CNN’s newest host, Chris Wallace, literally gushed over the sham January 6th committee’s surprise witness Cassidy Hutchinson after her testimony telling CNN’s few remaining viewer that “she was just brilliant.”
Hutchinson, a former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, was the center of the hearing during which she delivered jaw-dropping testimony that has since been debunked by the secret service agents involved.
During CNN’s coverage of the hearing on Tuesday Anderson Cooper asked the former Fox News host for his take on Cassidy’s testimony and Wallace just gushed and practically licked her boots:
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WALLACE: “Can we talk about Cassidy Hutchinson? First of all — and I bow to — particularly to you and the — as somebody involved in prosecutions. She was a great witness. She was absolutely precise. She told you — I mean, if she heard — overheard a conference session, she’d say — Cipollone went in the room, he left the door open, he was standing in the transom. I was talking —“
BORGER: “Right.”
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WALLACE: “— I could hear when I went into the dining room, I stepped back, but the door was open. I could see Mark Meadows, but I could in the background I could hear what Trump and Cipollone were saying. She was just brilliant. And really what you’re all saying is that to a degree that nobody has up till now, really nobody in all — the think of all the books we’ve read by all these great investigative reporters, none of them ever had the scene inside the base (ph), right?
So there are some secrets still out there, but she connected the dots more than anybody has between Giuliani on January 2nd talking about well, there’s going to be violence and then she talks to Meadows and Meadows says it’s going be real, real bad. And then Cipollone comes in and then Trump’s knowledge — and she just connects the dots between the violence. And remember, she also talks about Meadows talking to Michael Flynn and Stone in the —“
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BORGER: “Well —“
WALLACE: “— but the only thing which you talked about your quote of the day, when she’s asked about the 2:24 pm tweet by Trump, where he basically — when Pence is under attack and he’s saying, too bad he didn’t show courage.
She says, represent — I came in to represent the administration to show all the good it had done, when I read this, I felt frustrated, it was disgusting, it was Un-American, it was unpatriotic and I was watching the Capitol being defaced over a lie.”
Watch the whole disgusting thing, via CNN:
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Chris Wallace is a putz and perfectly suited for the sinking ship that is CNN.
How would you respond to Chris Wallace on this?