“Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker is facing backlash Sunday after she ignored reporting from several major outlets, including her own at NBC News, tying the U.S. to the deadly strike on an Iranian girls’ school.

Welker — in an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — asked about President Donald Trump blaming Iran for the strike while declining to mention investigations by Reuters and CNN that found the U.S. was likely responsible for the strike. A separate, early analysis by The New York Times found that the school was “severely damaged” in a U.S. strike that occurred around the same time as one on a nearby Iranian naval base.

“President Trump said Iran is responsible for that strike. What is your response?” said Welker in a clip on X highlighted by the independent Drop Sites News outlet.

Over 170 people — most of whom were schoolchildren — were killed in the attack on the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, per Iranian health officials, which would make it the deadliest strike on Iran since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on the country.

NBC News, citing sources familiar with the matter, also reported it “looks increasingly likely that a U.S. munition was responsible for striking” the school.

The school’s location is wedged between two points plotted on a strike map displayed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a recent Pentagon briefing, per journalist Chris Osieck.

Trump, when asked on Saturday whether the U.S. was responsible for the strike, replied, “No, my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.”

He later continued, “We think it was done by Iran... because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever.”

In Araghchi’s interview with Welker, he declared that “all evidence” points to the U.S. using a “jet fighter” for the deadly strike.

Welker responded, “Where is the Iranian evidence that this was a U.S. attack? A jet fighter, as you say. Will you provide?”

Araghchi replied, “If it was not U.S., then who was that? Maybe Israelis. But it is obvious who else is attacking us.”

Welker swiftly moved on to her next question.

Critics on social media slammed Welker over the interview moment, with one user on X calling it “truly pathetic,” and another calling out her “atrocious job.”

The MeidasTouch Network, in a separate post on X, shared the Drop Site News clip with the caption, “Trump knows that when he lies, the media will parrot his lies as if they are the truth.”

HuffPost has reached out to representatives with NBC News/“Meet the Press” for comment.

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