Kristen Welker said NBC covered the Hunter Biden laptop in 2020, but the scandal was dismissed by the network

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"Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker offered a staunch defense of NBC during a tense clash with Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., who challenged her network's coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020.

On Sunday, Welker attempted to grill Rubio over whether he would accept the results of the upcoming presidential election, to which he responded by listing various issues that had taken place in 2020, among them being the liberal media burying the laptop story.

"What undermines elections is when NBC News and every news outlet in America in 2020 censored the Biden laptop, which turned out to be true- not Russian misinformation," Rubio told Welker.

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The NBC host immediately pushed back, insisting "nothing has been censored on this program." And when Rubio specifically asked "did you cover guys cover the laptop" in 2020, Welker replied "Absolutely, we covered the laptop."

Except the minimal attention NBC News gave to the laptop when it first surfaced either downplayed or dismissed the scandal entirely.

Back in Oct. 2020, just weeks before Election Day, the New York Post broke its bombshell story about the emails found on the laptop belonging to the son of then-candidate Joe Biden,