After speaking with President Donald Trump on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his country will do whatever it takes to defend itself, regardless of any agreement the U.S. strikes with the terrorist Iranian regime. Netanyahu detailed his conversation with Trump in a video posted on his X.com account. In it, he reports that Trump is confident that an acceptable agreement to achieve U.S. military objectives can be reached with Iran: “Earlier today, I spoke with our friend President Trump. President Trump believes there is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have attained with the U.S. military to realize the war objectives in the agreement—an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests.” Nonetheless, Israel is continuing its successful strikes on both Iran and Lebanon – but, with its hand “outstretched” – Prime Minister Netanyahu says: “At the same time, we continue to strike both in Iran and in Lebanon. We are crushing the missile program and the nuclear program, and continuing to inflict severe blows on Hezbollah. Just days ago, we eliminated two more nuclear scientists—and the hand is still outstretched.” “We will safeguard our vital interests in any scenario,” Netanyahu vows. Earlier today I spoke with our friend President Trump. President Trump believes there is an opportunity to leverage the tremendous achievements we have reached alongside the US military to realize the goals of the war through an agreement that will safeguard our vital interests. pic.twitter.com/15Z7fRvvQX — Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) March 23, 2026

ABC’s The View was outraged on Monday in reaction to President Trump’s Truth Social post celebrating the death of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, because of the Russia Collusion Hoax. The cast predicted “karma” would eventually find Trump and people would celebrate his demise. They also falsely suggested that no one celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and whined that they had to hear about it.  “This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because he is a mean person, with a dark heart, verbal diarrhea, and no impulse control,” screeched fake Republican Ana Navarro. “Mean,” “dark heart,” and “verbal diarrhea.” The same could be said about The View. Navarro went on to predict that karma would find Trump one day for his post and others would celebrate his death: But let me just say this, karma never forgets an address and he is 80 years old, he's got obvious visible physical ailments, and there will be people that when he passes away - as we will all passed away - will write these type of things and celebrate. “If you don't condemn it today from him you don't have a right to condemn it then from anybody!” Navarro scolded Trump’s supporters.   While condemning Trump for celebrating the death of Robert Mueller, Ana Navarro looks forward to the day they can all celebrate Trump's death: "This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because… pic.twitter.com/LZGoTLI0LJ — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 23, 2026   The left (and likely The View) would indeed celebrate the death of Trump or any Republican figure regardless of the post. The View, literally decried the notion of getting Supreme Court justices increased security after a liberal attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Navarro herself scoffed at the idea of decrying the use of political violence to kill Trump after the assassination attempts against him. The View even openly refused to tone down their incendiary rhetoric against Trump after the attempts to kill him and defended it. A short time later, on Monday, moderator Whoopi Goldberg insanely suggested that liberals didn’t celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk. “I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about Charlie Kirk,” she whined. Still under the illusion that playing a nun in some comedy movies gave her the authority to lecture about God and religion, Goldberg lectured people on the right about not having “empathy” and “decency” during times like this: GOLDBERG: And yet you don't have the courage or the -- it's not even empathy. HOSTIN: Decency. GOLDBERG: Just the decency to say, 'do you know what, go with God. I didn't like what he did, I didn't like what he did to me, but go with God.' This is what we say about people we don't like. If we don't like their politics, if we don't like their personage, 'go with God. I don't like you, but god loves you.' That's what we do. That's how America is supposed to run regardless of what god you are talking about.   Whoopi Goldberg suggests no one celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination and whines about people who were upset by it. She then compares it to what Trump said about Mueller: GOLDBERG: I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about… pic.twitter.com/2nUxxLEwTv — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) March 23, 2026   Meanwhile, after the assassination attempts on Trump, Goldberg lashed out his grandkids at the Republican National Conference and denied that Trump was a human being. Glaring at the camera, Goldberg demanded: “I know his grandchild was up on the thing and they're trying to humanize him and change your idea about who this guy is. Don't fall for that!” Don’t “fall” for what Whoopi? That Trump was human? The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View March 23, 2026 11:21:49 a.m. Eastern (…) ANA NAVARRO: This is the same thing he did with John McCain after he died, this is the same thing he did with Rob Reiner. This is who he is because he is a mean person, with a dark heart, verbal diarrhea, and no impulse control. But let me just say this, karma never forgets an address and he is 80 years old, he's got obvious visible physical ailments, and there will be people that when he passes away - as we will all passed away - will write these type of things and celebrate. If you don't condemn it today from him you don't have a right to condemn it then from anybody! (…) 11:23:03 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I listen to you guys kvetch and clutch your pearls about what you thought was being said about Charlie Kirk. I listened to you. We felt for his family. SUNNY HOSTIN: Absolutely. GOLDBERG: And yet you don't have the courage or the -- it's not even empathy. HOSTIN: Decency. GOLDBERG: Just the decency to say, 'do you know what, go with God. I didn't like what he did, I didn't like what he did to me, but go with God.' This is what we say about people we don't like. If we don't like their politics, if we don't like their personage, 'go with God. I don't like you, but god loves you.' That's what we do. That's how America is supposed to run regardless of what god you are talking about. And we will be right back before God gets mad at us.

