The Daily 202: Matt Lauer’s widely-panned performance shows the perils for debate moderators By James Hohmann September 8 at 8:53 AM With Breanne Deppisch THE BIG IDEA: The upcoming debates will be harder to moderate than ever before. -- The reviews are in, and last night’s biggest loser was Matt Lauer. No one is happy with the host of NBC’s “Today” show, who interviewed each presidential candidate back-to-back for 30 minutes during a “commander-in-chief forum” in primetime. The most galling moment came when Donald Trump repeated his demonstrably false claim that he was “totally against the war in Iraq,” and...