Panicking CNN Panelists Get Shut Down In Fiery Segment With Scott Jennings [WATCH] |​ RVM News

Republican strategist Scott Jennings engaged in a heated exchange with former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson and CNN anchor Abby Phillip on Monday as he defended Vice President J.D. Vance’s criticism of judicial rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s executive orders.. The discussion centered on the legal challenges that have delayed Trump’s efforts to curb government waste, freeze foreign aid, and address birthright citizenship.. The Trump administration is appealing multiple injunctions imposed by federal judges, which have halted key executive orders.. Dennis Quaid’s #1 Warning for Americans. The legal battles involve the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Trump’s January 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship, and his foreign aid freeze.. The orders have faced lawsuits from Democratic officials and government employee unions, prompting what Jennings called a “constitutional crisis” due to judicial overreach.. “I think there’s a difference between saying whether you’re complying with the law, and then you have these individual district court judges setting effectively broad federal policy that is specifically reserved for the president of the United States,” Jennings said.. “I think we do have a constitutional crisis, and it’s being caused by these judges. They’re not here to tell us, they’re not here to tell us how to spend the money. They’re not here to set broad federal policy. That is the president’s job as elected by the people. These judges are supposed to be settling discrete, specific matters, not policy setting. I think Vance is right, I think Trump has a point. And these judges want nothing more than to continue the lawfare against…”. 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Trump’s January 20 executive order placed a 90-day freeze on foreign aid, arguing that bureaucrats and the foreign aid industry were “not aligned with American interests.” Vice President J.D. Vance strongly defended the move, criticizing judicial overreach in a statement on X.. “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal,” Vance wrote Sunday.. “If a judge tried to command the attorney general in how to use her discretion as a prosecutor, that’s also illegal. Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”. Jennings echoed that position, saying the executive branch has the authority to allocate funds once appropriated by Congress.. “My answer to that simply is it is the executive branch’s job to figure out how to spend money once it is appropriated by Congress, and sometimes they spend money that’s not been appropriated, but the correct political control is between the executive and the Congress, not some random federal judge,” Jennings said.. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also backed Trump’s decision, defending the shutdown of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) during a February 3 press conference in El Salvador.. Rubio cited concerns over mismanagement and lack of oversight, which he said began during his time in Congress.. “The agency is completely unresponsive and not functioning as intended,” Rubio said. Speaking in a February 4 interview on Fox News, he pointed to “rank insubordination” at USAID as a reason for its closure.. During the exchange, Carlson pushed back on Jennings’ defense of Vance’s position, suggesting that Trump was laying the groundwork for further executive control over the judicial branch.. “Do you think that J.D. Vance’s tweet is only about these district judges?” Carlson asked.. “This is a slippery slope because they’re going to move on to what the next ruling is. They’re setting the stage so that they can say that the executive branch has control now over the judicial branch.”. Carlson continued, saying that Trump has a pattern of pushing executive authority to its limits.. “They’re setting the stage, and for people who think that President Trump has not planned all of this, he pushes the envelope constantly. There was January 6th. He has a myriad of people out there that would support the executive branch being able to rule over the judicial branch, because there have been no repercussions, and when there are not consequences and when there are not repercussions, you get away with it.”. Jennings dismissed Carlson’s concerns, responding:. “I get it, you want individual federal judges who hate Donald Trump to tie him up for four years.”. Trump’s fight against judicial injunctions remains one of the key legal battles of his presidency.. The Department of Justice is currently preparing appeals to multiple rulings blocking his executive actions, while supporters argue that federal judges are overstepping their authority.. The legal and political debate over Trump’s executive power, foreign aid policy, and judicial intervention is likely to continue as the administration seeks to overcome court-imposed roadblocks in carrying out its agenda.

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