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MSNBC’s Chuck Todd spent the first 20 minutes on Wednesday’s MTP Daily complaining about the White House and its “credibility crisis.” “If it's Wednesday, we've come a long way from George Washington and that cherry tree. Tonight, the White House credibility crisis deepens,” he mocked, as he started his show after the administration was found to have misled on several occasions. “I would be fired for lying,” he lamented, noting how people are skeptical of the press.
Todd began his opening rant by playing a clip of the day’s White House press briefing where Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked: “Do you see any circumstances where it's appropriate to lie from the podium?” “And it's a question that had to be asked TODAY of this White House,” an irritated Todd sounded off.
But NBC was nowhere to be found back in late 2013 when Fox News’ James Rosen cornered State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki on the Iran deal negotiations, asking: “Is it the policy of the State Department, where the preservation of the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned, to lie in order to achieve that goal?” NBC was also nowhere to found when the Obama administration was caught editing the question out of their archived video in early June of 2016.
“They’ve compounded misleading statements with misleading statements about those misleading statements,” Todd bemoaned about the current White House. “They've been caught in blatant contradictions and petty fabrications. Where to begin?”
Perhaps it’s best to start with those who are the pot calling the kettle black.
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