DOJ stopping work on President Trump's "anti-weaponization" fund; fired North Carolina cop arrested after video shows him beating woman.
President Trump said he would be 'okay' if the Iranian regime refused to return to talks. The administration also appeared to abandon its $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund. NBC News' Garrett Haake reports.
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President Donald Trump's administration pulled the plug on his $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" after a federal judge temporarily blocked it over the weekend — but that doesn't mean the rising confrontation it's caused between the White House and Republicans on Capitol Hill is over, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Monday."Maybe you have some information about what Speaker Mike Johnson might have said to the president when he was at the White House a little bit earlier today," Tur asked Sherman, referring to the recent meeting on the status of the reconciliation bill, which Republicans have debated updating with language limiting the fund.Sherman acknowledged he didn't know exactly what was discussed there about the fund, but that his sources tell him "the administration is going to announce through DOJ that they are going to comply with the court order ... but the administration plans to say they plan to take no further action."Despite that, he argued, this "is not going to be an immediate salve for Capitol Hill" because Trump could simply decide at a later date to restart it up again when the court order expires. "They're going to want to put language in ... the reconciliation legislation, which funds ICE and CBP, to make sure that the administration can't, at some point, return and do this again."In other words, he said, Republicans will take a "trust, but verify" attitude and "put teeth into legislation to make sure that the administration doesn't, in a couple of months, say, actually, we've changed our minds. We're going to go back and set up this $1.8 billion fund."Ultimately, though, he said, this is probably good news for Republicans because the administration's surrender means they can move forward with the broader reconciliation bill."This was the only path, Katy, to get this done," he said. "The administration would have been frozen up here for weeks, if not months ... if this weaponization fund was put in place, they would have had to deal with this on every single bill that the House and Senate were looking to pass." As a result, Trump had "no other option" but to throw in the towel on the slush fund. - YouTube youtu.be
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley confronted new executive producer Nick Bilton and another CBS executive Monday morning in what Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr described as a "heated meeting," pushing back forcefully on last week's mass firings at the storied newsmagazine.Pelley didn't mince words about who he held responsible."She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, according to Barr. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that."Producers were present and showed support for Pelley during the meeting, Barr said.The firings Pelley pushed back on included veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, fellow correspondent Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon, and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich — all ousted last Thursday as Weiss installed Bilton, a tech journalist and TV news outsider, to lead the broadcast.Pelley's outrage has been building for months. When Weiss pulled Alfonsi's CECOT segment just hours before its scheduled December broadcast — after it had cleared every internal editorial and legal review — Pelley lashed out in a staff meeting. "She needs to take her job a little bit more seriously," he said at the time, according to The New Yorker.On Wednesday night, just hours before Alfonsi was formally fired, Pelley saluted her from the stage at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards at Lincoln Center.Critics have accused Weiss of spiking the CECOT story to placate the Trump administration, a charge her allies deny. Alfonsi, who has hired a litigator, called her ouster "a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting."
As a massive 60 Minutes shakeup rocks the CBS newsroom, staffers are reportedly poised to send a letter to Paramount CEO David Ellison. Lachlan Cartwright, Breaker Media founder, […]
The Trump-aligned Freedom 250 concert series has been a disaster weeks before it even started, and according to the hosts at The Bulwark, not even the president's staunchest MAGA allies were happy about the line-up of "washed up has-beens." Last week, Freedom 250 announced a series of free concerts to take place in Washington D.C., around July 4th, as part of the festivities surrounding America's 250th anniversary. The initial line-up of nine acts was mocked and criticized as weak and lacking star power, while the artists themselves were attacked for agreeing to take part in an event directly tied to President Donald Trump. While America 250 is a non-partisan entity created by Congress to plan events for the anniversary, Freedom 250 is a competing entity launched by the Trump administration.In the wake of this backlash, most of the nine acts have dropped out of the concert series, with many, like country star Martina McBride, claiming they were misled about the partisan affiliations of the event. As the event spirals, Trump has floated headlining the series himself, while other MAGA allies have taken to begging musicians to take part.Not all of Trump's allies have been supportive of the Freedom 250 concerts, however. In a video shared Monday, Will Sommer of The Bulwark shared several reactions from notable MAGA media figureheads, ripping into the concert series and its implosion."What was interesting to me was that there was just a lot of talk about, like, 'man, we really cannot find anyone who wants to be associated artistically with the Trump administration," Sommer said.He then highlighted an X post from far-right commentator Matt Walsh to illustrate his point."What a mess," Walsh wrote. "They invited a bunch of washed up has-beens, and now even the washed up has-beens are bailing on them. Yet another reason why the right wing 'get literally any famous person we can' approach is r——."Sommer noted that Walsh later asserted that conservatives need to "retake the culture," even as his employer, The Daily Wire, is currently imploding after a costly attempt to become a mainstream film and television production house.As of now, only rappers Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida, as well as individual members of Milli Vanilli and C+C Music Factory, are still committed to performing at the series. In the wake of these cancellations, Trump has also suggested that the concerts should be axed altogether.
US President Donald Trump said talks with Iran over an interim peace deal will “work out well,” even as the countries’ forces clashed again near the Strait of Hormuz.
Kevin Hassett, the National Economic Council director, caught heat from political analysts and observers after he made what some described as an "incredible" claim about the financial health of Americans during a Fox News interview. Hassett joined Fox News host Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday," where he was asked about a recent report finding that 13% of Americans had delinquent credit card balances, meaning their accounts had become past due. That figure was the highest since the 2008 financial crisis, Bream noted, which Hassett seemed to dismiss altogether in his response. "We talk to the CEOs of the credit card companies in the time, and we do see some stress like the Wall Street Journal pointed out," Hassett said. "But delinquency is different than default and there's not any kind of financial threat to the credit card companies. They don't feel like they're heading towards default scenarios. It's just that people are taking a little bit longer [to pay]."Hassett's claim was roundly criticized on social media. Jared Sears, a Navy veteran, wrote on X that Hassett's claim was "incredible.""Effectively sums up the administration's entire approach to governing: make sure the corporations and the rich are doing well, and forget about everyone else," Sears posted. "This has all the empathy of someone who learns that people are starving and instinctively calls General Mills to see if they're feeling an earnings pinch this quarter," Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) posted on X. "I do not advocate for political violence, but damn, it feels like Hassett has been trying his absolute hardest to become the most punchable member of the Trump administration," Hunter Gordon, a political candidate in Washington, posted on Bluesky. "Don’t worry if you’re struggling. The credit card companies will make sure to get their money from you regardless," Scott Imberman, an economics professor at Michigan State University, posted on Bluesky.