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Jonathan Lemire let the laugh--or at least the chuckle--out of the bag. And in doing so, he let slip the liberal media's disdain for the Trump administration, and its knee-jerk defense of elite liberal institutions. On today's Morning Joe, Lemire couldn't stifle a chuckle [video at 0:36] as he mentioned the claim by the Trump administration explaining its decision to revoke Harvard's right to enroll foreign students: "The DOJ also accused the university of coordinating [chuckles] with the Chinese Communist Party."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Voto Latino CEO Asks News To "Blur" Mugshot Posters On WH Lawn: "We Don't Know If They've Had Due Process" Posted By Tim Hains On Date April 28, 2025 Maria Teresa Kumar, the CEO of Voto Latino, told MSNBC on Monday morning that journalists reporting from the White House lawn should "blur" the mugshots of suspected deported illegal immigrant criminals on posters put up by the Trump administration. MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire reported: "The White House has put up about 100 posters of what they say are unauthorized immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes." "What’s particularly noteworthy about this...

Today, the war in Ukraine ended, at least in a sense.Bloody fighting between depleted militaries will continue to barely move the frozen front lines. Russian missile and drone raids will still pummel Ukrainian cities and terrorize their citizens. Gutsy, covert Ukrainian strikes will hit deep behind the Russian border.But a new, and likely final, chapter in the nearly three-year conflict began today with a confluence of clear signals from the United States that it will no longer back Kyiv’s goals in the war, all but assuring that Ukraine will not regain its sovereign territory or achieve its most sought-after security...

VIDEOThe pain! The pain! Oh, the unbearable PAIN!!! Yes, PAIN is what one of the extreme TDS hosts of Morning Joe, Jonathan Lemire, was experiencing right after asking a question to the new NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte which was obviously meant to elicit a critical Trump slamming answer. What Lemire got from Rutte instead caused him PAIN so severe that it is probably still reverberating inside his tortured TDS soul.

On today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough attempted a two-part defense of Joe Biden having yesterday called Trump supporters "garbage." [snip] Part Two: When forced to address the controversy, laugh it off. When Jonathan Lemire later raised Biden's "garbage" line, Scarborough put on a big, phony smile [see screencap] and emitted a faux chuckle.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Q. When is an October Surprise not an October surprise? A. When it's aimed at Donald Trump. Just ask Morning Joe. On today's episode, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay agreed: Nope, Jack Smith's new filing in his election interference case against Trump was not an October Surprise. Lemire's first argument was particularly lame: Okay, yeah, the filing came in October. But it came at the beginning of October, not like Jim Comey's letter regarding the Hillary Clinton private email server probe that came about one week before the 2016 election. This -- we kid you not -- "much further out."...

For 23 days, President Joe Biden insisted on pushing forward with his reelection bid in the face of calls from Democratic lawmakers and donors for him to step aside. And then, almost on a dime, things changed. Early Saturday, Biden told senior aides it was “full steam ahead” for the campaign. But by later that evening, he had changed his mind following a long discussion with his two closest aides. Steve Ricchetti, who’s been with Biden since his days in the Senate, drove to see the president at his house on the Delaware shore on Friday. Mike Donilon arrived on...

On today's Morning Joe, there wasn't much of interest in any of the panel's jabber about next week's presidential debate, until . . . Jonathan Lemire said this: "Some Democrats have said privately, that if Biden has a very bad night, there'll be real worries about whether he can continue forward with his campaign."Whoa! Democrat knives out for Biden! Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

"This 'mistake' hit comes a day after the precision strike that killed the Iranian general in Syria. It's hard to reconcile those two things."That was Jonathan Lemire on today's Morning Joe. In saying that it's hard to "reconcile" Israel's "mistake" hit on the World Central Kitchen aid workers with the "precision" hit on the Iranian general, Lemire is hinting strongly this wasn't a mistake at all, but rather, an intentional act by Israel. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Like much of Washington, the Biden White House was caught off guard Saturday morning when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy abruptly reversed course and announced that he would bring a clean bill to fund the government for the next 45 days. But aides weren’t terribly surprised. After all, they had assumed the government shutdown showdown would end this way at some point — with the main question being whether McCarthy would take his lumps before or after the funding deadline.

