In December, Never-Trumper Chris Wallace announced that he was leaving FOX News.
Wallace is most famous for joining the Democrat Party, teaming up against President Trump, and carrying Joe Biden’s corpse across the finish line in a 2020 presidential debate.
Chris Wallace joined CNN as an anchor for CNN+, a streaming subscription service – and he was “delighted” to work with Jeff Zucker.
“I am thrilled to join CNN+. After decades in broadcast and cable news, I am excited to explore the world of streaming. I look forward to the new freedom and flexibility streaming affords in interviewing major figures across the news landscape—and finding new ways to tell stories,” said Wallace. “As I embark on this adventure, I am honored and delighted to join Jeff Zucker and his great team. I can’t wait to get started.”
Investment and projections for CNN+ are expected to be cut dramatically in response to a low adoption rate, two sources tell Axios.
By the numbers: The news giant was initially planning to invest around $1 billion in the service over the next four years.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are expected to be cut from that original investment total.
To date, around $300 million has been spent on the subscription service, which includes a sizable marketing investment.
The new company’s leadership team still has yet to decide the ultimate fate of CNN+. CNN’s new boss, Chris Licht, will start May 1.
Details: CNN executives, with help from consulting firm McKinsey, originally expected to bring in around 2 million subscribers in the U.S. in the service’s first year and 15-18 million after four years.
They originally planned for the service to break even after four years.
Much of the subscriber opportunity executives see comes from international markets.
Sources say those subscriber expectations will need to be dramatically reduced if investment is cut.
In 2021, MSNBC averaged 1.53 million total primetime viewers, 216,000 adults 25-54 in primetime, 905,000 total viewers in the 24-hour daypart and 125,000 adults 25-54 in the 24-hour daypart. That is according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data.
Compared to its final 2020 ratings, MSNBC shed -28% in total prime time viewers (1.53 million vs. 2.13 million), -39% in the prime time demo (216,000 vs. 356,000), -27% in total viewers across the 24-hour day (905,000 vs. 1.24 million) and -38% among adults 25-54 across the 24-hour day (125,000 vs. 201,000).
Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) joined Steve Bannon on The War Room on Tuesday.
The discussion included a segment on the collapse of New York City under the Democrats. Tenney agreed with Steve saying the largest contingency in the New York State assembly is a communist group — the Democratic Socialists of America.
Half a dozen insurgent candidates in Brooklyn and Queens — backed by the Democratic Socialists of America — toppled veteran incumbents in Democratic primary races in 2020.
New York Lt. Governor Brian Benjamin was arrested on Tuesday in a federal corruption investigation, AP reported.
According to NBC New York, Brian Benjamin turned himself in on Tuesday on charges related to a past campaign finance fraud scheme when he was running for city comptroller.
New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has surrendered to authorities to face campaign finance fraud-related charges in connection with a past campaign, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Benjamin is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court later Tuesday. Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on the arrest, nor could a representative for Benjamin.
His arrest comes after reports that Manhattan federal prosecutors and the FBI were investigating whether Benjamin knowingly engaged in a campaign finance fraud scheme. Subpoenas were issued in connection with the investigation, two sources familiar with the subpoenas said at the time.
The investigators also looked into whether Benjamin helped dole out state money to contributors and/or their projects as part of the alleged fraud.
Benjamin is facing charges of bribery, fraud, conspiracy and falsification of records, AP reported.
The US Attorney from the Southern District of New York will be making a statement later Tuesday.
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Russia has warned Finland and Sweden against joining Nato. Russia is arguing that the move would bring instability to Europe. Russia would consider NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) membership by either country to be a “confrontation.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “the alliance remains a tool geared towards confrontation.” It comes as US defense officials said Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine has been a “massive strategic blunder” which is likely to bring NATO enlargement.
Before Russia began its “demilitarization” of Ukraine, it demanded that the alliance agree to halt any future enlargement. Obviously, the actions Russia has taken has led to a war and the deployment of more NATO troops on its eastern flank. It has also bolstered public support for Swedish and Finnish membership, according to a report by the BBC.
US officials expect the Nordic neighbors to bid for membership of the alliance, potentially as early as June. Washington is believed to support the move which would see the Western alliance grow to 32 members. US State Department officials said last week that discussions had taken place between Nato leaders and foreign ministers from Helsinki and Stockholm. –BBC
Sweden’s ruling class, called the Social Democratic Party, has traditionally opposed NATO membership. Yet, said it is rethinking this position in light of Russia’s attack on its western neighbor. Party secretary Tobias Baudin told local media that the NATO review should be complete within the next few months.
Russia is obviously very likely to see any build-up of NATO and its allies to be a provocation. Surely these countries are aware of that, considering that was Russia’s sticking point since it began the “invasion” of Ukraine. “When Russia invaded Ukraine, Sweden’s security position changed fundamentally,” the party said in a statement on Monday.
Russian lawmaker from parliament’s upper house, Vladimir Dzhabarov of the Federation Council, issued the direst warning from among Moscow officials, threatening that such a “strategic mistake” as Helsinki petitioning NATO means Finland “would become a target.”
“I think it [would be] a terrible tragedy for the entire Finnish people,” said Dzhabarov. He also strongly suggested it would result in “the destruction of their country.”
This is a big red flag and we should watch this. The New York Times reports that Sweden and Finland could join NATO as soon as summer.
INFLATION IS RUNNING AT 40-YEAR HIGHS!
NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES ARE TAXING SAVERS,
CREATING FOOD SHORTAGES
AND MAKING LIFE MISERABLE IN THE UNITED STATES!
There’s Little Time Left Before the REAL DISASTER occurs!
New professionally edited video has emerged of police officers allowing protesters into the Upper West Terrace Doors of the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
A trusted source exclusively released the video below to The Gateway Pundit. Tightly edited with markers and commentary narration, it is meant to be presented in court to defend Brady Knowlton and Patrick Montgomery. Both men are facing felony charges for “Obstruction of an Official Proceeding” on January 6th.
This new video will indisputably exonerate Brady Knowlton, Patrick Montgomery and all the rally-goers seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge.
See video of Capitol Police Officers letting Trump Supporters in The Capitol:
This video was originally obtained from the United States Department of Justice after media organizations joined a motion to have it released. It has gone largely under the radar until it was put into context by our source, who carefully edited the video so the average viewer can understand what is going on.
“This video is very convincing, very persuasive,” said Knowles’ famous attorney Alan Dershowitz (one of the attorneys in the J6 “Dream Team” Knowles has assembled) in an interview with The Gateway Pundit. “In the very least the video shows that a reasonable person could believe that he or she was not being stopped or prevented from going in. At the most it shows that the police were welcoming him in.
Knowles says, “I think that all Americans should see that videotape. I think it is going to help in the court of public opinion as well.”
In the video, we see the same scene from two different side-by-side vantage points of the interior house cameras of the US Capitol. Both cameras were facing the same door on the Upper West Terrace from opposite directions. The identical time codes in the videos can be seen in the upper left corners.
The video shows police behaving like museum staff security guards as they stand or walk idly by as unknowing men and women walk through a small set of Capitol doors carrying American flags and Trump signs. Many are innocently occupied by taking selfie videos of themselves and the crowd, apparently excited to be inside the People’s House and wanting to commemorate the occasion. They are clearly oblivious to the fact they were doing anything illegal, or they surely would have turned their cameras off and hid from video recording. They had no idea of the political persecution, shame and the witch hunters that will come for them later.
Knowlton seen leaving The Capitol on January 6th.
“The Capitol is the People’s House- it is normally open,” said Harvard law professor Ronald Sullivan, Jr. “Unless you are an insider you would have no way of knowing which doors are public access and which doors are not. Hundred of thousands of people, if not millions, every year go in and out of The Capitol so there is nothing on its face odd about that.”
You can see the enthusiasm in people’s body language as police allow them to enter. What looks like a teenage boy in glasses throws his hands up in happy excitement as he comes in the doors at 00:35:28 in the video.
According to Dershowitz, it is extremely important to get the audio from the body cameras worn by the police and any other audio from the scene in order to hear what police were saying.
Capitol Police have not yet released these videos to the legal team and are not subject to Freedom of Information Act or body cam requests.
“We have to get the audio recordings from the Capitol police,” said Dershowitz. “The Brady decision trumps local law.”
Dershowitz is referring to a Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). The primary holding was that the government’s withholding of evidence that is material to the determination of either guilt or punishment of a criminal defendant violates the defendant’s constitutional right to due process.
Incredibly, the Capitol Police and DOJ continue to withhold exculpatory video and audio evidence that could exonerate January 6th prisoners.
Dershowitz continued:
“So if a government unit has any relevant evidence it must be turned over. There is no justification for not turning over. They have not turned all of it over yet and they are absolutely required to turn it over by law. Those rules (Capitol police exemption of Freedom of Information Requests) are subordinate to the Constitution. Brady v. Maryland is a constitutional decision and every government unit has an obligation to comply with Brady. I think they will have to comply and we will get the chest camera video and the audio as well. We think the audio is very important. We are fighting for it and will not rest until we get it.”
Alan Dershowitz seen here with OJ Simpson in 1995.
One of the biggest sins committed by prosecutors is withholding exculpatory evidence from grand juries. The law does not require them to present proof (even videos) that confirm one’s innocence to the grand jury. If the grand juries had seen this video, the defendants would likely have never been charged in the first place. Maybe they would agree with Judge McFadden, who acquitted Matthew Martin because he stated that the behavior of police in other videos provided a “reasonable belief” that entry was allowed. It is evident from this footage that police, at minimum, did not discourage long lines of protesters and, at worst, created them.
Bray Knowlton at the Capitol peacefully protesting on January 6th. He is not charged with any violent crime.
According to attorneys and defendants who have seen some the thousands of hours of footage being withheld under protective order from the public and journalists, there is an incredible amount of footage yet unseen by the public that mirrors the footage seen here of officers allowing people to enter the building, at times welcoming them in. According to many defendants who have seen some of their discovery video, there are also scenes of extreme violence by police towards protesters that has yet not been seen by the public at large. (The defendants and attorney are not allowed to share this video with the public.)
Many people are familiar with the video of cops moving barricades and allowing people to move forward toward the Capitol outside the building, but video continues to merge of cops actually welcoming and allowing large groups to enter directly through interior Capitol doors.
Last week Judge Trevor McFadden acquitted January 6th defendant Matthew Martin on all charges in a bench trial after watching similar video presented at trial supporting Martin’s claim that Capitol Police waved him through a door.
The judge said video shows two police officers standing near the Rotunda doors and allowing people to enter as Martin approached (this video has not been released to the public). One of the officers appeared to lean back before Martin placed a hand on the officer’s shoulder as a possible sign of gratitude, the judge said.
McFadden acknowledged that Martin entered the Capitol, but said in his ruling that “intent was key”. The Judge ruled that Martin’s belief that he had police officer’s permission be inside the building was reasonable and “plausible” because police officers didn’t try to stop him.
“You are a free man,” he told Martin after he found him not guilty.
On the heels of that decision, this new video will indisputably exonerate anyone seen entering these doors by any reasonable jury or fair judge. At least 250 people entered thought this doorway. We have identified two of the protesters seen in the above video as Brady Knowles and Patrick Montgomery, both indicted as co-defendants. Their lives have been turned upside down as they have been viscously persecuted by The Biden Regime’s Department of Injustice.
The politically persecuted Knowlton is a successful businessman, husband and father. He was previously known for getting “noodling” (fishing for catfish using your hands) legalized in the state of Texas. Brady briefly worked with Animal Planet, where he filmed the show “Catfishin’ Kings” for a season.
Brady and his co-star Anthony hoist a catfish on TV show Catfishin’ Kings, Animal Planet.
Knowlton is hoping this video will help a judge or jury acquit him as his story is similar to Martin’s.
Knowlton is determined to win his case and in doing so help all J6ers by changing the narrative and exposing First Amendment infringements. He has successfully assembled what many are calling a January 6th Defense “Dream Team”, compromised of the famed Alan Dershowitz and other prominent attorneys Ronald Sullivan, Brent Mayr, and Camille Wagner. Dershowitz and Sullivan are both Harvard professors. Dershowitz rose to national fame for serving as the appellate adviser on the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He was a member of President Donald Trump’s defense team in his first impeachment trial in 2020.
Dershowitz repping Trump.
Robert Sullivan has successfully defended Harvey Weinstein and Aaron Hernandez in his acquittal for a double homicide. Brent Mayr secured an impressive acquittal for a client in a Zeta Drug Cartel money laundering trial. Wagner is already an experienced J6 DC attorney representing other January 6th defendants.
Sullivan with former client Aaron Hernandez in court.
Knowles co-defendant Patrick Montgomery is represented by Duncan Levin, known for his representation of many high-profile defendants, including Harvey Weinstein, the Seagrams heiress Clare Bronfman and Chinese billionaire Miles Kwok.
“It is about time that we got high-end lawyers fighting for a January 6th defendant,” said Tina Ryan of Citizens Against Political Persecution. “These leftist public defenders are doing nothing but hurting their clients and by extension making everyone that was there on January 6th look guilty. We saw what a good private attorney like Dan Cron could do when January 6th defendant Matthew Martin was found innocent. I can only imagine what attorneys the caliber of Dershowitz and Sullivan can do. They will mop the floor with the DOJ and turn the whole narrate upside down.”
Many believe this team of lawyers will effectively raise the constitutional concerns that the first amendment rights of these defendants are being violated.
“The First Amendment of the Constitution requires that the government not pick and choose between types of speech and types of protests,” said Dershowitz. “I think that a double standard is being implied. We did not see this type of vigor in prosecuting Black Lives Matter activists and people who shut down important Government functions in other places in the west. You can’t have one standard for protests you agree with and another standard for protests you disagree with. There has to be one standard for all based on the objective evidence.”
Dershowitz also commented on the precedent was established last week when Judge Trevor McFadden found Matthew Martin innocent on all J6 related charges.
“Really good news with the decision the other day with Judge McFadden,” said Dershowitz. “He established a precedent saying the key to guilt or innocence is the subjective state of mind of the defendant- if the defendant actually reasonably believed that he was allowed to go the building. These video tapes now confirm this belief…so we have Brady’s statement, the video tapes and now the judges opinion- all three of them would seem to add up to a conclusion that he can’t be convicted based on the evidence.”
“It’s time for the Biden Regime to call off their rabid dog Merrick Garland,” said Ryan. “Garland’s DOJ heartlessly continues to persecute these men and women even after they know there is evidence that exonerates them. The public is picking up on the fact that the government duped them and their fellow citizens are being maliciously persecuted for doing nothing besides walking into building welcomed by police. My suggestion to Biden is this- you have overplayed your hand, back off before you wind up in jail.”
“Merrick Garland’s prosecution goons will be outclassed,” said John Tabacco of Newsmax and J6 Advocate. “As of yet they have had free rein persecuting these men and women. Let’s see how the bullies in the DOJ perform when they are up against attorneys of this caliber.”
According to CNN — Police said, according to a preliminary report, a male perpetrator possibly wearing a gas mask and orange construction vest fled the scene.
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