On Tuesday’s Today show on NBC, co-hosts Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb expressed deep concern that Donald Trump has “damaged the office of the president.”

The question was posed to guest Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after a brief discussion on failing to get healthcare passed and recent personnel changes inside the White House. Kotb baited Graham to bash the president with her first question:

“Senator Graham, you’ve been an outspoken critic, obviously, of the President. And as we just heard, Senator Flake – and I’ll just repeat what he said in the piece, he said of Trump, ‘We created him and now we are rationalizing him, when will it stop?’ What do you think the President could do starting today to regain your confidence?”

Graham answered, “We didn’t create him. The American people chose him.” 

Graham said Trump is responsible for “most of the chaos… no one else.”

Unsatisfied, Kotb pressed:

“Do you feel that he’s damaged the Office of the President, just the credibility of the office, over the last six months?”

Graham tepidly answered, saying Trump has done things “unpresidential” but that “it’s not hopeless.”

Lauer jumped in for the kill, repeating his co-hosts question: “With all due respect, though, you didn’t quite answer her question. Do you think to date, in the last six months, he has damaged the credibility of the Office of the Presidency?”

“I don’t,” Graham answered. “A lot of people thought Obama had.”

Newsbusters has the clip of Lauer and Kotb out for blood: