Though it has received play on all three major broadcast networks, ABC chose on Thursday night and Friday morning to emphasize an anonymous C-SPAN call to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) of a woman worried her children “could die” if Johnson fails to reopen the government and ensure federal employees are paid. Of course, ABC (and the caller) ignored how that falls to Senate Democrats and their hostage tactics.

“Tonight, the government shutdown day nine. House Speaker Mike Johnson confronted on live TV by a woman saying she’s the wife of a military service member who isn’t getting paid. You will hear the moment and how the speaker responds,” beamed World News Tonight anchor David Muir on Thursday.

Tossing to Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott, Muir later declared Johnson was, again, “confronted...by a woman saying she is the wife of a military service member who isn’t getting paid.”

Scott contrasted “growing anxiety among American military families” and lines at a Fort Hood, Texas-area food bank with “Johnson confronted on live television by a woman who says she’s a military spouse from Virginia.”

She then played two soundbites from the call, including the woman saying she has a military spouse and “two medically fragile children” and that “[a]s a Republican, I’m very disappointed in my party and I’m very disappointed in you. You do have the power to call the House back.”

“[Y]ou refuse to do that just for show. I am begging you to pass this legislation, my kids could die...You could stop this and you could be the one that could say military is getting paid and I think that it is awful and the audacity of somebody who makes six figures a year to do this to military families is insane,” she added.

Johnson only had a one-sentence soundbite as balance: “Chuck Schumer and the Democrats are preventing your family from getting the care they need, not Republicans and my heart goes out to you.”

Being the partisan tool she’s always been, Scott closed by gushing “Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries says he would support a bill to pay our military troops while the government is shut down, but House Speaker Mike Johnson has made it clear he will not bring the House back into session[.]”

Scott rehashed this false narrative on Friday’s Good Morning America.

But in a tease at the beginning of the show, she received help from co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos, who eagerly framed Johnson as in fault for families worrying about their paychecks: “Growing pressure. As the government shutdown drags on, federal workers prepare to go without paychecks. Some military families lined up outside food pantries. One military spouse confronts Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on live TV.”

Scott began her piece with a misleading point about the Senate: “The Senate has now tried and failed seven times to pass a bill to fund the government. Lawmakers have now left town as we had to day ten of the shutdown as military families worried they won't get a paycheck.”

Of course, she ignored the fact that 60 votes are required to reopen government. 52 Republicans, two Democrats, and one “independent” (Maine’s Angus King, who’s really a Democrat) have been voting to reopen the government with 43 Democrats and one Republican (Kentucky’s Rand Paul) keeping it shuttered.

As she did the night prior, Scott pivoted to blaming the GOP and the C-SPAN caller, inflamatory rhetoric and all (click “expand”):

SCOTT: This morning, with no end to the government shutdown insight, many Americans on edge. Near Fort Hood, Texas,, military families lining up for hours outside a food pantry. And on live television, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson confronted by one woman who says she's a military spouse in Virginia.

C-SPAN CALLER: I have two medically fragile children. I have a husband who actively serves this country.

SCOTT: She told Johnson she is outraged she won't bring the House back into session to pass emergency funding to pay the troops. If Congress does not fund the government by October 15, it will be the first time in modern history that service members go without pay during a shutdown.

C-SPAN CALLER: As a Republican, I am very disappointed in my party, and very disappointed in you because you to have the power to call the house back. You did that. You refused to do that just for show. I am begging you to pass this legislation. My kids could die. We don't have the credit because of the medical bills that I have to pay regularly. You could stop this, and you can be the one that could say military is getting paid and I think this is awful and the audacity of someone who makes six figures a year to do this to military families is insane.

Scott then argued it’s Johnson who’s kept “military funding” from being put “on the floor, drawing criticism from Democrats.”

Once again, Scott misled viewers by refusing to denote part of this could be solved by having the Senate pass the annual appropriations bill, which the House took care of back on July 18. Oh, wait, the Senate did on Thursday with changes, leaving the two houses to reconcile the two.

She also insisted House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has supported a standalone military pay bill, but refused to address this in a Friday press conference. Ironically enough, the reporter pressing Jeffries in the clip below was Scott’s ABC colleague, Jay O’Brien:

Scott made two last swipes, painting Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as cruel by making air traffic controllers work without pay and then ignoring how many members of Congress — some in both parties — are having their pay withheld until the shutdown ends:

And this morning, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy really trying to increase the pressure on air traffic controllers. Many of whom started calling out sick to work this week, leading to travel delays, staffing shortages at airports. He is now threatening to fire them if they do not show up to work. They are considered essential workers, supposed to work without pay during this government shutdown. Meanwhile, the lawmakers that left Capitol Hill? They are still getting their paychecks[.]

To see the relevant ABC transcripts, click here (for World News Tonight) and here (for Good Morning America).