Angry Chuck Todd Unloads And Calls Fox News Propaganda

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) tried to avoid talking about Trump and Ukraine by rambling about Fox News conspiracy theories, but Chuck Todd unloaded and shut him down.

Transcript via Meet The Press:
SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–Special Counsel appointed that has hampered his entire investigation–

CHUCK TODD:

Senator?

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–his entire– his entire– his entire administration. And now, once he’s been– that was proven false, he would like to know and I would like to know and I know his supporters would like to know, where did this all come from? Who planted that false story?

CHUCK TODD: Senator —

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

Who leaked? You know, I– I have– I have my third letter into the Inspector General of the Intelligence–

CHUCK TODD: All right, Senator–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–Committee, asking to just confirm– just confirm, are you investigating those leaks that Peter Strzok talked about in that–

CHUCK TODD:

All right, Senator–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–text to Lisa Page–

CHUCK TODD:

–I have no idea why–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

We’re gettin’– no, that’s– that’s–

CHUCK TODD:

–why–

SEN.RON JOHNSON:

–a setup. It is entirely–

CHUCK TODD: — why a Fox–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–relevant to this point.

CHUCK TODD:

–why a Fox News conspiracy, propaganda stuff is popping up on here.

SEN.RON JOHNSON:

It is–

CHUCK TODD:

I have no idea–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

It is not. That is–

CHUCK TODD:

I have no idea–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–that is– that is exac–

CHUCK TODD:

–why we’re goinG here.

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–that is ex– that is–

CHUCK TODD:

Senator, I’m asking–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

Because this is underlying–

CHUCK TODD:

–about–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–exactly why–

CHUCK TODD:

I’m as–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–President Trump is upset and why his supporters are upset–

CHUCK TODD:

All right, w–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–at the news media.

CHUCK TODD:

Oh, okay, this–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

You know– you know, Chuck–

CHUCK TODD:

–is not about the media–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–here’s the deal, here’s the deal–

CHUCK TODD:

–Senator Johnson — Senator Johnson, please!

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

–is at the– s–

CHUCK TODD:

–can we please–

SEN. RON JOHNSON:

Go ahead.

CHUCK TODD:

–answer the question that I asked you instead of trying to make Donald Trump feel better here that you’re not criticizing him–

Video clip:

Chuck Todd told the world that Fox News is propaganda that has no place on Meet The Press. Sen. Johnson couldn’t defend Trump, so he tried to muddy the waters and bring up that old classic, the intelligence community is out to get Donald Trump.

Fox News is propaganda, and the exchange between Sen. Johnson and Todd was revealing because it showed how the Republican Party can’t function when they are questioned by objective journalists. Trump and the Republicans are living in their own reality and they can’t handle being confronted or living outside of the Trump/Fox News propaganda bubble.

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