‘Not What She Said!’ CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Calls Out Scott Jennings in Heated Brawl With Dem Analyst
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called out GOP analyst Scott Jennings when he accused Democratic strategist Alencia Johnson of saying something she didn’t say.
Trump DOGE czar Elon Musk traveled to Capitol Hill Wednesday to meet with lawmakers the day after President Donald Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, and reportedly got an earful — behind closed doors. One detail that emerged from those meetings is that Musk reportedly gave his phone number to some Republicans.
On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Johnson and Jennings got heated during a discussion of Musk’s DOGE cuts, and Jennings ridiculed his colleague by claiming she accused Musk of “causing measles.”
Collins tried to referee the exchange to a close, and joined Johnson in calling out Jennings’s wisecrack:
A. JOHNSON: That can’t be a talking point that these are sob stories. These are, again, people’s livelihoods, and also the health of this country, right? They have — some of these mistakes that people keep talking about are gutting our agencies that are taking care of, I don’t know, paying attention to the bird flu, Ebola, these things that actually can have detrimental impacts on the American people.
JENNINGS: We have Ebola in the United States?
A. JOHNSON: Well, we are helping the world be a safer place as well, Scott. And we know that.
JENNINGS: I mean, on the bird flu, we did — Biden slaughtered all the chickens. I don’t know if there’s any left to kill.
A. JOHNSON: Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Come on.
COLLINS: On that note–
A. JOHNSON: Come on, Scott. I mean you–
JENNINGS: It was a bloodbath. You all love that word.
A. JOHNSON: You can laugh about this. But these are things that people are actually scared about. I mean, measles is coming back. There’s so many things that are happening that our federal government makes sure–
JENNINGS: You’re saying Elon Musk caused the measles?
A. JOHNSON: I am saying what is happening in this government, right now, with Donald Trump appointing–
JENNINGS: You’re saying Donald Trump caused the measles?
A. JOHNSON: I am saying that what is happening in this federal government, under Donald Trump, allow Elon Musk, and allow all these people that he appointed, to run this government like this, is actually making us unsafe, for the American people.
COLLINS: Thank you both, for being here.
JENNINGS: Elon caused the measles. You heard it here first.
COLLINS: Scott Jennings. Alencia Johnson.
A. JOHNSON: Not what I said!
COLLINS: Not what she said!
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
