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Chris Wallace crushes GOP Whip Steve Scalise’s twisted defense of Trump

AlterNet logoHouse Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) struggled on Sunday to defend President Donald Trump’s alleged attempt to bribe the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.

During an interview on FOX News Sunday, Wallace grilled Scalise about reports that U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was overheard saying Trump only cared about things that benefit him like an investigation into Biden.

Wallace pointed out that Trump “never mentions the word corruption” in either of his telephone calls with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky but he did mention Joe Biden and his son.

View the complete November 17 article by David Edwards from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Mulvaney seeks to correct quid pro quo remarks in withering interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace

The Hill logoActing White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted he never said the Trump administration expected a quid pro quo linking U.S. aid to Ukraine to Kiev launching investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden during a withering interview on “Fox News Sunday” with Chris Wallace.

Mulvaney repeatedly insisted his remarks at a Thursday press conference were taken out of context, saying he never used the language of “quid pro quo.”

“That’s not what I said. That’s what people said that I said,” he told a skeptical Wallace early in the interview.

View the complete October 20 article by Justine Coleman on The Hill website here.

Chris Wallace Shoots Down Stephen Miller’s Claim Whistleblower Is Part of ‘Deep State’

“This individual is a saboteur trying to undermine a democratically elected government,” White House policy adviser said

“This is a deep state operative, pure and simple,” White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in an attempt to characterize as partisan the whistleblower who came forward following President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president asking him to dig up dirt on his political rival.

“I think it’s unfortunate that the media continues to describe this individual as a whistleblower, an honorific that this individual most certainly does not deserve. A partisan hit job does not make you a whistleblower just because you go through the Whistleblower Protection Act,” Miller said.

Then Wallace cut to video of the Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testifying before Congress that the whistleblower and the Inspector General have “acted in good faith throughout” and have done everything “by the book and followed the law.”

View the complete September 29 article by Peter Wade on The Rolling Stone website here.

Mnuchin begs Chris Wallace: Take the president ‘very literally’ — except on being ‘the chosen one’

AlterNet logoTreasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin insisted on Sunday that Americans should take President Donald Trump’s hyperbolic comments “very literally” — but he allowed for some exceptions.

During an interview on FOX News Sunday, host Chris Wallace noted that Trump had recently “ordered” companies not to do business with China.

“When the president says something, how seriously, how literally should we take it?” Wallace asked.

“I think most of the time, you should take it very literally,” Mnuchin insisted. “I think sometimes he says things that are meant to be a joke.”

View the complete August 25 article by David Edwards from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

‘That isn’t what he said!’ Fox News host laughs in Mick Mulvaney’s face as he brazenly lies about Mueller’s testimony

AlterNet logoWhen former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress on Wednesday, Democrats had him thoroughly debunk President Donald Trump’s lies about his investigation. The president wasn’t exonerated, the special counsel didn’t conclude there was “no obstruction,” it wasn’t “witch hunt,” and Russia interference in the 2016 election wasn’t a “hoax,” Mueller confirmed.

So when White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney appeared on Fox News Sunday morning in an interview with Chris Wallace, he decided to invent new lies to tell about Mueller.

“Mueller answered the single, one oustanding question,” Mulvaney said. “They asked him: Would you have indicted the president if he were not the president, and Mueller said, ‘absolutely not.’ He would not do that.”

View the complete July 28 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

Fox News’ Chris Wallace brings the receipts after White House acting chief of staff insists Trump is ‘not a white supremacist’

Mick Mulvaney, the Acting White House Chief of Staff, claimed on Fox News Sunday that President Trump is not a white supremacist.

Host Chris Wallace noted that some critics claim that the president “has contributed to an anti-Muslim climate,” including a statement from Senator and 2020 hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand, where she said, “time and time again, this president has embraced and emboldened white supremacists—and instead of condemning racist terrorists, he covers for them.”

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Trump, asked if he sees white nationalism as a growing threat around the world: “I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people.”

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Wallace also pointed out similarities between the New Zealand shooter’s statement about “killing invaders” and the president’s own statements the next day using framing immigrants crossing our southern border as an “invasion.”

View the complete March 17 article by Gwendolyn Smith with The New Civil Rights Movement website here.

‘Answer my question’: Fox anchor grills defiant Stephen Miller on Trump’s national emergency

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller. Credit: Evan Vucci, AP

Unstoppable rhetoric collided with immovable facts on “Fox News Sunday,” as White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller defended President Trump’s national emergency declaration and invoked the potential for a veto if Congress disapproves in an interview with Chris Wallace.

The segment focused on the limits of presidential powers to circumvent Congress and procure funds to build 230 miles of barriers along the southern border. Miller described an onslaught of drugs and migrants flowing over the border as justification for the emergency declaration.

Yet, like a small army of fact-checkers have noted before, Wallace told Miller the vast majority of hard drugs seized by Customs and Border Protection are captured at points of entry, not between them, and unlawful migration over the border has fallen 90 percent since 2000.

View the complete February 17 article by Alex Horton on The Washington Post website here.

Sean Hannity, Chris Wallace and why Trump wants to control follow-up questions

President Trump greets Sean Hannity at a rally in Missouri on Nov. 5. Credit: Jim Watson, AFP, Getty Images

The Trump administration, in its wisdom, has issued a rule that reporters, called on at presidential news conferences, will be limited to one question apiece.

It’s a terrible idea, which was clearly illustrated in two recent Fox News interviews of President Trump.

The first one — the very definition of lame — was by Sean Hannity at the same infamous Missouri rally during which the Fox host joined the president onstage as a campaign prop.

View the complete November 25 article by Margaret Sullivan on The Washington Post website here.

Fox News’s Chris Wallace gives Putin the grilling Trump won’t

NOTE: We typically don’t post articles about FOX News, but this one is telling.

The following article by Aaron Blake was posted on the Washington Post website July 16, 2018:

After his summit with President Trump on July 16, Russian President Putin sat down for a Fox News interview with journalist Chris Wallace. Here’s what he said. (Melissa Macaya /The Washington Post)

President Trump refuses to press Vladimir Putin on the questions pretty much every official in American government thinks he should. Luckily, there’s Fox News’s Chris Wallace.

The host on Trump’s favorite cable channel jousted ably with the Russian president — despite the use of interpreters — in an interview airing Monday night. He pressed Putin on the questions Trump has played off, including during Monday’s news conference with Putin in Helsinki. The interview turned heated at points, with Wallace clearly frustrated by Putin’s trademark filibustering and Putin clearly frustrated by a journalist actually challenging him.

Perhaps the most notable exchange came toward the end, when Wallace probed Putin on why many of his critics wind up dead or near death. The most recent high-profile example of this is Sergei Skripal in Britain, an attack for which the Trump administration officially holds Russia responsible but Trump himself seems to view as an obstacle to making friends.

View the complete article on the Washington Post website here.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media

The following article by Amy B. Wang was posted on the Washington Post website February 19, 2017:

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace cautioned his colleagues and the network’s viewers Sunday that President Trump’s latest attack on the media had gone too far.

“Look, we’re big boys. We criticize presidents. They want to criticize us back, that’s fine,” Wallace said Sunday morning on “Fox & Friends.” “But when he said that the fake news media is not my enemy, it’s the enemy of the American people, I believe that crosses an important line.”

The “Fox & Friends” anchors had shown a clip of Trump recounting that past presidents, including Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, had fought with the press. They then asked Wallace whether Trump’s fraught relationship with the media was a big deal. Continue reading “Fox News anchor Chris Wallace warns viewers: Trump crossed the line in latest attack on media”