The communist, China-based elite that has turned himself into the second coming of George Soros is now formally under criminal investigation for “foreign agent” violations.  YouTube Centimillionaire Neville Roy Singham — the husband of radical leftist Code Pink founder Jodie Evans — is being grilled by a grand jury in the Southern District of New York for “possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” CBS News reported July 16. The probe has “since expanded into a criminal tax probe over whether money was unlawfully funneled through nonprofits he controls and whether he lied on the tax forms for those nonprofits,” CBS continued.Singham’s public profile has recently come prominently into the spotlight, as the House of Representatives explored leftist groups he funds with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP. One Singham-funded group in particular, People’s Forum, was revealed by Fox News to have been the nexus of communist organization efforts surrounding the Union Square May Day protest in New York City. Not only did this involve coordination with the “Party for Socialism and Liberation,” but communist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani also featured as one of the core speakers for the event. Singham reportedly funneled at least $22 million into People’s Forum.This isn’t the first time Singham’s anti-American antics drew the scrutiny of law enforcement. In 1974, the FBI probed Singham “due to him being ‘potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instabilities or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to the U.S,’” according to Influence Watch. In 2023, a New York Times investigation explicitly linked Singham to the propaganda arm of the CCP. The investigation revealed that what “is hidden amid a tangle of nonprofit groups and shell companies, is that Mr. Singham works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide.”Unironically, Singham also financed “up to a quarter” of his wife’s Code Pink operations — per CBS — which has become notorious for being a chaotic, pro-China, anti-Semitic political disruptor. Code Pink was one of the primary organizers behind the communist protests in Washington D.C. in January 2026 demanding the United States release murderous Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro after his capture by armed forces. Are the chickens coming home to roost for Singham? Or will his power and political influence truly denote a two-tiered justice system? Time will tell.

Google News propped up stories from Qatari-tied media outlet Al Jazeera in what has become a bit of a trend for the news aggregator. MRC Graphic The Media Research Center collected data that shows Google News promoted Al Jazeera stories 125% more from May to June. The increase in promotion on the tech giant’s pages correlated with Al Jazeera’s noticeable 6% jump in traffic from May to June when many of the most visited U.S. media entities saw a drop in month-on-month viewership, according to Press Gazette’s Top 50 U.S. news websites.Instead of relying on U.S. news outlets to cover U.S. news topics, the Silicon Valley tech giant known for news and information dissemination repeatedly selected the foreign-based, AllSides-rated “lean left” Al Jazeera stories, painting American issues with a decidedly leftist bias. And this is not the first time either. MRC previously documented a website traffic upswing for the Qatari-tied outlet from February to March when Google News increased its promotion of Al Jazeera 250% month-on-month.MRC’s Findings:MRC's very own Digital News Tracker data shows at least one reason why Al Jazeera has seen an 8% year-on-year and 6% month-on-month website traffic increase on Press Gazette’s top 50 U.S. news websites list: In its top 20 morning editions, Google News promoted Al Jazeera eight times in May and 18 times in June, a 125% increase from month to month.In both May and June, nearly 70% (18 of 26) of Google News-promoted stories from Qatar-tied Al Jazeera were about U.S. news.Google News promoted Al Jazeera stories about U.S. news 15 times in the mornings in  May and June, when it was also promoting stories from other outlets about the same topic. On three separate occasions, Google News promoted an Al Jazeera story as its only coverage of a topic when it could have promoted stories from