During the 12:00 p.m. ET hour break in Wednesday’s impeachment hearing, the journalists anchoring NBC’s special coverage complained that House Democrats hadn’t made a strong enough case for President Trump’s removal from office and even suggested the media were being too soft on Trump. Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd particularly wailed about the President’s supporters “not accepting the premise” of impeachment.

“You have to make the case that you cannot trust him to hold his office,” Todd advised Democrats. “If they’re gonna make it a case for removal, that’s the case you have to make,” he added. Chief foreign affairs correspondent and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell dismissed “the main Republican argument” to “let the voters decide” Trump’s fate in the 2020 election by touting “the argument that the voters can’t decide because it won’t be a fair fight.”

Later in the panel discussion, Nightly News anchor Lester Holt worried: “Have Democrats taken into account that this is a president who has a different set of rules in many ways?” He noted that Trump has “done a lot of things that have shocked and surprised people.”

Todd launched into rant against the President’s supporters over them refusing to accept media and Democratic efforts to overturn the results of the 2016 election:

[Trump’s] conditioned to 30 to 40% of the country to essentially, “Whatever you hear, it’s not what you think it is”....we are living in a moment where we have a part of one of our major political parties that is just not accepting the premise, is just not accepting facts that are facts, has just prioritized loyalty to a person...

He fretted that “this goes to the President’s ability to talk over us.”

Todd kept up his whining: “I have to say, at some point, when is this – ” Mitchell chimed in: “When is enough too much?” Todd continued: “When is it that we sit here and the President gets judged on a different – it’s like he’s getting, ‘Well, jeez, don’t – the President, he doesn’t understand the rules of Washington or he doesn’t understand the rules of diplomacy.’”

Mitchell seized on Todd’s suggestion that Trump was somehow being treated a softer standard by the wildly hostile press:

At some point, with credible witnesses such as these....the American public has to decide. Whether it’s an impeachment vote or a vote in the Senate or not, it’s a question then for the voters. But we, as journalists, have to not keep holding him to a different standard. We have to report this.

The bitter frustration displayed by the NBC News team shows how deeply invested they are in the impeachment of Donald Trump.

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Here is a transcript of the November 13 panel discussion on NBC: