Lawrence O’Donnell went after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday Night’s The Last Word for not serving in the military since he was gay. In O'Donnell's words, Bessent was a gay outlaw from the military his eligible enlistment years therefore making him no Robert Mueller from the Vietnam War, a war O’Donnell never fought in himself. In his monologue, the MS NOW nighttime host played a clip from Bessent's appearance on Sunday’s Meet the Press where he was in defense of President Trump against questions from host Kristen Welker. In response to a clip where Bessent talked about the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago in 2023, O’Donnell erupted on Bessent and said, “what a raving fool, what a clown.”   Last night on The Last Word, Lawrence O'Donnell went after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for not serving in the military since he was gay, adding that he was no Robert Mueller. pic.twitter.com/wHksoIYQAI — Nick (@nspin310) March 24, 2026   After giving the history of investigations of liberal heroes, Special Counsels Robert Mueller and Jack Smith, he started to question Bessent’s military knowledge and said, “needless to say, he doesn't know what he's talking about.” O’Donnell then compared Bessent to Mueller, and stated Bessent would never be comparable to Mueller since he was gay and did not serve: Unlike Robert Mueller, Scott Bessent never dreamed of serving in any capacity in the military and, in fact, legally would not have been allowed to serve in the military when Scott Bessent was of enlistment age. Because Scott Bessent is a gay man married to a gay man who has two children. And during Scott Benson's years of military enlistment eligibility, it was completely against the law to be gay in the United States military. O’Donnell was correct about the "don't ask, don’t tell” policy, but it seemed odd to use it as an attack on Bessent, who might be one of the most powerful gay men in the world as he had much input over the U.S. economy. The host then went into Mueller’s military accomplishment, as many describe the former FBI director as a war hero in Vietnam. Afterward, he connected back to bash Bessent for not knowing what it mean to serve: Robert Mueller personally led a fire team across the fire swept area terrain to recover a mortally wounded marine, Scott Bessent has absolutely no idea what it feels like to decide to risk your life to save someone else's life. Most of us have lived safe enough lives to have no idea what that moment is like. Imagine the outrage if conservatives attacked a gay person for non-enlistment in the military in their eligible years. O’Donnell’s continuous derangement since the start of the Iran conflict was been very noticeable, as he has called some in the Trump family, like Barron Trump, to go serve and travel to Iran to sail through the Strait of Hormuz. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell March 23. 2026 10:09:33 PM Eastern (...) O’DONNELL: What a raving fool, what a clown.  A couple of things. First of all, what was done to Richard Nixon by special prosecutors was much, much worse than what happened to Donald Trump.  And Robert Mueller closed his investigation of Donald Trump three years before the FBI's totally legal raid of Donald Trump's residence to retrieve classified material for which Donald Trump was charged with federal crimes by a different special prosecutor who the oblivious Scott Bessent, the lying Scott Bessent doesn't seem to know, is named Jack Smith. While he was at it, the treasury secretary humiliated himself as a military strategist, saying, quote, “sometimes you have to escalate to de-escalate.” Needless to say, he doesn't know what he's talking about.  Unlike Robert Mueller, Scott Bessent never dreamed of serving in any capacity in the military and, in fact, legally would not have been allowed to serve in the military when Scott Bessent was of enlistment age. Because Scott Bessent is a gay man married to a gay man who has two children. And during Scott Benson's years of military enlistment eligibility, it was completely against the law to be gay in the United States military.  Scott Bessent was an outlaw in the eyes of the American military in those days, and so he never faced the kinds of moments Robert Mueller faced in Vietnam when, as his bronze star commendation says, Robert Mueller personally led a fire team across the fire swept area terrain to recover a mortally wounded marine, Scott Bessent has absolutely no idea what it feels like to decide to risk your life to save someone else's life. Most of us have lived safe enough lives to have no idea what that moment is like.  (...)

The DHS shutdown grinds on, with passengers standing interminable lines and missing flights as TSA agents go over a month without being paid. ABC News, in a weird report that serves little purpose, saw this as an opportunity to try to drive an internal wedge at DHS by questioning whether the fairness of ICE agents getting paid as they assist TSA agents who are not. Watch as ABC congressional correspondent Jay O’Brien closes out his report by driving that wedge and then having Sen. Tim Kaine reinforce the wedge: DISGUSTING PROPAGANDA: Jay O'Brien concludes @ABCWorldNews report on the @DHSgov shutdown by pitting TSA against ICE over pay, bolstered with a loaded question to Sen. Tim Kaine. No GOP soundbite. A reminder that the Democrats survive every government shutdown largely unscathed… pic.twitter.com/5Bog3ETRTy — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 25, 2026 JAY O'BRIEN: And tonight, with the president sending ICE agents to airports across the country, the reality amid the chaos those agents are getting paid while TSA officers are not. ICE was given an extra $75 billion in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.  What do you say to Americans who say it's unfair that those ICE agents are being paid but TSA agents standing next to them at the airport aren’t? TIM KAINE: They're right. They are completely right. The Republicans prefunded ICE for- with an equivalent of about seven years of their budget. O'BRIEN: David, Bottom line there is no deal yet, so those bipartisan negotiations will continue with tens of thousands of DHS employees like these TSA officers left in limbo, and Congress is set to leave on Friday for a two-week recess. David. MUIR: For their Easter break. Jay O’Brien. Thank you. You will notice that no Republican was asked the fairness question. That’s because a Republican response would have run along the lines of foreseeing that Democrats would try to interfere with immigration enforcement, or that shutting down DHS while there is an ongoing military operation in the Middle East is madness. We don’t know, because O’Brien never bothered. The report prior to this point was the usual fare about pain at the TSA line and the cost of airfare potentially going up due to fuel surcharges, followed by a play-by-play of the negotiations on The Hill. This was more bipartisan inasmuch as it included quotes from both Senate leaders as well as President Trump. But the driving of a wedge between subagencies in the midst of a lengthy shutdown is disgusting. What does this hope to accomplish beyond driving a wedge within DHS? The fact that no Republican was asked the question gives the game away.  So there was no doubt in anyone's mind, the fairness frame was pushed up front by David Muir and at the end by O'Brien, ensuring this is the last thing viewers saw related to the DHS shutdown. In the process, we are reminded that this is why the Democrats emerge largely unscathed from painful government shutdowns. The Elitist Media gleefully run crisis comms for them by serving up stories such as the one shown here- which amount to nothing more than disgusting propaganda.  Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026: DAVID MUIR: We are also following the unfolding chaos at several of America’s airports, those long TSA lines. TSA security workers going without pay for weeks now amid the partial government shutdown. With millions of Americans waiting, some up to six hours in those lines. Some passengers today say they were returning after missing their flights yesterday. Tonight here, ABC’s Jay O'Brien asking lawmakers on The Hill is it fair that the ICE agents sent by the president to these airports are getting paid but the TSA security officers are not. Here’s Jay O’Brien. JAY O'BRIEN: Tonight, as Americans suffer hourslong wait times at some of the nation's largest airports and thousands of TSA officers go without a paycheck: after 39 days, glimmers of hope on Capitol Hill. PASSENGER: The line continues to go. PASSENGER: It’s inhuman. There’s no water, no bathrooms- I didn't think it was gonna be this bad. O’BRIEN: Houston seeing some of the highest callout rates in the nation. TSA lines stretching across three floors, snaking all the way to the subway terminal. KTRK’s Sarah al-Shaikh is there. SARAH al-SHAIKH: It's a bit like deja vu for some travelers here at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. Many people in this TSA line say they actually missed their flights yesterday and had to come back to stand in line again today. O'BRIEN: Adding to the headache, airline officials now warning that ticket prices could increase as much as 20% to cover surging jet fuel costs due to the war with Iran. But tonight, after weeks of gridlock, Senate Republicans changing course, proposing funding every agency inside Homeland Security except immigration enforcement, and tackling money for ICE in a later bill. JOHN THUNE: It is essentially what the Democrats have been asking for. And so we’re going to have an opportunity to vote on that. O'BRIEN: Democrats have called for passing funding to parts of DHS while also demanding ICE reforms like requiring agents remove masks and wear body cameras, and tonight say the new proposal doesn't go far enough. CHUCK SCHUMER: We need reforms to ICE, we need to rein in the violence, we have never changed our position. O'BRIEN: President Trump, who told Republicans to make no deal unless his voter ID act is passed, late today on these new negotiations. DONALD TRUMP: I guess they're getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make I'm pretty much not happy with it. O'BRIEN: And tonight, with the president sending ICE agents to airports across the country, the reality amid the chaos those agents are getting paid while TSA officers are not. ICE was given an extra $75 billion in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.  What do you say to Americans who say it's unfair that those ICE agents are being paid but TSA agents standing next to them at the airport aren’t? TIM KAINE: They're right. They are completely right. The Republicans prefunded ICE for- with an equivalent of about seven years of their budget. O'BRIEN: David, Bottom line there is no deal yet, so those bipartisan negotiations will continue with tens of thousands of DHS employees like these TSA officers left in limbo, and Congress is set to leave on Friday for a two-week recess. David. MUIR: For their Easter break. Jay O’Brien. Thank you.  

Monday’s Good Morning America showcased the ABC’s position as perhaps the worst of the major broadcast networks as, on this occasion, co-host and former NFL player Michael Strahan spent over seven minutes yuking it up with friend and Democrat Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) as the latter has a new book to sell (which ABC partnered with on sales through a QR code) and lob softballs allowing Booker to paint Republicans as the cause of the Homeland Security shutdown. We don’t see ABC clamoring to have on Republican senators who’ve released books in 2025 and 2026, including Tom Cotton (AR), John Kennedy (LA), James Lankford (OK), Dave McCormick (PA), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Eric Schmitt (MO), or Tim Scott (R-SC). On DHS, Strahan embarrassingly asked Booker if “it’s time for both sides to come together and get this figured out” since “President Trump is now sending ICE agents to airports to help out” and “a lot of TSA workers — or none of them have been getting paid[.]” This snippet from Monday’s ‘Good Morning America’ shows exactly why/how Democrats are able to get away with avoiding widespread blame for causing the DHS shutdown and not paying TSA workers. ABC co-host Michael Strahan lets Cory Booker use his book tour to paint this picture of… pic.twitter.com/qpCNnHObeS — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 24, 2026 Booker then blabbered on about how Democrats are the ones who’ve been fighting to reopen the government, arguing “Democrats seven times have come forward and say, hey, look, we’re having a fight on ICE, but pay TSA, pay FEMA, the people that are helping them.” “Why hold hostage airports because we’re fighting over ICE? Look, the principle here is something Americans agree with...We don’t want ICE agents arresting Americans, dragging people out of their homes, killing people. There needs to be reforms...[D]on’t drag in all these other agencies that have nothing to do with that principle to fight,” Booker insisted, going unchallenged on the fact that ICE is funded through 2029. Because he’s a drive-by leftist, Strahan commiserated with Booker not having enough supporters for his position: “So, I think it surprised a lot of people with how much they’re making, because people think how could it be paycheck to paycheck, but when you see what their paychecks are, they’re really not making a lot of money as much of the same fact they should.” “I’m sure a lot of people are frustrated because the lawmakers are getting paid and the TSA workers aren’t getting paid,” Strahan later said after Booker bragged about his supposed championing of TSA workers prior to and during this shutdown. On the memoir, Strahan began by saying “I love this book because this is a book about virtues” and “it’s 10 of them and the people, famous or non-famous who exemplify them or who don’t.” Strahan asked the easiest possible question: “So — so why now? Why’d you write this book now?” Only at the end did Strahan ask Booker about 2028, but he almost didn’t need to because of Booker’s politician-speak about how he suddenly felt the call to write a book imploring Americans to believe in goodness and summon our better angels (click “expand”): BOOKER: Well, more than you know, I — when I’m walking around the country, people are afraid, worried about their nation across the political spectrum, and were asking me, what do I do? What do I do? And my response is we are the heroes that we’ve been looking for. And if you look at our history or even our present, it’s always Americans in times like this that stand up for the best of who we are in the worst of times, and that’s how we win. STRAHAN: And one vulnerability that might surprise people — no, one — one virtue that might surprise people is vulnerability. How is that a virtue? BOOKER: Well, you see it in sport — in sports right now. Some of the men that I think really break through often are the ones that talk about their own personal struggles. This is not a time we need more boasting of how great I am or how perfect I am. We create community many times when we open up about our struggles, about our pain. This is difficult times. So many Americans are hurting and I — in the last year, have seen so many Americans courageously opening up. This young man named Joseph Peters at one of my town halls — he suffered from severe anxiety, but wanted to come out and speak about what cuts in healthcare were meaning to his family and it was amazing to watch a crowd of a thousand people change instantly, crying, hugging, and he became a hero in my life because of that. Something about sharing when you’re broken open gives you more points of connection and more people to come together and show strength. That’s what we are as Americans when we’re honest and open with each other. And I think one of the best ways to show the strength of who we are is by showing our imperfections and our vulnerability. In the same week that stories have trickled out (such as here) about Democrats believing they need to be more authentic and vulnerable about lows in their life, Strahan invited Booker to share such a moment about having to assist his then-elderly father use the bathroom a few years ago while in Atlanta, Georgia. “[I]t was just sweet tender moment, but also an expansion for my heart to understand not just what my family was going through, but suddenly realizing there was millions of Americans who often struggle in isolation were all going through this. And I’ve now really worked with that community of caregivers and others across the political spectrum to say, we as a country have to do more,” he stated in part. Strahan’s throwaway question about 2028 came at the very end and was followed by the two offering some sort of inside joke about a past golf outing the two were on (click “expand”): STRAHAN: And very quickly, yes or no answer, you’re a contender — or you’re considered to be a presidential contender for 2028. Running or not. BOOKER: I’m running for reelection in November, so I’m hoping New Jersey will support me. Hoping folks will reach out to my campaign. But no matter what, in 2028, I’m telling you right now both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party need big change. I want this country to have a new vision. I want us to redeem the dream of America. I think all of us in this generational shift now going on with younger leaders coming up.  It is time that we bring a — a real new vision for our country. And so, I’m gonna be a part of that conversation regardless of what I’m running for. I’m just tired of both parties, frankly. We’re missing the moment. I see corruption in Washington like I’ve never seen before, with billions of dollars of dark money, corporate money, corrupting the system. I see a lack of simplistic vision. Most Americans are losing their faith that the deal works for them. They’re working harder than their parents making less can’t afford rent mortgage providing for their kids and God, health care costs and other costs are skyrocketing. It — it is time that we renew America again and make the best of who we are really present in our politics, which I think right now has been devoid of a lot of hope and a lot of promise for Americans who are losing faith. STRAHAN: So, I take that as a yes. Cory Booker, thank you so much. We appreciate you being here. BOOKER: Thank you for not bringing up my most embarrassing sports moments. STRAHAN: I’m not going to talk about how you hit me with a golf ball back in the day, but Cory’s book Stand is available tomorrow. Make sure you pick it up and get all those virtues in. To see the relevant ABC transcript from March 23, click here.

