(Mediaite)
Yasmin Vossoughian turned to news from Canada on Saturday, saying that the “besieged” city was “aggressively pushing back” against protesters, and calling it a “focus of Fox News and right-wing media.”
She brought in CTV reporter Glen McGregor who was on the street in Ottawa, calling the new moves by police “aggressive escalation” and asking him, “do you think this is the end of demonstrations? Because it seems like things are really going on behind you even still.”
“Yep,” said McGregor as loud crowd noise broke out behind him. He was quiet a few seconds, either due to time delay in speaking to MSNBC or just allowing some of the yelling to continue.
As various people came in and out of the shot, you could hear some of what the protesters were saying, including one woman’s voice shouting “you say everyone here is violent. No, it’s the cops.”
“Tell the about Justin Trudeau,” the voice continued, “who’s his daddy, huh?”
“Yeah, this is a feature of these demonstrations, Yasmin, that we haven’t seen in Canada a whole lot,” McGregor said. I know the MAGA movement in the United States we’ve seen a lot of this kind of thing. But protesters, now they see their occupation of the city coming to an end after three weeks, increasingly turning their anger against journalists. Seeing a lot of our colleagues up here covering these, these protests being harassed, screamed at, as you can hear here.”
As he was saying this the voices in the background got louder and louder as protesters broke into a chorus of boos and began to shout “FREEDOM” as loud as they could during the live shot.