More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
After asking President Obama if the prospect of Donald Trump having control of the nuclear codes was “frightening,” in part two of a White House interview aired on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie worried that Trump was the one launching personal attacks: “Does it feel personal? I mean, Mr. Trump has made it pretty personal against you. I could give you a list, which I guess I probably don't need to.”
Obama used the opportunity to mount his high horse and lecture the GOP: “...we do think that it makes it difficult to run the country. Not just for me, but for Republican leaders....if you are telling your base, if you’re telling your voters, that the other side is not just wrong but bad and unpatriotic, and different, and are undermining America, well, then what they’re going to say to you is you can't work with them, you can't compromise.”