CNN Abby Phillip’s Show Panelists Scott Jennings & Tiffany Cross Hurl Personal Insults in Heated Debate
CNNs NewsNight got tense on Wednesday night (April 9) after a debate between Scott Jennings and ex-MSNBC host Tiffany Cross devolved into personal insults.
The show, hosted by Abby Phillip, saw resident conservative panelist Jennings discussing the drama surrounding President Donald Trump‘s trade tariffs, most of which he paused for 90 days on Wednesday amid a plummeting stock market.
After a fellow panelist brought up how Trump’s tariffs had offended allies, just as he did when threatening to buy Greenland, Cross referred to this as a “colonizer’s attitude.”
“It’s a colonizer’s attitude to say, I like it, I’m just gonna steal it,'” Cross said.
Jennings pushed back on this, responding, “Steal what?”
“Land, land,” Cross 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 interrupted, laughing and saying, “What?”
“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,” Cross continued.
“I have never, ever said we’re going to go to Greenland and ‘colonize it or steal it.’ That’s crazy,” Jennings retorted.
The argument then turned heated when Cross responded, “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 seemingly took offense to this comment and made things personal when he retorted, “You got fired from your job. How relevant are you?”
Cross previously hosted The Cross Connection on Saturday mornings on MSNBC from 2020 to 2022. The network canceled the show in 2022.
“Scott, if you wanna engage in personal insults…” Cross replied.
“I don’t, but you do,” Jennings added.
The argument continued from there, with Cross telling her co-panelist, “What you lack in the legitimate point, you make up for it in personal insults.”
She added, “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.”
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Scott Jennings is a moron.
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The idea of having characters like Jennings onto balance the views and opinions is so negative, dumb and plain disruptive. They are just irritating and destroy the flow and rhythm of studio discussions ending up as rather childish slanging matches, I have stopped watching CNN for this reason. The BBC has a strict non bias mandate for their mediators, commentators and interviewers so that they have to install and direct balanced programs and it works for the most part really well and effectively. It allows for much more stable discussions and is far more pleasurable to watch or listen to.
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He is not one of the writers of the show,he g has a script.
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Tiffany Cross always speaks with authority and with receipts. Scott Jennings is an imbecile and so very irrelevant, Tiffany was keeping the conversation very objective and he chose to personalize it and be rude and insulting.Smh
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Jerry Springer
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Many people see things differently, I saw nothing wrong, I watch the show every time it's on. Ken has been doing a fantastic job and he is not responsible for the contents, I hate it when haters bad mouth him.
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I probably should not be answering this question.,because I am a huge fan of Ken's
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She refuses to listen to any other views....
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Why you are still inviting Scott Jennings in your show he never tell the truth and he is so Trump ass kisser please stop thanks.
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I’m disappointed in Scott Jenners.
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Most ppl only watch Abby Phillips show for Scott Jennings. When he is not on, her ratings sinks faster than a body in a Cadillac.
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Jennings is on CNN to provide a conservative viewpoint, wrong as it often is, but he's usually polite in delivering it. This exchange was disappointing from him.
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The idea of having characters like Jennings onto balance the views and opinions is so negative, dumb and basically just disruptive. They are just irritating and destroy the flow and rhythm of studio discussions often ending up as slanging matches, I have stopped watching CNN for this reason. The BBC has a strict non bias mandate for their mediators, commentators and interviewers so that they have to install and direct balanced programs period, and it works for the most part really well and effectively. It allows for much more stable discussions and is far more pleasurable to watch or listen to.
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I can care less what Scott Jennings or Tiffany Cross thinks. They have no expertise or subject matter knowledge to add to a conversation. CNN has become trash by putting on irrelevant individuals in hope of a confrontation just like the Jerry Springer show.
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