'Meet The Press' Responds To Trump Wrestling Tweet: "Beyond Flabbergasted"

Hugh Hewitt, Kasie Hunt, Eugene Robinson and Katty Kay join the MTP Panel after the president posted a video in which an avatar for CNN is beat up at a WWE event. Full 'Meet the Press' panel, including the above clip: <script src="//content.jwplatform.com/players/KGvDSnrN-EAYoNgFe.js"></script> <blockquote>CHUCK TODD: Back now with the panel. Every Sunday morning, we start our show going, okay, in the middle of it, we know the president's going to tweet. What's he going to tweet about today? Well, in the middle of the taping of this show, the president just tweeted something on “fraud news CNN, hashtag #fnn.” And he sent out this video. Let me show it to you... It is video of then Donald Trump in a little W.W.E. sketch back in the day. People have seen this a lot. But the person he's, quote, "wrestling" there, they put the CNN face on there. Hugh Hewitt, we're beyond flabbergasted this morning. HUGH HEWITT: I am. Look, the basic premise is most of the elite media is center left and most of the country is center right. Combativeness towards the media plays well. Cruelty does not. And when the president crosses the line between combativeness into cruelty, he loses some of his base. And I'll just say, personally, I was at mass yesterday afternoon, 5:00 Saturday mass. And everyone there is probably leaning towards Trump. And everyone is appalled by cruelty. So, that is the line he's got to measure in. EUGENE ROBINSON: I'll just say the standard thing I say on so many shows. These are not just tweets. These are official communications from the president of the United States. CHUCK TODD: The cruelty aspect, I mean, I guess he's back on trashing CNN, which inexplicably the Washington Post reported that some aides were upset that the president picked a fight with Mika Brzezinski because it was taking away from what they thought was a successful fight with CNN. KASIE HUNT: Look, I just think we've never really consumed something like this. Where someone has taken, I mean, yes, when that video was originally filmed, he was an entertainer. That's what Donald Trump was doing then. And now, he's the president of the United States. And the reality is, you know, the media, okay, they've used the logo in that case, CNN. But it's made up of people. Every single day, you know, I go up to Capitol Hill. I ask questions of people. Yes, I represent NBC News every day. CHUCK TODD: You're a three-dimensional figure? KASIE HUNT: I am. That's what makes that video, I think, sort of striking. KATTY KAY: And the fact that we had Sarah Huckabee Sanders this week specifically coming out in the White House, and for a rare on-camera press briefing saying that the president has never condoned or encouraged or promoted violence. That is exactly what he has just done. CHUCK TODD: I think he would argue, no, he's promoting fake violence. Because it is wrestling. EUGENE ROBINSON: He says, "They say I'm not presidential. But I'm modern-day presidential." Didn't he say that in a tweet a day or two ago?</blockquote>