Seth Meyers presses Kellyanne Conway on salacious allegations on Russian ties
President-elect Donald Trump's campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, appeared on the Late Show with Seth Meyers shortly after an unsubstantiated report containing allegations that Russian operatives have compromising personal and financial information about Trump were published online Tuesday.
CNN and Buzzfeed published the unconfirmed reports after news broke that both the president-elect and President Obama had been briefed on the allegations Friday.
While discussing the unverified report with Meyers, however, Conway claimed the president-elect had not been briefed on it by the intelligence community, a denial that is untrue based on press reports, including from USA TODAY.
"We should be concerned that intelligence officials leaked to the press, and won't go and tell the president-elect or the President of the United States himself now, President Obama, what the information is," she said.
"But the press report was about them going to the president," Meyers countered, holding her to the point in an awkward exchange.
"And it says they never briefed him on it," Conway said.
"I believe it said they did brief him on it," Meyers said, before Conway responded by adding that Trump "has said he is not aware of that."
"Well, that concerns me," Meyers concluded, before cracking a late-night style joke.
The exchange grew no more comfortable for the remainder of the 13-minute segment. Meyers again tried to hold Conway to Trump's apparent lack of curiosity in the reports of Russian interference with the presidential elections before she again changed the topic.
"He was curious enough to figure out America," she said.
"That's a pivot right there Kellyanne," he laughed before giving a genuine compliment. "By the way, nobody does it better."