CNN Scott Jennings’ conservative Pundit argued that the signal flow was blown up by proportion while he tightened his heads with a New York Times reporter in “Laura Coates Live”.
Lulu Garcia-Navarro, a Podcast host in the New York Times, hypothesized that if war plans were discovered in a reporter under a democratic administration, “I think, Scott, you would be the first person to resign those people.”
But Jennings again struck that the hypothetics were unnecessary – showing the bomb attack that killed 13 members of the service in Afghanistan in a “catastrophic military operation”.
While Garcia-Navarro argued that both incidents were completely different, shouted Jennings: “Who died? In this case people died?”
The two clashed on CNN’s appearance on Friday about the gravity of signal flow – when senior security officials mistakenly added the Atlantic editor to a group conversation that is reported to include military plans to bomb Houthis of Yemen.
President Donald Trump has seemed to have tried to remove the scandal despite calls for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to withdraw.
Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker over the weekend that he does not “fire people because of fake news and witch hunting.”
“I believe the White House had, and I think the president has some rights to be dissatisfied with what happened because he made a fair decision and the army made his orders – ruthlessly, efficiently. We did what we should do here,” Jennings said.
Here is the latest in the Yemeni-Chat signal group:
“You know, it was a good operation and is completely shadowed by this communication snaf,” he added.
Jennings said the White House should not “give a head” or “to hand over the crowd” to the rest of the officials involved.
“If I have learned one thing about the crowd, it’s never enough. If they were to shoot Hegseth, they would ask Waltz. If they were to rest Waltz, they would look for Hegseth,” Jennings said. “I think they will make this storm and go on. It is a teaching moment. And learn from it.”
Garcia-Navarro slammed the signal flow as “a big violation” and said Jennings would be the first to call for “scalp” if a democrat had made the slide.
Jennings responded that “the Defense Secretary went Awol and killed 13 US soldiers” under Biden’s administration.
Times Reporter and Jennings raised their voices and talked about each other, forcing Laura Coates to jump.
“Everybody stops talking. I think everyone was wrong the title of this show,” Coates said. “I would like to hear what you both have to say, but our audience wants to hear from both separately.”
Garcia-Navarro replied: “If it were a democratic or a democratic administration that had created, incessantly, a group conversation to discuss a high secret military operation, I think, Scott, you would be the first person to resign those people.”
Jennings replied, “You don’t have to hypothetical, Lulu, if it were to happen in a democratic administration.”
“Let me return to you in time. In a democratic administration, the Secretary of Defense overseen a military catastrophic operation in which 13 servicemen died in Afghanistan. Then they tried to compensate it, they evaporated as seven children on a drone strike,” he continued.
Garcia-Navarro was cut off, saying, “But this is a completely different thing … and I can turn you in time, Scott, and I can talk about the Iraq war.”
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