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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday ahead of his confirmation hearing for attorney general this summer. Blanche has been occupying the spot since former Attorney General Pam Bondi resigned earlier this year and was just recently nominated by President Donald Trump. He faces a tough confirmation battle, with […]
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had nothing but contempt for the new reports of President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding to end the Iran war he started — noting on MS NOW's "Deadline: White House" Monday that he is leaving the United States and its allies in a considerably worse position than they were before, and even Republicans aren't rushing to celebrate it."So we're not even going to have a conversation about the nuclear program until we've removed all of our leverage points," noted anchor Nicolle Wallace. "What, if anything, is America getting?""Not much," said McCaskill bluntly.First of all, she noted, "the only thing that Donald Trump has done here is kind of solve a problem he caused," since he was the one who escalated hostilities against Iran in the first place, and "now they're trying to pretend that he's putting out a fire that he didn't start."Additionally, McCaskill continued, even Trump loyalists like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are reserving judgment for the time being. "The fact that Lindsey is expressing doubts tells you all you need to know about how, really, well, I was going to use a bad word here. This deal is it's really bad. It's not a deal."The biggest insult of all, she continued, is to the military."At one point in time, we had military leadership that was strong enough to advise presidents in a meaningful way," said McCaskill. "We were seen as almost invincible in the world because of the strength of our military and its leadership. This administration is ruining the credibility of our military around the world. They are making us less safe by what they have done, because now there's a whole lot of folks out there that go, wait a minute, they can't manage a military the size of Iran?""No wonder Xi and Putin are high-fiving," McCaskill lamented, adding that these two rival leaders "can't believe" Trump sidetracked American power so badly at moments when they have their own ambitions. "This is nutty foreign policy. It makes us weak. It makes it dangerous for America. And it does permanent damage to our standing in the world and the standing of our military." - YouTube youtu.be
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Japan managed to sneak out a tie against the Netherlands after falling behind twice in a World Cup match on Sunday, but it was the Japanese fans who went viral after the game.Making the trip to watch their team at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, fans saw a late goal in the 89th minute earn Japan a 2-2 draw against its Dutch opponents. After the game, though, Japanese fans truly went to work.'Return it the way you found it.'Viral videos from all over the stadium quickly hit the internet, showing the Asian visitors whipping out blue garbage bags and methodically cleaning up their sections of the stadium.The fans first used the bags as a way to celebrate their team, raising them in the air and letting them ripple like a wave until impressing the world by using the same bags to gather garbage later on."There's a Japanese culture ... which means we should be cleaner [than when] we came here," a fan told Singapore outlet CNA. "So this is our mindset and this is very obvious that we are to clean up the stadium and that will [showcase] our good Japanese culture."RELATED: Japan is close to finding cure for rare disorder that devastates children KDFW reported on comments from a Japanese teacher who further explained why the fans were all acting in unison."Japanese sports fans at world events who clean up the stadium are behaving much the same way they did when they learned how to enjoy sports as school boys and girls," said Koichi Nakano, a politics and history teacher at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.A popular Japanese phrase apparently embodies the idea: "Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu," which reportedly means "return it the way you found it."RELATED: Brazil sends off its World Cup team in the most Catholic way possible L-R: Charlotte Wilson/Getty Images; Michael Steele/Getty ImagesBeloved NFL quarterback Jameis Winston was also among the Japanese crowd cleaning up the garbage. At 6'4", Winston stuck out like a sore thumb in the crowd of fans, but seeking no attention, he grabbed a blue bag and helped the Japanese supporters with their mission.The New York Giants quarterback happened to be in that section of the stadium while reporting on the game for Fox Sports and decided to join in.Japan's next game is Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ET against Tunisia, taking place at Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico, where the Japanese fans will most likely show up their Tunisian counterparts.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
Federal investigators are reportedly examining the finances and nonprofit activities of Jennifer Siebel Newsom, California’s “first partner” and wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor went public Monday, accusing President Donald Trump of orchestrating the probes as political revenge against a potential 2028 presidential rival. That framing deserves a hard look. Jennifer Siebel Newsom is...
On her new morning show, "Money Power Politics" — which debated Monday morning, June 15 following the popular "Morning Joe" program — MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle brought on former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor for a reaction to President Donald Trump's new Iran agreement. And the Never Trump conservative was downright scathing in his assessment.Taylor told Ruhle, "I'm going to go out there on a limb, Steph, and say I think that this is on track to be the worst deal in American diplomatic history. And look, I say that, recognizing…. that we don't have the text yet. But it's very, very hard to imagine there is a deal here that's any better than the deal we already had. In fact, if the initial reporting is to be believed, the Iranians think they're on a pathway to get $24 billion in assets unfrozen. That would be more than ten times what the Obama administration helped unlock for the Iranians."The former U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official added, "So, put it another way: We're paying ten times — potentially ten times — what we did before to get the same promise from the Iranians. And in international law, there's nothing that you can say about their commitment to not pursue nuclear weapons that's stronger than a promise. There's no global police force to require the Iranians to not pursue a bomb."Trump has been highly critical of the Iran deal that former President Barack Obama agreed to during his second term. But Taylor noted that when he was serving in DHS during Trump's first presidency, the president "threw out" the Obama administration's agreement without having "any plan to replace the Obama deal with." Taylor told Ruhle, "Again, the devil will be in the details, but I have a feeling we're going to see the devil."Taylor was serving as DHS chief of staff during Trump's first presidency when he anonymously wrote a widely read New York Times op-ed headlined, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration." The op-ed detailed Taylor's efforts to dissuade Trump from following through on his worst ideas. The conservative Taylor subsequently came out as the author of that op-ed and became openly critical of Trump, supporting Kamala Harris in 2024. Ruhle formerly hosted MS NOW's late-night show "The Final Hour," and "Money Power Politics" — which now airs after "Morning Joe," hosted by conservative Joe Scarborough and liberal Mika Brzezinski — marks her debut as a morning host on the liberal-leaning cable news channel.
A former national security official during President Donald Trump's first term sharply criticized his agreement with Iran to end hostilities.Miles Taylor, who served as National Security Council chief of staff in the first Trump administration, told MS NOW's Stephanie Ruhle that none of the terms the 80-year-old president had reached with Iran improved the situation from before he decided to launch the war in February."I'm going to go out there on a limb and say that I think this is on track to be the worst deal in American diplomatic history," Taylor said. "We don't have the text yet, but it's very, very hard to imagine there is a deal here that's any better than the deal we already had. In fact, if the initial reporting is to be believed, the Iranians think that they're on a pathway to get $24 billion in assets unfrozen, that would be more than 10 times what the Obama administration effectively helped unlock for the Iranians.""So put it another way we're paying 10 times, potentially paying 10 times what we did before to get the same promise from the Iranians, and in international law, there's nothing that you can say about their commitment to not pursue nuclear weapons," he added. "That's stronger than a promise. There is no global police force to require the Iranians to not pursue a bomb. So all we could get, the best we could get is a promise from the Iranians, a promise we already had and once."Taylor had a front-row seat to a decision that Trump made in his first term that set the war in motion."Donald Trump threw out [the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] in the first administration, when I was there," Taylor said. "I can remember the frustration of staff when Donald Trump did not have any plan to replace the Obama deal with tore it up, and now here we are again, potentially on the pathway to unlocking 10 times as much money for the Iranian regime to get the same agreement that we had previously.""Now, again, the devil will be in the details," he added, "but I have a feeling we're going to see the devil." - YouTube youtu.be