‘Is That a Direct Quote?’: CNN’s Smerconish Asks Alex Thompson About Part of the Book Where Kamala Harris Calls Anderson Cooper a ‘Motherf**ker’

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SMERCONISH: “Relative to vice president Kamala Harris. She has an interview with Anderson Cooper. Post-debate. You write about this in the book, by the way. I‘ve got to do an eats, shoots and leaves. If you remember the book and the importance of of punctuation, I‘ve got to do an eats, shoots and leaves analysis of one graph of your book, Alex. And it comes on page 290 and it‘s getting a lot of attention today. This metaphor doesn‘t treat me like the vice president of the United States, she said to colleagues. I thought we were better than that. I‘m being real persnickety now, but that there are not quotation marks around that in the book. Is that a direct quote from Kamala Harris about Anderson Cooper?”

Thompson: “I will go back to my copy, but my my understanding is that that it is that she was incredibly frustrated with Anderson Cooper asking the same question over and over again, which Anderson Cooper this was the night of the debate. Anderson was like, have you ever seen him act that way behind the scenes because of the vice president? United States had seen the president act that way on, you know, behind the scenes as he had acted on the debate stage and said nothing. I think it would have been incredibly indicting. But, you know, Kamala—“