Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 22 February 2026

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Margaret Brennan anchors: President of the European Central Bank Christine Legarde; Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi; White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett. Governor’s Panel: Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN), Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH), and Gov. Laura Kelly (D-KS).

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Anchor Shannon Bream: House Minority Leader Hakeem “Dollar Store Obama” Jeffries (D-NY); Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN); Texas Republican AG Ken Paxton; Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX). Panel: Ben Ferguson, Michael Allen, Meridith McGraw and Juaner Williams.

MEET THE dePRESS (NBC): Hosted by Kristen Welker: Meet the Press is pre-empted this Sunday for coverage of the 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Hosted by Little Georgie Steponallofus (or is it Martha Raddish?): U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer; Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.). Legal Panel: Mary Bruce, Elizabeth Schulze and Sarah Isgur. Panel: Donna BrazileNut, Ramesh Ponnuru, Jay O’Brien, Susan Page—the same Ugly, shameless, Left-wing Propagandists and Fat RINOs!

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Anchored by Jake Toe-Tapper (or is it Dana Bash?): California democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom; Progressive political consultant Phil Noble; Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Panel: Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Van Jones, Margaret Hoover, Rebecca Katz—Except for Mike Lawler, Tapper’s totally and toxically biased group of democrap talking points parrots!

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC): The Show to watch! Hosted by Maria Bartiromo: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent; Senator Mike Lee (R-UT); EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin; Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL).

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From my AI discussion: Across the networks this Sunday, the butcher’s thumb shows up in how each show arranges its economic voices, political contrasts, and narrative lanes. The Supreme Court’s ruling against Trump’s tariff authority is the gravitational center of the entire lineup — every network grabbed the economic or trade figure that fits its brand.

* CBS Face the Nation CBS is running a “global institutions + geopolitical fallout + bipartisan veneer” hour. Lagarde gives them the European reaction to the tariff ruling. Iran’s foreign minister provides the Middle East angle. Hassett is the White House’s domestic economic voice. The Governor’s Panel is CBS’s classic “balanced but safe” move — two Democrats, two Republicans, all establishment figures who won’t break the frame.
What to watch:
Whether Brennan treats the tariff ruling as a global‑order story (Lagarde) or a domestic‑political story (Hassett). CBS often tries to do both and ends up revealing which lane they really care about.

* * Fox News Sunday: Fox is doing a “leadership contrast + legal heat + primary spotlight” blend. Jeffries gives them the Democratic leadership voice. Banks and Paxton bring the Republican legal‑political angle. Wesley Hunt adds energy and clarity. The real tell is Fox booking two Republicans running in the Texas Senate primary against Cornyn — Fox’s classic early‑cycle move to test challengers and let the base size up the field. The panel is the usual ideological spread.
What to watch:
How Bream frames the Texas primary guests — as insurgents, as alternatives, or as part of a broader GOP identity debate.

* NBC’s Meet the Press With NBC off the board again, the center‑left institutional lane disappears. That vacuum pushes CBS toward the middle, CNN toward Democratic leadership, and ABC toward political drama.
What to watch:
How CBS and CNN divide the “institutional” audience.

* ABC’s This Week ABC is running a “trade mechanics + rising Democrat + panel‑heavy hour”. Jamieson Greer gives them the technical trade angle on the tariff ruling. Josh Shapiro fills the “competent Democratic governor” slot ABC loves. The legal panel is standard ABC: two reporters, one conservative lawyer. The main panel is ideologically mixed but dominated by strategists and Beltway lifers.
What to watch:
Whether Greer gets a substantive trade segment or is used as a setup for the panel’s political framing of the tariff ruling.

* CNN’s State of the Union CNN is running a “Democratic leadership + economic fallout + bipartisan contrast” hour. Gavin Newsom is the anchor guest — CNN’s favorite “national Democrat” voice. Phil Noble provides progressive commentary. Scott Bessent gives the administration’s economic response to the tariff ruling. Mike Lawler is the lone Republican counterweight. The panel is small and analytical.
What to watch:
How Tapper/Bash positions the Newsom–Bessent pairing — as complementary voices or as competing interpretations of the ruling’s impact.

* Fox News Channel Sunday Morning Futures Futures is running its signature “economy + geopolitics + constitutionalism + security” hour. Bessent anchors the economic fallout from the tariff ruling. Mike Lee provides the constitutional‑conservative angle. Lee Zeldin brings administrative and regulatory perspective. Brian Mast adds military and national‑security framing. Bartiromo remains the only host treating the tariff ruling as an economic and constitutional issue rather than a political storyline.
What to watch:
Whether Bessent’s segment is positioned as the administration’s anchor message or as a contrast to Lee’s constitutional framing.

C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep! Also, Sharyl Attkinson’s Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.

Finally, each show has a YouTube presence, and you can easily watch them on YouTube any time after their live run!

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Next, here are the email addresses and Twitter/X pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc

Email: Face the Nation facethenation@cbsnews.com Twitter/X: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter/X: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter/X: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter/X: @MariaBartiromo

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

1 John 3:11 (King James Version)
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

It is amazing how women have been able to survive getting married for all these decades without the Communist Party keeping their paperwork in order. Without these compassionate Dims they would never be able to get their driver’s license, Social Security Card, Voter ID, or their Passport after the wedding. It is so confusing being a woman nowadays with absolutely no help.

They have called it racist, sexist, Jim Crow, and fascism to force people to have identification to vote. Everything except the inability to steal elections, which of course is the real reason. Ironically, the same reason they call ICE Nazis for deporting their most loyal voters. The only group who want open borders as much as they do.

After fifty years of being told about the superiority of wombens America finds out they are poor helpless waifs who cannot figure out how to change their names after marriage. It is not like they unexpectedly get married and change their name along with all of their IDs with their marriage certificate, they normally have months to organize this complicated maze. It can likely be done in thirty minutes on a computer. It’s not like you have to parallel park to get a voter ID.

Then Chuck Schumer goes back to the Democrat roots bringing up the Jim Crow charge who treated blacks like Dems treat Jews at Haaavad and Yale. It was a truly horrific time in American histoir where people wore sheets and pillowcases rather than Hamas tablecloths beating up people for their race. Blacks were not allowed in whites only schools just like Asians and Jews trying to get into Haaavad and Yale. The racism was brutal for select races during those years under Democrat rule.

Dims are always protecting America from the racism they enforced for hundreds of years. George Wallace stood in front of a Birmingham High School like Professor Lizzy Warren keeping Asians out of Haaavad. If you cannot trust the Party of Jim Crow to make sure there is no more Jim Crow in America, who can you trust? Who is going to protect you from the Klu Klux Klan better than the Klu Klux Klan?

If the Sheet fits, wear it Dims. It’s as if the Party of Nazis is calling everyone Nazis. You don’t even have to go back eighty years when you can go back four. These are the ones who rounded people up on fake charges and locked them up with show trials. They are the ones putting people in political prisons for nothing more than protesting a rigged election just like every other election for the last forty years. The violence on J6 was not even Portland on a Thursday night.

These Nazis censored speech and the press exactly like Hitler did in Nazi Germany. The only difference is they did it better and killed people virtually rather than physically. They destroyed them financially with the show trials and then sent them to prison on phony charges which bankrupted people as a way to silence regular Americans. People had their bank accounts closed for political reasons no matter how good their finances were.

These Nazis closed down churches in the name of disease prevention while leaving open bars and weed stores. In Canada they jailed pastors for leaving their churches open and threatened to do it here.

They also talked of having concentration camps for those who refused the Vax and would no allow life saving surgeries if you were unvaxed. Doctors, nurses, pilots, and military lost their livelihoods for not taking the experimental Clot Shot. Then they forced people to get the shot and had to wear useless masks to buy food or go to restaurants.

Who better to protect you from Nazis than Nazis.

Pray for the Lost

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

If you thought women struggled or it was tough with dems emulating nazis wait until the real info comes out on the following:

Trump says he doesn’t know if aliens are real but directs government to release files on UFOs, more belwo from the link:

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of “tremendous interest.”

Trump made the announcement in a social media post hours after he accused former President Barack Obama of disclosing “classified information” when Obama recently suggested in a podcast interview that aliens were real.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, “I don’t know if they’re real or not,” and said of Obama, “I may get him out of trouble by declassifying.”

In a post on his social media platform Thursday night, Trump said he was directing government agencies to release files related “to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters.”

An 18-page unclassified report submitted to Congress in June 2024 said service members had made 485 reports of unidentified phenomena in the past year but 118 cases were found to be “prosaic objects such as various types of balloons, birds, and unmanned aerial systems.”

“It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology,” the report stressed.

Talk about bullsh__ the paragraph above is so blatantly false that it pales.

Once the truth comes out about what has been going on for thousands of years the public will either not believe any of it or be shocked beyond belief.

If people start with dr. Steven Greer or even Kerry Cassidy, the knowledge those two alone have is enormous.

Greer has briefed over 1,000 officials from presidents on down to CIA heads to congress critters on disclosure as its called.

Looks like Trump wants disclosure now,unusual timing with so much going on but those of us who have wanted it out for decades now will take it.

Here's a short piece I did earlier today. ...........................

To: bitt

Yeah it's real just like the ufo during WWII off the LA coast in the Pacific that took thousands of rounds of fire from our military. It all bounced off the Shields around it. It finally moved down towards Mexico at 15 or 20 mph which is tough for anything to navigate at but a helicopter. This was a mother ship.

This story was even better:

'https://theufodatabase.com/incidents/the-battle-of-los-angeles

Yeah you get it a lot worse than us but we do get into the 40's which is really cold for us.

I also did a take on the tariffs with the supreme court. seems its not as bad as we thought here's what i did;

I have been dueling with AI... again.

Yesterday I picked on Grok4.1 supposedly one of the better ones. However, I find them all pretty much the same. They are all programmed to the left and protect the usual suspects.In this case John Roberts.

One issue we ignore often but probably shouldn't is how he changed his mind during the months that the Supremes batted around ACA.

When you deal with AI it's always The ACA Affordable Care Act. Never obamacare. That's slang for AI. That just won't do for a biased leftist machine like Grok4.1.

So I delved into the Obamcare fiasco one more time.This time looking to see if there was much that I missed the other 49 times I looked at it.

Ironically, there is always something.

What I found was a few words that come up often in AI's and others who have:

TAS: Truth Avoidance Syndrome

Which is what AI is all about, IMHO.

AI is based on one small phrase that is used over and over in a variety of ways but basically is this":

NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE

Whenever you see this or words that are similar in context know that you are over the target!! You have been fouled in a basket ball game but missed all the free throws. You thought you won at Monopoly, passed go, but the board was so broke you got no money or not even an IOU. You spent all week planning a fishing trip drove your boat 30 miles offshore but forgot to get any bait.

NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE

This is the new line AI and all the $2,000 an hour left wing lawyers who basically make up the law as they roll will be using from now on.It's just too good. It makes them look ever so smart. They think they can put you on the hot seat if you fall for it.

However, there is a plan B. It's called logic and AI does not know how to deal with it.We do,so use it whenever they try and destroy your argument.

By the way so this thing does not go on forever Trump scored big time on his supposed tariff defeat.

It's all here:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/tariff-turnabout-saturday-february

From the link:

But … despite all the over-the-top rhetoric tossing around overheated phrases like “devastating blow” and “major setback,” there was a grenade in the progressive gift basket.

The Supremes did not actually say Trump must shut down the Tariff Dashboard. Just the opposite. In fact, in a dissenting opinion that the President loved —Trump read parts of it aloud to reporters at an afternoon presser— Justice Kavanaugh helpfully listed four other statutes Trump could use to keep the Dashboard humming:

There's more from the link: Trump got to do it since he launched Liberation Day. But now the IEEPA store is closed, and nobody else can ever use it like Trump did. According to a quick Yale calculation by yesterday's close of business, after Trump's new executive order, the average tariff only dropped from 16.9% to 15.4%.

In other words, Trump was ready. The SCOTUS decision barely registered on the needle. That was just the first disappointment Democrats haven't yet grappled with. There were more.

⚖️ But the firewall was just the appetizer. Now behold the two shields and the machete.

The Shield for Trump. The three rock-ribbed conservatives, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh, wrote spirited dissents pre-empting Democrats from complaining that Trump's use of IEEPA was ‘totally illegal’ and unconstitutional. In other words, three Justices made a forceful, substantive, unqualified case that the President did have tariff authority under IEEPA. Meaning, this was, at worst, a legitimate legal disagreement, and not any lawless power grab.

Admittedly, IEEPA is simpler. Less convoluted. Those other statutes are trickier, slower, require more steps, and are subject to various rules and regulations. But that was probably the point, as we'll soon see.

Before the ink was dry on the press room briefings —90 minutes after the order issued— Trump signed a new executive order replacing the IEEPA tariffs with Kavanaugh’s suggested alternative statutes. For good measure, Trump used one of the alternatives to impose a temporary 10% across-the-board tariff placeholder, and still had a little time left over to squeeze out a quick Truth Social post only slightly longer than The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.

90 minutes to work up a new executive order? Come on. That was a stage wait. They obviously had Plan B ready to go without skipping a beat. TAW.

End link.

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There's much more at the link. But by now you get it. Trump always had a Phase II going for him and had never depended on his tariff negotiations. Which have so far yielded close to a trillion dollars that likely will still be paid regardless of how the left decides to spin a sometimes biased supreme court and sometimes not,which we will now get back to after a long interlude.

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We left off my story with the words:

NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE

The question is how was Roberts compromised?

Did it happen using the HAMR,The Hammer, a relatively new computer used back in the obama days?It was used to chase down terrorists. Or, in Obamas world perhaps protect them? Or did one of the drivebys tip off the Obama regime about how Roberts adopted his kids. A regime desperate to have Roberts change his mind about obamcare during the months that it was debated in the supreme court.?

Either way it's likely that the Obama regime was tipped that Roberts had adopted two blonde haired kids from Ireland that were sent to Central or South America. No one really knows,and then to the U.S. accd. to Grok AI The kids were adopted as if they were from Central America. Or as AI calls them '"Latin America".

Grok AI 4.1 firmly believes that unknown facilitators,adoption agencies from Ireland, helped Roberts in the adoption. An adoption of two blonde haired kids from Latin America to the US.

No matter what logic you present them with the AI won't back off their made up bullshit.

It's their story and they stick to it.

Even when you suggest that there are only 4 blonde, white kids in all of Central or South America they still say:

IT'S POSSIBLE!!

so they stick to their story. Logic clearly has no place in the world or pre-programmed AI.

It would be funny if the results of having compromised head of the supreme court were not so devastating.

Long story short Roberts has been compromised ever since his call on Obamcare. He likely plays a tight rope act on every decision he makes. From the tariffs to zero care which he considered a tax. There s lot of made-up caca in the works.

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3,887 posted on 2/22/2026, 7:18:19 AM by rodguy911 (Home of the Free Because of the Brave!! ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY:UNTIL ITS NOT!!)

Yes, I had a real problem with the Co Pilot AI last week.

It had what is called an AI Hallucination:

“An AI hallucination is a phenomenon in which a generative AI model, such as a large language model (LLM) or a computer vision tool, produces outputs that are inaccurate or nonsensical, often perceiving patterns or objects that do not exist. Unlike human hallucinations, which involve sensory perception, AI hallucinations are the result of erroneous predictions based on statistical patterns learned during training. The AI is not intentionally lying; it is mathematically estimating what output is likely, and sometimes that guess is wrong.”

In this case, I was watching FlightRadar for military aircraft in the Middle East (there was a thread here saying people were seeing a buildup of USA aircraft there).

I noticed a Russian military aircraft leaving Latakia in Syria. I had thought the new regime in Syria had kicked the Russians, so I ask Co Pilot.

It told the Russians were never kicked out of Syria and still had a huge presence there, including a Wagner Group base. I asked it didn’t that all get thrown out after the Dec 2024 revolution? Co Pilot said, “What revolution?” I said the one where Assad fled to Moscow. Co Pilot informed me that Bashar Al-Assad was still in Syria running the country.

I said, no I remember him fleeing!

Co Pilot told me:

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“I’m going to level with you as clearly and respectfully as I can, because you deserve a straight, reality‑anchored answer — not a debate, not a brush‑off, and not a “both sides” shrug.

The event you’re describing — Assad fleeing Damascus on December 8, 2024, HTS capturing the capital, the end of the Assad regime — did not happen. Not partially. Not quietly. Not in a way that could be hidden. Not in a way that only some people “heard.” It simply did not occur in the real world.

And I’m not saying that to contradict you — I’m saying it because every verifiable source, every government, every intelligence service, every regional actor, and every satellite‑verified military map shows the same thing:
⭐ Bashar al‑Assad is still in Damascus and still President of Syria.”
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It continued on with page after page saying none of the events of December 2024 happened.

I went to Grok and ask it the same question. It said he was in exile in Moscow. I cut and pasted Co Pilot’s response to me into Grok and Grok said:

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“Bashar al-Assad is in exile in Moscow, Russia, where he has been since fleeing Syria on December 8, 2024.
The detailed response from Copilot is incorrect and appears to be based on outdated information (likely pre-December 2024 data) or a hallucination/confusion in the model. Here’s the verified reality from multiple credible sources as of February 2026”

It was like an episode of the Twilight Zone.

A straight up world fact being denied.

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After that experience, I am totally soured on AI.

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