MS NOW’s The Weekend co-host Eugene Daniels recently traveled to Chicago for the DSA convention and upon returning claimed on Saturday that the group of radicals is actually trying to moderate in order to be taken seriously.After playing part of his interview with co-hair Ashik Siddique, Daniels recalled, “So, guys, I think—what I thought was really interesting and what I left with was that they're also understanding that this is a moment that they haven't had before, and that they actually have to appear more serious.” Eugene Daniels tries to claim the DSA is moderating. After going to their Chicago convention, he claimed "What I left with was that they're also understanding that this is a moment that they haven't had before, and that they actually have to appear more serious...so when you talk… pic.twitter.com/hwI67zk7Lq— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 1, 2026 Seeing the upside in that, Daniels continued, “You know, when I was talking to the co-chair at the beginning there, one of the other parts of the conversation was that, you know, they know that people see them as like, silly little kids that are playing politics or — where in fact, they could, you know, take all of the anger that's happening in this country and transition into something real.”Daniels’s idea of moderation was extremely generous:And so when you talk about, you know, that little pamphlet I had was something that they were giving out to everyone. And what was not in there was the stuff that has gotten the most attention from their platform. That's on two pages. We have this in element one. There are a lot of things on there, but what wasn't in that in that paper was there was no abolish the U.S. Senate, which has gotten them pilloried. There was no abolish the Defense Department. There was no there was nothing about defunding the police. That that was not in there. And what he said to me was this document that I was holding in my hand, has — was put together in the last month. So to me that signals that there may be some changes coming to the platform.”The problem for Daniels is that the other co-chair, Megan Romer, was on Fox News Sunday not even a week ago and affirmed the DSA’s desire to abolish the Senate, presidency, the Supreme Court as we know it, ICE, the border, prisons, defund the Pentagon, and have the government seize larger corporations.The fact that the DSA’s pamphlet Daniels mentioned didn’t talk about the nutty things Romer talked about does not mean that the DSA no longer believes them. It just means the DSA knows it has to do a better job of not saying the quiet part out loud. Unfortunately for them, Romer’s interview and their candidates’ social media histories exist. It is up to journalists to press these candidates on the sincerity of their campaign conversions and not just blindly accept them.Here is a transcript for the August 1 show:MS NOW The Weekend8/1/20269:41 AM ETEUGENE DANIELS: So, guys, I think—what I thought was really interesting and what I left with was that they're also understanding that this is a moment that they haven't had before, and that they actually have to appear more serious. You know, when I was talking to the co-chair at the beginning there, one of the other parts of the conversation was that, you know, they know that people see them as like, silly little kids that are playing politics or — where in fact, they could, you know, take all of the anger that's happening in this country and transition into something real. And so when you talk about, you know, that little pamphlet I had was something that they were giving out to everyone. And what was not in there was the stuff that has gotten the most attention from their platform. That's on two pages. We have this in element one. There are a lot of things on there, but what wasn't in that in that paper was there was no abolish the U.S. Senate, which has gotten them pilloried. There was no abolish the Defense Department. There was no there was nothing about defunding the police. That that was not in there. And what he said to me was this document that I was holding in my hand, has — was put together in the last month. So to me that signals that there may be some changes coming to the platform. 

James Fishback is a minor candidate for governor of Florida on the Republican side – Rep. Byron Donalds has nearly 50 percent of the vote in recent polls, and Fishback has barely 10 percent. But Florida-based PolitiFact has performed three fact checks on Fishback in 2026. The latest Fishback claim is obviously wrong – that the U.S. voted to merge its military with Israel's -- but PolitiFact’s own article displays that it could have checked Democrats as well. It’s right there in Samantha Putterman’s review: Did Congress just approve a merger of the U.S. and Israeli militaries? That’s what U.S. politicians from both political parties are saying.“Yesterday, the United States Congress voted to merge our military with Israel’s military,” Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback said in a July 23 X video. “This may be the last straw for American sovereignty.”On July 21, a day before the House was scheduled to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said the bill “includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the (Israel Defense Force). This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.”U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, D-Calif., also criticized Section 219 of the bill, which outlines U.S. and Israeli military cooperation, and co-introduced an amendment to strip it from the legislation. House leadership didn’t allow a vote on the amendment, and the House passed the legislation July 22. The Senate has yet to take it up.But Fishback’s and other politicians’ comments mischaracterize the legislation.So why not throw the “False” flag at AOC, or Khanna or Massie? They’re all actually elected officials. Massie has only one fact-check on PolitiFact since he was elected to Congress in 2012. Khanna has only six fact checks (and only two in the 2020s). The facts are wrong – and the people are clearing building a conspiracy theory where those shady Jews are taking over our military – but the choice of target here is curious. The facts didn't have a liberal bias, but the targeting did. 

Were there smiles?How long and warm were the handshakes? How was the body language? How did Trump’s voice sound?What White House door did the Israeli Prime Minister use to go in and see the President?On - and on and on - went these and other questions from the American media as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu arrived at the White House for his latest meeting with President Trump. There are multiple examples of this kind of media scrutiny of the President and the Trump White House, where minor details are over-interpreted and become major obsessions, as the two leaders met. Samples:Newsmax: Former Envoy Sees Rift Between Trump, NetanyahuWith bold print for emphasis supplied, this story reported: “A former Israeli ambassador to the United States said Thursday that Israel's influence on U.S. policymaking has "diminished greatly" and that the relationship between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump has grown less intimate.Michael Herzog, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. for most of the Biden administration, told an Israeli radio station that his opinion is based on the optics of Netanyahu's roughly 90-minute meeting with Trump on Tuesday at the White House.The meeting was held behind closed doors. There was no news conference afterward. Netanyahu reportedly entered the White House through a side entrance that was only partially visible to reporters. He left without fanfare.”Then there was this from Fox: Fox News Crew Notes Trump Was ‘Irked’ by Netanyahu Ahead of Oval Office Sit-DownThe story reported this on Trump’s tone of voice from the Fox reporter: (Lucas) Tomlinson noted afterwards Trump "sounded a little irked there with the Israeli prime minister talking about this intelligence, talking to the press, and not dealing with him directly."Meanwhile The Times of Israel headlined: Why Netanyahu got the side-door treatment at the White HouseThen there was also this from The Times on the optics: Wary of perception that Israel driving war, Trump and Netanyahu opt to avoid optics altogether President keeps press out of meeting amid concern that a widely covered sit-down, as he mulls renewing Iran offensive, would bolster belief that PM wields outsized influence over USOn and on go similar headlines and “news” stories. The purpose is always the same: To use media scrutiny of body language to interpret the substance of serious policy meetings between the American President and the Israeli Prime Minister.Can body language sometimes be a tell on substance? For sure.As a young Reagan White House aide, I recall exactly how the body language of the famous Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik, Iceland summit was a distinct tell that the suddenly-called summit between the American President and Soviet leader had not gone well. The summit was held in a one-room school house. There was no press inside, only outside the building. It did not go well. And when Gorbachev pressed to get an agreement favorable to the Soviets, demanding Reagan give up his strategic defense initiative -- dubbed “Star Wars” by liberal opponents --  Reagan, per our staffer colleagues who were there in the room, told the rest of us Reagan staffers back in Washington that the President slapped the table and snapped to his Secretary of State George Shultz: “Let’s go, George.”With that, Reagan got up and led an American walkout. Gorbachev raced after him, the cameras running as the two emerged at the door to the building and began descending the steps. Reagan was plainly angry, the anger visible with the scowl on his face. Gorbachev said he didn’t know what else he could have done. To which Reagan replied brusquely: “You could have said yes.” With that the President brusquely shook hands, got in the open door of his limousine, slammed it shut and the Secret Service agent at the wheel gunned the engine and the President was off to the airport and his waiting Air Force One.All of which is to say, Reagan knew the media was swarming outside the schoolhouse. And, actor that he was, he knew exactly how to visibly demonstrate his decidedly genuine anger. In fact, this episode was the exception that proved the rule. Most of the time Reagan had a smile on his face during encounters with foreign leaders.But that never stopped the media from trying to read Reagan’s body language or that of a visiting congressional or foreign leader to interpret what had happened in the closed door meeting with the President and whomever.Which goes to say, it is all too easy for the media to try and read presidential body language and then tell the American people that A, B or C had happened. And in doing so, getting the substance of what happened behind closed doors wrong.Not to mention that in Trump’s case -- and Reagan’s before that -- there are members of the media who want to always sound "in the know" all too willing to say X happened behind closed doors based on what they interpret -- wrongly -- as signaled by presidential body language.In short, media scrutiny of Trump can easily be erroneously based on style versus substance. Which is another way of saying that for the sake of accuracy and the historical record it would be wiser for the media to wait until they hear whatever news they are expecting straight from the President himself or, at the very least, from a participant inside the room of whatever meeting is being held.Not too much to ask, is it? Alas, in the day and age of 21st century media and its incessant drive to know whatever happened behind the scenes of this or that presidential meeting and know it now! -- right now! --  the answer sadly is yes.So the world spins on. In the very long ago (1960s) there was a popular TV show Dragnet, featuring a fictional ace detective named Joe Friday, played legendarily by actor Jack Webb. And as “Detective Friday” set about interrogating somebody about the crime he was investigating Friday would famously say that what he wanted from the witness was: “The facts, ma’am. Just the facts.”But as today’s media follows President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu everywhere, those words and the sentiment behind them still ring true. What the American people deserve from the media covering President Trump are the facts -- just the facts. Which, it would seem, is not too much to ask. But they can't wait to sound like they know everything immediately.

The Soros regime is firing on all cylinders ahead of the midterms and the upcoming presidential election in a couple of years. YouTube The Roosevelt Institute was apparently the editing brains behind a 155-page “Project 2029” document authored by a cohort of former Biden administration officials, academics and policy experts that seeks to be one facet of a broader leftist variant to the conservative Project 2025 policy handbook. The purpose of the document was to make the spectre of climate change a primary political selling point to voters. The Institute’s Director of Industry and Trade Todd Tucker, who wrote the introduction, beamed that this agenda constituted “a slice of what a ‘Project 2029’–type effort for climate would look like, including adapting Donald Trump’s means to progressive ends.” Specifically, Tucker wrote chillingly, he offers observations on “why green statecraft can help us solve structural problems (e.g., outsize power of finance and the courts) that narrowerapproaches like affordability or abundance cannot.” In his own words, “the politics is ripe for anti–status quo action.” Tucker reportedly told E&E News, which reported on the document, that “[w]e sort of see this as the first step of injecting this into the bloodstream.” Holy dystopia, Batman!Sounds a lot like when George Soros sneered that the COVID-19 pandemic provided a “revolutionary moment” for political change, emphasizing the symmetry between the leftist billionaire and his grantees. Soros fueled at least $6,292,500 into the Roosevelt Institute’s back pockets between 2016 and 2024. One of the state methods highlighted in the disturbing document was using Trump’s cronyist purchase of shares in companies like Intel as an excuse to foster greater state control over the means of production:A few points are worth underlining here. First, while the Trump administration did not use climate rationale to justify these interventions, they represent important precedents for clean energy policymaking. Many of the companies produce minerals and goods that can help decarbonization. Moreover, some of the deals involve board seats that give the government eyes, ears, and voice on setting corporate priorities in a way that one-off grants do not (and with lower transaction costs than the latter). While this power can be bad in the wrong hands, it can be useful in the right ones.Who in the world gets to decide which “hands” are the so-called “right ones?” Talk about overdosing on your own hubris! After all, it was Soros himself who boasted in 2019 that he was trying to “bend” the “arc of history” in “the right direction.” It would appear the Roosevelt Institute is channeling the same energy.MRC Business reported last year that Soros had spent at least an enormous $618 million towards his goal of purchasing an eco-utopia that coincides with his dark open society worldview. It is clear that he’s going to use “Project 2029” as one of his vehicles. Soros is already the top donor of the 2026 midterms so far, dumping at least $102 million to support radical candidates to swing control of Congress back to the left. 

On both Friday’s installment of Nightly News and Saturday’s edition of Today, NBC correspondents Raf Sanchez and Matt Bradley lamented that President Trump noticed footage of the mass mob of migrants that rushed into Spain on Thursday and “seized” on them as a warning of what could happen here if Democrats win in November. Additionally, both undersold just how frustrated the rest of Europe is with the government of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.Sanchez began his Nightly News report by claiming, “Tonight, a deadly border crisis in North Africa becoming a global political flashpoint. Stunning images show thousands of Moroccans surging through checkpoints into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, a tiny peninsula and Europe's only land border with an African nation.” NBC's Raf Sznchez claims the Spanish border crisis is "becoming a global political flashpoint" and goes with the old Republicans Seize angle "the images of chaos have rattled Europe and been seized on by President Trump." He also undersells European frustration with Spain by… pic.twitter.com/pZpwhzZ6lH— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 1, 2026 Amid video footage of the chaos, Sanchez added, “Most coming by land, but others attempting a dangerous journey by sea. This man appears to emerge from the water with a bicycle. At least 57 people have died so far, authorities say and most of the migrants have already returned home, but the images of chaos have rattled Europe and been seized on by President Trump.”A brief clip of Trump showed him declaring, “That same thing will happen to us if the Republicans don't get elected.”Raf Sanchez then wrapped things up by trying to paint Pedro Sanchez’s critics as just being conservative, “Spain has now sent in the military to restore order and the country's progressive prime minister appealed for calm, but the crisis exposing deep divides among European Union member states. Italy's conservative leader suggesting the suspension of the EU's open border policy, which allows for passport-free travel between 29 countries. A migrant crisis once again shaking politics worldwide.”It’s not just Italy. Finland and Denmark, the latter of which has a social democratic prime minister, have echoed Rome’s sentiment. Beyond the 29-country Schengen Area, 22 of the 26 non-Spain EU countries have signed a letter blaming Sanchez’s decision to give amnesty to up to 1.2 million illegal immigrants for the crisis. For the American media that likes to portray Sanchez as the global leader of the anti-Trump resistance, this is a good reminder that frustration with him is not and never has been a solely Trumpian phenomenon. Matt Bradley does likewise, "These images you're seeing, they're already being used as political currency here in Europe and in the United States. President trump spoke about it yesterday, as you mentioned, attempting to turn this brief European and northern African migration… pic.twitter.com/kOXAWDtM0K— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 1, 2026 But NBC was not done. The following morning, Bradley declared, “These images you're seeing, they're already being used as political currency here in Europe and in the United States. President Trump spoke about it yesterday, as you mentioned, attempting to turn this brief European and Northern African migration crisis into an election issue for the upcoming midterms.”After playing a slightly longer version of the Trump clip Sanchez played on Friday, Bradley claimed, “It's still unclear exactly what sparked this mass exodus. Many said they went because they had heard on social media that the borders were open.”The allure of amnesty for illegal border crossings naturally encourages people to rush the border. That’s true whether it’s the American border or the Spanish border, and it is not outrageous for Trump to warn about Democrats doing the same thing.NBC Nightly News7/31/20266:40 PM ETRAF SANCHEZ: Tonight, a deadly border crisis in North Africa becoming a global political flashpoint. Stunning images show thousands of Moroccans surging through checkpoints into the Spanish territory of Ceuta, a tiny peninsula and Europe's only land border with an African nation. These cars torched on the Moroccan side of the border. Authorities in Ceuta say at least 60,000 migrants have crossed since yesterday, many hoping for better opportunities in Europe.MAN: It's been a very tough experience to go from the ocean.SANCHEZ: Most coming by land, but others attempting a dangerous journey by sea. This man appears to emerge from the water with a bicycle. At least 57 people have died so far, authorities say and most of the migrants have already returned home, but the images of chaos have rattled Europe and been seized on by President Trump.DONALD TRUMP: That same thing will happen to us if the Republicans don't get elected.SANCHEZ: Spain has now sent in the military to restore order and the country's progressive prime minister appealed for calm, but the crisis exposing deep divides among European Union member states. Italy's conservative leader suggesting the suspension of the EU's open border policy, which allows for passport free travel between 29 countries. A migrant crisis once again shaking politics worldwide. Raf Sanchez, NBC news.***NBC Today8/1/20267:10 AM ETMATT BRADLEY: For now, it does look like this is mostly over. Almost all of the around 50,000, mostly Moroccan migrants have since left the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa. The short, but perilous journey from Morocco to Ceuta, which it isn't in Europe, it actually is in northern Africa. It led to at least 77 deaths, and this, according to Spain's Interior Ministry. Some swam that short distance over the breakwaters, others crossed through border fences. Almost all of them left disappointed. There were no places to stay or opportunities to travel to Europe. Here you can see Spanish soldiers escorting them back over the border to Morocco. These images you're seeing, they're already being used as political currency here in Europe and in the United States. President Trump spoke about it yesterday, as you mentioned, attempting to turn this brief European and Northern African migration crisis into an election issue for the upcoming midterms. DONALD TRUMP: It looks like an invasion of a country by hundreds of thousands of people and that same thing is going to happen to us if the Republicans don't get elected. Except worse. BRADLEY: It's still unclear exactly what sparked this mass exodus. Many said they went because they had heard on social media that the borders were open.