Kellyanne Conway and Chris Cuomo Battle in Heated Kavanaugh Interview: ‘I’ll Walk Away’ If You Talk Over Me
CNN’s Chris Cuomo sparred with Kellyanne Conway during a Thursday night interview on Judge Brett Kavanaugh that quickly spun out of control as the presidential counselor defended the SCOTUS nominee despite a sexual assault allegation against him.
It didn’t take long for the discussion to turn into a heated debate, a switch which occurred right after Cuomo’s first question, as he wondered why Republicans felt Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was mistaken concerning her account of Kavanaugh’s alleged behavior.
“You just told your audience you wanted to lay out everything you learned,” Conway shot back. “You’ve omitted cleverly a very important fact, which is Judge Kavanaugh said he wasn’t there.”
“You want to lay the blame at somebody’s feet, look no further than your Democratic friends starting with Senator Feinstein,” Conway added, referring to backlash against the lawmaker for her handling of the accusation which was made known to her months ago in a letter. “Even the Democrats are angry with her.”
“What does that have to do with the truth of the matter?” Cuomo interjected. “That’s just politics.”
Irked by the constant interruptions, Conway then threatened to walk out of the interview altogether.
“You just think you can talk over me, I’ll walk away,” she told Cuomo. “You guys begged me to come on and then you want to interrupt me. Hold on.”
To Conway’s warning, Cuomo reminded her of the role of a reporter, which was in part that of a fact checker.
However that didn’t do much to calm the situation, as Conway argued she’d said nothing so far, prompting Cuomo to say she’d made “a lot of noise for nothing coming out of your mouth.”
Watch the clip above via CNN.
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