| China Fight Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sparred over the NBA’s ties to China in a feisty Twitter exchange beginning Sunday night.
At one point, Cuban, frustrated that the Texas Senator screenshotted his tweet, told Cruz to “have some balls for once.”
Bizarre
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins expressed how stunning he finds it that mask-wearing has somehow become a political issue when it’s an important part of the coronavirus response.
"It is bizarre that we have turned mask wearing into something political," Collins told Chuck Todd.
Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur in Interview With Black Radio Host
There's nothing we can add to that headline. That's a thing that actually happened over the weekend.
"We can turn this around. We can turn it around." Face of the (smart) coronavirus response Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke with Dr. John Whyte, Chief Medical Officer at WebMD, on Saturday in what was really a terrific and informative interview that covered a lot of ground.
It's really a must-see.
"Abysmal" Although 2020 presidential election polls continue to show Joe Biden trouncing Trump, a recent survey should at least raise concern at the campaign of the Democratic candidate. The Meet the Press politics team flagged a result showing Biden has surprisingly bad numbers with young voters in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week.
The Attack on a Federal Judge
The suspect in the murder of a federal judge’s son and critical wounding pf her husband on Sunday has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to reports.
Discouraging His Own Turnout
FiveThirtyEight founder and ABC News correspondent Nate Silver warned Sunday that President Donald Trump may be “discouraging turnout” among his own voters by scaring them about the accuracy and validity of mail-in voting.
U.S. a Lesser Developed Country on Virus
“I’m trying to figure out what kind of disaster that our country has had that’s ever as bad as this that’s been self-inflicted,” said CNBC’s Jim Cramer as he blasted the "unruly" response to the pandemic by the United States.
Criticism
Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik went after Fox News during Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN, saying the network fails to hold itself accountable as it should whenever it deals with racism. He said Fox allowed Tucker Carlson to dismiss "in 91 seconds" the firing of head writer Blake Neff over racist commentary and to "make no apology on-air, and use half his time to attack people who reported this story."
Fox News provided Mediaite with a response to the commentary. FOX News Media is committed to providing an ongoing dialogue targeting issues of diversity and workplace inclusion, which is why we recently took the unprecedented action of providing an open forum among an intimate group of diverse employees to candidly discuss this critical issue. We have long been a leader in cable news for featuring a broad range of voices, and will continue those efforts to ensure all views are respected and celebrated both on and off air. Read the whole story, and watch the clip, here.
Battle Over Reactions
Megyn Kelly and Soledad O’Brien sparred on Twitter Monday after the former CNN host took a shot at Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean over New York’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Return of the Briefings
Speaking with the press pool in the Oval Office Monday morning, President Trump cited “record ratings” and “big flareups” of the virus in Texas and Florida as reasons he’s bringing back the daily coronavirus briefing. 6.5.0 | 
