More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
During interviews with Hillary Clinton on Monday, both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning invited the presumptive Democratic nominee to use Sunday’s terrorist attack in Orlando to push her liberal gun control agenda. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie lobbed a softball: “After Newtown, after 20 first graders were killed, the President tried to pass universal background checks. Obviously that was not successful. Why do you feel you may be more successful if elected and in the next Congress?”
Guthrie even hoped for stronger anti-gun action: “In doing something as minimal as that or even, as I believe you’ve called for, getting assault weapons banned?” Clinton seized the opportunity: “Well, I could only hope that people who are responsible gun owners will join us in this cause. How many more of these mass tragedies do we have to live through?...Let's keep weapons of war off our streets like the one that was used in Orlando.”
