Top MSNBC, NBC News Editor Accused of Trying to ‘Bully’ Reporter ‘On Behalf of the DNC’

A person photographs an MSNBC news broadcast during the first day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 18, 2016. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

A top political editor at MSNBC and NBC News was accused of trying to intimidate a reporter on behalf of the Democratic National Party.

Yashar Ali, a contributor to New York Magazine and the Huffington Post, said that he was called by the editor, Dafna Linzer, on March 28.