CNN anchor Chris Cuomo started his interview with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday's episode of New Day by him telling he "looked like Grumpy Cat" at the Alfred E. Smith charity dinner last week — and things just got more tense from there. Giuliani, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, promptly responded to Cuomo's observations that he looked upset about the jokes Hillary Clinton was making about him at the Al Smith dinner by saying that, as a former prosecutor, he was just unhappy because the "crimes she committed are so many."
But for each claim Giuliani made about the crimes Clinton had allegedly committed, Cuomo came back with a fact that disputed it. "You certainly can have your own opinion, but you seems like you are feeding the Trump argument that [the FBI investigation into Clinton's private email server] was fixed, that it was rigged," Cuomo said.
When Giuliani was eventually cornered into admitting he has "no facts to prove" Trump's claims that the investigation of Clinton's email usage was rigged, he accused Team Clinton of bribery instead — at which point Cuomo couldn't hide his disbelief. "I mean, Rudy! I have looked up to you my entire life because you're so accurate," Cuomo said. "And all of a sudden you're in Trumpland, and the facts are all over the place."
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Eventually, Cuomo tells Giuliani, "You're not even close to connecting anything right now." Watch the entirety of the contentious interview in the two videos, below. Becca Stanek
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