MSNBC Finally Covers Durham Filing, Mocks ‘Stupid’ People Covering It Like Benghazi

On Tuesday morning, MSNBC lastly bought round to masking Particular Counsel John Durham’s newest submitting that exposed Democratic operatives obtained web knowledge from the Government Workplace of the President and different Donald Trump-related entities in an try to spin the Russian collusion narrative. In the meantime, CNN had solely its second point out of Durham.

Sadly, each dismissed it with MSNBC’s Morning Joe spent 27 minutes and 48 treating it as a Benghazi-like, Fox Information-hyped non-troversy whereas CNN’s New Day had two minutes and 23 seconds calling the brand new revelations “very obscure” and questioned if Durham had his info straight. In distinction, ABC, CBS, and NBC stay uninterested. 

Previous to an alleged deep dive into why there’s nothing essential to see, the MSNBC desk viciously mocked and dismissed the claims as being peddled and ingested by “silly” folks whereas others are “deliberat[e]” liars and dismissed the argument that the allegations had been something near or worse than Watergate (click on “broaden”):

JOHN HEILEMANN: [O]ne of the issues about that is there’s this willful or both extremely silly or willful misconstruing of what that is all about. 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hey, can I simply say, the, willfully silly — 

HEILEMANN: Each!

SCARBOROUGH: — lots of people being willfully silly right here.

HEILEMANN: Each! Willfully stu — or — or simply — or simply willfully misconstrued. You see on Fox Information have — Fox — Tucker Carlson and different folks saying, “oh, you understand, they’re taking a look at — they should be trying — they’re intercepting web visitors. They should be taking a look at e-mail or textual content messages.

TOM WINTERS: Not attainable.

HEILEMANN: DNS — 

SCARBOROUGH: No.

HEILEMANN: — these DNS. That is all about DNS.

SCARBOROUGH: No, who could possibly be that silly? I ask you, who could possibly be that silly to really say that on their tv present?

HEILEMANN: You actually don’t need me to make an inventory, do you?

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Oh.

HEILEMANNN: No, most —

SCARBOROUGH: Lots of people did. 

HEILEMANNN: — most — many of the — many of the Fox —

SCARBOROUGH: Or else they know — 

BRZEZINSKI: Let’s not name silly.

HEILEMANNN: — so most — 

SCARBOROUGH: — they know that they are mendacity —

HEILEMANN: — so most —

SCARBOROUGH: — to their viewers, that they are liars they usually’re intentionally mendacity about that. 

HEILEMANN: Sure, mendacity liars who lie and I’d say that is most of what right-wing media is doing and that is why I wish to deal with it. The DNS knowledge lookups should not substantive communications. Am I appropriate about that. These should not issues through which these folks — we communicated. They don’t seem to be studying folks’s e-mails. They’re not studying folks’s — to extent something was occurring has nothing to do with what we consider as communications.

WINTER: Individuals have had the analogy that that is the subsequent Watergate. Watergate concerned folks breaking in. Watergate concerned folks attempting to undergo submitting cupboards. While you take a look at the analogy right here, if you happen to’re going to name it Watergate it’s that the safety guard on the Watergate, whereas being paid to do safety, to see simply who was coming, simply observing who was coming in and that very same particular person was then paid to ship that data to any individual else. It doesn’t suggest they had been asking what they had been there for, it doesn’t suggest they had been going by way of their briefcases, it doesn’t suggest they had been going by way of the recordsdata they had been bringing in. [BRZEZINSKI SIGHS] So, that is the proper analogy if you’ll use the Watergate analogy that has been thrown round so usually about it.

In the meantime, MSNBC analyst and former Obama official Jeremy Bash derided Durham’s findings as “mak[ing] no sense,” including: “[H]ow may she have had her marketing campaign spying on him whereas he is president?”

To cowl their tracks, Scarborough defended the media’s Russia hysteria about Trump’s illegitimacy and collusion, telling viewers to “learn the Senate Intel Committee report” on Russian meddling “in order for you…to see how harmful” the Trump-Russia menace was.

Former RNC chair and MSNBC Republican Michael Steele summed it up by declaring that “it simply jogs my memory of simply what number of instances we get caught within the Donald Trump silly lure and the way many instances, you understand, you watch this course of unfold, Joe, in which Donald Trump and his ilk are on the market massaging and attempting to maneuver the messaging round.”

