Scripted by CNN, what did he think would happen? If he still does not know who his enemies are, he is not presidential material.
I had a supervisor once that I despised...and he didn’t like me. Before I would go in for any kind of private meeting with him I would script mentally what he was going to say/ask me and then exactly what my response would be. If these politicians were not weasally they would all do the same before appearing on any leftist show and would have an appropriate response for all their stupid biased questions.