Golf star, who earned 9-figure deal to join Saudi-backed LIV Golf, says 9/11 families should forgive Saudi Arabia



Golf star Bryson DeChambeau suggested this week that the families of 9/11 victims should forgive Saudi Arabia.

What is the background?

After the PGA Tour and LIV Golf announced a merger, an organization representing the families of 9/11 victims — 9/11 Families United — blasted the PGA and tour commissioner Jay Monahan.

"[T]he PGA and Monahan appear to have become just more paid Saudi shills, taking billions of dollars to cleanse the Saudi reputation so that Americans and the world will forget how the Kingdom spent their billions of dollars before 9/11 to fund terrorism, spread their vitriolic hatred of Americans, and finance al Qaeda and the murder of our loved ones," said organization chairwoman Terry Strada.

"PGA Tour leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed," she added. "Our entire 9/11 community has been betrayed by Commissioner Monahan and the PGA as it appears their concern for our loved ones was merely window-dressing in their quest for money — it was never to honor the great game of golf."

The merger is controversial for several reasons, politically and otherwise.

But the 9/11 families are upset because LIV Golf is backed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia. The fund is controlled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

What did DeChambeau say?

Speaking on CNN, DeChambeau expressed sympathy for the 9/11 families — but suggested now is the time for them to forgive.
"I think we'll never be able to repay the families back for what exactly happened just over 20 years ago. And what happened is definitely horrible," he said. "And I think as time has gone on, 20 years has passed, and we're in a place now, where it's time to start trying to work together to make things better together as a whole.
"I have deep sympathy. I don't know exactly what they are feeling. I can't ever know what they feel," he continued.
"I think as we move forward from that, we've got to look toward the pathway to peace, especially in forgiveness, especially if we're trying to mend the world and make it a better place," he went on to say. "I think this is what they're trying to accomplish, LIV is trying to accomplish, the [Saudi Public Investment Fund] is trying to accomplish. We're all trying to accomplish is a better world for everybody."
\u201cBryson DeChambeau, an early recruit to the Saudi-backed LIV tour, on the PGA merger shocker and criticism from the families of 9/11 victims:\u201d
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins) 1686105182
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins pushed back, noting Saudi Arabia's history of human rights abuses and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But DeChambeau defended Saudi Arabia.
"[W]hat I can say is that what they're trying to do, what they're trying to work on, is to be better allies because we are allies with them," he said.

"Look, I'm not going to get into politics of it. I'm not specialized in that," he added. "But what I can say is they are trying to do good for the world and showcase themselves in a light that hasn't been seen in a while. And nobody's perfect. But we're all trying to improve in life."
DeChambeau reportedly received more than $125 million to join LIV Golf last year.
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Republican who upset powerful House Democrat says GOP should move forward without Trump: 'Not a bad thing'



Republican Rep.-elect Mike Lawler shocked the political world when he toppled Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) — chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and one of the most influential House Democrats — on Election Day.

Lawler explained Thursday that the roadmap for future Republican victories includes leaving former President Donald Trump in the rearview mirror.

What did Lawler say?

Speaking on "CNN This Morning," Lawler implored the Republican Party to move forward without Trump.

"I would like to see the party move forward," Lawler said. "I think any time you are focused on the future, you can't so much go to the past."

When CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked Lawler for a definitive answer as to whether the party should leave Trump in the past, Lawler responded, "Yeah, I think moving in a different direction as we move forward is a good thing, not a bad thing."

Moreover, Lawler said the Republican Party should focus its energy on delivering solutions for the American people — not on boosting "personalities."

\u201cMike Lawler, the New York Republican who unseated the Democratic campaign chair, tells us he wants to see the GOP move on from Trump. \u201cI would like to see the party move forward. I think any time you are focused on the future, you\u00a0can't so much go to the past,\u201d Lawler says.\u201d
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins) 1668088087

Is Trump to blame for no 'red wave'?

