CNN commentator Scott Jennings called out anchor Abby Phillip on Monday for criticizing billionaire Elon Musk’s foreign affairs, while she didn’t seem all that concerned about the Biden family’s foreign ventures.
Jennings and Phillips discussed the topic during Monday’s episode of “CNN NewsNight,” with Jennings dismissing the host’s idea that Musk’s foreign affairs should be of concern to Americans, saying he was far more concerned about the Bidens and the Chinese.
“I’m not worried about Elon Musk. Lately I’ve been seeing pictures of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden meeting with Chinese political leaders that we’re told don’t exist,” Jennings told Phillip.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings and TV host Abby Phillip clashed over criticism of Elon Musk’s foreign affairs.
Referred by a CNN commentator newly discovered photos then Vice President Biden who introduced 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 associates from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
The photos further fueled accusations that the younger Biden was selling his foreign business partners access to his powerful father.
The president claimed that he “never talked to my son about his foreign affairs.”
The host prompted Jennings’ response by sharing headlines from various media outlets reporting that Musk was doing business with the Chinese government to have his Tesla vehicles manufactured and sold overseas.
Other headlines she shared for discussion mentioned Musk’s praise of the Chinese Communist Party during its 2021 anniversary, as well as his “secret talks with Vladimir Putin,” as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.
The commentator continued, noting that Musk’s business ventures are producing products of real value. In contrast, he said the Biden family’s business was 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 company that actually makes things — actually makes vehicles, or rockets, or whatever — the Bidens don’t make anything, and yet they were also they do business in China“, he said.
Phillip shot back at Jennings, saying, “Look, I don’t want you to change the subject because it’s not really about whether or not he’s a successful business person, it’s about whether his material interests as a business owner conflict with the national security interests of the United States State.”
Again, Jennings rejected the premise that Musk is a threat to the US, noting that his business interests benefit the country.
“My view is his prospects and interests as a business owner and most of the things he’s interested in — electric cars, rockets, the Internet that we use all over the world — it’s good for the United States to be a repository for that,” he said, adding, “It’s good for our national security to have this kind of technology.”
Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump addresses the House Republican Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel 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 with a businessman like this, and that it is somehow bad for us, I completely reject.”
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