CNN’s Scott Jennings Takes Shot at ‘Empty’ Margaret Brennan Over Testy JD Vance Interview
CNN’s Scott Jennings took a shot at CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on Monday over a question she directed at Vice President JD Vance during a testy interview the previous day.
On Face the Nation, Brennan asked Vance which of the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump to date would bring down grocery prices. As Vance was answering, Brennan interrupted to ask “So grocery prices aren’t going to come down?” at which point Vance reminded her that he and Trump had only been in their positions for “all of five days.”
“Prices are going to come down, but it’s going to take a little bit of time,” said Vance.
On Monday, CNN’s John Berman noted that Trump and Vance campaigned on fighting inflation before referencing the exchange between Brennan and the VP and asking Jennings how much “runway” he thinks the Trump administration has before it must lower prices.
“Yeah, well, first of all, I think anybody that’s out making criticism about prices of anything after five days of a presidency is not someone you should listen to. If that is your political argument today, you’re showing just how empty you are and exactly why Democrats lost the last election. They obviously understand nothing about how the American people are processing this,” answered Jennings.
He continued:
Number two, you get your next report card at the midterm. I mean, November 2026, voters will go back to the polls and they’re going to register a verdict on how the party in power is doing. The party in power is the Republican Party. We control everything, small margins, but we control everything. And they’re going to expect some progress on issues: immigration, economy, energy prices. I mean, those are the big ticket issues. And they’re also going to assess how they feel about their own lives. Do they still feel the same economic anxiety that they were feeling under the last administration? And do they feel that the policies that have been put in place are working or are moving towards working? So you get your next report card at the midterm. And I think he’s got that kind of leash to enact an agenda. I mean, Joe Biden was in office for four years, it got pretty bad and that’s why Donald Trump won the election. So I don’t think people out screaming about egg prices after five days are very credible at the moment.
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