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- ‘Made No Sense’: Bill de Blasio Admits to Sean Hannity That Defund the Polic...
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) admitted that the “Defund the Police” movement was a mistake in a preview clip of a new episode of Hang Out With Sean Hannity set to come out on Thursday “In retrospect, the whole concept of defund the police made no sense. It made sense to say, ‘How can we do better?’ It made sense to say, ‘Hey,’ and by the way, a lot of cops told me this, a lot of police leaders told me this, ‘We got a lot more for young people to give them positive alternatives,’ because that’s good for the police too. That’s good safety, too,” de Blasio told the eponymous host, Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We’re not disagreeing,” marveled Hannity. “Right?” agreed de Blasio. “This is amazing. So far, we’re doing good,” remarked Hannity. “We’re doing good. So defund was a mistake. And I understand where it came from, but it was a mistake,” reaffirmed de Blasio. In July 2020, amid the Covid pandemic and George Floyd protests and riots, de Blasio’s government took away approximately a billion dollars in funding for the New York Police Department. “We are reducing the size of our police force by not having the next recruit class. We are reducing our overtime levels. We’re shifting functions away from police to civilian agencies,” said de Blasio at the time, who professed to be “very comfortable we struck the right balance.” Watch the clip above via Hang Out With Sean Hannity and the full episode tomorrow on YouTube.The post ‘Made No Sense’: Bill de Blasio Admits to Sean Hannity That Defund the Police Was a ‘Mistake’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.17 hours ago - ‘That’s CRAZY!’ Rand Paul Twists the Knife Into ‘Unfit’ Markwayne Mull...Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) carried his viral feud with Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, into a Wednesday afternoon Fox News hit. Paul upbraided Mullin during his confirmation hearing earlier that day for expressing solidarity with the perpetrator of a 2017 assault that left the Kentucky senator with a number of serious injuries. On America Reports, anchor Sandra Smith asked Paul if Mullin had ever apologized for his comments. “No, and I think his anger issues that he has as an individual, and his celebration of the violence that happened to me, but also his justification of the violence when he’s, you know, engaged in-, he was ready to have a fistfight in a committee. When they asked him, after he had cooled off days later, you know, would he reject any of that? Does he regret any of it? And he said, no, he had no regrets. In fact, he referred to historical examples of violence as justification,” replied Paul. “Nobody really in the modern age that I know of — other than Markwayne Mullin — is justifying political scien-, political violence as, ‘Oh well, we need a manly way to settle our differences and sometimes people just need to be punched in the mouth.’ That, to me, is bizarre and I think makes him unfit to lead federal law enforcement.” “So can you vote for him?” followed up Smith. “No. I mean, an apology might have had a chance, but he’s had several chances. I talked to him privately and he referred to it that we had political differences. And today he said we should set aside our political differences. Well, political differences would be, I’m against the refugee welfare program and I’ve told him he’s for it. That’s a political difference. But if I wished violence on his family, that wouldn’t be acceptable. And if he says the violence that happened to me, where I had six ribs broken, my lung damaged, part of my lung removed, two pneumonias. If he thinks that’s justifiable and he can readily understand it, he can completely understand it. I think that makes him unacceptable and unfit to hold office,” said Paul. Paul drilled down on the point further a few moments later: I asked him about Charles Sumner, the famous abolitionist who was bludgeoned nearly to… [TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
- ‘If That Helps You Sleep At Night’: CNBC’s Sara Eisen Sparks Ire of View C...CNBC’s Sara Eisen sparked some big reactions from the hosts of The View on Wednesday when she offered a defense of President Donald Trump. Eisen joined the table at The View to guest host and fill in for Alyssa Farah Griffin. While discussing the explosive resignation of Joe Kent, Trump’s appointed director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Eisen pushed back on some of his accusations, showing a clear valley or two between her perception of the president and the other hosts. Kent announced this week that he was resigning from his position in protest of Trump’s strikes on Iran. In his announcement, Kent argued Iran posed no “imminent threat” and suggested Israel was influencing Trump’s decision. Eisen said: I think it’s fair to debate the merits of the war and you guys do that every day and we all do that and whether it was imminent or not but I think what jumps off the page here about this resignation letter which I think we have to just call out here is that Kent writes it is clear we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. Now, there are two things about that. Number one, I think it’s disrespectful and wrong to assume that the United States and the president, especially this president, whatever you think of him, does not act on his own agency and on behalf of the United States of America. Whoopi Goldberg and Sara Haines nearly jinxed each other when they both jumped in to accuse Trump of mostly acting for his own benefit. “But on our own accord for the United States. Number two, I think we have to call this what it is,” Eisen said. “This corrupt president? You don’t think he acts in his own benefit?” a shocked Sunny Hostin asked. “I’m saying that he acts. He does not get coerced by other nations, like Israel,” Eisen argued. “Really?! Okay,” Hostin said as some in the audience laughed. “If that helps you sleep at night, that’s great.” “Wow,” Joy Behar said in reaction to Eisen’s Trump claim. Eisen eventually got to her second point about Kent. “It’s also an old-school anti-semitic trope to blame the Jews and Israel. It’s as old as time. When you have problems in the world, you know, blame the media. Blame the bankers, blame the Jews,” she said. Eisen argued… [TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
- Karoline Leavitt Pushes Right-Wing Report Claiming Google News is ‘Massively B...
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images) White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt bashed Google on Wednesday by sharing a new Breitbart report that said the tech giant is “massively biased” against conservative outlets. The right-wing outlet’s report is based on a fresh study from The Media Research Center that said only a handful of conservatives publications slipped past “Google News’s iron grip on information domination.” The MRC found Google pushed only 11 stories from right-leaning outlets last month, compared to 314 left-leaning stories. “Just 2% of Google News’s top morning stories in February came from sources rated right-leaning by media ratings firm AllSides,” the study said. “Google’s leftist bias is only further underscored by the fact that it completely shut out right-leaning outlets for over half the month.” Media Research Center: Google News Massively Biased, Just 2% of Top Morning Stories from Conservative Outletshttps://t.co/BwSFiO99Uj — Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) March 18, 2026 Breitbart explained a bit more about the study: MRC researchers examined the top 20 stories featured on Google News each day at approximately 8:30 a.m. ET throughout the 28-day period from February 1 through February 28. According to the findings, Google News featured zero right-leaning articles for 17 days during the month. On days when right-leaning outlets did appear, only one such article was included, and in 45 percent of those instances, the article appeared near the bottom of the top 20 list. The study identified four right-leaning outlets that received coverage: Daily Mail, Fox News, New York Post, and the Bulwark. The MRC is a nonprofit conservative watchdog founded in 1987. Its mission statement says it it “winning the battle against online censorship, Big Tech interference in elections, and anti-Americanism from Silicon Valley-related entities.” Its website adds that its NewsBusters division — which often shares media clips on X — is dedicated to exposing and “neutralizing liberal media bias.” Google has been accused of having a left-leaning bias for years by many Republicans, including President Donald Trump. The president accused Google’s search results of being “RIGGED” in 2018, and Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey felt the same way in 2024 when he launched an investigation into Google for “censoring conservative speech.” Google said that was “totally false,” and the probe appears to have fizzled out. There have been some other odd things that have happened in the past few years that have made conservatives question Google —… [TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago - CNN Legal Chief Destroys Trump DOJ Honcho Over Epstein Victims Amid Closed-Door ...CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig torched Trump Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche over his department’s treatment of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ahead of a closed-door grilling on Capitol Hill. Blanche was a guest on Katie Miller’s podcast on Tuesday night, the eve of his briefing with lawmakers. On Wednesday’s edition of CNN News Central, anchor Kate Bolduan played the part of the interview in which Blanche defended the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein Files. Honig responded to the clip with a scathing assessment: BOLDUAN: Today, Attorney General Pam Bondi and her deputy Todd Blanche are set to meet with the House Oversight Committee for a closed-door briefing on the Epstein files. That’s not even 24 hours after the committee slapped her with a new subpoena. The committee wants the attorney general to appear next month to testify about DOJ’s handling of the Epstein investigation. Republican committee chairman James Comer wrote in the cover letter for the subpoena that the committee thinks Bondi has “valuable insight into the Epstein investigation” and that they want a chance “to improve federal efforts to combat sex trafficking.” Ahead of all of this, her deputy, Todd Blanche, is defending the department’s moves. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TODD BLANCHE, DEPUTY U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL: I am not trying to defend Epstein — I’m not. And I do defend the work that this department is doing today, right now, which is going after every single perpetrator anywhere. And if there’s a narrative that exists that we’re ignoring Epstein victims, that is false. (END VIDEO CLIP) BOLDUAN: And joining me right now is CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig to talk more about this. First, what do you — what do you think of what Todd Blanche is saying there? ELIE HONIG, CNN SENIOR LEGAL ANALYST, FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR, FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY, SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK: Well Kate, it’s interesting to hear DOJ congratulate itself on its commitment to protecting victims when the fact is first of all, dozens of victims have said publicly that they’ve asked for meetings with DOJ leadership and been denied. Yet at the same time, the same deputy AG, Todd Blanche, who we just saw, spent two days meeting face-to-face in prison with Ghislaine Maxwell who then promptly was moved to a lower-security prison. Many of the victims have expressed objections to that. Also, let’s remember DOJ, in its release of the Epstein files… [TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
- Senator Throws Down With Tulsi Gabbard Over Foreign Threats to U.S. ElectionsSen. Mark Warner (D-VA), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, pressed Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard during a hearing on Wednesday over the lack of official reports submitted to the Senate on foreign threats to U.S. elections. “You have not provided any of the required reports or briefings to this committee on foreign interference. This is the first threat assessment since 2017 that didn’t even mention foreign interference last year, when you were already confirmed; it mentioned it at a high level. Are you saying there is no foreign threat to our elections in the midterms this year?” began a confrontational Warner. Gabbard replied, “As I stated in the outset of my remarks, this year’s annual threat assessment matches the prioritization of threats and—” Warner cut in, “Please answer the question. Yes or no. Is there foreign threat interference to our elections this year? Are there foreign threats that the president has laid out?” Gabbard hit back, “Please allow me to answer the question, sir. The intelligence community has been and continues to remain focused on any collection and intelligence products that show a potential foreign threat.” Warner continued, “So, so far, there has been none then, because you’ve made no reports. Excuse me, ma’am. If you want to ask the question, you should have stayed in Congress. Please answer the question.” Gabbard replied, “I didn’t ask you a question, sir. I’m trying to answer your questions.” Warner added, “So you’re saying the failure to provide any reports or the failure to have any mention of a foreign threat assessment, I would draw the conclusion there must be no foreign threat to our elections in 2026. So that brings me a question that I have for both you, ma’am, and Director Patel. There are reports that in 2020, the president was preparing an executive order to potentially seize ballots or bring in federal forces. There is a published report that there is a similar EO being drafted right now about 2026, citing China. Director Patel, do you have any knowledge of that draft EO?” FBI Director Kash Patel replied, “Thank you, Vice Chairman. I do not, sir.” Watch the clip above via C-SPAN.The post Senator Throws Down With Tulsi Gabbard Over Foreign Threats to U.S. Elections first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.18 hours ago
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