CNN anchor Anderson Cooper got enraged during a live debate as former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu was defending Elon Musk and the work of his Department of Government Efficiency and then suddenly told him, “Don’t be a d**k”. On Tuesday’s AC360, Cooper and his guests were discussing Elon Musk’s DOGE and their drastic cuts Elon Musk made a rare appearance at the Oval Office on Tuesday appearing alongside President Donald Trump who asked him to brief the press about what his department found in federal spending.
Sununu said the presser was surreal. “But I gotta tell you, I know what you’re not showing here but Musk gave seven specific examples off the top of his head of where the corruption and fraud were… He was talking about a contractor that had a three-month contract. He was paid for 20 years. He was talking about welfare benefits that were being paid to someone that was technically 150 years old.”
Cooper countered and said it was all talks and he did not present any actual evidence.
“He’s standing there in the Oval Office. Do you expect him to come in with 10,000 pages? And I have to be clear. To complain about this administration, about transparency when this president takes open questions on a daily basis, yet Joe Biden didn’t show up for a press conference in six months is insane. These guys are being extremely transparent. They don’t have to sit there and take the questions, but they do. It’s all on the website. It’s all out there.”
“It’s 23 days in here, guys, 23 days. You’re talking about 2.3 billion that was saved last year. These guys are saving 2.3 billion a day,” Sununu said.
Then the discussion veered into the recent revelation that FEMA spent $59 million on luxury hotels to keep migrants. Sununu alleged that Cooper was supporting that. And in reaction to that, Cooper said, “Don’t be a d**k”.
Then toward the end of the show, Cooper apologized and said, “I was mean, I was rude to you”. “Before we go, I wanna apologize. I don’t know why I said that,” Cooper said.
“Are you kidding?” Sununu said. “I grew up with seven brothers and sisters, and I’m a Sununu.”
