Headline Roundup • October 25th, 2019
Kellyanne Conway, Reporter Under Fire Over Question Dispute
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“If I threaten someone, you’ll know it,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters Friday morning in a bizarre hours-long effort to discredit an audio recording that seemingly showed her threatening to use West Wing resources to investigate the personal life of a reporter a day earlier.
“I never threatened anyone,” Conway told a gaggle of journalists at the White House. “Don’t use those words. I didn’t threaten. It’s not a threat. I never threatened her.”
A tense phone conversation between a reporter for the Washington Examiner and White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway was published by the newspaper on Thursday.
In the conversation, Conway objected that a story written by the reporter, Caitlin Yilek, mentioned that her husband George Conway is a fierce critic of President Trump on Twitter.
Yilek was writing a story on Conway possibly becoming President Trump's next White House chief of staff if Trump decides to move on from the official now in the position, Mick Mulvaney.
Kellyanne Conway defended her phone call with a Washington Examiner reporter during an appearance on Fox News.
Fox News host Sandra Smith described the phone call Friday between reporter Caitlin Yilek and the counselor to the president as a "heated clash" during which things got "very personal."
Conway claimed, "Everything I said in that phone call, I’ve said publicly before. Every single thing. I said it again."
Smith asked Conway if there was anything she regretted about how she handled her phone call, which she denied.
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