CNN's Bakari Sellers on Wednesday shut down Trump defender Scott Jennings after he tried to dismiss Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi as "tier-four" players who weren't an integral part of the Trump campaign.
Reacting to revelations that Corsi used connections he'd forged at WikiLeaks to funnel information to Stone about the organization's plans to release Clinton campaign emails, Jennings chalked it up to a pair of rogue actors who got in over their heads.
"What we do know is you have a bunch of tier-two, tier-three, tier-four operators that have proven to be dishonest during the investigation, who may have gone out and acted like irresponsible cowboys, and done some really irresponsible things that are ultimately going to taint the president," he said.
Sellers, however, shot back at Jennings and pointed to reports this week claiming former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2016.
"I don't see any tier-two, tier-three, tier-four actors," he said. "Paul Manafort was the campaign manager and chairperson of the convention. I don't think you get any higher than that. Michael Flynn was the national security adviser, I'm not sure you get higher than that."
Sellers acknowledged that Corsi may not have been "integral" to the campaign's operations, but he then pivoted back to the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russian agents in 2016 that included key members of Trump's inner circle.
"We're acting as if Jared Kushner wasn't sitting in a meeting soliciting this information in Trump Tower!" he said.
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