Following the final episode of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night, MS NOW’s Morning Joe lavished praise upon the disgraced host Stephen Colbert. Despite the cancellation announcement going out in July of 2025, The Late Show was permitted to run for almost another year before finally keeling over on May 21, and afterwards, its only mourners were the legacy media. After playing a cringe-worthy portion of the final Late Show episode, Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski, Jonathan Lemire, and Willie Geist, who were filling in for Joe Scarborough, welcomed author and historian Jon Meacham, columnist and former Washington Post associate editor Eugene Robinson, and Puck News journalist and podcaster Matthew Belloni on air to simp over Stephen Colbert. “Stephen is an architect of the culture,” Meacham began the Colbert worship service that Morning Joe and many other mainstream outlets had devolved into after The Late Show officially ended. He compared Colbert to musician Paul McCartney, the special guest on the series finale, suggesting the show was “a hinge in the cultural life of the country and of the West,” because Colbert happened to tape from the same Ed Sullivan Theater that The Beatles played at in 1964. Moreover, Meacham claimed that Colbert had an "enormous audience,” despite the fact that The Late Show was losing tens of millions of dollars every year and not getting enough views to justify the massive cost, which he ignored. Despite the utter failure of Stephen Colbert and his show, Meacham still lamented his loss from the airwaves: And here Colbert was as the capstone and one of the few things that could bring a lot of people together in this media climate, and I think we're going to miss him, miss his insight. And for those who say, 'Oh, he was too political, too partisan,' you know, always worry when they come for the comedians.      The liberal elitist media loves to harp on Colbert’s cancellation as an issue of politics and free speech. Immediately following Meacham’s remarks, Brzezinski suggested exactly that: I mean, there is - this is amidst a backdrop that is a little bit depressing for members of the media and people who believe in free speech. Robinson then touted Colbert as “such an amazing” and “talented man,” and The Late Show as “a touchstone in our cultural life,” before Lemire brought it back to politics: Yeah, pretty - pretty ideal closer last night. And, yeah, Colbert didn't mention Trump by name, but of course, the Trump and the pressure on CBS and Paramount, you know, was noted throughout the week.   Of course, President Trump, though he criticized Colbert and other media figures, held no real power over CBS’s hosts, and the decision to terminate The Late Show was much more financial than political. Belloni acknowledged this point, but then continued to speculate about Trump’s involvement: And yet, there is this kind of stink of politics that has been around this cancellation … Trump has gone after late night and Colbert in general. So the speculation is that, well, maybe there was some, the financial motivations were real. The politics of the situation had to at least play into the minds of the decision makers.  According to the panelists of Morning Joe, everything must be Trump’s fault, no matter the external circumstances. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read. MS NOW's Morning Joe May 22, 2026 6:06:20 (...) JONATHAN LEMIRE: You know, Jon Meacham, I know you know Stephen Colbert very well over the years. And there had been speculation, of course, that the Pope might be there, Colbert having fun with that. But the real hope, I think, from a lot of people was that maybe, just maybe, Paul McCartney would show up and bookend the Beatles 1964 Ed Sullivan Theater performances by closing things out for Stephen last night. And there he was, just extraordinary. JON MEACHAM: Yeah, you know, it's - Stephen is an architect of the culture.  And it - and on reflection, of course, the theater itself is that. The '64 arrival at Ed Sullivan changed global culture in 1964. In some ways, it's a hinge in the cultural life of the country and of the West.  And what Colbert has done, beginning with his character, Stephen Colbert, and his attack on truthiness, and really kind of the prescient ability he had to see where so much of our public life was going back in his Comedy Central days. And then he brought that to this enormous audience - what passes, certainly, for an enormous audience in this atomized world. That's another thing to think about, is think of how many people had to tune in to Ed Sullivan in 1964, because there weren't that many other options. And here Colbert was as the capstone and one of the few things that could bring a lot of people together in this media climate, and I think we're going to miss him, miss his insight. And for those who say, 'Oh, he was too political, too partisan,' you know, always worry when they come for the comedians. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, yeah, that's for sure. Eugene Robinson - EUGENE ROBINSON: Yeah - BRZEZINSKI: Your thoughts? I mean, there is - this is amidst a backdrop that is - ROBINSON: Yeah - BRZEZINSKI: - a little bit depressing for members of the media and people who believe in free speech. ROBINSON: You know, yeah. It's, you know, I mean, nothing lasts forever. But Stephen Colbert was such an amazing, and such - he is such a talented man. I was on his Comedy Central show once, and we had a lovely conversation in the green room before. And at the end he said, 'Now when we go out there, I'm not me. I'm that character.' And we got on the show and he was just perfect as the - BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. ROBINSON: - you know, with all his truthiness.  And - now what a bookend, though, to have McCartney, anyone my age or older remembers that night in 1964 on that very stage when indeed the Beatles and, you know, Paul McCartney right there did change the culture. And it's a - it's a very different world, now. There's something comforting about that to me, actually. It's a touchstone in our cultural life and - LEMIRE: Yeah, pretty - pretty ideal closer last night. And, yeah, Colbert didn't mention Trump by name, but of course, the Trump and the pressure on CBS and Paramount, you know, was noted throughout the week. Springsteen explicitly so a few days prior.  But as Colbert, it's not - he's extraordinarily talented, extraordinarily smart, a very decent man with a big heart. And that - that heart really filled last night, but the entire run of The Late Show, and I also think it is a safe bet; though this chapter closed, this is not the last we have seen of Stephen Colbert.  BRZEZINSKI: Yes, it'll be interesting - LEMIRE: He will do many brilliant things going forward, mhm. BRZEZINSKI: - It'll be interesting to see what he does with this. Our next guest says Stephen Colbert's final show marks 'The beginning of the end for late night TV.' Let's bring in founding partner of Puck, Matthew Belloni. He's the author of Puck's flagship newsletter, 'What I'm Hearing,' and the host of the podcast The Town. He's also the former editor of The Hollywood Reporter.  So, let's exercise our free speech and talk about what really is going on here: why he's leaving, what this is the backdrop of, what's coming in its place, and what this does mean for late night television? Matthew. MATTHEW BELLONI: Well, that's a lot there. And the fact of the matter is - is that The Late Show was losing money. I mean, according to my reporting, it was tens of millions of dollars that the show was losing each year. And yet, there is this kind of stink of politics that has been around this cancellation.  The move was made by the former owner of CBS. However, it was right as the sale to the Ellison family was going on, and obviously the Trump administration was very involved in that. They had been saying that they don't like the content on CBS, particularly, Trump has gone after late night and Colbert in general. So the speculation is that, well, maybe there was some, the financial motivations were real. The politics of the situation had to at least play into the minds of the decision makers.  And yet they gave him a year, they gave him an entire season of the show to go out on this run, and to have people like Springsteen on the show, to essentially bash the ownership on their own network. And I think that says something about the owners that they, yes, maybe they were doing this to appease Trump, but at least they kind of let him go out saying what he wanted to say. WILLIE GEIST: And we're - remind people of the timeline. They announced in July that Stephen's show had been canceled, and one week later to the day, that deal was approved for Paramount Skydance.  So, Matthew, your piece, you say this is the beginning of the end of late night TV. Obviously, Jimmy Kimmel has come under withering fire almost weekly, it seems, from President Trump. He's been suspended and come back to his job, there were calls a couple of weeks ago after the Correspondents' Dinner for him to be fired. He has not been.  So where do you see late night comedy going from here? It's been an institution going back to, you know, Jack Paar in this country. BELLONI: Yeah, I think that these current hosts, both Kimmel and Fallon and Meyers at CBS or at NBC, I think they will be the last to host these shows.  The economics of late night TV are just not there. The audience is not tuning in. They are on streaming platforms. They are on their phones. The habit of watching these late night shows after the local news is not there.  And, at least at CBS, they had not figured out the model to make money on the clips and the YouTube shows. They were making some, and Kimmel and Fallon make a lot more money on the digital application of those shows than CBS did. So I think that saves them for a little bit longer, especially now with Kimmel, that Trump has gone after him explicitly. Disney, which owns ABC, has now decided to fight the FCC on this. And this is a big deal, because they could have just bowed to Trump and said, 'okay, we'll take Kimmel off the air.' And they're not doing that. They suspended him in the fall for a couple nights around that Charlie Kirk joke that he made. But ultimately, the backlash was so swift, they brought him back and they figured out a way to deal with the station groups that air the show. But I do think that given the economics of late night, these hosts will be the last late night hosts. BRZEZINSKI: Founding partner of Puck, Matthew Belloni, thank you. We know it is an extremely early morning for you out on the West Coast, thank you so much for waking up for us.

Ever feel like you’re watching a completely different movie than the mainstream media? You aren't alone. This morning on The Eric Metaxas Show, host Eric Metaxas sat down with Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell to dive deep into the cultural echo chambers ruining late-night television. From Saturday Night Live to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, comedy has traded universal laughs for predictable partisan lectures. The numbers are staggering. Bozell highlighted a recent MRC study on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, revealing that an egregious 91% of their political jokes targeted Donald Trump and conservatives. But the issue goes far deeper than punchlines; late-night hosts have completely abandoned their duty to entertain the whole country. As Bozell puts it: "When you're tuning into late night, you're looking for a reprieve from politics. You're looking for a reprieve from the news. They just won't allow themselves to go outside of that bubble." With network affiliates pushing back and ratings cratering, is the classic late-night format dead for good? Can Hollywood ever recover its sense of humor, or are we stuck in the "Trump Derangement" loop forever? Even after assassination attempts, SNL's anti-conservative jokes reached 91%.@DavidBozell breaks down how late-night has gone too far with @ericmetaxas. pic.twitter.com/Vl44oRTaOe — Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 22, 2026 Want to hear more about the cultural bubble dividing our country and why everyday Americans are turning off mainstream TV? Watch the full video interview here!  

As law enforcement closed in to arrest him, Minnesota healthcare fraud suspect Muhammad Omar chose to take a 50-50 risk of jumping off a fourth-story balcony in order to flee authorities on Thursday during a citywide joint FBI-Justice Department enforcement operation. At a press conference announcing 15 public healthcare fraud indictments in Minnesota, FBI Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia asked the public for help identifying a fugitive who's a target in a Minnesota fraud investigation. "If you recognize this individual... If you can provide any information related to this individual, I would encourage you to call 1-800-CALL-FBI,” Raia said, showing video of a man limping away in flight after landing from his four-story jump. Whether he knew it or not at the time, Omar was taking a dangerous leap, since he had only a one-in-two chance of survival from a jump from four stories up, as Cambridge University’s Trauma Anesthesia 2nd Edition explains: “The median lethal distance for falls (LD50) is four stories or 48 feet (15 meters). This means that 50% of patients who fall four stories will die.” Despite hurting himself from the fall, Omar succeeded in avoiding capture by limiting away barefoot, likely aided by the benefit of adrenaline, which, as Biology Insights notes, helps people who are trying to “escape a dangerous situation”: “One significant effect is the temporary suppression of pain perception, allowing an injured individual to continue functioning and escape a dangerous situation despite discomfort. This analgesic effect enables focus on immediate action rather than the sensation of injury.”  

Even by the low standards of MS NOW, senior Washington correspondent Eugene Daniels’s Thursday appearance on Chris Jansing Reports was a stellar example of how not to do journalism. Daniels’s title suggests that the network views him as a reporter, but he decided to go full activist.  According to him, Democrats need “to be more comfortable with power” and that the party needs to focus more on “kitchen table issues," which he somehow defined as abortion and gender transitioning children. Reacting to the DNC’s autopsy, Jansing read a portion aloud that suggested Democrats’ problem is that they are just too smart for the electorate, “They claim Republicans are just better at politics. Quote, ‘At times it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason, even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.’ What should Democrats do with that?”   Yesterday, Eugene Daniels, whom MS NOW technically considers a reporter, reacts to the Democrats' autopsy by saying the party "should be more comfortable with the idea of power" and urges them to talk more about abortion and transing kids "When you talk about whether or not… pic.twitter.com/vXcr4RZbdT — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) May 22, 2026   Daniels began his response by declaring, “They should be more comfortable with the idea of power. And this is something that Democrats have been saying. I've talked to Chuck about this in the past, the idea that at the end of the day, if you are not in office, you can't do anything. And when you talk about winning hearts and minds, that is very important.” Before anyone could wonder where the evidence for the idea that Democrats aren’t power-hungry enough is, Daniels continued: When you talk about issues that matter to marginalized people, that is very important. But you can do those things and still win elections so that you can actually change laws and not just worry about hearts and minds. When, you know, the question about whether or not you should focus on ‘identity politics,’ like Donald Trump only focuses on identity politics, right? It is. It is the heart of the MAGA movement, right? That white people are being replaced. This conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact that, you know, brown—black and brown people are taking the jobs of folks. That is identity politics. Daniels also claimed, “The difference is that Republicans also use—they use that with the rage, and they point it somewhere. Democrats don't do the same thing. There are some who are trying. They have been trying. But you can use ‘identity politics,’ quote unquote, as a kitchen table issue, right?” Usually, kitchen table issues mean things like the jobs or the cost of living, but Daniels took an extremely broad definition: When you talk about whether or not people can have access to healthy abortions—safe abortions, that is a kitchen table issue, right? Whether or not a trans kid can get the services they need, that is a kitchen table issue for families. So, it's about crafting the message in a way that actually gets to the point that Chuck and a lot of other folks say, which is people look at the money leaving their pockets, they look at the party in power, they want some change, and they're willing to flirt with candidates and with parties they haven't been before. Daniels wrapped up by asserting that “Democrats have an opportunity and are trying to figure out how to take that opportunity but have an opportunity to actually be an answer for folks.” If Democrats take Daniels’s advice and define “kitchen table issues” as “progressive culture war issues," they should be prepared to write even more autopsies. Here is a transcript for the May 21 show: MS NOW Chris Jansing Reports 5/21/2026 12:35 PM ET CHRIS JANSING: There is another takeaway, Eugene. They claim Republicans are just better at politics. Quote, “At times it seems Democrats are trying to win arguments while Republicans are focused on winning elections. Democrats operate in an ecosystem defined by reason, even in cycles when the electorate is defined by rage.” What should Democrats do with that? EUGENE DANIELS: They should be more comfortable with the idea of power. And this is something that Democrats have been saying. I've talked to Chuck about this in the past, the idea that at the end of the day, if you are not in office, you can't do anything. And when you talk about winning hearts and minds, that is very important. When you talk about issues that matter to marginalized people, that is very important. But you can do those things and still win elections so that you can actually change laws and not just worry about hearts and minds. When, you know, the question about whether or not you should focus on “identity politics,” like Donald Trump only focuses on identity politics, right? It is. It is the heart of the MAGA movement, right? That white people are being replaced. This conspiracy theory that has no basis in fact that, you know, brown—black and brown people are taking the jobs of folks. That is identity politics. The difference is that Republicans also use—they use that with the rage, and they point it somewhere. Democrats don't do the same thing. There are some who are trying. They have been trying. But you can use “identity politics,” quote unquote, as a kitchen table issue, right? When you talk about whether or not people can have access to healthy abortions—safe abortions, that is a kitchen table issue, right? Whether or not a trans kid can get the services they need, that is a kitchen table issue for families. So, it's about crafting the message in a way that actually gets to the point that Chuck and a lot of other folks say, which is people look at the money leaving their pockets, they look at the party in power, they want some change, and they're willing to flirt with candidates and with parties they haven't been before. And Democrats have an opportunity and are trying to figure out how to take that opportunity but have an opportunity to actually be an answer for folks.

