Matthews During Inauguration Coverage: SCOTUS ‘Put’ W ‘In Office

During MSNBC’s live coverage of the Inauguration, host Chris Matthews remarked that the Supreme Court put former President George W. Bush in office.

Matthews said, “I just saw the warm embrace that w gave to the Supreme Court justices, especially the Republican ones, and I realized why he embraced them. They put him in office.” The remark drew laughs from the panel, and Brian Williams added, “Their warm embrace for him was called Bush v. Gore.”

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