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CBS staffers are reportedly turning on anchor Norah O’Donnell over her tweet about former President Donald Trump’s passports. The former president claimed his travel documents were removed by FBI agents while they searched Mar-a-Lago. But on Monday, O’Donnell tweeted that she had been told by a “DOJ official” that the FBI was “not in possession” of Trump’s three passports.

The anchor attributed the information to a single source — a big no-no at CBS News, which has a strict two-source protocol. One source told New York Post that the incident is “an embarrassment for CBS that the face of your network can’t even make a second call to a Justice Department rep. It’s Journalism 101.”

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