All posts tagged "Sara Sidner"

Alyssa Farah Griffin, who served in the first Trump administration, had a warning to Defense secretary Pete Hegseth and other leaders to back off their attacks on the public for wanting more information on the Iran attacks.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed the U.S. "obliterated" the Iranian nuclear facilities in last weekend's bombings, despite a lack of evidence. Thursday, Hegseth gave what CNN anchor Sara Sidner called an "extraordinary" press conference, where he accused the media of "spinning" a preliminary report "to try to cause doubt and manipulate the...public mind, over whether or not our brave pilots were successful."

Griffin told CNN that Hegseth's press conference was performative in order to please Trump, who staged his own attack on the media at Wednesday's NATO summit....

Israeli journalist Barak Ravid, who served as an intelligence officer with the Israeli Defense Forces, told CNN Wednesday that Israel fully expects President Donald Trump to involve the U.S. in its bombing campaign against Iran.

Ravid told anchor Sara Sidner that Israel was "pretty close" to having identified all of the targets they need to hit.

"I think they need another 2 or 3 days, tops, before they exhaust all the targets that they had," Ravid said. "Obviously there are new targets coming in all the time, but I think that the major things have already been done."...

Republican talking points on the leaked Signal chat revealing air strike plans against Houthi rebels in Yemen have veered from "the information wasn't classified" to the whole thing "was a hoax" perpetrated by The Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg.

Goldberg was inadvertently added to the chat by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who took responsibility for the mistake.

But on Wednesday, Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) floated a new theory on CNN. ...

CNN's Sara Sidner was taken aback when a conservative pundit claimed President Donald Trump's alleged defiance of a federal judge's order this week was just "Trump being Trump."

Pete Seat, former GOP White House spokesperson, argued that no one should be shocked by Trump's actions, especially after watching the president's defiant Fox interview with Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.

Sidner began, "Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion to give Donald Trump wide presidential immunity, is snapping back at the president for his comments on a judge whose ruling Trump simply doesn't like." ...

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona issued a warning to President Donald Trump about his handling of the economy, telling CNN Monday that it will "come back and bite him."

Trump had a chance to tamp down recession fears when asked by Fox Business Network's Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, but said only, "I hate to predict things like that. There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big. We’re bringing wealth back to America. That’s a big thing, and there are always periods of, it takes a little time. It takes a little time, but I think it should be great for us.”

That answer failed to instill confidence in Democrats like Cardona....

CNN anchors Kate Bolduan and Sara Sidner were nonplussed when reporting on extremely violent content accidentally showing up on Instagram feeds.

"Social media platform Meta apologizing for an error that resulted in flooding Instagram feeds with graphic content. For some users, they were suggested content that showed people being killed. I had to read this a few times to believe what I was saying. What's happened here?" Bolduan asked reporter Clare Duffy.

"Yeah, it's really disturbing," Duffy began. "People said that on their Instagram reels feed — the short form video feature — they were getting these videos that had sensitive content warnings, video showing people being maimed or killed — really violent, graphic content. And Meta said this was a 'glitch.' It's an error that it is fixing."...