Los Angeles Lakers head coach J.J. Redick said Thursday that LeBron James is away from the team due to “personal reasons.”

Redick called it an “excused absence,” as James’ status for Friday is up in the air – he was already dealing with a foot injury and missed Wednesday’s game, his first of the year.

Turning 40 later this month, it seems that Father Time may just be sneaking up on the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.

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In fact, Redick admitted that James has felt “gassed” and the team feels they are mismanaging his minutes in his 22nd season. Redick also said James has asked to be taken out of a couple of games for some breaks.

“For us, we have to be cognizant as we play more and more games, just the cumulative effect of playing a lot of minutes and Sunday, being banged up with the foot thing, it felt like a good opportunity for him to get some rest,” Redick said.

James expressed a desire earlier this season to play in all 82 games, but both he and the Lakers are now being practical with the inevitable minor injuries that arise during any season.

While he already has six triple-doubles this season – including four-straight at one point – his 23.0 points per game are the lowest he’s posted since his rookie season, over 20 years ago with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) gestures to a teammate during the first half against the Toronto Raptors at Scotiabank Arena. (John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images)

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James looks like his vintage self on the glass and passing; he’s averaging 8.0 rebounds and 9.1 assists per game, both over his career totals. However, his three-point shooting has taken a dip.

Through 15 games, he hit three-pointers at a career-best 43.0% clip. In his next seven, though, he hit just four of 34 and had missed 20 in a row. He did go 6 for 11 from deep in his last game, dropping 29 points, but that was just the second time he eclipsed 20 in his last seven games.

Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James celebrates a three-pointer against the Toronto Raptors during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Toronto on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024.  (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

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The Lakers are on a 3-7 skid since their 10-4 start to the season, but Redick remains confident in their ability to fix the problems that have bedeviled them recently in offensive consistency and defensive intensity. Redick also said he has spoken frequently with James and Anthony Davis about the Lakers’ ability to stay mentally strong during bad stretches.

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Incoming border czar Tom Homan met with New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday to discuss the city’s ongoing migrant crisis and strategies for deporting illegal migrants with the help of the New York Police Department. 

Homan, who served as acting director of ICE during President Donald Trump’s first term, has been appointed by the newly-minted president-elect to serve as the border czar in the incoming administration.

“It went great,” Homan told Sean Hannity on Thursday night. “Look, I sat down with the mayor for well over an hour. He gets it. And today he proved that as the mayor in New York City, he’s more concerned with public safety than politics. I wish the mayor of Chicago and the San Diego City council mayor and Governor Pritzker, I wish they’d all take a page out of Mayor Eric Adams’ playbook.” 

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Homan recalled how the “ex-cop” came out of Adams during their closed-door meeting Thursday in New York.

“He really cares about public safety, and he’s putting politics aside. He wants to help ICE take criminal threats off the street. He wants to help ICE look for national security threats. He wants to help ICE find over 340,000 missing children, which many are going to be in the city. So a great meeting.”

“Hats off to the mayor for coming to the table and working with us,” credited Homan.

Homan disclosed that since his meeting with the New York mayor, other leaders from across the aisle have reached out to him.

“I’ve been contacted by a couple of other mayors, even Governor Pritzker… he’s willing to sit down. So I think what Mayor Adams did today is not only good for New York City, I think it’s going to be a domino effect. I’m hoping that some of the mayors come forward after seeing the success we had today,” said Homan. 

Homan further praised Adams for his desire to “understand” how ICE does its job and his willingness to use executive orders to address some of the “roadblocks” New York City faces.

Police officers take security measures as migrants line up outside the Roosevelt Hotel while waiting for placement inside a shelter as asylum seekers camp outside the hotel after the Manhattan relief center is at full capacity in New York City on Aug. 2, 2023. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

“He [Adams] has told me that he’s going to look at executive orders to undo some of the damage done by de Blasio,” Homan remarked. “He would like to see us back in Rikers Island to arrest the bad guy in the safety and security of the jail, rather than release them into the community and put the community at risk and my officers at risk – the risk of somebody in the community rather than in a jail. He wants his law enforcement officers in the precincts to release criminal aliens to us and not on the street.”

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Homan addressed speaking with Adams about the NYPD assisting with locating and apprehending illegal immigrants throughout the city.  

Adams “has a lot of uniforms in this city that know what’s going on in their neighborhoods,” said Homan. “The NYPD has one of the best intelligence apparatuses in the entire world, that he’s going to help us with. So we’re going to count on every uniform in this city to give us information on where the criminals are at.” 

Recent reports indicate that New York City is currently home to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants with nearly 60,000 “criminal” migrants amid increasing concerns about safety and resources.

Migrants who arrived from Eagle Pass, Texas, walk to the shelters at Floyd Bennett Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 3, 2024. A migrant camp has been set up at Floyd Bennett Field, a former military airport.  ( Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Laken Riley’s name also came up during the meeting, according to Homan, while discussing illegal migrants roaming the streets of New York.

“Laken Riley’s killer was arrested here in New York City for endangering a child. If things were different, ICE could have took custody of him rather than releasing him and him going to Georgia to commit that horrendous murder,” Homan stated. “So he [Adams] asked a lot of great questions and I left that meeting feeling really good, and we’re going to continue our conversations.”

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After the meeting with Adams, the incoming border czar expressed confidence, saying that New York City is “about to get a lot safer.”

“I think New York City is about to send a strong message to the rest of the world that we’re taking the right steps to take public safety threats, especially those who are not supposed to be in this country to begin with… We’re going to make New York safer,” pledged Homan. 

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The 2024 Billboard Music Awards are here.

The award show, which aired on FOX, was hosted by actress and comedian Michelle Buteau and featured performances from Megan Moroney, Jelly Roll and Shaboozey. 

Taylor Swift, the most decorated female artist in Billboard Music Awards’ history, was a finalist in 16 categories. Swift broke her own record on Thursday night, bringing home 10 additional BBMAs.

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Here is a look at the complete winners list.

Top artist: Taylor Swift

Top new artist: Chappell Roan

Top male artist: Morgan Wallen

Top female artist: Taylor Swift

Top duo/group: Fuerza Regida

Top Billboard 200 artist: Taylor Swift

Top Hot 100 song: “Lose Control” – Teddy Swims

Morgan Wallen took home four awards during the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. (John Shearer)

Top radio song: “Lose Control” – Teddy Swims

Top Hot 100 artist: Taylor Swift

Top Hot 100 songwriter: Taylor Swift

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Top streaming songs artist: Taylor Swift

Top Hot 100 producer: Jack Antonoff

Top Billboard global (excl. U.S.) artist: Taylor Swift

Top Billboard 200 album: “The Tortured Poems Department” – Taylor Swift

Top radio songs artist: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift broke her Billboard Music Awards’ record on Thursday night and broke home 10 awards. (Kate Green/Getty Images)

Top Billboard global 200 artist: Taylor Swift

Top R&B male artist: Tommy Richman

Top R&B female artist: SZA

Top R&B touring artist: Bruno Mars

Top rap artist: Drake

Drake is the most awarded artist in Billboard Music Award history. (Cole Burston/Getty Images)

Top rap male artist: Drake

Top rap female artist: Doja Cat

Top rap touring artist: Travis Scott

Top R&B song: Tommy Richman – “MILLION DOLLAR BABY”

Top rock touring artist: Coldplay

Zach Bryan was the most nominated artist on Thursday night. (Keith Griner/Getty Images)

Top Latin duo/group: Fuerza Regida

Top hard rock song: Falling In Reverse feat. Jelly Roll “All My Life”

Top dance/electronic song: “Houdini” – Dua Lipa

Top country artist: Morgan Wallen

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Top country male artist: Morgan Wallen

Top country female artist: Beyoncé

Top K-Pop touring artist: Seventeen

Top global K-Pop artist: Stray Kids

Top collaboration: Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen “I Had Some Help”

Shaboozey won big at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards. (Photo by Astrida Valigorsky/WireImage)

Top country song: “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey

Top song sales artist: Shaboozey

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Top selling song: “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” – Shaboozey

Top rock album: “Stick Season” – Noah Kahan

Top Billboard global 200 song: “Beautiful Things” – Benson Boone

Chris Martin of Coldplay accepted their award for top rock touring artist. (Photo by Dave Simpson/WireImage)

Top Billboard global (excl. U.S.) song: “Beautiful Things” – Benson Boone

Top Afrobeats artist: Tyla

Top Afrobeats song: “Water” – Tyla

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Top hard rock artist: Linkin Park

Top rock duo/group: Linkin Park

Morgan Wallen is thankful to his fans following his big win at the 2024 Billboard Music Awards.

The country music star won four awards at the award show, which aired Thursday on FOX and was previously recorded, including top country artist, top male artist, top country male artist and top collaboration, for his song “I Had Some Help,” with Post Malone.

During his acceptance speech, Wallen expressed how grateful he is to his fans for always giving his music a “chance.”

“I just wanted to say thank you guys for everyone who’s supported me along my journey and, as always, most importantly, thank you to my fans,” he said. “You guys have just given me so much freedom to make music that I want to make.”

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He continued, “Whether it’s a song that sounds similar to something I’ve put out in the past or whether it’s something that is completely different, you guys have always just given, at least given it a chance, and that’s all I can ask for, and I just want to say thank you guys for being that way with my music. I hope I can come back next year and accept some more, but for now, I really appreciate it. God bless you.”

Wallen was up for 15 awards in 13 different categories after taking home 11 awards at last year’s award show.

Prior to the award show airing, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment in a courtroom on Thursday afternoon, according to Fox 17. The charges are in connection to an incident in April in which Wallen threw a chair off the sixth-floor bar owned by Eric Church, Chief’s, in Nashville, Tennessee.

He was originally charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and three counts of felony reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, but his charges were reduced to misdemeanors during a hearing on Tuesday.

Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Judge Cynthia Chappell sentenced Wallen to seven days at a DUI education center and two years of supervised probation.

“Earlier today (12/12/24), Morgan Wallen appeared in Davidson County Circuit Court with Judge Cynthia Chappell presiding where he entered a conditional plea pursuant to Tennessee’s Diversion Statute that does not result in a conviction,” Wallen’s lawyer, Worrick Robinson, said in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.

“The plea agreement with the Office of the District Attorney requires Mr. Wallen to spend 7 days at a DUI Education Center, be on probation for 2 years – one year for each of the misdemeanor charges for reckless endangerment – pay a $350 fine and court fees. Upon the successful completion of his probation, the charges will be eligible for dismissal and expungement.

“Mr. Wallen has cooperated fully with authorities throughout these last eight months, directly communicating and apologizing to all involved. Mr. Wallen remains committed to making a positive impact through his music and foundation.”

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Wallen was sentenced to seven days at a DUI education center and two years of supervised probation. (Getty Images)

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The Biden administration announced a new $500 million military aid package to Ukraine Thursday, weeks before President-elect Trump takes office. 

“The United States is providing another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment to our Ukrainian partners as they defend against Russia’s ongoing attacks,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

The package announced Thursday includes drones; High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) artillery and ammunition; armored vehicles; nuclear, chemical and radiological protective equipment; and other equipment. 

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The newest round of aid follows Biden’s announcement of a $988 million military aid package to Ukraine earlier this week. 

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A member of the 24th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fires a self-propelled howitzer toward Russian forces during Russia’s attack on Ukraine near the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Nov. 18, 2024.  (Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/Handout via Reuters )

Trump’s election victory has raised questions about whether he will continue to aid Ukraine with billions in assistance. 

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance criticized the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine, and the former president said on the campaign trial he would bring an end to the war before even entering office.

Vance made headlines this year after he suggested the best way to end the war was for Ukraine to cede the land Russia has seized and for a demilitarized zone to be established, a proposal Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy flatly rejected. 

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, poses with President-elect Trump, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Elysee Palace Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

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During his visit to Paris last weekend, Trump met with Zelenskyy, where the pair were expected to discuss the ongoing conflict. 

Fox News Digital’s Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.  

Food workers in Washington, D.C., pledged to refuse service and cause other inconveniences for members of the incoming Trump administration when they dine out over the next four years.

