Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is not happy with the way she was treated by Anderson Cooper

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is complaining about how CNN’s Anderson Cooper took her to task on live TV for fighting against gay marriage.

Bondi was interviewed yesterday about the Orlando massacre which left 49 people – many of them gay – dead inside a gay nightclub.

‘The interview was supposed to be about helping people’s families, not creating more anger and havoc and hatred yesterday. Yesterday was about unity, about bringing people together, about helping people,’ Bondi said earlier today on WOR’s Len Berman and Todd Schnitt in the Morning.

‘There’s a time and place for everything, but yesterday wasn’t the time nor the place in front of a hospital when we could have been helping victims … And Anderson Cooper is the champion for the LGBT community and he could have been helping people yesterday. So I was disappointed in that.’

She added: ‘It just wasn’t the time nor the place for that yesterday because all it did was encourage anger and hate — and families who we’re trying to help to probably not trust my office and the 14 advocates we’ve brought in.’

Cooper, who is openly gay, confronted Bondi in withering fashion for what he sees as her hypocrisy when it comes to the rights of gays and lesbians and her claim in legal documents that ‘significant harm’ would be caused if gay people were allowed to get married in her state.

‘Do you really think you’re a champion of the gay community?’ Cooper asked bluntly.

When Bondi took exception to the word ‘harm’ and said ‘Those words never came out of my mouth,’ the openly-gay Cooper countered with: ‘That’s what you argued in court.’

He then went on to say: ‘The hotline that you’ve been talking about on television, which allows family members and spouses of the dead to get information, which is incredibly important, and I appreciate you talking about on the air.

‘Had there been no gay marriage, no same-sex marriage, you do realize that spouses—there would be no spouses, that boyfriends and girlfriends of the dead would not be able to get information and would not be able to visit in the hospital here. Isn’t there a sick irony in that?’

He added: ‘I will say I have never really seen you talk about gays and lesbians and transgender people in a positive way until now.’