Scott Jennings' Temper ERUPTS At Former Biden Official On CNN

Scott Jennings turned up the measurement Tuesday connected CNN.

The nonmigratory Republican foil connected “NewsNight” mislaid his temper successful an speech with erstwhile Joe Biden advisor Neera Tanden implicit vandalism astatine Tesla sites. (Watch the video below.)

“So fto maine amended you astir my position!” helium screamed successful a rant that had him trending connected societal media.

Even without regular big Abby Phillip, Jennings inactive ratcheted up the hostility with fill-in moderator John Berman trying to play peacemaker.

Jennings reportedly is getting a hefty rise for being the governmental mentation of a pro wrestling bottommost connected the show, but helium presumably is not acting.

The friction the erstwhile George W. Bush staffer generates appears to beryllium moving successful presumption of ratings. AdWeek reported that “NewsNight” is CNN’s astir fashionable amusement successful the important 25-54 property demographic.

Jennings’ regular enactment for President Donald Trump and his DOGE hatchet antheral Elon Musk is reasonably predictable, but viewers mightiness beryllium tuning successful for volatile confrontations similar Tuesday’s.

Jennings sided with Trump’s appraisal that the suspects progressive successful vandalizing Tesla sites were home terrorists protesting Tesla proprietor Musk’s cuts successful the national government.

“That’s the American near close now,” Jennings said. “It is 1 aggravated mob aft different consenting to instrumentality things into their ain hands, up to and including keying, firebombing, and different vandalizing cars and car dealerships and charging stations.”

“So, erstwhile they bash it to a Tesla dealership, it’s truly bad,” Tanden interjected. “But erstwhile they bash it to the halls of Congress, we should pardon them? Is that your position?”

Amid crosstalk, Jennings said: “I cognize you haven’t been astir for a while, truthful fto maine amended you astir my presumption astir Jan. 6.”

“I’m truthful sorry,” Tanden said sarcastically.

Rattled by Tanden and the sheet din, Jennings could instrumentality nary more. He warned her astir being condescending and past went Vesuvius.

“So fto maine amended you astir my position!” helium bellowed.

Berman tried to nonstop postulation arsenic the 2 mixed it up. “Guys, let’s bash this. Jan. 6 and past Neera.”

“I’m atrocious you’re getting emotional,” Tanden said.

“Yeah, I’m atrocious you’re a condescending idiosyncratic who hasn’t been paying attraction to what I do,” Jennings replied. “So here’s the issue. I didn’t enactment what happened connected Jan. 6 and was 1 of the archetypal Republicans to telephone it out. I don’t enactment the pardons. I person repeatedly ... said that nary unit successful our governmental strategy is acceptable. But this close here, what’s going connected with a feline who helps our country, who runs palmy companies, who doesn’t person to beryllium doing this, and present 1 of his companies is nether systematic terroristic threats and unit each implicit the country. And radical look to beryllium laughing astir it oregon good with it. It’s outrageous. I’ve sat astatine this array and had radical accidental we should chopped Elon Musk from the authorities totally. He rescued our astronauts today. Is that what we want? The attraction of this feline is outrageous. These radical who are doing this request to beryllium recovered and enactment successful jailhouse and made an illustration of. That’s my point.”

Or possibly the constituent is, Jennings got triggered and it’s precisely what CNN viewers privation to see.

Tanden took the liberty of owning Jennings with the past connection connected X, formerly Twitter: “Some men are truthful emotional,” she wrote.

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