The Elitist Media is quite selective when it comes to their coverage of what happens in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There was no shortage of coverage for the recently-overturned redistricting, for example. But when a Soros-funded prosecutor gets called to The Hill to answer for soft-on-policies that endanger the community? Crickets. Per Fox News: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, tussled with high-profile Soros-backed Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Stephen Descano over soft-on-crime policies that critics said let illegal immigrant criminals back on the street.  Descano was seated two spots away from Cheryl Minter, mother of Stephanie Minter, who was allegedly murdered by Sierra Leone national Abdul Jalloh at a bus stop not far from George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Minter’s case, following several similar incidents and the failure by Descano or fellow witness Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Ann Kincaid to honor ICE detainers, spurred lawmakers to haul them across the river to testify about the rapidly deteriorating safety of what the prosecutor called one of America’s safest counties. Here is video of some of that grilling, as reported by WJLA’s own Nick Minock: The Elitist Media evening news had no time for the House Judiciary grilling of Soros-funded Fairfax DA Steve Descano. Virginia coverage is selective. Plenty of time for the now-overturned redraw, though NICK MINOCK: Congressman Jim Jordan grilled (Fairfax County DA Steve)… pic.twitter.com/4pe6LPTBaK — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 15, 2026 NICK MINOCK: Congressman Jim Jordan grilled (Fairfax County DA Steve) Descano on his office policy that says prosecutors shall take immigration consequences into account in plea and charging decisions. Descano posted that position on his website for six years, but took it down just weeks before the committee hearing.  JIM JORDAN: Why’d you change your website?  STEVE DESCANO: Because that's not my policy. As I told you, sir. That is a campaign statement that I made before I was a Commonwealth’s Attorney. JORDAN: But, Mr. Descano, it has been up for six years. A week after we send you a letter saying we want you to come testify- Shazam! You change it. I’m just asking, is that coincidental?  DESCANO: Because I could not- Because I could not believe that somebody- that people were so obtuse that they could not realize what the difference between a campaign statement and an actual office policy.  JORDAN: Oh you- so, when you make campaign statements, that's not- those aren't true? You're not being honest with your voters?  DESCANO: That's not what I'm saying at all, Sir.  JORDAN: It sure sounded like it. It sure sounded like it. There was some early coverage of the brutal murder of Stephanie Minter. But the story disappeared from the national airwaves once it was known that the suspect, Abdul Jalloh, was an illegal alien with a lengthy criminal record. The broadcast networks completely omitted this hearing from their evening newscasts. Instead, viewers were treated to the indictment of the guy that threw a rock at a seal in Hawaii, the kids saving a heart attack patient on the side of the road, the halftime show roster for the FIFA World Cup Final, and The Rolling Stones releasing an AI-deaged video. Some might even call it a deepfake.   Illegal alien crime is an ongoing threat to our domestic security, and it is a shame that the Elitist Media do not take it seriously.  

The media hall monitors have feasted on CBS’s hardships while covering the Trump-Xi summit from Taiwan. However, this hasn’t deterred Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil from delivering banger after banger on commentary to close out the newscasts. Last night, Dokoupil mentioned all the things that China is dealing with that the other networks (chiefly ABC) conveniently omitted in order to better be able to glaze the ChiComs. Dokoupil made a compelling argument for American exceptionalism- the freedom to create, innovate and speak out. “The freedoms we have, they simply do not.” Tonight, Dokoupil went a step further and called communism out. Watch as he closes out the Evening News: ANOTHER BANGER: CBS's Tony Dokoupil closed out the Evening News with Taiwanese rejection of communism, and some important perspective from Jimmy Lai. "Whose ideas should lead the future?" TONY DOKOUPIL: We’re back live from Liberty Square, where the message we heard on the… pic.twitter.com/euMGRWc0Rn — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) May 15, 2026 TONY DOKOUPIL: We’re back live from Liberty Square, where the message we heard on the streets today was not against the people of China but against their government and against communism.  Do you want an independent Taiwan or a reunified Taiwan? TAIWANESE CITIZEN: 50/50. We want to unify, but we don't want to follow the communist system. DOKOUPIL: You want to be part of China but not part of communism. TAIWANESE CITIZEN: Yes, that's right. DOKOUPIL: Which is why the rivalry on display this week between China and the U.S. may feel familiar. Not so long ago, communism had failed in the old Soviet Union. While democracy, it seemed, had proven itself once and for all. But now here comes China. And as then-U.S. Ambassador Nicholas Burns said in 2024, “it's a new battle for the future.” A battle being fought by Jimmy Lai, a wealthy businessman and democracy activist in Hong Kong, now serving 20 years in prison for what China calls sedition. Before his sentence, he told our Holly Williams why the fight is worth it. HOLLY WILLIAMS: I mean, you have a wonderful city, prosperity. JIMMY LAI: That's what Chinese think. They think we just have a body, we don't have a soul. You guys just make money, have a good life, don't think about politics, don't think about freedom, don't think about human right, don’t think about of law, just eat. Enjoy life. WILLIAMS: Why is that not enough? LAI: Because we are human being. We have soul. We are not a dog. DOKOUPIL: And when you step back, that is the bigger picture this week, not just which superpower walks away with a mightier military or a larger economy, but whose ideas should lead the future? That's another day in America and the world. I'm Tony Dokoupil in Taipei, Taiwan. Good night.  Before I go on, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say that the end-of-newscast commentary is the most evident proof of improvement at CBS News. One can only imagine what kind of self-important screeching we might’ve heard from John Dickerson during this summit. This segment is different from last night in that it features different perspectives. But they echo the same ideas from the night before: the desire to be free and to live one’s life while not under the boot of a totalitarian regime. This yearning is most poignantly expressed by Jimmy Lai, who is currently in prison for wanting Hong Kong to be free. Dokoupil closes by reminding us of the long-term stakes of the summit: whose ideas should lead the future?  The media hall monitors can continue to cope and seethe.  

Stephen L. Miller -- "Redsteeze" on X -- won our Bulldog Award for Outstanding Social Media Personality for taking on all kinds of media misbehavior on Elon's free-speech playground. He has more than half-million followers on X and a "Versus Media" podcast on Substack. We discuss bizarre rape-dog stories, the "Corbynization" of the Left, and Oliver Darcy's farcy website waging war on Bari Weiss as she barely makes changes at CBS News. Managing editor Curtis Houck joined the show as we discussed how the war on "mainstream media" misinformation often starts on X. Miller has been very aggressive on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof ripping the Israelis as guilty of egregious prison rape of Palestinians.  Of all the claims that a newspaper should think about before they publish, the concept of “trained rape dogs” would be at the top of the list. But The Times pushed this bizarre concept on their readers. His source was the “Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,” which has been trying tell this rape-dog story for years, and has also made bizarre claims against Israel in the past, including the accusation that Israel was harvesting organs from dead Palestinians. Oliver Darcy's website Status spends a lot of time picking on CBS News, most recently on Benjamin Netanyahu getting to choose Major Garrett as his interviewer. Anyone who thinks the Clintons or Barack Obama didn't get a concierge menu of interviewers and topics from 60 Minutes is extremely naive. Dylan Byers at Puck went after Darcy (both former CNN media reporters) for the pretense that this was some dangerous new frontier.  The "Corbynization" of the Democrats refers to former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who stated he considered Hamas and Hezbollah "friends," and was present a wreath-laying at the gravesite of participants in the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The newfound popularity of Hasan Piker as he endorsed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed and the travails of Nazi-tattoo-bearing Senate candidate Graham Platner have been deep-sixed by the network news.  Enjoy the podcast below.     

