Matt Lauer Blasts the ‘Liberal New York Times’ for Painting GOP as Anti-Vaccine

LAUER: "It becomes a hot potato. The New York Times, the liberal New York Times puts it this way in an article this morning: 'The vaccination controversy is a twist on an old problem for the Republican party: how to approach matter that have largely been settled among scientists but are not widely accepted by conservatives.' And even as I read that, Chuck, let's make it clear. This does not break down neatly between the Right and the Left. There are pockets of liberal affluent America where parents don’t want kids vaccinated."

TODD: “No, that's right and I think that the pockets in California some of this is more I think liberal point of view. But still I think what this goes down to is we've been politicizing science now I feel for the last decade in a lot of ways whether it’s climate change. Look at Hillary Clinton’s comment. That can come across condescending."