John Heilemann then hit Fox News coverage of this story, saying, “one of the things about this is there’s this willful or either incredibly stupid or willful misconstruing of what this is all about.”
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“Can I just say, willfully stupid? A lot of people being willfully stupid,” Scarborough interjected.
“Or just willfully misconstrued,” Heilemann replied. “You see on Fox News have Tucker Carlson and other people saying, you know, ‘they’re intercepting internet traffic, they must be looking at email or text messages.”
Scarborough added, “Now I ask you, who could be that stupid? I ask you, who could be that stupid to actually say that on their television show?”
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