On Sunday, CNN’s State of the Union hosted Representative Veronica Escobar (D-TX) and seemed to have either forgotten about or ignored the defamation lawsuit that befell ABC and Good Morning America/This Week co-host George Stephanopoulos when he falsely accused President Trump of rape. Escobar did just that. Thankfully, Congresswoman Nancy Mace (R-SC), who was there when Stephanopoulos committed his expensive faux pas, was not having any of it. Co-host Dana Bash began by playing a clip of Platner responding to “new accusations from former girlfriends” alleging “unsettling behavior.” Since both Platner and Escobar are in the same political party, Bash asked Escobar for her reaction to the accusations. Not seeming to care, Escobar responded, “Of course it concerns me, but I will also say what concerns me even at an even greater level is Susan Collins getting reelected.” She then pivoted quickly and went on a rant about Collins and how she supports the “most corrupt, incompetent president we’ve ever had.” Still not addressing the allegations, Escobar focused more on her upcoming races. She continued “and if folks are concerned about Mr. Platner, wait until they hear about the Senate candidate in my state, Ken Paxton.”   CNN: Escobar Deflects Platner Allegations#cnn #escobar @mace #news pic.twitter.com/wDzi7AvhFz — Sarah (@scbpoli) June 10, 2026   Immediately, Mace exclaimed: “What I just heard is disgusting and gross.” She emphasized that this conversation should be about the “physical abuse of women.” Mace called out Escobar’s insensitivity by saying, “we're supposed to be against rape, but we want to win a race, so anything to win that race, including shoving women aside.” Mace continued that, unlike Escobar, she is “trying to get predators, sexual predators, and rapists out of Congress, not back into Congress.” She proclaimed that “there is no one in Congress who's put their political career on the line more for women and underage girls than I have.” Escobar tried to interject and bring up President Trump as a counterpoint but Mace immediately clapped back and said, “As a rape survivor, I find nothing more disgusting than that and I would tell you the last time someone accused Donald Trump of rape, that network paid $15 million in a defamation suit.” Escobar then made the false claim that Trump was “found guilty by a jury of his peers” and how “it is incredible about how much cover and comfort they give to a convicted felon and to someone who's been an adjudicated case of rape.” Bash ended the segment by clarifying that Trump’s case was a civil case and not a criminal case, “so he was not found guilty.” Of course, there was not a scintilla of pushback from Bash. Wonder if the President’s legal team noticed. Click "Expand" to view transcript: CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash 06/07/2026 9:32 a.m. Eastern DANA BASH: That was Graham Platner Friday night responding to new accusations against him from former girlfriends, who describe unsettling behavior. Maine's primary is this Tuesday. My panel is with me. Congresswoman Escobar, I'll start with you because he's a member of your party. Does that concern you? REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR (D-TX): Of course. Of course it concerns me. But I will also say what concerns me even at an even greater level is Susan Collins getting reelected. She has given cover and comfort to the most corrupt, incompetent president we've ever had and, hopefully, the people of Maine will take away the seat from her, whoever the nominee is. And if folks are concerned about Mr. Platner, wait until they hear about the Senate candidate in my state, Ken Paxton. He is someone who I hope gets as much coverage as the Maine candidate is getting, because what we know in Texas about Ken Paxton is pretty horrifying, even people within his own party. BASH: Congresswoman Mace? REP. NANCY MACE (R-SC): What I just heard is disgusting and gross. This is -- we're supposed to be against the physical abuse of women. We're supposed to be against rape, but we want to win a race, so anything to win that race, including shoving women aside. If you believe "The New York Times," his ex-girlfriend said that he held his arm behind her back. If that's the case, she was one second away from being raped or being murdered. I'm trying to get predators, sexual predators, and rapists out of Congress, not back into Congress and there is no one in Congress who's put their political career on the line more for women and underage girls than I have. I have taken on my party. I have taken on the Democrats. I've taken on both parties, because if the moral clarity of our politicians today are, rape is bad, but we want to get this guy elected, I don't know how you expect -- BASH: I just want to be clear. ESCOBAR: ... say thing about Donald Trump. BASH: But one second. One second. I just want to be clear here. There's no allegation of rape. The allegation was other physical altercations, which he strongly disputes. He disputes any allegations of physical... MACE: -- rape fantasies. I find nothing -- as a rape survivor, I find nothing more disgusting than that. And I would tell you the last time someone accused Donald Trump of rape, that network paid $15 million in a defamation suit. ESCOBAR: He was found guilty by a jury of his peers. MACE: I would be real careful about telling that lie. ESCOBAR: It really is incredible. It is incredible about how much cover and comfort they give to a convicted felon and to someone who's been an adjudicated case of rape. MACE: I would be real careful about telling that lie. BASH: And, again, I just want to make clear here this was a civil case. It was not a criminal case, so he wasn't found guilty.

