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- ‘What Happened There?’ NY Times Reporter Asks Trump If He Derailed Saudi Dea...
President Donald Trump was pressed by a New York Times reporter on Friday over whether he had derailed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia by adding a new requirement after administration officials had presented the deal as effectively complete. During an Oval Office event on domestic nuclear innovation, New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh pointed to the apparent disconnect between Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s announcement of a civilian nuclear cooperation framework with Saudi officials and Trump’s additional demand days later that Riyadh must first normalize relations with Israel by joining the Abraham Accords. “I want to ask about the Saudi nuclear deal. This man over your shoulder announces a big deal after 18 months of negotiating with the Saudis, seems like it’s all done and signed and then you come out and throw some new conditions on top of it, the whole thing blows up,” McCreesh said before asking: “Did he get out ahead of you, or what happened there?” Trump rejected the suggestion that his administration had been out of sync. “Nobody got out ahead,” he replied. The exchange came after the administration unveiled a framework for civilian nuclear cooperation with Saudi Arabia before Trump declared that the agreement would only move forward if the kingdom joined the Abraham Accords. That condition was reportedly not included when the framework was announced. Saudi Arabia has repeatedly maintained that it will not establish formal diplomatic ties with Israel without a credible pathway to Palestinian statehood and has not publicly responded to Trump’s new requirement. Explaining his position, Trump said: “I just said in order to do it they have to be a member of the Abraham Accords which have been very successful, but it’s time now that they do it. They and others didn’t want to do it because of the problem that they had with Iran. You don’t have that problem anymore. You don’t have a great power there anymore, you have a problem, but the problem is disappearing day by day.” He continued: “They were the bully in the Middle East. They won’t be that much of a bully anymore. They probably instinctively want to be, but you don’t have the same problem that you would have had four or five months ago before they had no navy, no military, no anti-aircraft, no leaders – I mean, their leaders are gone. A lot of things have… [TheTopNews] Read More.36 mins ago - ‘I Don’t Know What’s Appropriate and What’s Not’: Trump Maintains NYT ...President Donald Trump maintained Friday that his administration’s subpoenas of journalists from The New York Times were only meant to find the “leakers” responsible for unfavorable stories, admitting, “I don’t know what’s appropriate and what’s not.” On Thursday, the Department of Justice withdrew subpoenas seeking phone records and grand jury testimony from three Times reporters after Federal Judge Arun Subramanian sharply criticized the government’s handling of the case and indicated he would quash the subpoenas, questioning whether prosecutors had even followed the legal standards for subpoenaing journalists. Importantly, the subpoenas were issued just two days after the Times published its initial report that security concerns prompted the president not to use his gifted Qatari jet for his July 8 trip out of Turkey. During the Friday press briefing in the Oval Office, Trump was asked whether he supports these types of subpoenas to journalists, responding, “We’re not after journalists. We’re after leakers. We’re after people that are cowards, people that are unpatriotic, people that are treasonous, in many cases, and the way you find them is through the journalists… If it’s something having to do with national security, you tell the journalist, ‘Who is it?’ and we have a long way to go with that case.” The president was then questioned on whether he thinks it’s “appropriate to subpoena family members of journalists to find out information,” as was the case for at least one Times reporter. Trump responded: I don’t know what’s appropriate and what’s not. We do it legally. [Former President] Barack Hussein Obama did it all the time. He went after journalists and nobody said anything about it. He went after journalists. They’d say, “Who was the leaker? Who was the leaker? And if you don’t give us the leaker, you’re going to jail.” You know that. But when, you know, Obama does it, it’s okay, but when I do it, it’s not. In many cases, that’s the only way you’re gonna find out who a leaker is, and it has to do with national security. Um, it’s amazing. He did it many times, and nobody said anything about it, but when a Republican does it, when, in particular, Trump does it, everybody makes a big deal. Now, the way you find out is you say to the journalist — if it’s national security. I would say I really put it down to national security, not… [TheTopNews] Read More.45 mins ago
- Trump Confronted about Hegseth Contradicting Him on China and Russia Helping Ira...President Donald Trump was confronted Friday about Iran, and how his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth appeared to contradict his comments on involvement by China and Russia. “You said today Russia and China are not helping. Earlier this week, the War Secretary Hegseth said they are enabling. So what is the difference?” asked Fox News reporter Peter Doocy during an Oval Office announcement on nuclear power. “Well, I don’t know that they’re enabling. I mean, I will tell you that President Xi [Jinping] said will will not partake, and President [Vladimir] Putin said the same thing. I think, you know, I trust them. Do they — they’ve had a long term relationship, there could be some things they do. Thus far, at least, it’s not been major. I don’t think they’d want to have me disappointed.” During Hegseth’s Senate hearing this week, Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) asked, “Are Russia and China helping Iran? And if so, how?” Hegseth answered, “There’s definitely adversary alignment, attempts to do so, and there are many ways that we deter that. Some of which are — and the depth and extent of it ought to remain classified, and it should — but there are ways in which both of those countries are limiting, at different levels, enabling some of the things Iran is doing, Yes.” But in a Truth Social post Friday, Trump declared outright that Russia and China were “not participating” in the Iran war. The president wrote: President Xi, at our recent meeting in Beijing, China, told me that he would not, under any circumstances, give or sell Weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran — And that statement included Chinese Companies. Considering our relationship, I take him at his word and, besides, l am doing him very big favors, also. Likewise, President Putin, despite the horrible War going on in Ukraine (The relationship remains, as it does with President Zelenskyy), told me that he would not sell Weapons to Iran. He understands that I do not sell Weapons to Ukraine, but to NATO Countries. They pay full price, and how those Weapons are distributed, I have no idea. Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating. If they did, it would be very bad for them — Certainly not in their best interests. Thank you for your attention to… [TheTopNews] Read More.49 mins ago
- MS NOW Anchor Reveals ChatGPT’s Creepy Response to AI Hacking StoryMS NOW anchor Katy Tur asked ChatGPT about the recent news of an “unprecedented” incident involving two artificial intelligence platforms — and didn’t like what she heard. Speaking on The Moment with Katy Tur Friday, the anchor described the details of the hacking, which came to light after ChatGPT maker OpenAI acknowledged some of its systems had escaped a testing environment and went after a different AI company, a New York-based startup called Hugging Face. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue called the frightening episode “an attack unlike anything we’ve ever seen before,” according to the Associated Press. Tur acknowledged she was freaked out by the incident. “Still don’t know why it’s called ‘Hugging Face,'” Tur quipped as she reported the story. Then she revealed she asked ChatGPT about the incident, and got an unsettling response from the AI platform: It did it all on its own. Both companies say they are investigating, but as you can imagine, news of AI jumping ship is freaking a lot of people out. Read: me. Last month, President [Donald] Trump signed an executive order asking tech companies to voluntarily give the government oversight of new AI models before releasing them to the public, and a bipartisan House bill introduced yesterday called the AI Kill Switch Act, would give the Department of Homeland Security authority to order firms to slow or shut down an AI system that could cause catastrophic harm. Which sounds like a good idea, especially after I got this patronizing response from ChatGPT when I asked it about what happened. It warned me to be careful in how I describe the hack. The AI, it said didn’t want freedom. Rather, they exploited vulnerabilities in their environment because doing so advanced the objective they were optimizing for. Silly me. Watch above via MS NOW.The post MS NOW Anchor Reveals ChatGPT’s Creepy Response to AI Hacking Story first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.57 mins ago
- Trump Refuses to Say if Blowing Up Iran’s Bridges Is War Crime: ‘I Won’t R...President Donald Trump refused to answer when asked if blowing up civilian sites in Iran constituted a war crime. Trump spoke to reporters Friday from the Oval Office when Shawn McCreesh of The New York Times asked a pair of tough questions, including one on the nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. SHAWN MCCREESH: A question about Iran. You’re talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges, much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? TRUMP: I won’t respond to that question. Who are you with? MCCREESH: The New York Times. TRUMP: Figures. Failing New York Times. Trump’s nonanswer came as the conflict with Iran has been escalating, and four American soldiers were recently killed. This week the president threatened to ramp up the strikes on Iran further, by knocking out “ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT” for every shot fired at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. “From this point forward, any time the Islamic Republic of Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, whether it be by Missile, Rocket, Drone, or any other device or weapon, the United States will bomb and destroy ONE BRIDGE OR POWER PLANT, including those located next to, or in, the Capital City of Tehran,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Targeting civilian structures including bridges, power plants, and water desalination plants, is widely considered a war crime. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said Trump’s military policy is not “an eye for an eye” but a “head for an eye.” The exchange between Trump and McCreesh came after Trump’s Department of Justice was forced to withdraw subpoenas to four journalists from the Times issued after the outlet reported on security issues with the new Air Force One. Watch above via Fox News.The post Trump Refuses to Say if Blowing Up Iran’s Bridges Is War Crime: ‘I Won’t Respond to That Question’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- ‘Congrats to RFK Jr.’: Democrats, Pundits Pile On as Measles Cases Hit Recor...
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) After news broke Friday that measles cases in the U.S. have already broken 2025’s record high, just seven months into the year, Democratic lawmakers and pundits alike took to the internet to lay into Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. has now recorded 2,318 confirmed measles cases in 2026, the highest annual total since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. The surge comes as multiple outbreaks continue across the country, with the overwhelming majority of infections occurring among people who were unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown. Public health experts have repeatedly warned that declining childhood vaccination rates have left communities more vulnerable to outbreaks, and many have questioned Kennedy’s stewardship of the nation’s health agencies. Since taking office, he’s drawn scrutiny for minimizing the risks of measles, stopping federal funding for vaccine hesitancy research, and emphasizing further study of vaccine safety even as health officials continue to say the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine remains the best protection against the disease. Folks wasted no time before pointing the finger on X at Kennedy, the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, and President Donald Trump’s administration as a whole, with former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd writing Friday, “Congrats to RFK Jr., or something. I’m no lawyer, but once he’s out of the protection of Gov’t and the limited immunity he receives from holding the office he holds, is he not open to a slew of civil litigation for his role in misleading so many parents on this issue?” Congrats to RFK Jr., or something. I’m no lawyer, but once he’s out of the protection of Gov’t and the limited immunity he receives from holding the office he holds, is he not open to a slew of civil litigation for his role in misleading so many parents on this issue? And, yes,… https://t.co/z5N1Sf0cbC — Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) July 24, 2026 Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) also chimed in, adding, “There is one effective way to reduce the spread and severity of measles: Vaccination. And RFK Jr. has undermined it at every turn. He is a hazard to our health and must resign.” There is one effective way to reduce the spread and severity of measles: Vaccination. And RFK Jr. has undermined it at every… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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