CNN hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday gave a "dramatic" reading of President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE's attorney Rudy Giuliani's new interview with the The New Yorker, calling it a "treat" for their audience.

Berman opened the segment on CNN's "New Day" by calling the interview "weird," with Camerota chiming in that she "can't stop reading it."

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"This is an interview that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani gave with the New Yorker prior to getting in the shower," Berman said. "Now I'm hung up on the shower admittedly because it's the only fact that's clear from the entire interview."

Camerota says the two will read the exchange in a "dramatic" fashion in order to give it justice, with Berman playing the part of Giuliani and Camerota acting as The New Yorker's Isaac Chotiner.

"The president had no conversations," Berman said, reciting Giuliani's answer to a question about Trump's involvement in discussions during the 2016 campaign to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Chotiner had noted that The New York Times, citing statements from Giuliani, had reported that Trump was involved in the discussions.

"I shouldn’t say he had no conversations. He had a few conversations about this early-stage proposal that he ended somewhere in early 2016, and doesn’t have a recollection of anything else, and there is nothing to support anything else. This is a story that is completely exaggerated and made up."

"The New York Times just made that quote up?" Camerota, acting as Chotiner, asks.

"I don’t know if they made it up," Berman responded. "What I was talking about was, if he had those conversations, they would not be criminal."

Camerota later dives to the part in the interview where Giuliani is asked if he ever worries about his legacy.

"Absolutely," Berman, playing Giuliani, said. "I am afraid it will be on my gravestone. 'Rudy Giuliani: He lied for Trump.' Somehow, I don’t think that will be it. But, if it is, so what do I care? I’ll be dead."

"Scene," the two hosts said to wrap up the bit.

The interaction comes just a day after Giuliani attempted to clarify previous statements he made about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen has admitted he lied to Congress about the timing of the talks, which continued well into Trump's presidential campaign.

Giuliani said in a statement that any comments he had made about the real estate project were "hypothetical." Giuliani had said the day before, on NBC's "Meet The Press," that Trump remembered having conversations with Cohen about the Moscow tower "throughout 2016" and "as far as October, November."