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Programming alert🚨: Tonight, you get double of me — I’m doing Cuomo’s show at 8 p.m ET then “On Balance” as usual at 9 p.m. ET

• 2️⃣See you tonight starting at 8 p.m. ET

• War Notes will be slightly abbreviated as we put together the longer show!

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Knicks fan🏀: The San Antonio Spurs created a lot of New York Knicks fans with their star player shown arms crossed during last night’s national anthem

• Be real👀: The NBA sold out to China — looking to them for moral guidance is like looking for your wife in a strip club.

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Watch this👀: Karmelo Anthony, a black teenager, admits he stabbed Austin Metcalf, a white 17-year-old, and killed him — his trial in Texas will decide if justice really is colorblind

• An all-white jury will look at Anthony’s claim of self-defense.

• Look back🔙: Anthony’s family raised over $600,000 in a defense fund.

• 🤷The self-defense claim is quite a stretch — Anthony stabbed Metcalf, who didn’t have a weapon.

• Tonight📺: Maryann Martinez, the Daily Mail’s Texas bureau chief, is in the courtroom and joins us

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June 4, 1944📅: Tonight, 82 years ago, American GIs were on their ships ready to sail for Normandy — military police with machine guns oversaw the loading with orders to shoot any man refusing to board.

• 🌧️Bad weather would delay the invasion for a day — the new movie, “Pressure,” dramatizes Eisenhower’s critical decision

• ‼️My grandfather worked in his headquarters company — part of America’s greatest generation.

  • ⚒️Men and women who saved the world — and then built America

• 🤦Now we have Gen Z, who doesn’t want to work — much less go to war.

• 📰Jason Riley headlines in The Wall Street Journal, “American Idle: The Work Ethic Goes Out of Style”

  • Literally, people do not want to work — Riley writes, “One in 3 working-age American men aren’t so much as looking for a job.”

  • Riley explains why:

    • “The more likely culprit is a social safety net full of generous government benefits that allow men who won’t work to subsist. Welfare and disability programs at the state and federal level are well-funded by the political left, are easily gamed by design, and have become a significant source of income for men with no job and no interest in finding one. Because these men often have no problem mooching off the women who take them in, they’re able to live on welfare payments sent to others in the same household.”

Be fair⚖️: It’s easy to dog Gen Z; just watch some of their social media clips.

• 👀The fruits of the Greatest Generation created that welfare class.

• 🤷Normally, even fair-minded people would stop there.

Actually, be fair⚖️: Right now there are thousands of Gen Z sailors, Marines, airmen and soldiers on duty around the world — protecting what the Greatest Generation created.

• 👀Maybe America’s greatest generations are ahead of us.

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Blanche Betting📊

📈Let me start with a bold prediction — Todd Blanche will get confirmed as attorney general.

• 🤷Again — I am not rooting for/or against him — it’s my job to tell you what’s going to happen and why.

• The why❗: Trump wouldn’t have nominated him if he didn’t think he could get the votes.

  • Warning⚠️: As they say in TV — mark the tape — sure, I could be wrong

Go deeper🪏: Generally, when all of Washington media is obsessed with a story that’s negative for Trump, it works out pretty well for him.

• Right now❗: Cable news is filled with vote counting for Blanche

  • Sen John Fetterman, D-Pa., is a no

  • Republican Senators Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, John Cornyn all hate Trump with good reason

  • Susan Collins is in the fight for her life.

The day after▶️: What happens the day after Blanche gets confirmed?

• 🤷Is Trump now the man?

Watch tonight📺: NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich joins with her exclusive Todd Blanche interview.

• Plus: Larry O’Connor, Donte Mills and Caroline Downey on whether it’s safe to bet against Trump this time?!

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Bolton Writes a Check 💲

‼️John Bolton will reportedly plead guilty in his own classified documents case

• What happened❗: Bolton allegedly used his private email as a diary of sorts during his time as national security adviser

  • Be fair⚖️: Many NSAs wrote diaries. This is the first time allegations of classified information in an espionage act came from a diary.

• Why❓: Trump hated Bolton’s book and wanted to get even, plus claw back the money Bolton made.

  • This was clearly personal to Trump. The Biden DOJ had looked into this and cleared Bolton.

Disclosure‼️: John Bolton is a friend — I know him to be a good and honorable man

• You🫵: You, our viewers, love him — ratings go through the roof when he is on.

• Balls and strikes🤷: We are the referees — we hold no favorites and must call the game even when our friends get hurt.

Behind the plea🤷: Bolton’s decision is a calculated risk

• Fighting this would have cost multiple millions of dollars in legal fees.

  • There was no classified information in his book — he would have had to fight over each line of his diary.

• We’ve told you this before — process is the penalty, but it goes deeper

• Lawfare: When talking about these prosecutions by both Democrats and Republicans

Big money💰: Bolton will pay a $2.25 million fine.

• What I am thinking💭: Trump got his blood money.

  • Plus➕: Who do you write a $2 million check to?

Yikes 😬: The government reserves the right to argue for jail time of up to five years.

• The judge will decide.

Watch tonight📺: Tom Dupree on how to stop the true weaponization of the DOJ that is bad for the country.

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Maine Warning⚠️

‼️Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner reportedly told Democratic Senators in D.C., “There are no credible allegations of sexual assault”

• Reality👀: If he’s saying there are no “credible” allegations, then you better believe there are allegations of sexual assault.

  • Just the start of it🚨: The New York Times just came out with “Several Women Who Dated Graham Platner Recall ‘Unsettling’ Behavior,” writing:

    • “Mr. Platner could be charming and charismatic, they recalled in interviews, but also demeaning to women and, in at least one case, even physically threatening. He drank heavily and was regularly unfaithful.”

• Re-credible🤷: Given Platner’s Nazi tattoo, history of racism and justification of rape, sexting with multiple women while married (just to name a few foibles) — I’ll make my own decision about credibility, thank you.

• But no🤦: Democrats lined up to defend Platner because they think he has a chance of beating Republican Susan Collins in the Senate race

• Be America‼️: Can we forget politics for a second — is America really better served by the rape enthusiast than a centrist senator who voted to impeach Trump?

Good Read📰: The Wall Street Journal headlines, “The Real Problem With Graham Platner,” writing:

• “To deflect from his character woes, he links Collins to the Jews.”

Watch tonight📺: Mark McKinnon in the 8 p.m. hour and Mike Nellis at 9 p.m on the danger for Democrats who refuse to get off a sinking ship

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California Counting🗳️

🚨Talk about a threat to democracy!

🤦California won’t announce its election results for another 10 days — in the meantime, the Democratic machine can make sure they are protected.

• 📉Don’t believe me – look at the Kalshi betting markets

  • ‼️Reformer Spencer Pratt was allt guaranteed to make the runoff yesterday

  • ‼️But WAIT – LA found another 700,000 ballots, and now Kalshi predicts the runoff will be between Karen Bass and the (more) progressive candidate

• No way the NGOs, labor unions and trade associations would let their funding run dry

Reality🤷: The delayed counting in LA is a feature, not a bug of the system —

• Proof☑️: Why else wouldn’t Democrats who control with super majorities fix it?

How they do it📱: Benny Johnson reports there are 26 people registered to a location that is a porta-potty in Los Angeles — we can’t independently verify, but the court filings are pretty damning

• 📰Must read: The Judicial Watch writes: “Judicial Watch Sues California to Clean Up 873,000 Inactive Voter Registrations on Rolls”

Again — why would you have to sue California to protect its voter rolls?

Watch tonight📺: Rep. Kevin Kiley, who might become a victim of late ballots, and then Barbara Boxer on why California refuses