‘You Got Fired From Your Job’: Scott Jennings and Tiffany Cross Throw Down on CNN
CNN’s Scott Jennings and ex-MSNBC host Tiffany Cross had an acrimonious exchange culminating with the former reminding Cross she was let go by her previous employer.
Given their ideological differences and strong personalities, a brouhaha was all but inevitable on Wednesday’s CNN NewsNight, though the nature of the verbal tussle was quite personal.
During a discussion about President Donald Trump’s tariffs – some of which he lowered earlier in the day – Cross revisited Trump’s odd insistence that the U.S. acquire Greenland from Denmark, though both have said they oppose such a move.
“It’s a colonizer’s attitude to say, I’ like it, I’m just gonna steal it,'” Now, the fact of the matter is, in this new–”
“Steal what?” Jennings interrupted.
“Land, land,” she replied. “You cannot just go and say, ‘I like it, it’s mine now.’ It doesn’t work that way. That is what they’re trying to do. And in this new world order–”
Jennings chuckled and asked, “What?” Here’s the rest of their exchange:
CROSS: Yeah, absolutely. When they’re looking at Greenland and say, “I like it, I want to take it for mine.” That is a very colonizer attitude.
JENNINGS: I have never, ever said we’re going to go to Greenland and “colonize it or steal it.” That’s crazy.
CROSS: I’m not even talking about you. You’re not a member of government. So you’re irrelevant on that point. I’m talking about the president of the United States.
JENNINGS: You got fired from your job. How relevant are you?
[CROSSTALK]
CROSS: Scott, if you wanna engage in personal insults–
JENNINGS: I don’t, but you do.
CROSS: What you lack in the legitimate point, you make up for it in personal insults.
JENNINGS: I don’t. You do.
CROSS: The point I am making is in this new world order, we are looking at countries – whether or not they’re an adversary or ally – it is being determined on what kind of deal we can get. And we cannot govern. We cannot legislate that way. We are increasingly isolated on the world stage.
JENNINGS: No we’re not.
CROSS: So if you wanna engage in personal insults–
JENNINGS: We’re not. We’re not isolated.
CROSS: I would reserve that for your party–
[CROSSTALK]
MSNBC cut ties with Cross in November 2022, opting not to renew her contract.
Watch above via CNN.
