{"id":13484,"date":"2026-07-22T10:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13484"},"modified":"2026-07-22T10:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:35:38","slug":"cnns-abby-phillip-shuts-down-guests-pro-iran-war-brag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13484","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8217;s Abby Phillip Shuts Down Guest&#8217;s Pro-Iran War Brag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<p>CNN\u2019s <strong>Abby Phillip<\/strong> stopped a conservative guest cold as he bragged about pundits being wrong about the Iran war and the stock market \u201csoaring to all-time highs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/cnn-newsnight\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>NewsNight<\/em><\/a>, the table debated the ongoing Iran war, and <strong>Jesse Arm<\/strong>, vice president and pollster of the Manhattan Institute, argued \u201cprognosticators and pundits\u201d got market impact predictions wrong to make the point that they may be wrong now about the war lacking a strategy and needing to end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe markets are soaring to all-time highs at this point. It\u2019s possible that the president may believe that the pundits and prognosticators are getting wrong\u2014\u201d Arm said as Phillip jumped in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHold on, hold on. The impact of this war is not limited to the stock market,\u201d Phillip said.<\/p>\n<p>She argued rising costs, such as gas prices, are more impactful for Americans than stocks doing well. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/gasprices.aaa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AAA<\/a>, the average national gas price sits at over $4 a gallon. The average before the war was under $3.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGas prices are still elevated significantly compared to where they were on the day before this war began. So, it is not true that there has been no economic impact. That is completely false,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not what I said,\u201d Arm countered. \u201cI said that pundits are got wrong which direction the market would travel in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pundits did not limit their punditry to just what the stock is going to do,\u201d Phillip shot back. \u201cBecause what the stock market does is only a fraction of the economy. The rest of the American public that is not invested in the stock market, they are going to the gas pump every day. That\u2019s what really matters when it comes to voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy only point is that the president may believe that the pundits are wrong about the politics of this conflict as well,\u201d Arm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe he does, but the numbers are also pretty clear there, too. This is an unpopular war,\u201d Phillip said, referring to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/karoline-leavitt-shares-poll-showing-broad-support-for-trump-iran-peace-deal-but-it-also-shows-80-think-itll-probably-fall-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low<\/a> approval <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/poll-trumps-iran-war-is-now-as-unpopular-as-vietnam-and-iraq\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ratings<\/a> for President<strong> Donald Trump <\/strong>on the ongoing conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Arm argued that \u201cmoney talks though,\u201d adding, \u201cthe RNC is currently out raising the DNC by orders of magnitude. <strong>Ken Martin<\/strong>, the DNC chair, had to issue a document today basically explaining why his party is in the red,\u201d Arm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re still losing!\u201d <strong>Keith Boykin<\/strong>, an aide to former President<strong> Bill Clinton,<\/strong> yelled out as Phillip closed the segment. \u201cYou\u2019re still losing in the polls!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch above via CNN.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN\u2019s Abby Phillip stopped a conservative guest cold as he bragged about pundits being wrong about the Iran war and the stock market \u201csoaring to all-time highs.\u201d On Tuesday\u2019s NewsNight, the table debated the ongoing Iran war, and Jesse Arm, vice president and pollster of the Manhattan Institute, argued \u201cprognosticators and pundits\u201d got market impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/newsnight.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}