All posts tagged "Breanna Keilar"

CNN's Brianna Keilar tried to pin down the chair of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) over whether he supported an investigation into the leaked war plans chat that inadvertently included a journalist who decided not to divulge the sensitive operational details.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg wrote Monday of his alarm at being included on the chat that laid out plans for a U.S. military strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Others on the chat included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe were grilled by Democrats on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee about the incident. They kept to the GOP talking points that the information mistakenly shared with Goldberg wasn't "classified." ...

Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, celebrated the Trump administration's dismantling of the Department of Education on Thursday before claiming he was being railroaded by CNN when asked about his state's performance record.

Walters, who recently pushed to have the Bible in every Oklahoma classroom, argued, "Parents know what's best for their kids, not bureaucrats. And what you're going to continue to see are states empowering families with this new freedom given to them by the Trump administration."

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar reminded him that parents have a great deal of power in public schools before discussing how key metrics have shown a drop in math and reading skills for fourth graders in his state. ...

Oklahoma's superintendent of public schools adamantly proclaimed to CNN on Tuesday that he would do anything he could to further President Donald Trump's agenda — even if it meant informing on his own students.

Ryan Walters appeared with anchor Breanna Keilar to discuss a measure approved by Oklahoma's Board of Education that requires families to prove U.S. citizenship when enrolling students.

"I want to talk about what you have made clear, which is that raids are within the realm of possibility," Keilar said, before playing a recording of Walters pronouncing, "If that's what President Trump sees fit, as there's an illegal immigrant population there that needs to have enforcement to remove them from the schools, absolutely, we will work with him to make sure that he's able to carry that out." ...

CNN's Brianna Keilar wouldn't let up when freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) touted Donald Trump's new age of "Manifest Destiny" but failed to directly answer questions about how it would help the U.S. economy.

Gill was mid-sentence explaining why acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal was vital to American interests when Keilar interrupted.

"But, can you answer my question? Can you answer my question? I'm asking you a question about the economy because that really, if he does have a mandate, that's so much what it's about," Keilar said. ...