Andrea Mitchell (mitchellreports) condemns Trump's relationship with media: 'These are difficult times'
"The president of Ukraine is here tonight with us. The only ground rules were no questions," ABC News anchor Tom Llamas quipped to a room of more than 1,000 journalists on Tuesday night — just hours after news broke that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hadagainst President Trump, largely due to a whistleblower's alleged revelation that he may have asked said Ukrainian president to help undermine Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
"In my experience during more than four decades covering the White House and Congress and national security during seven administrations, politics was invariably and appropriately adversarial, but this is different," Mitchell said. "Now, we are called ‘the enemy of the people.' Our credibility as journalists is deliberately targeted as part of a re-election strategy. Today, time-honored norms are ignored. Press secretaries and senior officials deliver ‘alternative facts.
"I just think it's very interesting that what has moved more people in [Pelosi's] caucus, and perhaps Republicans at some point as well, is a serious national security allegation. We don't know what's to be proved. So we have to evaluate the facts as they emerge," Mitchell said before noting that the acting director of national intelligence, Joseph Maguire, allegedly failed to report the whistleblower's claim about Trump and Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
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