Scott Jennings busted on CNN for resurrecting lie about Sen. Padilla

Conservative Scott Jennings was called out on CNN Saturday morning after he frantically attacked Sen. Alex Padilla and repeated debunked claims about the California Democrat who was tackled and handcuffed as he tried to question DHS head Kristi Noem.

Reacting to Vice President J.D. Vance briefly flying to California to hold a press conference where he accused Democrats of engaging in political "theater," Jennings ran with that talking point until called out by CNN's Van Jones and former President Joe Biden official Dan Koh.

During the CNN "Table for Five" segment, Jones could be seen in a split screen shaking his head as Jennings ranted, "I mean, it's sort of like porn for their base. There's a lot of capital right now in the Democratic party for getting arrested. In the case of Padilla, who if you handed me $10 million right now, if I could pick him out of a lineup, I don't think I could do it."

He added, "Charging into a press conference, lunging towards a stage. I mean, I'm sorry, but screaming that 'I'm a senator, I'm a senator. I don't know who you are. I still don't know who the guy is. And so that's not good enough. He's a U.S. senator. If he wanted a meeting with her, he could have had one and he did get one as soon as it was over with."

After Jennings claimed, "The theater kids have taken over and they are desperate to create theater," Koh straightened him out.

"It was in a government building, a federal government building," he told the Kentucky conservative. "He is one of two senators in California. I think Mitch McConnell would be recognized throughout Kentucky. Alex Padilla was in his home state in a federal building and the thing that concerned me the most was not necessarily that part, which was already concerning, but when ICE tweeted it, ICE clearly said that he did not identify himself and tweeted a video where he clearly did. What kind of confidence should we have in our government with any communication from the trump administration going forward? "

Jones piled on with, "I see it differently than you do, but I just want to just lay out a couple of things here. The reason that people, and not just the one who was arrested, are escorting immigrants, not illegals, immigrants, into these buildings and out is because the rule followers, not the gang members, the people who are here on legal status, who have legal status who are going to hearings, trying to follow the rules, are themselves getting snatched up and deported in a way that has never happened before."

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