On Thursday, amid President Trump’s state visit to China, CNN This Morning panelist Ron Brownstein, also a senior political analyst for the network, harkened back to the unrest seen in Minneapolis earlier in the year over the presence of ICE as he compared the unrest to actions between the U.S. and China, along with the War in Iran.  He claimed the three situations were connected, as they were examples of President Trump’s “consistent pattern” to “underestimate the ability of their targets.” Brownstein started with his state visit analysis, calling Trump’s banquet speech “unremarkable.” Former Trump White House Communications Director Mike Dubke and former Biden White House Director of Message Planning Meghan Hays, focused on the economic positives that could come out of the trip, including possible Chinese imports of American soybeans, while they started a minimization of the summit.    After the US-China State Dinner, CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein compared US actions with China and Iran to the ICE unrest seen in Minneapolis earlier this year. He said the three were part of a consistent pattern to "underestimate the ability of their targets.” pic.twitter.com/VgU7o2Ewj8 — Nick (@nspin310) May 14, 2026   Dubke called the summit as “mundane,” and fill-in host Erica Hill continued to echo Dubke and called the summit “low key.” Hays then implied Trump was weak, even as China rolled the red carpet out for him: I mean, this pageantry, I don't think necessarily is low-key. I think that's trying to play to Trump's ego here.  But I also think this visit is not the visit of strength that Trump thought he would be going into China with. Like, he needs China to help him open the Strait of Hormuz. We are coming in with a negotiating power here that we didn't necessarily have when - or we had before we entered Iran. Hill returned to Brownstein, who decided his points about the summit would relate to Minneapolis ICE protests, many of which turned violent, to relations between China and the war in Iran. Brownstein started by saying Trump’s “initial challenge to any challenge is coercion,” but in a situation where a “target finds a way to push back. And it's not clear there's kind of a plan B.” He related that point to China and tariffs and Iran strikes, before, somehow, he related the summit to this year’s unrest in Minneapolis over ICE: It's just kind of - to me, it's a consistent pattern that they seem to underestimate the ability of their targets. We could say the same thing about the people of Minneapolis, by the way, with ICE, to find a way to push back and then to have a counter response to that.  Hill also gave Brownstein the “last word” of the segment, as he continued the minimization of the summit by the rest of the panel and continued to insinuate that for every issue, there is no “plan B.” The return to Minneapolis unrest by Brownstein continued a liberal obsession with ICE, as he even found an opportunity to relate the unrest to China and Iran amid the high-stakes summit between the U.S. and China, two of the biggest global competitors. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CNN This Morning May 14, 2026 6:51:50 AM Eastern (...) ERICA HILL: How much is riding on this visit for President Trump? RON BROWNSTEIN: Yeah, you know, the speech was kind of unremarkable, which was remarkable in itself from where he started. I mean, you got to remember, I mean, Trump, going back - President Trump, going back to his first term, talked about decoupling from China. He attacked Biden for four years, saying that he was weak on China. He said he would force China to transform its economy with these punishing tariffs.  And, you know, and here we are. When China punched back with threatening, you know, to withhold the rare earth minerals that are so critical to different elements of our economy and the world economy, his goals have shifted to kind of the conventional, go to a country and get them to announce a bunch of agreements to buy American stuff. So, I mean, to me this is - this event so far is just a measure of how much his goals on China have kind of contracted and that he is looking for something very different than what he set out in the campaign, or indeed even toward the end of his - parts of his first term. HILL: Mike, how much is this about, frankly, maintaining a relationship, as opposed to moving it forward in this moment? MIKE DUBKE: Well, what really struck me from both of the speeches was that President Trump focused on the US-Chinese relations, and President Xi is focused more on the US and China together and world relations. That's what really struck me as part of this. But I think to getting to your question and to address where Ron was going with this, in terms of trade agreements, I mean, they are going to talk about soybeans - you know, exciting things like soybeans and LNG. But also the import - potential import of Chinese cars into the United States, which I know frightens a lot of people in Detroit.  