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On January 4, PBS NewsHour anchor Amna Nawaz interviewed Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for nine minutes, but didn't get to the House Republican impeachment drive until the last question. She said Speaker Mike Johnson says the border crisis isn't incompetence, it's intentional. Mayorkas refused to address the politics.
On CNN's Inside Politics, host Dana Bash warned about polls showing Joe Biden's approval rating on immigration is 26 percent in one poll. CNN host Kasie Hunt was blunt: "The strategy that these red state governors have had of sending a lot of these migrants to blue states has worked, from a political perspective."
It's always a surprise when David Brooks actually fights with Jonathan Capehart on the Friday night panel on the PBS NewsHour. But he denounced Maine's Democrat Secretary of State taking Donald Trump off the primary ballot, saying it was not just a "terrible decision," but an "even worse threat to democracy" than Colorado's Supreme Court ripping Trump off the ballot.
MSNBC host Joy Reid went rogue on the Biden administration on The Reidout on Wednesday, comparing America's aid and alliance with Israel as tantamount to an African genocide like Rwanda.
Chris Hayes on Biden’s booming economy: "Just take a second right now to consider what the alternate reality would be like in this moment, after this turbulence under a Donald Trump presidency. My strong belief is that part of the reason that people's perception, the economy was good in the Trump era, that Trump would be good at managing the economy, is that he constantly unceasingly…
NBC Nightly News was the mildest of the three networks on the Biden impeachment inquiry. Anchor Lester Holt opened: "The House moments ago narrowly voted to authorize the probe that has so far produced no evidence of wrongdoing." Reporter Ryan Nobles noted both Hunter and Joe Biden refused to take reporter questions, and he ran a 2019 clip of Biden saying he'd never discussed business with Hunter…
On ABC's World News Tonight, David Muir echoed the Biden talking points:"House Republicans voting to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president Biden despite providing no evidence of high crimes or misdemeanors. They say they need the inquiry to find the evidence."
Muir began the program: "Tonight, breaking news involving President Biden. The House voting moments ago to formally open the…