Tag Archives: Wolf Blitzer

I’ve never seen Pelosi so fired up: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday ardently defended her decision to hold out on coronavirus negotiations and not accept the White House’s $1.8 trillion offer. In a heated exchange with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Pelosi pushed back on some dissent from members within her own party, saying they don’t understand how the negotiations are …

CNN reports: The seventh Democratic presidential debate will be moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and Abby Phillip as well as The Des Moines Register’s Brianne Pfannenstiel next week, the network announced on Wednesday. Blitzer anchors “The Situation Room” on CNN. Phillip is a political correspondent for the network. Pfannenstiel is chief political correspondent for the Register. CNN, in partnership with …

The Hill reports: White House counselor Kellyanne Conway confronted CNN’s Wolf Blitzer after the anchor during a morning interview introduced a clip of Conway’s husband making critical comments of President Trump as part of MSNBC’s coverage of Wednesday’s impeachment hearing. Conway accused CNN of embarrassing itself by playing the remarks from frequent Trump critic George Conway, suggesting it was only …

Raw Story reports: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said that Comey’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee was a disaster for Trump, whom he said now faces a major problem with credibility. “This is another embarrassment right now to the president,” Blitzer said. “What he alleged 16 days ago, the FBI and the Justice Department say they have no evidence to back …

Mediaite recaps: Wolf Blitzer grilled Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson hard today over his doubts fueling the conspiracy theories that the Clintons had something to do with the death of Vince Foster. He asked if invoking something like that is “beneath the Republican presumptive nominee,” but Pierson simply said that Trump will “defend himself” and not do the politically correct …

The one thing everybody can agree on about last night’s GOP schoolyard rumble is how Wolf Blitzer utterly failed as moderator. Via Politico: There were many dramatic, finger-wagging encounters. But often they devolved into cross talk and bickering as Blitzer, or his co-panelists, tried to call out “Gentlemen, gentlemen,” to calm them down. “Wolf, you said I got a response,” …

Raw Story reports: Responding to criticism from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about his use of Nazi rhetoric when talking about President Barack Obama, rocker Ted Nugent lashed back at Blitzer today stating that, if Wolf Blitzer is a journalist, he is a ‘gay pirate from Cuba.’ According to Oliver Willis at Media Matters, Nugent is denying that he has a history …

Meditate recaps: The argument became animated over a variety of assertions Bachmann made, at one point prompting Blitzer to insist that what she asserted was flatly “not true.” Blitzer began by asking Bachmann to explain her assertion that the ACA will result in the deaths of women, seniors and children. “That’s the greatest fear that Americans have,” Bachmann explained. “It’ll …