Anderson Cooper mocked the Fox News network for being so close to President Donald Trump that he refers to it as “we.”
Trump recently slammed a Fox News poll that found him running behind multiple potential 2020 Democratic rivals, but then he starting ticking off the names of network hosts he likes, such as Sean Hannity .
“We have a lot of great people,” Trump declared.
“I love when the president says, quote, we have a lot of great people at Fox,” Cooper said on Monday night. “Not even trying to hide that he thinks they all work for him.”
Then, Cooper played a clip of one of the people Trump named: Judge Jeanine Pirro. She proceeded to defend the act of getting dirt on a political rival from a foreign power, such as Russia.
“If the devil called me and said he wanted to set up a meeting to give me opposition research on my opponent, I’d be on the first trolley to hell to get it,” she declared.
In response, Cooper suggested a new name for her show and even offered some sound effects to go along with it:
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