Chris Wallace Destroys Reince Priebus For Suggesting ‘State-Run Media’
Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace attacked Trump’s Chief of Staff Reince Priebus this morning for dismissing reports of Russian involvement in the president’s campaign as “fake news.”
Priebus said, “I can assure you, and I’ve been to say this, that the top levels of the intelligence community have assured me that that that story is not only inaccurate, but it’s grossly overstated and it’s wrong and there’s nothing to it. If I can say that to the American people, then what does it say about the story?”
Wallace shot back, “I get the fact that you don’t like some stories. You say, because you weren’t part of the campaign before so that you can’t speak to that, you say that the intelligence community says that there were no contacts between anyone in the Trump campaign, no associates of Mr. Trump and anybody involved as a Russian agent, as to the campaign and collusion in the campaign.”
“They made it very clear that that story in the New York Times is complete garbage,” Priebus replied. “Quite frankly they used different words than that, okay?”
“Who was it that said that, ” Wallace responded.
“I’m not going to tell you,” Priebus said.
“Wait a minute, Reince,” Wallace exclaimed. “You just complained about unnamed sources. You’re using an unnamed source.”
“Well, I didn’t ask for approval to use their name,” Priebus said after a long pause. “But when I say top level people, I mean top level people.”
“Reince, here is the problem, I don’t have a problem with you complaining about an individual story,” Wallace replied. “We sometimes get it wrong, you guys sometimes get it wrong. I don’t have any problem with you complaining about bias. But you went a lot further than that, or the president went a lot further. He said that the fake media, not certain stories, that the fake media are an enemy to the country. We don’t have a state-run media in this country, that’s what they have in dictatorships.”
