- CNN host Chris Cuomo and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway traded verbal jabs at each other in a wild 30-minute interview on Thursday night.
- Cuomo opened the interview with a primer on this week's avalanche of news, including court cases involving President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen.
- Conway and Cuomo were soon sparring and, at points, talking over each other in a wild 30-minute interview.
- CNN host Chris Cuomo and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway traded verbal jabs at each other in a wild 30-minute interview on Thursday night.
- The two were set to discuss this week's avalanche of news, but the interview soon went off the rails.
"There's a little difference between you and me and the shop you're working for," Cuomo told Conway at one heated point during the interview.
"The White House?," Conway replied.
"Integrity," Cuomo said.
"How dare you," Conway shot back.
"How dare me?," Cuomo said.
The interview comes after a particularly tough few days for President Donald Trump, whose former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort was convicted by a jury on eight counts of bank and tax fraud, among other charges.
Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen also pleaded guilty to multiple crimes and implicated Trump in two of them.
One of those crimes involved a $130,000 payment Cohen said he made "at the direction" of Trump made just before the 2016 election to keep the porn star Stormy Daniels quiet about a sexual relationship she said she had with Trump.
Cohen's account conflicted with Trump's and the White House's previous statements on the hush-money payment, which led The Washington Post to call the statements a "lie" in its fact-checking analyses.
That fact wasn't lost on Cuomo, who flatly referred to Trump's remarks on the payment "a lie."
But Conway deflected the accusation and steered Cuomo's interview towards other subjects — talking points that echoed the White House's criticism against media outlets, including CNN.