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FBI Agents: Admin Pushing Agency to Exaggerate White Supremacy, Domestic Terrorism (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 16 September 2022 06:53 PM EDT

FBI agents say the Biden administration is pushing the agency to exaggerate the threat of white supremacists and domestic terrorism ahead of the midterm elections, reports The Washington Times.

"The demand for white supremacy" coming from FBI headquarters "vastly outstrips the supply of white supremacy," said one agent, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "We have more people assigned to investigate white supremacists than we can actually find."

The report came the same day President Joe Biden during an address at a White House summit on hate-based violence said America can't remain silent when it comes to combating white supremacy and hate.

"We need to say clearly and forcefully, white supremacy, all forms of hate … have no place in America," Biden said at the "United We Stand Summit. "As to those who say, we bring this up, we just divide the country — bring it up, we silence it, instead of remaining silenced. For in silence, wounds deepen."

Biden has been turning up the rhetoric against former President Donald Trump and his America First loyalists ahead of the midterms, calling them existential threats to democracy.

In his recent "Soul of the Nation" speech, Biden said, "The MAGA Republicans believe that for them to succeed, everyone else has to fail."

The Washington Times report said top administration officials are "pressuring FBI agents to create domestic terrorist cases and tag people as white supremacists to meet internal metrics."

"We are sort of the lapdogs as the actual agents doing these sorts of investigations, trying to find a crime to fit otherwise First Amendment-protected activities," said one FBI agent. "If they have a Gadsden flag and they own guns and they are mean at school board meetings, that's probably a domestic terrorist."

An FBI spokesperson denied the claim.

"The FBI aggressively investigates threats posed by domestic violent extremists," the person said. "We do not investigate ideology, and we do not investigate particular cases based on the political views of the individuals involved. The FBI will continue to pursue threats or acts of violence, regardless of the underlying motivation or sociopolitical goal."

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Arkansas GOP Gov. Candidate Huckabee Sanders 'Cancer Free' After Thyroid Surgery Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the America First Policy Institute Agenda Summit in July. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 16 September 2022 06:18 PM EDT

Arkansas GOP gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she underwent surgery Friday to remove thyroid cancer.

"Today, I underwent a successful surgery to remove my thyroid and surrounding lymph nodes and by the grace of God I am now cancer-free," Sanders said in a statement released by her campaign. "I want to thank the Arkansas doctors and nurses for their world-class care, as well as my family and friends for their love, prayers, and support."

Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, served as former President Donald Trump's spokeswoman until 2019. She is running against Democratic nominee Chris Jones and is endorsed by Trump.

Sanders' doctor said he expected her to be back on her feet within the next 24 hours.

Sanders "is currently recovering from surgery in which we removed her thyroid gland and some of the surrounding lymph nodes in her neck. The surgery went extremely well, and I expect her to be back on her feet even within the next 24 hours," Dr. John R. Sims said in a statement.

"This is a Stage I papillary thyroid carcinoma which is the most common type of thyroid cancer and has an excellent prognosis. While she will need adjuvant treatment with radioactive iodine, as well as continued long term follow up, I think it's fair to say she's now cancer free, and I don't anticipate any of this slowing her down," Sims added.

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A Florida judge has approved 45th President Donald J. Trump’s pick to review his documents in the Mar-a-Lago raid case.

On Thursday, Judge Aileen Cannon appointed Raymond Dearie as the case’s special master. Dearie is a former chief judge of a federal court in the Eastern District of New York. He was first appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 to serve as a federal judge. Dearie is currently an active judge on senior status. He is described by his peers as being an “old school gentleman and unfailingly polite.” He is also described as being the “platonic ideal of what you want in a judge.”

Additionally, Judge Cannon denied the Depart of Justice’s (DOJ’s) motion for a stay. The DOJ attempted to prevent a review of the roughly 100 documents obtained in the raid but their motion was struck down. Trump’s team argued that a special master was necessary to ensure that the DOJ return private documents that were seized during the raid.

Judge Cannon is giving Dearie until November 30th to complete his work. Initially, the DOJ requested the process to end in October, however Trump’s legal team requested that they are allowed 90 days. In this time, he is instructed to issue interim reports and recommendations “as appropriate.”

