Posted on 05/08/2017 6:32:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
All three networks on Monday excitedly promoted the anti-Donald Trump potential of the testimony of a woman the President fired. CBS This Morning predicted that former acting Attorney General Sally Yates would deliver “explosive” “bombshells” about possible connections to Russia. Reporters on NBC’s Today reassured viewers that the Democrat was totally reliable. ABC's Good Morning America included a clip of liberal Senator Dianne Feinstein to make that point.
A network graphic on CBS screamed, “Bombshell Testimony? Fmr. Acting AG Yates to Testify on Flynn & Russia.” Co-host Charlie Rose opened the show by trumpeting, “Testimony on Capitol Hill today could reveal explosive details about the alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.”
Excited CBS: Yates Will Deliver ‘Explosive’ ‘Bombshell’ on Trump
Reporter Jeff Pegues insisted, “Sally Yates's testimony is expected to include at least a few bombshells.”
Again, this was before the testimony. It was a "preemptive" bombshell?
Over on NBC’s Today, Peter Alexander cited Democrats to dismiss partisan concerns about Yates: “While one Republican official familiar with the White House's thinking tells NBC News the administration will argue Yates is politicizing the issue, Democrats argue the former deputy Attorney General is a veteran prosecutor with an impeccable reputation.”
He then included a clip of liberal Senator Feinstein: “She is very widely respected and she apparently has some information as to who knew what went.”
Later, co-host Savannah Guthrie went to NBC analyst Jeremy Bash, who worked as a senor advisor to Leon Panetta, to make the same point:
SAVANNAH GUTHRIE: What about the White House's response? They say look, this is a person who is politicized. She's a Democrat. She was let go by the president in connection with her refusal to enforce the travel ban and she's gotten a ax to grind?
JEREMY BASH: I don't think that's the case at all. She's very credible. She is a career federal prosecutor, came into the Justice Department, spent her entire career as a public servant. She was doing her job when she told the White House counsel, http://www.newsbusters.org/s3/files/styles/blog_body-50/s3/images/2017-05-08-cbs-tm-yates.jpg?itok=kOjalgWf"Hey, look, we have a situation on our hands that needs to be addressed." And instead they kept him in position for 17 days.
On ABC’s Good Morning America, reporter Pierre Thomas cited the same clip of Fienstein.
A transcript of the CBS segment is below:
CBS This Morning 5/8/17 7:03AM ET
CBS GRAPHIC: Bombshell Testimony? Fmr. Acting AG Yates to Testify on Flynn & Russia
CHARLIE ROSE: Welcome to CBS This Morning. Testimony on Capitol Hill today could reveal explosive details about the alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates will appear before a Senate Committee.
NORAH O’DONNELL: Sally Yates was an Obama administration holdover and a key figure in the Russia investigation. She was fired soon after warning the White House about then-National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's conversations with Russian officials. Jeff Pegues is outside the hearing room on Capitol Hill. Jeff, good morning. What will we hear?
JEFF PEGUES: Well, good morning. Sally Yates's testimony is expected to include at least a few bombshells. And that's why you have some members of Congress pushing for her to appear. And she will later on today. The former acting Attorney General is expected to contradict public White House official statements about this issue. Multiple congressional and law enforcement sources say Yates notified the White House that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was not forthcoming with the Vice President about his contacts with the Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
According to sources, she also warned the White House that Flynn was compromised. The President later fired Flynn but not immediately and some members of Congress wanted to know what took the White House so long to respond to concerns. Keep in mind, Flynn as the former National Security Adviser, was handling the most secure security information. And Yates will not be the only big name testifying in the hearing room behind me on this afternoon. Also appearing will be James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, who before his retirement in mid-January, was briefed on the most important details connected to this Russian investigation. Gayle?
McGovern.
The MSM has turned into The Jerry Springer show, complete with paid actors.
Excellent - I need to pull that movie out and watch it again. The navigators arrive in a huge box.....
This whole russia thing is just wild left wing conspiracy theory. There’s no proof that a crime even ocurred , much less guilt. And there never will be
Let’s see, this comes from the MSM which we all know are just radicalized dems who hate right wing conservatives, so giving them even one tiny ounce of credibility is out of the question. There’s no coming back from what they are. Every MSM network would have to shut down and every one of their leftist anchors and kooks on staff would have to be labeled and never work in the industry again before any kind of credibility can ever be afforded to them in a new and improved network in the future.
Anything coming from them has to be taken with a moon-sized grain of salt.
but by this time, people were resigning...flipping, pleading guilty etc....in Trumps case, they are literally making stories up and they know that the story is a lie. Hope hes tough as nails.
Why did Obama share the unmasked communications with the media but not the president-elect???
The MSM delivers another fart in the wind.
No she won’t.
Her bombshell went poof and smudged her face and her clothes.
ACME bombshell, no doubt.
>>His whoopass defeat of McCarthy was their motivation and is very similar to the situation today.<<
The left’s hatred for Nixon started in the 50’s when he took down their darling, Alger Hiss.
Truth.
The left never forgave Nixon for outing Alger Hiss as a commie agent.
She was seen by a few thousand true believers? I knew she was a sack of crap and didn't feel it necessary to smell it. I did not see this left wing Jeanne d'Arc and wasn't impressed at all. Looks like an androgynous version of Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks.
Being a career public servant and credibility do not go hand in hand. This is the problem with any "source" the FakeNews presents.
Oh, that nose is plastic, jawline fake, eye job. Friend to whom?
You wouldn’t know the ‘Pubbies won, and controlled the Presidency and both Houses of Congress from the news, or from the behavior of Congress.
It is a phenomenon, isn’t it?
How can Republicans rule in all three branches of government, lead the vast majority of the states with Republican governors, several states with NO Dem in office and still LOSE THE MESSAGE WAR????
Pathetic.
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