Maggie Haberman | Full Episode 11.4.22 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | PBS

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

This is what journalism is all about. Two very intelligent people discussing the sociological aspects of our most interesting times.

[@dannywitt5160]

Really? Just going after one party ? GTFOH

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

@@dannywitt5160 Uhhh. Amazing what you don't realize when you are relative. I am a Yank that has been around our globe (no, it's not flat) five times. What is happening in the US makes it look like a 3rd world country. Sad. Do you think I give a rat's turd about 'party'?

[@dannywitt5160]

@@patrickvanrinsvelt4466 I think you are probably nuttier than Squirrel poop

[@patrickvanrinsvelt4466]

@@dannywitt5160 Wow. Never ceases to amaze the IQ levels on social media. Don't hurt yourself when you go to the bathroom.

[@dannywitt5160]

@@patrickvanrinsvelt4466 Your ceses of amazement is not as relevent to me as you may believe. Maggie haberman has been Wrong about countless claims and now she is speculating what she thinks and you dumbbasses are eating it up

[@Terrestrial]

I see why Haberman earned the Pulitzer. Excellent discussion.

[@KernowekTim]

Maggie Haberman posseses a natural grace, an aura that surrounds her: The mark of great self-awareness and direction. Maggie is a supremely talented woman of the best kind, I think.

[@jeffchastain2977]

She also has a great speaking voice. I bought the Audible version of her book just so I could listen to her read it.

[@nileskapuniai8393]

​@@jeffchastain2977been b XD XD

[@cliffordnewell2445]

This was a great program. Maggie Haberman is so brilliant.

[@FenrirFury]

Maggie should get an American Medal of Freedom for her work. She is a great example of the press as a bulwark of democracy and freedom. Congratulations to you Maggie and thank you! ❤

[@brianisaacs1691]

Wow Maggie.!!! Everything and more of what journalism is and then to be so cool about it???

[@GetMyNoteLowered]

LMFAO! Just like Barry the Kenyan’s book deal to payoff all the favors he pushed through for the powers to be! 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@debbiemetke5938]

I'm now watching this a year later and Haberman was RIGHT ON. (shudder)

[@RobertEskew]

Margaret Hoover is an excellent interviewer. I stumbled across her interview with Elie Honig. Subsequently, I watched her interviews with Andrew Weissmann and, of course, Maggie Haberman. In all three cases, she shined. All three guests were also first-rate.

[@edarcuri182]

She most certainly is. I have Firing Line set to record on my DVR as I enjoy every interview. Many who like to think themselves journalists should watch her. They could learn a lot from Margaret Hoover as she is polite, well informed about each guest, and asks important questions.

[@bootskanchelsis3337]

Maggie is a true journalist. We need a lot more like her.

[@terrijohansen5628]

She's a complete shill, didn't do a bit of research on her Russiagate story of lies! New York Times deserves her.

[@bootskanchelsis3337]

@@terrijohansen5628 yet you cite no source or offer any evidence for your baseless assertion.

[@circussounds855]

@@bootskanchelsis3337 try reading & if you can’t or don’t read you have no business having an opinion on the subject.

[@noreenconstantine4612]

Like night and day to people like Laura Ingram and tucker Carlson

[@andercoyote4170]

Great topic for another episode. The sorry state of journalism in US media.

[@sandisteinberg731]

Her book is insightful and readable. She's also a New Yorker and has spent her entire career in NY, observing Dumpf at close quarters.

[@BILLINGSGATES]

It's still so hard for me to believe that fellow citizens have trust and faith in that man. I cannot imagine anyone, more dishonest, corrupt, self-centered, and cruel. This interview was too short.

[@TheMonkdad]

What I’ve learned about humans is that many are simply desperate to believe something in spite of all facts. They absolutely NEED to believe.

[@LS-im5ki]

Bill I am late at commenting 🤫I felt compelled to THANK YOU for this TRUTH.

[@roberts1572]

I love PBS!

[@eteldias5176]

Well deserved Pulitzer!

[@janemack8852]

I'm just reading the book now. I'm surprised by how early his associations with Manafort, Stone, and Guiliani started. The story unfolds as if New York, and especially NYC, is a small town, with everybody knowing everybody! Fascinating intersections of powerful people.

[@gailkahn5050]

Just finished her book. Great read. Thanks. Gene

[@debann2864]

Awesome guest! Thank you!

[@mikmaqwoman]

Love Maggie..she is a very smart and courageous woman...A Phenomenal Woman. I got her book immediately

[@chatoyer8771]

Would love to see an interview of Liz Cheney.

[@Pwj579]

Wow you just drink the Kool Aid

[@MsRotorwings]

Maggie interviewing Liz, yes!

[@karenkranz2682]

What a spectacular interview.

[@sdg1794]

In 2018, Haberman's reporting on the Trump administration earned the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting (shared with colleagues at the Times and The Washington Post), the individual Aldo Beckman Award for Journalistic Excellence award from the White House Correspondents' Association, and the Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year from the Newswomen's Club of New York. (Copied from Wikipedia) I love her work, much admiration for her and think she's a brilliant journalist.

[@coolprof1951]

Refreshingly upbeat, honest and well researched!!! Thank-You!!!

[@dannywitt5160]

o Maggie Haberman is NOT a journalst! She is a weapon for the DC Mafia ! GTFOH PBS

[@leeboriack8054]

The world would be better if America’s mainstream news channels taught their journalists to be like Maggie, to the point, fact based verses an emotional reaction of the news.

[@toddprifogle7381]

Murdoch and the Koch brothers funding need be addressed exposed now and with intensity of critical purpose .

[@princeofthereptiles4422]

she claims to know how he thinks. that’s all you need to know about her

[@gingergrant6759]

Too many of them do already they wait until their books come out and then they warn us too late then bud but as long as you made your money

[@maryseman7019]

That is how the news used to be, and it upsets me to see what it has become. Thank God for Maggie Haberman!

[@charlietrots2890]

It's great that Margaret Hoover sees the Republican Party for what it has become. When is she going to step back and analytically take a look at what the Federalist Society has become and done to the U. S. Judicial system with many of the judges it recommended for confirmation to the Federal Court system when Trump was in the Oval Office (and will do should he return to that position)????>

[@stellaoh9217]

The SC is illegitimate. The chaos of the last decade a legacy of Citizen's United. Pelsosi's husband just one victim. And here PBS is resurrecting a blue blood segregationist's tv show? This is a news world in denial of reality. climate change, etc.

[@notnow_stopitagain5800]

Never.😉

[@jerryklooster438]

She won't. Like Buckley before her, she wishes to be seen as a gatekeeper for the conservative movement. She will denounce Trump, but she will never denounce the Federalist Society.

[@balozhende5727]

@@jerryklooster438 Interesting observation. Alas, I am getting old, as I remember Buckley so well.

[@lifeimeng8023]

@@balozhende5727 CT

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

Maggie is one smart cookie!

[@toneyingram732]

Just tell the truth u don't have to smart just live for God and the truth it's not hard

[@skehleben7699]

Maggie Handyman is a truly non biased interviewer. SHE tells it like it is. Myself, just seeing drump take the oath of office causes me to regurgitate a bit of bile every time I see it.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Haberman is the real deal. Even though this is 9 days old and the midterms are over (nearly) l heard new information.

[@joannecleve4718]

Thankyou Maggie..

[@patrarus6097]

Excellent episode! I just love Maggie Haberman. Thanks so much for posting this insightful interview!

[@shellimendoza6875]

DITTO

[@words911]

She's an exploitive hyperbole bs artist and so is Trump tbh, they are just on opposite sides.

[@dannywitt5160]

o Maggie Haberman is NOT a journalst! She is a weapon for the DC Mafia ! GTFOH PBS

[@eakherenow]

Haberman with a competent interviewer-thank you.

[@words911]

lol and not biased at all hahaha

[@balozhende5727]

@We need angels People who are hateful like you are ugly. Keep hating. Hate so much you keel over.

[@jacqdanieles]

@@words911 how about listing some "non-biased" sources ...

[@paddlefar9175]

@@words911 Yes, do list the bias, with proof of course.

[@words911]

@@paddlefar9175 Let's start with 5 of the 6 major media corporations work with the left, Disney (ABC), Comcast (NBC), AT&T, Paramount Global (CBS), Sony, Fox...remember when Obama was lampooned every night during late night talk show monologues? Or what about Hillary or Biden being lambasted on The View? Well, that never happened. Do you know why? It's called a liberal bias and any media that works with the left will work overtime attacking their enemy (Trump) the NYT, WaPo, NPR, Business Insider, Daily Beast, etc., are all media of the left owned variety. So before you bow down to the puppets, whatever their ilk, try to understand where they are coming from. They hate Trump because he is the opposition and if he regains power, they lose a slice of the pie.

[@notsodelusional]

How does this channel not have more subscribers?

[@qanondon2100]

MAGA can’t spell PBS 😂

[@carolhill1102]

@@qanondon2100 oooh, that's good!! Made me laugh!! Thanks!! Take care and have a good day.

[@janaschwehm3059]

@@qanondon2100: I call them 'MAGAts!'

[@walter.zikalala]

Fascinating discussion!

[@dm-31024]

Well put. Scary stuff. Warped reality. Bamboozled. Cash extractor. Conman. I wish all would follow Maggie‘s interviews/book, knowledge.

[@deborahedelman2659]

Terrific discussion!!

[@anniecouture3339]

Super interview!

[@hayesdabney]

"He tells it like it is" in his supporters hearts. The truth is totally different.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Exactly and thank you.

[@enatp6448]

Great interview.

[@martinburns5404]

Maggie is a very smart lady

[@billythomas4804]

So very smart that Maggie. I just love listening to her.

[@terrijohansen5628]

Yeah she's a great journalist all right! She got a Pulitzer for her story on Russiagate which turned out to be a complete lie and a hoax. Nothing she said in her story was true! Way to get to the facts Maggie.

[@php777]

Great interview. The only thing that surprises me why isn’t all that so obvious to everyone in the country? How can so many believe such ConMan ? I’ll never understand it.

[@lucibeach2697]

Remember what Lincoln used to say: you can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. I think that says all we need to know about the Big Orange One.

[@patshelby9285]

There is a reason for the bell curve classification of human intelligence. The bell curve describes distribution of degreesn of intelligence. Most are at the center, basically normal average humanity. Half fall above, half fall below the midline. As Ann Landers (or maybe it was Dear Abby) once said about a reader's less competent doctor, one must remember 50% of them graduated in the bottom half of their class. Trump is able to communicate better with those. There is a reason he loves the uneducated. While many of them embody some strengths and graces beyond our own, reading comprehension and critical thinking are seldom among them. It might help us to understand why the trump support phalanx is so desperately anxious to keep critical thinking out of education. It cuts down on their food chain.

[@MAli-xs2pm]

Oh they see it well enough. Its just they use his “achievements” to get their bite. Look how the woman who said Am trump in a dress & I took notes as he spoke & the list goes on

[@LollieVox]

In short they are using him, they know better. They think it’s Gods will to abolish abortion even illegally. That’s how it got started anyway, some of them are truly ignorant & watch Fox News only.

[@w5cdt]

…good question…I think it’s the “religion syndrome”

[@noreenconstantine4612]

The danger is that a bunch of angry yahoos are being used to fight his battles and will use violence if they feel it will help him

[@elled10024]

It’s almost like collective narcissism

[@PhilosopherThom]

I have read the book. It's very well written and researched. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand the way Trump thinks. And the disfunction that rules both his business and in the end his administration.

[@57highland]

If you looked at Trump with a discriminating but objective eye, if you watched the first months of his presidency with interest and fair mindedness, and then watched him lapse into indulgence and pettiness, you can pretty well guess what's in the book without reading it, though I will eventually read it.

[@normagrimstad8869]

PBS is always the best!

[@jacquelynskye295]

He's naturally an authoritarian, born to be. The only reason he didn't go further by using the military in ways he preferred is he was talked off the cliff many times by people he decided to listen to then and there. But a second term would bring out and expose his true authoritarian desires, intentions and plans for our country. He is dumb in allot of ways but a really good conman with sharp instincts to how to get around obstacles. He has abilities to con with a raw fearlessness when it comes to pushing his weight full on and breaking all the rules. He is very bad for our country. Of course, he's an authoritarian. He idolizes all authoritarians living and passed. He staged a overthrow of our U.S. government while he was President to stay in power. That's a Coup. He's evil to the core.

[@maryreese3554]

You support a satanic coup. Get over yourself then take the time to look up previous presidents shortcomings. Most were horrible as were the coverups. Trump is just as human as you are and other presidents.

[@jacquelynskye295]

@@maryreese3554 There's all varieties of humans and some of them, we avoid meeting up with in the dark allies. Trump is that kind and I consider him subhuman.

[@janaschwehm3059]

AMEN!

[@marceechristensen2533]

Maggie Haberman, Thank you so much for this interview giving a synopsis of your book. MOSTLY your incite, intelligent view, comprehensive history of Trump and overall picture of Donald. I feel you understand Trump more than Mary Trump

[@c.a.savage5689]

I agree with you, although I would point out that M. Haberman has been following Trump as a public figure for decades as a journalist while Mary Trump, in addition to being his niece, is a psychologist. They see him and his actions from different perspectives.