On Thursday, the Democratic National Committee’s 2024 autopsy finally reached the public view, and its error-filled, omission-laden contents were laid bare following a much-ballyhooed, will-they-or-won’t-they-release-it strategy by Chairman Ken Martin as the party struggles to achieve basic aims like fundraising. Unsurprisingly, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored it on their flagship Thursday night and Friday morning newscasts. Along with having received heavy coverage on cable, the autopsy was still on the radar of these networks in the form of stories online and copious coverage on their respective streaming channels of ABC News Live, CBS News 24/7, and NBC News NOW. Our friend and Daily Caller editor-in-chief Amber Duke pointed out many of the wild omissions: The leaked DNC autopsy doesn't mention: - Inflation or Bidenflation - Podcasts - Women's sports, bathrooms - Pronouns - Catholics, Christians, or evangelicals - 'Religion' or 'Religious' - White men - Anything related to MAHA - Gas prices And: - Only one mention of trans… — Amber Duke (@ambermarieduke) May 21, 2026 NBC’s omission was particularly egregious as NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas covered it a mere half hour later on his NBC News NOW show, Top Story. And not only did he mention it, he spent nearly nine minutes breaking it down with two liberal strategists. OMISSION WATCH: NBC has yet to mention the release of the 2024 DNC autopsy report on either of the lead newscasts – Thursday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ or Friday’s ‘Today.’ But Tom Llamas – who anchors the former – had nearly nine minutes on his NBC News NOW show that airs immediately… pic.twitter.com/qqitPKFKAL — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 22, 2026 Here was Llamas’s quick summation before bringing in Ashley Etienne and Corbin Trent: Now to the deepening divisions within the Democratic Party and the long-awaited release of the so-called 2024 election autopsy. The report was commissioned by Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin. Its purpose? To help the party understand why former Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump. Martin got an independent consultant to write it, but then put off its release, saying it was badly done. After pressure from other Democrats, today, the DNC chair published the 192-page draft that he says is still littered with typos and inaccuracies. The paper argues that Harris wrote off rural voters and failed to attack President Trump with sufficient negative firepower. The DNC adding disclaimers that the autopsy doesn’t reflect the committee’s views.  Sounds serious! Perhaps there should have been, say, even a news brief on this during the big show. Etienne was indignant, blasting the DNC’s “complete failure of leadership” by Martin in two basic jobs of “raise money and...win elections” and the autospy lacked “a vision on how to rebuild this party, how to win elections going forward from the state level to the national level.” “Ken Martin made this entire autopsy debate about himself rather than about the party, about how to rebuild the party and how to bring back what we’re seeing — a bleeding support among the party’s base vote voters,” she added. Etienne defended her former boss, Kamala Harris (click “expand”): LLAMAS: So, do you think that publishing this document was unfair to your former boss, Vice President Harris? I mean, it is called an autopsy. And Democrats lost the election, so it was going to be tough regardless, wasn’t it? ETIENNE: Well, I think she’s vindicated in this document. And she wrote a book about, you know, the 107 Days — and in the book, she made, you know — made assertions that she didn’t get the level of support from the campaign, that the campaign had significant failures in terms of messaging, in terms of its aggression on messaging towards Donald Trump. And that’s what this document actually lays out. So, she’s — she’s fairly vindicated here. But let me just say this. You know, the Democratic Party, the backbone of the Democratic Party is black voters and Ken martin and the Democratic Party owes an explanation to black voters who have been substantially destroyed and attacked from our political power to our economic power by this particular administration, over 600,000 jobs, we’ve lost 8.5 percent unemployment. And we’ve — in the past two weeks have lost we’ve seen 400 years of black political progress undermined with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. The party has to explain what happened to the money. That’s what’s missing from this actual report, is what’s happened to the money[.] Trent also seethed the autopsy “didn’t recognize in any of the last decades that I’ve been involved in this process is that the Democratic Party’s policies aren’t working.” Unlike Etienne, he argued that, at the end of the day, an election’s win or loss starts with the candidate, regardless of the people around them. As for something Nightly News did cover, they had a brief on a would-be burglar at a café finding himself trapped in one of its walls. Thursday’s CBS Evening News and Friday’s CBS Mornings were also out to lunch. The latter instead covered topics such as a brawl at a Toledo, Ohio kindergarten graduation. Just like NBC, CBS buried it on their streaming channel with mentions throughout the day, including on their lead newscast, The Daily Report. Here was fill-in host Meg Oliver: The DNC has released its long-awaited autopsy report on its 2024 election loss. Party chair Ken Martin kept the nearly 200-page document under wraps for months, as other Democrats pressured him to release it. Today, he said the report “does not meet my standards.” Martin said he ultimately chose to release it in an effort of transparency. Among some of the report’s findings, it blames former Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss on a lack of support from former President Joe Biden’s team. It also blamed the Democratic Party for not emphasizing President Trump’s negatives.  Just like NBC, they turned to a liberal political operative in CBS News contributor Joel Payne to give his thoughts (click “expand”): You know, Hanlon’s razor tells us, don’t blame malice when stupidity is just as good of an answer. And I think that actually, to me, summarizes how I feel about this report — both the contents of the report and also the process by which it took the DNC to get to getting this report and to releasing it. I think Democrats did themselves such a disservice by how the DNC went through a process of collecting this information, processing it, trying to hold it from the public, doing all the things essentially that the report said that people were frustrated with from the Democratic Party in 2024. In many ways, this report, the handling of it, is actually the perfect encapsulation of why the public, so much of the public, particularly so much of the base of the Democratic Party, broke with the party and did not show up in 2024 when they needed them. (....) I think what’s missing from it primarily is a conclusion, because if you looked at the report, you see it didn’t actually have a conclusion that was provided by the author. The DNC had to develop one. I think also the types of audiences that it was supposed to speak to, many of them are missing. I think some of the topics that it could have covered Gaza and the situation in the Middle East being a big driver of distrust and frustration with the Democratic brand in 2024, that was missing. I mean, I got all day here, Meg. There’s a lot that’s missing from this report. The last thing I would just say to you really quickly is I think that people are look, they’re thinking today about this report as kind of the main character. And while I understand that the main character isn’t the report. It’s the lack of trust, it’s the lack of credibility, and it’s the lack of competence that was on display by the report’s author and by the DNC and how they handled it. And I think that’s an important framing to keep in mind. Disney’s ABC didn’t care to find time on Thursday’s World News Tonight and Friday’s Good Morning America. But, true to form, Good Morning America channeled its not-so-inner corporate whore with a segment promoting new Disney Parks attractions celebrating The Mandalorian and Grogu and Bluey!. In terms of on-air mentions, ABC stashed them over on ABC News Live, including two segments on ABC News Live Prime. Host Linsey Davis first mentioned it at the end of an interview with Fairfax County, Virginia Democrat Congressman James Walkinshaw. Davis described the report as having “found that the White House did not do enough to elevate Vice President Harris and detailed some, but not all, of the moments that led to her loss in 2024” and then asked if it was “a mistake for the DNC chairman, Ken Martin, not to release this sooner,” whether Martin should be replaced, and whether it was a mistake to not “mention..the debate in the party over support for Israel and the war in Gaza.” The second segment was a little more traditional with Davis going back-and-forth with ABC News political director Avery Harper. Disney-owned ABC News couldn’t bring itself on Thursday’s ‘World News Tonight’ or Friday’s ‘Good Morning America’ to mention the 2024 DNC autopsy, but buried it with a number of reports on ABC News Live. Here was one of them during ‘ABC News Prime’ with host Linsey Davis and… pic.twitter.com/ZQQBTYuw2r — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 22, 2026 Like a loyal liberal journalist, Harper insisted there was little to talk about since “we didn’t learn anything dramatically new” other than to “put a finger on some of the most painful realities” such as Democrats “not do[ing] enough to build Kamala Harris up as a presidential candidate...and that it struggled to make an affirmative sort of case for her candidacy[.]” “[T]he party underestimated just how much economic anxiety there was out there and how much cultural issues were hurting them with key voting blocks,” she added in a cartoonish understatement. Asked to explain “why it took so long for this report to become public,” Harper said Martin insisted “[h]e didn’t want to distract...from some of the victories that we saw for Democrats in off year elections in November of 2025, instead claiming that the party wanted to look ahead to the coming elections in which they are favored to” win. Davis closed with a question as to what surprised her about things being left out. Again showing her bias, Harper didn’t mention the lack of focus on Biden’s health, transgenderism in women’s sports, or even hemorrhaging male votes. Harper joined Payne and Davis from earlier with Walkinshaw in citing Gaza: You know, it surprised me that it does not mention the issue of Biden’s handling of Israel and Gaza. We know that that was an incredibly important issue, particularly for young voters, for Arab American voters in places like Michigan, key battleground states. This report makes no mention of it. To see the relevant transcripts from May 21, click here (for ABC News Live), here (for CBS News 24/7), and here (for NBC News NOW).