CNN’s Scott Jennings Smirks As SE Cupp Goes Off On Him Over Vaccines: ‘You Seem To Be Very Angry With Me’
CNN GOP analyst Scott Jennings smirked when fellow analyst S.E. Cupp lost it on him during an argument about vaccine misinformation and “pregnant people,” accusing him of “derailing” the conversation with “B.S.”
Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. came under criticism after a vaccine skeptic shot up the CDC, including from Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC director President Donald Trump is trying to fire under protest. A raft of senior officials have resigned in the wake of the director’s ouster.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, anchor Abby Phillip hosted a panel comprised of Jennings, Cupp, Pete Seat, Jennifer Welch, Dr. Chris Pernell, and Donte Mills to talk about the fallout.
Several panelists ganged up on Jennings for focusing on the inclusive language used by one of the resignees, vaccine chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, instead of the “misinformation and disinformation” from RFK Jr.
A frustrated Cupp presented Jennings with “settled science” on vaccines, as Jennings interrupted to say “You seem to be very angry with me. I fundamentally agree with you.”
The effect was not calming:
PHILLIP: Hold on a second. Scott, there is nobody who is justifying attacks against ICE officials. There — and nobody should justify or diminish somebody shooting hundreds of bullets —
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JENNINGS: I’m not. It’s terrible.
PHILLIP: — into a workplace where people are doing —
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PERNELL: Where people are trying to save lives. Where people are practicing public health.
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PHILLIP: I don’t understand why that would even be a comparison that you would make honestly.
CUPP: It’s a great way to not answer the question.
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PHILLIP: You guys —
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JENNINGS: What questions?
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CUPP: Hundreds of thousands of doctors —
JENNINGS: What questions?
CUPP: Hundreds of thousands of doctors who probably don’t use words that you don’t like who agree on the science! The science is settled when it comes to autism and vaccines. They have nothing to do with each other!
PERNELL: Definitely.
CUPP: Less than one percent of scientists suggest that there might be a link!
JENININGS: You seem to be very angry with me. I fundamentally agree with you.
CUPP: No.
PHILLIP: All right.
CUPP: No, but why do we have to get derailed by this political BS when you could just say, yeah, that’s garbage and we shouldn’t politicize science and CDC?!
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JENNINGS: Because some scientists are allowed to politicize things and some aren’t.
PERNELL: No. No. That’s not true!
JENNINGS: And it depends on your politics and that’s how — (CROSSTALK)
PHILLIP: That is very much not true.
PERNELL: That’s not true. Thank you for saying that.
Watch above via CNN NewsNight.
