‘Oh God Come On Scott!’ CNN Anchor And Entire Studio Brutally Roast Scott Jennings For Jan 6 Take

CNN anchor Abby Phillip and her entire panel jumped all over analyst Scott Jennings over the January 6 take he repeated across many shows on the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol inspired by then-President Donald Trump.

Vice President Kamala Harris performed a function Monday that, four years ago, led a mob to hunt then-Vice President Mike Pence through the Capitol grounds chanting for him to be hanged — certification of the 2024 election results.

The occasion was also marked by a continued effort to rewrite the events of that day, an effort that included Jennings repeatedly trying to turn the tables by citing past Democratic objections to election results across multiple CNN programs.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip and her entire studio openly mocked Jennings over the repetitive take, smirking and wisecracking, among other things, that he has “a hard job” as a Trump defender on the network:

JENNINGS: I want to actually congratulate the Democrats today. This is the first election since 1980 —

VAN JONES: He’s doing it again.

KINZINGER: He’s doing this again!

JENNINGS: This is the first election since 1988–

PHILLIP: Scott, Scott, Scott!  Scott–

JENNINGS: –that a Republican won and Democrats did not try to overturn the results on the floor of the Congress. So, congratulations, Democrats.

PHILLIP: I’m only interrupting you because we’ve heard this before.

JENNINGS: But we’ve heard the truth before, but I thought it was worth repeating!

PHILLIP: Here’s the thing. You know, parliamentary disputes.

JENNINGS: There were not parliamentary disputes.

PHILLIP: Mr. Speaker, a point of order.

JENNINGS: No, that’s not what happened. They tried to stop the counting of the votes.

PHILLIP: It’s not the same thing as people taking flagpoles and taking weapons and bursting into the Capitol to try to stop or delay or obstruct the certification of election. That has never happened before.

S.E. CUPP: I heard you doing this earlier today and I thought by tonight maybe you’d sort of give this one up. I get what you’re trying to do here and it’s a hard job you have, but there is no comparison. There is no comparison. And as Adam says, history will remember this correctly for several reasons. There are thousands of videos of what happened on that day. There are videos that the insurrectionists themselves took. There are C.C. videos, there are reporter videos, news cameras, videos inside the Capitol, outside the Capitol. We know exactly what happened.

So, to the Mike Collins of the world, all I would say is do you want to be on the right side of this in the history books or do you want to be the villain in this story? Because in a hundred years, your great, great grandkids are going to know you as the wrong side of this issue, not the right side. And how is that going to feel? Because you can whitewash it as much as you want in the moment. There is no confusion, none, as to what happened. And it is not the same as someone on the House floor raising their hand and saying, I have a question about this vote.

JENNINGS: That’s not what happened on the House floor. They tried to stop the counting of the electoral votes in every election.

PHILLIP: Wait, no. Wait. Scott —

KINZINGER: I was there, man, so —

PHILLIP: When Al Gore certified the election, he did not even allow them to make the point of order. It was out of order.

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ASHLEY ALLISON, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: This is why we probably won’t be able to move on, on January 6th. You’re my friend but I know you’re smarter than that. I know that you’re smarter than comparing what happened —

JENNINGS: What do you mean? The country has already moved on.

ALLISON: No.

JENNINGS: It’s everybody today that’s having a meltdown that hasn’t moved on.

CUPP: Trump keeps bringing it up.

ALLISON: No, we’re not having a meltdown. We watched the vice president do her job, just as we had to wait 14 hours, but nonetheless watched Mike Pence do his job, and just as we commended Mike Pence for having the courage to stand up to Donald Trump. It takes a — when people lose, whether you’re a child or an adult, it’s hard to lose. That’s why you don’t want to be a loser.

PHILLIP: That’s why Donald Trump couldn’t do it.

ALLISON: That’s why we actually are here, is because he couldn’t be an adult. He couldn’t stand up and say, you know what? The country is bigger than me. The voters decided four years ago. And today he still hasn’t done it.

Now, you can try and compare 2000 and 2004 and — but that’s not the same. And you can — I know deep down inside that you also know that what happened on January 6th, we have never seen anything like that in our lifetime, and God hopes we never do, and that was not what happened —

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