CNBC's Joe Kernen Scolds Co-Host Andrew Ross Sorkin Over Comey Question in Tense On-Air Moment

CNBC hosts clash over House speaker's mealymouthed Trump spin

Conservative CNBC host Joe Kernen got stressed out Tuesday when co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin pressed House Speaker Mike Johnson on the sham indictment of former FBI director James Comey by the ...

CNBC's Joe Kernen Scolds Co-Host Andrew Ross Sorkin Over Comey Question in Tense On-Air Moment

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) interview on CNBC came to an uncomfortable end on Tuesday, with Joe Kernen jumping in to groan about the final question his fellow co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin had asked. Sorkin, during the final hour of Squawk Box, said he was asking his last question on behalf of a Republican viewer, who wanted to know Johnson’s “perspective” on the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey, considering the speaker has been “a…