#cnn-newsnight

#cnn-newsnight

During a debate about the results of the 2020 election, CNN's Ana Navarro abruptly said, We are seeing this happen over and over again where the federal government is fabricating things, lying. Just in the last few weeks, we have seen cases involving federal agents with a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis who they claimed had charged them with a snow shovel and attacked them. What does that have to do with the ballot?! shot back O'Leary, as host Abby Phillip yelled, Stop, stop, stop.

Trump White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the post in a statement: This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from the Lion King. Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public. But after 12 hours or so, the post was deleted, with an unnamed White House official claiming A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.

MCGOWAN: We all want that, okay? And if Trump Donald Trump wants to get on T.V. and say, our problem is, we haven't highlighted our accomplishments enough, I would say great, highlight your accomplishments. Prove it. Prove you are getting the worst of the worst. Show us the murderers and the rapists and the killers that you are arresting. Stop yourself. Then tell us you're not rounding up

Voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots. These demonstrators that you've seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they're not part of the city and never have been. And, by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President Trump is the one who is fixing that.

PHILLIP: At today's visit illustrates a stark divide between the Trump administration and D.C. residents. As city crime stats show that violence is declining, Trump has said that those numbers are fake. And new polling also now shows roughly eight in ten oppose Trump's takeover. But Vance, like his boss, is not believing that data either. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VANCE: I'm highly skeptical that a majority of D.C. residents don't want their city to be to have better public safety and more reasonable safety standards within Washington, D.C. (END VIDEO CLIP)