{"id":1528886,"date":"2022-06-26T18:34:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528886"},"modified":"2022-06-26T18:35:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T22:35:10","slug":"cnn-tries-to-get-boris-johnson-to-trash-the-united-states-they-were-not-expecting-his-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-tries-to-get-boris-johnson-to-trash-the-united-states-they-were-not-expecting-his-response\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Tries To Get Boris Johnson To Trash The United States. They Were Not Expecting His Response."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-tries-to-get-boris-johnson-to-trash-the-united-states-they-were-not-expecting-his-response%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528886&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper tried to egg British Prime Minister Boris Johnson into bashing the state of democracy in the United States during an interview on Sunday and Johnson did not take the bait.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States \u2026 in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue, after what happened with the election of 2020,\u201d Tapper said. \u201cThey\u2019re worried that democracy is on life support in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you worried at all?\u201d Tapper asked. \u201cDo you look at\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Johnson fired back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not?\u201d Tapper asked in an apparent state of surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say this to the people of the United States. I\u2019m not,\u201d Johnson responded. \u201cI think that \u2014 I just get back to the \u2014 what I have been trying to say to you throughout this interview. I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated. America is a shining city on a hill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe that American democracy is under serious threat, far from it,\u201d Johnson later added. \u201cI continue to believe that America is the greatest global guarantor of democracy and freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: So, we\u2019re here at the G7, a gathering of the world\u2019s leading democracies. When I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States as\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BORIS JOHNSON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: The United States?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: About the United States in terms of our ability and our institutions to thrive and continue, after what happened with the election of 2020. They\u2019re worried that democracy is on life support in the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People might not know this about you, but you were born in the United States. And until recently, you\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: I was.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: And\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: I was. I was born in New York City\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: As was I.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: \u2026 a fantastic place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jake, where you were born? Where you were born in New York?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Where was I \u2014 Staten Island.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: All right. I was born in New York General Hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Are you worried at all? Do you look at\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: No.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: You\u2019re not?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: I want to say this to the people of the United States. I\u2019m not.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I think that \u2014 I just get back to the \u2014 what I have been trying to say to you throughout this interview. I think that reports of the death of democracy in the United States are grossly, grossly exaggerated. America is a shining city on a hill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And, for me, for my \u2014 and it will continue to be so. And I think that the mere fact that Joe Biden has stepped up to the plate in the way that he has shows that the instincts of America are still very much in the right place.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And, yes, look, I mean, there were some weird and kind of unattractive scenes back in the \u2014 you know, back in\u2026 TAPPER: People died. I mean, it was pretty serious.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: It was \u2014 it was pretty weird. I won\u2019t deny that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: It was worse than weird. I mean\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Looking from the outside, it was pretty weird.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I don\u2019t believe that American democracy is under serious threat, far from it. I continue to believe that America is the greatest global guarantor of democracy and freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Joe Biden talks about the world in terms of autocracies and democracies, and it\u2019s \u2014 this is the big struggle. You talk about it that way as well.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He also talks about the United States is going through that, that struggle, and he sees Donald Trump as autocratic, as somebody who didn\u2019t respect the will of the people, who \u2014 there are hearings going on right now. I know you\u2019re familiar with them, bipartisan hearings, about all the ways to Donald Trump \u2014 Trump tried to undo the election\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: \u2026 undo democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Jake, I\u2019m going to \u2014 I\u2019m going to take the Fifth on this, because this is \u2014 the convention in\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: You don\u2019t have a Fifth. That\u2019s\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Well, OK. Well, OK. I was born in New York. But I had to give up my citizenship because it was just so expensive.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But, look, the fact is that we, as friends and partners \u2014 and there are no two closer friends and partners than the U.S. and the U.K. \u2014 we don\u2019t talk about domestic \u2014 in principle, we shouldn\u2019t talk about each other\u2019s domestic politics. And it\u2019s \u2014 that\u2019s for the people of U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Thanks so much for your time today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: I really appreciate it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>TAPPER: Nice to meet another New Yorker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>JOHNSON: Yes. <\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper tried to egg British Prime Minister Boris Johnson into bashing the state of democracy in the United States during an interview on Sunday and Johnson did not take the bait. \u201cWhen I talk to friends in Canada, the U.K., Australia and elsewhere, people express concern about the United States \u2026 in terms &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1528894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}