CNN’s Jake Tapper fact-checked his colleagues who were attacking White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

Tapper offered a rare defense of the Trump administration from someone from a left-leaning media outlet.

According to Fox News:

McEnany reiterated President Trump‘s strong stance on wanting children to be going back to school in the fall amid a fiery debate about how educators can prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

“The science should not stand in the way of this, but as Dr. Scott Atlas said — I thought this was a good quote, ‘Of course, we can do it. Everyone else in the Western world, our peer nations are doing it. We are the outlier here,'” McEnany said, quoting the former Stanford Medical Center neurology chief.

After playing a clip of that exchange on his show, Tapper corrected CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who knocked the press secretary for having an “alternative facts kind of moment.”

“If I could just say, Sanjay,” Tapper interjected. “I think she was just trying to say that the science shouldn’t stand in the way because the science is on our side. I don’t know that all of the science is on their side- and certainly, this White House, their respect for science knows bounds, let’s put it that way, but I think that’s what she was getting at.”

CNN’s Jim Acosta chimed in too:

Acosta’s tweet that omitted key pieces of McEnany’s quote was shared over 40,000 times by many in the media and CNN alike.

Tapper responded:

Mic dropped!