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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, pointed to former Vice President Kamala Harris' role as a prosecutor on Monday as a reason why she didn't perform well with Black men in the 2024 election. Crockett appeared on The Chuck ToddCast with ex-NBC News host Chuck Todd, who asked the Democratic lawmaker if Black male voters were hesitant to vote for a woman. Harris served as a district attorney for San Francisco as well as California Attorney General before launching a bid for the Senate and ultimately serving as vice president. The former VP faced criticism from both sides of the political aisle over her prosecution record. "I definitely think that there was misogyny in this across the board no matter what color male you're talking about. I just think that you'd be in error to not like know that there was misogyny that existed," she said. "The very first polling briefing that we had, with a pollster that I trust a lot, he briefed the Black caucus, and he said that one of the issues that he was running into with Black and Brown communities was that she had been a prosecutor." Black Group Fires Back At Obama For 'Insulting' Harris Pitch: 'Worst Kind Of Identity Politics' "There was definitely some resume stuff that disallowed her from being able to build the type of rapport of trust within these marginalized communities that historically have been targeted," she said. Read On The Fox News App Crockett told Todd that she was given guidance to lean into Harris' background as a prosecutor, which she believed was not going to be helpful. "When I did it, I did a bit of a swing on it, right, as a criminal defense attorney, and I explained like this is the kind of prosecutor we all would have wanted, right? So, I built it that way," she added. Crockett said a prominent rapper told her he was uncomfortable openly endorsing Harris, citing her prosecution record. Click Here For More Coverage Of Media And Culture "So he told me that one of the issues was just kind of like the prosecutor thing. And I said, and I made sure to talk about the things that we had been told move the needle with these groups, right? Like knowing that she had like second-chance programs and things like that, like letting them know that she was one of the good ones," she said. The lawmaker argued that the fact that Harris was a prosecutor was "baked in" and people didn't know much beyond that. "When you're talking about 107 days of a campaign, it's kind of hard to get that across," she added. Crockett recently suggested Democrats were looking to run the "safest White boy" in 2028. "It is this fear that the people within the party, within the primary system, will have about voting for a woman because every time we voted for a woman, we've lost, so far," she said in a clip posted to Instagram. "And I think that that's a natural fear because we just want to win." The Democratic congresswoman added, "I had a donor on the phone with me telling me that all the donors are lining up behind that candidate. So I can tell, and I tell you, it's not a Black person, nor a woman, OK?"Original article source: Jasmine Crockett points to Kamala Harris' role as prosecutor as reason she had trouble with Black men
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
GOP Rep Says ‘Crazy' Laura Loomer ‘Off the Movie Poltergeist'
Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon went in on far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer Monday, saying she was right out of the horror movie Poltergeist. On Monday's episode of The Chuck ToddCast, host Chuck Todd asked Bacon what he thought of the recent firing of top aides after President Donald Trump's Oval Office meeting with Loomer Wednesday. 'Sometimes, I look at her and think she's like a character in some movie,' Todd quipped. 'She's right off the movie Poltergeist,' Bacon said. 'I shouldn't say that, but she's crazy. And I'll leave it at that.' After meeting with Loomer, Trump promptly fired six National Security Council officials, including Senior Director for Legislative Affairs Thomas Boodry, Senior Director for Intelligence Brian Walsh, and, most notably, Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, head of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. 'The president denies that she had a part in this firing, but there's no other explanation for it,' Bacon said. Bacon added that Haugh was 'the best that we had in our military.' 'He got fired for no apparent reason other than they said he was treasonous, which is baloney, total baloney,' he said. 'This guy was an American patriot.' He further claimed that his firing set the country back on cyber operations and signal intelligence: 'We're not as good today as we were last week.' Loomer registered her disdain for Haugh on Friday, saying, 'All Biden and Obama holdovers need to be fired.' 'As a Biden appointee, General Haugh had no place serving in the Trump admin given the fact that he was HAND PICKED by General Milley, who was accused of committing treason by President Trump,' she wrote. 