MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart Praises Fox Anchor: ‘God Bless Chris Wallace’ for Crushing Stephen Miller
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart showered rare praise on a Fox News personality when he told an AM Joy panel “God bless Chris Wallace” for his performance in interviewing senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller.
On Sunday morning’s edition of MSNBC’s AM Joy, host Joy Reid played a clip from Wallace’s contentious interview with Miller, in which Wallace asked for a single example of another president using a national emergency to secure funds that Congress had denied.
“He couldn’t name one, Jonathan,” Reid noted, incredulously. “Shouldn’t he have prepped himself with at least one example?”
“That’s the thing, it’s like ‘Oh my God the teacher got me, I have no answer,” Capehart said.
“I mean, I always make fun of Fox News and call it, you know, state media for Earth Two and everything, but God bless Chris Wallace,” Capehart continued. “I almost said Chris Matthews, but God bless Chris Wallace for making sure that Earth One logic and facts penetrate the audience so that they can hopefully listen and hear that the wall has not been built, that there’s been no previous example, no matter how many times has president said that President Obama did it, and other presidents did it, no they haven’t.”
Reid noted that the “only time a president has used his executive authority to move military money from one pot to another for construction was in overseas construction for the military.”
Panelist Tiffany Cross also noted that Miller wasn’t the only Republican to stumble on this very same question.
“Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan was making his rounds on the Sunday shows, and he couldn’t come up with an example,” she said. “They asked very pointed questions, and he said ‘Well, I don’t have that.'”
Miller’s humiliation may have longer-lasting effects, if recent history is any indication. After Wallace similarly nailed Sarah Huckabee Sanders over Trump’s lies about terrorist infiltrations at the border, Trump and his administration finally stopped making those claims.
Watch the clip above, via MSNBC.
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