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New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021. The incident was a gruesome coda to America’s longest war, leaving dead 13 United States military service members and about 170 Afghans who were desperately seeking US help to flee the Taliban takeover of Kabul. For two years, the US military has insisted that the loss of life was caused by a single explosion, and that troops who reported coming under fire and...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun points the finger at Iran and its Hezbolah but malicious Amanpour pressures him against Israel. 'Amanpour. Interview with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun; Interview with "America, U.S.A." Author Eddie Glaude Jr.; Interview with "This Vast Enterprise" Author Craig Fehrman. Aired 1-2p ET Aired June 05, 2026 - 13:00 ET [...] AMANPOUR: Well, we see this kind of pictures coming out of Gaza, coming out of the occupied West Bank. We hear the Israeli defense authorities and others saying, we are going to turn this part of Lebanon into Gaza. I mean, it's said. That is what they...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun did something almost unheard of last week. In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, He looked directly into the camera and addressed the Israeli public: "Are you fed up with war since 1948?" he asked. "Do you really want to live in peace? Let's sit and talk."In some of his strongest remarks since becoming president, he directly accused Iran of treating Lebanon as a bargaining chip. "It's not your country, it's our country," Aoun said when discussing Tehran's role in Lebanon. President Isaac Herzog welcomed the Lebanese leader's comments and reiterated Israel's stated desire for peace...

On Thursday's CNN This Morning, in a discussion of the memorandum of understanding with Iran, host Audie Cornish tried to corner former Trump White House Communications Director Mike Dubke. After noting some conservatives were "squawking" over the deal, Cornish turned directly to Dubke and declared, “Mike Dubke, your favorite person just posted to Truth Social.” She then read Trump’s post highlighting record stock market highs and falling oil prices before asking whether critics of the MOU were “jealous, bad people, or stupid?” Dubke defended the agreement as only a framework for further negotiations, not a finished deal. He noted Iran’s...

The United States on Wednesday released the official text of the memorandum of understanding reached over the weekend with Iran. A senior US administration official read out the 14-point document, which spells out provisions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, easing certain financial restrictions on Iran and sets out expectations for addressing Iran’s nuclear program during future technical talks. Titled the “Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the document was released after outcry that its text hadn’t been released publicly. “This is fundamentally an agreement that allows us to open...

CNN’s Paula Reid pumped the brakes on Monday after California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) took to social media to call himself a victim of President Donald Trump’s revenge tour. In a statement on Monday, Newsom announced the following: In recent days, federal agents have knocked on the doors of family friends and former employees. Not because they found a crime. Because they are simply trying to find one. They are demanding records. They are abusing the grand jury process. Digging through years and years of random documents. Donald Trump isn’t just coming after me because of my mean tweets. He’s...

The amount of oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve plunged last week to the lowest level since 1983 as the Trump administration continues to deploy emergency oil to minimize the damage from the war with Iran. According to federal data released Monday, US officials released another 8.9 million barrels from the SPR last week alone. That leaves the US emergency oil reserve with 340.3 million barrels of crude, taking out the prior low set in July 2023 under President Joe Biden after Russia invaded Ukraine. The last time the SPR had less oil than today was July 1983, when...

The amount of oil in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve plunged last week to the lowest level since 1983 as the Trump administration continues to deploy emergency oil to minimize the damage from the war with Iran. According to federal data released Monday, US officials released another 8.9 million barrels from the SPR last week alone. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases, combined with releases by other governments and China reducing its exports, have prevented the Armageddon scenario of $150 oil from happening to date.” The emergency oil released since the war with Iran start will have to get replaced over...

This video features commentary on a report by Fareed Zakaria on CNN regarding the economic and governance challenges facing California. The creator, Black Conservative Perspective, uses this segment to argue that Democratic policies are responsible for the state's decline. Key themes and takeaways discussed in the video: Economic Stagnation & Costs: The video highlights that despite California's natural and economic potential, high taxation, strict regulations, and a "failing model of governance" are driving businesses and middle-class residents away (2:11 - 3:35). Fiscal Management: Zakaria notes that while the state population has grown by roughly 15% since 2000, state spending has...

"Bass has a real race on her hands, if in fact Raman is the one who advances," he said. "And the Democratic establishment is backing Karen Bass. But versus Spencer Pratt, she was crushing him. She wanted to face Pratt. She wanted nothing to do with Raman. That's why these conspiracy theories simply make no sense, people."

Lawsuit incoming! Lawsuit incoming! Watch the "journalists" at CNN freak out when one of their guests, Veronica Escobar of El Paso, says a verifiably false thing that CNN knows will get them sued into oblivion. VIDEO AT LINK.................. He was found guilty by a jury of his peers ... it is incredible how much comfort and cover they give to a convicted felon and to someone who has ... an adjudicated case of rape. The pro-Trump guest is specifically telling Representative Escobar to watch her mouth and not call Trump "guilty" of rape. And then Escobar charges in, insisting he...

VIDEOLet's see... The network news shows, especially the Sunday CNN shows have been talking incessantly about the California elections, both the L.A. mayoral election and the gubernatorial election, for weeks yet on the first Sunday after the elections with the third place DEMOCRAT candidates "miraculously" surging up the mail-in ballots towards second place to the runoff elections, NOT A WORD from them about those elections. Why would that be? This video helps clear up the mystery as to why CNN is now completely silent about the elections that they have been obsessed with for weeks... until now. NBC also appeared...

The Supreme Court is facing an extraordinary showdown with Donald Trump as the justices scramble to finish nearly two dozen opinions before the end of the month — with a president who will lash out if any decisions don’t go his way. Pending decisions on executive power, immigration, mail ballots and the Second Amendment could all have an outsize influence on the next two years of Trump’s presidency. The court announced opinions on Thursday, but 23 cases remain. Topping the list is a series of appeals dealing with Trump’s power to fire officials within the executive branch that Congress tried...

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, Democratic strategist Antjuan "Sour Grapes" Seawright lashed out at the growing success of political newcomers like Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral primary, dismissing the trend as part of a “reality TV, or trash TV” model in the Republican Party. “I also think there’s a new model in the Republican Party, reality TV, or trash TV, and you don’t have to have experience and you audition for the job.” Great point, Antjuan! Unlike Karen Bass, whose "experience" includes letting the Palisades burn, while needles and human waste pile up on LA’s streets. Get the...

Monday on CNN’s “The Source,” network political commentator Van Jones said Democrats were sticking with scandal-ridden Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner because Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) won’t stop “completely deranged” President Donald Trump.Jones said, “You know, I don’t like this kind of stuff in that, you know, there used to be a time where character mattered a lot more. But where we are now, I remember Bill Clinton. He had a bunch of scandals, and the party said, you know what? We are more concerned about end of Republican rule in DC and they rallied behind Bill Clinton. I...

Monday on CNN’s “The Source,” network political commentator Van Jones said Democrats were sticking with scandal-ridden Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner because Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) won’t stop “completely deranged” President Donald Trump. Jones said, “You know, I don’t like this kind of stuff in that, you know, there used to be a time where character mattered a lot more. But where we are now, I remember Bill Clinton. He had a bunch of scandals, and the party said, you know what? We are more concerned about end of Republican rule in DC and they rallied behind Bill Clinton....

On Monday’s edition of CNN's This Morning, a panel discussed the Senate race in Maine. CNN panelist and TikTok babbler V. Spehar weighed in: "We need to be talking about what we're gonna do for people, not what any kind of scandal coming up is, because there's so much getting lost in the conversations that we're having if we're trying to police, and do purity culture on every single candidate, and that's kind of an issue." Great point, V! Because the Democrats and the liberal media haven't spent years obsessing over every real and imagined scandal involving Donald Trump, or...

TRANSCRIPT below the postEric Daugherty@EricLDaugh🚨 JUST IN: President Trump SHOOTS DOWN a fake CNN report that his Iran deal doesn't address their nuclear program"When actually it states, very clearly, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon!""It then goes on, in very strong and lengthy detail, to discuss various other aspects of Nuclear. In fact, that’s what most of the agreement is about. CNN, and so many others in the Fake News Media, is a Low Ratings disaster. Even with new ownership, it is unlikely to ever get better!!!" 🔥They keep betraying America with the LIES.May 31, 2026TRANSCRIPT BEGINS~~~President Trump:...

This video from Black Conservative Perspective discusses a segment from CNN in which host Michael Smerconish interviewed Purple Heart recipient Teddy Daniels regarding Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. Key takeaways from the video include: Controversial Candidate: The video highlights that Graham Platner has faced intense scrutiny for a past Nazi-symbol chest tattoo (which he kept for 18 years), controversial online comments regarding rape, and disparaging remarks made about combat veterans, including the claim that an army veteran did not "deserve to live" (0:00-1:10, 5:43-6:48). Democratic Party Criticism: The creator argues that the Democratic Party is facing a "Civil War" and...

Over 200 journalists, academics, and filmmakers have signed a letter opposing the Paramount Skydance takeover of CNN following the former’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery. Letter from the Freedom of the Press Foundation argued that Paramount taking control of CNN will lead to “improper political meddling” from CEO David Ellison, per HuffPo, citing the reported changes at CBS. “News segments critical of Trump policies have been pulled; revered producers and reporters have quit rather than be censored; shows Trump dislikes, like ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,’ have been cancelled; and CBS Evening News has taken to airing flattering features...