"Yeah," Axelrod responded.
Psaki, a former CNN commentator herself, has gotten zero pushback from CNN, a network that prided itself as an advocate for press accessibility during the Trump administration.
"I’m sure President Xi of China and President Putin of Russia and our adversaries from Iran to North Korea are taking note that the Leader of the Free World in Joe Biden has a team around him who has zero confidence in his ability to speak outside of scripted remarks," Fox News contributor Joe Concha reacted.
Concha insisted there would be an uproar of prominent CNN journalists like Jim Acosta, a former showboating White House correspondent who became a media star for his battles with President Trump, if such comments were made by the previous administration.