CNN Panel Shuts Down GOP Guest in HHS Segment When He Mentions Planned Parenthood Scandal

Curtis Houck | November 29, 2016
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

On Tuesday afternoon, CNN Newsroom expressed discomfort and promptly went into spin mode for Planned Parenthood as host Brooke Baldwin and two panelists shouted down Trump supporter Steve Cortes for alluding to the Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal and expressing support for the Republican push to defund the abortion provider under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

CNN political commentator Angela Rye first dredged up the concerns about Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) pick in Congressman and Dr. Tom Price (R-Ga.) when she complained that he’s a doctor but has been “opposed to CHIP, Children's Health Insurance Program,” “want[s] to privatize Medicare which we know is a baseline conservative principle” and “voted to defund Planned Parenthood.”

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