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NBC reporter tries, fails to explain why she sat on exculpatory Kavanaugh evidence

By Becket Adams
Published October 30, 2018 6:36pm ET
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NBC reporter tries, fails to explain why she sat on exculpatory Kavanaugh evidence
Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. | (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)

NBC News sat on exculpatory evidence exonerating Justice Brett Kavanaugh from the ludicrous allegations that he had participated in gang rapes when he was in high school.

Why? Because the “news value was limited,” NBC reporter Kate Snow explained this weekend.

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