Meghan McCain Calls out Lesley Stahl for Reporting on ‘Semi-Private’ Trump Chat: It ‘Feels Weird to Me’

‘Off-the-record is off-the-record’

Meghan McCain Calls Out Lesley Stahl For Reporting on ‘Semi-Private’ Trump Chat: It ‘Feels Weird to Me’ (Mediaite)

Meghan McCain had a bit of a tussle with her co-hosts on The Viewtoday when they discussed what Lesley Stahl revealed about Donald Trump‘s war on the media.

Earlier this week, Stahl spoke about what it was like to meet with the president in 2016 when she went to Trump Tower to conduct a post-election interview for 60 Minutes. In what a CBS spokesperson described as a “semi-private” moment, Stahl asked Trump why he constantly attacks the press. The 60 Minutes correspondent said that the president basically admitted to discrediting the press in order to inoculate himself from negative stories.

McCain expressed disapproval because Stahl might’ve broken the rules of journalism by revealing information that was supposed to stay off-the-record.

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