“A freshman lawmaker apologized Friday after mistaking two U.S. officials for Indian nationals, saying he “shot an air ball.”

“I made a mistake in speaking before being fully briefed and I apologize. I’m a quick study, but in this case I shot an air ball,” Rep. Curt Clawson (R-Fla.) said, according to USA Today.

On Thursday, Clawson had asked U.S. officials Nisha Biswal and Arun Kumar during a congressional hearing about “your country” and “your government.” However, Biswal and Kumar work at the U.S. State Department and Commerce Department, respectively, Foreign Policy reported on Friday.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/curt-clawson-mistakes-staff-indians-109391.html