CNN commentator Scott Jennings criticized anchor Abby Phillippe on Monday for criticizing billionaire Elon Musk's foreign business dealings, while not appearing concerned about the Biden family's foreign ventures.
Jennings and Phillips sparred over the topic during Monday's episode of “CNN NewsNight,” with Jennings dismissing the anchor's idea that Musk's foreign dealings should be troubling to Americans and saying he was much more concerned about the Bidens and the Chinese.
“I have no concerns about Elon Musk. I've been looking at photos of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden meeting with Chinese political leaders recently that we were told don't exist,” Jennings told Philip.
CNN commentator Scott Jennings and network anchor Abby Phillip sparred over criticism of Elon Musk's foreign business dealings.
The CNN commentator was pointing this out Newly discovered photos Then-Vice President Biden introduced his son Hunter Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping and then-Vice President Li Yuanzhao. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter's business partners from BHR Partners, including Jonathan Li and Ming Xue.
The photos added fuel to allegations that the younger Biden was selling access to his powerful father to foreign business partners.
The president stressed that he “never spoke to my son about his business dealings abroad.”
The broadcaster teased Jennings' response by sharing headlines from various outlets reporting on Musk doing business with the Chinese government to build his own Tesla vehicles and sell them abroad.
Other headlines that joined the discussion mentioned Musk praising the Chinese Communist Party during its anniversary in 2021 as well as his “secret talks with Vladimir Putin,” as the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year.
The commentator went on to point out that Musk's business ventures produce products of real value. On the other hand, he said that the Biden family’s business dealings do not do that.
Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping, former US Ambassador to China Max Baucus (America's First Legal)
“For all the people who are really upset that Elon Musk has a very successful international company that actually produces things — that actually produces vehicles or rockets or whatever they do — the Bidens produce nothing, and yet, they were also Doing business in ChinaHe said.
“Look, I don't want you to change the subject because it's not really about whether he's a successful businessman or not, it's about whether his financial interests as a business owner conflict with his financial interests,” Philip responded to Jennings. The national security interests of the United States.”
Once again, Jennings rejected the premise that Musk poses a threat to the United States, noting that his business interests benefit the country.
“My view is his prospects and his interests as an employer and most of the things he cares about — electric cars, rockets, the Internet that we use all over the world — it's good for the United States to be a repository of that,” he declared, adding, “It's good for our national security to have that kind of technology.” .
Elon Musk listens as US President-elect Donald Trump addresses the House Republican Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Capitol Hill on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
“The idea that there is a conflict one way or another in the United States with these kind of businessmen, and that this is bad for us, I completely reject.”
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