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- CNN’s Abby Phillip Clashes With Van Jones Over Israel’s Nuclear Weapons: ‘...
CNN host Abby Phillip clashed with CNN political commentator Van Jones on Tuesday evening after Jones appeared to suggest it was nobody’s business what Israel’s boundaries for using a nuclear weapon against Iran were. “Here are some of the questions that Joaquin Castro is posing on this issue,” Phillip said during a CNN NewsNight discussion about Israel’s nuclear weapons: What nuclear weapons capability does Israel have? Has the administration received any assurances from Israel that nuclear weapons will not be used? Has Israel communicated to the United States any nuclear doctrine, red lines, or thresholds for nuclear use in the context of the current conflict with Iran? Has the administration assessed what circumstances could lead Israel to consider nuclear use? What contingency planning has the administration conducted for such a scenario? Jones interrupted, “I’m asking — honest question — why? Has there been some rumor that Israel is going to nuke Iran?” “There is a war between the United States, Israel, and Iran that is going on right now in the Middle East, and under those circumstances, that is actually different from what we’ve been experiencing for the last, you know, 40, 50 years,” replied Phillip. “And so under those circumstances, there’s only one power in the Middle East that has a nuke, and it’s Israel.” She continued, “So the question is, what are the circumstances? What are the boundaries? Are there any boundaries? They don’t acknowledge that they have them, people know that they do, but are there any boundaries? I think that seems like a fair question to ask.” Jones pulled a dismissive face at Phillip before asking, “Why?” In March, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations abruptly ended a press conference after being asked a question about Israel’s secretive nuclear weapons program. That same month, President Donald Trump shot down his AI czar David Sacks after Sacks suggested Israel could end up using a nuclear weapon against Iran. Jones is widely considered to be one of the most vocal supporters of Israel on cable news and was placed at No. 9 on the Israel Allies Foundation’s Top 50 Christian Allies of Israel list in 2025. In 2024, Jones was condemned on social media for comparing traditional Palestinian clothing to the Confederate flag, while in 2025, he apologized for turning “dead Gaza baby” into a punchline during an appearance on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Joe Scarborough Invokes ‘Slaughtered’ Iranian School Kids in Scathing Takedo...Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough invoked the school children “slaughtered” in the first day of the Iran war as he unloaded a scathing rebuttal of Vice President JD Vance’s “lack of humanity” on Wednesday for calling the conflict a “blip.” Vance was speaking at a manufacturing facility in Iowa on Tuesday when he acknowledged the strain on farmers with rising fertilizer prices, adding that President Donald Trump had some “business to take care of on the foreign policy side” in the form of a “little blip” in the Middle East. After rolling back the clip during Wednesday’s show, Scarborough trashed the characterization and slammed the vice president’s lack of “compassion” as he listed out the scale of tragedy that the war had brought, including a devastating strike on a school believed to have been conducted by the U.S. military: You have JD Vance saying 150 people in a school being slaughtered on the first day of the war is a ‘blip.’ Over 100 school children being killed the first day of the war is a ‘blip.’ Up to maybe 10,000, 15,000 Iranians being killed, JD Vance is calling a ‘blip.’ He continued, rounding on Israel’s subsequent operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon: You have JD Vance calling a ‘blip’ entire communities in Lebanon being wiped off the face of the Earth. I mean, how would JD Vance feel if his community that he grew up in didn’t have a building left standing? That’s what’s happening in Lebanon, all across Lebanon because of this, quote, ‘blip.’ That’s what’s happening in Iran because of this ‘blip.’ People across the world are paying for this day in and day out with an economy that’s getting worse. And of course, I guess only people like me worry about spending money and the national debt, but this war has already cost us $250 billion at minimum. We’ve run out of munitions! We’re running out of munitions! If this is what JD Vance calls a, quote, ‘blip,’ well, then JD Vance is not a serious person. He’s not a compassionate person. He’s certainly, the lack of humanity, calling this something that caused this much suffering a ‘blip’ speaks volumes. Watch above via MS NOW.The post Joe Scarborough Invokes ‘Slaughtered’ Iranian School Kids in Scathing Takedown of JD Vance Retort ‘War is a Blip’: ‘Lack of Humanity’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- White House Believes It’s Close to Securing One-Page Deal With Iran to End Con...
Asghar Besharati/AP photo President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly believes it is close to securing a one-page agreement with Iran that would end the current conflict and open the Strait of Hormuz, according to a new report. Two unnamed Trump administration officials reportedly told Axios Global Affairs Correspondent Barak Ravid on Wednesday that the White House believed it was “getting close to an agreement with Iran on the one-page memorandum of understanding to end the war and set a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations.” “Nothing has been agreed yet, but the sources said this was the closest the parties had been to an agreement since the war began,” reported Ravid, who claimed that the deal would involve “the U.S. agreeing to lift its sanctions and release billions in frozen Iranian funds, and both sides lifting restrictions around transit through the Strait of Hormuz.” President Trump announced on Tuesday that he would “pause” his military operation in the Strait of Hormuz, just one day after it began, after U.S. military ships and commercial vessels were attacked for attempting to pass through the strait despite Iran’s blockade. “Based on the request of Pakistan and other Countries, the tremendous Military Success that we have had during the Campaign against the Country of Iran and, additionally, the fact that Great Progress has been made toward a Complete and Final Agreement with Representatives of Iran,” wrote Trump in a statement, “we have mutually agreed that, while the Blockade will remain in full force and effect, Project Freedom (The Movement of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz) will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the Agreement can be finalized and signed.” This is a developing story and will be updated.The post White House Believes It’s Close to Securing One-Page Deal With Iran to End Conflict: Report first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago - Obama Slips Pointed Jab at Trump as He’s Asked About a Colbert White House RunFormer President Barack Obama stopped short of endorsing Stephen Colbert for president, an idea floated by the comedian’s fans online as The Late Show comes to an end, but still managed to slip a pointed jab at President Donald Trump by way of complimenting the late-night host’s potential. Appearing on Tuesday night’s episode for an interview filmed at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, Obama was asked by Colbert about the recurring joking-not-joking suggestion that he should mount a White House bid of his own once CBS pulls the plug on his long-running show later this month. “I’m looking for a new gig soon. And a lot of people tell me I should run for president,” Colbert began. “Well, you certainly have the look,” Obama replied as the host thanked him. “You have the hair.” Colbert replied: “For the record, I think it’s a stupid idea. How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?” “The bar has changed,” the former president quipped, laughing to himself, without explaining what he meant. “That is true,” Colbert joked back. “At times, subterranean. So, I don’t have to limbo so low!” “Let me put it this way, I think that you could perform significantly better than some folks that we’ve seen,” the former president doubled down. “Is that an endorsement?” the host asked. “It was not,” Obama cracked. The exchange came as Colbert enters the closing stretch of The Late Show, which CBS said last year it would end for financial reasons, though the decision landed shortly after Colbert criticized Paramount, CBS News’ parent company, over its settlement of a lawsuit brought by Trump. Colbert’s final episode is expected to air on May 21, ending a franchise launched by David Letterman more than three decades ago. Colbert revealed in March that after the show ends, he’ll be helping write a new Lord of the Rings screenplay, produced by director Peter Jackson. Watch above via CBS.The post Obama Slips Pointed Jab at Trump as He’s Asked About a Colbert White House Run first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Obama Swipes at Trump in Blunt Warning About Threat to US Democracy: AG is ‘No...Former President Barack Obama took a thinly veiled swipe at President Donald Trump on Tuesday night, warning that American democracy “can’t overcome” the “politicization of the criminal justice system” and cautioned that the attorney general must never become the president’s personal “consigliere.” Though Obama did not mention Trump by name, the remarks appeared to reference accusations by critics that the Trump administration has sought to target perceived enemies through the Justice Department in efforts against former FBI director James Comey and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Speaking to Stephen Colbert on CBS’s The Late Show, Tuesday, Obama argued that while the political system could withstand divisive elections and policy swings, it could not survive the use of prosecutorial power against political opponents. The comments came after the host asked what powers he believed the president “shouldn’t have.” The former president replied, “Well, there are a couple that I followed even though they weren’t law and we’re going to have to do some work to return to this basic norm and we probably now have to codify it. The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted, right?” “Because technically it’s under the executive branch. The norm is that it’s independent,” Colbert said. “The idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consigliere,” Obama followed, in a mafia-coded snipe. He continued: “Two of the core principles of a democracy, we can survive a lot – bad policy, funky elections, there’s a bunch of stuff that, you know, we can overcome. We can’t overcome the politicization of the criminal justice system. The awesome power of the state. You can’t have a situation in which whoever’s in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies or reward their friends.” “So another power maybe I’d say would be, although this is in the constitution it’s a little hard to change but, maybe don’t pardon people who’ve given you a bunch of campaign contributions,” Obama said in a more pointed quip at Trump. “Or [go] investing in the businesses.” He concluded that “restoring some sense” that the Justice Department is “independent in making judgments about specific cases and prosecutions” was key to democracy surviving. Watch above via CBS.The post Obama Swipes at Trump in Blunt Warning About Threat to US Democracy: AG… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- DC Police Discipline 13 Officials Over Data Manipulation
Thirteen Washington D.C. police officials have been disciplined following an internal investigation into the manipulation of crime statistics, according to NBC4 Washington. The probe uncovered evidence that officials had altered or misrepresented crime data, potentially affecting how the public and policymakers understood safety trends in the nation’s capital. The disciplinary [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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