Scott Jennings Snaps at CNN Panelists: ‘I Don’t Answer to You and I Don’t Answer to You!’
CNN senior political contributor Scott Jennings snapped at two of his co-panelists on Monday after they asked him whether he was disturbed by former President Donald Trump’s “lies.”
After Jennings tore into Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for making false statements about his military record and a trip to Hong Kong, Vanderbilt University professor and Baptist minister Michael Eric Dyson questioned, “You’ve done an analysis of Walz, are there any lies that Donald Trump tells that you are disturbed by?”
Jennings responded, “I don’t want any politician to lie ever. I wish they would tell the truth all the time.”
Rabbi and CNN commentator Jay Michaelson then pressed Jennings, asking the same question again, to which Jennings pointed angrily at Michaelson and Dyson and snapped, “First of all, I don’t answer to you and I don’t answer to you! … I don’t answer to these two guys!”
Turning to Michaelson, Jennings asked, “What lies does Kamala Harris tell that you’re mad about? Can you give me a list? Have you brought it? Is it in your jacket?”
“Sure. You want me to say some things that Kamala Harris has sort of shifted her position on healthcare?” replied Michaelson, to which Jennings protested. “No, not shifted. Lies.”
Michaelson insisted:
No, she hasn’t lied. Now it’s your turn. Is there any Donald Trump lie– how about, you like the “blood of immigrants,” is there some Donald Trump lie? How about “January 6 was just a tour. I didn’t have anything to do with January 6”? How about Stormy Daniels? Do you care about that lie? Do you care about the lie that global warming was a Chinese hoax? That’s a lie. He knows it’s a lie, everybody knows it’s a lie. So, I’m just curious, will you answer the question? Is there one Donald Trump lie that crosses the line for you?
Jennings answered, “I do not agree with most of what Donald Trump has said about January 6. From the day it happened, to this moment right now, and every day I’ve been on this network, I could not be more clear about what I think happened on January 6, what he did, and what he has said.”
Asked whether Trump lost the election, Jennings replied, “He absolutely lost the election, and now we’ve had three-and-a-half years of absolute terrible.”
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