Dana Bash on CNN’s choice not to fact-check the first presidential debate #shorts

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:00:58 Category: Entertainment

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You moderated, co-moderated with Jake,  the big debate that happened in June,   another debate's coming up. CNN  obviously, they made a choice,   "We're not going to fact check." As a journalist,  when you hear Trump saying something about the   election line and this does your instinct  like, "I should say something," or you go,   "That's it. These are the rules and we're  just going to do it and that's life."? My instinct is always to say something. In  that situation, which is a debate where it's   not just us. It's him against the person who he's  challenging to be President of the United States.   We made the decision that we were not  going to be participants in that way.   Because we felt that that was his job to  do. And by the way, we would've also had   to fact check President Biden, which  Donald Trump didn't do, I don't think,   on a couple of things. A debate is very  different from an interview or a town   hall where you are the person who is running the  show and you're the only one there to challenge.

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