Kristen Welker is answering questions about her most recent interview with Donald Trump.
The veteran journalist revealed what he told her the morning after he stormed off from a Meet the Press interview while discussing the 2020 election.
"As journalists, we have a responsibility to press elected officials, whether it's the president, whether it's a member of Congress, on the facts," she said.
Kristen Welker is getting candid about her latest interview with Donald Trump.
The NBC journalist explained what happened during her Meet the Press interview with the president, and what he told her the morning after he stormed out mid-conversation. Welker has covered Trump since 2015, when he was a candidate for the 2016 election, and moderated a 2020 debate between him and Joe Biden.
"I spoke to him the morning after the interview, and without getting into an exact verbatim of what was said, he effectively said, 'Look, the rain was disruptive. We're going to do this again in Washington,'" Welker told Vanity Fair.
The White House did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly's request for comment.
Trump and Welker clashed on several topics throughout the interview, which aired on NBC on Sunday and was filmed on a rainy day in a barn in Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Things became particularly heated when Welker brought up the 2020 election, which Trump has falsely and repeatedly claimed was rigged. Trump lost both the popular vote and the electoral college vote to Biden.
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