Mark Armstrong

The failure of Chuck Todd to immediately refer to Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.) statements about the various news outlets claiming Ukraine interfered in the elections, as false, is an indictment of Chuck Todd. He needs to state that false statements are false in real-time. The fact that he does not do this makes him an unwitting pawn in the Russian propaganda. Failing to call these statements out as false allows the statements to carry the air of veracity. Either Todd doesn't know they are false when the statements are made or he allows the false statements to stand and cowers to the facilitators of Russian propaganda. Todd should have real-time fact checkers that can feed him info when someone is making a false claim. Just shaking his head in disbelief doesn't cut it. Time to step up in defense of the country in the face of Trumpian lies perpetuated by Trumps pawns in Congress.