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White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough appeared on four of the five major Sunday morning talk shows in advance of President Obama’s final State of the Union on Tuesday night and, when comparing those he sat for with ABC’s This Week host George Stephanopoulos and Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, the questioning couldn’t be any more stark with the former lobbing softballs as the latter repeatedly challenged McDonough.
On ABC, McDonough faced one of the friendliest faces in former Clinton administration official and Clinton Foundation donor Stephanopoulos, who started the interview by hyping the talk point from the White House that this last address to Congress will “be non-traditional” and “[w]hat does that mean?”