Foreign Policy

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi better hope than Elon Musk is as committed to free speech as he says he is because in the first hour of his Saturday show, Velshi repeated an anti-Semitic trope about Israel before lamenting Musk’s idea of free speech in the second hour.

During a wild segment in MSNBC's 11:00 a.m. ET hour on Tuesday, host Katy Tur lamented that “dark money groups” like those funded by the Koch brothers are preventing investment in things like solar panels. Fortunately for her, left-wing actor Mark Ruffalo was there to declare that the war in Ukraine has been “a gift” to President Biden as it helps make the case for green energy.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett valiantly tried to remain patient with CNN International’s Christiane Amanpour during a Wednesday interview also broadcast in the U.S. on PBS, but ultimately Amanpour’s desire to equate Palestinian terrorism with the Israeli response to it led Bennett to label her talking points as “a lie.”

PBS NewsHour has finally discovered allegations of corrupt behavior in the president’s family. No, not Hunter Biden, but former President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. On Friday’s show, host Judy Woodruff, New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart all condemned Kushner’s “shameless” behavior both during the Trump…

Bianna Golodryga twisted herself into a logic pretzel on Friday’s CNN Newsroom as she condemned Republicans for not appreciating Ketanji Brown Jackson’s to the Supreme Court while Vladimir Putin seeks to divide Americans and while waging war in Ukraine.

Making his latest appearance Tuesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NBC special correspondent and former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw blamed “Fox News and ever more poisonous right-wing political organizations” for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as they’ve “constantly attack[ed]” President Biden, weakening him and the west.

Reacting Monday to President Biden’s off-the-cuff comments Saturday that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” CNN’s New Day featured three analysts/pundits who had all decided that not only was it not that big of a deal, but it was proof of Biden’s strength and level of advanced strategic knowledge.

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi used his Saturday show to ponder if Ukrainians fleeing the war zone in their country benefit from being white Christians while Syrians and Afghans do not.

President Biden flip-flopped during his Thursday press conference in Brussels when he declared that sanctions were never meant to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine despite constant proclamations from the administration to the contrary. On The Lead, CNN chief political analyst Susan Glasser reacted to Biden’s dishonesty by talking about former President Trump.

As Ukrainians fight to preserve their democracy, PBS’s Christiane Amanpour declared it necessary on her Friday show to likewise preserve democracy at home against those would rather seek to install some sort of autocracy.

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers used his Thursday show (airing early Friday) to mock the idea that Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if Donald Trump was still president because, according to him, Trump’s Russia policy could be analogized to the guy who lets the dog pee on the rug. Supposedly, that was supposed to be comical.

Math and logic were in short supply on the Friday edition of PBS NewsHour as Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart accused 31 Republican senators “playing games” with aid for Ukraine because they voted against a spending bill in which less than one percent of the money was for Ukrainian aid.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and former impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch’s book tour took her to PBS on Tuesday, where NewsHour host Judy Woodruff and Amanpour and Company’s Christiane Amanpour wondered how former President Trump played into Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.

Tuesday brought the sad news Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski and producer Oleksandra Kuvshynova were killed covering the war in Ukraine. As part of Deadline: White House’s coverage of the news on MSNBC, host Nicolle Wallace and journalist Sebastian Junger covered what they considered an important angle to the story: Donald Trump.