'I'm working hard to protect President Trump and the integrity of US National Security.' In a previous version of the now-edited post, she also called both him and his deputy, Wendy Noble, 'disloyal' to the president, which is 'why they have been fired.' 'There are a lot of bad actors embedded all over the FBI, DOJ, NSC, NSA, DOD, and State Department,' she said in another post on Saturday. It will 'take time to hunt these people down, publicly expose them and have them fired and removed from their positions,' she added. Bacon, a former Air Force brigadier general who served in the Air Force for nearly 30 years, expressed his shock at Haugh's sudden firing, telling CBS's Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan on Sunday that, 'Frankly, he is the best that we had.' 'General Haugh is the absolute best leader in the US military to lead Cyber Command and the National Security Agency,' he said. He added that the rapid firing of these top generals would 'put us back' and 'hurt us.' 'Russia and China today are laughing at us because we just fired the absolute best leaders, the most qualified guys that we spent three and a half decades preparing to have this role, and he's gone,' Bacon said. 'It's heartbreaking to see that that decision was made without explanation, and it hurt us,' he said.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Revolving Door Round-Up: Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan to Co-Host The Weekend
Positions Filled: Antonia Hylton and Elise Jordan will be working on the weekends. MSNBC has named them co-hosts of the soon-to-be revamped The Weekend. The duo will join Ayman Mohyeldin and Catherine Rampell as co-hosts of the 6 p.m. ET edition of the panel-driven program, which is expected to launch in early May. Hylton joins MSNBC full-time as co-host and network correspondent. She was previously an NBC and MSNBC correspondent reporting on various stories across the country. Jordan was also named an MSNBC contributor, and previously served as a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, appearing on Morning Joe and other programs. All four co-hosts made a joint on-air appearance on Wednesday's Morning Joe, where they discussed the latest tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump. Kornacki Stays at 30 Rock: Data guru Steve Kornacki will remain with NBC News after MSNBC and CNBC are spun off into SpinCo. According to The Los Angeles Times, Kornacki has signed a new deal making him a chief data analyst for NBC News and NBC Sports. He'll continue to analyze and dissect polling data and election results, and make appearances during major sporting events. Kornacki will also appear on the NBC News Now streaming channel, as well as Meet the Press, Today, and NBC Nightly News. New Bureau Leader: Oren Liebermann will be CNN's new Jerusalem bureau chief after previously working in the region for six years as a correspondent. He'll manage the network's multiplatform operations in Jerusalemn and report to Andrew Roy, the general manger of EMEA and London bureau chief. Podcast Relaunch: Former NBC News and MSNBC anchor Chuck Todd has relaunched his podcast, The Chuck ToddCast. After a three-month hiatus, the now independent podcast dropped a new episode on Wednesday and is expected to deliver three weekly installments featuring in-depth interviews as well as Todd's commentary on the latest news and events.
New York Times
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Chuck Todd Wants You to Meet the Pods
Chuck Todd is sleeping in. Kind of. For nearly a decade, Sunday mornings meant waking up at 3:30 and putting on a suit and tie while preparing for his work as moderator of 'Meet the Press,' where Mr. Todd would interview presidents, senators and the occasional movie star on America's longest-running TV show. No longer. His 5:30 a.m. alarm these days is his 14-year-old poodle, Ruby, and his work uniform is more understated — jeans and a quarter-zip maroon fleece for a recent trip to the Capitol. But he's still interviewing senators. After leaving the corporate home of 'Meet the Press' in January, Mr. Todd is embarking on a career as a media entrepreneur. He has a podcast and a YouTube channel, and plans to hire other hosts for a podcast and video network focused on politics and culture. He also said he was working with an adviser from a major financial firm to build or acquire a company focused on community news. Mr. Todd said he was adjusting to the realities of digital entrepreneurship and full-time podcasting. Sound bites are out, Mr. Todd says. Longer interviews are in — because many officials want time to make their points with fuller context. The first episode of the podcast, 'The Chuck ToddCast,' released Wednesday, has an interview with Senator John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, and lasts about 45 minutes. 'The current system of legacy television just doesn't allow for that,' Mr. Todd said. He plans to release three podcasts a week with the help of a full-time producer. Mr. Todd's relationship with NBC News, his professional home for 17 years, became bumpy after he criticized the network's leadership over a decision to hire Ronna McDaniel, the former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, as an on-air analyst. Less than a year later, he was out. He had a podcast named 'The Chuck ToddCast' at the network, and the company let him take the name with him. 'I was ready to go,' Mr. Todd said. Mr. Todd said he missed some aspects of TV news, such as collaborating with producers and managing a team of journalists. But he said he was excited to 'sing for his supper' on the podcast and eager to find a business solution to a problem that had vexed investors for decades: the collapse of local news. Mr. Todd's business plan calls for a constellation of local sites owned by their communities — like his beloved Green Bay Packers — and anchored by coverage of local youth sports. The growing popularity of athletics and their importance to families who view them as a gateway to college make them an ideal subject to build around. No matter your politics, Mr. Todd said, you care about local coverage of your child's latest game. Mr. Todd and the bank he is working with are eyeing a purchase that could cost up to $2 billion, he said. He declined to say whether he had lined up any backers or specify the company they were looking at, but he ruled out major newspaper publishers. His decision to pursue the somewhat quixotic venture — one that has flummoxed many media executives — is inspired by his own experience. After years of covering Washington, Mr. Todd said, he concluded that the decline of local news had coarsened U.S. politics. Legislators have told him that their constituents aren't paying attention to local policy anymore because there are almost no local journalists around to cover it. 'A guy named Craig one day thought classified ads ought to be free,' he said about the rise of Craigslist, which decimated classified ad revenue for newspapers. 'Yada, yada, yada, Donald Trump became president.' No deal on local news is imminent, though. So for now Mr. Todd is settling into his new job as a full-time podcaster and streamer. 'The big change for me?' Mr. Todd said. 'I get to make breakfast.'
Yahoo
31-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Chuck Todd Leaving NBC News After Nearly 20 Years
Longtime NBC News host Chuck Todd announced Friday that he's leaving the network, indicating he plans to shift away from national media. Todd shared the news in a memo to staff and on his podcast, 'The Chuck ToddCast,' saying that Friday would be his last day at NBC News after nearly two decades as a fixture of the network's political coverage. 'I am leaving a bit earlier, frankly, than we had all originally planned, but there's a reason for it. I'm pretty excited by a few new projects that are on the cusp of going from pie in the sky to near reality,' said Todd, who slammed his employer on-air last year for hiring former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel. The network axed McDaniel a week later. Todd said he will retain his news podcast, but it will be going on a 'little hiatus' while he looks for a new network to host the show. On Friday's episode, he hinted his next career move will involve a shift away from national media. 'The reason I am ready to move is I think the media has a lot of work to do to win back the trust, and I think, frankly, national media isn't the place that's going to be able to do it,' he said. 'And this is no indictment of national media as the problem ― I'm a believer that national media is never always that trusted by people. The farther away something is, the more skeptical we are of it.' He continued: 'I do leave feeling a bit concerned about the moment of history that we're living in, but I'm pretty confident that we all sort of understand the challenge ahead of us, including my colleagues at NBC.' Todd didn't address his spat with the network over McDaniel in either his memo to staff or his podcast. His opposition to her hiring, he said, was rooted in her 'credibility issues' because of misinformation she spread while leading the RNC. Todd joined NBC News in 2007 as the network's political director, and later served as White House correspondent and the host of 'Meet the Press.' On that show in 2017, he famously called out Kellyanne Conway, then a senior counselor to President Donald Trump, when she used the phrase 'alternative facts' to defend Trump's lies. Semafor reported earlier this month that Todd was planning to leave NBC News and had been 'quietly' meeting with Washington media figures to discuss his exit. NBC News Star Tells Other Media Outlets He's Leaving Network: Report Chuck Todd Elaborates On Why NBC Shouldn't Have Hired Ronna McDaniel Chuck Todd Skewers NBC For Hiring Former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel
