Good evening. Once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.

Okey-Dok folks, it is not news what happened tonight at 8 p.m. on another network.

And there is no sense in fact checking or replaying the highlights.

We are not going to analyze the former president of the United States,

repeating lies, smears, and bigotry. We have all heard it many, many times before.

However, what we need to do tonight is solve for how news organizations will cover

Donald J. Trump, the twice impeached, indicted, liable for sex abuse private citizen.

If he does, in fact, win the Republican nomination, it has nothing to do with what he did tonight.

He did what he has done countless times before. The question we need to answer is what we are all

going to do next. So let's get right to it. My NBC News, Washington Corp.

colleague, Gimicel Sendoor is here, Leanne Caldwell of the Washington Post,

and Andrew Weissman, former FBI General Counsel, and NBC News Legal Analyst, Yommish.

This is the first time we have seen Trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media in a really

long time. And where was he? In a thunder dome stacked with his supporters cheering him on,

and he steamrolled through his greatest hits of lies. If this man is the nominee, ignoring him

is not an option for any of us. So what are we going to do?

Stephanie, it's a great question, and I'm not quite sure that we as a reporting

atmosphere, as a reporting group have really figured out. I think we have to obviously fact check

them. We have to obviously try our best to cover them in a responsible way. What you saw tonight,

with the world's off tonight, if people watch was, as you said, a highlight, real of things that he

has said and lied about in the past, from the election to his culpability in sexual abuse,

and all sorts of other things that he was talking about. I think we as a country need to figure out

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