‘What Is Going On?’ CNN Anchor Stunned Joe Rogan and Elizabeth Warren ‘Sound The Same’ On CEO Murder

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt wondered “What is going on” when people like Joe Rogan and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) sound “the same” when talking about the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Luigi Mangione was arrested Monday for the murder after a frantic manhunt amid ghoulish celebration of the crime by angry masses of health insurance industry critics. Warren and Rogan are among many who have pointed to the undercurrent of anger at the health insurance industry — including the cast of CNN This Morning.

Warren called the killing “a warning” in remarks she later clarified, while Rogan called health insurance companies “fucking gross” in a discussion about the murder.

On Friday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Hunt played Warren’s and Rogan’s comments and wondered aloud about the strange bedfellows:

KASIE HUNT: You’re referring to what Elizabeth Warren said, which we did play yesterday. There was also an interesting moment on Joe Rogan’s podcast where a guest that he had basically disparaged the insurance companies and Rogan functionally agreed with them and said, this is a dirty business, this is terrible.

And there have been some on the right who have portrayed what has happened on the left in a negative way, saying don’t do it.

But there have been some right wing commentators who have seen their own comments filled with people who are writing to them and saying that, you know what, you’re elite too, you don’t get it. It sounds like we have those. Let’s like, can we play the the Warren bite? What she had to say. And then let’s play Joe Rogan. And what happened on that podcast.

It’s kind of two very distinct sides of American politics, but not, you know, they sound almost the same. Watch.

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KASIE HUNT: In some ways I’m reminded, Brad, of, you know, I attended dozens of Bernie Sanders rallies, many voters there in places like Michigan who said that if they don’t get a chance to vote for Bernie Sanders, I’m going to vote for Donald Trump. What’s going on here?

BRAD TODD: Well, populism exists on both sides of the American political spectrum. It’s not an ideology. It’s an animating spirit.

And they certainly see that most expressed against health insurance companies, they’re right at the top of that.

But I think once this all settles out, I would think Republicans would welcome a discussion of how the government’s own federal government’s own incentives have created behemoths in the health care industry. The Affordable Care Act paved the way for really, really large health care companies, insurance companies, without much competition. I think that would be a great subject for Congress to take up.

JONATHAN KOTT: Look, I think in politics, raging against something and and having an enemy is healthy. And that’s how you get people out and that’s what campaigns do. And I think you’re seeing it from both sides like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have that argument. Donald Trump tapped into that. People are angry at rich elites who they think have done them wrong, taken their jobs.

They’re the reasons they’re not successful. If only I had been able to do this, and that is what you’re seeing. That’s why this Venn diagram of so far left and so far right are actually coming back around.

But I think everybody needs to say killing somebody and violence is the wrong way to do it. We can be mad at the system and mad at how it’s being done without going that far.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.