John Heilemann MS NOW Morning Joe 2-13-26

Morning Joe Guesses: Trump 'Might Just Be Immoral' in Epstein Dealings

On Friday’s Morning Joe, the MS NOW panel delivered a remarkable formulation regarding President Trump and the Jeffrey Epstein matter: they repeatedly portrayed Trump as looking “guilty” — while conceding they do not know what, if anything, he actually did.

Mark Finkelstein
February 14th, 2026 12:41 PM

Maher Mourns Demise of EPA Regulations: 'I'm Not Surprised, I'm Angry'

HBO’s Bill Maher mourned the demise of the EPA’s endangerment finding on Friday’s episode of Real Time, declaring himself to be “not surprised, I’m angry” at the move he ridiculously compared to banning the Navy from being able to use ships.

Alex Christy
February 14th, 2026 11:30 AM

‘BAD BREATH!’ WashPost Spews Hot Air on Trump Ruining Valentine’s Day

The Washington Post Editorial Board couldn’t have timed its faux-fussbudgeting over how the Trump tariffs were supposedly juicing Valentine’s Day inflation more perfectly (sarcasm). News was just released that inflation eased in January.

Joseph Vazquez
February 14th, 2026 10:04 AM

PBS Likens Minnesota To Civil Rights Movement, Underground Railroad

MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart and former New York Times columnist-turned-podcaster and staff writer for The Atlantic David Brooks returned to PBS News Hour on Friday to declare victory for the anti-ICE crowds in Minnesota by comparing them to the Civil Rights Movement and the Underground Railroad.

Alex Christy
February 14th, 2026 9:30 AM

California First Lady Lectures Reporters for NOT Asking About Abortion

At a press conference celebrating state taxpayer money going to the abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood, California First Lady Jennifer Newsom lectured reporters who were allegedly "off topic" by asking Gov. Gavin Newsom questions about the perennially delayed high-speed rail boondoggle, and his upcoming meeting with the prime minister of Germany.

Tim Graham
February 14th, 2026 6:45 AM

Unhinged: Mika Has Complete Meltdown on ‘ICE Bros’ After Homan Presser

After Thursday's press conference by Border Czar Tom Homan in Minneapolis, Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski went on a spiraling tirade against Homan’s ICE “bros” and “untrained idiots” in a seeming mental breakdown in the 9 a.m. hour of the show.

Nicholas Spinnato
February 13th, 2026 11:00 PM

POO-THETIC: Networks Ignore Largest Sewage Spill in U.S. History

Back on January 19, a D.C. Water sewer pipe burst, sending hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage — collected from the Maryland and Virginia suburbs — into the Potomac River and triggering not only a foul smell and unspeakable solids, but levels for bacteria such as e. coli soaring to 4,000 times above safe levels for recreational use. As of this week, concerns remain and…

Curtis Houck
February 13th, 2026 8:15 PM

AP Accidentally Praises Trump Deportation Policy

A recent AP story admits that President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration may have lowered the U.S. unemployment rate by reducing competition for jobs, contradicting previous claims that undocumented workers don’t affect American employment. The revelation surfaced as AP tried to downplay a strong January jobs report.

P.J. Gladnick
February 13th, 2026 7:43 PM

ABC Doubles Down With TWO Segments Saying Trump’s EPA WILL Kill You

In a move one-upping Thursday’s World News Tonight, the virulent anti-Trump-haters at ABC made the decision Friday to go full Leroy Jenkins by having Good Morning America double down with not one but two segments melting down (pun intended) over President Trump’s decision to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) endangerment finding on climate change and fossil…

Curtis Houck
February 13th, 2026 4:41 PM

Top CBS, NBC Shows Ignore Obama WH Counsel’s Deep Ties to Epstein

This week, reports surfaced that the Epstein Files contain a litany of messages outlining a deep-seated personal and professional relationship between the disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler. As a result, she resigned from her high-ranking post at Goldman Sachs. Despite the thousand-plus minutes of Epstein coverage on the flagship…

Curtis Houck
February 13th, 2026 3:48 PM

CNN Compares Lemon Invading a Church To Jaywalking

As former CNN host Don Lemon was arraigned on Friday for his role in the St. Paul church invasion, his former employer stepped up to defend him. According to First Amendment lawyer and CNN News Central guest Katie Fallow, what Lemon did was functionally no different than a reporter jaywalking while covering a protest.

Alex Christy
February 13th, 2026 3:10 PM

Gun Sales, Permit Applications Surge in Minnesota, Twin Cities

Applications for permits to purchase or carry firearms in, and around, Minnesota’s Twin Cities spiked in January, just days before Border Czar Tom Homan announced that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would begin to withdraw its Operation Metro Surge federal immigration agents from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Craig Bannister
February 13th, 2026 2:26 PM

For What? Who Knows! Behar Insists Bondi ‘Looking at Some Prison Time’

ABC News co-host Joy Behar seemed to think of herself as The View’s resident historian, especially since she liked to spout off with analogies to history, usually equating President Trump with Nazism. But during Thursday’s edition of the show, she did her best impression of Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria, who coined the infamous phrase “Show me the man and I’ll show you…

Nicholas Fondacaro
February 13th, 2026 2:07 PM

GASLIGHT: Abby Philip Says Biden-Era Missing Kids Story ‘Not Accurate'

CNN’s NewsNight, which shall heretofore be known as “The Abby Phillip Gaslishting and Interruption Power Hour”, may well have sunk to a new low, and that’s saying a lot. The show’s eponymous and Trump-deranged host, in an effort to diminish the work of the various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, has now loosed missing children denialism unto the world.

Jorge Bonilla
February 13th, 2026 1:38 PM