right-leaning outlets also among the Press Gazette’s U.S. Top 50 news sites for June, like Fox News, the New York Post or Breitbart News.Google News Promoted Eight Al Jazeera Stories in May and 18 in June, a 125% IncreaseQatari-tied Al Jazeera was one of only five winners in increased traffic year-on-year June, with an 8% increase, according to data presented by the Press Gazette in its June “Top 50 US news websites” report. Traffic to the website also increased 6% month-on-month, growing to 23.5 million visits per month in June from May’s total of 22.1 million visits. Google News assisted the Qatar-linked outlet in its June achievement. In May, the digital gatekeeper promoted eight Al Jazeera stories among its top 20 morning editions. In June, Google News increased the number of Al Jazeera stories it featured by 125%, promoting 18 in its top 20 morning editions for the month. While these numbers tell part of the story, MRC researchers dug deeper into the topics covered by the Al Jazeera stories Google News featured in an attempt to understand why the news aggregator might highlight so many stories from the foreign-based news outlet.Nearly 70% of Al Jazeera Stories Promoted by Google News in May and June Covered U.S. NewsIn both May and June, almost 70% of the Al Jazeera stories Google News featured in its daily top 20 stories were on subjects of U.S. news. In May, roughly 88% of the stories featured covered U.S. news topics (7 out of 8 stories). In June, it was 61% (11 of 18 stories).  Image MRC Graphic Among the U.S. news stories featured were 10 stories about the Iran war, including:“What’s Iran’s 14-point proposal to end the war? And will Trump accept it?” promoted on May 3. “Iran war: What is happening on day 92 as Trump weighs Iran deal,” promoted on May 30. MRC Graphic “US House votes to end Trump’s Iran war: Does it matter?” promoted on June 4. “Iran war day 103: US strikes after helicopter shot down, Tehran hits back,” promoted on June 10.Iran war day 104: Iran attacks US bases, closes strait after Trump strikes,” promoted on June 11.“Iran war live: Tehran condemns US attacks, hits US bases in Middle East,” promoted on June 11. “Iran war live: Trump claims peace deal ‘approved’; Tehran says not so,” promoted on June 12. “What the Trump-Iran agreement says about Lebanon, Hormuz and uranium,” promoted on June 18.“Oil prices ease after spiking over halt to Strait of Hormuz evacuation plan,” promoted on June 26.“Iran attacks Kuwait and Bahrain in response to US strikes,” promoted on June 28. Image MRC Graphic An additional eight stories had no connection to the Middle East at all, and yet Google News still promoted stories from the Hamas-sympathizing outlet Al Jazeera in its daily top news headlines. These stories included:“Rubio arrives at Vatican to meet Pope Leo amid Trump attacks,” promoted on May 7.“US President Trump, family granted immunity from pending tax audits,” promoted on May 20.“Failing chemical tank forces thousands to evacuate in Southern California,” promoted on May 23.“Kenyan court suspends US Ebola quarantine facility plan,” promoted on May 29.“Trump pledges to withdraw from Kennedy Center after court strikes his name,” promoted on May 30.“Eight people killed in US Air Force B-52 bomber crash: What we know,” promoted on June 16.“US primaries in Oklahoma, Georgia, others: Key takeaways from the results,” promoted on June 17.“Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui gets 30 years in US prison for huge fraud,” promoted on June 30.Seemingly adding insult to injury, 15 of the 18 Al Jazeera stories that Google News promoted that covered U.S. news were redundant. In each case, Google News also promoted additional stories about the same subject from different outlets on the same day.  Image MRC Graphic For example, on May 3, when Google News featured Al Jazeera’s Trump-skeptical piece as its top story on the U.S.-Iran War that morning, the tech giant also promoted three separate, and strikingly similar, stories from CNN, Politico and The New York Times.“Live Updates: Trump says Iran has ‘not yet paid a big enough price’ as he reviews new peace proposal,” by CNN, promoted May 3.“Trump says he is reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war,” by Politico, promoted May 3.“Trump Administration Live Updates: President Expresses Skepticism Over Latest Iran Proposal,” by The New York Times, promoted May 3.Google News Could Have Promoted Stories from Right-Leaning Outlets, But Chose Not to Do So Google left plenty of meat on the bone when it comes to sharing news and information from right-leaning outlets.Based on website traffic, the top three U.S.-based, right-leaning media outlets are Fox News, New York Post and Breitbart News. Google had the option to share at least one article from each of these outlets for each Al Jazeera story promoted during the period covered, but it chose not to. On three separate occasions, Google News chose to exclusively highlight Al Jazeera stories about U.S. news as the only featured article about a particular topic, making the foreign-based outlet the only exposure readers received in the top 20 morning editions. All three of these stories were covered by numerous right-leaning outlets that Google News could have highlighted instead of Al Jazeera. On May 7, when Google News featured Al Jazeera’s take on Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with Pope Leo, it could have chosen from multiple right-leaning options instead, such as:“Rubio holds ‘constructive’ meeting with Pope Leo after Trump sends hard-line Iran message to Vatican,” by Fox News on May 7.“Pope Leo meets U.S. Secretary of State Rubio amid tensions with President Trump,” by EWTN on May 7.“Reports: Pope Leo XIV’s Audience With Marco Rubio Goes Long, Cuba and Iran Discussed,” by Breitbart on May 7.On May 29, Google News highlighted an Al Jazeera story about a Kenyan court halting U.S. plans to quarantine Ebola-exposed Americans in place. Instead of relying on foreign-tied Al Jazeera’s reporting, the following stories from right-leaning outlets were available:“Kenya court suspends US plan to establish Ebola quarantine facility for exposed Americans,” by New York Post on May 29.“Court Stops Quarantine Facility in Kenya for U.S. Citizens Exposed to Ebola Instead of Flying Them Home,” by Breitbart on May 29.“Kenyan court halts plans for US Ebola quarantine facility,” by the Washington Examiner on May 29.On June 30, Google News selected an Al Jazeera story to explain the sentence doled out by an American court to a Chinese businessman instead of providing the perspective of right-leaning outlets on the subject, such as:“Exiled Chinese entrepreneur Guo Wengui gets 30 years for fraud,” by Breitbart on June 30.“Chinese Billionaire Who Infiltrated American Politics Sentenced For Fraud,” by The Daily Wire on June 30.“Miles Guo, Anti-CCP Dissident Whom Biden Admin Charged, Receives 30 Years In Prison,” by PJ Media on June 30.Some of the additional right-leaning stories Google News could have featured, but chose not to, included:“READ IT: The full text of the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding,” by Fox News on June 18.“Southern California chemical tank at risk of exploding as 40,000 residents are ordered to evacuate,” by Breitbart on May 23.“Federal judge orders Trump’s name removed from Kennedy Center, says only Congress can rename it,” by Fox News on May 29.“Trump suffers rare House defeat as bipartisan vote moves to withdraw troops from Iran conflict,” by Fox News on June 3.“Trump: U.S. ‘Must’ Respond After Iran Shot Down U.S. Army Helicopter Near Strait of Hormuz,” by Breitbart on June 9.“Trump Calls Off Iran Attacks, Claims US, Tehran to Sign Memorandum Agreement,” by CBN News on June 12.“Trump announces peace deal with Iran, ending hostilities,” by EWTN News on June 14.“Mike Collins wins GOP nod for Georgia Senate, teeing up battle with Sen. Jon Ossoff,” by the New York Post on June 16.“Trump-Backed Candidates Win Three Senate Primary Contests, Lose in Georgia Governor’s Race,” by CBN News on June 17.Methodology: Using MRC’s Digital News Tracker, MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories promoted by Google News during the time period of May 1 - June 30, 2026 at approximately 8:30 AM ET. Researchers recorded the headlines of each Al Jazeera story, and each topically-corresponding story from any other outlet, promoted by Google News during the same period and analyzed the results. MRC Researchers used the AllSides media bias ratings, which categorize an outlet as “left,” “lean left,” “center,” “lean right” or “right” to determine the overall bias presented by Google News and analyzed the results. 

2026-07-16-CNN-TV-Audie-Cornish-Hegseth-Looksmaxxing-Military On Thursday’s CNN This Morning, the Group Chat turned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s proposal to screen troops for testosterone deficiency and offer treatment into fresh culture-war fodder.Host Audie Cornish teased the segment by asking if Hegseth is "looksmaxxing the military." As you'll see in the screencap, a subsequent chyron cast the looksmaxxing as fact.Even more outrageous was panelist Harrison Mann's description of the program as "gender-affirming care." Mann is a former Army officer who resigned in protest over U.S. support for Israel’s war against Hamas, comparing Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust.Mann snidely mocked:"Is it good to offer everybody in the military gender-affirming care who wants it? Absolutely. I don't think that privilege should only be reserved for Pete Hegseth's conception of his ideal man."In other words, Mann wants the Pentagon to pay for sex-change surgeries and hormones for troops demanding it.Cornish agreed with Mann, saying that "a lot of people" are viewing the program as gender-affirming care. She noted Sen. Tammy Duckworth's description of the program in those terms.Mann claimed that Hegseth wants:"A white male military [and] is firing or killing the careers of every black or female senior officer he can get his hands on. He has his vision of like sweaty masculinity, kind of Pete Hegseth type of guy. He is trying to make the military look like that."  CNN Mocks Hegseth's Testosterone Program As 'Looksmaxxing, Gender-Affirming Care' pic.twitter.com/U5E1r1bYRX— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) July 16, 2026 The initiative is simple enough: service members 30 and older would be required to test, those under 30 could volunteer, and anyone diagnosed with a deficiency could choose treatment. No one would be obliged to take treatment.Cornish was clearly skeptical about the program. Beyond her "looksmaxxing" introduction, check out her dubious head-bowing smile 15 seconds into the video clip as she kicked off the discussion. And Cornish concluded the segment by facetiously suggesting:"I could be testing T-levels to come on the panel, too. I think that's only fair."Republican strategist Mike Dubke injected—excuse the pun—a note of realism. He cast the program as part of the Trump administration's obvious goal of recruiting young men to the military.CNN showed itself incapable of discussing basic military readiness without injecting identity politics and hyperbole. Hegseth’s focus on stronger, fitter troops was mocked as extremism, while gender surgeries were cast as essential “care.” The contrast speaks volumes.Here's the transcript.CNN This Morning7/16/266:10 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: And then the Pentagon, they want to test the troops' testosterone. Is Hegseth looksmaxxing the military? . . . PETE HEGSETH: I'm authorizing a new screening program for testosterone deficiency for our service members, ensuring you have the right testosterone levels to operate at your absolute best.CORNISH: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants our troops to be tested for testosterone deficiency. He says it'll make them stronger. So here's how the plan will work. Anyone 30 years and older will be required to test. Those under thirty, they can volunteer. And anyone diagnosed with a deficiency can voluntarily choose to receive treatment.. . . Since it was me and Meghan and Mike, we had to bring in more testosterone, that's why Harrison is here. . . . HARRISON MANN: Is it good to offer everybody in the military gender-affirming care who wants it? Absolutely. I don't think that privilege should only be reserved for Pete Hegseth's conception of his ideal man, and that's what he's doing right now.CORNISH: I think you've now hit on a culture war nerve center when you said gender-affirming care. This is what a lot of people are saying here, Senator Tammy Duckworth, saying it "Sounds like gender-affirming care to me." And of course, like, I'm not holding my breath for his perimenopause screening --MEGHAN HAYS: He doesn't promote women, so it doesn't matter. CORNISH: This is an issue that's at the nexus, I think it's at the junction of like, Chad Lookmaxxing Boulevard and RFK Way, like, there's a world that is obsessed with testosterone.. . . MIKE DUBKE: There is one thing that Pete Hegseth and this administration is focused on, and that is recruiting more young men --CORNISH: Yes.DUBKE: -- especially, but young people to the military. We went through years of having, missing our military recruitment numbers. CORNISH: Yes, I want to show that. The Military News has been reporting about the best numbers in fifteen years, so I know that's what you're talking about. DUBKE: Yes! And, and I think this is part of it. And I think this is part of it, that we are, that they are focused on this. And this may seem bizarre on its face, that video that you showed, but it is part of this recruitment of young men, joining the military.. . . MANN: The vision is not silly, and that's basically a white male military in Pete Hegseth's image. Like that's why he thinks about this stuff. DUBKE: Now I think you've gone overboard.MANN: That's why he thinks about this stuff. He is firing or killing the careers of every black or female senior officer he can get his hands on, and we can't understand the other culture war stuff outside of that context. He has his vision of like sweaty masculinity, kind of Pete Hegseth type of guy, he is trying to make the military look like that.CORNISH: I could be testing T levels to come on the panel, too. DUBKE: [flexing in jest] I've been [inaudible] about that right now. CORNISH: I just think that is only fair. 

Screenshot via ABC/Snapstream In a not-at-all-shocking development, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC registered their displeasure with President Trump’s Thursday night address about election integrity, ranging from rebuttals of the President’s claims to outright anger.ABC’s Good Morning America was enraged, using heated rhetoric instead of fact-checking. Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos declared in an opening tease Trump’s goal was “to sow doubt about the upcoming midterm elections.”Stephanopoulos was even more condescending in the opening to Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott’s report: “Now to President Trump’s primetime address last night, where he continued his campaign to cast doubt on the 2020 election he lost, and the 2026 midterms he fears losing. He did it by making a series of misleading claims and citing dated intelligence that failed to demonstrate any votes were actually compromised.” WATCH: I know this might come as a shock, but ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ absolutely hated President Trump’s speech last night…“Now to President Trump’s prime time address last night, where he continued his campaign to cast out on the 2020 election he lost, and the 2026… pic.twitter.com/laOjBO3xXw— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 17, 2026 Scott pointed out that “Republicans…were hoping the President would focus on immigration, on the economy, issues they believe will be important to voters this midterm election, but instead, the President came…to talk about an election that he lost six years ago, using unfounded claims to demand sweeping changes ahead of the midterms.”She also adopted the line about throwing the 2026 midterms into chaos, adding Trump made “extraordinary and vague claims that officials he appointed in his first administration were part of a cover-up to keep information about foreign interference and election fraud away from him.”Scott continued this pattern of dismissing Trump’s claims without providing counterpoints before moving to trash the SAVE America Act because it’d “severely restrict mail-in voting” (click “expand”):SCOTT: Trump lost in 2020 by seven million votes. He lost the Electoral College, and lost more than 60 court cases challenging the election, some in front of judges he appointed, and there’s no evidence of widespread voter fraud, something his own attorney general at the time acknowledged. Still, the President has been fixated on unfounded claims of voter fraud, demanding Congress pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping voter ID bill, alleging his administration found more than 275,000 non-citizens on the voting rolls. But at no point did the President prove people cast ballots who shouldn’t have. Election officials across the country quickly responding.(….)SCOTT: Democrats warning that President Trump is laying the groundwork for challenging future election results.CONGRESSMAN JIM HIMES (D-CT): He’s laying the foundation to be able to tell America after Election Day that the election was corrupt and therefore should not be respected.SCOTT: We just got word from both China and Russia. They are rejecting the claims that the President made last night. As he closed his speech, he demanded that Republicans on Capitol Hill passed the SAVE America Act. This is his voter ID bill, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote. It would also severely restrict mail-in voting, but the President does not have the votes to get this through Congress. And what’s more, that bill does nothing to address what the President spent most of his time focused on last night: These allegations of foreign election interference, which again, his own intelligence agencies at the time said was just simply not true[.]All told, their report ran for three minutes and 27 secondsCBS Mornings and NBC’s Today took a different approach. While they still railed against the speech, they both played multiple clips of the President’s speech and elaborated with their respective arguments about why he was wrong.On NBC, co-host Craig Melvin said in a tease that “Trump us[ed] a rare primetime address to issue new warnings about election security ahead of the midterms…repeating false claims about widespread fraud and interference in 2020, and launching a new campaign against voting by mail.”Saturday co-host Laura Jarrett deployed similar verbiage in the first hour report: “[R]eaction pouring in to President Trump's rare primetime address to the nation, using his speech to revive false claims about the 2020 election and raising questions about election integrity ahead of the midterms this November.” Here was how NBC’s ‘Today’ handled President Trump’s Thursday night address on voter integrity…Laura Jarrett: “[R]eaction pouring in to President Trump's rare primetime address to the nation, using his speech to revive false claims about the 2020 election and raising questions… pic.twitter.com/U7m9KHZdGz— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 17, 2026 Senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez said Trump outlined “a wide-ranging conspiracy theory” about 2020, and while he “has questioned election integrity before, but these claims are taking on new urgency with the midterms less than four months away.”“The White House posting newly declassified, but heavily redacted documents,” he added.Gutierrez let Trump speak and interspersed it with retorts, explaining he “describ[ed] efforts by China to access U.S. voter rolls, though much of that information is publicly available.”After airing Trump’s allegation that the Deep State “worked to actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling,” Gutierrez countered on this point as well as another Trump bombshell about non-citizens on voter rolls (click “expand”):GUTIERREZ: But one of the documents released overnight refers to Chinese efforts to target Joe Biden’s campaign, and, for years, U.S. intelligence assessments have shown that American voting systems have been a target of foreign adversaries. Years of recounts, audits, lawsuits, and reviews have not found evidence of enough fraud to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss.TRUMP: Our purpose in disclosing this information is not to weaken confidence in elections, but to earn that confidence by confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them very, very quickly.GUTIRREZ: The President also pointing to a review of state voter rolls and public records by the Department of Homeland Security.TRUMP: They identified approximately 278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal elections.GUTIERREZ: But election experts say the database that may have been used for that analysis often flags newly naturalized citizens as non-citizen voters.Gutierrez concluded in part with Trump calling on Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, dubbing it “sweeping legislation…that would require voter I.D. and proof of citizenship,” with critics “concern[ed] it would make it harder for Americans to vote.”To further emphasize how they felt about all this, NBC spent five minutes and 31 seconds on the speech, including Gutierrez returning in the second hour to rehash many of the same points.Just as CBS was the lone network to dedicate a full hour Thursday night to the speech and carry most of it without interruption, CBS Mornings had the most coverage with eight minutes and three seconds.Fill-in co-host Jo-Ling Kent said Trump “billed his primetime speech last night as a really big news on the subject of election integrity,” and went onto include “accus[ing] China of trying to collect voter data and repeated disproven claims about voting by noncitizens.”“Democrats fear it’s part of an effort to undermine confidence in elections with the midterms just months away,” she continued.Senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang began by telling viewers: “Trump used his remarks last night to make exaggerated and, at times, unsubstantiated claims about election security, all while he is calling on Congress to pass a voting regulations bill ahead of the midterm elections.”She reiterated the President “doubled down on unsubstantiated claims the 2020 presidential election, which he lost, was rigged, and he accused China of accessing voter data,” even though “[m]ost of that information is publicly available and Trump did not say how or if Beijing used it, though the U.S. intelligence community assessed in 2021 with high confidence that China did not try to influence the outcome of the 2020 election.”Jiang also addressed more claims, both airing Trump as well as her rebuttals (click “expand”):JIANG: Trump accused the deep state of covering up the truth.TRUMP: Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden.JIANG: However, another intelligence assessment from April 2020 during the first Trump administration did raise the alarm that Chinese officials had “analyzed” bulk voter registration data from “multiple U.S. states” and this.TRUMP: Hundreds of thousands of citizens and dead people are active on the voter rolls.JIANG: The President raised concern about undocumented voters voting – without evidence to back it up – that DHS found 278,000 noncitizens on voting rolls nationwide and used that claim again to push lawmakers to pass a voting regulations bill that would establish national voter ID, proof of citizenship standards, and dramatically curb mail-in voting.