Seeing as how his life has been personally enriched by his wife working for Democrats, it’s easy to see why MSNBC’s MTP Daily host Chuck Todd was so adamant about defending the sketchy business career of Hunter Biden. On Tuesday’s show, he emotionally lashed out at Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) as a gaslighter doing harm to American politics for daring to ask questions about the Bidens.

The nearly-10-minute bout began at the very moment Kennedy dared to insist that both the President’s conversations with the Ukrainian president and Hunter Biden’s business dealings should be looked into (click “expand”):

No, no, Senator, Senator, no, no, I want you to be able to — I will give you a second to respond here, but here is where I find all this stuff a bunch of — of — it's hard to believe on the Hunter — it's hard to believe the concern about Hunter Biden by — by some of these folks making this case. If they were so serious about this, I'm trying to figure out why nobody from the FBI has been contacted. Not a single person. I don't understand why Rudy Giuliani thinks it's better to investigate an American via an outsourcing to a country that apparently they also didn't trust. Do you see why I'm skeptical that the Hunter Biden stuff is really that serious? If they were serious about it, you go to the FBI, you don't go to an oligarch in Ukraine.

Kennedy replied that there’s no way Todd would know that since the FBI doesn’t comment on investigations. He correctly added how it’s unlikely that the Ukrainian oligarch picked Hunter Biden for a position on the board of a foreign energy company because they liked what they saw on a Zip Recruiter profile.

While he didn’t use the term “conspiracy theory,” Todd proceeded to throw journalists like those listed here under the bus by declaring that every possible group has looked into Hunter Biden and deemed everything squeaky clean (click “expand”):

TODD: You do realize, senator, that a lot of people have attempted to look into this and they haven't found a there there to look into. KENNEDY: Who? Who has? TODD: And — and that's the point here — KENNEDY: Who? Who has? TODD: — you brought up the FBI. KENNEDY: Who's looked into it, Chuck? TODD: Apparently the Ukrainian government. Apparently every Ukranian journalist. Plenty of people here. We’ve all looked into it. I’m sorry that it — you do — KENNEDY: Ohhh, okay. Has MS — MSNBC looked into it? TODD: Yes, sir. You realize you're looking for outcome, not the facts. That’s what you keep telling me. KENNEDY: No. No. No. That’s your — TODD: There have been four or five different entities who found nothing. KENNEDY: — who? TODD: I just told you. KENNEDY: MSNBC? TODD: And they’re not good enough for you. They’re not good enough for you. KENNEDY: MSN — wait. You said Ukraine? TODD: I said Ukrainian journalists have, the Ukrainian government has, apparently if the FBI is contacted, the FBI can't seem to open an investigation either because they haven't found enough. KENNEDY: Do you know that they haven’t opened an investigation? TODD: We've looked into it. The New York Times has looked into it. Maybe you're right, maybe there's magical missing information here. But at some point, do you not accept all of these entities looking into it to have found the answer? And again, if what Hunter Biden did was wrong, boy, there are a lot of people with the last name of Trump that have some answering to do about their foreign work and their foreign entanglements. KENNEDY: Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Chuck. I don't think there's been an in-depth investigation of this. I don’t.

Ah, yes. So for Chuck Todd, the children of Democrats can do important, noble work in countries while their parents set foreign policy, but the First Family could be corrupt. So journalists asking questions during the summer was fine, but now it's not okay. Got it.

Todd then bemoaned that such investigations aren’t “how the rule of law works” as if the Trump impeachment will be an above-board, sober, and not-at-all political matter.

The MSNBC host then descended into juvenile territory by insulting the intelligence of Louisianans and Texans, lecturing Kennedy for “gaslighting,” and painting himself as the true, noble warrior able to judge what’s fair game (click “expand”):

TODD: There is no evidence that anything like that exists. It's an allegation that you're simply making in order to do — it's sort of the old LBJ, “well, we have no idea if it's true but make them deny it.” That's not how politics is supposed to work. I understand in Louisiana and Texas it can work that way sometimes, but we were trying to create a fair rule of law here at some point. KENNEDY: I agree, Chuck, and if you were right, I would agree with you. If you were right, I would agree with you. But you’re wrong, this hasn't been investigated and just because you think that the vice — I’m not alleging that the vice president did anything wrong, but I'm just telling you the American people are looking at this and going, “okay, — Hunter — TODD: Alright, I just — whataboutism — and how does that have anything to do with the President of the United States going to another world leader and saying, open an investigation up on my chief political rival? KENNEDY: Because it has to do with Ukrainian corruption which is what all of this is about. TODD [LAUGHING]: Well, the Ukrainian corruption, it depends on what you view as corruption. KENNEDY: Now, now, Chuck. You’re a fair guy — TODD: What one side says is corrupt, I am trying to be fair here, but you can't gaslight us, sir. Don't gaslight us. KENNEDY: I'm not gaslighting you. I'm telling you the facts. Do you deny those facts about the — do you think they got Hunter Biden's name off Zip Recruiter? I don't. I don't think the American people do either. I'm not alleging impropriety. I'm saying we need to look into it.

Later, Todd tried to wrap the interview, but not before slipping up and admitting that he was willfully defending Hunter and ghoulishly insisting that Kennedy’s questions (read: the entire Republican Party) are an example of what ills American politics (click “expand”):

TODD: — And well, I — we're going to have to leave it. I'm not going to sit here and defend Hunter Biden and defend lobbying and defend any of that stuff. KENNEDY: Well, you’re doing a good job. Maybe — maybe he should hire you, you're doing a good job, my friend. TODD: No, I'm not here to allow a false equivalency to take over, sir. Sir, that's — that’s — KENNEDY: Why is it a false equivalency? TODD: — the problem with our politics. KENNEDY: Tell me — tell me why it's a false — a false equivalency.

“Sir, I don't [sic] here to lay judgment. I just here [sic] am trying to present this fairly without gaslighting the nation, but senator, I will leave it there,” Todd concluded.

Yeah, sure. Chuck. At least you were honest in admitting that you’re a member of the opposition party.

To see the relevant transcript from MSNBC’s MTP Daily on September 24, click “expand.”