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Rep. Clyde to Newsmax: 'King' Biden Not Serving People With Abortion Orders (Newsmax/"American Agenda")

By Jay Clemons | Friday, 16 September 2022 04:09 PM EDT

It's one thing for a president to sign a lot of executive orders, says Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., but it's another to push measures that go against the will of the American people.

The executive branch "is supposed to faithfully execute the law," exercising its power "for laws that Congress has already passed. But that's not what [Biden] is doing," Clyde told Newsmax Friday afternoon, while appearing on "American Agenda" with host Katrina Szish.

"[Biden's] trying to create law on his own, and that's not what a president is allowed to do," says Clyde. "That's what a king does … and we got rid of that back in 1776. We don't have a king in this country anymore. [Biden] is certainly not one, and he cannot make law."

President Joe Biden has signed 98 executive orders during his 19-plus months in office, an average pace of 60 executive orders per year — and a higher average than former President Donald Trump (55 per annum).

Clyde's latest philosophical difference with the president involves Biden signing two executive orders that would essentially direct several federal agencies to take action on abortion rights — regardless of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade (by a 5-4 decision), or various states already having abortion bans on the books.

The White House's plan, from Clyde's perspective: "Protecting and increasing access to abortion, and using federal funds to do it, which is a violation of the law. … It's inexcusable that [Biden] would undermine the authority of the United States Supreme Court," while also disrespecting the various state governments and "going against the will of the American people."

Clyde added: "The government is here to protect and defend life, not to [facilitate] the murder of unborn babies."

This week, Clyde introduced Protect the UNBORN Act, which would defund Biden's executive orders on abortion, and the Georgia Republican — who's up for reelection this November — says 89 other GOP leaders have already pledged their support of the bill.

The "unborn" part of the title name also stands for "Undoing Negligent Biden Orders Right Now," says Clyde, half-joking.

Regarding the substance of the bill, Clyde takes that seriously.

"President Biden is trying to govern by executive fiat," says Clyde, while adding the mission of Congress is keeping the executive branch in check.

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'Biden Chronicles' to Take Entertaining Look at Presidency Chris Plante hosts "The Biden Chronicles" debuting on Newsmax on Sunday at 8:30 p.m. ET. (Newsmax)

Saturday, 17 September 2022 09:49 AM EDT

"The Biden Chronicles," an entertaining documentary series that takes no-holds-barred look at Joe Biden's presidency, will debut Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. ET on Newsmax.

Presented by Chris Plante, the syndicated radio talk show host and former television news reporter and producer, "The Biden Chronicles" will begin with "Brain Fog," a tongue-in-cheek examination of the countless gaffes, memory lapses, and shake-your-head moments that have marked Biden's presidency and political career.

Program Details: The Biden Chronicles, 8:30 p.m. ET – Sunday, Sept. 18

It is a look at Biden's mental meltdowns and nonsensical babbles that he seemingly is unaware of while so many people question his mental fitness.

Further episodes will include "Press and Pratfalls," "Agenda Agony," and "War and Pieces," which will look at: Biden's dodges and deflections with news media reporters; his policy initiatives that have resulted in record inflation, migrant surges at the southern border, and shortages of items such as baby formula; and foreign policy marked by the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and war threats from China.

Produced by Meath Television Media for Newsmax, the series debut Sunday night will follow the airing of the documentary "Israel & The Abraham Accords with Jon Voight, Donald Trump."

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Jenna Ellis to Newsmax: Special Master Will Protect Trump's Rights Jenna Ellis (Getty Images)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 16 September 2022 03:02 PM EDT

Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, while selecting one of the special master nominees suggested by former President Donald Trump's legal team, properly allowed for his legal rights to be reviewed while ensuring the Department of Justice "isn't overstepping," constitutional attorney Jenna Ellis, who has served as Trump's legal counsel, said on Newsmax on Thursday.

"Judge Canon properly articulated that she had serious concerns about the DOJ's ability or, I think more likely, prejudice with their ability, to segregate and properly classify all of these documents," Ellis told Newsmax's "John Bachman Now." "This does warrant a special master in this case, and so she's properly allowing for President Trump's constitutionally protected rights to be reviewed and to make sure that the DOJ isn't overstepping here."

The judge also signaled, with her selection of longtime New York Judge Raymond Dearie, that the burden will be on the DOJ to prove why it was "suddenly an emergency" for the FBI to raid Trump's Mar-a-Lago and seize documents and other items, said Ellis.

"This is two years almost later and now they're saying, 'Oh, this is suddenly an emergency,'" said Ellis. "She's not buying it, nor are the American people."

Ellis also did not object to Cannon's ruling that Trump will pay the cost for Dearie to review the materials, and said the judge, although he was a former Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act judge who signed off on the warrant for the FBI to investigate Trump's 2016 campaign aide Carter Page.

"There's been a lot of talk and speculation that because he signed off on that Carter Page warrant that somehow that would put him as an antagonist to Trump, but I think exactly the opposite," said Ellis. "It came out that the DOJ and the FBI misled that court. Any judge in similar circumstances likely would also have signed off on it. He's going to be looking at the DOJ with a lot of heightened scrutiny and making sure that he classifies (documents) appropriately."

There has also been some speculation about whether the DOJ will appeal the decision on the special master, and Ellis said she's sure the department is examining all of its legal options, but an appeal would only delay the case and show further proof that the raid was not conducted as an emergency matter.

"The best move for them is to simply acquiesce to the special master, and allow the process to work itself out," Ellis said. "[Attorney General] Merrick Garland said that he was all in favor of transparency and making sure that the DOJ and the FBI are doing their jobs, and so this is exactly the point and purpose of a special master."

In other news, Ellis called it "comical" that Democrats are outraged that GOP states are sending immigrants to Democrat-controlled locations, including this week to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and the Washington, D.C., home of Vice President Kamala Harris.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has written a letter to Garland demanding that the governors of the GOP states be charged with kidnapping, but Ellis said it would have been better for him to write to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott and offer California up as a sanctuary location.
"The Democrats are just showing their hypocrisy here, and this is a brilliant move by Ron DeSantis and Gov. Abbott to say, 'Listen, these are your policies. What are you going to do about it?'" said Ellis. "It's absolutely comical, and I've got my popcorn ready for the rest of it."

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West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice Signs Abortion Ban Into Law Then-President Donald Trump is introduced by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice during a salute to service dinner at the Greenbrier Resort on June 3, 2018 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Friday, 16 September 2022 02:33 PM EDT

Republican Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed into law a ban on abortions at all stages of pregnancy, making West Virginia the second state to enact a law prohibiting the procedure since the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling overturning its constitutional protection.

The bill will go into effect immediately, except for the criminal penalties, which will go into effect in 90 days, he said. Justice described the legislation on Twitter as "a bill that protects life."

"I said from the beginning that if WV legislators brought me a bill that protected life and included reasonable and logical exceptions I would sign it, and that’s what I did today," he said.

The ban has exemptions for medical emergencies and for rape and incest victims until eight weeks of pregnancy for adults and 14 weeks for children. Victims must report their assault to law enforcement 48 hours before the procedure. Minors can report to the police or a doctor, who then must tell police.

The bill requires abortions to be performed by a physician at a hospital – a provision that at least two Republican lawmakers have said was intended to shut down abortions at the Women’s Health Center, which has provided the procedure since 1976 and was the state’s sole abortion clinic. Providers who perform illegal abortions can face up to 10 years in prison.

Shortly after lawmakers passed the bill Tuesday, Women's Health Center of West Virginia Executive Director Katie Quiñonez said the clinic’s lawyer advised them to suspend abortions immediately. Staff spent Tuesday night and Wednesday canceling dozens of appointments and providing them with resources to book appointments out-of-state and funding to help cover travel and the procedure.

Indiana’s abortion ban – passed in August – started being enforced Thursday.

Indiana and West Virginia now join more than a dozen states with abortion bans, though most were approved before that Supreme Court ruling and took effect once the court threw out the constitutional right to end a pregnancy.

On Tuesday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina introduced a bill that would ban abortion nationwide after the 15th week of pregnancy, with rare exceptions, intensifying the ongoing debate inside and outside the GOP, though the proposal has almost no chance of becoming law in the Democratic-held Congress.

