When CBS Reporter Margaret Brennan tried to outsmart Medal of Honor recipient Will Swenson, she got an answer she didn't expect.
BRENNAN: "Before I let you go, we are coming up on this 250th anniversary of the American experience. I know I can't ask you a question like, are you optimistic? What specifically makes you optimistic? Because this country, at times, can feel dark, these days, there's a lot of darkness. What makes you feel optimistic?"
WILL SWENSON: "Well, ultimately, because we're in Washington DC and everything revolves around politics, we have to remember that politics aren't everything. American lives continue on. Children are born, children go to school. Lives are achieved. Dreams are achieved. This country is a great place. It's not politics. It's not just what's the news bites coming off of media. Ultimately, we continue forward as a country, continually imperfect, continually evolving forward, always trying to achieve a more perfect union. That's what's important to remember, what we can achieve aspirationally. No other place in history, time or on this planet have ever gotten to where we are today. We need to be proud of that, and we need to remember that is what we stay focused on, what we can be."
Bill Maher: "I'll tell you one thing about [Trump] that I know, I'm not going to tell you how I know, but a lot of people have seen the same thing. He really does hate war. He really does not like it when people d*e in war!"
🚨 With Zohran Mamdani seizing control as Mayor of NYC, we're committed to tracking every part of his and the radical socialist agenda all across the nation
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🚨🇮🇹🇺🇸 Giorgia Meloni chiude ufficialmente il "caso" Trump: "Ho trovato il rapporto immutato, nel senso che non c'è stato tra noi neanche bisogno di parlare. Non è che ci sono state recriminazioni o che abbiamo parlato di quello che è successo nelle ultime settimane. Io e Donald Trump siamo due persone che hanno un loro carattere abbastanza forte, siamo due persone che difendono con determinazione il loro interesse nazionale, non c'è bisogno che ci chiariamo quando non siamo d'accordo su qualcosa. Perché ognuno capisce ovviamente quale può essere il punto di vista dell'altro e quindi siamo ripartiti direttamente parlando di ciò che va fatto con la stessa naturalezza con cui lo facevamo fino all'ultima volta che ci siamo incontrati prima di questa occasione".
I miss the unreplaceable Andy Rooney but I'm confident that @walterkirn could provide a compelling, concise, contemporary revision of his segment on the new, improved 60 Minutes.
On the 58th anniversary of my dad’s assassination, I’m remembering moments like this: touch football on Cape Cod with my siblings — David, Kathleen, Courtney, and me. #GetOutside#LiveRealLife
🚨E Jean Carroll caught in deposition claiming she “totally forgot” billionaire Reid Hoffman was funding her entire lawsuit against Trump.
Just completely slipped her mind who was bankrolling the whole operation.
This entire case was a coordinated hoax from day one.
For the last year and a half, I’ve had the privilege of contributing to the security of our nation under the leadership of a President wholly and profoundly devoted to the safety and success of the American people.
I’ve witnessed him work tirelessly to deliver a global and sustainable peace — not the typical short-term Band-Aids and window-dressing, but true transformation to a Golden era in which our children can thrive and grow.
There is no stable peace while uranium is enriched in the hidden corners of a county that routinely chants Death to America from the floor of its Majlis.
The President’s masterful blockade is finally forcing the Iranian regime to the table. And it’s doing so with vastly fewer casualties than Bush and Obama’s disastrous war in Iraq, where hundreds of thousands died, millions were displaced, and the threat of WMD did not actually exist.
Whatever the media may say, this is a President who treasures human life. A brilliant tactician and tough negotiator, who delivers peace through strength. From his decision to end Obama-era funding for the war in Syria to his fierce commitment to peace in Biden’s war-torn Ukraine, he has spent five years in office focused on extinguishing conflict and violence across the globe. As a result, he has delivered more peace deals with fewer casualties than any president of my lifetime, and it’s not even close. I stand in awe of his courage, competence, and character.
The Washington Post — who swamp-cheered their way through the last two decades’ disastrous and violent wars — speculated yesterday that perhaps I’m rejoining the private sector due to disagreement with the President’s foreign policy.
Hogwash.
I’m rejoining the private sector because I have a daughter about to begin college, with two younger children to educate, and I have to keep my family financially on track. But make no mistake about it — I stand with the President EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. And I will be at his side, serving on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the Intelligence Oversight Board with pride, devotion, and deepest gratitude for the coming two and a half years.
Mr. President, God bless you, our Peacemaker in Chief. 🇺🇸
Sitting here looking at the skyline of NYC with the family.
Where I was born and raised.
Imagine building the greatest city in America through five straight terms of Giuliani and Bloomberg. Cleaning it up. Making it safe. Building Hudson Yards, the High Line, the waterfronts, the skyline we’re all staring at right now.
Then handing it over to de Blasio and now a socialist circus ringleader Mamdani!
But history repeats. NYC went dark in the 70s. Dinkins came and went. Then the pendulum swung back harder than ever.
Sometimes people need to feel the decline themselves before they remember what competence looks like.
You need darkness to appreciate light. Pain to appreciate peace. Chaos to appreciate order. Happens time and time again.
It’s cycles.
New York City will come back.
It always does.
Don’t listen to blackpillers, to those that are chronically online, and to those that lack any type of travel, culture or knowledge.
NYC is amazingly powerful and still is.
It’s pumping.
We just need one more conservative boost to save it.
Who’s it gonna be GOP?
Stop this henpecking.
$13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair.
Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th. 🇺🇸
This war with Iran is America's, not just Trump's or Israel's. Doesn't matter whether we opposed it, we have to win it. Because whether measured in months or years, the issue of Iran Nuke Potential is real.
Despite our pain at the pump, the current strategy of blockade is working. Iran is negotiating. Old allies like Britain are finally rallying, at least to the cause of commerce. (Though the French still ponder, they are mustering their fleet).
The fight is not forever, but unless there is an unexpected diplomatic breakthrough, it won't be short or bloodless either.
A continent away, Ukraine's righteous war with Russia appears to be faring better. The good guys, out-gunned and out-numbered could be winning. Already small, Putin seems diminished. So does Russia. Ukraine and its fearless leader Zelensky seems hardening and evermore capable.
Slava Ukraini.