A fed-up CNN anchor shut down an interview with former President Donald Trump's spokesman whose maturity and future on the network he threw into question.
Jim Acosta called out Corey Lewandowski Wednesday morning after a testy exchange that began with a clip of Trump confusing leaders of Iran and North Korea and ended with the campaign advisor mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' first name.
"You've been in this business a long time. You're, I think you're a mature grown-up," Acosta said. "Can you say Kamala? Or you cannot say Kamala?"
This was hardly the lone moment of tension between the two men after Acosta asked Lewandowski to respond to data showing border crossings have decreased and found himself accused of masking the facts.
"Are you going to go with some of the facts?" Lewandowski demanded.
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"We're going with the facts, Corey," Acosta replied. "I don't know about you."
Acosta then pivoted to a claim Trump made during a Milwaukee campaign speech Tuesday night that he had to cancel an outdoor rally because the Secret Service needed to guard the United Nations and Kim Jong Un, whom he claimed was trying to kill him.
Reports show it was the Iranian government behind an assassination plot revealed in July, not the North Korean leader.
"Why is he getting confused about that?" Acosta asked.
Lewandowski replied with a rant against President Joe Biden's administration which he blamed for the assassination attempt on Trump's life in Pennsylvania that same month.
"He took a bullet in the ear because the U.S. Secret Service wasn't communicating with the people on the ground," Lewandowski shouted. "Don't you think that is an epic failure?"
Acosta agreed, saying, "We reported it was an epic failure."
It was then that the Trump adviser targeted the Democratic presidential nominee and mispronounced her first name.
"It goes to show you the politics of the top of the administration," Lewandowski declared, "whether it's [Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro] Mayorkas or it's Kamala or it's Joe Biden—"
Acosta then told Lewandowski to pronounce her first name correctly — a demand the Trump adviser ignored to instead opine about immigration.
"All right," Acosta interrupted. "I appreciate you coming on. Maybe we'll have you back."
