THE DAILY NEWSLETTER - MONDAY, JULY 18, 2022

Media Winners & Losers

MEDIA WINNER:
Kate Snow

NBC's Weekend Nightly News dedicated 12-minutes to an extensive deep-dive into how gun violence is impacting communities across the United States.

For the special, titled ‘One Night in America,’ four NBC News correspondents -- Kate Snow, Gabe Gutierrez, Gadi Schartz, and Jesse Kirch -- reported from four different communities for an on-the-ground look at how each city is dealing with the epidemic.

Snow delivered an impressive report from Chicago, embedded with Pastor Donovan Price, a local pastor who ministers to gun violence victims and their families.

“What he does is he waits by his phone, looking for texts, looking for radio traffic, watching kind of a scanner app," Snow said of the pastor.

"And when he sees a shooting in progress or a shooting that has just happened and someone is being sent to the hospital, he runs to it, and he finds the families and he shepherds them and he prays with them, and he provides all manner of services.”

As part of her reporting, Snow and Price visited a hospital where the two met with mourning family of a gunshot victim who did not survive. Kate also spoke with a mother whose sons were previously killed by gun violence.

Snow's reporting did not just highlight the prevalence of local, everyday gun violence in America, but also worked to answer what the nation can actually do about it.

“He said it starts with all of us, actually, all of us paying attention, not just me in my little community in Chicago," he said. "Everybody in the nation needs to pay more attention and be more invested in the solutions.”

Snow's reporting, as well as NBC's full segment, focused on the people affected by trauma.

She successfully showcased the horrors of gun violence without politicizing the topic or discussing the recent Supreme Court decision that expanded gun rights.

MEDIA LOSER:
Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo baselesslyquestionedifPresident Joe Biden is being fed "drugs" to "allow him to function."

Bartiromo floated the theory while speaking to Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who served as physician for former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama, on her Sunday Morning Futures show.

"Congressman, there were signs that Joe Biden was declining during the 2020 campaign," she said. "I mean, let’s face it, he stayed in the basement the whole time during, during the campaign. So who knew what when?”

“Are they hiding this and feeding him drugs to, to allow him to function?” she added, striking a very conspiratorial tone and offering no evidence to back her questions.

She went on to speculate about why Biden "goes home to Delaware a lot more than any other president."

“So I guess my question is, what did Obama know? What did Jill Biden know? And who’s running the White House right now? And are they covering up for these mental issues?” she asked.

Gladly taking the bait, Jackson claimed, "That's the big question everybody's asking."

“Who’s really pulling the strings? Who’s running the country right now? We don’t really know the answer to that,” he added.

“We don’t know if it’s Susan Rice or Ron Klain or if it’s Joe Biden or who it is. But somebody else is doing this. They’re doing exactly what you said. They’re rolling him out at specific times during the day."

Jackson then pointed to drugs meant to "increase your alertness and your memory and things of that nature."

"You know, and cover stuff like this up temporarily," he added. "So, I'm sure some of that's going on as well."

Again, there is no evidence to back Bartiromo and Jackson's theory that Biden is dependent on medication to function.

The A-Block

'Egregious poor decision making'

The Texas House investigative committee's newly released report into the Robb Elementary School shooting flags a litany of “systemic failures” behind the massacre that left 19 children and 2 adults dead.

The report, released Sunday by multiple news outlets, follows the leaked release of surveillance footage showing cops failing to move in on the shooter for over an hour.

According to the report, "Systemic failures and egregious poor decision making" were evident in every branch of law enforcement. 

The report found massive confusion among the nearly 400 officers from 20 law enforcement agencies who never established the incident command structure that has been a part of police training provided by the Department of Homeland Security for years.

On Sunday, CNN's Shimon Prokupecz also aired new video from the police body cam footage taken during the shooting, which Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin had released to the network.

These new video clips, aired with narration by Prokupecz, were comprised of recordings from multiple officers’ body cams, and show the officers running into the school at the beginning of the shooting.

“What you see here is a picture of officers really not in control,” Prokupecz told guest anchor Ryan Nobles of the video, which marked the first time anyone was seeing this initial view in the school hallway at the beginning of the shooting.

The video, he summarized, “shows the police response and just how terrible it was how some of the decision making was, very confusing.”

“You had officers outside who really didn’t know what was going on inside. There was no command structure. There was no one making decisions. And it was kind of a free for all.”

In Other News...

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Rumpf Opinion: Ohio Rape Victim Saga Shows Pundits and Politicians Shouldn’t Launch Witch Hunts Before Figuring Out If Witchery is Even Afoot

Leeman Opinion: MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Lets Candidate Rail About His ‘Dangerous’ MAGA Opponent Without Asking Why He Spent $840K to Boost Him

RATINGS: Don Lemon Beats Lawrence O’Donnell in Demo

Must See Clip

Bad for the party

The Fox News website posted a stunning three-minute video featuring a host of Trump supporters in Maricopa County talking about ditching him in 2024 for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

“I like what he stands for; I like what he does,” one voter, identified as Jeff, said of ex-President Donald Trump.  “But he upset too many people, and he upset them really bad. So I don’t think he’s good for the party.”

The first half of the video focused on Trump and featured multiple interviews in which his own fans concluded that it was time for him to clear the stage.

The second half of the video posed the question: Who should run for president in 2024? And the answer was unanimous: Ron DeSantis.

The incredible video comes amid a round of polling that puts DeSantis within hailing distance of Trump. On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough argued it’s “pretty obvious” that “Fox News has left the Trump train.”

Links We Like

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- Sarah Owermohle, Politico
Victims' families react to report on Robb Elementary School shooting
- Brian Chasnoff, Danya Perez, Alejandro Serrano, Houston Chronicle
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