CNN Segment Goes Off the Rails in Fiery Shouting Match

CNN / NewsNight A CNN NewsNight panel went so badly off the rails that the stand-in host threatened to pull the plug twice. John Berman, standing in for Abby Phillip, had his work cut out with perhaps the shoutiest panel in months when he took the chair on Monday evening. Jesse Arm, the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, kicked off the carnage by saying that U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is “an Islamist sympathetic, communist…