While many factors blocked the promised red wave from coming to fruition, many Republicans believe that Trump's unpopularity, especially with moderates and independent voters, ultimately sunk Republicans.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R), for instance, called out Trump on Wednesday for being a "drag" on Republican success.

"I think we're going to have to do a lot of soul searching and head scratching," Ryan told WISN-TV of Election Day results.

"I think Trump's kind of a drag on our ticket. I think Donald Trump gives us problems, politically. We lost the House, the Senate and the White House in two years when Trump was on the ballot, or in office," he explained. "I think we just have some Trump hangover. I think he's a drag on our office, on our races."

Indeed, election data suggests that Trump hurt Republican personalities that he endorsed and boosted because they either lost elections or performed much worse than proven Republican leaders.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board pointed out, in fact, that Trump's electoral record is defined by only one victory.

"Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat. The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating. Mr. Trump himself lost in 2020. He then sabotaged Georgia’s 2021 runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow overturning his defeat," the editorial board explained.

"Now Mr. Trump has botched the 2022 elections," the board declared.

Despite the on-the-ground reality, Trump appears set to announce his 2024 presidential campaign next week.

Judge Bruce Reinhart opens door to releasing parts of Trump warrant affidavit, tells DOJ to propose redactions



The Florida judge who authorized the FBI raid at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home has instructed the Department of Justice to file a redacted version of the affidavit used to obtain the warrant.

At a hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said that he is not prepared to grant the Justice Department's request that the affidavit remain sealed. He said he was inclined to agree with media requests to partially release the document and will make a final decision next week after the agency submits proposed redactions for the affidavit, according to reporters.

\u201cJudge Reinhart says he isn't convinced the entire affidavit behind the Mar-a-Lago search should remain sealed, as DOJ wants. Prosecutors have until next Thursday to propose possible redactions and explain why they think that information needs to be kept private.\u201d
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins) 1660847635
\u201cNEWS: Florida judge Bruce Reinhart says he is inclined to release parts of the affidavit justifying Trump raid and ordered government to submit proposed redactions in a week.\u201d
— Josh Dawsey (@Josh Dawsey) 1660846850

Reinhart scheduled Thursday afternoon's hearing at Paul G. Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in response to motions to unseal the FBI warrants and underlying affidavits.

A top official within the Justice Department argued for the affidavit to remain sealed. Jay Bratt, head of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence division, told the judge there is an active investigation against Trump that is still "in its early stages," Politico reported.

Bratt argued that releasing the FBI affidavit to the public could jeopardize "several witnesses" who informed the FBI about purported classified materials Trump allegedly took with him to Mar-a-Lago from the White House when he left office. He said the information in the affidavit was specific enough to identify the FBI's informants, according to Politico.

“This is not a precedent that we want to set,” Bratt told the judge.

Media organizations and the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch have requested that Reinhart unseal the underlying affidavit and other warrant materials connected to the raid on Trump's home. They argued there is extraordinary public interest in the release of the warrant and underlying affidavit.

The Biden administration has opposed these requests, arguing there is a "compelling, overriding interest in preserving the integrity of an ongoing criminal investigation" against Trump. Bratt said that, were the documents to be released, the redactions would be so extensive as to render them meaningless.

“It really serves no purpose,” Bratt said. “It does not edify the public in any meaningful way.”

Though the government wants to keep the FBI affidavit sealed, Attorney General Merrick Garland asked the court to unseal the warrant last week, saying it was in the public interest. The unsealed warrant revealed that Trump is under investigation for violating the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act by allegedly keeping classified information at Mar-a-Lago and neglecting to return documents to the National Archives.

Trump, who has denied all wrongdoing, has demanded the "immediate release" of the "unredacted" affidavit and warrant and accused the Biden administration of weaponizing law enforcement against him for political reasons. The former president has also attacked the judge, calling on Reinhart to "recuse" himself because the judge previously recused himself from overseeing a lawsuit Trump filed against his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton in March.

Pro-Trump protesters gathered outside the courthouse during Thursday's hearing to voice their support for the former president.

\u201cPro-Trump protesters are circling the area outside the courthouse here in West Palm Beach\u201d
— Andrew Desiderio (@Andrew Desiderio) 1660841550

Reinhart has received death threats from people upset with his decision to grant the FBI's warrant request to search Mar-a-Lago. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have warned of an increase in threats against federal law enforcement since the raid at Trump's home. On Tuesday, a Pennsylvania man was arrested and charged with making violent threats against FBI agents online. Days earlier, an Ohio man was killed in a shootout with police after shooting a nail gun into the FBI Cincinnati headquarters and fleeing the scene.

Nick Saban’s support for the Senate filibuster was purposefully cut out of controversial letter to Joe Manchin ahead of vote



An open letter addressed to Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) from Alabama coach Nick Saban and other prominent West Virginia sports figures was edited before publication to remove a footnote clarifying that Saban does not support nuking the Senate filibuster.

Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue told AL.com that the footnote was left out of the final letter with Saban's agreement after they decided it would be inappropriate.

“Coach Saban and I agreed that since the letter focused on the merits of the Freedom to Vote Act and the filibuster had not been discussed with everyone signing the letter, it was unnecessary to include the filibuster footnote in the letter to be publicly distributed,” Tagliabue said. “As a result, our press statement along with the letter released publicly did not address the filibuster issue.”

Tagliabue was a signatory on the Jan. 13 letter, joined by NBA legend Jerry West, former West Virginia University athletic director and NFL Houston Oilers player Oliver Luck, and former Buffalo Bills linebacker Darryl Talley. They had urged Manchin to support passage of the Freedom to Vote Act, a federal overhaul of U.S. elections that would override election security laws passed by Republican legislatures in several states and create federal standards for U.S. elections.

Democrats sought to change the Senate rules in order to remove the 60-vote threshold to overcome a legislative filibuster and pass their election bill. But Manchin, along with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), would not support any changes to the filibuster, frustrating their colleagues and stalling any piece of President Joe Biden's legislative agenda that lacks bipartisan support.

On Tuesday, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reported that Saban had initially asked to include a footnote stating his opposition to eliminating the filibuster to pass the Freedom to Vote Act.

“Coach Saban is not in favor of getting rid of the filibuster in the Senate. He believes this will destroy the checks and balances," the footnote said.

But when the letter was made public ahead of a Senate vote to end the filibuster, Saban's footnote was gone.

On the voting rights letter to Manchin that Saban & other West Virginia sports figures signed, I am told that he asked to include this footnote:\n\u201cCoach Saban is not in favor of getting rid of the filibuster in the Senate. He believes this will destroy the checks and balances..."pic.twitter.com/kHgtMeMOSj
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins) 1642532737

Asked about the letter and the filibuster Tuesday, Manchin bristled at the exclusion of Saban's footnote.

“Nick Saban at the bottom of his letter -- which they didn’t put, Paul Tagliabue didn’t put what Nick Saban wrote at the bottom, his footnote, he supports the filibuster,” Manchin told reporters. “Do not get rid of the filibuster. Now why did he automatically leave that out?”

He reiterated that he supports Democratic efforts to reform elections but not by nuking the filibuster.

“Nick Saban’s letter was straight on. They all [the co-signers] want the right to vote, right? We all want the right to vote,” Manchin said Tuesday. “I think everyone — we should all support the right to vote. But not breaking the rules.”

On Thursday, after Democrats failed to kill the filibuster and pass their election bill, Manchin publicly thanked Saban, his longtime friend and supporter, for agreeing with him.

"Coach Saban is exactly right: you cannot throw the filibuster out and expect the legislative process to work better," Manchin tweeted, highlighting the footnote.

Coach Saban is exactly right: you cannot throw the filibuster out and expect the legislative process to work better. I wholeheartedly agree with the coaches that "Our democracy is at its best when all Americans are encouraged to participate."pic.twitter.com/a3xAtrbGhh
— Senator Joe Manchin (@Senator Joe Manchin) 1642716683

Saban's support for the Democrats' election bill drew harsh criticism from congressional Republicans, who oppose the bill.

“Nick Saban should focus on winning National Championships instead of destroying our elections,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) said in a since-deleted tweet.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) roasted Saban and the others who signed the letter in a video posted by FreedomWorks, a conservative and libertarian grassroots organization.

TORCHED: @RepChipRoy drags "famed history and election law experts" Jerry West and Nick Saban for their support of the Democrats' radical bill to federally takeover our elections. #VoterID #ampFWpic.twitter.com/nq6uzIrm1c
— FreedomWorks (@FreedomWorks) 1642697397

“They use that term on purpose, ‘voting rights,’ because who could possibly be against voting rights?” Roy said, commenting on the Democrats' bill.

“For example, allow me to quote from acclaimed election history and law experts Jerry West, Nick Saban, Paul Tagliabue, and company, quote, ‘In the last year, some 20 states have enacted dozens of laws that restrict voting access and allow local officials or state legislatures to interfere inappropriately with federal election outcomes, motivated by the unanticipated outcomes of recent close elections conducted with integrity,’ they say. ‘These state laws seek to secure partisan advantage by eliminating reliable practices with proven safeguards and substituting practices ripe for manipulation,'” he said.

“No doubt these famed election law experts spent the weekend reading the federal legislation for which they were lobbying, because, I mean, I got the 700-page bill at 11:30 last Thursday night before voting on it on Friday,” he continued.

“I assume they read it thoroughly over the weekend, as my staff stayed up into the middle of the night doing, to actually see what was in the bill. I assume, too, that they know, for example, that the bill would lead to completely outlawing or eliminating voter identification.

“Do they know that four in five Americans, 80%, support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot? I know my colleagues are sure fine with everybody having to show a voter identification with vax cards all across this country, including the nation’s capital. Do they know that Delaware and Connecticut require photo or non-photo ID?"

Concluding, Roy sardonically said he was "certain that they have studied the intricacies of Texas law before disparaging it."

"I’m sure they spent time looking at that. Or, say, studied the Georgia election law, at least a little better than studying the University of Georgia’s, say, defense," he added.

The Georgia Bulldogs defeated Saban's Crimson Tide in the College Football Playoff National Championship earlier this month.

Liberals express outrage over new COVID isolation guidelines, push debunked conspiracy theory involving Delta Air Lines



Progressive ideologues voiced outrage this week after the Biden administration relaxed quarantine requirements for people who test positive for COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new guidance on Monday that people who test positive for COVID should isolate themselves for only five days — down from the agency’s previous requirement of 10 days.

Specifically amid the latest wave of COVID infections, businesses have experienced pressure from a significant increase of employees who have become sick with COVID and are thus being forced to stay home for two weeks.

What was the reaction?

People angry over the updated guidelines charged that the Biden administration made the change to appease corporate interests. Accusers cited Delta Air Lines, which has suffered staffing issues and therefore canceled flights due to sick staff members in recent weeks.

Some of the most circulated accusations included:

  • Jemele Hill: "For example, every media outlet should include that Delta CEO Ed Bastain asked the CDC to reduce the recommended quarantine time from 10 days to 5 for vaccinated people because of workforce impact. That’s not a health decision. The media needs to frame it that way every time."
  • Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.): ".@CDCgov is saying 'we need people back to work quicker even if they are still sick.' Is this based on public health and science? Or is this in response to corporations like Delta who asked for shorter times? ... Public health decisions should be purely based on public health, not the needs of CEOs."
  • Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding: "I suspect Delta Airlines have way more influence than they should because they are based in Atlanta (CDC hq)… Delta shouldn’t be able to lobby the CDC like this!!"
  • Judah Friedlander: "Congrats to the Airline CEOs on being appointed head of @CDCgov. I always get medical advice from Airline CEOs. Glad the @CDCgov is listening to them."
  • Don Winslow: "Dear @CDCgov and @CDCDirector You don't work for Delta Airlines.You should not do what their CEO ask you to do.This wasn't a health decision.It was a political one.You have made a serious mistake here."
  • Russell Foster (D-Texas): "So we find out that Delta CEO Ed Bastain asked the CDC to reduce the recommended quarantine time from 10 days to 5 for vaccinated people because of workforce impact. This change has nothing to do with the virus or your health & everything to do with the profits of corporations."
  • Jesse Jae Hoon: "If you're wondering which scientist the CDC is basing their decision to halve the quarantine time from 10 to 5 days on, it's… Delta CEO Ed Bastian."

What is Delta's role?

Delta CEO Ed Bastian did, in fact, write to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last week asking her to cut the quarantine requirement from 10 days to five days for vaccinated people who experience a breakthrough COVID infection.

"With the rapid spread of the Omicron variant, the 10-day isolation for those who are fully vaccinated may significantly impact our workforce and operations," Bastian wrote. "Similar to healthcare, police, fire, and public transportation workforces, the Omicron surge may exacerbate shortages and create significant disruptions."

But what did the CDC say?

Walensky confirmed Wednesday that her agency altered quarantine guidelines based on what public health officials believe Americans can tolerate — not corporate interests.

"It really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate," Walensky said on CNN.

\u201cIt really had a\u00a0lot to do with what we thought\u00a0people would be able to\u00a0tolerate,\u201d CDC Director Walensky says on why the CDC shortened the isolation period from 10 days to 5 days if you\u2019re asymptomatic. Our full interview:pic.twitter.com/rO7blPFiPj
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins) 1640782912

Biden supporters flood streets over reported Biden victory — but media called Trump rallies 'super spreader' events



Americans — including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — flooded city streets nationwide Saturday afternoon after the media declared former Vice President Joe Biden the president-elect.

The massive crowds celebrated Biden's reported victory. Ironically, their gatherings come just one week after the media scolded President Donald Trump for allowing massive gatherings of supporters at his campaign rallies by circulating a study that claimed Trump's rallies resulted in hundreds of coronavirus deaths.

What are the details?

Immediately after news broke of Biden's projected victory, social media videos showed Biden's supporters pour into the streets to celebrate — all while in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

From Times Square in downtown Manhattan:

There are thousands of people in Times Square right now cheering, singing, dancing and celebrating the defeat of… https://t.co/14p8lcdnRN
— Liam Stack (@Liam Stack)1604772108.0

From Brooklyn:

Brooklynites dancing and singing “Na na hey hey kiss him goodbye.” ⁦@NY1⁩ https://t.co/ijGC5odWLh
— Lindsay Tuchman (@Lindsay Tuchman)1604774250.0

Social justice activist Shaun King said of the situation in Brooklyn, "I'm telling you, right now in Brooklyn it looks, feels, and sounds like we just overthrew a dictator."

Schumer even joined the celebrations in New York City — and was caught without a mask, at least temporarily.

it's ok guys. some people are wearing masks. https://t.co/nP1ZHTOF4I
— tsar becket adams (@tsar becket adams)1604772728.0

The situation in Washington, D.C., outside the White House was much of the same. Thousands gathered to mock Trump's impending election loss.

The crowd outside the White House celebrating Joe Biden’s projected victory is blaring YMCA — the song President Tr… https://t.co/wVPtV9OttL
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins)1604776113.0


BREAKING: Celebrations ERUPT across US after 2020 presidential election called for Joe Biden www.youtube.com


What did the media say about Trump rallies?

The media spent much of the latter part of the election criticizing Trump for holding massive campaign rallies, and were quick to circulate a study that pinned culpability for COVID cases on Trump.

From Politico:

President Donald Trump's campaign rallies between June and September may have caused some 30,000 coronavirus infections and more than 700 deaths, according to a new study by Stanford University economists.

The working paper, released late Friday, examined the impact of 18 rallies held between June 20 and Sept. 30 by comparing spread of the virus after each event to parts of the country that didn't host rallies. The findings illustrate the risks of not heeding public health warnings to wear masks and avoid large gatherings to mitigate the risks of Covid-19, the authors — including B. Douglas Bernheim, the chair of Stanford's economics department — wrote.

