CNN segment discussing Biden's missteps turns into shouting match

CNN segment discussing Biden's missteps turns into shouting match

A CNN segment discussing Joe Biden's ailing missteps descended into a shouting match between two guests.

Scott Jennings, who served as a special assistant to President George W. Bush, appeared on OutFront on Tuesday to discuss the competency of Biden.

He clashed with fellow guest Jamal Simmons, the former communications director for Vice President Kamala Harris.

'Are you comfortable with Hunter Biden running White House senior staff meetings? Do you think this is good?,' Jennings shouted before Simmons replied: 'Why are you yelling at me?'

Jennings was discussing theconcerning report about President Biden's cognitive abilities and another about how his son Hunter Biden has attended some White House meetings.

CNN commentator Jennings was talking about how Biden blamed his poor debate performance on his travel schedule.

'This is an amazing day,' he said. 'Number one, the New York Times reporting that he’s lapsing in meetings.

'This is becoming more frequent. Number two, we found out today that a felon and a crack addict is now sitting in on White House senior staff meetings.

'And number three, the president is now tonight to his own donors, blaming a foreign trip that ended 12 days before the debate for his disastrous performance on Thursday.'

Jennings claimed the Biden administration is 'off the rails.'

But Simmons pointed to Donald Trump's criminal convictions for falsifying business records and the prosecution he faces for retaining government documents after leaving office.

'Are we sure Scott wasn’t talking about the criminal felon that had the secret documents that he was holding in his bathroom in Mar-a-Lago?,' he asked.

'Because there is a felon that we haven’t talked about tonight.'

But Jennings began to raise his voice and said: 'Are you comfortable, Jamal? Are you comfortable with Hunter Biden running White House senior staff meetings?

'Do you think this is good? Do you think this is good?'

Simmons responded: 'Why are you yelling at me?'

However, Jennings continued his rant and said: 'I’m asking you. We’re talking about Joe Biden– we’re talking about Joe Biden tonight, who is admitting to his own donors – people in your party – that he can’t both perform and campaign.

'And you want to talk about the Mar-a-Lago documents case, which is not gonna come to trial before November.

'This is the sitting president. You worked for him. I wanna know if you were in a senior staff meeting, would you want Hunter Biden looking over your shoulder? That’s my question.'

Simmons responded by claiming that MAGA Republicans like Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene are attempting to take freedoms away from women and other groups.

'That’s not what they want,' he said. 'And that’s the reason why I think that Trump is still gonna be in trouble when you get down to election day.'

The heated interaction came after Biden blamed his globetrotting ahead of Thursday's disastrous debate for his poor performance.

The 81-year-old president made the concession during a fundraiser in the ritzy D.C. suburb of McLean, Virginia Tuesday night.

He told the crowd he 'wasn't very smart' for 'traveling around the world a couple times' before his showdown with presumptive Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump.

'I decided to travel around the world a couple of times … shortly before the debate …I didn’t listen to my staff … and then I almost fell asleep on stage,' the president said

He added, 'It's not an excuse but an explanation.'