Moments ago, a bipartisan coalition of House members passed the War Powers Resolution to demand an end to Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran.
But our victory ā while monumental ā does not change the truth that this war never should have began, and never would have began had the president not disgraced America and our laws to ensure that it did.
Trust that he, and all others responsible for this historic atrocity, will face justice for the shame and degradation they have forced upon this nation.
By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.
At least 40 minors gave sworn statements to the FBI that Jeffrey Epstein raped and trafficked them. The line prosecutor wrote an 82-page memo recommending charges.
Alex Acosta declined and signed a non-prosecution deal.
He was later confirmed as Labor Secretary.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epsteinās banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: āBut what about your paintings, Hunter?ā
Please.
President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.
Appointing Pulte, who has criminally targeted Trump's opponents and has zero experience, to be Director of National Intelligence, shows we have a mafia government.
The naked corruption is crazy and frightening.
New statement from Scott Pelley:
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There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
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The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
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ā60ā has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
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The waste is heartbreaking.
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Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
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For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. Iāve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
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At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to ākeep up the good fight.ā Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
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I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotionāa heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored againāa day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
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Scott Pelley
I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said āthe war is over.ā
Itās a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know thereās obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.
Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.
Mr Witkoff has gone to Moscow eight times to negotiate peace⦠zero times to Ukraine. Most Americans know this is not right. Donāt pretend to be neutral when the facts are obvious. Can we get someone serious in the position to do this right?
Ossoff: Y'all remember they promised to drain the swamp ? Instead, this is the most corrupt administration of all time and everybody knows it.
While Americans are struggling, the first family raking in billions of dollars.Ā
Just listen to this. Last September the president of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining to an American company.
And the very next month, Eric and Don Junior get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal .
6 days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get the largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world
The US government, run by father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project.
All this while you pay more for groceries, gas, and healthcare.
If you're involved in any of thisānext year you'll be raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God in front of the United States Congress
Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understandāthat our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.
Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional
Ossoff: Heās trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when heās gone⦠because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.
The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
Wow, this is quite damning for Donald Trump regarding the Epstein files:
@Rep_Walkinshaw: "I want to share one piece of information, one question that the former Attorney General did answer. She was asked specifically about Donald Trump, President Trump's awareness of Epstein's crimes before they became public knowledge. She had the opportunity to say Donald Trump certainly wasn't aware of those crimes. She had the opportunity to say, I know Donald Trump and if he was aware of those crimes, he would have done something. Instead, she said, I don't know. She also said, quote, this is a direct quote, 'I'm not certain of the extent of his knowledge.' I think that's a perfect example as to why we need Pam Bondi under oath in a real deposition for the camera so the American people can see and hear her answers to our questions."
If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.