'Temporary Mindset' at Guantanamo Leads to Costly Challenges (Newsmax)

By Nicole Wells | Friday, 16 September 2022 02:15 PM EDT

When Guantanamo Bay receives its 21st commander later this year, he will inherit many of the same challenges his predecessors faced: moldy buildings; an enormous work force; and elderly, infirm prisoners, The New York Times reports.

The mission at the Cuban detention facility has cost $7 billion over the years and is stuck in a cycle of applying short-term fixes to long-term problems, ultimately leading to costly delays.

Plans to house lawyers assigned to the 9/11 case at Camp Justice have been shelved until late next year, the Times reports, while the military court compound battles fungus that has invaded a new $10 million tiny-house village being assembled there.

Citing court testimony, the news outlet reports that an MRI medical imaging device on the base experienced a "catastrophic failure" due to neglect during the pandemic. While the military now aims to lease one, the process of obtaining it could take months.

Elsewhere on the base, construction of a $115 million dormitory meant to quarter soldiers assigned to the prison is a year behind schedule. Forty-one guards and civilians are employed for each detainee.

In the 21 years since the George W. Bush administration shipped the first prisoners to the remote southeast Cuban outpost following Sept. 11, 2001, not much has changed in the way the facility functions, according to the Times. A crude, impermanent mission, Guantanamo Bay is still being run "expeditionary style," as the military says.

"At Guantanamo, they continually put Band-Aids on instead of coming up with realistic solutions," retired Brig. Gen. John G. Baker told the outlet. Baker oversaw military defense teams at Guantanamo as a Marine lawyer for seven years.

Detainee operations there suffer "in some respects from some of the same problems we had in Iraq and Afghanistan, where planning was too often the length of a deployment cycle," he said. "There’s continually a temporary mindset to what has become a permanent problem."

So far, the mission has housed 780 detainees and tens of thousands of soldiers on mainly yearlong tours of duty, costing $7 billion. Each of the 36 detainees still incarcerated at Guantanamo costs $13 million a year, with no end in sight, according to a tally from the Times.

The high cost of the mission can be partly attributed to the huge rotating staff at Guantanamo, which has suburban-style neighborhoods, a community hospital, hotels, bars, a K-12 school, and 6,000 residents.

The sporadic nature of planning for a detention operation that President Barack Obama pledged to close and President Donald Trump swore to fill has also created problems, according to the Times.

Initially, the Bush administration brought it 780 detainees before later reducing the population to approximately 240. The Obama administration then found places for about 200, but Congress blocked efforts to transfer the remaining prisoners to facilities in the U.S.

Thirty-six detainees are at Guantanamo today, according to the Times.

In March, The Washington Post reported that lawyers for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and four other men accused of being his accomplices were negotiating potential plea deals with prosecutors.

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Hispanic Voters' Support for Trump Could Mean Trouble for Dems Republicans vs. Democrats (AP)

By Solange Reyner | Friday, 16 September 2022 01:42 PM EDT

Hispanics voted in greater numbers for former President Donald Trump in 2020, a trend that could spell trouble for Democrats in this year's midterm elections, reports The Washington Examiner.

The growth in Trump's Latino support showed up in 2020 even though the former president lost to Joe Biden in the presidential election, earning the backing of about one in three Hispanic voters nationwide.

Close to 17 million Latino voters turned out in the 2020 general election and Trump won the highest share of the Hispanic vote of any Republican presidential nominee since George W. Bush in 2004.

"They're pro-business, they're pro-gun, they don't like higher taxes, they don't trust the government," Chuck Coughlin, a Republican pollster in Arizona, told the New York Times last year regarding a report that found Trump's Latino support was more widespread than though. "It's the same constituency that you see among Anglo Trump voters."

Top Democratic data guru David Shor after the election said the decline in Hispanic support for Democrats was "pretty broad."

"This isn't just about Cubans in South Florida," he said. "It happened in New York and California and Arizona and Texas."

A poll released earlier this year by the Wall Street Journal shows that things could worse for Democrats this November among the voting bloc, with 37% of Hispanic voters saying they would support a Democrat for Congress compared with 37% who said they would pick a Republican.

Democratic House candidates in 2020 received more than 60% of the Hispanic vote.

Latinos are also turned off by COVID-19 lockdowns, the defund the police movement and progressives' embrace of socialism, per the Washington Examiner.

