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CNN commentators Scott Jennings and Kate Bedingfield clashed Friday during a live broadcast, stunning the controversial pundit into silence.

Bedingfield, former Biden White House communications director, and Jennings were part of a panel discussing the aggressive tactics employed by ICE agents in Minnesota when Jennings tried to defend the Trump administration's actions — saying people were not understanding President Donald Trump's messaging — when Bedingfield questioned his response. Both tried to comment on the scrutiny the administration has faced in a fiery back-and-forth.

"Can I, can I just say, trying to tell people that the images that they're seeing on camera is a wall of propaganda is not a winning strategy. People can see with their own eyes ICE," Bedingfield said. ...

A CNN analyst called the White House's bluff after President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles's explosive Vanity Fair interview dropped Tuesday in an article Wiles complained was a "hit piece."

Kate Bedingfield, former Biden White House communications director, suggested that Wiles could have made a strategic move, and the White House could simply release the recordings if there were any questions about the context.

"What's so interesting to me is that Susie Wiles has this really sterling reputation as somebody who has Trump's confidence and who runs the White House with an iron fist," Bedingfield said. "And in many ways, it felt to me like this interview was sort of an emperor has no clothes moment, where, moment after moment, significant Trump decision after significant Trump decision. She says in the interview, 'You know, I was overruled.' Or, 'You know, I don't really know,' or 'people that are smarter than me are going to make this decision.'"...

CNN conservative commentator Shermichael Singleton argued Sunday that Americans should trust Elon Musk with their personal data, because there was "nothing nefarious" about Musk's intentions.

State of the Union host Dana Bash asked Singleton, "The notion of him really accessing personal data, a lot of information, and doing, we don't know what with it. That doesn't give you a concern?"

"No, it doesn't, because he's not going to do anything nefarious with this information," Singleton declared. "It's almost as if you're doing an accounting, a forensic accounting of a company. You need to have access of everything in order to say we should make cuts here, or this is ineffective or inefficient. He's doing what the president has mandated or him to do, in part, with the American people expected Donald Trump to do."...

After President Joe Biden delivered his historic address to the nation on Wednesday, formally announcing he would bow out of the campaign for a second term and pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the panel of CNN commentators watching were in awe, with Van Jones in particular overcome with emotion.

"This was incredibly hard for him to do, this would be hard for anyone to do," said former Biden administration communications official Kate Bedingfield. "It feels almost unnatural for someone to have achieved the thing that they have been working toward their entire life and then say, the best thing is for me to step aside. Even knowing how hard that was for him, I think hearing those important themes come through, I think he was shining a light for the country moving forward over the next three and a half months through a really perilous election."

"He said America is at an 'inflection point,'" said anchor Anderson Cooper. "He asked the question, do we still believe in honesty, decency, respect? Does character in public life still matter? And he said, 'I hope you have some idea how grateful I am to all of you.'"...