Democrats who want to defund Immigration and Customs Enforcement aren’t getting away with the political hostage-taking they’re using to do it. They’re trying to hold the Transportation Security Administration’s funding hostage until their demands for weakening ICE are met. That means they’re also subjecting millions of air travelers to added anxiety, and worse, as security-line wait times stretch into hours. According to CNN, “Half the nation’s busiest airports had more than a third of (TSA) agents call out Saturday.” At LaGuardia on Sunday, passengers were in line for up to three hours — not because of the Air Canada accident late that evening but because TSA was understaffed all day. What’s President Donald Trump doing about this mess? He’s called the Democrats’ bluff. Instead of gutting immigration enforcement, he’s sent ICE into more than a dozen of the nation’s busiest airports to make up for TSA’s missing manpower. Democrats, predictably, are furious — and fearmongering to the nth degree. “The last thing the American people need is for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports across the country, potentially to brutalize or to kill them,” House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries frothed on CNN’s “State of the Union.” What about the Americans brutalized and killed by illegal-alien criminals? If Jeffries and his party succeed in chipping away at ICE, more Americans like 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman will die. The man charged with her murder is a Venezuelan national who was breaking the law just by being in this country — yet the enforcement necessary to keep killers like him out, or send them back promptly if they do get through our borders, is what Democrats aim to dismantle. Illegal alien criminals, not law-enforcement officers, are the threat to ordinary Americans’ lives and well-being, but Jeffries and his fellow Democrats choose to demonize ICE. They’re beholden to a left-wing activist base that wants little less than open borders, as the immigration crisis brought about by the last Democratic administration showed. Voters repudiated that agenda, but the election of Trump on a platform of serious immigration enforcement hasn’t chastised Jeffries or his Senate counterpart Chuck Schumer — they’re determined to take the country back to the Joe Biden era, when the likes of Gorman’s killer could enter with ease. Yet what Dems didn’t foresee is that Trump would repair their sabotage of America’s transportation security by using the very agency Jeffries and company are trying to destroy. ICE is proving to be doubly invaluable now — for its primary task of immigration enforcement but also as a fallback for TSA when Democrats play shutdown games with Homeland Security. The only risk to travelers is that leftist provocateurs will attempt to manufacture conflict to besmirch ICE — a strategy they employed to deadly effect in Minneapolis. Yet the country can’t give in to intimidation if innocent lives like Gorman’s or Laken Riley’s are to be saved. Jeffries and Schumer may not plot their tactics over the phone with anti-ICE street activists, but they’re working from the same playbook: create tense, frustrating, even dangerous situations, then channel the resulting outrage against law enforcement. It’s true ICE agents can’t substitute for trained TSA personnel in providing for all an airport’s security needs. But they can cover the basics, while remaining TSA employees — whom Democrats refuse to pay during the standoff — handle the specialized work. And if Jeffries and Schumer still won’t budge? How long before even the most selfless TSA worker can’t afford to eat, or pay rent, because of the Democrats’ stunt? ICE is funded separately from the rest of DHS, including TSA, which is why Dems can’t attack immigration enforcement directly. And ICE is set up to hire quickly — so if Democrats keep Homeland Security and TSA shut down, Trump might have another way to rescue the travelers and government workers who are all Schumer’s hostages. The president could hire the best TSA workers straight into ICE, immediately acquiring the skills necessary for the enforcement agency to run airport security indefinitely. And if anti-ICE activists attempt any mischief, the president has other possibilities at hand — he’s already contemplated putting the National Guard in airports. Law enforcement of every kind, but especially immigration enforcement, has been vilified for years in liberal media, which has taken a toll on public opinion. Vilifying the armed forces isn’t so easy, and progressive propagandists haven’t tried it to nearly the same extent. Congressional Democrats think of our airports the way Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps thinks about the Strait of Hormuz: as a chokepoint to get a chokehold on America and force concessions. What Schumer and Jeffries are doing would be unconscionable at any time, but in wartime defunding homeland security is more than malicious; it’s potentially deadly. The Democrats should cut their losses. Thanks to President Trump’s ingenuity and perseverance, they’ve already lost their war with law enforcement. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy, visit www.creators.com.

Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the legislation required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote. That’s false. In the legislation, voters would need a passport or birth certificate to register. One can find ways to buy birth certificates from their local government offices. For example, a simple internet search for birth certificates in a person’s county will bring up links, like this from Fairfax, VA, and give options to obtaining a copy of a birth certificate. The topic came up in an opening discussion on the SAVE ACT. Scarborough referenced Brzezinski not knowing where she was born since her mother, apparently, did not remember:   Tuesday’s Morning Joe led with lies about the SAVE America Act, as host Joe Scarborough insisted the bill required everyone, including his co-host, and wife, Mika Brzezinski to present their original birth certificate from their hospital of birth in order to register to vote. pic.twitter.com/1DCSzZ6jQS — Nick (@nspin310) March 24, 2026   SCARBOROUGH: Do you know where your original birth certificate is? BRZEZINSKI: Well, actually I do. Yes. SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good. BRZEZINSKI: The original? SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Well, they're going to kick you off the voter rolls if you don't have it. Scarborough, Brzezinski, and other co-host Willie Geist then went into a long back and forth on how Brzezinski’s mother didn't know where she was born. Scarborough then made his big SAVE Act connection again: See, but here's a great - you know, not only does Mika not know where her original birth certificate is, which under the SAVE Act would get her kicked off the voter rolls, and then she'd have to come back and reregister, and she would find out on election day that she could not vote. And by the way, don't be skeptical. Seriously, she had no idea where she was born. She still doesn't. He went on for more and said the “Trump act will kick people off the voter rolls. I have to go back and they will have to find an original birth certificate or buy a passport, which a lot of people can't even afford groceries now. And so it's very deliberate attempt to keep people off the rolls, you know.” Scarborough finished that point and stated he supported government issued photo voter ID, but not the SAVE Act. Maybe Scarborough should read up on the SAVE America Act and not spread lies about the need for an ‘original’ birth certificate.   Mika added a disdain for ICE agents into the opening 5 minutes of the program, yelling that she does not want them searching her bag. This prompted Joe to ask, as any person would, "What's in your bag?" In response, Mika yelled about ICE agents being "trained for nothing." pic.twitter.com/8IMulJIGZI — Nick (@nspin310) March 24, 2026   To bring it all the way back, Brzezinski brought up ICE in airports, made fun of them, and then opined that she didn't want them looking through her bag: And ICE agents are milling around with masks off, which is not good for them since people are taking their pictures. taking their pictures. They don't like that. I mean, it's just awkward. Anyhow, I still don't know what they're doing there. Like what's the function? Are they scanning our bags? I wouldn't want that (...). Scarborough, as any person would do, then asked “What’s in your bag.” And to end it off, Brzezinski said, “ICE agents are trained for nothing!” The combination of ICE hatred and SAVE Act derangement is seemingly just what liberal viewers need at 6 a.m. in the morning. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s Morning Joe March 24, 2026 6:01:08 AM Eastern (...) MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Okay, but on capitol hill, there could be a deal to fund the department of homeland security before congress leaves town for a two week recess. That's despite president trump again yesterday telling Republicans any funding for the agency has to be tied to the save America Act. We'll dig into all of that. JOE SCARBOROUGH: We can dig as long as we want. That's just not going to happen. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. There's that. Meanwhile, here in New York - SCARBOROUGH: I mean, I'm just saying - I'm not even - That's just a fact. You ask John Thune and other republicans, they'll just say, that's just not going to happen. BRZEZINSKI: Well, he's hoping for it. SCARBOROUGH: Do you know where your original birth certificate is? BRZEZINSKI: Well, actually I do. Yes. SCARBOROUGH: Oh, good. BRZEZINSKI: The original? SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. Well, they're going to kick you off the voter rolls if you don't have it. BRZEZINSKI: My mom doesn’t remember where I was born. So its not like ,- SCARBOROUGH: You know Willie, seriously, for most of Mika’s life she's not known - BRZEZINSKI: New York or Washington SCARBOROUGH: - where she was born. I said - WILLIE GEIST: Where you were born? SCARBOROUGH: - where were you born. Her mom’s like, “I don't - you know it. It was the 60s.” BRZEZINSKI: New York, Washington GEIST: You still don’t know. BRZEZINSKI: Well, I think I did a deep dive into this [inaudible] and now I can't remember. So - like mother like daughter SCARBOROUGH: I think she ended up being born in Manhattan. But - BRZEZINSKI: Was it Manhattan? GEIST: She ended up being born in Manhattan. SCARBOROUGH: It might of been Jersey. GEIST: Started somewhere else BRZEZINSKI: I think they they were living in Georgetown. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were living in the swamps of Jersey. Might of been Georgetown.  See, but here's a great - you know, not only does Mika not know where her original birth certificate is, which under the SAVE Act would get her kicked off the voter rolls, and then she'd have to come back and reregister, and she would find out on election day that she could not vote. And by the way, don't be skeptical. Seriously, she had no idea where she was born. She still doesn't. BRZEZINSKI: Okay, but that's not the story. This -  GEIST: Does your mom know? Sorry, yeah. SCARBOROUGH: She never really knew she. It was the 60s, but she was an artist. Yeah. I mean, come on. HAGAR CHEMALI: But you didn't change your last name, so that'll help you. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, exactly. Okay. All right. SCARBOROUGH: So anyway, so but they're really saying this Trump Act will kick people off the voter rolls. I have to go back and they will have to find an original birth certificate or buy a passport, which a lot of people can't even afford groceries now. And so it's very deliberate attempt to keep people off the rolls, you know. BRZEZINSKI: Republican or Democrat. SCARBOROUGH: By the way, I've always said voter id, that's fine. Driver's license or another government issued deal. Or if the voter registration office wants to get, you know, let people get -  that's even better because then you're giving people who don't have a photo id, government issued photo ID. But this thing is crazy and it's never going to pass what they're talking about. GEIST: And the way the president and others are trying to sell it is this is just a voter OD bill. All you have to do is have a picture ID and that's all we're asking. That's not true. SCARBOROUGH: That’s not true. GEIST: There's much, much more in there, restrictions on mail, in voting and what you're talking about here, these things that are buried in, they want you to think it's just voter ID. It is not. There are other restrictions on voting that go deep within this. And also meanwhile, the president is lumping all this other stuff into the bill about trans athletes and everything else. SCARBOROUGH: (Laughs) GEIST: Catch all, omnibus thing. SCARBOROUGH: It's not going to work - BRZEZINSKI: Okay, meanwhile, here in New York - SCARBOROUGH: - and republicans know it's not going to work and chaos in the airport keeps on getting worse. The TSA agents work for free right now. BRZEZINSKI: And ICE agents are milling around with masks off, which is not good for them since people are taking their pictures. taking their pictures. They don't like that. I mean, it's just awkward. Anyhow, I still don't know what they're doing there. Like what's the function? Are they scanning our bags? I wouldn't want that. Okay - SCARBOROUGH: What’s in your bag. BRZEZINSKI: Well, I just - no. I just - they don't appear to be very good at their jobs SCARBOROUGH: (Laughs) She walked right into it. I mean my bag, open it up man BRZEZINSKI: No, I wouldn't want them scanning bags. SCARBOROUGH: Bunch of chewing gum and baseball cards. BRZEZINSKI: I want TSA agents scanning bags! They’re trained for that job. SCARBOROUGH: Alright meanwhile here in New York -  BRZEZINSKI: ICE agents are trained for nothing! (...)