Veterans Secretary Doug Collins hijacked a CNN interview by demanding the host answer his questions after taking exception to being asked repeatedly about the Signal chat leak. Host Kaitlan Collins repeatedly asked the secretary to share his thoughts on the scandal—in which a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat of senior Trump officials discussing U.

A tense exchange unfolded on CNN on Wednesday as Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins challenged host Kaitlan Collins on the network’s recent settlement of a $5 million defamation case involving a Navy veteran.

What started as a jovial interview between CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins – who both chuckled as the host noted he is of “no relation” to her – quickly devolved into a tense confrontation as the Trump cabinet official unleashed an all-out attack on the network.