NPR promoted leftist Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico with a five-minute interview on Friday’s Morning Edition. Typically, anchor Leila Fadel just set up an answer about Ken Paxton's problems with charges of fraud and adultery instead of airing her question: “Talarico and his party believe those scandals give the Democrat an edge.” Talarico proclaimed without challenge: “The most corrupt politician in America just became the Republican nominee for the United States Senate. That kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this whole broken system." Fadel first asked about the Republican “taunting” about his left-wing stands. She didn’t ask him to explain those: FADEL: You know, Ken Paxton won and then wasted no time coming up with taunting, in many cases anti-LGBTQ nicknames for you -- Six-Gender Jimmy, James Talafreako, Tofu Talarico -- as his way of denouncing your positions on gender-affirming care, immigration, energy, religion. What do you make of these insults? TALARICO: Well, we just announced last night that we have I'm A Talafreako T-shirts available on our website for purchase - jamestalarico.com - for all the Talafreakos out there. You know, we're running against... FADEL: So there's merch from these. TALARICO: Yeah. That's right. That's exactly right. I think we're all tired of these old dudes who are pretending like this is professional wrestling, you know, all slathered up and throwing these silly nicknames at each other. Like, these nicknames don't lower the price of groceries. They don't lower the price of gas. They don't lower the cost of housing and childcare and prescription drugs. Fadel pushed back a little: "Well, that's true, but they were an effective mechanism for President Trump. He would name his political opponents a nickname. It would stick." She added: “We saw Stephen Miller post this anti-trans post about you.” She didn't quote from it. Miller joked “The Democrats made history in Texas by nominating their first transgender senate candidate.” Fadel also didn't mention the official Democrats X account came back with "shut up you ugly f--k" at Miller. Talarico disagreed that the nicknames worked for Trump, that people wanted him to fix inflation and other things and he's failed. The last two questions were also soft. She said "You've said that you're willing to break with your Democratic colleagues on issues that matter to Texans. What are those issues?" Talarico tried to argue he wants a "comprehensive" solution to immigration, something more constructive than what Biden did. Then she came from the left: "What do you think about ICE? 'Cause some of the more progressive candidates in your party want to see it abolished." Predictably, Talarico did the left-wing tapdance:  Well, I want to put an end to this secret police force, and I want to rebuild an agency that's actually focused on immigration and customs enforcement....this secret police force of masked men in unmarked vehicles terrorizing our hardworking neighbors is not keeping any of us safe. And I think people are ready for someone who's going to tackle this broken immigration system with the seriousness that it deserves. Fadel told listeners "We've asked Talarico's opponent, Ken Paxton, for an interview and comment. We have not heard back." Everyone knows why -- he wouldn't get softballs like Talarico. Republicans get much tougher treatment. 

As the media turned back to cover immigration after Iran’s domination of the news cycle, Friday’s Morning Joe went all in on comparisons of detention facilities as internment camps. Co-host Joe Scarborough made the most direct comparison, stating detainees were being treated worse than the Japanese in their internment camps, as he asked if Republicans knew how this “will haunt the country.” Before Scarborough’s Japanese comparison, which never mentioned how it was the Democratic Party’s idea, his wife and fellow co-host Mika Brzezinski hit on ICE with multiple references to ICE and internment camps. Reading partly from her “note” in yesterday’s Morning Joe newsletter, The Tea, Brzezinski described a detainee, who committed suicide, as “an interned young man,” while she also called detention centers “gulags” that “have turned into grotesque money-making machines for the well-connected.” She continued with an attack on “pro-life” Republicans: This is happening in Trump's America, and it's all being rubber-stamped by Republican politicians who still have the gall to call themselves pro-life. Just think about that sick stuff.   