Her performance was excellent -- worthy of a James Carville or Donna Brazile protecting a Democrat.
The exchange showed why President Trump wanted Conway to be his campaign manager from the get-go. He met her 10 years ago when she was on a residents board for one of his New York towers. She impressed him.
How much you want to bet that she pushed back against him?
President Trump has a nose for talent. She does not accept false narratives.
On Sunday, Dickerson tried to push the Яussian scare, Conway pushed back, and then pushed Bill Clinton's Яussian money right back at the CBS anchor.
On Face the Nation on Sunday, she was not accepting his Fake News.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: John, what I’m saying is that the president-elect respects the ability of President -- the right of President Obama to do what he wants. He’s the president for the next several weeks. We believe in sanctions that work, not just sanctions for sanctions’ sake. But it’s very clear that President Obama could have, quote, retaliated months ago if they were actually concerned about this and concerned about this, quote, affecting the election. Whatever his motives are, what his action is, we’ll respect it as Americans.
JOHN DICKERSON: But you
KELLYANNE CONWAY: That doesn’t mean that new President Trump will agree with it and continue with it. But I also want your viewers to be—to be reminded of one thing. When it comes to Russia and coziness, let’s not forget it was Hillary Clinton through her craven foundation requests -- Bill Clinton got a million bucks to give a speech in Russia. And then she turned over 20% of US uranium rights. So let’s be honest about who for money, and who for power, and who for access has cozied up to the Russians.
JOHN DICKERSON: Just so I’m not left with the wrong impression, I -- the impression you’ve left me is that you’re saying that President Obama’s reacting here to the Russians because he’s feeling political pressure. Do I have a misimpression?
KELLYANNE CONWAY: No, I didn’t say that.
JOHN DICKERSON: Okay. I just want to make sure
KELLYANNE CONWAY: No, no. What I’m saying is, John, he is under political pressure. Definitely. Because you’ve got people from Team Hillary saying something very different than what President Obama himself is saying
JOHN DICKERSON: Okay.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: They are disagreeing. And, look, it’s his legacy that’s—that’s being questioned here. That’s obvious. They’ve lost 1,000 state legislative seats --
JOHN DICKERSON: All right, Kellyanne. We’re going to have to leave it there
KELLYANNE CONWAY: They’ve lost the Congress --
JOHN DICKERSON: All right.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: Many governorships and senators.
JOHN DICKERSON: We’ve run out of—we’ve run out of time.
KELLYANNE CONWAY: Thanks for having me.
Note at the end, she understands the cutaway move by Dickerson and counters it by politely extending the session to get the last word in.
That was planned. She's good.
That was planned. She's good.
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