Industry veterans, bartenders and servers in the nation’s capital told the Washingtonian that resistance to the Republican figures in the progressive city was inevitable and a matter of conscience. 

“You expect the masses to just ignore RFK eating at Le Diplomate on a Sunday morning after a few mimosas and not to throw a drink in his face?,” said Zac Hoffman, a DC restaurant veteran who is now a manager at the National Democratic Club.

Bartenders and servers in the report promised to shun certain officials or employ other small acts of resistance against these figures to take their “power back.”

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“This person theoretically has the power to take away your rights, but I have the power to make you wait 20 minutes to get your entrée,” Nancy, a fine-dining bartender, said. 

“There’s a lot of opportunities for us as workers to feel like we’re taking our power back, while not necessarily ruining someone’s life. Giving them a subtle inconvenience feels like a little bit of a win for us,” she continued.

Nancy said she would refuse service to certain Trump officials. If her employer tried to force her, she claimed she would quit “on the spot.”

“There is power in making it known that you’re not comfortable with a situation, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be this big dramatic show,” she said. “It’s just little bits of resistance that add up, and little bits of resistance that other people will see and hopefully feel empowered to stand on those convictions as well.”

Suzannah Van Rooy, a server and manager at Beuchert’s Saloon on Capitol Hill, also vowed to refuse service to Trump officials whom she felt held moral views that opposed her own.

The Capitol Building is seen from the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Friday, August 9, 2024. (Aaron Schwartz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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“I personally would refuse to serve any person in office who I know of as being a sex trafficker or trying to deport millions of people,” she said. 

“It’s not, ‘Oh, we hate Republicans.’ It’s that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine, and I don’t feel comfortable serving them,” Van Rooy added.

One anonymous host at a fine dining restaurant said she planned to look up every Trump administration figure online so she could know who they were and give them a bad table if they came in.

“I’ll only give them a bad table but will otherwise guarantee decent and polite service,” she went on. “I feel like them getting a bad table is nothing compared to the harm they’ll be inflicting.”

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 12: President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a reception at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after being named TIME’s “Person of the Year” for the second time on December 12, 2024 in New York City.  (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Not every liberal worker in the report planned to protest the incoming administration while doing their job, however. 

A bartender named Joseph said while he was disappointed by the election results, he was looking forward to higher tips with more Republicans in Washington.

“I think my tip average from Republicans—at least ones that I or a coworker has recognized—is close to 30 percent. With Dems, I’m surprised if it’s over 20,” he said, adding that Republicans tend to be lower maintenance patrons as well. 

These comments beckon memories of Trump’s first time in office, when Republican Party figures were harassed while dining at D.C.-area restaurants.

Then-White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and her family were kicked out of a Virginia restaurant and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled and harassed at a Mexican Washington D.C. restaurant in 2018.

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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of a Virginia restaurant in 2018, when she served as Trump’s press secretary. (Getty Images)

A few months later, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife were also chased out of D.C. restaurant by left-wing protesters.

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., encouraged supporters after the two incidents to fight back against the Trump administration. She said at the time current administration officials who defend Trump “know what they’re doing is wrong” and said they soon won’t be able to peacefully appear in public without being harassed. She later backed off from those remarks.

Fox News’ Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

Former CNN host Don Lemon blasted Time Magazine as a “joke” after revealing President-elect Donald Trump as their Person of the Year.

Lemon hosted a TikTok Live where he referenced the long-running publication for honoring Trump after winning the 2024 presidential election and overcoming both felony convictions and assassination attempts.

“For marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the American presidency and altering America’s role in the world, Donald Trump is Time’s 2024 Person of the Year,” the magazine wrote.

Lemon was furious at the decision, attacking the magazine for picking someone who he said doesn’t stand for democracy.

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“If they wanted to make someone Person of the Year, I don’t know, they could’ve done it with any person. They could have done it to someone who actually stood for democracy, who stands for democracy in the country,” Lemon said.

Although Time Magazine has chosen the winner of the presidential election as Person of the Year every election season since 2000, Lemon insisted that becoming president does not automatically make one qualified for the title.

“Time Magazine, what are you doing? Let me ask you, Time Magazine, what would you say to those women who I guess still read Time Magazine?” Lemon asked.

