Robby Soave said that coverage of the New Year’s Eve terror attack in New Orleans was “just like any other mass shooting or crime event … in the first 24 hours you get some good information and some inaccurate information.” He also said about the press underreporting Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, “If most of the American people saw this, why didn’t the media see it?”

Liz Claman said that after tragedies like the New Orleans terror attack, media outlets race to break stories and contribute to “a feeding frenzy … Everybody’s trying to beat everybody else … good luck with that for people to sit back and wait for the facts.” She also said that the “open secret” with media access to prominent figures like Joe Biden is that journalists “don’t want to annoy or aggravate whoever they want access to,” which leads them to “soft pedal” stories like the president’s mental decline.

Byron York said that “all the muscle” in the House of Representatives comes from Donald Trump and not Speaker Mike Johnson, whose successful battle to retain the gavel was “by far the closest ever,” and that the president-elect “will have to intervene more often” with a margin that is still “extremely narrow.”

Corey Lewandowski said of Trump filing lawsuits against media outlets that free speech “doesn’t give them impunity to go and say whatever they want.” He also said that Justice Juan Merchan, who scheduled sentencing for January 10^th in Donald Trump’s hush money case, is “a terrible judge … should be removed from the bench,” and that under Trump’s new administration “there’s a much greater penalty” for illegal immigrants who do not self-deport, so “if you’re in this country illegally, get out.”

Former New York Times reporter Steven Weisman called his access to Jimmy Carter during his presidency “a little harrowing,” as he recounted playing softball against the late president, watching a movie together, and speaking with him over the phone. He also said, “… in person, [Carter] could be very friendly and casual,” and his spirituality “wasn’t ostentatious, but you could see that he was a man of faith …”