This is a hilarious clip from over the weekend and if you missed it, you need to see it. Whatever CNN is paying Scott Jennings, it’s not enough.
After the continuing resolution passed, Jennings praised Chuck Schumer for stopping the ‘racist, Jim Crow era’ filibuster, a direct dig at Democrats who used this type of language when they were last in power and were threatened with a filibuster.
Jennings gets about halfway through his comment before Jake Tapper jumps in to explain to the audience the context of what he is saying. Jennings probably should have asked Tapper why CNN viewers would need to have that explained to them.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
SCOTT JENNINGS, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, because, first of all, I just want to say I’m grateful for Chuck Schumer today. He helped defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster in the Senate and to stand up against the racist Jim Crow filibuster tactics, was a moment of pure courage. And I just think he should be lauded by anybody in any party for — that’s number one.
Number two…
TAPPER: That’s a deep cut… Let me just explain for the people at home, when there was a Democratic push against the filibuster, people in the Democratic Party were saying it was a racist era — Jim Crow era tactic, the filibuster.
JENNINGS: And it was terrible.
TAPPER: So he’s being cheeky. All right, back to…
JENNINGS: And not only that, but he saved us from the Democrats in the House laying off every single veteran in the federal government. Chuck Schumer working with Donald Trump saved us from that.
So, I think he deserves a lot of credit this morning. Every veteran would have been laid off. Every veteran would have been laid off.
Here’s the clip:
SAVAGE: Scott Jennings praises Chuck Schumer’s “pure courage” for helping “defeat a racist Jim Crow filibuster in the Senate” —
— forcing Jake Tapper to explain that Democrats called the filibuster a racist Jim Crow relic when they were out of power (and now they love it). pic.twitter.com/dpFht0Kwwz
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 16, 2025
Of course, Jake Tapper could have pointed out all of this himself, but that would require him going against his own team, so it falls to Scott Jennings to make the point.
