WATCH: CNN’s Jake Tapper defends ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel calling Melania Trump “an expected widow” and blasts criticism of the press as dangerous in light of Saturday’s #WHCD shooting as “clamp[ing] down on criticism and free speech”... “Let us discuss now two important aspects of https://t.co/Qr9IUc9z5e

.@PressSec @KarolineLeavitt: “When you read the manifesto of this shooter, ask yourselves, how different is the rhetoric from this almost assassin than what you read on social media and hear in various forums every single day? The answer, if you're being honest with yourself, is https://t.co/pBjAeqzdGH

WATCH: CNN says “both sides” are equally victims of political violence, arguing it’s irresponsible for President Trump to “cheery pick” and say it’s a problem on the left when he “has glorified” and encouraged “violence”.... CNN’s Manu Raju: “[Trump is] going after Democratic https://t.co/zgveDmC7Ub

Whoopi whines that nothing is happening to take gun rights away: "We talk about this all the time. We talk about guns, we say all the stuff, and then it goes away. People forget. So, you know, we will talk more about all of this when we come back." https://t.co/zwNPoupDYC

Sunny Hostin takes ZERO accountability for her incendiary rhetoric against Trump on The View. Instead she blames guns and wants your Second Amendment rights and right to carry stripped from you. She claims there's no gun control in America: HOSTIN: So the President, thank God, https://t.co/ysG5mziRyL

Networks downplay Southern Poverty Law Center funding KKK, Nazis https://t.co/pKIx6L8nXj

Blecch! MS NOW is airing a promotional ad with Rachel Maddow reading the Preamble to the Constitution, as if that's exactly what MS NOW stands for. Sure, when I think of the "blessings of liberty," I think of MS NOW anchors sucking up to Bernie and AOC. https://t.co/WawgQ2Pe2h

WATCH: In an editorial to close out this week's "Face the Nation," CBS's Margaret Brennan reflexively blames the Second Amendment for the WHCD shooting, as opposed to the violent rhetoric emanating from the left. MARGARET BRENANN: A night to celebrate the First Amendment, https://t.co/N1dcMw4nC0

What is the Walt Disney Corporation going to do to address its role in the foment of the current climate of political violence? From Jimmy Kimmel's fake WHCD monologue: "Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel- so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant https://t.co/VGRjOJRPQl

OF COURSE: With the investigation into the WHCD shooting still ongoing, NBC's Kristen Welker finds time to ask Acting AG Todd Blanche about The Atlantic's hit job on Kash Patel. https://t.co/KLaNBZVW4F

Good timing CNN. Tonight on CNN: “The Imperial Presidency: A Fared Zakaria Special.” CNN’s State of the Union segued from plugging Wolf Blitzer’s eyewitness account of the #WHCD shooting to promoting the Zakaria special. https://t.co/XUfbBmWTML

WOW: CNN's @BrianStelter says @BrendanCarrFCC -- someone Brian is perhaps most critical of these days -- was one of the first people who checked on him as the #WHCD shooting chaos unfolded... https://t.co/qaxtcxfu6L

MS NOW's Laura Barron-Lopez huffs about Trump responding with "I guess" when asked at the presser if he thought the shooter was trying to kill him. "There is no evidence yet," she says. https://t.co/EzVTjuMKLe

President Trump denounces the #WHCD shooting as an attack on the First Amendment... "[W]e don't want things like this to happen. I think it's very important that I say, though, and I told the representatives of the evening -- they did such a beautiful job. It was such a https://t.co/5aQtTpzmvI

Liberal CNN panelists SE Cupp and Van Lantan say the #WHCD shooting is proof the "country is sick" and nothing is being done to address that fact https://t.co/XmePRlxN7f

About ten minutes later, CNN's Wolf Blitzer shares more about how he was FEET away from the #WHCD gunman and saw him being neutralized by police https://t.co/MzO6SpsaTd

Credit to @BrianStelter for taking out his cellphone and streaming for @CNN, discussing with @KaitlanCollins and @MajorCBS earlier and now @MKRaju, admitting at 849pm Eastern that the #WHCD shooting has a lot of people shook up https://t.co/ms6PlY4oJ9

Absolute chaos inside the #WHCD as @BrianStelter of CNN and @MajorCBS Garrett discuss live on CNN around 840pm Eastern what they heard/felt https://t.co/mz3y6akpoj

Eye roll of self-importance from CNN's Laura Coates... "You know, one thing I think is so unbelievable about this night is not just the idea that the press is talking about the First Amendment, which is obviously a constant reminder we should all have. But it's also that one way https://t.co/IqvhEmTbhy

CNN's @ScottJennings, moments before the start of the #WHCD... "Well, I'm happy the President is speaking tonight. We do have serious issues going on in the country. We have a war going on, for goodness sakes. He might say something about that tonight. So there could be a news https://t.co/JiDkqhIifZ