NPR Chief Maher Tries Comedy on PBS: 'We're a Nonpartisan News Organization'

Katherine Maher, president and chief executive of National Public Radio, continued her sympathy (and lawsuit) tour to save NPR from the Trump administration’s executive order, with a pit stop at NPR’s publicly funded cohort, PBS’s News Hour program. Co-anchor Geoff Bennett interviewed Maher on Tuesday’s edition, where he explained that NPR’s lawsuit, joined by three public radio stations in Colorado, “contends the president's order is a violation of the First Amendment.”

Bennett read a PBS statement relaying that the network hasn’t joined NPR’s lawsuit but may take legal action in the future, then asked Maher, “What's the case that you're making against the Trump White House?”