The earlier excellent diary by TeamSarah4Choice pointed out Chuck Todd's blatant lie to the face of President Obama, and demonstrated that he had mentioned Syria four times before Todd said
You've not said the word, "Syria," so far in our conversation.
The
NBC New website now has a
transcript of the interview up, and it is curious, to say the least.
The transcript is far from complete, but nowhere does is say it is edited, abridged, or just highlights. And three of the four references to Syria are gone. Only the earliest one, furthest from Todd's false claim, remains. Here is the portion that jumps over the refernce to Syria 12 seconds before Todd's claim.
You don't believe these people--
PRES. OBAMA:
Not yet. But they-- they can evolve. And I was very specific at that time. What I said was, not every regional terrorist organization is automatically a threat to us that would call for a major offensive. Our goal should not be to think that we can occupy every country where there's a terrorist organization.
CHUCK TODD:
You've not said the word, "Syria," so far in our conversation. Obviously, if you're going to defeat ISIS, you have used very much stronger language. It's gone through the week during your trip to Wales. You have got to go to Syria in some form or another.
Update: Apparently, the interview was edited for airing on Sunday morning. The transcript to which I linked above is an accurate record of the edited interview. They have also posted the full inter view and full transcript
here, and it does contain all four references to Syria.