CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Hits Back As Trump Honcho Noem Attacks CNN: ‘We Tell The Truth — Every Night’

CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins hit back at Trump DHS Secretary Kristi Noem when she attacked CNN as not “telling the truth,” saying “We tell the truth — every night.”

Noem was a guest on Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, during which she and Collins discussed the shooting at an ICE detention facility that claimed the lives of two migrant detainees.

When Noem complained about the media and “reporters like you,” Collins defended her network emphatically and repeadetly:

NOEM: I wish that our media, and I wish reporters like you, Kaitlan, would talk about the victims every day that we interact with, that we send you the stories on, that you refuse to tell, about the poor little girl and baby that was strangled yesterday, by an illegal criminal, and died. That baby died overnight. That was the first news I got this morning, when I got up at 04:00 a.m.

Then the next news that I got was that the media had reported that a father had his child taken away from him, when, in all reality, this poor, little autistic girl was abandoned by her father, who was a criminal–

COLLINS: But CNN didn’t report that, right, Secretary Noem?

NOEM: You know what, Kaitlan? Just — if you guys would just tell the truth, about what these criminals are, and what they’ve done and their history–

COLLINS: Yes, we — we tell the truth, every night.

NOEM: –and make it about the victims — that’d be fantastic. We send out about five or six different press releases, every day, correcting stories, and I’ll send you the copies of the ones that you’ve gotten wrong that we’ve been able to correct.

But these law enforcement officers are being demonized. And they should be supported. Because they have families too. And they live in these communities. Their kids go to school there. Their spouses go to work, and they just want to–

COLLINS: Yes. And, of course–

(CROSSTALK)

NOEM: –make their community and their city safer.

COLLINS: Secretary Noem, as you know, if we get something wrong, we correct it. But also, what you just referenced there is not something that CNN reported. And obviously, we strive for accuracy every night.

Secretary Noem, I really appreciate you joining us tonight to offer an update on that investigation. Obviously, we’ll continue to follow it closely and what DHS releases.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.