All posts tagged "Phil Mattingly"

Political analyst David Chalian practically spat fire Friday on CNN after President Donald Trump announced he was canning a labor official because he didn't like the job numbers she released Friday.

Trump posted to Truth Social that Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of Labor Statistics and a Biden appointee, published an "inaccurate" report revealing weaker-than-expected job numbers for May and June.

"There are two things here, just stepping back for a second, that I think are pretty clear," Chalian began. "One, Donald Trump's kind of giving away the fact that this is not a healthy, robust, growing economy at the moment. It's a weakening economy, and he's freaked out about it, right? I mean, just by the behavior."...

CNN's Dana Bash was gobsmacked that President Donald Trump opted to play golf Friday while the U.S. economy was melting down due to the tariffs he imposed on dozens of countries earlier this week.

On Friday, stocks continued their downward spiral, losing more than 3,000 points in two days. China announced it was retaliating with 34% tariffs on U.S. goods. And Fed chairman Jerome Powell said Trump's tariffs "raise risks of faster inflation and slower growth," according to The New York Times.

Trump was already lambasted Thursday for deciding to attend a LIV Golf event at his Doral course in Miami instead of presiding over the dignified transfer of the four U.S. soldiers who died in Lithuania. ...

Passenger video of a Delta plane that appeared to flip upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport stunned CNN anchors who were covering what could have been a major tragedy Monday.

"We just got some new video in of the moments right after the crash," said anchor Brianna Keilar, before playing the video that was posted to X.

A passenger is heard in a shaky voice saying, "We're in Toronto. We just landed. Our plane crashed. It's upside down. Fire department's on site. Upside down. Everybody, most people appear to be okay. We're all getting off. Some smoke going on."...

Maryland lawmaker Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Wednesday that he regrets voting to confirm former Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as secretary of state, especially now that Rubio is enthusiastically supporting Trump's proposal to take over Gaza and turn it into a resort.

Van Hollen told CNN's Phil Mattingly he was appalled that Trump pressed the Gaza issue in front of King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday.

"What the president has done is, he has lit a fire and thrown it on a keg of gasoline," Van Hollen said. "Because what's happening in Gaza, what's happening in the Middle East, is already a tinderbox. It's already on fire, and what he is doing is going to spread that fire. He has essentially called for what amounts to the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the forced removal of two million Palestinians to other areas." ...