Catherine Rampell Challenges Scott Jennings to Mimic Musk’s Hand Gesture: ‘Why Don’t You Do it on TV Right Now?’

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German values and not to lose that in some sort of, uh, multiculturalism that, that that that dilutes everything.
>> I think there‘s like, frankly, too much of a of a focus on, on past guilt. And we need to move beyond that. Um, people, you know, children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents or even let alone their parents, their great grandparents.
>> Joining us in our fifth seat is CNN economics commentator Catherine Rampell. She is a Washington Post opinion columnist. That what Elon Musk just said, there is music to the ears of the afd. According to the anti-defamation league, some of their leaders have twice been fined by a German court for using a banned Nazi symbol. They‘ve called for Germany to stop atoning for Nazi crimes, and a judge ruled that one afd leader could be described as fascist without fear of defamation because it is, quote, a value judgment based on facts. And these are the people that Musk is saying, don‘t worry about the Holocaust. We can forget about it.
>> Look, the the first time that Elon Musk decides to declare that globalist Jews are responsible for the great replacement of brown people into the United States, maybe it was a misunderstanding. You know, the second time he said that Jews are pushing hatred against white people. That‘s a quote. You know, that was a little iffy by the second. Sieg heil. I think he kind of loses the benefit of the doubt to to be not accused of playing footsie with these nazis. I‘m not saying he‘s a Nazi. I‘m saying the nazis think he‘s a Nazi, which they very clearly did at this event. And this was not these words were not said in a vacuum. As you pointed out, the leaders of afd have embraced, in many cases, the Nazi heritage. They have wanted to take down the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, saying it is inappropriate to recognize this horrific chapter in German history. Um, and I just think it‘s it‘s horrific. I don‘t understand why this guy keeps getting the benefit of the doubt, whether or not he believes.
>> This stuff.
>> Even mention the Nazi jokes he was making on Twitter.
>> Yeah.
>> That actually.
>> Got he‘s been given so many.
>> Chances about it.
>> Yeah.
>> I was hearing a lot of sighing. Scott, what‘s.
>> The deal? I mean, we‘ve moved on from Trump derangement syndrome to Elon derangement syndrome.
>> I‘m sorry. Do you want to defend his saying.
>> There‘s ample.
>> The Germans get to.
>> Let him finish.
>> Catherine. I love I love this game we play where you talk for two minutes, I talk for three seconds, and you freak out. So? So he has a long record of supporting the Jewish people. Number one. Number two, anybody who is asserting this thing he did on the stage the other day was a sieg heil, which I just heard you say, you know, lawyer up. Maybe because absolute ridiculous thing to say. Under no circumstances in.
>> Germany thought it was a sieg heil.
>> Under no circumstance.
>> The nazis in.
>> Germany, no circumstances was he doing anything other than expressing enthusiastically.
>> Why don‘t you do it on TV right now?
>> His appreciation.
>> Why don‘t you do it on TV right now? If you think it‘s so?
>> Number three.
>> Number three.
>> You know.
>> Now.
>> Number three, I think it is fully appropriate. And I, of course, have been the strongest supporter of the Jewish people on this network for over a year since October the 7th.
>> Is that true?
>> To remember, to remember the Holocaust and to remember the atrocities committed against the Jewish people. And I also think it‘s appropriate to remember the atrocities committed against them right now. And it seems to me let me just finish my point. It seems.
>> To me I won‘t let you change the subject.
>> It seems to. Me I‘m trying to finish my.
>> Point. As the Jew at this table.
>> I‘m trying. I‘m trying.
>> To finish. I would.
>> Say the people who are most concerned about and most all over Elon Musk today have had nary a word for the nazis on college campuses who have gone crazy for the last year.
>> And a half. That is bull. That is bull. Nothing. I am a Jew who has criticized the people on college campuses for saying anti-Semitic things. I will go on the record as saying that I am also criticizing this man who, a day or two before Holocaust remembrance day, makes light of this moment, this horrific moment in German history, the reason why Germans remember this.
>> He‘s not. I don‘t believe he‘s making light of it.
>> I disagree. Absolutely.
>> I want you to address what we are talking about here, because you can talk all day about college campuses, but Elon Musk, two days before Holocaust remembrance day, went and spoke in front of a far right party that, as part of their platform, wants to atone. They want to erase the idea that Germany, Germany is responsible for this.
>> A lot of them deny the Holocaust.
>> Even in history.
>> I didn‘t.
>> I didn‘t. I‘m the thing I‘m going to do today is speak before a bunch of far right people who, in their own country, have been sent to court for using banned Nazi symbols. Really?