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A former communications official in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was warned multiple times by CNN's Jim Acosta to stick to the truth during a contentious exchange on Wednesday morning.

Appearing on CNN for a postmortem on the Tuesday night debate between the former president and Vice President Kamala Harris, Bryan Lanza attempted to clean up claims Trump made about abortion which in turn led the CNN host to admonish him that he was not going to be allowed to lie on-air.

After Acosta noted Trump refused Tuesday night to say he would veto a national abortion ban bill if he was re-elected, Lanza replied, "I think he said in the past that he would not sign a national abortion ban. I think J.D. Vance has also stated that. I think what he said last night —."

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"He did not say he would veto it if it got passed and got to his desk, he didn't say he would veto it," Acosta reminded him.

"I was answering the question, Jim, thank you for giving me the opportunity," Lanza shot back before continuing and saying, "I think what he was saying —."

"Well, if you are not going to answer, I'm going to jump in Bryan, so..." Acosta interjected again.

"I'm about to answer the question," Lanza repeated. "That is the time you let me answer the question. As I was saying and trying to answer your deeply thoughted (sic) question, I think what he was trying to say last night and I think what he has said is, the country does not support late-term abortion. I think 91 percent of the country feels late-term abortion is a horrific thing."

"No, he said that in some states they are executing the babies after they are born, which is false," Acosta stated.

"Let me finish my answer, Jim. understand you don't want to hear it because it is inconvenient, but I'm still going to answer," the conservative parried.

"But Bryan, if you are not going to tell the truth I've got to jump in. I'm sorry," the CNN host cut in.

"Do you want the truth? Do you want me to answer your question?" Lanza shot back to which Acosta replied, "We want the truth. Yeah, go ahead."

"I'm trying to give you the truth with an explanation but you constantly keep interrupting which leads me to believe you don't want to hear the answer because it is inconvenient for you," Lanza attempted. "So for the fourth time, I'm going to try to answer this question. What he said about abortion, what his position has always been is he has always been proud of repealing abortion. He said it early on he gave a list from the Federalist Society who are going to return it to the states. That is what has happened."

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Stuart Stevens, a former Republican strategist who left his party after its embrace of Donald Trump, doesn't merely think the former president had a bad debate night.

Rather, he thinks that Trump had a debate so bad that it should disqualify him from ever holding public office again.

During an appearance on CNN on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was put on the spot by host John Berman with a debate poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris was the overwhelming winner of Tuesday's debate and then saw her complaints about fact-checking by the moderators swatted away.

Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Leavitt maintained to the CNN host that her boss was the big winner in his first debate with Harris which led Berman to mention the CNN poll taken right after the 90-minute skirmish.

"After Leavitt insisted, "The American people still have a lot of unanswered questions about her [Harris'] record and where she stands on the issues," Berman countered, "In the CNN snap poll after the debate, a large majority said that they believe that Kamala Harris turned in the better performance. You called it a success for Donald Trump. 63 percent said she had the better performance. 37 percent say Donald Trump. This is actually a Republican audience here, four points more Republican than actually registered voters so what you make of that?"

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"The audience also said that they trust president Trump more to handle the economy than they do Kamala Harris," she countered. "And his support on the issue of the economy actually increased after last night's debate because he outlined the problems people are experiencing at home, the 50 percent increase in mortgage rates and 50 percent increase in gas prices since Harris has been vice president and how those were not an issue in American lives under his leadership. Voters trust president Trump on the issues that matter to them. That was proven in the CNN poll."

After she added, "I think president Trump was defending himself from attacks and lies from Kamala Harris that unfortunately were not fact checked by the moderators in the debate: they fact checked president Trump five times," Berman shot back, "I will say one thing. Tim Alberta writes for the Atlantic, used to write the conservative National review, he said 'One way to look at it: ABC moderators fact-checked Trump 2-3 times and Harris zero times. Another way to look at it: ABC moderators fact-checked Trump 2-3 times instead of 500 times.'"

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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Wednesday went onto former President Donald Trump's favorite cable news morning show to taunt him for his widely panned performance in his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris.

In being asked to assess how the debate went, Murphy immediately praised Harris's performance before pivoting to taking an axe to Trump's performance.

Donald Trump threatened ABC News' broadcast license after his widely criticized performance in Tuesday's debate against Kamala Harris.

The former president went on "Fox & Friends" the following morning to clean up after the vice president called out his false claims on abortion, immigration and other topics during their debate and he struggled to land any attacks, and Trump complained the moderators were biased against him for fact-checking a pair of obvious lies.

Former President Donald Trump may have inadvertently confessed to a federal crime during his "trainwreck" debate against Vice President Kamala Harris Tuesday night, according to legal experts.

Trump's comment that he would put an end to the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine wars "even before becoming president" shocked former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, she admitted on X.