CNN’s Brooke Baldwin Confuses Elijah Cummings with John Lewis

‘And, um. I’m being corrected — that wasn’t John Lewis’

CNN's Brooke Baldwin Confuses Elijah Cummings with John Lewis (NewsBusters)

Covering a live congressional staffer walk-out to protest the decisions by grand juries in Missouri and New York to fail to indict police officers in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner fatalities, CNN's Brooke Baldwin mistook Maryland Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings for Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia).

The anchor corrected herself moments later, with the aid of guest and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile. 

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