At 6:11 a.m. ET Tuesday, Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy corrected an error from Monday’s show, which mischaracterized a report in The Hill about a memo James Comey leaked to his friend, related to a conversation Comey had with the president. The Fox News morning show called it “a bombshell report” suggesting that Comey “may have actually broken the rules” and put “our national security at risk.” A half hour after that on-air report, and tweet, President Trump tweeted “James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!” (TVNewser)
“Yesterday on this program, we aired and tweeted this story saying former FBI director James Comey leaked memos containing top secret information,” Doocy said. “We were mistaken in that. According to the report, half of the memos contain information classified at the secret or confidential, not top-secret, level. Markings of the documents in which Mr. Comey leaked are, at this point, unclear. Just wanted to straighten that out.” (HuffPost)