Throughout 2025, ABC’s purported “bona fide news program” The View repeatedly suggested that President Donald Trump stole the 2024 presidential election, without evidence and without even a theory about how it could have been done. However, during Monday’s episode, co-host Sunny Hostin proclaimed that peddlers of such conspiracy theories were justified in their concerns because it was just so shocking of an outcome. She also claimed that it’s somehow better for states to take a long time to count votes. Their conversation about election skepticism was spurred on by Trump’s recent interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, where he reiterated his claims about the 2020 presidential election results.   “Well, he's never provided any credible evidence of election fraud!” moderato Whoopi Goldberg shouted. “Why is it every time they lose, it's election fraud? And every time we win, it's election fraud? Why is it always fraud? What do you make of this?” Faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin ignored The View’s repeated election denials of 2024’s results just so she could mock Republicans: “You don't have a lot of Republicans screaming that the 2024 election was stolen, because Donald Trump won.”   The View has repeatedly claimed Trump stole the 2024 presidential election and plans to steal the midterms, without evidence, but have an issue with Trump saying 2020 was stolen. Yet, fake conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests Republicans are the hypocrites: WHOOPI… pic.twitter.com/9QBgC1cWj8 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 8, 2026   Hypocritically, The View had repeatedly claimed that all Republican victories were the result of cheating and rigged elections. They have openly suggested it was the only way Republicans could ever win. With California still counting votes for nearly a week, Farah Griffin did lament that they needed to change the laws to allow them to get results the night of the election. But Goldberg and Hostin loudly decried the idea; with Hostin saying it was completely “not impossible” for California to achieve what nearly every other state in the union was able to (Click "expand"): FARAH GRIFFIN: But I will say, people tend to not trust elections when it takes a real long time to count votes. L.A. and California in general need to figure out how to do this quicker. Change the laws so you can do it in one day. GOLDBERG: NO! [Scoffs] FARAH GRIFFIN: Florida has a lot of mail-in and they get their results the same night. It makes people feel like, 'oh, there's something off,' but it's not. It's how their rules are, they're dumb rules. [Crosstalk] HOSTIN: I feel the exact opposite. I think if someone is taking their time to count the votes, I think if someone is looking at every single thing, because in California, it's the most populous state. We all know that. (…) And so, it does take a long time to be right, to do it well. FARAH GRIFFIN: Why can Florida do it right in one night though? HOSTIN: I don't think you can do it when you have 23 million registered voters! It's just not possible!   Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin decry the idea of counting ballots quickly. Hostin argues taking a long time is better and more legitimate: FARAH GRIFFIN: But I will say, people tend to not trust elections when it takes a real long time to count votes. L.A. and California in… pic.twitter.com/YWCChIM5TU — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 8, 2026   What got Hostin to openly back the conspiracy that Trump stole the 2024 election was pretend independent co-host Sara Haines lamenting that election denial was becoming mainstream in the Democratic Party. Hostin suggested they were right to be skeptical, and receiving a roaring applause from the studio audience: HAINES: It's mainstream with the Republicans, but Alyssa, I'll take it one step further, Democrats now are questioning the elections. They went from having an 89 percent pre-2024 belief in the system to 64 percent trust in the system. HOSTIN: And people can't believe Trump won! [Laughter] [Applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: That's not the flex you think it is.   Sunny Hostin, who claimed for years Trump stole the 2016 election, says people are right to think Trump stole the 2024 presidential election and gets a roaring applause from the audience: SARA HAINES: But if you're really reflecting on yourself, this problem has been about a… pic.twitter.com/HTPZ6ttaKV — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 8, 2026   First, Haines was misleading that Democrats were only now engaging in election denialism. Looking back, Democrats rejected the results of the 2000 election. More recently, they pushed the Russia Collusion Hoax because Democrats refused to believe they lost to Trump legitimately. In fact, Hostin had pushed the conspiracy theory then too. Only apologizing six years later when then-newly minted White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre took on that role and was being criticized for it. At the time, Goldberg defended Jean-Pierre by saying she was “doing her part.” What that “part” was for, Goldberg never explained. Hostin’s renewed support for election denial was yet another example of her blatant double standard on the subject, where her claims were facts and others were conspiracy theories. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View June 8, 2026 11:04:18 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Well, he's never provided any credible evidence of election fraud! You know, I guess everybody's upset, because [laughter] Spencer Pratt didn't do what they all thought he going to do. They all thought he was going to whoop walk away with it and it didn't happen. Why is it every time they lose, it's election fraud? And every time we win, it's election fraud? Why is it always fraud? What do you make of this? ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, that right there is kind of the point. You don't have a lot of Republicans screaming that the 2024 election was stolen, because Donald Trump won. (…) 11:05:48 a.m. eastern FARAH GRIFFIN: But I will say, people tend to not trust elections when it takes a real long time to count votes. L.A. and California in general need to figure out how to do this quicker. Change the laws so you can do it in one day. GOLDBERG: NO! [Scoffs] FARAH GRIFFIN: Florida has a lot of mail-in and they get their results the same night. It makes people feel like, 'oh, there's something off,' but it's not. It's how their rules are, they're dumb rules. [Crosstalk] HOSTIN: I feel the exact opposite. I think if someone is taking their time to count the votes, I think if someone is looking at every single thing, because in California, it's the most populous state. We all know that. And they actually have signature verification. So, they look at every single signature. And if those signatures do not match what they have on file, they then go back to the person and they say, was this you?' And so, it does take a long time to be right, to do it well. FARAH GRIFFIN: Why can Florida do it right in one night though? HOSTIN: I don't think you can do it when you have 23 million registered voters! It's just not possible! And so - it's - it's - FARAH GRIFFIN: I think it is. HOSTIN: It's not possible. [Crosstalk and applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: It's the mail-in voting, they don't start counting it until Election Day. You could start counting it before. HOSTIN: But it accounts for 80 percent of votes. So, that's the problem. Mail in voting counts for 80 percent of the votes. The only time Republicans started having a problem with mail-in voting is when Democrats started to use mail-in voting more. (…) 11:07:41 a.m. Eastern SARA HAINES: But if you're really reflecting on yourself, this problem has been about a decade long. Because prior to 2016, I never heard people talking about, it was a fringe amount of people that thought, there's a conspiracy here. It was not mainstream. It's mainstream with the Republicans, but Alyssa, I'll take it one step further, Democrats now are questioning the elections. They went from having an 89 percent pre-2024 belief in the system to 64 percent trust in the system. HOSTIN: And people can't believe Trump won! [Laughter] [Applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: That's not the flex you think it is. That means people aren't trusting the system. HAINES: But my point here is it started with the QAnon fringes, it went mainstream with the Republicans, it's starting to go mainstream with independents and Democrats. The big problem here is when you divide the ranks of all people, the voting republic that have the currency of a vote, and you say, 'it's rigged! It doesn't matter,' we only get 64 percent of eligible voters to our polls anyway. The way to keep power consolidated at the top is to create division among the bottom. There's a bigger problem at play here, that is not partisan. It needs to be stopped. We cannot keep doing that. There's a certain amount of suspension of trust. I don't believe elections to any extreme level have ever been rigged. I stand by that. There's been no proof of any other thing.

“India counts 600 million + ballots in a day. California counts less than 10 million in a MONTH,” Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton noted in an “Election Shambles Update” regarding the state’s long-delayed primary results. Since California’s primary polls closed last Tuesday, June 2, results have shifted dramatically in favor of Democrat candidates as mail-in ballots - which can be received up to a week after Election Day - are counted. But, even after all the mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day and received within seven days are collected, the process of validating and counting the ballots can continue for another three weeks. In contrast, India did, indeed, count 640 million votes in a single day for its June 2024 election. “As governor I will replace this absurd system. We cannot have another election that makes us look like a ‘failed state’, as @NateSilver538 put it,” Hilton wrote in his Election Shambles Update posted on X.com. To do that, Hilton would have to finish with one of the top two most votes in the June 2 primary, then win the general election in November. But, nearly a week after Election Day, votes continue to arrive for processing and counting, leaving Hilton’s fate in doubt. In India, however, all mail-in ballots must be received before counting starts (usually two days after Election Day) and all mail-in ballots must be counted first. India adopted the mail-in policy because of concerns about irregularities in 2019 under the previous practice of allowing late-arriving, postmarked ballots, as Newsweek explains: “To address past concerns, the country's Supreme Court mandates that postal ballots be counted and declared before other others are counted. This change addressed issues from the 2019 elections when procedure was not followed, leading to outcry in closely contested constituencies.” A step-by-step breakdown of how India is able to count 640 million votes in a single day is detailed in an article published by The Better India.

Media Research Center President David Bozell joined Larry O’Connor on O’Connor & Company Monday morning to take aim at a total collapse in journalistic standards at NBC and CBS. Focusing on NBC’s Kristen Welker and former CBS anchor Scott Pelley, Bozell argued that the modern press corps is increasingly defined by double standards and open hostility toward the public.  During an interview with Donald Trump that aired on June 7, Kristen Welker repeatedly cut off the president, drawing sharp criticism for her combative tone. As Bozell pointed out, while Welker’s performance will likely earn her accolades from her peers, it highlighted a profound double standard in newsroom accountability. He pointed to Pelley, who was recently ousted by CBS News following reported confrontations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton, as proof of how unevenly corporate media doles out discipline. "In the Trump Derangement Syndrome universe, in which they live, the ends justify the means,"@DavidBozell tells @LarryOConnor Kristen Welker will get high fives from all her media buddies for her hateful vitriol during her interview with President Trump pic.twitter.com/YqIqVkJKVD — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 8, 2026 Bozell also criticized Pelley for recent comments in which the veteran journalist expressed a deep concern for the American public to the point of tears, suggesting that Pelley’s actions do not match his rhetoric. If his claim were true, pompous Pelley would actually care about Americans’ lack of trust in the media; yet he refused to acknowledge the results of the annual Gallup poll, which proved that only 8% of Americans believe in the media “at all” while 28% of them believe it “somewhat.” Bozell succinctly stated: “You would think that the anchor of 60 minutes … might have a keen interest in those figures; but he just whistled by them, because he thinks he’s beyond reproach.” .@DavidBozell roasts Scott Pelley for challenging Bari Weiss to prove to him that Americans thought the media were biased. Two-thirds of the country doesn't believe the media at all anymore; you'd think Scott Pelley would be interested in that.@LarryOConnor @WatchSalemNews pic.twitter.com/bo1DyLY29G — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 8, 2026 Pelley’s ignorance and arrogance were spotlighted further in his interview with the New York Times when he shamelessly disrespected the U.S. military. By insinuating that he has been in active combat as a journalist, he trampled over the dignity of service members who have bled and died for our country.  The twisted ethics of Welker, Pelley, and the liberal media are undeniable. Bozell highlighted their flagrant hypocrisy, undeniable double standards, and blaring disrespect, exposing the elitist media’s mangled moral compass most of all. Watch the entire segment here:

On Monday, the Supreme Court vacated a lower court ruling that upheld Biden Energy Department regulations that would outlaw gas stoves and water heaters in Americans’ homes and require homeowners with these to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances. In American Gas Association, et al. V. Dept. Of Energy, et al, the District of Columbia’s district court upheld the Biden Administration’s regulations banning the use of non-condensing appliances, effectively eliminating gas furnaces and water heaters from the marketplace. In response, the American Gas Association, American Public Gas Association and National Propane Gas Association asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the decision. In their petition to the high court for a writ of certiorari, they stressed the consequences of allowing the lower court’s decision to stand: “The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) prohibits the Department of Energy from adopting efficiency standards that ban consumer access to appliances with distinct performance characteristics. “In this case, the Department adopted standards abolishing gas-fired furnaces and water heaters that work with existing venting systems in millions of homes and buildings across the country. These standards will force consumers to either renovate their homes or switch to electric appliances.” "The Department may not adopt standards that effectively eliminate from the market products that have distinct 'performance characteristics,'" Solicitor General John Sauer wrote in a brief to the high court. On Monday, in apparent concurrence with Sauer’s analysis, the Supreme Court granted the petition, vacated the ruling and sent the case back to the D.C. court, ordering it to reconsider its decision supporting the Biden Administration regulations: “The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for further consideration in light of the position asserted by the Solicitor General in his brief for the United States filed on April 28, 2026.”

While ABC has been surprisingly silent, NBC’s lead newscasts of Today and NBC Nightly News haven’t been able to get enough of the CBS News drama, so it was natural that, on Monday’s Today, the show had a full story boasting of his “emotional” interview to The New York Times this past weekend showing much he’s “ticked off” about his ouster and leveling “concerning new allegations.” “Ticked off. Scott Pelley speaking out in his first televised interview about his 60 Minutes firing...What he’s now saying about his dismissal. The new allegations he’s making against the network and how he feels about the other correspondents’ decision to stay,” co-host Savannah Guthrie boomed in the first of two teases. NBC's ‘Today’ was very excited about Scott Pelley's NYT interview trashing CBS News management... Savannah Guthrie: “Ticked off. Scott Pelley speaking out in his first televised interview about his 60 Minutes firing...What he’s now saying about his dismissal. The new allegations… pic.twitter.com/kqkvppgAqQ — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 8, 2026 In the second one, she said that Pelley made “concerning new allegations against CBS News.” Correspondent Erin McLaughlin had the report, fretting “Pelley [said] he’s heartbroken while also calling on Paramount — the parent company of CBS — to step in to save one of the most successful broadcasts in American history” because he believes CBS bosses are “incompetent and inexperienced.” For whatever reason, ABC has been surprisingly silent on the CBS News drama while NBC’s lead newscasts haven’t been able to get enough of it. On Monday's ‘Today,’ the show had a full story boasting of his “emotional” New York Times interview this past weekend, showing much he’s… pic.twitter.com/RMjw18UMV4 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 8, 2026 She huffed Pelley said “CBS News, in my view, is on fire” in “an emotional interview with The New York Times, his first since being fired from the storied broadcast.” As an example, she played one of the more infamous clips — which we highlighted in full below — when Pelley broke down crying over how Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss supposedly have “never felt” the same level of danger that “people in that room who” have gone “to war zones when they are pregnant”: EYE ROLL: Scott Pelley says “it was fate” that he chose to tear into his new bosses to their faces and cries AGAIN when saying “newsrooms are sort of like the military” and have “life-threatening job[s]” with “very strong bonds” that demand “people…go to war zones… pic.twitter.com/pYD27PaKFd — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 7, 2026 Pregnant people! McLaughlin camped out on the part when “Pelley alleged editorial interference” in “his February coverage of the killing of ICE protester Renee Good” and that “Weiss directed his team to make the protesters look more violent, and to describe Good as driving toward the officer who shot her.” While she did include a single sentence from a statement CBS News had sent denying this was political inference to help President Trump, she gushed the liberal reporter was “visibly shaken when asked about...scathing comments” Trump made, in which he said Pelley was “a stiff” and “part of this, you know, gang of crooked, stupid people that don’t care about our country.” McLaughlin spliced together two sentences from this longer clip below: “You become a journalist because you love the country. [SCREEN WIPE] There is no democracy without journalism.” Scott Pelley sobs when he argues he’s just like U.S. troops because both go to war to serve the country and might even be more important because “there is no democracy without journalism”… “Don’t care about the country? [CRYING] I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in… pic.twitter.com/omB9uteXFq — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 7, 2026 Back live, McLaughlin trumpeted the mobster-like statement from remaining 60 Minutes correspondents Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, Jon Wertheim announcing they’d stay on the show while also trashing and threatening Bilton and Weiss. In addition, notice Guthrie seeming to express soft exasperation at Pelley’s insistence that he didn’t think he’d be fired for hurling vicious attacks at management (click “expand”): GUTHRIE: Erin, there had been so much speculation about the three remaining correspondents, whether they would stay or go. They made a decision. They issued a statement. MCLAUGHLIN: Yeah, that’s right. All three — Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, Jon Wertheim — issued this joint statement, saying that they’re going to be staying put for now, that they do not want to see the story broadcast die while also pointedly saying “newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships.” Now, Pelley says he hasn’t talked to the remaining three since he was fired, but they previously had a conversation about the possibility of leaving. They decided to stay to uphold the principles of the broadcast. Pelley says he would have stayed had he not been fired. GUTHRIE: It’s an interesting interview because he said he didn’t expect to walk in his boss’s office, and be fired even after that fiery meeting, so it’s a fascinating interview. To see the relevant NBC transcript from June 8, click here.