The Elitist Media, which insist on advancing a narrative of an administration in disarray, has chosen to do so tonight via selective omission. In this case, a key omission designed to undermine Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Here is how ABC’s Mary Bruce, at her Mary Bruciest, characterized Gabbard’s statements: There's a reason I've long said ABC's @MaryKBruce is the biggest liberal partisan hack in network news. Here she is completely butchering @DNIGabbard's remarks to flailing Democrat Senator Ossoff, purposefully leaving out this key line: “The Intelligence Community assessed that… pic.twitter.com/uglwyVDqOz — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 18, 2026 JON OSSOFF: Was it the intelligence community's assessment that nevertheless despite this obliteration there was a, quote, “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime”, yes or no? TULSI GABBARD: It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what and is not an imminent threat. That is up to the President, based on a volume of information… OSSOFF: Okay. Here’s- here is the problem…No, it is… it is precisely -- GABBARD: …and intelligence that he receives. OSSOFF: It is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat to the United States. (VIDEO SWIPE) You are here to represent the IC's assessment of threats. That's a quote from your own opening statement. BRUCE: Despite what Trump has said, Gabbard told Congress that Iran had actually made no effort to rebuild its nuclear capability. OSSOFF: And the opening statement you submitted to the committee last night also stated, quote, “there has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,” end quote. Correct? GABBARD: That's right. OSSOFF: And that's the assessment of the intelligence community. GABBARD: Yes. The report intends to make Gabbard appear to be incompetent and dishonest. But it omitted this sentence from Gabbard: A key part of this exchange reporters are intentionally leaving out. @DNIGabbard: “The Intelligence Community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability.” https://t.co/BPJwltMK0g pic.twitter.com/mSPSMdTq7i — Alexa Henning (@alexahenning) March 18, 2026 GABBARD: The Intelligence Community assessed that Iran maintained the intention to rebuild and to continue to grow their nuclear enrichment capability. That intent, despite the success of Operation Midnight Hammer, is in and of itself an imminent threat. Especially so when combined with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s reports on his negotiations with Iran, and with assessments of Iran’s near-future conventional weapons capabilities.But none of these things were mentioned in any of the stories, which uniformly sought to cast Gabbard in a negative light. ABC’s was the worst among these reports, which singularly focused on Ossoff’s questioning of Gabbard. This is often the case as ABC remains the most Trump-deranged of the broadcast network newscasts. CBS’s report on the hearing echoed familiar themes, but included this exchange between CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): CAITLIN HUEY-BURNS: Texas Republican John Cornyn asked CIA director John Ratcliffe whether there was any indication Iran wasn't an imminent threat. JOHN RATCLIFFE: Senator, no. In fact, intelligence reflects the contrary. JOHN CORNYN: So you disagree with Mr. Kent? RATCLIFFE: I do. So imminence does not seem far-fetched. NBC clears this up by running the same Cornyn-Ratcliffe exchange, but with a little more added to it: GABE GUTIERREZ: Though he did not give a time line. Still, Radcliffe pushing back on high-ranking counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who resigned in protest over the war with Iran, arguing there had been no imminent threat to the U.S. JOHN RATCLIFFE: In fact, intelligence reflects the contrary. JOHN CORNYN: So you disagree with Mr. Kent? RATCLIFFE: I do. (VIDEO SWIPE) Iran has been a constant threat to the United States for an extended period of time, and posed an immediate threat at this time. “Constant threat for an extended period of time” doesn’t bolster narrative, so it didn’t make it into the other newscasts.  What we continue to see here is an Elitist Media, drunk with Trump Derangement Syndrome, trying to muddy the waters of public opinion as much as possible as pertains to the ongoing operation in Iran. Even if that means willfully omitting an intelligence assessment from the evening news. Click “expand” to view the transcripts of the aforementioned reports, as aired on their respective newscasts on Wednesday, March 18th, 2026: ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT 3/18/2026 6:36 PM DAVID MUIR: President Trump meanwhile, late today, attending the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base honoring six more American service members killed. While today on Capitol Hill the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was grilled, 24 hours after a top intelligence official resigned claiming there was no imminent threat from Iran. She was pressed today. Was there an imminent threat? And how she answered. Here’s Mary Bruce. MARY BRUCE: Tonight, The White House releasing these photos. President Trump traveling to Dover Air Force Base to witness the dignified transfer of the remains of six American service members killed in this war. The trip coming 24 hours after one of his top intelligence officials resigned in protest. Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent declaring Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. But Trump insists it did, claiming Iran was trying to rebuild its nuclear program after the U.S. obliterated it last year. Today on Capitol Hill, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard refusing to echo the president's words. JON OSSOFF: Was it the intelligence community's assessment that nevertheless despite this obliteration there was a, quote, “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime”, yes or no? TULSI GABBARD: It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what and is not an imminent threat. That is up to the President, based on a volume of information… OSSOFF: Okay. Here’s- here is the problem…No, it is… it is precisely -- GABBARD: …and intelligence that he receives. OSSOFF: It is precisely your responsibility to determine what constitutes a threat to the United States. (VIDEO SWIPE) You are here to represent the IC's assessment of threats. That's a quote from your own opening statement. BRUCE: Despite what Trump has said, Gabbard told Congress that Iran had actually made no effort to rebuild its nuclear capability. OSSOFF: And the opening statement you submitted to the committee last night also stated, quote, “there has been no effort since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,” end quote. Correct? GABBARD: That's right. OSSOFF: And that's the assessment of the intelligence community. GABBARD: Yes. BRUCE: And, David, President Trump has said all of Iran's leaders are dead. But today Tulsi Gabbard told Congress, quote: “the regime in Iran appears to be intact but largely degraded.” David. MUIR: A lot of eyes on that hearing. Mary Bruce at The White House. Mary, thank you. CBS EVENING NEWS 3/18/25 6:31 PM TONY DOKOUPIL: Good evening. The major questions tonight on Capitol Hill: Was Iran an imminent threat to America? Was war the only option to deal with it? And after three weeks and thousands of air strikes, how much longer can the war last? CIA director John Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took on those questions and more today, as average U.S. gas prices are up nearly $1 since the fighting began and many Americans say they still need answers. CBS News Congressional Correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns followed the hearing on Capitol Hill and joins us now. Caitlin, good evening. What did we learn? HUEY-BURNS: Good evening, Tony. Well, Trump's Director of National Intelligence told Congress that the Iranian regime remains intact, but largely degraded. This as lawmakers pressed her on the justification for going to war.  Tulsi Gabbard sidestepped questions today about whether Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States, as President Trump has claimed. JON OSSOFF: Was it the intelligence community's assessment that there was a, quote, “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime”, yes or no? TULSI GABBARD: Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president, and he made that determination…  OSSOFF: False. This is the Worldwide Threats hearing where you present to Congress national intelligence: timely, objective, and independent of political considerations. HUEY-BURNS: The testimony from Gabbard, a well-known war skeptic, comes the day after her deputy, top counterterrorism official Joe Kent, resigned in protest over the war, arguing the regime posed no imminent threat to our nation. Texas Republican John Cornyn asked CIA director John Ratcliffe whether there was any indication Iran wasn't an imminent threat. JOHN RATCLIFFE: Senator, no. In fact, intelligence reflects the contrary. JOHN CORNYN: So you disagree with Mr. Kent? RATCLIFFE: I do. HUEY-BURNS: At the war's outset, Trump claimed Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. DONALD TRUMP: They attempted to rebuild their nuclear program. HUEY-BURNS: But in her prepared remarks, Gabbard wrote that after the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites last summer, there have been no efforts by the Iranians to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. A line she left out of her testimony this morning. MARK WARNER: Was that because the president said there was an imminent threat two weeks… GABBARD: No, sir, I recognized that the time was running long and I skipped through some of the portions of my oral… WARNER: You chose to take -- GABBARD: My oral delivered remarks, sir. WARNER: You chose to omit the remarks that contradict the president. HUEY-BURNS: Senators also pressed the officials on whether the president was sufficiently briefed on the consequences for the Strait of Hormuz. Gabbard said it was a long-standing assessment that Iran would hold the Strait as leverage, but she declined to detail any of the briefings. Tony. DOKOUPIL: Caitlin, thank you very much.  NBC NIGHTLY NEWS 3/18/25 6:32 PM HALLIE JACKSON: We begin tonight with escalations in the Iran war pushing oil and gas prices even higher. And tonight new strikes from both sides on key energy infrastructure. Look at this- a huge fire on an Iranian gas field after it was hit. And across the Gulf States, a relentless Iranian barrage. Missiles and drones apparently targeting energy sites. Look at these two huge fireballs seen earlier in theSaudi capital of Riyadh. And here in Washington, the focus today on the rationale for the U.S. to launch the war in the first place, with top Intel officials facing tough questions about just how imminent the threat from Iran actually was. And the war now ramping up in Lebanon. Images from Beirut, showing this building collapsing, you see it there, after an Israeli strike. Israel had issued an evacuation order before the attack. We've got it all covered from D.C. to the Middle East, starting with Gabe Gutierrez at The White House. GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, the devastating wave of U.S. airstrikes in Iran, the Pentagon saying nearly 8,000 regime targets struck so far, more than 120 Iranian vessels sunk. In a phone call with NBC News, President Trump dismissing Iranian retaliation against Israel overnight. Telling me “the attack was nothing compared to what happened to them. They're going down. They’re losing big.” Meanwhile, a strike on an Iranian gas field, which Iran is blaming on Israel, and an Iranian attack on oil facilities in Qatar causing oil prices to spike. Vice President Vance today calling those prices a temporary blip. JD VANCE: We're going to take care of business, we’re going to come back home and when that happens, you’re going to see energy prices come back down to reality. GUTIERREZ: All as Israel overnight killed Iran's intelligence minister, who helped launch that recent brutal crackdown on Iranian protesters. TULSI GABBARD: As of this moment, the regime maintains power within Iran, even though they are vastly degraded on almost every front. GUTIERREZ: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testifying on Capitol Hill, describing the threat from Iran before U.S. airstrikes. JOHN RATCLIFFE: If left unimpeded, yes, Senator, they would have the ability to range missiles to the continental U.S. GUTIERREZ: Though he did not give a time line. Still, Radcliffe pushing back on high-ranking counterterrorism official Joe Kent, who resigned in protest over the war with Iran, arguing there had been no imminent threat to the U.S. JOHN RATCLIFFE: In fact, intelligence reflects the contrary. JOHN CORNYN: So you disagree with Mr. Kent? RATCLIFFE: I do. (VIDEO SWIPE) Iran has been a constant threat to the United States for an extended period of time, and posed an immediate threat at this time. GUTIERREZ: Later, Democrats pressing Gabbard, who’d previously been a skeptic of U.S. intervention abroad. JON OSSOFF: Was it the intelligence community's assessment that there was a, quote, “imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime”, yes or no? TULSI GABBARD: Senator, the only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president… (VIDEO SWIPE) OSSOFF: You're evading a question, because to provide a candid response to the Committee would contradict a statement from The White House.  