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.
Watch the exchange between The New York Post’s very own Lydia Moynihan, where Phillip cuts Moynihan off and asserts that the many stories of missing children is an “idea” that “has never been true:”
Guys, I found a new Abby Phillip gaslight: kids released into the interior to the custody of adults of indeterminate relation is not the same as "lost kids" and what is Tom Homan even talking about @LydiaMoynihan: And one thing that Tom Homan highlighted today is that in… pic.twitter.com/gHsPV9kImx
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 13, 2026
LYDIA MOYNIHAN: And one thing that Tom Homan highlighted today is that in Minnesota, they have found 3003- 364 children that the Biden administration lost, and instead 93% of the media coverage has been negative on ICE, according to the Media Research Center.
ABBY PHILLIP: I know Tom Homan has been big on this lost children thing, but the idea that these children were lost or missing has never been true. There are- some of them were released into the custody of relatives or other caretakers, which is part of the process over many years.
MOYNIHAN: They often were released to adults who weren't verified.
PHILLIP: Listen. I'm not- all I'm saying is that his characterization of them as being lost has never been accurate. And it wasn't accurate when he started saying it a year ago, it's still not accurate today. There are a lot of different reasons why those children were released into the custody of adults in the interior of the United States. That is not the same thing as those children being lost.
Phillip talks a big game about her role consisting of pushing conservatives out of their siloes, without an iota of self-reflection that perhaps she is the one who is siloed off from basic facts and truth. Such is the case with the missing unaccompanied minors, as many as 320,000 per some estimates- one of the great tragedies to emerge from the Biden border disaster.
In many cases, these children were handed off to total strangers with little to no vetting from the Biden HHS. In some instances, these kids were trafficked into various forms of indentured servitude- including working in the meatpacking industry.
There is ample record detailing what has happened to these children. This is not a figment of Tom Homan’s imagination, or anyone else’s, no matter how much Abby Phillip would like it to be.
