Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110317:18:21:00
Democrats and liberals. what is the response to some of that criticism? >> reporter: if you look at the history of the bill overall, republicans have already voted to defund much of the corporation for public broadcasting. the corporation for public broadcasting is what funds npr everybody to a degree. what you're seeing is republicans putting npr out front and center to make an issue of it, try to defund it in the american public's eye and bring up all of the arguments that they have brought up for many years. there's no doubt, and republican aides will tell you privately, this is being done ...