‘We showed them the time stamps from those phone calls’
By Joe Kovacs
CNN was forced to make a major correction to its story originally claiming Democrats in Congress were not informed in advance of the U.S. military strikes Saturday against Iran’s nuclear sites.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the left-leaning network had to retract its report she called “Fake News,” saying Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., was spoken to “before the strike,” and that U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries “didn’t pick up the phone.”
Appearing on Fox News Monday morning, Leavitt said congressional members of both parties were informed prior to the military action.”First of all, we did make bipartisan calls. Thomas Massie and the Democrats – he should be a Democrat because he is more aligned with them than with the Republican Party – were given notice,” she began.
“The White House made calls to congressional leadership; they were bipartisan calls. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn’t be reached. We tried him before the strike and he didn’t pick up the phone, but he was briefed after, as well as Chuck Schumer was briefed prior to the strike.