NewsNation: Federal agents raided a mansion in Beverly Hills Tuesday morning, as part of an investigation into former California Rep. Eric Swalwell

C: Uses an unnamed source or unsourced number and uses loaded words.

• Relies on an unnamed source or a number with no source (minus 18 points): [1:10] 'sources tell our news nation's Libby Dean. This operation is linked to ... Eric Swalwell' (unnamed sources)
• Uses loaded words (minus 12 points): [1:14] 'disgraced Congressman Eric Swalwell' (correspondent's own wording)

Splits: Live report from outside the mansion: what agents are doing, the owner's ties to Swalwell, his attorney's no comment and the owner's own legal case

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