“Transgender advocate Janet Mock returned to CNN’s “Piers Morgan Live” on Wednesday to defend tweets she sent on Tuesday night that criticized the show for “sensationalizing” her story and prompted hundreds of followers to accuse host Piers Morgan of transphobia.

At the start of the contentious segment (watch the full interview below), Morgan said that he invited Mock for her to explain why he’d had “an infuriating 24 hours” since the Tuesday interview ran.

“Today I have spent 12 hours being viciously abused by the transgender community, egged on by your own tweeting last night that you were somehow very dismayed by the way the interview had gone,””* The Young Turks hosts Ana Kasparian and Ben Mankiewicz break it down.

*Read more here from Morgan said.L.A.Ross / The Wrap:
http://www.thewrap.com/piers-morgan-transgender-guest-janet-mock-peeved-twitter-response-interview-cnn-video

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