Bill Maher instinctively knows what doom awaits Democrats on Tuesday’s Election Day, as polling indicates an arrow pointing down for Big Blue, So despite a few jokes at the top of the show, he spent the bulk of Friday’s Real Time trying to figure out how things went so wrong for an administration that came
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Saturday Night Live took on the Republicans’ lineup of high-profile midterm candidates Herschel Walker, Dr. Oz and Kari Lake, skewering them for their lack of experience and extremist ideas even as they have a good shot at winning their races, driven by their celebrity status. The cold open was a satire on PBS NewsHour, with
Saturday Night Live reimagined the Democratic Party’s 2024 Presidential candidate search as a trailer for a horror movie “from the producers of Smile and the twisted minds of Morning Joe.” In it, a group of friends in a house together at night are horrified by the prospect of President Joe Biden running for reelection at
For the second time in as many days, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt today blasted former President Trump’s remarks in which Trump said that American Jews need to “get their act together” to show appreciation for Israel “before it’s too late” sounded like a threat. Greenblatt made the comments on CNN. The sense of gratitude should also
Cast members from Veep and The West Wing reunited for a virtual fundraiser for the Wisconsin Democratic Party on Sunday, an event that was a mix of amusing memories, their own brushes with fame and warnings about what was at stake in the upcoming midterms. During the event, actors re-enacted an abortion-themed scenes from each
Chris Wallace, the CNN Anchor and host of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on HBO Max, had a startling confession during his segment on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. During a conversation between Maher and Wallace lamenting today’s conservative/liberal polarization of the news, Wallace traced the problem back to the golden days of three major
UPDATE, FRIDAY, 10:17 AM PT: President Joe Biden warned that Hurricane Ian continues to pose a threat, as it strengthened again and made landfall on Friday in South Carolina. “Please listen to all the warnings and directions from local officials and follow their instructions,” Biden said from the White House. The hurricane made landfall near
The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared legislation that would give news outlets a reprieve from antitrust laws and allow them to band together to negotiate agreements with tech platforms. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act passed in a 15-7 vote, drawing bipartisan support. “We actually share the view that this is not about content. This is
UPDATED, 9:10 AM: The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol tweeted that it will hold its next hearing at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, September 28. It will be the panel’s first hearing since the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on August 8. PREVIOUSLY on September 15:
UPDATED: A redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the August 8 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property was unsealed Friday. The heavily blacked-out document nevertheless showed that, in the 15 boxes that Trump initially sent to the National Archives, 184 documents had classification markings, including 25 marked as top secret. The affidavit is
For the first time since an old video of him shopping for crudité went viral, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz has spoken out. “I’m at Wegner’s,” Oz says in the video, apparently mixing the names of two separate grocery chains, Wegmans and Redner’s. (Signs in the background of the video clearly indicate he’s at
Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters on Thursday that the Justice Department has filed a motion to unseal portions of the search warrant used in Monday’s FBI action at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property. The motion — which you can read here — says that “the public’s clear and powerful interest in understanding what
John Oliver mocked Liz Truss, currently in the running to replace Boris Johnson as the UK’s prime minister, on Sunday night’s episode of HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight due to a tweet mourning sex offender Jimmy Savile. “Truss has a real knack for making bad decisions and then very much sticking to them,” Oliver said.
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is out on a rehabilitation tour. Sure, he’s got a new podcast to tout, and will soon start a new primetime show on NewsNation (formerly WGN). But the real agenda is to win back the reputation he lost when CNN dismissed him for allegedly violating its journalistic standards by consulting
For a man who spent years on television, Dr. Mehmet Oz doesn’t seem very media savvy. Oz who is the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat and has been trailing in the polls vs. Democratic rival John Fetterman, tried to play it funny on Thursday, tweeting a photo of his opponent photoshopped into what
Two members of the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. capitol indicated this morning that there may be more televised hearings yet to come. Last week, Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson had declined to say whether the upcoming primetime session on Thursday would be the committee’s final hearing, but told NBC
The race to replace Boris Johnson has begun in earnest and Sky News will be first out the blocks in hosting a leader debate next week, with the BBC expected to follow suit. Eleven Conservative candidates have thrown their hats into the ring to be the next UK Prime Minister, following Johnson’s bitter sort-of-resignation last
UPDATED with next hearing date and more: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol said today that its next televised hearing will be Tuesday, July 12, starting at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT. NEXT HEARING: Tuesday, July 12th at 10:00am ET — January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 5,
Alex Holder said that during the interviews he conducted for his Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, Donald Trump never wavered from his contention that the election was stolen from him, while his children, including Ivanka, supported their father’s post-election challenge. Yet Holder’s access to the First Family isn’t the only reason that the January 6th Committee was
Broadcast networks broke into regular programming to cover the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, while cable networks have been virtually non-stop in providing reaction. That will continue this evening. Rachel Maddow will host her MSNBC show, breaking from her regular schedule. Norah O’Donnell will anchor CBS Evening News from the Supreme Court.
Mark Shields, who provided witty, informed and insightful analysis of politics on PBS NewsHour for more than three decades, has died. Shields was 85. He died of kidney failure at his home in Chevy Chase, Md., on Saturday morning, a spokesperson for NewsHour told Deadline. Judy Woodruff, the anchor of NewsHour, wrote on Twitter, “I
Ginni Thomas, conservative political activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was served with an official letter yesterday from the Congressional Committee Investigating January 6 requesting an interview, according to MSNBC. A reported copy of the letter posted online says, “The Select Committee has obtained evidence that [Trump lawyer] John Eastman worked to
J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, said that if Mike Pence went with Donald Trump’s orders to reject the electoral vote count for Joe Biden it “would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in America.” Luttig, a
The top two Los Angeles races in today’s primary election look to have both kicked the can down over to November. Based on early results, Rep. Karen Bass and developer Rick Caruso will face-off in a runoff election in six months, as neither Democrat garnered more 50% of vote to win outright their bid to
UPDATED: When the January 6th Committee holds its first primetime hearing on Thursday, Fox News will stay with its primetime lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham instead carry the proceedings on Fox Business Network. The hearing starts at 8 PM ET on Thursday, with broadcast networks planning to preempt their regular scheduled
When voters go to the polls Tuesday for Los Angeles’ primary election, they are likely to advance two mayoral candidates to the general election: Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) and developer Rick Caruso. If so, Hollywood’s unusual split in its loyalties between the two could be an indicator of a highly contentious and massively expensive November
Broadcast and cable networks plan to carry President Joe Biden’s address on gun reform on Thursday evening. The speech is scheduled to start at 4:30 PM PT, and Biden plans to call for congressional action in the wake of recent mass shootings in Uvalde, TX, Buffalo, NY and Tulsa, OK. In the Senate, a bipartisan
“Who will say on this network or any other network in the next few days, ‘It’s time to repeal the Second Amendment’?” Michael Moore asked MSNBC host Chris Hayes today. “Oh, you can’t say that,” he imagined Americans replying. “Well why not?” asked Moore. The Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine filmmaker posed the question as the
The jury in the Johnny Depp–Amber Heard defamation trial on Thursday saw the actor’s former agent and former business manager describe the collapse of his reputation and his finances by the time they were let go in 2016. UTA’s Tracey Jacobs, who had represented Depp since the 1990s, laid out how the star came to
The White House Correspondents Dinner has finally returned to the art of the presidential schtick after being off for several years. The red carpet featured the red carpet debut of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson. The shapewear mogul donned a silver Balenciaga gown while the SNL star sported a black suit and sunglasses with Vans
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