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CNN commentator Scott Jennings on Monday criticized host Abby Phillip for criticizing billionaire Elon Musk’s foreign business dealings without appearing as concerned about the Biden family’s foreign ventures.
Jennings and Phillips sparred over the issue during Monday’s episode of “CNN NewsNight,” with Jennings rejecting the host’s idea that Musk’s foreign dealings should worry Americans and saying he’s much more worried about the Bidens and the Chinese. .
“I’m not worried about Elon Musk. Lately I’ve been looking at pictures of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden meeting with Chinese political leaders who we were told didn’t exist,” Jennings told Phillip.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings and network anchor Abby Phillip clashed over criticism of Elon Musk’s foreign businesses.
The CNN commentator referred to newly discovered photos of then-Vice President Biden introducing his son Hunter Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanchao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter’s business partners from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
The photos have added fuel to accusations that the younger Biden was selling access to his powerful father to his foreign business partners.
The president has maintained that “he has never spoken to my son about his businesses abroad.”
The host provoked Jennings’ response by sharing headlines from various outlets reporting on Musk doing business with the Chinese government to build and sell his Tesla vehicles abroad.
Other headlines he shared for the discussion mentioned Musk praising the Chinese Communist Party during his 2021 anniversary, as well as his “secret conversations with Vladimir Putin,” as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.
The commenter went on to point out that Musk’s business ventures produce products of real value. By contrast, he said the Biden family businesses do not.
Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, former US Ambassador to China Max Baucus (America First Legal)
“For all the people who are really upset that Elon Musk has a very successful international business that actually produces things (actually produces vehicles, or rockets, or whatever they are doing), the Bidens produce nothing and yet they were also do business in china“, said.
Phillip responded to Jennings by saying, “Look, I don’t want you to change the subject because it’s really not about whether he’s a successful businessman or not, it’s about whether his material interests as a business owner conflict with his security interests.” national of the United States.”
Once again, Jennings rejected the premise that Musk is a threat to the United States, noting that his business interests benefit the country.
“My opinion is that your prospects and interests as a business owner and most of the things you are interested in – electric cars, rockets, the Internet that we use around the world – are good for America to be the warehouse for that.” , he declared, adding: “It is good for our national security to have this type of technology.”
Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump addresses a House Republican Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“The idea that there is somehow a conflict in the United States over having this type of businessman, and that that is somehow bad for us, I totally reject.”
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