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Nicolle Wallace: During 2000 Florida Recount, Cruz Tops for 'Hubris and Egomania'

By Mark Finkelstein | December 29, 2015, 6:56 PM EST

Judging by Nicolle Wallace's performance on today's With All Due Respect, it looks like establishment Republicans are going full bore against Ted Cruz. Here was Wallace talking about her personal experience with Ted Cruz: "I worked with him ...

Bloomberg Guest: Forces In Trump Fans 'More Animalistic Than Human'

By Mark Finkelstein | December 11, 2015, 7:13 PM EST

It's one thing to dump on Trump, as author Rick Perlstein did on today's With All Due Respect, calling The Donald a modern-day George Wallace, and floating "fascism" about him. But Perlstein took things a nasty step further, denigratin ...

Heilemann: For Trashing Trump, I Like Shep Smith More Than Ever

By Mark Finkelstein | December 10, 2015, 6:33 AM EST

What does it take to get a member of the MSM to praise a Fox News host?  Simple: trash Donald Trump. On yesterday's With All Due Respect, co-host John Heilemann declared "I have always like Shep Smith, and I like him more today than I've ev ...

Heilemann: Some Say Trump Muslim Plan 'Fascist,' I Say 'Reactionary'

By Mark Finkelstein | December 8, 2015, 5:49 AM EST

For a moment there, it looked like John Heilemann might go Absolut Olbermann and call Donald Trump a " fascist " for his proposal which would for the time being bar the entry of all Muslims into the United States. But Heilemann backed off that f ...

Scarborough Rips GOP on Gun Laws: You Pick the NRA Over Public Safety

By Michael McKinney | November 23, 2015, 1:55 PM EST

On Monday's  Morning Joe, the crew discussed New York Police Commissioner William Bratton's appearance on Sunday's Meet the Press. Joe Scarborough played a clip of Bratton begging Congress to pass a law preventing people on the government&# ...

Heilemann: Governors Refusing Syrian Refugees 'Shameless, Un-American'

By Mark Finkelstein | November 16, 2015, 6:09 PM EST

Would John Heilemann have called Francois Hollande "shameless" and "un-French" if a few months back he had halted the immigration of Syrian immigrants into France, thus stopping two of the Paris terrorists—who reportedly posed as refug ...

CBS Knocks ‘Xenophobic’ Trump, Hypes ‘Roundly Mocked’ Jeb

By Scott Whitlock | November 3, 2015, 1:10 PM EST

It was Republican bashing all around on CBS This Morning, Tuesday. Bloomberg journalist and author John Heilemann appeared on the show and knocked the “xenophobic” Donald Trump and the “roundly mocked” Jeb Bush. Heilemann allowed that “There are people wh ...

Media Hand a 'Lifeline' to Hillary on Benghazi

By Geoffrey Dickens | October 22, 2015, 3:19 PM EDT

Hillary Clinton is set to testify before the Benghazi committee on Thursday but the liberal media have spent weeks laying the groundwork for her. Instead of putting the onus on Clinton, her now-discredited story of the attacks being spurred by an anti-Mus ...

Heilemann: Wouldn't Believe Biden if He Called to Say He's Getting in at Noon

By Mark Finkelstein | October 20, 2015, 9:12 AM EDT

Basta: enough already! It's not that John Heilemann thinks Joe Biden is a liar, it's just that he's not convinced that Biden knows his own mind yet.  And so it was that on today's Morning Joe, Heilemann declared "if he called me t ...

NBC: Benghazi Committee ‘Delegitimized,’ Hillary ‘Teed Up to Have a Great Day’ Testifying

By Kyle Drennen | October 16, 2015, 11:49 AM EDT

Appearing on Friday’s NBC Today, Bloomberg Politics managing editor John Heilemann saw a rapidly closing window for Joe Biden to enter the presidential race: “...if he's making a calculation on the political landscape, it's more forbidding now t ...

DWS BS: Schultz Did Not Tell 'About a Dozen' Dem Officials About Number of Debates

By Tom Blumer | October 14, 2015, 11:19 PM EDT

Democratic National Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has insisted that she consulted with all of her vice-chairs before deciding on the number of Democratic presidential primary debates would be held. John Heilemann of Bloomberg Politics, in what Hot A ...

Hillary's Claim McCarthy Benghazi Comments 'Deeply Distressing' Makes Morning Joe Laugh

By Mark Finkelstein | October 1, 2015, 12:20 PM EDT

There was Hillary Clinton, telling Al Sharpton of all people that she found Kevin McCarthy's comments about the Benghazi hearings "deeply distressing."   That was too much for the Morning Joe panel, which just had to laugh.  As John Heilema ...

Heilemann: McCarthy Comments on Benghazi Hearings 'Disaster' for Republicans

By Mark Finkelstein | September 30, 2015, 6:34 PM EDT

How damaging to Republicans are Speaker-presumptive Kevin McCarthy's comments  in which he tied the drop in Hillary's poll numbers to the Benghazi hearings? Very damaging, according to the With All Due Respect duo on today's show. John Heil ...

Heilemann: For Bill Clinton's Sake, Let's Hope He Doesn't Know What Snapchat Is

By Mark Finkelstein | September 29, 2015, 8:31 PM EDT

You know the saying: once is a fluke, twice is a trend. Yesterday, Stephen Colbert and First Lady Michelle Obama shared a laugh over Bill Clinton's "passion." On today's With All Due Respect, responding to Mark Halperin's report t ...

John Heilemann Blasts Dem. Official's 'Strawman Argument' for Limited Number of Debates

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 24, 2015, 2:33 PM EDT

During an interview with former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, John Heilemann called out the Obama official for using a “strawman argument” to defend the Democratic Committee’s decision to only have 6 presidential debates.  The With All D ...