scott jennings, cnn senior political commentator. keith boykin, a democratic strategist and former clinton white house aide. and tara palmeri, senior political correspondent for pac and host of the podcast somebody's got to win. tara, let me begin with you here, because tempers apparently flaring at this explosive cabinet meeting. is that what it takes to maybe move the president? a confrontation, a kind of shouting match? >> i think donald trump enjoys this. in fact, he loves pitting people against each other. we saw that in the first administration, and we see that now in the second administration. he likes to sit back and watch people duke it out. but it is interesting to see him pulling back some of elon musk's power, you know, saying he wants the sledgehammer to be a scalpel, that he wants him to be to really have more of a fine tooth audit of these of these agencies and, you know, these are new cabinet secretaries, these are new department heads. they are coming in and they have staffs of thousands and thousands of people. they

>> sage advice. >> scott. >> jennings from the egg. >> i think we have a picture. it's on the wall over there. let's see if we can put it up on on the screen for all the viewers to see of you with your chicken. i don't know what this chicken's name is. maybe you. >> do never name the chickens. >> oh, that's that's sad. >> well. >> seriously, is this realistic? like, is this a realistic solution? like, i mean, it's or is it a little bit out of touch with i mean, you know, there's a lot of people who, you know, have no backyard to put a chicken in, for example. >> that's true. well, first of all, i would highly recommend this hobby to anybody. it's been the most fulfilling and worthwhile thing. i started with six. i now have 35. >> you have 35. >> chickens and i'm like the pablo escobar of my neighborhood. >> oh my god. >> it's outrageous the amount of eggs i get every single day. everybody come over at once. >> but i did hear you sometimes bring them here to cnn and. >> share them. i have brought eggs here. look, i think she was making light of the idea that backyar

and you know, scott jennings, i will say, you know, i pinged our economic team about this. obviously, the american people in the election did not feel great about the economy. right. no argument there. it's why trump won the election. that said, a lot of the numeric indicators were in fact showing that the economy was on at least relatively stable footing and in some ways growing fine. you want to argue about that? i'd like to set that aside, because i think the point is we're talking about as a change in stability here with president trump. and i am curious what you think. there are a lot of people who are on your side of the partisan aisle, who are sounding the alarm about the possibility that this could send us into a recession. >> two things. one, i think some of the jobs numbers we saw in 2024 were ultimately revised downward. and so i think some of the stability that everybody is touting from the last year of biden wasn't actually real, that the jobs numbers weren't real. that's number one. number two. yeah, it's a real issue. and any president you've worked there, yo

scott jennings, josh rogan, thank you both so much. europe waking up to some dramatic headlines this their morning. the sun's front page ukraine hero ambushed with the headline the white house, the daily mirror piece hopes in tatters. shock and war and the times meltdown in oval office. so what are america's allies and vladimir putin thinking right now, i wonder? former republican congressman adam kinzinger, standing by with his own assessment. and later we've got the new timeline and the death of gene hackman as the curious case gets even stranger. >> upset stomach iberogast, indigestion, iberogast, bloating iberogast thanks to a unique combination of herbs, iberogast helps relieve six digestive symptoms to help you feel better six digestive symptoms the power of nature. >> iberogast my accountant who uses unsecured email, has all my tax info. >> tax forms, have all the personal info thieves need to steal your identity. that's why lifelock monitors millions of data points for identity theft. get a first year offer at lifelock.com. >>

with us now, cnn political commentators paul begala and scott jennings. gentlemen, we have a lot to discuss. i actually want to start with the tariffs and the economy, because we've been watching the stock market all morning long yesterday. the stock market was in despair over the tariffs this morning. it's just mild disdain down half a percent or so. the wall street journal editorial board writes quote we've courted mr. trump's ire by calling the mexico and canada levies the dumbest in history. and we may have understated the point. mr. trump is whacking friends, not adversaries. scott. >> well. >> a couple things. >> number one, trump has said there may be some pain in this and he's admitted that. number two, he ran on it and the american people voted for it. so there's really no surprise. and the actions he's taking, number three, immigration and fentanyl is a real issue. and getting these, uh, neighbors of ours to understand they have more responsibilities. here is a goal of this. and number four, there is some evidence that some of the tariff moves a

scott jennings, we don't know what laura coates can do on a court. we don't know what five, three and a half looks like in shorts. thank you very much. >> more plays point. and i >> irving oil. laura. you can take him on a one on one first. i'm just saying. give me on the court and i'm trouble. because last week i messed around and got triple. double. thanks for watching, everyone. anderson cooper 360 is next, and be sure to tune in to the new season of united states of scandal this sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. >> tonight on 360. breaking news. elon musk at the center of what the new york times calls an explosive meeting at the white house. a first glimpse of how anger over doge is building inside the administration. also, president trump began the day with a threat of sanctions on russia. but tough talk didn't last long. trump's former national security advisor, ambassador john bolton, joins me tonight and later. we now know what happened to actor gene hackman and his wife, and the cause of her death. and the timing of it is surprising. good evening. w

no, scott jennings isn't on. you're safe, scott jennings isn't on. and they say that. it's like when you watch somebody, when you watch jennings asked terry, or whatever his name is. this goes to your point, his reason behind his banal assertions. his eyes are like as wide as saucers because nobody asks a follow up question. so jessica is right. you got to come armed with specifics, because one day someone's going to ask you for why do you think that, james cameron? why do you think it's been terrifying? what makes you feel that way? you know, how is it terrifying. why are you like. it's like you got to get beyond these load bearing phrases of fascism and hitlerism. it's the best. i mean, i swear you could probably watch the ratings on cnn. they're like this. and then when jennings is on, it goes. >> oh god. >> i love jennings. >> oh, man. >> that's why i don't do podcasts. why? because i'm terrified of the follow up question. >> yeah, you know what? >> i will. >> just i will just melt down. yeah. do you think i've thought about this before? >> yeah. oh, by the way, wh

john avalon, scott jennings. alan johnson, bruce blakeman and tara palmeri. americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. help is not on the way. tonight, a critical decision from the trump administration at a critical time in ukraine's fight for survival. it's a decision that may pivot the war towards moscow and vladimir putin's mission to carve out that country for himself. donald trump has now ordered a temporary suspension of all u.s. military aid to ukraine. that is going to halt $1 billion of arms transfers. that was in the works. and the list of weapons that this this applies to is guided. multiple launch rocket systems, antitank weapons, artillery rounds, armored vehicles. all of these are essential to ukraine's ability to repel russian troops. now the white house is spinning this by saying that the decision is a step toward a ceasefire. quote, the president has been clear that he is focused on peace. he needs our partn

here is the back and forth with scott jennings.or elected to the position. >> unelected and confirmed person in the top. >> did joe biden have staff at the white house and how many of those staff members were elected elect? >> well, scott -- >> the answer is zero. every president appoints people to do things for them, to call him unelect second-degree like the most naive and ridiculous talking point i've heard. >> scott, i can't believe you'd believer something like this and if this was joe biden allowing a billionaire to -- >> people not elected to run the country for the last four year s? yeah, db of interaural believe that actually. brian: it was not our choice to run non-video from the actual cabinet meeting. they were just running stuff from the rally. >> this is unbelievable and be a czar and make a statement and you have the most interesting assignment in the history of the politics. brian: who elected john kerry to fly around the world and yell at us about minimizing carbon footprint while on a private jet. brian: john kerr

elon musk takes questions and cnheren does not e that well but here is the backnn and forth with scott jenningsr elected to this position and secure for our national security and elected, unconfirmed person in all of these --e ho >> can i ask a question did joe biden have staff at the white house and how many were>> elected? >> butnswe scott, 0 every presit appoints people to do things for him. it is like the most naive andin ridiculous talking point i'd, never heard. >> got go to a camp you would believe something like this because if this was joe biden allowing a billionaire -- >> like unelected for the last fe w years? >> brian: it was not ournon- choice to doing that to run nonvideo from the actual cabinet meeting. they were running staff from the rally. this is unbelievable. you can make a statement whe mai n you have the most interestinge assignment in the history of politics quite mark. >> who elected john kerry to fly around the world and yell at us to minimize carbon footprint! i didn't appreciate that. spam and i never thought there would be john kerry reference in the elon musk segme

"scott jennings isn't on. you are safe." h jennings ask whatever his name is -- this goes to your point -- his reason behind his banal assertions, his eyes are as wide as saucers because nobody asks a follow-up question. jessica is right. you've got to come armed with specifics, because one day someone is going to ask you, why do you think that? james cameron, why do you think it has been terrifying? what makes you feel that way? how is it terrifying? why are you -- it's like, you've got to be beyond these load-bearing phrases of fascism and hitlerism. i swear, you could probably watch the ratings on cnn, they are like this, and when jennings is on, it goes -- >> jesse: oh, man. that's why i don't do podcasts. because i'm terrified of the follow-up question. i would just melt down. you think i've thought about this before? >> greg: by the way, who is that other dude on there? that old guy? jarvis? this guy is a has-been. he was an elevated consultant. you know who i'm talking about, jessica? do you remember his name? jeff? ye

