What Nancy Pelosi said today at a press conference when asked about her illegal salon visit yesterday: "I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I've been to, over the years, many times, and that when they said what we're able to accommodate people one person at a time, and that we can set up that time, I trusted that. As it turns out, that was the setup. So, I take responsibility for falling for a setup. And that's all I'm going to say on that." Pelosi also is requesting an apology from the salon: "I think that this salon owes me an apology, for setting me up." President Trump commented on the video tape via Twitter saying: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1301145978096025601?s=20 Salon owner Erica Kious said last night: "It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know, that she feels that she can just go and...

What we know: The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is canceling some of its remaining orders for ventilators, after moving quickly to sign nearly $3 billion in emergency contracts as the COVID-19 pandemic surged in the spring. In stockpile: The Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement affirming that the national stockpile has now reached its maximum capacity for the life-saving breathing machines, with nearly 120,000 available for deployment to state and local health officials if needed. HHS confirmed it was terminating contracts with ventilator manufacturers Hamilton Medical and Vyaire Medical, which will result in the reduction of 38,000 ventilators that had been scheduled for delivery to the National Strategic Stockpile by the end of 2020. Democrats in March when the pandemic hit up until late May, did nothing but beg the administration for tens of thousands of ventilators. The media created a never-ending news cycle regarding the lack of...

Rules for thee but not for me...House Majority Leader (D) Nancy Pelosi was spotted on video at her local salon on Monday afternoon, Fox News is reporting after getting ahold of videotape of her inside the establishment. The problem is, salons are not allowed to be open due to current COVID rules in California. Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only. Pelosi is seen on video walking through eSalon in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose. The owner of salon sent in the tape because of how excessive COVID rules have hurt the beauty industry all over the country. "I am sharing this because of what everyone in my industry and my city ... is going through right now." Salon owner Erica Kious Kious also went on to...

What we know: The Milwaukee Bucks announced they would boycott their game today against the Orlando Magic in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake which happened Sunday evening in Kenosha, WI.   The NBA as a league: Then decided to cancel the remaining games on the schedule today.  https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1298729514403594240 This comes after ratings were announced down: The first week of NBA playoff ratings are down 20 percent from last season. Also, pre-pandemic ratings in February had declined by 12 percent since the end of the 2018-19 season. That was during the NBA's normal calendar year and prior to the league suspending play because of the coronavirus pandemic.