For his Fox News show this afternoon Shepard Smith wanted to talk to some Republicans who might defend Pres. Trump’s remarks at his impromptu news conference yesterday.
“Our booking team — and they’re good — reached out to Republicans of all stripes, across the country today,” said Smith. “Let’s be honest, Republicans often don’t really mind coming on Fox News Channel. We couldn’t get anyone to come and defend him here. We worked very hard at it throughout the day, and we were unsuccessful.
A couple hours later, on his MSNBC show, Chuck Todd said his team spent much of the day trying to book members of the the GOP, to no avail.
“We invited every single Republican senator on this program tonight. All fifty-two. We asked roughly a dozen House Republicans, including a bunch of committee chairs, and we asked roughly a half-dozen former Republican elected officials,” said Todd. “None of them agreed to discuss this issue with us today.”