But, frankly, one of the things that has come out and is different than the first Trump Administration to this, in terms of relationships with China, is America has made some strides, especially on rare earths, in bringing the rest of the world together to find alternative minerals, in this case, to counter China.  So, I think a lot of the moves that the president's already made is setting us up at this point to have this more mundane bilat and conversations today - or tomorrow in China. HILL: More mundane. I mean I will say that is sort of the reaction we've seen initially, is this all feels very low key. And not low key in the way the kids talk about things these days, but literally low key, Meghan. MEGHAN HAYS: I mean, this pageantry, I don't think necessarily is low key. I think that's trying to play to Trump's ego here.  But I also think this visit is not the visit of strength that Trump thought he would be going into China with. Like, he needs China to help him open the Strait of Hormuz. We are coming in with a negotiating power here that we didn't necessarily have when - or we had before we entered Iran. So, you know, and I also think, to Mike's point about the ag possibilities with soybeans and cars in Detroit, some of these negotiations have a lot of political implications for Trump and the Republican Party. So, he needs to make sure that this is sort of a nothing-burger meeting and that this is maintaining relationships. So, Trump just doesn't have the strength that he thought he was going to have, you know, going into this first meeting with China. HILL: Well, you know, I'm going to keep going back to this, but that's because it is so important, the Iran angle that is hanging over all of this and a desire for China to nudge, perhaps, Tehran a bit. That desire does not seem to exist in the same way on the part of the Chinese, Ron. BROWNSTEIN: Yeah. I think this is revealing of a kind of broader pattern that we see in - particularly in this second Trump term. I mean his initial response to any challenge is coercion, is the assertion of U.S. economic or military power. But he often seems surprised when the target finds a way to push back. And it's not clear there's kind of a plan B. I mean, what we're watching in the economic relationship with China, when the threat of tariffs did not have the desired effect, and China found an effective way to push back by threatening the rare earth minerals, is very similar to what we're watching in Iran when the bombing campaign did not have the initial effect. Certainly succeeded militarily, but did not change the behavior in the way that he expected. They found an asymmetric way to push back. And now the administration is kind of at sea, literally and, you know, pressuring China to try to help them.  It's just kind of - to me, it's a consistent pattern that they seem to underestimate the ability of their targets. We could say the same thing about the people of Minneapolis, by the way, with ICE, to find a way to push back and then to have a counter response to that. And I think that's one of the reasons why this is so low key, because he has lost a lot of his stomach for the kind of confrontation with China that he promised when he was out of office. (...) 6:59:09 AM Eastern HILL: Ron, I'll give you, real quickly, last word. What specifically are you looking for to come out of tomorrow? BROWNSTEIN: Well, you know, I think, as I said, I think this has become kind of a - devolved into kind of the conventional presidential trip to a foreign country where you give a speech talking about your long, historic ties, working Ben Franklin, and try to negotiate a bunch of business deals, rather than the kind of fundamental reassessment of the relationship that he once promised or threatened, depending on your point of view.  And as I said, I think that's indicative of the challenge they are facing on many fronts. When the targets of their pressure or coercion find a way to push back, it's not clear they have a plan B. It may be better for the world in the long run, but it's very different than what he kind of suggested when he was out of office. (...)

After having actor Spencer Pratt (R) on the show earlier this year in which they praised his run to be the mayor of Los Angeles, his new momentum against incumbent Democrat Karen Bass had the liberal ladies of The View now attempting to coming to her rescue. ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg scoffed at him for running as a victim of Bass’s mismanagement during the wildfires. Despite Pratt losing his house, she suggested he didn’t actually know what people went through and that he shouldn’t be “passing judgment” on Bass. What sparked them to talk about Pratt was his recent viral A.I. generated campaign videos (one showing him as Batman fighting Democratic Party figures as his rogues gallery of villains and one showing him as a Jedi in a lightsaber duel against Bass as Darth Vader on the Hollywood sign). Treating it as though it was a video of him gunning down politicians, Goldberg performativity proclaimed: “I'm glad we're not showing it because it stunned me and especially when we're talking about, oh, we have to tone down the violence and -- I mean, I was kind of freaked out by what I saw because this was more.”   