Meanwhile, Vox declared, "The president is most likely a super spreader."

Saturday's massive celebrations came despite America experiencing its worst day of COVID-19 cases to date.

On Friday, the U.S. set a single day record of more than 126,000 new positive COVID-19 cases.

President Trump blasts Fauci as a 'disaster' during campaign call



President Donald Trump went off on Dr. Anthony Fauci on a campaign call Monday, calling him a "nice guy" but also a "disaster" and saying that most Americans are tired of hearing about the coronavirus.

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins was given access to the phone call, during which Trump reportedly claimed that if his administration had listened to Fauci, more than half a million people would have died.

"People are tired of COVID. I have these huge rallies," Trump said. "People are saying whatever. Just leave us alone. They're tired of it. People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots ... Fauci is a nice guy. He's been here for 500 years."

"Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we'd have 500,000 deaths," he added, going on to say it would be 700,000 or 800,000. "If there's a reporter on, you can have it just the way I said it, I couldn't care less."

Trump: "Fauci is a disaster. If I listened to him, we’d have 500,000 deaths," before later saying it would be 700,0… https://t.co/rjjeuvJT8F
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins)1603121353.0

According to New York Post Washington correspondent Ebony Bowden, Trump also said that firing Fauci would be a bombshell story, seeming to imply that doing so before the election would be a bad idea.

President Trump told campaign staff he thought Dr. Anthony Fauci was "a disaster" while indicating he wanted to fir… https://t.co/5PN0tYB9fC
— Ebony Bowden (@Ebony Bowden)1603124862.0

Fauci made headlines over the weekend for comments he made on CBS' "60 Minutes," where he said he was "absolutely not" surprised that Trump contracted a coronavirus infection. He said he was concerned after watching the Sept 26. Rose Garden event announcing Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court and noticing that there was "almost nobody wearing a mask."

"'Oh my goodness. Nothing good can come outta that, that's gotta be a problem.' And then sure enough, it turned out to be a superspreader event," he said.

He also said that the Trump administration has restricted his media appearances and expressed anger at the Trump campaign for using his remarks in a TV ad. Fauci said his comments were taken out of context and emphasized that he has not and will not publicly endorse any political candidate for office.

On the effectiveness of wearing masks to slow the spread of the disease, Fauci claimed that "masks really do work in preventing infection." He admitted he was wrong when he said in March there was "no reason to be walking around with a mask."

"When you find out you're wrong, it's a manifestation of your honesty to say, 'Hey, I was wrong. I did subsequent experiments and now it's this way,'" Fauci said.

He expressed opposition to calls for a new national lockdown.

"The country is fatigued with restrictions," Fauci said. "So we wanna use public health measures not to get in the way of opening the economy, but to being a safe gateway to opening the economy."

Over 8.1 million coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the U.S. More than 200,000 Americans have died.

CNN reporter attacks Trump for taking off mask while alone, outdoors. Trump campaign releases video of her doing the same thing.



The Trump campaign shredded a CNN reporter who insisted that President Donald Trump was reckless for taking his mask off while alone, outside, and on the balcony of his home.

A coronavirus-stricken Trump took to a White House balcony on Monday night following his release from Walter Reed Medical Center, took off his mask, and waved to the public in an apparent show of strength.

What are the details?

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins drew quite a reaction on social media Monday night after issuing her complaints about the president's behavior following his release.

Speaking with CNN's Erin Burnett, Collins said, "[L]et us remind viewers now that the president is on steroids and a drug that fewer than 10 people outside of clinical trials have gotten inside the United States to deal with coronavirus. He had a level of treatment and a level of care that most Americans would not get. That's understandable — he is the President of the United States, obviously everyone expects that."

"[W]hat the president is portraying by taking his mask off when he gets back to the Truman balcony to give this grand return to the White House is that everything is fine and, as he said, don't let coronavirus control your life," she added. "But that is very much still a president who has coronavirus. Despite the lights and the flags and the staged entrance that the president wants to create, he still has coronavirus and he is only a few days into the diagnosis."

