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Much Skeptical Morning Joe Mirth Over Missing Epstein Minute
Morning Joe enjoys many snarky, cynical laughs over the disclosure that the video surveillance system in the federal prison where Jeffrey Epstein died skipped one minute every night at the same time.

POLITICS! CNN's Cornish Grabs Panel To Criticize Brennan-Comey Probe
Audie Cornish, host of CNN This Morning, assembles a panel that unanimously criticizes the investigation launched by the Justice Department into the possible criminal activities of John Brennan and James Comey to interfere with the 2016 election.

MSNBC Denounces Trump Keeping People 'In Cages'—Ya Mean, Like Obama?
MSNBC The Weekend co-host Jonathan Capehart denounces the Trump administration for keeping people "in cages" at Alligator Alcatraz, ignoring that Obama/Biden did the same thing to children, and Biden defended it. Co-host Eugene Daniels falsely claims that Trump "talks openly about revoking citizenship for people he just doesn't like."

CNN: Arrest Of Union Leader Blocking ICE Was 'Weaponization, Targeting
On CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish says that David Huerta, the president of the SEIU union's California branch, was arrested for "rallying" anti-ICE protesters. The allegation is that Huerta blocked ICE from entering an establishment accused of hiring illegal aliens, and pushed an ICE officer who tried to remove him. A former federal prosecutor suggests that the arrest of Huerta…

Lawyer For 'Maryland Man' On MSNBC: We're Not Defending His Character!
On MSNBC's The Weekend, a lawyer for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, aka "Maryland Man," says that the legal team is "not defending his character," and admits that the car he was driving when stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol was owned by a felon convicted of smuggling illegal aliens into the US.

CNN Attempts to Link Antisemitic Colorado Attack To Trump Cutbacks
On CNN This Morning, former Obama DHS official Juliette Kayyem suggests that Trump administration reductions in funding to the DOJ and to NGOs who supposedly work on preventing and reporting hate crimes contribute to attacks like the antisemitic flamethrower attack in Boulder, Colorado.

Lemire Chuckles at Trump Admin Claim Harvard Coordinated With CCP
On Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire chuckles as he mentions the claim by the Trump administration, in explaining its decision to revoke Harvard's right to enroll foreign students, that Harvard is "coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party." Lemire needs to read the letter to Harvard from the House Select Committee on the CCP, which describes: Harvard’s repeated training of members of the…

Bill Kristol, Comedian? Imagines Trump Already Plotting 2028 Coup
In his Bulwark column, Bill Kristol, writing as if he were President Trump, suggests that Trump is planning for 2028 a coup to remain in power past the end of his current term. "Trump" judges several senior aides through the prism of their ability to be useful to him in that effort.

CNN Claims Maine Has Only Two Trans Athletes, Omits One Won a Title
On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Justice Department is suing Maine for violations of Title IX because it refuses to protect the competitive integrity of women’s sports, but CNN’s chief legal affairs correspondent Paula Reid didn’t understand what the big deal was. According to her, the state only has two transgender high school athletes that compete in women’s…

Republican To Sciutto: 'Are You Asking Questions Or Are You On Panel?'
It was an iconic moment in the annals of the liberal media being called out in real time over its transparent bias. Kudos to Brad Todd for tearing off Jim Sciutto's fig leaf [an unenviable task!] and revealing him as the liberal activist he is. On today's CNN This Morning, Sciutto, subbing for Kasie Hunt, persistently argued with Todd over the Justice Department's order to New York's Southern…

Column: Biden's Partisan U.S. Attorney in D.C. Was Never 'Newsworthy'
He held an important position – U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia – but Matthew Graves has been nearly invisible in the national media over the last four years as a Biden appointee. They didn’t seriously cover what he's done, and what he's failed to do.

Stewart Asks Sally Yates If Bush-Era DOJ To Blame For Politicization
Former Obama deputy-turned-acting attorney general during the first days of the first Trump Administration, Sally Yates is the poster child of Justice Department politicization. She famously made herself a martyr by forcing Trump to fire her after she ordered the department not to enforce his travel ban order. Still, when Yates traveled over to Comedy Central on Monday, The Daily Show…

Brooks Fears Trump Will 'Blowtorch' 'Neutral Institutions of Justice'
New York Times columnist and supposed conservative half of PBS News Hour’s Friday Brooks and Capehart segment was dismayed that President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will supposedly help him take a “blowtorch to the neutral institutions of justice.”

REALLY?! ‘Morning Joe’: We Want Donald Trump, His Aides on Our Show!
Morning Joe notes the compliments it has received, including from Trump supporters, on the "calm and measured" way it reported Trump's win, and Mika Brzezinski says "we will continue our best efforts to be fair and objective in reporting on the incoming administration." She adds that the show will "of course" invite members of the Trump administration on the show, and would like to have a face…