CNN's "OutFront" host Erin Burnett told former Donald Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg on Monday night that she smelled alcohol on his breath after speaking with him during another unusual, free-wheeling interview.
Nunberg's interview with Burnett marked the sixth interview that he had participated in starting Monday afternoon with the Washington Post, where he announced that he received a subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller, but will refuse to go before the grand jury on Friday.
"So Sam, I have to ask you one other thing and it's an awkward thing to ask, but you know I've interviewed you before, you're sitting very close to me," Burnett said. "We talked earlier about what people in the White House were saying about you, talking about whether you were drinking or on drugs or whatever had happened today."
"Talking to you, I have smelled alcohol on your breath," Burnett said.
Nunberg said that he hasn't "had a drink" and that he had not consumed alcohol before the interview.
"Anything else?" Burnett asked.
"No, besides my meds. Antidepressants. Is that OK?" Nunberg said.
Nunberg then unleashed on people working in the Trump administration, calling them "pathetic" for allowing President Donald Trump to have an approval rating percentile in the 30s.
Nunberg's first TV interview on Monday was with MSNBC' host Katy Tur, where he said, "Let him arrest me," referencing Mueller.
"I'm not going to go to jail," Nunberg said when Tur asked if he thought he would be held in contempt for publicly snubbing the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians.