WATCH: CNN Reporter Panics, Rambles Incoherently After Bombshell Briefing Upends Russia Hoax

News of former President Barack Obama’s referral for criminal prosecution landed like a bunker buster across Capitol Hill on Wednesday as mainstream media reporters sought to absorb the news and its implications.

That included CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny, who briefly lost the ability to communicate while telling viewers what he witnessed in the White House briefing room just moments earlier. Zeleny was in the middle of attempting to describe new revelations in the Russiagate hoax as outdated.

“We have no idea… I mean this is hardly information that we should be repeating,” he said from the White House lawn. “Never mind that it’s, um, seven, um, seven years, eight years after the fact.”

Zeleny then took aim at Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman who has steadfastly stood by President Donald Trump in laying out new allegations against Obama, Hillary Clinton, and some of their top officials during the 2016 election.

“But um, just look at the source,” he continued. “I’m not sure that this White House wants to, uh, talk about, and I’m not sure that we should spend that much more time on it.”

To be sure, CNN devoted plenty of ink and airtime to the original Russiagate scandal, which kicked into high gear with the release of a U.S. intelligence report concluding Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election. That report was later contradicted by special counsel Robert Mueller, who in 2017 testified before Congress that the FBI should never have pursued the investigation.

President Trump took office under a cloud of suspicion, leading top CNN personalities, such as Jim Acosta, to publicly challenge his administration on a regular basis in the White House briefing room. Acosta, Jake Tapper, and other on-air talents became minor celebrities at the time, much like Kaitlan Collins has done again today.

Now, however, Acosta is out of a job, Tapper is focused on selling a book exploring Joe Biden’s mental decline, and Collins has become more of a gadfly than a gumshoe reporter.

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As the Trump administration trains its focus on Obama, CNN has continued to draw scorn for debunked stories that attempt to draw attention to Trump’s recent health scare.

On Wednesday, a conservative journalist reported that the network’s guest, a physician who suggested Trump’s health may be worse than the White House is letting on, had never practiced medicine beyond residency. The story was later scrubbed from the outlet’s website after the Washington Free Beacon exposed Chris Parnall as a social justice warrior who was fired from her past job for anti-Trump behavior and discrimination against patients.

In July, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller announced the administration had launched an investigation into CNN over its segment devoted to a smartphone app that purports to tell illegal immigrants when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams are in the area.