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.

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.

Why does Donald Trump continue to agree to sit-downs with openly hostile network hosts? That’s the question everyone is asking after his recent, tense hour-long interview with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker. In a Friday episode of The Derek Hunter Show, Media Research Center President David Bozell joined host Derek Hunter to break down the strategy behind the administration's elitist media blitz. While many conservative allies think the president would be better served sticking to friendly outlets, Bozell offers an interesting counter-perspective. According to Bozell, there’s a specific, generational reason Trump actually enjoys the hostile territory, and why it forces him to bring his absolute "A-game." "If you do a ton of press, you end up enjoying the hostile ones a lot more." @DavidBozell and @derekahunter discuss why President Trump continues to do interviews with news outlets that hate him pic.twitter.com/dPWU0yajut — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 12, 2026 But the media tour doesn't stop there. The duo also previewed Vice President JD Vance’s upcoming appearance on The View. With the show currently facing intense scrutiny and an FCC complaint uncovered by the MRC regarding equal time violations, the stakes couldn't be higher. Will the co-hosts play nice, or will they pull out the long knives? JD Vance is not afraid to go behind enemy lines. @DavidBozell and @derekahunter predict what will happen when JD Vance joins The View next week. pic.twitter.com/eXkklLwmxp — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 12, 2026 You won't want to miss Bozell’s hilarious takedown of The View's claim to be a "bona fide news program." Watch the full video segment!  

It is, one might say, a completely American media routine. Out there somewhere in this big country, some far left activist gets attention and the left leaning media loves it. This has happened so often in American politics that there is no point in denying it.  Way back in the way back - the late 1940’s and early 1950’s - there was a seemingly up-and-coming rising star inside the castle of the American Left. His name was Alger Hiss. Hiss was perfectly credentialed. A Harvard Law grad, followed by jobs in various branches of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and the successor Truman administration, holding this or that job in the Justice Department and eventually the State Department. Eventually, Hiss was, as it were, “ratted out” by a State Department colleague named Whittaker Chambers. Ratted out as a Communist spy. Not good, and a decided attention-getter. All you-know-what broke out, very much in the public and drawing in the Congress. Alger Hiss became a household name, and, yes, was eventually convicted of being a spy and sentenced to several years in the federal pen.  Suffice to say, the American media of the day ate it up. So too did Republicans in the day, notably in that category a young California Congressman named Richard Nixon. This piece of ancient history comes to mind as a new figure on the Left is increasingly the focus of today’s media. That would be a here-to-fore unknown Maine Democrat activist named Graham Platner. And with all the certainty of rain on on a cloudy day, today’s media has zeroed in on Platner. Platner being the Democrat candidate for the Maine Senate seat now held by Republican Senator Susan Collins. The arrival of Platner on the scene is, to a media perpetually desperate for a headlining personality with a colorful personality, manna from heaven. Because Democrats can never find anyone anti-Trump enough for the base. A reminder? This is a mid-term election year, and in fact that means a seemingly endless parade of races for the US House, the Senate, various governorships and who knows what else in the way of local elections for state legislatures across the country.  But with all of that swirling around out there the political press is increasingly focused on -- you guessed it -- Graham Platner.  He’s a ripe 42 years old, and, no kidding, an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran. In terms of media fodder Platner is doubtless seen by some Democrats as a perfect candidate -- and that goes even with, the realization that his shirtless revelation revealed he long wore a Nazi tattoo.  And that view of Platner as a symbol is shared by Republicans. Notably Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz has released this fundraising note, saying:  The Far-Left is trying to turn America into a socialist nightmare, and their new problem child in Maine is the most dangerous one yet. His name is Graham Platner. He is a self-described communist who literally has a Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest. You would think that would be a bridge too far for the Democrats. But Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will back anyone if it means seizing total control. The stakes could not be higher. If we lose Maine, we lose our Senate majority. Everything we have fought for will be destroyed by the radical left. I am calling on you to be a 1-in-50 American patriot. We need you to step up right now before it is too late. The point here is simple. The Platner story is a decidedly American media gold rush. As with Alger Hiss decades ago (and Hiss never ran for office but became a symbol pro and con for those who were running), Platner is, thanks to the media, quickly becoming the centerpiece of the Democrat campaigns across the country. With Democrat candidates in states far from Maine being asked by local media about where they stand on Graham Platner. Is this fair? No. But that’s not the point. The point is that this is an election year and Platner has quickly become a grade-A subject for media across the country. An easy Google and there are Platner write-ups in everything from The New York Times to the Associated Press, Politico, The Hill, ABC News and the local Maine Monitor. And there are more. And, as noted, Senator Cruz already has a fundraising appeal out there focused on Platner. His bio will be out there. And so will photos of Platner’s shirtless self be everywhere, as with this one on Fox News.  And note. This is written in the middle of June. The elections are not until November, almost a full six months away. The pressure and attention from the media on Platner and his campaign will do nothing but build-and build and build. All of which is to say, and not for the first time, the election has begun. And the media is on the case. Make that Graham Platner’s case. Buckle in. 

When Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public on the Nasdaq on Friday, he became the first trillionaire in history. Later that night on HBO’s Real Time, host Bill Maher wondered if you could still be a good capitalist and believe in “some cap on wealth.” Eurasian Group President Ian Bremmer responded not by answering the question but by suggesting that Musk’s history-making day was a result of his donation to President Trump’s 2024 campaign. Maher wondered, “Is it going to be, like, five people who have all the money in the world, and can you be a good capitalist? Here's my question: Can you be a good capitalist, because I think I am, or a believer in capitalism and still think there should be some cap on wealth?”   After Bill Maher asks about Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, "Can you be a good capitalist, because I think I am, or a believer in capitalism and still think there should be some cap on wealth?" Eurasian Group President Ian Bremmer claims "a whole bunch of Americans… pic.twitter.com/YEOj4uZeAP — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 13, 2026   Bremmer began his response by waxing poetic but not answering the question, “Well, you have to—Americans believe that people should be able to make it, they should be successful. It's one of the things that really makes our country work. We don't think necessarily that someone who's worth 100 million, even a billion, maybe even a trillion is necessarily a bad thing where in many other countries they do, but there has to be opportunity for the average American and their kids to get there.” Turning more negative, Bremmer recalled, “We saw Graham Platner came out immediately today, ‘There should never be another trillionaire.’ You know, you see Elizabeth Warren, you’ll see Rob Reich, ‘Every billionaire is a policy failure.’ That reflects the fact a whole bunch of Americans feel like they don't trust their leaders. They don't trust these elites.” Making matters worse is “That Elon, the first trillionaire, also happens to be the person who gave the most money to the Trump administration, $250 million. They don't feel like that's a coincidence, and they don’t have that kind of access no matter how smart they are, no matter how hard they work. For me it's not about the money. For me it's about the lack of mobility, the lack of opportunity. The fact that we don’t believe in the American dream.” Noticing that Bremmer didn’t actually answer the question, Maher tried again. Eventually, Bremmer claimed he personally didn’t have a problem with trillionaires, but it is important for leaders to be aware of the wealth gap. It is also important for those who are able to appear on national TV shows to give the audience the truth. If people believe that Musk is a trillionaire because of Trump, they are operating on the assumption that history began in 2024. Not only does Bremmer’s claim ignore that Musk became a trillionaire because of the decision to take SpaceX public, but he also ignores that SpaceX’s first government contract was awarded in 2008. It was President Obama who gave Tesla a $465 million loan. Similarly, it was President Biden—and Elizabeth Warren—who gave EV customers a tax break that Trump eventually repealed. If Bremmer wants to talk about Musk’s business relationship with the government, he should talk about all of it. Here is a transcript for the June 12 show: HBO Real Time with Bill Maher 6/12/2026 10:21 PM ET BILL MAHER: Is it going to be, like, five people who have all the money in the world, and can you be a good capitalist? Here's my question: Can you be a good capitalist, because I think I am, or a believer in capitalism and still think there should be some cap on wealth? IAN BREMMER: Well, you have to—Americans believe that people should be able to make it, they should be successful. It's one of the things that really makes our country work. We don't think necessarily that someone who's worth 100 million, even a billion, maybe even a trillion is necessarily a bad thing where in many other countries they do, but there has to be opportunity for the average American and their kids to get there. And the fact— we saw Graham Platner came out immediately today, “There should never be another trillionaire.” You know, you see Elizabeth Warren, you’ll see Rob Reich, “Every billionaire is a policy failure.” That reflects the fact a whole bunch of Americans feel like they don't trust their leaders. They don't trust these elites. That Elon, the first trillionaire, also happens to be the person who gave the most money to the Trump administration, $250 million. They don't feel like that's a coincidence, and they don’t have that kind of access no matter how smart they are, no matter how hard they work. For me it's not about the money. For me it's about the lack of mobility, the lack of opportunity. The fact that we don’t believe in the American dream.