ABC Suspends Reporter Brian Ross Over Erroneous Report About Trump<br />Brian Ross, the chief investigative correspondent for ABC News, has been suspended for four weeks without pay after incorrectly reporting<br />that Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, would testify that President Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials while Mr. Trump was still a candidate, the network announced on Saturday.<br />“The reporting conveyed by Brian Ross during the special report had not been fully vetted through our editorial standards process.”<br />Mr. Ross’s initial report, which he said was informed by a confidant of Mr. Flynn’s, would have been a bombshell revelation in<br />the continuing investigation into whether Mr. Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the presidential election.<br />Mr. Trump directed Mr. Flynn to make contact after the election, as president-elect, the network said.<br />“We deeply regret and apologize for the serious error we made yesterday,” ABC said in a statement on Saturday.<br />“This error plays right into the hands of people who callously try to say<br />that news media all just lie,” Ms. Culver said in an interview on Saturday night.
