Stephen Miller Sparks Suspicion After 'Glitch' on CNN When He Mentioned 'Plenary Authority'

[thesquanderer]

23. It was so obviously NOT a technical glitch.

Miller stopped mid sentence, and showed no reaction to anything, no indication of something going wrong.

If they had simply lost the audio, you'd have seen Miller's lips continue to move.

If something had gone awry on Miller's end, like if he lost his monitor of the feed, or his earpiece starting making noise, or whatever... anything unexpected that would cause him to stop talking mid-thought... you would have seen a reaction from him, whether a change of expression , or saying there was an issue, or reaching his hand to his earpiece, etc.

He stopped either because he panicked because he realized he screwed up, or (I think more likely) because someone on his team indicated to him that he needed to shut up. (Not someone from CNN indicating that there was an issue, because again, you'd expect that to elicit some kind of reaction... rather, someone whose instruction he simply knew to follow.)

And then, when they came back after the break, he repeated the same talking point nearly word for word, except with that phrase omitted.