'Meet The Press' Host Slammed Over 'Pathetic' Iran War Interview Moment
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Critics accused host Kristen Welker of going to bat for the Trump administration after she declined to mention key analysis of a deadly strike in Iran.
“Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker is facing backlash Sunday after she ignored reporting from several major outlets, including her own at NBC News, tying the U.S. to the deadly strike on an Iranian girls’ school.
Welker — in an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — asked about President Donald Trump blaming Iran for the strike while declining to mention investigations by Reuters and CNN that found the U.S. was likely responsible for the strike. A separate, early analysis by The New York Times found that the school was “severely damaged” in a U.S. strike that occurred around the same time as one on a nearby Iranian naval base.
“President Trump said Iran is responsible for that strike. What is your response?” said Welker in a clip on X highlighted by the independent Drop Sites News outlet.
Over 170 people — most of whom were schoolchildren — were killed in the attack on the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, per Iranian health officials, which would make it the deadliest strike on Iran since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on the country.
NBC News, citing sources familiar with the matter, also reported it “looks increasingly likely that a U.S. munition was responsible for striking” the school.
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