
CNN said Monday that it passed on booking Kellyanne Conway as a guest for a Sunday morning political show, needling President Trump's top aide on Twitter.
". @KellyannePolls was offered to SOTU on Sunday by the White House," the CNN Communications account tweeted Monday, referring to its "State of the Union" show. "We passed. Those are the facts."
. @KellyannePolls was offered to SOTU on Sunday by the White House. We passed. Those are the facts.
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) February 6, 2017
.@CNNPR @KellyannePolls you are not the first.
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) February 6, 2017
CNN on Monday was responding to a tweet from Conway, who denied that she was passed over and claimed she wasn't able to go on shows this weekend.
. @KellyannePolls was offered to SOTU on Sunday by the White House. We passed. Those are the facts.
— CNN Communications (@CNNPR) February 6, 2017
Vice President Pence was interviewed on the Sunday morning political shows this weekend, but skipped CNN.
Conway faced backlash this weekend after pointing to a terrorist attack that never happened during her defense of Trump's executive order temporarily barring refugees and people from seven predominately Muslim countries from entering the U.S.
During an interview last week with MSNBC's "Hardball," Conway referenced the "Bowling Green massacre," an event that never happened.
"President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre," Conway said during the MSNBC interview.