[@christopherdean2893]

Great interview

[@osmosisjones4912]

After she doesn't much research. The phone call asking Brad to reexamine and Trump wants to find more votes was edited to sound like he was pressuring Brad to create more votes . And most of envelopes were empty others were copies and all were about himself

[@jps0117]

@@osmosisjones4912 You are deluded and in a cult.

[@catherinemacaskill1421]

Osmosis, you do realize that conspiracy theories are not facts. He was recorded by a Republican who voted for him. But being a Trumplican brainwashed by right wing propaganda, you will never recognize facts nor reality. If such people weren't so dangerous, it would be hysterically funny.

[@shellimendoza6875]

What is AG Garland waiting for???

[@c.a.savage5689]

Midterms to be over, I think. Tick-tock

[@daverph]

Great episode! Keep up the good work!

[@starrycrown]

Serial killers love their trophies, too.

[@January.]

Thank you, Maggie!

[@campbellhanen8829]

Great interview!

[@GingerAmes-p8l]

I know this was a year ago ,but. I have great respect for both of these ladies!!

[@jdlcdn]

Would be interesting listening to a discussion about current POTUS and issues around his background and current status.

[@tt-ki2dw]

The simplest explanation is often the correct one. She says without the apprentice he wouldn't have been elected.

[@johnnybarnes2120]

Great job ladies and thanks

[@CosgroveNotts]

Mags is a great investigator ❤️💯

[@elled10024]

People have been calling him that his whole life

[@prasadrao2895]

Maggie Haberman's authoritative voice and clarity is really sexy.

[@normagrimstad8869]

It’s true. He doesn’t want responsibility unless taking responsibility means getting praise. Often, tho, he is not the one responsible for any successes.

[@andercoyote4170]

" he has no coherent throughline of governance.." Maggie Habermann folks

[@PalmBalms]

Maggie Haberman 😃

[@wtfisupkyle8952]

The bigger question here is not whether the repulicians need him but is that does Putin still need him

[@tenkloosterherman]

#45 is afraid of Maggie Haberman because she really understands what is going on in his tiny brain.

[@wagonstation3709]

Looking at that clip at about 12:30, it looks like Roy Cohn had his nose and his eye sockets broken. Is that accurate? (It looked much deeper than his skin.)

[@mariamassey5468]

FSCINATING INTERVIEW...INSPIRING WOMEN!

[@Grandpa_Boxer]

Somehow we must figure out why Trump's supporters do not care about; the lies, the criminality, the double-standards, on and on and on............

[@jpkatz1435]

The appeal of the tyrant to the authoritarian personality.

[@cobycolbertson]

… because they were poorly educated & passed there (not) knowledge onto there offsprings & community. Teach critical thinking in your school system not book burning & religious bs.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Luckily they are not known for having a long attention span...

[@janaschwehm3059]

@@cobycolbertson: "Their?"

[@normagrimstad8869]

He’s crass, rude and crude. He swears and says things ordinary people would say. I guess that’s why people think he’s honest and straightforward.

[@oldbeatpete]

(he's the nasty guy in the condo development who everybody fears but wants him on their side).

[@richardabbot8724]

There’s plenty to dislike and disagree with about Trump. But this is just pathological.

[@taralilarose1]

Yeah and slanderous....they have scapegoated and blamed Trump for everything!!!

[@stevenhenry5267]

Trump voters can't handle reality.

[@kennethwilson8633]

Yes Trump is causing the destruction of the Republican Party I am a Republican since first Ronald Reagan in 1980 but wouldn’t vote for Trump Both times. I will not vote for anyone that supports the big lie or is one of his following. I wish more Real Republicans were like McCain or Liz Cheney. Love your shows keep making them please for the sake of the country.

[@grogman1911]

Excellent interview!

[@tracylay3242]

Thank you Maggie

[@lancemiller4647]

PBS: Still The Best..~~~!!!!

[@gingergrant6759]

This would be better for America if journalists would tell us what's going on instead of waiting for their money making books

[@stevenhenry5267]

Exactly

[@jandunn169]

No Mr. Trump, Maggie Haberman is a first rate reporter. This interview is very ironic after Trump lost elections this week with so many of his whacky candidates. The midterms seem to be the ONLY THING that is making the GOP let go of Donald Trump's influence.

[@rlzoffer]

Unfortunately, most of them will still run to support him and the increasingly dangerous and delusional mags cult.

[@juliavarney9865]

I trust Maggie Haberman. I always want to hear what she has to say.

[@a.e.jabbour5003]

That was very good. Unfortunately, as a news junkie for many years, there was really nothing here that could qualify as new knowledge to me. I've known who #TFG was for about 40 years. But I did really enjoy watch Margaret (one of my favs) do this interview with Maggie (one of my favs), because they're both so good at expressing things and being focused and informative. I will admit that I sometimes had a difficult time focusing on what Margaret was saying, because her hair is just SO AMAZING! But that's probably just me. :)

[@christinecarroll7881]

How superficial of you.

[@a.e.jabbour5003]

@@christinecarroll7881 Hey, her hair is amazing! :) I've liked Hoover for a long time, actually. We might be on very different sides on lots of policy issues. Be she's always been honest and very sharp. And Maggie might make me want to throw a vase through the window on a regular basis, but I do like reading her stuff. She knows what's going on. Mostly. :)

[@jpkatz1435]

Too beautiful?

[@lorawoodski6ll44]

Maggie Haberman - God is watching you sweetheart. Bless your heart.

[@janaschwehm3059]

What do you mean, Lora?

[@lizannewhitlow1085]

His gross vulgar behavior is authentic to be sure.

[@rw4754]

How much blackmail is going on?

[@roughhabit6496]

I can tell you one time Donald Trump spoke the truth. When he started a sentence with “ The late great Bill Buckley…” There was even humility as well because he would have known Buckley had criticised him.

[@lorichaudhry7290]

Protect Maggie Haberman at all costs! 🙏😮‍💨🫵🏻💛

[@SteveSmith-rh9lj]

One January 2015 strategy document - designed to plant stories on Clinton’s decision-making process about whether to run for president - singled out reporter Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, now covering the election for the New York Times, as a “friendly journalist” who has “teed up” stories for them in the past and “never disappointed” them.

[@ChristiaanHartNibbrig]

Very good interview. Ms. Hoover is well-informed, and asks incisive, short questions. Ms. Haberman, a stellar reporter, does most of the talking. That's how it's done. Brava!

[@susananderson2607]

His dad is creepy looking. Made a mess of his son.

[@ardenmcconnell6387]

DeSantis is simply a younger Trump. Don't be fooled. Trump once mentored DeSantis

[@tomdegan6924]

Excellent.

[@Frenchblue8]

Oh that photo of trump Ivanka and Don Jr from The apprentice? Oh wow I think that must have been the last time we saw Don Jr sober

[@rashidasnead865]

I love Maggie Haberman…

[@sidwestcott4718]

Looking backwards at this now on April 21st, its ironic how accurate Maggie Hagerman was...

[@simplethings3730]

Well. He certainly got credit for the midterms. 😁

[@greenpostdoc]

Interesting interview. Hoover is able to overcome the usual litany of conservative thinking flaws to provide a more balanced exploration of the subject. Of course it helped that the subject was Haberman and Trump.

[@AbstractRoofingConstructionCom]

Why is Maggie Haberman only have one tone to her voice!???

[@mikemorgan8588]

So using the National Guard was frantically opposed by the Democrats because the optics of Trump as a enforcer of laws during the summer of 2020 could solidify his authority. Then when the National Guard was really needed, he was cautious about using the power. Who caused that?

[@martinhynes768]

It quickly becomes obvious why I never heard of this person

[@willieperson9751]

FIRING LINE : Margaret Hoover !!! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐✌🏿🕶️

[@January.]

The speaking voice of the host

[@c.a.savage5689]

Indeed. But she's American so not sounding nasal and a bit whiney is an uphill battle. Haberman's speaking voice is unusual in a woman.

[@c.a.savage5689]

Post 2008?? You're a little late to the party, Coco. BTW, it's up to the historians to "tell the story" with distance and disinterest. "Fair journalism" has never existed. It doesn't make money.

[@sandraweiss752]

He said that he NEVER took the OATH to PROTECT/DEFEND the CONSTITUTION.

[@DSTH323]

To call this "Firing Line" is a viciously deflective move to quash William F. Buckley Jr., who on PBS for decades dealt with the same bottom line political philosophies very efficaciously.

[@-Stop-it]

I love a good viciously deflective quashing.

[@c.a.savage5689]

The honorable William F. Buckley Jr. has been quashed for quite a while. Being dead will do that. And the word you're looking for is "efficiently".

[@johnf8064]

I appreciate Ms Hoover. I miss the establishment Republican blue blood she represents. Ahh those halcyon day's of a loyal opposition.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Yes...the days when Republican lawmakers were tamed RINOs and cucks.

[@democratpatriot6752]

To criticize the work of a reporter, you need to read.

[@mrnashvilletalkslarryfergu2640]

Do you ever have any guests that are pro Trump? Dang! Everyone is so anti Trump and on here. It’s such a good show outside of that.