The Friday primetime lineups of CNN and MSNBC did not handle the news that President Trump signed an executive order forbidding taxpayer money for PBS and NPR well, as they portrayed the news as an assault on everything from democracy, science, the military, farmers, and even the country itself.
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The next hour on The Source, host Kaitlan Collins told Bill Nye the Science Guy, “You, personally, must have interacted and encountered so many people over the years who have talked about how beneficial that was to them, or to their kids, or to their families.”
Nye tried to paint the move as harmful to missile defense, “everything happens for a reason, Kaitlan. And that reason, it's usually physics. So, if you want to have — if you want to have this advanced military capability, this, for example, this Golden Dome, you're going to need people in the pipeline to come be engineers, and physicists, scientists, to build these — this extraordinary system. And those people are going to get their love of science from public broadcasting.”
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