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DNC Chair Ken Martin rejects the idea of a schism between DSA and "establishment" wings of the Democratic Party, saying there is "more that unites us than divides us" during an appearance Thursday night on CNN. LAURA COATES, CNN: There's an ideological tug- of-war in your party. We've seen some mainstream incumbents strongly reject, that's their word, reject the DSA candidates and the platform. So, how do you keep both wings in the same tent without tearing it apart? KEN MARTIN, CHAIRMAN, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE: Democrats are unified. We are united, and we're through most of these primaries now, so it's no longer Democrat on Democrat violence. Right now, everyone is focused on the November election. COATES: Do you think they're really united, though, Ken? I don't want to cut you off, but the DSA, you're saying that all the Democrats and the DSA candidates, they're all united? MARTIN: Let me say, we are a big tent party. We always have been. As you've heard me say before, we have moderate D

OANN's Jack Posobiec speculated about this new report from "Just The Nes about Rep. Eric Swalwell's relationship with an alleged Chinese spy, Monday on Bannon's "War Room." "So you're telling me it wasn't a Russian intelligence operation, but we now have direct evidence that a Chinese intelligence operation was involved in Trump's first Russiagate conspiracy? And running, by the way, the House Intel Committee?" he said about former House Intel member Rep. Eric Swalwell. "So my question isn't what was he passing to her... What receivables was Eric Swalwell asked to put in?" STEVE BANNON: Since you're a former intelligence officer in the Navy, with Swalwell, how could this have gone on for so long? Clearly he was getting honeypotted, but that was a story forever. But now it's so much worse. Ministry of State Security--they tried to flip her, but the bottom line is she's a Chinese spy. He's on the House Intel. Not only is he getting fed the most sensitive information our government has, or virtually the

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani admitted he is not legally qualified to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after suggesting he might this week in an interview with the New York Times and then still implying he could at a press conference on Monday. On Tuesday, Mamdani reiterated that he believes Netanyahu is a "war criminal" and "architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people," and that he agrees "Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes." But after that, Mamdani admits that the city of New York "does not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant." "And I want to be equally clear: Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City," he adds. ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people. He is responsible for the killing of more than 73,000 people; for the maiming of tens of thousands of children, as those

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani hedged when asked if he is planning to carry out his campaign pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court when he arrives in the city later this year for the United Nations General Assembly in September. "I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague," the mayor told NYT's Lulu Garcia-Navarro. "He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court." "Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that’s what we will do. But we won’t be writing our own laws to that end." Mamdani said the question is the subject of an “active conversation” with the city’s legal department, and he is going to "follow the law." Whether he meant international law, federal law, or city law remains unclear. Here's his full interview, published Saturday with NYT's Lulu Garcia-Navarro: [Around minute 25] LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO: Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin

Ben Shapiro condemned people asking questions and pushing conspiracy theories about the murder of Charlie Kirk: BEN SHAPIRO: Obviously, the outsized hatred and mockery of Erika is being generated somewhere, and we know where that is coming from. And that's evil. It's wrong. She's a widow with a couple of kids. It's disgusting. And again, not all fun and games. Not all jokes. Not just a bunch of entertainment content that you're consuming, like George Noory at 2 a.m., listening to alien stuff. This is evil, and it has much, much deeper consequences even than the immediate. And this is a real question: Is there a conservative movement left to save? That's the question. Because conservatism depends on one very simple premise: you are responsible for your own actions. Conspiratorial systems are not responsible for your failures. Your choices are in your own hands. That is what conservatism is rooted in, in a free country like the United States. But if you sell people a bag of goods that says that

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has repeatedly stated his belief that President Donald Trump is "suffering from dementia." CNN's Kaitlan Collins asks him if he's being serious, and how he plans to relate to working-class people as a billionaire. "You were a billionaire whose net worth Forbes puts at $4.3 billion," Collins said to Pritzker. "What do you make of Democrats in your party as we lead up to 2026 and the midterm elections, and 2028, who rail against the billionaire class in your party?" "I completely understand how people feel looking at Elon Musk," Pritzker said. "Look at what the other kind of oligarch Big Tech types have done, right? Those are the examples that people have now of billionaires. Look at Donald Trump and the way he has treated working class and middle class people. The fact is that I understand why people feel as they do." "So, you think you're a billionaire who can be different for voters?" CNN's Collins asked. "That's a funny way to say it," the Illinois governor said.

Georgia Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff said about Republicans: "They are literally the elites they pretend to hate. The same folks who tried so hard to cover up the Epstein files. Listen, here's the bottom line; if you're involved in any of this, next year you'll be raising your right and hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God before the United States Congress."

Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, who reportedly told President Trump yesterday that he would not be "bullied into silence" about Iran, after voting for a War Powers resolution to stop Trump's authority to restart hostility, has apparently changed his mind after getting a "classified briefing," he tells CBS's Margaret Brennan. MARGARET BRENNAN: So Senator, as I understand it, the vice president and special envoy Witkoff gave you a special briefing in the Situation Room late Wednesday on Iran. What you heard made you change your vote. Why are you no longer trying to stop the president from resuming strikes in Iran? SEN. BILL CASSIDY: That actually was not my original rationale for voting for the War Powers Act. My original rationale was because we were not being briefed. It could be the Senate, the Congress, or the United States, and I felt it important that we be briefed. I agreed with the president's original goals. Those were not being achieved -- by my perception. And so before I could s

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on Sunday, where he pledged the IDF would remain in Southern Lebanon "until the threat is removed," asking: "What would America do?" Here is Netanyahu's full speech on Sunday: His comments: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: As long as we need to protect our people, we will remain in the security zone in south Lebanon. And the reason, the reason is perfectly understood. No country would be asked to do otherwise. Now, you imagine the United States across the border. You have thousands, an army of thousands of terrorists who pelt your cities and your towns with rockets and ballistic missiles and killer drones. They kill your soldiers. They kill your citizens. They kill your children. And they threaten them every day. Well, what would America do? Would it say, “Well, there's nothing we can do. Let's hold our fire”? Is that what America would say? No. You know damn well what America would do. It wou

Vice President Vance brought up the idea of a "Persian Libya" twice during an interview on the "Diary of a CEO" podcast, saying one thing the U.S. and Iranian government agree on is preventing Persia from becoming a "Libya-style rump state," "basically a failed state with 90 million people." "They want to have a much brighter future," he said. "Look at Persian culture, at the history of Iran, this is one of the proudest and oldest civilizations anywhere in the world. They don't want to be like a Libya-style rump state." "There's a question about how to get there," he said. "But I do think something has fundamentally changed in the way that regime sees the world." "I'll tell you right now, is Iran turning into a Persian Libya good for the United States of America? Absolutely not," Vance also said. The U.S., British, and French overthrow of Libyan leader Qaddafi in 2011 created an anarchic situation that persists 15 years later, with rival foreign-backed factions, documented slave markets and human