Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Monday, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy called out the host’s biased reporting in real time, ripping slanted segments that aired just moments earlier: “I personally think the biggest problem is the media attacks on the President. Just in the past 20 minutes listening to this show on [MS]NBC, we get the feeling the President is not appointing women, which is not true.”

Ruddy was referring to Mitchell’s coverage minutes before of President Trump holding a White House meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about promoting women entrepreneurs: “...when the President swore in his 30 top officials, his White House assistants to the president...maybe three of them were women. And Justin Trudeau comes here with half of his cabinet are women. So there's a notable imbalance here...”

Ruddy pushed back: “He just – two major cabinet appointments. Ivanka herself ran the Trump business, so you know, the idea that somehow he doesn't like women running things.”

He also scolded Mitchell for promoting the idea that Trump was conducting a “mass deportation” of illegal immigrants: “...he's not doing mass deportation. He is removing criminal aliens, which I think everybody in this country thinks should be done.” Ruddy concluded: “So many good things he's done are not getting out to the American public...”

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Mitchell rushed to defend her and Democratic Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham attacking the Trump administration’s immigration policy just prior to Ruddy’s appearance:

The Congresswoman was presenting her complaint that she’s not getting real information from ICE and she’s asking for a briefing. And they do represent the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, so their states are involved. And the question here has been what is the threshold for criminal? Is it just that they are criminal because they came in illegally? Some of them 20 years ago. Or is it criminal because they are violent criminals? And that’s the distinction we're trying to – we’re simply trying to ascertain, we have not been briefed on it.

Later in the exchange, Ruddy actually complimented Mitchell for being “a tough reporter” who asks “good questions,” especially in contrast to a certain other cable network: “...I think there's other people in media, I was just on a network yesterday where they spent half the day accusing the President of being a pathological liar and mentally ill. I mean, I think even you agree, you've known Donald Trump for a long time, neither one of those things are true.”

He was referring CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday providing a platform to left-wing pundit Andrew Sullivan declaring Trump to be an “unstable figure incapable of accepting reality.”

Here is a transcript of Ruddy’s February 13 exchange with Mitchell: