Someone should really review all the federal cases that had Sunny Hostin’s fingerprints on them. During Monday’s The View, the former federal prosecutor asserted, “I believe I have psychic abilities” and that her grandmother had told her she had “the gift.” Apparently, she wasn’t sharing her “gift” with those who needed it because she and co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin huffed about how Nancy’s Guthrie was still missing and directly blamed FBI Director Kash Patel for it. Deep in the episode, they apparently ran out political topics to bloviate about so they discussed a study that said one in five people thought they had psychic powers. Obviously annoyed that she had to talk about the subject, moderator Whoopi Goldberg noted that they had five people at the table and Hostin’s hand shot up. “One psychic and four psychos!” quipped co-host Joy Behar. Hostin was adamant she was a psychic: No, I believe I have psychic abilities. I recall when I was a child at about five-years-old. You know, I grew up very poor and I dreamt a number. And my grandmother was, like, ‘we are going to play that number.’ We used to call it playing the numbers and my entire family won based on that number. “Well, my grandmother -- now I’m going to start sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had the gift,” she added.   Former federal prosecutor and co-host of The View, Sunny Hostin: "I believe I have psychic abilities." She's says "it's obvious" because she has dreams, "Well, my grandmother - now I'm going to sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had… pic.twitter.com/8tjyqfEqXK — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   Earlier in the show, Hostin and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin blamed embattled FBI Director Kash Patel for why Nancy Guthrie was still missing. Farah Griffin even had an issue with authorities getting a tip from the public that helped lead to the arrest of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin: FARAH GRIFFIN: And I'd also say, public trust in the FBI is low. I think of two very high-profile cases. Charlie Kirk's assassination, it wasn't the FBI that solved it. Eventually he was turned over by his own family. It was local law enforcement and, in fact, they put out inaccurate information early on. SARA HAINES: Yeah. GOLDBERG: Yes, they did. FARAH GRIFFIN: And then I think all of us are still praying over Nancy Guthrie just hoping she is going to be found. Like I'm starting to lose faith in our federal law enforcement and I've never felt that in my lifetime. Apparently, Farah Griffin was living in fantasy TV land where investigators always got their man in 30-60 minutes, including commercials. The FBI had over 93,000 open missing person cases with many that dated back decades. Then there’s the fact many cases rely on tips from the public, that's why tip lines exists. Investigators were not clairvoyant.   The View's Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests Nancy Guthrie is still missing because of Kash Patel and suggests it's embarrassing the authorities relied on a tip to catch Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin: FARAH GRIFFIN: These positions matter. These are important positions of public… pic.twitter.com/orlwHuy9zL — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   But you know who claimed to be? Sunny Hostin. So, why wasn’t she helping with the investigation? Would it she want to show off against Patel’s FBI? “It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious,” she said in response to Farah Griffin. “Yeah. But he claims the FBI has done so much work but you pointed to the case of Nancy Guthrie. Where is Mrs. Guthrie?” Hostin whined about Patel choosing to sue The Atlantic, accusing them of defamation. And in terms of Kash Patel he is suing for defamation. The defense to defamation is the truth. And so, he's a public figure. That's a very high legal standard. That means that he has to show that The Atlantic reported this with actual malice.   Sunny Hostin also blames Guthrie's missing status on Patel and whines that he sued The Atlantic for defamation: HOSTIN: It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious. And I too having worked at the FBI as a… pic.twitter.com/qYnh5ihFow — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 21, 2026   “That is such a high standard and The Atlantic is saying they interviewed 12 sources, 12 people,” she proclaimed. Shouldn’t she already know as a psychic? The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View April 21, 2026 11:05:33 a.m. Eastern (…) ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: These positions matter. These are important positions of public trust and I'll especially focus on the FBI director. So traditionally, an FBI director is above the partisan fold. They really have the public trust. I think of Louis Freeh, Christopher Wray, Robert Mueller long before we knew him from the Mueller report. Because their jobs are so important. And right - WHOOPI GOLDBERG: And it didn't matter whether they're Republican or Democrat. [Crosstalk] SUNNY HOSTIN: You generally didn't know if they were Republican or Democrat. FARAH GRIFFIN: Exactly. Their politics didn't show. And this comes right now, this lack of faith and confidence in the FBI when we're at war with Iran. One of the FBI's jobs is to monitor sleeper terrorist cells in the United States. So, if Iranian-affiliated terrorist organizations try to attack the homeland. I don't want to hear these when that's a real threat. And I'd also say, public trust in the FBI is low. I think of two very high-profile cases. Charlie Kirk's assassination, it wasn't the FBI that solved it. Eventually he was turned over by his own family. It was local law enforcement and, in fact, they put out inaccurate information early on. SARA HAINES: Yeah. GOLDBERG: Yes, they did. FARAH GRIFFIN: And then I think all of us are still praying over Nancy Guthrie just hoping she is going to be found. Like I'm starting to lose faith in our federal law enforcement and I've never felt that in my lifetime. So, regardless of who you vote for, who's in the White House, you want good people there and I don't know if we have them right now. (…) 11:07:10 a.m. Eastern HOSTIN: It just seems to be very clear that the best of the best are not there. They're deeply incompetent, deeply unserious. And I too having worked at the FBI as a federal prosecutor, I've never seen a FBI be -- JOY BEHAR: J. Edgar Hoover, hello? FARAH GRIFFIN: I don't think she saw Hoover. HOSTIN: Yeah. But he claims the FBI has done so much work but you pointed to the case of Nancy Guthrie. Where is Mrs. Guthrie? The other thing that I will say is. He [President Trump] only had six women in his cabinet. For three of them to have resigned and stepped down that means 50 percent of the women have stepped down. There's a real problem there. And in terms of Kash Patel he is suing for defamation. The defense to defamation is the truth. And so, he's a public figure. That's a very high legal standard. That means that he has to show that The Atlantic reported this with actual malice. That is such a high standard and The Atlantic is saying they interviewed 12 sources, 12 people. So if those 12 people come forward during a deposition and tell the truth - GOLDBERG: It's going to be an interesting. [Crosstalk] BEHAR: That would make good TV. (…) 11:35:29 a.m. Eastern GOLDBERG: I don't know what to do about this. Apparently, one in five Americans believe they possess some level of psychic ability. [Laughter] I didn't think this. According to a recent survey of 2,000 adults. There are five of us sitting here. [Sunny Hostin puts her hand up] BEHAR: Sunny! Sunny’s a psychic! HAINES: I said it would be Sunny. HOSTIN: It's obvious. BEHAR: One psychic and four psychos! [Laughter and applause] BEHAR: No. I’m sorry. GOLDBERG: That says it all. HOSTIN: No, I believe I have psychic abilities. I recall when I was a child at about five-years-old. You know, I grew up very poor and I dreamt a number. And my grandmother was, like, ‘we are going to play that number.’ We used to call it playing the numbers and my entire family won based on that number. [Applause] FARAH GRIFFIN: Ooh. Give us some numbers! BEHAR: Wait a second, that happened once. HAINES: Have you had an instance since you were five? HOSTIN: Well, I haven’t had that number dream, but I have had other dreams and they have come true. GOLDBERG: That's why you think you're psychic? HOSTIN: Well, my grandmother --now I’m going to start sound crazy - but my grandmother had psychic abilities and she told me that I also had the gift. HAINES: I just got my grandmother's name. I wish I got those abilities. BEHAR: If this were a real thing then all of the casinos would be out of business. (…)

Of all the liberals with a strange, new respect for papal wisdom, HBO’s John Oliver might be the most brazen. On Sunday, the Last Week Tonight host, who spends a great amount of time lamenting pro-lifers and religious people who operate under the assumption that the First Amendment applies to their views of homosexuality, became the latest to pile on Vice President JD Vance for his comments about Pope Leo and the Iran War when he told Vance to stay in his lane, which he argued was teaching sex ed with couches. Oliver introduced a clip of Vance by playing up the idea that Vance was doing something risky, “Now, when pressed on the pope's remarks, Vance took a bold swing.”   While throwing in a JD Vance-couch sex joke, John Oliver recently became the latest person to have a strange, new respect for papal wisdom, "Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the… pic.twitter.com/fIx7yKwCko — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) April 21, 2026   In the clip, Vance declared, “When the pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is a thousand-year—more than a thousand-year tradition of just war theory. Okay? Now, we can of course have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just, but I think that it's important in the same way that it's important for the vice president of United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy. I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology.” It’s not a completely unreasonable thing to say. The United States did not attack Iran for the purposes of annexing its territory or some racist urge to wipe out Persian people and their culture. You could say Iran has an urge to wipe out Israel, just like their Russian allies certainly desire to do that to Ukraine. Nevertheless, an aghast Oliver reacted, “Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the clit is on a Togo sectional. Why would I even try to do that? He's spent his life devoted to this very subject. I'm out of my lane there!” Oliver continued with a reference to Vance’s meeting with Pope Francis, “Also, ‘Be careful?’ The pope's got a lifetime gig. He doesn't need to be cautious about what he says. He could start tweeting ‘Where's the album, @Rihanna’ every day for the rest of his life, and that still wouldn't change the fact he's considered the vicar of Christ. Literally the only thing he should probably ‘Be careful about’ is not meeting with JD Vance because, historically, that's been fatal for popes.” Popes simply don’t endorse military action anymore, so unless Oliver wants to announce he is a total pacifist, he should refrain from using Leo as a shield for his own agenda, especially considering that when the news cycle shifts to abortion, or same-sex marriage, or transgender-related things, Oliver’s interest in Leo’s thoughts will either disappear or shift to opposition. Here is a transcript for the April 20 show: HBO Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 4/19/2026 11:14 PM ET JOHN OLIVER: Now, when pressed on the pope's remarks, Vance took a bold swing. JD VANCE: When the pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword, there is a thousand-year—more than a thousand-year tradition of just war theory. Okay? Now, we can of course have disagreements about whether this or that conflict is just, but I think that it's important in the same way that it's important for the vice president of United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy. I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology. OLIVER: Yeah, that's JD Vance douchesplaining theology to the pope! Which is objectively crazy. It'd be like me explaining to JD Vance where the clit is on a Togo sectional. Why would I even try to do that? He's spent his life devoted to this very subject. I'm out of my lane there! Also, "Be careful?" The pope's got a lifetime gig. He doesn't need to be cautious about what he says. He could start tweeting "Where's the album, @Rihanna” every day for the rest of his life, and that still wouldn't change the fact he's considered the vicar of Christ. Literally the only thing he should probably "Be careful about" is not meeting with JD Vance because, historically, that's been fatal for popes.

Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) responded to backlash to a X.com post – in which he called Iran bypassing a U.S. blockade “awesome” – by attacking the social media platform and those who use it. “Awesome,” the U.S. senator replied on X.com Monday to a now-debunked story claiming that “at least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels” had bypassed the U.S. Navy’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Replies to his comment were swift, fierce and overwhelmingly negative, with many calling his remark traitorous. On Tuesday, instead of apologizing, Sen. Murphy issued an indignant “clarification” expressing indignation that his critics on “Twitter” (X.com) were too dumb to realize he was being sarcastic: “Ok Twitter, I can’t believe I need to clarify this but obviously Trump’s bungled mismanagement of this war is not ‘awesome’. As I have said a million times here, it’s a disaster and he should end the war immediately. My tweet was something called ‘sarcasm’.” Then, in an on-camera interview with Fox News, the unrepentant Sen. Murphy called X.com a “cesspool” and again mistakenly referred to the platform by its previous name: “Twitter has become kind of a cesspool. I probably should give up on sarcasm on Twitter. “Obviously, anybody who has seen anything that I have said about Trump’s war knows that I think it’s bungled, mismanaged and we should end it as quickly as possible. “But, sarcasm is not something, I guess, that’s allowed on Twitter any longer.” Asked if he regretted the post and planned to take it down, the unrepentant Democrat refused to answer the question, but replied “I guess I just have to be more careful about sarcasm on Twitter.” For their part, X.com users largely aren’t buying Murphy’s claim he was being sarcastic. Some informed him that Twitter is now named X. Radio host Dana Loesch told Murphy that it’s obvious that his “awesome” comment was not sarcastic and called his clarification nothing but a “cop-out.” Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist, reminded him of the time he “held secret meeting in Munich with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif.” “A reminder of what I exclusively reported in 2020. You later admitted my reporting was correct,” Hemingway told Murphy in her post.

On Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, Audie Cornish didn’t merely report the departure of three women in Trump’s cabinet—she raised the specter of sexism right out of the gate. Teasing the segment, Cornish asked: “Is there a different standard for women in the White House?” [See also, screencap.] From there, Cornish kept steering the discussion back to gender, suggesting that the departure of three women is "a trend." Discussing the resignation of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer amid an internal misconduct investigation, Cornish pressed the point: why is Chavez-DeRemer out, while FBI Director Kash Patel—facing what she described as “very similar allegations”—is “digging in”? Panelist Ashley Davis pushed back, noting differences in the accusations and Chavez-DeRemer’s ineffective performance. Cornish made the same move when the panel turned to Pam Bondi. Davis cited Bondi’s entanglement in controversy tied to the Epstein files as a key factor. Cornish again pushed the Patel comparison—"so was Patel and a lot of other people."—driving the same point: similar accusations, but only one gets the boot. But Cornish undercut her own argument. If “a lot of other people” have faced allegations without being shown the door, then gender isn’t the obvious dividing line. The cases aren’t identical—in scope, in substantiation, or in how the individuals have responded. Treating them as if they are ignores those differences. The same problem applies to the other departures Cornish grouped together. Kristi Noem left amid dissatisfaction that extended beyond partisan lines. Different situations, different pressures, different outcomes. And let’s not forget Trump’s first term, when high-profile firings and forced exits fell overwhelmingly on male officials—including prominent figures like Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. So was Trump a misandrist then, only to become a misogynist now? WATCH: CNN Floats Sexism in Trump Firings—Ignores Male Bloodbath of First Term pic.twitter.com/EZbSW56jFr — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) April 21, 2026 As for Bondi’s departure, there’s an added wrinkle. The very first Trump nominee forced out in his second term was a man: Matt Gaetz, Trump’s initial pick for Attorney General, who was gone within days. Turnover driven by controversy is nothing new—and not confined to one gender. Cornish suggested sexism was behind the firings of the three women—but never backed it up. Here's the transcript. CNN This Morning 4/21/26 6:00 am EDT AUDIE CORNISH: Another exit from Trump's cabinet. The Labor Secretary is out. Is there a different standard for women in the White House?  . . .  I want to turn to this here in the U.S. The Labor Secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, is out. She says she's stepping down to take a job in the private sector. Keith Sonderling will serve as acting Labor secretary.  Now, Chavez-DeRemer is leaving at the same time that an internal investigation is underway into possible misconduct. A Department of Labor source tells CNN, that a complaint is under investigation that alleges that the Labor secretary was having a sexual relationship with a member of her security team. This complaint also claimed that she would send staff to pick up liquor and use business trips for personal travel.  She's the third cabinet secretary to leave in just under two months. And the group chat is back. We want to show who's in and who's out right now with Chavez-DeRemer gone. She follows Pam Bondi, who followed Kristi Noem. And NOTUS raised this question in their headline, "Another woman in Trump's Cabinet is out." Does three make a trend?  CHUCK ROCHA: Seems like it.  . . .  CORNISH: Ashley, you were shaking your head when I brought up the woman thing. Look at your face. You're even making it now. But here's the reason. Kash Patel is in the middle of suing The Atlantic over very similar allegations around alcohol, around misuse of travel, right?  And it feels like, why is one on the exit and one digging in?  ASHLEY DAVIS: Well, I think she has a lot of different accusations. I mean, there's a lot more than what you just said. And I also think that she hasn't really been that effective. She's been like the one cabinet secretary no one has seen at all.  ISSAC DOVERE: And we know much more about what all of these scandals -- DAVIS: -- than what she has done. Absolutely.  And then on the Kristi Noem front, everyone wanted Kristi Noem -- Republicans, Democrats -- wanted Kristi Noem gone. She's gone.  The only one that I always scratch my head about, because they're still very close, is Pam Bondi. Whether you like her politics or not, she's very smart. Obviously, she was caught up in the Epstein issues and was that was that one of the major issues -- CORNISH: So was Patel and a lot of other people.  DAVIS: I get it, and who knows what happens with Kash. And you know, I'm a woman's person, but also I think these are very three very distinct issues, not because they're women. I mean, I actually think the president's done a pretty good job of putting women in this cabinet. CORNISH: Yeah! Okay.

“Awesome,” Democrat U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) replied Monday to a fake news report that “at least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels” successfully bypassed the United States’ blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Senator cheered the anti-America report on X.com in response to a post by Georgetown Adjunct Professor and Iran Project Director and Senior Adviser at the International Crisis Group Ali Vaez, a critic of President Donald Trump. Vaez’s post shares a story published by Lloyd’s List titled “At least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade” and claiming that there has been “a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic in and out of the Middle East Gulf” during the U.S. blockade – prompting the Connecticut Democrat senator’s “awesome” reply. On Tuesday, however, Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst confirmed that the claim Sen. Murphy cheered was false and that there is no evidence any vessels had left Iranian ports or moved through the Strait of Hormuz. “Yes, absolutely,” Yingst reported when asked if the Lloyd’s List article “was just Iranian propaganda” during an interview on Fox and Friends. Sen. Murphy hasn’t just cheered a fake report of U.S. failure. He’s also denounced news of a U.S. success. On Sunday, Pres. Trump announced that the U.S. had successfully stopped an Iranian-flagged cargo ship from violating the blockade, prompting Murphy to reply by calling the U.S. Navy’s efforts “feckless”: “We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.” And, in an April 15 post, Sen. Murphy called Trump’s blockade “insane” and accused the president of “helping the Iranians close the Strait of Hormuz” and “trying to open the Strait of Hormuz by helping the Iranians close it.” Response to Sen. Murphy's X.com post has been overwhelming negative. “So that was just Iranian propaganda?” “Yes, absolutely.”@TreyYingst reports there’s no evidence any vessels left Iranian ports or moved through the Strait of Hormuz — undercutting the false narrative about 26 Iranian ships slipping past a U.S. blockade. | @foxandfriends pic.twitter.com/jnUB9yoSFK — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 21, 2026