CNN's Scott Jennings Tells Rude Adam Mockler, 'Get Your F---ing Hand Out Of My Face'
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CNN's Scott Jennings Tells Rude Adam Mockler, 'Get Your F---ing Hand Out Of My Face'

If you are a regular viewer of CNN, you are probably used to seeing the network's Sr. Political Commentator Scott Jennings appear on various shows, usually as the lone conservative voice on a panel stacked with left-wingers, who can get testy with him at times over his views, but tend to treat him with expected respect. There are however exceptions, and one of those occurred Thursday on NewsNight with Abby Phillip, as 23-year-old Adam Mockler of Meidas Touch Network disrespected Jennings into losing his cool, big time. The discussion centered around the Iran war, chock full of left-wing talking points, calling into question the legitimacy of the effort, and who is winning at this point, and that's where young Mockler went to work. MOCKLER: Donald Trump is very impressive. He's taken his two largest campaign promises, no new wars and lower prices, ending inflation, and he's messed both of them up. He started a new war that spiked inflation, and now this war is actively failing.... We'll sit here and you'll laugh at Americans spending money, But the reality is we are failing this war. The purpose of a war is to extract political concessions from the enemy. Mockler then turned to look at Jennings, and went on some kind of attack. MOCKLER: Can you name a single political concession we've gotten from them? Anything at all? JENNINGS: Oh, are you talking to me? MOCKLER: Any political concessions, because you can't name one. JENNINGS: So, here's what we're doing. MOCKLER: No political concessions. After being interrupted, Jennings responded with a good one. JENNINGS: When you get up past your bedtime, you get hyper.  PHILLIP: All right. Let's not-- JENNINGS: We have a clear issue here. Mockler again went after Jenings, and Jennings ignored it, this time. MOCKLER: You're shaking. JENNINGS: We have a clear issue here. No nuclear weapons for the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world, period, full stop....  Again, a little bit of patience right here, not bombs, but patience on a naval blockade could get the outcome you want, which is no nuclear weapons for the largest state sponsor of terror in. MOCKLER: You've been saying this for eight weeks, and we are now past the 4 to 6 week deadline. Where is he enriched uranium right now. JENNINGS: It's under rubble. MOCKLER: Where is it right now in the United States or Iran? Iran has enriched uranium. They still have the scientists scattered across their country, and they have all of the blueprints in the cloud. You can sit there and act confused, but you can't name a single political concession. It's not over from Iran. JENNINGS: It's not over yet. And neither were the confrontations between the two panelists, as Mockler went after Jennings hard.   MOCKLER: We all know that Scott Jennings is more than happy to defend a war with a country that starts with letters I-R-A, that we are currently failing.... I was only a few years old while you were in the (GW BUSH) administration defending prior endless wars. Now this war is failing. JENNINGS: Eight weeks is endless to you.  MOCKLER: You said it was going to be 4 to 6 weeks. JENNINGS: You have the attention span of a gnat. Is that what you have? MOCKLER: Now you're making condescending remarks because you can't defend the fact that this war is not going your way. Wait one more time. JENNINGS: Not going, your way?  Mockler then raised his fist as he asked yet again for Jennings to name, "one political concession" and Jennings exploded. JENNINGS: Get you f--king hand out of my face.  Turning to Phillip he added, "I'm not going to have this guy's hand in my face. Honestly." Phillip chimed in with, "Everybody hang tight okay? Everybody calm down, okay? We're having a debate. You can respond to the points that he's making." Jennings did calm down, but it didn't stop wise-guy Mockler from again repeating to Jennings, "Can you name a political concession that we've gotten?", and, "He can't answer the question." Jennings and Mockler are no strangers to going at it with each other on NewsNight, with some other instances happening last August and last December.  Mockler was arrogant, disrespectful and overly aggressive, and many will feel he got what he deserved. Some might feel he didn't get enough. But the Meidas Touch guys quickly pushed for CNN to fire Jennings (no dissenting allowed!): “How could any network possibly allow this loose cannon on the air?”