Cooper and Conway clash over CNN's report on Russian intel briefing

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/anderson-cooper-kellyanne-conway-trump-russia-intel-report-233514

Anderson Cooper on Wednesday night defended CNN's reporting of an intelligence briefing Donald Trump received on Russia against a flurry of attacks by Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, hours after the president-elect accused the network of airing "fake news."

During the heated exchange, Trump's former campaign manager and incoming White House adviser repeatedly conflated CNN’s report on a briefing Trump received by the heads of the CIA, FBI and NSA to BuzzFeed’s publishing of a 35-page report detailing salacious and unverifiable information about the president-elect's activities in Russia, which the CNN anchor pushed back on.

“I’m surprised you're arguing with me. It has not been backed up by credible news sources and you know as well as I do these rumors were running around for months. Every news outlet was chasing these rumors,” Conway said.

“We are not reporting rumors,” Copper replied.

After the interview, the panel ripped Conway a new one!

Carl Bernstein
"It's time to talk about what we do as journalists and what propaganda ministers do and that is what she is is a propaganda minister. What we've seen here tonight is a deconstruction of the journalistic process. And we did our work and you can deconstruct it and it comes down to, look, the chief officials of the United States intelligence community believed they had something urgent enough to bring to the attention of the president and the president-elect of the united States. That is a story"

[bdamomma]

1. Call her out!!!!

call her propaganda minister that is what she is.

[eShirl]

3. Propaganda Czar

[Thinkingabout]

2. She wants to say it did not start with a creditible news source, and FOX news is not

creditable and there is not anything about this news source. Maybe she should spend time telling Trump he does stupid things.