   After basically admitting his job is telling MS NOW’s liberal audience what it wants to hear, Soboroff concluded, “Of course, we are going to report the news here, but as I have always strived to do, my goal is to put you guys first and to try every single day I'm out here to be who I really am. A reporter, yes, but a dad, and a husband, and a son, and a friend. I have loved the opportunity over so many years to connect with so many of you. And now we have this place in this time to do it. I am grateful for this opportunity and for every person on this team dedicated to making it happen. So here we go. On this show, let's keep doing what we have been doing together for the past 11 years. Let’s connect.” Soboroff is replacing Ali Velshi, who is replacing Stephanie Ruhle as host of The 11th Hour, who is replacing Ana Cabrera and the fourth hour of Morning Joe, but while the faces in front of the camera change at MS NOW, the substance of the discussion does not. Here is a transcript for the June 13 show: Connect with Jacob Soboroff 6/13/2026 10:32 AM ET JACOB SOBOROFF: Or how about when I travel to Greenland to see with my own eyes how the changing climate there affects all of us here? I felt the connection as I watched the Trump administration deliberately and systematically separate thousands of immigrant parents from their children and what the American Academy of Pediatrics called “government-sanctioned child abuse.” And as COVID ravaged the country, I felt it when I went to the streets as people across this nation protested systemic racism in policing and the murder of George Floyd. We connected as I traveled to Haiti to meet people deported to danger and potential death by the Biden administration that had promised a new approach to immigration in the wake of the Trump administration's cruelty. … A lot of joy has informed what we've experienced together this year. Americans standing up and pushing back and demanding accountability from our government. From downtown Los Angeles to the halls of 26 Federal Plaza, here in New York City to a Charlotte church and to the streets of Minneapolis. Of course, we are going to report the news here, but as I have always strived to do, my goal is to put you guys first and to try every single day I'm out here to be who I really am. A reporter, yes, but a dad, and a husband, and a son, and a friend. I have loved the opportunity over so many years to connect with so many of you. And now we have this place in this time to do it. I am grateful for this opportunity and for every person on this team dedicated to making it happen. So here we go. On this show, let's keep doing what we have been doing together for the past 11 years. Let’s connect.