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CNBC Anchors Clash On-Air Over Covid Restrictions: ‘You’re Doing a Disservice to the Viewer’

‘You can have your thoughts, and I can have mine’

EXCERPT:

SORKIN: “Rick, just as a public health and public service announcement for the audience, the difference between a big box retailer —“
SANTELLI: “Wait, wait. First of all, who is this? Who is this?”
KERNEN: “Who else. It’s Andrew. Who else.”
SORKIN: “The difference between a big box retailer — hold on. The difference between a big box retailer and a restaurant or frankly, even a church, are so different it’s unbelievable. Going into a big box retailer, you’re wearing a mask.”
SANTELLI: “I disagree! I disagree! I disagree! You can have your thoughts and I can have mine.”
SORKIN: “It’s science. If you’re wearing a mask, it’s a different story.”
SANTELLI: “It’s not science! 500 people in a Lowe’s aren’t any safer than 150 people in a restaurant that holds 600. I don’t believe it! Sorry. Don’t believe it.”
SORKIN: “Okay. You don’t —“
SANTELLI: “And I live in an area where there’s a lot of restaurants that had fought back and they don’t have any problems, and they’re open!”
SORKIN: “Okay. You don’t have to believe it, but let me just say this, you’re doing a disservice to the viewer because the viewers need to understand it —“
SANTELLI: “You are doing a disservice to the viewer! You are! You are!”

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