CNN's Chris Cuomo snapped when Kellyanne Conway on Thursday accused CNN of "slinking away from covering the Russia so-called investigation," sparking a full-on debate about the nature of cable news coverage of the Trump administration.
It is a topic the two have debated before, with Cuomo telling Conway again on Thursday: "You know we try to cover everything that matters, and sometimes you have to cover things when they're not popular. These are issues of national security, and you have to cover them."
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