Reid, who jumped from CBS News to CNN in 2021, recalls holding strongly coveted tickets to see Swift with her friends in Philadelphia as part of the “Karma” singer’s “Eras” concert tour. 

“I had been in Manhattan for about six of eight weeks covering various Trump stories. And I just didn't feel that I could leave for the weekend — leave my husband and my daughter at home. So my friends resold the tickets,” Reid said. 

“That’s just an example of where I'm at right now: You have to be ruthless in terms of your priorities.” 

But while she’s breaking off plans to belt out Swift’s hits, Reid’s also breaking news. 

Last month, she and CNN colleague Sara Murray were first to report that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was interviewed by investigators with the Justice Department’s special counsel’s office as part of its probe into attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. 

She was also a part of a team of CNN reporters to break the news in May that the Justice Department had an audio recording of former President Trump discussing a classified Pentagon document he took from the White House. 

“It was a game-changer in terms of how we saw the story, because before we knew there was a tape, we weren't sure if the former president would be charged,” said Reid, speaking from Fort Pierce, Fla., where she was getting ready to cover a pretrial conference in the case over Trump’s handling of classified documents. 

The journalist and her husband, management consultant Jason Reid, just celebrated their daughter Jordan’s first birthday. While motherhood and a demanding beat can be “challenging,” Jordan has already given her mom a job assist at least once. 

“I had one individual that I had reached out to who was quite upset with me. I was home. My daughter was nearby, and for whatever reason she just started giggling. And he stopped yelling for a second and he's like, ‘Well, how am I supposed to be mad when there's a baby giggling?’ So you know, sometimes Jordan can really help me out in that way.” 

And don’t count Reid, 40, out of attending a future Swift show.  

“I look forward to taking my daughter to the ‘Eras Two’ tour in 10 years or so,” she quipped. 

ITK wanted to know more about this Swift and country music-loving correspondent, who may one day add “author” to her résumé, so we asked her to answer these questions. 

Hometown: I was born in Akron, Ohio, and when I was around 2 years old, we moved to the North Shore of Massachusetts to be closer to my mom's family. 

College attended: College of William and Mary and Villanova Law School 

What did you want to be as a kid: I wanted to be, at one point, a marine biologist. 

We lived close to the water [and I spent] a lot of time doing field trips to the wetlands. The marine life is a big part of life on the north shore of Massachusetts. 

I did at one point go to camp at the New England Aquarium, which was a big deal, because it was expensive and it was sort of a big sacrifice for me to go there, and it was like the highlight of my young life. But at some point, I clearly got off that track. 

Favorite hobby: I really enjoy going to various national parks. Our daughter is named after Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park. Now with a 1-year-old, our ambitions aren't as lofty as they used to be in terms of going hiking. But we'll go to Shenandoah, we’ll go to Great Falls. 

Favorite movie: “A League of Their Own” 

What you like most about D.C.: It's a beautiful city just in terms of the architecture. I think it's a really beautiful city, full of people who are really passionate about what they do, be it international affairs, government, journalism. I love that about D.C. 

What you like least about D.C.: I mean, everybody says it, right? It's the weather. The weather is terrible. And the cost of living is brutal. And the worst part about that is it's driven out a lot of our close friends. They've moved elsewhere, which, you know, that's the downside. 

Something on your bucket list that you haven’t completed yet: Writing a book — nonfiction. 

My long-term goal is — right now I cover legal cases day-to-day, incremental, breaking news — but to take a few steps back at some of the major legal issues and legal cases and do more long-form with books, maybe podcasts, things like that. 

The ruthless time management does not allow for it. 

Biggest accomplishment: I didn’t realize I wanted to go into journalism until I was about 25. 

I was in my last year of law school, and I saw Jan Crawford — who's the legal journalist at CBS, at the time she was at ABC — give a talk at a law school event about [Supreme Court] Justice Clarence Thomas. And it just crystallized for me that telling stories about the law could be a vocation and was something I wanted to pursue. And shortly after law school, I made the jump to journalism. 

In seven years, I went from being an intern at CBS News —I was doing all the intern things making photocopies, fetching pizza for Armen Keteyian, who’s lovely, and all the intern stuff — to sitting in the front row of the White House for CBS News. So I think following that dream and making it happen was probably my greatest accomplishment. 

Most embarrassing moment: So the day the news broke that [Supreme Court] Justice Antonin Scalia had died [in 2016], I got that news confirmed for CBS. That was also the night CBS was hosting a big presidential debate. 

I had only been on-camera reporting for a couple of months at that point, but as a sort of nod to the fact that I got this reporting on this pivotal day, they let me lead the evening news that night. The live shot was a disaster. It was mostly because of a technical issue that I had no control over, but a more seasoned correspondent probably would have handled it better. And I think it was embarrassing not only because it was such a big night for the network, but also I felt like I had let down people who were opening doors to opportunities that usually didn't come that soon because I had all this great reporting. 

But after that scarring experience, I took every single holiday shift, weekend shift, overnight shift — whatever it took to get those reps to get my on-camera presence and experience to the same place as my national-level reporting. 

I’m happiest when: When I'm with my husband and my daughter. 

My husband's a phenomenal cook and he’ll make us an amazing food. My daughter is such a little foodie. She will eat anything and love it. 

Just being with them, enjoying a home life that after a decade of traveling for work I haven't really had the opportunity to enjoy that. 

Something few people know about you: I think it's my obsession with ‘80s and ‘90s country music. I'm a regular at Dollywood. I didn't go to the “Eras” tour, but I did make it to The Judds reunion tour this year. That tells you where my priorities are. It’s the only concert I've seen since my daughter was born. 

Best advice given: Major Garrett told me at a time that was very chaotic and complicated at work covering the Trump administration, he said: ‘Just always bring it back to the work and to the reporting. No matter what is going on at your organization, who’s in the White House and the outside world, if you always just focus on the work and the reporting, things will work out.’ 

The other one is from [former CBS News President] Susan Zinrinsky, who was very much the architect of the early part of my career and a wonderful mentor. She had this saying when it comes to sources: “No is hello.” I can't tell you how many times I have called people, they said, “No, I don't want to talk to you,” and over eight months ignore you and tell you to bug off. And then eventually they talk to you once, twice, three times, and then you develop a relationship. And so many of the sources that I have now and that I'm breaking huge scoops with, that's the result of relationships that started years ago and playing the long game, and people who often didn't want to talk to you. 

Your superhero name would be: At CBS I somehow got the nickname “Danger Reid.” And this was because I came to this occupation very inexperienced, and so no matter what the assignment was, I would always say yes. 

One time it was climbing up a fence on the outside of a landfill that was surrounding one of those compounding pharmacies in Massachusetts that had contaminated shots. I climbed over the fence to get a picture of the landfill — I signed up to do that. I would do anything just to get an opportunity. So I think that's how I got that nickname. 

"Now one of the most interesting things I did was have a private audience with former President Donald Trump," Kelly said on an episode of her podcast this week, referring to a meeting at a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference in Florida over the weekend.

"When he came into the arena, we met just one on one, and his team was standing nearby, but he and I got a one on one together for the first time in years and it was, frankly, great to see him."

Kelley's most public clash with Trump came when she was a host on Fox News and was moderating a Republican debate in 2015.

She pressed Trump about his offensive comments regarding women, prompting him to lash out, saying she had asked him "all sorts of ridiculous questions,” adding “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”

Kelly said the exchange is no longer an issue.

"You know, all that nonsense between us is under the bridge, and he could not have been more magnanimous," the commentator said of their weekend encounter.

"The thing about Trump is he commands the room. It's not just because he's former president now because I knew before that. There's just something about him, it's like an aura that sort of takes over the room. There's only one person you can look at."

Trump, who holds a sizable lead on the current GOP primary field, has suggested he may not attend next week's first debate in Milwaukee.

