On New Day Sunday, as the show touted the group of liberal students holding a rally to promote gun control in response to the Florida school shootings, CNN correspondent Rosa Flores at one point repeated without question the claim by one student that it is "more difficult" to "plan for a weekend" than it is to get an "automatic weapon or semi-automatic weapon."
The day before, the show had also promoted misinformation as one student was not corrected when she claimed that there had already been "18 mass shootings in schools this year."
After playing a clip of student Emma Gonzalez giving a speech railing against the NRA, substitute host Rene Marsh then recalled: "And this banner seen flying over Miami Beach read 'Shame on you, Marco Rubio and NRA.'"
Flores then came aboard and recounted the complaints of the liberal group:
They're asking lawmakers to ban the type and style of weapon that was used here to kill 17 of their classmates and their teachers. And so they're asking lawmakers to do some gun control in this country.
They're also directing their message to voters asking them not to vote for politicians who oppose gun control. They're also asking for the ban of high-capacity magazines which are used for maximum carnage. So their message is very much directed so that another community does not have to go through what they wen through.
After another clip of Gonzalez attacking the NRA, Flores then misinformed viewers as she added:
And she also had this to say. She asked the question: "Why should it be more difficult for us here in this school to plan for a weekend than it is for someone to purchase a high-capacity magazine and an automatic weapon or semi-automatic weapon? Why should it be?
If her slight stumbling over her words was intended to be a correction, she failed to clarify that the weapon used in the Parkland, Florida, school attack was a semi-automatic and than automatic weapons are extremely difficult for a civilian to acquire.
