CNN's Jake Tapper and the White House's Kayleigh McEnany spar after he says she lies 'the way that most people breathe'
- The CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on Sunday that he wouldn't book Trump insiders like Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, because there's "no value" in interviewing them.
- "These are just people who just tell lies the way that most people breathe," Tapper said on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
- McEnany responded on Twitter, calling Tapper's comments a "therapy session for a broken network."
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper said on Sunday that he wouldn't book Trump insiders like Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, and Jason Miller, a Trump campaign senior advisor, because there's "no value" in interviewing them.
On CNN's "Reliable Sources," Tapper was asked about the challenges of covering the Trump administration, and specifically whether he felt that there were "diminishing returns" because he wasn't "getting the truth."
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Tapper said that there "were some people that are just so mendacious I just wouldn't put them on air." He named McEnany and Miller as such people.
"These are just people who just tell lies the way that most people breathe," Tapper told the host, Brian Stelter.
Tapper later added that McEnany "tells lies all the time."
"She can't acknowledge reality," he said. "So I'm just not going to put somebody like that on air."
McEnany responded on Twitter, calling Tapper's comments "a therapy session for a broken network" and saying that Tapper is "lazy enough to participate by lobbing baseless personal attacks, with ZERO evidence."
"Jake's real problem: I do not leak. I do not lie. But I DO call out the lies of the media (i.e. CNN Russia collusion hoax!)," she said.