The hacks at MSNBC have become experts at beating a dead horse. The horse on deck Friday was the Trump-Russia hoax that has been repeatedly pushed by the media for almost four years but that Deadline: White House anchor Nicolle Wallace can never seem to let go.
Wallace brought on backbencher Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell to push the conspiracy theory, teeing him off with some outrageous comments:
We welcome back to our broadcast Eric Swalwell. I want to get to what looks like a standoff at a terrible time for the country but in the commercial breaks some breaking news came through, U.S. Intelligence officials confirming that Russia is actively working to denigrate Joe Biden and your first comments. Actually, let me read from what has been released about what Russia is up to as it relates to Joe Biden. This is from I believe the office ODNI, “We assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former Vice President Biden in what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment. Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian television."
Having been teed up by Wallace's breathless announcement, Swallwell eagerly continued to push the narrative, even accusing U.S. Senators of being Russian puppets:
Here we go again, Nicole. They have a preference for Donald Trump, as is described in the statement and they have a preference to use their resources to denigrate Joe Biden and they're doing it through the U.S. Senate, laundering this information by this individual who's described who has publicly said that he's sending materials to Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham so that they can try and tear down Joe Biden. Members of the U.S. Senate are acting as Russian launderers of this information to bring down a U.S. candidate. This is different because you have in public reporting acknowledgments by this pro-Russia individual, that he's sending information and materials to the Senate, hacked and leaked documents to the Senate, to denigrate, to tear down Joe Biden and Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham are all too willing to use in their naked ambition to keep Donald Trump in power
Wallace followed up by insisting that the Robert Mueller's investigation -- which found no evidence of collusion -- actually somehow proved Trump's guilt: "[T]here is still debate around the original Intel around Russia's role in actively helping the Trump campaign, Robert Mueller found that Russia had indeed helped and that the Trump campaign had welcomed that help and they hadn't actually, basically held strategy sessions together, tell me how this intelligence is different."
She then pleaded with the left-wing Congressman to do something to stop Trump:
I have one more question about, you know, the action plan, because we now know 88 days before our election that under Donald Trump's administration, the intelligence community has reached this conclusion that Russia is actively working to denigrate Joe Biden, Ron Johnson's committee seems to have taken the lead in the U.S. Senate, what are you going to do?
Co-host Brian Williams chimed in by slandering Senator Johnson and practically suggesting he was a Russian agent:
Congressman, just because clear English is at a premium and you just touched on this, for those watching, perhaps for those who may live in the state of Wisconsin, what is it you and your fellow Democrats suspect a Republican duly elected member of the U.S. Senate is doing in concert with Russia?
The media will continue to push the narrative, even when all the facts tell a completely different story. The U.S has had a two-year investigation, an impeachment, and they still have not gotten Trump on anything of substance. But the media will pound the table until election day, and if Trump wins, they will howl “collusion” at the moon until he leaves office.
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Read the full transcript below to learn more.
MSNBC’s Live
8-7-20
3:22 PM
NICOLE WALLACE: We welcome back to our broadcast Eric Swalwell. I want to get to what looks like a standoff at a terrible time for the country but in the commercial breaks some breaking news came through, U.S. Intelligence officials confirming that Russia is actively working to denigrate Joe Biden and your first comments, actually let me read from what has been released about what Russia is up to as it relates to Joe Biden. This is from I believe the office ODNI, “we assess that Russia is using a range of measures to primarily denigrate former vice president Biden in what it sees as an anti-Russia establishment. This is consistent with Moscow’s public criticism of him when he was vice president, for his role in the Obama administration’s policies on Ukraine and it’s support for the anti-Putin opposition inside Russia. For example, pro Russian-Ukranian parliamentarian is spreading claims about corruption including through publicizing leaked phone calls to undermine former Vice President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic party. Some Kremlin linked actors are also seeking to boost president Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian television. Two-part question for you, one, with the assessment did any action plan get briefed to you whether it classified, can you just acknowledge whether you do or not? And two, with that specificity, does that call into greater question the goings on of Trump allies like Senator Ron Johnson, who has picked up and is running with some of this Kremlin-backed propaganda about Joe Biden.
ERIC SWALWELL: Here we go again, Nicole. This sounds awfully familiar, but it's the awareness that the American people need and we need an intelligence community that has directives from the president to counter this, that's the real question is will the president counter this information but what I do not accept is that there's an equivalence between or among what Russia is doing and China and Iran are also doing who are in that assessment as well. Russia has a capability, a scope, an intent and a prior, as you would say in criminal law, they did this before, that is not articulated by those other countries. They have a preference for Donald Trump, as is described in the statement and they have a preference to use their resources to denigrate Joe Biden and they're doing it through the U.S. Senate, laundering this information by this individual who's described who has publicly said that he's sending materials to Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham so that they can try and tear down Joe Biden. Members of the U.S. Senate are acting as Russian launderers of this information to bring down a U.S. candidate. It's reprehensible, it should stop. Nicole, if you want to know why Donald Trump will not confront Vladimir Putin about these bounties on U.S. Soldiers, there you go, Russia continues to support Donald Trump and he's not going to do a single thing even if it means defending U.S. Troops. If it means that it would hurt his chances to be reelected.
WALLACE: I know there was -- well, there is, I won’t use that past tense, there is still debate around the original Intel around Russia's role in actively helping the Trump campaign, Robert Mueller found that Russia had indeed helped and that the Trump campaign had welcomed that help and they hadn't actually, basically held strategy sessions together, tell me how this intelligence is different.
SWALWELL: This is different because you have in public reporting acknowledgments by this pro-russia individual, that he's sending information and materials to the Senate, hacked and leaked documents to the Senate, to denigrate, to tear down Joe Biden and Ron Johnson and Lindsey Graham are all too willing to use in their naked ambition to keep Donald Trump in power and so the concern here is that U.S. persons are being used to facilitate this Russia influence operation and, again for the president is not going to have resources to counter this and, if the senators aren't going to, you know, responsibly conduct themselves like Americans, not pro-Russia, then it's on the American people to have the awareness of what they're trying to do. Credit to Chairman Schiff, he had been pushing for the Congress to be briefed on what the true threat is and for the American people to understand the true threat and this statement is a step further in that direction.
WALLACE: I have one more question about, you know, the action plan, because we now know 88 days before our election that under Donald Trump's administration, the intelligence community has reached this conclusion that Russia is actively working to denigrate Joe Biden, Ron Johnson's committee seems to have taken the lead in the U.S. Senate, what are you going to do?
SWALWELL: Again, we have to make sure that the American people have as much awareness as possible and we have the majority in the House and again, couple of weeks ago that the American people didn't know this and Chairman Schiff was pushing for the whole Congress to know this and a public statement to make it clear what Russia is doing, awareness is great disinfectant it's really incumbent on the American people to hold their senators accountable and there's no U.S. Senator should be working in concert with a Russian influencer operation and that has been potentially exposed with this operation.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Congressman, just because of clear English is at a premium and you just touched on this, for those watching, perhaps for those who may live in the state of Wisconsin, what is it you and your fellow Democrats suspect a Republican duly elected member of the U.S. Senate is doing in concert with Russia?
SWALWELL: Russia does not want Joe Biden to be elected. Russia is using this statement says that a pro-Russian Ukrainian is sending hacked materials to U.S. Senators and in their hearings, in their investigation, they're seeking to tear down Joe Biden's candidacy to suggest that, you know, Ukraine was the fact the one that hacked us in 2016. It's a character attack on Joe Biden. This is why Donald Trump by the way was impeached, but it really just shows that, you know, there's no -- really they'll go to any length to try and keep Donald Trump in power including, you know, false character attacks on Joe Biden that are coming from the Kremlin.
WALLACE: Wow.
