Condoleezza Rice shuts down NBC anchor's question on whether Russia helped Trump win

Fox News ^ | 9/11/2019 | Sam Dorman

[Republican Wildcat]

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told an NBC anchor Wednesday it was not accurate to suggest that Russia flipped the 2016 election in President Trump's favor.

"I don’t think there is any evidence of that. And, you know, I really don’t think that’s a good conversation to have," she told NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie. Guthrie had just asked whether Russian interference "actually worked" and blocked a victory by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

"I think that really does devalue the people in Wisconsin and Michigan and others who decided to vote for President Trump," Rice added in her response.

"Whether you like this president or not, whether you believe that he should have been president or not, let’s give the credit to the Americans who went out and voted for somebody who they thought would bring change."

[Republican Wildcat]

Guthrie had just asked whether Russian interference "actually worked" and blocked a victory by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

A question that makes absolutely no sense asked at a time that makes absolutely no sense. The insanity never stops.

[bigbob]

Great answer. A very smart lady.

[KC_Lion]

Ping!

[dfwgator]

Get ready to see more cartoons like this one again.

[BenLurkin]

[Publius]

She's a very good Brahms pianist. When cellist Yo-Yo Ma was scheduled for a performance of the Brahms F Major Cello Sonata, Op. 99, at the White House, and the accompanist got sick and had to cancel, Dr. Rice stepped in to play the piano. Yo-Yo Ma said she was professional quality.

[BradyLS]

Agreed. The very best answer possible.

[Jane Long]

Here is where she and Yo Yo Ma played together, at The Kennedy Center....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4C-VuqubFM

[Bommer]

The question to ask is how did Russia do it? How did thousands of Hillary voters standing in lines to vote in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, vote for Hillary, but all their votes flipped to Trump? If it wasn’t done that way, or they cannot prove that Putin has a Russian mind control machine, there was no Russian influence, period.

[Bullish]

It's attack politics practiced obscenely through shoddy yellow journalism. They're not even capable of rational thought any more at this point. They need an intervention.

[BradyLS]

I’ll tell ya what’s funny. Flip the script by switching administrations to Obama and Clinton.

[lee martell]

Condi. I think that your country needs you. Pick up the phone and make a call. Give him a few weeks to pretend he’s thinking it over.

[lodi90]

That’s the last time NBC will interview her while Trump is in the WH.

[TADSLOS]

You forgot these two...

[Publius]

The Schumann Fantasy Piece was written for clarinet and piano. Schumann arranged it for cello to take advantage of the home market.

The microphone placement is awful. You can hardly hear Dr. Rice. She's competent as a accompanist.

Her favorite piano piece is the Mozart Piano Concerto #20 in D minor, which she performed in concert as a teenager.

[NorseViking]

In all honesty, I understand your frustration but can you name some her achievements while in a Bush administration? Yep, right. But everyone might remind quite some epic failures.

[bray]

This passes for informed journalism in today’s media.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Savannah is still suffering in shock at Sherman’s taking of Atlanta.

She’s such an airhead that balloon-makers use her as a model.

And I thought that Erin somebody or other was the dumbest. My bad!

[IncPen]

The question to ask is how did Russia do it? How did thousands of Hillary voters standing in lines to vote in Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, vote for Hillary, but all their votes flipped to Trump? If it wasn’t done that way, or they cannot prove that Putin has a Russian mind control machine, there was no Russian influence, period.

And isn’t the most damning thing in this line of thinking that Hillary voters are so stupid that they can be tricked by clumsy Russian meddling, and that we need to have the government protect them?

If i were a Dem voter I’d be outraged that they had such a low opinion of me!