Paramount Skydance is celebrating the fact that its takeover bid for Warner Brothers Discovery has survived its first regulatory hurdle and is now past the waiting period restriction imposed by the Department of Justice.
The studio says that on February 19 its bid cleared the Department of Justice’s Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) waiting period and is now ready for serious consideration, according to The Wrap.
President Joe Biden’s domestic policy chief is promising revenge against the voters, business executives, and appointees who support President Donald Trump’s 2024 election mandate.
“A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me … ‘Revenge is best served cold,’ and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that,” Susan Rice said in a February 19 video interview by a fellow Democrat.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) stated that if we did refund “300 billion dollars worth of tariff money to the business community in America, this economy’s going to roar,” and “We’ve got between 150 and 400 billion dollars in tariffs collected.”
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Fox News Contributor and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley said that “it is funny” that Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson took a textualist approach on the tariff ruling and pushed back against the delegation of authority to the president since “It’s not exactly where we usually find them.”
On Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Finnerty,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said that “The IEEPA language is incredibly vague and problematic,” and “Congress is the one who made the mess out of all of this” on tariff authority. He also said that he thinks the Supreme Court’s ruling on IEEPA authority has made the issue more complicated.
U.S. military planning for potential strikes on Iran has entered what officials describe as an “advanced” phase, with options reportedly expanding beyond nuclear and missile infrastructure to include targeted decapitation strikes against senior regime figures — and with President Donald Trump said to be able to make a strike decision “at any moment.”
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reacted to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against the Trump administration’s use of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).
Bessent argued there were other mechanisms to continue tariffs, adding he did not see a loss in tariff revenue for 2026.
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump’s “unhinged” behavior was a sign he is “suffering from dementia.”
Pritzker said, “It was unhinged. I mean, watching his press conference today where he just as you pointed out, I mean, he just fell apart about this and attacked Supreme Court justices and could not understand why he could not wield this power that he believes is his that has now been found unconstitutional. So and what does he do? He turns to yet another statute that allows tariffs in certain circumstances. And now he intends to reimpose these tariffs that are truly devastating small businesses. They’re hurting families across my state. And as you saw, $1,700 per family, these are working families, $1,700. Remember, this is the guy who lowered taxes on the wealthiest people and he raised taxes, the tariff taxes on the middle class, the working class.”
Friday on MS NOW’s “The Briefing,” Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) said corruption had pervaded the entire administration, including President Donald Trump.
Pritzker said, “The Howard Lutnick situation is more an example to me of the corruption that has pervaded this entire administration, right from the top. Of course, you know where he’s enriching his own family himself. And then people like Howard Lutnick and others are enriching themselves also while they’re in office, it seems like, you know, the idea of doing public service and doing it for the right reasons, at least in this administration, out the window.”
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore reacted to the Supreme Court decision on tariffs and said that “if Kamala Harris had won the presidency and she said that we’ve got a climate crisis and we have to tax other countries with tariffs, we wouldn’t like that too much. So, I think the court made the right decision here, in terms of saying, look, this has to be approved by Congress.”
LONDON (AP) – The lobbying firm co-founded by Peter Mandelson, a former U.K. ambassador to the United States, collapsed into a form of bankruptcy Friday in the wake of the scandal surrounding his links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
LONDON (AP) – Police searched the former home of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor again on Friday, a day after he was arrested and held in custody for nearly 11 hours on suspicion of misconduct in public office related to his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