On Friday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough mocked DHS Sec. Mullin's accent and labeled ICE facilities as "internment camps." He then stated ICE detainees are "being treated much worse than the Japanese were treated in their internment camps, if you read history." pic.twitter.com/j1HPvXvYTN — Nick (@nspin310) May 29, 2026   Further on in the show, Scarborough joined in on the ICE and DHS bashing, as he started with a mockery of DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullins's accent after he threatened to pull security for Newark International Airport. Scarborough connected the airport comments to… internment camps: What we're going to do is we're going to try to disrupt operations at one of America's most important international airports, all to help what? Hold people that haven't committed crimes inside subhuman conditions in internment camps? Scarborough then remembered the Minneapolis unrest and ICE shootings, and made a wild direct comparison to Japanese internment: And young people, children, being scooped up off the streets when they came home from school and thrown into internment camps, being treated much worse than the Japanese were treated in their internment camps, if you read history.  Later, while introducing Sen. Booker (D-NJ) for his interview on immigration, Brzezinski grew emotional about illegal immigrants and said they were “put in concentration camps”: And they've spent so much money and so much time, and they've saved all their papers, and they've tried to do everything right. And they show up, and they get nabbed like criminals, like the worst of the worst, and put in concentration camps here in America.   Scarborough then asked Sen. Booker about what Republicans "think about an internment camp system that will haunt this country..." Booker then attacked Republicans' "alleged Christian faith," before Mika asked, "Do they not care?" to which he said, "There is a reckoning coming." pic.twitter.com/FGHqlrOGpa — Nick (@nspin310) May 29, 2026   As the Booker interview was at its close amid what turned out to be an almost 20-minute segment on ICE detention centers, Scarborough asked Booker what his Republican colleagues “think about an internment camp system that will haunt this country, just like Japanese internment camps haunted the soul and the conscience of this country.” He continued, “Do they not think that the very things that were said about Japanese internment camps will be said about them, will be said about their party, will be said about their president? What do you say to them?” Booker responded with an attack on the faith of some Republicans and commented on their “alleged Christian faith”: As the senator railed on Republican “compassion” and “empathy,” Brzezinski interjected with a raised voice: “But what do you get from them? Do they not care? Do they not care?” Booker then responded, “There is a reckoning coming, there is a reckoning coming.” With the Iran War’s loss of some media attention, MS NOW and other liberal networks seemed extremely poised to revive the immigration talk and threatening rhetoric against ICE, with references to internment and concentration camps. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe May 29, 2026 6:33:39 AM Eastern  (...) MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Then there is the Associated Press investigation uncovering how ten detainees died by suicide since President Donald Trump's second term began. In a normal year, ICE records no deaths or perhaps one.  An interned young man spent his final days sick and isolated, slipping handwritten notes under his cell door, begging to hear his mother's voice on a phone. A guard collected the note and walked away. Within an hour, the internment camp victim was dead.  And if it could not get worse, these gulags have turned into grotesque money-making machines for the well-connected. Private contractors get paid for filling beds, whether those souls trapped inside have committed a crime or not, and whether they are American citizens or not.  Not that any of that matters. The U.S. Constitution guarantees due process for every person on American soil, and that is ignored daily by Trump's internment goons. Some mothers get sick, husbands slowly die, and sons trapped in hopeless despair take their own lives. This is happening in Trump's America, and it's all being rubber-stamped by Republican politicians who still have the gall to call themselves pro-life. Just think about that sick stuff.  (...) 7:03:38 AM Eastern JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, Jonathan Lemire, the stupidity, I mean, it makes your teeth hurt. the stupidity. He’s saying [Mocking DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s Accent] what we're going to do is we're going to destroy more global commerce. What we're going to do is make flying on airplanes even less safe. What we're going to do is we're going to try to disrupt operations at one of America's most important international airports, all to help, what? Hold people that haven't committed crimes inside subhuman conditions in internment camps? So you're talking about 21st-century commerce being undermined, all to make a point about like medieval things taking place at internment camps that Americans don't want.  You look at Donald Trump's approval ratings. When did they start really collapsing? The war didn't help. But you look at what happened at Minneapolis. You looked at the fact that U.S. Citizens were gunned down in American streets. You look at the fact that ICE officers abused people. ICE officers clearly not trained for the work they were being asked to do, and abused that power.  And young people, children, being scooped up off the streets when they came home from school and thrown into internment camps, being treated much worse than the Japanese were treated in their internment camps, if you read history.  (...) 7:07:47 AM Eastern JONATHAN LEMIRE: So perhaps, Mika, they'll be talked out of this particular idea. But it's pulling back the curtain on a priority that's reemerging, is that, it's very clear. We've been saying this for a few weeks now. We've heard it from Tom Homan. We've heard it now from Secretary Markwayne Mullin, that the deportation program is about to ramp back up.  And maybe, they say, it won't - maybe it won't lead to the violence that we saw in Minneapolis, but it's coming.  That they think because it's - for this president when things are bad. And as Joe just said, his polling, really bad. His reflex is always go back to what he thinks is his best issue, which is immigration and the promises he made to deport millions of people, even though so many Americans say, wait, this has gone way too far? BRZEZINSKI: And just to reinforce some of the other facts here, they're not just being scooped up off the street or having their cars broken into, or their doors pushed in and other laws broken as these people are being pulled into custody. Rose showed up at her immigration hearing.  So, now you have story after story after story of people showing up at their immigration meetings, at their hearings, at their - they get a form. They're trying to go through the process. They may be close to the process, but the rules get changed. So actually, you thought you could stay, but you can't.  And that's happening to many different categories of people who are here and want to have legal status, or in the process of getting legal status, they show up for their hearings. They show up because they want to follow the rules.  [On Verge of Tears] They show up because they want to be here legally, and they're almost there. And they've spent so much money and so much time, and they've saved all their papers, and they've tried to do everything right. And they show up and they get nabbed like criminals, like the worst of the worst, and put in concentration camps here in America.  And now the protests that have taken place outside Delaney Hall, just one of many, detention center they call it, for a full week now in New Jersey, amid reports of hunger strikes by detainees, some of whom have described rotten food, a lack of air conditioning and being denied medical care. Joining us now, Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey. And you got into Delaney. So, take it from me because I'm getting emotional. What did you see? SEN. CORY BOOKER (D-NJ): First of all, to not be emotional. The dignity of our nation, any pretense of nobility within our country is under assault right now.  BRZEZINSKI: I know. BOOKER: This is our taxpayer money. These are our officials conducting immigration policy. That is levels of deep cruelty that should be unacceptable to all Americans. It's going on in Newark. It's going on in Texas. It's going on around our country. (...) 7:20:05 AM Eastern SCARBOROUGH: You know, senator, there - I know there are extremists and there are idiots that literally want to take us back to 1865 and make the same argument the Confederate States made to Lincoln that they didn't want to get back into the union unless they could vote against the 13th and 14th amendments. 1865! And they're rearguing that right now.  I don't want to talk about those idiots, and those racists, and those bigots. I want to talk instead about friends that I have known, that I knew when I was in Congress. People that you are working with right now. Good men, good women in their in their private lives.  I want to ask you, what do those Republican - your senate brethren and sisters think about an internment camp system that will haunt this country, just like Japanese internment camps haunted the soul and the conscience of this country. For 85 years, we have been apologizing for Japanese internment camps for 85 years. Do they not think that the very things that were said about Japanese internment camps will be said about them, will be said about their party, will be said about their president? What do you say to them? How can they be encouraged to step forward and do what is clearly, this isn't a close call morally, but clearly do the right thing for not only these people, but for the United States Constitution and the guarantees that Scalia talked about when he was alive that he said extended to immigrants here in America. BOOKER: Or even your alleged Christian faith.  This - how can there be such a constipation of compassion, a poverty of empathy that, from the dictates of your faith to the laws in the constitution, that you are willing to so violate your values and any shred of moral decency that our country proclaims. BRZEZINSKI: But what do you get from them? Do they not care? Do they not care? BOOKER: I - There is a reckoning coming. There is a reckoning coming. (...)

