CNN anchor Dana Bash interrupted reside protection of President Donald Trump’s Oval Workplace look Monday to push again towards his claims that journalists on the Warner Bros. Uncover-owned community “hate our country.”
“I just want to say for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN hates our country — CNN does not hate our country,” Bash instructed viewers after Trump made the comment within the Oval Workplace on Monday.
“That should go without saying.”
Bash added: “I’ve been here for 32 years and I see a rhetorical device in him trying to say such a thing.”
Bash reduce into reside protection of Trump’s Oval Workplace look Monday after the president launched a barrage of assaults on CNN and reporter Kaitlan Collins throughout a contentious alternate concerning the destiny of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Salvadoran man a US court docket dominated was wrongly deported.
The alternate occurred throughout a gathering between Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.
When Collins tried to ask about Abrego Garcia — who stays imprisoned in El Salvador regardless of a Supreme Court docket choice ordering the US to facilitate his return — Trump opened with a mocking jab: “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at CB— at CNN. Low-rated!”
Collins requested: “Do you plan to ask President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?”
Moderately than reply immediately, Trump handed the ground to Lawyer Common Pam Bondi and Deputy Chief of Employees Stephen Miller.
After each officers spoke, Trump interjected solely to assert, “CNN is totally slanting because they don’t know what’s happening. That’s why nobody’s watching them.”
Collins pressed once more, repeating her query and turning on to Bukele to ask if he would ship Abrego Garcia again.
Bukele responded by saying he wouldn’t “smuggle a terrorist into the United States,” prompting Trump so as to add, “They’d love to have a criminal, you know, released into our country. They would love it. They’re —these are sick people.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Miller continued to scold Collins, however she reminded the room that Trump had beforehand mentioned he would comply with court docket orders requiring wrongly deported people to be returned.
“Why don’t you just say, ‘Isn’t it wonderful that we’re keeping criminals out of our country?’” Trump shot again.
“Why can’t you say that? Why do you go over and over, and that’s why nobody watches you anymore, you know, you have no credibility.”
With the alternate escalating, CNN’s “Inside Politics” reduce away from the Oval Workplace feed.
Bash rapidly addressed the second: “Okay, we have been listening to a lengthy live press conference inside the Oval Office with the leader of El Salvador, Bukele, where we have heard a lot of bits of information, a lot of news nuggets that we want to definitely focus on — a lot of some misinformation as well.”
Earlier than turning to her panel, Bash pushed again towards Trump’s broader accusation, insisting: “CNN does not hate our country. That should go without saying.”
