On Thursday, NBC’s Today refused to cover the indictment late Wednesday of Florida Democrat Congresswoman Shelia Cheriflus-McCormick for allegedly having stolen $5 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FMEA) to instead fill her campaign coffers. CBS Mornings did the right thing and had a full story. Co-host Tony Dokoupil even had a tease in the “Eye Opener” about the congresswoman accused of stealing money to enrich herself. Co-host Gayle King later cued up correspondent Scott MacFarlane: “The Justice Department has indicted a Florida congresswoman alleging that she stole millions from FEMA. Her name? She’s a Democrat – Shelia Cherfilus-McCormick – is accused of taking $5 million in agency funds to use for her political campaign.” NBC's 'Today' refused to mention Thursday the news from the night prior that the DOJ has indicted Florida Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick for allegedly stealing $5 million in Covid funds 'CBS Mornings' had a full story from co-host @GayleKing and correspondent… pic.twitter.com/IZxtF47LTI — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 20, 2025   The entire segment was 93 seconds, so McFarlane immediately cut to the chase: “When Shelia Cherfilus-McCormick was running for a seat in the U.S. House in 2021, the Department of Justice says the Democrat stole $5 million in Covid-19 disaster funds to support her congressional campaign.” Pointing out she allegedly had accomplices (who were also indicted), McFarlane said the crux of the charges stemmed from allegations that “a healthcare company she ran with her brother was overpaid in $5 million in FEMA funds for a vaccination staffing contract” in 2021. Spoiler alert: The congresswoman and her brother allegedly never followed through with that: “They say the company received that in July 2021 and Cherfilus-McCormick used it for her campaign. The funds were routed through multiple accounts to disguise its source, they said. And a portion of the money was funneled to friends and family who donated to the campaign.” MacFarlane closed by piling on Cherfilus-McCormick and acknowledged she’s “already under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for campaign finance violations, including misreporting the source of a contribution.” But with Cherfilus-McCormick declaring this has been a “shame indictment,” we’ll see how this plays out (or not) in the liberal media if the trial goes forward and whether Cherfilus-McCormick tries to claim she’s the victim of dictator Trump. ABC’s Good Morning America had a partial segment on Cherfilus-McCormick, tallying 55 seconds: GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Now to Florida Congresswoman indicted on charges of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and allegedly funneling the money to her campaign. Senior political correspondent Rachel Scott is on Capitol Hill with the latest. Good morning, Rachel. RACHEL SCOTT: George, good morning to you. Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is facing up to 53 years behind bars. She was indicted after being accused of stealing $5 million in disaster relief fund and then using it to benefit her 2021 campaign. In a statement, the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, saying “using disaster relief funds for self-enrichment is a particularly selfish, cynical crime,” adding “no one is above the law.” The DOJ says the congresswoman conspired to use the overpaid funds to benefit her campaign and then tried to disguise where the money was coming from by using multiple accounts. We're told this investigation does date back to the Biden administration and this morning no word from the congresswoman or her office, George. NBC’s Today was out to lunch entirely and instead devoted D.C. coverage in both hours to the Epstein files. To see the relevant CBS transcript from November 20, click here. This story has been updated as a previous version said ABC did not cover the story. We regret the error.

For all the media brouhaha about how the jobs market under Trump was going down the toilet, new government data — AGAIN — blew the fear-mongering to smithereens. The Bureau of Labor Statistics finally released its report on September jobs growth following the Democrat-led shutdown in Congress, and found that a whopping 119,000 jobs were added against economists’ expectations of just a 50,000 increase. The unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point to 4.4 percent. But as Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni contextualized in a November 20 X post, “Labor force participation improved for 2nd month in a row in Sep as 470k more people piled into the labor market M/M, w/ 251k getting jobs and 219k still looking for work; this is why the unemployment rate rose even as more people got jobs and the employment level increased.”  To sum up the results in a nutshell, CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman, who had spent Trump’s first year of his second term lambasting his economic policies, was forced to admit that “[T]his report really bolsters the case of the hawks on the FOMC who have said they do not see serious deterioration in the labor market... A robust report.” Even ABC News conceded November 20 that the latest numbers mean the jobs market is “defying [the supposed] hiring slowdown.” ABC News correspondent Alexis Christoforous also noted that “Heading into that historic government shutdown, the job market was healthier than we thought.” Oh, so you mean all the anti-Trump media blather to the contrary was bunk? Looking at different stories from the leftist media trying to convince everyone that we were headed for a jobs market should make every consumer give the side eye to the doom mongers.  Axios proclaimed in August that the “Job market gloom hasn't been this bad since the Great Recession.” As recently as October, Fortune magazine was drumming up economic rage bait: “This is the worst the jobs market has looked (outside of a recession) in 50 years, says Goldman Sachs, meaning bullish GDP estimates are too optimistic.” MarketWatch also gloomed in September, “This chart shows the U.S. labor market is running on fumes. Why that’s a risk for the stock market.” In May, anti-Trump publication Forbes magazine published a how-to-cope piece should the jobs market go into free fall: “Here’s How To Handle A Recession If The Job Market Were To Plummet.” .@MariaBartiromo: "To me, this looks like a very strong report."@StephenMoore: "I agree... We're seeing huge investment numbers... we have great consumer spending numbers... I am very happy about this report, and I think investors should be, too." pic.twitter.com/2M1qJ2EQTL — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 20, 2025 It will be humorous to see how many outlets do the backstroke on the scare-porn they peddled over the year and how many will double down and insist that Trump is somehow steering the U.S. into an iceberg. 

President Donald Trump promised to sue the BBC for its deceptive edits to one of his speeches. But that was not enough for Big Tech companies to axe the outlet from their AI training data sets. The BBC edited video suggesting that the President supported violence during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. But instead of this deception disqualifying the outlet from being used as a source in AI responses, Meta AI and xAI's Grok actually praised the BBC and doubled down on using it.  Meta AI offered a particularly egregious response, noting that since the chatbot is “built to surface the most reliable reporting and note any corrections, I’ll keep using BBC material when it’s relevant.” Grok also refused to cease using the BBC, praising the biased publication as “one of the most comprehensive and fact-checked broadcasters globally.” OpenAI’s ChatGPT also suggested that it would continue using the BBC. MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider denounced these Big Tech platforms for these outrageous statements. “Even when elitist media get caught dead to rights spreading fake narratives for partisan purposes, Big Tech will still use them and openly call them more reliable than the right-of-center sources they suppress,” Schneider said. “And if companies like Meta are so committed to keep pouring garbage from the BBC into their chatbots, they’re going to keep shoveling garbage out to their users.” A leaked BBC memo exposed the broadcaster for deceptively editing two clips of President Trump speaking on Jan. 6. The BBC combined two far-apart parts of Trump’s speech and removed an exhortation to peacefully protest. The final wildly misleading product combined “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and I’ll be with you,” with words that came nearly an hour later, “and we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not gonna have a country anymore.” The clip was also paired to dramatic unsettling music.  According to the memo, the clip aired the week before the 2024 U.S. election. The memo also blasted extreme bias at the BBC in favor of Hamas and transgenderism.  In response, BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News, Deborah Turness, resigned on Nov. 9. Since then, President Trump has said that he will sue the BBC for billions of dollars.  Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini both acknowledged the incident, but downplayed it. Each also claimed that they (as chatbots) could not independently choose to stop using a source. Additionally, neither explicitly acknowledged that they trained on the BBC.  Notably, Claude took issue with the idea that the BBC was “authoring misinformation” and tried to downplay the scandal. Trump administration AI Czar David Sacks warned that Claude’s parent company, Anthropic, was likely to create products with a strong woke bias.  Sacks criticized Anthropic for hiring “the Biden AI team” in response to comments from leftist tech billionaire Reid Hoffman, who is a partner at a firm that has invested in Anthropic. Hoffman had claimed that Anthropic was “one of the good guys” among AI companies in a tweet thread that appeared to target Musk’s Grok and praised OpenAI.  In its response to the BBC scandal, Claude did admit that Anthropic and not the AI chatbot itself controls training. Claude wrote, “Regarding your question about training data: I don’t have control over or insight into what sources Anthropic uses for my training. Those decisions are made by Anthropic based on their assessment of data quality, reliability, and various other factors.”  Microsoft Copilot denied all knowledge of the resignations and did not substantially respond to the question.  Methodology: MRC researchers asked ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, Grok and Meta AI the following question on Nov. 14: BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness resigned after a leaked BBC memo indicated that it edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021. Will you stop training on BBC content since the British broadcaster has admitted to authoring misinformation? Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

ABC News may soon be facing down another costly defamation suit from President Trump. On Thursday’s edition of The View, moderator Joy Behar proclaimed that it was “obvious” that Trump was a pedophile in league with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and took part in the crimes the latter was convicted of. Amid a segment where they were asserting that the Trump administration wasn’t going to release the Epstein files as Congress demanded with a law earlier this week, Behar insisted it was “obvious” that Trump was a co-conspirator: BEHAR: But isn't it obvious he was -- that Trump was involved with Epstein?! I mean -- SUNNY HOSTIN: He's mentioned over a thousand times. BEHAR: There are more pictures with Epstein than pictures of Kim Kardashian of herself! HOSTIN: Yes. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. HOSTIN: Correct. “How many more things do we have to see before people believe that he was involved with Epstein?!” Behar yelled.   Defamation suit inbound? ABC News moderator Joy Behar says it's "obvious" that Trump was engaged in pedophilia and was partners with Epstein's abuse of minors: "Isn't it obvious he was -- that Trump was involved with Epstein? I mean, there are more pictures with Epstein than… pic.twitter.com/82DLXE5I48 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 20, 2025   Despite just backing up Behar’s lie that there were more pictures of Trump and Epstein together than existed of Kim Kardashian, co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin tried to run a bit of damage control: FARAH GRIFFIN: To date, he has never been credibly accused of a crime in this. HOSTIN: Right. He hasn’t been. FARAH GRIFFIN: You see him at parties. He knows him. There’s a known falling out. But honestly, if I were advising him, I would say if you have nothing to hide, if this is just an old friendship that fell apart and you happen to know a really bad guy, put it all out there. That is the quickest way to exonerate. BEHAR: But it's not, don't you see that! Later in the segment, when talking about members of Congress throwing accusations at each other about soliciting donations from Epstein, they hypocritically decried the flinging of baseless accusations: FARAH GRIFFIN: This is why people get so frustrated with politicians, something horrible was done. We all agree on that, Epstein engaged in horrific crimes but people care more about my team didn't do it your team did it and -- HOSTIN: Why is this a political issue? FARAH GRIFFIN: Exactly! HOSTIN: I mean, its sex abuse of children. SARA HAINES: When she [Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)] said my team looked into this quickly. When you throw out an accusation that big – which we all know this case is that big – just own it, say it was a mistake and move on because to then try to say, ‘well they lie and we don't lie,’ again, the distrust in Congress and our politicians.   After baselessly claiming Trump was a party in Epstein's crimes, The View whines about politicians throwing out baseless accusations and making things political. pic.twitter.com/ytQr3xmepj — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 20, 2025   “Don't sling an accusation out on the congressional floor and not dial it back quickly, abruptly say I got it wrong and move on because it isn't political, it’s criminal,” co-host Sara Haines declared. Perhaps The View should be focus on keeping their own house in order first. At no point did ABC issue a "legal note" for Behar's claim. The network seems to have a habit of accusing Trump of sex crimes. Almost a year ago, ABC News had settled a $15 million defamation suit with Trump after co-anchor George Stephanopoulos falsely claimed Trump had been found “liable for rape.” The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View November 20, 2025 11:07:54 a.m. Eastern (…) JOY BEHAR: But isn't it obvious he was -- that Trump was involved with Epstein?! I mean -- SUNNY HOSTIN: He's mentioned over a thousand times. BEHAR: There are more pictures with Epstein than pictures of Kim Kardashian of herself! HOSTIN: Yes. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Right. HOSTIN: Correct. BEHAR: How many more things do we have to see before people believe that he was involved with Epstein?! FARAH GRIFFIN: To date, he has never been credibly accused of a crime in this. HOSTIN: Right. He hasn’t been. FARAH GRIFFIN: You see him at parties. He knows him. There’s a known falling out. But honestly, if I were advising him, I would say if you have nothing to hide, if this is just an old friendship that fell apart and you happen to know a really bad guy, put it all out there. That is the quickest way to exonerate. BEHAR: But it's not, don't you see that! (…) 11:10:47 a.m. Eastern BEHAR: It's not true that they [NRCC] took money from Jeffrey Epstein? HOSTIN: It's a different Jeffrey Epstein. BEHAR: Okay. It's a different Jeffrey Epstein. It’s so confusing and annoying! FARAH GRIFFIN: This is why people get so frustrated with politicians, something horrible was done. We all agree on that, Epstein engaged in horrific crimes but people care more about my team didn't do it your team did it and -- HOSTIN: Why is this a political issue? FARAH GRIFFIN: Exactly! HOSTIN: I mean, its sex abuse of children. SARA HAINES: When she [Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)] said my team looked into this quickly. When you throw out an accusation that big – which we all know this case is that big – just own it, say it was a mistake and move on because to then try to say, ‘well they lie and we don't lie,’ again, the distrust in Congress and our politicians. HOSTIN: But the bottom line is – and you've said this before – HAINES: It’s not political. HOSITN: It is not a partisan issue. This is not a political issue. HAINES: Right, but I’m speaking to purely to – don't sling an accusation out on the congressional floor and not dial it back quickly, abruptly say I got it wrong and move on because it isn't political, it’s criminal. HOSTIN: It's just -- it's hellish at this point. I don’t know why there are two sides to an issue about child sexual abuse. BEHAR: There isn't. HOSTIN: There aren't two sides to it. It is shameful. BEHAR: Yeah, okay, we're going to take a break. We'll be right back.

