As questions began to be raised regarding Hillary Clinton’s dubious claim that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975, on Friday, only NBC’s Today briefly noted the controversy, with co-host Savannah Guthrie warning: “Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is facing scrutiny about a story from her past that she repeated on the campaign trail this week, and it could come up at tomorrow's debate.”
In the report that followed, correspondent Kristen Welker mentioned: “...the Clinton campaign is defending a story that she first told in the 90s and repeated this week, that in 1975 while living in Arkansas she looked into joining the Marines. Skeptics and some Republicans noted it was an unlikely choice for a Yale law graduate who had worked on anti-war campaigns.”