Watch: Dem operative explodes on Fox News' Tucker Carlson for playing dumb on Cohen's criminal behavior

In an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson, one former aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unloaded on the host for playing dumb on the campaign finance violations undertaken by Michael Cohen on behalf of the president.

"Stormy Daniels apparently saidto Donald Trump through hisattorney, 'give me money or Iwill embarrass you,'" Carlson said in his interview with Democratic activist Chris Hahn. "You just conceded that isextortion.If that happened to you I thinkyou would consider it extortion."

"I think Stormy Daniels said 'Iwill tell' and the president said 'wait, let me give you money soyou don't tell,' which is whathappened with [Karen] McDougal and which may havehappened with others and I thinkwe are going to find out," Hahn responded — but the host cut him off and began raising his voice.

"The deal wasextortion," Carlson rebutted. "I'm not defending this. I don't think the president istelling the truth about it,I think he probably did have arelationship with her.But it still extortion.So why are we excusing that?"

Exasperated, Hahn explained the definition of extortion to the host.

"Tucker, it's extortion if sheasked him for the money," he said over the host's attempts to interrupt once again. "It's not extortion if he offeredher the money.Let's be clear here."

The alleged crime at hand is not extortion, Hahn said, but that Cohen broke the law at the behest of Donald Trump — another legal issue Carlson appeared not to understand.

"Let me just askyou, the idea here — and it's astupid idea, I would say — is thatthis was a campaign contributionand so the implication if it hadcome out that Trump had arelationship with a porn star, people would have been totallyshocked and wouldn't have votedfor him because that justdoesn't sound like theDonald Trump they knew," the host said.

"That's ridiculous, actually," Carlson continued. "This wasn't a campaigncontribution.This was hush money paid to aporn star and that's what it is.It's not a crime, it'sembarrassing."

"According towhat we heard in courtyesterday, the president wasconcerned that this and otherthings would come out and hedirected Michael Cohen to commita campaign finance violation," Hahn said.

The host continued to push, imploring the former Schumer aide to "speak slowly" so he can understand how that would constitute a campaign finance violation — and the interview soon devolved into a screaming match.

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