By Megan Sheets For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:16 GMT, 10 March 2019 | Updated: 23:16 GMT, 10 March 2019
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A senior advisor for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign defended lack of diversity in the White House by asking how many African Americans served in President Abraham Lincoln's administration.
Katrina Pierson posed the question during a heated back-and-forth with Al Sharpton on Saturday after the MSNBC host asked her to name people of color serving in top positions under President Trump.
'Historically, Republicans and Democrats have had major figures of the black community in the West Wing as part of their senior staff and administration,' Sharpton said before posing his question to Pierson and Media Matters for America founder David Brock.
'Who are the blacks in the West Wing under President Trump?'
Pierson, who also ran Trump's 2016 campaign, responded: 'You mean those who took the job or those who were offered? Because those are two entirely different questions.'
Tensions rose as Sharpton pressed her to answer his question and the pair began talking over each other.
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Katrina Pierson, a senior advisor for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, defended lack of diversity in the White House by asking how many African Americans served in President Abraham Lincoln's administration in the 1860s during an MSNBC interview Saturday
