MSNBC cut into Lindsey Graham's opening statement to fact check his 'no collusion' claim

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Live fact checks don't necessarily make for thrilling television. But sometimes they're important.

MSNBC cut it into the opening statement delivered by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) at the hearing where Attorney General William Barr provided testimony about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into 2016 Russian election interference if and the Trump campaign's conduct surrounding the meddling. If that description of the investigation sounds like a mouthful, that's because it has to be — and it's precisely why MSNBC stopped their intended "gavel to gavel" coverage of the hearing.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.