Audie Cornish Mocks Scott Jennings During CNN Dustup: ‘He Needs a Clip for the Internet’

CNN anchor Audie Cornish mocked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and accused him of trying to create a viral moment on Tuesday during an argument about the Daniel Penny trial.

During a CNN NewsNight discussion about the trial, which ended with Penny being acquitted for the death of Jordan Neely, Cornish questioned, “What do you say to the parents of a victim who dies in this circumstance? Do you just say, ‘Hey, sorry’?”

“You keep referring to Neely as the victim,” protested Jennings. “I think Penny is the victim in this case and I think the people on the train are the victim.”

Cornish responded, “I have a tendency to call the people who die a victim. We have different ideas about that, but to my mind, someone lost a child, and I’m always going to feel for that person. That’s just how I’m built. It’s like a Christian thing.”

“Are you saying I’m not a Christian?” Jennings asked, to which Cornish replied, “Not at all. I just want to make sure that you understand it’s a values-based comment.”

Jennings then asked, “Are you saying I don’t have any values?”

“He needs a clip for the internet,” mocked Cornish before smiling at the camera.

Geraldo Rivera disagreed with Cornish’s argument about Neely, declaring, “There was so much dysfunction surrounding the person who died on the subway.”

“He had a warrant on him when this incident happened. He was a bad dude, crazy man,” Rivera concluded.

Watch above via CNN.