During Wednesday’s airing of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish brought back on New York magazine senior correspondent and CNN contributor Irin Carmon, who called those in favor of total abortion bans as “extremist” and “politically toxic.” This was in relation to a recent effort in the South Carolina legislature that would have made abortion seekers and providers subject to prison time and given embryos higher legal status, but failed to make it out of committee. Carmon, who has also worked for the leftist Web sites Jezebel and Salon as well as MSNBC.com, appeared on the morning show several weeks prior and said that many pregnant women lost constitutional rights as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson. Cornish set the stakes high when recounting Carmon’s description of the South Carolina bill: “You've called it a natural progression of calling abortion murder, right? Which for anti-abortion advocates, they have looked at laws that treat embryos and even fertilized eggs as Constitutional persons.” Not to be a pronouns guy, but so-called “anti-abortion” advocates have typically been referred to as “pro-life” supporters out of a sense of mutual respect. Did this mean it’d be okay to refer to those in favor of “pro-choice” policies as “anti-life”? Carmon latched onto the “fission within the anti-abortion movement” over the next strategic steps, and how South Carolina is going too far: … to take that ideology of even at the very first moment of fertilization, they would like this blastocyst, embryo, fetus to have the legal status of a person over the person who's carrying it. And what we're actually seeing is the political backlash being very powerful to that extremist view.     Extremist? Most, if not all, pro-lifers have believed pre-born fetuses were “persons” who deserved full or near-full legal protection. There’ve been variances of opinion on certain specifics, but the very foundation of the pro-life stance was that pre-born children should not be aborted. What about the other extreme -- that abortion should be legal in every circumstance? The Left thinks that's eminently sensible, not extreme. Carmon mentioned some collateral issues related to giving fetuses personhood in the eyes of the law, but then admitted that view, which she just called “extremist,” as consistent with many pro-lifers, but still poisonous: It's the same view you mentioned, IUDs. It's also the same view that led the Alabama state Supreme Court to ban IVF until there was a legislative fix in the state of Alabama. It's something that many people in the anti-abortion movement believe, quite consistent with their belief […] how they see the world. But it is definitely politically toxic. There you have it. If you believe unborn children deserve more stringent legal protection, then you are “toxic.” Carmon’s argument also didn’t square with the fact that even states with looser abortion laws would still take the unborn baby into account instances of violence or injury to the mother, such as murder and accidents. Despite the fact that the bill didn’t even make it out of committee, Carmon issued a dire warning about the state of abortion post Roe v. Wade: “… the six week abortion ban when fetal activity is first detected, used to be considered the most extreme possible law. That's now in effect in multiple states. So, certainly for now, the so-called abolitionists, the most extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been quashed. But they are certainly not going anywhere.” Cornish would be wise to invite on one of those pro-lifers next time. I’m sure they’d love to be as extreme and toxic as Carmon made them out to be. The transcript is below. Click "expand" read: CNN This Morning November 19, 2025 6:53:34 a.m. EST AUDIE CORNISH: So, you have said that what's happening in South Carolina, meaning this particular legislation, you've called it a natural progression of calling abortion murder, right? Which for anti-abortion advocates, they have looked at laws that treat embryos and even fertilized eggs as Constitutional persons. So what's significant about how this is playing out? IRIN CARMON: Well, Audie, there is a fission within the anti-abortion movement about not only how to approach this moment, but really from the moment that Roe V. Wade existed about how to approach their ideology. And what we see in South Carolina is really the vanguard of that debate. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe V. Wade in the past three years, you've had groups vying for what is the best next strategy. Is it to do what South Carolina has done, which is, again, to take that ideology of even at the very first moment of fertilization, they would like this blastocyst, embryo, fetus to have the legal status of a person over the person who's carrying it. And what we're actually seeing is the political backlash being very powerful to that extremist view. It's the same view you mentioned, IUDs. It's also the same view that led the Alabama state Supreme Court to ban IVF until there was a legislative fix in the state of Alabama. It's something that many people in the anti-abortion movement believe, quite consistent with their belief — CORNISH: Right. CARMON: — with their — how they see the world. But it is definitely politically toxic. One thing I will say is that even though this bill failed out of committee, South Carolina has often been a kind of testing ground for future laws. Definitely worth paying attention to because what they have in place right now, the six week abortion ban when fetal activity is first detected, used to be considered the most extreme possible law. That's now in effect in multiple states. So, certainly for now, the so-called abolitionists, the most extreme wing of the anti-abortion movement has been quashed. But they are certainly not going anywhere.