Pierson may have been referring to a report by CNN senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny. According to IJReview, in an earlier CNN report, Zeleny played a clip of Trump saying that he was “destroying” Clinton in the head-to-head polls. Zeleny then noted that Hillary was actually ahead in the latest poll. However, Zeleny didn’t actually directly say that Trump was “lying.”
But Pierson was clearly relating that in previous polls Trump was seen beating Hillary.
That wasn’t the end of the battle over polling, though, as the CNN anchor needled Pierson over Trump’s “59 percent untrustworthy” rating. To that Pierson replied, “It’s not surprising, considering the media coverage.”
Costello went into comments made about Trump by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Costello played a clip of Giuliani saying that Trump speaks in “headlines” but then saying that “the headline turns out to be exaggerated.”
Costello then tried to link Giuliani’s comment to Trump’s perceived “untrustworthiness,” but Pierson again went off on her own direction ignoring Costello’s point by steering the conversation to Trump’s claim to have seen “thousands and thousands of people” cheering during the attacks of 911.
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