Legal Stuff- Media Credentials Restored & a Female is on Death Row
Hammer + Nigel Show Podcast
September 24, 2026
A judge has ruled that the White House must restore the media credentials of CNN, politico and MSNBC. Plus, a woman set to be the first woman to be executed in Tennessee in over 200 years is asking for an all-female death squad.
Speakers Hammer, Nigel
TopicsNews
SPEAKER_1 (0:00)
Of legal stuff, legal stuff, crime, punishment, judges, legal stuff, legal stuff.
Hammer (0:12)
Nigel, our national nightmare has come to an end.
Nigel (0:16)
What happened?
Hammer (0:17)
Everybody can go back out into the wild now, they can sleep easy at night. CNN, Politico and Msnbc had their credentials stored at the White House.
Nigel (0:30)
Oh, yeah, Trump kicked him out, didn't they?
Hammer (0:33)
Yes.
Nigel (0:33)
He he said, see you. Well, bye.
Hammer (0:37)
But a lower level judge said, can't do that, violates First Amendment. So until this gets taken up by a higher court or Trump just says, ah, screw it, I just wanted to play with you guys.
Those dirtbags are all allowed to go back.
Nigel (0:56)
I think wasn't even Fox News didn't everybody got together and was kind of like gathered around and said, we're not coming to the press pool because Donald Trump kicked out CNN in Politico. Right. Even Fox News was kind of like, oh, this is BS.
I don't care.
Hammer (1:14)
No one cares but them.
Nigel (1:16)
Yeah, these were the ones that perpetuated the Russian hoax. They perpetuated the Hunter Biden laptop, the COVID response.
Hammer (1:28)
Did you mention the Hooker PP tape?
Nigel (1:31)
Oh, sure. The Steele dossier. How could I have forgotten?
I really don't care. Like these news organizations, along with the lawmakers that were their arm, wanted to put Donald Trump and his family in jail forever.
Hammer (1:51)
Right.
Nigel (1:52)
I don't care. I don't care that he wanted to keep you out of the press pool. Sorry.
Hammer (1:57)
And Jackie Heinrich of Fox, she's the head of the media association. She's like the head of it. So she kind of has to stick up for her CNN and Politico and Msnbc brethren. But again, nobody cares other than the media. Look, we work in media. And I've said this for a long time.
Nobody thinks more highly of themselves or loves the smell of their own gas than national media. These people think they're the real stars. They're the real politicians. They're the ones that should be dictating policy. And if you want to take it next level, like micromanage that specifically sports media, they think they're the god's gift to journalism.
And that even trickles down at a local level. How many political lectures have we've gotten from that human dumpster fire, Greg Doyle, like for the Indies star?
Nigel (2:58)
Is he still a thing?
Hammer (3:00)
Still a thing.
Creeped out, Caitlin Clark was told, We can't have you around for at least a year, but he's back to being his old finger waggy self. It's beautiful. It's fantastic.
Nigel (3:11)
He was crying about Arch Manning in the comments he made about that AI video with one of the with one of the correspondents from the networks.
Hammer (3:21)
Yeah, Holly Rowe, who's going to be back on sideline for Arch Manning's game at Tennessee this weekend. So remember, if anybody laughs at an AI meme this weekend, according to people like Greg Doyle, you have to apologize not only to Holly Rowe, but to every single person in the room.
Remember that. And when you say it out loud, it's even more ridiculous.
Nigel (3:46)
I love a job where I don't have to apologize.
Hammer (3:49)
Right.
Nigel (3:49)
Isn't that great? Have we ever had to? I don't think we've ever had to apologize.
Maybe once or twice, but of our own volition. If I get something wrong and I say it out loud, I'm going to apologize. I will admit that I'm wrong. But I've never been forced to.
Hammer (4:09)
I was wrong the other day because I thought that IU game was in Northwestern. I apologized. It's in Bloomington.
Nigel (4:15)
But you didn't have to even apologize. You had to correct yourself. I understand what you're saying.
Hammer (4:20)
I was strong-armed. I wasn't guilted into an apology.
In this video, Holly Rowe, who was never harmed, you need to apologize to her. Well, no, it's an AI absurd video. I'm not going to apologize because she didn't really get hit.
Nigel (4:40)
And then Arch Manning, the next day or maybe the next week when he was answering questions, like they were just short, like yes or no answers, because that's what you get now. You're not going to get anything out of Arch Manning from Texas. One of the biggest stars in college football.
Hammer (4:59)
And that's what the media deserves. Honestly, if you want to go after a 22 year old for saying, I thought this absurd meme was kind of funny, he wasn't condoning women's violence. Anybody that thinks Arch Manning is pro women's violence, domestic violence, you're a moron. It was an absurd meme, like the ones I've made of you, like making out with Whoopi Goldberg and Don LaMont.
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