Former First Lady Michelle Obama sparked controversy on Friday after commenting on Jon Stewart’s “IMO” podcast. She mentioned she does not miss the presence of her adult daughters at home, a statement that has drawn both attention and criticism.

California Republican Party Delegate and mother Elizabeth Barcohana shared her perspective with Fox News Digital, suggesting Obama’s comments carried undertones of resentment amid the ongoing national conversation about motherhood.

During the podcast, Obama responded in a straightforward manner when Stewart reflected on the role parenting plays in adding purpose and structure to life. He then queried if she missed that aspect of parenting.

“I’m good,” was Obama’s succinct reply.

Barcohana interpreted Obama’s words as a sign of relief now that the demanding phase of raising her daughters, Malia and Sasha, has concluded.

“There is a difference between a mother expressing exhaustion from the demands of motherhood — which is real and relatable — and expressing resentment,” Barcohana said. “Resentment is what appears to come through in Michelle Obama’s remarks, and it is especially painful to hear amid the national conversation surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial.

“She seems happy that her daughters’ childhoods are over. That is not a relatable feeling for most mothers at all.”

Obama said she did not miss having her daughters at home but immediately stressed that she loved them and planned to see them for dinner that night.

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“I don’t miss them. I don’t. I love them. I’m going to see them tonight for dinner. I love them,” she said. “But Barack cried when they went to college. I was like, ‘Bye, little — goodbye.’ Now I … now Friday nights aren’t wrecked with terror and fear about, ‘Where are you? Where are you?’”

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh accused Obama of appearing eager for her children to leave despite the assistance he claimed the family’s wealth afforded her.

“And yet she still couldn’t wait for the kids to leave because the minor demands they made on her time and energy were still too much for her. Just a total raging narcissist,” Walsh said.

Political commentator Link Lauren criticized Obama for what he characterized as repeated complaints about her family and lifestyle.

“This podcast is just her sitting around her mansion in Martha’s Vineyard complaining about how hard her life of luxury is and how much she despises her husband and children,” Lauren said.

Obama further explained her empty nest reaction by saying she welcomed her daughters’ independence and had already spent substantial time actively raising them.

“I love my schedule. I have a great schedule, and it’s all mine,” Obama said. “I mean, I’ve had so much quality time with my children. So much. Yeah, yeah. I know them inside and out.”

Obama also praised Barack Obama’s parenting last year, explaining that both parents deliberately prioritized their daughters throughout his presidency.

“It was important for both of us, for me and Barack, to carve out that time in those eight years when our girls were in their formative years, you know,” Obama said.

A year after the tragic deaths of Lindsay Clancy’s three children, strangled with exercise bands in their basement, a former Massachusetts prosecutor has moved into the family’s former home.

Michael Phippen, who previously worked as an assistant district attorney in Plymouth County between 2016 and 2018, is now the owner of the property located at 47 Summer Street, Duxbury, according to recent property records.

Phippen acquired the house for $675,000 in January 2024, a year after Patrick Clancy faced the devastating scene of finding his spouse severely injured and their children dead.

Lindsay Clancy, aged 36, faces charges for the deliberate killing of her children—Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, a mere eight months old—in January 2023.

Following the heartbreaking incident, she attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from the second story, resulting in paralysis from the waist down.

In an October 2024 interview with The New Yorker, Patrick Clancy said the home he had shared with Lindsay was sold earlier that year but did not name the buyer. 

‘There’s no house anymore,’ he said. ‘There are no kids. All that’s left is me and Lindsay.’

Grisly evidence photos of the blue-painted, two-story home and the scene inside featured heavily in Lindsay Clancy’s grueling five-week trial, which is now nearing its end with 12 jurors deliberating her fate.

The nationally watched case has sparked social media attention around Phippen, with followers and true-crime fanatics pointing to his former position as a DA in the same county where Clancy’s children were killed.

Speculation immediately swirled that he purchased the home while the district attorney’s office was involved in the case, though he had left the office years earlier, in 2018. 

He now heads the criminal defense department at Stark and Lattuca, a New York and Massachusetts law firm, while also running his own criminal defense practice. 

The three-bedroom, two-bathroom home, built in 1972 with a basement and garage, quietly changed hands without ever being publicly listed, according to real estate records. 

Phippen snapped up the property off-market for less than its estimated $778,400 value, according to Zillow. 

It was a bargain for the former prosecutor, who bought the home at an unusually low price in Duxbury’s tight housing market, where the average home value is $1,131,969 and the median list price $1,278,333, Newsweek reports.

The Clancys purchased the home for $500,000 in 2018, nearly two years into their marriage, before they had any children. 

Jurors were shown troves of heartbreaking images, including the children’s drawings and family photos that once filled the home. 

At a June pretrial hearing, Phippen pushed back against plans for jurors to view the property in person, with his attorney, Peter Maguire, arguing it would be ‘massively disruptive’ for his client’s partner, pets and neighbors. 

Judge William Sullivan ultimately overruled the objection, allowing only jurors, attorneys, the judge and necessary court staff to take part.

Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington warned jurors during his opening statement on July 27 that the home ‘doesn’t look at all’ like it did when the Clancys lived there with their three children. 

On the morning of July 31, the 18 jurors, 12 women and six men, filed onto a large coach outside the courthouse before setting off for the home. 

During the walkthrough, jurors retraced Patrick’s steps from three years earlier, when he returned home to the horrific scene, inspecting the home’s exterior, upper floors and basement where the killings took place. 

On the night of the killings, Clancy placed a takeout order at ThreeV Restaurant in Plymouth for a Mediterranean power bowl for herself and scallop and pork belly risotto for Patrick. 

Sometime after 5pm, Patrick left to pick up the food order and stop at a local CVS for medication for Cora, errands Clancy had asked him to run. 

Just after 6pm, Patrick returned to a house that was ‘really quiet’ before racing upstairs to search for his family. 

He found Clancy injured in the backyard and called 911. When emergency responders arrived, he went inside and discovered his three children dead in the basement, strangled with colored exercise bands. 

The jurors toured the property in groups of six, spending about 10 minutes each inspecting the home and backyard where Clancy was found that night. 

From the backyard, jurors had a clear view of the second-floor bedroom window she jumped from, giving them a better sense of the height and distance she fell.

Inside, they inspected rooms on both the first and second floors, including the bedroom and the window she jumped from. They also entered the basement where the three children were killed.

Although jurors were allowed to view the space, they were prohibited from opening closet doors or touching any items inside the home. 

Twelve jurors are now deliberating the mother’s fate after the court heard closing arguments from the prosecution and defense Thursday.

A total of nine women and three men, selected from the 18-member jury, will ultimately decide whether Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, manslaughter or not guilty by reason of insanity.

In a surprising twist during a recent operation, Israeli police uncovered an ancient burial cave amid Jerusalem’s urban landscape.

This remarkable find was revealed on August 24 by the Israel Police, the nation’s official civilian law enforcement body.

The discovery occurred in Silwan, a village in East Jerusalem, as officers were engaged in an operation addressing what they described as a “violent family conflict.”

The mission followed a lethal confrontation between rival families that escalated to gunfire and Molotov cocktail incidents, as reported by The Jerusalem Post.

Prompted by this outbreak of violence, police initiated a targeted effort to track down those responsible for the disturbance.

“As part of the activity, Jerusalem Border Police officers conducted searches in Silwan and accompanied government authority representatives at a compound where individuals involved in the incident reside,” police said in a translated statement.

Officers then found the burial cave beneath a building — along with other “archaeological finds.”

“Representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority arrived at the scene, and an initial examination indicates that the graves date to the Second Temple period,” police said.

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“Security forces are securing the scene to allow for the continued handling and examination of the finds.”

Rock-cut burial caves were commonly used as family tombs in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period, though officials did not provide a more precise date for the newly discovered graves.

The Second Temple period lasted from roughly 516 BC to 70 AD, when Roman forces destroyed the temple during the First Jewish-Roman War.

Pictures released by Israeli police show the dark interior of the rock-cut burial cave, with debris scattered across the floor.

Fox News Digital reached out to the Israel Police and the Israel Antiquities Authority for additional comment.

Jerusalem has been inhabited for thousands of years, and remnants of its ancient past are still emerging today.

The cave is one of several archaeological finds recently uncovered in the Holy City.

Earlier this summer, officials announced the discovery of charred wooden beams in Jerusalem dating back roughly 2,600 years — likely remnants of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple.

Another major find came last year, when archaeologists uncovered the longest and best-preserved section of Jerusalem’s Hasmonean-era wall found to date.