"The shift among Hispanic men was clear, and it seems they were attracted to the strong leadership that President Trump offered," Republican pollster Neil Newhouse previously told the Washington Examiner. "That movement sped up in the '20 cycle as part of the national debate revolved around the Democrats' lurch toward socialistic policies."

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Mar-a-Lago Documents Will be 'Smoking Gun' on FBI (Newsmax/"National Report")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 16 September 2022 01:27 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump took boxes of documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate to "allow him to go after the FBI," not to keep himself from being investigated, Dick Morris, the author of the book "The Return: Trump's 2024 Comeback," said on Newsmax on Friday.

"The issue here is not the documents Trump took, but what's in them," Morris said on Newsmax's "National Report." "I believe that the evidence will eventually show that it includes a smoking gun proving the allegations made by John Durham, the special prosecutor, three days ago."

Durham issued a finding saying that Igor Danchenko, the alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier against Trump, had later been made a paid FBI investigator.

Danchenko is facing five charges of lying to the FBI through Durham's continuing investigation into the origins of the FBI's investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign and allegations of collusion with Russian agents during the race for the White House.

"The FBI essentially paid somebody to come up with lies about Donald Trump in the Russian electoral hoax," said Morris. "The FBI does not want that to come out. Trump knows that that's in the documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago, and he took them not to stop the FBI from going after him but to allow him to go after the FBI."

Morris also commented on the selection of senior judge Raymond Dearie as the special master leading an independent review of materials seized by the FBI and the Department of Justice during the Aug. 8 raid at Trump's Florida home.

"I don't think the investigation's going anywhere," Morris said. "I think it's too close to the election. I don't think that there's the evidence there to indict Trump, even by a New York [or] Washington, D.C., grand jury."

But the "real action" will happen after the election, said Morris, as he's confident Republicans will win the House and Senate.

"There will be the mother of all hearings about the FBI, not just intervening in an election, but essentially becoming a political party of its own," he said.

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Dick Morris to Newsmax: Mar-a-Lago Documents Will Be 'Smoking Gun' on FBI (Newsmax/"National Report")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Saturday, 17 September 2022 11:39 AM EDT

Former President Donald Trump took boxes of documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate to "allow him to go after the FBI," not to keep himself from being investigated, Dick Morris, the author of the book "The Return: Trump's 2024 Comeback," told Newsmax on Friday.

"The issue here is not the documents Trump took, but what's in them," Morris told "National Report." "I believe that the evidence will eventually show that it includes a smoking gun proving the allegations made by John Durham, the special prosecutor, three days ago."

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Durham issued a finding saying that Igor Danchenko, the alleged principal source of the discredited Steele dossier against Trump, had later been made a paid FBI investigator.

Danchenko is facing five charges of lying to the FBI through Durham's continuing investigation into the origins of the FBI's investigation of Trump's 2016 campaign and allegations of collusion with Russian agents during the race for the White House.

"The FBI essentially paid somebody to come up with lies about Donald Trump in the Russian electoral hoax," said Morris. "The FBI does not want that to come out. Trump knows that that's in the documents that he took to Mar-a-Lago, and he took them not to stop the FBI from going after him but to allow him to go after the FBI."

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Morris also commented on the selection of senior judge Raymond Dearie as the special master leading an independent review of materials seized by the FBI and the Department of Justice during the Aug. 8 raid at Trump's Florida home.

"I don't think the investigation's going anywhere," Morris said. "I think it's too close to the election. I don't think that there's the evidence there to indict Trump, even by a New York [or] Washington, D.C., grand jury."

But the "real action" will happen after the election, said Morris, as he's confident Republicans will win the House and Senate.

"There will be the mother of all hearings about the FBI, not just intervening in an election, but essentially becoming a political party of its own," he said.

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Trump to Be Invited to Queen's Memorial Service in D.C. Queen Elizabeth II and then-President Donald Trump at Buckingham Palace. (Getty Images)

By Jeffrey Rodack | Friday, 16 September 2022 01:15 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump and the four other living former U.S. presidents will be invited by the British government to attend a memorial service for Queen Elizabeth in Washington, D.C., The Telegraph is reporting.

Trump and former presidents Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton were not on the guest list for the Queen's official funeral in London. President Joe Biden, however, is set to attend the funeral.

Politico noted Biden will meet with U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss in advance of the funeral. Biden is one of many heads of state expected to attend the London service.

Meanwhile, the memorial service will be held Wednesday in Washington's National Cathedral.

The Telegraph, which viewed an invite to the memorial, said it describes the event as "a Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."

The Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, will preside over the service.

Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, who delivered a sermon at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018, will also speak on Wednesday.

Dame Karen and the Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith, dean of Washington National Cathedral, are also set to deliver remarks at the service.

"Her Majesty devoted 70 years of service to her God and to her people," said Rev Hollerith. "We will remember her unwavering sense of duty, devotion and fidelity she embodied, and the many visits she has made to the Cathedral over her lifetime."

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CNN's Don Lemon Insists 'I Was Not Demoted' Don Lemon (Getty Images)

By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 16 September 2022 01:02 PM EDT

CNN prime-time host Don Lemon insists that being moved to mornings was a "promotion" and that he "was not demoted."

Lemon, current host of "Don Lemon Tonight," will become one of three hosts on a new show expected to start airing in late October.

It's the latest network change under new Chairman and CEO Chris Licht, who reportedly has been attempting to return the left-leaning network to its more mainstream and newsgathering roots.

Brian Stelter, a critic of former President Donald Trump and host of media affairs show "Reliable Source," was fired last month.

CNN announced Thursday that a new show will be co-hosted by Lemon, Poppy Harlow, and Kaitlan Collins.

"I was presented with an opportunity that I can’t pass up at this network," Lemon said Thursday night on CNN. "We have a new boss who is a morning show impresario. And he wants a morning show that will kick off the editorial direction of the network every single day, and I am honored that he asked me to do it."

Lemon then addressed reports that the new job represents a demotion.

"For all of those who are out there saying, 'Oh, he moved me without my …' — he asked me and I said yes," Lemon said. "I could have said, 'No. This is my show. I have a contract for this show.' I decided that I would take him up on that and take this journey with him.

"So, this is not someone moving me. And, by the way, this is not someone saying, 'You must move to the right, Don Lemon. You must not be so … give so much of your perspective.' None of that has happened."

Lemon said reports of a demotion simply were "fodder" for Twitter.

"I was not demoted. None of that," he said. "This is an opportunity, this is a promotion. This is an opportunity for me to create something around me and I get to work with two great ladies, who you know."

Moving Lemon to mornings will create another hole in CNN's prime-time lineup, which still hasn’t found a full-time replacement for Chris Cuomo.

Cuomo was fired in December 2021 for aiding his embattled brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, amid sexual assault allegations.

Poll: Vance Leads Ryan in Ohio

Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, left, greets a supporter. (Getty Images)

By Theodore Bunker | Friday, 16 September 2022 10:38 AM EDT

Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance holds a slim lead over his Democrat opponent, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan, according to the latest poll from Emerson College Polling and The Hill.

The survey shows Vance in the lead by 4 points, with neither candidate holding the majority, in the race to replace outgoing Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who is set to retire next year.
Survey results:

• Vance: 44%
• Ryan: 40%
• Other: 3%
• Undecided: 13%

A previous poll from last month showed Vance with a slightly smaller lead of 3 points.

A poll of Ohio gubernatorial candidates shows Republican Gov. Mike DeWine with a sizable lead over his Democratic opponent, Nan Whaley, at 50% to 33%.

Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a statement: "Unlike the Republican candidate for the Senate election, Mike DeWine is not only winning the support of men two-to-one with 54% of their vote, but more importantly, he also leads Nan Whaley amongst women, 47% to 38%. Without the support of Ohio women voters, Whaley's success is unlikely."

The poll also asked Ohio voters to pick between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, with 40% picking Biden and 50% selecting Trump.

Emerson polled 1,000 likely voters from Sept. 12-13, with a margin of error of plus-minus 3 percentage points.

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Democrats Remain Competitive in Midterms Races: NY Times/Siena Poll Republicans vs. Democrats (Dreamstime)

By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 16 September 2022 10:15 AM EDT

A New York Times/Siena College survey shows Democrats remain unexpectedly competitive in the battle for Congress heading into November's midterms.

