Immigration is shaping up to be the hit-button issue of this midterm election. One drawback, though, is that these types of stories require a steady flow of victims in order to keep the issue in front of the public. With the unrest in Minnesota off the news, CBS News thinks they may have struck gold. Watch as Matt Gutman goes to Idaho to investigate an ICE raid and is tipped off about an ACLU lawsuit: The thing about immigration as a hot-button issue is that it requires fresh victims in order to remain on the front-page. Watch as CBS News goes fishing in Idaho: pic.twitter.com/e1UTtEUSeg — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: Second, in another CBS News exclusive tonight, a question of tactics in the story of an immigration raid in rural Idaho. While allegedly focused on Mexican cartel activity, the raid, in fact, swept up more than 300 U.S. citizens, along with 100 undocumented immigrants, just five of whom were later arrested on gambling charges. In the process, children as young as 14 were zip-tied and questioned on their immigration status. Here is chief national correspondent Matt Gutman. PROTESTER: Are you going to shoot me if I don't…? GUTMAN: When about 200 armed agents stormed this horse racing event in rural Idaho, Anabel Romero said she had no idea who they were. ANABEL ROMERO: All I'm asking for clarification. Who are you? Why am I being detained? GUTMAN: And their response? ROMERO: Their response? I'm going to blow your [bleep] head off. GUTMAN: Canyon County share Kieran Donahue was there on horseback.  KIERAN DONAHUE: So this was a very, very large-scale operation, maybe the largest I've ever been involved with. GUTMAN: The sheriff says nearly 500 people were at the October 19th event. 375 of them U.S. citizens or legal residents, including some 60 children. The sheriff says the event was linked to Mexican cartel activity and asked ICE to join. But so far only five people have been arrested for nonviolent, illegal gambling. In a lawsuit filed tonight, the ACLU is accusing Donahue and the federal government of using excessive force, including against children. JENN ROLNICK BORCHETTA: Law enforcement should not be zip-tying children. They have done long-lasting damage to children. GUTMAN: Can you show me, SueHey, where you had bruises? SUEHEY ROMERO: I had bruises all right here among both wrists. GUTMAN: Romero and her 14-year-old daughter SueHey, both U.S. citizens, say agents herded them along with Romero's 2 younger children to the racetrack. Was it scary, you two?  There, officers zip-tied SueHey. That's her 8-year-old sister by her side. SUEHEY: I was there, like, crying. I can't even get words out. I was, like, struggling. Can’t even get words out. GUTMAN: With her hands bound behind her back, Romero says she was unable to console her daughter. ROMERO: I can't hug her. I can't hold her because these guys won't let me go, and I'm like she's only 14. GUTMAN: In an email, the Department of Homeland Security first told CBS News it was a conspiracy theory, and in a second email they denied ICE agents zip tied children. DONAHUE: The youngest that was zip-tied was 16 years old, and he had a mustache. There were kids in there. They weren't zipped -- those little ones were not zip tied. GUTMAN: This is a picture of SueHey, we met her this morning, she is 14 years old. She is, I would say, a child, a girl who was zip tied, and these are the bruises from those zip ties. Have you seen or heard that? DONAHUE: No, I had not. I had not seen that. But I will tell you this. I've been in this business a long time. I haven't gone against gang members who are a lot younger than that. GUTMAN: She was with her 6-year-old brother and 8-year-old sister. DONAHUE: But you are taking that out of context. We do not know her- GUTMAN: What kind of context do you need? There is a girl with two small children with her, how dangerous could she possibly be? DONAHUE: We don't know. GUTMAN: Now the sheriff is facing community backlash.  Have ties been broken with your community? To some degree, I believe they have come absolutely. ROMERO: My parents, they came over here to the United States to give us a better life, so we didn't have to suffer, and that day, I felt like our freedom was taken away from us. GUTMAN: Matt Gutman, CBS News, Wilder, Idaho. The first inconsistency with this story appears to be the balance of U.S. citizens to illegal aliens. When Tony Dokoupil introduces the story he makes reference to 300 citizens and 100 illegal aliens. Matt Gutman refers to 375 U.S. citizens or legal residents plus 60 children- deemphasizing the number of illegal aliens present, or whether there are any at all. There is an effort to make the raid resemble Minneapolis or Chicago, but this event went down at a local horse racing track. Hence, the arrests for illegal gambling. The local sheriff indicates that there was suspicion of cartel activity, but this is deemphasized in the report. There is a clear dispute as to which minors were zip-tied. But this doesn’t get earnestly resolved. Instead, we get Gutman yelling at the sheriff and asking him whether he’s lost standing in the community. There seemed to be little interest in getting to anything else than establishing the next round of immigration victims for the next several cycles in order to further undermine law enforcement. I will note that there is still no coverage of the illegal alien truck driver that killed four Amish in Indiana. If only those Amish were rainbow flags… If only the 4 Indiana Amish killed by an illegal alien truck driver were rainbow flags, they might garner coverage on the CBS Evening News pic.twitter.com/OgH42Pz6Jp — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 11, 2026  

Bad Bunny academic specialist (yes, that’s a thing) Vanessa Diaz was interviewed on Monday’s PBS News Hour after the Puerto Rican singer’s Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime show to speak reverently of the performer symbolizing Puerto Rican resistance to American colonial might, or something.  Co-anchor Amna Nawaz: ....His 13-minute set was historic, the very first in Super Bowl history performed nearly entirely in Spanish. The show was dense with symbolism, including messages of Puerto Rican pride and independence....we're joined now by Vanessa Diaz. She's an associate professor at Loyola Marymount University and the author of the book "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance…. Vanessa Diaz, Loyola Marymount University: Bad Bunny right now is the world's most streamed artist. So that just gives you a sense of the gravity. This isn't someone who just is popular in his hometown. On a global level, Bad Bunny is the number one artist…. (NewsBusters own Jorge Bonilla wasn’t impressed with Bad Bunny’s alienating performance or his unpopular stand on independence for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.) The talk of the 13-minute spectacle quickly turned to sociology and the politics of "resistance." Nawaz: So your book situates Bad Bunny in the legacy of what you call Puerto Rican resistance. Walk us through some of the moments in which we saw that play out during yesterday's performance. Diaz cited Bad Bunny carrying an old-style Puerto Rican flag with the triangle in blue is actually the light blue. And the light blue is a symbol of Puerto Rican independence…." Spanish, by the way, is hardly an anti-colonial language. Nawaz mentioned President Trump’s criticisms and Turning Point USA’s “counterprogramming halftime show. They billed it as the All-American Halftime Show….” It featured Kid Rock and country artists. The leftist academic lashed out, contorting the very title of the “All-American Halftime Show” into a racist attack on her ideologically constructed pop-star hero. Diaz: I mean, from the moment Bad Bunny was announced, there was immediate backlash. And the reality is that has everything to do not just with the current political moment, but with the entire history of the U.S. construing, in like a mainstream narrative, construing Latinos as perpetual foreigners who do not belong, who are a threat to the U.S....And I think that the fact that the halftime show that Turning Point USA created was called the All-American Halftime Show just goes to show you that this isn't about citizenship. This is actually about racism against Latinos. And that's just blatant to see because it insinuates that Bad Bunny's halftime show was not American. And that was the antithesis of what the performance was. Given that Bad Bunny has stated he wishes Puerto Rico to be decolonized and to separate from America, and that virtually all of his Super Bowl performance was sung in another language, to say the show “was not American” is hardly a stretch and certainly not racist. Diaz previously delivered an extended radical rant on NPR’s race-based podcast “Code Switch,” with fellow leftist academic and Bad Bunny fan Petra Rivera-Rideau. Fun fact: The only thing Diaz lets her children watch on TV is Bad Bunny, which certainly seems healthy. DIAZ: Well, how cool that we get to watch this with our kids? Like, I would never have my kids watch a football game, honestly, but we're going to watch the halftime show together. I have 4-year-old twins, so, you know, I think that the only - some of the only things I've ever let them watch on TV have been, like, select Bad Bunny performances. Diaz lets us know her support for Bad Bunny comes from a bone-deep leftism: “We exist within a capitalist system that thrives on inequality, that thrives on exploitation, and we all exist within it….” A transcript is available, click "Expand." PBS News Hour 2/9/26 7:34:01 p.m. (ET) Amna Nawaz: Last night's Super Bowl halftime show by Bad Bunny delivered a powerful message and made international headlines today. The Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper, singer and producer, whose full name is Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio, is one of the most popular musical artists on the planet. His 13-minute set was historic, the very first in Super Bowl history performed nearly entirely in Spanish. The show was dense with symbolism, including messages of Puerto Rican pride and independence. But it also quickly became a magnet for criticism from the president and others even before he took the stage. To help us unpack it all, we're joined now by Vanessa Diaz. She's an associate professor at Loyola Marymount University and the author of the book "P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance. This is all part of our arts and culture series, Canvas. Vanessa, welcome to the show thanks for joining us. Vanessa Diaz, Loyola Marymount University: Of course. Thank you for having me. Amna Nawaz: So you literally wrote the book on Bad Bunny. You teach a course on his cultural impact. For anyone unfamiliar, just how big a star is Bad Bunny? Vanessa Diaz: Bad Bunny right now is the world's most streamed artist. So that just gives you a sense of the gravity. This isn't someone who just is popular in his hometown. On a global level, Bad Bunny