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Abby Phillip Defends Booking ‘MAGA’ Guests on CNN as Part of Engaging a Split Electorate

In a Breakfast Club interview, she said on-air challenges help audiences understand viewpoints that rarely meet.

Overview

  • On The Breakfast Club, Phillip addressed liberal pushback to her NewsNight guest choices, saying viewers should hear pro-Trump voices directly.
  • She argued that “half the country” voted for Trump or Trumpism, presenting exposure to those arguments as necessary civic awareness.
  • She described a fragmented media landscape of “silos” and cast her roundtable show as a venue for challenging claims in real time.
  • She cited her slavery exchange with Jillian Michaels as a chance to correct the record, while clarifying Michaels was not disinvited.
  • She said panelist Ryan Girdusky was told he was not invited back after implying Mehdi Hasan had ties to Hezbollah and saying, “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off.”