MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell blasted CNN for paying conservative pundit Scott Jennings to “lie about Donald Trump” on-air – calling the rival lefty cable network “absurdly degraded.”

O’Donnell tore into Mark Thompson, the British-American media exec leading CNN who reportedly gave reporters recent instructions to “ease up” on their coverage of Trump’s White House demolition .

“The head of CNN for the last three years, hired by the Trump supporting owner and operator of CNN, is an Englishman who thinks paying Scott Jennings to lie about Donald Trump is money very well spent,” O’Donnell said Monday during his show “The Last Word.”

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell blasted CNN for paying Scott Jennings to “lie about Donald Trump” on air.

The host argued that Jennings – a former aide to Sen. M

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