CNN’s Scott Jennings Told to Take Off ‘MAGA Goggle Glasses’ in Clash Over Alleged ICE ‘Body Slam’ Video

CNN Republican analyst Scott Jennings was told to take off his “MAGA goggle glasses” during a heated clash over a video clip that Trump officials say shows Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) “body-slamming” an ICE agent.

Rep. McIver was present for the May 9 arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka (D-Newark) and Reps. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) as they performed what they said was an oversight visit at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark. Charges against Mayor Baraka were dropped, but Acting U.S. Attorney and longtime Trump confidant Alina Habba announced charges against Rep. McIver.

The arrest was caught on camera, and the video conflicts with the descriptions offered by Habba and DHS officials.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, anchor Abby Phillip discussed the purported “body slam” video with a panel that included Jennings, Cornel West, Julie Roginsky, and Joe Borelli.

Roginsky mocked Jennings when he claimed the video was “pretty clear” in showing an “assault” by McIver, accusing him of viewing the tape through Trump-colored glasses:

PHILLIP: So, the congresswoman after this incident happened, she actually said that she was being pushed and shoved. One, she said there was one ICE officer when I was entering back into the gate to the facility where he was literally using his elbows, shoulders, everything, pushing against me not to let me in.

It may be one of those cases where there is a lot of pushing and shoving happening in both directions, is that you were there actually as well, right, for part of that incident.

JULIE ROGINSKY, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I was. I was there after the mayor was arrested.

PHILLIP: Is that enough to —

ROGINSKY: No, and let just —

PHILLIP: — to justify charges against the congresswoman?

ROGINSKY: And let me say, because the construct of this is very interesting. These kinds of charging cases are not made by Alina Habba or any United States attorney in the district of New Jersey. If you’re indicting an elected official, especially a federal official, it is made in Main Justice always. Pam Bondi is the attorney general of the United States. It is ultimately her decision.

Pam Bondi was the lobbyist for the geo group which owns Delaney Hall, which has a $1.2 billion with a B contract at Delaney Hall. And, of course, not —

PHILLIP: That’s the ICE — that’s the detention facility that they were at.

ROGINSKY: And, of course, probably does not want her former client being impeded from having members of Congress performing their oversight responsibilities.

So, this thing is rotten from start to finish. This attorney general should never have been involved in charging anybody for a former client that benefits a former client, and they should have allowed —

JENNINGS: How does it benefit the client?

ROGINSKY: How does it benefit the client?

JENNINGS: How does it benefit —

ROGINSKY: Because Mayor Baraka does not give them a certificate of occupancy. And if these members of Congress —

JENNINGS: But what does it have to do with a clear video of someone assaulting a police officer?

ROGINSKY: That video clear to you, Scott? Was that clear?

JENNINGS: Yes, pretty clear.

ROGINSKY: There’s nothing clear about it because —

JENNINGS: It’s not a cheap fake, I can assure you with that.

ROGINSKY: Let me tell you something. If you took off your MAGA (INAUDIBLE) glasses and look at it —

JENNINGS: It’s not a cheap fake. It’s a real video.

BARAKA: It’s not the whole video either. It’s not the whole video.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.