Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Criticized for Panel Suggesting White House Official Could Be Double Agent

Hosts on MSNBC and CNN rebuked the Fox News segment on Tuesday morning

On Monday’s “The Ingraham Angle,” guest John Yoo suggested involvement in “espionage” in a discussion of Ukrainian-born American veteran Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who is appearing before impeachment hearings Tuesday.

By that morning, Yoo and Laura Ingraham were being rebuked across the networks.

No one on Monday’s Fox News program offered any proof of “espionage” as it related to Vindman, an official in President Trump’s administration. The veteran and Purple Heart recipient is an expert on Ukraine on the National Security Council as well as a Ukrainian refugee himself.

When CNN’s John Berman rolled the clip for the “New Day” audience Tuesday, he cautioned “view discretion” because, he said, it was “disgusting.”

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