The prosecutor President Donald Trump hand-picked to take his political foes to court hit back at a CNN guest on Tuesday over a perceived slight during an interview on the network.

On Monday's edition of CNN's "NewsNight," attorney Stacy Schneider, who appeared with interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan on Trump's TV show "The Apprentice," clashed with GOP strategist Scott Jennings over Halligan's conduct in her prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey. A federal judge has rebuked Halligan for prosecutorial missteps and required her to disclose grand jury tapes to Comey's defense team, a move that legal experts describe as "extraordinary."

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles gave a series of 11 interviews to Vanity Fair writer Chris Whipple, author of a well-regarded book on White House chiefs of staff, where she offered some withering assessments of the president and his team, including her counterintuitive comparison of Trump to her father, longtime NFL broadcaster and former player Pat Summerall.

"The most valuable gift Susie got from her dad was hard-earned," Whipple wrote. "Summerall was an absentee father and an alcoholic, and Wiles helped her mother stage interventions to get him into treatment. (Summerall was sober for 21 years before his death in 2013.) 'Alcoholism does bad things to relationships, and so it was with my dad and me,' Wiles said."

Re-runs of "The Apprentice", the reality TV show that propelled Donald Trump into the US national consciousness, were riding high on Amazon Prime Video on Tuesday, the day after they hit the platform.

The decision to air the program is the latest step in a growing detente between Trump and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose relationship had previously been prickly.