The most explosive news Thursday morning was that special counsel David Weiss has announced that he expects to indict Hunter Biden this month for possessing a gun while being a narcotics user -- a felony that carries a potential 10-year prison sentence. But despite Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski calling it "big news," the show buried the story deep in its fourth and final hour -- and even then devoted barely two minutes to it. Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

They haven't—at least so far—accused Donald Trump of "holding a gun to the head" of the GOP. But it's early days yet in the 2024 Republican primary. MSNBC's Morning Joe certainly headed in that direction today, with Jonathan Lemire claiming that Trump is attempting to "blackmail" the GOP into nominating him.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

President Joe Biden begins 2023 politically stronger than 12 months ago, bolstered by his party’s surprise midterms success, a robust set of legislative accomplishments and the resilience of the alliance he rallied to support Ukraine after Russia’s invasion. Indeed, as he vacations on St. Croix, the biggest decision he faces is whether to seek reelection to the office he holds. Biden has not yet fully committed to another term, according to three people with knowledge of the deliberations but not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. On his island vacation, Biden continued his running conversation with family and a...

MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that white nationalism was becoming “more central to what today’s Republican Party is about” while discussing former President Donald Trump meeting with Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Co-host Mika Brzezinski said, “Not just any dinner, dinner at Mar-a-Lago, which former President Trump calls his Florida White House, his southern White House. This is the place where classified documents were seized by the FBI that the president had taken, stolen from areas where these documents are kept in our government, office buildings, and in the White...

MSNBC co-host Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday on “Morning Joe” that the Republican Party was taking a “violent swirl toward the far right,” which is preying upon the minds of deranged people, like the man who confessed to the home invasion and hammer attack on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul. Co-host Jonathan Lemire said, “It’s not just that Kevin McCarthy went to Mar-a-Lago and resurrected Donald Trump’s career, he apologized to Trump for that heated phone call on January 6th.

Aides in the Biden administration fear Hunter and President Joe Biden’s shady business activities could doom the president’s potential campaign in 2024, Politico reported. The Republicans’ investigations into the Biden family upon retaking the House in November could derail any hope of Joe Biden’s returning to the White House after 2024. According to Politico’s Eugene Daniels, Jonathan Lemire, Jordain Carney, “[i]f a GOP-led House turns up the heat on Hunter Biden, it could weigh heavily in the president’s decision to run for a second term.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials were stunned on Sunday by the pace of the Taliban’s nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan, as the planned withdrawal of American forces urgently became a mission to ensure a safe evacuation. The speed of the Afghan government’s collapse and the ensuing chaos posed the most serious test of Biden as commander in chief, and he was the subject of withering criticism from Republicans who said that he had failed. Biden campaigned as a seasoned expert in international relations and has spent months downplaying the prospect of an ascendant Taliban...

On Thursday's Morning Joe, AP White House reporter Jonathan Lemire addressed Nancy Pelosi's rejection of two Republican appointees to the January 6th committee, and Kevin McCarthy's announcement that unless Pelosi reversed course he would pull all Republican appointees. Predictably, Lemire put all the blame on Republicans while plumping for Pelosi and Democrats at large. How does this analysis sound any different than a Democratic member of Congress? The time has come, and indeed is long since passed, for Jonathan Lemire to have the integrity and decency to quit the Associated Press. His gig as a blatantly partisan, liberal "analyst" on...

For an Associated Press "reporter" who moonlights as an MSNBC "analyst," Jonathan Lemire is turning out to be as predictably anti-Republican as anyone in the liberal media. Last week, we caught Lemire accusing Mitch McConnell of "yet another cynical political play" in regard to a possible January 6th commission. On Thursday, Lemire's goal was to deprive President Trump of credit for his early call in suggesting that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan lab. On Morning Joe, Lemire described Trump and Republicans of "taking a victory lap," now that Biden and Fauci are belatedly recognizing the serious possibility that the...

WASHINGTON - The video message that plunged Washington into chaos was filmed in secret. President Donald Trump stood in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room, holiday garland and gleaming ornaments draped on the fireplace behind him, and spoke into the camera not to deliver warm Christmas wishes, but to threaten to detonate Congress’ $900 billion COVID-19 relief and year-end package. The video was released without warning Tuesday night, its recording orchestrated by White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and kept from all but a handful of aides. Few Republicans or even White House staffers knew Wednesday what Trump planned...