so this certainly is ironic on the news
that a town hall that
uh was supposed to take place between
joe biden and donald trump tonight
the man hosting that steve scully from
c-span has now been suspended
indefinitely
after he admitted to lying about having
his twitter account hacked this goes
back about a week ago
i want to bring in my colleague brett
berrigan to talk about this and you're
wondering about the debate commission
going forward brett
scully had tweeted at anthony scaramucci
former comms
director for the trump campaign sorry
the trump white house for
a series of days ten days yeah at
scaramucci should i respond to trump and
this thing went viral and everybody
thought what's going on here with this
conversation
and scully said i'd been hacked the
problem with that is that later that day
there were tweets that came out that
showed that scully said he'd been hacked
in 2012
in 2013 and the story just seemed to
fall apart
where does can you imagine if if this
story broke today and
there was a town hall with trump and
biden on the same stage in miami
that was tonight i mean it was going to
be tonight in miami this is a big
story it is a big black eye for
the debate commission which already had
black eyes
with the way it handled uh the covid
and canceling the debate going virtual
not telling the campaigns
uh and then this you know i just want to
point to a c-span
statement that came out just after
this all happened and this was october
9th last night a tweet from steve scully
appeared on his timeline communicating
with anthony scaramucci steve scully did
not originate the tweet
and believes his account has been hacked
the commission on presidential debates
has stated publicly that the tweet was
not sent by scully himself
and is investigating with the help of
authorities when additional information
is available
we will release it i mean
this is this is bad and uh obviously
he's been suspended indefinitely from
c-span
um and you know you you feel for him
he's come clean on this i know steve
uh i it's a sad sad thing but it is
uh is not a good look for the
presidential debate yeah a lot of people
come out public and said he's a good guy
you know and he um he has good ethics
and journalism and
30 years working with c-span to back
that up but now as you point out black
eye
scaramucci just tweeted brutal outcome
for a silly non-political tweet
nothing objectionable cancel culture
going too far
all right that's from scaramucci
nonetheless if you lie about it you get
caught
that's a problem right listen if he came
out and said
you know what i meant to dm him direct
message him
and i was debating whether i was going
to tweet out
a response to president trump who was
coming after me
i i actually think america would be like
okay
no big deal yeah yeah and um
but this was a snowball and
unfortunately for steve uh this became a
big issue now
tonight it was supposed to happen this
debate now there's these dueling town
halls
why there couldn't be a debate that 70
million people watch
is you know is another question yeah a
week from
today in nashville tennessee we were in
cleveland for debate number one
we were in salt lake for the vice
president of debate you referred to it
uh before dawn the next morning the
debate commission declared that the next
debate would be virtual
and in turn the president said forget it
i'm not going to do that you don't do
debates you know remotely you do them in
person
and it is it has snowballed into
twin prime time town halls tonight brett
listen i think that there's going to be
a real soul-searching
about how debates happen how
this uh the moderators are chosen
how all of this stuff happens you know
the debate commissions
goes back to the 1980s um and they were
essentially designed because the
campaigns couldn't agree
on how to move forward it seems like
there is you know some some problems in
campaigns
dealing with the commission and
obviously the trump campaign
has said we just don't feel like we're
represented
uh fairly in this in this commission so
i think it's going to change but this is
not a good
good outcome i agree with you yeah it
will change what comes from it i guess
we'll wait and see we've got four years
to figure that out
but it feels a lot like 1988 as of now
in 2020.
again i'll see you at six o'clock brett
thanks for coming back today all right
buddy