On Wednesday’s PBS NewsHour, co-host Geoff Bennett conducted a 13-minute interview with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and it was challenging – from the Left.
PBS began with a video medley of Democrat leaders from Nancy Pelosi to Gov. Josh Shapiro expressing their fury at Schumer for voting in favor of a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown.
The headline for the interview summarized the tilt of the interview:
‘We had an awful choice’: Schumer defends voting with GOP saying shutdown would be worse
Bennett, a former MSNBC correspondent, came at Schumer with attitude:
I know that you maintain that a shutdown would have been far worse than passing the Republican bill. What do you see that the vast majority of Hill Democrats don’t see? Why are they wrong in saying that you should have blocked?…
But when you hear the…
