Stephen A. Smith furious with Cari Champion, Jemele Hill after podcast: I have nothing to hide

Stephen A.Smith said his “nearly four-hour sit-down” with Cari Champion and Jemele Hill came with empty promises.

During Sunday’s installment of his “Straight Shooter” podcast, the ESPN star claimed the pair released an edited version of the interview on their “Flagrant and Funny” YouTube channel before turning off the comments.“Something that happened alarmed me and it’s going to alter the way I decided to do business moving forward with you two,” Smith said.“Before the interview took place, I specifically requested that the entire interview from start to finish be unedited and was promised that that would occur.“An amateur can look at the show being posted on YouTube and some of the clips online and can see clearly it’s been edited … Somebody on their team assured somebody on my team that it would be unedited because I didn’t want any edits.

I wanted everybody to see every word that was uttered, I wanted them to see every facial expression … that didn’t happen.”Smith explained he wasn’t happy that the comments were shut off on the YouTube version.“The comments were turned off.Why is that? I didn’t expect that,” he said.

“You see, if you’re going to come at me, especially after I gave you three hours of my life, could you at least have honored my request.I have nothing to hide.

As I assured y’all, I said some things Cari flat out denied.I cant speak to her memory.

I can only speak to my facts.”Smith explained that when his team asked about the full episode, the response they received was that “there were some extremely abusive and threatening comments that were being made toward both Cari and Jemele,” which led to the decision to shut off the comments.Smith had three demands: release the entire unedited interview, reopen the comments and provide him with a complete copy of the video.“I’m not doing any more interviews on YouTube without folks agreeing to make sure that it is completely unedited and tha...