“Do you think” the new Pope “will serve in some ways as a counter to President Trump” on immigration policy? @TerryMoran: “Reluctantly....He will be a voice for the teachings of Jesus, which in many ways, many Catholics believe are not consistent with some of the President’s https://t.co/srvddt3NBi

To @CardinalBCupich, ABC’s @MarthaRaddatz hopes: “Pope Francis cared so much about the poor and migrants. Pope Leo does as well. In some ways, will he be a counter balance for what’s happening in American politics right now in President Trump?” #ThisWeek https://t.co/dCRIhDOf1O

“The Republican party right now is a kleptocracy. He has not turned the country into a kleptocracy yet....But I will tell you, this is worse than Teapot Dome. This is worse than Watergate” – @ChuckTodd, ex of NBC News, on yesterday’s CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five re Trump https://t.co/D0FWOcDhhT

CNN blamed ATC problems at Newark on...what President Reagan did 44 years ago. Really. Catching up with Tuesday’s @TheArenaCNN, aviation correspondent @petemuntean: “This really goes back to the PATCO strike back in the early ‘80s, where Reagan, yes, President Reagan fired all https://t.co/4kR3qEixB1

During their tribute to Justice David Souter, PBS brought on his former clerk/Trump impeachment witness Noah Feldman to say he "was completely uninterested in partisanship or political ideology, but was just committed to the idea of getting the law right. And in the current https://t.co/wYVU88najY

PBS's Geoff Bennett wonders, "[Pope Leo's] posts have suggested that he supports protecting immigrants, reducing gun violence, combating climate change, certainly in line with the Gospel, maybe not in line with right-wing politics. What questions, if any, does this really pose https://t.co/qFLV8RD1eG

Daily Wire Investigative Reporter Spencer Lindquist Honored For Colony Ridge Reporting https://t.co/aXG5h2qCyz

Erick Erickson Wins MRC’s Bulldog Award. https://t.co/94gVyqVUVc via @insideradio

Honored to get the BULLDOG AWARD! Elvis approves! And thanks for putting us in such good company. https://t.co/GVoT1TKGyc https://t.co/xJUisfo90u

Karoline Leavitt rips into a reporter who asked if President Trump was going to the Middle East for personal financial gain. "This is a President who has actually lost money being President of the US." https://t.co/V7ugszEJiz

Ana Cabrera asks NBC reporter Claudio Lavanga what Leo's views on "abortion, the LGBTQ community, women in the church, etc" are and he hilariously dodges it, "Well, what we know for now, of course, Ana, is why he's chosen that name, Leo XIV...The difference here is, he said, that https://t.co/7MIzIgn7wQ

Purported "devout Catholic" Sunny Hostin fears Pope Leo XIV because of he believes marriage is between a man and a woman: "I'm a little concerned about this choice for the LGBTQ+ community. In 2012 he gave an address to bishops, and he lamented 'the popular culture fostered and https://t.co/HirlDlUQyq

Jimmy Kimmel takes a similar approach, "[Trump] did say he looks forward to meeting the new Chicago pope. Wait till he finds out how many times this new pope has criticized him...This is a historic era. We have an American pope and a Russian president. Isn't it incredible?" https://t.co/HNTe0c50JC

A 🧵of how the late night comedians reacted to the election of Pope Leo XIV. First, Stephen Colbert, a Catholic who tends to put his liberalism first and who once met with Pope Francis, "Of course, there’s lots of speculation on whether Leo will continue the progressive reforms https://t.co/WftLoVlavP

Former Obama State Department Guy/Time Magazine editor Richard Stengell says Leo XIV "may indeed be a rebuke of some of those conservative ideas...I think it's a boon to the idea that Americans don't have to be this kind of autocratic model that we're seeing with the Trump https://t.co/0s8ju5gtAO

Whoopi wants you to know "you're not in this alone, we're all in it together" against Trump. "We got them!" Behar proclaims as she jumps up to hug Joe Biden https://t.co/grztxqG9qe

Ana Navarro is personal friends with Biden. As she notes we just passed the first 100 days of Trump's second term, they act out a pre-arranged skit of doing the sign of the cross in unison. https://t.co/C0V8QHtmBX

Hostin brings up her question to Harris about what she would do differently from Biden (which helped sink her campaign), and whines it was "weaponized against her." Hostin tries to wash her hands by blaming Biden for it: "[T]here has been some reporting that you encouraged her https://t.co/fJ1pWFT4vG

Sunny Hostin suggests to Biden that he waited too long to get out of the race and it hurt Harris. Biden seems to suggest Americans were not grateful for what he did: "I don't think anybody thought we'd be successful as we were. I don't think anybody thought we'd pass the recovery https://t.co/3uShG1i7Qu

Sara Haines commends Biden for his "selfless and very difficult decision" to get out of the race, but wanted to know what he thought was the reason for Harris's defeat. Biden seems to blame it on Americans being sexist: "I was surprised because they went the route of the sexist https://t.co/IRgS19rfim