Falling gas prices and President Joe Biden's rising job approval rating partly explain the poll results.

Democrats also appear to be benefiting from the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, and the constant media presence of former President Donald Trump, the Times reported.

Still, high inflation, a struggling economy, a relatively unpopular president and a gloomy national mood remain challenging for Democrats.

"Republicans would lead by six percentage points in the race for Congress, if they could merely win over voters who say they agree with the G.O.P. most on the economy," the Times reported.

Even Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sees a difficult landscape for his party. He told fellow senators earlier this week that Democrats will lose control of the House.

The Times/Siena College poll showed that Republicans still score higher on some social issues, including illegal immigration.

Voters trust the Republicans more on the economy by a 52% to 38% margin, and, by an 18-point margin, say economic issues will determine their vote more than societal issues.

However, 9% of the voters who trust Republicans more on economic issues and say that those issues are most important are voting for Democrats, the Times said.

Jeanine Spanjers, 44, from Racine, Wis., is a state employee who told the Times she believed that Democrats were handing out too many government subsidies.

"What's getting on my nerves is all this free stuff," Spanjers told the Times. "Republicans would never do something like that. It disincentivizes people to go out and do something. I'm starting to feel like people are being rewarded for not doing anything."

Nevertheless, Spanjers said she planned to vote only for Democrats, saying abortion is her top issue, the Times said.

Biden's approval rating, while higher than its low point, remains a paltry 42%. Just 15% of respondents said that Biden's policies had helped them.

The left-leaning Times said the survey "underscored how Republicans have been weakened by Mr. Trump's decision to play a vocal role in his party's primaries."

Contrary to other polls, which show Trump leading Biden in a 2024 rematch, the Times/Siena poll showed the president ahead of the former president by 3 points.

The Times/Siena survey showed that respondents said the word "extreme" described the Republicans better than the Democrats by 43% to 37%.

The Times/Siena survey included 1,399 registered voters nationwide, including an oversample of 522 Hispanic voters from Sept. 6-14. The margin of error is +/- 3.6 percentage points.

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Kevin McCarthy: 'I Know Who Recorded' Private Remarks About Trump, Jan. 6 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

By Charlie McCarthy | Friday, 16 September 2022 08:46 AM EDT

House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he knows who was behind the leaked audio of his comments critical of then-President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6 2021 attack at the Capitol.

"I know who recorded it. I know who recorded me," McCarthy told Politico this week.

The leader added: "I'll bring it forward" at some point. "I have it."

McCarthy made the leaked comments on a conference call with a small group of Republican leaders and staff members.

The New York Times, citing the audio, reported in April that McCarthy told members of his GOP conference that Trump acknowledged he bore "some responsibility" for what happened on Jan. 6.

"Let me be very clear to all of you, and I have been very clear to the president: He bears responsibilities for his words and actions," McCarthy said during a Jan. 11, 2021 conference call, the Times reported. "No if, ands, or buts.

"I asked him personally today: Does he hold responsibility for what happened? Does he feel bad about what happened? He told me he does have some responsibility for what happened and he'd need to acknowledge that."

The Times said the audio included McCarthy saying, "I've had it with this guy [Trump]. What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that, and nobody should defend it."

The newspaper also reported that McCarthy, at the time, told his leadership team that he would call Trump and urge him to quit.

Politico reported that McCarthy avoided major blowback, and apparently smoothed over things quickly with Trump.

House Republicans "shrugged off the entire matter," Politico said, with Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., saying the tapes were a "nothingburger" taken "completely out of context."

Several weeks after the attack, McCarthy sounded more understanding about Trump.

"I was the first person to contact [Trump] when the riots" were underway, McCarthy told Fox News. "He didn't see it. [How] he ended the call was saying — telling me, he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did. He put a video out later."

McCarthy appears to be in line to become majority leader if the Republicans regain control of the House in November.

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Jon Voight, Trump on Sunday Night for Accords Special (Newsmax/"Eric Bolling The Balance")

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:10 PM EDT

The premiere of actor Jon Voight's new documentary with former President Donald Trump celebrating the historic Abraham Accords will air Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Newsmax.

