Corbin Bolies

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Vice President JD Vance adamantly denied that the United States had entered a war with Iran after bombers struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker opened her interview with Vance on Sunday with the question swirling after President Donald Trump announced the strike. “Is the United States now at war with Iran?” she asked.

5 days ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

Pope Leo XIV has criticized President Donald Trump’s strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, warning that “war does not solve problems.”“Alarming news continues to emerge from the Middle East, especially from Iran,” the pontiff said in his weekly address on Sunday, according to Vatican News. “Today, more than ever, humanity cries out and calls for peace.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said she couldn’t believe Megyn Kelly’s “confounding” turn toward producing “really angry” content after her years at Fox News and NBC. Wallace told Kara Swisher on Thursday’s On with Kara Swisher that she appreciated how independent media has flourished in recent years, a trajectory she said it would have followed regardless of Donald Trump’s rise and exploitation of the sphere.

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell laid into President Donald Trump for suggesting he should nominate himself as chair of the Federal Reserve, claiming Trump’s comment was “indicative of dementia.“O’Donnell opened his nightly show The Last Word by attacking Trump’s comment, which the president made in jest to reporters on Wednesday as he blasted Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates. “Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed?

1 week ago | thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies

The Daily Show host Jon Stewart pinpointed the most alarming turning point in Donald Trump’s second term: He is now on the same page as longtime enemy Tucker Carlson. Stewart said on Thursday’s episode of The Weekly Show podcast that Trump’s incompetence—“the just rank s--ttiness of how they accomplish things, and the price we are paying for his inability to”—was the most under-covered element of his second administration. “What’s this week’s episode? Liberation Day and tariffs?