Kristen Welker: Does Graham Platner have the character to be a US Senator? Hakeem Jeffries: How 'bout them Knicks? Meet the Press was the only Sunday show to address the ongoing Graham Platner scandals. KRISTEN WELKER: I want to ask you- the big news this week out of the Senate, Graham Platner winning his primary in Maine. Of course, he has faced allegations of being physically threatening to ex-girlfriends, which he denies, among other controversies which have followed him. Here is a campaign ad being run by Senate Republicans. Take a look. NRSC AD VOICE-OVER: Susan Collins doesn't have a Nazi tattoo, and she doesn't have an account on a notorious predator's paradise ad. Graham Platner did for years. And this was his profile picture. Oh Gosh. Please. Please. Get that off the screen. Anyway, Susan Collins: a senator we can be proud of. WELKER: Does Graham Platner have the character to be a U.S. Senator, Leader Jeffries? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: First of all, I thought you were going to say the big news of the week is the Knicks winning the NBA Championship…. WELKER: We’re gonna get to that, too. JEFFRIES: …for the first time in 53 years. I appreciate that. In terms of the Maine Senate race, listen. The voters of Maine are going to be the ones to decide what's in the best interest of the people of Maine. At this period of time, I'm just focused on making sure we take back control of the House of Representatives so we have a Congress that is a check and balance on an out of control Executive branch, consistent with who we were meant to be according to the Framers of the Constitution, as opposed to what we have seen house Republicans do, which is to serve as nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda. WELKER: Let me ask you though, Leader Jeffries- because under Maine's election laws, Democrats still have enough time to replace Graham Platner. Given all of the controversies he has faced, do you think they should replace Graham Platner or stick with him? JEFFRIES: Well, the voters of Maine elevated him in the primary and ultimately senators are going to have to make that collective decision, I assume, in terms of what happens. And again, I think I have a responsibility -- we have a hard enough job pushing back against Donald Trump's extremism and the sycophantic behavior of my Republican colleagues in the House. We need to focus on that and we need to make sure we’re doing everything possible to win back control of the United States House of Representatives in November.

WATCH: Margaret Brennan closes out this week's "Face the Nation" with an almost gleeful reading of the removal of President Trump's name from the Trump-Kennedy Center. MARGARET BRENNAN: Before we go today, a quick update on a story we've been tracking. President Trump's name was removed yesterday from the facade of the Kennedy center here in Washington, D.C. after a court ruling this month ordered it to be taken down, declaring Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name and only Congress can change it. A crowd of people gathered Friday night waiting to watch its removal. In the end, the name of the 45th and 47th president adorned the building for almost six months. It was installed in December after the Center's board, controlled by the president's hand-picked trustees, voted to rebrand with the addition of the Trump moniker.

Hot damn.

'Biased' Apple, Google, MSN, Yahoo news apps rely on lefty media outlets to slant GOP midterms: survey trib.al/RkyYpj5

EXCLUSIVE: A whopping 80% of news stories about the Republican primaries promoted by Apple News, Google News, Microsoft MSN and Yahoo News came from lefty media outlets. @nypost @FreeSpeechAmer nypost.com/2026/06/13/us-new…

David Brooks reacts to the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, "I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don't anybody say America's in cultural decline." Jonathan Capehart adds "talk about degrading the culture. This is degrading the White House, degrading the people's house. And it's just unconscionable that this has happened."

After Bill Maher asks about Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, "Can you be a good capitalist, because I think I am, or a believer in capitalism and still think there should be some cap on wealth?" Eurasian Group President Ian Bremmer claims "a whole bunch of Americans feel like they don't trust their leaders but they don't trust these elites. That Elon, the first trillionaire, also happens to be the person who gave the most money to the Trump administration, $250 million." Yes, because history began in 2024

MS NOW gave reporter/liberal immigration activist Jacob Soboroff his own show called "Connect," so he tried wax poetic on the first episode, "I felt the connection as I watched the Trump administration deliberately and systematically separate thousands of immigrant parents from their children and what the American Academy of Pediatrics called 'government-sanctioned child abuse.' And as CVOD ravaged the country, I felt it when I went to the streets, as people across this nation protested systemic racism in policing and the murder of George Floyd, we connected as I traveled to Haiti to meet people deported to danger and potential death by the Biden administration that had promised a new approach to immigration in the wake of the Trump administration's cruelty." (1/2)

On The View's podcast, Ana Navarro whines about Vice President J.D. Vance being on the show next week. She gripes that he's just coming on to sell books and fears he's going to try have a "moment." AKA call them out on their BS: "I hope we get to have a constructive conversation about the issues that Americans care about and are on American's minds. And that it doesn't turn into some free-for-all for the sake of creating a moment for him so that he can go out and sell books, which is what often happens with Republicans."

MRC's @RealBrittHughes on the vandals that carved "8647" into the National Mall Lawn. "This is where media bias is so incredibly important. These are not things that are spoken in a vacuum. This is incendiary, inflammatory rhetoric that has been pushed by the media. And we have seen repeatedly crazy people who then take that and turn it into action." Call Trump a Nazi fascist dictator and violent people will take it seriously.

On Newsmax, we discussed the UFC event at the White House. For those of us who watch the media, the best part is watching the MELTDOWNS of people like Lawrence O'Donnell, who find the whole thing "despicably vulgar"! He melted down like the end of "Raiders of the Last Ark"!

ABC News and Disney are currently claiming to the FCC that this show is a “bona fide news program”

BROADCAST BIAS: Platner’s nomination exposes media double standards … again foxnews.com/opinion/broadcas… #FoxNews

Sad. More Democrats “only a little” or “not at all” proud to be American than “extremely” or “very” proud per NBC News poll. @SteveKornacki on @MeetThePress: “Republicans are almost universally going to tell you extremely or very proud. Look at that number for Democrats. Meanwhile, only a little or not at all, 12 times as many Democrats say that compared to Republicans.” (18-34 year olds “ambivalent”).

In same NBC News poll, 64 percent have “very little” or “no confidence” in news media. Below 50 percent distrust for Democrats at 45 percent. At 81 percent with Republicans, raising the question: Who are the 19 percent??

Welker asks Jeffries and Warnock the same question: “Does Graham Platner have the character to be a US Senator?" Their answers are identical: "The people of Maine will decide, I’m too focused on my own business to get more involved." The party deflection script in action.

Instead of questioning @SenatorWarnock’s hyperbolic claims about the end of democracy, the planet and all of our souls, @kwelkernbc asks if he’s “worried” about Republican “interference” in mid-term elections? “You write, quote: ‘The stakes could not be higher. We could lose our democracy. We could lose our planet. We could lose our souls.’ This does come as you’re joining other Democratic Senators in basically what is a simulation, examining what might happen if Republicans interfered in the mid-term elections. How seriously do you take interference in the mid-term elections? Is this a hypothetical, Senator, or is this something you are really worried about?”

Happy Birthday, President Trump! 🇺🇸

Happy birthday to the U.S. Army! God bless all who serve.