CNN's Jake Tapper STUNS co-hosts when he drops 'P-word' during live ​discussion on Jan 6 hearings



CNN's Jake Tapper left his co-hosts stunned when he blurted out the "P-word" while discussing a heated phone call between then President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6.

Witnesses told the House Jan. 6 select committee that Trump called the vice president a “wimp” and the “p-word” during a “pretty heated” conversation shortly before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Video clips shown on the third day of the public Jan. 6 hearings, show former first daughter Ivanka Trump and other "Trump insiders" recounting the angry phone call.

A CNN panel discussed the witness testimony, calling Trump's phone call a "last-ditch effort where Trump is trying to pressure Pence to help him overturn the election."

"I thought it was extraordinary because, we see the recordings, these were all Trump insiders. These are young aides and staffers," noted panelist Jamie Gangel.

Tapper cut to video clips of testimony concerning what he described as, "the phone call between Donald Trump and Mike Pence on the morning of January 6, after Pence has made it clear he is not going to bend to Trump's pressure campaign to try to overrule and undermine an American election."

An assistant to the former president, Nick Luna, said he remembered "hearing the word 'wimp' during the call, and Pence’s national security adviser, Gen. Keith Kellogg, said Trump told the vice president he wasn't "tough enough to make the call.”

“As I was dropping off the note, my memory, I remember hearing the word ‘wimp,’ either he called him a wimp, I don’t remember if he said you are a wimp, you’ll be a wimp, wimp is the word I remember,” Luna testified.

Ivanka Trump described the phone call as “pretty heated," adding, "It was a different tone than I heard him take with the vice president before.”

Ivanka’s former chief of staff, Julie Radford, testified that Trump actually called Pence “the p-word."

“So, that in fact, the word was not ‘wimp, it was ‘p**sy’ that Donald Trump was calling Vice President Pence,” Tapper blurted, eliciting an audible gasp from one of his co-hosts. Whether the gasp was in response to Tapper's taboo on live television, or because the president of the United States allegedly called the vice president a 'p-word,' it's hard to say.



Kayleigh McEnany fires back at Jake Tapper, saying he's 'lazy' for making 'baseless personal attacks with ZERO evidence'



White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany fired back at CNN anchor Jake Tapper after he said that he would not have her on his show because she lies so much.

Tapper made the comments on CNN's "Reliable Sources" with Brian Stelter on Sunday. McEnany replied from her official social media account.

"This is a therapy session for a broken network, and @jaketapper is lazy enough to participate by lobbing baseless personal attacks, with ZERO evidence," McEnany said.

This is a therapy session for a broken network, and @jaketapper is lazy enough to participate by lobbing baseless p… https://t.co/QF247k98ka
— Kayleigh McEnany (@Kayleigh McEnany)1609091862.0

"Jake's real problem: I do not leak. I do not lie. But I DO call out the lies of the media (i.e. CNN Russia collusion hoax!)"

Tapper told Stelter on Sunday that he refused to have some of the members of the Trump administration or the Trump 2020 campaign on his show.

"There are some people that are so mendacious, I just wouldn't put them on air," Tapper said in the interview.

"Kayleigh McEnany, I never booked her. Jason Miller from the Trump campaign, I would never book him. I mean, these are just people who tell lies the way that most people breathe. There was no value in that," he continued.

Tapper went on to say that former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway didn't lie like McEnany did, but that she merely changed the subject when asked a tough question.

"There's a big difference between something like Kayleigh McEnany, who just like, this is what she does, she tells lies all the time, she can't acknowledge reality," Tapper continued.

"So I'm just not gonna put somebody like that on air," he concluded.

Tapper also complained on Monday when President Donald Trump retweeted an insult mocking him and calling him "Fake Tapper."

"The American people are suffering though the deadliest month of the pandemic and the president is RTing mean tweets about me," he tweeted.

Here's Tapper's comment on 'Reliable Sources':

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