‘Scott, It’s Not Ninety-Five’: CNN Guest Mocks Jennings for Touting ’90s Superman Actor Joining ICE

A CNN guest was unimpressed with the new supposed star power joining Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

This week, Dean Cain, who played Superman on The Adventures of Lois & Clark, which ran from 1993 to 1997 on ABC, announced that he is joining ICE to help rid the country of undocumented immigrants.

“I’m actually… a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer,” Cain told Fox News on Wednesday, referring to his status as a law enforcement official in Idaho. “So now I’ve spoken with some officials over at ICE and I will be sworn in as an ICE agent ASAP.”

Panelists on Thursday’s CNN NewsNight discussed the personnel move.

“There’s a massive amount of recruitment going on because they now have a huge amount of money to hire new ICE agents,” Scott Jennings said. “Having someone like that out touting it, talking about, ‘Hey, this is a thing you can do for your government, this is a public service,’ it’s going to help them recruit and they have a bunch of people to recruit.”

Jennings’ argument was too much for podcaster Van Lathan, who felt compelled to interrupt.

“Scott, it’s not ’95. Nobody gives a Sam Hill what Dean Cain does,” Lathan said.

“You may not,” Jennings said, suggesting that Cain is notable among conservatives.

“Dean ain’t worked in a while,” Lathan continued. “Dean needs the 50,000. That’s what got Dean off the couch. Dean ain’t worked in a while. Dean gonna take that money and buy some crypto. Dean need the 50. That’s what Dean is on.”

Guest host John Berman then turned to Mediaite founder Dan Abrams, who earlier in the segment suggested Cain’s ICE-capades are for show.

“You don’t think this is serious?” Berman asked.

“He says, ‘I’m getting sworn in,'” Abrams replied. “When you talk about ‘getting sworn in,’ he’s not really gonna be an ICE– he’s gonna go on some ICE raids. He’ll be, you now, an honorary member, etc. But Scott’s right. Look, there is real money to recruit ICE agents. Let’s hope that that means that the quality’s gonna continue to go up.”

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