Taking a break from the Senate speeches after the seditious assault on the Capitol constructing Wednesday, CNN PrimeTime host Chris Cuomo overtly questioned if the day’s chaos might “mark a starting or an finish for this nation.” A while glided by earlier than he finally walked it again, however not earlier than he acquired stunning push again from one other liberal journalist.
“Now, David, we have heard lots of our colleagues right this moment saying the occasions had been surreal, unimaginable. I disagree. I feel it was all too actual. I feel that is the place we’re, and we’ve been blind to it, many people who do not get to journey across the nation loads. That is who we’re,” Cuomo chided in talking to former CNN host David Gregory.
“There are lots of people who consider with what these folks had been considering and doing right this moment on the Capitol. The query is, does this mark a starting or an finish for this nation,” Cuomo requested his visitor.
Surprisingly, Gregory refuted Cuomo’s assertion and argued that Republicans and most Trump supporters weren’t in help of the violence on Capitol Hill. However in fact, Cuomo couldn’t have that:
GREGORY: Effectively, look, I feel there’s some constructive to take out tonight. I feel that speeches we’re listening to on the ground of the Home and the Senate are essential tonight. Mitt Romney, a outstanding amongst them, and there have been others, Republicans and Democrats —
CUOMO: However solely Democrats – however solely Democrats had been clapping for Romney, I’m informed by the management room. Once they began clapping for him, we wished to know who. It wasn’t his personal get together. Maintain going.
However Gregory continued to push again. “I do not assume — even those that had been, , who nursed grievances who had been pro-Trump, I do not assume this crowd, this mob right this moment is reflective of them,” he mentioned.
Including: “I do not assume folks would resort to violence. These had been individuals who had been significantly whipped up and susceptible to this President’s message, who went out of his strategy to inform them to take that anger to the Capitol and that was flawed.”
Earlier than shifting to fellow CNN host Michael Smerconish and CNN Chief White Home correspondent Jim Acosta, Cuomo tried to stroll again his ‘finish of America’ premise. “And simply to be clear, I’m not saying a starting or finish of our nation. I’m saying a starting of this type of part of chaotic mobocracy, or will this be an endpoint the place we pivot to one thing higher,” he advised.
But it surely was simply this previous Summer season when Cuomo was talking out in protection of such violent extremist mobs. It wasn’t the top of the nation again then.
“And please, present me the place it says that protesters are purported to be well mannered and peaceable. As a result of, I can present you outraged residents are those who’ve made America what she is and led to any main milestones,” he exclaimed in protection of Black Lives Matter and Antifa as they had been destroying elements of the nation.
The transcript is under, click on “develop” to learn:
CNN’s Cuomo PrimeTime
January 6, 2021
9:32:15 p.m. Jap(…)
CHRIS CUOMO: Now, David, we have heard lots of our colleagues right this moment saying the occasions had been surreal, unimaginable. I disagree. I feel it was all too actual. I feel that is the place we’re, and we’ve been blind to it, many people who do not get to journey across the nation loads. That is who we’re. There are lots of people who consider with what these folks had been considering and doing right this moment on the Capitol.
The query is, does this mark a starting or an finish for this nation?
DAVID GREGORY: Effectively, look, I feel there’s some constructive to take out tonight. I feel that speeches we’re listening to on the ground of the Home and the Senate are essential tonight. Mitt Romney, a outstanding amongst them, and there have been others, Republicans and Democrats —
CUOMO: However solely Democrats – however solely Democrats had been clapping for Romney, I’m informed by the management room. Once they began clapping for him, we wished to know who. It wasn’t his personal get together. Maintain going.
GREGORY: Yeah. However, Republicans and Democrats have made some essential factors on a day that was being constructed up as quite a lot of theater and quite a lot of nonsense and folks have taken inventory. I attempt to be extra constructive after the occasions of right this moment, the place I feel Republicans have a possibility to replicate on the trail that they are headed down.
I do not assume — even those that had been, , who nursed grievances who had been pro-Trump, I do not assume this crowd, this mob right this moment is reflective of them.
CUOMO: Yeah.
GREGORY: I do not assume folks would resort to violence. These had been individuals who had been significantly whipped up and susceptible to this President’s message, who went out of his strategy to inform them to take that anger to the Capitol and that was flawed.
CUOMO: Michael, let me get a fast button from you after which I wish to go to Jim Acosta about what’s occurring within the White Home. And simply to be clear, I’m not saying a starting or finish of our nation. I’m saying a starting of this type of part of chaotic mobocracy, or will this be an endpoint the place we pivot to one thing higher?
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