‘Sounds Like I Hit a Nerve’: Nikki Haley Fires Back at CNN’s Brianna Keilar

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is responding to criticism she received from 📺CNN’s Brianna Keilar, suggesting it sounded like she “hit a nerve.”

During an appearance on Fox News Thursday, host Harris Faulkner played a clip of Keilar’s response to remarks Haley made during her speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum earlier this week.

“Take it from me, the first female and minority governor of South Carolina, America is not a racist country… As a brown girl growing up in a small southern town, I saw the promise of America unfold before me,” Haley said.

Keilar responded, “She did see the promise of America unfold but at times she also saw the promise of America denied.”

She continued, “The former governor, who removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds only to have that symbol brandished inside the U.S. Capitol by rioters this past January whitewashed the ups and downs of the American experience with racism and the challenges still ahead, all apparently to appeal to the conservative base.”

When asked for her response, Haley explained, “It sounds like I hit a nerve. Secondly, it’s amazing to me how the liberal media can’t stand it when someone Black or brown happens to talk about the fact that America is the best country in the world.”

Watch Haley’s reaction below:

She added, “The fact that we are blessed to be free and blessed to live in America. I’m going to keep saying it. We should all talk about the blessings of America. We’re not a perfect country. But every day our focus is to make today better than yesterday and that’s how I was raised. I was raised to have hope.”