CNN’s Abby Phillip shut down conservative commentator Scott Jennings’ attempts to regurgitate President Donald Trump’s messaging around the government shutdown, telling him, “Scott, that’s a lie.”

On CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five, the panel was discussing the government shutdown that began on Wednesday and which Trump and the Republicans have attempted to blame on Democrats, repeatedly claiming that Democrats are trying to give undocumented immigrants free healthcare.

Talking about the president’s Truth Social posts about the shutdown, including a racist AI-generated video featuring Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, Jennings said, “The fact is, [Democrats] don’t just want the subsidies. They want other things. And the president is drawing attention to it, I think, in a pretty clev

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