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RUSH TRANSCRIPT: CAPEHART: “In less than a minute Congressman Mondaire Jones, if you win back the seat against Congressman Mike Lawlor, what is your first priority?” Jones: “The first priority has to be making sure that we codify Roe v. Wade and rescue our democracy. We are staring at a situation right now where there is not a democratic majority in January, Republicans may not certify a Joe Biden victory. It is just really important that we have adults in the room in the majority, unlike the chaos, extremism, and incompetence, that we’ve seen. But we have to do more than that, Jonathan. We, of course, have to secure our border. We, of course, have to make sure that we are banning assault weapons so that kids can stop getting gunned down in schools around the country, and we have to continue to lower the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare, which is something I’m very passionate about, as someone who watched his grandmother work past the age of retirement just to pay for the high cost of prescription drugs.”

O’DONNELL: “How big of an issue will abortion rights be this election year=” Jeffries: “It’s gonna be an incredibly significant issue. Because on it’s own, it’s about freedom, and the extreme MAGA Republicans have set in motion the erosion of reproductive freedom. We’re going to fight for it with every thing that we’ve got at our disposal. If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall. Social Security can fall. Medicare can fall. Voting rights can fall. And God help us all, but democracy itself in full. If Roe v. Wade can fall, then anything can fall. (...) Every single thing that we care about is on the ballot in November.”

LEMON: “Well, then Taylor, how do you reconcile the way marginalized — many of the people in these marginalized groups, obviously, they’re fighting for Palestine, for the Palestinians, for what’s happening in Gaza, but yet in Gaza, they would not have any freedom.” LORENZ: “They don’t have freedoms in Texas, in Florida. Does that mean we should go bomb Texas. That’s an absurd — ” LEMON: “I understand that, but, Taylor — Taylor, I’m a member of the LGBTQ community. If I go to Texas, they’re not going to throw me off a roof.”

Wilson: “But there is light on the horizon. There is a break in the storm. They still have a lot of money, but they are a fundamentally broken party. There are a lot of Republicans out there who are — who are struggling with one of the biggest issues that — one of the biggest mistakes the Republicans have made in a long time. Now, whether you are pro-choice or pro-life or anti-abortion or pro-abortion, however you want to phrase it or look at it or think about it, between 22 and 28 percent of Republican women are pro-choice.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: LEVIN: “Welcome back America we are here with her friend leo wrote civil rights attorney, Fox News contributor and dear friend of mine. You are also a teacher. You so it is and has been taking place at ucla and all over the country. Civil rights attorney, the idea of the federal government does not have enough authority does not have enough police state power with the FBI, U.S. Marshals, the ability to monitor, the ability to find the funding sources deal with the funding sources, use domestic terrorist and statutes for the idea the FBI sits on the side lay with this counterrevolution of marxism and Islamic’s going on. Destroying our educational system the idea of the attorney general says nothing for nothing effective. The president of the United States and blurts out a few comments but nothing effective. Nobody is directing the federal government to address what is taking place in this country. We have never seen anti-Semitism, Jew hatred in America like we have seen before. What you make of this?” TERRELL: “First of all let’s be very clear let’s not use the First Amendment to describe the criminal anti-Semitic conduct an that happened at ucla, school which is a national embarrassment and throughout the entire country. Listen there’s there is enough f law and protection that is not being used by the Biden Administration, why? They are playing politics let me mention something I’m sure you know title vi civil rights act I’m old enough to remember when black kids were protected by the federal government in the 50s and 60s. Joe Biden has abandoned Jewish Americans throughout this country. Jewish Americans deserve the same detection as any American citizen in this country but he is playing Michigan politics how dare they allow these criminals to dominate these universities and then be released on the street? Where are the federal chargers? Where is the department of education? Cut off their funds. Cut off every nickel and dime of federal taxpayer dollars to these Ivy League schools and colleges that promote Hamas and the Palestinians over there. Where’s the FBI investigation? Where is Merrick Garland? Or is the power of the federal government where the federal marshals to escort Jewish American kids to school? Nothing. The federal government Joe Biden have given these terrorists the green light to attack, harm, damage, and denied Jewish Americans to exist in this country. It is embarrassing and shameful.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Wallace: “It was hard decision, Lulu. What in the world was Kristi Noem thinking? One to do it and to to tell the world about it.” Garcia-NAVARRO: “I literally find this entire thing mystifying in every possible way as a dog owner and lover and I know that people on farms have a tough attitude towards animals that she was like, that was her companion. It‘s tragic, it‘s terrible. And I‘ll also say, what was she thinking and all of this, I mean, apparently she said she met Kim Jong Un at a certain point and that‘s been shown to be like fantasy, like who, fact check this book that is, I think what comes to the fore of this? She has been so surrounded by MAGA world that she thinks she can say anything and do anything. And when it gets pushed out into the wider public, I think she‘s found that the reaction is slightly different.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: GIGOT: “So what happens when students, a group of fact if all the city and students come and say, look, you must as a school with your endowment divest itself from, say,’s Israel, which is one of the demands that all of these student groups tend to be make of their, of their universities? If I mean, do you sit down and talk to theming or do you say thanks for your counsel, but now go back to class?” DANIELS: “You know, this – we all know the absurdity, the complete futility for one thing even if it were an appropriate policy to desert an ally and a democratic country. This wouldn’t with do any good. So we didn’t a lot of time on that. We didn’t have too much of that. The so-called demands tend to focus more on on-campus policies. But that was what the answer would have been.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BERRY: “It’s really important that we lean into our health care in mid-life, not lean out. It’s really important that when we go to see our doctors, they have thoughtful conversations with us about what’s going on with us. I have to do what no man can do, I have to say it, I said, I’m in menopause! Okay?”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: Steele: “As you are expanding the argument, we have news from NBC News that the campaign is trying to shorten speeches, less is more. Shorter and crisper speeches. I think that is a very smart idea. For everyone. I appreciate that approach. It is a way for the president to hit with clarity and stick his points and move on and not get lost toes about the scene setting around their and trying to reimagine the campaign going forward with what you just said. This idea of the president tightening his grip on the speeches.” FULKS: “Our campaign believes in quality over quantity. These touches and smaller things getting directly to the point of what is going on in this election are going to be easier for voters to tap into and also to go out and say and talk to their friends and family about what is at stake. Those are some simple things that we can say. Donald Trump is responsible for the fact that one in three women are living in an abortion ban. We’ve got to remove the clutter. Voters are tuning in. Donald Trump wants to be a dictator on day one and he is saying that he is proud and—“

FINN: “Over in Washington, D.C., at George Washington University, yesterday staff unfurled a large American flag above the anti-Israel protest there. But then later on in the day, protesters projected a ‘Genocide Joe’ signal onto that American flag. And in Los Angeles, at UCLA, the pro-Palestine encampment there was quite literally trashed.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: BLITZER: “I want to get your reaction to this part of Hope x‘s testimony today about the discussions on that Wall Street Journal story. She said this and I am quoting now: Everything we talked about in the context of this time period and this timeframe was about whether or not there was an impact on the campaign, how damaging was that?” CONWAY: “Yeah, I mean, look, it was obviously her testimony was that this was just a major major event. And if we all remember that weekend when the Access Hollywood tape dropped, I mean, as Hope Hicks testified, there was a hurricane that weekend and nobody covered the hurricane. And there was absolutely every reason to believe that any further stories about Trump‘s behavior with respect to women would be harmful to Trump and that‘s the reason why. And frankly, it‘s the reason why they cook this stuff, this whole conspiracy back to 2015 with Pecker that‘s why they paid off McDougal and they paid off Stormy Daniels.”

Biden: “I first met Katie Ledecky in 2012. I thought, my God, what an athlete. She won her first Olympic gold at age 15. And through hard work and humility, she’s won 10 Olympic medals. 10. 21 world championship titles, became the greatest female swimmer of all time. She continues to compete this summer at the Paralympics at age 27, which some say is old for swimming. 27 — don’t — don’t let age get in your way, I mean — Katie, age is just a number, kid. And I — and I can’t wait to welcome you back to the White House with more medals from Team USA. I really mean it. You’re the best. (applause)”

Reporter: “What did you ask — what did you talk about with the president?” HAMILL: “First of all, I only expected to be there for like five minutes. He showed us all these photographs, and you know, it was really amazing to me, because, you know, I was — I was invited to the Carter White House and I came. And then I came to the Obama White House, but I never was invited into the Oval Office and it was a large gathering. So this one was really extra special.”

