NBC’s Savannah Guthrie Tries to Blame Congress for Immigration Crisis

‘Is it a situation where you think members of Congress would rather have the political issue than a potential resolution?’

NBC's Guthrie Tries to Blame Congress for Immigration Crisis (NewsBusters)

On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to link House Republican opposition to Democrat-backed immigration reform legislation to the current border crisis: "There's also this immigration reform bill that's been passed in the Senate, it's dead on arrival in the House....is it a situation where you think members of Congress would rather have the political issue than a potential resolution?"

Guthrie posed that question to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd, who replied: "I think members of Congress don't want this issue at all during the fall campaign....The regular immigration reform, totally dead. That's not going to happen at all."

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