Bash: Unlike Fox News, Women at CNN Don’t Smoke, Drink, or Have Premarital Sex

BASH: “Governor Huckabee, thank you for coming on. We’ll get to Iowa in a second. I want to play first a TV moment that everybody is talking about. Fox's Megyn Kelly had you on her show to explain that when you sparked controversy talking about trashy New York women you didn't mean your former colleagues at Fox. Then she said this.”

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KELLY: "We're not only swearing. We’re drinking, we’re smoking, we’re having premarital sex with birth control before we go to work, and sometimes boss around a bunch of men. I got to leave it at that." (Laughter)

HUCKABEE: “I just don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that.”

KELLY: "Sorry. That’s just reality, Gov.”

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BASH: “So, governor, I want to tell you that here at CNN the women are not smoking, or drinking, or having premarital sex, in fact not sex before work, no cursing, so welcome back to CNN.”

HUCKABEE: “Thank you, Dana. By the way, you know, I think what I should have told Megyn was, 'My gosh, Megyn, I’ve only been gone three weeks and the place has just gone to the dogs.”

BASH: “They need you there.”

HUCKABEE: “It was a funny moment. It, yeah, I know it was funny. I was in on the joke as was Megyn and yet, I've read stories where people said, 'Megyn Kelly really took it to Mike Huckabee.' And I'm thinking, you guys need a sense of humor. I thought it was hilarious and she's a terrific person and we had a lot of fun with it."

BASH: “Well, we'll see if anybody takes what I've just said seriously."