Charlie Rose repeatedly promoted Hillary Clinton's latest attack on Donald Trump during an interview of Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday's CBS This Morning. Rose wondered, "Secretary Clinton said yesterday, what kind of a genius loses a billion dollars in the first place, so they get this kind of tax carryforward?" When Conway tried to answer, Rose interrupted and again asked, "What about losing a billion dollars? What kind of business genius was the question that Secretary Clinton posed?" He twice more pressed his guest on the subject: "How did he lose a billion dollars?" [video below]

The veteran PBS journalist led the segment with his quote of Mrs. Clinton. Conway replied, in part, that "this provision in the tax code has been around since 1918.... In the year that Donald Trump accessed that particular provision, 1995, the IRS reports that half a million people went ahead and did the same thing. So this is what happens when businesses lose money. They carry it forward. And in the case of Donald Trump, you reinvest; you create jobs; you revitalize."

Rose stopped the Trump campaign manager mid-thought and repeated his Clinton-citing question: "My question is not the fact that he legally could carry forward. But what about losing a billion dollars? What kind of business genius was the question that Secretary Clinton posed?" Conway asserted that the Democrat was "being very sarcastic." But when she tried to continue, the CBS anchor and co-anchor Gayle King both interrupted their guest, and kept up their confrontational stance towards Conway (something all three CBS This Morning anchors also did during her September 9, 2016 appearance on the morning newscast):

KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: Well, she was being very sarcastic, as she usually is about him— CHARLIE ROSE: But how did he lose the money, then? GAYLE KING: But she's not the only one asking that question, though, Kellyanne. A lot of people are asking that question. CONWAY: Yeah. The type — the type — the type that then carries forward the loss into years where he did make a profit and pay an extraordinary amount— ROSE: Well, how did he lose a billion dollars — is [what] I'm asking? CONWAY: Well, we don't know that; but at the time — you remember real estate, in 1995, leveraged companies. But the fact is, what did he do? In other words, the — 'The Art of the Comeback' — and this nation could certainly use a comeback now — 'The Art of the Comeback' is an incredible— ROSE: That's an equally good question, but — to ask, how did he come back after losing a billion dollars — using the tax code, as well as investing in new businesses? CONWAY: Right — and he certainly has — he certainly has. You look around New York and other cities — but particularly, here — and you see the fruits of Donald Trump's business acumen — what he did in carrying forward that loss.

King also raised the upcoming vice presidential debate near the end of the interview: "It's a big night for Mike Pence and Tim Kaine tonight, and the majority — a new poll shows that the majority of the public do know not either one of them. So what will Mike Pence do tonight to make sure people know his name by the time this debate is over tonight?"

The full transcript of the Kellyanne Conway segment from CBS This Morning on October 4, 2016: