Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy took a moment Tuesday to "straighten" out the show's incorrect claims from the previous morning about former FBI Director James Comey's leaked memos. "Yesterday on this program we aired and tweeted a story saying former FBI Director James Comey leaked memos containing top secret information. We were mistaken in that," Doocy said. "According to a report, half of the memos contained information classified at the secret or confidential level, not top secret."
Doocy noted that the classified markings on the documents that Comey leaked "are at this point unclear." He did not offer an apology for overstating the level of classified information potentially contained in the Comey memos.
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