Steele added it is “grist for the mill for Fox Information to out and, and additional gum up the works, to create an entire lot of noise about nothing. That on the finish of the day like Benghazi, after the entire noise and all of their sabre rattling involves what, proper?”

Co-host Joe Scarborough agreed and, in turning to Sunday At this time host Willie Geist, accused conservatives of gaslighting 

[T]hey politicized the dying of 4 People…with Benghazi…Right here you’re going to have an investigation…that lasts longer than an investigation, and I could be shocked, shocked if there may be one legal conviction on this whole factor. However there might be lots of headlines. And there are lots of people making assumptions which might be going to look actually silly months from now however they do not care as a result of they’re simply gaslighting[.]

For his half, Geist declared that conservative response was “an effort to alter the topic from the investigation into January sixth.” Ah, sure, it is at all times about January 6.

Total, the present roundly dismissed Durham as a U.S. lawyer missing integrity, one thing that was poo-pooed in the course of the Trump years.

Over at New Day, co-host Brianna Keilar led a a lot shorter dialogue, asking crime and justice reporter Katelyn Polantz to elucidate the submitting, specific the half about “Russian-made telephones getting used close to the White Home.”

Polantz described the brand new revelations as a “new wrinkle, it actually is only a wrinkle and it’s totally obscure” and cited Michael Sussman’s response, together with his declare that “even a number of the data was fallacious, that this knowledge about telephones getting used across the White Home was really about the Obama years…[T]his is one thing that actually we’re nonetheless attempting to get a sense of what the info are right here. Durham’s centered on this assembly. However Sussmann…is saying it, it truly is deceptive and…taken out of context.” 

Durham’s submitting stated that Sussmann omitted that information in his allegations towards Trump, however that was of no concern to Keilar and Polantz.

CNN and MSNBC promptly went again to ignoring the Durham story till the 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. Japanese hours, respectively.

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Listed below are transcripts for the February 15 reveals:

MSNBC Morning Joe
02/15/2022
6:54 AM ET

MICHAEL STEELE: Yeah. You realize, the factor that struck me, in kind, of listening to the final two segments, it simply — it simply jogs my memory of simply what number of instances we get caught within the Donald Trump silly lure and the way many instances, you understand, you watch this course of unfold, Joe, in which Donald Trump and his ilk are on the market massaging and attempting to maneuver the messaging round as a result of, as we’ve already indicated and as Marcy simply very clearly laid out, the info do not line up. It isn’t there. You’re having a post-hoc discovery of, of one thing that really on its face makes no sense. It hasn’t made any sense since 2016. Why the heck do we predict it’s going to make sense now? 

You will have Durham out right here who’s within the place and simply put it on the road, when he was initially put into this position, what was the aim of it? It was to exit and create a set of info to satisfy a story Donald Trump needed executed. And, and in order the system grinds to a halt but once more due to the loopy world of Trump colliding with actual life, we’re — we’re sitting right here taking a look at and studying pleadings through which anybody who has a scintilla of mind energy left of their head acknowledges this is not sensible. 

That is grist for the mill for Fox Information to out and — and additional gum up the works, to create an entire lot of noise about nothing. That on the finish of the day like Benghazi, after the entire noise and all of their sabre rattling involves what, proper? So, the fact of it’s that we are able to persist on this, on this recreation or we are able to name it loopy, let the judicial system, the justice system play itself out through which they put a stamp on it and go “nothing right here, let’s transfer on.” And I feel —

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.

STEELE: — what — what’s, what they’re attempting to preempt is that finish, Joe. They do not need that finish as a result of they know what occurs after that? Nothing. 

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, properly, you understand, in Benghazi, in fact, Willie, they politicized the dying of 4 People. 

WILLIE GEIST: Sure. 

SCARBOROUGH: And — and — and, it, with Benghazi there was the dying of 4 People. Right here you’re going to have an investigation that — into an investigation that lasts longer than an investigation, and I could be shocked, shocked if there may be one legal conviction on this whole factor. However there might be lots of headlines. 

GEIST: Oh, yeah. 