(….)JIANG: Democrats warn Trump is using the past to sow doubts about the upcoming midterm elections.SENATOR JON OSSOFF (D-GA): He is laying the groundwork for a potential challenge to the result, another bad-faith challenge.As with NBC’s Gutierrez, CBS’s Jiang returned in the second hour for a truncated report.Unlike NBC, though, they had a second segment in the first hour as they brought in supposedly CBS News contributor David Becker of the supposedly “non-partisan” Center for Election Innovation and Research.Kent asked him to answer “[w]hy do you think – why did the President give this primetime address largely discussing debunked claims about election integrity” at a time when “[t]here is a lot going on in the country” with “inflation” and “wars.” Here was part of how Friday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ covered Trump’s speech… @JoLingKent: “There is a lot going on in our country right now. We have wars, inflation. Why do you think – why did the President give this primetime address largely discussing debunked claims about election… pic.twitter.com/9Xc9iDiKvz— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 17, 2026 “I can’t really answer that…[I]f you look at the evidence that…this administration has compiled over 18 months in total control of the federal government…looking for evidence that would justify or support the false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. In fact, what was released last night largely confirmed that that election was secure. It confirmed that there was no alteration of the vote totals,” he replied.Kent also asked him to share “the reality” about China obtaining U.S. voter data (click “expand”):KENT: David, I want to ask you about how the President has claimed that China has collected the voter data of 220 million Americans. Should we be worried here? What is the reality?BECKER: The reality, as you just heard, is voter data is public. Every state allows for public versions of the voter data to be available. The parties use it. The candidates use it for outreach, for voter engagement. It’s also good for people who want our elections to have integrity because voter lists can be checked ahead of time to see if there are any problems with them, perhaps to challenge individual voters who might not be eligible, who might have moved away, et cetera. So, every state has this publicly. There are states like Ohio and North Carolina that literally have it up on the web right now. You can go and find that if you just Google it, it’s been long known that China is vacuuming up as much data on Americans as possible. This is probably some of the easiest data, and the least concerning data they could possibly have. There’s no personal identifiable information in this. This is just the public files, and nothing that we heard last night changes that. No one should be concerned about that.Only at the end of the segment did he concede we should “always” be “improving” and “hav[ing] these discussions about how to improve our election system” in the face of so many formidable adversaries.To see the relevant transcripts from July 17, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

MS NOW on SnapStream More than four years after the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the shrieking harpies of MS NOW still cry about the Supreme Court acknowledging the Constitution didn’t guarantee the right to kill babies. And since President Donald Trump is still adding to the most pro-life administration in recent history, they once again took to the cameras on Wednesday’s episode of The 11th Hour to suggest that everything women “have can be taken away.”Guest host Catherine Rampell and one of her panelists, political commentator Molly Jong-Fast, who publicly called pro-life laws “dystopian,” blabbed about the exchange between Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche. Cruz asked if Blanche would enforce the Comstock Act, which bans the mailing of “every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion," and "every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing which is advertised or described in a manner calculated to lead another to use or apply it for producing abortion."But according to Rampell, the law doesn’t actually mean what it says:Senator Ted Cruz asked Todd Blanche whether he would commit to enforcing the Comstock Act, which is this dead letter law that basically says, you know, it's an anti-obscenity law… things cannot be mailed through the postal service, which has been interpreted to mean by the far-right, by the Project 2025 people, that that means you cannot ship Mifepristone, an abortion and miscarriage treatment pill, through the mail.   