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McCarthy: Wray Must Show Whole Committee Biden Document

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Newsmax

FBI Director Christopher Wray will face charges of contempt of Congress if he only allows House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and not the entire committee, to see a document that alleges a bribery scheme between President Joe Biden, during his years as vice president, and a foreign national, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said Sunday. 

“We have a responsibility of oversight,” the California Republican told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo. “If they do not comply and allow every person on oversight, Republican or Democrat — that’s their responsibility to the members of Congress  —  to see this document, I will move contempt charges against the director.”

The FBI is to brief Comer Monday about the document and he will be allowed to review it, but McCarthy said that only happened after he, as speaker, threatened Wray with contempt.

“When we realized there was a document, we sent a subpoena,” said Comer. “He did not want to comply with the subpoena. I called the director and told him I needed this subpoena, that we have a responsibility to oversee the FBI, a constitutional responsibility…he then changed his mind [and said] he would let the chairman and the rankers see the document and bring it to the House. That is not good enough.”

Meanwhile, the FBI wants a new headquarters, spending about $4 billion to start said McCarthy, but he doesn’t think “that’s the best use of our money.”

“I also wonder, do we need one big, large FBI building, and does it need to be back in Virginia, or should it be in Maryland or should it be in Texas if you’re doing cybersecurity or other [things]?” said McCarthy. “The president himself is fighting a bill I passed to bring federal workers back to work, as 50% of federal workers are not coming in. I think it’s responsible that they come in and do their job. But if that’s the argument, wouldn’t it be better if we had smaller offices across the country where FBI agents could help local law enforcement to solve human trafficking, to solve cybersecurity?”

His comments come after House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan last month threatened that Republicans will have to use the “power of the purse” against the FBI and the Department of Justice to limit how they’ve been treating the American people.

Jordan’s comments come after an often-contentious weaponization subcommittee hearing last month, with testimony presented by three suspended FBI agents who testified that they’ve been targeted for being whistleblowers who went to Congress over concerns on the Jan. 6, 2021 protest investigations and other issues. 

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Bud Light, Target, haven’t the Dodgers learned anything? As a sports team owner, I know better

Dodgers rejected fans, embraced anti-Catholic extremists. Sports team owners should learn from Bud Light, Target

By Tim Busch | Fox News

Will the Los Angeles Dodgers ever be the same? 

I doubt it. One of the most-storied sports brands in history is reeling. It’s the result of management’s foolish decision to invite an anti-Catholic hate group to an LGBT Pride night, then rescind the invitation after criticism from the right, only to re-invite the group after blowback from the left.  

The flip-flopping wasn’t the Dodger’s biggest mistake. The real issue is that the baseball team waded into politics in the first place. 

I say this as a minority owner of two professional sports teams, one in the United States and one in the United Kingdom. I encourage anyone in professional sports to avoid any involvement in politics, for the simple reason that sports teams aren’t political groups. We aren’t in the business of taking sides in a cause, telling some people they’re wrong while others are right, and wading into the most divisive issues of the day.  

Just the opposite: We’re in the business of business, and we should stay that way. While the teams I co-own don’t always steer clear of politics, my message to the Dodgers and every sports team and business is still simple: This is a losing game that will cost you dearly for decades to come. 

It baffles me that the Dodgers forgot this basic truth. I’m a Californian, so I love the Dodgers as much as anyone else. But my fondness for the team, built over nearly seven decades, never had anything to do with its political stands. I appreciated that the Dodgers built a good team, showed fans a good time and regularly competed for the highest honors in the game.  

That’s the point of a sports team. Score points, please the fans, win trophies. Scoring political points is the last thing a team should ever do. 

Yet that’s exactly what a small but vocal group of activists now wants. They demand that sports teams – and every business, for that matter – pick sides in our country’s culture wars. They want companies to take stands on everything from abortion to marriage to sexuality to changing children’s genders with invasive surgeries. I don’t doubt the sincerity of their beliefs. But I’m deeply confused why so many companies kowtow to these demands. 

Imagine if the Dodgers had never held a Pride night, ever. Would some people have criticized the team? Absolutely. Would some media outlets have taken potshots at the team? Sure. And would some people have even boycotted the Dodgers? Probably.

But the team wouldn’t be in the pickle it is today. If it had avoided politics, a handful of people would have been upset. Instead, the team jumped in headfirst on one of the most divisive issues. Now legions of fans in the Los Angeles area and beyond are likely to boycott the team, especially in LA’s enormous Catholic community.  

Budweiser learned the same thing when it threw its support behind transgenderism. Bud Light sales have plummeted. But they didn’t have to. All the company had to do was stay silent on something it had no right to talk about. It’s a beer company, for God’s sake, not an arm of the Democratic Party. 

There’s no point enraging your fan base, especially when people can advocate for their favored political positions in the political process. That’s where politics belongs – in the voting booth, in candidate’s campaigns and in the persuasion that happens around kitchen tables and on social media. We don’t need it in the dugout, the field, or the boardroom. Fans, sports teams and business leaders have other things to worry about. You know, like supporting the players, strengthening the team, and running a business. 

The Dodgers have learned this lesson the hard way. Here’s my advice to them and every sports team, in every league. Don’t hold Pride night anymore. Don’t hoist a conservative flag on some other issue, either. Just stick to sports, which is the only reason people come to the stadium or turn on the game. If you don’t, a lot of them won’t come back or will change the channel.  

The Dodgers earned what’s coming their way.  

Tim Busch is founder of Pacific Hospitality Group. 

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Manchin not ruling out 2024 3rd-party presidential run: ‘Extremism coming from the far left and the far right’

By Danielle Wallace | Fox News

‘Not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out,’ Manchin said

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Sunday he would not rule out a potential third-party presidential run in 2024, touting the value of the “moderate middle” over the far left and right extremes, after the debt ceiling package managed to clear both chambers of Congress and avoid a U.S. default. 

“Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream grilled Manchin on a recent report in The New York Times claiming that the bipartisan group “No Labels” is eyeing a third-party presidential run in 2024, alarming Democrats, and that Manchin sits at “the top of the list of potential candidates.” 

The report said Manchin risks bleeding support for President Biden “crucial to his re-election.”

Is a third-party run still in the realm of possibility?” Bream asked Manchin on “Fox News Sunday.” 

“No Labels has been moving and pushing very hard the centrist middle. Making commonsense decisions,” Manchin said, sidestepping the question. “People that basically expect us to do our job. And not put the political party ahead of the policy in our great country. That’s what we’ve seen happening. And there’s more noise and more extremism coming from the far left and the far right.” 

“It’s always what I’ve believed. I believe that basically that’s where you make the decisions,” he said of the political center. “You listen to the left and the right. You make sure that you leave nobody behind. And you listen to the different persuasions that they might have, concerns. But when it comes you’ve got to make common sense.” 

He went on to argue for a risk management evaluation of the U.S. financial situation, noting the recent collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank. 

“But is there a risk management team assessing a third-party run for Sen. Joe Manchin with No Labels or any other option?” Bream interjected. 

“I think with a risk management team, you better have Plan B. Because if Plan A shows that we’re going to the far reaches of both sides, the far left and the far right, and the people don’t want to go to the far left and the far right, they want to be governed from the middle, I think there is… you better have that Plan B available and ready to go,” Manchin said. 

“And you’re saying it possibly could include Joe Manchin?” Bream said. 

“I’m not saying who it’s going to include or exclude. I’m saying you better have Plan B ready,” Manchin responded. “Because that’s what it’s going to take for this country to remain the superpower of the world, to give confidence to people around the world that the reserve currency should be the U.S. dollar, that support for freedom and democracy should be the U.S. government and the U.S. Defense Department. We can do that. You can’t do it from the extremes.” 

“OK, ruling it out? Not ruling it out?” Bream pushed once more. 

“Not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out,” Manchin concluded. 

Earlier in his appearance, Manchin – who thanked Senate Republicans and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., for securing that the Mountain Valley Gas pipeline was funded in the debt ceiling package – credited centrists in both the GOP and Democrat parties for avoiding a default on U.S. debt.  

“Both the extreme left and the extreme right voted to default – they voted against it,” Manchin said. “It was the Democrats and Republicans in the middle. So that moderate middle, the centrists, well, we’re going to run this country. We can’t continue to let the extremes try to be the majority voice when it’s going to be the majority voting in the middle and the moderate centrists that will make things happen.” 

Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace. 

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Detransitioned Navy SEAL warns parents about gender surgery for minors: ‘Not sharing all the data’

By Ashley Carnahan | Fox News

A retired Navy SEAL is speaking out against allowing children to receive gender surgery and be put on puberty blockers, telling parents they need to thoroughly look at the data available before making a life-changing decision. 

Chris Beck, a detransitioner formerly known as Kristen Beck, said one crucial piece of data about gender dysphoria isn’t talked about enough. 

“So I was in mental health counseling for my graduate degree here at a university where I live and so I was learning all the procedures, I was learning all about human development from birth all the way through – up to 25 years old, you’re still developing your brain. So the thing is, is that when you’re going through these courses, they’re coaching you and they’re coaching you on what to say to parents, and they’re not showing all the data,” he argued on “Fox News Tonight.” 

“So one of the biggest pieces of data that they’re missing right now is that 80% of the kids who are going through gender dysphoria or gender confusion either before puberty and during puberty, 80% of those kids are corrected – [They] will get rid of all that gender confusion by the time puberty is over. 80%!” 

Beck added that puberty blockers are another irreversible step and can impact minors’ fertility in the future. 

“If a kid goes on puberty blockers when they’re 13, 14, 15 years old, they are chemically castrated. They’re not going to have children when they get older. They’re not given this data,” he told host Joey Jones. “So eight of those kids, out of those ten, are going to want to go back to be just a regular old person and they’re not going to be able to.” 

Beck came out as transgender in a 2013 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper but expressed regret years later, telling conservative influencer Robby Starbuck in a December 2022 interview, “Everything you see on CNN with my face, do not even believe a word of it.” “Everything that happened to me for the last 10 years destroyed my life. I destroyed my life. I’m not a victim. I did this to myself, but I had help.”

He explained on “Fox News Tonight” that he is speaking out now so parents are aware of what their children might go through if they are put on puberty blockers or choose to get gender surgery. 

“Ya’ll need to start leaving these kids alone. They’re castrating them. They’re doing these double mastectomies. They’re hurting kids. Eight out of ten, 80% of those kids, there’s studies, massive studies, 80% of those kids are not transgender. Eighty percent of those kids are just confused,” he argued. “Parents, you need to wake up. Don’t let your kids get into stuff. You better share all the data. All of the data.” 

Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report

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Politico alters headline on Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg from ‘by-the-book’ to ‘liberal’

The headline was changed after critics mocked the original Politico story for presenting Bragg as ‘politics averse’

Politico altered a controversial headline for a puff piece on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in the midst of accusations that former President Trump will be indicted. Politico’s original headline, “By-the-book DA confronts unpredictable opponent in Trump,” now appears as “Liberal Manhattan DA takes on Trump in perilous legal fight,” as flagged by NewsBusters. The reporter behind the story, Erica Orden, had presented Bragg as a “low-key, politics-averse prosecutor” who is preparing to “take on the brash, mudslinging former president.” Bragg’s office is investigating whether Trump was involved in paying hush money to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign, a charge that Trump has denied. The first headline drew widespread mockery online, with many political commentators and journalists accusing Orden of peddling a biased description of Bragg. 

“Just came back to laugh again about both ‘politics averse’ and ‘by the book.’ You are genuinely funny!” Federalist Editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway wrote in response to Politico’s original headline.

‘”Politics averse’ is a surprising descriptor here,” Republican political operative Matt Whitlock wrote. 

“Erica you gave me a good laugh today. Bragg is politics averse? Oh that’s a hoot. Is the water you’re carrying for the regime heavy?” former assistant secretary for public affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services Michael Caputo tweeted. Trump has suggested that Bragg is set to indict him based on a seven-year-old case involving Stormy Daniels, an adult film star. The allegations made national headlines, with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, firing off multiple letters to Bragg’s office for additional information on a possible indictment against Trump. 

Jordan cited Bragg’s apparent reversal on pushing to indict Trump as an “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority.” 

“In January 2022, soon after Bragg took office, he expressed doubts about President Trump’s case and suspended the investigation. This decision caused you and your colleague, Mark Pomerantz, to resign in protest,” Jordan wrote in his letter.

“It now appears that your efforts to shame Bragg have worked as he is reportedly resurrecting a so-called ‘zombie’ case against President Trump using a tenuous and untested legal theory,” Jordan continued.

Bragg, for his part, has accused the House GOP of an “unprecedented inquiry into a pending local prosecution.” 

Fox News’ Lawrence Richard contributed to this report. 

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Twitter’s Elon Musk predicts Trump will win re-election in ‘landslide victory’ if arrested

Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday predicted that former President Donald Trump will be re-elected in a “landslide” if he is indicted — or possibly arrested and potentially “handcuffed” — next week. “If this happens, Trump will be re-elected in a landslide victory,” Musk tweeted. Musk was reacting to a Fox News segment which detailed how the Manhattan District Attorney’s office has asked for a meeting with law enforcement ahead of a possible Trump indictment of next week.

According to a court source, the meeting was requested Thursday and hasn’t been set. The meeting is to “discuss logistics for some time next week, which would mean that they are anticipating an indictment next week,” the source familiar with the planning said. Secret Service is expected to take the lead on what they will allow and won’t allow — for instance, the decision of whether to handcuff Trump.

Desantis Enters Race

After a long wait Ron Desantis has finally entered the 2024 race for President. Too late? We will see. After we see what happens and if he can become the nominee then we will see how 2024 is really going to pan out. If he can’t beat Donald Trump for the nomination will he step aside and run as Vice President.
This would give him the opportunity to stay in for 12 years not 8. Something I hope he thinks about.

AOC Calls Debt Ceiling Reckless

As the debt ceiling negotiations continue in the House, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that a failure to raise the limit would cause massive chaos in the U.S. economy.
“The chaos that would ensue and the impact on people’s everyday lives would likely be immediate and it is one of the reasons why we need to take default off the table,” the congresswoman continued.