During its coverage of Saturday night’s GOP presidential debate, CNN criticized Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz, saying “The Cruz campaign’s actions the night of the Iowa caucuses had nothing to do with CNN’s reporting” and that Cruz is flat-out lying when he claims CNN reported that GOP candidate Dr. Ben Carson was dropping out of the race. After playing the exchange during that night’s debate between Cruz and Carson, anchor Erin Burnett read a statement from CNN that “What Senator Cruz said tonight in the debate is categorically false. CNN never corrected its reporting because CNN never had anything to correct. The Cruz campaign’s actions the night of the Iowa caucuses had nothing to do with CNN’s reporting. The fact Senator Cruz continues to knowingly mislead the voters about this is astonishing.” Burnett added, “What Ted Cruz says here is completely false.” Correspondent Tom Foreman then said, “Erin, at no time did CNN say that Ben Carson was dropping out of this race, not online, not on air, not anywhere. And for Ted Cruz to stand onstage, once again tonight, and suggest that CNN did is a flat-out lie. This is what was tweeted shortly before the caucuses