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Conservative CNN pundit Scott Jennings was grilled during a live broadcast after claiming he spoke with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)— again — and that the longtime Republican told him Tuesday that he was planning to return to Congress.

Jennings told the group of commentators that he spoke with the GOP senator on the phone, describing his condition as "improving position." He indicated that McConnell had said he's continuing his recovery and will return to Washington, D.C. after the recess to complete his final term in Congress, which ends in January 2027.

CNN anchor Pamela Brown asked Jennings to clarify how he was communicating with McConnell, whether he called the senator or an aide....

The White House had a meltdown on Tuesday after CNN reported on its reaction to President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles' bombshell Vanity Fair interview.

White House insiders were reportedly managing a clean-up operation over the information Wiles revealed about the reality inside Trump world when a Trump insider texted CNN anchor Dana Bash, who was live on air, telling her to correct a chyron that said "White House aides reeling over Susie Wiles interview."

CNN analyst David Chalian and Bash were discussing how the interview had rocked Washington, D.C.....

Political analyst David Chalian practically spat fire Friday on CNN after President Donald Trump announced he was canning a labor official because he didn't like the job numbers she released Friday.

Trump posted to Truth Social that Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of Labor Statistics and a Biden appointee, published an "inaccurate" report revealing weaker-than-expected job numbers for May and June.

"There are two things here, just stepping back for a second, that I think are pretty clear," Chalian began. "One, Donald Trump's kind of giving away the fact that this is not a healthy, robust, growing economy at the moment. It's a weakening economy, and he's freaked out about it, right? I mean, just by the behavior."...

CNN's Dana Bash opened Inside Politics Tuesday with a chart explaining the "Trump Tariff Whiplash" that led to the Dow Jones and S&P 500 indices declining nearly 1 percent on top of the markets' "worst day of the year" Monday.

According to the chart, Trump first announced tariffs against Mexico, Canada, and China on Jan. 31, with more actions taken, including month-long delays on imposing the tariffs throughout February and March that allowed the market to recover before dropping precipitously again Monday. That all led to Tuesday, when Trump announced he was doubling tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50%, causing the stocks to tumble once again.

"You catch all that? Wow," Bash said after introducing her panel. "It is confusing. It is uncertain. It is trademark Donald Trump to govern by chaos, as we've said time and time again. But it is also trademark Donald Trump to care about the markets." ...

CNN pundits were shocked to discover how little of President Donald Trump's address to Congress included the issues most important to the American people: inflation and the economy.

Inside Politics' Dana Bash produced a bubble graph to illustrate the amount of time Trump spoke on the major issues. The result showed he spoke the longest — 9 minutes 49 seconds — about "immigrants and crime," and the very least — just 35 seconds — on the economy.

"Those small bubbles up on the top, those green bubbles? That's the economy and inflation! Those are the reason that Donald Trump was brought back to the dance," Bash exclaimed. "And he barely talked about them." ...

The majority of Americans are unhappy with President Donald Trump's first month in office — especially his efforts to bring down food prices, according to a new CNN poll.

Trump campaigned to make groceries more affordable "on day one" of his presidency, and said in December shortly before taking office that Americans are “going to be affording their groceries very soon."

CNN's David Chalian said Thursday that voters "are telling us that the honeymoon, as much as it may have existed, is over for Donald Trump at the moment."...