‘What Trump Actually Said’: CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Calls Out Fox News For Trump Clip In Kamala Harris Interview

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called out Fox News over their Treatment of former President Donald Trump’s threat against “enemies within” in Bret Baier’s interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Baier grilled Vice President Harris in a contentious interview, during which Harris herself objected to the one-sided presentation of Trump’s rant about using the military against Americans.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins opened the show by calling out the “combative” and “interruption-filled” interview — and the decision to omit “what Trump actually originally said” about the “enemies within”:

KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN HOST, THE SOURCE WITH KAITLAN COLLINS: Straight from THE SOURCE tonight.

Vice President Harris comes out swinging, in a combative interruption- filled throwdown on Fox. Harris was pushed, and pushed right back, including a moment about Donald Trump that seemed to set her off.

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I’m Kaitlan Collins. And this is THE SOURCE.

With 20 days to go until the election, Vice President Kamala Harris went where she has never gone before, and frankly, where no Democratic nominee has gone, in quite some time. On Fox. The Vice President campaigned for those few persuadable conservative voters, in an interview that was contentious right from the jump.

Fox’s Bret Baier questioned the Vice President on everything, from immigration, to trans rights, to how she would be different than President Biden. She was interrupted several times, as she was answering those questions. And there were tense exchanges, throughout this entire interview. But it was this moment, maybe, when she was asked about Trump supporters, that things got incredibly heated.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS HOST: Why, if he’s as bad as you say, that half of this country is now supporting this person who could be the 47th President of the United States. Why is that happening?

KAMALA HARRIS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S., (D) PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: This is an election for President of the United States. It’s not supposed to be easy.

BAIER: I know, but if it’s as–

HARRIS: It’s not supposed to be — it is not supposed to be a cakewalk for anyone.

BAIER: So, are they misguided, the 50 percent?

HARRIS: Listen–

BAIER: Are they stupid? What is it?

HARRIS: Oh, God. I would never say that about the American people.

And in fact, if you listen to Donald Trump, if you watched any of his rallies, he’s the one who tends to demean and belittle and diminish the American people. He’s the one, who talks about an enemy within — within, an enemy within, talking about the American people, suggesting he would turn the American military on the American people.

BAIER: We asked that question to the former President today. Harris Faulkner had a town hall. And this is how he responded.

DONALD TRUMP (R), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND 2024 PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I heard about that. They were saying I was like threatening. I’m not threatening anybody. They’re the ones doing the threatening. They do phony investigations. I’ve been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. He was the greatest gangster.

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: No, it’s true.

HARRIS FAULKNER, FOX NEWS HOST: All right. We have a question–

TRUMP: No, but think of it. It’s called weaponization of government. It’s a terrible thing.

BAIER: So.

HARRIS: Bret, I’m sorry, and with all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the enemy within, that he has repeated, when he’s speaking about the American people. That’s not what you just showed.

BAIER: Well he was asked about that specific–

HARRIS: No, no, no, that’s not what you just showed, in all fairness–

BAIER: No, no, no, I’m telling you that was the question–

HARRIS: –and respect to you.

BAIER: –that we asked him.

HARRIS: He didn’t show that. And here’s the bottom line. He has repeated it many times. And you and I both know that. And you and I both know that he has talked about turning the American military, on the American people. He has talked about going after people, who are engaged in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up, because they disagree with him.

This is a democracy. And in a democracy, the President of the United States, in the United States of America, should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he’d lock people up for doing it.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COLLINS: I want you to see for yourself regarding what Harris is saying there, about the clip that they played of Trump. Fox chose to air only Trump’s defense of his threats, to use the military against United States citizens.

But this is what Trump actually originally had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics. And I think they’re the — and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or, if really necessary, by the military.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.