GOP senator airballs perjury claim against Jack Smith over apparent Hawks/Hawkeyes mix-up

What the coverage shows

All three outlets frame the story as a Republican senator’s attempt to trap Jack Smith on perjury backfiring, and all three foreground the apparent Hawks/Hawkeyes mix-up. NBC News is the most explicit about the exchange as a “gotcha moment” that became a “very public miss,” while CNN uniquely notes Smith’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony and the ongoing Republican probe. The New York Times similarly centers the senator’s confusion, but with less emphasis than NBC on the comic mishap.

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