Body of soldier who went missing in Morocco during training exercise recovered, U.S. Army says

May 10, 2026 / 3:15 PM EDT / CBS News

By Emily Mae Czachor

The body of an American soldier who went missing while in Morocco for an annual training exercise has been recovered, the U.S. Army announced on Sunday.

First Lieutenant Lamont Key Jr. was one of two U.S. service members who disappeared just over a week ago in waters off Morocco’s southern coast, near the Cap Draa Training Area, the Army said in a news release.

Army officials said search operations for the second serviceman, who has not been identified, will continue. Search efforts so far have involved more than 1,000 U.S. and Moroccan military and civil personnel, according to the Army.

Both service members were taking part in African Lion, an annual training exercise, although defense officials previously told CBS News that the incident was not believed to be related to the event. A preliminary report said the two were part of a group of service members who went on a hike to watch the sunset when a soldier known to not be able to swim fell into the water. Defense officials said the second missing soldier jumped in to attempt a rescue, but was hit by a wave. Other soldiers attempted to rescue the two, but were unsuccessful.

1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key, Jr. U.S. Army Europe and Africa

Key’s body was recovered by a Moroccan military search team at about 8:55 a.m. Saturday morning local time, the U.S. Army said. He was found along the shoreline, about a mile from where both soldiers vanished into the ocean on May 2, according to the army. It’s not clear if Key was the soldier who fell or the one who reportedly jumped in.

Army officials said ongoing search efforts will focus on the location where Key’s remains were recovered, while still monitoring a broader perimeter.

Key, 27, was from Richmond, Virginia, according to the Army. He served as an air defense artillery officer with the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.

Key “embodied the highest standards of service as a selfless, inspirational leader whose unwavering dedication to his Soldiers and their development leaves an enduring legacy within our ranks,” said Lt. Col. Chris Couch, commander of 5-4 ADAR, in the statement.

The Cap Draa Training Area in Morocco. CBS News

He is survived by his parents, his sister and his brother-in-law, according to the Army. His next-of-kin were notified prior to the announcement. His remains were transported to an area morgue, and plans are underway to repatriate them from Morocco to the U.S.

Brigadier Gen. Curtis King, commanding general of the 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command, said in a statement that Key’s colleagues were “grieving” and would “continue to support one another” as well as the soldier’s family, “as we honor his life and service.”

Key joined his battalion in 2025 and had become a platoon leader by the time he died, the Army said. He was described as caring, selfless and inspirational by leadership in his artillery regiment, and had earned various awards for his service, including the Army Achievement Medal and Army Service Ribbon.

Before joining the military in 2023, Key received a Bachelor of Science in marketing from Methodist University in North Carolina, where he also completed minors in international business, entrepreneurship and business administration, the Army said.

Chris Livesay contributed to this report.

Transcript: Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:18:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with former Save the Children President and CEO Janti Soeripto that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Janti Soeripto, she is the president and CEO of Save the Children U.S., which works to provide humanitarian aid and health resources to children worldwide. Good to have you here on this Mother’s Day.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Thank you, Margaret and Happy Mother’s Day.

MARGARET BRENNAN: You’re just back from Sudan, which is one of the hardest places in the world to be a parent, certainly to be a mother. Pope Leo called it an inhumane tragedy. The UN says 34 million people need urgent assistance. I know the US is trying to work on a humanitarian ceasefire, but tell me what you saw there on the ground.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Well Margaret, it is truly the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, millions of people in need, and probably also the one that gets the least attention relative to the need. It literally took me four days to actually get from here to see the first school that we are supporting there. So, the level of logistical and operational impediments to actually get support to children and mothers where they are is unbelievably difficult. You have to cross multiple lines of various militant groups. It is truly, truly the last mile and- and the scale of the need is- is really astonishing. I see a lot of emergency situations across the world, I see a lot of fragile states, but this was really right up there.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I know the U.S. has said this is essentially a proxy fight now, but when you look at the humanitarian need, some of the statistics that were flooring to me here was the degree of sexual violence.

JANTI SOERIPTO: Yeah.

MARGARET BRENNAN: It is systematically used as a tactic of war, according to the UN. 13 million people, mostly women and girls, require support, according to the UN, related to that kind of violence. That’s four times higher than before the conflict. Doctors Without Borders said the war is being ‘fought on the backs and bodies of women and girls,’ but they fault aid groups for not doing enough. Do you think aid groups are?

