On CNN's New Day Thursday, host Chris Cuomo attacked Republican Ohio Representative Jim Jordan over his party's handling of leaked allegations of communications between former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian officials, which led to Flynn's resignation on Monday.

In an interview with the leader of the House Freedom Caucus, Cuomo said that Jordan and his party only want to focus on the source of the leaks instead of the substance of the calls between Flynn and the Russians. "We do not know that Michael Flynn was wiretapped, but it keeps being said by people that want these investigations into the leaks and it deserves to be called out," Cuomo said.

"Also what deserves to be called out and I'm interesting to see if you agree with this. You want to look at the leaks but you do not look at the under lying substance that lead to the leaks," Cuomo added.

Contrary to Cuomo's accusation, Flynn's conversation with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak, was wiretapped. Reportedly, Obama officials stayed on and formed a communication apparatus alongside former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes to undermine Flynn from leaking information about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which Rhodes falsely reported about to the media. Flynn is an outspoken opponent of the deal.

A congressional adviser who was involved in the fight over the nuclear deal told The Washington Free Beacon, "After Trump was inaugurated some of those people stayed in and some began working from the outside, and they cooperated to keep undermining Trump."

Also in the interview, Cuomo chided Jordan over the GOP acting obliviously. "You know that the White House is saying you have the President that's blaming the media. You have discrepancies of fact here and you have broad or broader implications of national security when you don't seem as urgent about it," he said.

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Cuomo also exemplified hypocrisy and mentioned the dozens of congressional investigations over the 2012 Benghazi attack, which then-Secretary of State Clinton was accused of not properly responding to requests for help from the US consulate there in addition to covering up what happened in the incident where US ambassador Chris Stevens was murdered.

The mainstream media lacked coverage over the Benghazi attack and the Obama White House lying about other scandals, such as the IRS allegedly targeting conservative groups and administration cash payments to Iran.

Cuomo said to Jordan, "You encompass half a dozen probes by five different committees. The formation of a select House committee, 33 hearings."

Cuomo added and accused Jordan of a partisan double-standard, investigating Clinton but not Flynn. "The idea that it would be done divorced from partisanship is hard to see given the lack of curiosity from Republicans about the Flynn situation thus far."

The Ohio congressman mostly answered Cuomo's questions about investigating Flynn by stressing for the need to do so thoroughly.

Nonethless, Cuomo did not seem satisfied with Jordan's answers. "I’m just saying we just haven't seen the political capital being expended here that would give confidence that you want to do it. And saying they have Valentine's day breakfast with their spouses. And he was joking but it's because the whole thing is a joke," he said.

Here is the February 16 exchange: