Kellyanne Conway boasted Monday that she's never uttered the words 'fake news' during a contentious interview on CNN that aired uninterrupted by commercial breaks for more than half an hour.

The Trump counselor did try to shame the network, however, for its heavy coverage of Russia's election meddling and allegations of Trump campaign collusion.

'Aren't you the least bit reluctant, if not embarrassed that you now talk about Russia more than you talk about America?' she asked New Day host Chris Cuomo early on.

Russia came up during that broadcast because Don Jr, the president's son, admitted to meeting with a Russian government advocate last summer at Trump Tower under the auspices of obtaining damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

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Kellyanne Conway boasted Monday that she's never uttered the words 'fake news' during a contentious interview on CNN with Chris Cuomo that aired uninterrupted by commercial breaks for more than half an hour

The Trump counselor did try to shame the network, however, for its heavy coverage of Russia's election meddling and allegations of Trump campaign collusion

Russia came up during that broadcast because Don Jr, the president's son, admitted to meeting with a Russian government advocate last summer at Trump Tower under the auspices of obtaining damaging information on Hillary Clinton

After the contentious 35-minute segment, Kellyanne Conway reiterated her point on Twitter: that CNN wants to talk about Russia, while she wanted to talk about the United States

He says he did not know who the meeting was with, as it had been set up by an acquaintance.

The woman turned out to be Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin.

'Don Jr. has very explicitly stated he didn't even know the name of the person with whom he was meeting,' Conway said Monday on CNN. 'He agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the Miss Universe Pageant.'

Conway went on to run Donald Trump's presidential campaign and help put him in the White House. But she was not in charge of the campaign at the time of the meeting with Veselnitskaya.

Paul Manafort was still running the show in June. He was soon shoved out as he became embroiled in an international scandal involving a former Ukrainian client. Conway took over for him.

The president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, also attended the meeting, at Don Jr's invitation, the New York Times reported and Kushner confirmed.

Kushner is now a senior advisor at the White House.

The president's son tried to brush off the rising controversy on Monday morning as Conway went to bat for him

On CNN, Conway reiterated Don Jr's claims that the information that was offered was a cover for a conversation about a Russian adoption program that was halted years ago amid a dispute with the US over the Magnitsky Act.

'They get into the meeting and it quickly turns into a pretext for Russian adoption, according to his statements, that the comments this woman is making about any type of information on Hillary Clinton were vague. They were meaningless,' she said. 'Others exited the meeting very quickly. The meeting itself was very brief.'

Conway said on CNN, 'There was no information given. There was no action taken. There was no follow-up.

'And let me respectfully say, as well as I can, I don't think anybody had to look very far to find damaging information on Hillary Clinton and negative information,' she argued.

Cuomo told her that her last statement was 'beside the point.'

There are 'huge legal and ethical implications,' he said, to the meeting that Don Jr. had with the Russian lawyer who wanted to lobby the Republican presidential candidate's campaign on lifting the US law that inspired Putin to halt Russian adoptions.

The CNN host said he couldn't decide what should be more troubling to the White House - that Don Jr. didn't know who he was meeting with or that he invited Manafort and Kushner to sit down with a stranger on the promise of obtaining oppo research on Clinton.

'First of all, you keep on saying opposition research the way you guys constantly vomit words like collusion, and Russian interference, and affecting the election, all of which you have no evidence. We cannot convert wishful thinking into hard evidence,' Conway answered.

She said the meeting is not evidence of collusion with the Russians to bring down Clinton.

'If we were in court, your side would not even survive a motion to dismiss a motion for summary judgement because you've got nothing,' she said.

Cuomo busted up Don Jr. fort he same thing, claiming in the course of the interview with Conway that he has a credibility problem because he gave two differing versions of his story to the New York Times for its articles on the June 2016 meeting

Trump says he did not know who the meeting was with, as it had been set up by an acquaintance. The woman turned out to be Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin

The principals from the campaign were all there because they had a very small team, she said.

'This was standard operating procedure for the campaign,' Conway asserted. 'Let's focus on what did not happen in that meeting. No information provided that was meaningful. No action taken. Nothing.'

Cuomo continued to bust up Don Jr. for his conduct, claiming in the course of the interview that the Trump son has a credibility problem because he gave two differing versions of his story to the New York Times for its articles on the June 2016 meeting.

The first time he said: 'It was a short introductory meeting. I asked Jared and Paul to stop by. We primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at that time and there was no follow up.'

He said in a later statement: 'After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Ms. Clinton.

'Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information.'

Having read the Trump son's statement aloud, Cuomo told Conway, 'You talked about being in a court of law, not good when you change your story.'

President Trump tweeted that James Comey 'leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media ' this morning as his son came under fire for meeting with the Russian lawyer. Conway brought up the charge aginst the former FBI director, too, as she attempted to pull Cuomo off Don Jr.

Conway fired back, 'I admire your moxie, sitting there with the CNN chyron right near you, talking about credibility issues, given the couple weeks you guy have had.'

'I could not be more proud to have that CNN chyron next to me,' Cuomo told her. 'And I could be more proud representing the White House here on CNN,' Conway responded.

Cuomo talked over Conway throughout the interview, prompting her to declare then that the CNN host should let her know when she's allowed to speak again.

When Cuomo wouldn't let her talk, Conway laughed and said his name a couple of times in a sing-songy voice as she tried to get his attention.

'You wanted to produce something because you're invested in months now as a network in something that simply doesn't exist,' she finally said, trying to lump the story about Don Jr. in with other charges of Russian collusion that have not panned out.

Cuomo told her, 'No, that's an assumption by you. And it’s an unfair premise.'

Changing the subject Conway told him, 'No, Chris. That's not true. Here is the unfair premise, that we are talking about this again. Yet again. That you talk about Russia more than you talk about America. That the big bombshell of the day is Jim Comey having classified information, conversations with the President of the United States, in his memorandum.'

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That charge led Cuomo to note with glee that the article she was referring to was based on anonymous sources like the ones the White House has routinely tried to undermine.

'Unnamed sources is the new code word for you guys on fake news but it's okay for Comey,' he snarked.

Conway told him, 'I’ve actually never uttered those two words, either. But the fact is that report is a bombshell people should know about…'

Cuomo pointed out again that the report is based on 'unnamed sources.'

'You just want to interrupt me today,' Conway said, summing up the interaction with her 'friend.'

She said on Twitter after it was all over: 'To me pal @ChrisCuomo: Here's how you and I are different: you want to talk about Russia; I want to talk about America.'

President Donald Trump had also marveled at the report that said his fired FBI Director James Comey's memos contained classified information, a revelation that could get the ex-government official in trouble for giving them to his friend to pass on to the press.

'James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!' Trump wrote Monday morning, shortly after retweeting a Fox News story that reported the allegation.

It was the Hill newspaper, on Sunday night, that first broke the news that most of the memos written by the former FBI chief contained classified information, a welcome distraction for the president and his advisers as Don Jr. comes under fire for meeting with Veselnitskaya,.

Comey could now be probed by congressional investigators to determine whether he mishandled classified information.