Editor’s note: This post has been updated. See below. 

Megyn Kelly’s big interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin airs at 8 p.m. on NBC tonight, and it’s already being spun.

Here’s the headline in a tweet teasing the premiere:

Except, that’s not really what Putin said … at all:

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Here’s the text from the article:

The conversation later turned to a pre-campaign dossier that was purportedly collected on Trump.

But Putin, who once worked as a KGB recruiter, alleged that he has no knowledge of such a dossier.

“Where would we get this information from? Why, did we have some special relationship with him?” Putin asked. “We didn’t have any relationship at all. There was a time when he used to come to Moscow. But you know, I never met with him. We have a lot of Americans who visit us.”

But mission accomplished, NBC News. The damage is already done:

Great job, NBC News. We assume you’ll get pissed when Trump calls this out for the fake news that it is?

Update. NBC News has deleted the tweet above and issued this correction:

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