Ocasio-Cortez: “There is a psychic weight to living in communities that are designed to be disconnected. It affects your social life. My neighborhood that I’m from, in The Bronx and Parkchester, we have some of the longest commutes in all of New York City. It is a commute not just to work, it is a commute to do anything. It is a commute to connect socially. It is a commute to connect spiritually. These decisions are designed to disconnect, disempower and isolate people. And when you layer that with a lot of Robert Moses’ racist intent to very much do so to a very specific kind of people, black, brown, low income, poor, etc., you can really see how it actually builds in organizing challenges to communities who actually want to empower themselves.”

Wallace: “There is something consistently dark. (...) He’s always been dark and he’s always been self-obsessed, a villainous narcissist, but there’s something more so.” (...) “Over the clear and present danger that the disgraced, twice-impeached, four times indicted ex-president poses to American democracy today.” (...) “We as a nation and as a Republic are not out of danger from Trump and Trumpism just yet.” (...) “Something really bad is going to happen, OK? It’s about to hit the fan in this country. When something happens what do you want to be able to tell your kids and grandkids you did. You good with nothing?” (...) “And if Donald Trump were president right now the world would be a much, much more dangerous place.” (...) “Trump’s affinity for Hitler was always covered under an umbrella of his stupidity, right?” (...) “America can survive one Trump term, it won’t survive a second.” (...) “There were no problems. But what — what we’ve also said to election deniers is not just they can do that on our airwaves, they — they — they can do that as one of us, as carrying employees of NBC News, as paid contributors to our sacred airwaves.” (...) “So you know, it’s time to do something different. Like we’re not going to have this conversation again.” (...) “Trump is running as an autocrat, full stop.” (...) “What is your plan for making sure he’s never president?” (...) “I mean, let’s deal with Hitler, OK?” (...) “In the cesspool that is the MAGA base.” (...) “He lies easier than he breathes.” (...) “Because at this exact time next year, depending on what happens in November, seven months from now, we can’t say for certain that there would even be a White House Correspondents Dinner, or even a free press, or even a White House Press Corps.” (...) “This time next year, I might not be sitting here.”

COLBERT: “You also wrote this in the Los Angeles Times recently, this was in November. You wrote this opinion piece there, it says ‘Cozying up to Trump, Univision is betraying its Spanish-speaking viewers.’ How so?” LEGUIZAMO: “Well, it’s kind of insidious because Spanish-speaking-only Latinos watch Univision and that’s where they get all their news and information. So, you should be impartial. You should be non-partisan. And they are not. It’s problematic to me.” COLBERT: “Are they right-wing in some way?” LEGUIZAMO: “Well, I have spoken off the record with some of the newscasters and they said that they were leaning — they were pushing them right way and they had Trump on. They softballed the whole questions. They wouldn’t allow Biden commercials on. Then they didn’t have Biden on for a long, long time. So I had to call them out on it. I called them out and their marketing people called me back.” COLBERT: “What did they say? LEGUIZAMO: “They said, ‘It’s not true. You know, we are not really — we are doing every thing we can to be nonpartisan.’ But I’m like, ‘Yo, how are you doing all these things that are not — that are leaning very MAGA?’ You need to be non-partial, otherwise I’m going to call you out again. So, I won’t be on Univision. I won’t be — they have the highest-rated Spanish language show. So I won’t be on ‘La flaca de gorda.’” (Laughter) COLBERT: “That’s too bad.” LEGUIZAMO: “For them.” COLBERT: “What does that mean?” LEGUIZAMO: “‘The Skinny and the Fat One.’ See, it plays better in Spanish. Because she’s skinny and he’s heavier.” COLBERT: “He’s far. I get the idea.” LEGUIZAMO: “You’re very sharp.” COLBERT: “Thank you very much.” LEGUIZAMO:” You’re from the Midwest, right?” COLBERT: “I’m from South Carolina.” LEGUIZAMO: “Oh, even sharper.” COLBERT: “Yes.”

BERNSTEIN: “The U.S. government can’t go bankrupt because we can print our own money.” UNKNOWN: “It obviously begs the question, why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves? I’m waiting for someone to stand up and say, ‘Why do we borrow our own currency in the first place?’ Reporter: “Like you said, they print the dollar. So why does the government even borrow?” BERNSTEIN: “Well, um, the, uh — so the, I mean, again — some of this stuff gets — some of the language that the MM — some of the language and concepts are just confusing. I mean, the government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money. Which is why — the government definitely prints money and then it lends that money by — by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They — they — yeah, they — they — they sell bonds. Yeah, they sell bonds, right? Since they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money. Yeah, so a lot of times — a lot of times, at least to my ear, with MMT, the language and the concepts can be kind of unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and then it uses that money to um — so, um, yeah, I guess I’m just — I can’t really talk. I don’t get it. I don’t know what they’re talking about, like, ‘cause it’s like, the government clearly prints money, it does it all the time, and it clearly borrows. Otherwise we wouldn’t be having this debt and deficit conversation. So I don’t think there’s anything confusing there.”

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: >> Hannity: let me ask you about your recent meeting with President Trump which I was glad to see to be very honest from the very beginning and I had said it often, publicly that I did not like the contentious battle that had emerged between two former friends and allies. I didn’t like it one bit. I’m glad they both got together, whatever you feel like sharing, share. I’m sure there’s probably part of it that was confidential between the two of you. >> I mean back in January I endorsed him. I think it’s really important that we win this election and I reiterated that to him. We are going to be active in a variety of capacities throughout the rest of the year to help not just the top ticket but all around the country and particularly in Florida with some of the key issues we have to deal with. A lot of it was connecting about things. He has a kid going to college, I’m a dad I’ve got three young kids in the household. He’s concerned about how my wife is doing. Cancer scare a couple of years ago. It was just a good meeting and a good conversation. He understands the importance of this election, he understands the damage that Biden is doing and I think you would see 180-degree different policies if we are able to win in November which is important that we do.

RUSH TRANSCRIPT: >> We have to take a break in a moment, but I have been wondering all day what you thought of this Trump post where he is is — he said contrary to the fake news media I don’t fall asleep during the crooked d.a.s witchhunt. I simply close my beautiful blue eyes, sometimes, listen intently, and take it all in. George Conway. >> That is perfect Donald Trump. His reputation has been in the past that he is sleepy Donald. I’ve talked to people who wrote books about him back in the day and he never showed up at Trump Tower before 11:00 A.M. And we know what he did at the White House. He was not there in the morning. He was not an early riser to read his important briefing books. This is rough on him. He has to get up every morning. He is not free to fly around the country like we are and the people on the telephone commercials. >> There is that for a reason.

[Clip starts] AINSLEY (voice-over): “Tonight among the record wave of migrants crossing the southern border a suspected ISIS member who lived freely in the U.S. for nearly two years, two U.S. officials tell NBC News. 30-three-year-old Javokhir Attoev of Uzbekistan crossed into Arizona and February 2022, where he was apprehended and vetted by both Customs and Border Protection and ICE. He was not on the U.S. terror watchlist and he was released into the U.S., two sources tell us. Then in May 2023 Uzbekistan put down an international alert, saying that Attoev was affiliated with ISIS and wanted there. But it took nearly a year for U.S. officials to figure out this suspected ISIS member was living freely here in the U.S..” [Clip ends] AINSLEY (on camera): “U.S. officials tell us DHS made the alarming discovery after reviewing Attoev’s application for asylum. Shortly after DHS connected the dots ICE arrested him here in Baltimore, just two weeks ago.” [Clip starts] AINSLEY (voice-over): “Former Homeland Security officials tell us his case raises red flags about the vetting process for migrants after they cross the border.” AINSLEY (on camera): “Should alarm bells be going off here?” NEUMANN: “We are in the midst of a really volatile threat environment. Anytime I see a gap in a system like we — we are seeing in this case, I do have concerns. Anytime you have just a massive volume of people, like we do, our systems are overwhelmed and we need more resources at the southern border to properly protect the homeland.” [Clip ends]

UNKNOWN FEMALE: “I think it’s more than divestment as well. I think, given the fact that the University of California is founded on colonialism, it’s inherently a violent institution. There needs to be an adjustment of U.S. imperialism and its ties to you the UC system and how it perpetuates war and violence abroad. Not only abroad, but also here locally. We see this with the — the — the brutality, the police brutality, that black and brown students face here at UCLA, Arab students, Muslim students, Palestinian students, and I myself have personally have been, like faced that — those violences that the UC has perpetuated and continues to perpetuate. It’s not just a means of divestment, it’s a divestment from Zionism. Yeah.”

POMERANTZ: “On the advice of counsel, I’m not going to answer that question, sir.” Gaetz: “Asserting what privilege?” POMERANTZ: “Privilege against self-incrimination.” Gaetz: “And did you knowingly break any laws when investigating President Trump?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “Did you break any laws when you worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “Mr. Pomerantz, did you violate any person’s constitutional rights when you worked on the Trump investigation?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “I have the same response to your question” Gaetz: “Mr. Pomerantz, did you violate any person’s constitutional rights while you worked at the Manhattan DA’s Office? DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same answer.” Gaetz: “Did you misuse any federal funds while investigating President Trump?” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “Did you misuse any federal funds while you were working in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office?” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “And did you violate any New York State bar rules while you’re investigating President Trump?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “Did you violate any New York State bar rules while you were working in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “And did you violate any canons of legal ethics when you were investigating President Trump?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “Same response.” Gaetz: “Did you ever violate any canons of legal ethics while you worked at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office?” DUBECK: “Objection.” POMERANTZ: “The same response.”

Sharpton: “But — but that is the bottom — anytime what you are protesting for —“ SCARBOROUGH: “Right.” Sharpton: “— become secondary to what you are doing, then you’re really not protesting for it. And — and — and you in many ways dramatize. What we did in the ‘80s, what I did later in other situations was to bring attention to a cause, not become the cause.” SCARBOROUGH: “Right.” Sharpton: “And what is troubling me about a lot of this is they become the cause, it’s about them. It is not about pushing the cause. They need to ask themselves if they were sincere.” GEIST: “Right.” Sharpton: “Are you really focusing on what’s going on in Gaza, about the children, about the women, about the innocent people and in Israel? Are you focusing on whether or not you are violent or whether or not you can say the most incendiary statement? How are you guiding this? It’s about them. And I think —“ BRZEZINSKI: “Right.” Sharpton: “— they — they’ve lost the message. And I think that’s because they’ve been infiltrated by people that are there —“ [crosstalk] SCARBOROUGH: “Yes.” BRZEZINSKI: “That is what I’m worried about.” SCARBOROUGH: “Well, and that is — that’s — that’s what we’re all worried about.”

WAGNER: “Joining me now is Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, Democrat from the great state of Washington and chair of the House Progressive Caucus. Congresswoman Jayapal, thanks for joining me and helping me understand what exactly went down in the House today. I mean, my first question is, the language of this bill and why it was so broad. Do you have a sort of a thesis as to why the scope was so large?” Jayapal: “Yeah, Alex, I do, and that is that, unfortunately, I think Republicans are trying to weaponize anti-Semitism. They want to bring bills to the floor that actually divide Democrats. And what we really need to do if we want to tackle anti-Semitism, which I believe every Democrat does want to do, and many Republicans, we would do — we would bring a bipartisan bill and we would have a whole-of-government approach that involves educating people about what anti-Semitism is and what it isn’t, and making sure that we are all speaking with one voice. I think it’s incredibly hurtful to the cause of eliminating anti-Semitism for Republicans to weaponize it and to be hypocrites about bringing forward something that is for pure political gain, not about fighting anti-Semitism. So that’s why I think they brought this bill, because they knew that it would not get full Democratic support because it doesn’t get full support from the Jewish community. It doesn’t get full support from people who have looked at this issue and said, ‘We have to be very careful about how we define this.’ And especially, by the way, this is being targeted and tied to educational funds that go to colleges, so it has incredibly important ramifications.” WAGNER: “Well, and sort of a dual-pronged attack both on Democrats and liberal institutions of higher education.”

Did you hear what else he said she said the people that of of structure they’re coming in this country that most of them is because of climate change. I didn’t hear that one asked. Amazing, it is straight out us our part. I history that south park wow like what they are now. I like waiting, oh, like our, that is there more climate changed more than I know you do know some. I don’t know like what he’s saying in the what’s going on down. There best are those clips. I just saw one on Instagram the other day from like 19. 80 five were a news casters it I they might have been been. Black and white she sang the the climate change. Scientists tell us that we may only have 10 years before the earth is destroyed. 19 90 two is gonna be the year and then whoever made this clip, they juxtaposed her clip with one from a Bernie Sanders, saying the exact same thing with a. Different date, you know how many decades later