JANTI SOERIPTO: We’re doing what we can, but I would certainly agree that it is not enough. We simply do not have the resources. And I would agree. What I- what I heard there, and that is just a tiny tip of the iceberg, was completely, you know, unbelievable. Our colleagues there, we have about 150 colleagues in Darfur, which is the area where I was, all of those have lost their home. They are displaced themselves. They have lost their homes. Most of them came from El Fasher, where a lot of the violence occurred last October. I spoke to a colleague of mine who had to walk with her 16-year-old daughter. The daughter was threatened. She fought. I mean, I saw the scars on her face. She fought to- to help her daughter, to keep her daughter alive and safe, and then she did get out and was essentially rescued by- by somebody. So this one had a somewhat happy ending, but so, so many don’t have that, and you see it in the eyes of the women that I spoke to. You know, they walked for days without sleep, just trying to keep themselves and their families alive. Most of the households in the north of Darfur, where I was, where there are 700,000 displaced people in one stretch of desert, the vast majority of those households are women-led households. The men are either- have either been killed or have disappeared or-or have joined the fighting groups. So these women are literally doing everything they can to keep their families and themselves alive.

MARGARET BRENNAN: There’s a lot of humanitarian aid that’s stuck in that strait of Hormuz right now because of the war in Iran. How significant is the impact on the ability to give goods to those who need it?

JANTI SOERIPTO: Yeah, it is truly what we say. You know, this is another element of the example of the cost of war, right? There is a human cost. And then there’s the financial costs, which also lead to human costs. We have currently about a half million stocks still stuck in Dubai that we can’t get out, medicine, drugs. Costs of transport have gone up, as you hear everywhere. So, you know, the Plumpy’nut treatment for malnutrition for young infants and children who are minors is now, what is it? 12 to 15% more expensive than it was before- before the war. So- and it takes longer to get there, because we have to find alternative routes in order- you know- versus the direct route we had. So, yes, it makes it harder, and our supply chain teams have already- who have to be incredibly creative and adaptive all the time because the logistics in the country are also incredibly difficult to get authorization, to- I mean, the tarmac road ended an hour after- from the border in western Darfur. So from then on in, it is essentially a very, very rocky road. So to get stuff there, even physically, is- it takes days and sometimes weeks.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about the Middle East. The White House says there is ‘tremendous progress’ on implementing President Trump’s 20-point peace plan in Gaza. I know you and a number of other organizations said, six months into the Gaza ceasefire, the plan is failing. Those are two incredibly different accounts of what’s happening on the ground. What is happening on the ground?

JANTI SOERIPTO: So we’ve taken the 20-point plan and- and we literally looked at, okay, so what are we seeing on the ground? So we took the data, our own staff accounts of what they were witnessing, publicly available data from the UN and others, to say, okay, so is there less violence? Is there access, unfettered access, for supplies and for staff? And- and we scored them accordingly. We’ve published a methodology, and we stand by those, by those facts as we see them. There is still- we- we have 200 staff in Gaza who do heroic work every day.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.

JANTI SOERIPTO: It is incredibly difficult for us to get supplies in. We cannot get staff in and rotate it so, no that- that plan, as it stands, is- is not working.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Janti Soeripto, thank you for the work you are doing. We’ll be right back.

Transcript: Rep. Ted Lieu on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:31:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with Rep. Ted Lieu, Democrat of California, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: We go now to California Congressman Ted Lieu. He is the vice chair of the Democratic Caucus and a member of the foreign affairs committee. He joins us this morning from Los Angeles. Good morning to you.

REP. TED LIEU (D-CA): Good morning, Margaret.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are in Democratic leadership. You just heard us lay out what’s going on with redistricting. How concerned are you that Republicans now hold the advantage given the recent court decisions.

REP. LIEU: Thank you, Margaret, for that question. Let me just first say Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers across America.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you.

REP. LIEU: Regarding your question, I would disagree that Republicans may have a nice- nine seat advantage, because that’s based on data from last term, and the Trump coalition has completely collapsed because of skyrocketing gas prices, surging inflation. And if you look at the polling data and the results we’ve had in special elections this year as well as last year, we think the Republicans may have an advantage of anywhere between three to five additional seats. That is not enough for them to stop a democratic blue wave coming this November. And the best thing to do when a court does something outlandish, like the Virginia Supreme Court is to get back up and fight and make sure we win in the midterms.

MARGARET BRENNAN: But that Virginia push by Democrats, you spent more than $60 million on that redistricting effort. Wouldn’t those funds have been better spent on those front line candidates and arguing on the issues?

