PBS’s Wash­ing­ton Week Sees Dan­ger­ous GOP, Is Sad Hunter Tri­al May Make Joe Unhap­py

It was a live­li­er-than-usu­al round­table on Friday’s Wash­ing­ton Week with The Atlantic, as the import of for­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s polling strength in the face of mul­ti­ple tri­als seemed to be caus­ing pan­ic among the press corps. Mod­er­a­tor Jef­frey Gold­berg led the feisty jour­nal­ists in the dis­cus­sion, includ­ing Lau­ra Bar­rón-López of PBS New­sHour, Eugene Daniels of Politi­co, Susan Glass­er of The New York­er, and Steve Inskeep of Nation­al Pub­lic Radio.
Susan Glass­er of The New York­er sug­gest­ed it was only Repub­li­can mem­bers of Con­gress who were “play to the crowd” and “the cam­eras”:

Insti­tu­tions are unrav­el­ing, not just the insti­tu­tion of the U.S. Con …