LOADING ERROR LOADINGThe former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, called out the conservative “media echo chamber” he claimed helped convince President Donald Trump to go to war with Iran, during a heated confrontation with a right-wing radio host. At one point in the interview, Kent called out “the media echo chamber that wanted a regime change in Iran,” which he said included Levin’s show. “What about the media echo chamber, your buddies who didn’t want regime change in Iran?” Levin fired back. “There’s a lot of echo chambers out there.“AdvertisementKent, however, said it appeared as if Levin’s side of the “media echo chamber was much more successful.”“I never lobbied the president. I never lobby the president,” Levin snapped back.

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Why some Iranians say ‘this war must continue’CNN spoke with Iranians who shared divided views about the war as it enters its fourth week. CNN’s Leila Gharagozlou reports what’s behind the reasoning for citizens who say “This war must continue,” while others who oppose the US and Israel’s intervention assert “these are our issues” that “we must solve ourselves.”

When I read all the hype being heaped on Kamala Harris’ lead in early polls for the 2028 Democratic nomination, I have to chuckle to myself. An ABC News/Washington Post survey in January 2003 found Lieberman leading the Democratic field with 27%. And let’s not forget, Harris obtaining the nomination in 2024 was a fluke; she didn’t compete in one primary or receive one primary vote. Gavin Newsom with a 2-to-1 lead in California among voters leaning toward voting in the 2028 Democratic primary. So have fun, Kamala Harris, enjoying your name-ID high while it lasts (although maybe a mite longer than your 107-day presidential effort).

Republicans state that ICE agents are simply doing their job and dealing with a never-ending problem. Since Renée Good’s death, at least three other people have been shot and another, Alex Pretti, was killed by ICE agents. Officers and ICE agents alike have claimed that these protestors are "rowdy" and therefore have used items like tear gas against the crowds as well as conducting arrests. The protestors believe that the police and ICE are using their position of power to purposefully harm the protestors. The rest of the country has looked to Oregon and Minnesota as examples and have begun to mass protest ICE.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed open to arguments from the Trump administration that it has a right to turn asylum seekers away at border ports of entry, even if they have potentially valid claims and follow the legal process for pursuing them. Lower courts rejected the policy, but amid the immigration crackdown of Trump’s second term, the administration has sought the authority to reinstate it. You wouldn’t say, ‘At the United States.’ You would say, ‘In the United States.’ I am arriving ‘in Baltimore’ when I’m on the train and it’s coming in. (Today, asylum rights are essentially nonexistent along the border because of other Trump policies that face their own legal challenges.) “The question before the court is: What obligations did Congress impose in the asylum and inspection statutes, and those refer only to aliens who ‘arrive in’ the United States.”

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers’ rotation order is set for the first homestand of the season. And another wild spring training start from right-hander Roki Sasaki didn’t change the plan. “He’s going to start the fourth game of the season,” manager Dave Roberts said Monday after a 7-7 tie with the Angels. “I was maybe throwing bullpens right now a year ago,” Sheehan said after his last spring start. “I was trying to find a game feel [Monday], before the games start,” Sasaki said through an interpreter.

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LOADING ERROR LOADINGWhile President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders appear stuck in a back-and-forth about whether or not negotiations to end the war are happening, former CIA director John Brennan told MS NOW he believes Iran over the truth bender in chief. During Monday’s episode of “The Weeknight,” co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend told Brennan she was “wary” of taking the word of Iran’s “authoritarian regime” at face value. Brennan disagreed, however, telling the panel he would “tend to believe Iran more” than Trump. “He’s trying to figure out how he’s going to get out of this debacle that he has created. And so he’s going to make these claims about negotiations that the Iranians now are sending signals that they really want to make a deal and indicates that it’s going to make a deal on our terms.

That is the news we broke last night in a piece on how Trump uses a mail-in ballot while asking lawmakers to limit the practice. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” Trump said yesterday during a law enforcement task force meeting in Memphis. The Supreme Court heard arguments for a case regarding mail-in voting on Monday and appeared likely to embrace a conservative challenge to tallying mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. Maples, despite initially responding to our request for comment, declined to speak with us for this piece or answer questions about mail-in voting. The president’s presence has changed traffic patterns at Palm Beach International Airport and on the roads around his club.

The deal has tentative backing from the White House, but conservatives aren’t backing down. That includes any provisions that contain merely incidental effects on the budget ― like, for example, requiring voter ID or restricting mail-in voting. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said “no” when asked if the plan, which Senate GOP leadership is discussing, is feasible. The White House has already expressed support for those measures, but some Democrats want them in law. Advertisement“The White House has already agreed with us on some of them.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten was stunned by a massive swing against President Donald Trump among men and young men, employing the rarely-used quadruple-“Yikes!” on Tuesday. CNN ANCHOR ERICA HILL: Okay, so that’s overall men, but what about young men who were really influential? CNN SENIOR DATA CORRESPONDENT HARRY ENTEN: Yes, young men, of course, there was a massive shift to Donald Trump from 2020 to 2024 among young men. CNN SENIOR DATA CORRESPONDENT HARRY ENTEN: Yikes! Yikes, yikes, yikes!

Regimes die when authority thins out, and the forces meant to preserve the system begin to hesitate, fracture, defect or simply wait. In East Germany, the Berlin Wall lost its political meaning the moment the border opening made it unenforceable. In each case, the end came after something deeper had already broken: the state’s confidence in its own ability to command obedience. The sequence before collapseThis is why a tipping point is best understood not as a date but as a sequence. If the IRGC now appears to dominate more of the state, that does not necessarily mean the system is stronger.

A US citizen imprisoned in Afghanistan for more than a year has been released, two US officials told CNN on Tuesday, weeks after the Trump administration declared the country a state sponsor of wrongful detention. “Today, after more than a year of captivity in Afghanistan, Dennis Coyle is on his way home,” the top US diplomat said. Coyle’s release was first reported by The New York Times. The United Arab Emirates helped facilitate Coyle’s release, including providing transportation out of the country, the officials said. Later that day, the US imposed the state sponsor of wrongful detention designation on Afghanistan, which creates the possibility for the US to impose travel restrictions on Afghanistan.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, on Tuesday. J. Scott Applewhite/APRepublicans in Congress are ready to immediately reopen the Department of Homeland Security — without money for immigration enforcement — as long as enough Democrats are willing to back the plan, according to Senate Majority Leader John Thune. He said the Senate GOP conference’s lunchtime meeting was focused on the possibility of the legislative maneuver that would not require Democratic votes. But Thune himself was noncommittal, saying: “You have to have a reason to do it. If we have reasons to do it, then we very well may.”“I think there’s a lot of support for a budget reconciliation bill,” Thune said.