CNN anchor scolds guest for using N-word on air

CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin on Tuesday cut off a guest to scold them for using the N-word on the air.

{mosads}Author Charles Kaiser was speaking on CNN about what President-elect Donald Trump should do if he doesn’t want to “stimulate the alt-right.”

“If you don’t want the support of the alt-right, don’t choose as a White House counselor a man who uses the word n—-r, whose wife says that he did not want his daughters to go to a school with too many Jews,” Kaiser said.

Kaiser was referring to Stephen Bannon, the former Breitbart News executive whom Trump chose to serve as his chief strategist.

Baldwin cut Kaiser short and reprimanded him for using the word.

“Please don’t use the N-word on my show,” she said.

Kaiser apologized, adding: “I never use the N-word except when I’m quoting someone who’s been appointed by the president to serve in the Oval office since this is such a disgusting moment in our history.”

At the end of the segment, Baldwin again scolded Kaiser for using the word.

“The more I’ve sat here and listened to the fact that somebody used the N-word on this show — it is not okay,” Baldwin said, her voice cracking.

“It is not okay, Charles Kaiser. I respect you, I enjoy having you on as a guest, but not okay,” she continued.

“By the way, the claim that Mr. Bannon used the N-word. I’ve never heard of this. So there’s that. Take a break.”

Kaiser on Tuesday said he was wrong to accuse Bannon of having used the word in the past.

“I do apologize for one thing in particular,” Kaiser told the Washington Post. “I mistook Bannon for Sessions. I was mistaking the one for the other.”

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), Trump’s nominee to serve as attorney general, was blocked from a federal judgeship three decades ago over racism accusations that surfaced during his confirmation hearing.

Sessions was accused of calling a black official in Alabama a “n—-r” in 1981, The Guardian reported Monday.

Kaiser told The Post that he likely would not have used the word if he had the choice again.

But he added: “There’s a part of me that feels you can’t fully express the shocking nature of the first appointments of Donald Trump without using the actual words used by these appointees.”

– Updated at 4:31 p.m.