CNN Cuts Away To ‘Meticulously’ Fact Check As Tulsi Gabbard Reveals New Russiagate Evidence

CNN cut away from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard as she outlined newly released documents about the origins of claims President Donald Trump made during Wednesday’s White House press briefing.

Gabbard released documents and a memo Friday detailing what she called a “years-long coup” against Trump after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race, adding that she had referred the documents to the Justice Department for potential criminal activity. CNN covered Gabbard’s remarks for about three minutes before “CNN News Central” co-host Brianna Kielar and guest co-host Jim Sciutto cut away while Gabbard was speaking.

“As was reflected in the documents that we released on Friday. Multiple intelligence community assessments released in the months leading up to the November 2016 election concluded that Russia had neither the intent nor capability to impact the outcome of the U.S. election,” Gabbard said before Scuitto interrupted.

“We‘ve been listening there to the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, continuing on what has now been a multi-day effort, not only with public statements like this, but release of documents to attempt to back up the quite extreme allegation that President Obama is guilty of treason and that he worked in some sort of conspiracy with Hillary Clinton, et cetera,” Sciutto said.

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“In the assessment by the intelligence community at the time that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and part of that assessment at the time was that the Kremlin had a preference in that election for Donald Trump,” Sciutto continued. “There’s a lot of conflation going on here and going beyond what the intelligence showed. I should note, having covered that election quite closely, that the assessment never said that Russia changed the outcome of the election. Access to voting systems, votes, et cetera. We’re joined now by CNN’s Jeff Zeleny, but also CNN’s Daniel Dale. Daniel, you’ve been doing a great job of quite meticulously fact-checking each of the claims here. Can you help us by fact-checking some of the things that the DNI Tulsi Gabbard, said just then?”