Multiple MSNBC hosts were forced to issue on-air corrections after they pushed false smears about President Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
They issued the corrections Tuesday after pushing fabricated claims that Gabbard has said Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin “are very good friends.”
The correction appears to stem from a recently retracted Associated Press story, which claimed Gabbard said Trump and Putin “are very good friends.” The AP later corrected their reporting to clarify that Gabbard was actually referring to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, not Putin.
The network’s Ali Velshi read a correction on Tuesday night.
“Alright quick note, last night ‘The Last Word’ reported on excerpts of an interview between the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and an Indian TV news network in which she said that Trump was good friends with a world leader.
“We said that world leader was Vladimir Putin.
“But the full interview was subsequently released and it shows that Gabbard was referring to Donald Trump and the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi.”
MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle read the same correction on air an hour later during a different MSNBC news show.
“Before we go though, last night we reported on