More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
In what was an otherwise softball interview with Chelsea Clinton on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie did briefly press the former first daughter (and former NBC correspondent) on Hillary Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign: “You are one of her most trusted advisers as well as her daughter....And there was a recent poll that was really striking because it asked voters what is a word you associate with Hillary Clinton... ‘dishonest,’ ‘untrustworthy,’ ‘liar.’ Why do you think that is? What's not getting through, in your mind?”
Clinton completely sidestepped the issue and changed the subject: “Well, Savannah, I'm not a pundit, I'm a daughter, and as I just said, I love and admire my mom. I know that she's talking about issues that are important to families across our country....I believe as more and more Americans hear from her they’ll come to know why I'm so proud to be my mother's daughter...”