CNN's Jake Tapper Failed to Follow Up on Critical Detail in Platner Interview

What was said

"It was a night where him and I were texting back and forth, and he had taken something that I said as an invitation, and that's not how I meant it. And I quickly clarified, and he sent a message back indicating that he would come over. The follow-up from a normal person at that point is— What did you say? What'd you say? Right. Like, what was the thing that you said to him that he misunderstood?"

During Jenny Raskut's interview with Jake Tapper, she volunteered that she had sent Platner a text he misinterpreted as an invitation before the alleged assault. Tapper did not ask the obvious follow-up question about what she wrote. The hosts argue this was journalistic malpractice in a story that could end a congressman's career and brand him as a rapist. Tapper did not respond to requests for comment.