Joe Kernen Mocks Scaramucci, Compares Him to Michael Avenatti: If He Wasn’t in Prison, He’d Still Be Running for Pres. With Brian Stelter

KERNEN: “The rhetoric got heated everywhere. You got pretty heated, Anthony, at times.”
SCARAMUCCI: “Joe, how did I get heated? What did I say, Joe?”
KERNEN: “About Trump?”
SCARAMUCCI: “Yeah, what did I say? I said — I repeated what he was saying. I said, ‘This is wrong.’ Come on, Joe.”
KERNEN: “You had an utter disdain for Trump. You’ll always be welcome at the table of legacy media and have people nodding as you trash Trump. That’s always going to happen. But aren’t you the slightest bit embarrassed or at least humbled about how wrong you were about the feeling of most Americans — let me finish — enthusiastically supporting a candidate who a majority of people thought had no business being anywhere near the Oval Office? And you’re a Republican, and you saw the — all the different policies that she was talking about are anathema to what you thought your whole life, and yet you went along with it. Do you ever eat any crow or — not even a little crow with, like, a little cape on? I mean, Michael Avenatti could still be on TV trashing Trump. He’d always found a place on TV. If he wasn’t in prison, he’d still be on CNN running for president with Brian Stelter. Just give me a little bit, a little bit, Anthony, about how wrong you were?”
SCARAMUCCI: “Joe, first of all, I immediately put out a congratulatory tweet, they won, we lost. In the immortal words of Barry Diller when he lost the Paramount deal, what would you like me to do? Do you want to get me on bended knee before you?”
KERNEN: “No — “
SCARAMUCCI: “That’s not even what America is about. We have a violent disagreement about lots of things related to Trump’s personality. You like Trump. I was close to Trump. I got to see the ugliest of what he is. And, by the way, Joe, it’s not just me. There were 40 of us that worked for the president, who alerted people — “
KERNEN: “I think he’s been very good for your career, Anthony. I think he’s been incredibly good — you’re here, are you not? And you’re going to be welcome anywhere you want to go. I think he’s been very good for you. And you have to live off this for another four years.”
SCARAMUCCI: “Joe, why don’t you calm down a second, Joe? We know each other a long time. Are you saying that you and I can’t disagree on somebody’s personality? Is that what you’re saying? And you’re saying — you’re saying what I’m saying in terms of identifying those features and traits of the personality. You don’t see those too, but you’re choosing to ignore them?”
KERNEN: “I guess 75 million people looked at everything you looked at and they decided that there were other things that — “
SCARAMUCCI: “But there were 67 million people who didn’t, Joe.”
KERNEN: “I know that.”
SCARAMUCCI: “That’s what makes America, Joe. That’s what makes America, Joe. But you’re saying to me that stuff that I was saying wasn’t factually true. If someone is saying they’re going to use the American military to go after their political adversaries, and I say, geez, that sounds very un-American to somebody like me — “
KERNEN: “Is that what he’s saying? Is that what he’s gonna do?”
SCARAMUCCI: “Of course he said it.”