"CNN's Christiane Amanpour grills Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway about the El Paso massacre and Trump's inflammatory language when talking about immigrants.
" 'The experts say there are climates of hate that are created, usually from the top," Amanpour said. "So I'm asking you: Will you and the president's advisors seek to restrict his Twitter use and his other use of these words? What he said about Elijah Cummings, what he said about Baltimore, what he says about migrants? Yes or no, it is simple, because if it is no, it stays there at the top."
" 'The experts say there are climates of hate that are created, usually from the top," Amanpour said. "So I'm asking you: Will you and the president's advisors seek to restrict his Twitter use and his other use of these words? What he said about Elijah Cummings, what he said about Baltimore, what he says about migrants? Yes or no, it is simple, because if it is no, it stays there at the top."
" 'No, I'm not telling you what we discuss with the president," Conway fired back.
" 'No, I'm asking you, do you agree with that?" Amanpour interrupted. "Do you agree with it? Infestation. Invasions. These are important words. Look back in history, Kellyanne."
" 'You keep repeating it because a day ago your network insisted that the president would not come out and denounce racism, white supremacy, bigotry, call this evil, call him a monster, try to fix our mental health system," Conway replied.
" 'So the simple follow-up question is, will he then not say those things on the air, on Twitter, on social media again?"
" 'I'm not going to allow you to equate him with the murderers," Conway replied.
" 'You know I didn't do that, I'm asking about his words," Amanpour said.
" 'I heard a lot of words on your network and others the last couple of days," Conway said. "You are talking to the world. You have to own it.' " . . .
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