MAGA lawmaker gets snippy with CNN anchor: 'You interrupted me!'

A MAGA lawmaker got snippy with a CNN anchor during a live broadcast Friday, complaining, "You interrupted me!"

Assistant Whip Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) joined CNN's Brianna Keilar to discuss the ground stop at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport due to staffing shortages as the government shutdown drags on, and how FAA staffing problems have ended previous stalemates and forced the government to reopen.

Keilar moved the conversation to the subject of food stamp benefits, which two federal judges ruled Friday must be continued to be funded by the Trump administration and the U.S.Department of Agriculture, as the deadline for funding the program was slated to run out Saturday.

"The question I'm asking you, because you're a Republican and that is your party — and that is your party in the White House making that decision — do you think it's fair to just to the country's most needy as leverage?" Keilar asked.

"I was just about to answerwhen you interrupted me, becausethe blame is not just on thisadministration, because thisadministration is not the onethat voted to shut down thegovernment. It was the Senate Democrats that chose to," Malliotakis shot back.

"But what I'm simply saying is,if the Democrats are not goingto vote to reopen thegovernment, they want tocontinue using this leverage andinflict this type of pain in the American people unnecessarily.Then what I think the presidentand the administration should dois what they've done with theWomen, Infants, and Children program," she said. "They were able to find somemoney to shift funds to continuethat program, very critical foryoung families that I represent.They found funds from Pentagonresearch and development to beable to pay our military. And asI said earlier, they should dothe same here, if given, whichthey seem to have received greenlights from the judges to allowthem to use it."