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Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Thursday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that she believed the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot was an assault on “personal freedoms” that former President Donald Trump must be held accountable for. When asked about President Joe Biden’s campaign ad highlighting the Capitol riot, Pelosi said, “I think it’s very important, but I think it also recognizes that democracy is a personal issue. Freedom to whether it is to have access to health care, when, if, and how to expand your family, freedom to be in the workplace in a very strong way because you have...

The top Republican strategist spoke with Fox News Digital after meeting with a number of GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week to discuss what she argues is the need to promote contraception and reach a consensus on the abortion issue lest Democrats continue to use it as a "turnout intensifier" in November

Former White House press secretary and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Monday on CBS’s “The Late Show” that Fox News host Tucker Carlson treats his audience “like they are stupid.” Colbert said, “Let’s talk about the people who clearly had a cozy relationship with power, and that’s Fox News.” Psaki said, “I heard there are some developments.” Colbert said, “We are learning more about what is going on behind the scenes there. It’s not surprising, but it is unsettling to hear about.” Psaki said, “It’s a little bit more than unsettling, wouldn’t you say? I’ve watched you — I know...

Gisele Fetterman, wife of Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetteman, said that her advice to married women communicating with their husbands is to "ignore him when he’s speaking." "You just have to be really confident in your truth," she said of dealing with people who disagree with you, and offered similar advice to married women. "Then you just, like, ignore him when he’s speaking." Gisele Fetterman spoke to the Los Angeles Blade in December, but the former Pennsylvania second lady's comments resurfaced on social media this week.

Actress Sally Field called the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision “cruel” and “uncivilized” during an appearance on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday. Co-host Joy Behar noted part of Field’s memoir, and said, “You had to go to Tijuana to get a secret abortion before it was legal.” She asked Fields what she made of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “Yikes. I think it’s tragic. I think it’s criminal. I think it’s cruel. I think it’s uncivilized. I think you’re not looking at the ramifications of any of it, not only what’s happening to young...

As if mourning that abortion is no longer the law of the land wasn’t grisly enough, many in the media have spread outlandish and false claims that women will now be jailed for suffering miscarriages and stillbirths. MSNBC’s Joy Reid proudly took up the standard on Wednesday night’s episode of The ReidOut, where she used a trio of exceptional cases to fearmonger about the Handmaid’s Tale-esque rule under which American women are supposedly about to live. Reid began by citing a piece from BuzzFeed News, “Back in April, even before the toppling of Roe, a Texas woman had been charged...

Bette Midler has vented her fury over the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, suggesting they should also ban Viagra because it's 'God's will' for men to have a 'limp d***'. The actress, 76, took aim at the justices whose decision allowed individual states to decide whether to make abortion illegal. The Hocus Pocus star posted: 'Time to ban Viagra. Because if pregnancy is "God's will", then so is your limp d***.'

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton slammed U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over his opinion that the court should reconsider past rulings on contraception and same-sex marriage. Clinton, who went to law school with Thomas, told CBS’s “Mornings” in an interview that aired on Tuesday that the justice had “been a person of grievance for as long” as she had known him. She warned with the overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that “women are going to die.” “[Thomas] may be on his own, but he is signaling, as he often did, you know — I went...

Lara Logan, the former 60 Minutes correspondent and one-time Fox Nation host who was dropped by her agent in January for comparing Anthony Fauci to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, is back with some more controversial comments – that included Nazis. Logan ... denounced Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “puppet” and called much of the news out of Ukraine “misinformation.” The interview kicked off with former Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry explaining the state of play in Ukraine. Henry said Putin “caused a lot of destruction, don’t want to minimize the fact there’s over 2 million refugees....

DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead US foreign policy even as Obama gained ground on her in the battleground US state of Ohio today. In a foreign policy speech, Senator Clinton said Senator Obama had veered between pledging to meet leaders of hostile nations such as Iran and Cuba if elected in November to warning of US military action against al-Qaeda targets in Pakistan."He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve the world's intractable problems, to advocating rash, unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies...