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New York Post
5 days ago
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- New York Post
‘The View' co-host describes Harris interview as ‘microcosm of everything that's wrong' with Dem Party
Advertisement 'The View' co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin described former Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with Stephen Colbert as a 'microcosm' of everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party after the party lost in 2024. 'I was struck by, I'm going to try not be too harsh on this. This interview felt like a microcosm of everything that's wrong with Democrats post-election. I'm going to CBS and this sort of trying to make a point that they fired Stephen Colbert, which many on the left called an attack on democracy, a man who was making $20 million a year, someone I hold in high esteem, but the economics of his show were not working,' Griffin said during an appearance on CNN's 'Table for Five' on Saturday. CBS announced in July that they would be ending Colbert's late-night show at the end of the next broadcast season, citing financial reasons. However, Colbert's liberal allies believe the cancellation was political, as it came days after he criticized CBS' parent company, Paramount, for settling with President Donald Trump. Advertisement 4 Griffin said Harris decision to appear on Colbert was like 'announcing your exploratory committee on the sinking deck of the Titanic.' CNN 'He was losing $40 million a year. He was in the Ed Sullivan Theater, which is expensive, to talk about the plight of democracy at CBS, a network that's having its own struggles right now, rather than talking about the economics of the situation and playing to something a shrinking audience that is network television, not realizing it's not where the American voters are,' Griffin, an anti-Trump Republican who voted for Harris in 2024, continued. Griffin said Harris' decision to appear on Colbert was like 'announcing your exploratory committee on the sinking deck of the Titanic.' 4 Kamala Harris waving on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS via Getty Images Advertisement CNN data analyst Harry Enten dismissed Harris' comments during the interview about a broken system. 'Recently, I made the decision that I just – for now, I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken,' Harris told Colbert after he asked about her declining a potential California gubernatorial run. 4 Harris announced on Thursday she would be releasing a book on her failed 2024 campaign. CBS 'I just can't possibly believe that someone who was attorney general for a good period of time, a United States senator for a good period of time, and then vice president for four years and then ran for president, all of a sudden believes that the best way to solve it is from being outside the system. Oh, please. Not a chance on God's green earth that that's necessarily the case,' Enten said, reacting to Harris' remarks. Advertisement 'What's probably going on is she saw what the polling numbers were, perhaps for her running for governor of California. Yes, she has left open the idea that maybe she could run in 2028 for the Democratic nomination. But I'll tell you Abby, I've looked at those numbers. She would be the weakest front-runner since 1992. So the bottom line is this, she is looking at the numbers. She knows what's cooking. And then all of a sudden, you know what? Actually, this lifelong politician, I want to be outside the system. Give me a break,' the CNN data analyst added. 4 CBS announced in July that they would be ending Colbert's late-night show at the end of the next broadcast season, citing financial reasons. CBS via Getty Images Harris announced on Thursday she would be releasing a book on her failed 2024 campaign. Harris, in a video posted to social media on Thursday, announced that her new book, titled '107 Days,' will be released in September and will provide details on what she calls 'the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.' 'I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward,' Harris said.
Sky News AU
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
'The View' co-host criticises Kamala Harris' post-campaign interview with Stephen Colbert
"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin described former Vice President Kamala Harris' interview with Stephen Colbert as a "microcosm" of everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party after the party lost in 2024. "I was struck by, I'm going to try not be too harsh on this. This interview felt like a microcosm of everything that's wrong with Democrats post-election. I'm going to CBS and this sort of trying to make a point that they fired Stephen Colbert, which many on the left called an attack on democracy, a man who was making $20 million a year, someone I hold in high esteem, but the economics of his show were not working," Griffin said during an appearance on CNN's "Table for Five" on Saturday. CBS announced in July that they would be ending Colbert's late-night show at the end of the next broadcast season, citing financial reasons. However, Colbert's liberal allies believe the cancellation was political, as it came days after he criticized CBS' parent company, Paramount, for settling with President Donald Trump. "He was losing $40 million a year. He was in the Ed Sullivan Theater, which is expensive, to talk about the plight of democracy at CBS, a network that's having its own struggles right now, rather than talking about the economics of the situation and playing to something a shrinking audience that is network television, not realizing it's not where the American voters are," Griffin, an anti-Trump Republican who voted for Harris in 2024, continued. Griffin said Harris decision to appear on Colbert was like "announcing your exploratory committee on the sinking deck of the Titanic." CNN data analyst Harry Enten dismissed Harris' comments during the interview about a broken system. "Recently, I made the decision that I just – for now, I don't want to go back in the system. I think it's broken," Harris told Colbert after he asked about her declining a potential California gubernatorial run. "I just can't possibly believe that someone who was attorney general for a good period of time, a United States senator for a good period of time, and then vice president for four years and then ran for president, all of a sudden believes that the best way to solve it is from being outside the system. Oh, please. Not a chance on God's green earth that that's necessarily the case," Enten said, reacting to Harris' remarks. "What's probably going on is she saw what the polling numbers were, perhaps for her running for governor of California. Yes, she has left open the idea that maybe she could run in 2028 for the Democratic nomination. But I'll tell you Abby, I've looked at those numbers. She would be the weakest front-runner since 1992. So the bottom line is this, she is looking at the numbers. She knows what's cooking. And then all of a sudden, you know what? Actually, this lifelong politician, I want to be outside the system. Give me a break," the CNN data analyst added. Harris announced on Thursday she would be releasing a book on her failed 2024 campaign. Harris, in a video posted to social media on Thursday, announced that her new book, titled "107 Days," will be released in September and will provide details on what she calls "the shortest presidential campaign in modern history." "I believe there's value in sharing what I saw, what I learned, and what I know it will take to move forward," Harris said. Originally published as 'The View' co-host criticises Kamala Harris' post-campaign interview with Stephen Colbert
New York Post
28-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
CNN's Scott Jennings rips liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan for nationwide injunction hypocrisy: ‘Some of these folks really are hacks'
New York Post may be compensated and/or receive an affiliate commission if you click or buy through our links. Featured pricing is subject to change. Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings ripped liberal Supreme Court Justice Elena Kegan as a partisan hack for opposing the elimination of nationwide injunctions – despite wanting to end the practice when President Biden was in power. Jennings called out Kagan – one of three dissenters in Friday's historic Supreme Court ruling that prevents district court judges from interfering with a president's agenda – for previously and publicly slamming the widespread abuse of nationwide injunctions during a Democratic presidency. 'I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer, and I just want to quote it, because I think she was right when she said it,' the political commentator quipped on CNN's 'Saturday Morning Table for Five.' Advertisement 3 Scott Jennings on CNN discussing a Supreme Court decision. mediaite ''It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks.' Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a democratic president. Now she voted against the decision on Friday. 'Just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.' The lefty justice made the comment at a Northwestern University law school talk three years ago. Advertisement 3 CNN's 'Table for Five' panel discussion. mediaite Does anyone remember Justice Kagan being against nationwide injunctions when we had a DEMOCRAT President? Pepperidge Farms remembers. — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 28, 2025 Kagan told the audience that 'It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.' Advertisement Jennings called the 6-3 ruling a 'great day' for Trump after host Abby Phillips remarked how nationwide injunctions have 'been sort of the bane of existence' for both Democratic and Republican presidents. 3 President Trump at a White House press conference. / MEGA 'I'm glad they went ahead and fixed it because it's not right that one of these individual district court judges can act like a king or a monarch and stop the elected president from acting,' Jennings added. Advertisement President Trump has been slapped with at least 25 national injunctions on everything from spending reforms to education policy and deportation policies in the first five months of his second term in the White House. Kagan's liberal peers, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, also voted along ideological lines to reject the high court decision.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Former ESPN host pushes back on Disney's Iger for reportedly urging 'The View' to tone down Trump talk
Former ESPN host Jemele Hill called out Disney boss Bob Iger on Saturday for reportedly urging "The View" to tone down their political rhetoric, which is almost always directed at slamming President Donald Trump and his administration. "Trump is obviously, again, using his position as president to put pressure on these media companies and I think a lot of them are capitulating and feeling that pressure, because they have things and business deals and things on the side that they want to happen, that they want to do," Hill said during CNN's "Table for Five" discussion on Saturday, before suggesting it should be about ratings. "Do the ratings support that you should stop talking about Donald Trump? Probably not." Multiple Disney sources told The Daily Beast that both Iger and ABC News President Almin Karamehmedovic recently suggested that the all-female daytime talk show panel be less antagonistic on political issues, though the recommendation was reportedly not taken too seriously. Co-host Anna Navarro reportedly pushed back the most forcefully on the suggestion. "If you are Bob Iger, who I do have a lot of respect for - he was my former boss. If you're him, that's the only thing that should matter, as long as the audience decides that they have an appetite for that, then that's what the women should talk about, whether you like how they discuss it or not," she added. Biden Tells 'The View' He Wasn't Surprised Harris Lost, Blames Sexism And Racism A source with "The View" confirmed to Fox News Digital these discussions were had, but suggested not all the hosts are in lockstep with Navarro. Read On The Fox News App "Most hosts agree with the ABC top brass," the source told Fox News Digital. "'The View' is a daytime network talk show and needs to do more than just politics and Trump bashing. This was a welcome direction for many of us." When asked whether "The View" will ultimately pivot towards less political coverage as the second Trump presidency continues, the source responded, "It's hard to say," but added, "Ignoring Bob Iger seems like a terrible decision." Another source familiar with the situation said such conversations with talent are normal based on viewer feedback, and that this conversation in particular is about finding a "balance" in topics and reevaluating politics in general, not just stories pertaining to Trump. On the panel, CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp spoke out against Trump's attack against media companies and acknowledged while she had issues with "The View," she was proud of the co-hosts for standing their ground. Other CNN panelists, such as Montel Williams, who previously hosted "The Montel Williams Show," said he largely benefited from avoiding politics on his podcasts. "When he's out of office, what are they going to talk about then?" Williams asked. "I do two podcasts, I try to stay off politics completely, and guess what? My ratings are up, my numbers are up." Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "I do think, like, people suffering from MS, people suffering from PTSD, I do things like that because I think that our nation needs to be engaged in other conversations than just what he's [Donald Trump] doing every day. Because talking about him every day, I'm glad the ladies pushed back, but I would like them to take a trip outside of 'The View,'" he added. Hill also worried about the message the reported pressure from Iger would send to younger journalists. "To see, and I know that they're not straight journalists necessarily on 'The View,' but it's still representing a journalism body, so if the business that you work for, and again you all know I went through this at ESPN, if they're not willing to defend you in this moment, that's really leaving you vulnerable, and it's really leaving our entire industry vulnerable," she said. Disney did not immediately return a request for comment. Fox News' Gabriel Hays & Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this article source: Former ESPN host pushes back on Disney's Iger for reportedly urging 'The View' to tone down Trump talk
Yahoo
06-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CNN Pundit Says ‘We Were Lied To' About Trump's Far-Right Ties
A political pundit on CNN has accused the president of 'lying' to the American people about his ties to the far-right. 'This is the worst fear of a lot of people, who just to be honest with you, were gaslit and told that there was no connection between Donald Trump and white nationalism,' Van Lathan said during a Saturday appearance of Table for Five. 'We were lied to,' he went on. 'They're in the White House, they're talking to the president, and he's listening.' Lathan's comments come just days after Trump is alleged to have fired several National Security Council officials on the advice of far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. A 9/11 truther, self-described 'pro-white nationalist,' and 'proud Islamophobe,' Loomer reportedly singled out several of the now-fired aides for perceived disloyalty to Trump during an Oval Office discussion during which National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was also present. Waltz has taken 'full responsibility' for last week's Signal chat fiasco, in which The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal messaging group in which senior Trump cabinet officials discussed highly sensitive details about attacks on Yemen. Since then, Loomer had repeatedly pushed tenuous links between Waltz's aides and Trump's adversaries, including former President Joe Biden and the Chinese Communist Party, in particular suggesting those aides, rather than Waltz, might have been responsible for adding Goldberg to the chat. 'There's nothing off limits anymore,' CNN host Abby Phillip said in response to Lathan's comments on Saturday. She further reflected that during Trump's presidency, high-ranking GOP figures had been unnerved by the White House presence of advisors and confidants like Sidney Powell and Rudy Guliani 'because of how loony they were in that time.' 'Now, it seems like nobody is saying anything at all,' she added.
