Matthews Goes Off Script, Shocks Williams by Rant About Likelihood of Violence at RNC

Curtis Houck | July 16, 2016
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MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews was up early dithering away on Saturday morning minutes before Donald Trump unveiled Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate when he went off script and shocked breaking news anchor Brian Williams by insinuating that there will be violence at the Republican National Convention (RNC) like the 1968 Democratic National Convention (DNC). 

Williams had remarked to Matthews to indicate if he agreed that “[w]e're about to witness, Chris, this is going to be a convention, again, for us political history buffs, unlike any other gathering we've seen” when Matthews flew off the rails.