Brian Williams interrupts Barr Hearing to call Lindsey Graham a Liar

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During MSNBC’s live coverage of Attorney General William Barr’s Wednesday congressional hearing on the Mueller report, known liar Brian Williams had the audacity to interrupt that coverage simply to smear Republican Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham a liar. Graham’s supposed untruth? Accurately stating that Special Counsel Robert Mueller found “no collusion” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.

As the South Carolina Senator was in the middle of making his opening statement, just minutes into the hearing, he noted that Mueller found “No collusion. No coordination. No conspiracy between the trump campaign and the Russian government regarding the 2016 election.” Seconds later, Williams broke in and sneered: “We’re reluctant to do this, we rarely do, but the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee just said that Mueller found there was no collusion. That is not correct.”

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Here is a transcript of the May 1 interruption of the hearing coverage:

10:10 AM ET

BRIAN WILLIAMS: We’re reluctant to do this, we rarely do, but the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee just said that Mueller found there was no collusion. That is not correct. Nicolle Wallace, the report says collusion is not a thing they considered. It doesn’t exist in federal code.

NICOLLE WALLACE: What’s stunning is that Lindsey Graham is offering answers to questions that aren’t on the table today. The question on the table today, after the reporting last night, is why did Barr mischaracterize what was actually in the Mueller report. And I’m sorry Lindsey Graham, but your defensiveness is showing. To talk about everything that went in to it and in the next breath distort it is a stunning, stunning mischaracterization of what the whole exercise is supposed to be about. It reveals what I talked about before, that he is sitting there today not as the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, but as a human shield for Donald Trump, and it would appear, William Barr.

WILLIAMS: Again, we try to offer just gavel-to-gavel coverage, but that phrase, or the lack of it, it’s absence from federal code. This “no collusion” mantra is so foundational to why we’re here today that we decided to flag it when we heard him use it yet again. Back into the Chairman and the committee room.

In case anyone didn't see it, here is the video.

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