Status founder, liberal media hall monitor, and virulent conservative hater Oliver Darcy took to his newsletter site Thursday night to drop over 1,600 words melting down over CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s remake of 60 Minutes by hiring author, filmmaker, and former New York Times columnist Nick Bilton as its new executive producer and jettisoning Tanya Simon, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Cecilia Vega. Darcy and his ilk spent Thursday in a state of pure panic, showcasing how the liberal, elite media are dominated by godless individuals who view journalism and supposedly venerable brands such as 60 Minutes and, say, NPR as their churches and their staff as deities. He seethed over this “bloodbath” that left CBS News “descend[ing] into chaos” and on-the-record quotes from thou-shalt-not-criticize former stalwarts such as Bill Owens and Steve Kroft. In Owens’s case, he told Darcy “they’re killing ’60 Minutes’” that Darcy lamented was stated by a man “who does not make such comments lightly.” Kroft – who soiled 60 Minutes with an infamous Clintons interview and a compendium of obsequious chats with Barack Obama – said the show’s been “executed by the President of the United States” after having “[made] threats against ’60 Minutes’ and how he wanted it gone.” With sanctimonious, skin-crawling-levels of ego, Kroft went on to tell him “I don’t know” if the show “could…be resurrected one day,” but he does know “the show as people have known it for 50 years is dead.” Bilton hasn’t been able to put pen to paper (or maybe even been set up with a work phone and email), and the ruling class has already proclaimed 60 Minutes will be MAGA TV. “Inside the halls of the newsmagazine on Manhattan’s 57th Street, the mood was grim. Heartbroken staffers said goodbye to colleagues and worried openly about the future of a television institution. ‘It’s like a funeral in here,’ an insider told Status. ‘People are devastated,’” Darcy declared. What is this? 2016 election night? Someone send CBS News liberals some beanbag chairs and coloring books. Darcy argued showrunner Tanya Simon – daughter of the late, famous 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon – had raked in Emmys and Polk Awards and “led the show to new heights” over the past season. Of course, Darcy’s idea of superb journalism includes a theme of spewing as much hatred at Trump as possible with stories such as the infamous Alfonsi hatchet job about the Salvadoran prison, Vega’s on anti-Israel former U.S. diplomats, and celebrating far-left Catholic Cardinals trashing Trump. Relaying how Simon, Alfonsi, and then the show’s “first Latina” in Vega were all canned, Darcy said “anxious staffers watched throughout the day as Simon and [executive editor Draggan] Mihailovich packed up their offices” with “tears flow[ing] openly” and “[s]taffers exchang[ing] texts expressing not only heartbreak, but genuine anger at Weiss and Ellison for upending a program they treasure.” Of course, there was no acknowledgement that sending I-am-Spartacus emails to colleagues, ripping the people who employ you usually doesn’t end well. Instead, Darcy served up comically stereotypical quotes about anonymous CBS journalists saying they’re being “gutted” and “violated” with the show unable “to function”: “They’re gutting us,” one “60 Minutes” staffer told Status. “It’s over. I don’t see how ‘60’ will be able to function after this.” “Goodnight and good luck, motherfuckers,” the staffer added. “Everyone—100% thought Tanya and Draggan did exemplary jobs,” another senior “60 Minutes” staffer told Status. “It hurts. We feel violated.” He shared longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl tried to rally the troops, “[b]ut her remarks, I’m told, failed to lift spirits” of those “deflated and discouraged[.]” Additionally, he predicted it’s possible “other staffers and correspondents decide to leave on their own accord.” “The program will carry the name into the future. The iconic ticking clock will also remain. But the show’s DNA is being warped,” he huffed. Along with decreeing these changes are Trump’s doing on, at a minimum, an implicit level, he panned Bilton’s hire and because he’s “a technology journalist” with “no television news or managerial experience.” For good measure, Darcy kicked dirt on Bilton’s welcome message, saying his “note did not exactly win anyone over[.]” What petulance. Moving briefly to Vega, her farewell message came off like MS NOW host Lawrence O’Donnell had penned it for a West Wing revival, dripping with main character energy and “fear[ing] what comes next for and the future of the legendary broadcast” with rampant “censorship” that’s “dangerous for democracy” (click “expand”): In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories. Reporting teams have held back on submitting story pitches about important news topics out of fear of the internal repercussions. Let’s call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven. It is dangerous for the show and dangerous for democracy. I held the line and refused to incorporate suggestions that offend the conscience, a phrase I borrow from a colleague who has also fought to keep questionable editorial suggestions away from the facts. She later closed by plugging her DEI status and leveled a warning to Weiss: “Today I lost an amazing job. But I still have my integrity. To my former colleagues, continue to hold the line.” She also made reference to a “personal red line,” which was amusing to read considering her long history of rampant liberal bias and lobbing weapons-grade hate at Trump supporters on election night 2024.

To promote her new book, former First Lady Jill Biden made headlines in a CBS interview by claiming she thought her husband, then-President Joe Biden had a stroke during his infamous debate implosion. Largely without questioning why Jill didn’t take him to a hospital, the launderers of liberal lies, ABC’s The View kicked off Friday’s episode by defending Jill’s initial response in propping up Joe Weekend at Bernie’s-style. They even pretended as though gaslighting America was the noble thing to do. Fake Republican co-host Ana Navarro dismissed Jill’s lies that Joe was fine during and after the debate. “People lie after debates. Right? It's called spinning. Every time -- I have seen debates where there's clearly one candidate who has bombed and next thing you know you get the press, 'so-and-so won the debate handily,’” she argued. “She's not going to going to say, 'Joe, you bombed!' You know, he was still running.” “She did what she thought she should,” Friday moderator Joy Behar said. Navarro agreed by suggest Jill was being a good “political spouse” and “supporting her husband.”   The View defends Jill Biden's flip-flopping about her husband's condition post-debate in a CBS interview. Without address Jill saying she thought Joe had a stroke but didn't take him to a hospital, Ana Navarro says she was being a good wife and believes what she said in the… pic.twitter.com/UtkNaIu6gC — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 29, 2026   Navarro then bizarrely added: “I believe her in this [CBS] interview. I think Jill Biden is a truthful person.” But Navarro never answered why, if she was truthful about thinking Joe had a “stroke,” she didn’t immediately get him to a hospital. Proving once again to be an empty chair, faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin didn’t even want to talk about Jill’s lies. “But I'm not really interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn't know. I’m going to take her at her word,” she brushed past the important questions. Farah Griffin then had something to say about how she was “told to shut up, sit down” when bringing up how Joe’s age was a major issue for voters: A lot of why we're here in this moment that we're in where a lot of us are afraid of the direction the country is going, is because people who were raising their voices and saying, 'America deserves other options than THIS were told to shut up, sit down and not use their voice, but stand up for democracy somehow. How are you standing up for democracy if you're not allowed to have opinion on the state of the commander-in-chief.   Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin also refuses to ask why Jill didn't take Joe directly to the hospital if she though he had a stroke. "I'm not really interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn't know. I'm going to take her at her word," she said. And without… pic.twitter.com/rla0SRXATd — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 29, 2026   Co-host Sunny Hostin who, on February 6, 2024, screamed, “the candidate is Joe” and demanded they all just get behind Biden, said it was nice that Jill “stands by her man” but felt she must have recognized Joe’s decline and should have said something to him to get him not to run (Click “expand”): HOSTIN: And so I am not surprised that what she said in real time right after the debate, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden, she must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it, although she did say, I had never seen him like that and I have haven't seen him like that since. BEHAR: Uh-huh. HOSTIN: I can't imagine that -- they've been together so long, I can't imagine that the Joe Biden leading up to that debate she had not seen his decline. BEHAR: So, you’re saying it would have been her duty to say the truth. Right? HOSTIN: I think she should have privately told him, another, do you really think you should run again because he promised us he was going to be a one-term president. Hostin also got around to finally admitting that they all witnessed Biden’s decline personally when he was on the show, and witnessed Jill propping him up. “It's been obvious when she's come on the show with Joe Biden and there have been moments where he has faltered, where he has lost his train of thought and she will jump right in. We all have seen that,” she said.   Sunny Hostin praise Jill Biden how she "stands by her man" but only now admits that they at The View had personally seen how Joe Biden "faltered" and "lost his train of thought and she [Jill] will jump right in" to save him. "But, i have to say, I'm a little disappointed in the… pic.twitter.com/NpYSg8UcYk — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 29, 2026   Of course, Behar couldn’t keep the focus on the Bidens and needed to throw in some whataboutisms about President Trump (Click “expand”): BEHAR: I want to say something, though. I watched this administration, Donald Trump's. He's falling asleep at every cabinet meeting. HOSTIN: That's right. BEHAR: Okay, the guy is not making sense when he speaks anymore. Should Melania now stand up and say, my husband cannot do the job? [Applause] HOSTIN: Yes! Yes! She should.   Joy Behar does some whataboutism, claiming Trump "falls asleep at every cabinet meeting" and "is not making sense when he speaks anymore." pic.twitter.com/lJZYXtxf8G — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 29, 2026   It was co-host Sara Haines who was the only one to question why Jill didn’t seek medical attention for Joe after the debate, if she thought he had a stroke: Sunny, the thing that gets me, you said she stands by her man. When I hear what she’s saying there, I can't help but think my first response would be, you've served your time, you got the end of this 50-year of service. You were the president for four years. Now, you served enough. If she thought he had a stroke, when you have someone in your life that's had a medical concern your immediate reaction is, “okay, enough here.” We all know the presidency ages people. It beats them up. He's heading into another four years. I said at this table why is the family not saying we want the end with you. We want you. Haines also vented her frustration with being told to shut up with her criticisms of Joe at the time. “I also spoke up here and got flack when I said I thought he should step out, President Biden early on,” she said. “…people are being told, shut up, don't notice his age, it's not a problem and then it became and problem and then everyone decided it was a problem. It bothers me because every time we wanted to rehash this, even at this table, people said, ‘it's over, we're done.’”   Finally, Sara Haines is the one to question why Jill didn't bring Joe to a hospital is she thought he had a stroke: "If she thought he had a stroke, when you have someone in your life that's had a medical concern your immediate reaction is 'okay, enough here.' We all know the… pic.twitter.com/8aWh7TOUzu — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 29, 2026   She ridiculously asserted that “fall[ing] in line” like that was “what the Republicans do. They fall in line with no thought or critical thinking.” But Sara, that’s what Democrats did. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View May 29, 2026 11:03:29 a.m. Eastern (…) JOY BEHAR: So, why do you think she's saying this now? She didn't say it then. What do you make of this whole thing? ANA NAVARRO: People lie after debates. Right? It's called spinning. Every time -- I have seen debates where there's clearly one candidate who has bombed and next thing you know you get the press, 'so-and-so won the debate handily.' She's not going to going to say, 'Joe, you bombed!' You know, he was still running. BEHAR: What would you have said if you were her? NAVARRO: 'Joe, you did great!' I mean, if it's your husband running for president. BEHAR: She did what she thought she should. NAVARRO: I think she was doing what a political spouse and what somebody supporting her husband - at that point they didn't know he was going to continue running or not, he was still running. I - you know, I believe her because I think -- I believe her in this interview. I think Jill Biden is a truthful person and I also think -- I suspect she's watched it a lot of times since, which is different than watching it in real time when you watch -- like we just watched it right now and both said, this is painful to watch. BEHAR: It was painful to watch him. Yeah. You agree with that? ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, she has to spin. That's the only thing she can do the morning after. But I'm not really interested in litigating what Jill Biden did or didn't know. I’m going to take her at her word. But I would say this: I came to this table the morning after the election and was not remotely surprised that Donald Trump won. There were glaring signs, I argued it at this table for two-plus years that however anyone might personally feel about Joe Biden, he was losing the country because there were concerns, not about his ability to do the job while still in office, it was that he was going to have four more years and be the oldest president in history and had seen some slowing down. Seventy-two percent of Americans said that before this debate. And he stayed in for another month after that, which led this narrow window for Kamala Harris to try to do a hail Mary and win. A lot of why we're here in this moment that we're in where a lot of us are afraid of the direction the country is going, is because people who were raising their voices and saying, 'America deserves other options than THIS were told to shut up, sit down and not use their voice, but stand up for democracy somehow. How are you standing up for democracy if you're not allowed to have opinion on the state of the commander-in-chief. BEHAR: I say that now too about somebody else. [Applause] SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s, you know - The one thing that I've always said about Jill Biden and now that I've come to know her and something that I've always admired about her is that she stands by her man and she stands by her family and it's always very obvious. It's been obvious when she's come on the show with Joe Biden and there have been moments where he has faltered, where he has lost his train of thought and she will jump right in. We all have seen that. And so I am not surprised that what she said in real time right after the debate, but I have to say I'm a little disappointed in the fact that she was living with Joe Biden, she must have seen some of his decline. She must have seen it, although she did say, I had never seen him like that and I have haven't seen him like that since. BEHAR: Uh-huh. HOSTIN: I can't imagine that -- they've been together so long, I can't imagine that the Joe Biden leading up to that debate she had not seen his decline. BEHAR: So, you’re saying it would have been her duty to say the truth. Right? HOSTIN: I think she should have privately told him, another, do you really think you should run again because he promised us he was going to be a one-term president. SARA HAINES: Sunny, the thing that gets me, you said she stands by her man. When I hear what she’s saying there, I can't help but think my first response would be, you've served your time, you got the end of this 50-year of service. You were the president for four years. Now, you served enough. If she thought he had a stroke, when you have someone in your life that's had a medical concern your immediate reaction is, “okay, enough here.” We all know the presidency ages people. It beats them up. He's heading into another four years. I said at this table why is the family not saying we want the end with you. We want you. [Applause] BEHAR: I want to say something, though. I watched this administration, Donald Trump's. He's falling asleep at every cabinet meeting. HOSTIN: That's right. BEHAR: Okay, the guy is not making sense when he speaks anymore. Should Melania now stand up and say, my husband cannot do the job? [Applause] HOSTIN: Yes! Yes! She should. FARAH GRIFFIN: Also -- HOSTIN: Privately. I'm not saying publicly. I'm saying privately. You tell your spouse, honey -- BEHAR: You think Melania can tell Donald to get down - to step down?! And he’s going to do it? FARAH GRIFFIN: No, I don't think anyone believes that. HOSTIN: She should try to council him. I do. (…) 11:09:26 a.m. Eastern HAINES: With what Alyssa is saying, I also spoke up here and got flack when I said I thought he should step out, President Biden early on. BEHAR: Well, because of who he was running against. HAINES: No, right after the debate I said, you know what, people have been concerned in the fact that it's polling so high and people are being told, shut up, don't notice his age, it's not a problem and then it became and problem and then everyone decided it was a problem. It bothers me because every time we wanted to rehash this, even at this table, people said, ‘it's over, we're done.’ Part of the distrust as an independent that I got furious at was don't tell me to fall in line. That's what the Republicans do. They fall in line with no thought or critical thinking. (…)

On Wednesday, Democrat Minnesota Governor Tim Walz pardoned a criminal illegal alien convicted of armed robbery – preventing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from being able to use the conviction as grounds for deportation. Jai Vang, an illegal alien from Laos, who was convicted of aiding and abetting and armed robbery in Hennepin County in 1994, was taken into ICE custody in January during its Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota. Walz falsely called illegal alien Vang a “citizen” in remarks Wednesday during a ceremony where the governor announced and signed the pardon: “I do not see how it would serve his family, nor the economic interest where we have a taxpaying citizen who is creating job growth and living a life free from any criminal activity.” Walz claimed that Vang has been a “critical member of the community” since his release from prison, adding that he can find “no reason how Minnesota will be safer or better if Mr. Vang is deported.” Vang’s pardon is just one of Gov. Walz’s rabid efforts to thwart federal enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws. During Operation Metro Surge, for example, he publicly vilified ICE agents, smearing them as “Modern-day Gestapo.” On May 4, Gov. Walz pardoned another criminal illegal alien from Laos who was convicted of two counts of assault – thus, removing the criminal convictions that made the illegal alien lose his green card and removable from the U.S. Two days later, the U.S. Department of Homeland responded with a statement titled “MINNESOTA MADNESS: Minnesota Board of Pardons Unanimously Pardons Criminal Illegal Alien Convicted of Two Counts of Assault,” exposing how Walz’s pardon eliminated the grounds for deporting a violent thug: “On May 4, 2026, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and the state Board of Pardons granted an emergency pardon to At "Ricky" Xayasounethone Chandee to prevent his imminent deportation to Laos. “At Xayasounethone Chandee, an illegal alien from Laos, was convicted of two counts of assault in 1993. An Immigration Judge issued Chandee a final order of removal in 1995.  “Now, the Minnesota Board of Pardons’ decision could thwart his removal from the United States. “‘The Minnesota Board of Pardons’ unanimous decision pardoning an illegal alien convicted of two counts of assault is absolute INSANITY," said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis. “At Chandee lost his green card following his convictions for assault. Following his criminal convictions, he was placed in removal proceedings and issued a final order of removal by a judge. Minnesota's sanctuary politicians' pardon took away this violent thug’s qualifying convictions that made him removable from the U.S.’”