Inside Politics

There is something about political figures and food that CNN Inside Politics host Dana Bash finds intensely fascinating and worthy of deep discussion. On Friday, the subject of discussion was Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’s interaction on the campaign trail with a child about his Icee and what the impact it will have on his campaign.

ABC was not the only network to try to tie Tuesday’s establishment of an Emmett Till monument to Republicans. CNN and MSNBC also got in on the act with wild and evidence-free declarations about how President Biden is protecting Till’s legacy from Republicans and how such brutal murders still occur today.

CNN self-parodied itself on Tuesday as it tried to discern higher meanings behind Special Counsel Jack Smith’s lunchtime trip to Subway on the same day it was revealed he issued a target letter to former President Donald Trump as part of his January 6 investigation.

During Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on a memo out of the Richmond, Virginia field office that called for the bureau to insert spies into the local Catholic Church to monitor “radical traditionalist Catholics.” Instead of being appalled that anyone at the FBI would think that was acceptable, the cast of CNN’s…

On Monday’s episode of CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash, the host and her panel discussed the surprisingly searing New York Times column that ripped into President Biden for denying the existence of Hunter Biden’s child. Despite CNN’s personality cult following of Biden, the panel found it extremely difficult to excuse his behavior.

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It’s been 31 years since Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton picked Tennessee Senator Al Gore as his vice presidential candidate on the 1992 Democratic Party ticket. The announcement kicked off a wave of positive coverage, as the media gleefully participated in the re-branding of a new “centrist” Democratic Party.

On June 15, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused CNN’s Kailtan Collins of referring to Judge Aileen Cannon as “Trump-appointed” in order to instill doubt in the Trump documents case and questioned whether she would do the same if the judge was appointed by Barack Obama. Collins defended herself by saying “We talk about who judges were appointed by all the time.” Now, less than one week later we…

As Republicans reacted to Hunter Biden’s Tuesday plea deal by declaring it to be a “slap on the wrist” and raised concerns about a two-tiered system of justice, the Washington Post’s Leigh Ann Caldwell joined CNN’s Inside Politics to say that such allegations prove that the GOP tends to “leave out a lot of facts.” In an attempt to prove her point, Caldwell also insisted that…

Read enough left-wing "legacy media" outlets and you might think the epic political battles of our time are fought between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans. Or maybe the "radical right" versus the "progressives." One party has "hardliners" and the other ones doesn't. The press really wants to rip the "far-right House Freedom Caucus."

In a grade-A example of CNN not caring about its credibility as a news organization during Monday’s Inside Politics, the network trotted on disgraced former deputy director of the FBI turn CNN analyst, Andrew McCabe, who was fired for leaking to the press lying to investigators about it. He was tapped to defend two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for keeping…

CNN’s Friday edition of Inside Politics turned into a Biden 2024 ad as host John King previewed Biden’s Oval Office address on the debt limit deal by asking his assembled panel if he could make “centrism, compromise sexy.”

Monday, April 24, 2023 will go down as one of the more bizarre and consequential days in modern cable news as, nearly an hour after Fox News shockingly announced it had “agreed to part ways” with Tucker Carlson, CNN This Morning co-host Don Lemon claimed he was informed through his agent that he had “been terminated by CNN.”

CNN Inside Politics host John King spent Tuesday parroting Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey’s assertion at the law enforcement press conference on the Louisville bank shooting that by focusing on things such as education instead of gun control, Republicans aren’t being adults and have their priorities backwards.

As the Tennessee House of Representatives prepared to vote on Thursday to expel three Democratic lawmakers for disrupting proceedings by leading demonstrators with megaphones inside the House chamber, CNN Inside Politics host John King came running to their defense, claiming that “They were trying to get a discussion.” At the same time, chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny…