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Emails Refute Pompeo's Version of Testy NPR Interview

They show Mary Louise Kelly never agreed to take any topics off the table

(Newser) - Mike Pompeo says journalist Mary Louise Kelly "lied" to him regarding his Friday interview on NPR's All Things Considered, which ended with an expletive-filled tirade after Kelly asked the secretary of state about Ukraine. But emails appear to support Kelly's side of things. While Pompeo said during...

Pompeo: NPR Host &#39;Lied to Me&#39;
Pompeo: NPR Host 'Lied to Me'
Jan 25, 2020 11:45 AM CST

Pompeo: NPR Host 'Lied to Me'

The Secretary of State reacts to story about his expletive-filled rant

(Newser) - Mike Pompeo lashed out at an NPR host and "the media" Saturday after making a testy appearance on All Things Considered, USA Today reports. The Secretary of State accused the host, Mary Louise Kelly, of lying to him, though he didn't deny unloading on her afterward in an...

Journalist: Pompeo Flipped Out When I Asked About Ukraine

Mary Louise Kelly says secretary of state 'used the F-word' many times

(Newser) - Mike Pompeo apparently went off on an expletive-filled rant after an NPR interview didn't go the way he'd planned. Mary Louise Kelly sat down with the secretary of state on All Things Considered Friday for an interview that started off discussing Iran (full transcript here ). Things took...

Giuliani to Reporter: 'I'm More of a Jew' Than George Soros

President's lawyer also calls Hungarian-born philanthropist 'a horrible human being'

(Newser) - Landing an interview with the president's lawyer over drinks results in quite the chat as Olivia Nuzzi can now attest, as her conversation with Rudy Giuliani for New York magazine got controversial even before they got to their destination. During the car ride to NYC's Mark Hotel, Giuliani...

Pat Sajak Thought He Was Dying: I Saw 'Beautiful Pastels'

He was just high on pain meds, he reveals during interview about his emergency surgery

(Newser) - While Vanna White held down the fort on the Wheel of Fortune stage, host Pat Sajak recuperated from a recent emergency surgery—and now he's opening up about the experience. People reports the 73-year-old TV personality appeared on Good Morning America Friday, his first public sit-down since his November...

Adam Driver Walks Out of NPR Interview

Actor apparently really hates to hear himself

(Newser) - The Houston Chronicle is calling it: "2019 was the year of Adam Driver," writes Wei-Huan Chen, noting the Marine-turned-actor "is starring in the best domestic drama of the year (Marriage Story), the best political docudrama of the year (The Report), and likely the most popular film of...

Prince Andrew on Epstein Accuser: I Don't Remember Meeting Her

In BBC interview, prince also says 2010 stay with Epstein was 'definitely the wrong thing to do'

(Newser) - Prince Andrew's interview with the BBC airs Saturday night in the UK, and snippets are dribbling out. The 59-year-old royal sits down with BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis, who interrogates him about his links to the late Jeffrey Epstein, including on claims by accuser Virginia Giuffre that she was...

Kanye: I Asked Workers to Not Have Sex
Kanye: I Asked
Workers to
Not Have Sex
CELEBRITY INTERVIEW
Oct 25, 2019 9:51 AM CDT

Kanye: I Asked Workers to Not Have Sex

Self-described 'greatest human artist of all time' sits down for new 2-hour interview

(Newser) - Pitchfork notes that Zane Lowe has conducted some of the " most memorable interviews " with Kanye West, and now the New Zealand DJ can add another notch to his belt. In a wide-ranging, nearly two-hour chat on Apple Music's Beats 1, recorded in Wyoming, the 42-year-old performer...

Ex-DHS Chief Nielsen Reveals Why She Resigned

At 'Fortune' summit, Kirstjen Nielsen also says has no regrets on 'enforcing law' that separated families

(Newser) - "These conversations can be tough, and arguably should be tough, as I'm sure this next one will be" is how the intro for Kirstjen Nielsen went at Tuesday's Most Powerful Women Summit sponsored by Fortune magazine. And interviewer Amna Nawaz got right into it with the former...

Markle Says She's Not OK, Internet Rallies to Her Side

Markle reveals in interview she's been struggling with the pressure of being a royal, new mom

(Newser) - Meghan Markle has had an eventful year, most notably with the birth of her son, Archie, and People reports she's now "getting real" about all of the pressures that go along with that. Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, an ITV documentary on Markle and Prince Harry, is...

Joaquin Phoenix Takes on the Controversy Over Joker

The actor talks about his embrace of the dark side

(Newser) - Joaquin Phoenix has never been shy about going to the dark side. But with critics saying the actor's new movie, Joker , glorifies angry loners—the kind who shoot up movie theaters—he talks to Joe Hagan for Vanity Fair about playing the role and coping with other dark stuff...

Kristen Stewart: I Was Told Not to Hold Girlfriend&#39;s Hand in Public
Kristen Stewart
Reveals Attitude
Shift on Her
Sexuality
CELEBRITY INTERVIEW
Sep 4, 2019 11:05 AM CDT

Kristen Stewart Reveals Attitude Shift on Her Sexuality

Actress says she was told not to hold GF's hand in public: 'I don't want to work with people like that'

(Newser) - Kristen Stewart is seven months away from 30, a long way from the teenager she was when her role as Bella Swan in the Twilight movies catapulted her to stardom. After years of shying away from the mainstream post-Twilight, she's now starring in a reboot of Charlie's Angels,...

Billie Eilish on Life as a Pop Star: &#39;Amazing&#39;&mdash;and Awful
Billie Eilish: 'I Felt
Like I Deserved
to Be in Pain'
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Aug 4, 2019 2:00 PM CDT

Billie Eilish: 'I Felt Like I Deserved to Be in Pain'

Singer talks self-harm, anxiety to 'Rolling Stone'

(Newser) - Billie Eilish is not shy about her mental health struggles in a revealing and extensive interview with Rolling Stone . The 17-year-old August cover star saw a dream fulfilled as she rocketed to stardom with the spring release of her debut album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?...

Dan Quayle Has Advice for Democrats
Dan Quayle Has
Advice for Democrats
Jul 28, 2019 1:30 PM CDT

Dan Quayle Has Advice for Democrats

The former vice president opines on 'these socialist programs'

(Newser) - Dan Quayle began a talk-radio appearance by chatting about sports, but the conversation inevitably drifted to politics—and a little advice the former vice president has for Democrats, the Indianapolis Star reports. "You look at where we are (today) and I look back to how we got things done...

Trump Admits to Having One Big Regret So Far

He also discusses Joe Biden and Iran with Chuck Todd

(Newser) - President Trump didn't seem to flinch when asked his biggest regret: "I would say if I had one do-over, it would be, I would not have appointed Jeff Sessions to be attorney general," he said in a interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd. "That...

Madonna: Harvey Weinstein 'Crossed Lines'

Describes movie mogul as 'incredibly sexually flirtatious' with her

(Newser) - At 60, Madonna reflects on a career that wasn't all sunshine and roses in a New York Times feature out Wednesday. In the process, she describes publicly for the first time the stain that was her interaction with Harvey Weinstein during the making of her 1991 documentary, Truth or ...

Charles Had 90 Minutes to Change Trump&#39;s Mind, Didn&#39;t
Charles Had 90 Minutes to
Change Trump's Mind, Didn't
the rundown
Jun 5, 2019 10:35 AM CDT

Charles Had 90 Minutes to Change Trump's Mind, Didn't

President, Piers Morgan talk climate change in wide-ranging interview

(Newser) - President Trump's sit-down with Prince Charles was supposed to last 15 minutes. It went for 90, but that wasn't enough to get Trump on board with Charles' climate stance. In a Good Morning Britain interview that aired Wednesday, the president answered a slew of questions from Piers Morgan....

Madonna: My Daughter Doesn't Have My Drive

The Material Girl talks kids, career in 'Vogue'

(Newser) - Madonna spoke candidly about her kids during a recent interview with Vogue , saying that she gave her older kids phones at 13—and that was "a mistake" she's not planning to make with her younger kids, including now-13-year-old David, who doesn't yet have a phone. Giving her...

Book in Assange's Hand Is Getting Attention

Wikileaks founder held a book of interviews

(Newser) - The arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made a book of interviews with Gore Vidal an unexpected best-seller, the AP reports. Assange was carrying a copy of Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America when he was arrested Thursday at the Ecuadoran embassy in...

R. Kelly Sobs, Says Parents Handed Their Girls to Him

'I'm fighting for my life,' he says in CBS This Morning interview

(Newser) - R. Kelly was tearful and angry in his first interview since pleading not guilty to sexual abuse charges . In a nearly 80-minute CBS This Morning interview that aired Wednesday, the singer told Gayle King that allegations he has been abusing women and girls for decades are untrue and "stupid,...

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