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Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that his state will push forward and build its own wall at the southern border. Abbott revealed the Lone Star State’s plans to Breitbart shortly before a border summit in Del Rio, Texas on Thursday. Those plans were confirmed at the summit and reported by CBS Dallas-Fort Worth. “I will announce next week the plan for the state of Texas to begin building the border wall in the state of Texas,” he declared at the event.

An Interior Department report published Wednesday shows police never cleared Lafayette Park of protesters last summer so President Trump could stage a Bible photo-op, as was reported by the mainstream media. Protesters, resistance lawmakers, the media, and Joe Biden all used the incident at the time to portray the former President as a dictator, clearing the park of riff-raff so he could assert his authority. The report by the department’s Inspector General indicates federal police officers cleared the park instead so a contractor could install fencing. “That finding … is likely to surprise many critics of Trump, who have long...

Biden: “It’s my great honor to serve as your commander-in-chief, and I look forward to hearing your active duty and recommendations of how we can work together to keep the American people safe and meet every challenge in the 21st century. So I want to thank you both and I want to thank the former general, I keep calling him general, my — the guy who runs that outfit over there, I want to make sure we thank the Secretary for all he’s done to try to implement what we just talked about and for recommending these two women for...

Andrew Cuomo remained defiant as top Democrat lawmakers in the state joined calls for him to resign, reportedly telling one they’ll have to impeach the New York governor for him to leave the office. Cuomo, once the darling of the mainstream media for his handling of the pandemic, finds himself embroiled in scandals on numerous fronts. ... But Cuomo would have none of it, suggesting being forced to resign based only on allegations would be “anti-Democratic.” “There is no way I resign,” Cuomo told reporters. “They don’t override the people’s will, they don’t get to override elections,” he said of...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced that he is deploying National Guard troops to the southern border to address what he calls a “crisis.” Abbott (R) announced Operation Lone Star over the weekend to address the smuggling of people and drugs into the state, something he blames on the current administration. “The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” he said.

Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany took a jab at her successor Jen Psaki, saying she didn’t need to do a “ton of circling back” with reporters because she did a lot of research and had access to her boss. McEnany, who was recently announced as a Fox News contributor, made the comments during an interview with “Fox & Friends.” And while she said she wishes President Biden’s press secretary well, there was certainly an unmistakable air of reasoning on why McEnany was more forthright with answers during her tenure at the White House. “I wish Jen Psaki all...

The state House in Mississippi on Wednesday passed legislation that would protect female athletes by banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. An overwhelming vote of 81-28 allowed for the passage of the ‘Mississippi Fairness Act.’ The Senate last month passed the bill in a similar landslide fashion, with a vote count of 34-9. The act requires that any public school or institution of higher learning designate their sports teams according to biological sex. You know. Science.

National Republican Congressional Committee Chair (NRCC) Tom Emmer warned former President Trump against backing primary challenges to Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him. Emmer made the comments in an interview with Politico. “He can do whatever he wants,” said the Minnesota Republican. “But I would tell him that it’s probably better for us that we keep these people and we make sure that we have a majority that can be sustained going forward.” On Trump weighing into the primaries, Emmer said, “That’s not gonna be helpful.”

Martha: You know, what is your big picture look at this? These six books that have been banned. When you go through the images and I’ll put a couple up to look at, some people find them offensive. Stereotypical. Leo Terrell: I come from this as a public school teacher that read those books as a student, a young boy that read those books. As a civil rights attorney. The images reflect the time in which the books were written, in the 20s and the 30s. I am not offended by those pictures because it talks about the evolution of...

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “… for so long, and we have already begun to implement. We are progressing every single day. I don’t have a particular timeline, but all I can do is communicate, both to the American public, and to the individuals seeking protection, that we are working around the clock seven days a week to make that time frame as short as possible, but they need to wait. But they need to wait with a particular goal in mind. We are not saying, don’t come, we are saying, don’t come now, because we will be able to...

BONGINO: “But on this nuclear football story, you know, I’m not kidding, when the producers sent this to me, I had to read this twice. I thought, ‘Is this ‘The Babylon Bee’? Is this ‘The Onion’?’ This is a real story.” HANNITY: “You thought it was fake news, right?” BONGINO: “No, I’m not kidding. I thought, ‘Is he trying to be funny about this?’ This is a real story. These are Democrats. You said it in your opening segment, I hope everybody didn’t miss the line. Is there something these Democrats aren’t telling us? It was something I warned about...

INGRAHAM: “How about the fact that major stories that were reported were false, that a lot of media organizations still haven’t retracted fully? You know, police officers, alleged to have been killed by fire extinguishers thrown by Trump supporters and a horrible loss of life and a horrible thing that happened. But that’s not what happened. But they just repeat it because it helps their narrative. It’s disgusting. It’s disgusting all the way around. I think everyone is seeing through this at this point.” Nunes: “Well, I think everyone that watches Fox or that is in the ghettos that are...

GRAHAM: “I thought the impeachment trial was not only unconstitutional. I condemn what happened on January the 6th, but the process they used to impeach this president was an affront to rule of law. He is the first president to ever be impeached without a lawyer, without a witness. Without an ability to confront those against him in the trial record. It was a complete joke, hearsay upon hearsay and we’ve opened Pandora’s box to future presidents and if you use this model, I don’t know how Kamala Harris doesn’t get impeached if the Republicans take over the house, because...

REPORTER: “There are several reports of migrants crossing the border and several local Texas health officials have expressed concerns that there are migrants coming over the border who are not — who have not been tested by the — by the authorities.” PSAKI: “Well, let me reiterate what I — what I’ve done in here, and I know different people are in here different days, so I’m certainly happy to do it again. You know, first, the majority of people who come to the border are turned away and we are enforcing our laws at the border, but we are...

PAUL: “Do you think it’s fair to have boys running in the girls’ track meet?” CARDONA: “I think it’s appropriate for — I think it’s the legal responsibility of schools to provide opportunities for students to participate in activities, and this includes students who are transgender.” PAUL: “So you don’t have a problem then with boys running in girls’ track meets, swimming meets? You’re okay then with boys competing with girls?” CARDONA: “Respectfully, Senator, I think I answered the question. I believe schools should offer the opportunity for students to engage in extracurricular activities, even if they’re transgender. I think...

HARLOW: “Do you believe it was finally a mistake for the Biden administration to cancel the Keystone XL Pipeline on day one in office given the impacts of 11,000 American jobs. Do you think it was a mistake? I know you think it was a mistake to do it in general but I wonder about right now this moment given the economy on its knees.” TESTER: “Well, look, I’ve been a supporter of the Keystone Pipeline. And there has been two caveats and they have been basic caveats, you do it to the safest standards and you respect private property...

AOC cranks up the dramatics as she talks about the moment Capitol police were knocking on her door during the riots. She said with nobody identifying who was there, it sounded “like someone was trying to break the door down.” She hid in the bathroom. “Then I just start to hear these yells of, ‘Where is she? Where is she?,'” Ocasio-Cortez said. “This was the moment where I thought everything was over.” AOC claimed she thought she was going to die. “If this was the journey that my life was taking, that I felt that things were going to be...

Judge Jeanine: Hello and welcome to “Justice.” I’m Judge Jeanine Pirro. Thanks for being with us tonight. Let’s get right to my open. The reason Americans don’t trust politicians is because they lie. New York governor Andrew Cuomo is a case in point. The attorney general from his own party tells us he underreported nursing home deaths by 50%. This wasn’t an accounting error, administrator. It was a cover-up. >> An uncaring political ploy. He knows he’s wrong and manipulates numbers so he can prevent being caught. Nursing home deaths skyrocket to 13,000. When the Covid pandemic hit. Cuomo uses...

President Biden is moving forward with setting up a commission to study Supreme Court reforms which could, according to the Daily Mail, lead the way to ‘court-packing.’ Biden repeatedly refused to state his position on court-packing during his campaign but did vow to set up a commission to study judiciary reforms. “The President remains committed to an expert study of the role and debate over reform of the court and will have more to say in the coming weeks,” a White House official told Fox News. Politico reports that Biden has already begun naming people to the commission. They note...

CUOMO: “A third of all deaths in this nation are from nursing homes. New York state, we are only about 28 percent, only, but we are below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes. But who cares, 33, 28, died in a hospital, died in a nursing home, they died. And I dealt with the loss of my father. The pain is so incredible and inexplicable and why, and why, and why? It’s a tragedy. It’s a tragedy.”