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The United States is “in the fact finding phase” of the investigation into the Saudi murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones. “We’re getting as many facts as we can from the different places; then we will determine which facts are credible and, after…

President Donald Trump and CNN host Van Jones are sparring on Twitter in the wake of an interview with Jay-Z on the Saturday night premiere of Jones’ new show on the president’s nemesis news network. Jones asked the hip-hop mogul if Trump deserves any credit for improvement in the economy, which he and his supporters…

CNN will launch a one-hour primetime bi-monthly program anchored by its political commentator Van Jones. The Van Jones Show launches in January and will focus, CNN says, on “the forces that elected Donald Trump, the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ movement and the future of both major parties.” Jones previously hosted a…

Van Jones (The Messy Truth With Van Jones) and Charles D. King's Macro are teaming to produce Indivisible (working title), an hourlong political drama set to begin production in 2018. Written by Hank Chilton (Nip/Tuck, Covert Affairs), Indivisible is described as a smart, sexy one-hour drama that takes a fresh…

CNN contributor Van Jones says he was taken out of context in conservative provocateur James O’Keefe’s second of two videos out this week attacking the cable news network. In the video, Jones is heard saying, “The whole Russia Thing is a big nothing burger. There is nothing you can do –,” before being cut off by the…

One day after Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used her White House podium to plug a Project Veritas video she said she could not vouch for, attacking CNN for its coverage of Russia investigations, President Donald Trump posted a second PV video to Instagram attacking CNN. The second video, as with the…

UPDATED with video: President Donald Trump, a decades-long friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger, savaged him as host of Celebrity Apprentice because he was ticked Arnold wouldn’t vote for him. This according to Schwarzenegger, talking to CNN’s The Messy Truth host Van Jones. “And I told others not to vote for him,&#8221…

UPDATED with video: “When I see Trump, I see a standup comedian,” The Daily Show host Trevor Noah told CNN’s Van Jones on tonight’s The Messy Truth town hall series. “He connects with audiences in the same way. He knows how to make you laugh in a moment when you didn’t think you would,” Noah continued. “He knows how…

Maher said today that he would convert from atheism to Mormonism if Mitt Romney would seize the White House from Donald Trump. Quite a remark given that Maher famously donated $1M to President Obama’s campaign to defeat Romney in his 2012 re-election bid. "I would happily give that million dollars right now to Mitt…

Ava DuVernay’s mass-incarceration documentary 13th was supposed to be the subject, but Donald Trump became topic A as several hundred hollywood insiders met to hear DuVernay, Van Jones and Oprah Winfrey confer at the Hancock Park home of Ted Sarandos, the Netflix chief content officer, and his wife, Nicole Avant, a…

“Welcome to the show, sir,” Trevor Noah said as CNN’s Van Jones came to The Daily Show to plug the cable news net’s Donald Trump special The Messy Truth “Welcome to hell, sir,” Jones responded, saying, of the next four years: “For you it' a ratings bonanza. For the rest of us , we're just going to be suffering.” Noah…

Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal team win the prize for Best Post-Election Late-Night Wrap Up with this video. It includes not only her Daily Show alums Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Larry Wilmore, as well as election-tweeting comic Patton Oswalt, but also a lot of TV news talking heads. Prominently featured is…