Fox Information — Fashionable-day slavery
Final night time on Sean Hannity’s section, Hannity spoke to Fox Information contributors Sara Carter and Tom Homan on the horrors of human smuggling.
Carter videoed reside from Houston, Texas, to clarify the fact of trafficking's prevalence within the U.S. “Over 150,000 youngsters simply final 12 months, unaccompanied minors, got here into America. Over 60% of these have most likely been bought into prostitution or the drug commerce and intercourse slavery ... there's cash and energy behind it, and it’s horrifying,” she mentioned.
Hannity requested if it was a good assertion to say that on this day in age, baby intercourse slavery is actively taking place in the USA, and whether or not the numbers are large. Homan, who was a former performing director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement beneath the Trump administration, mentioned it's true by saying that though he’s put plenty of traffickers in jail in his profession, he is upset he wasn’t capable of lock all of them up.
Homan mentioned the president and secretary of Homeland Safety are at fault for opening up the border and overwhelming the Border Patrol as a result of “when a Border Patrol (agent) will get pulled off the road to course of these individuals, that’s when the trafficking occurs.”
“I made a promise to President Trump. He comes again, I come again, we repair this crap, and the traffickers higher run as a result of we’re coming for them. 2025 we’re taking it again,” Homan mentioned.
CNN — ‘Get him!’ U.S. soldier bumped into North Korea
Whereas taking a tour of the joint safety space in South Korea, the place authorities officers of North and South Korea meet to have discussions, Pvt. Travis King ran throughout border traces into North Korea in what witnesses thought was a TikTok stunt.
The 23-year-old is a non-public within the U.S. Military who had been serving for 2 years and had been recognized to have disciplinary issues.
CNN’s Erin Burnett spoke to correspondent Will Ripley, who was close to the Korean Demilitarized Zone the place the incident occurred. Ripley mentioned, “It's believed that he sprinted throughout and was capable of bounce right into a van with North Korean guards who drove him away, however his location proper now continues to be unknown.”
Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling informed Burnett that is going to be an issue for the U.S. authorities.
“It’s going to trigger issues for the State Division as a result of we do not have a standing of forces settlement with North Korea. ... There’s no negotiation when a soldier does one thing fallacious to get him again and punish him beneath the uniform code of army justice. They've him.”
MSNBC — ‘Kennedy privilege’
“There are a lot of methods to be privileged in America, however there's nothing fairly like Kennedy privilege,” Lawrence O’Donnell mentioned in his section “The Final Phrase.”
O’Donnell accused Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of profiting from the political energy his identify affords as he testified earlier than the Home committee Thursday on a listening to over censorship.
O’Donnell mentioned it took Kennedy lower than a minute into talking for him to deliver up his well-known father and uncle.
Within the listening to, the Democratic candidate mentioned, “Censorship is antithetical to our occasion. It was appalling to my father, to my uncle, to FDR.”
Though the listening to was about censorship, O’Donnell made the declare that “it wasn’t, since nobody may give you any examples of presidency censorship. Robert Kennedy Jr. is aware of nothing about censorship.”
He went on to say, “Robert Kennedy Jr. is now as a lot a public liar as Donald Trump, and a few of his lies have a really Trumpian echo to them.” He added that each Trump and Kennedy make the claims that they're higher than everybody else.