No, Scott, stop the jingoism! Jennings is scolded on CNN for calling US world’s superpower

CNN’s Scott Jennings was told to stop calling the United States “the most significant country” in trading as well as “the world’s superpower” by a Democrat panelist who kept talking over him.

Julie Roginsky tried to steamroll Jennings over his love of America during Tuesday’s episode of CNN’s “Newsnight with Abby Phillip” in a segment on trade.

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“And why all the chaos?” Phillip asked the panel. “I mean, why not have a strategy that addresses all of those things, the things that you talked about and you talked about, and do that on the front end as opposed to trying to back your way into it when you’ve — I mean, effectively, this is Trump having put a gun against his own head and is sort of like he is the one who’s created this time pressure for himself.”

“I mean, one possibility that I think the president could potentially explore as it pertains to a strategy would be similar to what we did with the National Highway System,” said panelist Shermichael Singleton. “Maybe start now and say, I won’t be president by the time we conclude this, but for the next eight years, I’m going to work with Congress to appropriate the necessary funding to begin the process of building out that manufacturing, to make sure that the investment is there so we can invest in American infrastructure and, again, not being reliant on an adversary.”

“We’ve seen what China is doing. They fly their jets close to our firefighter power jets — fighter pilot jets. They get their ships close to our ships,” he added.

“They send balloons over our country,” Jennings chimed in.

“I mean, I don’t know, even if we get over this tariff conflict, Abby, if we can really trust the Chinese to be honest in their dealings with us going forward,” Singleton concluded. “And so at some point, if it’s not Trump, somebody in this country is going to have to say, we just cannot be reliant on a country that we may be in a military conflict in the next ten years.”

“Shermichael, that’s absolutely a great strategy, and if you were a president, I would hope you would initiate it. The problem is that’s not the president we have in the Oval Office right now. The president we have in the Oval Office right now is somebody who shoots first and then asks questions later,” Roginsky responded. “And to your point, Scott, I would say I don’t think India, with its over a billion people, is an insignificant country for trading purposes. I don’t think the U.K., and especially the E.U., which it’s no longer a part of, isn’t a significant trading country. Their economy is-”

“Do you think they’re more significant than the United States?” Jennings asked.

“I don’t think they’re more significant, but I think-” she began.

“We’re the most significant country. We’re the world’s superpower,” the commentator shot back.

“No, Scott, stop the jingoism!” Roginsky raged.

“We’re the world’s superpower,” Jennings reiterated.

“Let me — stop with the jingoism!” the liberal strategist demanded.

“Dealing with us is the most important thing anyone can do,” he continued.

“Stop! Do you think that China can do just as well with the E.U.? Do you think that China can do just as well with India?” she asked.

“If I were the E.U., I would not want to be reliant — and look what’s happened to us. They don’t want it,” Jennings responded.

“It’s not a question of reliance. It’s a question on the fact that everybody’s cutting deals with each other. We’re not cutting deals with anybody,” Roginsky said.

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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