NBC’s Chuck Todd joined Carol Platt Friday on The Hugh Hewitt express to speak about the big interview he did with President Obama that elicited an apology from the president for the rocky Obamacare rollout. Todd admitted he concept Obama was going to return right out and express regret, and was once shocked he had to nearly drag one out of him.

Todd mentioned the White Home believes they’ve a “self assurance problem among the media elite” and amongst Democratic celebration management. He stated Obama would in reality benefit via doing extra city halls with out pre-screening for supporters.

Platt requested Todd if he was shocked that Obama “didn’t just flat-out say sorry” and gave instead a “lawyerly apology,” a very moderately worded one. Todd admitted it did take him unexpectedly, but now not because of how it was once phrased.

“I thought it used to be going to occur proper off the top. So I was once shocked that it didn’t come unless the second or, I feel it was my second query, the primary apply up. However you already know, who is aware of how he thought about it, about the way it will have to come out, the way it must seem to be? So, however I will admit that I believed it was once going to come right off the highest.”

He brought, “It might were disgrace on me if I didn’t ask for one.”

Take heed to the audio below, by the use of The Hugh Hewitt Exhibit:

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