In her way of a conclusion to the Iran War, which seemed poised to end after a negotiated deal ahead of President Trump’s G7 world leader visit to France, frequent Morning Joe guest and BBC U.S. special correspondent Katty Kay said the War with Iran might push more countries to get nukes, like… South Korea. While her thought on the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia shifting towards nuclear weapons might have made sense, she decided to lump South Korea and Japan into the equation, two countries that already would be protected under the U.S. nuclear umbrella as military allies. Saudi Arabia and the UAE were also allies, who would be protected by the US military anyway, as seen during the war of the past months.   Frequent Morning Joe guest Katty Kay's Iran War Conclusion: South Korea, Japan, and Saudi Arabia may develop nukes. The Saudi mention makes sense, but... South Korea and Japan? pic.twitter.com/c0k6blAdNy — Nick (@nspin310) June 15, 2026   Host Joe Scarborough asked Kay, in future history, “whether this war stopped Iran from gaining nuclear weapons or not will ultimately be how it will be measured?” Kay framed her answer in a nuclear lens entirely, and claimed the war, in which the U.S. bombed a country, Iran, harshly for a long period of time, especially at the start of the war, would lead to more nuclear programs around the world: Look, I think we might even take it one step further, Joe, and look, not just at Iran, but whether this war in some way contributes to making the world a less safe place because it ushers in a period of nuclear proliferation around the world. She first started her answer with the possible thought of nuclear development in Middle East allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which made some sense, as their regional enemy, Iran, will seemingly remain a large threat if they do not hold their end of the new negotiated deal years down the line. But as she expanded her answer, Kay still had not brought up any enemies of America and she instead mentioned allies of the U.S. on the coast of the Pacific Ocean: You can look at countries like South Korea, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, how many countries around the world that have been happy to pull back from having nuclear weapons up until now may look at what happened to Iran and think to themselves, you know what? What happened to Iran did not happen to North Korea. And what's the difference? North Korea has a nuclear weapon, and Iran had not actually developed one. As a correspondent for the BBC, maybe Kay should have been updated on reporting from the BBC on a 2023 deal for South Korea to be protected by U.S. nuclear submarines. As for Japan, they were also protected by US nuclear weapons, as said in a statement their foreign ministry released just a week ago. So, in all, Kay believed the bombing of an enemy country, Iran, over nuclear weapons, which the BCC reported had left much damage to 50 Iranian military bases, will lead to US allies making nuclear bombs, even though they were protected by U.S. weapons? Just a normal start of the week to a program that just saw its show cut by an hour. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe June 15, 2026 7:15:18 AM Eastern (...) JOE SCARBOROUGH: But do you agree with John that, at the end of the day, in the grand sweep of history, if whether this war stopped Iran from gaining nuclear weapons or not will ultimately be how it will be measured? KATTY KAY: Look, I think we might even take it one step further, Joe, and look, not just at Iran, but whether this war in some way contributes to making the world a less safe place because it ushers in a period of nuclear proliferation around the world.  I think America has done such damage to its standing as a provider of security for countries around the world. I mean, just if you were sitting in Dubai or Abu Dhabi today, you would have serious questions about whether you could rely on the United States long term, and you might have more questions about whether, actually, would I be better off having a nuclear weapon myself?  You can look at countries like South Korea, Japan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, how many countries around the world that have been happy to pull back from having nuclear weapons up until now may look at what happened to Iran and think to themselves, you know what?  What happened to Iran did not happen to North Korea. And what's the difference? North Korea has a nuclear weapon, and Iran had not actually developed one.  So, my concern about what we have just gone through for the four months is partly what it's done to the global economy, what it's done to some people in the world's poorest countries is horrifying because of the cost of gas and the cost of fertilizer in terms of real lives. But looking forward, I think there is a grim chance that this has ushered in a period of more nuclear proliferation and therefore less security for the world, even beyond the question of what happens to Iran's nuclear program. (...)

The effete snobs of the leftist media were on full display as they lamented the "despicable vulgarity" of President Trump hosting a UFC event on the White House lawn. MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell insisted Marco Rubio compared Trump's "despicable vulgarity" of the UFC event to JFK talking about putting men on the moon. Actually, Rubio was referring to the imagination of UFC head honcho Dana White.  NewsBusters Associated Editor Nick Fondacaro and MRC Video content creator Nick Kangadis discussed everything from the UFC to JD. The ladies of The View fussed about interviewing Vice President Vance as part of a book tour for his book about his faith journey, titled Communion. In the last few months, The View attacked Vance for suggesting he'd like his Hindu wife to become a Christian -- and these conspiracy theorists also kookily claimed Vance and Elon Musk were plotting to kill Trump.  You can tell the leftists are authoritarians when they proclaim "billionaires shouldn't exist." Their money should be confiscated for the "public good." So Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire on paper after the initial public offering of SpaceX was sure to spark a tizzy in the leftist media.  If any Americans are designated as billionaires, they can go Full Soros and fund the leftists, and then they are "admirable" philanthropists. But Elon funded Trump's campaign for president and then ran the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort, so he's like a Darth Vader figure. Graham Platner displayed the Left's double standard on billionaires in a recent campaign speech. He'd overrule the Citizens United precedent finding a free-speech right to fund campaigns, and "if a billionaire looked at a TV ad the wrong way we’d put them in jail.” We can all guess from the Elon Musk press coverage what defines "the wrong way." Then Fondacaro updated us on Zachary Young's ongoing defamation suits, against AP and Puck.com. A highly anticipated ruling by the Florida Supreme Court ensured the defamation suit would get revived on appeal. And just days after telling Florida’s First District Court of Appeal to ignore the AP’s own stylebook in the case, the newswire’s lawyer wanted the court to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling as well. Enjoy the podcast below. The audio is here. 

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: The MRC Brings Bias Receipts on The View in Advance of Vice President JD Vance's Tuesday appearance MRC Flashback Exposes ABC’s The View Claiming Vance Plotted to Assassinate Trump MRC Calls Out Washington Post for Gushing over Ms. Rachel’s Crusade against ICE MRC Exposes Apple and Google Twisting Trump Victories in GOP Primaries       The MRC Brings Bias Receipts on The View in Advance of Vice President JD Vance's Tuesday appearance Vice President Vance doesn’t need our advice on how to handle the cackling coven, but he might enjoy throwing some data in their faces, and the MRC bleed data: They’ve claimed at least four times that Trump stole the 2024 election. Just since Vance took office, they’ve told their audience that Trump is deporting American-born citizens who he doesn’t like, he’s going to try to outlaw interracial marriage (look out, Usha!), Trump RX is giving people tainted drugs, and Trump is going to steal the midterm elections somehow. They had on 128 liberal guests last year, but only two conservative guests, one of whom was Marjorie Taylor Greene when she was already feuding with Trump. The other one was Cheryl Hines, who isn’t even really a conservative; she’s just married to RFK Jr.   MRC Flashback Exposes ABC’s The View Claiming Vance Plotted to Assassinate Trump The Media Research Center highlighted ABC’s The View hosts accusing J.D. Vance and Elon Musk of plotting to murder President Trump by pushing him down the stairs. Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar suggested Vance and Musk were planning to take over after getting rid of Trump. The View co-hosts labeled Vance a sociopathic liar and mocked his name as standing for juvenile delinquent. MRC research documented The View blaming Trump and Vance for assassination attempts while ignoring left-wing rhetoric.   MRC Calls Out Washington Post for Gushing over Ms. Rachel’s Crusade against ICE The Media Research Center exposed The Washington Post’s glowing coverage of children’s educator Ms. Rachel lobbying on Capitol Hill against ICE family detention. The Post featured a large front-page photo and headline portraying Ms. Rachel as a hero delivering letters and drawings from children in ICE custody. MRC noted the Post pushed activist claims of cruelty against babies and toddlers while downplaying security needs at detention facilities. The Washington Post celebrated Ms. Rachel’s activism on immigration alongside her previous controversial stances on Gaza and other issues.   MRC Exposes Apple and Google Twisting Trump Victories in GOP Primaries The MRC revealed that Apple News, Google News, MSN, and Yahoo News heavily favored left-leaning sources in coverage of Republican primaries. Apple and Google pushed negative framing of Trump-backed wins as retribution and defeats for the GOP. The Big Four News Apps sourced 80 percent of primary stories from hostile left-leaning outlets while silencing right-leaning perspectives. MRC research documented the exclusion of at least 20 relevant stories from conservative outlets over the first 100 days of primaries.

With his scheduled appearance on ABC’s The View on Tuesday, Vice President J.D. Vance will be only the third conservative guest allowed to express their opinions on the show in 2026. The announcement brought excitement to many as they anticipated a thrashing of the Cackling Coven, but others still didn’t understand it, thought he was giving them undue attention, and would unnecessarily boost the show. But here’s the thing, The View is not dying the same way late night is or like many on social media claim. As a NewsBusters study showed, in 2025, The View only has two conservatives express their political opinions in their presents, contrasted with 128 liberals. By going on the show, Vance is doing what NewsBusters has reported many conservatives have been trying - unsuccessfully - to do for years. It’s an opportunity for a strong conservative to have the opportunity to push back in a way that they’re not used to and have actively protected themselves from. On an episode of their Behind the Table podcast last year, faux conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin admitted that they didn’t want guests who would try to generate a viral “moment.” It was a sentiment echoed by fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro on their podcast last week, when she whined about Vance’s appearance. By “moment” they mean someone calling out their hypocrisy and nonsense directly and embarrassing them. We saw their aversion to strong conservative guests in 2023, when The View thrice rejected requests from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to make an appearance on the show, despite being on the show multiple times. Cruz’s last appearance on the show involved him getting on set with a literal pocket full of receipts to call out their hypocrisy and bias. The disbelief that Vance would want to go on the show stems from conservatives drastically underestimating The View’s popularity. I’ve seen many a commenter suggest that since none of their friends watch The View, they must not have a large audience. I’ve even been accused of being the one keeping the show on the air because of my viral video posts on X. But here’s the rub.  America is a country of over 340 million people. There are fandoms for bands, shows, movies, streamers, Instagram personalities, YouTubers, etc., that number into the hundreds of thousands or even millions that you’ve never heard of and give the content creator a comfortable or even extravagant lifestyle. Just take Critical Role, for example (if you’re Googling them, thanks for proving my point). According to TV Insider, “The View continues to rank number one in households and total viewers among daytime talk shows (with 2.638 million viewers on average, and a 1.79 rating in the key audience demographic), above NBC’s Today Third Hour (2.081 million and 1.36 rating), Today with Jenna & Sheinelle (1.445 million and a .94 rating), and NBC News Daily (with 1.430 million and a .95 rating).” That 2.6 million blows even their cable news competition out of the water (including in the coveted 25-54 demographic). That means they’re not going anywhere. The other key factor that gives them staying power is that they’re profitable in a way that the late-night comedy shows just aren’t. While late-night relies on ad revenue, The View has multiple income streams. In addition to their ad revenue, they have “View Your Deal,” a segment where they highlight lifestyle, home décor, makeup, kitchen, health products, etc., from many different brands and sell them at a usually steep price cut on their website. They also have a special sponsorship from a local hotel in New York City, which they direct their studio audience to stay at when they’re coming for the show. Additionally, they’ll run special segments sponsored by certain medical device companies, health and beauty companies, and even a maker of artificially grown diamonds. In short, they make bank. Conservatives pretending The View doesn’t exist doesn’t affect their ability to influence those who hang on their every word. It just means they’re going unchallenged. Like it or not, they’re a force and conservatives need to take the opportunities granted to them to appear so they can shatter their carefully tailored fantasy world of lies. The harder they flail in the aftermath of a conservative’s appearance, the more it hurts ABC and Disney’s argument they’re a “bona fide news program,” which is before the FCC. When your opponent gives you an opening, you exploit it.

It was a Jeffrey Goldberg double feature on PBS over the weekend, as the Atlantic editor in chief and host of the Friday night political roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic guided his six journalist guests (three of them affiliated with The Atlantic) through an America’s 250th-anniversary themed discussion, in front of the unusual setting of studio audience. Moderator Jeffrey Goldberg: Steve [Hayes], jumping off something that Susan said, I've used this before on this show and elsewhere, but it the question that plagues me is this. Are we experiencing, in America, at 250 -- is this a head cold, a nervous breakdown, a midlife crisis, or a terminal illness? Ashley Parker, Goldberg’s colleague at The Atlantic, extended the psychiatric metaphor. Trump induced PTSD, and Biden was a return to normalcy:  Ashley Parker, The Atlantic: I think after Trump's first term, when then Biden won, there was a sense from our allies around the world that “Trump One” was sort of like a fever dream that they could PTSD-blackout, right? And we could go back to being the flawed, complicated, but like America that they had known for almost 250 years. And Biden reinforced that, right? Besides guiding the Trump-fear and loathing, Goldberg also provided it himself in a taped interview with PBS host (and yet another employee of Goldberg’s Atlantic empire) Evan Smith, who hosts the Austin-based talk show Overheard with Evan Smith. Parker usually takes a light-hearted attitude toward his disparate group of guests, but not this week. First, Goldberg propped up both Washington Week and The Atlantic itself, bragging that “Our goal on the show, our goal in the magazine, the goal of any quality journalism operation these days should be to put as much truth into the universe as possible.” Atlantic editor Goldberg on Trump: "If this were a different period, this would be a president saying....'I'm gonna break into Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist's office and steal his medical records'...I don't understand the enthusiastic, almost lip-smacking embrace of indecency." pic.twitter.com/w1lronwDzD — Clay Waters