sochi, hokosa and cnn senior political commentator scott jennings. good to see both of you on this sunday evening. scott, i want to start with you kind of where kevin left off there with some of this new polling. and look, he's at 48%. that is, to be fair, higher than where he was in 2017 when he made his first address to a joint session of congress. but what i'm kind of struck by is he so many people are concerned about the economy. it was the leading issue that they thought he would bring down prices. cbs's new poll shows 66% of people don't think he's doing enough tgho lower prices. it wa similar in the cnn polling. how can he turn that around? >> well. >> number one. >> i think his job approval overall is actually pretty good. when you look at where joe biden left office and you look at where congressional democrats are and the quinnipiac survey last week, they were sitting at 21% approval. so as a matter of public opinion, donald trump is more popular than any democrat in the country right now. on his priorities, i do think he needs to focus in t

and the former senior adviser to senator mitch mcconnell, scott jennings, is joining us. scott, your thoughts on elon musk taking this trip to to capitol hill? do you think it was the right move? >> absolutely. good idea. and i just give him one more piece of public relations advice, which is at some point they'll have collected enough information and put together enough of a presentation where they could go up to a hearing, have members of congress ask them questions about it, and really display for the american people the waste, fraud and abuse that they're finding and what they might want to do about it. i do think members of congress should be brought in on this. i think this meeting is a good step, eventually, a public presentation, i think would help the president and the whole republican party with the project of cutting government. >> what should that look like on capitol hill or. >> a hearing? i think we ought. >> to do it. i think elon. >> musk should testify on capitol hill. i think what he's doing. >> i think that elon and his team and the people that the presi

unfortunately, we're out of time to let scott jennings weigh in on this set of mice. thanks to him and the rest of the panel for joining us. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. >> we are once again on the trump tariff teeter totter. the lead starts right now. first, it was just auto imports. then it was tariffs on mexico. and now president trump is saying that all imports under the trade deal with canada and mexico are suspended. so what made him flip and what's still on the table. and does anyone understand what's going on or why the markets are reacting to every single twitch the president makes, and that impacts your money, then is a new phase for trump's cuts in the size of the federal government. now being implemented. what the president today revealed about elon musk and doge, and his cabinet seeming to take on a new role in all of this, and a major break in the case of the mysterious, horrific deaths of three men who gathered at a home to watch a kansas city chiefs game and then somehow ended up dead. new charges in this bizarre, haunting case. welcome

as painful as it is to watch cnn, most of the time, it's fun to watch scott jennings shut down some of these crazy liberal lunatics they put on panels which co-host of the five coined it jennings porn. was it me or was it greg? >> just because i'm familiar with both of your search histories, don't look at him for approval. don't look. cnn has created a new media specialty. greg jennings, bang, bang. three minutes, and you just keep watching it over and over again. >> well, brianna, i helped you more than anyone i've. >> ever helped. and you. still lost. you're like zelenskyy, too big to rig. you get in the ring with failla. it was two. all my effort into rig. >> we'll have another rematch one of these days. please take it easy on her. >> i love her, she's. >> all right. thank you so much. and watch jimmy's show on saturday. all right. more prime time. straight ahead. >> incoming dishes. duck dawn power wash flies through 99% of grease and grime in half the time. >> it absorbs grease five times faster. even replaces multiple cleaning products. >> those suds got game. >> dawn power wash.

you know, our apologies to our friend scott jennings there. what do you think the impact of that will be? do you think that's something that could start to have political legs? >> look, look i think there's a lot of concern among republican officeholders. governor pawlenty could speak more readily, readily to this than me. there are a number of ways in which these things can touch, even without the targeting, just naturally, because canada is a big supplier of energy, as the governor mentioned, to the northern tier of the country and so on, some of the other tariffs that the president is putting on have agricultural implications that hits a lot of red states. and, you know, i think that these office holders are going to quietly be lobbying for some relief here. but, you know, they're in a bind because the president has quite a bit of sway in their states. i'll tell you one thing that's interesting. the place where it has influenced politics is is in canada. now, justin trudeau is not he's he's he's stepping down. he's going to step down. but t

live at the table scott jennings, ashley allison, chris sununu and social hinojosa americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other, but here they do. good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. let's get right to what america is talking about. tariff tennis match tonight. the country probably feels like it's watching a head spinning match, trying to decipher if the tariffs are on or are they off. here is what the past month has looked like. and apologies if it's hard to follow because the president appears unable to make up his mind about this. on february 1st, president trump said tariffs would start on february 4th. the day before that, on february 3rd, trump said, never mind canada and mexico, they're going to get another month. okay? february 4th trump did put tariffs on china and china put tariffs on the united states. the next day, trump made even more exceptions, this time for china. fast forward to monday, the end of a long reprieve. and trump said there was no way tariffs would not go into effect and no exceptions would be made. so the next day, march 5th, there