MSNBC Apologizes After Labeling Segregationist Democratic Congressmen Republicans

American politicians, (L-R) Sen. Howard Baker (Tenn.), Sen. Sam Irvin of (N.C.), Majority Council Sam Dash, Sen. Herman E. Talmadge (Ga.), and Sen. Daniel Inouye (Hawaii), listen to the testimony of James McCord, one of the Watergate burglars, during the Watergate hearings. Gene Forte/Getty Images

The openly left-wing MSNBC network has apologized after labeling segregationist congressmen Republicans when they were actually Democrats.

Kasie Hunt of MSNBC was covering a story about former vice president Joe Biden when she made the error.