Salena Zito, Ben Domenech, Chuck Ross and Ben’s Chili Bowl Co-Owner Sage Ali on The Larry O’Connor Show 04.29.2020


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Yahoo News reporter apologizes to Trump after asking question with inaccurate statistic (The Hill)

Yahoo News reporter Hunter Walker apologized to President Trump after asking him a question on Tuesday that contained inaccurate information regarding per capita testing output between the United States and South Korea.

“Overall, South Korea has done five times more tests than the U.S. per capita,” Walker asked Trump during an Oval Office meeting that included Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) “Why is that?” [Read More]

Salena Zito interviews Gov. Tate Reeves: The road back from quarantine (Washington Examiner)

Tate Reeves, the 65th governor of Mississippi, describes the moment — the day after a savage and deadly storm that left a tangle of power lines, trees, overturned vehicles, flattened homes, barns, and death — as the kind that brings you to your knees.

He was in Jefferson Davis County the day after the Easter tornado when a woman approached him with a mask covering her nose and mouth and devastation in her eyes. [Read More]

How My Joke on Twitter Became a Federal Case (WSJ)

I’m under federal investigation for making a joke on Twitter.

In June 2019, employees at the left-liberal Vox Media Inc. walked off the job demanding a new collective bargaining agreement. As the publisher of a conservative website, the Federalist, I found the clash ironic. I tweeted: “FYI @fdrlst first one of you tries to unionize I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine.”

Although… [Read More]

Nursing homes care about their patients. Does Gov. Cuomo? (NY Post)

On March 25, when the hospital surge of COVID-19 patients was moving toward its peak, Gov. Cuomo issued a mandate requiring all New York nursing homes to accept patients appropriate for admission, regardless of whether they’d been diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Nursing-home residents have proven to be the most vulnerable population with regard to the virus, yet we were obligated to admit people who might potentially harm them. [Read More]

EXCLUSIVE: Steele Gave New Details About Clinton Ally’s Interest In The Dossier (The Daily Caller)

Former British spy Christopher Steele testified in March that a longtime ally of the Clintons contacted him in summer 2016 about his investigation into Donald Trump after learning about it from one or more Obama administration officials.

Strobe Talbott, the former president of the Brookings Institution, contacted him in the months leading up to the 2016 election inquiring about an investigation he was conducting at the time into Trump’s possible ties to Russia, Steele said in a sworn deposition on March 18. [Read More]

Ben’s Chili Bowl approved for coronavirus aid (FOX 5 DC)

Ben’s Chili Bowl, a U Street institution in Washington, D.C., has been approved for a relief loan that will help the restaurant keep their workforce employed during the coronavirus crisis. [Read More]

Joe Biden Tosses More Word Salad. Is He About to Get Tossed by DNC? (PJ Media)

We live in a deeply strange moment in history where a presidential candidate who happens to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of a hostile foreign power gives projectile word-vomit answers to a news anchor who appears to be wearing an Instagram-type filter instead of a suit. You can’t make this stuff up, and in the time of the Wuhan coronavirus, you don’t have to. [Read More]

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