The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email between Haab's father, Glenn Haab, and a CNN producer to media outlets.

Colton told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Thursday that a CNN producer rewrote a question for Haab to ask at the network's town hall-style event on Wednesday.

CNN has denied Haab's claims, calling them "an effort to discredit CNN and the town hall" and a CNN source provided Business Insider with a different version of the email in question.

President Donald Trump tweeted about Haab's interview with Carlson on Thursday night, calling CNN "Fake News."

The family of Colton Haab, a student at the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people last week, provided a doctored email to media outlets in order to defend the student's claim that CNN scripted a question for him to ask at the network's Wednesday town-hall-style event on school shootings.

Haab, 17, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday night that CNN executive producer Carrie Stevenson gave him a question to deliver to lawmakers and told him to "stick to the script."

Haab told Carlson that CNN "had taken what I had wrote, and what I had briefed on and talked about, and they actually wrote the question for me."

But CNN says there is "absolutely no truth" to Haab's claim, which he first made on a Miami TV-news station.

A CNN spokesman told Business Insider that Stevenson and Haab agreed on one question that he would ask based on comments he made during a "Fox & Friends" interview.

But Haab's father, Glenn Haab, intervened, sending a lengthy speech (see below) that he wanted Colton to read in order to contextualize three questions he wished to ask of lawmakers.

In an email provided by CNN to Business Insider, Stevenson told Glenn that the speech was "way too long" and that Colton needed "to stick" to the question they had agreed on. Glenn then responded that he and his son "are not actors" and that Colton would not participate in the town hall if he could not deliver the full speech.

On Friday afternoon, Fox News and HuffPost asked CNN to verify communications Colton had provided them between the Haabs and Stevenson. CNN noticed a discrepancy between Colton's version of the emails and the network's record.

In CNN's version of one email, Stevenson told Glenn that Colton needed to stick to a question that he and Stevenson "discussed on the phone that he submitted." But in the version of the email provided by Colton to Fox and HuffPost, the phrase "that he submitted" is deleted. A CNN spokesman argued that the deletion strengthens the Haabs' claim that CNN wrote the question.

A CNN source provided Colton's version of the emails, as well as the network's versions of all of the communications between the Haabs and CNN, to Business Insider.

CNN's version of the email in question:

The Haabs' version of the email:

According to the metadata of the Word document containing the email that was provided to Fox, which was checked by Business Insider, it appears that Glenn last edited the document.

"It is unfortunate that an effort to discredit CNN and the town hall with doctored emails has taken any attention away from the purpose of the event," a CNN spokesman told Business Insider. "However, when presented with doctored email exchanges, we felt the need to set the record straight."

Glenn did not respond to a request for comment.

The CNN source told Business Insider that Stevenson talked with Colton on the phone after he submitted several questions to the network.

The two decided during the call that Colton would ask one question about training teachers and school staff to carry weapons, the source said. Colton had suggested in an interview with "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday that Aaron Feis, a football coach at the high school who was killed while protecting students, might have stopped the shooter had he been armed.

The source said the final version of the question was made up of the "the verbatim language" Colton used on "Fox & Friends" about Feis in addition to his question about weapons training for teachers, which appears in the email below.

Emails between Colton Haab and Stevenson:

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Emails between Glenn Haab and Stevenson:

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Colton's claims were amplified on Thursday night when President Donald Trump tweeted about Carlson's interview with Colton and called CNN "Fake News."

"'School shooting survivor says he quit @CNN Town Hall after refusing scripted question.' @TuckerCarlson. Just like so much of CNN, Fake News," Trump wrote. "That's why their ratings are so bad! MSNBC may be worse."

On Friday, Carlson said he would reveal "shocking new evidence" to prove Colton's claims during his show that evening.

He instead saved the story until the very end of his program, when he briefly addressed the issue of the doctored email and accused CNN of unfairly attacking Colton.

"It was just a few days ago that CNN was declaring that anyone who questioned the integrity of Parkland survivors … is a monster," Carlson said. "And yet CNN is doing the very same thing right now: questioning the integrity of a survivor because it suits them."

Carlson concluded by saying that he did not know whether or not the email was doctored and would attempt to find out.

A Word document with allegedly doctored email exchanges provided to HuffPost that was then sent to CNN:

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An allegedly doctored email sent to producers at Fox News that was then sent to CNN:

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The speech that Glenn provided to Stevenson: