Fox News host Chris Wallace said former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony was "a disaster for the Democrats and a disaster for the reputation of Robert Mueller" just 90 minutes into six hours of hearings, Stephen Colbert noted to Wallace on Wednesday's Late Show. "So is Fox News' motto 'We report and decide before the thing's over'?" Wallace stood by his assessment.
"In what way was it a disaster? I don't understand," Colbert said. "Yes you do," Wallace responded. "I promise you I don't," Colbert said. "No, it seemed like a well-organized and choreographed recitation of the moral, ethical, and criminal failings of the president of the United States," interspersed with Republicans trying to discredit Mueller and his report.
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"These are all performance notes you're giving," Colbert said — Wallace agreed — "and they only mean something because we've become desensitized to the shock of the information that they were laying out for us." "But all of that was in the report," Wallace repeated. He agreed with Colbert that Trump's failings, as detailed by Mueller, are "shocking," "but I don't think they were more shocking today than they were when the report was released in March. ... You say, well, these are performance, theater critics notes. The fact is, that's what this was all about ... to breathe life into the report," and "they didn't breathe life into the report." Watch below. Peter Weber
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