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Kinzinger: House GOP ‘Trying to Interfere’ with Justice by Requesting Manhattan DA Testify

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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), now a CNN contributor, said Monday on “The Situation Room” that House Republicans were “trying to interfere” with justice by requesting Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg testify before Congress about a potential indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Anchor Wolf Blitzer said, “Let me get your thoughts on House Republicans right now. They’re calling on the Manhattan District attorney to testify before Congress. Do you think this is a sincere quest for the truth, or are you concerned about the motivation of some of your former Republican colleagues?”

Kinzinger said, “Of course, it’s not a sincere request. If it was, they would wait to see what this indictment reads, and if the indictment really is a nothing burger, they could have sincere questions about how this came about. They jumped the gun on this.”

He continued, “We run the risk of becoming numb to what’s really going on here. You have an entire party that’s basically jumping the gun and trying to interfere before laws and before law enforcement really has had its chance and justice has had its chance to be done.”

Kinzinger added, “You have the president that’s done one of the darkest videos I have ever seen, the former president, where he called Russia not our enemy but fellow Americans our enemy. Then he has tweeted or put on Truth Social over and over that his supporters need to come out and basically prevent justice from occurring. Now, you go to earth 2.0 five years ago, and people would be shocked by this. We have become numb. I don’t think we can afford and risk to become as numb as we have become.”

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White House Press Conference Descends into Chaos After Reporter Confronts Karine Jean-Pierre

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The White House daily press conference descended into chaos after an African reporter confronted White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for not calling on him to ask a question for what he claimed was seven months.

Simon Ateba, White House correspondent for Today News Africa, confronted Jean-Pierre at the beginning of a press conference where the White House had brought in actors to talk about mental health.

He was scolded by fellow reporters, who apologized to the actors.

However, after the actors left the room, Ateba tried again, and reporters shouted him down.

Jeff Mason, a Reuters correspondent and former White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) president, told Ateba, “If you have grievances, you should bring them to her later. Right now this is for the entire press corps and the press corps is tired of dealing with this.”

Ateba responded that he had sat there in the briefing room for seven months without a question.

Brian Karem, a White House reporter who first gained public attention for an outburst at Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, told Ateba, “Mind your manners when you’re in here.”

Today News Africa reporter Simon Ateba (C) interrupts as White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre (not pictured), begins the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 20, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

“If you have a problem you bring it up afterwards, but you are impinging on everybody in here who is only trying to do their job,” he said.

Associated Press correspondent Zeke Miller, also a former WHCA president, apologized to Jean-Pierre for the disruption.

“I just want to express our apologies from the press corps to the folks watching at home for the display you saw earlier. Our responsibility is to them,” he said.

After the press conference, current WHCA president Tamara Keith sent a memo to WHCA members saying the “extreme breakdown of decorum…created a hostile work environment for everyone in that room.”

Ateba slammed his fellow colleagues for rebuking him.

He tweeted, “Instead of standing for me, @whca @tamarakeithNPR of @NPR attacks me in letter to her WHCA members.”

He posted a screenshot of her email, which said the “extreme breakdown of decorum” created a “hostile work environment.”

Ateba also slammed the Associated Press’s Zeke Miller.

“He believes he’s better than me. But he’s not. He apologized to @PressSec Karine Jean-Pierre today for discriminating against me for seven months,” Ateba tweeted.

“In the past 7 months, as I sat behind him, I watched him him ask those questions at every press briefing, he became entitled, believing that he’s better than those who get no questions. This is insane!” Ateba wrote.

Ateba tweeted that he would appear on Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Tonight to share what happened.

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Tulsi Gabbard Says Attacks on Faith, God Drove Her to Leave Democrats: Many Think ‘They are God’

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Democrats’ attacks on people of faith as well as their erasing God “from just about every facet of our public lives,” is one of the main reasons former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says she chose to leave the Democratic Party, asserting that many of their policymakers “think that they [themselves] are God” as they attempt to “control us in every possible way.”

Gabbard, who formally announced her departure from the Democrat Party in October, joined Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany, who served as former President Donald Trump’s press secretary, in lamenting how God was continually being “run out” of today’s society.

“It’s ironic to me that God, someone you can trust, is being run out of society,” McEnany said in the Friday segment. “[And] we know he was an integral part of our founding, mentioned in many of our founding documents.” 

While separation of church and state is “found nowhere in our founding documents,” charged McEnany, “it’s been utilized to create a religion of secularism.”

Turning to Gabbard, McEnany asked if the former congresswoman thought that “erasing, broadly, God out of society in a way perhaps our founders never intended” was damaging society.

The former presidential candidate replied, “there’s no question about it.”

“This erosion of this spiritual foundation of our country is a direct consequence of those who are trying to erase God from just about every facet of our public lives,” Gabbard said.

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She also claimed that the erasure of God and attacks on religious practitioners were central to her decision to depart from the Democratic Party.

“This is one of the main reasons why I chose to leave the Democratic Party: because I saw increasingly how not only were they trying to erase any mention of God, [but were] attacking people of faith, attacking people of spirituality, especially Christians,” Gabbard said.

She also argued that the consequences of such attacks have led much of the country in a direction that is causing damage “to families, to children, to our communities, [and] to our policymakers — many of whom think that they are God and are trying to control us in every possible way.”

The remarks come as the Democratic Party continues to be increasingly viewed as hostile toward God and religion.

Left-wing MSNBC anchor Joy Ann Reid has alleged that Americans are being “held hostage” by a “far-right Christian court,” as she attacked the Supreme Court for its various rulings which she claimed frequently rules “in favor of religious institutions.” 

Meanwhile, Iowa’s lone congressional Democrat Rep. Cindy Axne mocked Christians during an out-of-state campaign event with a far-left activist group.

Previously, celebrated Christian pastor Franklin Graham denounced the total absence of God in the Democratic National Convention, as he called on Americans to bring God back into public life.

Gabbard, who represented Hawaii’s second congressional district from 2013 to 2021, revealed last year she was leaving the Democratic Party in a video posted on social media:

“I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people,” she said. “Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not.” 

“Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite,” she added. 

The former Democrat has long been a critic of the pro-war foreign policy establishment, as well as “wokeism,” both currently led by the Democratic Party.

She is currently writing a memoir to be released later this year detailing her decision to leave the Democrats. 

Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter @JoshuaKlein.

California Meteorologist Faints, Falls out of Her Chair During a Live Broadcast

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A California meteorologist fainted on air Saturday morning just as her segment began, startling her colleagues.

Alissa Carlson Schwartz, a meteorologist at CBS L.A., was preparing to deliver a weather report during the outlet’s 7:00 a.m. broadcast when she tilted her head forward at her desk and then slid out of her chair.

Upon realizing what had happened, the show’s anchors responded with shock before cutting to a commercial break.

“Thanks for all the texts, calls & messages. I’m going to be ok!” Schwartz later wrote in a Facebook post 

TMZ noted that Schwartz have previously discussed having a heart condition, which she said she discovered after a 2014 episode in which she vomited during a newscast. It is unclear whether her collapse on Saturday is related to this condition.

In a 2018 segment for KGET, where Schwarz then worked as the chief meteorologist, she said the health scare led to a doctor’s appointment and the discovery that she had a leaky heart valve, which would likely need to be replaced at some point in the future.

Later, nine months after giving birth to her daughter, she said she began to experience chest pains. After seeking medical attention, she learned stem cells from her daughter had caused the valve to “repair itself.” 

“The stem cells from my baby had started to heal my heart,” she said tearfully, “I feel like I owe it to people and everybody and to God to give back and to spread this story and to realize that you may have something that you don’t even know you have.”

Schwartz was inspired by her condition to become an advocate for heart health, even serving as chair of the American Heart Association’s Circle of Red Initiative.

KGET reported in 2018 that Carlson had been named Mrs. California and later placed in the top 15 in the Mrs. America Pageant.

MSNBC Legal Analyst: Donald Trump’s Truth Social Post May Affect Conditions of His Bail

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A legal analyst appearing on MSNBC’s the Katie Phang Show has floated the possibility former President Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social predicting his Tuesday arrest may influence the conditions set for his bail.

Trump wrote a message on Truth Social Saturday morning announcing he expected to be arrested on Tuesday in connection with an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office concerning payments allegedly made to Stormy Daniels. Additionally, Trump called for protests in the event of his arrest.

Legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, appearing on the Katie Phang Show on MSNBC, was asked if Trump’s post could be “used against” him.

“Under the rules of evidence, this is what we call a statement of party opponent.” he said. “I would slap a government exhibit sticker on this post, and I would introduce it at his criminal trial.”

He also speculated Trump’s post – which he described as a “miscalculation” and a “dog-whistle” – might come to bear on the conditions of Trump’s bail and analogized the post to remarks Trump made on January 6, 2021.

“He has now just given the judge that will preside over his arraignment hearing food for thought about what kind of conditions should be set for the release of this dangerous man pending trial,” he said.”Because this is a dog whistle, just as sure as him telling the proud boys ‘stand back and stand by.”

Asked whether Trump, now a Florida resident, will be compelled to appear in Manhattan for his arraignment and whether he is likely to be handcuffed and fingerprinted, Kirschner indicated virtual arraignments are unusual but not unheard of in the post-COVID era. 

“But I suspect Donald Trump will be personally brought to Manhattan,” he said. 

However, he added, “I think it unlikely we’ll see a perp walk,” noting Trump’s attorney had offered to produce Trump for the expected arraignment, wherever it may be held.