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CNN’s Dana Bash confronted Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Sunday over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN)’s visit to Columbia University, where she gave a statement about the pro-Palestinian protests. Omar’s own daughter was suspended from Columbia-affiliated Barnard College last week after being arrested at the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the Morningside Heights campus. Omar was recorded saying, “I think it is really unfortunate that people don’t care about the fact that all Jewish kids should be kept safe and that we should not have to tolerate anti-Semitism or bigotry for all Jewish students, whether they are pro-genocide or anti-genocide.” Bash asked Sanders,...

In a stunning interview Sunday morning on CNN, Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican congressman from Texas, accused fellow Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of having sex with underaged girls. "It's my absolute honor to be in Congress, but I serve with some real scumbags," he said. "Look, Matt Gaetz, he paid minors to have sex with him at drug parties." This comes just a few weeks after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy said something similar at an event at Georgetown Univeristy. "I'll give you the truth why I'm not speaker," McCarthy said. "It's because one person, a member of Congress, wanted me...

Representative Tony Gonzales (R-TX) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that his Republican colleagues Reps Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Bob Good (R-VA) were “real scumbags.” Host Dana Bash said, “So, you voted yes on the foreign aid package,” Bash addressed Gonzales. “Do you have confidence that at this point, given that it is still possible that Marjorie Taylor Greene will push to vacate, to kick out of the Speaker’s chair, that he can survive?”

Syndicated radio host Mark Levin tore into prominent CNN Biden flack Dana Bash for trying to gaslight viewers on the dangers of the White House censorship regime. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told CNN anchor Erin Burnett April 1 — to her dismay — that it was in fact President Joe Biden’s censorship regime, not former President Donald Trump, that presented the bigger “threat” to America. Kennedy pointed out the Biden administration’s history of jawboning Big Tech companies like Twitter and Facebook to go after the president’s political opponents. Bash, clearly triggered, pathetically tried to “fact-check” Kennedy the...

Aww: isn't he sweet? Good boy! On Monday's CNN This Morning, CNN's Dana Bash and Kasie Hunt gave Republican Lance Trover a pat on the head for being "evolved" about the supposedly disparate press treatment of male and female sports coaches. The matter arose in the context of a long Washington Post profile of LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey. After noting that the article "details her kind of pugnacious coaching personality," Hunt skeptically wondered: "Would we talk about that with a male coach? I don't know."Republican strategist Lance Trover, who recently toiled for Doug Burgum for President, replied: "I...

A new CNN poll shows Trump with a significant lead over Joe Biden in Michigan and some people on the network are taking the news about as well as you’d expect. Dana Bash recently commented on the poll findings, saying “the world is upside down.” These folks really can’t comprehend how Americans would want Trump back, even though the country is going to hell under Biden. FOX News reports: CNN host says ‘world is upside down’ as Michigan poll shows Trump ahead by 20 points on Israel-Gaza. CNN host Dana Bash marveled Friday at how former President Trump is leading...

Democrat Party media hacks flipping out for being called out as the anti-Israel haters they are. As they use Hamas numbers, trash Netanyahu, and back Biden’s horrendous war on Israel. How dare Trump or anyone notice such flagrant and grotesque behavior by these frauds.Dana Bash and the other narcissistic media Democrats must be called out for what they’re doing and saying. Never Again must anyone be intimidated into silence while they spew their disgusting poison. No more. No more 1940s New York Times-like betrayal of the Jews by media self-haters.https://mediaite.com/news/cnns-dana-bash-unflinchingly-rips-trump-anti-semitic-and-incredibly-dangerous-comment-about-jews-calling-it-what-it-is

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN that President Joe Biden “should have said undocumented” on Thursday after he said Laken Riley was “killed by an illegal” during his State of the Union address. During an interview with Pelosi following Biden’s speech, CNN anchor Dana Bash said, “Madam speaker, one of the clearly ad-libbed moments was during the section about immigration,” before playing a clip of Biden referring to 22-year-old Riley – who was murdered last month – as “Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed by an illegal.” Pelosi replied defensively, “Now he should have said...

March 3 (UPI) — This weekend’s edition of Saturday Night Live opened with a comedy sketch mocking defenders of U.S. President Joe Biden’s age, energy, and acuity. The 5-minute segment showed CNN anchor Dana Bash (played by Heidi Gardner) interviewing California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Michael Longfellow) about polls that suggest many Americans don’t think that Democrat Biden, 81, is sharp enough to lead the country for another four years if he wins re-election in November against presumptive Republican candidate and former president, Donald Trump, 77. The sketch also includes on-camera remarks from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (played by...

CNN anchor Dana Bash said Wednesday on “Inside Politics” that the Republican’s impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is turning into “the wildest of goose chases.” Partial transcript as follows: BASH: Paula Reid was up on Capitol Hill this morning. Asked James Comer, the committee chair, about this. Listen to how that went down. PAULA REID: You keep saying “the Bidens.” We’re talking about President Biden specifically. What evidence do you have any profited off his son’s foreign businesses? REP. JAMES COMER: We have two checks. Joe Biden received two payments. We found this through subpoenaed bank records. Two payments....

CNN has announced that Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the network’s Jan. 10, 2024, Republican primary debate. As previously announced, the network will air the Iowa debate as well as one in New Hampshire later in the month. CNN did not announce who would moderate the Jan. 21, 2024, debate in New Hampshire. Tapper and Bash are co-anchors of “State of the Union,” CNN’s Sunday morning political affairs show.

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States was allowing Israel to “indiscriminately bomb hospitals.” Jayapal said, “Fifteen thousand Palestinians to date to have been killed. Three-quarters of whom are women and children, and say that that is going to help us in the long-term. Morally, Dana, morally, but also, strategically, for Israel, the only way through this is to create a situation where there is a political solution that involves a Palestinian state and an Israeli state.”

On CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning, host Dana Bash suggested to Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Netanyahu might be intentionally prolonging the war in order to prevent an accounting to remain in office. "He knows that as soon as the war with Hamas is over, he's going to face questions that he's been putting off about the failure to prevent the October 7th attacks. Questions about his tenure as Prime Minister. Is there any concern inside the Biden administration that Netanyahu doesn't necessarily see it as being in his interest to end this war as...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday refused to answer whether he would take responsibility for failing to prevent the October 7 attack on Israel, saying that there would be time for such “difficult” questions once the war is over. In an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, Netanyahu acknowledged that it is “a question that needs to be asked,” but that the country for now needs to unite around the goal of defeating Hamas – the militant group that controls Gaza and and launched the assault on Israel. “We’re going to answer all these questions,” the prime minister said, adding...

On today's State of the Union show on CNN, host Dana Bash treated Secretary of State Antony Blinken to a softball interview regarding Biden admin failures on the attack on Israel, and the release of $6 billion to Iran. Bash began by playing a clip of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recently saying: "The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades. Now, challenges remain, Iran's nuclear weapons program, tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. But the amount of time that I have to spend on crisis and conflict in the Middle East compared today to...

Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that more than 600 people have been killed in Israel, and that the death toll is likely to rise. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Sunday that Israel destroyed around 800 targets in Gaza, including launching pads used by Hamas. The Palestinian health ministry said 370 Palestinians were killed there, and 2,200 others injured. No strangers to war with Israel, many Gazans are sheltering in their homes, with the vast majority lacking access to bunkers. The territory is one of the most densely...

If you've read RedState for any length of time, you know one of the things we are most known for is our hard-hitting commentary on press bias. Whether you come for the facts or the snark, we do our best to deliver insight into how the far-left twists narratives to push their political desires. That's what makes this next story so surprising. According to Politico, Donald Trump's campaign team wined and dined with top left-wing reporters on Tuesday night in preparation for the GOP primary debate (the former president will not be attending). SPOTTED IN MILWAUKEE — Team Trump wining...

CNN anchor Dana Bash said Friday on “Inside Politics” that Attorney General Merrick Garland appointing David Weiss as a special counsel overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden could keep Republicans investigating the president’s son “at bay.” Partial transcript as follows: PRISCILLA ALVAREZ: But again, this is a White House that is facing increasing pressure when it comes to the president’s son, Hunter Biden. Republicans have slammed the president over all of these legal proceedings and also so much has flirted with a potential impeachment inquiry. Now when that has come up, the White House stance has been that it is...

President Trump attorney John Lauro continues running the gauntlet against the narrative engineers with this interview on NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd.An intellectually deficient Todd attempts to justify the Biden administration targeting of Donald Trump and is countered by John Lauro. WATCH: Full Trump lawyer: Election fraud case will be ‘most important’ civil rights case in decades.During the CNN interview below, it was very important to narrative engineer Dana Bash to assert that Joe Biden has nothing to do with the decisions of the DOJ, which is a rather remarkable position considering the same Dana Bash has been...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was “profoundly disrespectful” when disagreeing with fellow Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Anchor Dana Bash said, “Thomas wrote, ‘Justice Jackson uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims. Her desire to do so is unfathomable to me. It is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push though barriers. Their race is not to blame for everything good or bad that happens in...