Hmmm. Did anyone else just see that Hallie Jackson interview? [View all]

[PCIntern]

I was a bit taken aback, and perhaps I read this wrong but it went something like this as far as I could see: on her show her guest was the father of a prisoner still held in Russia and not released today. She must have asked him 10 times if he was satisfied with how President Biden was handling the situation, given that others were released but not his son. He stated 10 times that he knew the President Biden was doing the best he could do, and that it’s a very difficult road and it was perhaps because the Russians asked too much in return. Undaunted, Ms. Jackson stated that he, the father, had requested a meeting with President Biden and had been told no, not at this time and how did he feel about that? He replied that the President is a busy man, trying to manage a war in Europe, and also all the other issues with face the chief executive of a very large country. She kept using words and phrases such as: are you disappointed, are you upset, and the like, and I will say for his part the gentleman gave every benefit of every doubt to President Biden. She seemed incredibly disappointed and I suppose wanted the father to get excited and rail against the administration, but that did not happen.

I was a little surprised that after the first couple questions asked in a negative fashion that she persisted. I don’t see this as hard questions, I see this as an attempted shock journalism such that she could get a sound byte of this father disparaging the President and with that, the country and the Administration . If anyone else saw this, do they have any thoughts, I would be most interested.