On Wednesday, Andrea Mitchell continued her recent history of spreading fake news on her MSNBC show. This time, Mitchell rushed to the defense of Rep. Adam Schiff, claiming he isn’t a liar and that Speaker Kevin McCarthy is really the one with a problematic relationship with the truth.
Teeing up a clip of McCarthy on Tuesday, Mitchell declared, “In a contentious exchange with reporters Tuesday night McCarthy said it was a matter of national security, falsely accusing Schiff of lies about Donald Trump while defending his position to place proven liar George Santos on two committees.”
The clip showed McCarthy explaining that, "This has nothing to do with Santos. Santos is not on the Intel Committee, but you know what? Those voters elected Schiff even though he lied. Those voters elected Swalwell, even though he lied to the American public, too. So, you know what? I'll respect his voters, too and they'll serve on committees, but they will not serve on a place that has national security relevance because integrity matters to me."
If watching Wednesday’s show was your first time seeing that interview, you would not have seen the part where McCarthy showed his work, “When Devin Nunes put out a memo, he said it was false. When we had a laptop, he used it before an election to be politics and say it was false and said it was the Russians."
Those are multiple instances where Schiff not only lied, but trivialized national security for his own partisan purposes and Mitchell deliberately chose to not show her viewers that part of the clip and despite her claims, neither the clip nor McCarthy's full answer contained one usage of the word "Trump" or a reference to him.
What she did instead was mock McCarthy’s “integrity” in a condescending tone, “McCarthy named also Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to a COVID panel, despite her comparing pandemic health measures to the genocide against Jews during the Holocaust, but remember, integrity matters to him.”
Given the recent episodes of Andrea Mitchell Reports, integrity clearly doesn’t matter to Mitchell or MSNBC.
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Here is a transcript for the January 25 show:
MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports
1/25/2023
12:42 PM ET:
ANDREA MITCHELL: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has followed through on his threat, booting two key Democrats out of the House Intelligence Committee, including former chair and Trump impeachment manager Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, who was also on the first impeachment committee.
In a contentious exchange with reporters Tuesday night McCarthy said it was a matter of national security, falsely accusing Schiff of lies about Donald Trump while defending his position to place proven liar George Santos on two committees.
KEVIN MCCARTHY: This has nothing to do with Santos. Santos is not on the Intel Committee, but you know what? Those voters elected Schiff even though he lied. Those voters elected Swalwell, even though he lied to the American public, too. So, you know what? I'll respect his voters, too and they'll serve on committees, but they will not serve on a place that has national security relevance because integrity matters to me.
MITCHELL: McCarthy named also Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to a COVID panel, despite her comparing pandemic health measures to the genocide against Jews during the Holocaust, but remember, integrity matters to him.
