With a stacked panel of liberals, CNN was firing on all cylinders as the network for The Resistance on Tuesday night ahead of the President’s State of the Union address. In conjunction with that, AC360 featured a soft interview by chief political correspondent Dana Bash interviewed liberal firebrand and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and her guest, the far-left activist who was caught on CNN cameras in the fall berating then-Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ).

“What do you think the State of the Union is,” Bash wondered near the end of the interview. Yes, really.

What kind of question is that?

Ocasio-Cortez replied that “this is an opportunity and it is a window for change” in addition to “a moment where we can come together and really talk about our values that we are a nation that embraces immigrants.”

Before letting Ocasio-Cortez and guest Ana Maria Archila go, Bash gushed about all the Democratic women in white:

Before I let you go, you are both wearing white. Almost every woman with a congressional pin that I've seen walking by is — they’re wearing white. Describe why and explain why?

Ocasio-Cortez replied that it’s in conjunction with “the 100th anniversary of the women's right to vote and I think that we’re all coming here — there's so much more that we have to fight for from wage equality to paycheck fairness to protecting ourselves and believing survivors and I think this is a really amazing opportunity.”

Later, Bash replied that there’s “102 women in the House of Representatives,” which “certainly is historic and you’re part of that history.”

Earlier in the interview, Bash led off by noting that Ocasio-Cortez encouraged constituents to watch “none” of the President’s speech and wondered, in both her first question, if that means she’s still able to go into the evening “with an open mind”, and then asking whether there’s a chance to find “common ground” with the White House.

In response to the first question, Ocasio-Cortez stated that she wanted to “give that permission” to constituents to not feel obliged to watch because she “represent[s] many vulnerable communities” that might find the speech “harmful.”

Bash led into her two softball questions for the far-left Congresswoman by offering a friendly question to Archila, who berated Flake before members of the news media during the Kavanaugh controversy:

Hmm. I don't know if that will happen any time soon. I just want to ask you. So, you are a constituent of congresswoman, but people out there might recognize you because you were the one who confronted Senator — now former Senator Jeff Flake in the elevator during the whole Brett Kavanaugh controversy. You are here for what reason?

When Bash noted that Justice Brett Kavanaugh will also be in the House chamber, Archila responded that “[i]t is still very painful for me and I think for many women across the country to know that our elected officials failed to understand the opportunity that they had to signal to the country that they were not going to reaffirm a culture that enables sexual violence in the first place” and thus “[t]hey failed by putting Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court.”

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s AC360 on February 5, click “expand.”