‘Tell Me Exactly What You Mean!’ CNN Anchor Demands Specifics On Trump ‘Corruption’ Claim From Dem Senator

CNN anchor Pamela Brown interrupted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to demand “specifics” when he accused the Trump administration of corruption and “self-dealing” — and he promptly complied.

Even as President Donald Trump has drawn heat for a blizzard of controversial moves in the opening weeks of his second term, Democrats have struggled with how to resist Trump as his first joint address to Congress of this term looms.

Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk have been the subject of widespread angst at well-publicized town hall meetings.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, Brown asked Whitehouse about the speech, and cut him off when he accused Trump and Elon Musk of corruption. Whitehouse had an example at the ready:

PAMELA BROWN: Bottom line is he’s going to be giving the speech because he was elected by the American people to become president. They put him in this position of power.

And what he is doing right now, a lot of what he is doing is what he talked about on the campaign trail. And it raises questions about the future of your own party.

Your Democratic colleague Mark Warner recently told Politico that Democrats failed in this election to connect to Americans on a cultural basis, and that Democrats’ brand is really bad.

How are you going to course-correct before the midterms?

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: Well, I think, frankly, we have to show that we’ve got the fight in us to go after the corruption that is going on around here. The Trump narrative machine enabled him to brand everybody else as corrupt when all the corruption, it seems right now is emanating from the White House and from the cabinet and from the self-dealing of Elon Musk. So I think–.

PAMELA BROWN: Can you be more specific on that?

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: –we have a very powerful message–.

PAMELA BROWN: I just want to be more specific on that, saying there’s corruption. I need you to be — to tell me exactly what you mean by that, what evidence you’re pointing to on that.

SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE: Well, an example would be an FAA contract being steered to a Musk company and away from Verizon. That’s just one.

PAMELA BROWN: All right, Senator Whitehouse, there are certainly concerned about potential conflicts of interest with the billions of dollars Elon Musk’s companies have before the government and the fact that he is in these agencies doing work there.

Watch above via CNN’s The Situation Room.