'Didn't work for you': CNN analyst confronts Trump's favorite pundit on political violence

CNN contributors Kate Bedingfield and Scott Jennings on CNN on September 16, 2025 (Image: Screengrab via CNN / YouTube)

CNN political commentator Kate Bedingfield and conservative commentator Scott Jennings traded barbs during a CNN segment on Tuesday evening during a discussion on political violence in the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s death, with Bedingfield telling Jennings he “missed the entire point."

At the beginning of the segment, CNN played Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's (D) statement condemning political violence.

Host Kasie Hunt said, "I will notethat the governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, wassomeone who, when presidentTrump, somebody you know, washit by a bullet in Butler, Pennsylvania, Shapiro stood upand denounced it in a clear,unequivocal way.”

“Now he's sayingwe do the same thing here. Doyou think that he has got apoint?" she asked Jennings.

"Well, I think his point wouldbe strengthened if he werehonest today about who burnedhis house down," Jennings replied.

"You know, it wasa 'free Palestine' leftist whocame and burned down thegovernor's mansion. He leftthat out. He left that out ofhis tweet today. And he'stalking about cherry pickingpolitical violence. And we'retalking about where there mightbe political violence. Theviolence against the governor of Pennsylvania and his family camefrom the left. There's a rush by Democrats who want to bepresident in 2028 to try to turnsomehow Donald Trump's friendget shot. And now everybodywants to blame Donald Trump forit," Jennings said.

"I guess that's what you haveto do to get elected presidentas a Democrat," he said.

At this, the host interjected, saying: "We are not doing that sittinghere."

Bedingfiield said, "The governor's point is thatit doesn't matter where theviolence came from. I think it shouldn't matterthe motivations of the people? It should be condemnedregardless of the entire pointof his speech."

Jennings replied: "Don't you care about themotivation? "

“Look, I think that if wecannot be honest, if I were himand somebody tried to burn myhouse down, I think I'd behonest about who did it and whythey did it. And it would matterfor people to know that, wouldit not?" He added.

Bedingfield then called Jennings out: “You would just like it if apolitically critical message wasapplied to what he was trying tosay. I mean, that's what you'resaying, right?”

She added: “You're sayingyou like what he said incondemning political violenceacross the board, but it didn'twork for you because you didn'ttry to get in a dig at whosefault it was.”

“The entire pointis that we have to condemnpolitical violence from allsides, in all stripes, inwhatever form. And I think thefact that we are sitting here,even having this conversation isdeeply, deeply problematic interms of where the where thetemperature is in the countryright now,” she continued.

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