CBS To Obama Speechwriter: Is Trump Just Trying to Destroy the ‘Work You Accomplished?’

Scott Whitlock | June 4, 2018
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[See NewsBusters for more.] Talking to a top Obama speechwriter, CBS This Morning hosts on Monday avoided a potentially awkward conversation about journalists shilling for Barack Obama's Iran deal. While talking to Ben Rhodes, the reporters instead worried about Donald Trump dismantling the agenda of the ex-Democratic president. Co-host Gayle King worried, “The larger project of believing that America is a better place. when you look at the Trump administration, many people believe that they're trying to unravel and undo everything that the Obama administration did.” She fretted, “ Does he feel that way and do you members of the administration feel that everything you did, the work that you accomplished, that they're now trying to take it all apart? Do you feel that?”