close Video
NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!
EXCLUSIVE: A CNN segment on " NewsNight with Abby Phillip " about the Trump administration's review of the Smithsonian erupted into a heated debate over slavery when fitness trainer and media personality Jillian Michaels said President Donald Trump is not "whitewashing" history.
Speaking exclusively to Fox News Digital about the now-viral segment, Michaels accused Phillip of lying and then verbally attacking her after she argued that White people do not bear all the blame for slavery.
"There was no moment where I defended slavery," Michaels clarified. "I would never. I just said it's evil, but you can't lay it all at the feet of one race. There was no moment where I tried to litigate who benefited from slavery in Amer