CNN shuts down colleague on air for bringing up Doug Emhoff abuse

CNN pundit Scott Jennings was shockingly unopen down erstwhile he tried to bring up DailyMail.com's exclusive story astir Doug Emhoff assaulting his ex-girlfriend, arsenic good arsenic his behaviour astatine his rule firm.

The Second Gentleman, 59, allegedly struck nan female successful nan look truthful difficult she spun around, while waiting successful a valet statement precocious astatine nighttime aft a May 2012 Cannes Film Festival arena successful France.

One of her friends told DailyMail.com that nan female called him instantly aft nan incident, sobbing successful her cab, and described nan alleged assault.

Jennings, a blimpish foil to nan often wide loaded CNN panels, tried to talk nan communicative earlier Wednesday erstwhile pointing retired rapper Eminem - who has agelong been accused of misogyny successful his lyrics - was endorsing Harris. 

'So erstwhile you deliberation astir nan things [Eminem] has said successful bid to waste those records, and you besides see immoderate of nan questions that are swirling astir Harris' ain hubby successful this regard,' Jennings said, earlier wide Bakari Sellers interrupted him. 

'Oh my god,' Sellers said. 'Okay, you don't moreover get 12 seconds. I'm not gonna fto you spell into nan acold extremity of B.S.'

Host Abby Phillip past refused to return nan allegations seriously, comparing them to those against Donald Trump. 

'We're gonna extremity present for a second. Alright, but Scott, I conscionable person to say, I'll return those concerns earnestly if you besides definitive concerns astir nan allegations [against Trump],' she said. 

'He's been recovered liable of rape, Donald Trump has. So that's besides true, truthful we're not going to litigate those different things, but you can't conscionable prime and choose.' 

DailyMail.com is not naming nan woman, who is simply a successful New York attorney, but will mention to her by nan pseudonym 'Jane'.

A 2nd friend said Jane, who had been making love Emhoff for 3 months, besides told her astir nan alleged unit astatine nan time.

A 3rd friend told DailyMail.com that Jane first told her successful 2014 that she had dated Emhoff, and recounted nan afloat communicative of his alleged maltreatment successful 2018, erstwhile past legislator Harris was successful nan news aft grilling Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh successful a Senate proceeding complete intersexual battle allegations.

The friends, who each asked not to beryllium named for fearfulness of retaliation by Emhoff, shared pinch DailyMail.com pictures of him and Jane together from 2012, and different documents and communications corroborating elements of nan story.

Jane declined to comment.

The shocking claims travel revelations by DailyMail.com that Emhoff cheated connected his first woman and mother of his 2 kids astir 2008, allegedly impregnating his daughter's nanny who besides worked arsenic her people schoolhouse teacher.

Emhoff admitted nan matter pinch nan nanny and teacher, Najen Naylor, aft DailyMail.com published nan communicative past month.

All 3 of Jane's friends said she besides told them astir a disturbing alleged incident during her narration pinch nan Second Gentleman, successful which Emhoff nonchalantly admitted to impregnating Naylor.

Emhoff told Jane that nan nanny accused him of causing her to person a miscarriage, nan friends claimed.

According to nan friends, Emhoff did not opportunity really he was allegedly responsible for nan miscarriage, and he told Jane that nan nanny's claims were false.

But nan Second Gentleman allegedly confessed to Jane that he paid Naylor a colony of astir $80,000, and had nan nanny motion a non-disclosure statement (NDA).

Emhoff was antecedently dubbed by Democrats arsenic a 'wife guy' and a 'mensch', a Yiddish word for an honorable, benignant man. He has besides spoken retired successful media interviews astir being an state to women and against toxic masculinity.

Five days later, Emhoff was accused of being 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' astatine work, his erstwhile colleagues show DailyMail.com.

Attorneys who worked pinch Doug Emhoff at his erstwhile patient Venable opportunity he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hr successful nan office, revoked activity perks from women who didn't flirt pinch him, and took only young, charismatic associates successful a limousine to a ball.

A 2019 suit besides claimed activity favoritism by different partners successful nan LA agency Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an 'unqualified' part-time exemplary arsenic a ineligible caput 'because she was young, charismatic and friends pinch nan powerful men successful nan office'. 

In August DailyMail.com revealed the Los Angeles lawyer cheated connected his first woman and sewage his daughter's people schoolhouse teacher-cum-nanny pregnant. 

Emhoff admitted to nan matter aft nan communicative broke. 

Four days aft DailyMail.com contacted Emhoff for comment, a spokesperson reportedly denied nan allegations arsenic 'untrue' successful a connection to authorities website Semafor. 

Neither he nor nan White House person commented to immoderate different media, including DailyMail.com.