CNN’s live coverage of Congress’s election certification on Monday included panel after panel of hosts and commentators bizarrely reminiscing about the dramatic events of January 6, 2021. Amid the faux hysterics, sympathy for Vice President Kamala Harris, and somber attitudes, senior political commentator Scott Jennings prevailed as a voice of reason, providing some much-needed reality checks to his fellow panelists.
Inside Politics and State of the Union co-host Dana Bash started off with a supportive nod to Harris, who was “steeling herself” for “presiding over her own loss,” before turning to Jake Tapper, whose ego had him harkening back to a prediction he made four years ago.
He declared his 2021 remark “really required no great prescience” and was “very easy to predict,” referring to his expectation of the attempt to whitewash the riot. Tapper further…