First, abortions and miscarriages aren’t the same thing, no matter how much Democrats pretend they are. Secondly, you don’t need to be on the “far-right” to understand the law’s words perfectly. Rampell wasn’t wrong when she said “it hasn't been enforced for decades, it's this law from the 1800s.” But since the law was never repealed, if Blanche, as Attorney General, decided to prosecute violators, that would be well within his jurisdiction. Jong-Fast shared her doubts about the practical enforcement of the law:I think they're going to have some trouble doing it just because of, like, the sheer volume of mail and the incredible incompetence of this administration and how you're going to, you know, just put this in action. She also described some Republicans’ desire to enforce the Comstock Act as a “fantasy they all have. . . they're going to make it so they can't ship abortion pills, and it will mean that there will be many fewer abortions.”We should hope for many fewer abortions, since between 20 and 30 percent of Gen Z were killed in the womb, but that’s not the way these leftists see it. To them, the more abortions, the better.  That's "our rights."Jong-Fast also demonstrated that, like Rampell, she’s never read the text of the Comstock Act:But the idea of it is very scary, right? The idea that they can go in and use laws that we know - that are so antiquated and are not - were not created for this, and are not about this, to take away things from women, rights, health, you know, this is all this post-Roe America where everything we have can be taken away.Again, the Comstock Act literally says it was made to restrict the mailing of abortion material. We’ve heard the lie that all women’s health and rights hinge on whether or not they have abortion on-demand for years from bitter women who aren’t the least bit grateful they weren’t aborted. Instead, they’ll continue to cry about how some imaginary regime oppresses them by making it slightly harder for them to murder their children. ‘Life for me, not for thee.’The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: MS NOW's The 11th Hour7/15/2611:15:50 p.m. EasternCATHERINE RAMPELL: One thing that I think a lot of people are concerned about, Molly, is his [Blanche's] exchange with Ted Cruz today over the Comstock Act.MOLLY JONG-FAST: Right. RAMPELL: So basically, Senator Ted Cruz asked Todd Blanche whether he would commit to enforcing the Comstock Act--JONG-FAST: Right. RAMPELL: --which is this dead letter law--JONG-FAST: Right.RAMPELL: --that basically says, you know, it's an anti-obscenity law--JONG-FAST: Right.RAMPELL: --things cannot be mailed through the postal service, which has been interpreted to mean by the far right, by the--JONG-FAST: Yeah.RAMPELL: --Project 2025 people, that that means you cannot ship mifepristone--JONG-FAST: Yes, yes.RAMPELL: --an abortion and miscarriage treatment pill, through the mail. So, you know, it hasn't been enforced for decades, it's this law from the 1800s. How big of a deal do you think this could be, if Todd Blanche does as he says and looks into whether he can enforce this law?How big of a deal would that be for women's health, and how big of a deal would that be politically?MOLLY JONG-FAST: Okay, so this is something that the right has been very excited about for a long time. It's an 18th century obscenity law. It has - the Comstock Act was one of these, sort of, zombie laws that people stopped - you know, it was never taken off the books because it hadn't been used--RAMPELL: Right.JONG-FAST: --in hundreds of years. What I think - look, I think they talked about it, a couple of other senators talked about it during the hearings, too. It's definitely the fantasy they all have is that they're going to make it so they can't ship abortion bills, and - abortion pills - and it will mean that there will be many fewer abortions. I think they're going to have some trouble doing it just because of, like, the sheer volume of mail and the incredible incompetence of this administration and how you're going to, you know, just put this in action. But the idea of it is very scary, right? The idea that they can go in and use laws that we know - that are so antiquated and are not - were not created for this and are not about this to take away things from women, rights, health, you know, this is all this post-Roe America where everything we have can be taken away.RAMPELL: Yeah, I will also point out that there are now efforts afoot by this administration to make it harder to ship mifepristone and ballots through the mail, but make it easier to ship--RAMPELL AND JONG-FAST: --guns.