<p>Never-Trump commentator Tara Setmayer got into a heated exchange with Republican commentator Scott Jennings over President Donald Trump&#8217;s Sunday announcement naming former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino as Deputy Director of the FBI.</p>
<p>Setmayer and Jennings took part in a panel discussion during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, and Jennings kicked off the debate when he took issue with the way Setmayer had characterized Bongino&#8217;s qualifications for the job.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Scott Jennings brutally reminds CNN Abby Philip that Dan Bongino&#39;s appointment to Deputy FBI Director is based on President Trump&#39;s authority and not on Democrats who refuse to get over their embarrassing election loss. <a href="https://t.co/EEHkvpghAH">pic.twitter.com/EEHkvpghAH</a></p>
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<p>&#8220;You just denigrated Bongino&#8217;s law enforcement credentials. He was a cop and a Secret Service agent, you denigrated his academic credentials, he has a Masters Degree —&#8221; Jennings began.</p>
<p>&#8220;Just because he&#8217;s a police officer doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s qualified to run a 38,000-person, $11 billion budget agency, just like Pete Hegseth being a National Guardsman isn&#8217;t either &#8230; thank you for your service —&#8221; Setmayer interrupted, but Jennings was not finished.</p>
<p>&#8220;But you know what does? You know what does? Because he enjoys the confidence and the pleasure of the president,&#8221; Jennings said, alluding to the fact that Trump, as president, does not have to make staffing decisions based &#8220;qualifications&#8221; approved by Setmayer or anyone else.</p>
<p>Setmayer then argued that the real problem was Trump&#8217;s &#8220;judgment,&#8221; which she claimed was terrible.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry that you are not yet over the outcome of the election,&#8221; Jennings shot back. &#8220;In our system, we elect people — we elect people and they appoint people to office. That&#8217;s the way it works.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;No. Look at what&#8217;s happening to our country! And I&#8217;ll never be over it, Scott. This is dismantling our democracy in front of our eyes,&#8221; she complained, giving no evidence as to how Dan Bongino serving in the FBI would &#8220;dismantle&#8221; democracy. &#8220;And you guys are okay with this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former New York City Council Republican leader Joe Borelli chimed in then, referencing a few of former President Joe Biden&#8217;s appointees and suggesting they might also have been unqualified.</p>
<p>Borelli mentioned former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg&#8217;s meteoric rise to lead the Department of Transportation along with &#8220;the guy who was stealing luggage,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I think that anyone who&#8217;s at any point defending the Biden administration &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But this is the FBI,&#8221; Phillip interjected, and then attempted to pin Jennings down on the issue.</p>
<p>He argued simply that based on law enforcement experience, academic qualifications, and the fact that ultimately he and others serve &#8220;at the pleasure of the president,&#8221; Bongino was certainly qualified to take on the role.</p>

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