A Fox Business segment on Thursday morning devolved into shouting as anchor Maria Bartiromo tried to talk over the objections of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to certain provisions of the SAVE America Act, the controversial Trump-backed legislation that would put extreme new restrictions on voting rights and effectively give the Department of Homeland Security oversight of state voting rolls.Khanna focused on the fact that under the terms of the law, married women who had legal name changes would face significant obstacles to voting because they can't use the name on their birth certificate to verify their citizenship — but Bartiromo, who is known for embracing conspiracy theories on air, didn't see any issue with this."Elections have been lost by a couple of votes," said Bartiromo heatedly. "So just to say, oh, [the fraud is] not a lot, that's not an answer, sir.""But people have been fearmongering that when it's not an issue in the election, and the reality is you have cases of people who are married, you want them if they've changed their name to have to prove with their birth certificate?" said Khanna."What's the problem?" Bartiromo said, talking over him. "Yes. Get your birth certificate. You can't vote if you're not an American citizen."The SAVE America Act has no path to passage in the Senate, where it cannot overcome the 60-vote cloture threshold to defeat a Democratic filibuster.Trump has spent months demanding Republicans either tack the bill onto some other must-pass measure or do away with the filibuster entirely to get it through, neither of which has support from the Senate GOP. The disagreement has caused a growing rift between Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).Privately, a number of Republicans are sick of debating the legislation and want Trump to let them move on from it.
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President Donald Trump signed an agreement aimed at ending his war in Iran, but many noticed the symbolism of the location he chose to do it.The 80-year-old president signed the so-called memorandum of understanding Wednesday during a dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron in Versailles, the historic setting of the 1919 treaty that ended World War I, and CNN's Audie Cornish asked her panelists about his choice."This was signed at Versailles," she said. "Lots of things have been signed at Versailles. But usually when you call something a Versailles treaty, it's, in foreign language policy land, kind of an insult, right? It's a self-defeating agreement. What's your response to the critics out there who are making those analogies?"Germany signed the original Treaty of Versailles under protest, and the severe penalties it imposed ultimately destabilized its government and led to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the "CNN This Morning" panelists agreed the symbolism was strange."President Trump didn't have to sign that peace deal at Versailles today," said Middle East expert Sina Azodi. "He could have had an agreement in February before he decided to go to war. He was dragged into a war of choice that didn't have to [and] 13 Americans died, billions of dollars [were] spent. He could have taken the deal that the Iranians had offered, and it was a pretty good deal compared to the [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], and I know that President Trump is very sensitive to the war and JCPOA and Obama. But that was a very good deal that he had on Feb. 26 in Geneva.""Well, the hope is from the White House that 60 days from now, whatever they have will be much better than happened in 2015," Cornish added. - YouTube youtu.be
CNN's Audie Cornish schooled a former Donald Trump staffer who pooh-poohed the opening of Barack Obama's presidential library.The 64-year-old former president will be joined at his library's grand opening Thursday by George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, and the event will include performances by legendary artists like Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Eddie Vedder, Jennifer Hudson and The Roots, and Cornish couldn't help but compare that to President Donald Trump's lackluster Freedom 250 lineup."It's very Obama era in terms of all the celebrities being there, and we made a list of, like, who's going to be, who's going to be at this Obama event and their global record sales, and then what's going on with the Trump-backed Freedom 250, which pretty much kicked off a few weeks ago in terms of who was leaving it," Cornish said. "In the end, it's Lee Greenwood, a president, the president's favorite, and a handful of other artists. Is this a reminder of, like, kind of where Hollywood's heart lies or the complication that Trump has his relationship with pop culture?"Mike Dubke, a former communications director in Trump's first term, seemed caught off guard by the question."Is this to me?" he said. "I don't know that it's a fair comparison."Cornish disagreed, saying they were both massive events taking place within weeks of one another."I love presidential libraries," Dubke filibustered. "I think they are, and especially to the point that they tell the story of the president in their own words. So I've been to a few. I've been to Bill Clinton's down in Little Rock, I've been to Ronald Reagan's out in California. I think it's incredibly interesting to walk through each of these libraries, and I'm in Chicago, I will probably go to Obama's presidential library because I think they're fantastic things.""Trump is not invited," Cornish prodded, "just so we're clear.""No, that's fine, but I don't – I will take a little issue on this pop culture thing because I don't know that comparing America's 250 and all the politics that are surrounding this with what should be a celebration for Obama," Dunke said. "I'm not sure I'm there. We should be celebrating America's. 250 but look, this is this is a celebration for Obama and the folks that really enjoyed his presidency, and, you know, good on them for having a go."Cornish then offered to provide some historical context to Obama's event in comparison to Trump's partisan takeover of the celebration of the United States' semiquincentennial."In an era where [diversity, equity and inclusion] has been completely, not just DEI, when Black American history has been carved out of the halls of the federal government with a with like a butcher knife, them doing this library on Juneteenth week is on purpose and is significant because maybe for Black Americans, that is a historic moment that this nation will no longer celebrate under the Trump administration," Cornish said. "They are not interested in talking about the history of slavery. So it feels like the Obamas are doing something very purposeful. They're creating an alternative historical celebration for people who feel like part of their history is forgotten."
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Fox News poll finds only 12% of voters say they are getting ahead financially, with 59% feeling pessimistic about the economy ahead of midterms.
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.The details of Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran have now been released, and it’s exactly what we expected. Trump got nothing of any significance. And a surprising group of people are now admitting this—Trump’s MAGA allies. Some Fox News figures and right-wing media figures are taking apart the deal in surprisingly harsh terms. Meanwhile, Trump let out a few tirades today attacking Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal, even though all indications thus far are that Trump has fared substantially worse than Obama did.We think the big story right now is this: everything we know right at this moment strongly suggests that the next stage of the negotiations with Iran will be even worse for Trump.We’re working through all of it with Sina Toossi, an Iran expert at the Center for International Policy. Sina, good to have you on.Sina Toossi: Hey, Greg, thanks so much for having me on.Sargent: So both sides have released the agreement. Here’s the short version. Strait of Hormuz reopened with no charge for passage, but that’s only for 60 days. U.S. blockade lifted—a victory for Iran. Iran also gets relief from sanctions. Iran reaffirms it won’t procure or develop nuclear weapons, which it has already said in many other instances. The U.S. is working with regional partners to open up $300 billion in reconstruction aid to Iran. Sina, what did the United States get here? And what do you make of this deal?Toossi: Yeah, so I think the most important thing is that this is not a nuclear deal. We’re already seeing comparisons to the Obama-era nuclear deal, the 2015 deal. This makes no nuclear obligations of Iran. That most critical issue has been deferred to this 60-day period of negotiations. And what this deal really is, is just a framework deal outlining the ostensible end of this war.And as part of this deal, the most important thing really is the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iran and Iran lifting its blockade on the Strait of Hormuz—this problem that did not exist before the war. But as part of that, Iran is actually getting upfront concessions. Most significantly, these oil waivers to sell oil during this period of negotiations, as well as access to its own frozen money that’s been frozen due to sanctions, as well as a region-wide ceasefire, including Lebanon. And these are major upfront concessions that Iran is now receiving as a result of this war.Sargent: Just to boil this down in really simple terms, basically what happened here is that Trump said, we’re opening up $300 billion in reconstruction aid to Iran, provided you meet a bunch of conditions later, but we are opening it up—in order to undo the mistake I made in launching this war in the first place and closing the Strait of Hormuz and bringing the global economy to its knees. Is that what happened?Toossi: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it straight up says that there’s this $300 billion investment fund. It’s worth being skeptical about whether that will actually materialize. But what Trump has agreed to right now is, yeah, on paper, such an investment fund is being created. And for a deal that was already on the table in the past that he left—and then he launched his dumb war and only created this big quagmire.Sargent: So let’s talk about the nuclear component for a second. As you pointed out, what it does is defer the discussion. But in the deal, there’s some text, not much. Iran agrees not to procure or develop nukes, but that is what it has always said. It said the same thing in the 2015 Obama nuclear deal. The deal now requires Iran to dilute its enriched material but doesn’t require it to ship the material out of the country—and that was in Obama’s deal, right? And so now the details on the constraints on Iran’s nuclear program have to be negotiated. Is that about the size of it? And what’s your take on all that?Toossi: Yeah, I think if this does lead to a nuclear deal, by all accounts—and this text also reinforces this—it’s going to look something similar to what Obama got. And what was actually on the table before this war, because Trump himself in his second term was engaged in nuclear negotiations with Iran. And in the middle of them, they launched surprise attacks on Iran, both last June and again in February.And in this February track, we actually had this British national security advisor who was there. And he himself said that the deal was basically at hand. And the Omani intermediary at this time said that it was at hand too. But yeah, basically the contours of this deal, much like the JCPOA, seem to be Iran accepting more intrusive transparency mechanisms, inspections mechanisms, committing to get rid of its large stockpiles of enriched uranium. So right now it has 60 percent enriched uranium. It’s agreed to dilute this within Iran—or at least that’s what the idea of this agreement is—as opposed to sending it abroad.
Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah."On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We capitulate to Iran's demand to protect Hezbollah."The conservative host argued that the Iran-backed group, which he said has "brutally murdered hundreds of our fellow citizens," would emerge from the ceasefire untouched. Under the terms Levin described, Hezbollah "not only survives but is immunized" and remains "free to continue to kill Americans, Israelis, and others."Levin took aim at the deal point by point. He characterized a reported $300 billion development fund for Iran, a provision that has drawn alarm from analysts, as a "shiny object," and said the sanctions waivers meant "the Iranian regime is back in business." At one point, Levin wrote, "I just keep shaking my head," calling parts of the deal "too absurd to comprehend."He also faulted how the administration handled the document's release, writing that the "roll out was unhelpful" and questioning why the text was not made public when it was signed.Levin closed with a warning, writing that "this MOU requires serious changes if not outright abandonment." Without them, he said, "a forever war — a continuation of Iran's war on the West — is not in doubt."The posts come amid broader pushback from conservatives over the deal. Trump announced the agreement to end the war with Iran over the weekend, extending a ceasefire that includes Lebanon for 60 days. The deal is expected to be formally signed on Friday in Geneva.
Fox News poll finds 64% of voters doubt a peace deal will keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, matching skepticism levels from the 2015 deal.