One hopes the nbc news division will be able to exert some pressure and force into doing its job, which is to report the news. my goodness, if nbc is sugar coating this, well, that will be a real black mark, i think, on nbc news and their journalism. we have seen that before with other olympics as brian said, but this is the mother of all controversies within an olympic games. yes, as far as i m planning to go, i have to take two covid tests this week, i leave over the weekend as brian said, as you alluded to, if i test positive when i land in beijing, which i will be bubble wrapped and triple masked and all of the above, but if i am, if i test positive, i then go right into a hotel room and into quarantine and i would do my job from there, but it s going to be very, very hard to do that if we do test positive. you ve also been told to assume your hotel room is under surveillance. what kind of steps are you going
Despite their fervent efforts, hillary clinton lost the race anyway.. joining us now, tammy bruce. nice to be on. tucker: news organizations are by definition committed to openness. if you say to a news organization, hey we think you have done something dishonest and then lied about it, don t they have an obligation to at least respond and explain?? they would if they held those same standards.on of course you do. the problem is to not project on to these other entities. it s clear that some still hold those standards and others do not. with nbc, the problem is clear. you saw it not just with the access hollywood tape which in many ways backfired. the only person harmed was billy bush, he lost his job. originally people thought it had to have been a rogue staffer when in fact, it was people in the nbc news division. the man by the way running the w today show at the time, just
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