On tonight's edition of Hardball, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews tried but failed to get NBC News correspondent Katy Tur, who's assigned to cover the Donald Trump presidential campaign, to speak negatively about the Republican candidate. She declined, saying, "you know I can't answer that!"
Here's the transcript and relevant video:
MSNBC
Hardball
Oct. 14, 2015; 7:23 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS MATTHEWS, host: Do you ever laugh at his insufferability? Do you ever laugh at that ego when it just starts going like that? Like, "anybody who's ever attacked me, I've killed." He's like a vampire movie. "In a thousand years everyone who's challenged me has been destroyed." I mean, he talks like, like he's a character in a novel.
KATY TUR, NBC News: I can't answer that.
MATTHEWS: You can't answer that.
TUR: I can't answer that. You know I can't answer that!
MATTHEWS: No, I just think you have to won about what he says.
TUR: I think that Donald Trump is an entertaining person. I think that he is interesting. I think he's tapped into something, an anger out there. And I think that it does actually extend past the Republican base that he's speaking to. I think there's a lot of Democrats out there and independents who are just as sick of politicians as the people that he's rallying--
MATTHEWS: Are we all dying, excuse me, Katy, are we all dying for a Hillary versus Donald night? How about three of them? Three big national debates between the two of them?
TUR: Who wouldn't be? I mean, it would be interesting. At the very least it would be entertaining.
MATTHEWS: It would be bigger than anything.
