Headline Roundup • October 25th, 2019

Kellyanne Conway, Reporter Under Fire Over Question Dispute

Politics,Kellyanne Conway,George Conway,Media Industry

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White House adviser Kellyanne Conway and Washington Examiner reporter Caitlin Yilek have come under fire after audio of a phone call between the two was released on Friday. Yilek brought up a question about Kellyanne Conway's husband George Conway, a staunch critic of President Trump⁠, which allegedly prompted Conway to take the phone from her assistant and lambast Yilek. Transcripts of the call were released by Yilek via both the Examiner and Twitter.

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Kellyanne Conway Lashes Out: ‘If I Threaten Someone, You’ll Know It’

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Kellyanne Conway Lashes Out: ‘If I Threaten Someone, You’ll Know It’

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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.”

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Reporter posts heated phone call with Kellyanne Conway

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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.

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'Very personal': Fox News host asks Kellyanne Conway about heated phone call with Washington Examiner reporter

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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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