The program – "Israel & the Abraham Accords" – details the role Trump and his administration played in the ground-breaking peace agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors, including the U.A.E. and Bahrain.

Program Details:
Israel & the Abraham Accords
with Jon Voight, Donald Trump
8 p.m. ET – Sunday, Sept. 18

Reaching peace in the Middle East has been a goal considered unachievable for many years, but the Abraham Accords have changed that, the Oscar-winning Voight says.

"In 2020, the most significant advancement toward peace in the Middle East was formed," Voight comments in the opening minutes of the special.

"It was an agreement that created relationships in a manner that had never been attempted before and it has achieved results that have exceeded all expectations — and chances are, you've never even heard of it."

The Newsmax program also examines the modern history of Israel, culminating in the historic agreements, Voight adds.

The accords were signed Sept. 15, 2020, by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain with Israel.

They have not only brought peace to the region but have caused trade to flourish between the nations.

"There's always been trouble and violence and difficulty for the Jewish people, and now with Donald Trump and the Abraham Accords, there's a possibility of peace in that region — real peace for the first time," Voight said in an interview with Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight."

Voight also says the documentary will show Americans Trump's "grace" and "humility," which is not on display with the mainstream media's coverage of him.

"You'll see a side to him that you've never seen before, or most people haven't seen, a side of patience, of grace, even humility," Voight told Newsmax's Eric Bolling. "I must say it's a very beautiful side to him that is exposed here, because most of the time he's talking about very rough stuff, and he's being attacked quite a lot."

The accords came about through the work of Trump's administration, as well as that of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the nations that have signed on to it, and Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Voight stressed.

Voight said he "fell in love with the story of the land of Israel through reading the Bible" and seeing what has happened during his lifetime.

"It culminated in this event," he said of the Abraham Accords.

He added he has heard Trump say the accords were the "first phase of trying to bring peace to parts of the Middle East," but the present administration "has tried to attack everything that he accomplished."

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Former President Donald Trump is praising a few Republican senators for working to stop Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and "his favorite," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., from "ramming through a disastrous continuing resolution."Original Article

Trump Blasts McConnell for Being Dems' 'Lapdog' on Funding Govt Former President Donald Trump (Getty Images)

By Eric Mack | Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:18 PM EDT

Former President Donald Trump is praising a few Republican senators for working to stop Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and "his favorite," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., from "ramming through a disastrous continuing resolution."

"Finally, some Republicans with great courage!" Trump wrote in a Save America PAC statement posted to Truth Social on Thursday night. "Rick Scott, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee are working hard to stop Chuck Schumer and his favorite, Sen. Mitch McConnell, from ramming through a disastrous continuing resolution that would do nothing to stop inflation, grow our economy or restore the American dream — it would only put big government first and give [Sen. Joe] Manchin his terrible deal."

Manchin, D-W.Va., helped rework the Inflation Reduction Act to his liking to allow him to get on board as a 50th vote to pass the law on the tiebreaking vote of Vice President Kamala Harris.

"Instead, we need a long-term continuing resolution so we can deal with the real emergency at hand, the radical left's destruction of America, and once again, put America first. McConnell is so bad!" Trump's statement concluded.

Earlier Thursday, Trump issued a statement blasting McConnell for bending to Democrats on the continuing resolution as he did a year ago. The resolution would permit the government to remain open and funded under past budget terms.

During Trump's second year in the White House, Senate Democrats forced a government shutdown by refusing a continuing resolution and not passing a new budget.

"Mitch McConnell is giving the Democrats everything they want," Trump's first Save America PAC statement, posted to Truth Social, read. "He is their lapdog! He didn't stop trillions of dollars in spending by refusing to use the debt ceiling as a negotiating tool.

"He gave it up for nothing. Now he wants to give Manchin the thing he wanted in order to destroy America and even the people of West Virginia. How about his tax on coal? The Republican Senate must do something about this absolute loser, Mitch McConnell, who folds every time against the Democrats — and he's only getting worse!"

McConnell has been a frequent object of Trump's ire since his last days in the White House.

Trump has made multiple calls for McConnell to be removed as Senate Republican leader "immediately" — a call some have speculated might have affected campaign finance decisions by the McConnell-backed Senate Leadership Fund.

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