On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” CNN host Van Jones stated that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is a “smear” that is “playing right into the Russians’ hands.”

Jones said, “She’s playing a very dangerous game. I mean, Hillary Clinton, if you’re concerned about disinformation, if you’re concerned — what the Russians do is they spread disinformation, they get us divided against each other. That is what just happened, just throw out some information — disinformation, smear somebody.”

He later added, “Hillary Clinton’s playing a very dangerous game. … If you’ve got real evidence, come forward with it. But if you’re just going to smear people casually on podcasts, you are playing right into the Russians’ hands.”

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