[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 4 August 2016 edition of CNN's New Day, John Berman did his best to defend the Obama administration's secret shipment of $400 million to Iran right before the Islamist regime released four American prisoners. Former Rep. Mike Rogers criticized the payment, but Berman countered that "the President...said money was going there...We did not have the details about the plane...the euros — things like that." He later underlined, "Isn't the key to diplomacy...that everyone gets to declare victory?...don't you try to strike a deal, where Iran can say one thing happened; and the United States can say the other thing?"