#media-confrontation

#media-confrontation

COLLINS: Tonight, at the White House, President Trump defended his decision to pardon the founder of Binance, who goes by the nickname CZ, running the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange that also happens to host the Trump family's crypto firm. I asked the President about this decision, earlier at the White House today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLLINS: Today, you pardoned the founder of Binance. Can you explain why you chose to pardon him, and did it have anything to do with his involvement in your family's

If we would have said three weeks ago, Blake, if we had said that that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called rrrrrrrr-racist.' But now they're comin' out and they're saying it for us! They're comin' out and they're saying, I'm only here because of affirmative action.

CNN anchor Abby Phillip was stunned by the attack that GOP analyst Scott Jennings leveled at the credibility of now-former Trump Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Dr. Demetre Daskalakis. Dr. Daskalakis is among a raft of senior officials who resigned in the wake of President Donald Trump's attempted firing of CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez, along with CDC leaders like Dr. Deb Houry.