Chuck Todd to Ron Johnson: ‘You Can Go Back on Your Partisan Cable Cocoon’ - Rolling Stone

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd got feisty with Republican Sen. Ron Johnson erstwhile the lawmaker accused him and the remainder of the media of bias.

The confrontation began erstwhile the 2 were discussing classified documents precocious recovered successful President Joe Biden’s home and former office and Todd asked wherefore Johnson was not proposing Congress hold until the Department of Justice concluded its probe into the documents earlier doing legislature oversight. This prompted Johnson to spell connected a rambling diatribe accusing the FBI of “political wrongdoing” regarding its probe into Hunter Biden’s laptop. Todd past asked if Johnson could notation a azygous transgression the president’s lad committed.

“Senator, bash you person a transgression that you deliberation Hunter Biden committed due to the fact that I’ve yet to spot anybody explain. It is not a transgression to marque wealth disconnected of your past name,” the NBC big asked.

Johnson responded by saying that Todd should work “the Marco Polo report,” a study connected the laptop’s alleged contents compiled by erstwhile adjutant to Trump advisor Peter Navarro. Johnson claimed the study “detail[s] each kinds of imaginable crimes.”

“Oh, clasp on, fto maine halt you there. Potential. This is potential. Potential is innuendo,” Todd replied.

Johnson past referenced $30,000 successful funds that Hunter Biden allegedly paid to individuals, which the legislator claimed was for “soliciting and purchasing prostitution successful perchance European enactment trafficking operations.” There’s that connection again — “potentially.”

Todd past pointed retired Johnson’s evident hypocrisy successful targeting Biden’s lad portion ignoring alleged wrongdoing by Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who accepted a indebtedness from the Qatari authorities portion moving successful the White House.

“Your Senate Democrats privation to analyse Jared Kushner’s indebtedness from the Qatari authorities erstwhile helium was moving successful the authorities negotiating galore things successful the Middle East,” Todd said. “Are you not arsenic acrophobic astir that? Are you not acrophobic astir that? And I accidental that due to the fact that it seems to maine if you’re acrophobic astir what Hunter Biden did, you should beryllium arsenic outraged astir what Jared Kushner did.”

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“I’m acrophobic astir getting to the truth. I don’t people individuals,” Johnson said, laughably.

“You’re targeting Hunter Biden aggregate times connected this show, senator,” Todd answered. “You’re targeting an individual.”

The interrogation past started getting personal. Johnson accused Todd of inviting him connected Meet the Press “to reason with me.” He past went connected a Trump-esque rant astir the biased media.

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“I’m conscionable trying to laic retired the facts that surely Senator Grassley and I uncovered,” Johnson said. “They were suppressed. They were censored. They interfered successful the 2020 election. Conservatives recognize that. Unfortunately, liberals and the media don’t. And portion of the reasons are our authorities are inflamed, is we bash not person an unbiased media. We don’t. It’s unfortunate. I’m each for a escaped press. It needs to beryllium much unbiased.”

“Look, you tin spell backmost connected your partisan cablegram cocoon and speech astir media bias each you want. I recognize it’s portion of your identity,” Todd said, fundamentally telling Johnson to spell peddle his bullshit connected right-wing media wherever it mightiness find a much receptive audience.