'Do I look stupid to you?' Morning Joe erupts amid on-air screaming match

09/09/26 1:29 PM

MS NOW's Joe Scarborough lost his temper on Wednesday — screaming over one of his guests to declare he wasn't "stupid." Scarborough was responding to new reporting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had advance warning of the brutal October 7 attacks, and failed to intervene."He was responsible for the funding of Hamas for years, billions of dollars," said Scarborough. "Three weeks before Qatar asked, should we continue funding Hamas? And the answer they get back from Netanyahu's government ... yes, yes, keep funding them. At the same time, he's getting a warning, an explicit warning, Israel is about to be attacked from Hamas. Now he is lying through his teeth in the campaign saying, oh, if they only woke me up. They did wake him up."Scarborough argued Netanyahu "did nothing" to help while "Jews were getting raped and killed, beaten alive while children were being tortured, while parents were being shot in front of children, and children were being shot in front of their parents."Scarborough turned to panelist Donny Deutsch. "You care deeply about Israel," he said. "Have you been able to figure out in all of your reading and all of your talking about this ... why Netanyahu funded Hamas, an organization that said, our goal is to exterminate Jews," even after "he'd gotten the warning from the UAE that, hey, a major attack is coming?""I can't explain Bibi," admitted Deutsch. "But I just don't want us to forget as we get close to three years, October 7th, that Hamas, to your point, slaughtered, raped, mutilated 1200.""So back to my question," said Scarborough, his voice rising to a shout as Deutsch tried to talk over him. "My question, Donny. It's not like Netanyahu didn't know.""Do I look stupid to you? Do I look stupid?" he yelled. "Look at me. Look at me in my eyes, Donny ... that I'm going to be distracted by you saying what you said a million times." - YouTube www.youtube.com

'Huh?!' Trumpworld's new excuse for spiking gas prices staggers analyst

09/05/26 3:20 PM

President Donald Trump's Cabinet members admit the war has spiked gas prices to record highs — but it's not the war you think. Both Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy have given public interviews claiming the war in Ukraine is causing Americans to suffer at the pump. "Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets," said Bessent during a Fox News interview. "That is creating a price pressure on a global basis.Duffy, during a "Fox & Friends" appearance on Saturday morning, said something very similar."When you look at diesel, you have to look at Russia and Ukraine," said Duffy. "That puts pressure on the global market." These comments caught the attention of progressive political commentator David Pakman whose initial response was, "Huh!?" Pakman argued the Trumpworld leaders were scrambling to find anyone else to blame besides Trump, the president who launched an optional war in Iran, one of the world's largest oil-producing regions. "There are a few layers of dishonesty here," said Pakman. Pakman admitted Ukraine's defensive attacks on Russian refineries had affected global prices by reducing exports of refined products to a limited extent, but then highlighted Bessent's usage of the words "has decided.""As though Ukraine woke up one morning and said, 'Let's blow stuff up in Russia,'" he said. Pakman then turned his attention to what he described as an "Iran-shaped elephant" looming over Bessent. "Trump chose to launch this war against Iran," Pakman said. "The predictable consequence is this massive disruption to global energy markets."

'Netanyahu's luck may have run out': Blunt warning served to Trump ally

09/09/26 2:18 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is viewed as a global "pariah," according to CNN's Harry Enten, and prediction markets show his odds of remaining prime minister after the next election sliding sharply.The United Kingdom, France and Canada have announced plans to sanction illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, underscoring rising friction between Israel and some of its closest Western allies, and Enten told "CNN News Central" that Netanyahu's net confidence rating worldwide sits 56 points underwater.That's worse than Donald Trump's, whose net rating is 53 points underwater despite being broadly unpopular internationally. By comparison, Vladimir Putin's rating is 22 points better than Netanyahu's, and Xi Jinping's is 37 points better. "He manages to even be three points less popular than Donald Trump, who, of course, is despised worldwide," Enten said.Israel's net favorability rating worldwide is 42 points underwater — 17 points worse than Russia's, 22 points worse than the United States', and 30 points worse than China's. "Among sort of the countries that are often in the news, Israel is by far the least popular one that's out there," Enten said.That unpopularity is no longer confined to one side of the political spectrum, Enten added, pointing to the U.K. as an example. Israel's net favorability there is 70 points underwater among left-leaning voters, 45 points underwater in the center, and still 20 points underwater on the right. "It's just across the board that Israel has a real image problem here in the U.K. and really in the world as well," he said.On Netanyahu's political survival, Enten cited prediction markets showing his odds of remaining prime minister after the next election have fallen from 41 percent in May to just 26 percent now."Everyone's a political survivor until their luck runs out," Enten said, "and Bibi Netanyahu's luck may, in fact, have run out."

'OMG': Shockwaves after Zelenskyy's plane nearly hit by drone

09/09/26 8:07 PM

A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Oslo for the funeral of Norway's King Harald V was almost struck by a drone, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said Wednesday, though Ukraine's own presidency pushed back on the severity of the moment."His flight was almost hit by a drone when it was taking off from Moldova. That is the reality he lives in," Støre told public broadcaster NRK, according to CBS News. He offered no further details.A source in the Ukrainian presidency gave AFP a more measured account, saying, "It was an alert in Moldova when a Russian (drone) entered Moldovan and Romanian airspace." The same source called the suggestion that Zelenskyy was personally at risk "exaggerated."The region has been saturated with such incursions in recent months, with Russian drones repeatedly violating Moldovan airspace and disrupting airports across northern Europe, which complicates any read of what the drone near Zelenskyy's plane was meant to do.Online, the report landed with alarm before those caveats set in. National security journalist Shashank Joshi called it "just one data point, but not encouraging if part of [CIA Director John] Ratcliffe's trip to Moscow was to send a deterrent message to Russia on aggressive and violent actions in Europe." Journalist Christopher Merrill reacted simply: "OMG."Middle East correspondent Amichai Stein reported a sharper claim, writing that a source with knowledge told him the delegation waited out the drone and that "Moldova's authorities think that it was not accidentally." That assessment has not been confirmed by Moldovan officials on the record.Zelenskyy arrived in Oslo on Tuesday evening for talks with Støre on Norwegian military aid, then attended Wednesday's funeral for Harald, who died Aug. 28 at 89, alongside Britain's Prince William, Japan's Crown Prince Akishino and leaders from more than 20 countries.

'Stop pretending': MAGA firebrand unloads on Jared Kushner for Russia visit

09/05/26 2:14 PM

A MAGA firebrand put Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in her crosshairs just hours after the pair landed in Russia for peace talks.On Saturday, Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Moscow to meet with special representatives for Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Trump said on Friday that Kushner and Witkoff are carrying a proposal to "end the war" in Ukraine, adding, "We have an idea for peace."Trump loyalist and MAGA diehard Laura Loomer wasn't buying the Trump administration's message, however. She took to X to cast doubt on the Trump envoy's mission and rally more of MAGA against them."Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Moscow, Russia," Loomer wrote. "They just arrived for more 'peace talks' despite the fact that Putin is aiding the Iranians in killing US soldiers."Loomer notably used to be fiercely anti-Ukraine, a country she once claimed was "full of Nazis," PBS reported. She visited the country in July, and since then, has reversed course. She said that she was "bamboozled by Russian propaganda" and "came to believe a lot of untrue things about Ukraine," CNN reported. She called out Russia in her Saturday rant."Meanwhile, Russia continues to pummel Ukraine with ballistic missiles and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon," Loomer wrote. "Everyday, Ukrainian civilians are slaughtered and Putin has shown no good faith in ending the war."She then added that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky "has offered to travel to the US to sign a peace deal to end the war, but Putin continues his aggression against Ukraine." She then tied Putin to Iran again, writing that he hasn't stopped "his support for the Islamic regime of Iran despite pretending to support President Trump."Loomer demanded, "We should stop pretending like Russia isn't a terrorist state," and mentioned that "Russia is still holding 10 Americans hostage as well," although groups like the Foley Foundation report that at least six Americans are detained in Russia.

'Unfit': Netanyahu battered with ouster calls after 'earthquake' Oct. 7 report

09/08/26 12:51 PM

Israeli opposition leaders demanded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's removal from office Tuesday over a bombshell report that the United Arab Emirates had warned him of an impending Hamas attack roughly a week and a half before the Oct. 7, 2023, assault.The report, excerpted from a forthcoming book by Haaretz journalists Shlomi Eldarand and Ruth Yuval, said UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan had personally warned Netanyahu that Hamas was preparing a major operation.According to the newspaper's mostly anonymous sourcing, the warning originated with Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who told a former Palestinian official the group was planning what he called an "earthquake." That message was passed to an Emirati adviser, then to the UAE leader, who relayed it to Netanyahu."The emir hoped that despite his reserved response, Netanyahu would take the message seriously and take action," said an adviser to the UAE leader.However, Haaretz reported that Netanyahu responded calmly to the warning and did not notify the heads of the defense establishment – Shin Bet, Mossad and the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff.Netanyahu's office denied the account entirely, calling it "an absolute lie" and disputing that any such call with the Emirati leader took place.The report landed weeks before Israel's Oct. 27 elections and drew immediate condemnation from Netanyahu's rivals.Gadi Eisenkot, a former military chief who has become Netanyahu's leading electoral challenger, wrote on social media that Netanyahu "received dozens of warnings for Oct. 7 and ignored them all," calling him "unfit" for office and dismissing his past explanations, including that he was not woken promptly the morning of the attack, as "pathetic."Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, also a candidate in the upcoming vote, went further, saying Netanyahu "bears personal and direct responsibility" for the deaths on Oct. 7 and "cannot continue to serve in his position for even one more minute."The UAE established diplomatic relations with Israel in 2020 under the Abraham Accords, brokered during President Donald Trump's first term, and Netanyahu has long touted the relationship as a signature achievement of his tenure.The Oct. 7 attack, in which Hamas fighters crossed into Israel and killed people at a music festival and nearby communities, left 1,221 dead, according to an AFP count based on Israeli figures, and resulted in 251 people being taken hostage into Gaza.Israel's subsequent military campaign has killed 73,658 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, whose casualty figures the United Nations considers reliable, and left much of the territory destroyed.The competing accounts are likely to intensify scrutiny of Netanyahu's security record as Israelis head toward the polls in seven weeks.

'We're Safe': Singer Ammy Virk's Father After Firing In Canada "Rumours"

09/09/26 1:51 PM

Ammy Virk performed at Rogers Forum in Abbotsford on September 5. The shooting reportedly occurred when Virk was leaving the concert venue at night.

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2 Days Before 9/11, Al Qaeda Killed Osama Bin Laden's Biggest Taliban Rival

09/09/26 8:05 PM

Ahmad Shah Massoud was killed in a suicide bombing just two days before the September 11 attacks.