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New York Post columnist Jon Levine joins ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ to discuss his interview with Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa. >> PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR JOHN 0:07 FETTERMAN CALLING OUT FELLOW 0:09 DEMOCRATS FOR LEAVING HIM THANKS 0:10 TO THEIR PROGRESSIVE POLICIES, 0:13 FETTERMAN TELLING THE NEW YORK 0:14 POST IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT I 0:15 LEFT THE TITLE, THE TITLE LEFT 0:18 ME, PROGRESSIVES MOVED AND MY 0:24 MIGRATED TO POSITIONS I DON'T 0:25 AGREE WITH. 0:26 WE HAVE A CRISIS AT THE BORDER. 0:28 IT CAN'T BE CONTROVERSIAL THAT 0:29 WE SHOULD HAVE A SECURE BORDER. 0:31 THE SENATOR...

Reported infighting among White House aides over the administration’s position on the Israel-Hamas war threatens President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection hopes. The internal power struggle suggests the Biden administration will go into an election year alienating half the Democrat Party, raising concerns that likely GOP nominee former President Donald Trump will reclaim the White House. Numerous aides and allies inside and outside the White House told the Washington Post that Biden’s support of Israel’s defensive measures against Hamas is “dividing a White House that has prided itself on running a disciplined and united operation.”

Leaders of Ron DeSantis' Never Back Down super PAC met privately last Tuesday to hash out a strategy for fighting Nikki Haley's rise. Instead, two of them nearly came to blows with each other. The infighting represents an escalation in the long-running war between Never Back Down's professional political operatives and DeSantis’ Tallahassee-based inner circle over who is to blame for the governor’s failure to compete effectively with frontrunner Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. And, after tempers flared at last week's meeting, three close DeSantis allies — David Dewhirst, Jeff Aaron and Scott Ross — launched a second super...

We all laughed as the Democrats looked like they were going to split their party in half over the Israeli-Palestinian war. It was almost farcical watching liberal leaders take a stance that at times looked to favor the Hamas terrorists. Nothing on that level is happening with Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro, yet it’s threatening to tear a fissure in our conservative movement heading into the 2024 election. We can’t afford the infighting. As much as Shapiro brands himself as a man of “facts and logic,” he opened with a line of personal attack rather than countering her points, calling...

Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said he was “disgusted” by the House GOP infighting amid the removal of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) from his spot that was fueled by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Hogan said at an event at Bloomberg’s office in Washington, D.C. that his focus is on getting the Republican Party “back on track,” pointing to the House voting to oust McCarthy from the top position last week. He said that he was “disgusted” by the House’s actions, adding that Gaetz was “a cancer on the party and on the Congress. “It’s a train wreck. I...

If this is how the Alabama Democratic Party functions, perhaps it’s better that Republicans control Alabama. And with this level of dysfunction within the Alabama Democratic Party, Republicans always will. On Saturday, the state party’s executive committee met, in a manner of speaking. It’s not clear a quorum was present, and at least a couple of dozen committee members were turned away, Next, the party voted to abolish several caucuses by a vote count that appears to have been made up and doesn’t come close to pictures of the standing vote taken by a reporter. Youth caucus — gone. LGBTQ...

Left-wing activist and filmmaker Michael Moore said Saturday on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” that Republican House members infighting over leadership is “proof that there is a God in heaven.” Witt said, “I wanted to ask you, regarding the tit-for-tat kind of fighting that’s underway in the Republican party—the controversial far-right congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, they have been taking these swipes at each other over Kevin McCarthy’s bid for House speaker.”

As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) had one job: win the Senate majority. Not only did he fail, but he did so in spectacular fashion — through calamitous mismanagement of the NRSC that left Republican candidates under fire without air cover in the final critical months of the midterm elections. Now Scott is trying to deflect blame for the GOP’s disastrous showing. So, it’s worth reviewing the record of his catastrophic tenure at the helm of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm. According to the New York Times, by July of this year, Scott’s NRSC...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director — Ashley Etienne — will leave her post in December to “pursue other opportunities” amid reports of White House infighting and Harris struggling to find her footing. The news was first reported by Vanity Fair on Thursday and later confirmed by CBS News and Bloomberg News.

The Democratic Party is falling apart in epic fashion.After 10 months of a failing Biden presidency, Democrats are now feeling the likelihood that they will lose control of the House and maybe even the Senate in the 2022 midterms.One of the Democrats retiring from the House is Rep. John Yarmuth, who said the fragile state of American democracy has him “freaked out” and called Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert “a nutjob,” according to the Washington Post.North Carolina Democrat Rep. David Price, who has also decided to retire from Congress next year, fears Democrats have done a poor job governing with...

Democrats this week are “freaked out” over Democrat retirements and the prospect of Republicans reclaiming the House. Rep. David Price (D-NC), who has decided to retire from Congress next year, fears Democrats have done a poor job governing with inflation soaring and wages declining. The impact of the Democrats’ failure to govern has Price feeling that Donald Trump’s working-class party will win back Congress, which is “a very alarming prospect for the country,” Price claimed to the Washington Post.

President Joe Biden was reportedly “very frustrated” during a meeting Wednesday with Democrat leaders over party infighting on the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package. “The president really wanted a top line and was clearly getting frustrated,” a source told Politico Playbook about the president’s summit with Democrats.

Infighting among different Black Lives Matter groups appears to be increasing after a coalition of Black Lives Matter chapters demanded transparency from the group’s global network amid reports that co-founder Patrisse Cullors spent millions of dollars on homes and real estate.Cullors, a self-described “trained Marxist,” stepped down from the group last month, but denied allegations that she misused any donations and said those claims—along with reports about her real estate holdings—were part of a right-wing misinformation campaign meant to discredit her and Black Lives Matter.But a group calling itself BLM 10 Plus, the name of the 10 original Black Lives...

Freshman Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Twitter bio declares her the “Unbossed Congresswoman” for Michigan’s 13th District. While the moniker has roots in Shirley Chisholm’s successful campaign to become the first black congresswoman, nowadays it also could be seen as a blunt message to Democratic leadership: Nobody is bossing around the class of 2019. And that’s a problem for party bosses. On everything from the Green New Deal to impeachment to criticism of Israel, a squad of first-year congresswomen are flexing their muscle and posing an implicit challenge to Democratic honchos like Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Their stridently liberal agenda – and power...

Get ready for the Democrat Brawl that will pass off as the New Congress of 2019 Things are not nearly as kosher for House-winning Democrats as the mainstream and social media would have the masses believe. Rather than them celebrating the so-called results of the overhyped Blue Wave that failed to materialize, they’re scrambling to overturn Republican election night victories courtesy of surfacing boxes of ballots forcing recounts for which we already know the outcome.

Democrats are fighting among themselves over how far to go to oppose Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and tempers are starting to flare ahead of a decision that could weigh heavily on the midterm elections. Liberal activists, who are closely aligned with the party’s base, are losing patience with centrist Democrats who are on the fence over Kavanaugh, a judge with impressive credentials and the approval of the conservative Federalist Society. But Senate Democratic leaders don’t want to twist the arms of vulnerable colleagues up for re-election in pro-Trump states, adding to the disappointment of activists. “There’s a great deal...

Syria: Deadly feud rips through Al Qaeda's leadership as terrorist group takes more 'moderate' line A deadly feud is ripping through Al Qaeda's leadership in Syria as the once-feared terror group looks to position itself as a "moderate" alternative to the disintegrating so-called Islamic State and President Bashar Al-Assad's regime forces A group of Al Qaeda-linked factions that hold the province of Idlib are on the brink of all-out war, with a series of assassinations and detentions of high-profile leaders. The bloody feud pits hardline foreign fighters loyal to Al Qaeda's leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, against more moderate Syrian members loyal...

The power struggle at the Heritage Foundation could upend Republican politics and put millions of dollars at DC's most influential think tank on the line. By Mollie Hemingway There are two narratives being spun about the current turmoil at the Heritage Foundation. Last week, Politico reported that the non-profit conservative foundation’s board planned to permanently oust former Sen. Jim DeMint, who was appointed president of the organization in 2013.The narrative Politico offers, supported by quotes from a single anonymous board member, is that Heritage is in disarray as a result of DeMint’s decisions since taking over several years ago. DeMint...

New documents posted online by WikiLeaks show the dynamics of Hillary Clinton's inner circle - and how they really feel. They were brutal and condescending - and that was with each other. [Snip] The Clinton campaign - and staff - have been notoriously opaque. They've allowed only a small number of people into their inner circle, and they've guarded zealously against leaks and disclosures of information. As a result, very few people know the mechanics of the inner circle - how decisions are made and what kind of manager Mrs Clinton is. The revelations in the emails were obtained illegally,...

The Obama administration accused a federal judge Tuesday of sowing “fear and confusion” among illegal immigrants, potentially scaring them away from signing up for President Obama’s deportation amnesty by demanding immigration officials submit names of tens of thousands of migrants who’ve already enrolled. Justice Department lawyers also asked Judge Andrew S. Hanen not to force thousands of attorneys to take remedial ethics classes — an order the judge issued two weeks ago after he concluded that the administration intentionally and repeatedly misled him by implementing part of the amnesty, even as they assured the court it wasn’t in operation yet....