MSNBC host races to correct guest who calls Tulsi Gabbard ‘Russian agent’

MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin was forced to scramble Sunday evening to correct a guest’s claims that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was a “Russian agent.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed in 2019 Gabbard was being “groomed” to run as a third-party candidate by Russia, but offered no evidence to back up the assertions. Danielle Moodie-Mills, host of the “Woke AF” podcast, and Mohyeldin had discussed the nomination of former Green Beret Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

“I really hope that alternate universe me is really enjoying, like, a life that is nicer than where we are right now in this hellhole. You know, why are we shocked? She’s — you know, we learned that she was a Russian agent. They celebrated her, you know. So why do we think that?” Moodie-Mills said, prompting Mohyeldin to ask, “We learned that she was a Russian agent?”

“Yes,” Moodie-Mills responded, with Mohyeldin asking, “Where did we learn that?”

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Gabbard and the former first lady have feuded over foreign policy since 2019, when Gabbard launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election.

“From Russia. We had it mentioned by Hillary Clinton during her debate. Like, should we look into Tulsi Gabbard?” Moodie-Mills said, with Mohyeldin cutting in with, “Unproven.”

“Unproven. Okay, okay,” Moodie-Mills said, before Mohyeldin added, “Unproven. Allegation? No, I’m serious. I mean, ‘agent’ is a very strong word, of a foreign state.”

Multiple hosts on the left-leaning corporate network in March had to issue corrections after The Associated Press retracted an article claiming Gabbard described President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin as “very good friends.”

MSNBC hosts and guests routinely hyped the claims that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Clinton and repeatedly had then-Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California, who often made claims about alleged collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, on the air.

“Very strong allegations. And I don’t know anybody else that gets celebrated on Russian television other than, I don’t know, Tucker Carlson. Right? Right. And Donald Trump. Right?” Moodie-Mills said. “So, people who don’t have allegations about them don’t get celebrated in this way.”

“But why are we surprised that she would bring in a conspiracy theorist to lead one of the most important jobs and agencies?” Moodie-Mills continued. “But I — you know, so it a shock? No, it’s not. It’s just — it continues to make America dangerous to the world.”

Gabbard, deployed to Iraq with the Hawaii National Guard, currently serves in an Army Reserve Civil Affairs unit, according to the Army Times.

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