Fox News's Harris Faulkner had a
big telephone interview with Donald
Trump and it didn't go so well.
Lots of awkward moments, including
the moment where Faulkner broke
some news and then immediately
had to backtrack because, or
retract I should say, because she
made a mistake regarding the DHS
Secretary Alejandro Myorcas.
Let's watch >> This because it's
just happened now and
I want to double check this
with our producers.
The DHS secretary, Alejandro,
Myorcas, has resigned, Mr.
President.
>> Well I'm not surprised.
Good, that's a big victory for
our country.
>> Hold on, let me stop.
Let me stop.
Let me listen to my team one
more time.
Forgive me.
Forgive me, that has not happened.
And I apologize,
listening to the team and you.
>> Cross off that victory.
>> Look, I don't know what
happened, and sometimes news breaks
when you're live and
you get this temptation to just go,
just do it, just do it live.
Just do it live, right.
Just take a break, it's all right.
Take a break, take a breather,
okay, before you embarrass yourself
by saying that a top official
in the administration has resigned,
just make sure you confirm that.
Look, mistakes are made, but
just like this urge to be like,
we gotta do it, we gotta do it,
make sure it's on here.
We gotta do it, we gotta do it,
we gotta be first, gotta be first.
Just relax, it's going to be okay.
No one goes to Fox News for
breaking news.
>> Look, Anna,
it's a little worse than that.
And it's so embarrassing that I
almost feel bad for
her Harris Faulkner.
But you gotta have
the context of news in your head
if you're an anchor on television.
What are the chances that
the Department of Homeland Security
Head resigned in the middle of
the Trump interview because Trump
criticized them in the morning?
Remember, it's
the Biden administration,
that is incredibly unlikely,
I mean overwhelmingly unlikely.
So that's the type of thing if you
thought you heard your producer say
it, or even if your producer did
say the DHS Secretary has resigned.
I would never say that on air when
I'm interviewing a former
president, because I'd think that's
not likely to be true, right.
[LAUGH] >> It gets worse.
Yeah, it gets worse Cenk,
it gets so much worse.
So she tries to save it, and
Trump's reaction is important here.
So let's take a look.
>> Well, and I want to
tell everybody,
you issued a statement last night.
And you called for that though, and
you're just talking about him,
just to clarify, as somebody who
you feel is not competent to handle
what's going on.
So let me clean up on aisle seven
with my error, he has not resigned.
And let me move right to what you
are calling for and others too.
Most presidents,
ex-presidents like yourself,
do not weigh in at this level.
Why did you feel like you needed to
on this issue?
>> Well you called me,
I didn't call you in all fairness.
>> [LAUGH] I don't really have
anything to say, that was awesome.
>> Yeah.
Now look, Trump's such a mess too.
It's so sad that 40%
of the country looks at Trump and
thinks that's my leader,
that's the guy I look up to.
Anyway, so the reason why they
had this mess is not just because
of Harris Faulkner's mistake.
Trump puts out the statement
because he's not on Twitter
anymore.
So he's just throwing leaflets at
a corner, right.
[LAUGH] >> He had Sean Spicer tweet
this out on his behalf,
photocopied and pasted.
He's sending faxes to people.
Telegrams like, I hear you,
listen here, President Trump's got
a telegram for you.
Yeah, that's it.
And so the statement was, I don't
like this guy because he criticized
me, and I want them to resign.
Everyone's like, yeah, okay,
that's not going to happen.
So I'm sure every Fox show is
trying to get Trump on 24/7.
So he happened to pick up when
Faulkner's show was on.
He's like, yeah, all right, sure,
I'll go on air.
And then Faulkner's like, okay, so
you put out the statement, and
normally ex-presidents aren't such
jerks, is what she meant to say.
But she had to couch it in, so
aggressive and
how they disagree with the former
administration, etc.
And he's like, I didn't call you,
you called me, I don't care.
They're both a mess.
>> No, I love it.
But I'm not going to lie,
that Smackdown by Trump was pretty
entertaining.
And that's the thing,
Trump is a complicated figure.
He's not complicated when he's in
a position of power,
he's awful and should never be in
a position of power.
He's cruel, he's selfish,
he's narcissistic,
he's incredibly incompetent.
So I'm not trying to make him out
to be good in any way.
But there's a reason why
he succeeded in The Apprentice.
He's, dare I say it,
time to time kind of funny.
And that moment was
certainly funny.
And Cenk, since you mentioned his
leaflets, I did want to read what
he had to say about Myorcas.
We had these graphics ready for
the first story, but
super relevant for this story.
Trump slammed Myorcas as pathetic,
clueless, self satisfied, and
incapable of leading the Department
of Homeland Security,
in his statement.
Adding that Mayorkas's Sunday
show appearances were a national
disgrace.
Trump called for an immediate
congressional investigation into
what he called a gag order on our
nation's heroic border agents and
ICE officers.
I mean Trump is the guy who tried
to have administration official
sign NDAs, right?
>> Yeah, of course,
he had non-stop gag orders.
And every time there was a leak,
he was like, that's it,
they should be executed, we should
evoke full extent of the law.
I think it's treason to do
a leak like this.
Now he's like,
can you believe that they are doing
these kind of orders where
the government officials aren't
allowed to talk to the press?
Really, really, after all?
Look, but all of this for,
they're never going to stop.
So every Republican story we do and
every Trump story we're going to do
could end with really.
So look,
another issue, whenever Obama spoke
out against Trump, Fox News, etc,
would pretend to be outraged.
Can you believe a former president
is bad mouthing a current
president?
That is against protocol and
etiquette, and
we as Trump supporters care a lot
about etiquette.
Now Trump,
I mean I don't want to vomit on top
of Biden's administration.
America's a national disgrace,
I'm calling for him to be.
Maybe we should hang him like we
wanted to hang Mike Pence.
And Fox is like, bravo, bravo.
No, and at the end Faulkner had to
apologize.
She's like, no, no, it's true,
it's true, we called you,
you didn't call us, we're so sorry,
of course, right.
Pathetic.