During Tuesday night’s episode of The 11th Hour, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle showed a pre-recorded segment of her interview with Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV) and his daughter Heather Bresch at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Throughout the interview, Manchin explained his decision to leave the Democratic Party and called out the media as responsible for the drastic political polarization in the U.S.
Ruhle asked Manchin for his opinion on the root cause of political polarization, which the senator insisted was the fault of “you all,” meaning the media. In response, the host shouted a censored expletive and told the senator, “Wrong answer!”
However, Manchin stood his ground and suggested that “You all should be paying Donald Trump royalties. You have him on every minute of every day, all day long, seven days a week.” He also chided Ruhle and pointed out that the news has the “ability to sensationalize bad behavior”, adding that “it used to be if it bleeds it reads, and now if it's sensational, you put it on."
