Disgraced former NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams was startled by Donald Trump’s State of the Union call for a culture of life and end to late term abortion. Seemingly out of the blue, Williams on Tuesday night interjected, “Graphic language on abortion, a first for a national speech in my time.” Chris Matthews described it as “[sticking] it to the governor of Virginia, tied it into his scandal.” Ralph Northam’s scandal, of course, was seeming to support infanticide.

Here’s some of the “graphic” language from the address: “To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking the Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb.”

Matthews blanched at Trump’s mocking of socialism, complaining about the President connecting it to Venezuela: “[Bernie Sanders’s] version of socialism is, of course, Northern Europe. It’s Denmark. He said, ‘No, no, your version of socialism is Venezuela.’ It was pretty strong right-wing stuff.”

Later, Matthews introduced socialist Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez by praising her: “Congratulations, by the way. We've never met but congratulations by your upset victory in the primary.” He offered this softball to the socialist: “What did you make of, I thought, the president’s pretty aggressive statement about Venezuela tonight?”

A partial transcript is below: