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'Don't twist my words!' CNN panelists cut each other off during heated exchange

A tense exchange unfolded Friday afternoon on CNN as a Democrat and Republican went at each other over Kamala Harris, this time her newly unveiled economic policy. GOP strategist Scott Jennings joined CNN's "OutFront" and sparred with Democratic strategist Aisha Mills.After a clip played of Harris talking about the economy, Jennings called the vice president's characterization a "searing indictment of the conditions of the country.""She was very effective at laying out how hard hit the American people have been by the policies of the Biden-Harris agenda," he said, pointing to inflationary prices on food, and high housing costs due to a shortage of housing."She and Joe Biden are in charge, and she has directly cast votes that have led to these conditions," he added. Jennings then turned to Harris' unveiling of her plan to attack price-gouging.ALSO READ: Donald Trump deep in debt while foreign money keeps coming: disclosure"That is a total canard," he said. "This is not true. This is made up," he said, arguing it's a deflection tactic meant to distract from the root causes of inflation.Jennings said there is no price-gouging at low-margin grocery stores, and said price-caps would lead to "bread lines, product shortages, black markets [and] hoarding.""If you want to re-create the economic conditions of 'The Walking Dead,' Kamala Harris has a plan for you," he said. The fiery rant prompted laughter and pushback from Mills, who said, "Every single Republican administration has had a horrible economy.""They've sunk the economy, whether it's been inflation going up, whether it's been costs, whether it's been unemployment — every single Democratic administration, whether it was Clinton or Obama, and now we're seeing it with Biden-Harris, you've seen there be a reckoning and a right-sizing of the metrics that affect peoples' lives."After Mills pointed to trickle-down economics as evidence that GOP-led economic policies don't help most people, Jennings insisted on responding."It's just simply not true that the economy is good right now and it's not good from a price perspective and not good in the minds of everyday people," he said. He pointed to Biden's mid-30s approval ratings as evidence that people aren't satisfied with the state of the economy. If it were true, he said, that Biden was the "savior of the economy" a GOP-led economic turndown, he'd "still be running for president."Mills immediately interjected, forcefully insisting, "That's not what I said."As the two talked over one another, Mills tells Jennings, "Don't twist my words, Scott. That's not what I said.""Yeah, it is," he fired back. "You did."As Mills tried to insist Biden had to clean up the economy left by former President Donald Trump, Jennings retorted: "Then why isn't Biden running?""Because Kamala Harris is running on the same record! Kamala Harris is running on the same record, dude," she said, adding with a smile: "Catch up with us."Watch the clip below or at this link.