Charlie Rose Doesn’t Once Ask Geithner About Obama Telling Him to Lie to the Media

‘President Obama, he wrote you I think at some point in 2013 when you were leaving, and basically said Alexander Hamilton would be proud. Am I right about that?’

Tim Geithner Admits White House Told Him to Lie to Media, Charlie Rose Spends an Entire PBS Hour Avoiding the Topic (NewsBusters)

Charlie Rose invited on Timothy Geithner for the entire hour on his PBS show to plug his new memoir but never once asked him about the juiciest nugget in the book - that the White House told Geithner to lie to the media.

On Monday’s edition of PBS’s Charlie Rose show, the CBS This Morning co-host never got around to asking the former Treasury Secretary about his revelation that White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer pressured him to lie to the likes of Rose’s CBS colleague, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer. 

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