Kristen Welker’s Meet the Press debut was focused on her interview with former president Donald Trump, and their sit-down, his first with a major broadcast network since leaving office, was pretty much what you would expect.
Welker tried, successfully at points, to make news and also to counter him on certain key facts. There were several moments that will likely prove important to his criminal indictments, as well as his presidential campaign on issues like abortion.
But interviewing Trump is perhaps a greater challenge and even risk for news outlets now than it was in 2016 or even 2020, as he has hardened in his determination to churn out long-debunked claims, to try to divert attention, to obfuscate and deflect. As The New York Times’s Peter Baker told Welker later in the broadcast, “He’s just a bulldozer shoveling falsehoods and lies throughout your interview and you are fact-checking him all along the way,...
Welker tried, successfully at points, to make news and also to counter him on certain key facts. There were several moments that will likely prove important to his criminal indictments, as well as his presidential campaign on issues like abortion.
But interviewing Trump is perhaps a greater challenge and even risk for news outlets now than it was in 2016 or even 2020, as he has hardened in his determination to churn out long-debunked claims, to try to divert attention, to obfuscate and deflect. As The New York Times’s Peter Baker told Welker later in the broadcast, “He’s just a bulldozer shoveling falsehoods and lies throughout your interview and you are fact-checking him all along the way,...
- 9/17/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Conservative Political Action Conference is taking place this week at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Cpac is the year’s most biggest gathering of conservative thought leaders, serving as a kind of Coachella for misinformation, bigotry, religious zealotry, and veneration of a twice-impeached president who lost the 2020 election. The 2023 edition will feature speeches from likes of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, and others, although big names like Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy are skipping the conference,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Anti-choice conservatives are scrambling to place a positive spin on the failure of a Kansas ballot initiative on Tuesday that would have amended the state constitution to allow greater restrictions on abortion care. The red-state referendum going down in a landslide is the latest indication of the unpopularity the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. “This vote makes clear what we know: the majority of Americans agree that women should have access to abortion and should have the right to make their own health care decisions,” President...
- 8/3/2022
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez
- Rollingstone.com
First Lady Melania Trump reportedly told husband President Donald Trump that Christey Blasey Ford was “lying.” A book by Mollie Hemingway, a senior editor at The Federalist, and Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, used the first lady as an example of an under-reported storyline in the news media. “You […]
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- 7/14/2019
- by Eileen Nguyen
- Uinterview
It may be one of the most infuriating moments in TV history, as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and university professpr Christine Blasey Ford, one of several women who has accused him of sexual assault when they were teens, are expected to testify Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The hearing, which is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Et in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, comes despite the fact that Ford and Senate Democrats have asked for an FBI investigation into Ford’s claims. The Senate committee officials and Donald Trump have refused to allow the FBI to examine the allegations.
Instead, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who refused to even hold a Senate hearing in 2016 on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, is now looking to “plow right through” the confirmation process despite growing number of allegations against Kavanaugh.
“I believed he was going to rape me,...
The hearing, which is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. Et in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, comes despite the fact that Ford and Senate Democrats have asked for an FBI investigation into Ford’s claims. The Senate committee officials and Donald Trump have refused to allow the FBI to examine the allegations.
Instead, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who refused to even hold a Senate hearing in 2016 on Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, is now looking to “plow right through” the confirmation process despite growing number of allegations against Kavanaugh.
“I believed he was going to rape me,...
- 9/27/2018
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
The most anticipated Supreme Court confirmation hearing in a generation is set for 7 a.m. Pt Thursday, when nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of sexual assault when they were teenagers in the 1980s, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Deadline is offering a livestream of the hearing (watch it here). But if you can’t be at a computer or on your phone, here’s a rundown of how to watch it. The day will begin with a statement by Republican committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, followed by a statement from Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the panel.
CBS News is offering gavel-to-gavel coverage starting at 7 a.m. Pt. Its programming with kick off with CBS This Morning at 6 a.m. Pt. Cbsn will stream coverage led by Vladimir Duthiers and Anne Marie Green starting at 6 a.
Deadline is offering a livestream of the hearing (watch it here). But if you can’t be at a computer or on your phone, here’s a rundown of how to watch it. The day will begin with a statement by Republican committee chair Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, followed by a statement from Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking Democrat on the panel.
CBS News is offering gavel-to-gavel coverage starting at 7 a.m. Pt. Its programming with kick off with CBS This Morning at 6 a.m. Pt. Cbsn will stream coverage led by Vladimir Duthiers and Anne Marie Green starting at 6 a.
- 9/26/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
For the 12th time since Saturday, President Donald Trump tweeted this morning at length about Robert Mueller’s investigation, or as he now calls it, the “Rigged Witch Hunt,” before apologizing to his base that he would have to take a break from that topic to turn his attention to the upcoming North Korea summit.
“Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, Va Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc.,” Trump apologized in this morning’s Twitter flurry.
He began his morning’s Twitter-cize taking a Twitter moment to thank North Korea for its “solid response to my letter,” in sending Vice Chairman Kim Young Chol to New York for preliminary summit talks with the “great team” he...
“Sorry, I’ve got to start focusing my energy on North Korea Nuclear, bad Trade Deals, Va Choice, the Economy, rebuilding the Military, and so much more, and not on the Rigged Russia Witch Hunt that should be investigating Clinton/Russia/FBI/Justice/Obama/Comey/Lynch etc.,” Trump apologized in this morning’s Twitter flurry.
He began his morning’s Twitter-cize taking a Twitter moment to thank North Korea for its “solid response to my letter,” in sending Vice Chairman Kim Young Chol to New York for preliminary summit talks with the “great team” he...
- 5/29/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Special Report panel got pretty heated between National Review's Jonah Goldberg and The Federalist's Mollie Hemingway when discussing President Trump's Twitter admission that he did not have any tapes of James Comey.
- 6/23/2017
- by Joseph Wulfsohn
- Mediaite - TV
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