Daily Beast: “‘Senator Tom Cotton, you’re in the eye of the storm, you like to take on red-hot issues, including ‘The 1619 Project,’ Brian Kilmeade said as the senator smiled awkwardly. He then quoted directly at length from Cotton’s interview with the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. ‘We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country,’ Cotton said in that interview. ‘As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.'”
“After reading that quote aloud, all Kilmeade had to say was, ‘Some say that was insensitive.'”
“‘Well, that is fake news, Brian,’ Cotton replied, chuckling uncomfortably. ‘That is not what I said.'”