As liberal CNN commentators Bakari Sellers and Maria Cardona appeared as panel members on Tuesday's CNN Tonight to react to a report by CNN's Tom Foreman mostly recalling sexual assault victims who have made complaints about abuse by Bill and Hillary Clinton, both denied that Hillary had been caught laughing about successfully defending a child rapist in spite of the existence of an audio recording of just that.

And, in spite of the fact that Foreman's report dealt mostly with sexual assault victims, Sellers feebly began by trying to use the standard liberal argument that Hillary Clinton had the right to be angry at women who had "cheated" with her husband. Conservative CNN political commentator Kayleigh McEnany had the job of taking them both on with little assistance from other panel members, with Sellers and Cardona calling some of the charges against Hillary "not true" and "a lie."

At 11:41 p.m. ET, after Foreman's report, host Don Lemon suggested that Sellers had, in fact, seen Foreman's piece, and asked for his reaction. After beginning his response by rejoicing over it being the Clintons' 41st wedding anniversary, Sellers then pivoted to pretending the issue was about consensual adulterous affairs instead of sexual assault, even though he had allegedly seen the report. Sellers: "I just think it's the height of hypocrisy that people attempt to say that someone who got cheated on is somehow worse that the person who was the cheater."

After pretending that the Clinton misconduct only involved affairs, he then shamelessly applied the words "sexual assault" to Donald Trump as he added:

I think that one of the most amazing things is that people attempt to say or have the audacity to believe that they can tell Hillary Clinton how to treat or how she should feel about the women with whom her husband cheated with. I mean, that, for me, is just completely out of line. And the last thing is, this is just a deflection from Donald Trump's comments about sexual assault, which is what it was, and trying to move the ball further away from what we need to be talking about.

CNN notably ran a full report on the case last May which included some of the recordings of Hillary Clinton laughing and bragging about her part in the case.

McEnany then recalled some of the Clintons' behavior against sexual assault victims:

Where we cannot empathize [with] her and she has yet to take responsibility in that montage you just played is her role in making these women who had viable sexual assault claims feel less than what they were. By putting private investigators on them, there is a deposition from one of the private investigators saying I was hired by one of Hillary's lawyers to make this woman's life not good.

She soon added:

I can empathize with being cheated on. ... But it does not give you the right to demonize these women, nor does it give you the right to basically marginalize a 12-year-old victim, say she wanted this man to rape her, she had dreams of this man, and then go on to laugh about getting this "innocent" man off. That had nothing to do with Bill Clinton's infidelities. That had to do with her, and Kathy Shelton deserved better than that...

Sellers and Cardona both jumped in to dispute McEnany's account as "not true":

SELLERS: That's not true. MCENANY: It is true. There's an audio tape. There's an audio tape. MARIA CARDONA, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: So many of what you just said is not true. MCENANY: There's an audio tape. Viewers, go listen to the audio tape.

After the conservative commentator recalled the audio recording of Hillary Clinton laughing about successfully defending a rapist, the liberal duo were in denial again, with Cardona calling the claim a "lie":

CARDONA: She did not laugh about it. She did not laugh about it, Kayleigh. That's not true. That is a lie. That is a lie. SELLERS: Time out, time out. That is not true. MCENANY: It is true. CARDONA: No, it's not, Kayleigh.

The segment ended with McEnany and Cardona arguing over whether Hillary laughed about defending a rapist:

MCENANY: You certainly don't laugh about it on a radio show.. CARDONA: She did not laugh about it. MCENANY: Yes, she did. Go look up the tape. You don't play it here, but go look up the tape. CARDONA: That is a distortion of the truth.

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Tuesday, October 11, CNN Tonight: