Democrats in Congress know they can come on CNN and unload their anti-war talking points without any fear of pushback. See Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) on Wednesday's The Source with Kaitlan Collins on CNN. The questions were open-ended, and there were no interruptions or "fact checking in real time." Here's the kind of softballs Collins was asking: "What do you make of what's played out in the last 24 hours? Do you think that the United States is in a better position right now?" Kaine sounded like Iran -- the world's largest supporter of terrorism -- has been a rational actor while Trump is irrational: KAINE: The U.S. is trying to get a negotiation done to control Iran's nuclear program. It was controlled under the Obama administration, until President Trump tore up a diplomatic deal. And many of us told him at the time, If you make diplomacy impossible, you will make war inevitable. And so now, U.S. troops are dying, others are being injured, civilians are being injured, and now we're trying to have a negotiation to return to a status quo that we had with diplomacy. This is not only an illegal war, it's an incredibly foolish one, and I've got Virginians paying $1 more at the pump every time they get a gallon of gas. We buy 8 million gallons of gas a day in Virginia. That's $8 million a day that we are spending that we weren't before this war. And that's happening all over the United States and all over the world. So look, I'm glad they're negotiating. They've gone in and destroyed all the China in the China shop, and now they're talking with the owner of the shop about, Well, maybe we should talk about how to put it back together. You shouldn't have destroyed it without a plan to begin with. Unsurprisingly, Collins challenged none of Kaine's claims. She did not mention that in June of 2025, the IAEA reported Iran was in violation of the JCPOA. She did not mention that Iran has attacked civilian targets and infrastructure inside various Middle Eastern countries, aside from Israel.  Eventually, Collins turned the focus to Lebanon, and set Kaine up perfectly, without mentioning the terrorists of Hezbollah, and making Israel the bad guy. COLLINS: They're trying to get a cease fire in Lebanon to get Israel to stop. I mean, that would be a big deal, obviously, if the United States does constrain Israel or gets them to stop it that way. Bernie Sanders, his resolution to block arms sales to Israel, some of them, it's failed again in the Senate, but it has more support for more Democrats than other resolutions that he tried to pass recently. Why do you think more of your fellow Democrats are now saying, we're not going to vote to send some of these weapons to Israel?  KAINE: : We should provide defensive weapons to Israel so they can protect their civilians. But we should not provide offensive weapons that kill other civilians in Gaza or Lebanon or elsewhere. We had a first vote on this, Caitlin, in November of 2024, and we got 17 votes. We've had subsequent votes that got 20 and 27, and now we're up to 40. And what this is showing is, while Israel has been a security partner in the United States, we're very, very tired of them using U.S. weapons to carry out offensive operations that lead to mass civilian deaths.  Viewers were not informed that Hezbollah uses civilians as human shields, or that shortly after Hezbollah entered the war with Iran by bombing Israeli civilian targets, Lebanon's President warned that Hezbollah could turn his country into Gaza And the Washington Post reported, "Shiite Muslims in Lebanon who form Hezbollah’s base of political and popular support are increasingly furious with the Iranian-backed militant group for dragging them into another war." To Kaine and Collins, Hezbollah does not exist. Kaine then ignorantly concluded. KAINE: Israel and Lebanon are next door neighbors, and they have to be able to manage their own relationships.... Neighbors have to learn how to get along with one another without expecting the United States to come in and provide bombs and bulldozers.   Kaine is just doing what you expect Democrats to do, and unfortunately the same may be said for Collins, who let it all go without scrutiny. She did the same in February, saying nothing while Minneapolis Mayor Frey called ICE agents "roving gangs" going after brown people, and last September remained silent as Philly D.A. Larry Krasner claimed Trump's "in favor of fascism, he's in favor of ending democracy," and "he doesn't want to give up information on his own involvement in a pedophile ring." Shameful.

