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Mark Lima is vice president and Washington bureau chief at CBS News. As the Washington bureau chief, Lima oversees the newsgathering and management of the Network's largest bureau that is also home to the "CBS Evening News" and "Face The Nation with Margaret Brennan." Lima joined CBS News in 2020 as West Coast bureau chief. During his time leading that bureau, CBS News covered major stories of national importance, including the California recall election of Governor Gavin Newsom, California's deadly wildfire seasons of 2021 and 2020, and the general election of 2020. Prior to joining CBS News in 2020, Lima worked at Univision/Fusion, where since 2013 he served as vice president of news, overseeing news coverage and impact programming in English for Univision/Fusion. While there, he served as the executive producer of the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning weekly Facebook Watch program "Real America with Jorge Ramos," which pushed the boundary of multiplatform and digital storytelling and featured prominent political interviews ahead of the 2020 election, with candidates including Joe Biden, Democratic Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, and Julian Castro. In 2016, Lima was an executive producer of Fusion's prescient Emmy-nominated documentary "The Naked Truth: Trumpland," an in-depth look at Trump voters across the country ahead of the election. He also coordinated Fusion/Univision's coverage of President Obama's visit to Cuba and daily coverage of the 2016 political conventions. Before joining Univision/Fusion, Lima worked at ABC News for 15 years, most recently as a senior producer at "Nightline" where he participated in coordinating coverage of key special events, including "Nightline's" coverage of former President Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration and the network's 2012 election night coverage. He also produced affiliate coverage of the 2000 political conventions as well as election night coverage from the Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, and the subsequent recount from Tallahassee, Florida. Lima served as ABC News' deputy bureau chief in Los Angeles from 2004 to 2008 and was the director of sports and special projects at ABC NewsOne, the network's affiliate newsgathering service. Lima has been honored with the Peabody Award and multiple News Emmys. He is a graduate of Penn State University. January 6 defendant refuses Trump's pardon Everything we know about the Boulder attack on Israeli hostage march Murphy presses McMahon on canceled mental health program, Harvard demands
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07-05-2025
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OAN Will Provide News Feed Services to VOA
One America News will act as a news feed service for Voice of America and other USAGM networks. Kari Lake, tsenior adviser to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, announced the news on Wednesday. 'This is an enormous benefit to the American taxpayer, who is the sole source of funding for USAGM's news outlets, which broadcast only to international audiences,' Lake said in a statement posted on social media. 'I can ensure our outlets have reliable and credible options as they work to craft their reporting and news programs,' Lake added, noting that she does not have editorial control over VOA content and OCB programming. 'Every day, I look for ways to save American taxpayers money. Bringing in OAN as a video/news source does both.' According to Lake, the conservative-leaning network will provide its news feed service at no cost to U.S. taxpayers. No timeline was offered for when VOA and other USAGM networks-including the Office of Cuba Broadcasting (OCB) and Radio Martí-would start to feature OAN's feed. In March, the Trump administration laid off hundreds of staffers and canceled VOA's contracts with major news services, including AP, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse. David Seide, an attorney representing employees challenging their dismissal from the agency, told the AZCentral publication that Lake's move is 'illegal.' 'USAGM by law cannot interfere with Voice of America's statutory mandate to be an independent media source,' he said. 'OAN calls itself one of Donald Trump's 'greatest supporters.'' In an interview with NPR, former U.S. Agency for Global Media Chief Financial Officer Grant Turner described Lake's actions as 'a mockery of the agency's history of independent non-partisan journalism.' OAN's primetime programming includes the political talk show, The Matt Gaetz Show, which launched in January. The former congressman is also the co-host of a weekly video podcast, Real America with Dan Ball. In April 2024, OAN settled a defamation case brought by Smartmatic for an undisclosed sum. The lawsuit's origins date back to the 2020 presidential election, when Smartmatic accused several news networks-including Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN-of repeatedly publishing reports claiming that the company and its software altered votes to ensure former President Joe Biden's victory.
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24-04-2025
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CNN Confronts MAGA ‘Journalists' Trump Brought to White House
CNN Senior Correspondent Donie O'Sullivan confronted a trio of Trump-friendly media figures with White House access, asking one directly: 'Do you consider yourself a journalist?' O'Sullivan spoke with Real America's Voice Chief White House Correspondent Brian Glenn, LindellTV White House reporter Cara Castronuova, and Bannon's War Room Co-Host and White House Correspondent Natalie Winters for a segment that aired on the network Wednesday. When O'Sullivan asked Winters if she viewed herself as a journalist, she replied that she did. 'Yes,' she said, adding at another point in the discussion: 'Our bias is not to be sycophants for President Trump. Our bias is for our audience, which is the working class of America—the people who want to put this country first." O'Sullivan followed up by asking whether she would 'call it out' if Trump 'messes up.' 'Yeah, and we have, I think time and time again, particularly on of immigration,' she replied. 'We are not for stapling green cards to diplomas.' Winters, a self-described 'populist nationalist' who has said she agrees with 'most of what Trump does,' emphasized in a New York Times profile that she is not a 'cultist.' A staff writer for Bannon's podcast in her first year at the University of Chicago, Winters began making on-camera appearances in 2020. 'The pandemic's really where she got her sea legs,' Bannon said of the 24-year-old. O'Sullivan also asked Winters about those who are skeptical of her credentials. 'To the people—and I'm sure you see this online every single day—who say you don't deserve to be here because you're not a real journalist, what's your response to them?' he wondered. Winters replied, 'Well, I'm pretty sure the group of people in there spent, what was it, four years, covering for someone who was essentially dead—and that's being charitable in my description of him—a president by the name of Joe Biden‚" she said. 'So to all those people who are apoplectic over having new media voices, you guys failed, and that's why we're here.' O'Sullivan also spoke with Castronuova and Glenn, whose contributions as members of the White House's shakeup of the briefing room and press pool include Glenn insulting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for not wearing a suit, and Castronuova asking about Donald Trump's 'fitness plan' while commenting admiringly that the president 'looks healthier than ever before.' Castronuova, a self-described Trump fan, claimed she too would have no issue holding Trump to account. 'I'm sure things will happen that I disagree with,' she said. When pressed if she could name any such instances thus far from Trump's second term, she didn't do so. 'I'm not going to—let me put some thought into that for a second,' she said, pausing. 'Um, I'm just overwhelmed with how well I perceive things to be going.' As for Glenn, he insisted his comment about Zelensky's attire was earnest. 'I'm not a troll. Never have been,' he told O'Sullivan. 'That was a legitimate question that I just wanted to ask. I didn't mean to get everyone fired up like they did.'
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11-03-2025
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House Dem pushes to censure Boebert over TV interview about Al Green
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., is pushing to censure Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., over a TV interview in which the Republican congresswoman criticized Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. Green notably heckled President Donald Trump multiple times during his first address of his second term to Congress last week until House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ordered the Sergeant at Arms to escort Green from the chamber. Houlahan submitted a resolution Monday calling to censure Boebert "for her recent disparaging and derogatory comments" about Green. Rep. Al Green Blames 'Invidious Discrimination' For Being Censured After Disrupting Trump's Speech During a March 7 interview with Real America's Voice News, Boebert said "Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum." "For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent," Boebert added. Read On The Fox News App The resolution said those words uttered by Boebert "are disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives." It calls for Boebert to be censured, "forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure," and that Boebert "be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker." In a statement, Houlahan said, "After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he'd have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Representative Al Green (D-TX)." At the start of Trump's address before Congress, Green stood up when the president described his electoral victory as a "mandate" from the American people. "You have no mandate! You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!" Green shouted, waving his cane at Trump. The lower chamber of Congress voted to censure Green the next day, and Johnson condemned how the Democrat "chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history." Houlahan initially voted to table the motion, but she was among the 10 Democrats who ultimately joined with Republicans to censure Green. Establishment Democrats and progressives promptly turned on each other over their party's disrupting behavior during Trump's address, complaining how they've failed to have a unifying message against Republicans. Trump Blasts Rep Al Green As 'An Embarrassment' To Democrats, Says He 'Should Be Forced To Take An Iq Test Houlahan acknowledged in an X post on Thursday that "today's vote to censure my fellow representative was not easy and has angered many of you." Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer afterward, she defended her decision but also criticized past behavior from Republicans in the chamber that she argued also warranted censure. "I voted to table that because I think we have much, much better things to do with our time than to continue to do this tit-for-tat nonsense with one another," Houlahan told the newspaper. "That being said, the motion to table failed, so we don't have the opportunity to not vote on this. And I believe we need to recognize that we have rules in the House of Representatives and we have standards of decorum that we all presumably agree to, and we all need to agree to those standards so we can get the work for the people done and so we can not be a banana republic." After the vote, Houlahan told the Inquirer she pulled Johnson "to the side and had a very‚ very strong conversation with him where I explained I voted in favor but I am not OK with arbitrary and capricious applications of the same rule." She said she complained about how there was no censure or sanction against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Johnson replied, "Well, she just wore a hat." But Houlahan argued Greene "also yelled at the President of the United States," referring to her treatment of former President Joe Biden last year, "and I don't believe it's OK that she did not have same treatment." "And I think it's absolute hypocrisy that people after the vote were standing there yelling at Mr. Green when their own colleagues have done very, very similar things, not wearing masks when it was mandated, wearing MAGA hats when there are literally no hats allowed on the floor," Houlahan said. "We had to make a special exception for wearing hijabs. It's insane… We need to behave like grown-ups and stop the madness." Click To Get The Fox News App Houlahan said it was a "really, really, really hard vote for me," but ultimately she did her duty. "And it's frustrating because Al Green's statement was true," Houlahan said. "It wasn't provocative or offensive. It was the truth. But I think each one of us had to make decisions about how we were going to comport ourselves and what was appropriate, and I know each colleague on both sides made those choices, and each one of us knows there are consequences to those choices."Original article source: House Dem pushes to censure Boebert over TV interview about Al Green
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11-03-2025
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House Dem pushes to censure Boebert over TV interview about Al Green
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., is pushing to censure Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., over a TV interview in which the Republican congresswoman criticized Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. Green notably heckled President Donald Trump multiple times during his first address of his second term to Congress last week until House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ordered the Sergeant at Arms to escort Green from the chamber. Houlahan submitted a resolution Monday calling to censure Boebert "for her recent disparaging and derogatory comments" about Green. During a March 7 interview with Real America's Voice News, Boebert said "Al Green was given multiple opportunities to stand down, to sit down, to behave, to show decorum." "For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent," Boebert added. The resolution said those words uttered by Boebert "are disparaging, derogatory, and racist toward another colleague, and are a breach of proper conduct and decorum of the U.S. House of Representatives." It calls for Boebert to be censured, "forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure," and that Boebert "be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker." In a statement, Houlahan said, "After my discussion on the House floor last week when Speaker Johnson told me he'd have to censure half the members if he actually enforced the rules of the Congress, I decided to help, and tonight introduced a resolution to censure Representative Boebert for her racist and derogatory statements about Representative Al Green (D-TX)." At the start of Trump's address before Congress, Green stood up when the president described his electoral victory as a "mandate" from the American people. "You have no mandate! You have no mandate to cut Medicaid!" Green shouted, waving his cane at Trump. The lower chamber of Congress voted to censure Green the next day, and Johnson condemned how the Democrat "chose to deliberately violate House rules in a manner that we think is probably unprecedented in history." Houlahan initially voted to table the motion, but she was among the 10 Democrats who ultimately joined with Republicans to censure Green. Establishment Democrats and progressives promptly turned on each other over their party's disrupting behavior during Trump's address, complaining how they've failed to have a unifying message against Republicans. Houlahan acknowledged in an X post on Thursday that "today's vote to censure my fellow representative was not easy and has angered many of you." Speaking to the Philadelphia Inquirer afterward, she defended her decision but also criticized past behavior from Republicans in the chamber that she argued also warranted censure. "I voted to table that because I think we have much, much better things to do with our time than to continue to do this tit-for-tat nonsense with one another," Houlahan told the newspaper. "That being said, the motion to table failed, so we don't have the opportunity to not vote on this. And I believe we need to recognize that we have rules in the House of Representatives and we have standards of decorum that we all presumably agree to, and we all need to agree to those standards so we can get the work for the people done and so we can not be a banana republic." After the vote, Houlahan told the Inquirer she pulled Johnson "to the side and had a very‚ very strong conversation with him where I explained I voted in favor but I am not OK with arbitrary and capricious applications of the same rule." She said she complained about how there was no censure or sanction against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Johnson replied, "Well, she just wore a hat." But Houlahan argued Greene "also yelled at the President of the United States," referring to her treatment of former President Joe Biden last year, "and I don't believe it's OK that she did not have same treatment." "And I think it's absolute hypocrisy that people after the vote were standing there yelling at Mr. Green when their own colleagues have done very, very similar things, not wearing masks when it was mandated, wearing MAGA hats when there are literally no hats allowed on the floor," Houlahan said. "We had to make a special exception for wearing hijabs. It's insane… We need to behave like grown-ups and stop the madness." Houlahan said it was a "really, really, really hard vote for me," but ultimately she did her duty. "And it's frustrating because Al Green's statement was true," Houlahan said. "It wasn't provocative or offensive. It was the truth. But I think each one of us had to make decisions about how we were going to comport ourselves and what was appropriate, and I know each colleague on both sides made those choices, and each one of us knows there are consequences to those choices."
