Speaker Mike Johnson popped CNN’s bubble on Wednesday, and The Source host Kaitlan Collins was not happy about it. During an interview, Collins tried to tell Johnson that he simply couldn’t say that the anti-DOGE protestors who are showing up at town halls across the country are paid activists.
It began innocently enough with Collins wondering, “Do you have concerns that that’s anything that Democrats will be able to use to run against those Republicans in the midterms?”
Johnson replied, “No, because the—no, I don’t. Because the videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many of those places. These are Democrats who went to the events early, and filled up the seats. If you had—if the videos had panned outside the building—”
Collins interrupted, “You can’t argue they were all paid protesters, though, Mr….
