THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Neil Cavuto

Neil Cavuto interrogated White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein on gas prices for an exchange that lasted for a third of his show Wednesday.

While genial, the discussion was unusually intense for Fox News' generally low-key Your World with Neil Cavuto.

Cavuto first asked Bernstein why President Joe Biden is only now pushing Congress to suspend the federal gas tax amid record-high prices.

Bernstein responded by pointing to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, on which Biden has largely blamed the increase in prices. 

Cavuto pushed back, noting that gas prices rose before Russia massed troops along Ukraine’s border, prompting a lengthy crosstalk-riddled exchange.

"So when you call at this time Putin tax hike, are you forgetting what was happening pre-Putin?” Cavuto asked.

Bernstein replied, “And that’s why we’ve stressed continuously in talking about this and other measures that there’s no single effort that’s going to provide all the relief folks need. We have to work–”

“That wasn’t my question,” Cavuto interrupted. “You keep going back to the Putin tax hike and I get that ... but isn’t that a bit disingenuous?”

Later in the segment, Cavuto turned to Biden’s recent criticism of oil companies, asking Bernstein if basking the industry for making record profits is "fair."

“Nobody is blaming the industry,” Bernstein retorted. What the president is doing–”

“You most certainly are, Jared,” said Cavuto. “I hear it every day.”

Cavuto continued to press Bernstein for another 10 minutes.

MEDIA LOSER:
Keith Olbermann

Keith Olbermann shared an incredibly questionable take on the Supreme Court after it struck down a New York state law requiring proof of "special need for self-protection" to carry a concealed weapon.

While reactions to the decision have been strong, the former cable news personality took it to an extreme when he called for both dissolving the court and ignoring it at the state level.

In a 6 – 3 decision, the court struck down a New York state law on concealed carry, prompting strong reactions from both Gov. Kathy Hochul and President Joe Biden, as well as other officials.

But where the governor vowed to take the state’s fight into legal and legislative directions, Olbermann advised a more anarchic approach: Just don’t listen.

“It has become necessary to dissolve the Supreme Court of the United States,” the former lots of things Olbermann said.

“The first step is for a state the ‘court’ has now forced guns upon, to ignore this ruling.”

Olbermann went completely ignore the structure of government and the constitution, questioning "why and how" the Supreme Court justices think they have the jurisdiction to "enforce" their rulings.

The court also works to police the boundaries of the nation's political system, serving to establish the limits of power held by the government as well as its constituents. 

It's fine to have a strong reaction to a controversial ruling, and certainly many people are, including journalists. But calling for open defiance of the law, of the highest court, of the U.S. government?

Yeah, we aren't having a lot of good results from that sort of rhetoric the last few years.

The A-Block

First major gun law case in over a decade

The Supreme Court struck down a New York state law that demanded applicants for concealed carry permits show “proper cause” to justify the issuance of the permit.

In a Thursday ruling, which marked the first major gun law case since 2008, the court determined the U.S. Constitution’s protection of the right to bear arms includes the right to carry a gun outside the home. 

The 6-3 opinion, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, was issued on Thursday morning and written by Justice Clarence Thomas.

The other five Republican-appointed justices joined Thomas, with Justices Stephen BreyerSonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan dissenting.

The complaint was brought by two New York men whose applications for concealed carry permits were denied because state law required them to “demonstrate a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community.”

The court’s ruling found that this New York law operated in a way that prevented citizens from exercising their right to bear arms in accordance with the Second and Fourteenth Amendments, highlighting the right to self-defense. 

President Joe Biden released a statement following the decision, saying, "This ruling contradicts both common sense and the Constitution, and should deeply trouble us all."

New York politicians have also reacted to the decision, largely condemning the court's 6-3 ruling. 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D-NY) expressed his concerns on Twitter, writing, “Put simply, this Supreme Court ruling will put New Yorkers at further risk of gun violence."

 

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Must See Clip

'Some anxiety' for the Trumps

CNN released a sample of never-before-seen footage from a Trump-focused documentary that has since been turned over to the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. 

News recently broke that the committee subpoenaed British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder because of his “extensive access” to the former president’s inner circle through his work on the documentary

Holder announced that he presented the requested materials to the committee in compliance with the subpoena, with New York Times’s Maggie Haberman reporting that the Trump family has “some anxiety” over what they said in the footage.

On Thursday, CNN aired the trailer for the documentary series, titled Unprecedented, which includes footage from before and after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

“My father, he is very honest, and he is who he is," Ivanka Trump says at the top of the trailer. 

The video then cuts to Donald Trump Jr., who insists his father "believes everything that he’s doing is right.”

Interviews with Donald Trump and footage from the Jan. 6 riot are also scattered throughout the roughly 20-second spot.

“I think I treat people well unless they don’t treat me well, in which case, you go to war," Trump says before the trailer cuts to a clip of his supporters storming the U.S. Capitol. 

The trailer ends with Trump being asked if he could talk about what happened on January 6.

“Yeah,” Trump answers. 

Links We Like

Will Putin learn from the 1904 Russo-Japanese War? 
- David Gioe, The Atlantic - Jonathan Chait, Intelligencer 
What Alito got wrong about abortion rights throughout American history 
- Damon Root, Reason
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