On Monday, NBC’s Today show was the only network morning show to cover the State Department reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. However, the entire report was designed to immediately discredit the probe and even touted Clinton telling CBS Sunday Morning’s Jane Pauley that Donald Trump was an “illegitimate president.”

“On her case. The State Department resurrects the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Why career diplomats are suddenly in the cross-hairs,” co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed at the top of the broadcast. Minutes later, she introduced the story by telling viewers that “a topic that dominated headlines during the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s email” was “back in the headlines.”

Chief foreign affairs correspondent and Clinton apologist Andrea Mitchell began her report by warning: “The State Department has revived an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s e-mails and is now expanding it to include career diplomats who have never even sent her messages directly....The new probe striking fear among many in the diplomatic corps.”

After deriding the email scandal as “a favorite attack line by President Trump against his former opponent,” Mitchell highlighted one former diplomat hinting at a Trump administration conspiracy: “One of those involved, former assistant secretary of state Jeffrey Feltman, who left the State Department in 2012, told NBC News, ‘I’d like to think this is routine, but something strange is going on.’”

The reporter further hyped “Another former State Department official telling NBC, ‘They’ve now expanded the investigation beyond Clinton’s aides to career diplomats – who could lose their jobs – or never get confirmed for another post.’”

At that point, Mitchell featured a soundbite of Clinton recklessly pushing the conspiracy theory that Trump was not legitimately elected president, telling CBS’s Pauley:

He knows he’s an illegitimate president. He knows. He knows that there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did. So of course he’s obsessed with me. And I believe that it’s a guilty conscious in so much as he has a conscience.

Rather than fact check those wildly irresponsible claims, Mitchell concluded the slanted segment with this declaration:

The State Department has not responded to our request for comment, but some veteran diplomats tell NBC News they see the apparent reopening and expansion of the Clinton email probe as an attempt to resurrect the issue to damage Democrats in 2020. The move could also sully the reputations of some of the most highly respected career diplomats.

It’s amazing how uninterested a supposed “journalist” like Mitchell has been in the Clinton email scandal. When it first broke in September of 2015, she hoped the FBI would “close this down quickly.” After ex-FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress in late October of 2016 notifying lawmakers of further investigation into the scandal, Mitchell was inconsolable.

Here is a full transcript of the September 30 report: