More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
With NBC’s Today live in Cleveland Monday morning to cover the Republican National Convention, co-host Matt Lauer used the killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana over the weekend to denounce “inflammatory rhetoric” from Donald Trump: “...the President spoke out and basically said, ‘Look, we’ve got to turn down the inflammatory rhetoric’....you have Donald Trump calling the President ‘clueless’ and saying the nation is a ‘divided crime scene.’ Are we going to hear more of that in the convention hall behind us?”
Political analyst Nicolle Wallace declared: “Absolutely....We’ve got a jittery nation and a jittery party. I don't think Trump will go very far to soothing the jittery nation, but I do think he has a chance of coming out of here bringing together that jittery party.”