Here's some popcorn viewing for Republicans. ABC's The View announced on Thursday that Vice President J.D. Vance will appear on the show on Tuesday to discuss current events as well as his new book Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith. Vance will be the third sitting vice president to appear, after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. All six co-hosts are expected to participate -- Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro. Whoopi Goldberg announced the forthcoming event and actually said Vance's name out loud -- unlike the way she avoids saying Trump's name.  Whoopi Goldberg announced that J.D. Vance would appear next Tuesday on "The View." She actually said his name, unlike the way she avoids saying Trump's name. Will she try not to say Trump's name when Vance is sitting there? pic.twitter.com/q7HHKtIWYA — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 11, 2026 Nick Fondacaro's NewsBusters study noted The View had a total of 341 guests in 2025 -- 128 liberal guests to just two who were identified as conservative, while 128 were liberal. The two were Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (while she was still in office) and actress Cheryl Hines, who was pressed to defend her husband, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Some conservatives think this isn't worth Vance's time, as the hosts will surely ambush him and press him to denounce President Trump on something, anything. Liberals suggest this happened because FCC Chairman Brendan Carr is probing whether the show violates equal-time requirements for candidates -- but Vance isn't a candidate this year.  We can easily predict the View crew will push Vance about his wife Usha's Hindu faith, and his statement that he hopes for her to become Christian, which they found rude when discussing the Vances back in March. It seemed "very far apart to me," said Sunny Hostin.  Vance family flashback: On the March 31 blabber on ""The View," Sunny Hostin expressed distaste for JD Vance hoping his wife would someday accept the Christian gospel as rude, as in domineering. Then Joy Behar dropped bombs that the Vances have "done a 180" in their views for… pic.twitter.com/SAl9XZjHsy — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 11, 2026 Joy Behar jumped in: “The whole political scene is weird because people -- like you say, she was a Democrat till 2014. Her husband called Trump a 'moral disaster.' And yet here they are, kissing his butt every day. It's unbelievable to me how many people have done a 180 on everything that they believed before.” Hostin asked Behar, "And are you saying that maybe she has done that 180 so that her husband could also, for power?" "Of course! She’s addicted to the power also, and the perks," Behar said. PS: This is the promotional copy for Vance’s new book: Communion is a spiritual exploration of what it means to be a Christian in all the seasons of life JD Vance has experienced—as a child, a young man, a husband, a father, and a leader. Picking up in some ways where Hillbilly Elegy left off, Communion recounts how Vance's pursuit of material privileges ultimately led him into a secular wilderness. Communion reveals how Vance regained his faith and discusses his conversion to Catholicism, how his faith guides his work in public life, and how it shapes his thoughts about the future.

ABC’s “bona fide news program” The View once again tried to put their crone thumbs on the scales of American electoral politics on Thursday. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg made an impassioned plea for viewers at home and their studio audience to elect candidates who would vote to impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office. To drive the point home, Goldberg looked into the camera and told Trump, “You got to go! It's time!” Building up to her get out the vote effort, Goldberg whined about Trump’s administration spending money, as if no president before him had added to the debt and deficit. She also seemed to think that his spending was actively taking money from people’s accounts: GOLDBERG: You know, people forget, you can't just keep coming to the taxpayers. We are not a wallet. We are every one of us are working our tails off, we're taking care of our families, we're trying to get everything done that we can get done for our families safely and well. And you keep coming to us for some -- SUNNY HOSTIN: Some nonsense. SARA HAINES: Productive works. Stuff. GOLDBERG: For not smart stuff. HOSTIN: Yeah! She proceeded to argue that Trump wasn’t allowed to build a ballroom or repair the reflecting pool because none of the co-hosts nor their audience had those things: I don't have a ballroom. You don't have a ballroom. Nobody in this room has -- I don't think -- has a ballroom. None of these folks are making over their reflector pools or building giant arches in their backyards. They're trying to feed their families. They're trying to put gas car. They're trying to get to work but you keep cutting jobs and getting mad that there's not enough people to do stuff.   Whoopi argues Trump isn't allowed to build a ballroom or fix the reflecting pool because the cast nor average Americans have those things. She then demands Trump be removed from office and tells people to vote for candidates who will do that, disparages Republicans. pic.twitter.com/c6kPtVat7U — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 11, 2026   It’s unclear if she thought Air Force One, Marine One, Secret Service, and the Oval Office should be taken away since none of them in that studio had those either. “You got to go! It's time!” Goldberg bitterly proclaimed. “A lot of people put all their hopes and dreams in you. And now, their hopes and dreams have taken the backseat to insane stuff for this country.” Looking toward the studio audience, Goldberg gave them a pep talk. “Y'all, you have the power to make this change,” she said. “You have the power. Don't let somebody tell you, ‘oh, this is gerrymandered and you don't have a place here.’ Every vote in this country counts. I don't care what anybody tells you. Go and exercise your right!” While Goldberg did say “vote for whoever you decide” she made it clear she had a preference and Republicans were not it: “I've known Republicans and independents my whole life and I've been friends with them. This is different. This is different.” Goldberg instructed viewers to “do your homework” because “We cannot afford it this time. We cannot afford it.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View June 11, 2026 11:13:50 a.m. Eastern (…) GOLDBERG: You know, people forget, you can't just keep coming to the taxpayers. We are not a wallet. We are every one of us are working our tails off, we're taking care of our families, we're trying to get everything done that we can get done for our families safely and well. And you keep coming to us for some -- SUNNY HOSTIN: Some nonsense. SARA HAINES: Productive works. Stuff. GOLDBERG: For not smart stuff. HOSTIN: Yeah! GOLDBERG: For ballrooms. I don't have a ballroom. You don't have a ballroom. Nobody in this room has -- I don't think -- has a ballroom. None of these folks are making over their reflector pools or building giant arches in their backyards. They're trying to feed their families. They're trying to put gas car. They're trying to get to work but you keep cutting jobs and getting mad that there's not enough people to do stuff. You got to go! It's time! [Cheers and applause] You know and I say that with all due respect. I say it with all due respect. I say it with all due respect. A lot of people put all their hopes and dreams in you. And now, their hopes and dreams have taken the backseat to insane stuff for this country. So please, sir, sorry, sir, please, y'all, you have the power to make this change. SOPHIA BUSH: Yes. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: You have the power. Don't let somebody tell you, ‘oh, this is gerrymandered and you don't have a place here.’ Every vote in this country counts. I don't care what anybody tells you. Go and exercise your right! [Applause] Exercise your right to vote for whoever you decide, because there's a lot of folks - and this is something that I try to say all the time. I've known Republicans and independents my whole life and I've been friends with them. This is different. BUSH: Yes. GOLDBERG: This is different. So do your homework. Find out who last your best interests and please, please don't sit back. We cannot afford it this time. We cannot afford it.

POLL: What was the worst media quote of the week? (Vote below)   Watch the Worst Quotes from @ScottPelley, @Acosta and @TheView pic.twitter.com/IJ9NPUSTsn — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 11, 2026   NOMINEES:    Scott Pelley: Unlike Trump, I’ve Been in Combat for This Country  “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country....You become a journalist because you love the country....There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”— Former CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on The New York Times podcast with Lulu-Garcia Navarro, June 7.    Jim Acosta: “Tearing Down” of 60 Minutes is “Un-American” and is “Hurting This Country” “It is absolutely un-American. It is absolutely contrary to the values and ideals of this democracy. And - you know - I don’t see anybody else really saying this kind of stuff, so I’m going to say this, that what they are doing is damaging to this country. Bari Weiss, you are hurting this country when you try to tear down an institution like 60 Minutes.”— Jim Acosta on his Substack show, June 4.    Sunny Hostin: I’m “Embarrassed” by America, It Is a “Failed Experiment”  “I am embarrassed at our government. I’m embarrassed at our lack of healthcare. I’m embarrassed on the assault on the press. I’m embarrassed of our Congress. I’m embarrassed by the criminal felon president that is in the Oval Office that has a UFC cage on the White House lawn. I’m embarrassed about all those things. And I’m also embarrassed at how America is now seen across the globe. I don’t think that many Americans understand that we are part of a wonderful global community. And when you look at our allies, our allies are now giving us a one-star rating as a country. Why I am conflicted about this country because I feel that it is, at this point, a failed experiment, quite frankly.”— Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, June 5.      Sponsored by James P. Jimirro

Belief that changing one’s gender is morally acceptable has fallen to a record low as support for gender-change has even diminished among U.S. adults who identify as Democrats, results of a new Gallup survey reveal. In its annual “Values and Beliefs” poll of adults (18+) conducted May 1-17, Gallup asked respondents whether they considered each of 20 various behaviors “morally acceptable.” Just 38% said they viewed “Changing one’s gender” to be morally acceptable, down from 46% in 2021 – and a record low for the Gallup’s annual survey. While gender-changing was called morally acceptable by far more Democrats (60%) than Republicans (5%), support by Democrats has fallen 11 points from last year’s level of 71%. Among Independents, 42% said it was morally acceptable in the latest poll. Moral approval of gender transition declines with age, falling from 57% of those 18-34 to just 24% of adults who are at least 55 years old. Over the past year, Democrats have also become significantly less likely to consider cloning animals (down 13 points to 27%) and polygamy (down 10 points to 17%) to be morally acceptable. In all, six behaviors dropped to record lows in moral acceptability by U.S. adults in 2026: Birth control (83%). Gambling (57%) The death penalty (52%) Medical testing on animals (45%). Cloning animals (27%). Changing one’s gender (38%).