SCARBOROUGH: And there are lots of people making assumptions which might be going to look actually silly months from now however they do not care as a result of they’re simply gaslighting they usually’ll simply proceed.

GEIST: And it is an effort to alter the topic from the investigation into January sixth. That is one other —

SCARBOROUGH: Yeah

GEIST: — component of this story. So, Tom Winter, during the last 30 minutes or so we have heard lots. We have met some new characters, some new names in all probability for our viewers. We’ve talked concerning the arcane particulars of DNS lookups. Let’s simply attempt to crystallize it a little bit for the viewers right here, who has heard lots. What’s the essential takeaway from this submitting and what occurs from right here? 

TOM WINTER: The essential takeaway from this submitting is that there have been folks monitoring visitors out and in of the White Home however not capable of see their precise communications, not capable of look inside what it was. It’s very customary data. It’s obtainable publicly. There are a variety of teams that do that and that, that data was handed alongside by an lawyer in line with each the lawyer and Particular Counsel John Durham at one level to the CIA however that hasn’t been charged. No person’s been charged with hacking. No person’s been charged with some kind of cyber intrusion into the White Home. So far as the place this goes subsequent, you have already seen an effort by the lawyer, by attorneys for the lawyer who has been charged right here, Michael Sussmann, for him to dismiss the entire factual particulars that had been included on this submitting that we’re speaking about right here and I feel we’re going to should watch going ahead if there’s any kind of further data that comes into this case by means of filings not included in an indictment. Why may that be the case? That’s one thing that we, we sometimes report on so we’ll should observe that. And I feel, lastly, we’re simply going to should see when the investigation wraps up. As you stated, it’s lasted longer than Particular Counsel Mueller’s case. 

CNN New Day with John Berman and Brianna Keilar
02/15/2022
6:23 AM ET

BRIANNA KEILAR: In a brand new courtroom submitting Particular Counsel John Durham is accusing a Democratic lawyer of subjecting former President Trump to a smear marketing campaign by sharing knowledge with officers to elevate their suspicions towards him. Durham alleges that Michael Sussmann instructed the CIA about Russian-made telephones getting used close to the White Home. CNN’s Katelyn Polantz is becoming a member of us now to elucidate this. It is somewhat bit sophisticated. However these are essential particulars. Are you able to stroll us by way of this? 

KATELYN POLANTZ: Sure. So, the large image right here, Brianna, is that John Durham has been saying for some time that the Democrats took web knowledge that they consider tied Trump to Russia, to federal companies, together with the FBI and CIA in 2016 and 2017. What we knew from the unique indictment, that Sussmann had gone to the FBI and CIA about an web connection that they consider tied Trump Group to a Russian financial institution, this new wrinkle, it actually is only a wrinkle and it’s totally obscure, on this one Durham is saying Sussmann was chatting with the CIA about Russian-made telephones that had been being utilized in sure locations together with across the White Home, the Government Workplace of the President. So Michael Sussman hit again final evening, as a result of this, that is one thing that actually infected right-wing media. Is that this spying of Donald Trump? However Sussman final evening in a courtroom submitting, fairly late, referred to as this one thing that Durham was placing in his submitting to politicize the case, to inflame media protection, and to taint the jury pool. He stated even a number of the data was fallacious, that this knowledge about telephones getting used across the White Home was really about the Obama years, not concerning the Trump years in workplace or the Trump month in workplace in 2017. So that is one thing that actually we’re nonetheless attempting to get a sense of what the info are right here. Durham’s centered on this assembly. However, Sussmann proper now’s saying it, it truly is deceptive and it’s, it’s taken out of context. 

KEILAR: That timing is big if Durham is conscious that that is really not in the course of the Trump administration instances. Is he conscious of that? 

POLANTZ: Effectively, what actually issues here’s what Michael Sussmann stated to the companies when he spoke to them. I imply, the one charged conduct on this case right now is a gathering that Michael Sussman had with the FBI. He is accused to mendacity, not about what he shared with them concerning the knowledge, however what he stated who his shoppers had been on the time. He did not inform them he was representing with, he was the Democrats, allegedly.

KEILAR: That is a vital element. Katelyn, thanks. Nice reporting. Admire it.