Taking a breather from blaming the country’s division solely on right-leaning Americans and railing against moderate female Republican senators who had issues with the Democratic impeachment managers, NBC political director Chuck Todd took time during Sunday’s Meet the Press to share his dread for what President Trump would say if the Senate acquitted him.

“So, what's acquittal going to look like,” he fearfully asked Hoover Institute research fellow Lanhee Chen. “Mike Braun, Lanhee, wants to have people believe or maybe he wants to believe that somehow the President is going to have learned something here. That feels like, okay, fool me once, fool me twice, fool me three, at what point do you start counting?”

Chen argued that “There are no teachable moments in this process. No one is learning anything. The President is not learning anything. Democrats are not learning anything.” He then took the Band-Aid approach with Todd and told him: “President is going to get acquitted. That's going to be it.”

But Todd could not get over it and repeated the question to NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker. “What's he going to do with acquittal,” he asked. Before Welker could begin to answer him, he shared his fear. “He already has—He’s at the Super Bowl ad. I'm sure he's going to -- God only knows what he's going to say in that if he gets acquitted.”

What Todd meant to say was that the President had his traditional Super Bowl interview coming up.

When Welker was finally able to answer her fearful host, she nothing to quell his anxiety. She instead noted how the President’s reelection campaign was “already gearing up” and “blanketing the airways.” “He is going to use this moment to essentially try to energize his base and the campaign is gearing up to do that. A full-court press, I am told,” she added.

Prior to that portion of the program, Todd decried three female Republican senators (Joni Ernst (IA), Lisa Murkowski (AK), and Susan Collins (ME)) for voicing their displeasure with the Democratic impeachment managers. “Here are some folks going out of their way to indicate -- finding ways to not be for witnesses or not be happy about the House impeachment manager[s],” he whined to Welker.

Todd had kicked off the show by blaming America’s division on Trump and Republicans. “Even without impeachment, it was not hard last week to find examples of how divided as a country we have become. There was last Saturday's fourth annual Women's March here in Washington inspired by opposition to President Trump.”

He then tried to smear the Monday gun-rights rally in Richmond, Virginia as racist by noting it was “the former capital of the confederacy on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.” Of course, there was no mention that it was Lobby Day, there were black people and other minority groups in the crowd supporting the Second Amendment, including LGBT people.

“Then, for pure absurd, there was the red-blue shoving match with Oklahoma banning state-funded travel to California,” he added. It was only after Todd had bashed Oklahoma that he admitted California was the instigator. He also huffed about Trump attending the March for Life. It was the first time NBC had acknowledged on-air that Trump was there. Of course, he refused to call it a pro-life event.

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