Story highlights Recent polls show Trump trailing Clinton by double digits

But Michael Cohen says he doesn't "care about those poll numbers"

(CNN) One prominent Donald Trump supporter denied Wednesday the additional campaign hires announced in the morning amounted to a "shake-up," and appeared unaware that polls showed the GOP presidential nominee trailing in the race.

When CNN's Brianna Keilar asked Michael Cohen, special counsel at the Trump Organization, about the shake-up, which reportedly sidelined Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman who had been heading up campaign leadership, Cohen blasted her word choice.

"I've got to stop you for one second. There's no shake-up. Look at the words that you use and you blast at the bottom in your banner," he said on CNN's "Situation Room." "There are no desperate measures. The campaign is on its way to victory, and yet you still use these ridiculous words in order to incite something. Please understand that nobody is buying into it anymore."

The exchange that followed:

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