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In an interview with actress Emily Blunt on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie downplayed the celebrity’s recent swipe at Republicans with an anti-American joke: “You recently became an American citizen....You made a joke the other day, saying you watched the Republican debate and you joked, ‘What was I thinking?’ And some people took that the wrong way.”
Blunt apologized for the remarks: “...it was so not the intention to hurt anybody or cause any offense. So I really apologize to those that I caused offense. It was just an off-hand joke. I think I'll probably leave the political jokes to late night or something.”