Ryan Foley
Ryan Foley | April 19, 2019
During late night coverage of the Mueller report on CNN, Political Commentator Scott Jennings pointed out that "we knew...pretty extensively what the Russians were doing by mid-2016 but the U.S. government and the previous administration chose not to do anything about it. So Donald Trump wasn't the President then. Barack Obama was." CNN National Security Analyst and Obama administration alum…
Ryan Foley | April 19, 2019
As part of a six-person, unanimously anti-Trump panel on CNN's The Situation Room Thursday, CNN National Security Analyst and Obama administration alum Samantha Vinograd proclaimed that the Mueller report "is a gift to the government of Russia." According to Vinograd, "this is a very proud moment for Vladimir Putin for several reasons. First, we know that he likes to use controversial and…
Ryan Foley | April 17, 2019
CNN has not hesitated to slam President Trump as a sexist in recent months. Believe it or not, the network has now attached that label to a left-wing political figure generally adored by the legacy media: Michelle Obama.  CNN Right Now host Brianna Keilar took issue with some comments made by the former First Lady, where she compared America to a teenager with a "broken family" who has to "spend…
Ryan Foley | April 16, 2019
On Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, the eponymous host and her panel were definitely excited about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg's official entry into the presidential race. Mitchell praised Buttigieg's "pretty smart" decision to "take on Mike Pence as a way of going after Donald Trump and going after the evangelicals and saying...if you don't like me, speak to my creator."  Mitchell went on…
Ryan Foley | April 15, 2019
As a member of the panel on Sunday's Meet the Press, Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post repeatedly dismissed the idea of a crisis on the border. According to Robinson, "we're a country of 330 million people, you know, richest, most powerful country on Earth. Yes, we can deal with 50,000 families, you know...people on the border...Let's build the facilities and put the people in place and let'…
Ryan Foley | April 15, 2019
Shortly after interviewing Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd brought in his panel to discuss the immigration crisis at the southern border. Todd described Conway as somebody who "represented an administration that...wants to do something, wants to do a deal but her boss doesn't sound like somebody that wants to do a deal." New York Times columnist David…
Ryan Foley | April 13, 2019
Appearing on PBS’s Washington Week Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell complained that Republicans have “controlled the narrative” when it comes to the Mueller report.  With that in mind, Mitchell predicted that if the report has a lot of redactions and “if it’s not conclusive,” “it’s going to be very hard…for the Democrats in a protracted legal argument, going to the courts, trying to get this…
Ryan Foley | April 12, 2019
During a mini-monologue Wednesday night, All In host Chris Hayes complained that "someone like John Yoo wrote a legal memo that facilitated the US implementing torture, which is a war crime" has a "nice tenured perch at Berkeley Law School."  Hayes's mention of Yoo came as part of a larger monologue trashing Kirstjen Nielsen, which concluded with Hayes asking "will Nielsen pay a reputational,…
Ryan Foley | April 12, 2019
During a mini-monologue on Wednesday night, All In host Chris Hayes complained that "someone like John Yoo wrote a legal memo that facilitated the US implementing torture, which is a war crime" has a "nice, tenured perch at Berkeley Law School." Yoo, who worked in the Office of Legal Counsel during the George W. Bush administration, appeared on The Ingraham Angle to respond to Hayes: "no one ever…
Ryan Foley | April 12, 2019
Nearly a year after telling Joy Behar that the FBI did not spy on the Trump campaign, former Director of National Intelligence Clapper told CNN's Alisyn Camerota "I can't speak, specifically...to what the FBI did." Based on his appearance on The View, it seemed like Clapper had extensive knowledge of the FBI's behavior in counterintelligence investigations related to the 2016 Presidential…