CNN anchor Abby Phillippe and conservative radio host Erick Erickson sparred on social platform X after he described her show as “embarrassing.”
“The tagline for CNN's NewsNight is 'Abby Phillip brings a smart, incisive approach to the day's biggest stories,'” Erickson said. said on wednesday In a long post. “I have been invited to appear on the show several times, but due to scheduling conflicts I am no longer able to travel for the show. I am happy. This morning I told my assistant that all future invitations will be respectfully I told you not to.”
“This show is embarrassing and @CNN should be ashamed of airing it,” he added.
Erickson noted that the show had aired the night before, saying, “The roundtable was again interrupted by Scott Jennings, as panelists claimed that Donald Trump wanted to use the U.S. military to round up Americans. It became a hot topic.”
“Mr. Trump never said that,” he added. “His comments were about illegal aliens. But then again, even Abby Phillippe, who likes to regularly correct conservative panelists, including Scott Jennings, is not in the left's echo chamber. I seemed completely confused about basic facts that never sunk in.”
“In fact, Abby Phillippe tried to correct Scott Jennings again and was wrong again,” he added.
During an October appearance on Fox News, President Trump suggested the National Guard or military should be brought in on Election Day to combat potential disruption from “enemies from within,” including “radical left-wing lunatics.” . He then doubled down on his “enemy from within” rhetoric, naming Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) by name.
Erickson said Philippe returned to the president-elect's “considering deploying the National Guard after the 2020 riots,” and instead said, “That's what Tom Cotton argued in the New York Times, and what Trump said he would do.” “There was no such thing,” he said.
Then Philip answered: Ericsson's own X post On Thursday, she said she had come to the conclusion that he “didn't actually watch last night's show and there's a lot to address with this mostly false tweet.”
“But let's start with the simplest thing. Last night's discussion was, in part, about whether President Trump threatened to…” [use] Sending in the military to deal with domestic issues (yes, American citizens are involved). The answer is clearly yes,” she said.
Ericsson shoot back In another post, she told Philippe that she likes to speak up and take action to “correct conservatives who are often not wrong in what they say,” and when it comes to progressives, she added that they don't often do that.
“Again, I'm sorry, but I don't want to participate. I still don't understand why, when I'm so confident in my opinion,” Philip finally replied. X's conservative radio host.
Hill has reached out to CNN and the Trump transition team for further comment.
