What did CNN host Anderson Cooper say to Donald Trump supporter that prompted him to apologise on air?
The interview wasn’t the first time that Cooper appeared snarky while talking to Trump surrogate
During an interview on his show Friday night, CNN host Anderson Cooper interrupted a conservative pundit with a not-so-subtle jab that he later regretted.
Cooper told Jeffrey Lord, a supporter of the president, that if Trump “took a dump on his desk,” he would still defend him. The host apologised on Twitter after his show, saying he regrets the “crude sentence”, which he followed up with an apology on air.
“It was unprofessional,” Cooper said. “I am genuinely sorry.”
The exchange occurred during a discussion about a report in The New York Times that claimed Trump called former FBI director James Comey a “nut job” in front of Russian officials during a meeting in the Oval Office earlier this month. Trump said that firing Comey, who was heading a counter-intelligence investigation on possible Russian interference in the presidential election to help him win, relieved pressure from him.
“I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off,” Trump said, according to the Times.
Cooper repeatedly asked Lord if Trump should have made such comments. Here’s the first part of the conversation:
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