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Speaker 1: This is the warning. It's Friday. That means it's time

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Speaker 1: for hits and misses. And with a hat tip to

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Speaker 1: the great Warner Wolf, let's go to the videotape.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's go to the video tape.

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Speaker 1: There are misses and there are misses, and this past week,

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Speaker 1: a big hit and a big mess both played out

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Speaker 1: on the NBC field. Now, the issue at hand was

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Speaker 1: the hiring of Ronald McDaniel, the sedition lady from Michigan,

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Speaker 1: who was the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, the

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Speaker 1: third oldest political party in the world. What she did

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Speaker 1: was the born An insurrection by being a major player

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Speaker 1: in a conspiracy of lives. Ronald McDaniel refused to play

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Speaker 1: her role, to do her duty, to meet her responsibility,

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Speaker 1: and play a small role in the seamless, peaceful, perpetual

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Speaker 1: transfer of power that marks the American Republic. It is

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Speaker 1: the cornerstone of our civilization, the idea that we the

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Speaker 1: people can choose our leaders through an election process where

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Speaker 1: majority decide who's in charge. Of course, we have a

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Speaker 1: system of law under a constitution that today includes everybody

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Speaker 1: and protects minority rights from a tyrant, from a dictator

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Speaker 1: because in America there is no person who is above

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Speaker 1: the law. Ronald McDaniel try to tear down the building

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Speaker 1: blocks that are the foundation of America's society. And she

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Speaker 1: did it knowing it was the wrong thing to do

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Speaker 1: because in her words, well, let's hear her say it again.

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Speaker 2: To the question, though, do you disagree with Trump saying he's.

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Speaker 3: Going to free those who've been I do not think

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Speaker 3: people who committed violent acts on January sixth should be freed.

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Speaker 2: So you disagree with that. He's been saying that for months.

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Speaker 4: I Roanna, why not speak out earlier?

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Speaker 2: Why just speak out about that now?

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Speaker 3: When you're the R and C chair, you kind of

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Speaker 3: take one for the whole team. Right now, I get

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Speaker 3: to be a little bit more myself. Right This is

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Speaker 3: what I believe.

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Speaker 1: Ronald McDaniel had a duty and she failed to meet it.

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Speaker 1: NBC news journalists have a duty to the public. They

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Speaker 1: have a public trust to report the news from around

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Speaker 1: the world, to explain and explicate complexity. What is happening,

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Speaker 1: Why is it happening, Where is it happening, What does

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Speaker 1: it mean? This requires credibility, This requires trust, This requires

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Speaker 1: an audience of Americans to believe that there's no agenda.

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Speaker 1: There's no hidden mirror, no magnet under the table, no

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Speaker 1: hidden hand at play. This is why network news divisions

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Speaker 1: have standards. They guide truthfulness, probity, and integrity because the

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Speaker 1: delivery of the news at an elemental level is deeply

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Speaker 1: attached to the notion of trust. And we live in

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Speaker 1: an era where trust has collapsed completely between the American

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Speaker 1: people in most every instant institution you could think today,

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Speaker 1: from the Catholic Church to the Boy Scouts of America,

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Speaker 1: to the political parties, to the news networks, on and

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Speaker 1: on and on and on and on it goes. But

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Speaker 1: let's look back at this week's big hit. An electrifying moment,

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Speaker 1: a stunning one. Actually. The words were epic, and they

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Speaker 1: will resonate and reverberate, and they will be around for

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Speaker 1: a long time because they mark more than anything that

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Speaker 1: has been said over the last nine years, the state,

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Speaker 1: the condition, the decrepitude of American journalists in this era

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Speaker 1: of access media, where the truth and the lie exists

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Speaker 1: together indistinguishable, in a twilight gaze of American democracy.

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Speaker 2: Let me do with the elephant in the room.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think our bosses owe you an apology for

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Speaker 4: putting you in this situation because I don't know what

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Speaker 4: to believe. She is now a paid contributor by NBC News. Well,

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Speaker 4: I have no idea whether any answer she gave to

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Speaker 4: you was because she didn't want to mess up her contract.

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Speaker 1: But those words spoken by Chuck Todd the hit went

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Speaker 1: a lot further than it may seem at first, because

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Speaker 1: what he was talking about at a core level, where

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Speaker 1: the bosses across the board who have saddled the American

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Speaker 1: people with a network news media, is strange from the truth,

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Speaker 1: married to condescension, deeply wedded to the idea that Trump

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Speaker 1: is a golden calf and a gift hors that keeps

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Speaker 1: on giving no matter how much damage he does to

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Speaker 1: all of the values and to all of the things

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Speaker 1: that the network news exists to defend against and to

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Speaker 1: communicate about. The thousands of appalling moments that have accumulated

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Speaker 1: in an instant were washed away by a sentence, because

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Speaker 1: that sentence gave courage to a collective action, which was

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Speaker 1: the hit of the week, the assertion at long last

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Speaker 1: of in aegority over indecency and untruthfulness on television. No

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Speaker 1: less a line was drawn no, and it was beautiful

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Speaker 1: to hear. So the hit of this week goes to

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Speaker 1: Kristen Welker into Chuck Todd, into the courage that they

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Speaker 1: inspired behind them when collectively the journalists of NBC News said,

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Speaker 1: we are the network, not the cynical bosses. It is

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Speaker 1: the viewer, in the audience and the American public who

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Speaker 1: counts here as well, not just the shareholder. And do

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Speaker 1: you know what, guests who agreed with the journalists, the

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Speaker 1: cynical executives who made the act of principle possible in

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Speaker 1: the first place, with their undiluted cynicism and their obtucity,

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Speaker 1: an absolute inability to comprehend after nine years of time,

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Speaker 1: this urgent moment in American life, this dire hour in

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Speaker 1: American history, where we hovered near the edge of an abyss,

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Speaker 1: where the central idea, an ideal of the country, is

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Speaker 1: under threat, under assault, and often disregarded. But not at

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Speaker 1: NBC News, because this week the truth one. Thank you

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