Sen. Eric Schmitt questions special counsel Jack Smith during a Senate hearing about whether Smith attended an NBA game in Atlanta in February 2024. Schmitt suggests Smith perjured himself about details of the event, but his exchange includes apparent confusion about which teams played.
According to CBS News and PBS NewsHour, Schmitt frames the game as occurring between the Atlanta Hawks and the Golden State Warriors in Atlanta. Smith responds that he did attend a game, but it was a University of Iowa Hawkeyes game in Maryland, not an NBA game in Georgia. Sen. Amy Klobuchar interjects that Schmitt is confusing two sports teams.
The outlets also note the broader setting of the hearing, in which Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s earlier disclosures about an affair involving special prosecutor Nathan Wade had been discussed. CBS includes Schmitt’s characterization of Smith as a “dirtbag,” while PBS focuses on the questioning and the mistaken team reference. Both accounts describe the same core moment: Schmitt’s assertion conflicts with Smith’s clarification about where and what type of game he attended.
