MS NOW/SnapStream After President Trump’s address on Thursday, MS NOW’s Morning Joe showed disdain for the speech and praised the decision from some broadcast networks, ABC and NBC, not to take the speech live. While CBS did air the speech, co-host Mika Brzezinski commended their fact-checking-heavy coverage, which she said was the result of anchor Tony Dokoupil being “kicked around a bit.”At the lead of the show, fellow co-host Joe Scarborough made his speech commentary about Russia, as Scarborough sarcastically read through newly released unclassified intelligence about possible election interference.Co-host Willie Geist had his own Russia-related commentary from the speech: “To hear the president of the United States deliver Vladimir Putin's talking points from the East Room of the White House in prime time was shocking.” After President Trump's address, Morning Joe praised the broadcast networks' coverage of the speech, including decisions by ABC and NBC not to broadcast the speech live and CBS's fact-checking, which Brzezinski said was the result of Tony Dokoupil "being kicked around a bit." pic.twitter.com/fJppW6gTKW— Nick (@nspin310) July 17, 2026 Near the end of the opening conversation on the address, Brzezinski stated, “And then a lot of networks chose not to cover it. And, if I understand correctly, CBS, because Tony Dokoupil has been kicked around a bit, they did an extensive fact check on the speech, pointing out disinformation.”If Brzezinski were to actually watch CBS News, she would know it was not pro-Trump TV all of a sudden, as claimed by many liberals.She concluded, “I think the media in some ways did its job here.”Geist, also the host of NBC’s Sunday Today, praised and defended the broadcast networks' decisions: “I mean, there's not an obligation on the part of the press to platform just bald-faced lies and amplify them to tens and millions of people in this country.”Geist continued and said, “There was a decision made at several networks not to show this stuff because we heard it all before. We know it's lies.”Later, he praised his other employer, Versant’s MS NOW, for their coverage and its cut away from the speech: “So, and you know, MS NOW and others, they dipped into it and then came out as soon as the lies started and debunked all of it.”After his media commentary, Geist turned to the SAVE Act, and said the speech “is a predicate for what he wants to do.”He continued and said without passage of the SAVE Act, he fearmongered, “he may find other ways to influence the outcome of the 2026 election on the platform, on the foundation of these lies he told last night.”As the midterms approach, Morning Joe’s election fearmongering seemed poised to be the lead until November.The transcript is below. Click "expand":MS NOW’s Morning JoeJuly 17, 20266:01:11 AM Eastern(...)JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, Willie, here's the thing: he didn't prove what he wanted to prove, right? He didn't prove anything about China. He didn't prove anything about that we didn't already know before. He spread a lot of disinformation. But the president – I am grateful, and I think America should be grateful for the president getting some of these documents out. If you don't mind. I'm just going to read from a couple of them right now. "The Russian government has advanced such narratives with U.S. officials and other persons as well, online. These figures are conspiring. These Russian government figures are conspiring to intensify their efforts as the election approaches to orchestrate a high-profile corruption scandal implicating Joe Biden and the Democratic Party at the peak of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Their aim is to defeat the former vice president and ensure the president's victory.”And here's the crazy thing, Willie, and I guess this is a very, very Russian thing to do. And the Russians have done it. And so, if you're one of these influencers that have been infected by sort of these Russian conspiracy theories, you're going to do it too. Are you ready for this? Russian actors – this is shocking that anybody would do this. And I guess it's just East versus West. We don't think the way they do. It's shocking they would do this. Russian actors have circulated narratives. I almost can't read this.MIKA BRZEZINSKI: It’s shocking.SCARBOROUGH: I almost can't - BRZEZINSKI: Well, you can do it! SCARBOROUGH: - Because it's so foreign!BRZEZINSKI: Come on. You can do it.SCARBOROUGH: And they were doing this in the United States, honey!BRZEZINSKI: Oh. Don’t - SCARBOROUGH: Going to spit out my Wheat Chex! Let me try it again, Willie. BRZEZINSKI: [Inaudible]SCARBOROUGH: Russian actors have circulated narratives about voter fraud resulting from mail-in balloting and called some U.S. primary voting processes, quote, rigged by the Democratic Party. So, this Russian idea of talking about rigged elections. It infected the 2020 campaign. Willie, the one that Donald Trump was running. It's crazy, isn't it, that anybody would use that Russian sort of talking point, that propaganda point about, quote, “rigged elections.”WILLIE GEIST: To hear the president of the United States deliver Vladimir Putin's talking points from the East Room of the White House in prime time was shocking.SCARBOROUGH: Yes!