REP. LIEU: So what the Virginia Supreme Court did was not only wrong, it was disgraceful. They basically said, hey, Virginia, spend all this taxpayers’ money holding an election, do all this stuff and, oh, by the way, just kidding, that election didn’t count. The court could have stopped this by not having the election in the first place. They suckered the people of Virginia. It was a complete disgrace. Now, most of the money that Democrats spend in the race is called (c)(4) money, so that’s not direct, hard money that we’re going to need for races in the midterms. But it was taxpayers money that was wasted because of the disgraceful–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –You think it was worth–, you think it was worth the financial cost. I mean, are Democrats going to somehow continue to fight this in court?

REP. LIEU: We’re going to look at all available options. We’re definitely going to try to keep fighting this battle. And I just want to note the best way again, if someone shoves you down, is to get right back up and fight back. And that’s what we’re going to do. And of these four seats in Virginia, we believe we’re going to win two of them in the midterms, and that’s what we’re doing. We’re fighting back.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so you still believe that Democrats can retake the House? What is your main message?

REP. LIEU: We will take the House–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –On what message?

REP. LIEU: The American people voted in Donald Trump because they wanted lower costs and he lied to them. We have surging inflation, skyroti- skyrocketing gas prices. The Trump tariffs have raised costs across many products across America. People are drowning in debt and in bills, and Democrats are going to reduce health care costs, lower costs across the board, reduce your energy costs. That’s the message we’re–

MARGARET BRENNAN: –How are you going to do that? Democrats shut down the government to have an argument over health care, and they didn’t get any policy concessions, and premiums went up. You lost that fight.

REP. LIEU: Well, actually, we passed through the house an extension of ACA tax credits for three years. We urged the Senate to pass that legislation as well, Democrats, when we get control, we’re going to reverse the massive Medicaid cuts, the Medicare cuts and the cuts to ACA that Trump and Republicans put in last year.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about your position on the foreign affairs committee. Secretary Rubio said Taiwan will likely be discussed during President Trump’s visit to China this week to meet with Xi Jinping. This is a hugely consequential summit. On Friday, Taiwan’s Parliament approved $25 billion in funds to buy more American weapons. Are you largely supportive at this point of the Trump administration’s willingness to strengthen Taiwan’s defense?

REP. LIEU: Both Democratic and Republican administrations have had the exact same policy, which is to preserve the current status quo, and we’re trying to keep China from doing anything stupid in the Indo-Pacific, including a military conflict. And I just want to emphasize that the Iran war has shown that we need a brand new strategy in the Indo-Pacific, because in any prolonged conflict with China or Russia, the U.S. will run out of defensive munitions. We already started running out of defensive munitions in a war that lasted less than 60 days, and even against a second rate military like Iran, they struck multiple U.S. bases. So in any overseas conflict, our overseas bases will be obliterated by Russia and China. We need a new defense strategy, and I call on the Pentagon to deliver that to Congress.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, President Trump has made these record large promises of arms sales to Taiwan. Are you saying that America actually can’t deliver on them because the stockpiles are so depleted and the industrial base can’t deliver?

REP. LIEU: That’s absolutely correct. We don’t have enough defensive munitions in any prolonged conflict with Russia and China that will sustain what we need to do. We could even do this in Iran of a war of less than 60 days. We started to run low on defensive munitions, and part of the problem is some of these missiles, for example, take a long time to make. We basically make 96 of some of these defensive missiles a year. That’s just not enough.

MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about AI The Times report– The New York Times reported that President Trump is considering an executive order that would implement some government oversight over new AI models. I know you have legislation on audio gap.

REP. LIEU: I just want to first say, as a recovering computer science major, I think it is horrible for the AI industry to run wild, we need to have reasonable guardrails.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Yep, okay–

REP. LIEU: Can you hear me?

MARGARET BRENNAN: Sorry, I think we’re having- yeah, I think we’re both having audio issues there, Congressman. But I’m going to go to commercial break here. Thank you.

Transcript: Scott Gottlieb on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” May 10, 2026

2026-05-10T12:44:00-0400 / CBS News

The following is the transcript of the interview with former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who is on the boards of Pfizer and UnitedHealthCare, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on May 10, 2026.

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MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to Face The Nation. Passengers from the Hantavirus stricken cruise ship arrived this morning in Spain’s Canary Islands, where they were ferried onto land by small launch boats, then checked for symptoms before being flown on evacuation flights. Close to 150 people on-board the ship, and among them, 17 of them Americans. They’re going to be flown to a quarantine unit in Nebraska. No one so far is showing symptoms. For more now we turn to former FDA commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb. He also serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare. Welcome back, doctor.

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Thank you.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So there have been three deaths linked to the outbreak. Here in the US, there are six states monitoring potential exposure, all either linked to the ship itself or flights of people who have been on the ship, and then those 17 Americans. Do you agree with the CDC and the World Health Organization that the risk to public health is low?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Yeah, I do agree with that. We have to concede that there’s still things we don’t know about this virus. We haven’t had to grapple with many outbreaks in the past. There’s been two large outbreaks in Argentina, but based on that experience, what we know is that typically for transmission, you have to have close contact. We also know that people typically aren’t contagious unless they’re showing signs of the infection itself, in what we call the prodromal phase, where they start to have an onset of symptoms. And the progression from that onset of symptoms to severe disease, and in these cases, death, is typically just days. This is a very aggressive virus, and so based on what we know, the transmission risk is low. Now, that said, when you look back at the past experience, there are these outlier cases where there appears to have been transmission among people who weren’t perceived to be in close contact. And so there are these cases that we need to look at closely from the past experience and just be wary that, perhaps there’s things we don’t know fully about this virus. I will say that we are nearing the end of the transmission window for the people who are being repatriated here in the US. And so, it looks to me like the last death on that cruise ship was May 2. That patient had an onset of symptoms on April 28. If you believe that the incubation period is about two to six weeks, they’ll be at the peak of that incubation cycle, some point this week. So I think we’re about two weeks away from knowing whether or not there will be additional cases that come from that initial outbreak on the cruise ship.

MARGARET BRENNAN: So a key moment here, I mean, the WHO said it’s very clear this is not COVID all over again, but as you know, it has ignited some of the very same skeptics who during the pandemic, really questioned our government institutions and the response. The WHO has said, there is no research that ivermectin is an effective treatment for the virus, but I’m wondering what you make of these calls for alternative treatments and resistance of government health advice?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Look, I think we’re going to be relitigating the consequences of COVID for a long time. And I think a lot of people who are in public health positions right now believe that their tenure and their appointment to these positions is a referendum on COVID, in some respects. And so that echoes through their public comments. This is not COVID. It’s not going to spread like a pandemic virus like COVID did, like a Coronavirus did. It spreads far less efficiently. There aren’t any treatments, successful treatments for this virus. Ivermectin certainly isn’t an effective treatment. Just by virtue of its mechanism, it doesn’t work against this virus. It prevents viral replication in the nucleus, not the cytoplasm. If this virus replicates, it’s just not going to work. So I would encourage people not to use that. I know that there’s been some things on social media suggesting that people should stockpile ivermectin. We don’t have an effective treatment for Hantavirus, and that- that’s what makes this very menacing.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well indeed, and we’re going to continue to track that. You served in the first Trump administration as his FDA commissioner in the first term. The person in that job now has been a guest on this program, Dr. Marty Makary. He was a vocal critic of COVID response during Trump and Biden. There’s a lot of reporting right now that his current position- that he’s at risk of losing his job. Given how important the FDA is, they regulate- I saw one-fifth of consumer spending in this country- how damaging would it be to lose its leader? And is there someone who could step in quickly?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: No one obvious to me, and there’s been some reporting about different candidates that could work on an interim basis there. Marty’s a friend, you know, I think that that’s a very difficult job. It, as you said, regulates about 20% of the U.S. economy, products that are very important to people’s lives, medical products, food, food safety. And so there- there’s a lot of debate and consternation about decisions that get made at FDA. And so it’s been a controversial position for whoever has held that job, including me. You know, I got criticized for decisions that I made in that position as well. I think the continued upheaval at FDA has been detrimental to the agency, not just the speculation about Marty’s fate, but also the departures that we’ve seen from the agency. The agency’s lost thousands of medical reviewers, some voluntary through- the through the DOGE cuts, or some forced through the DOGE cuts, involuntary means, some voluntary. There’s been a lot of voluntary departures from the agency. If you look at the oncology division, they had a starting strength of about 100 medical reviewers at the beginning of this administration. They’re down to about 50. The hematological group that reviews drugs for leukemia and lymphoma had 21 medical reviewers, and it’s down to six. They lost an entire breast cancer review team. So there’s been a lot of departures from the agency. You’ve seen political appointees take over what are typically career leadership positions, running the medical product centers, the drug center and the biologics center. So, I think cumulatively, that’s taken a toll on the agency, and this continued speculation that we saw on Friday, I think is just going to be another step downward.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Those are stunning numbers to hear you rattle off there. I want to ask you about some of current leadership there. Secretary Kennedy was speaking about the use of antidepressants in this country. Almost 17% of Americans use them. He says they’re overprescribed, and he compared his experience of heroin withdrawal to a family member’s experience getting off antidepressants known as SSRIs. Take a listen.