“You have someone on the cover of your magazine who is an adjudicated assaulter,” he continued. “You have someone who inspired an insurrection. We have someone who, without a doubt, the evidence is there, tried to overturn a free and fair election. You had someone who had multiple criminal accounts and was found guilty on multiple criminal counts. And you name them Person of The Year.”

Don Lemon took to TikTok to attack Time Magazine for picking Trump as Person of the Year. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus Foundation | Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

“Is this a joke? Did we get something wrong? Did someone scam us? Are we sure about this, producers? There is a convicted felon on the cover of Time Magazine as the Person of the Year. Maybe we’re being scammed. Did someone put out a fake tweet or something about this? I don’t know,” Lemon finished.

Trump was also named Person of the Year after winning the presidential election in 2016. Time wrote that since his campaign, Trump has completely restructured the “course of politics.”

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“Since he began running for President in 2015, perhaps no single individual has played a larger role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump,” Time wrote. “Trump is once again at the center of the world, and in as strong a position as he has ever been.”

The other Time finalists this year included Harris, billionaire Elon Musk – who was named Person of the Year in 2021 – podcast giant Joe Rogan, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Trump was previously chosen as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2016. ((Photo by Angel Valentin for The Washington Post via Getty Images))

Last year’s Person of the Year was pop star Taylor Swift, who just concluded her record-breaking “Eras” concert tour.

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Fox News’ David Rutz contributed to this report.

Liberal commentator Briahna Joy Gray stunned British journalist Piers Morgan and guests on his show by admitting she has no empathy for slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

During a segment Tuesday on “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” the host pressed the pundit on whether she felt for Thompson, who was shot in the back and killed by a waiting assassin outside a Manhattan hotel last week.

“Right. So, to be clear, you don’t have any empathy for him after he was executed?” Morgan asked. 

“I personally don’t,” Gray admitted in a controversial moment flagged by The Daily Caller. 

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Gray prompted Morgan’s direct question when she began discussing the “discontent” that Americans feel towards powerful healthcare companies and executives like Thompson. 

Naming the suspected assassin, 26-year-old Ivy League graduate Luigi Mangione, Gray said, “Luigi is just a vessel through which people are expressing their deep frustrations with the American healthcare system.”

She continued, “So the question is, if you don’t want murders like this to be happening – assassinations to be happening like this in the street – I’m someone who does not believe in the death penalty and don’t condone these kinds of vigilante instances of violence in either case… you have to get to the root of why there is this deep well of tragedy, despair and outrage in the United States of America.”

Suspicious that Gray’s statement was evidence of callousness towards the man who was killed, Morgan asked, “But just to be clear… do you feel any empathy for Brian Thompson and his family?”

The guest dodged slightly, saying it was more about his job than him personally.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning last week. (Photo Credit: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)

“I have infinite empathy for any individual as a person in their personal capacity. As his role as the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, I’m afraid I’m with the overwhelming majority, bipartisan majority of the American people who say, ‘I’m saving my empathy for people who are much more vulnerable.’” 

Morgan asked her the same question once more, which prompted her frank admission that she doesn’t have empathy for the dead CEO.

“Right. OK, well, at least you’re honest,” the host responded.

He then provided some commentary, pointing to Gray’s thoughts as evidence that liberals are hypocrites in their appeals to empathy.

“I mean, I find this staggering. You’ve got to remember, the left is supposed to be the party that cares so much,” Morgan said. “All of them have their ‘be kind’ hashtags. They’re the caring ones, the kind ones, and they can’t even bring it in their hearts to say they find a shred of empathy for a man who’s just been executed, who’s the father of children, the husband of a loving wife, and so on.”

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Morgan had a similar exchange with former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz earlier this week. 

“I do believe in the sanctity of life and I think that’s why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately,” Lorenz told Piers during Monday’s episode, describing her feelings on Thompson’s death.

She quickly walked back the word “joy,” but the host pounced, asking, “How could this make you joyful? This guy is a husband, he’s a father, and he’s been gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful?”

“So are the tens of thousands of Americans that he murdered!” she fired back. “So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people.”

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