MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is working hard to try and cover the trail of former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice.

Rice illegally spied on several key individuals and is now trying to deny any involvement.

@realDonaldTrump will await apology from media now that revealed that Susan Rice unmasked names. Orange jumpsuit in her size?

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) April 3, 2017

The liberal media is desperately trying to help her cover the story up, with CNN even saying that the entire story isn’t newsworthy.

On Tuesday’s episode of “Hardball,” Matthews suggested that the Republicans were “looking for a pinata” and that they “found one in Susan Rice.”

“Notice it’s always a female. Just a thought,” he said.

Sen. Tom Cotton pointed to the fact that Rice was always involved in controversy with the Obama administration.

“Susan Rice is the Typhoid Mary of the Obama administration foreign policy. Every time something went wrong she seemed to turn up in the middle of it,” he said.

See a video of the exchange below:

This is a new low for the Democrats. To try and pull the gender and race cards to protect an individual that so clearly overstepped the boundaries is insulting. Rice deserves to be put in jail for spying on innocent Americans and the liberal media should stop trying to shelter and minimize the damage.