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HHS SECRETARY ROBERT F KENNEDY: I watched a family member get off of them after a couple of years on them, and she was suicidal. Literally every day. She woke up every morning and said, I don’t want to live. And she said, “The only reason I’m staying alive is for you guys, for the family.”

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MARGARET BRENNAN: He later said that he was not telling people to stop if they’re taking that medication. But what do you make of his description of anti-depressants as risky?

DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: Look, these are prescribed in a primary care setting. And like any drug that’s prescribed in that setting, I’m sure there’s some marginal prescribing, you know, isolated marginal prescribing. But for most Americans who take these drugs, they’re very important, and in some cases, life-saving. And I would encourage everyone who is thinking about potentially stopping these medications based on the secretary’s comments, to consult their doctor. There is a period of time that patients need to be weaned off these drugs. They can be successfully weaned off these drugs if they want to be and there’s alternatives that could be effective for their mental health. But nobody should just stop these drugs outright without being under the consultation of a medical provider. I worry that the secretary’s comments is going to discourage legitimate use of these drugs in the same way that his comments around Tylenol discouraged use of Tylenol in the setting of pregnancy, where it could be very important for certain pregnant women who need pain relief and fever relief in that setting. And we saw a lot of women move away from those drugs, use of those drugs, even appropriate use of those drugs, based on the Secretary’s comments about that. I worry about the same thing here. It’s clear that the Secretary wants to put downward pressure on the prescribing. He tried to implement regulatory steps to do that as well. And so it is concerning.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, Dr. Gottlieb, we’re going to have to leave it there. I want to have you back to talk about vaping one of these days, but I’m going to have to leave it there due to time constraints. Thank you so much for your analysis. We’ll be back in a moment.

Sen. Mark Kelly says Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request is “outrageous”

May 10, 2026 / 1:09 PM EDT / CBS News

Washington — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona said Sunday that the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion budget request for defense spending is “outrageous.”

“They need to submit a defense budget that makes sense for the moment we’re in,” Kelly said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan”.

Last month, the administration released its fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, which serves as a starting point for negotiations with Congress over annual spending. The proposal would mark a 42% increase in defense spending from 2026 levels.

“When I got to the Senate five and a half years ago, the defense budget was just over $700 billion,” Kelly said. “Now they’re asking for twice as much money — it’s nearly the amount that the rest of the world pays for its defense.”

Kelly, who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said some of the budget proposal’s components pose serious difficulties. In addition to a pay raise for troops and resupplying critical munitions, the funds would also go toward building a space-based “Golden Dome” missile defense system, among other things.

“There’s stuff in there, like Golden Dome,” he said. “The physics on that stuff is really, really hard. I’m very confident we’re going to spend a lot of money, we’re going to get a system that doesn’t work.”

Along with the budget request, the White House is expected to ask Congress for a supplemental spending package to cover the cost of the war with Iran. A Pentagon official said at a congressional hearings late last month that the cost of the war was about $25 billion. But U.S. officials familiar with internal assessments suggested at the time that the Iran war’s price tag could be closer to $50 billion.

Meanwhile, Kelly expressed concern about the state of the U.S.’ munitions stockpile amid the war with Iran, citing Pentagon briefings detailing specific munitions.

“I think it’s fair to say it’s shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines, because this president got our country into this without a strategic goal, without a plan, without a timeline,” Kelly said.

The Arizona Democrat said “because of that, we’ve expended a lot of munitions, and that means the American people are less safe.”

“Whether it’s a conflict in the western Pacific with China or somewhere else in the world, the munitions are depleted,” he said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/sen-mark-kelly-says-trump-administration-15-trillion-defense-budget-request-is-outrageous/

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Biden seeks to block DOJ release of 2017 audio, court filing says

May 10, 2026 2:44pm EDT / Fox News

Heritage Foundation FOIA request could produce transcripts and audio from Biden’s 2017 book sessions by Tuesday

By Eric Mack Fox News

President Joe Biden’s lawyers are expected to object to the Justice Department’s release of redacted written transcripts and audio recordings of Biden’s 2017 interactions with his book ghostwriter, according to a new court filing.

“President Biden, through counsel, has advised the Department that he intends to seek to intervene to prevent any such disclosures,” Assistant Attorney General Civil Division Brett Shumate wrote in a filing from a Freedom of Information Act request from the Heritage Foundation’s Mike Howell. “The Department does not oppose intervention.”

There is a Tuesday deadline for Biden’s lawyers to respond to the DOJ’s release for a response to Howell’s FOIA request, which would come shortly after Tuesday if there was no objection.

Shumate noted the release of 70 hours of redacted recordings would be delayed until June 15 if Biden objects before the deadline.

BIDEN INTERVIEW AUDIO REVEALS WHO BROUGHT UP BEAU’S DEATH — AND IT WASN’T HUR

Audio from former President Joe Biden’s 2017 interview with a ghostwriter was obtained by Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation during the Biden administration.(Getty Images)

“Defendant intends to disclose the written transcript and audio recordings at issue in this matter, with redactions, to Congress, pursuant to a request from the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, as well as to Plaintiffs,” the filing in Howell’s FOIA lawsuit with the DOJ read.

The interactions came between Biden and his ghostwriter for the 2017 book: “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.” The audio and transcript were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents after the Obama administration ended, which included storing them in his garage and at the Penn Biden Center.

“President Biden cooperated fully with special counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public,” Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo told Politico in a statement Sunday. “The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.

FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS RELEASE OF JACK SMITH REPORT’S SECOND VOLUME

Former President Joe Biden’s spokesman TJ Ducklo told Politico of the intentions of objecting to Tuesday’s release of audio and transcripts of Biden’s 2017 conversations with a ghostwriter.(Fox News)

“What’s happening now isn’t about transparency. It’s about politics,” Ducklo continued. “If this Administration were genuinely committed to transparency, they would release Volume 2 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s own alleged mishandling of classified documents. That report contains information Americans actually deserve to see.”

Fox News reached out to Ducklo for independent confirmation on this report and has not yet heard back.

The FOIA requester remains in pursuit of the documents.

CONSERVATIVES REACT TO LEAKED BIDEN AUDIO ON SOCIAL MEDIA: ‘THIS IS PAINFUL’

Special Counsel Robert Hur described President Joe Biden as “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” reflecting the impression Biden left on debate viewers.(Getty Images)

“These tapes will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden’s fitness for office and the fact Biden revealed classified information,” Howell, president of Heritage’s Oversight Project, told Politico. “The shenanigans aren’t over: At the last possible second, and after every delay tactic possible, the autopen is objecting to the American People receiving transparency. “

Hur concluded his investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, noting longstanding DOJ policy of not indicting a sitting president and saying a jury would be sympathetic to the oldest sitting American president, 82, because he was a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

“It appears that after lengthy negotiation covering several months — at no point seeking to intervene into this case on a timely basis — President Biden has changed position and now seeks to even enjoin release of the portions of transcripts that match exact phrases quoted in the Hur Report,” Shumate’s filing Friday read.

GREGG JARRETT:BIDEN, THE ‘MARIONETTE PRESIDENT; AND THE CASE OF THE RUNAWAY AUTOPEN

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6373068440112

“The potential intervention by former President Biden and the new development of a discretionary release to the House Judiciary Committee in response to their March 23, 2026 letter, raises a number of issues”:

“As Plaintiffs understand the matter, President Biden would need an order barring release in this case and an order enjoining the Department from producing to the House Judiciary Committee all by June 15, 2026.”

The DOJ also accuses Biden’s lawyers of slow-walking responses and rejecting deadlines.

BIDEN WHITE HOUSE AIDES FACE OVERSIGHT DEADLINE AMID THREAT OF SUBPOENAS

“President Biden’s lead counsel was unable to provide any information about President Biden’s submissions arguing that such discussion was somehow premature (whereas, in reality it is 16 months late) and incredibly indicating that despite the June 15, 2026 production date, the motion to intervene would not be filed until mid-next week and that President Biden would seek up to three days after a ruling granting a motion to intervene to submit a proposed schedule for substantive relief,” the filing read.

“That is no way to conduct litigation and smacks of kicking the can down the road to justify delaying the June 15, 2026 production by some form of administrative injunction.”

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The DOJ issued a new warning of Tuesday’s deadline, regardless.

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“The public deserves to hear the tapes and read the transcripts as redacted by President Donald J. Trump’s Department of Justice,” Shumate’s filing concluded. “Plaintiffs regret that they are currently unable to assist the Court in this process due to the repeated failure of counsel for President Biden to engage with Plaintiffs on this matter, putting off even initial substantive conversations until next week.”

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Trump’s role as LIV Golf host renews scrutiny over conflicts of interest

2026-05-10 1:03 PM ET / CNN

By Camila DeChalus

Golfer Bryson DeChambeau, foreground, doffs his hat to President Donald Trump, center, during the Maaden LIV Golf tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on May 9, 2026.

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Experts are raising conflict-of-interest and ethical concerns after President Donald Trump hosted a LIV Golf event at his Virginia property this weekend, renewing scrutiny over whether the Trump family is financially benefiting from his time in office while supporting a golf league backed by a government accused of human rights abuses.

For years, Trump’s courses have served as both a refuge and a showcase for LIV, whose chief backer, Saudi Arabia’s government, has been accused of human rights violations. (The Saudi government announced last month that it will stop funding the league after the 2026 season.)

Critics have accused Saudi Arabia of using the golf league in part to divert attention from its human rights concerns, particularly following the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

It comes as the country’s Public Investment Fund has invested aggressively in sports more broadly, signing high-profile stars to increase the global prominence of its soccer league and leading a consortium to buy an English soccer team. Saudi Arabia also signed a 10-year deal with Formula 1 in 2021 to host annual races.

Those moves have led to widespread accusations of “sportswashing” — a concept that involves nations using high-profile sporting events to project a favorable image of their country.

“Saudi Arabia is a murderous, authoritarian, anti-democratic region,” Kathleen Clark, a law professor in government ethics at Washington University in St. Louis, told CNN. “(Trump’s) willingness to do this is actually a really nice example about what his priorities are.”

LIV and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund did not respond to a request for comment.

Trump, meanwhile, has largely shrugged off the Saudi government’s alleged human rights abuses in his two terms. During a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House last year, the president angrily dismissed a question about Khashoggi’s murder, claiming the journalist was “extremely controversial” and insisting a reporter raised the subject to embarrass the crown prince.

Trump then went on to insist Prince bin Salman — who the CIA assessed likely ordered the murder — “knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.” Saudi Arabian government officials have repeatedly denied these accusations and claim they had no knowledge on the journalist’s death. The Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement in 2021 saying the country “completely rejects the negative, false and unacceptable assessment in the report pertaining to the Kingdom’s leadership, and notes that the report contained inaccurate information and conclusions.”

At the meeting, which had all the trappings of a state visit, Trump heaped praise on the crown prince, including for what he called his “incredible” record on human rights.

Tournaments raise conflict of interest questions

The president, an avid golfer, has spent the past two weekends attending professional tour events at courses he owns, including last week’s PGA Tour stop in Doral, Florida, and this weekend’s LIV event in Sterling, Virginia.

Several ethics experts who spoke to CNN say they are wary of Trump hosting these golf tournaments at his properties because there is little transparency around how much financial compensation his family is obtaining. The president’s assets are in a trust managed by his children, and Trump has said he wouldn’t be involved in running his business during his time in office.

“President Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement to CNN last year. “There are no conflicts of interest.”

One expert told CNN the potential conflicts go beyond golf tournaments.

“This is just going to be the tip of the iceberg,” Richard Painter, a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota Law School, told CNN. “And the message has been said all over the world that if you want to get along with the Trump administration, do business with the Trump family or with his golf courses or with his son.”

The golf events aren’t the only issues raising questions over conflicts of interest in Trump’s second term. Critics say he has brazenly blended his business interests with the presidency by having his administration accept a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, dining with wealthy investors in his cryptocurrency coin, selling a Trump-branded smartphone, promoting his Scotland golf properties, and more.

On the crypto investors’ dinner, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last year it was “absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency.”

Don Heider, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, called on Congress to check the president on these potential conflicts.

“Where are the ethics of all the members of the Senate and the House? … Why are they so afraid of political pressure they won’t speak up and tell the truth consistently and hold this president accountable?” he said.

The White House, the Trump Organization and the PGA did not respond to CNN’s request for comment on the ethics experts’ concerns.

Trump’s involvement in the sports world

The golf events, meanwhile, also serve as the latest example of a president who is more heavily engaged with the sports world than his recent predecessors.

His appearances at the Daytona 500, FIFA Club World Cup final, the US Open, the Ryder Cup, the College Football Playoff Championship and several UFC fights have made him a fixture at the highest-profile American sporting events — a somewhat unusual phenomenon for a sitting president.

Trump’s attendance at these events has at times prompted backlash. He was booed by some during halftime of a Washington Commanders-Detroit Lions NFL game as he was featured on the stadium’s jumbotron swearing in members of the military. He also was on the receiving end of boos at the Club World Cup final as he presented medals to players on the field.

The president has also broken norms with his level of engagement with sports leaders and leagues on a number of issues. Earlier this year, he signed an executive order aimed at preventing any football games from competing with the annual Army-Navy matchup, calling the game one of the country’s most cherished sporting traditions. He also signed an executive order aimed at stemming costs associated with the onset of the name, imaged and likeness payment system in college sports.

Trump has also developed a friendship with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who last year awarded Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize after Trump’s failed push to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, the questions from ethics experts will likely resurface this summer — Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, will host a LIV event in early August.

CNN’s Alayna Treene, Marshall Cohen and Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.

Trump-backed Board of Peace, Israel ‘will take action’ if Hamas remains out of compliance: Netanyahu advisor

May 10, 2026 12:09pm EDT / Fox News

Netanyahu advisor credits Trump’s team for a plan that offers Hamas ‘an easy way and a hard way’ to comply with terms

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Hamas out of compliance on Gaza peace agreement, Netanyahu advisor says

Michael Eisenberg, advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sat down with Fox News’ Trey Yingst to discuss the U.S.-backed Board of Peace and the future of Gaza.

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Michael Eisenberg, a top advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says Israel and the newly-created Board of Peace will “take action” against Hamas if it does not comply with the peace terms it agreed to.

Eisenberg made the comments during an interview with Fox News on Sunday. He said Hamas is currently out of compliance with a wider peace agreement and is refusing to give up its weapons to “demilitarize” Gaza.

“I think all the options are on the table since Hamas is noncompliant with the 20-point plan, and they haven’t delivered their weapons like they were supposed to. And so we’ll have to wait and see. But like I said, this is incredibly well thought out. Give President Trump a tremendous amount of credit and his team of people credit. They’ve literally thought through every stage of this from beginning to end,” Eisenberg said.

“And by the way, and as President Trump said, there’s an easy way and a hard way. Everyone prefers the easy way, which is Hamas. With the help of the mediators delivers the weapons, but if they don’t, there’s a hard way too.,” he added.

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President Donald Trump (L) greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives at the White House.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Eisenberg went on to say that Iran must also eventually give up control over Gaza under the 20-pont plan agreed to between the U.S., Israel and Hamas.

“Hamas is still there. But the 20-point plan says they cannot be there. They cannot be a part of government. They cannot bear arms. They have to become Swedish, basically, in order for them to stay in any role in Gaza. And so I suggest they do that sooner rather than later. And I think progress is slow. You can’t microwave a 30-year problem. It doesn’t work. Sociologists,” he said.

Eisenberg’s comments come amid multiple peace negotiations across the Middle East. Israel is hashing out an agreement to deal with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the U.S. is in talks with Iran.

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Netanyahu said last week that Israel and the United States remain in “full coordination” as negotiations continue.

“We share common objectives, and the most important objective is the removal of the enriched material from Iran, all the enriched material, and the dismantling of Iran’s enrichment capabilities,” Netanyahu said at the opening of a security cabinet meeting.

On the nuclear issue, former Israeli National Security Advisor Yaakov Amidror said Israel’s position remains uncompromising.

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“Weaponized uranium must leave Iran,” Amidror said. “The Iranians must not be allowed to enrich uranium.”

Alongside the nuclear issue, Israeli analysts say Iran’s ballistic missile program has become equally central to Israel’s security concerns.

Anders Hagstrom is a reporter with Fox News Digital covering national politics and major breaking news events. Send tips to Anders.Hagstrom@Fox.com, or on X: @Hagstrom_Anders.

By Jake Tapper, CNN

Published 12:02 PM EDT, Sun May 10, 2026

Brad Todd: Secretary Rubio’s briefing “generated more buzz among the Republicans.”

Ashley Allison, Scott Jennings, Brad Todd, and Kate Bedingfield discuss whether redistricting has given Republicans the edge to keep control of Congress and 2028 buzz around Vice President Vance, Secretary Rubio, and Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.

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