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Corey Lewandowski campaign manager for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks with the media before former presidential candidate Ben Carson gives his endorsement to Mr. Trump at the Mar-A-Lago Club on March 11. | Getty Breitbart adjusts report suggesting Trump campaign manager not behind incident

Breitbart has adjusted a report which originally suggested video evidence showed that Washington Post reporter Ben Terris misidentified the man who grabbed at Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields following a Tuesday night press conference with Donald Trump.

The new version of the report includes new video that appears to show Lewandowski reaching for Fields.

Both Fields and Terris have said Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski aggressively yanked Fields out of the way on Tuesday night after Fields tried to ask a question.

Though the conservative, and often pro-Trump site, noted in its first report that "the altercation itself is not shown" and that "Fields quickly disappears from view, as if pulled back," the site suggested that a security official who resembles campaign manager Corey Lewandowski may have been the one who pulled Fields away.

"Given the similarity in appearance between Lewandowski and the security official, and given the fact that Lewandowski was walking on the other side of Trump from where Fields was at the time, the possibility of mistaken identity cannot be ruled out. Indeed, given Lewandowski’s adamant denials (coupled with statements inappropriately impugning Fields’s character), it is the likeliest explanation," the original Breitbart piece notes.

Breitbart's initial statement about the incident pointed to Terris as the one who identified Lewandowski and said that "if that’s the case, Corey owes Michelle an immediate apology."

But by Thursday afternoon, Breitbart CEO and President Larry Solov seemed more definitive in his response, after Terris posted his own account of the incident. And later Thursday, POLITICO posted audio of the affair, with dialogue showing that Terris had immediately identified Lewandowski as the perpetrator.

On Friday morning, Solov issued another statement suggesting the Trump campaign was contradicting itself while denying the incident.

"Breitbart News stands behind Michelle Fields. Even Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson said Thursday that 'someone probably did grab her,' i.e. Fields, though she claimed it could not have been Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Trump's suggestion that Fields made up the incident Tuesday evening contradicts the evidence, including her own injuries, an account from Washington Post reporter Ben Terris, and audio recorded at the scene," Solov said.

The Trump campaign has vigorously denied the claim, going so far as to question Fields' character, with Trump himself suggesting Fields made the whole thing up.

This post has been updated throughout to reflect that Breitbart has updated it's original article.