"He could not have been nicer or more generous and had some interesting thoughts about the debates, whether he's going to attend," Kelly said of her recent conversation with Trump.

"I wouldn't bet on it. I would not bet on him attending at least that first Fox News debate. If I had to put money on it, you know, it's Trump so he could change his mind. But that was my feeling in having talked to him."

The interview, which will be conducted by CNN’s lead political anchor Jake Tapper following a DeSantis campaign stop in South Carolina, is a significant moment for the candidate and the network.  

DeSantis is trying to break through the Republican presidential primary field and close a polling gap with former President Trump, while CNN is looking to turn the page from a tumultuous summer that has seen its editorial strategy heavily scrutinized and its top executive ousted.  

The forum for DeSantis will be a sharp departure from Trump’s May town hall with CNN, which took on the vibe of one of his campaign rallies. The crowd for the event was loudly supportive of him, making it seem as if the journalist conducting the town hall, Kaitlan Collins, was on opposing turf.  

It served as a major one-night ratings boon for CNN, but it came under heavy criticism externally and internally.  

DeSantis’s interview with Tapper will be taped after the governor makes an announcement on military policy and feature a one-on-one format between the journalist and candidate.  

Tapper has interviewed DeSantis when he was a member of the House of Representatives, but the Republican has kept his major media moments confined to conservative outlets or Florida-based press supportive of him since declaring his candidacy for president.  

The interview could be a challenge for Tapper and CNN because the DeSantis campaign is signaling an aggressive approach.  

“DeSantis is ready to take on everything the media throws at him,” a tweet from the governor’s war room account read Monday morning promoting the interview with Tapper.  

“DeSantis Needs to Take Scalps at CNN,” a headline on an Op-Ed in the conservative National Review declared the same day.  

The booking of DeSantis could also benefit CNN, which has seen its ratings fall most sharply of the three leading cable networks since Trump left office and has undergone significant changes in recent months. 

DeSantis is unlikely to generate the kind of ratings the network won from the Trump town hall, but it is a high-profile chance for Tapper to signal the kind of serious journalism CNN wants to be seen as exemplifying.  

“This is good for us in the sense that we’ll actually get to break some news on policy and substance,” one CNN source told The Hill. “[DeSantis] probably won’t rate [like Trump], but I’m not sure that’s the point of something like this.” 

Former network CEO Chris Licht, who was fired by the network’s parent company just weeks after orchestrating the Trump town hall, ruffled feathers inside the cable news giant for advocating for a more centrist tone than CNN was known for during the Trump years, when it took on a highly combative approach with the GOP administration.  

On the night of the Trump town hall, CNN featured a panel that included Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) who forcefully pushed back on criticism of Trump being offered by the network’s leading pundits. 

Staffers inside the network at the time described a feeling of embarrassment and frustration with CNN leadership, which they said had handed Trump a political win that made a mockery of their work. 

Tapper specifically has shown a sensitivity for how CNN covers Trump. 

While anchoring the network’s live coverage of Trump’s federal indictment in Miami last month, Tapper admonished the network’s control room for playing a video of Trump supporters singing “Happy Birthday” to the former president at the Cuban restaurant, warning he was trying to turn the spectacle “into a campaign ad.” 

The anchor has also spoken about internal strife at CNN under Licht, whose vision for the network the anchor says he supported.  

Insiders at CNN said the DeSantis interview, which will come with a different format and with a different political figure, could be a step in the right direction for a network operating under a microscope in how it covers major figures on the right while trying to find its footing in the increasingly competitive cable news landscape.   

“Is there a world for non-ideological, nonpartisan TV journalism? I think there is,” Tapper said during a recent interview with the journalist Kara Swisher. “It’s just that most Americans aren’t news junkies, and the ones who are, when there isn’t a big news story, might like, especially in prime time, putting on their team jerseys and rooting for their side. I think that’s certainly possible. But that’s not a long-term play, that’s a short-term business decision.”

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said Monday that he’s “certainly not running” for the White House next year, but emphasized how crucial his state will be to the eventual GOP nominee. 

“In politics, there’s always doors opening and closing. I got a great job right now. I personally feel like having more people in the race does not help us win and beat Joe Biden,” Kemp told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.” “So, you know, I’m certainly not running for president. But there’s always doors opening in politics depending on how things play out, and we’ll see what happens.”

As he has done repeatedly in the past, the governor called on current GOP front-runner and former President Trump to “be forward-thinking” and abandon his narrative of false claims surrounding the 2020 election.

“If he continues to do that, he’s going to lose Georgia in November,” Kemp said, later adding, “There is no path for us to win the White House if we can’t win Georgia.”

Kemp and Trump have repeatedly clashed over the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, including in the Peach State, where he lost by fewer than 12,000 votes. 

Trump’s push there is currently the subject of a criminal investigation headed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis that is expected to see final charging decisions next month.

Kemp said he’s “disappointed that it’s taken this long.”

“People are wondering, like, why has this taking so long?… Why haven’t we had resolution? So, I think I think that just sows distrust in the system, which is unfortunate. That’s not what people should be feeling, no matter what side of the aisle you’re on. So, it is, you know, in my eyes, frustrating but we’ll see what she comes out with at the appropriate time,” he said.

Earlier Monday, the Georgia Supreme Court rejected a Trump attempt to quash the probe in a unanimous decision.

Kemp had refused to go along with Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud, winning such enmity that the former president backed a primary challenger to the governor last year before his eventual reelection. 

“He was mad at me. I was not mad at him. I told him exactly what I could and couldn’t do when it came to the election and I followed the law and the Constitution. And as I’ve said before, that’s a lot bigger than Donald Trump. It’s a lot bigger than me. It’s a lot bigger than the Republican Party,” Kemp said Monday.

“But despite all of those things, I believe anybody running for president right now as a Republican, that would be better than what we’re seeing with the Biden-Harris administration.”

He said he would “certainly” back the eventual GOP nominee, even if it’s Trump. 

Collins pressed Kemp on if Trump can win Georgia after Biden flipped the state blue for the first time since 1992.

“I think he can because Joe Biden has been such a bad president. His approval ratings are just terrible in the state of Georgia right now. So I think he can,” he said. “I also think he can lose Georgia if he’s not doing what I said: telling people what he’s for, staying focused on the race, quit looking back at the 2020 election. I mean, for goodness sakes, it was two-and-a-half, three years ago now. The American people want to know: What are you gonna do for me to help me offset the bad policies of Joe Biden?”

Fox News host Sean Hannity dismissed the candidacy of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is challenging former President Trump for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

"Chris Christie has now become the media darling of the hard left," Hannity said during a Monday appearance on Fox's morning talk show "Fox and Friends."

"He’s George Stephanopoulos’s co-host. He’s Morning Liberal Joe’s co-host. He’s over at fake news CNN every minute he can of every day, and he’s only running on one issue, and that is ‘I hate Donald Trump. Donald Trump is horrible.’ He’s not a serious candidate to me."

Christie, who became a contributor and political analyst for ABC News after leaving the New Jersey governor's mansion, has engaged in a number of high-profile media appearances since launching his bid for the White House, as well as becoming a regular on cable news shows.

A onetime close ally of Trump, the former governor has spent the last several weeks blasting the Republican front-runner and suggesting he cannot win a general election against President Biden in 2024.

Hannity, a longtime personal friend of Trump, is one of Fox's longest serving hosts and has remained staunchly supportive of the former president while often attacking his enemies.

Trump is slated to participate in a town hall event in Iowa Tuesday that will be moderated by Hannity and aired on Fox.

CNN host Chris Wallace pressed Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), on whether the party would have an issue with nominating a candidate who is under federal indictment or a convicted felon in 2024.

"Let me ask you a question. Do you have any problem with the Republican Party nominating somebody who’s under federal indictment?" Wallace asked McDaniel on a recent episode of his "Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?" talk show on the network.

"I think the presumption of innocence stands. And I think there’s a lot of Republicans who are very troubled," McDaniel responded. "At the end of the day, Chris, though, it’s not up to me. It’s up to the voters. They’re going to make their decision. They’re going to hear this and they’re going to decide if this is an issue for them come November or come the primary process."

Wallace then asked, "do you have any problem with the Republican Party nominating a convicted felon?"

"That’s hypothetical," the party chairwoman said. "We’re not even close to that. So I don’t think we’re even there."

McDaniel went on to say it was a "trap" for Republicans to wonder "what if this happens?"

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Earlier this summer, Trump was indicted in Miami over his handling of classified documents after he vacated the White House, which federal prosecutors allege put national security at risk. He pleaded not guilty.

The former president remains the front-runner for the GOP nomination in 2024 and has dismissed his federal indictment as a political ploy by President Biden's Justice Department to stop him from winning the 2024 election.

McDaniel and the RNC next month will hold the first GOP debate, which Trump has not committed to participating in, citing his lead in most national polls and what he has described as a "hostile" relationship with Fox News, the network carrying the debate.

A new era in Fox News prime time debuts Monday as the network rolls out a revamped weeknight lineup of pundits ahead of the coming 2024 GOP primary and presidential elections.

The network announced earlier this month that starting this week, hosts Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld would occupy new time slots, while longtime conservative commentator Sean Hannity would remain at his 9 p.m. post.

Ingraham, who previously hosted a 10 p.m. commentary show, will now air a new version of her show at 7 p.m., while Watters will move from his 7 p.m. solo hosting gig to 8 p.m., taking over for former host Tucker Carlson, who left the network in April.

Taking over for Ingraham at 10 p.m. will be Gutfeld, a comedian and satirist who has risen through the network's ranks in recent years and has more recently earned ratings success for Fox on daytime table talk program "The Five" and his night late-night-style show.

The shake-up in prime time comes just months after Fox agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to settle blockbuster claims of defamation the company brought against the network in a lawsuit over its coverage of the 2020 presidential election.

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Days after settling with Dominion, Fox ousted Carlson, its top-rated prime-time host, from his 8 p.m. slot.

Fox has long held the title of the top-rated channel among cable news networks, most of which have experienced a decline in viewership since former President Trump left office.

Trump has spent the past several months criticizing Fox over its coverage of his political rivals and other issues, but he has nonetheless appeared on the network several times as he mounts another bid for the White House in 2024.

Trump is slated to appear on Fox again Tuesday during a town hall in Iowa with Fox's Hannity.

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki slammed Sens. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Sunday, accusing the two lawmakers of prioritizing their beef with the "Barbie" movie over Tuberville's military holds.

During her MSNBC show "Inside With Jen Psaki," Psaki lashed into Tuberville and Cruz for their continued criticism of the upcoming movie while Tuberville has put the military's key promotions on hold in protest of the Pentagon's abortion policy. Tuberville and Cruz have specifically taken issue with a fake map featured in the movie, which they argue shows the controversial nine-dash line indicating the territorial claims of the People's Republic of China in the South China Sea.

"Here's a really important question that many of them seem to be making time to explore: Is 'Barbie' communist?" Psaki said of Republican lawmakers.

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In the meantime, Tuberville's ongoing protests have blocked more than 250 military promotions and nominations in the Senate and have left the U.S. Marines without a confirmed leader.

"No military leader out there is going to tell you they're more worried about a cartoon map in a movie about a doll than about having qualified members of the military in a position to lead their troops," Psaki said.

"Apparently, according to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, Barbie's alleged communism [...] is more offensive than the actions of his colleague, Tommy Tuberville," she added.

In a statement to Variety, a spokesperson for Warner Bros. Film Group dismissed claims about the movie's map.

"The map in Barbie Land is a child-like crayon drawing," the spokesperson said, adding, "The doodles depict Barbie’s make-believe journey from Barbie Land to the ‘real world.’ It was not intended to make any type of statement."

Vietnam has banned the film over the map, while the Philippines has permitted it to be screened.

DeSantis will sit down with Jake Tapper on Tuesday for an interview that will air at 4 p.m., the network announced on Sunday.

The Florida governor launched his presidential bid in May, and he has largely avoided interviews with media outlets other than Fox News and other conservative organizations. His CNN appearance comes amid a shake-up of campaign staff as DeSantis seeks to gain traction with voters and narrow former President Trump's lead in the polls.

DeSantis's campaign let go of fewer than 10 employees last Thursday, primarily from its event-planning team, as was first reported by Politico. A campaign spokesperson said the decision would help boost the governor’s chances of defeating President Biden if DeSantis wins the Republican nomination.

But the shuffling of staff is likely to feed into concerns among Republican donors and others that DeSantis is struggling to break through in a crowded GOP primary field and solidify himself as Trump's main rival.

DeSantis raised $20 million in the second quarter after only being in the race for six weeks, according to his Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing, the second-biggest haul among Republican candidates behind only Trump.

But NBC News reported that DeSantis spent $7.9 million in the first six weeks of his campaign.

DeSantis has recently turned his sights on early primary and caucus states, spending the last two days campaigning in Iowa. The governor's team believes he is gaining momentum in the Hawkeye State, particularly after Trump attacked Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) and skipped a major evangelical gathering this week.

Friends, family, lawmakers, plenty of colleagues and even some familiar faces from rival networks fêted the journalist — who was named the new host of “Inside Politics” in April — Thursday at the downtown Riggs Washington D.C. hotel.

“Thirty years is a long time, and it is something that I’m very, very proud of,” Bash, 52, told ITK. “But it doesn’t feel like 30 years. But it’s nice. I have a lot of gratitude."

The media landscape, and the world, has certainly changed since Bash’s first day at CNN in 1993, when she began as a library assistant in the Washington bureau.

“When I started at CNN, there was no Fox. There was no MSNBC. There was barely an internet that worked. We had barely email. Cell phones were like those giant shoebox size contraptions,” she exclaimed.

The reception honoring Bash had originally been scheduled for June, but was postponed when former President Trump’s arraignment in a Miami courthouse as part of a Department of Justice indictment over classified documents landed on the same day as the soiree. CNN had said the party’s delay came “because Dana is Dana, and the news comes first at CNN.”

Among the VIP crowd: former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), actor and Bash’s longtime partner Spencer Garrett, CNN chief national correspondent and Bash’s ex-husband John King and Jonah, the 12-year-old son they share, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, Kara Swisher, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), former “House of Cards” star Michael Kelly, Kasie Hunt, Doug Heye, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Susanna Quinn, CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell,  Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Sam Feist, Rep. David Joyce (R-Ohio), Courtney Flantzer, Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin, Ukrainian ambassador Oksana Markarova, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), NBC’s Chuck Todd, Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), Manu Raju, Olivier Knox, Brianna Keilar, Jeff Zeleny, Amy Entelis, David Leavy, Phil Mattingly, Tammy Haddad, Rebecca Cooper Dupin, Francesca Chambers and Adrienne Elrod.

Virginia Moseley, CNN’s executive vice president of editorial, told the crowd, “There is no one who exemplifies CNN more than Dana.”

“CNN and political journalism are better because of her work and the example she sets every day,” Moseley said.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) presented Bash with a certificate of congressional recognition, saying that her “dedication, professionalism, and commitment to delivering accurate and insightful news coverage have made a lasting impact on the media industry.”

Vice President Harris also lauded Bash in a letter, calling her a “talented and trusted journalist” whose reporting “has enriched our nation.”

“Additionally, [second gentleman Doug Emhoff] and I are grateful that you have used your platform to report on fighting discrimination and hate,” Harris said.

Bash arrived at the event at the same time as NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell, with both women sporting similar-looking white dresses. Asked about the twinning get-ups, Bash replied with a chuckle, “Of course we’re wearing the same thing.”

“It’s funny, [Mitchell] was like, ‘Oh I didn’t see your show today,” Bash said.

Bash said she responded to Mitchell, “Because you were on TV!”

“I feel like that kind of says it all about a lot of things, but in particular about the way that there’s kind of a nice sisterhood,” Bash continued.

“A lot of female journalists, particularly the TV correspondents, we support each other,” she said.

So where will Bash be in another 30 years?

“In 30 years, if I’m still at ‘Inside Politics,’ I give permission to a lot of people to do an intervention,” Bash cracked with a big laugh.

People familiar with the matter told the Journal the new company would run on subscriptions for longer versions of the free videos Carlson has been posting on Twitter for free since he was ousted from Fox News earlier this year.  

The shorter videos will still be available for free for users on Twitter and other platforms, with subscriptions required for the longer videos in their entirety, people told the Wall Street Journal.

Fox News announced in April it was parting ways with Carlson, who hosted the 8 p.m. show “Tucker Carlson Tonight." That announcement was days after the network settled a blockbuster defamation lawsuit.  

Later in June, Carlson started a new show on Twitter called “Tucker on Twitter,” claiming Twitter is the last big remaining platform that allows free speech. Carlson closed his first episode on Twitter stating, “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here. If that turns out to be false, we’ll leave. But in the meantime, we’re grateful to be here.” The episode gained more than 70 million views within the first day.

His show on Twitter has nine episodes to date, including his most recent interview with controversial social media personality Andrew Tate, who was charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.

Carlson and Patel are reportedly seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the company. The pair founded the conservative publication The Daily Caller in 2010 and were roommates at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.  

People familiar with the new project said Carlson’s team recently met with Twitter to talk over the endeavor, which would feature a website and mobile app and potentially air on other platforms beyond Twitter.  

Twitter is in a state of change after being purchased by tech billionaire Elon Musk late last year. It is now facing new competition from Threads, launched this month by Meta — the company that operates Facebook and Instagram.

The Associated Press contributed.  

Former Fox News pundit Geraldo Rivera said he was personally offended by the way Tucker Carlson, another former host on the network, has portrayed the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"I wanted to speak on that, because I was very offended by it," Rivera said during an appearance Thursday on Chris Cuomo's NewsNation program. "Everyone knows that it was Donald Trump inciting [an] insurrection. He inspired those people, he directed those people, he encouraged those people ... and I think for Fox to pretend that there was an honest debate about Jan. 6 or the 2020 election was obscene, and it needed to be said."

He said his statement about Trump's responsibility for the Jan. 6 attack was "counterintuitive to the direction they [Fox] were headed," during his time at the network, adding, "I was not going to go there."

Rivera was fired earlier this month from "The Five," Fox's leading daytime talk show and the most-watched on cable. He said after he was taken off the show that he decided to quit the network.

He also took part in a number of media interviews, speaking about the circumstances of his leaving the network after more than two decades.

"Fox left me," he said at one point during his interview with Cuomo.

Carlson was taken off the air by Fox in April, days after it agreed to pay $787 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 election.

The prime-time host had come under bipartisan criticism for his portrayal of the events of Jan. 6, which he at one point he referred to on his prime-time show as "mostly peaceful chaos."

Rivera, 80, has not said if he has any plans for the future of his broadcasting career.

Cuomo praised Rivera's work for Fox and spoke to his audience Thursday about his personal relationship with the longtime television news personality.

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The new film, directed by Alejandro Monteverde and distributed by Angel Studios, tells the story of Tim Ballard, a Homeland Security Department agent who says he investigated pedophiles and trafficking rings, as he works to rescue children from sex-trafficking in Colombia.

The film has become popular in conservative circles but drawn criticism from anti-trafficking experts, Rolling Stone reports. Controversy also surrounds leading actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Ballard, for his reported prior endorsements of conspiracy theories.

Trump’s team in a release announcing the upcoming screening knocked “liberal media outlets” such as The New York Times and The Hollywood Reporter for having “refused to review the film,” and bashed Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, CNN and The Guardian for having “trashed the film and mocked the millions of movie-goers who purchased tickets to screenings.” 

The New York Times published a review of the film on Wednesday, saying, "It should be noted that the real-life Ballard has been accused of exaggerating his rescue narratives."

The film’s Mexican producer, Eduardo Verástegui, was previously appointed a member of Trump’s Advisory Commission on Hispanic Prosperity, the former president's team said. Ballard was part of the Trump administration's Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking.

Verástegui, Caviezel and Ballard will join Trump at the screening.

“Sound of Freedom” has grossed over $49 million since its release on July 4, according to IMDbPro’s Box Office Mojo and has been noted as an unexpected box office success alongside other hot recent releases such as “Insidious: The Red Door” and Disney’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.”

The screening, set to be attended by Trump's club members and supporters, will be held on Wednesday.

“I’m serious about a prisoner exchange,” Biden told reporters in Helsinki during a joint press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.

“I’m serious about doing all we can to free Americans who are being illegally held in Russia or anywhere else for that matter, and that process is underway,” Biden added.

A Wall Street Journal reporter asked Biden the question, probing whether the president is serious about a prisoner swap and requesting an update about securing Gershkovich's release. 

The White House last week confirmed discussions were underway for a potential prisoner swap involving Gershkovich.

“I do not want to give false hope,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday. “There have been discussions, but those discussions have not produced a clear pathway.”

Sullivan said the White House is “invested” in bringing home Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan, who has been detained in Russia since 2018.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov previously said the U.S. and Russia were discussing a swap of Gershkovich and Vladimir Dunaev, a Russian citizen who is facing charges in the U.S. for alleged cybercrimes.

U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy met with Gershkovich at Lefortovo prison in Moscow a day before Peskov’s comments.

WNBA star Brittney Griner was released by Russia in a prisoner swap in December, with the U.S. releasing Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.

A trio of former Fox executives said in a joint statement Wednesday that they are disappointed in themselves for helping build up the corporation in its early days, labeling Fox a “disinformation machine.”

“For what little it may, or may not, be worth at this point, Preston Padden, Ken Solomon and Bill Reyner wish to express their deep disappointment for helping to give birth to Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Television that came to include Fox News Channel — the channel that prominently includes news that, in the words of Sidney Powell’s counsel, ‘no reasonable person would believe,’” the three former executives wrote in a blog post.

The trio's post is titled “How Our Efforts to Bring Competition To Television Unknowingly Helped Create the Fox Disinformation Machine”.

During Fox’s early development in the 1990s, Padden served as its top Washington lobbyist, Solomon was the executive vice president of network distribution and Reyner was the lead outside counsel. At the time, there was no Fox News Channel, and none of the executives had ever worked on it, the blog post noted.

The three major broadcast networks at the time were ABC, CBS and NBC. After helping Fox win multiple legal battles that the three former executives said were "critical in establishing Fox to become the long-sought fourth broadcast television network," they said they helped Fox grow through acquiring more local television stations.

“At the time of our work in the 1990’s, we all greatly admired Rupert Murdoch and his vision and bold efforts,” they wrote. “We genuinely believed that the creation of a fourth competitive force in broadcast television was in the public interest.”

The former executives also blasted Fox over its settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, in which Fox News agreed to pay a $787 million settlement over the network’s coverage of former President Trump’s false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

“We never envisioned, and would not knowingly have enabled, the disinformation machine that, in our opinion, Fox has become,” they wrote. “In a 120 page Court Order, backed by extensive record evidence including voluminous emails from inside Fox, the Judge in the Dominion case found that Fox repeatedly presented false news.  Fox did not appeal the decision but instead acknowledged it and paid nearly $800 million in damages to Dominion.”

They said that the Fox News Channel “has had many negative impacts on our society,” adding that “the worst has been Fox’s role in promoting Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ about alleged widespread fraud in the 2020 election” and "contributing to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that undermined our democracy.”

The executives concluded their post by saying other former employees of Fox in the 1990s “share our resentment that the reputation of the Fox brand we helped to build has been ruined by false news.”

The Hill has reached out to Fox for comment.