is the number one artist. And in fact, he was three other years as well, 2020 to 2022. This isn't a new thing. His popularity just keeps growing. He just recently got the first ever Grammy Album of the Year for a Spanish-language album, his album "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos." And he won two other Grammys last week. So he has broken records we never imagined possible for a Spanish-language artist. And he's been doing that for some time. So on a global level, Bad Bunny is a massive, massive star. Amna Nawaz: So your book situates Bad Bunny in the legacy of what you call Puerto Rican resistance. Walk us through some of the moments in which we saw that play out during yesterday's performance. Vanessa Diaz: I think one of the most profound moments where Bad Bunny showed himself to be not just a figure of resistance, but carrying the long tradition behind him, is when, just before he started the song "El Apagon," he emerges from the fields with a flag, a Puerto Rican flag over his shoulder. And if you notice, the triangle in blue is actually the light blue. And the light blue is a symbol of Puerto Rican independence. That's the color of the flag before the U.S. in 1952 changed the color to the dark blue to mimic the colors of the American flag. And so that light blue is really symbolic of advocating for Puerto Rican independence. And as he walked out with that flag, we saw those folks who were the cane field workers in the beginning climbing these electrical poles. And that was a reference to what was the longest blackout in American history following the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017 that left Puerto Rico without power for almost a year. So that song "El Apagon" means "The Blackout." And so it was these workers, cane workers now climbing the poles to repair electrical issues. And in the wake of the hurricane, one thing that was really striking was that the U.S. was not responsive. And Puerto Ricans with no experience often climbed these electrical poles to start reconnecting wires, risking their lives to try to bring their communities electricity. And all of that was part of the meaning behind these things that some might not know. Amna Nawaz: There were some special guest stars as well performing with him. We saw Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin. Tell us in particular about the song Ricky Martin sang. Why is that important? Vanessa Diaz: Oh, so Ricky Martin took the stage to perform the song "Lo Que Le Paso a Hawaii," which is, "What Happened to Hawaii?" And this song is perhaps the most pointed political song on the entire album "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos." And it's really about Hawaii and Puerto Rico as two nations that were taken by the U.S. in 1898 and one became a state and one is the commonwealth, some might call it a colony, of Puerto Rico, right? And so there's this tension around what should happen to Puerto Rico. And in that song, Bad Bunny is saying he doesn't want us to be like Hawaii, doesn't want Puerto Rico to become a state. And Bad Bunny had people at his residency every Sunday night. He had a guest sing that song. And so this was a kind of nod to the residency and also giving Ricky Martin, who had to cross over in English to become the massive star that he became, and to have him take the world's biggest stage and be able to perform in his native language of Spanish representing Puerto Rico and do this political work he could never do as a mainstream artist 25 years ago was very significant. Amna Nawaz: We mentioned some of the criticism. You saw the president describe the performance as -- quote -- "an affront to the greatness of America." He said: "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying." As you also reported, Turning Point USA, the conservative political group that was founded by Charlie Kirk, held a counterprogramming halftime show. They billed it as the All-American Halftime Show. They saw upwards of some six million viewers. What do you make of that sort of broader backlash both to his selection to perform in the first place and the performance? Vanessa Diaz: I mean, from the moment Bad Bunny was announced, there was immediate backlash. And the reality is that has everything to do not just with the current political moment, but with the entire history of the U.S. construing, in like a mainstream narrative, construing Latinos as perpetual foreigners who do not belong, who are a threat to the U.S. And so this language of criticizing his performance and calling him un-American is just the perpetuation of these stereotypes, despite the fact that he is an American citizen. And I think that the fact that the halftime show that Turning Point USA created was called the All-American Halftime Show just goes to show you that this isn't about citizenship. This is actually about racism against Latinos. And that's just blatant to see because it insinuates that Bad Bunny's halftime show was not American. And that was the antithesis of what the performance was. Bad Bunny, Musician: God bless, America, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay. Vanessa Diaz: He talked about the fact that not only do Latinos belong here in the U.S., we are an integral part of American culture, and that America, America, as he says, is actually more than just the U.S. It's all of the Americas. Amna Nawaz: Despite the criticism, you may have seen the embrace that he and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell shared backstage after his performance. The NFL even shared that moment online, clearly happy about their choice. From a business and cultural perspective, why was Bad Bunny a good choice for the NFL? Vanessa Diaz: Well, the NFL is a business organization. Their primary concern is, is this good business? And there's no doubt, I don't think by anyone's -- there's no doubt from anyone that this was the smartest business decision. Bad Bunny is the biggest artist in the world. He's the most streamed artist in the world. He is selling out stadiums all over the world. So I think that Bad Bunny was not just a natural choice. He was the best choice from a business standpoint. And so this just happens to be a moment with something very political coincided with a strategic business decision. And I'm really happy about that. Amna Nawaz: That is Vanessa Diaz, associate professor at Loyola Marymount University. Vanessa, thank you so much for your time. Good to speak with you. Vanessa Diaz: You too.

During a The Situation Room segment in response to Tuesday’s live broadcast of a Homeland Security Committee oversight hearing, CNN blatantly twisted ICE Director Todd Lyons’s statements about violence against agents and described the people he was talking about as, simply, “people who don’t like ICE.” CNN televised the opening statements of immigration enforcement agencies, including Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott and Lyons. As part of his opening statement, Lyons called out the increasing violence against ICE agents and took a defiant stand against their efforts to harm and intimidate them: We are facing the deadliest operating environment in our agency's history. In fiscal year 2025, death threats against ICE personnel increased more than 8,000 percent. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1400 percent. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officials characterizing our officers as gestapo or secret police. The families of ICE personnel have been made to feel unsafe in their homes. I know this first hand because my own family was targeted. but let me send a message to anyone who thinks they can intimidate us. You will fail. Despite these perils, our officers continue to execute their mission with unwavering resolve, and we are only getting started.     In the analysis segment following statements, CNN chief domestic correspondent Phil Mattingly presented Lyons’s statement about “resolve” without any content of the violence faced by officers, instead framing it as resolve against general criticism: Lyons making very clear that his team at ICE has “unwavering resolve.” “We are just getting started”, he said in his opening statement. So the idea that there was going to be some type of pullback or effort to kind of almost be a little bit more pragmatic about how they operate, given the Democratic objections. They're making very clear from the start, Wolf, that's just not going to be the case.” Anchor Wolf Blitzer then construed Lyons’s statement as being directed towards people who simply, "don't like ICE.” “And he said that those people who don't like ICE, the organization he heads, he said ‘they can intimidate us, but you will fail,’ his words. You will fail if you try to do that,” Blitzer suggested. Mattingly, with no mention of increasing violence against ICE, used the statement to present a potential prospect of a continuance of immigration operations: The, kind of, passage of time has allowed them to take a position or plan to have a posture during this hearing with their officials that is a combination of defiance and making very clear that this was what the president ran on, what he was elected for and what they plan on continuing in the months ahead. CNN’s twisting of Lyons’s startling information of high increases in violence against ICE agents was a bit brazen since they literally carried his statement live where he shared violence statistics. Also, Blitzer’s description of the people Lyons directed his “You will fail” comments grossly simplified and minimized the situation. Liberal media outlets, like CNN, blatant twisting of information the viewers just witnessed with their own eyes was the permanent basis for the low trust in news we see today. The transcript is below. Click to expand: CNN’s The Situation Room February 10, 2026 10:40:50 AM Eastern (…) ICE DIRECTOR TODD LYONS (Congressional Hearing Testimony): In the wake of the unprecedented border crisis of the previous administration, ICE has stepped into the breach to enforce the law. This commitment has a cost. We are facing the deadliest operating environment in our agency's history. In fiscal year 2025, death threats against ICE personnel increased more than 8,000 percent. Assaults on officers have skyrocketed over 1,400 percent. One officer in Minnesota had his finger bitten off by a protester, egged on by elected officials characterizing our officers as “gestapo” or “secret police.” The families of ICE personnel have been made to feel unsafe in their homes. I know this first hand because my own family was targeted. But let me send a message to anyone who thinks they can intimidate us, you will fail. Despite these perils, our officers continue to execute their mission with unwavering resolve, and we are only getting started.  (...) 10:49:21 AM Eastern PHIL MATTINGLY: And what we just heard from Todd Lyons really kind of underscores this point. Well, there may be a rhetorical shift, and they may have been willing to have negotiations over DHS funding on the hill, which is obviously the backdrop of everything that's going on. Lyons making very clear that his team at ICE has “unwavering resolve.” “We are just getting started”, he said in his opening statement. So the idea that there was going to be some type of pullback or effort to kind of almost be a little bit more pragmatic about how they operate, given the Democratic objections. They're making very clear from the start, Wolf, that's just not going to be the case. WOLF BLITZER: And he said that those people who don't like ICE, the organization he heads, he said “they can intimidate us, but you will fail”, his words. You will fail if you try to do that. MATTINGLY: Yeah. There's a level of defiance to the statement which is, I think, always been the underlying case. When you talk to administration officials throughout the course of the last couple of weeks. And I think there is a view inside the administration that for all of the ways they were on their back feet - of their own doing by the way they handled the most recent shooting in Minnesota. The, kind of, passage of time has allowed them to take a position or plan to have a posture during this hearing with their officials that is a combination of defiance and making very clear that this was what the president ran on, what he was elected for and what they plan on continuing in the months ahead. (…)

Violent anti- ICE protests have continued to take place in Minneapolis despite a reduction in the number of agents on the ground in the state of Minnesota. Last Saturday, more than 40 demonstrators were arrested during a violence filled gathering outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, following a memorial for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were both shot and killed by ICE Agents in January. State and local police were involved, dangerous objects were thrown, one officer was struck in the head, but the big three nightly news shows have been silent.   On their weekend and Monday night broadcasts, ABC, CBS and NBC all skipped the story, with only Monday's Special Report With Bret Baier on Fox News Channel providing coverage. Baier led into the report by introducing Steve Harrigan: "Protests against immigration enforcements in Minnesota are showing no signs of letting up. Police arrested dozens of people over the weekend as one demonstration became dangerous. Correspondent Steve Harrigan has our update tonight from Minneapolis." Harrigan's report would feature behavior that turned violent in broad daylight. HARRIGAN: Violent anti-ICE protests in front of the federal building in Minneapolis followed a script this weekend seen here dozens of times... Demonstrators are told to disperse. But instead throw bottles and pieces of ice at officers, and one vehicle was destroyed. One Hanson County Deputy was injured when he was hit in the head with an object. There has not been an update to the deputy's condition. But what came next after the chaos was different. POLICE ON SPEAKER: You are under arrest. Be seated where you are. HARRIGAN: The 42 arrested did not simply receive citations before being released... Instead local police jailed them with charges ranging from rioting to assault. Police, many not ICE Agents, assisting and coming under attack, proving that it doesn't matter which uniform the law is wearing, the protesters don't respect any of them. Newsworthy? Harrigan continued with a broader look at the new reality on the ground, both from law enforcement and the lawbreakers. HARRIGAN: Similar signs of improved cooperation between local and federal law enforcement could be spotted in neighborhoods around Minneapolis, where agitators encourage residents to set up mini blockades with whatever bulky objects are at hand. The goal, to slow down and harass ICE agents on patrol throughout the city... But now some cases it is local police, not federal agents, who are dismantling and removing the blockades and bearing the brunt of the anger in attacks from those who built them. We then see video of a man in a truck, blocking the street and being told to leave, all the while arguing with and cursing at the local officer.  And Harrigan closed by noting that ICE has reduced its presence in Minneapolis by 700, with some two thousand agents remaining. The closest that any of the three networks came to this story was Saturday on the CBS Weekend News, where anchor Jericka Duncan did a voice-over of a short report on the actual memorial event mentioned earlier, held right before the violence started, and an update on 5 year old Liam Ramos. The protests looked peaceful and musical, lots of bias by omission.  "Today marks one month since the killing of Renee Good by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis. Hundreds gathered in the city for a public memorial, honoring Good as well as ICU nurse Alex Pretti who was killed two weeks ago today. And an update on 5-year-old Liam Ramos, the boy behind this image that rocketed around the world. Just days after he and his father were released from a Texas detention center, the Trump administration is escalating efforts to deport them." You can see Rep. Ilhan Omar holding Liam's Spiderman backpack, which is supposed to be adorable. I guess Duncan didn't know that the boy's father ran away from ICE Agents, leaving the boy alone, and then his mom refused to open the door of her home to take him in, all before he was sent away with his father. As for why she and the others didn't give the latest Minneapolis riot a mention, it's not something that fits the leftist narrative. 

