CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan will be taking on a bigger “breaking news” role soon on the CBS Evening News. Is that a mistake? Because on her Sunday show, she asked Newt Gingrich if Donald Trump putting a strict limit on refugees to America would block the next Albert Einstein.
Last year, Brennan outraged Republicans by “fact checking” J.D. Vance at the vice presidential debate, and cutting off his mike. CBS had promised they would not do that — in part because they have a nasty tendency to debate Republicans instead of moderate. They couldn’t help themselves.
Gingrich and his wife Callista made a documentary for PBS that airs this week titled Journey to America celebrating the contributions of legal immigrants and refugees. So CBS made it about Trump:
MARGARET BRENNAN: In this documentary, you tell the stories of these individuals who…