Early Thursday, 18-year-old Loyola University of Chicago student Sheridan Gorman was murdered by a lone gunman on a Lake Michigan pier as she strolled with classmates hoping to catch the Northern Lights. Two days later, Fox’s Matt Finn revealed police detained a violent, 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela as suspect. Of course, he reportedly arrived in the U.S. during the Biden border crisis. Of course, this heinous killing — which Finn’s colleague Bill Melugin dubbed “Laken Riley 2.0” — has been of zero interest to the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC and CBS with zero mentions on Sunday or Monday. In NBC’s case, they had the gall to cover it for 98 seconds on Sunday’s Nightly News, but hid from viewers the crucial details about the suspect. Sunday anchor Hallie Jackson twice teased the story before telling viewers of “a potential break in the investigation into the death of a Chicago college student shot and killed while out with friends.” Correspondent Valerie Castro couldn’t have been more vague: “Tonight in Chicago, police revealing a person of interest is now being questioned in connection with the death of Sheridan Gorman, a Loyola University freshman.” WATCH: Sunday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ had almost 90 seconds on last week’s murder of a Loyola of Chicago student and that “a person of interest” has been detained, IGNORING any mention of the fact that the suspect is an illegal alien from Venezuela pic.twitter.com/iqddWdSYVm — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 “Goreman was shot and killed early Thursday just minutes from the Chicago campus at a beach along Lake Michigan. The death a shock to the close knit campus community in denial,” Castro added. The NBC reporter remarkable cut out the fact that Gorman’s family released their statement and phrased it as they did (“she should still be here”) because of the revelation about the suspect being in the country illegally: Her family says the 18-year-old was out with friends around 1:30 in the morning near this pier, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights when police say the group was approached by a masked man. The man fired a single shot and Sheridan and died at the scene according to authorities. “She was doing something entirely normal,” her family writing, “walking with friends close to home in an area where she had every reason to feel safe,” adding, “our daughter’s life was not expendable. She should still be here.” Friends placing flowers in the area where she died to commemorate her life. Castro quickly came to an end after the second of two soundbites from a friend of Gorman’s: “Tonight, a community left shattered and a family asking why.” NBC was so convinced this was the way to go that they re-aired Castro’s piece on Monday’s overnight show, Early Today. Before the details about the suspect had come to light, Friday’s NBC Nightly News spent 97 seconds on the senseless killing and the heartbroken Loyola student body, further rendering Sunday’s update even more galling for how little new information was offered. Just over an hour prior to this bombshell about this illegal immigrant (who was also on the streets despite facing shoplifting charges), ABC’s World News Tonight had a 19-second brief on Saturday from Whit Johnson: Chicago police say they’re questioning a person of interest in the deadly shooting of a college student. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was killed early Thursday morning. She had been walking with friends on a lakefront pier not far from Loyola University where she was a freshman. Police say they don’t believe she was the intended target. Along with ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight with Linsey Davis, CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News with Jericka Duncan couldn’t be bothered to cover the murder, let alone do so accurately. But what made their silence even more embarrassing was the fact that both their little-watched, overnight shows — Good Morning America First Look and CBS News Mornings — were able to both cover Gorman’s death and spotlight the reality of migrant crime. While the lead ABC and CBS morning and evening shows chose to ignore through Monday morning the murder of Sheridan Gorman by an illegal alien, their little-watched, overnight shows ‘Good Morning America First Look’ and ‘CBS News Mornings’ told those who did watch them the truth pic.twitter.com/QzjLhTUVe7 — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 23, 2026 GMA First Look had nearly two minutes, starting with co-host Sophie Flay cutting right to the chase: “We’re back with an arrest in the shocking murder of a college student in Chicago. Federal officials say the suspect entered the U.S. illegally.” Overnight ABC correspondent Alison Kosik didn’t waste anyone’s time either: Overnight, authorities announcing an arrest in the murder of Loyola university student Sheridan Gorman. Homeland Security officials say the alleged shooter is 25-year-old Jose Medina, who they say illegally entered the U.S. from Venezuela. They say he was released after being apprehended by Border Patrol back in 2023, and was released again after a shoplifting arrest in Chicago. In between two soundbites from a friend of Gorman’s, Kosik relayed the facts thus far of the case, including how, while Gorman and friends were on the Chicago pier, “a man approached the group, took out a gun, and opened fire,” leaving Gorman “shot in the head.” Kosik included portions of the Gorman family statement NBC were too cowardly to include: Her family saying, “we will not allow this to be dismissed as ‘wrong place, wrong time.’ This was not random misfortune. This was a violent and preventable act,” adding, “we are gravely disappointed by the policies and failures that allowed this individual to remain in a position to commit this crime.” After a vigil on campus, students are demanding more safety measures. She wrapped by saying “Jose Medina is expected in court later today” and has “not yet entered a plea[.]” Following the Monday newscasts, it was shared the hearing did not go forward as this illegal alien was diagnosed with tuberculosis (really). CBS News Mornings had a 27-second brief from host Michael George: Well, breaking overnight charges have been filed against a Venezuelan migrant in the shooting death of a Loyola University freshman. Chicago police charged Jose Medina with murder and other charges in connection to Thursday’s shooting. 18-year-old Sheridan Gorman was walking with friends near a pier when masked — when police say a masked gunman opened fire. The Department of Homeland Security says Medina has been living in the U.S.. illegally. He’s due in court today for a detention hearing. To see the relevant transcripts, click here (for March 20’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 21’s World News Tonight), here (for March 22’s NBC Nightly News), here (for March 23’s ABC’s Good Morning America First Look), and here (for March 23’s CBS News Mornings).

It's not the story that Politico really wanted but unfortunately for them, it is the story they ended up with due to cold hard reality. The story in question by Erica Orden appeared on Sunday, "The Epstein files’ cottage industry." What is interesting is that none of the clients that the lawyers are representing is named Donald Trump despite the desperate Politico attempt in the summer of 2025 to link the President to Jeffrey Epstein culminating in SIX Epstein-Trump stories in a 24 hour period in July of that year. As you read the story about the new "cottage industry" for lawyers, the main takeaway is the absence of Trump as a client despite the previous red hot Politico hopium last year that this would not be the case. Scores of people named in the files — including high-profile figures as well as people whose names may have simply been mentioned in an email — have turned to criminal defense lawyers to help them navigate public scrutiny or professional blowback from their relationship with late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein or his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. Major organizations and academic institutions have also enlisted some of the biggest white-shoe law firms to conduct internal investigations into their ties to Epstein and Maxwell.  Imagine if all those Politico writers last year forced to write Trump-Epstein tales could have traveled in a time machine to the current period and had seen such a story sans any suggestion that Trump had been implicated. Would they experience a sense of anger or frustration that all their work dig dig digging for that elusive Trump-Epstein connection had been for naught? Among the prominent clients of lawyers needing legal defense help  concerning the Epstein files was also someone who is easily much better known that most of  the others: Bill Gates. And the difference between Bill Gates and Donald Trump upon whom Politico was so focused on last year is that Gates actually does have a very strong connection to Jeffrey Epstein even beyond the fact it was a major cause for his divorce. Politico obviously isn't unaware of such a connection since last December it published this story, "Bill Gates appears in newly released photos from Epstein estate." Gates' absence from the current Politico story is even more mysterious since a few days ago, his Gates foundation popped up in the news with nefarious revelations about the strong ties that Epstein had to it as illustrated by this Vanity Fair article last Thursday, "Jeffrey Epstein's Lasting Grip on the Gates Foundation." Buried among the massive tranche of documents released by the DOJ in January and the roughly 4,000 pages of grants on the Gates Foundation website is yet another complicated Epstein story: ghost-written emails, Middle Eastern intelligence, a personal loan to the former head of a prestigious think tank who allegedly helped afford visas to young Eastern European women. Between 2013 and 2019, the Gates Foundation provided $8 million in grants to the International Peace Institute (IPI), a think tank that works closely with the United Nations and is focused on multilateral approaches to global peace and security. According to emails released by the DOJ, Epstein appeared to help facilitate a large portion of those funds. The most prominent of Epstein's clients and now his entire foundation has come under scrutiny due to the release of the Epstein files and yet Erica Orden somehow avoids mentioning him despite the fact this is something that would supercharge the Epstein files "cottage industry?" Last summer we saw the frenzy that Politico went into over someone it obviously detests so is the opposite effect now happening in which Politico provides cover to one it favors despite the revelations in the Epstein Files?

It’s time to find out who had the Worst Media Quote of the Week. This interactive series is where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media quote of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results of the Worst Media Quote of the Week are in and the winner is… Anand Giridharadas! The frequent MS NOW guest won with a whopping 73 percent of the vote. Giridharadas took first place for claiming Adolf Hitler wasn’t as bad as President Donald Trump because at least he wasn’t “selling merch.” Former ESPN/MSNBC host Keith Olbermann came in second place with 16 percent. Finishing last was ABC’s The View co-host Joy Behar at 11 percent. Check out the following clip (via the MRC Video team) to see the nominees in action:     Watch the Worst Quotes presented by @TJTAW44 and @Justine_Brooke pic.twitter.com/qL5h7mUZai — Media Research Center (@theMRC) March 19, 2026   WINNER (73 percent of the vote)   Anand Giridharadas: Hitler Was Not as Bad as Trump, At Least He Wasn’t “Selling Merch” “I think he’s [Donald Trump] like, a highly incompetent person trying to do an authoritarian attempt and trying to barnacle the authoritarian attempt with so much personal stealing or whatever, which, by the way, a lot of these authoritarians have the discipline to not do. I don’t know. Someone’s going to call me on. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t think Hitler was selling merch.”— Frequent MS NOW guest Anand Giridharadas on Real Patriotism with Terry Moran, March 11.   SECOND PLACE (16 percent of the vote)   Keith Olbermann: Trump Has Personally Turned Iran Into “Instant Processed Vietnam” “Trump is personally losing the war in Iran. Trump is personally turning Iran into instant processed Vietnam! If we do not want the United States to lose this war, to be materially hurt by this moron’s buccaneering bullshit – and we don’t! We all live here! He has to go!...Iran could never - in a million years - harm this country as much as Donald Trump has harmed it, in the last two weeks.”— Former MSNBC/ESPN host Keith Olbermann on his Countdown podcast, March 16.   THIRD PLACE (11 percent of the vote)   Joy Behar: Trump Is a “Shell of a Human Being” “He [Donald Trump] doesn’t care if there’s a war or that people are suffering or - I mean, he stopped AIDS relief for people in Africa. He’s just a shell of a human being.”  — Co-host Joy Behar on ABC’s The View, March 18.   Thanks again to all who participated!    Sponsored by James P. Jimirro