MS NOW Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough continued to describe himself as a "conservative." And if there was a newspaper that could rightly be described as the philosophical home of mainstream conservatism, it's the Wall Street Journal. So you would expect "conservative" Scarborough to be well-aligned with its editorial page.  But no! On Tuesday's Morning Joe, Scarborough threw a curveball: You look at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. I bring this up because this is a Murdoch-owned company. The editorial page, we don't agree. I don't agree with what they say a lot of the time. But man, when it comes to holding Donald Trump to constitutional norms and political norms, they've been right there. So, Scarborough generally disagreed with the WSJ editorial page -- except when it's criticizing Trump! Yes, Joe wouldn't want to offend his largely liberal audience by looking too favorably on a bunch of ... capitalists! Scarborough didn't specify the issues on which he disagreed with the WSJ. The paper's editorial position had traditionally been more immigration-friendly than the majority of conservatives, so you'd think that would appeal to Scarborough.  It's time for Scarborough to give up the charade of pretending to still be a conservative. Admit it, Joe: you've gone over to the dark side! Scarborough's carefully calibrated praise of the WSJ's opinion page came in the context of a discussion of the Washington Post's recent staff reductions. Quoting Ben Smith's column at Semafor, Scarborough said that WaPo, by moving away from its hardline liberalism, had "fired its audience without acquiring a new one."     In contrast, said Scarborough, the WSJ had done things the right way: Every single day it seems there is a new story. And these are Pulitzer-worthy stories. There is a new story detailing how the Trump family is getting richer from dealings with oligarchs, getting richer from dealings with other countries. And the result had been, according to Scarborough, that whereas Wash Post has become "a shell of a once great institution," the WSJ had increased subscriptions by 10-15 percent. Go unwoke, go broke, was that Joe's claim?  The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW's Morning Joe 2/10/26 6:35 am ET MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Ben Smith, your latest piece for Semafor is titled, How Trump's Politics Returned to Earth.  . . . [Reading from Smith's Semafor piece] Trump's other early source of power last year was a cowed media. The Washington Post, with its rapid pivot toward a Trump-curious editorial posture, seemed to be a case in point. However, the Post is a cautionary tale for two reasons. First, the publication appears to have fired its audience without acquiring a new one. And second, while owner Jeff Bezos may have protected his space company from presidential retaliation, there is no sign the Post won any benefits from the president or his movement.  . . .  JOE SCARBOROUGH: John Lemire, I want you to take the next question to Ben, but the Washington Post was brought up by Ben, and he's so right. They fired their audience. They didn't acquire a new one. They've still done some good investigative reporting, but at times they've also been far too, well, let's just say they've tipped their hand far too many times, trying not to upset Donald Trump.  But let's look at a case study of what does work in the Trump era. And we brought it up the other day, the Wall Street Journal, what Emma Tucker has done. Every single day it seems there is a new story. And these are Pulitzer-worthy stories. There is a new story detailing how the Trump family is getting richer from dealings with oligarchs, getting richer from dealings with other countries. You could go down the line. But the Wall Street Journal, day in and day out, they're doing that kind of reporting. It's kind of like what Fahrenthold [a Washington Post investigative reporter] did in the 2016 campaign, following the money.  You look at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. Also, again, I bring this up because this is a Murdoch-owned company. The editorial page. You know, we don't agree. I don't agree with what they say a lot of the time. But, man, when it comes to holding Donald Trump to constitutional norms and political norms, they've been right there.  And what's happened? Their business is going up. I mean, I think the number of subscriptions have gone up at least 10%, 15% since Tucker became the editor. There's a right way to do it, and there's a wrong way to do it.  And if you do it the way the Washington Post does it, you end up with a shell of a once-great institution.