Welcome to 2020 Politics War Room.

With James Carville and I'm Albert Hunt, we have another special guest this week, Jill

Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, author of a great book on

the contemporary American media.

As always, we have Christie Harvey in the back page.

I hope everyone will subscribe, rate, and review.

And we'll start with Jill, who was the only woman, the executive editor of the New York

Times, a Harvard professor and wrote merchants of truth, which is really an incredibly important

book on the modern media.

So Jill, it's great to have you here, and let me start off by asking you this, to

Washington Post Margaret Sullivan, who may have worked for you once.

She did.

I selected her as public editor of The New York Times.

Well, she did a, she's doing a great job at The Post, but she criticized the media coverage

of the impeachment this week as saying it was too much false equivalency.

There ought to be more focus, more pointed, and factually exposing lies and truth.

That this sense of, on the one hand and on the other hand, has really been a disservice.

Do you agree with her?

I usually agree with her on almost everything, but in this case, I think the coverage has

been quite good.

I thought her major point is she wanted it all boiled down better so that persuadable

people could understand it and get real facts.

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