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Donald Trump's visit to the UN General Assembly will not be televised by the major US broadcasters on Monday as they band together to boycott his ban on CNN and MS NOW. Fox News, CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC, collectively known as the TV pool, are protesting the White House and have decided to not dispatch cameramen or reporters to cover the president on Monday. This means that Trump's trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly meeting on Monday will go unaired on the major networks. Still, the conservative outlet Real America's Voice (RAV) will be on...

Brian Stelter, as expected, and got up on his moral high horse all weekend and lectured about censorship because President Donald Trump banned CNN MS NOW, and Politico from the White House grounds. However, as you shall see, Stelter's protests ring rather hollow because he himself in March 2021 suggested that Fox News be, get this, banned from the White House.First let us see Stelter complaining about the very thing he recommended in 2021 happen to Fox News, since it's just a "political tool," despite having actual journalists working at the White House:

MS NOW reporter was denied entry into the White House grounds and asked to hand over her badge

I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the...

An MS NOW news crew had to be rescued by eight Border Patrol agents after its SUV became stranded in the remote Texas desert. Antonia Hylton and her crew were reporting from Texas’ Big Bend region for the debut of “The Assignment” when their Jeep Wagoneer bottomed out shortly after a visit to the Alvarado Ranch. “As the sun went down, our Jeep Wagoneer bottomed out in the desert,” Hylton said. The stranded crew needed help from Border Patrol as darkness descended, according to Hylton. “Eight Border Patrol agents in four different trucks came out that night to rescue our...

What's the impact of an ad? It's a question making the rounds in many circles as backlash grows over a 15-second spot created by Frisco-based Good Good Golf to showcase a new co-branded driver from equipment maker Callaway. The ad begins with one of the founders of Good Good, Garrett Clark, shoulder-checking a female golfer, another Good Good staffer, Alexis Miestowski, a former Division I golfer, to the ground. "I felt nauseous," The Family Place CEO Tiffany Tate said. "That was my first gut-level reaction when I saw the ad." The ad concludes with the Good Good content creator standing...

On Saturday’s The Weekend on MS NOW, co-host Jonathan Capehart turned the Florida governor’s race into an indictment of white Republican voters. Turning to Florida politics maven Marc Caputo, Capehart asked: “How difficult is this race going to be for Congressman Donalds? Is it going to be more difficult for him than it would be for a white Republican? Let’s be real.” Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On Wednesday, after Democratic socialist candidate Angie Nixon was victorious in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary, MS NOW reporter Alex Tabet worried that Cubans in Florida would not vote for Nixon because of Republicans’ “incorrect conflation of communism and Democratic socialism.” Tabet joined new MS NOW host Peter Alexander’s show, State of Play, live from Florida after the primary. Alexander asked about Nixon, whom he called an “unfamiliar name,” and wondered if Democrats were “bullish about her campaign or anxious about what it may mean in a red state.” Tabet responded and said there was a “skittishness here on the ground...

Appearing as a guest on Friday's The 11th Hour show on MS NOW, unfunny liberal comedian John Fugelsang accused Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) of being a "bigot" and compared the black Republican to a drug dealer who puts other drug dealers in jail. The comments came as fill-in host Catherine Rampell brought up the race for governor in Florida: So, speaking of potentially flipping certain offices, as I mentioned in the last segment, the Republican primary to replace Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been like, totally nuts. You have the Trump-endorsed candidate, Byron Donalds. You have this bigoted guy, James...

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace criticized President Trump's "extraordinary deception that needlessly exposed respected members of the White House press corps to a potentially deadly Iranian missile strike as he departed Turkey. His claim is that he was 'just doing what my Secret Service bodyguards wanted me to do' when he secretly was smuggled off Air Force One and onto a nondescript military plane is okay, as far as it goes. What he didn't do was warn the folks who thought that they'd be flying with the President that they would be on the decoy plane. His willingness to risk the...

Wednesday's Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform, and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide." [snip] El-Sayed also accused Israel of "genocide” and described its conduct under Netanyahu as “bloodthirsty,” the latter accusation having ugly echoes of antisemitic blood libels. Politicians who oppose support for Israel often claim they’re not anti-Israel—just anti-Netanyahu. Not El-Sayed. By branding Israel an “illegal apartheid regime” that predates and outlasts Netanyahu, he made explicitly...

As the country barrels toward the 2026 midterm elections, one place sits at the center of it all: Texas. From fiercely contested elections to landmark legislative fights and courtroom battles with national consequences, Texas has become the place where the country’s biggest political questions are tested and where the ripple effects are felt coast to coast. So this year, MS NOW is taking our annual fan event to the Lone Star State. “Together in Texas: We the People 2026” will bring together our trusted journalists and dedicated audience for a day-long community gathering in Arlington, Texas on Saturday, September 26,...

Sunday's edition of MS NOW's The Weekend staged a kvetchathon over President Trump ordering the installation of signs outside the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History warning visitors that the museum does not accurately reflect American history. The panel repeatedly asked: Who gets to tell America's history? They never answered that question, other than to make clear they don't want Trump doing it. The real answer is that at the Smithsonian, America's history is told by a cabal of leftist historians. Cases in point: Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

On Thursday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire grossly misrepresented the scale of New Jersey’s non-citizen voter registration scandal. Lemire claimed that the state “had to acknowledge that a few hundred voters were, you know, non-citizens were mistakenly added to the voting rolls.”That is false. According to multiple reports, including NBC News, roughly 6,600 non-citizens were improperly registered to vote, allegedly because of a software error at the Motor Vehicle Commission. About 400 of them cast ballots. By switching the two numbers, Lemire shrank the registration failure by more than 90% -- leaving viewers with a dramatically understated picture of...

A Secret Service agent suspected of leaking details about Vice President JD Vance’s travel has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation. The unidentified agent is believed to have been a source for an MS Now story published last week that claimed Vance’s protective detail was frustrated with the second family’s habit of making last-minute travel arrangements and special requests. “A member of the Vice Presidential Protective Division is the subject of an administrative investigation, and potential criminal inquiry, involving allegations of compromising operational and information security,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Post Thiursday.

Secret Service agents tasked with protecting the Vice President and his family appear to be airing grievances with the Vance family through media leaks. MSNow published a story about complaints within Vice President JD Vance’s security detail, citing “Secret Service sources,” people with knowledge of his travel, and the frustration of current and former agents. The story focused on a recently planned trip by the Vice President and his son to Joint Base Andrews for a golf lesson, and on agents’ apparent anger over the “inappropriate or even unprecedented use” of government resources. “[T]he Secret Service staff’s complaints about a...

U.S. President Donald Trump is slated to speak on Thursday about newly declassified intelligence ​on foreign nations' plans to interfere in the U.S. election in 2020, an MS ‌Now reporter said on X, citing two unidentified White House officials. The Republican president repeatedly has claimed that he lost the 2020 vote to Democrat Joe Biden ​because of massive fraud. But numerous courts, ballot audits and his ​first-term Justice Department found no evidence no evidence of widespread ⁠fraud that could have affected the outcome. Propelled by the Trump's repeated ​claims that U.S. elections are “rigged,” the administration has for more than...

FBI director Kash Patel abandoned a planned flight to see his girlfriend perform in Chicago on the same Friday he turned up at the White House, in an episode the Trump administration insists had nothing to do with any frustration over his conduct. MS NOW reported that Patel abruptly cancelled the trip on the morning of 10 July 2026 after senior officials, who the outlet said had grown frustrated by a series of controversies, summoned him to the West Wing. The White House flatly rejected that account, telling the outlet the suggestion he was called in over frustration was 'totally...

According to Wisconsin socialist Democrat candidate Francesca Hong, "I think that when folks hear 'socialism,' they may be taken aback, but I bring it back to potholes and the [Green Bay] Packers and public education." That was how Hong explained to an MSNOW interviewer her deceitful strategy to slip evil past Badger State voters. Maine's garbage-hearted Graham Platner may have quit his electoral effort, but the communist wickedness that today wields great influence in the Democrat party ain't goin' nowhere. Hong's 'spoonful of sugar' skullduggery is common to scheming electoral subversives. Rather than concede communism has murdered some 100 million...

Michigan progressive Abdul El-Sayed told MS NOW on Tuesday that Graham Platner should end his bid for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat after a woman accused Platner of sexual assault. His remarks came after El-Sayed, who is running for Michigan’s Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, failed to explicitly say Platner should leave the race in a social media post after the story broke. That perceived vagueness drew criticism from his major Democratic rival in the race, Rep. Haley Stevens. El-Sayed, like Platner, has had the support of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a pair of races that are critical to whether...