No hard feelings for CBS after Dickerson’s Trump interview
NEW YORK — CBS broadcast its morning show live from the White House Monday with no evident hard feelings following the abrupt ending of John Dickerson’s previously-recorded interview with Donald Trump.
The “CBS This Morning” telecast featured drop-in interviews with Vice-President Mike Pence, presidential daughter Ivanka Trump and White House aides Reince Priebus, Gary Cohn and Sean Spicer. The broadcast from the East Room, in the works since the day after the election, was a showcase for an ascendant broadcast that has made the morning a three-way fight after years of competitive irrelevance.
The fireworks with Dickerson came at the end of a two-part interview with Trump, the first airing on “Face the Nation” Sunday. Trump and Dickerson were standing in the Oval Office, in a wide-ranging conversation that got around to Trump’s accusation that predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him. Dickerson reminded the president that he had called Obama “sick” and “bad.”
“You can take it any way you want,” Trump said. He said “I have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions.”