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Scott Jennings

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first: 2025-11-21
most recent: 2025-11-21
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“Well, I think he would say, I'm defending my guest here and our ally from what I consider to be hostile questions that are designed to derail something important, which is the continuation of Middle East peace and fostering economic and security for everybody in the region.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think his view would be look, I give these people more access than virtually any other politician or president ever. And this is the way they treat me. And so I don't think it's anything new that he has his sparring sessions with the press. Now, in the case of the Saudis, look, he is doing something big ticket here. He's trying to get them to join the Abraham Accords. He's trying to strengthen the relationship between the Saudis, the rest of their partners in the region and the Israelis. And he has, you know, and this was his idea and somebody coming in and trying to throw sand in the gears, I think would be offensive to him. And I think that's what you were seeing there. But the macro goal is to get the Saudis into the Abraham Accords and to further, because if they join, everyone else is going to join and it will be a huge success. And I think that's his ultimate operation here.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, that's probably true, although Trump's perception of how he's treated by the press, of course, is that it's not good. And he believes he is mistreated by them despite opening open.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think he is the most powerful party boss we've had in modern political history. And I think that's still the case today.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, we'll see, but that would be extremely formidable. And so trying to beat them from the outside, if it looks like they have the imprimatur of Trump, who is quite popular among the Republicans, I mean, it would be really up to it.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it would be quite unusual if the sitting vice president is in good stead with the president and people seem to think he's doing a good job, it would be historically unusual for him not to inherit the nomination. And particularly if he were to team up with a Marco Rubio, who everyone, by the way, is quite happy with, I think it would be difficult to beat them from the outside.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Carry forward knowing I can't replicate it, but I still have to keep enough people in the tent to win. And, you know, it may be different. JD may have some different talents to bring people in that Trump could not. He may bleed a few, but he may add a few. That's the nature of presidential coalitions.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you raise a great question, and I agree with you. I don't think anyone can replicate Trump. I mean, it's very unique. His force of personality is held together people from disparate wings of the Republican Party and people from outside of the Republican Party. I mean, RFK is now in the Republican Party somehow. So it's an ideologically diverse coalition. And Trump is uniquely positioned to hold it together. But the nature of a presidency is that it's built around that person. I mean, who replaced Barack Obama? Nobody, really. I mean, the coalition he built was for him. And so the challenge for JDE or whoever comes next is how do I”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Running for president, gosh, I don't know, but I don't know how in the world she would ever be JD Vance, a sitting vice president.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Somewhat turned against the president, and there is some evidence that that is the moment where the break started to begin.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, look, I do think she believed that the president would be loyal to her and help her in her political ambitions. And when that didn't happen, I do think it caused a problem between them, but I don't really know her. And so I would hesitate to ascribe any motivations. I can tell you what they think, which is that that was the moment where she”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I suppose, but she's had a difference of opinion on some of his biggest successes. I mean, striking the Houthi rebels, taking away Iran's nuclear capability, deporting illegal aliens. I mean, these are big-ticket items that they would argue are his biggest successes, and she has not been aligned with him on it. So I think they took some offense to that”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I guess there's nothing wrong with it. But if you're asking me how they're reacting to it, their reaction to that is, well, she's no ally of ours. She's become a policy opponent. She opposes on the Middle East. She opposes on immigration. She's been a thorn in our side on Epstein. And now she's running to the view to complain about the president. This doesn't sound like someone who is our friend. I think that's how they're interpreting it.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, he was there, and a lot of people took note of that. I would think people have come and gone in the past. I will say I do think the folks in the White House believe they tried to do her a favor by showing her information to save her from humiliation of running statewide in Georgia. And they believe since they did that, she has become frankly a policy and a political opponent of the president even up to and running to places like the view to attack him. I think he finally had enough on the...”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Look, I think a lot of people have come and gone from Trump. I mean, look at Marco Rubio. I mean, they had some knockdown dragouts when they ran against each other, and now I think he's one of his most trusted, if not the most trusted member of the cabinet. Look at Elon. You know, they were together and then they were estranged, and now Elon's at the Saudi state dinner this week, and they look like they were somewhat chummy.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I mean, I would assume that would be damaging, but I guess without having seen an actual photo, it would be hard for me to give you a judgment. But the president said he never went to any of these events, never participated in it. I guess I'd have to react to it only”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, now well, I mean, the die is cast. I mean, sign the bill, get the documents out, and let the chips fall. There's really nothing else to do. We're at the end of the line here in terms of the fight. The only thing that will happen now is when the documents hit, people will read them and start to form opinions or narratives about what's in them. I guess it's hard to advise when you don't exactly know what you're dealing with. I mean, without having read it.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Trump. I mean, I don't perceive that he's all that worried about it because the best I can tell is that what they believe the files are going to show is that Epstein hated Trump, that they were genuinely estranged from one another for quite a long time, but that it's also going to show that Epstein was in touch with a lot of Democrats even after he was convicted. And so, you know, I think some people want the story to be an Epstein-Trump story. And what they believe is that it may turn out to be an Epstein Democrat story.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's unclear. I know that's what he's alleged. I mean, I also know what Trump and his people have said. I guess what I would just say is. This is no news here. I mean, we've known this about Donald Trump for years and years and years and years. And so I think people have taken into consideration that he knew Jeffrey Epstein before. What we don't know is who else is in there? And I guess this goes back to the core of your question about why has it been divisive? Why has it been so motivating? Because there's a belief that there is a group of people that we don't really know what all the names are that is now going to be revealed. I don't personally know whether there's going to be a list or not. But that's the expectation is that we're going to somehow see this list of 100 people that, you know.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think it's any secret that he was friends with Epstein, and I don't think it's any secret that he eventually broke with him and excommunicated him from his, I guess, his facility in Florida and his life.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, I don't, I'm not disputing that, but I don't think he would tell you it's why he returned to the White House, or that was the issue that put him over the top. I can only just say what my perception is, is that he's been frustrated that it's been turned into a story about him when he thinks it's a story about powerful Democrats who were involved with Epstein much more than he was. And so his nature is to try to dig in when he thinks he's right about something like that. And he dug in on this. But the dam broke, or they had a jailbreak, as they say, in Washington, and he decided to change his position. And now we are where we are.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, he got asked about it and answered a question. But if you listen to his speeches during the campaign, it was about immigration and inflation, not about the Epstein file. He was full of full.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think the general perception is that elites, political elites, institutional elites, financial elites did get away with something here. And I don't think Trump actually ever personally fully made this the core argument of re-election, but there's no doubt that some people who strongly supported him did do that. And I do think they've been highly disappointed that this didn't happen right at the beginning, that the files or the list didn't come out right at the beginning. He also did.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I agree. It has been a big deal to some chunk of his base. I don't know what percentage, but it's not insignificant. I concur with you. I think they believe that this was always going to reveal that powerful people, elite people, and probably people on the left most likely Bill Clinton. That's what they think we're sowing to somehow be implicated in this. The Democratic counter-argument has been, oh, but Trump was friends with him, therefore he must somehow be involved in it. And so to the extent that that is the narrative that has been perpetuated, I think he got quite frustrated with the issue in general. Now it's come and gone. They're going to release the files. I don't know how quickly. And we'll see what's in there. I know some documents have already been released. I assume it won't take too long.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm explaining Trump's position. And I spoke to him about it the other day. I think he believes Democrats want folks to think he had something to do with criminal activity that he had nothing to do with. And there's no evidence that he had anything to do with it. And I think it has further frustrated him that some people in his party that are his supporters have, I think in his mind sort of aided and abetted the proliferation of a narrative that is incorrect about him. And so I think he's used the word hoax. The hoax is not what happened. Obviously, something happened and these women are victims and they were taken advantage of, but not by him. And he had nothing to do with it. And so I think it's been highly frustrating for him to have this perpetuation of a narrative that he thinks has been completely incorrect as it relates to his involvement.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I do. I think they'll follow the law. I would be lying if I told you I knew what that meant specifically, but the way I understand it, they have to put out everything that they can put out on this. And I don't know what that means. Is that 20 boxes? Is that 2,000 boxes? I have no idea. I think it's been a little divisive because the president has been frustrated by the narrative around this. And I think Democrats want people to believe he had something to do with it.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's look, I think it's one of the best shows on cable television. I think it's informative. I think you get to hear some authentic representations of how the right and the left are seeing the world. I also think it's illuminating to the fact that we don't really have a shared reality often in this country. You know, what people sitting out there who oppose me see the world as and what I see it as may be very far apart. This is one of the only times we're interacting with each other. I tend to think there's something good that's going to come out of that even if it comes out of some kind of a conflict at the table.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Consume it online. That's ultimately a good thing. I took her comment to meaning it was somehow a bad thing, and I thought, do you not want people to watch this show? Because I do. I think it's a good show.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a tense exchange. But I don't know why we would be upset about people who were clicking on our content. I mean, we're a media distribution company. We're creating content. We want people to watch it. And so I think, frankly, more people are consuming content from that show on social media than they may be watching it live. In fact, I'm certain of it. Millions of people. Yeah, sure.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's good for America for them to be more engaged with politics than less. And I think politics and conversation about politics can be extremely boring and off-putting and frankly not feel very accessible to a lot of people. And one of the things I do think about is what makes this informative but also engaging like, do I want to watch this or not? And I do think that's an important question. Can we draw people in, but I don't say things out there that I believe to be false. I don't say things out there. Like I would never misrepresent something that I know or that I've heard someone say. But I think if you can present your arguments in a way that attract more audience, I think that's ultimately a good thing for civil discourse. You don't have to be super boring or super off-putting just because it's politics. And that's kind of what I'm trying to accomplish.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's what I was going to say. I guess it depends on your disposition. I mean, to some people, maybe I'm a villain. To some people I'm a hero for being willing to stand up on a network that isn't known for platforming conservatives or conservative views to a table full of people who are hostile to my world view. So I don't necessarily think of it that way. I try to make it entertaining. I tend to think political conversation can be somewhat boring, but that it's possible for it to be entertaining and you can be quippy and funny at times and show a little personality. I tend to think that draws in audiences. And it's one of the reasons that show is working.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I generally know the topics, but we don't know what Abby is going to say. I don't really know what clips she's going to play. So most of what you're seeing is our authentic reaction to both how she positions it but then what the other panelists say. I don't know what they're going to say either. So it's not like wrestling in that way. It's not fake in that you're seeing me authentically react in the moment to what everyone else is doing.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What I would say. Well, I would just say a key difference between that and what we do at 10 o'clock is that virtually none of it is scripted. I don't have a teleprompter. I mean, you've been out there. We're not reading anything and it's.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I don't agree with him all the time, and there's been moments when I have disagreed with him. I'll give you an example. The other night when we went over the story about the $230 million lawsuit that he had filed regarding wrongful treatment by the Department of Justice, I said on the air, look, if it were me and I were advising him I would tell him to table this until he leaves office because I don't think it's right for the sitting pres of United States who oversees the cabinet, which includes the Justice Department to be involved in litigation against his own government. So that's a really recent example where I thought, you know, tabling this is the correct answer. And I said so on TV.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think the show and the format of the show lends itself to conflict. I mean, it lends itself to in the moment fast debates. You know, most conversations you have in real life, you're not on a clock. It's not adversarial. You know, there isn't a moderator sitting there going, okay, here's the issue. Now fight, which is essentially what we do. So I guess I would just say conversations you have off of a television debating show out in the real world are just by their nature constructed differently. But I'll tell you this, I don't say anything on TV. I don't believe in or can't defend. And I do think I have a responsibility to represent to the audience how the vast majority of Republicans are conservatives are viewing something at any given time. That's kind of the point of the show is to show both sides and let people react to that.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I hear all the criticisms, and look, I'm trying to give people an authentic view and a fighting view of how most Republicans and most conservatives are absorbing either the breaking news of the moment or the issue of the moment that we happen to be going over. I am somewhat of a press secretary for half the country or sometimes more than half the country on any of these issues. And I'm trying to give you an authentic representation of how all this is being absorbed by non-liberal America.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the issues of the day. I'm actually somewhat shocked that other cable channels don't try this because I go around, I talk to a lot of people, I hear two things. I love you and I love the debates or I don't like you, but I love the debates. And everyone tells me the debate format to them is informative and it's entertaining. And I think there's a hunger for it. So I actually think CNN deserves a lot of credit for creating the space for it. I think we're better for it. I think a lot of conservatives who had stopped watching CNN are at least now consuming some of the content via social media. And it's generated by that show.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I have compared it to wrestling somewhat because it's the only show on television that is, in my opinion, a true debating show. It is truly a show built around conflict, the conflict between conservatives and liberals, Democrats, and Republicans.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I didn't, you know, I talked about it with the marketing people, and I thought, I mean, what else am I got to do? I got the President of the United States saying he likes the book. I mean, who else am I going to put on there? So we thought we let it speak for itself.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About him in general. I think often, though, the books about his governing, about the things that happen are generally written from a more adversarial perspective or a negative perspective, or they're inclined to not like it. And so I thought, well, I'm inclined to be for it. I interviewed him. I interviewed Good chunk of the cabinet and the staff. And also, I just observationally, I hung around. I watched him operate. Truthfully, Karen, I didn't know him before February. I had not really even met him. And so a lot of this was new to me too.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I wrote it because, as I told the president in February, that I thought 100 people would write books about this period of time attacking him and that one person who kind of got it and wants him to succeed and generally agrees with what he's doing should write a book about it from our perspective. So I think there's an audience out there for people who either like him or feel like they're Republicans or feel like they're center right, but they don't often feel like there are books about these kinds of things that are written for them. So that was the initial impetus for it.”
2025-11-21 · On with Kara Swisher · Gloves Off with Scott Jennings, CNN’s Conservative Pundit · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT