‘Gross! Abhorrent!’ CNN Biden Insider Blasts Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Over CEO Murder Rants
'Gross! Abhorrent!' CNN Biden Insider Blasts Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Over CEO Murder Rants https://t.co/P2t7WZmUnL via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/PWrnrNS8ac
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CNN analyst and ex-Biden official Meghan Hays ripped comments from Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) amid the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione was arrested last Monday for the murder after a frantic manhunt amid the ghoulish celebration of the crime and a groundswell of fury from masses of health insurance industry critics.
Warren drew fire when she tried to measure that fury when she called the killing “a warning” in remarks she later clarified, and over the weekend Sanders defended her.
On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, anchor Kasie Hunt reported on new developments, including a proposed CEO hotline in New York, and played the comments from Sanders. Republican analyst Matt Gorman slammed Sanders and Warren and added a social media video from Murphy.
Hays agreed that comments about murder being wrong “but…” are “gross and abhorrent”:
KASIE HUNT: Fallout from the murder investigation of United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson. The Office of New York Governor Kathy Hochul is convening a safety summit tomorrow between nervous business leaders and law enforcement. CNN has learned the safety concerns among executives are so widespread New York State may create a special hotline just for CEOs to call in threats.
Bernie Sanders, the senator says he could see this coming.
SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: What you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit.
KASIE HUNT: All right. The panel is back. This has made the cover of The New York Post, which is showing a game of “Whacked Deck: most wanted CEOs.”.
This is definitely something that obviously has a lot of business community talking. But clearly, the sympathy level from the American public is not terribly high.
MATT GORMAN: Clearly, Clearly not. And you see the little bit, I think Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, Bernie Sanders listening way too much to the online left and stacking of these answers, as we’ve seen, especially over the weekend with yes this was bad and then but and then positioning in some health care policy debate. Chris Murphy was the one who did it last night in this kind of weird homemade video. He’s trying to I think the senator from Connecticut is trying to start a populist revolution, which is very interesting. But you’re right, they are just very lost on this right now, Democrats. And they are just trying to shoehorn a policy argument into a cold-blooded murder. And it’s it’s boggles my mind.
MEGHAN HAYS: Any time you have to have “but” after a statement about a cold-blooded murder in broad daylight there is a problem. And these statements are gross and abhorrent and they should should not be out there!
Two things can be true, right? This is a murder that is horrible and awful. And there also could be a need for a policy debate. Do not use a cold-blooded murder to have that policy debate. It is gross that they are doing that.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
