Jennings to CNN Co-Panel: You Guys Are Alleging Corruption of Our Lifetime Schemes Without Any Credibility

PHILLIP: “He had read-and-write access. This is despite the countless denials that DOGE employees did not have that kind of access to the system. Now they‘re doing a forensic audit to find out how that happened. But that‘s why the questions about real transparency, truly, who are these people, what are they authorized to do, what exactly are the programs that are being cut and why, and which ones are not being cut, we don‘t have the answers to any of those things.”
JENNINGS: “A couple of things. Number one, you guys are way out over your skis with accusations and innuendo. You have no way — I mean, what you‘re essentially alleging would be the biggest corruption in any of our lifetimes. You have no way in the world of making those accusations in a credible way, but yet you‘re out here doing it, number one. Number two, on the Treasury Department — “
PHILLIP: “Just to clarify, because I also think you‘re accusing me of saying that these things are happening, I‘m just saying — “
JENNINGS: “No, did you hear what they just said? They literally just accused Elon Musk of the biggest corruption we‘ve ever seen.”
SELLERS: “I was going to let you — “
PHILLIP: “Hold on, Bakari. Scott, what I said was that Elon Musk‘s companies were being investigated by the government. The people investigating him have been fired, their offices disbanded.”
SELLERS: “Fact.”
PHILLIP: “Those are both facts. So the question is, how do we know that Elon is not benefiting from it? And the answer is, we don‘t know. You even would acknowledge that we don’t know.”
SELLERS: “But if you‘re going to accuse me of that, please, Scott, tell me what I said that was incorrect.”
JENNINGS: “You just said that Elon Musk is working at the behest of the president in what would amount to the biggest corruption scheme to enrich himself that we’ve ever seen.”
SELLERS: “What did I say that was incorrect?”
JENNINGS: “I think you‘re out over your skis. I don’t think you know that.”
SELLERS: “Was he under investigation by the FAA?
JENNINGS: “I think you guys are overblowing the whole thing.”
SELLERS: “Was he under investigation — “
HAQ: “Before you blanket ‘you guys,’ I made it very clear, based on images and data and the transparency that we have, that USAID’s resources that have been halted in place are resulting in massive waste.”
JENNINGS: “And why? Because Marco Rubio issues a waiver.”