Aug. 20, 2025 . Curtis Houck

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Appearing Tuesday on her friend and fellow progressive Kara Swisher’s podcast, CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip — aka Mrs. CNN Thunderdome — knocked CNN senior political commentator Scott Jennings and past panelist Jillian Michaels as examples of people who disrespect her “guard rails” and are “playing...games” with the show.

​Swisher started with the Michaels exchange last week in which she battled Phillip and liberal panelist Julie Roginsky over wokeness that’s infected American museums and the left’s obsession with slavery as a uniquely American sin:

Phillip said she was “shocked” at Michaels’s “ignorant” conduct, but defended her right to be there because even though “some people question[ed] why was she even there, she’s a fitness guru...she is kind of [a] MAGA influencer....represent[ing] that point of view” encompassing “half the country.”

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