Former Trump adviser and now CNN commentator Jason Miller was called out during a panel on Anderson Cooper 360 on Tuesday for calling Sen. Kamala Harris’ questioning of Attorney General Jeff Sessions “hysterical.”
USA Today’s Kristen Powers voiced her disapproval of Miller’s word choice, saying Sen. Ron Wyden was tougher on Sessions than Harris was but wouldn’t be described as “hysterical.”
“My opinion on that, I think she was hysterical. I don’t think that Sen. Wyden was really trying to get to the bottom of answers either,” Miller said. “No, she was trying to shut down Attorney General Sessions, and I thought it was way out of bounds.”
“They both were asking a lot of tough questions and I think calling her hysterical is probably a little gendered thing to say,” Powers said.
Jason Miller: Sessions knocked away “hysteria from Kamala Harris”Kirsten Powers: How was Sen. Harris hysterical? https://t.co/ivRYRNSzBZ— Anderson Cooper 360 (@AC360) June 14, 2017
Just as Powers was completing her sentence, Jeffrey Lord cut in and said, “Hysteria is a neutral quality.”
Powers responded by saying it is usually a word that is used to describe women.
