On today's CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish offered surprising praise for Marco Rubio's take on revoking student visas, calling it "common sense."
Rubio had said:
"A student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I'm going to kick you out of my house. And so, you know, that's what we're doing with our country, thanks to the president."
On the other side of the ledger, Cornish—yet again—assembled a panel bereft of any Trump-supporting Republican. It consisted of:
- Akayla Gardner, a Bloomberg News White House correspondent. At Ohio State, Gardner was the founder of the university's chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. NABJ is a left-leaning group that, among other things, was actively involved and supportive of the Black Lives Matter movement.
- Hyma Moore, former chief of staff to Jaime Harrison during his tenure as Chair of the DNC.
- Andrew Egger, White House correspondent for the fiercely anti-Trump Bulwark. How fiercely? Egger recently described Trump as "fascism in clown paint."
In the five weeks since Cornish took over CNN This Morning hosting duties from Kasie Hunt, she has never once had a full-throated, unapologetic, Trump supporter on a panel.
What is Audie afraid of? Wouldn't it be "common sense" for Cornish to bring real balance to her panels? Echo chambers are boring! Or maybe liberals who watch CNN can't handle anyone speaking up for Trump.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
4/11/25
6:05 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: It's gonna be up to a lower court to clarify a previous order mandating Garcia's return.
Joining me now to make sense of all of this, Akayla Gardner, White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, Andrew Egger, White House correspondent for The Bulwark, and Hyma Moore, former chief of staff for DNC Chairman Jamie Harrison. Y'all welcome to the group chat on a Friday morning.
We've been talking about students who were on student visas that have been revoked. I think that number, according to the State Department, is more than 400 visas who have been revoked.
And you know, when I think about how Marco Rubio has been talking about this, I want you guys to hear, because I think it sounds like a very kind of commonsense response.
MARCO RUBIO: A student visa is like me inviting you into my home. If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I'm going to kick you out of my house. And so, you know, that's what we're doing with our country, thanks to the president.
