Kelly rips

Megyn Kelly rips Lewandowski CNN hire

By NICK GASS

Megyn Kelly laced into CNN on her show Thursday night, ripping her competitor for hiring Donald Trump's fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as a paid contributor.

During a segment with media critic Howard Kurtz, Kelly noted that Lewandowski has "threatened more than one journalist in the course of this campaign," including with CNN's Noah Gray last November, when he warned the campaign embed "get back in the pen or he's f------ blacklisted."

Lewandowski, Kelly continued before asking Kurtz for his opinion, "has had some very ugly language attributed to him when it comes to women and now he will be getting paid by Donald Trump one day and by CNN the next."

"Well, this is no knock on Corey who I thought handled his firing with class. But for CNN to hire him 12 minutes after he was fired is to use, one of Trump's famous words, sad," Kurtz said. "It's really sad."

Lewandowski's segments with CNN this week, the first immediately after his firing Monday with Dana Bash and the second Thursday night with Erin Burnett, "made clear" that the Trump delegate "doesn't intend to utter a negative syllable of Donald Trump."

"And even if he wanted to, he signed a confidentiality agreement with Trump that he wouldn't and watching Corey tonight, it almost seemed like he was still on Trump's payroll because he was defending him at every possible turn," Kurtz remarked.

"So it's not honest analysis," Kelly said. "Think about the CNN reporter, the one who he threatened. I hope they don't bump into each other in the green room. That's going to be awkward. It's really remarkable."