CNN’s Abby Phillip stops the show to “fact-check” her own panelist after she claims 1,500,000 Chinese “CCP babies” have been born in the U.S.

Phillip is sure she has it right and refuses to move on. Here’s how the exchange unfolded:

PHILLIP: “They wanted to change birthright citizenship via executive order. That seems like bad politics, bad optics. Maybe both.”

MOYNIHAN: “I mean, we already know that foreign adversaries are exploiting this. There’s been 1.5… Chinese CCP babies who’ve been born in the U.S. 1.5 million people who’ve come…”

PHILLIP: “I’ve never seen the number be that high.”

MOYNIHAN: “The New York Post has reported on it. So that’s an issue that we know our foreign adversaries…”

PHILLIP: “Are you talking about Chinese nationals who come here? You realize that not all of them are here to give birth…”

MOYNIHAN: “Okay, well, we can argue about the numbers. That’s the number that’s been reported.”

PHILLIP: “I’m arguing. I’m arguing. Hold on, Lydia. I’m arguing about the numbers because the numbers matter. This is a country of hundreds of millions of people. And if you are talking about a number of people that is in the tens of thousands, where there are already laws that address this issue, that should be part of the conversation.”

CNN’s Abby Phillip stops the show to “fact-check” her own panelist after she claims 1,500,000 Chinese “CCP babies” have been born in the U.S.

Lydia Moynihan refuses to back down after Abby Phillip trashes Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order as “bad politics.”

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