Kristen Welker to Interview Trump For Meet the Press Launch

[demmiblue]

Kristen Welker has booked the most newsworthy person as a guest for her first episode hosting NBC’s Sunday morning franchise Meet the Press: Former President Donald Trump.

Welker was announced as the successor of Chuck Todd on Meet the Press earlier this year; her first show will air this coming Sunday. Mediaite has learned the interview with Trump will be a pre-taped one-on-one, allowing extensive fact-checking. Unlike CNN’s widely-derided town hall with Trump, which threw off a lot of news but even more controversy, this will not be a live interview or forum format.

Meet the Press has long held the tradition of hosting discussions and debates with members of each party. Welker landed the highly-coveted moderator chair after earning high marks for the job she did moderating a presidential debate between then-candidate Joe Biden and Trump in 2020.

Executive Producer David P. Gelles spoke of interviewing Trump in a chat with Poynter, saying, “We are in the business of covering politics. It’s not our job to pick and choose the leaders. The American people get to do that. And so our job is to make sure that the American people understand who the people in power are, what they stand for, and what they plan to do.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/just-in-kristen-welker-to-interview-trump-in-her-first-episode-anchoring-meet-the-press/

[jcgoldie]

1. that will be a shitshow

Feeling like how can she not be better than Chuck Todd? ... but not very sure she will be.

[DURHAM D]

2. Well...that means I will never ever watch her show.

Not surprised really.

f it

[senseandsensibility]

3. I'm getting Kaitlin Collins vibes

Will she pack the studio with cheato supporters?

[tenderfoot]

4. Brace yourselves for lots of softballs and both sidesing

[bucolic_frolic]

5. I never liked her

A bit of a lightweight in my mind.

[Sucha NastyWoman]

6. Would be nice if she surprise us

. but I’m not holding my breath.

[Beachnutt]

7. When it is pre-recorded it's basically fake,

they have time to negotiate what will be aired.
So it's just more media time for the conman, I won't be watching.

[senseandsensibility]

8. Oh, it's recorded

Even less likely to watch, and I was not going to watch already.

[budkin]

9. At least it's pre-taped so it can be fact checked

Let's see if they actually follow through with that.

[sarcasmo]

10. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[SCantiGOP]

11. A lot of similarities here

with the MAGA “won’t watch FOX cause it’s too liberal” mindset.
I am not scared of seeing Trump, or hearing what we will all be reading in the days after the interview.

[UTUSN]

12. So... *nobody* else was available? Note to her: That ratings bump ain't a career.

Wha'she gonna do, be "tough" on him?!1

[tetedur]

13. Did she get her talking points at the steakhouse?

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a44891839/milwaukee-reporters-trump-team-rare-steakhouse/

What Are These People Thinking, Eating Pudding With Team Trump?
There is no possible excuse for this.

Charles P. Pierce PUBLISHED: AUG 23, 2023

Team Trump wining and dining with a number of top reporters at a steakhouse called “Rare” — and passing out pudding snack packs (a swipe at RON DeSANTIS’ “pudding fingers” story) as well as debate bingo cards to troll the Florida governor. Squares included: “dismisses polls,” “wipes snot,” “red ears,” “Dee-Santis,” “Duh-Santis,” “flip flops on Social Security… again,” “woke” and “pudding mention.”
Who was there: Reporters Dana Bash, Shane Goldmacher, Kristen Welker, Bob Costa, Fin Gomez, Dasha Burns, Rachel Scott, Rick Klein, Josh Dawsey, Rob Crilly, Mario Parker and David Chalian along with Chris LaCivita, Jason Miller and Steven Cheung. And across the restaurant, feet away: members of Team DeSantis.
I could care less about the wounded fee-fees of Team DeSantis. He deserves every ounce of the ridicule that is being heaped upon him. But what are the people in my business doing sharing ha-ha's with the scurvy bastards in the employ of a treasonous indicted felon, and that's not even to mention Jason Miller, who is beyond even my gifts for invective.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Hopefully she will ask follow up questions and will fact check TFG

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Do They Regularly Interview...

...people under multiple felony indictments?

[LiberaBlueDem]

16. TFG is a loser

The public did not pick him, we ran him off, he lost.

He is a crook and the press is showing its disrespect for the people by bringing him in and showing him off.

[NowISeetheLight]

17. Checklist

1. Witch hunt.
2. Hunters laptop.
3. Hillarys email.
4. Antifa.
5. Stolen election.

Think I've got Trump covered.

[TSExile]

29. Not quite...

He'll slander E. Jean Carroll again, for sure.

[Sky Jewels]

18. Oh joy.

[Cha]

19. I remember Chuck's first MTP

interview.. it was Pres Obama and Toad gave him a hard time.. Blowing his questions.

But, Obama handled him well. Made CT look like the Turkey tool he is.

[Bristlecone]

20. Will be she first cut her bangs like Chuck's

So that she can properly get walked on, not follow up, then round it out with some healthy doses of both-siderism?

[House of Roberts]

21. I had hoped...

well, that's it for her then!

[IcyPeas]

22. FFS

[edhopper]

23. When will they ever learn?

[bullwinkle428]

24. I hated this interview the first time I saw it...when it was called the "CNN Town Hall

hosted by Kaitlan Collins".

[TSExile]

25. Dear lord, WHY???

I keep thinking the networks are better than this, and I don't know why. If NBC is stupid enough to air this live, they need to have a delay.

[Dave says]

27. They're not better than this.

Foolish to expect differently. They are bought and paid for. What is it, 5 mega-corporations own 95% of the major media, and all do the bidding of their corporate overlords.

[Hotler]

26. Free air time to a fascist dictator, nice. What are you going to talk about first,

the suspension of the constitution or the arrest and execution of his political enemy's?

[gratuitous]

28. Wowee! What ever will Trump say??? Must see!

Trump is such a cipher; who knows what he's thinking??? And his insightful, penetrating mind will be an interviewer's dream!

At least, that's what I'd be saying if I just had my second lobotomy.