Collins also warned that the president still isn't even out of the woods with his diagnosis yet.

"And Erin, today, his doctor didn't reveal a lot of information as he hasn't for the past two days, but he did still say that he will not breathe a sigh of relief until Monday. That's a fully week from today."

Following the conversation with Burnett, Collins took to Twitter and shared a video clip of the president's grand return.

She captioned it, "Only days into his diagnosis, the first thing President Trump does when he gets back to the White House is take his mask off."

Collins' remarks drew the ire of many social media users, including that of conservative actress Kirstie Alley, but none more than the Trump campaign itself.

Only days into his diagnosis, the first thing President Trump does when he gets back to the White House is take his… https://t.co/QLl6bfyXFq
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins)1601939875.0

What did the Trump campaign say?

In a now-viral video tweet of its own, the Trump campaign wrote, "CNN reporters like Kaitlin [sic] Collins obsess over masks when the cameras are on, but when they think they're off, off comes their masks!"

The video showed Collins immediately taking off her mask following an indoor White House briefing that took place earlier in the year.

At the time of this reporting, the Trump campaign's video has been viewed more than 4.4 million times.

CNN reporters like Kaitlin Collins obsess over masks when the cameras are on, but when they think they’re off, off… https://t.co/WeWy2Tb5wS
— Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022)1601941513.0

Kirstie Alley trounces CNN reporter over President Trump's return to the White House: 'You hate him. Just report that.'



Actress Kirstie Alley trampled on a criticism from a CNN reporter being leveled against the president over his actions after returning to the White House from the Walter Reed Medical Center.

President Donald Trump took his mask off before cameras after arriving at the White House. Some in the media and many of his critics pounced on the moment to accused him of being irresponsible.

"Only days into his diagnosis, the first thing President Trump does when he gets back to the White House is take his mask off," CNN's Kaitlan Collins said.

Only days into his diagnosis, the first thing President Trump does when he gets back to the White House is take his… https://t.co/QLl6bfyXFq
— Kaitlan Collins (@Kaitlan Collins)1601939875.0

Alley ripped into Collins with an expletive-ridden response.

"What would you like him to do? Start crying like a little b***h so you can report that he's ...crying like a little b***h? He could have a hazmat suit on and you would report ... he's a f***ing lunatic in a hazmat suit," Alley said.

Image Source: Twitter/kirstiealley screenshot

"You hate him. Just report that," Alley concluded.

Collins had been accused of being a "Faker" by the president himself in a previous kerfuffle where the reporter had been caught pulling off her mask when she thought cameras were off after she had criticized the administration for the same offense. She tweeted later that she had only taken off her mask for six seconds.

Alley had also criticized the Democrats in an earlier tweet that mocked them for spending all their time trying to take down Trump.

"The truth is DEMS have accomplished NOTHING in the last 3 1/2 years other than Devising ways to take TRUMP DOWN," she tweeted.

The truth is DEMS have accomplished NOTHING in the last 3 1/2 years other than Devising ways to take TRUMP DOWN. U… https://t.co/HfUU6wPwzJ
— Kirstie Alley (@Kirstie Alley)1601906304.0

"U have been a waste of our tax dollars TIME & faith. EVEN with all YOUR attempts to destroy him, you FAILED!" she added.

After the president made an appearance outside the White House, he tweeted a video from his social media account encouraging Americans not to be afraid of the coronavirus.

"One thing that's for certain. Don't let it dominate you. Don't be afraid of it. You're gonna beat it," said the president.

"We're going back. We're going back to work. We're going to be out front," he continued. "But don't let it dominate your lives, get out there, be careful."

Here's more about Trump's coronavirus diagnosis:

White House press blames media for 'panic' over Trump's healthwww.youtube.com

WATCH: White House Press Secretary destroys CNN reporter over media-orchestrated 'white supremacy' hoax

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany clashed with CNN's White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins over the media inserting various political groups into their headlines as a way to denigrate President Donald Trump.