CNN Kicks Trump Adviser Off The Air For Repeatedly Lying And Not Answering Questions

Jake Tapper of CNN had to kick Trump adviser Peter Navarro (trade adviser) off of State Of The Union on Sunday morning after Navarro repeatedly refused to answer questions about why Trump lied to the public about the pandemic, as revealed by the Woodward audio. Navarro danced around the issue, made some false accusations about Democratic governors and mayors, and then lied about what the administration was actually doing. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On Sunday, Donald Trump's trade advisor and economist, uh, Peter Navarro decided to go on Jake Tapper's program on CNN state of the union. And, uh, you know, they were going to talk about the, the Woodward tapes that came out this week and Jake Tapper, like most Americans wanted to know why the president lied to the American public. You know, he knew one thing behind closed doors set a completely different thing to the public, told us not to worry. He told us not to listen. And Tapper just wanted to get some answers from Navarro for the American public and not surprisingly Navarro was unable to provide any answers to any of a Tapper's actual questions. He provided answers, but not answers to the questions. And so Tapper ends up getting pissed off, kicks Navarro off the set, quite an interesting exchange. Take a look at what

You can't have. It both ways, Jake, you simply, I'm not trying to have it both ways. Nobody knew. No. Nobody does not. The president that Nancy Pelosi not build a Blasio deadlier than the flu. And that's lying to the American people. Two weeks later, Jake, you're cherry picking. I'm not cherry picking, but you can say, look, I think this is asked and answered Jake, look, here's the thing. He was not honest with people. They're not answering the question. You're not honest with the American people. CNN is not honest with CNN. If you want to go there. I mean, I say you're not answering their question. Thank you, Peter Navarro. We just played tantra. You didn't answer. He didn't answer your question. No, you can't say that. I didn't answer the question, Jake. You just didn't like the inner Navarro. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time today. Thank you so much. And I would just like to remind the American people watching. I am reminded that the United States has less than 5% of the world's population and the United States has more than 20% of the world's Corona virus deaths.

Now, as I mentioned, and as you can kind of see in the clip, Navarro does in fact answers some questions, just none of the ones that Jake Tapper was asking. So I don't know what answers he was giving to which questions because we never, we never got to hear any of the questions that he was answering be asked because he was sticking to a set of talking points and did not want to deviate from the script. And you know what? This tells us folks, this tells us that everyone in this administration is being highly coached on how to handle this situation. What do we tell the press? How do we respond to this question? How do we respond to that one? But unfortunately the one thing you can't be taught is spontaneity. You know, the way to really kind of craft your, uh, structured talking point into an actual answer for the question while still sticking to your script.

But also technically addressing the question that was asked. Um, that's really not hard to do. You can easily start to answer and redirect it. Uh, we see people do this all the time, right? And left and interviews and you'll watch any cable news. Show people go there with talking points.