Tucker Carlson accused someone at CNN of leaking an off-camera conversation between anchor Jake Tapper and White House policy adviser Stephen Miller following Miller’s appearance on State of the Union Sunday.
CBS was among the news organizations to report the transcript of that conversation which happened when Tapper went to a commercial break.
“Jake, what I care about is having three minutes to tell the truth about the president of the United States,” Miller said.
“You had plenty of time,” Tapper said. “I let you give like a three-minute filibuster at the very top.”
“You gave me two minutes,” Miller shot back, later adding, “You should be ashamed of yourself. Honestly.”
“This is the reason they don’t put you out on TV,” Tapper said. “OK? This is the reason.”
But Miller was back on TV, on Carlson’s show last night. That conversation began with a discussion about the CNN interview including Miller disputing an account that he was escorted off the set. “Like many things CNN says, this story has the most important virtue of all CNN stories of being not true,” said Miller.