After having Spencer Pratt on earlier in the year and praising his candidacy for LA mayor, The View has turned on him. They refuse to show Pratt's A.I. campaign ads, claiming the "violence" "stunned" them and they were "freaked out." They're not showing it because one ad show… pic.twitter.com/Mgiv0Ik1NL — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   Despite The View chastising celebrities for not speaking out on politics earlier in the week, Goldberg didn’t want Pratt speaking: But I mean, people are asking, are we going to see more celebrities and reality TV stars like Pratt getting into politics? If they know what they're doing, I welcome anybody who knows how to do this, but if you're going to be like the guy who's already in charge, thank you, no. Thank you, no. I'm not happy with what's going on, and I think it's -- just because somebody is famous or is famous for something doesn't mean they know what's going on and how you are thinking and how you're feeling. Goldberg saved her more insulting commentary for closer to the end of the segment. She dismissed Pratt’s perspective as someone who was a victim of Bass’s mismanagement during the wildfires last year. She argued that people “have bitched about these wildfires as long as I've lived in California” as if his loss didn’t matter. In more words than were needed to get her message across, Goldberg told Pratt to shut up with his criticisms of Bass and the Democratic leadership of the state. She suggested he had no solutions and was “throwing shade” and that he should not be “passing judgment” on the Democrats: But what I don't like is if you don't have any solutions that have not been already tried or if you're throwing shade on people saying she diverted water from this place -I mean, you have to -- you have to have some idea of what needs to be done. (…) So this is not, you know, a ha, ha, let's do an A.I. video. This is real stuff. People -- this is people's lives. And so, before you're passing judgment, you need to be able to tell people what you have to offer, Spencer.   Whoopi Goldberg dismisses Pratt losing his house in the wildfires and says he needs to know what he's talking about and offer "solutions" before "passing judgment" on Karen Bass. She claims he doesn't "understand what people are going through": GOLDBERG: No, he's not the answer… pic.twitter.com/UfcJVM8Xk0 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   Additionally, Goldberg accused Pratt of not knowing what people had been through: You know, and, you know, I don't know what qualifies as the right way to be a politician, but what I do know is they have to be the people who understand what people are going through. And if you don't understand what people are going through, in the way they're going through it, when you're talking about communities, whole communities that have been burned out, whole groups, legacies that are gone. Goldberg wasn’t the only one to deliver a braindead take. Completely ignoring Bass’s mismanagement of the wildfires and the city writ large, and reading from a talking points card someone gave her, co-host Behar boasted that she was better because she had a JFK award: “So, I just wanted to make this point. So, Karen Bass has a JFK Profile in Courage award. She navigated California through the worst economic crisis since the depression. Spencer Pratt was snapchatter of the year at the 2018 shorty awards.”   Joy Behar praises Karen Bass's leadership and 'qualifications,' but ignores the disastrous wildfires. She's read off a talking points card someone gave her: BEHAR: Karen bass will be running against Spencer Pratt. HOSTIN: She is. GOLDBERG: She is. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: So, I… pic.twitter.com/k7wt2BA0Ba — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   When Pratt was on the January 28 episode, co-host Sunny Hostin praised his candidacy. “You are going to do so much, I think, for your community because a few weeks ago you announced that you're running to be the next mayor of Los Angeles,” she touted. But now that his campaign was a serious threat and not a novelty, she had a pretty sever change of heart about how good he would be for the city. Her only point was that he didn’t have the right pedigree, like a Harvard Law School degree:   And the problem that I have with someone like Spencer Pratt throwing his hat into this particular ring as L.A. Mayor, we're talking about a $14.9 billion budget for the city. It's the second largest city budget in the country, and he is not qualified for it. And we see what happens when people are not qualified for their jobs. (…) And Spencer Pratt, sir, you don't have the same experience. You don't have a law degree from Harvard Law School.   When Pratt was on The View earlier this year, Hostin touted him saying: "You are going to do so much, I think, for your community because a few weeks ago you announced that you're running to be the next mayor of Los Angeles." Now, Hostin tells him to step aside and run for city… pic.twitter.com/BJPQRul50a — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   Accusing him of “jumping” ahead of the line, Hostin spoke to him like a child through the camera and told him to try running for city council first. “And there are baby steps you can take like why not run for city council and learn about the city budget and then maybe become president of the city council and then maybe become the mayor. You're just jumping,” she scolded. Co-hosts Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin had similar thoughts in that the people who watched the videos were too stupid to understand that they were fake: HAINES: But what's the scariest part of the A.I. video we saw and you're not seeing right now was the A.I. part for me, because you're seeing Hugh Jackman in there and our brains aren't designed to say, oh, that's not really Hugh Jackman saying these things. (…) FARAH GRIFFIN: I think introducing A.I. into campaigns in general is super dangerous. I think it can be incredibly misleading. It makes people think, to Sara's point, there's endorsements that aren't taking place.   Sara Haines whines about the use of A.I. in the videos and claims people who see the ad are too stupid to realize that it's fake, she also seems to think Pratt is running for Congress, not LA mayor: SARA HAINES: What I liked about Spencer Pratt throwing his hat in there is he… pic.twitter.com/1rvQRZupUh — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   “The nature of it, I was shocked to see so many people applauding it. There is the lowest hanging fruit, we're throwing tomatoes at like Democratic politicians we don't like. Like, do a little better,” Farah Griffin chided through her artificial lips.   Alyssa Farah Griffin whines about Pratt's use of A.I. calling it "super dangerous" and "incredibly misleading" as if people were too stupid to know he's not actually Batman or a Jedi: FARAH GRIFFIN: The A.I. of it does bother me. Listen, I like Spencer Pratt. We had him here. I… pic.twitter.com/2dXGQzz4rF — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) May 14, 2026   The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View May 14, 2026 11:03:30 a.m. Eastern (…) MAYOR KAREN BASS (D-CA): When you do that and when your messages are so hateful are when you demonize people, then you do provoke people who are unstable, and you can jeopardize people's safety. [Cuts back to live] WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Now - I'm glad we're not showing it because it stunned me and especially when we're talking about, oh, we have to tone down the violence and -- I mean, I was kind of freaked out by what I saw because this was more. But I mean, people are asking, are we going to see more celebrities and reality TV stars like Pratt getting into politics? If they know what they're doing, I welcome anybody who knows how to do this, but if you're going to be like the guy who's already in charge, thank you, no. SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah, yeah. GOLDBERG: Thank you, no. I'm not happy with what's going on, and I think it's -- just because somebody is famous or is famous for something doesn't mean they know what's going on and how you are thinking and how you're feeling, so -- [Applause] SARA HAINES: What I liked about Spencer Pratt throwing his hat in there is he was affected by the California wildfires and he decided 'I'm going to do something about it.' So, anybody who wants to civically get involved, I welcome them. Because what I'm for offended by is a Congress that has its least popular rate - popularity are and approval ratings ever and yet we just keep putting the same people back there. So, I would much rather shake up the pot to make it fresh energy, fresh, new blood in there. But what's the scariest part of the A.I. video we saw and you're not seeing right now was the A.I. part for me, because you're seeing Hugh Jackman in there and our brains aren't designed to say, oh, that's not really Hugh Jackman saying these things. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And he hadn't agreed to it either. HAINES: He didn't agree to his likeness being used -- JOY BEHAR: Why is he in it? FARAH GRIFFIN: It's A.I. slop. HAINES: It's all A.I. - It was all this creative - BEHAR: But why him? HAINES: Well, I don't know. We'd have to ask - HOSTIN: Wolverine and he's -- HAINES: It was a Batman themed thing. The biggest part is our brains cannot separate and when the mayor bass talks about the dangers that can imply, I was not offended as much by the imagery because it was very much a pull from comic books, as it was that there were people that didn't agree to I that are all over it. FARAH GRIFFIN: The A.I. of it does bother me. Listen, I like Spencer Pratt. We had him here. I think he's compassionate, I think he has an interesting story to tell. Because I talked to my sister who lives in Los Angeles. People were devastated by the wildfires and frustrated with their leadership. And I applaud anyone getting their hat in the ring. There is a path for Spencer. I'd say it's still uphill just based on the voter registration of Los Angeles. GOLDBERG: Yeah. Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: But here's my thing, and he said this, I thought this was interesting. "I do not represent a party. I don't have a campaign manager. I don't have campaign consultants, there is no political party backing me." I'm all for the viral approach if it's pushing forward a message and solutions for the people. GOLDBERG: Yeah. Yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: I think introducing A.I. into campaigns in general is super dangerous. I think it can be incredibly misleading. It makes people think, to Sara's point, there's endorsements that aren't taking place. The nature of it, I was shocked to see so many people applauding it. There is the lowest hanging fruit, we're throwing tomatoes at like Democratic politicians we don't like. Like, do a little better. Something we learned I believe there is a path he could get elected, but getting elected is the easy part of the job. Governing three million people in Los Angeles GOLDBERG: Yeah, you actually have to know what you're doing.[ Applause ] FARAH GRIFFIN: And fixing what is a broken system. Karen bass handled the fires disastrously. BEHAR: So, wait a minute. FARAH GRIFFIN: But actually being qualified to take on that role is what's hard. BEHAR: Karen bass will be running against Spencer Pratt. HOSTIN: She is. GOLDBERG: She is. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: So, I just wanted to make this point. So, Karen Bass has a JFK Profile in Courage award. She navigated California through the worst economic crisis since the depression. Spencer Pratt was snapchatter of the year. [Laughter] At the 2018 shorty awards. HOSTIN: Yeah. BEHAR: That's all. [Laughter] HOSTIN: Well, I mean, I think you're talking about qualifications, right? BEHAR: Yeah. HOSTIN: And the problem that I have with someone like Spencer Pratt throwing his hat into this particular ring as L.A. Mayor, we're talking about a $14.9 billion budget for the city. It's the second largest city budget in the country, and he is not qualified for it. And we see what happens when people are not qualified for their jobs. [Applause] And that's not to say that this hasn't happened before. We've had Ronald Reagan who was an actor, some people would say he was a great president. We've had -- BEHAR: But he was the president of SAG at one point. HOSTIN: Yes, he was. BEHAR: He was a union president. He had some - HOSTIN: He was a union president. FARAH GRIFFIN: He was a governor before he was president. BEHAR: He was a governor. HOSTIN: He was a governor. And then you had Arnold Schwarzenegger who was an actor and then governor and by many accounts he did well. But these are people i think that sometimes are, you know, anomalies that that may not necessarily be the case. Spencer Pratt is now comparing himself to President Obama, and he said - he said- GOLDBERG: [Laughter] HOSTIN: Yeah. He said - BEHAR: What, snapchatter of the year is not the same thing as the head of the law review at Harvard? HOSTIN: Well, he said 'I have two awards from my community. President Obama actually didn't even have any awards when he was a community organizer. He was able to become a senator and then a president for eight years. So I feel like him and I have the same experience.' BEHAR: Oh, please. HOSTIN: And Spencer Pratt, sir, you don't have the same experience. You don't have a law degree from Harvard Law School. You don't -- you were not a senator. And there are baby steps you can take like why not run for city council an learn about the city budget and then maybe become president of the city council and then maybe become the mayor. You're just jumping. (…) 11:10:23 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: No, he's not the answer but here's the thing, nobody -- You know, they have bitched about these wildfires as long as I've lived in California, it's always been -- it's always been a problem. But what I don't like is if you don't have any solutions that have not been already tried or if you're throwing shade on people saying she diverted water from this place -I mean, you have to -- you have to have some idea of what needs to be done. A lot of people were affected by those wildfires, a lot of my friends, a lot of people you know lost everything. HOSTIN: Right. GOLDBERG: So this is not, you know, a ha, ha, let's do an A.I. video. This is real stuff. People -- this is people's lives. And so, before you're passing judgment, you need to be able to tell people what you have to offer, Spencer. [Applause] You know, and, you know, I don't know what qualifies as the right way to be a politician, but what I do know is they have to be the people who understand what people are going through. And if you don't understand what people are going through, in the way they're going through it, when you're talking about communities, whole communities that have been burned out, whole groups, legacies that are gone. It's more than just this. It's all these things. You got to be prepared for a lot more stuff than I think you -- it is a really hard job and in California particularly. (…)