Who better than a Democratic Senator to fact check his Republican colleague? That, apparently, is the view at MSNBC. Network anchor Andrea Mitchell on Monday erupted in anger that Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana would dare spar with Chuck Todd. Regarding his appearance on Meet the Press, the MSNBC host assailed Kennedy for “embracing the discredited conspiracy theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 campaign.” She hyped, “We'll have a fact check on the senator's so-called proof coming up.”

Clearly, the best, most objective source on this is a partisan Democrat. Introducing Senator Chris Murphy, Mitchell enthused, “Senator, you as a foreign relation committee member, you as someone who has traveled repeatedly to Ukraine, can you help us fact check your colleague, Senator Kennedy?”

Republicans are not often invited on MSNBC with the explicit goal of “fact checking” their Democratic counterparts. But Mitchell let Murphy proclaim himself the final arbitor of truth when it came to the issue of Ukraine: “Nobody knows Ukraine better than I do. I've been there about five or six times.”

Mitchell then read a tweet from Donald Trump, something she found distasteful, saying: “We don't normally pick up his insults against other people, but since he's insulting our colleague, who did such a great job on Meet the Press and praising Senator Kennedy for propagating these myths.”

Here’s her question that’s not really a question:

But this is what's on his mind. “Thank you to great Republican Senator John Kennedy for the job he did in representing both the Republican Party and myself against Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd on Meet the Depressed.” We only do because he's the President of the United States. We don't normally pick up his insults against other people but since he's insulting our colleague, who did such a great job on Meet the Press and praising Senator Kennedy for propagating these myths, which according to Fiona Hill and the the intelligence agencies, Republican-led intelligence committees, and the intelligence agencies is Republican disinformation. What do you — How do we deal with that?

Notice the phrasing: “How do we deal with that?” The MSNBC host then closed out with another non-question, lecturing:

I just want to point out, Senator, that what CBS reported is in their reporting and what Ken Vogel reported when he was still at Politico before he want to the New York Times, it was, what they reported about Ukraine were these individual actors and it was not at all equivalent to what Russia did. So, once again, both this blog The Federalist.com, in amalgamating all this stuff and regurgitating by the Senators defending the President, who are being praised again today, is completely taken out of context. Senator Chris Murphy, thanks you on all points. Thanks for joining us today.

Murphy could be seen nodding in agreement through all of this. Just one liberal talking to another. Sadly, the idea of a Democrat fact checking a Republican isn’t new for the mainstream media. In January, CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King said she viewed the Democratic response to a speech by Donald Trump as the “fact check” of the President: “And that is why Democrats want to have a response immediately after the address so they can fact check it in real time.”

A transcript of Mitchell’s questions can be found below: