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As the final segment to cap off Thursday’s CBS Evening News, the network allowed former Face the Nation moderator Bob Schieffer go on a rambling commentary where he dubbed Trump “the ‘What If’ president.” The premise of his commentary was “what if” the Trump had listened to Obama about hiring Flynn, and didn’t make every other misstep he had since being elected. Schieffer appeared during CNN’s so-called Reliable Sources on Sunday to give commentary about his commentary.
“John McCain said ‘we have seen this movie before.’ So to you, what does this moment in time feel like,” fill-in host John Berman asked Schieffer. “Well, we have seen this movie before. And the parallels between this and Watergate are striking,” Schieffer responded. “You know, you saw the Richard Nixon tried to crush the investigation. He fired the special prosecutor. You saw much the same thing from President Trump over the last week.”
Schieffer did compliment the President for delivering a well thought out speech to a gathering of Middle Eastern leaders earlier in the day. “But again, today you saw a very different President Trump. He actually sounded presidential. You may agree or disagree with what he said, but he sounded like a president,” Schieffer said. “He laid out his vision, he called for help from those in the Muslim world. It was a much different kind of presentation.” He added that:
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