It’s hard to comprehend the deaths of 12,800 children. We put up figures of children on our studio walls - one for each child killed in Gaza during the war.
They’re dying from airstrikes and now malnutrition and dehydration.
These are some of their stories.
Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that. It’s wrong when Democrats do it. It’s wrong when Republicans do it.
Thanks for posting this link, Mercedes. This is actually the data I referred to in our interview today so I’m glad anyone who is curious can click and see just how few cases of voter fraud occurred in their state during the 38 year span of this data base.
A few facts...
On
@CNN
today
@brikeilarcnn
told me loudly and repeatedly that The Heritage Foundation studied voter fraud and that "they have found that there is no fraud."
Here's a link to Heritage's database documenting thousands of voter fraud incidents:
#FakeNews
“I’m not the Brianna that the White House should be focused on right now. Breonna Taylor is.”
@brikeilarCNN
responds to Press Sec. Kayleigh McEnany’s remarks about her.
Across the country, election workers and officials risked their health so Americans could vote during a coronavirus spike. Tonight, many are in quarantine after being exposed to the virus.
Until I started dating someone in the military I effectively ignored the actual reason for Memorial Day.
Now I’m married to a service member and the holiday settles over my house like the anniversary of the death of a loved one, which I think most civilians can connect w/. 1/14
Trump says about covid: “You turn on CNN, that’s all they cover. ‘Covid, covid, pandemic. Covid, covid, covid.’”
Yes, we cover covid. Because we have 220,417 reasons to do so. And we won’t stop until the numbers slow down.
.
@brikeilarCNN
goes through some of the stories of people whose lives have been devastated by the pandemic over the past eight months, after President Trump criticized CNN for coronavirus coverage.
The Christmas tree fire at Fox was a serious incident.
Obviously it's incredibly scary to feel your work place is under attack.
Unless your work place is the Capitol.
Then, according to Fox hosts, it's not such a big deal.
#RollTheTape
No, I said it shows a lack of — courage, prioritizing the country and, I’ll add to that here, class, all of which Republicans have historically prided themselves on.
If you’re gonna quote me, quote me. Tweetstorming a straw man is a weak move.
Constitutionally, Senators are obligated to congratulate the person who hasn't actually legally become the president-elect yet, or it's a coup or something
This is a very big deal. And if President Trump doesn’t know Brent McGurk that’s not a demonstration that McGurk’s departure is a nothing burger, it’s a demonstration the president has a stunning disinterest in the foreign policy of his country.
Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!
@brikeilarcnn
It's telling that you are only now watching this. Been out for years. More evidence U and other media R in a bubble & don't know real people
Voter fraud of any kind is statistically negligible, as the Heritage database you link to makes clear. It certainly doesn’t seem worth the time and effort you or
@realdonaldtrump
spend knocking mail-in ballots. It’s logical to conclude that you have another objective.
Shots ring out behind
@clarissaward
- as she stands less than 200 yards from the entrance of the Kabul airport.
"It's definitely chaotic, she says. "It's definitely dangerous."
You heckled remarks about burn pit exposure, an urgent health issue for post 9/11 veterans.
You can’t honor the memory of 13 service members killed in action by disrespecting the memory and suffering of countless others who have and will be affected by burn pit exposure.
The left is pissed because I called out Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 of America’s finest in a flag-draped coffin.
They are mad because a speech was “interrupted”.
Ask the the families who lost their loved ones how interrupted their lives are now.
“Healthy societies do not destroy their own history,”
@TuckerCarlson
said last summer. But what he didn’t cop to is that he is part of the illness.
A propagandist.
A liar.
A parasite.
.
@brikeilarCNN
draws a contrast between how Fox host Tucker Carlson described Capitol rioters and Black Lives Matter protesters.
“Carlson rolls his eyes at the idea of systemic racism, at while privilege, but perhaps he should roll those eyes on over to a mirror.”
#RollTheTape
I have symptomatic covid and am so thankful to have the protection of being double vaccinated and boosted. Please be careful about potential exposures and get tested before gathering with friends and family.
It says a lot about your priorities that, per capita, at that rate, a coronavirus death is the US is 2,106 times more likely to occur than a case of voter fraud in presidential and other kinds of elections.
.
@jaketapper
“That was a hot mess. A dumpster fire inside a train wreck... a disgrace .. primarily because of President Trump.”
@DanaBashCNN
: “That was a shitshow.”
Unvaccinated Americans, disproportionately Republican Fox viewers, are fueling the surge, not migrants who are near 100 percent tested and quarantined if positive. Why not talk about the border crisis without dabbling in BS and racist tropes about immigrants.
Ah yes.
The talking points went out this morning.
The logical argument that "open borders leads to more disease" was far too obvious and damaging and libs panicked to come up with something.
However, libs will be shocked to realize that no one believes this agitprop anymore
Among Simone Biles’s critics,
@PiersMorganLive
, whose only athletic accomplishment is running off the set of his former tv show when another host simply questioned his criticism of Meghan Markle.
People who criticize US gymnast Simone Biles for withdrawing from two Olympic events due to mental health concerns “are witnessing strength, even as they condemn it as weakness,”
@brikeilarcnn
says on today’s
#RollTheTape
.
Know there is help. Please call 1-800-273-TALK
Republicans who fed and nurtured a monster - conspiracy theories, violent rhetoric, the bastardization of the Constitution - act surprised the monster turned on them. But when you sell your soul, at some point there is a debt to settle. Roll The Tape:
Nevada, your favorite mail-in voting state, had six instances of voter fraud over 38 years, none related to mail-in voting, which the Heritage database allows you to search by.
ER Doctor: I don't blame unvaccinated patients, I blame Fox
"I do blame Fox News and other right-wing media outlets for poisoning the minds of millions of Americans," Dr. Rob Davidson writes. "Wear a mask, get vaccinated and stop watching Fox News."
Also consider that in 2016 there were only 62 cases of voter fraud across the country (according to Heritage). Then consider that there have been 155,000+ deaths from coronavirus in the last six months.
Teargaslighting: Today marks one year since Donald Trump's infamous photo-op at St John's Church, and DC Police – through an attorney – is finally admitting that law enforcement used tear gas that day against peaceful protestors.
#RollTheTape
Hey everyone, my little girl is in a pretty rough stretch of her chemotherapy cycle and not feeling so hot. She could really use some prayers right now.
607,771 Americans have died of the coronavirus. 99% of those dying right now are unvaccinated.
Fox has become an anti-vaxxer's paradise. And it's risking and costing American lives.
"Just like Liz Cheney, I believe in telling the truth," GA Lt. Gov
@GeoffDuncanGA
says. "Any Republican talking...about the election fraud issues that have been debunked is not leadership. It only shows that you're able to take commands from Donald Trump."
"A gallon of milk was $1.99. Now it's $2.79. When you buy 12 gallons a week times four weeks, that's a lot of money."
@EvanMcS
goes grocery shopping with the Stotlers and shows us how badly inflation is hitting the middle class.
"They ain't controlling jack."
Lt. Gen.
@MarkHertling
, former Army Commanding General of Europe, on Russia claiming they control Kherson in southern Ukraine.
We can’t discuss the wave of disinformation jeopardizing American democracy without talking about the mothership: Fox. I don’t call it news, even if they do, because it’s not news.
#RollTheTape
#DemocracyInPeril
On CPAC — an event headlined by a former president — attracting far right anti-government extremists,
@TimPawlenty
said “if I went to a number of leftist gatherings I could find goofballs as well,” so I asked him for an example. He didn’t have one.
Tucker Carlson complains “You’re not supposed to criticize Tammy Duckworth in any way because she once served in the military.”
You can criticize her all you want,
@TuckerCarlson
, but questioning the patriotism of a decorated combat vet makes you the moron.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson targeted Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost her legs while serving in Iraq, suggesting she hates America.
“A war of words is the only place that he will ever wage battle,”
@brikeilarCNN
says.
It’s really head spinning how often House Leader Kevin McCarthy has said one thing only to turn around and contradict himself and then turn around and contradict himself contradicting himself.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy just contradicted himself about Trump’s role in the Capitol insurrection.
@brikeilarCNN
: “By feeding the conspiracy theory monster, [McCarthy] was a major part of why those rioters showed up at the Capitol.”
You can't just pretend your way out of a medical condition by not testing.
I have a two-year-old son.
If I hadn't taken a pregnancy test almost three years ago .... I would still have a two-year old-son.
Women lead our most lethal units with character. They will dominate ANY future battlefield we’re called to fight on.
@TuckerCarlson
’s words are divisive, don’t reflect our values. We have THE MOST professional, educated, agile, and strongest NCO Corps in the world.
My interview with the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of a White House meeting with the president and vice president.
What President Biden said to him as he left:
“When does the Pentagon declare war on a domestic news program?”
@TuckerCarlson
says, misrepresenting what the Pentagon did, also misrepresenting that his show is a news program.
Merry Christmas Eve! Enjoying one of our pandemic rituals, hopping in the car for a couple hours and blasting the tunes. 4 year old declares that Emotions by
@MariahCarey
is “a strong jam.”
Trump and his backers say Democrats can reverse Arizona’s 1864 era abortion ban.
Except Democrats tried… and Republicans blocked it.
And then Republicans tried and… a Republican blocked it.
We roll the tape.
I’m so excited to be joining
@JohnBerman
on
@NewDay
. I will miss my dayside fam who has done their best work under impossible circumstances this past year. Also welcoming your tips on waking up at 3am.
Big announcements about CNN's TV schedule this morning:
First,
@BriKeilarCNN
is moving to
@NewDay
, effective in April. Here's my full story about the schedule refresh
Nikki Haley blasts Taliban talks, despite praising Trump for the same
@jaketapper
: There is an attempted memory hole that is just insulting to everyone...
A good reminder after multiple calls by
@realDonaldTrump
this weekend not to count ballots after Election Day. This would disenfranchise military voters. Trump is calling for a scenario where service members are away from home, defending a country they don’t get to vote in.
#Military
absentee ballots will be counted as late as Nov. 23. Re-posting b/c of
@realDonaldTrump
comments today he hopes vote count will stop Election night. 1 in 5 of those 250,000 military absentee votes was cast in Florida
Honoring the path of motherhood today and the full range joy and pain that comes with it. Thinking of those who no longer have their moms or babies with them and those whose relationships with their moms or kids are not what they want them to be. ❤️
The list goes on and on and on. Election workers and officials shepherded an election through the worst days - so far - of this pandemic, accepting the risk of spending hours upon hours indoors together. Thank you.
Awaiting President Biden at the White House. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard all represented in a long line of service members spanning the north fence.
"Vladimir Putin is not someone who should be admired."
Lt. Col.
@AVindman
on former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo praising Vladimir Putin and the Trump administration's handling of Russia.
Nice touch - bringing the military into your disparagement of mental health resources as the veterans community faces a mental health crisis. Veterans, all, if you need help, there is help. Seeking it isn’t weakness.
A fact check on whether a president already has the authority to shut down the border under a 1952 law. They don’t, despite what Republicans like Rep. Brecheen say, even as they oppose the Senate bipartisan compromise that would grant it.
JUST NOW: Donetsk Region Military Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko says 20,000-22,000 dead in Mariupol based on info from diff source, figure is preliminary, not verified. He says Russian forces are taking Ukrainian bodies to separatist controlled areas to hide casualties.
President Trump often invokes the “I don’t know them” defense.
“The President has a clear pattern of denying that knows someone who is either in trouble or has criticized him or anyone really that he doesn’t want to be associated with,”
@brikeilarCNN
says.
125,596 new cases of coronavirus cases in the US today, per Johns Hopkins, the most cases in a single day since the pandemic began. It’s the second day in a row US cases top 120k, third day in a row they top 100k.
The Trump campaign is accusing military families who are legal residents of Nevada — including deployed service members — of voter fraud and has sent a list of their votes to the DOJ.
"It's not some special privilege to allow service members, their families, or others who are serving their country away from home to vote," says
@brikeilarcnn
on a report that some military spouses in Nevada were falsely identified as fraudulent voters.
BREAKING: WFOR is reporting that 4 teachers from Broward county have died of covid in a single day.
Three were unvaccinated. We don’t know the status of the 4th.
And if most Americans are disconnected, divested from the human cost of war, the price will be higher because of it, paid for by a small part of the population -- and the rest of the country might not even notice. 14/14
BREAKING:
@GOPLeader
Kevin McCarthy says he does NOT support a 9/11-style commission on January 6th - as he faces questions about his own role before and after the insurrection.
President Trump talks about getting husbands back to work, but it’s women who have been forced out of the workforce at four times the rate of men, according to his Labor Department. We roll the tape:
"It's 2020. Lassie's not coming to save us, and June Cleaver's not waiting at home with meatloaf."
In this edition of
#RollTheTape
,
@brikeilarcnn
takes a look at the President's dated obsession with "getting your husbands back to work."
"I think the entire Fox primetime lineup is basically organized around keeping people terrified."
"Much like a drug, when you start people on fear as a way to hook them ... you have to keep delivering bigger and bigger hits of that fear."
Tom Nichols of the Atlantic tells me
Those “illegal votes cast after Election Day” that Trump is talking about are not real. He’s referring to votes including military absentee ballots cast before Election Day but received after. They’ll be counted if they arrive in PA, GA by tomorrow, NV by Nov 10, NC by Nov 12.
Trump’s refusal to concede is the stuff of a bad break up, not a presidential election. The ex who just won’t accept it’s over, who won’t return your favorite tshirt, maybe even your dog. But American voters have been clear: they’ve found someone new.
#RollTheTape
.
@brikeilarcnn
on the inconsistent opinions of Pres. Trump and GOP officials on calling elections.
“He's in denial ... Asking the question, ‘since when does the media call who our next president will be?’ Well the answer, since always when it comes to modern elections”
Fencing going up around the capitol ahead of 'Justice for J6' rally.
@RepKinzinger
weighs in "... I don't understand it except there's a lot of bored people out there that probably never served a day in their life in the military and get to play dress-up."
Even if he calls your wife ugly. Mocks your dad. Puts a target on your brother's back. Rips your uncle... In the age of Trump, you can choose your friends - but you can't choose your family.
#RollTheTape
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says 1/6 was an "assault on law and order" but America must "move on."
Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone, assaulted by the mob that day: I would love to move on" but can't
Emotional & compelling interview.
Ukrainian tennis star Sergiy Stakhovsky returns to fight the Russians, leaving his wife & children behind.
Is he prepared to sacrifice his life?
Listen to his answer:
Doctors tell
@jaketapper
they disagree with White House adviser Peter Navarro’s statement that media is hyping need for protective equipment - CNNPolitics
Dr. Birx is a cautionary tale about letting politics and power warp science until it is no longer science, about not standing up for science when lives were on the line, about how a reputation of 40 years can be wiped away with a little bleach and sunlight.
.
@brikeilarcnn
rolls the tape on Dr. Deborah Birx for not calling out misinformation about the pandemic earlier.
"Her explanations are weak, they are woefully insufficient, they are an insult after more than 400,000 Americans have died."
Dr. Fiscus says TN's Department of Health has been instructed to stop promoting vaccines "of any kind" for children.
"That's infant, HPV... flu vaccine outreach in schools is being cancelled for the fall," she says."
Tennesseans have been "sold out for politics."
Former Tennessee top vaccine official Dr. Michelle Fiscus says she was fired after an argument over vaccinating children against Covid-19.
Many people and lawmakers are buying “into anti-vaccine rhetoric and conspiracy theory instead of listening to actual science,” she says.
Ex-Fox reporter: Fox hosts should reveal their vaccination status
"It is inconceivable to me that people won't explain what they're doing for their own health when they're trying to inform the United States of America," says fmr Fox Chief Political Correspondent
@Campaign_Carl
Several FL parents are now suing Gov Desantis over the mask mandate ban in schools - arguing kids with disabilities are being deprived of their rightful access to healthy/safe schools.
They say it's a violation of the Americans with Disability Act.
Former Philadelphia Police Commissioner and former DC Police Chief Charles Ramsey says of the effects of the Chauvin ruling on police: “This doesn’t hurt them. It supports them.”
What
@realDonaldTrump
and the prominent voices at Fox News like
@TuckerCarlson
are really saying is some people will have to be sacrificed to coronavirus. But they’re not raising their hands. They’re raising the hands of Americans who have given them their trust.
.
@brikeilarcnn
discusses how President Trump and Fox News are dangerously spinning the lethality of Covid-19 and selling Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis as "the sacrifice of a true leader."
I asked GOP Intel Committee Ranking Member Rep. Mike Turner if he would take home classified documents marked SCI/Special Access Programs, like those the FBI said it retrieved from Mar-a-Lago.
"No."