(...)6:18:55 AM EasternBRZEZINSKI: And then a lot of networks chose not to cover it. And if I understand correctly, CBS, because Tony Dokoupil has been kicked around a bit, they did an extensive fact check on the speech, pointing out disinformation. I think the media in some ways did its job here.GEIST: Yeah, I think that's right. Mika. I mean, there's not an obligation on the part of the press to platform just bald-faced lies and amplify them to tens and millions of people in this country. NBC did not take it live. ABC did not take it live. And before Trump supporters throw their outrage, there were speeches, primetime speeches by President Biden and President Obama that the networks decided they didn't need to take live either. There's a precedent for this.But there was a decision made at several networks not to show this stuff, because we heard it all before. We know it's lies. The other approach was the one you touched on, which was CBS before and after gave long, kind of takedowns of what the president said. Even I will say Fox News came out of it, and Sean Hannity was hosting. He was not thrilled by the speech. I think low energy and let's move along was kind of the theme of the night, a quick wrap-up of it -BREZEZINSKI: Yes. Avoid, avoid. GEIST: Not sort of fanning the flames of the claims. Let's turn the corner and get to some other stories. So, and you know, our MS NOW and others, they dipped into it and then came out as soon as the lies started and debunked all of it. And even streaming platforms at NBC News did, did kind of the same thing there. So, yeah, I think that there was a decision made that we're not going to stand by or we're not going to participate in this further campaign by the president to lead up to something else, Sam Stein, which he kind of gave away at the end of the speech, which is here are all these claims that, by the way, are not true, but I'm going to put them out there anyway. And why am I giving this speech in prime time? Because of what I just said: Now we must pass the SAVE Act. So, this is pretext. This is a predicate for what he wants to do. He's been stymied a bit in the Senate.They say they're not going to pass the SAVE Act. So he may find other ways to influence the outcome of the 2026 election on the platform, on the foundation of these lies he told last night.(...)

MS NOW on SnapStream President Donald Trump’s Thursday night address wasn’t met with much noise from the liberal media, mostly because a lot of them chose to ignore or downplay it, but not over at MS NOW. On that failing network, Lawrence O’Donnell of The Last Word has never been good at subtlety, especially not when he gets a chance to bash Trump. He spent the entirety of his Thursday show whining about the orange fascist dictator, using the same kind of dramatic, aggressive rhetoric that he spews every evening, such as describing Trump’s “deeply sick” speech as “political pornography.”“So, he started off in a typically perverse, Trumpian way, with a typically deeply sick Trump statement,” O’Donnell began, using the phrase 'deeply sick’ for the first time, but nowhere close to the last:That's the sentence that was put in the teleprompter for him by the deeply sick people who work in the White House. . . It is so deeply sick. Every single beat of this speech is deeply, deeply sick. A deeply sick delivery by a deeply sick person.Seems like the O’Donnell bot glitched there. Maybe MS NOW should update its software. I wish Trump would come out as trans so the Dems would be forced to acknowledge him as the first woman presidentSource: @MSNOWNews @TheLastWord pic.twitter.com/P7zTzCkfb1— Cici Marie (@Cici_Marie_1776) July 17, 2026 O’Donnell also ragged on Trump for saying that, before he was President, “We had transgender for everybody.”While that phrase may not have been grammatically perfect, it still made more sense than how O’Donnell chose to interpret it:So I guess that was, what? Donald Trump's way of coming out as transgender? Because "everybody" means the guy who's saying it. . . That was right at the beginning of his speech, this obsession that he has with transgender issues and transgender people, and suddenly all 300 million people in America were suddenly, in this demented man's hallucination, transgender, and then what? He got us all back to whatever gender he thinks we were before he got to be President?First of all, Trump should come out as transgender and force the Democrats to laud him as the first woman president. But, unfortunately for the memes, that wasn’t what he was doing. And O’Donnell can’t pretend to not know what Trump was talking about there. After all, zero of Trump’s White House Easter celebrations have involved topless transgender activists. He restored some sanity to America in that way. O’Donnell wasn’t wrong when he said Trump’s speech was all about pushing the SAVE America Act, which it was. But he overreacted to the extreme, even for MS NOW: It was an utterly ridiculous thing from start to finish. . . after Mitch McConnell issued a proof of life photograph earlier this week, Donald Trump delivered a proof of dementia video tonight, 25 minutes of it. . . Because Donald Trump's pathological lying and screaming outright insanity on this subject year in and year out has become so easily predictable. If O’Donnell defined dementia as predictability, then he’s the next Joe Biden. If you’ve ever had the misfortune of watching The Last Word, then you know how predictable O’Donnell’s monologues are. They blend together so much that the only way you can differentiate them is by seeing if the quote on the backdrop changed.But O’Donnell saved the craziest smear for last, saying that Trump “defiled the White House once again tonight with a 25-minute demented exhibition of political pornography,” just to push the SAVE Act. Trump addressing the nation with important information is "political pornography"?Old Larry O'Donnell really is demented. Pass the SAVE America Act. pic.twitter.com/epw5bGKXbu— Cici Marie (@Cici_Marie_1776) July 17, 2026 Political pornography? It’s rich that O’Donnell called Trump demented, because he seems to have forgotten what Bill Clinton got up to in that Oval Office.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell7/16/2610:02:42 p.m. Eastern (...) LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: So, he started off in a typically perverse, Trumpian way, with a typically deeply sick Trump statement.  He actually said the words, and he was reading this from a teleprompter, "We had transgender for everybody." So I guess that was, what? Donald Trump's way of coming out as transgender? Because "everybody" means the guy who's saying it. But that's the sentence that was put in the teleprompter for him by the deeply sick people who work in the White House, who pump that stuff into his teleprompter. He was talking about the state of the world, as he found it when he became president. And he said, "We had transgender for everybody." That was right at the beginning of his speech. This obsession that he has with transgender issues and transgender people, and suddenly all 300 million people in America were suddenly, in this demented man's hallucination, transgender, and then what? He got us all back to whatever gender he thinks we were before he got to be president? It is so deeply sick. Every single beat of this speech is deeply, deeply sick. A deeply sick delivery by a deeply sick person. He said this lie, that everyone knows is a lie, written for him in the teleprompter. It wasn't an ad lib. He said, "Now we pay the lowest price for prescription drugs anywhere in the world."  He put that lie, had that lie written into his teleprompter, and that's how he began his speech. And it began as what seemed like a State of the Union address halfway through the year, just a State of the Union address. “These are all the wonderful things I've done with this presidency,” including “We won in Venezuela” and “We are winning big in Iran.' That was there. That was right there in the beginning of his presentation tonight, which was really, as I told Jen, about simply getting to the point where he could make his pitch for this bill that is never going to pass the United States Senate. And Republican senators have said they will never pass the bill. And that's what he was out there doing tonight, talking repeatedly about what he called cheating and interference in our elections.  And there is no American who has tried to cheat and interfere in our election in a bigger way than Donald Trump himself, who was indicted for it.  (...) 10:06:09 p.m.  And it all came down to this moment of just trying to get to pass this bill of his that he wants to pass. And that's really what it was all about. It was an utterly ridiculous thing from start to finish.  The networks who refused to cover it did exactly the right thing. And of course, they got their license, their broadcast licenses threatened tonight by Donald Trump for doing exactly the right thing in refusing to air his stream of madness. And so here we are after Mitch McConnell issued a proof of life photograph earlier this week, Donald Trump delivered a proof of dementia video tonight, 25 minutes of it. Election dementia anyway, at minimum, election dementia. Because Donald Trump's pathological lying and screaming outright insanity on this subject year in and year out has become so easily predictable. (...)10:10:36 p.m. And tonight, Donald Trump tried to go back to his big lie, his favorite lie, to climb out of the dark hole that he is in, in the polls. And so he defiled the White House once again tonight with a 25-minute demented exhibition of political pornography, just to say this:[Cut to video]DONALD TRUMP: Congress must pass the SAVE America Act.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform is both “trans-liberatory” and “socialist-feminist,” a DSA leader declares in a new video detailing the far-left political parties sweeping agenda items.“We have a feminism section that is trans-liberatory and also socialist-feminist,” DSA National Political Education Committee Chair Michaela Brangan says in the video reviewing DSA’s newly-released program document.Brangan provides DSA’s definition of “socialist-feminist” – but assumes the meaning of “trans-liberatory” is clear:“We have a feminism section that is trans-liberatory and also socialist-feminist. For those of you who don’t know the word ‘socialist-feminist,’ socialist feminism is about putting working-class women in the driver’s seat of the feminist and women’s movement.”Trans-liberatory has its roots in the phrase “transgender liberation,” but has apparently been expanded to include other types of self-proclaimed liberation.While DSA’s online program does not specifically mention “trans-liberation” or “trans-liberatory,” it does contain one mention of “queer liberation,” in the context of socialist feminism:“Socialist feminism fights for queer liberation and the freedoms of all working class women. Stop gender violence and end policies that oppress bodily autonomy and intimate life, including patriarchal restrictions on abortion, childbirth and childraising, gender expression and transition, marriage, and divorce. Ban sex discrimination and ensure fair compensation and support for all forms of labor, including care work.”Like the Wages for Women movement of decades past, socialist feminism is a “rallying cry for women to be set free,” especially when they’re domestic workers who have been denied the ability to unionize, Brangan says:“Like, maybe, you’ve heard of the Wages for Housework movement that started in the 1970’s as, like, this rallying cry for women to be set free. It has the justice towards that, as well, because it really is also about, like, not just fair wages for the classic kinds of work, but also the kinds of work that not only have been underpaid and overworked, but also a lot of people have been unable to get unions in this country. Domestic labor is that people are not entitled to unions here. So, all of those things are kind of embodied in that.”

ABC via SnapStream No one on the cast of ABC News’s The View had ever served in the military, nor were they experts in hormone therapy. Nevertheless, that didn’t stop them from spouting off and decrying Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s plan to aid the health of some male solders with testosterone treatments. Co-host Sara Haines was particularly aggrieved as she suggested the testosterone would turn solders into blind raging beasts. But her cognitive dissonance was exposed when she demanded that transgenders be allowed in the military.Flaunting how shallow her knowledge pool was on the issue, Haines opened her comments with a penis joke:All this made me think about in testing T-levels is, what are they doing next? Measuring penis size? Like, this feels like the man-o-sphere is in charge of the military. It’s the stupidest thing I've ever heard.Haines seemed to be under the impression - or perhaps she just wanted to leave their gullible audience with the impression - that Hegseth’s plan was to just go around and slap syringes of testosterone into solders willy-nilly.According to her, she was fearful that the soldiers would be getting massive “busts of testosterone” randomly and would be a grave danger to the people around them. Her evidence? A viral video of a bison charging a man and tossing him in the air (Click “expand”):HAINES: And by the way, bursts of testosterone don't end well for anyone. I'm going to show you a little video that I don't know if you saw. Take a look.[Cuts to video of angry bison charging old man and tossing him into the air]ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, no.HAINES: So this poor man, by the way, is okay. He's --FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, my god.HAINES: He was hospitalized, he is recovering but literally they link it to mating season and a burst in testosterone. The View's Sara Haines decries Hegseth's plan for increasing testosterone in the military.She suggests they're going to get massive one-dose shots that will make them rage and hurt people. She later advocates for transgenders in the military... who take testosterone. pic.twitter.com/OXMcP8Kd5r— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 17, 2026 “The bison had a burst of testosterone. Like, the idea that you’re going to go from level - T-levels to it works out great, I think this guy begs to differ,” she argued.Obviously, such hormone treatment would be carefully administered through Tricare, the military’s healthcare system or other medical professionals and it would only be for service members who needed it.While the cast was whining about the military focusing on trivial things like the “weight” of solders, Haines exposed her cognitive dissonance.According to her, those confused about their “gender identity” shouldn’t be barred from serving:I think if people are willing to put their lives on the line. That is the ultimate sacrifice that I will admit that I could not do. If someone comes in and says I will fight for this country, we should be letting them fight for this country.How would that work for the women who think they’re men and take testosterone, Sara? Wouldn’t they be getting “bursts of testosterone” and attacking everyone around them?And Sara, anyone should be allowed in the military? Because there’s a law banning people with mental disabilities from enlisting because it’s exploitative. Should people in wheelchairs be allowed to be fighter pilots? (HINT: pilots control flight some movements with their feet)With further ridiculousness, the show’s purported Republicans whined about Hegseth caring about service members’ weight and making sure they’re in literal fighting shape:NAVARRO: And in the middle of this war, you've got the Secretary of Defense focused on who's chubby in the military, the facial hair, who's got a beard in the military, and now testosterone levels.(…)FARAH GRIFFIN: Like, we should not deduce people to their height, weight, their T-level…Again, none of them have served in anything more than themselves at either a buffet or with this show.The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:ABC’s The ViewJuly 17, 202611:05:19 a.m. Eastern(…)SARA HAINES: All this made me think about in testing T-levels is, what are they doing next? Measuring penis size? Like, this feels like the man-o-sphere is in charge of the military. It’s the stupidest thing I've ever heard.And by the way, bursts of testosterone don't end well for anyone. I'm going to show you a little video that I don't know if you saw. Take a look.[Cuts to video of angry bison charging old man and tossing him into the air]ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, no.HAINES: So this poor man, by the way, is okay. He's --JOY BEHAR: That's my ex-husband!FARAH GRIFFIN: Oh, my god.HAINES: He was hospitalized, he is recovering but literally they link it to mating season and a burst in testosterone.ANA NAVARRO: The bison or the man?HAINES: The bison.[Laughter]The bison had a burst of testosterone. Like, the idea that you’re going to go from level - T-levels to it works out great, I think this guy begs to differ.(…)11:08:04 a.m. EasternANA NAVARRO: And in the middle of this war, you've got the Secretary of Defense focused on who's chubby in the military, the facial hair, who's got a beard in the military, and now testosterone levels.(…)11:08:57 a.m. EasternFARAH GRIFFIN: Like, we should not deduce people to their height, weight, their T-level, some of the most valiant brave warriors --HAINES: Their gender identity!FARAH GRIFFIN: Their gender.[Crosstalk]HAINES: I think if people are willing to put their lives on the line. That is the ultimate sacrifice that I will admit that I could not do. If someone comes in and says I will fight for this country, we should be letting them fight for this country.(…)

The communist, China-based elite that has turned himself into the second coming of George Soros is now formally under criminal investigation for “foreign agent” violations.  YouTube Centimillionaire Neville Roy Singham — the husband of radical leftist Code Pink founder Jodie Evans — is being grilled by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York for “possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” CBS News reported July 16. The probe has “since expanded into a criminal tax probe over whether money was unlawfully funneled through nonprofits he controls and whether he lied on the tax forms for those nonprofits,” CBS continued.Singham’s public profile has recently come prominently into the spotlight, as the House of Representatives explored leftist groups he funds with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP. One Singham-funded group in particular, People’s Forum, was revealed by Fox News to have been the nexus of communist organization efforts surrounding the Union Square May Day protest in New York City. Not only did this involve coordination with the “Party for Socialism and Liberation,” but communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani also featured as one of the core speakers for the event. Singham reportedly funneled at least $22 million into People’s Forum.This isn’t the first time Singham’s anti-American antics drew the scrutiny of law enforcement. In 1974, the FBI probed Singham “due to him being ‘potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instabilities or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to the U.S,’” according to Influence Watch. In 2023, a New York Times investigation explicitly linked Singham to the propaganda arm of the CCP. The investigation revealed that what “is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.”Unironically, Singham also financed “up to a quarter” of his wife’s Code Pink operations — per CBS — which has become notorious for being a chaotic, pro-China, anti-Semitic political disruptor. Code Pink was one of the primary organizers behind the communist protests in Washington D.C. in January 2026 demanding the United States release murderous Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro after his capture by armed forces. Are the chickens coming home to roost for Singham? Or will his power and political influence truly denote a two-tiered justice system? Time will tell.