‘No Kaitlan, You’re Not Going to Stop Me There!’ Tom Cotton Throws Down with CNN Host Collins

An interview between CNN host Kaitlan Collins and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) became tense on Tuesday after Cotton repeatedly laid into Collins and accused her of misrepresenting a Senate vote to protect IVF.

“Senate Republicans today blocked a bill that would guarantee access to the very thing that a lot of them say they support,” opened Collins on The Source. “It’s also the very thing that we have heard from Donald Trump say that he supports. Democrats tried and failed again to pass that measure, which would guarantee access to IVF nationwide, and tonight they are using this vote to hammer Republicans who said no.”

After Collins introduced Cotton to the show, the senator responded, “Well, Kaitlan, first off, I have to correct almost everything you said in the lead-in there, almost none of which was accurate about this bill. First off, there’s no risk to IVF in this country. All 49 Republican senators, along with President Trump, support IVF. No state restricts or bans IVF.”

Collins shot back, “I didn’t say that in the intro, but okay, go ahead.”

Cotton continued:

You said that it had to guarantee access. Access is guaranteed in all 50 states right now. You also said that it was about IVF. It was about a lot more than IVF. This bill would mandate coverage for experimental, controversial procedures like cloning, or gene editing, or providing fertility treatments to men who think they’re women, whatever that means. It would also imperil religious liberty. I support IVF, as President Trump does. We also think that we should allow, say, Christian hospitals to operate fares as they see fit, according to the dictates of their conscience. Now it’s not surprising that Democrats don’t agree with that. They’ve long persecuted Christians, like the Little Sisters of the Poor. They wanted to provide contraception coverage for nuns, or they’ve harassed Catholics for going to traditional masses.

After Collins interrupted, “Okay senator, let’s stop you there,” Cotton snapped, “No Kaitlan, you’re not going to stop me there! Because you’re misrepresenting what the bill is about.”

A few minutes later, after Cotton continued with his criticism, Collins replied, “Just to be clear, I’m not misrepresenting the bill. You can say you don’t like it, you can say that you think it’s a show vote, you can talk about those aspects of it, but this is something that was put up there, and it would have guaranteed access to IVF.”

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