Chuck Todd Tussles With Huckabee Sanders: ‘What’s Rich Is Who’s Muddying Waters’

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NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd hit back at White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Sunday morning.

During her interview, Sanders defended President Donald Trump’s decision to let Attorney General Bill Barr to declassify all intel agencies’ materials related to the Russia probe in an attempt to prove the intel community’s s0-called bias against Trump.

When Todd asked Sanders if Trump would accept a finding by Barr that there was no such bias that triggered the Russia probe, the press secretary refused to say yes or no.

“So he expects an outcome that he wants, not an outcome that the facts lead to?” Todd asked.

“Chuck, I think you’re trying to muddy the waters too much here,” the press secretary responded.

The NBC host interrupted: “I think what’s rich is who’s muddying waters.”

“Well, I don’t think it’s crazy to want to know how far and how wide the corruption at the FBI was,” Sanders retorted.

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  1. Complete waste of time. All she does is evade and lie and then he thanks her for her time.

  2. What I want to know is why he didn’t give the Russian cyber-attack on our Democracy any attention at all.

  3. I remain mystified why anyone interviews Huckabee Sanders. They know to expect a party-line stonewall. That needs no more exposing. There will certainly be no actual news in it. Is it supposed to be a cleverness battle?

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    “So he expects an outcome that he wants, not an outcome that the facts lead to?” Todd asked.

    Everything Trump does is morally bankrupt, but this is really the essence of Republican governance. Whether it’s sane gun laws, climate change, healthcare policy, welfare programs, education reform, or most any issue, Republicans don’t want the data because it doesn’t support their positions.

  5. Worst assaults from America on Japan*:

    -Hiroshima

    -Nagasaki

    -Sarah Huckabee Sanders

    ######*Note: listed alphabetically, not ranked by severity

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