On Thursday's The Last Word, MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell used a selectively edited clip to portray HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a "deeply perverted racist madman" who wants to remove all black children from their parents and have them "reparented" by the government. In fact, the HHS secretary said no such thing. The MS NOW host began his dishonest segment by claiming that Kennedy wants to forcibly remove all black children from their parents: MS NOW's O'Donnell Smears RFK Jr. as 'Sick Racist' pic.twitter.com/2TetPyojZt — Brad Wilmouth (@bradwilmouth) April 18, 2026 Donald Trump's Human Services secretary, who was convicted of the felony of heroin possession during the 14 years that he admits to having been a heroin addict, is the first cabinet secretary in history -- indeed, the only administration official in the administration of any President in history -- who wants to rip every black child in America out of the arms of that child's mother and that child's father. Every single black child. O'Donnell worked in the word "Nazi" as he continued: Robert Kennedy Jr believes that every black child in America has bad parents, and that every black child in America needs to be reparented. That is his personal Nazi word for it. "Reparented." He did not say that some black children need to be reparented by him. He did not say that thousands of black children need to be reparented. He said, quote, "every black kid" needs to be reparented by the federal government and institutions run by him. He then further ratcheted up the vitriol: "Yes, it's insane. Yes, he is obviously insane. Yes, it's the single most racist thing said in the 21st century in America and possibly ever in America." O'Donnell then played a clip of Congresswoman Terri Sewell (D-AL) questioning Kennedy, with her posing: In a 2024 podcast interview, you suggested that black children on ADHD medication should be reparented. You said every black kid is now just standardly put on Adderall, SSRI, Benzos, which are known to induce violence, and that those children are going to have to go somewhere to get reparented. There is a lot to unpack in that comment. I know that you've already answered several of the questions I was going to ask, and so I'm just going to rephrase them. Mr. Secretary, you've already admitted that you are not board certified physician, and you've already admitted that you did not go to medical school. Have you ever reparented or parented, I should say, a black child? After a clip of Kennedy declaring that he did not remember making such remarks, O'Donnell played an edited clip from an interview that was posted on YouTube on July 1, 2024 with the Earn Your Leisure Network: O'DONNELL: And here is that deeply perverted racist madman absolutely saying it. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: Every black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIS, Benzos, which are known to induce violence and. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented. In fact, earlier in his comments, Kennedy had stated that, under his plans, all children who have become dependent on drugs -- including some prescription medications -- would be offered a chance to get assistance from farm-based rehabilitation centers that would help wean them off drugs since Kennedy believes that some medications can have violent side effects. KENNEDY: My Peace Corps program is going to be wellness farms -- rehabilitation facilities that I'm going to start in rural areas all over the country where people -- any American can go for free -- any of them who is dependent on drugs -- either legal drugs or illegal drugs -- psychiatric drugs which every black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos which are known to cause -- induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented -- to live in a community where there will be no cell phones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people. By "every black kid" he probably meant black children who are being treated for behavioral problems rather than every single black child in the country as O'Donnell claimed. The context was also omitted that part of the reason Kennedy at times referred specifically to blacks was because he was being interviewed by an outfit that was interested in discussing issues that affect America's black population. O'Donnell then brought on MS NOW host Michael Steele to further pile on Kennedy and call him a "fool." Transcripts follow: MS NOW's The Last Word April 16, 2026 10:23 p.m. LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Donald Trump's Human Services secretary, who was convicted of the felony of heroin possession during the 14 years that he admits to having been a heroin addict, is the first cabinet secretary in history -- indeed, the only administration official in the administration of any President in history -- who wants to rip every black child in America out of the arms of that child's mother and that child's father. Every single black child. Robert Kennedy Jr believes that every black child in America has a bad parents, and that every black child in America needs to be reparented. That is his personal Nazi word for it. "Reparented." He did not say that some black children need to be reparented by him. He did not say that thousands of black children need to be reparented. He said, quote, "every black kid" needs to be reparented by the federal government and institutions run by him. Yes, it's insane. Yes, he is obviously insane. Yes, it's the single most racist thing said in the 21st century in America and possibly ever in America. And I, for one, along with most people, did not know that. He said that two years ago when he was a presidential candidate, until Congresswoman Terri Sewell confronted him today in a House Ways and Means Committee hearing. CONGRESSWOMAN TERRI SEWELL (D-AL): In a 2024 bot podcast interview, you suggested that black children on ADHD medication should be reparented. You said every black kid is now just standardly put on Adderall, SSRI, Benzos, which are known to induce violence, and that those children are going to have to go somewhere to get reparented. There is a lot to unpack in that comment. I know that you've already answered several of the questions I was going to ask, and so I'm just going to rephrase them. Mr. Secretary, you've already admitted that you are not board certified physician, and you've already admitted that you did not go to medical school. Have you ever reparented or parented, I should say, a black child? ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. HHS SECRETARY: I don't -- I don't even know what that phrase means, and I doubt that I said it. CONGRESSWOMAN SEWELL: Just a yes or no answer. KENNEDY: I doubt that I said that phrase. CONGRESSWOMAN SEWELL: You did say it. You absolutely said it. KENNEDY: No, I'm not going to answer something that I didn't say. CONGRESSWOMAN SEWELL: You absolutely said it. O'DONNELL: And here is that deeply perverted racist madman absolutely saying it. KENNEDY: Every black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIS, Benzos, which are known to induce violence and. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented. O'DONNELL: Donald Trump gave that sick racist a job after he said that, and every Republican Senator voted for the confirmation of that poisonous racist. Joining us now is Michael Steele, co-host of The Weeknight here on MSNOW. Michael, when I came across this today, I immediately hoped you could join us tonight. And I just want to hand the microphone to you. MICHAEL STEELE: Thank you. You know, man, just when you think you've kind of rounded all the bases and and okay, we're clear, there can't be anything more stupid or more racist or more insane, enter RFK Jr. Thank you, first off, for setting this conversation up the way you did because you systematically went through the facts. You systematically laid out what the man said in his own words. A couple of things. First off, there is no evidence that black children are universally or even disproportionately medicated the way he just described. Quite the opposite, Lawrence. What the problem is in the black community for a lot of parents who are dealing with children who have mental health issues, health issues, it's actually getting the medication that they need. Actually having access to the health care system that this fool now runs. And so the reality of coming on and saying this, whether as a presidential candidate or sitting there and not even realizing two years later that not only did you say it, but this is an attitude that you openly expressed, speaks again to just how unfit you are for the job. The second thing that I think to keep in mind is the type of medication he's talking about. Again, it's not used for the kind of thing that -- the behavior he described. In fact, Adderall is -- is something that reduces impulsivity. It's something that that is put in place to help lower the rates of risky or aggressive behavior, right? So where did that come from? Oh, maybe the stereotyping of young black of -- of young black kids as being overly aggressive. I have two black child -- children, sons especially. I can't tell you the number of times we had to deal with issues around their behavior if they got too aggressive, particularly when they were younger, you know? And so the reality of it is, if that's the go to Lawrence, that when a child acts out as a lot of children do and, you know, sometimes gets a little bit rough and tough in the tumble of the play yard -- playground, you're going to then go, oh, well, that, you know, they're aggressive, they're -- they're behaving a certain way. That again feeds the stereotype that goes back so many generations in black communities. And I think the last one of the last points is, you know, the adultification of kids -- of young, of young black boys especially ties into this reparenting BS. Who going to raise my child? That fool? I thought the congresswoman asked the right question. Have you ever parented, let alone reparented a black kid? Have you ever had to deal with the -- not just the economic, the political education, but the social stigmas that that child has to grow up with just by being black? Look, I'm not on your show tonight making excuses for crap. I'm not out here trying to explain away everything. But this is a man who's in a position of responsibility in our government and who's expressed a view about black kids, not just some, as you noted, but all of them. And so what are black parents to expect when they have to access this system with this numb nut sitting at the top of it, dictating the terms of how we're going to receive health care, who gets health care, what kind of health care they're going to get, what type of mental health needs they need that need to be addressed? And how do we deal with broader societal issues along race and economics that feed the current system to push out the kind of nonsense he's talking about? O'DONNELL: Michael, I saw it as an attack on black children and black parents, all of them, which is why I (sic) was so important for us to be able to hear from you tonight. Michael Steele, thank you very, very much for joining us tonight. (...) The Earn Your Leisure Network 19Keys Interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (posted July 1, 2024) ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.: I'm also -- my big Peace Corps program -- you know, my uncle started the Peace Corps -- he started the space program. My space program -- my Peace Corps program is going to be wellness farms -- rehabilitation facilities that I'm going to start in rural areas all over the country where people -- any American can go for free -- any of them who is dependent on drugs -- either legal drugs or illegal drugs -- psychiatric drugs which every black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, Benzos which are known to cause -- induce violence. And those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented -- to live in a community where there will be no cell phones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people. And the basis -- the model for this is a community that I had direct contact with because a family member of mine went there, and it's called San Padronano's in Italy.

On Friday's CNN This Morning, New York Times reporter—and CNN political analyst—Maggie Haberman claimed that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth using religion to justify war is something “unlike anything that we have seen…in the last 80 years.” And "it's where it starts to go off the rails." She especially hated using religion to "justify essentially attacking the press and saying that the press is doing a bad job for doing its job and raising questions about this war." The press isn't just "raising questions." It's relentlessly negative, from multiple directions, like switching from hating Trump's threats of mass destruction and then mocking him for "chickening out" with a ceasefire. Haberman added that war should not be viewed “from a religious standpoint, as a mission.” That would come as news to Dwight D. Eisenhower. In his D-Day “Order of the Day,” Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower explicitly cast the Allied invasion of Normandy as a “Great Crusade”—capitalized in the original—and urged troops to “beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.” Nor was Eisenhower alone. Haberman: Religious War Rhetoric ‘Unseen in 80 Years’—Really? pic.twitter.com/k1jM7BuMh9 — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 17, 2026 That same day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the nation in a radio broadcast framed entirely as a prayer, repeatedly asking for divine support for the invasion and describing the mission as “a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization.” In other words, two of the central figures of World War II—hardly ancient history—openly and repeatedly invoked religion to justify and frame the war effort. So much for “unlike anything.” Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 4/17/26 6:48 am EDT AUDIE CORNISH: Joining me now, Maggie Haberman, CNN political analyst and White House correspondent for The New York Times. She's also the author of Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.  I wanted to talk to you about this, Maggie, because the internet has been very quick to seize on the Trump-White House-Pope feud into a broader conversation about religion, and how the Trump administration uses religion in its dialogue with the public about the war. What do you see in the way they've tried to defend themselves?  MAGGIE HABERMAN: Well, it's interesting, Audie. Aside from the Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction of it all in terms of that one quote, what I have seen the Secretary of Defense do, now renamed Secretary of War do, is use religion not just to justify the war.  We've seen that many, many times, but also to justify essentially attacking the press and saying that the press is doing a bad job for doing its job and raising questions about this war.  This is unlike anything really that we have seen in ever, in the last, at least in the last 80 years, and possibly, you know, ever in decades upon decades. And so before that. It is not, look, there are people, I don't want to sound as if I am saying that somebody is not sincere in their religious beliefs. There certainly is no reason to say that. However, that doesn't mean that everybody has to then view the war in this country or anywhere else in the world, from a religious standpoint, as a religious mission.  CORNISH: Yeah. HABERMAN: And I think that is where it starts to go off the rails. 

It appears that retirement isn’t exactly suiting leftist billionaire George Soros, as America’s most notorious political kingmaker was revealed to have dropped another massive fortune ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The Soros group, Fund for Policy Reform, pumped a whopping $50 million into his political cash guzzler Democracy PAC January 13, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Despite officially handing the reins of his $25 billion Open Society Foundations to his more unhinged acolyte son Alex, the elder Soros is signaling that he has no intention of abandoning his years-long obsession with buying control of the U.S. government for Democrats and politically handicapping his nemesis President Donald Trump. As Forbes magazine contextualized April 16, Soros has once again positioned himself as the largest midterm election donor so far.  Soros unleashed over $170 million into the 2022 midterms to make himself top dog in the political donor class that year, with the majority of it fueling his Democracy PAC. Old habits die hard?  Buying political outcomes has been synonymous with the Soros brand for decades. As Soros concluded himself in Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (1995): “Of course, what I do could be called meddling, because I want to promote an open society. An open society transcends national sovereignty.” And if the $32 billion Soros poured into his empire over the years is any indication, it’s that money isn’t an object when it comes to ensuring that his dark open society worldview becomes reality. The Soros regime had already come under enormous political and legal fire for funneling $80 million into pro-terrorism groups in the U.S. and abroad, but this hasn’t appeared to have been enough to force it underground. In fact, one of Soros’ pet projects, fake news outfit Courier Newsroom, made headlines in February by being a co-host of a radical boycott of Trump’s State of the Union Address that was packed with a full lineup of insufferable Hollywood and uber lefty journos as guest speakers. Names on the list included the TDS-afflicted actor Robert De Niro and former CNN anchor Jim Acosta. Soros had poured $20 million into Courier between 2021 and 2023 alone.  Americans should be alert: Soros may have taken on emeritus status within his organization, but he’s still as dedicated as ever to bending the “arc of history” towards his New World Order-ish utopia.

Now that damning details about the 2019 Trump impeachment have underlined that the sanctified whistleblower for the President Trump phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in reality a partisan hack, most mainstream news outlets have been reluctant to report on it due to strong evidence that the impeachment was based on a fraud. It's a highly embarrassing story for CNN, so they tried to massage it, skipping the most important details in their Thursday story cherry-picked by Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez, and Sean Lyngaas in "DNI Tulsi Gabbard sends criminal referral over Trump’s 2019 impeachment to Justice Department." Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent at least one criminal referral to the Justice Department seeking investigations of a whistleblower complaint and its handling by the intelligence community watchdog that led to the 2019 impeachment of President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for Gabbard’s office confirmed Wednesday. To bolster the referral, Gabbard this week released documents that she said exposed a “conspiracy used by Congress to impeach President Trump.” Gabbard’s office said the released documents show the then intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson did not follow policy in the handling of the whistleblower complaint. The documents include transcripts of Atkinson’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in 2019 and notes from interviews with the whistleblower. So what were in those documents? CNN doesn't say in any detail but Jerry Dunleavy of Just The News goes where CNN dares not tread in "Ukraine whistleblower said he didn’t want his bias noted, and IC watchdog seemingly obliged." A word of warning however. The story starts out with the (GASP!) name of the whistleblower who you can see above shaking the hand of President Barack Obama. A name that back in 2019 had been taboo to say aloud at the risk of being banned from social media or worse. Therefore readers might want to consult their priest, pastor, or rabbi for spiritual guidance before daring to wander further into the realm of what many liberals still consider a violation of the holiest of holies by gazing upon his mortal name. Eric Ciaramella, the whistle-blower whose complaint sparked the Ukraine impeachment saga in 2019, sought to downplay allegations of political motivation following media reports about his potential biases, with the intelligence community watchdog soon asserting to the House that, despite the evidence, he did not believe the whistle-blower was biased. Memos declassified by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and released by Just the News on Sunday were written by investigators for intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson, who first handled the CIA analyst's complaint. The newly-released memos flagged the Ukraine whistle-blower for having a "potential for bias," elicited an apology from him for misleading the probe about his prior contact with staffers on the Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee, showed he criticized GOP congressmen, recounted that he asked to hide his complaint from Republicans on the intelligence committee, pointed to his close links to Joe Biden’s efforts in Ukraine, and more. Atkinson kept much of this from the House investigators. Of course, CNN typically refused to name Ciaramella, but leaped to the defense of Atkinson with this gem: Atkinson spent 15 years at the Justice Department before serving as inspector general of the intelligence community from 2018 to 2020. Atkinson’s reputation as a straight shooter prompted some lawmakers who were otherwise skeptical of the whistleblower complaint to take the document seriously, CNN previously reported. Got that? IG Atkinson had a reputation for being a "straight shooter." Yet somehow this "straight shooter" did not raise a huge red flag over the credibility of Ciaramella  whose testimony was crucial for the impeachment despite these revelations which you can read in Just The News but definitely not in the cherry picked CNN story: The newly-declassified memos released by Just the News on Sunday show the intelligence community watchdog’s investigators were also acutely aware the whistle-blower's allegations were based solely on second-hand or third-hand accounts about what Trump was alleged to have done and that Ciaramella had worked on his whistle-blower efforts with a witness whose name was redacted but who told investigators that he was connected to disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok and that he had co-authored the flawed intelligence community assessment on alleged Russian meddling in 2016. ...The “Disclosure of Urgent Concern Form” submitted by Ciaramella on August 13, 2019 included answering a section titled, “I have previously disclosed (or am disclosing) the violations alleged here to (complete all that apply).” ...He checked a box next to “other office of department/agency involved” and said he had already spoken with the CIA Office of General Counsel, the CIA's Election Security Mission Manager, the National Intelligence Officer for Russia, and the Chair and Vice Chair of the National Intelligence Council. But he did not check “Congress or congressional committee(s)” despite having spoken with the staff of then-Congressman and now-Senator Adam Schiff before submitting his disclosure. Schiff, a California Democrat and House Intelligence Committee chairman at the time, told MSNBC in September 2019 that “we have not spoken directly with the whistle-blower” — even though members of his staff already had. Such a treasure that whistleblower is. After admitting he only had second or third hand information about the phone call he then proceeded to deceive about his contact with Intelligence Committee staffers. So what is CNN's takeaway from this scandal? It, of course, comes via a Democrat: Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, denounced Gabbard’s efforts. “This apparent criminal referral will amount to nothing because no misconduct occurred, but what it will do is chill future whistleblowers from coming forward to Congress with confidence that the law will protect them,” he said in a statement. “I suspect that is precisely the point.” Or maybe it will chill future highly partisan whistleblowers who only have second or third hand information and also lie about exclusively meeting with Intelligence Committee staffers of only one party in order to hid the absurd extent of their partisanship while a "straight shooter" IG conveniently declines to raise a red flag on this activity.