JACKSON: Gabe is joining us now from The White House. Gabe, there's also a focus on that critical Strait of Hormuz, getting it back open. And you have some new reporting on that tonight? GUTIERREZ: Yes, Hallie. A U.S. official tells NBC News the military dropped four 5,000-pound deep penetrating bombs, often called bunker busters, that slammed into facilities holding Iran’s anti-ship cruise missiles along the Strait of Hormuz. But it did not wipe out the entire inventory yet. This is the first known time the U.S. military has used these in combat. Hallie. JACKSON: Gabe Gutierrez. Thank you.  

On Sunday's The Weekend: Primetime, MS NOW hosts gave no pushback as left-wing activist Cameron Kasky (one of the Parkland student anti-gun activists) obnoxiously compared Israeli troops to gunmen who attack schools in the U.S. and murder children. He even accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gaza. How tone-deaf does that sound after all the children Hamas murdered on October 7?  In the same segment, fill-in co-host Melissa Murray hinted that pro-life conservatives are being hypocritical by defending the war in Iran. Co-host Ayman Mohyeldin set up the segment by claiming that Republicans have shown an "indifference" to the "suffering of children" on issues ranging from wars in the Middle East to Jeffrey Epstein, and showed clips of Republicans defending the war in Iran in light of a girls school being bombed allegedly by the U.S. military. The MS NOW host asked Kasky for his reaction, posing: You survived a tragedy, and we were talking about tragedies that children have suffered around the world and here at home -- certainly school shootings probably on top of that list where we -- all we hear at the end of them are thoughts and prayers. But what do you make of how Republicans have reacted to this school shooting [sic] and to the suffering of children, whether it's at ICE, Iran, Gaza or school shootings? In a CNN town hall in 2018, Kasky looked Marco Rubio in the eye and compared him to the Parkland school shooter, Niklas Cruz. So this smear of Israel came naturally: Well, my classmates and I learned the hard way years ago how indifferent American lawmakers can be when children are dying. But there is a very important distinction to make here, which is that the shooter who killed 17 people at my high school was apprehended by law enforcement and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Over 105 children have been murdered by Israeli forces in Lebanon in just the past 10 days alone. And while people marched in the streets for my classmates, who is speaking for these children in Lebanon? He soon tied in race: "In this country, a certain type of child dying is a tragedy, but, elsewhere in the world, if it's brown Muslim children, it means nothing..." A bit later, he complained: "And in America, the Parkland shooter is looked at as a villain, but, in the state of Israel, the people who are killing these innocents are brave, heroic warriors. And frankly, I think that that is disgusting." Later on, Kasky again focused on race, noting that the media had given coverage to "crying white mothers," and then tried to link guns involved in school shootings to guns used by the military in the Middle East: We were the next school shooting -- we were the next community where the news was going to come and film crying white mothers and tell America how sad this was. And we got together and we said, "No, we want people to see how angry we are because this was expected, and this is something that we allow in this country." And this -- this weapon that was used to shoot up our high school was manufactured by the same arms manufacturers that are selling weapons overseas. So this is all tied together. This -- this is just an industry. This violence is a business. Murray then jumped in and tried to tie in the abortion issue: And there's a selective appetite for certain kinds of violence. So the same people who would condone what is happening in Iran or what is happening in Gaza are the same people who have decried the violence to the fetus and talked about their abortion politics for years and years even as you and your classmates cowered under your desk. For your generation, how do you look at the sort of both sides of this political moment and the quote, unquote, party of life? At the end of the segment, after Kasky made his "genocide" accusation, co-host Catherine Rampell jumped in and contradicted Kasky's premise that white victims in the U.S. always get plenty of attention as she complained that the attack on a synagogue in Michigan has been forgotten too quickly, and called out Democrats who have shown sympathy for the terrorist. Transcript follows: MS NOW's The Weekend: Primetime March 15, 2026 7:37 p.m. AYMAN MOHYELDIN: Now, this indifference that you heard there to the suffering of children isn't really exclusive to Iran. We've seen it in Gaza, where Republicans like Congressman Randy Fine told Palestinian children to, quote, starve away amid reports of an ongoing famine. And we've seen it closer to home with the Trump administration's cruel treatment of hundreds of detained migrant children. It's also evident in the indifference towards the Epstein survivors, many of whom were minors, when they were abused by the late sex offender and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. Their fight for justice continues to fall on deaf ears in the Republican-controlled White House and Congress. Republicans like to pretend that they care about the children. But whether it's Iran, Gaza, ICE or Epstein, for them, children are merely collateral damage. (...) MOHYELDIN: You survived a tragedy, and we were talking about tragedies that children have suffered around the world and here at home -- certainly school shootings probably on top of that list where we -- all we hear at the end of them are thoughts and prayers. But what do you make of how Republicans have reacted to this school shooting [sic] and to the suffering of children, whether it's at ICE, Iran, Gaza or school shootings? CAMERON KASKY, HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Well, my classmates and I learned the hard way years ago how indifferent American lawmakers can be when children are dying. But there is a very important distinction to make here, which is that the shooter who killed 17 people at my high school was apprehended by law enforcement and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Over 105 children have been murdered by Israeli forces in Lebanon in just the past 10 days alone. And while people marched in the streets for my classmates, who is speaking for these children in Lebanon? Who -- where is their voice? Where is the outrage about those deaths? In this country, a certain type of child dying is a tragedy, but, elsewhere in the world, if it's brown Muslim children, it means nothing -- it's negligible -- people just kind of shrug it off. (...) Look, I survived the Parkland shooting -- I was there. I was also in Palestine, and I can promise you something: The feeling my classmates and I had of uncertainty of maybe the next person we see is going to be the person who's going to shoot us dead, that is all the children in Palestine know. That is all they've known for their entire lives. And in America, the Parkland shooter is looked at as a villain, but, in the state of Israel, the people who are killing these innocents are brave, heroic warriors. And frankly, I think that that is disgusting. ANTONIA HYLTON: Cameron, can I ask you for you personally and then also just for young people of your generation, what has it done to you to grow up experiencing these things -- to see these images -- to understand war, I think, in a way that's different from previous generations? (...) KASKY: Well, violence is one of the only things that America is capable of manufacturing anymore. And that is something my classmates and I saw our entire lives. We were born right after Columbine -- Sandy Hook shooting happened when we were fairly young. The Aurora shooting happened when we were locked in our classrooms. Hiding under our desks, we had no question as to what was going on. We were the next school shooting -- we were the next community where the news was going to come and film crying white mothers and tell America how sad this was. And we got together and we said, "No, we want people to see how angry we are because this was expected, and this is something that we allow in this country." And this -- this weapon that was used to shoot up our high school was manufactured by the same arms manufacturers that are selling weapons overseas. So this is all tied together. This -- this is just an industry. This violence is a business. MELISSA MURRAY: Well, it's also a politics, though. And there's a selective appetite for certain kinds of violence. So the same people who would condone what is happening in Iran or what is happening in Gaza are the same people who have decried the violence to the fetus and talked about their abortion politics for years and years even as you and your classmates cowered under your desk. For your generation, how do you look at the sort of both sides of this political moment and the quote, unquote, party of life? KASKY: Well, we know that the Republican party and also a lot of people in the Democratic party weigh lives differently. It's just things have changed. Gaza very much changed the world order because there used to be something called rules of engagement. When we were at war, there were certain rules that needed to be followed, and there were certain protections that needed to be in place for the civilian population. Gaza was very much a laboratory where the world was experimenting. There are military lawyers who are studying Gaza and the international world's response and saying, "Wait a second, these laws in place, these international laws that were put there after World War II to create something of a world order, these don't really apply anymore." So now you have the U.S. most likely bombing this school in Iran, and we're using the same playbook that the state of Israel has used during the ongoing genocide in Gaza. It is either, "These people who were killed deserved it, and they were a valid target, this didn't actually happen at all -- it's a lie," or, "This was actually the enemy -- we didn't do this." And very often you don't even need to coordinate these responses. It's either, "Oh, there were actually terrorists there. Oh, these people deserved it." CATHERINE RAMPELL: It's -- I mean, there's some of this happening here too. I'm sorry. KASKY: Tell me more. RAMPELL: I don't know, there was a would be terrorist who tried to shoot up a Jewish preschool three days ago and -- KASKY: And was apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. RAMPELL: And there are liberal mayors in Michigan who are saying -- suggesting that it was okay or that there were mitigating factors because he had some family members who were killed recently, who the state of Lebanon has said may have been members of Hezbollah. So like the idea that we care about Americans, we, you know, we always care about Americans, and we don't care about brown children abroad. We should care about all children, and it is very upsetting to me repeatedly that we keep on -- we keep on ignoring the fact that there was literally an attempted mass shooting a few days ago that is being excused by a number of Democrats in Michigan because those kids were Jewish who had nothing to do with Israel. Sorry. We had a conversation about this last night, and I feel like the same thing happened then, but. KASKY: Well, there's no excuse for terror. RAMPELL: There's no excuse for terror, and we should condemn it, regardless of the religion or the race or the nationality of the children who are being targeted. That's that's all I have to say. KASKY: And I happen to agree.

Kick up your recliner chairs because you’re not going to believe this one! TIME magazine is out with a new report prophesying that climate change threatens to make us all lazy slobs! “Scientists Warn of Health Risks As Climate Change Reduces Physical Activity,” read the knee-slapper headline from TIME reporter Simmone Shah. Shah waved around a new wacky study published in Lancet Global Health to foam at the mouth over how “rising global temperatures due to climate change could lead millions of people to be less physically active” and will supposedly lead to an increase of half a million deaths by 2050. Yes, they’re actually projecting this nonsense out 24 years into the future, giving the misleading implication that humanity writ large is completely incapable of adaptation.  But as Hoover Institution Visiting Fellow Bjorn Lomborg argued in November 2022, “Around the world, far more people die each year from cold than heat.” And that’s according to — get this — another report by The Lancet that Lomborg cited at the time. So which is it? Climate Depot founder Marc Morano blasted Shah’s propaganda in comments to MRC Business. “Here we go again. TIME magazine just keeps churning out the most simplistic climate fears based on ‘models’ and ‘projections.’ It’s hard to believe that the magazine can even write this stuff anymore.” Countering Shah’s underlying thesis, Morano retorted, “What if we work out in air conditioning? Wouldn’t AC make this argument moot?” But as Morano pointed out to MRC, Shah is on record pushing to get rid of AC units too, as her February 2026 headline clearly illustrated: “New Study Finds Air Conditioners Will Exacerbate Climate Change As Planet Warms.” Incredible.  In her latest piece, Shah apparently forgot that correlation doesn’t equal causation, and used the climate change boondoggle to lecture readers about the dangers of obesity, which now is apparently being worsened by Mother Earth's wrath: Physical activity plays a crucial role in overall health and wellbeing. Limiting the amount you move your body is associated with reduced muscular strength, impaired cognition, and poor sleep, all of which can translate into lower on-the-job performance and higher absenteeism. Inactivity is also one of the leading modifiable risk factors for non-communicable diseases like raised blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity. It’s not until the fifth paragraph of Shah’s eco-bile that an important caveat to the study’s underlying conclusions was noted: “The study did not reveal an impact in high-income countries, where adaptive measures are more likely to be in place.” Eureka! Who knew humans can adapt!  Did Shah bother to mention who financed this so-called study to begin with? Nope. One of the major backers of this study was The Wellcome Trust, an eco-activist global foundation that partnered with the climate-fanatic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2024 to “accelerate global health equity” in part by “Advancing climate data, sustainable agriculture, and food systems. To better protect people globally from the devastating effects of climate change on health, solutions that draw across climate, health, and agricultural science will be needed.” Stranger still is that this connection wasn’t enough for the authors of the latest climate-causes-laziness study to admit that Wellcome’s involvement presented somewhat of a conflict of interest.  “Rising temperatures create inopportune circumstances for exercise,” Shah railed, apparently ignorant to how sweating works. “Heat exposure is linked to elevated cardiovascular strain and heightened perceived exertion, along with dehydration, heat cramps, and heat exhaustion. Researchers found that if the world reaches 2°C above preindustrial temperatures, more than a quarter of the global population could experience an extra month of severe heat stress each year,” she continued.   That’s interesting, because as Muay Thai cardio kickboxing studio Hit House analyzed April 2024, “you may gain significant benefits by working out in the heat, such as an increase in oxygen, blood volume, and temperature tolerance. You may find that the changes give you a larger reserve of strength and stamina for exercise or your favorite sport.” Cleveland Clinic also noted in 2020 that “Warm, sunny days are perfect for outdoor exercise.” Even Outside Magazine reported in 2016 that “Heat training not only does a better job at increasing V02 [volume of oxygen] max than altitude, but it also makes athletes better at withstanding a wider range of temperatures.” Who knew! Does this mean you should exercise to the point of heat exhaustion? Not at all, but Shah’s insinuation that the exact opposite could happen (wearing out the La-Z-Boy chairs) due to climate change is overreaching conjecture at the least and lowbrow scareporn at best.  As Morano concluded: Even Time cannot stand behind their usual tripe anymore, noting that the idea that we are all going to be sloths by midcentury are only based on ‘a projection, and there is still some uncertainty about the exact real-world impacts.’ 

On Monday night’s Lawrence O’Donnell hour-long derangement session, the host of The Last Word on MS NOW said President Trump was a sociopath and might be less trustworthy than the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi. O’Donnell also later stated Trump had dementia and the 25th amendment should be invoked on “mental health grounds.” O'Donnell's recent stretch of monologues had become increasingly more absurd, as he had clamored the last couple weeks for Trump children, especially Barron Trump, to go to Iran and fight or to sail through the Strait of Hormuz.  Lawrence opened as he said the President was a sociopath:   At the start of his Monday monologue, O'Donnell called Trump a sociopath, saying he was "incapable" of being sorry for the lost lives of servicemembers. This comes from O'Donnell, a host who has spent the last week using dead servicemembers as political props. pic.twitter.com/Jlh9wFUWuq — Nick (@nspin310) March 18, 2026   Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone other than himself. That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone. (...) But the laziest and most mentally vacant president in history, Donald Trump, as he approaches 80 years old, no longer has the energy or the concentration to be able to continue to pretend that he feels sorry for even the members of the American military killed in service in his war. O’Donnell then framed a situation where the President did not respond to a question from a reporter as if he did not care about the service members who died. This left out the context of the reporter, ABC News producer Miriam Khan, asking multiple question to Trump prior to the end of the press gaggle, much of which were anti-Trump in framing. Since the war began, O’Donnell, unashamedly, used the dead service members as props for his anti-Trump monologues, so he didn’t have much space to talk. Then, O’Donnell shifted to claim Trump hallucinated when he said he was called by a former president.  He turned this into a call for a constitutional crisis through the 25th amendment:  That kind of public hallucination by a president is more than enough to invoke the 25th Amendment procedure based on the mental health grounds that the president is incapable of serving, and remove the president from his duties, especially in the middle of a war started by that same incompetent president who cannot explain why the war started or what will be necessary to end the war. O’Donnell made maybe his most heinous claim next where he claimed the Iranian Foreign Minister may be more trustworthy than Trump:   O’Donnell calls Iranian FM more credible than Trump. O’DONNELL: But with Donald Trump in the White House, we have reached the first time in history where Iran's Foreign Minister might have more credibility - might have more credibility than the president of the United States." pic.twitter.com/kelXd72VQP — Nick (@nspin310) March 17, 2026   Donald Trump has said that the Iranian leadership is eager to make a deal with him, like the Venezuelan regime did to stop the war. But with Donald Trump in the white house, we have reached the first time in history where Iran's Foreign Minister might have more credibility, might - might have more credibility than the president of the United States. Which echoed comments former Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes told the network over the weekend. To close, he continued to throw insults at Trump, as O’Donnell said Trump calling some reporters "guilty of treason” as a further sign of “Donald Trump teetering on the brink of dementia.” O’Donnell ended his 13-minute tirade waiting and, seemingly, almost wanting more troops to perish: And tonight the question remains, who else? Who else is going to die waiting for Donald Trump to feel it in his bones that it's time to end his war? Who else is going to die and have their deaths ignored by the president who sent them into war? The president, who feels nothing? Who else? O’Donnell should look himself in the mirror before making such statements since he didn't have a stellar track record for making those kinds of determinations. Just a few months before President Biden's presidential campaign went up in flames at the debate, O'Donnell equated Biden to Super Bowl quarterback Patrick Mahomes. He also gave Biden his final tongue bath from the press as president. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell March 16, 2026 10:02:16 PM Eastern LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: Well, Donald Trump has never been able to convincingly express sympathy or sorrow for anyone other than himself. That is the mark of a sociopath, of course, the inability to feel sorry for someone. Many sociopaths are capable of saying, I'm sorry for your loss if someone in your family dies, but they are incapable of actually feeling sorry for your loss. They just know they're supposed to say those words, those well rehearsed words.  But the laziest and most mentally vacant president in history, Donald Trump, as he approaches 80 years old, no longer has the energy or the concentration to be able to continue to pretend that he feels sorry for even the members of the American military killed in service in his war. No president has ever gotten this wrong until Donald Trump. Acknowledging and honoring American military deaths is something every president got right. Most brought no particular eloquence to the moment, but they always found the words to acknowledge and honor military sacrifice. Until Donald Trump last night at 9:17 pm. With the cameras rolling, Donald Trump's mind and feelings appeared to be an apparent sociopathic lockdown, possibly when he was asked about the six air force personnel on a refueling plane that crashed in Donald Trump's new war zone. Watch what Donald Trump says and does in a moment that so obviously calls for sympathy and admiration and honor, things Donald Trump apparently just cannot feel. [Cuts to video] REPORTER: Do you have a comment on the six service members who died last week? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Go ahead, who else? {Cuts back to live] O’DONNELL: Nothing. Not a word, just an immediate turn away. Who else? Who else has a question that's not about the war dead? Six American Air Force personnel lose their lives in a refuelling accident in Donald Trump's war and Donald Trump doesn't have a word to say about them and their sacrifice and their families suffering.  (...) 10:08:03 PM O’DONNELL: Donald Trump continues to deepen his pathological lying about his war, saying today he has spoken to a former president, a Democrat who supports his war. That is, of course, an obvious lie. Each of the former living democratic presidents, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden issued statements saying that no, none of them talked to Donald Trump about his war. That kind of public hallucination by a president is more than enough to invoke the 25th Amendment procedure based on the mental health grounds that the president is incapable of serving, and remove the president from his duties, especially in the middle of a war started by that same incompetent president who cannot explain why the war started or what will be necessary to end the war. Donald Trump gave the stupidest answer in the history of the question: When will the war be over? [Cuts to video] TRUMP: I don't think it's going to be long. When it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast. BRIAN KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it's over? TRUMP: It when I feel it. KILMEADE: Okay. TRUMP: I feel it in my bones. [Cuts back to live] O’DONNELL: Asking Donald Trump questions like this is a meaningless exercise. Donald Trump's answers have absolutely no meaning. Donald Trump's answers conflict with Donald Trump's answers all the time. And so it's just a game played by reporters who are allowed to ask Donald Trump questions.  But no one can pretend to have learned something or been illuminated by a Donald Trump answer. That never happens. The question and answer format format is now just another way of publicly tracking Donald Trump's incoherence.  Donald Trump has said that the Iranian leadership is eager to make a deal with him, like the Venezuelan regime did to stop the war. But with Donald Trump in the white house, we have reached the first time in history where Iran's Foreign Minister might have more credibility, might - might have more credibility than the president of the United States. [Cuts to video] ABBAS ARAGHCHI (Iranian Foreign Minister): No, we never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes. [Cuts back to live] O’DONNELL: Donald Trump has gone from saying the United States military doesn't need anyone's help in this war to desperately begging any and all foreign countries to help him in his war. (...) 10:12:29 PM  O’DONNELL: Donald Trump is now calling for accurate reporting on his war treason. That's his word for it. No matter how many times Donald Trump uses the word, no one has to fear a treason conviction because there hasn't been one since World War II. The reason we have not had a treason conviction since World War II is the supreme court has held that a necessary precondition for the crime of treason is a declaration of war, because the constitution defines treason as giving aid and comfort to our enemies.  The word enemy carries legal meaning, and the only way to qualify as an enemy in a treason case is for that enemy to be named in writing in a declaration of war, which the United States of America has not passed since World War II. And yes, it's outrageous. And further signs of Donald Trump teetering on the brink of dementia. But from Donald Trump, the word treason is just another empty threat. Just like every threat issued by his FCC chair who issues his threats on social media pretending to have powers that he doesn't have. Brendan Carr is the only deranged FCC chair in American history, the only one who imagines he has powers that don't exist when he threatens to revoke licenses of broadcast networks if their reporting on Donald Trump's war is accurate. The FCC chair has no such power, no matter what the networks do.  He is a clown, playing to an audience of one who is an ignoramus. And so accurate television reporting about Donald Trump's war will continue, and Donald Trump will continue to describe reporting on his war dead as treason. And when he's asked about it, he will immediately turn away from that question and ask the White House Press Corps who else? And that next compliant reporter will do what they always reliably do for Donald Trump in the white house press corps. They will change the subject.  And tonight the question remains, who else? Who else is going to die waiting for Donald Trump to feel it in his bones that it's time to end his war? Who else is going to die and have their deaths ignored by the president who sent them into war? The president, who feels nothing? Who else?  (...)

It’s been a whole week since a member of Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s (TX) security detail was shot and killed by Dallas Police during a chase and subsequent standoff after police flagged his vehicle for having stolen plates. Police would come to find out a whole lot more about the man (including his multiple aliases), but ABC and CBS have seen no reason to cover it on their flagship morning or evening newscasts. NBC’s Today has also ignored it, but Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News broke through with a single, 104-second segment. Incredibly, though, they never stated Crockett was a Democrat. This story from Tuesday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ was the only mention on the lead ABC, CBS, and NBC shows about one of Democrat Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s bodyguards dying in a police standoff and lied about his name and possessed stolen vehicles and firearms pic.twitter.com/AUlJAUTaSa — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 18, 2026 Filling in for Tom Llamas, Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker began: “[W]e have new body cam footage tonight showing a deadly police standoff with a man who served on a U.S. Congresswoman’s security team, Ryan Nobles, now with the video, and the questions being raised about how the suspect ever got the job.” Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles spent most of his story narrating the footage: NOBLES: Tonight, new police footage of the lead up to the death of a man who once served as a member of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s security detail. DALLAS POLICE OFFICER: Hey, stop the car! Move your car! Move your car! NOBLES: 39-year-old Diamond Robinson was shot and killed after appearing to point a gun at police during a standoff. That video shows police chasing after the car he was driving, which had been flagged for having stolen plates. Nobles added police “followed [Robinson] him into a garage where he refused to get out of his car” and, after a soundbite from Dallas police executive assistant chief Terrence Rhodes that police offered a chance to talk to family members, “[p]olice fired tear gas to force Robinson out of his car,” who proceeded to “put his hands to his waist, and police say eventually pointed a gun.” Unsurprisingly, officers then opened fire, killing Robinson. Then came even more shadiness: “Police say Robinson, who was known as Mike King to Congresswoman Crockett and her staff, had multiple aliases and accused him of wearing police-style uniforms to falsely represent himself as a federal agent.” He concluded with Crockett feigning outrage and saying she had “lose a primary for U.S. Senate” without stating the party: Congresswoman Crockett, who recently lost a primary for U.S. Senate in Texas, said that Robinson’s past, “doesn’t fit the person we came to know as Mike King.” Congressman Crockett wants to know how Robinson got through the vetting process to make it on her security detail, calling the situation incredibly alarming[.] Earth to Nobles: It sure seems like Crockett was defending her fraudulent bodyguard. Do we have another Cori Bush situation on our hands? In contrast, the Fox News had multiple stories about Crockett, both on the Fox News Channel and Fox News Digital. One piece of information left out was the fact that, according to a Monday piece at Fox News Digital, “Dallas Police also said 11 firearms were recovered during their investigation, including the handgun he was holding during the shooting, which was reported stolen” and that “[t]he agencies that he reported to work for do not exist.” And a bodyguard’s deadly confrontation with police came less than a month after she had her team remove a reporter from The Atlantic (which was comical considering its perhaps the liberal elite’s favorite magazine). To see the relevant NBC transcript from March 18, click “expand.” NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas March 17, 2026 6:31 p.m. Eastern [TEASE] [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Jasmine Crockett Security Guard Shootout] KRISTEN WELKER: New body cam video showing a deadly standoff with Dallas police and a member of a Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s security detail. What we’re learning about how he got hired. (....) 6:40 p.m. Eastern [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Congresswoman’s Security Guard Killed in Standoff] WELKER: But we have new body cam footage tonight showing a deadly police standoff with a man who served on a U.S. Congresswoman’s security team, Ryan Nobles, now with the video, and the questions being raised about how the suspect ever got the job. [ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: Breaking News; Congresswoman’s Security Guard Shot by Police] RYAN NOBLES: Tonight, new police footage of the lead up to the death of a man who once served as a member of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett’s security detail. DALLAS POLICE OFFICER: Hey, stop the car! Move your car! Move your car! NOBLES: 39-year-old Diamond Robinson was shot and killed after appearing to point a gun at police during a standoff. That video shows police chasing after the car he was driving, which had been flagged for having stolen plates. DALLAS POLICE OFFICER: He’s going to a red light. NOBLES: They followed him into a garage where he refused to get out of his car. DALLAS POLICE EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT CHIEF TERRENCE RHODES: Officers offered him opportunities to speak with family members to resolve the situation peacefully. NOBLES: Police fired tear gas to force Robinson out of his car. When he emerged, he put his hands to his waist, and police say eventually pointed a gun. Police freezing the video and circling what appears to be a weapon. That is when officers opened fire. [YELLING] [GUNFIRE] NOBLES: Robinson was killed by the gunfire. Police say Robinson, who was known as Mike King to Congresswoman Crockett and her staff, had multiple aliases and accused him of wearing police-style uniforms to falsely represent himself as a federal agent. Congresswoman Crockett, who recently lost a primary for U.S. Senate in Texas, said that Robinson’s past, “doesn’t fit the person we came to know as Mike King.” Congressman Crockett wants to know how Robinson got through the vetting process to make it on her security detail, calling the situation incredibly alarming, Kristen. WELKER: Ryan, thank you.