CNN’s Abby Phillip Calls Out Scott Jennings As He Complains About Being ‘Screamed’ At: ‘There Is No Screaming Happening’

CNN anchor Abby Phillip called out GOP analyst Scott Jennings for accusing a fellow panelist of “screaming” at him during a heated segment on remarks about protests that turned into a fight over protesters at Trump Tower and the Capitol riot.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) made remarks Thursday about President Donald Trump wanting a “civil war” and responding with “non-violence” — at nearly the same time a pro-Palestinian Jewish group was “occupying” Trump Tower.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Jennings (again) claimed another panelist was yelling at him when she wasn’t as they discussed Waters’s remarks, and Phillip (again) corrected him:

PHILLIP: Tonight, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is urging Democrats to hit the streets and fight back against Trump, but her arcs have MAGA accusing her of fomenting violence. Listen.

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WATERS: I’m worried that Trump is on the edge of creating a civil war. He alluded to it more than once.

He alluded to the fact that if he did not get reelected, that there could be a civil war. Now, this president is putting us in a position where hungry people are going to be on the street. Where non- profits who were waiting for their checks are not going to get them.

When that happens, what does Trump expect? Oh, I believe he expects violence. I believe he expects confrontation. I believe he’s working toward a civil war. We’re not going to get goaded. We’re not going to get tricked into that. We’re going to continue to do our work.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIP: So, that has, some on the MAGA wing of, the country pretty upset. But I don’t know. It seems to be pretty clear at the end there, she said, we’re not going to go into that territory.

JENNINGS: Why bring it up? I mean, she’s hardly the first Democrat to bring it up. Hakeem Jeffries said earlier this year, we’re going to fight in the streets. Anna Presley, Jasmine Crockett, other members of the Democratic Conference have continuously alluded to violence because they’re so angry about the Trump administration? PHILLIP: Well, I don’t think it’s unfair to say that they’re alluding to violence. When — when Jeffries was saying that, he was talking about going to the streets in protest —

JENNINGS: He said fight in the streets.

PHILLIP: — which is —

UNKNOWN: It’s a political fight.

PHILLIP: I think that’s not what — that’s clearly not the concept.

JENNINGS: You can defend it.

SEAT: But if Trump uses the word fight, everyone loses the word.

PHILLIP: I want to remind you both, well, only that only when there’s actual fighting that occurs, because it’s actually that’s what happened.

HINOJOSA: I want to remind you both that it was Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6th. When January 6th happened this year, what happened? It wasn’t Democrats storming the Capitol. Actually, guess what? No one stormed the Capitol this January 6. And so, it was —

JENNINGS: You look at the video in New York City today, the people who took over Trump Tower, the people screaming at folks on the streets, who are those folks?

HINOJOSA: People were protesting. People were protesting.

JENNINGS: In Trump Tower?

HINOJOSA: They were not storming. They were not storming Trump Tower. They were not storming.

PHILLIP: The lobby of Trump tower is —

(CROSSTALK)

JENNINGS: Yes, they did. They were inside of it.

HINOJOSA: They were not storming —

PHILLIP: The lobby of Trump Tower is —

(CROSSTALK)

JENNINGS: You’re going to defend that mob?

HINOJOSA: There are thousands of people who were prosecuted for January 6th. You may have forgotten, but you know what? You should go read your old op ed talking about how the resident caused an insurrection.

JENNINGS: You know what? I have. I have.

HINOJOSA: Because that’s what he did on January 6th, and that’s what MAGA supporters actually did.

JENNINGS: You could scream at me all you want, but I have every single day condemned the events of January the 6th.

PHILLIP: Scott, Scott.

JENNINGS: Then, now, and I will continue to —

HINOJOSA: But let me —

(CROSSTALK)

HINOJOSA: — the violence.

PHILLIP: Let me just say one thing. There’s — there was no screaming happening at this table, okay? Someone talking to you is not screaming. But I do want to play the rest of what Maxine Waters said just for clarity purposes. Listen.

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WATERS: It places the responsibilities on us to live and do like doctor Martin Luther King told us to do. He taught us to organize and to protest, but he taught us non-violence. He taught us non-violence.

That was the center, that was the core of his message. And we live with that all the time. No matter how upset we can get, no matter how angry we can get, we live with what we have been taught.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.

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